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On Saturday, the Demon Deacons clinched bowl eligibility by winning against Duke. Running back Cade Carney scored two touchdowns and rushed 223 yards, almost as many as Duke’s total yards of 251.

Deacons destroy Duke 59-7 Wake Forest football wins on the road against Duke to clinch bowl eligibility for third consecutive year

BY RAFAEL LIMA Staff Writer limara17@wfu.edu

The Wake Forest football team has been through a lot of ups and downs this season.

In total, 13 athletes suffered seasonending injuries throughout the season and 38 missed significant time due to injuries. Among the injured are key players like starting QB Sam Hartman and pretty much the whole linebacker group.

So, it was understandable that the “We goin’ bowling!” chants had an added excitement to them, after the team’s bowlclinching win on the road against Duke (7-4).

“I thank God every day that I get to coach at a place like Wake Forest and

lead young men like we have. Every time our back was against the wall this year, we responded,” said Head Coach Dave Clawson during the postgame interview. “It just seems like every time we are in that position, we knew what was at stake. We made it like a playoff game.

We had to get this one to continue our season, and we probably played our best game of the year. I couldn’t be prouder.”

Playing with their backs against the wall surely fits the description of this football team in 2018. After falling to Syracuse at home, the Deacs had a tough test to win two out of their last three games against then-ranked NC State, Coastal champions Pittsburgh and Duke to close the schedule.

After an all-time stunner at then No. 14 NC State, the Deacs needed a win on the road against a strong Duke squad that had wins against Miami and Northwestern to get to a 6-6 record and go to a third straight bowl game.

Yet, being an underdog on the road

did not frazzle the Deacs, who came out clicking on all cylinders and jumped up to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter. Duke still answered back with a touchdown early in the second quarter, but after that, the Deacs would not allow any more points en route to a second-half shutout.

“We wanted it more than them, and it showed on the field,” said safety Nasir Greer who had a huge second quarter pick-six interception.

The defense surrendered only 251 yards the whole game while forcing four turnovers and racking up five tackles for loss.

This comes from a defense that had its defensive coordinator fired midway through the season and allowed 43.6 points per game on average through their first five games in the ACC. The turnaround by this unit toward the end of the year is one of the primary reasons behind the Deacs’ two road wins against NC State and Duke.

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Wake Forest recently earned a STARS gold rating for the first time, reflecting achievements in sustainability from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). STARS, the Sustainability, Tracking & Rating System, covers nearly all facets of university operations and life. This includes dining, an area in which Wake Forest has recently made robust improvements.

Since the previous STARS report, Wake Forest Dining has increased the amount of food purchased from third-party verified (TPV) sources from three percent to more than 30 percent.

“We looked at the harm being created by the agriculture sector, and asked, ‘What are some interventions we could make here on campus to help create change?’,” said Dedee DeLongpre Johnston, Chief Sustainability Officer for Wake Forest.

Unsustainable agriculture practices damage land, waterways, water supply, human health and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. The inhumane treatment of animals in production is also interconnected with environmental and human health concerns. Faced with these systemic issues, Wake Forest has chosen to set verifiable sustainability purchasing criteria for dining.

Additionally, both the Fresh Food Company (“The Pit”) and the North Dining Hall mitigate food waste during food preparation, donate unused food to Campus Kitchen, provide a myriad of opportunities for community engagement in sustainable initiatives, and are investing in the employees who are making it all happen.

From Three to Thirty Percent ThirdParty Verified Sources The team behind this change involves a collaboration between Harvest Table Culinary Group (a division of Aramark, the university’s contracted food provider), Hospitality & Auxiliary Services, and the Office of Sustainability.

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As Demon Deacons wrap up the second-to-last week of classes, many are already hard at work on final papers and projects. Some are also preparing for final exams if their professors choose to hold them the last week of class.

For some students, the ever-growing mountain of assignments, group projecs, papers and exams is overwhelming. While it is important to take exams seriously — and it is entirely normal and valid to be stressed — the Editorial Board of the Old Gold & Black urges the student body to approach the next two weeks with a healthy dose of perspective.

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Deacon Profile: Justin Browning

BY HALEY BENZ Contributing Writer benzhc15@wfu.edu

During the start of the show, I’m looking at everyone’s schedules to figure out times to rehearse. I’m in charge of the keys and our spaces.

I talk to directors and administrators to coordinate everything. Being a stage manager helps you keep your sh*t together — it’s your job if anything goes wrong.

Justin Browning never thought he would be proud of having the keys to the Ring Theater in his backpack.

He never thought he’d be interviewed about them, either.

In his four years at Wake Forest, Browning has come into great responsibility in the theater department — a substantial jump from his small-town aspirations of someday being a part of something greater than performing Shakespeare in English class.

Justin’s story is not unlike that of many students at Wake Forest. A liberal arts education gives students the room to explore different areas of interest and learn outside of the box — an opportunity they may not have had prior.

Well, what happens when something goes wrong?

Three seconds of panic, and then it’s problemsolving. For Laugh Tracks my sophomore year, someone actually tore their ACL on stage. I don’t know how or why it happened, but we had to stop the show and call EMS and the second she was out I had to make cues and continue with the show.

What’s your plan after May?

Tell me about the Anthony Aston Players.

AAP is the student theater service organization — I’m the vice president. As a group, we do all of our community service particularly for the theater as well as a few things for the community. We have 53 active members and this year we had a huge wave of freshmen come in. We found out today we're one of the largest non-Greek student groups on campus.

How come we don’t know much about AAP? We don’t advertise much … and we don’t have any lukewarm members. No one just comes to show up.

AAP kind of fell into my lap after meeting people involved. I didn’t do any work in the theater before I came to college. My high school tried to start a Drama Club and it was only three people — then two graduated and it was only me, so we couldn’t do it.

What changed when you got to Wake Forest?

I met people — upperclassmen who were already involved. I started going to the meetings and then my first semester I was assistant stage manager for Laugh Tracks, our comedy show, and then the next semester I was the full Production Manager and I will have that role until I graduate in May. The theater department is reasonably small here, so it’s easy to get really involved. The good thing about a liberal arts school is that you don’t have to do just theater – I do archaeology and theater.

My dream job is to be a producer. I love being on top of everything. It’s just very hard to get into. As a producer, I would be able to pick the sound designers, light designers, stage director, and pick the shows. So I would be fully in charge.

Photo courtesy of Briana Powell

Justin Browning is the vice president of AAP, which teaches local schools about theater and the arts.

the school, but through the Theater Department we have the class Theater Education where we go to a local school to teach theater and how to incorporate theater into classes. They even teach a math class. Essentially, we start at elementary and middle schools with the hopes of keeping theater in their schools because funding is being cut — especially the arts.

Would those kinds of programs have helped you?

Yes — I really wish I had more experience with the arts before coming to school. I think I would have studied it here, too. I was hesitant to study theater because I was afraid of not getting a job after graduation, but now I’m a senior and wish I had done it all differently.

Now that you’re here – why stage management?

Do you like being in charge?

I love being in charge.

You seem pretty Type A. How have you found being so structured is in a field that’s creative by nature?

I feel like I’m a creative person, but I don’t know how to express it well. Every time I try to do something I want it to be perfect the first time I do it, which is not how the arts work. Working in the theater hasn’t necessarily taught me to be creative but to think outside the box.

Now that it’s been four years, what would you tell someone who’s interested in pursuing something new, like you have?

Meet people. Get involved. You’ve wanted to do this your entire life and never had the opportunity.

Now you’re surrounded by opportunity — why don’t you f*cking do it! And don’t be scared.

So, don’t be scared?

I really like stage management. We write cues to make lights amd sounds change. The designers construct those and we’ll write it in the script. During the show, I’m calling cues — telling actors when to go on stage, telling board operators when to turn things on.

Don’t be scared. That’s the point of college in general. You can’t be afraid. You can’t be hesitant.

You have to be willing to break out of your comfort zone to get where you want to be. You can’t wait for cues your entire life.

14th Annual WFU Artisan's Fair Time: Friday, November 30 at 11 a.m Location: Benson 401 Come see the over 20 vendors showing and selling handcrafted products, including jewelry, woodworking, stitchery, pottery, stained glass and baked goods.

Old Dominion: Happy Endings World Tour Time: Saturday, December 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Location: Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum Gather your friends and head over to the Coliseum to listen to country band Old Dominion perform as part of the "Happy Endings" world tour.

Lovefeast Time: Sunday, December 2 at 8 p.m.

Location: Wait Chapel Attend the annual traditional service that highlights Moravian traditions and celebrates the upcoming holiday of Christmas.

Student Union Film Series: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Time: Friday, November 30 at 8 p.m.

Location: Pugh Auditorium, Benson Grab some friends and head over to Pugh Auditorium to watch this movie.

Caroling Fridays at Reynolda Time: Friday, November 30 at 2:30 p.m.

Location: Reynolda House Museum of American Art Come to enjoy friendship, music, and good cheer as the hall fills with the sound of Christmas carols and the Aeolian Organ.

Lighting of the Quad Time: Tuesday, December 7 at 7 p.m.

Location:Hearn Plaza See the holiday lights on Hearn Plaza while celebrating the holiday season and enjoying cocoa, cookies and music.

You mentioned service — what’s that have to do with theater?

We do Hit the Bricks and Project Pumpkin through

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Sources: Dining strives to sustainably source food

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It all began with a spending report. After years of fruitlessly trying to track every dining purchase and evaluating whether each item met sustainability criteria, DeLongpre Johnston proposed a new approach that started with a new question: on which food items is our campus spending the most money?

“It turns out that the dollar amounts aligned with the agricultural woes,” DeLongpre Johnston said. “Because all the big-spend items were animal proteins.”

Action in these high-purchase areas reduces negative environmental effects from inhumane animal production.

The dining team moved to find vendors that met sustainability criteria. This meant a shift away from a primary focus on locally-sourced goods and toward third-party verified suppliers.

TPV sources are those that have been verified by a group, independent from the producer or consumer, as sustainably and/or ethically produced and recognized by one or more food and beverage quality standards.

“We can make the largest impact in the areas where we consume in the highest quantities,” said John Wise, Vice President of Hospitality & Auxiliary Services.

The top four items on the spend report were poultryrelated, so Harvest Table chefs set out to find a poultry producer that was TPV as humanely raised and handled.

Eventually they settled on Murray’s Family Farm, a Certified Humane production which partners with farmers across the East Coast.

Next they moved to beef, developing a partnership with Brasstown Beef. This product is both TPV with a Global Animal Partnership Level 5. The producer also happens to be within the 250-mile radius usually used to define “local.”

Complementing these two major TPV supply chain shifts are TPV salmon, tuna and bananas.

can also play an important role in regenerative land management and the sequestration of carbon in the soil.

Where we purchase our food, especially animal products, is incredibly important.

“Sometimes we are inclined to make changes that are easy but have a relatively low impact, and that’s fine but you need a lot of those little things cumulatively,” DeLongpre Johnston said. “If you assess supply chain, you can find a couple of really big boulders to start pushing out of the way — you can see some pretty big change and impact.”

Coupled with a commitment to holistic education about the nutritional benefits of food to students’ performance and wellbeing, better meat is a win.

Plates composed of foods that nourish bodies and minds for energy, brain function, immune support and other functions, tend to be plates with a smaller portion of animal protein.

A Commitment to Culinary Excellence Procurement practices are only one step in the sustainable dining journey.

Primary focus is placed upon culinary excellence. If diners dislike the food offered, the importance of all other sustainable efforts is diminished.

“I’ve found that these TPV products are holistically better than your run of the mill extremely processed chicken or beef, and so they’re easier to cook and make taste great,” said Jordan Rogers, Executive Chef for Harvest Table.

Constantly striving to provide the Wake Forest community with excellent food has also led to the creation of the vegan station and other plant-forward dining options. All of these efforts contribute to the university’s sustainability profile.

Looking Ahead The dining team hopes to continue increasing the number of TPV sources for their purchases. To do this, they will move down the spend list searching for sustainable vendors.

“There’s a big opportunity in the pork market,” Rogers said. “We are actively searching for a provider to help us meet that mark.”

Less Meat, Better Meat The World Resources Institute recently published a piece highlighting how ruminant meats have the highest resource requirements of any food we eat. Beef production, for example, uses 20 times more land and emits 20 times more emissions than bean production, per gram of protein. On the other hand, well-managed cattle grazing

Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Dining

Because beef production uses 20 times more land and emits 20 times more emissions than bean production, per gram of protein, it’s important to find a sustainable beef provider.

SG GENERAL ASSEMBLY

BY ELIZABETH MALINE Student Government Beat Reporter malied17@wfu.edu I. Executive Reports Gabriel Benzecry and Phillip Yurchenko, President and Vice President of Hillel, were guest speakers at the meeting to discuss issues of anti-Semitism on campus. They are working to increase the strength of the relationship between Student Government and the Jewish community in the form of initiatives, committees, programming, discussion and social media advertisement.

President Danny Reeves reported that he will have a meeting about mental health with campus leaders during which they will formulate concrete objectives. Finally, the student president of University of Pittsburgh proposed a resolution to all ACC schools on gun violence in the wake of the Pittsburgh shooting. The resolution hopes to unite ACC schools after this violent occurrence.

Speaker of the House Will Hargrove reported that he is implementing a Cabinet Self-Reflection form for mid-year review. There was also a discussion on how to send out reports during the meeting to make meetings more effective.

Treasurer Sydney Packard reported that this semester there will be SBAC minor guideline revisions and next semester there will be SBAC Constitution/Bylaws with student feedback.

Secretary Maia Kennedy reported that she is working with Physical Planning to create spaces for on-campus dogs.

Staff Advisor Tim Wilkinson reported that during this year’s Senior Fifth, there were no hospitalizations, though the school is still formulating the final report. There was a higher number of Student Health referrals but this is thought to be because of the accessibility to health services through the mobile unit stationed at the tailgate. With regard to Hillel’s speech at the beginning of the meeting, he supports the partnership with Student Government because he doesn’t want any organizations to feel the burden alone of educating the school about certain issues.

II. Committee Reports Campus Life Committee reported that a meeting with Cook Elementary School has been finalized, and they are in the works of talking with administration at the school to talk to the Senate body. They are also meeting with Vice President Rue to talk about Greek Life and social life on campus, with Reeves and Kennedy to discuss the anti-Semitism resolution, and with Reeves to work on mental health.

Physical Planning Committee reported that the night walk with campus police was rescheduled for Dec. 5 at 5:30 pm. An Aramark employee appreciation event is in the works for the beginning of next semester. They are also planning a sustainability week for next semester.

Public Relations Committee reported that a stabilizer for phones for Student Government social media has been delivered, and they are ordering cameras. They are writing

an end of the semester update, working on Mental Health Week graphics, and have updated their website.

Student Organizations Council chartered Student Movement for Immigration Justice (SMIJ) and Wake Forest Red Cross Club.

III. New Business A Senate Resolution for a 15-minute loading spot for Campus Kitchen truck was passed.

Senate Bill: The Great Omnibus Bill of 2018 for the Purpose of Amending the Governing Documents in Order to Bring the Governing Documents into Order, of Allowing for Good Governance, and of Providing a Clear Rule for Interpretation passed.

Senate is trying to present reports ahead of time to make more time to discuss issues like Greek Life and sexual assault during the meeting.

IV. Constituent Concerns The lights on Wait Chapel have been purple for domestic violence awareness month well beyond just the one month, and SG is trying to change it back to normal.

Someone received $300 worth of tickets in the span of one hour for parking in the wrong spot.

SG sent out survey to freshmen about quality of life and received interesting responses that they will discuss with the class.

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Class and status affect student life Most students are from the upper class, and this plays out for students on a socio-personal level

BY NATALIE ALMS Staff Writer almsnj16@wfu.edu Julia Sawchak, a senior, got a vintage Louis Vuitton bag for Christmas freshman year after she begged her mom to buy it for her.

“I felt like it wasn’t very authentic to me, but at the same time I wanted people to know I had an expensive bag,” she said.

She sold it a year later.

Sawchak pointed out a nearby girl — her idea of a “classic Wake student” — to explain why she had felt like the bag was a necessity. The girl’s hair was dyed blond, and she was wearing Gucci shoes and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag.

“That’s like a $5,000 outfit,” she said.

According to a 2017 study by the Equality of Opportunity Project, 71 percent of students at Wake Forest are from the top 20 percent of incomes in the United States and more than one in five students come from the top one percent. 2.3 percent of Wake Forest’s student body is from the bottom 20 percent.

These numbers have generally been consistent for the last 20-plus years. However, in late 2017 Wake Forest set goals in to increase the number of Pell-eligible students and students on need-based financial aid.

The disparities in the socioeconomic makeup of the student body affect students from all ends of the income spectrum both in their social life and on a personal level.

Research by Joan Ostrove and Susan Long found that socioeconomic background was strongly correlated to whether or not students felt a sense of belonging at college, which in turn predicted how well students adjusted to college, the quality of their experiences at school and how well they performed academically.

Wealth, or the lack of it, shines through in the mundane. The brand of clothing you wear, the type of phone you have, if you have a car on campus and the type of car, whether you eat on or off campus on the weekends, the types of vacations you go on, what you do in the summer, and whether you work a job during the school year all reflect status.

“I guess for the most part the disparity is in how we live our day-to-day lives,” said senior Austin Hill.

He works two jobs to pay for tuition and to buy the art supplies for the studio classes that are part of his major. This takes up time and energy that students who do not need jobs can spend on other activities.

Many Wake Forest students share a similar socioeconomic background with their closest friends.

“You tend to flock towards other similar to you because it makes it easier to connect,” said senior Emily Beeland.

I interrupted Hill at one point in our interview to tell him that I am also on financial aid.

“Oh,” he said. “So you get it.”

Second semester freshman year, Greek life also comes into play, which about 47 percent of the student body participates in.

“I think that a lot of the ways that friendships are formed on this campus are through Greek life,” Sawchak said.

However, some students cannot afford to take part or otherwise abstain. Dues for the first semester of being in a Panhellenic sorority tend to be around $600 and tend to be more for fraternities.

Some also feel that image plays a role in sorting students within the Greek system into different sororities that are viewed as more or less desirable.

“A lot of people end up in the sororities that they end up with, in my opinion, based off of image,” Sawchak said.

She herself is a member of Kappa Beta Gamma. Her parents pay her tuition and she is able to buy the items that she thinks

allow girls to be noticed before they rush, like her black Longchamp bag.

“I had one friend who made comments that she didn’t get into my sorority because she couldn’t afford to look rich enough,” Sawchak said.

Blair Dunaway is a senior who is in Chi Omega.

“Money breeds a better image, or the image that is cultivated and broadcasted through Chi O,” she continued. “And you’re more likely to do that the more money that you have.”

She remembers that Gucci belts and Gucci shoes were popular items to wear during rush last year.

“We’d see girls on both sides wearing those and girls on both sides loved talking to the girls who had the same idea of style,” she said.

Until she disaffiliated last spring, junior Maren Morris was in Kappa Alpha Theta.

She remembers the slide show before going through recruitment containing descriptions of the types of outfits that Potential New Members should wear during the spring rush process. Other girls around her talked about shopping, while she considered the clothes in her closet.

Despite the fact that the consequences of these differences in class are at times material, they are more often felt than spoken aloud.

“It’s just something that’s been on my brain forever, and no one has ever asked me about it,” Beeland said.

For some students, the inequality sometimes goes deeper into feelings of not belonging and isolation.

“There’s just so many ways in which image is reinforced on this campus both systematically and then through peer pressure,” Sawchak said. “Even people who are extremely wealthy feel isolated.”

Although Hill thinks that he probably would have been confronted with the realities of being a low-income student at any college, he wouldn’t have stayed at Wake Forest without his friends.

Navigating Wake Forest’s social land-

scape freshman year was difficult. He was initially surprised by Wake Forest’s party culture. However, he became friends freshman year with the people that also mostly stayed in their dorms on weekend nights.

“We just kind of stuck back and tried to find community. It just so happened that we were all scholarship kids,” he said. “It really helped a lot to know that there were other people in my situation.”

Next summer, Morris is hoping to do an internship in Los Angeles. At the information session, she realized that her questions about the $8,500 cost seemed to be boring the girl next to her.

“Because they have money and can afford to go to these places and make connections, is that going to set them up for a better experience when they leave Wake?

And we get screwed?” she asked. “I don’t know. We’re going to have to wait and see.”

COMMON ACCESORIES AT WAKE FOREst Gucci Mules $890

LOUIS VUITTON PURSE $1,240 Cartier love bracelet $4,500

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POLICE BEAT Larceny • Unknown subject(s) removed student’s flat tire and rim from the patio of Davis Hall. The report was filed on Nov. 7 at 10:26 a.m.

• Unknown subject(s) took a GPS from the biology lab in Winston Hall and did not return it. The report was filed on Nov. 9 at 9:53 a.m.

• Unknown subject(s) removed Nike coat from the women’s locker room in Reynolds Gym. The report was filed on Nov. 14 at 4:05 p.m.

• Unkown subject(s) removed items from the victim’s vehicle on Bradmire Ave. The report was filed on Nov. 23 at 11:00 p.m.

Underage Consumption/Intoxication/Drugs • ALE arrested a student for felonious possession of cocaine as well as alcohol-related misdemeanors on Deacon Blvd. The report was filed on Nov. 12 at 2:00 p.m.

• Offender consumed alcoholic beverages and became ill in Collins Hall. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 12:05 a.m.

• Offender consumed alcoholic beverages at a Chi Psi function and became ill on Jasper Memory Lane. The

report was filed on Nov. 17 at 12:47 a.m.

• Offender consumed alcohol and needed medical attention in Poteat Hall. The report was filed on Nov.17 at 1:05 a.m.

• Offender in Johnson Hall consumed alcohol at an unknown location and was transported to WFUBMC. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 1:06 a.m.

• Offender in South Hall consumed alcohol at an unknown location and was transported to WFUBMC. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 1:31 a.m.

• Offender in Luter Hall consumed punch at an offcampus Alpha Sigma Phi party and passed out in Luter.

Forsyth EMS responded, administered four doses of Narcan and transported the offender to WFUBMC. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 2:33 a.m.

• Offender in Huffman Hall was intoxicated, entered the wrong room and got into the bed. The offender was transported to Student Health by Wake Forest EMS. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 3:45 a.m.

• Offenders on Deacon Blvd. were all brought to an ambulance after consuming too much alcohol at the football game. Most were treated and later released.

However, two students were too intoxicated and were transported ot WFUBMC. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 1:00 p.m.

• Offender in South Hall consumed alcohol and needed medical attention. The report was filed on Nov. 18 at 12:50 a.m.

• Offender in Bostwick Hall consumed alcohol and became ill, requiring medical attention. The report was filed on Nov. 18 at 3:50 a.m.

• Drug paraphernalia was found in a room in Johnson Hall during RA inspections. The report was filed on Nov. 18 at 8:40 p.m.

Miscellaneous • Two suites had a small gathering of people in NCA #10. RA requested that everyone leave the area. The report was filed on Nov. 10 at 11:11 p.m.

• Offender punched victim in the face at the football game on Deacon Blvd. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 1:45 p.m.

• An assault was reported at Graylyn. The report was filed on Nov. 17 at 8:50 p.m.

• Offenders climbed up to the roof of Bostwick Hall.

As one was returning to the third floor deck, his foot broke a glass window pane. The report was filed on Nov. 18 at 1:54 a.m.

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BY WILL MAY Sports Editor mayws16@wfu.edu

A 17-foot-deep pit of dirt and gravel the size of a city block might catch the eye of a passerby strolling down Fourth Street in downtown Winston-Salem.

The poster on the chain-link fence surrounding the complex provides an even more impressive promise.

On the property, Mayfair Street Partners plans to erect a six-story Hyatt Place hotel directly to the west of the Pepper Building on North Liberty Street. They also aim to construct a seven-story high-rise comprised of 32 condominium units. Their plans also include planting trees and other shrubbery around the park, and constructing underground valet parking with the capacity to accommodate 168 vehicles.

“The key to this project as a catalyst, in my opinion, is to fill in a large and very obvious gap in the center of our city,” said city councilmember Jeff MacIntosh of the Northwest Ward.

“What this park, along with the hotel project … will do is elevate the perception that we are a real city with real city amenities.”

According to Simon Burgess, Managing Director Partner at Mayfair, it all began on July 2016, when Mayfair Street Partners acquired the historic Pepper Building on the corner of West Fourth Street and North Liberty Street. They are currently renovating it into a Hotel Indigo.

The project is estimated to cost about only reason to develop this city block. the subject of most of his calls to the $27 million, $3 million of which comes Sgt. Kevin Bowers of the Winston-Sa- park, and said its removal and confrom city bonds. Burgess said the pro- lem Downtown Bike Patrol described struction starting made the unlawful cess is moving with steady progress. how he handled numerous incidents activity move to other locations, like The plan is to open the Hotel Indigo of public intoxication and occasionally Winston Square Park on North Maron the third week of January 2019, urination while on duty at Merschel shall Street. and the other two hotels in 2020.

Despite this, he said that he looked This development is only the latest Plaza. forward to the final product, and that “It was a safe area, but there was a in a series of development projects the luxuriant new look planned will be lot of nuisance-type calls that we dealt undertaken by the city, including the a welcome change for downtown. with,” he said. anticipated children’s museum Ka“I think it’s going to look a lot nicer, Sgt. Bowers elaborated that the large leideum planned to stand opposite Merschel Plaza on West Third Street, a concrete pedestrian walking bridge and it’s still going to attract people,” 119-room Hampton Inn & Suites on that spanned across Third Street was he said. the corner of West Third and Cherry Streets, and the renovations on Passageway Park on Trade Street. With projects like these, the city aims to stimulate economic growth downtown. Some city residents have reservations about the project.

“I’m excited for all the new things happening,” said Laura Garland, a resident who is employed downtown, “and I suppose construction is a necessary evil of that, but it has made traveling and traffic a pain.”

Despite the inevitable complications associated with urban development, MacIntosh said that the feedback that he has received from his constituents has been largely positive.

He pointed to the estimated revenue that the hotels are expected to generate, a figure at around $20 million, as a significant factor. This is a much higher figure than many other downWill May/Old Gold & Black town developments, and will benefit city residents.

Mayfair Street Partners intends to build multiple buildings with The economic advantages aren’t the underground parking on their plot, which located on Fourth Street.

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these marine systems. In contrast, colder environments reduce the metabolic demands of herbivores and favor the growth of the algae.

The Galapagos are an excellent location to study these temperature-driven changes because of the natural cycle of warm and cold weather seasons driven by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean. “El Niño” phases of the ENSO are warm in the Galapagos, while “La Niña” phases bring cold, nutrient-rich water up from the deep ocean. The influx of nutrients can make it harder to separate the roles of reduced

herbivory and increased nutrients in algal growth during these colder periods.

Bruno’s lab used caging experiments with specific quantities of urchins and algae to show that herbivory really does increase during warmer periods and decrease during colder ones.

Erynn Rebol and Jenny Howard are graduate students in Dr. Dave Anderson’s lab here at Wake Forest who also work in the Galapagos. Research from their lab mate Emily Tompkins was featured in Bruno’s talk. After the seminar, Rebol described one of her experiences in the Galapagos, which highlights the role of

Marine ecologist Dr. John Bruno spoke about the effects of temperature on ocean communities to a packed room of approximately 100 faculty and students in Winston Hall on Nov. 26. His seminar, “Ocean Warming: The role of temperature as a process regulator in marine communities,” comes on the heels of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, completed earlier this month, for which Bruno was a contributing author. Bruno, a professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducts research on marine ecosystems in the Galapagos Islands, Belize and throughout the Caribbean.

In his seminar, Bruno focused on the role of temperature in regulating species interactions in the Galapagos. Bruno explained that in warmer environments, herbivores like fish, turtles, sea urchins and marine iguanas experience an increase in respiration and metabolism, causing them to consume more algae. Photosynthesis, however, does not increase at the same Courtesy of NASA/GISS rate, so the algae do not grow enough to The photo above shows the difference between the annual average temperafeed the new demand from the grazers.

This reduces algal or plant biomass in ture during 1981-2013 and that over the previous period of 1951-1980 (˚C).

temperature in structuring marine communities: “I went swimming in two different bays … less than half a mile apart. They were both extremely different in terms of what kind of ocean life was there,” Rebol said.

“The biggest difference between them was the water temperature.”

Howard highlighted another important point from Bruno’s seminar, the implications of these temperature-driven changes for warming oceans worldwide. In the Galapagos, Howard and her lab mates study the Nazca booby, a seabird which feeds on small fish.

“The primary prey for the birds prior to 1997 were the sardines. And they aren’t going to be able to survive in the Galapagos with the temperature bumped up,” Howard said.

This means the boobies will have to depend on flying fish instead, which, as Rebol explained “are kind of trash fish in terms of nutrients and caloric intake.”

Even though Nazca boobies, like marine mammals and humans, regulate their own body temperature and may not experience directly the same temperature-driven metabolic shifts that cold-blooded herbivores do, they can still suffer as a result of those changes occurring elsewhere in the ecosystem. Bruno also pointed out that, as of now, the dynamics his lab has measured occur below the optimal temperature for these species, past which their survival and reproduction may be negatively impacted.

Increasing ocean temperatures could eventually push species past that point and have dire consequences for marine ecosystems.

Sustainable eating options improving on campus Office of Sustainability and Aramark team up to lower their carbon footprint

BY ABBY MCMULLEN Contributing Writer mcmuaj17@wfu.edu Wake Forest’s shift to a plant-forward dining focus is enabling students to have more control over their dietary choices and thus how their personal behavior affects climate change.

Performance Dining is Aramark’s platform to help students “eat with a purpose.” The recent re-brand of Aramark on campus, Harvest Table, helps achieve this mission by focusing on additive-free, local, sustainable, chef-inspired cuisine.

This platform’s inclusion of plant-forward dining encourages students to focus on the health benefits of greater plant intake, recommending one-fourth of a plate to be protein, half of which is plant-based.

“This change towards plant-forward dining is a drive within Aramark from a corporate perspective,” said Resident Manager of Aramark Dining Services Tim Vandermeersch, “but is given more concentration here [on Wake Forest’s campus] due to our partnership with the Office of Sustainability.”

Carbon dioxide accounts for 81 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, which is the leading cause of rising average global temperatures. The greenhouse effect, according to NASA, is the trapping of the sun’s warmth within Earth’s at-

mosphere, functioning as a thick blanket. This global warming has caused the planet’s average surface temperature to rise 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 120 years.

Out of the top 10 foods with the largest ecological footprint, eight are animal byproducts, seven of which are meat. For example, production of one kilogram of lamb emits the same emissions as driving a car for 91 miles. Fruits, vegetables, beans and nuts have much lower carbon footprints. Plant-forward dining, a style of cooking and eating that emphasizes and celebrates plant-based foods, is working to reduce the carbon footprint of Americans’ diet.

A global commitment to eating a vegan diet would bring a 70 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Although encouraging veganism or vegetarianism is not a goal of plant-forward dining, educating diners on plant protein alternatives is fundamental to the movement.

Edamame, tofu, beans, nuts, seeds, whole grains and legumes are all examples of plant proteins.

“The 336 Market now carries my favorite dairy-free yogurt and vegan granola bars,” said senior Alexandra Miller. “My freshman year, there were hardly any options for my vegan diet.”

Miller says the change in taste and quality of food is enabling her to live a healthier lifestyle.

The recent addition of the vegan station to the Pit helped elect Wake Forest as one of PEETA’s Top 10 vegan campuses in 2018, yet some still find the options unsatisfactory.

“It is very hard being vegan here,” said junior Makenna Dixon-Essien. “I find myself snacking a lot more when at school because I don’t get the nutrients I need to sustain this lifestyle. The vegan station’s limited hours make it difficult to

schedule my meals because I also have work, lab and class.”

Dixon-Essien said that following a visit with her doctor over summer break, it was decided that she’d need to start incorporating some sort of high protein into her diet. Now, she will occasionally eat seafood in order to get protein and vitamins.

Campus dining sustainability efforts not only focus on climate change. Junior McKenzie Webster serves as a peer educator for the Office of Wellbeing so that she can help promote student wellbeing on campus.

“I’m a vegetarian myself and try to eat as many whole plant-based foods as possible,” Webster said. “I am passionate about health and wellbeing and wanted to teach others how to have a sustainable lifestyle, too.”

The Global Food Committee hosts a global food tabling station in the Pit twice a month to expose students to food from different cultures.

These recipes are contributed by students and then executed by Aramark.

“Our purpose is for people to try and learn about different cultures in a safe environment,” said chair of the committee Gail Bretan.

“People open up over sharing food, and we want to bring people together to try new things.”

This mission relates to campus dining’s sustainability efforts in that it works to enhance taste and community, both components of “eating with a purpose,” according to campus nutritionist Brooke Orr. Aramark's ultimate goal is to reduce the school's carbon footprint without losing quality or taste.

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Wake Forest students have an obligation to check their peers when they hear these conversations Alec Jessar

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Two years ago: I am sitting in the back of the bus heading back to campus from a Wake Forest basketball game. Darkness is punctuated by street lights and the Wake Mart’s lights, but I cannot doze off or block out a conversation I overhear in the row in front of me: Three male students talking — no, yelling over each other — about the bodies of various women they have slept with, and referring to one of them as a “last resort.” Talking about the bodies they will “f---” tonight.

Embrace the discomfort and say, ‘No. We will not accept that violence.’ Imagine if men here did that...”

A year ago: I hear three fraternity brothers ranking women on a scale, again so loud that the voices easily come through the door between us.

What did I do on the bus?

Nothing. The men got off the bus, and I did too, and we walked in different directions.

I am ashamed of this. It was cowardly. I was afraid of saying something, afraid of conflict.

I did not realize the power of this language — its tendency to encourage actions like sexual assaults and rapes that plague our campus; its normalization of slurs (homophobic and misogynist) that I hear on campus, used by groups of men who think no one is listening as they egg each other on.

In the second instance, I said

something. The person listened, and we had a meaningful conversation, the details of which I will not describe here. What’s important are how these overheard comments reflect and reveal a problem on our campus — a prevalence of misogynist language which normalizes and produces violence.

The article published recently about Sigma Chi’s emails highlights this problem. I want to talk about this. Not to lecture — because I too have been part of the problem when I was silent, and still will be if I stay silent. I am not above it.

But we need to talk about why men tolerate this kind of thing and how we can work to change that.

I recently watched a documentary called The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots (available to all Wake Forest students through the “Kanopy” platform). As the producers make clear, it is certainly easier to do nothing

when we hear “locker room talk.”

But this is cowardly. And it puts our peers in danger. If we accept a world in which men will dehumanize other human beings, we are complicit in sexual assault and rape.

The alternative is to embrace the discomfort and say, “No. We will not accept that violence.” Imagine if men here did that in their friend groups, their fraternities, their clubs — every time a peer shamed a woman’s body or used a slur. It would not make misogyny go away, but it would have an impact. I’ve acted on this approach this semester, and the result has been extremely productive.

The approach is uncomfortable, but peers have actually respected it and stopped using this language around me. This is not abstract. The time has come to stop delaying the moment of bystander intervention. The time is now, and the time is every time we hear something that reinforces the dangerous culture of masculinity of which we are all too aware.

singular ability to create meaning is the most fundamental and existence-altering plane of consciousness. The second level of cognition lies in the everyday, extrinsic disappointments: law school rejections, spousal strife, etc. Addressing these does not really account for the full existential problem. It tries to use external minutia for internal teleology, which is an unsatisfying impossibility.

The third and most superficial level of cognition is the media landscape. The splintered, attention-grabbing niches we bury ourselves in online serve as bromides twice removed from an internal effort. They are a cheap, hyper-ignorant distraction. The perverse, inevitable irony of our society finds its present home in this fragmentation of attention, and the modern self, as catalogued by Joyce, Kafka, et. al., is stretched to its newest extreme, the ironic second abstraction of inner complication. Through the internet and its endless options, the fragmented self performs its second grave rubbing to create a grand irony, wherein its facile machinations fail so uniquely as to create their own cosmos. The halfway-investigative everyday disappointments, the first

remove from Kierkegaardian existentialism, are then lightly traced and abstracted again in the internet’s ironization of this concept, that of fractious attention. It is a manifestation of society’s natural desire to ignore subjective issues, and remains so deeply troubling because it is an obvious, insecure, compensatory mechanism of denial. As we go down the rabbit-hole of content, we fly up and away from the “strengthening of the inner being” that all humans fundamentally desire. The lives of silent desperation that Thoreau told us about make even more superficial noise.

The less we open ourselves up to subjective inquisition, the more fervent our search for objective understanding and the more absorbed we become in facile distractions, the harder it will be to eventually deal with our existential despair. We have relinquished Kierkegaard’s “concern” so whole-heartedly that it may be difficult to find. Nonetheless, we must attempt, if we care about our health even in the slightest, to seek it. Every person undergoes a continual existential struggle, and “to save his soul in this inner strengthening,” Kierkegaard says, “remains the one thing needful for a person.” Or not.

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People ought to re-embrace discomfort in their daily lives Kyle Ferrer

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For Søren Kierkegaard, there is an everpresent anguish in us, a craving for individual meaning and purpose underneath both our survivalist dogmas and our more idiosyncratic disappointments. It is a deep yearning, that in a moment “awakens in [man’s] soul a concern about what meaning the world has for him and he for the world,” the balm for which is not a system or body of knowledge, but a different kind that “does not remain as knowledge for a single moment but is transformed into an action the moment it is possessed.” This knowledge is a kind of subjective quenching, one that goes on to govern our lives; the opposite is ideology, frozen in the abstract world of concepts.

We have relinquished Kierkegaard’s ‘concern’ so whole-heartedly that it may be difficult to find.

Nonetheless, we must ... seek it.”

Kierkegaard goes on to say this knowledge entails a faith in the absurd, a trust in a kind of god that is manifested as a “strengthening in the inner being.” But to dive adequately into that would entail a lengthy disquisition; instead, I wish to focus on his diagnosis (a correct one, I think) of man’s existential flailing in an arbitrary world, the disappointments that can lead to blind cynicism and bottomless despair, and the levels of remove at which modern man finds himself in relation to solving this question.

There are three levels of cognition when it comes to addressing this issue. First, there is the most important, that which Kierkegaard details as the recognition of absurdity, and self-propulsion out of it. In essence, that “even if he does not find the explanation, he nevertheless did find the explanation: that he should wait for the explanation.”

This process of realization and subsequent acquiescence (for we can hardly ever be “all in”) to try, as T.S. Eliot says, is vital. This deep atonement to the absurd and to our

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“ embrace the national anthem We ought to Patriotism

Embracing the song that commemorates the greatest nation in the world is important

John Manos

Staff Columnist manojd18@wfu.edu

July 4, 1776 was the beginning of the rest of the world for many.

And the end for others. If you don’t know what day this is, you should.

This, in my opinion, is one of the top five most important events in the history of the world. This day was the founding of the most powerful, most free, longest-enduring nation ever: the United States of America. America isn’t perfect.

We’ve been through puritanism, the Salem Witch Trials, slavery, gender stratification, internment, depressions, and many other catastrophes.

But we live in a catastrophic world and given this, I believe America has done a phenomenal job of pressing on. America endures as a land of justice. A sanctuary for those who still believe in good. And for this, I pledge allegiance.

What is pledging allegiance? Better yet, what is the National Anthem? What does it mean? “The

Why is Key’s helplessness so imWe are a country of challenges. But when another coun- portant? Well, Key was not a militry challenges us, they get tary man. However, he was a patriot the hardest blow of their life." in every fiber of his being. This is Star Spangled Banner” was adopted as our national anthem in 1931; however, it was written in 1814 by the young poet Francis Scott Key. Key was being held in a British ship as a prisoner. As he was detained, he could observe the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812. His experience, written down as a poem, would later be the hymn to this great country, long after his death. So, back to the question on what the anthem means.

The account of Key is the account of a young American military being slammed by a much mightier British force. The future looked bleak, as the War of 1812 was not exactly panning out in the Americans' favor. The young patriot watched from captivity as a firestorm rained down on the troops that fought for his freedom. The British had already been embarrassed by the makeshift American forces; “never again,” they insisted. Key was in the worst position of all. As he was in captivity, safe from the English artillery, he was not able to contribute to his nation's purpose. He had to watch in mere futility.

something that this nation lacks today. This day and age, if you’re a patriot or a nationalist, you’re a "bigot." Our pitiful media loves to push this on their heavily biased agenda. Today, we are taught to hate our nation. We are supposed to have disdain for this beautiful country. In my opinion, this is a sin. Key was a nationalist. We need more men like him nowadays. As he watched in helpless confinement, one can only imagine the pure anger he held. He loved his nation and it was burning right before his eyes. However, defeat wasn’t as eminent as the young patriot presumed.

As the song goes, “And the rocket’s red glare / The bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night…” If you can’t finish this verse you should take a step back and ask yourself, “why?” In my opinion, this verse carries the most weight and meaning. It represents the adversity that this country was built off of.

That is what is so great about this nation: adversity is a part of our being. That is when we grow the tallest. We see it throughout history. We saw it when we were outmatched and outmanned in the Revolutionary War, we saw it in the stalemated Civil War

just before Gettysburg, we saw it during Reconstruction, we saw it during Jim Crow, we saw it in Pearl Harbor, we saw it on the morning of September 11, 2001. We see it every day. We are a country of challenges. But when another country challenges us, they get the hardest blow of their life. A Japanese admiral put it best after their attack on Pearl Harbor, saying, “I fear we have awakened a sleeping tiger.” Our capability was on display for the world after the 9/11 attacks when President Bush pledged to hunt down who was responsible and terminate them. Ten years later, the man responsible was indeed terminated by none other than the U.S. Navy. A promise made from adversity, but a promise kept.

So what is it that makes this anthem so special? If you haven’t noticed, I spent most of my time stressing American personalities rather than the actual lyrics of the song.

That is what I think makes the song what it is. All of the adversity, all of the pain and all of the suffering that this great nation has endured was foreshadowed by the British bombs that rained down on Fort McHenry.

The fire and explosions from which Key could see our only sign of hope.

By the light of our adversity, everyone was able to see “that our flag was still there.”

former popularity in high school. In short, I’m just overjoyed I didn’t peak between the years of 9th and 12th grade. By the end of Thanksgiving break, I was begging to be back on campus with my friends, sarcastically chanting Mother So Dear and praying that I had Deacon Dollars left to buy yogurt at the P.O.D. I ran into a girl I went to high school with at the bagel store and we excitedly said hello to each other and struck up a conversation about our new lives. I asked “Is it fun there?” and she responded with “Yeah, but nothing compared to the parties we have here.” The parties she was referring to were usually made up of Snapchat stories that documented the whole night (sound familiar?), occasionally a parent upstairs ready to shut down the affair at the drop of a beer can, and an exclusive invite list of the same 25 people for two years straight. I shuddered at the thought.

What I’ve experienced at Wake Forest made me realize that you do not have to be invited to the star football player’s “rager” to have fun or consider yourself valuable. I do not feel like

my image is dependant on who asked me to prom or what model Jeep I roll into the parking lot in. Once I entered college, all of those silly indicators of worth dissipated and I became more focused on whether the people I was around made me feel good and supported my goals.

It is none of my business whether people consider high school to be the best four years of their lives or not. It does worry me, however, that these people are going to have such a hard time adapting to and enjoying the new journeys of their lives because they held their most recent one in such high esteem. Go ahead and love high school and the friends you make along that path, but do not limit yourself to that being your greatest era.

Thanksgiving break should not transport you into a better time and make you feel like you can live in that phase forever. It should make you feel comfortable and at peace, but still remind you that you have something amazing and full of opportunities for a future and friendship back at college.

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Shedding the walls of high school has been a valuable part of college

Kate Federer

Staff Columnist fedekm18@wfu.edu

Everything about Thanksgiving excites me. Mashed potatoes? Yes, please. Pecan pie? Pass it over. Seeing all the people that mentally never left high school? I could do without.

Before college began, that break in late November was the perfect opportunity to escape my classmates and spend some quality time with my family and dogs. I completely underestimated the hype that people would place on reuniting with their hometown friends and how much relief they would feel leaving the new world of college.

I do not think that there is anything wrong with loving your hometown friends. Many of those individuals shared many of your “firsts” with you and often shaped you into who

I do not feel like my image is dependant on who asked me to prom or what model Jeep I roll into the parking lot in." you are today. I was overjoyed to see some of my friends, whom I’ve had most of my laughs with, but there is a fine line between appreciating your high school friends over break and making them the focal point of your life. It pained me to constantly tap through snapchat stories exclaiming “The crew is BACK” or “Together at last” posted by people I never see anything from. Yes, social media is not the evaluator of a good time, but something about these specific people made me believe that they sat in their dorm rooms and counted down the days until they could post that selfie.

I feel terrible for the people that are not enjoying college. There must be nothing worse than feeling that your tuition, efforts during application season and precious time have gone to waste. However, I do not feel the same sympathy for people who are not taking the time to appreciate it and have fun because of their

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A floor fight over the Speakership would be a poor start for the 116th Congress

Amanda Wilcox Staff Columnist wilcaf16@wfu.edu

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the current Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives, is about to face her first test in her bid to be elected the next Speaker of the House as lawmakers return to Washington.

This week, members of the Democratic caucus will have a secret-ballot vote behind closed doors to choose party leadership for the incoming Congress, most notably for Speaker of the House, majority leader and majority whip. Pelosi is expected to easily win a simple majority in this initial vote.

However, the magnitude of intraparty opposition to a second Pelosi Speakership will indicate whether or not the California lawmaker has the votes to be elected in a public vote on the House floor in January.

To be elected Speaker on the floor when the new Congress convenes, Pelosi will need the support of a majority of all mem-

The bottom line is this ... Pelosi deserves to be Speaker because she is exceptional at the job.” bers present and voting. A numerical majority of the full House would equate to 218 votes; assuming that all 200 Republicans back current Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, she can afford to have 16 Democratic defectors. But it’s possible that Pelosi could win with fewer than 218 votes if some members opt out by voting “present,” which would not automatically count for or against her, but would instead lower the majority threshold needed to be elected Speaker.

Taking this narrow margin of error into account, an anti-Pelosi letter currently circulating among the Democratic caucus has some Pelosi backers biting their fingernails.

The group of critics has promised to vote for new leadership both in the closed-door vote and on the House floor. As of Nov. 27, the count of signatories totals 16 — precisely the amount of Democratic support Pelosi can lose and still have the votes to be elected Speaker.

At this point, opposition to Pelosi is difficult to justify. Many Democratic lawmakers — particularly the young female candidates of color who generated much of the blue wave — have expressed a desire for

a new generation of leadership within the Democratic party. I couldn’t agree more.

However, these progressive freshman lawmakers have also demonstrated that they understand the crucial, fragile nature of the next two years and the desperate need for an experienced hand to guide the party. As I expressed in last week’s column, this new generation of leadership needn’t be precipitated by a knee-jerk Pelosi ouster — she can preside over an orderly transition in 2020, and for now, she’s the disciplinarian that the party urgently needs.

There are many reasons to be cynical about this 16-member putsch, so don’t be deceived into thinking that the dissidents represent the new generation of Democratic leadership themselves. At a time when just over a third of the incoming Democratic caucus is comprised of white men, 13 of the 16 signatories are white men. The majority of the signatories are conservative Democrats who belong to the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. Basically, they are using their votes as leverage to threaten Pelosi into agreeing to a set of House rules changes entitled “Break the Gridlock,” which would weaken Democrats’ majority power.

I would find the Problem Solvers’ objections more credible if they were veritably about supporting new leadership rather than making threats to secure rule changes.

In addition, bold calls for “change” and

“new leadership” ring hollow when there simply is no viable challenger to Pelosi. The only potential challenge to take seriously, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), dropped her bid for the Speakership and endorsed Pelosi after cutting a deal wherein Pelosi promised to reinstate a voting protection subcommittee eliminated by Republicans in 2013 and to name Fudge the chairwoman of that subcommittee. The Problem Solvers aren’t going to support McCarthy for Speaker, so with no reasonable alternative, by withholding support for Pelosi, all they will accomplish will be creating a fruitless stalemate on the floor in January.

A floor fight cannot emerge as the Democratic party’s first order of business. People stepped out to vote for Democrats in the midterms because they believed that Democrats could deliver on the issues that matter most — jobs, affordable healthcare, corralling a runaway presidency — and their confidence might be irreparably shaken if Democrats’ first move was an intraparty food fight. This debate threatens to divide Democrats precisely at the time when they need to be a disciplined counter to Trump.

And the bottom line is this: party politics aside, Pelosi deserves to be Speaker because she is exceptional at the job. When it comes to outmaneuvering her opponents and whipping her party into line inside the Capitol’s marble walls, no one else even comes close.

Letter to the Editor To the Editor of the Old Gold and Black, A State of the University conversation took place in Brendle Recital Hall on November 2. Leaders from the Divinity, Business, Law, and Medical Schools were invited to describe the achievements of their Schools, but no one was invited to speak for the Reynolda Campus Graduate School. There are currently more than 350 graduate students in residence seeking MA, MS, MSEd and Ph.D programs. These graduate students and their faculty mentors make substantial contributions to the intellectual level of the Reynolda campus while they are here. Upon graduation, they contribute to society at a higher level. Graduate students in Biology, Chemistry and Phys-

ics serve a vital role as teaching assistants in undergraduate labs. Many undergraduates participate in publishable research carried out in research groups energized by graduate students. We believe that research-active faculty do a better job in undergraduate classrooms and instructional labs. Why is the Graduate School being ignored in public conversations?

George Holzwarth Research Professor of Physics Martin Guthold Professor of Physics Director of the Physics Graduate Program

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Word on the Quad

What is your favorite tradition during the holiday season at Wake Forest?

“My favorite tradition is Eid for sure!”

Dalia Namak (‘19)

“Lighting of the Quad and the a cappella concert!”

Alissa Osberg (‘21)

“The snow is my favorite because we “My favorite is the Lighting of the get out of class and play in it.”

Quad.”

Savarni Sanka (‘21) Amy Drews (‘20)

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Demon Deacons fall to Akron at home No. 2-ranked WFU men's soccer took a close 1-0 loss to the Akron Zips on Sunday

BY MELINA JORIZZO Staff Writer jorimm15@wfu.edu

The top-seeded and No.2-ranked Wake Forest Men’s Soccer team saw their 2018 season come to a close on Sunday evening in the NCAA Tournament Round 16 after a 1-0 loss at Spry Stadium against No. 16-ranked Akron.

“That’s a tough pill to swallow,” said Head Coach Bobby Muuss. “But Akron did everything they needed to do to win so congratulations to them.”

Not only was this the end to the team’s season, but the final match as a Demon Deacon for seniors Brad Dunwell, Sam Raben and Logan Gdula, who led the team all season long. The team’s record during their time at Wake Forest has been 73-117.

“The staff, the guys, the facility, Wake Forest is unlike any other college soccer program,” Raben said after the match.

“Playing with these seniors has been an incredible opportunity” said junior

defender Michael DeShields. “I don’t know what I’d do without them — they have nurtured me, they brought me into this program when I was a freshman, and they have taken care of me all these years. I can’t thank them enough.”

The first half went back and forth between the Deacs and the Zips, ending in a draw with four shots on goal for each team. Wake Forest, however, was out-fouled 19-6.

The second half was different. After only 51 seconds in, Akron’s Marcel Zajac fired a shot into the bottom left corner of the net off of a cross by David Egbo on the ground inside of the box. This one goal proved to be enough to enable Akron to move on to the Elite Eight.

“We were late on the backside, and the kid just got a toe to it,” said captain and defender Sam Raben, describing the goal.

The action-packed second half ended with the Deacs outshooting the Zips 9-2 and possessing the ball for the majority of play, even though they were not able to get the equalizer.

Despite the early goal, Muuss described this last 45 minutes as “one of the best second-half performances we have had all season” due to the way that the Deacs dominated.

While Wake Forest’s Aristotle Zarris, a freshman, was able to find the back of the net in the 89th minute of play off of a cross into the box by sophomore Machop Chol to tie the game, the goal was called offsides by the right lines-

man. Zarris was argued to have been just a step in front of the last defender when the ball left Chol’s foot.

“They played to the final whistle,” Muuss said. “How could you not be proud of them?”

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The team greets fans following Sunday's loss. Junior Bruno Lapa, pictured above, was later picked as a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy.

Third year is the charm for Clawson’s Deacons After a huge win at Duke, the Deacons are going bowling for the third-straight year

BY SAMANTHA WEXLER Sports Editor wexlsn17@wfu.edu

Prior to the start of football season, I wrote a season preview for the Deacons on what I thought would happen over this season. Now, following the final game of the regular season, we will look back over a roller coaster of a year.

Who could have predicted that we would have three game-ready quarterbacks in freshman Sam Hartman, redshirt sophomore Jamie Newman and redshirt junior Kendall Hinton? Hartman consistently ranked towards the top of freshman quarterbacks in the whole country. Even though he dealt with some rookie mistakes on occasion, he was a very capable leader of the offense and will be in the future. Since

his injury, Newman has not sputtered, other than some issues in the Pitt game, in the face of adversity. I saw a tweet yesterday that showed Newman ranked second overall with a 134.2 passer rating on third and fourth down throws.

He was sandwiched between two Heisman candidates, Tua Tagovailoa and Kyler Murray, in those statistics.

In my preview, I predicted that the Deacs would become bowl-eligible with a few games to spare, which evidently did not occur; however, I never could have imagined the sheer amount of injuries that the team would sustain this year. The statistic that most illustrates this is the fact that there are seven scholarship linebackers and five of them were lost for the season early on. That’s absolutely absurd and makes the defensive efforts look all the more impressive.

We also saw the firing of Defensive Coordinator Jay Sawvel after the huge loss against Notre Dame. Since then, the defense has continued to improve, seen

hugely in the wins against NC State and were just finalized with promotions for Duke. The splitting of duties between the two given their good work.

Lyle Hemphill and Dave Cohen seems to be working well, and those positions See Bowl , Page 15

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Freshman Sam Hartman was a consistent leader on the team's offense until his injury. Redshirt sophomore Jamie Newman took up the mantle with success.

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also selected all-ACC first team as the league’s top all-purpose back and top return specialist.

The 59-7 win against Duke marked the largest victory margin against an ACC opponent in Wake Forest history.

“Certainly, it was the most complete game this year. Duke is a good football team. They were 7-4. They've beaten

some good football teams. They are a very good team with an excellent quarterback, a good defense and a lot of offensive skill,” Clawson said after the win. “I thought if we could get this game to the fourth quarter with a chance to win it, that was the goal. I never expected this.”

The Deacs will now wait until Dec. 2 to find out where they are going

to play their third bowl game under Clawson. The most likely options are the Birmingham Bowl in Birmingham, AL; the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, FL; the First Responder Bowl in Dallas, TX; and the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA. Stay tuned for releases, updates and a matchup preview of the Demon Deacons’ bowl matchup.

On offense, running back Cade Carney had a field day, rushing for a career-high 223 yards and two touchdowns in 31 carries. Carney was the sole healthy running back with significant game experience during most of the game. RB Matt Colburn II did not play, and backup Christian BealSmith sustained an injury during the first half. Carney averaged 7.2 yards per carry while shouldering most of the offensive snaps, a truly remarkable effort by the junior running back.

Quarterback Jamie Newman quietly threw for 177 yards and four touchdowns while completing 18 of 23 passes. Ever since he filled in for injured QB Sam Hartman, Newman has been a steady presence in the backfield. Aside from a couple of bad reads against Pittsburgh that resulted in interceptions, the redshirt sophomore has been mostly calm and collected under center for the Deacs. In a couple of touchdown throws against Duke, Newman stepped up in the pocket and threw it as he got drilled by a Duke defender.

Receiver Greg Dortch was Newman’s main target with yet another great performance: 10 receptions for 124 yards and a touchdown. Dortch finished the season as the Deacs’ Photo Courtesy of Wake Forest Athletics Communications leading receiver in yards (1078) and touchdowns (eight) while racking The WFU Football team celebrates after beating Duke, a victory that was their most lopsided ever in the ACC, as up 1,750 all-purpose yards. He was well as their largest since 1945. The outcome of this game gave the Demon Deacons Bowl eligibility.

Men’s Basketball begins new winning streak Wake Forest won its first night game this season over the Western Carolina Catamounts

BY NICK LALLI & CHRISTIAN ODJAKJIAN Asst. Sports Editor & Contributing Writer lalldp18@wfu.edu & odjact18@wfu.edu

hard-fought wins over mid-major opponents Cal State Fullerton (2-5), a March Madness participant last year, and Valparaiso (3-3). The Deacons first beat the Cal State Fullerton Titans 66-59, led by Hoard and junior guard Brandon Childress. Hoard recorded 15 points, seven rebounds, and two blocks while Childress posted 15 points, five assists, and two steals.

The Deacons then moved onto the fifth-place game, where they dispatched Valparaiso 69-63. A Crusader layup closed the gap to two points at 54-52 before the Deacons ripped off an 11-4 run to secure the victory.

Freshman led the way again for Wake Forest, with Hoard, Mucius, and forward Sharone Wright Jr. combining for 39 points.

Five days later, Wake Forest welcomed an unimpressive Houston Baptist (2-3) squad to the Joel Coliseum. Coming off of two huge losses by 30+ points to Arizona and Wisconsin, the Huskies were simply looking to remain competitive against the Deacons. They wound up completing the improbable task of beating a more talented Wake Forest team, shocking the Deacons with a 93-91 victory in overtime.

Since the last publication of the Old Gold & Black, the Men’s Basketball team has played five games, winning three of them to compile a 4-2 record overall. Wake Forest first traveled to South Carolina on Nov. 15 to participate in the Myrtle Beach Invitational.

Play began with a loss against a hot shooting Saint Joseph’s squad in round one, as the Deacons succumbed to the Hawks by a score of 89-69. Saint Joseph’s shot a blistering 53.3 percent from downtown. Their 16 threes tied the Wake Forest school record for most three-pointers allowed.

The Hawks were led by sophomore forward Charlie Brown Jr., who made four threes en route to 26 points on the night. For the Deacons, freshman forwards Jaylen Hoard and Isaiah Mucius led the team with 14 points.

Wake Forest struggled from within the three-point line, making only nine of 26 shots while shooting 44 percent from downtown on 25 attempts.

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Junior guard Brandon Childress has provided invaluable leadership and scoring this season, leading the Demon Deacons with 17.5 points per game.

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Spotlight: Saby Nihalani

BY NICK LALLI Asst. Sports Editor lalldp18@wfu.edu Saby Nihalani is a freshman tennis player looking to make a mark in her first season with the Deacons. She hails from New Delhi, India and arrived in Winston Salem with successes in both national and international competition.

Nationally, she was ranked in the top 10 as a U-12, 14, 16 and 17 domestic rankings. As a U-16, she was the National Champion in India in singles and doubles.

Nihalani has also competed in many domestic national tournaments and has won silver and bronze medals in national school team championships. She also represented India in the Junior Fed Cup and has been ranked as high as No. 219 in ITF Junior Rankings.

She has also won an ITF G-5 tournament in Guwahati and an ITF G-5 doubles victory in Portugal.

Nick Lalli: What would you say is the hardest part about being a college athlete?

Saby Nihalani: The hardest part of being an athlete is maintaining a balance between academics and sports. When I’m in season, you miss four weeks of school, and then when you come back you have to make up all your work. Eventually the result is that you have to perform academically and athletically. This is the most difficult part of being a college athlete.

NL: Having lived in India your whole life, how have you had to adjust to American culture?

SN: There’s a huge cultural gap. In India, I am extremely dependent upon my parents.

Here in college, I’ve been doing everything on my own. I’m completely independent. If I were still in India for school, I’d be living at home with my parents and relying on them for almost everything.

NL: What do you miss the most about India?

SN: Food! I’m craving Indian food. My favorite dish is butter chicken

with naan. I like the Pit, but the food is too predictable. It’s the same every day. I miss my family, too. I also miss Indian cinema because I’m a huge fan of Bollywood movies and theater.

NL: Who are the people in your life that motivate you to try your hardest?

I have a lot of support. I didn’t used to have that back home when I played by myself.

Since I play on a team now, we’re always there for each other. We’re ten girls and we’re extremely close. The bond between us very strong. It’s nice having nine other girls experiencing the same daily grind of being a student and an athlete.

NL: Do you have any rituals or routines that you perform before matches?

SN: My father, my coach, my trainer, my mom.

Everyone. My entire support system.

I can’t do without any of them. If any one of them is missing from my life, I can’t succeed. I take a lot of motivation from my dad even though I am extremely far away from him.

He taught me how to focus mentally and how to maintain discipline.

SN: I am extremely superstitious. I have a routine that I follow with my foot every time I walk on court. I also have a unique superstition with my towel. I use my towel after every point I win, but never after I lose a point. There’s a pattern to how I drink water too. I drink a sip of water, a sip of my supplement, take a bite of a bar, take my towel and follow the same walking routine before I play. And then, before each serve I bounce the ball eight times.

NL: Who is your favorite tennis player and why?

NL: How have the upperclassmen on the team been helpful so far?

SN: Coming from overseas, the change to America and college life has been a drastic one. So, there have been multiple times that I’ve been homesick and have struggled to get used to the system and ways of life here on campus. They’ve been very supporting in guiding me through these new challenges.

NL: What’s been your favorite part about being on the team so far?

SN: During competitions or tournaments

Personal Profile Hometown: New Delhi, India High School: Sardar Patel Vidyalaya Class: Freshman Accolades: - Silver and Bronze medalist in national school team championships - A top 10 player in India

SN: I would have to say Simona Halep because I’ve built my game after her. I’m a counterpuncher.

I take my time to build the point and finish it when I get an opportunity. My strengths are my serve and my forehand. My backhand is my stock stroke because my backhand is very consistent.

NL: Do you have any personal longterm goals for the upcoming season or your time at Wake?

SN: Defitop 15 as a get into the while performcourt. I’d like Business and Management.

nitely break the team. I want to business school ing well on the to major in Enterprise

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Deac Notes Senior soccer player Bayley Feist earns AllRegion Honors

Omir Fernandez and Bruno Lapa picked as MAC Trophy Semifinalists

Bayley Feist, a senior on the womens soccer team, was named Second Team All-Region by the United Soccer Coaches, earning All-Region honors for the second-straight year. She led the Deacons with 18 points this year. Overall, she finished her Wake Forest career with 54 points on 22 goals and 10 assists. Those 22 goals rank tied for 10th in program history. Feist was named to the third team last year after scoring eight goals as a junior.

The award is given annually to the top player in college soccer.

Deacon Jon Bakero claimed the 2017 award and Deacon Ian Harkes won the 2016 honor.

Hernandez was named the ACC Offensive Player of the Year in 2018 and tied for the ACC lead with 30 points. Lapa was named the ACC Midfielder of the Year, leading the ACC with nine assists.

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Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications

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Men’s Basketball season off to a rocky start Continued from Page 12

The Deacons led by 14 points with nine minutes remaining in regulation before crumbling down the stretch, failing to score a field goal and committing six turnovers. Sophomore guard and North Carolina native Ian DuBose hit the game-tying three with 0.5 seconds left to send the game to overtime.

Wake appeared to regain its composure in overtime, taking a 91-87 lead before giving up six straight points to end the game. After the game, coach Danny Manning said, “All losses are tough. This one definitely stings.”

Childress led the Deacons with a career night, scoring a personal best 27 points with 5 assists and 4 steals in a staggering 44 minutes.

Wake Forest looked to right the ship this past Tuesday against Western Carolina (2-6) in the two programs’ first ever matchup. Wake Forest started hot, leading 21-3 early on.

The Catamounts fought back with its own run of 14-2 to pull within six at 23-17. The teams went back and forth until the end of the second half.

Wake led by a slim 67-64 margin until clutch steals by Hoard and Wright Jr. led to four consecutive free throws for the Deacons, securing a 74-71 win. The Catamounts failed to help themselves, missing 16 of 32 attempts at the free throw line

and turning the ball over 19 times.

Childress and Hoard led the Deacons once again, scoring 20 and 17 points respectively.

Speaking on how close the game was at the end after leading early, Manning said, “That’s college basketball.

You know, it just happens. Tonight we lead the game for 37 minutes and we lose the lead late in the ball game.

I’m happy and proud of how the guys continued to fight, especially those last minutes. Isaiah (Mucius) comes up with that big deflection steal and

Jaylen (Hoard) comes up with a loose ball for us as well. Thought that was obviously very key for us.”

After four straight close games, Wake Forest will look to play up to its ability against the Richmond Spiders (2-4) on Saturday at 7 p.m.

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Jaylen Hoard, a freshman who was a top-25 prospect coming into Wake, is already making a major impact in his first few games as a Demon Deacon. He has played in all six games so far, totaling the second-highest minutes thus far.

What are the odds? Best bets for November’s end Here are some top-notch tips, tricks, and predictions for the best moves to make when betting on football games this week

BY RYAN DRAPER Staff Writer draprr17@wfu.edu

LAST WEEK: 2-2 (7-5 overall)

A weekend that may seem long ago to some is still quite fresh in my mind, mainly due to Philip Rivers crushing our winning week. His inexcusable spike of the football in the waning minutes of their matchup against the Broncos, not only cost his team the win, but more importantly wrecked our two-team teaser. My rant aside, the other picks were solid starting with a Pitt drubbing of Wake as predicted. Syracuse fell short to the still undefeated Irish but I still believe we were on the right side of the line due to an unforeseen injury to the Orange’s senior starting quarterback. The NFL Pick was easier than HES 100 as Indy smacked around their divisional foes to the south with an easy 38-10 victory.

NCAAF PICK – OKLAHOMA -7 vs Texas

Here we have a matchup between an Oklahoma team with all the motivation in the world and a Texas squad that feels left out. With a win, the Sooners have to think they will be in the playoff, but more importantly they will need style points to outgun Ohio State in the race for the fourth seed. Texas has to feel a little bit disappointed with two close losses

and will come out flat in this spot against a team RANDOM PICK - GREEN BAY, LA RAMS, SEATTLE, ALABAMA (Moneyline Parlay) they already beat. Buy the half point and look for Oklahoma to jump all over the Longhorns as they This pick is simple. Four vastly superior teams and march into the College Football Playoff. all we need them to do is win outright. On Satur day, Alabama will take no chances with a Georgia NFL PICK – TAMPA BAY +4 vs Carolina team they struggled with in last year’s finale and will The Bucks aren’t dead yet and more importantly punch their ticket to the College Football Playoff. they seem to always be in close games. This season In the NFL, Green Bay will have no lack of motithey have played four games decided by three or vation with their playoff hopes hanging in the balfewer points so taking four points is a nice bonus. ance against an inferior Arizona team. The Rams Carolina is a solid team that needs wins desperately are off on a bye and will trot out another offensive to make the playoffs, but I simply do not trust Cam masterpiece that will overwhelm the Lions in DeNewton to hold a lead against a Tampa team that troit. On the west coast, Seattle finds themselves has been able to backdoor cover on numerous oc- in a solid spot near the top of the NFC wild card casions. With a chance of rain in the forecast, look standings and will soar over the banged-up 49ers. for a back and forth game that will be decided by a field goal either way.

EXTRA PICK – DALLAS +7.5 vs New Orleans (Thursday Night) Betting against the best team in the league is usually a bit of a head-scratching strategy, but here the Saints are simply laying too many points in a tough road spot. The Cowboys have found some mojo and their risk of discarding a 1st round pick for Amari Cooper is starting to pay off. Although the Saints have the top ranked rushing defense in the league, this is largely in part due to their potent offense and tendency to have a big lead. Dallas will try to control the tempo with Zeke Elliot and keep Brees and the boys off of the field. Although the Saints will ultimately win the game, look for Dallas to come out strong and keep it within one score.

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The Saints have the best record in the league, but don’t sleep on Ezekiel Elliott’s abilities.

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NFL Week 12: Playoffs in sight This week proved to be anything but boring, with many dramatic moments

march down the field, which was just what they were able to do thanks to a massive third down pass to Chester Rodgers that got the Colts deep into Miami territory.

The pass to Rodgers set up Adam Vinatieri’s eventual game-winning 32-yard field goal as time expired. This game also was Luck’s eighth consecutive game with three or more touchdown passes, making him the first quarterback to do so since Tom Brady in 2007.

BY DANIEL PACHINO Senior Writer pachdb15@wfu.edu

With a number of the league’s top teams, including the Rams and Chiefs, on bye this past weekend and very few marquee matchups, many projected this as a boring NFL weekend, but it turned out to be anything but that. With a number of games between teams looking to keep their playoff hopes alive, it provided for plenty of late-game drama. In this week’s recap, I will focus on the late-game heroics of Russell Wilson and the Seahawks in Carolina against the Panthers, the amazing comeback led by Andrew Luck and the Colts against the Dolphins, and the shocking upset of the newly-reeling Broncos over the Steelers in Denver.

Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Denver Broncos

Seattle Seahawks vs. Carolina Panthers After going back and forth throughout the game, the Seahawks trailed the Panthers 27-20 late in the fourth quarter.

After getting a drive to stall around at the Panthers’ 35-yard-line, the Panthers had forced Seattle into a 4th-and-three situation they had to convert if they hoped to prolong the game. Russell Wilson opted to gamble after being unable to find anything open underneath and lofted one high toward the end zone where he found a streaking David Moore for an unbelievable onehanded touchdown catch which knotted the game at 27. After forcing Carolina to punt on their ensuing drive, Wilson and company had an opportunity to steal the game in regulation, which is exactly what they did. On a somewhat broken play,

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The Broncos got a much-needed win at home against the Steelers to continue their run to try to make the playoffs.

Wilson was able to buy some extra time and find an open Tyler Lockett for a massive 43-yard gain to set up a game-winning 31-yard field goal by Sebastian Janikowski as time expired. Wilson continued to build up his resume of late game heroics with this miraculous road win over the all-ofa-sudden struggling Panthers who now sit on the outside looking in of the NFC playoff picture behind Seattle and the Vikings for the Wild Card spots. Despite Christian McCaffery’s remarkable game in which he had 237 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns, the Panthers still wound up losing their third straight to fall to 6-5.

Miami Dolphins vs. Indianapolis Colts After falling behind 24-17 at home to the reeling Dolphins, Andrew Luck and the red-hot Colts needed some late-game magic to salvage a much-needed win to keep them in the thick of the AFC Wild Card picture, which is exactly what they got. With a little over four minutes remaining, Luck completed a game-tying drive by hitting his tight end Eric Ebron for his second touchdown of the game (his 11th of the season on just 44 total receptions). After forcing the Dolphins to punt on their ensuing drive, Luck and the Colts had plenty of time to

After an inauspicious start to their season, the Broncos have defeated two the AFC’s top teams on the road in consecutive weeks — the Chargers and Steelers — and have themselves playing their best football and in the thick of the Wild Card race at 5-6. Case Keenum did exactly what he was brought into Denver to do, manage games and not make mistakes, and he threw for 197 yards and two touchdowns to supplement their dominant rushing attack led by rookie running back Philip Lindsay who had 110 rushing yards and a touchdown on just 14 carries. The Broncos had zero turnovers in the game, meanwhile they forced four by the Steelers, including a game-ending interception of Ben Roethlisberger at the goal line. On third and goal from Denver’s two-yard-line trailing 24-17, Big Ben dropped back to pass and tried to find Antonio Brown in the end zone for a game-tying touchdown but threw his pass right into the defensive line where it was picked off to seal a Denver Victory. At 7-31, the Steelers are still in control of the AFC North, but a turnover laden performance like this one must make them nervous moving forward toward the end of the season.

Meanwhile, Denver is one of the league’s hottest teams and have one of the easiest remaining schedules in the AFC as they make a push for a surprise playoff run.

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We lost some games I had expected us to win, yet came back huge against other rivals on the road. The Duke and NC State games looked pretty formidable to me at the start of the year, but we got those victories in thrilling fashion. Tulane, Towson and Rice were winnable as expected, yet the Tulane game coming down to the wire was not something I had predicted. I just saw that the Green Wave are now bowl-eligible, so maybe it was a better team than I had originally predicted. Regardless, we got those wins early on to keep the train rolling.

The Louisville game was also one I was not expecting. I don’t think anyone expected the Cardinals to be that bad, even though they had just lost Lamar Jackson. That squad saw the firing of Bobby Petrino partway through the year and a brutal loss to the Deacs, as well as most teams in the ACC. One big question going into the season was at the kicker position. Coming into the first game, freshman Nick Sciba

emerged victorious. He has been stout this year after missing a few field goals in the beginning of the year. That’s been the last thing in anyone’s minds, as he is now 16-for-19 on field goals on the year and a perfect 46-for-46 on PATS. He has amassed 94 points over the year thus far, which is fifth in the ACC and tied for 5th-best in a single season in Wake Forest history. Definitely more than one could ask for out of a rookie kicker.

Going to three consecutive bowl games has only happened one other time in history, from 2006 to 2008, with an ACC championship in 2006 in that span. For a year riddled with injuries, the fact that Clawson was able to bring this team to another bowl game is a huge testament to the “next man up” mentality of this team as well as stellar coaching and recruiting in producing plentiful players that could make an impact when needed. Looking at the numbers, this year was similarly successful in production to last year but seemed to feel must more stressful for fans. This year’s team has scored 390 points prior to the bowl game, and last year’s team finished with 459 points after

a ridiculously high-scoring bowl game affair. The team lost to Louisville in the Orange Bowl in 2008, so if the Deacons can win their bowl game this year, then it

will be the first time in program history to win three consecutive bowl games.

This crazy season will be one that goes down in history.

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Redshirt sophomore Greg Dortch continued to impress in the blowout win over Duke.

He was joined by many other receivers in the endzone in the 59-7 win in Durham.

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Gaudagnino adds an air of elegance to Suspiria Although unnecessarily violent and detached at times, Suspiria embraces the arthouse horror genre under the creatively grandiose guise of director Luca Guadagnino

BY KYLE FERRER Staff Writer ferrka16@wfu.edu

If the new Suspiria tells us anything, it is that Luca Gaudagnino’s languid, slowly-unfolding aesthetic palette is among the most protean we’ve seen. Compared to the lovely, gilded rays and burbling beauty of the Italian countryside in Call Me By Your Name, the remaking of Dario Argento’s giallo classic represented an opposite-end extremity. And yet Suspiria works as a unique art-house horror film, existing in the heightened, visual-aesthetic realm of It Follows and Hereditary, but acting as no mere pastiche. The triumph of Gaudagnino’s Suspiria comes from its absorptive, atmospheric density — the camera moves as if it is it a gliding specter, color drains from the screen, only to come back in drenched intensity. All our senses are absorbed and alert. Although Suspiria’s problems emerge as Gaudagnino tries to ratchet up Argento’s original, the full-on sensory experience makes it gush of hallucinatory ecstasy, and Gaudagnino’s particular skills make the film an oasis of provocative, tantalizing splendor.

The story centers around Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson), a Mennonite from Ohio who has long been fascinated with the Markos Dance Academy in Berlin.

The year is 1977, and we open with Susie’s sick mother, a domineering, puritanical nun, who considers Susie to be “the sin [she’s] smeared on the world,” and whose eerie, rheumatic wheezing sounds like an axe being dragged on tarmac. Susie soon leaves her sick mother and goes to Berlin to audition for the company, who manages only to squeeze her in due to a recent vacancy left by a dancer named Patricia (Chloe Grace Moretz). Run by a group of German women and headed by the omnipotent matriarch, Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), the Markos company is the

sort of hermetically-sealed place of demand not unlike J.K. Simmons’ band studio in Whiplash. The dancers are pushed to their physiological and psychological limit in an intense, contortionistic dance directed by Madame Blanc. After a stellar audition, Susie is admitted to the company and begins to take on the role of the lead protagonist in “Volk,” the company’s latest production. But as Susie rises, others fall prey. There is a scene early on when Susie steps in for a missing dancer, in which her triumphant twists and spins parallel an unwitting death knell of broken limbs. It is a riveting, repulsively engrossing scene of which there are many more to come.

Susie soon befriends another dancer, Sara (Mia Goth), who becomes increasingly suspicious of the matrons’ activities and intentions, especially after a clandestine meeting with Patricia’s psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Klemperer (also Tilda Swinton, in unrecognizable prosthetics), who details Patricia’s diary-logged suspicions to Sara. What Patricia seems to have discovered is that the company is run by a coven of witches, who ruthlessly instruct and detain the dancers until they must kill them, the goal being to find a vessel for Mother Markos (Swinton, again) to inhabit. Swinton’s acting is unsurprisingly well-sheared into its different degrees — that of the cold, in-charge company director with mystical powers, the even colder, withering husk of Mother Markos and the wrinkly (and detrimentally curious) psychiatrist. She vitalizes each character on their own terms. Johnson, too, acts with the curious drive of an aspirant, and later, the power of a rightful heir.

But for all of Suspiria’s interesting esoterica, as well as some fine acting, it is the languid precision of Guadagnino’s direction and cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom’s shot-making that guides Suspiria into its believably supernatural terrain. What we get is a distinctive, art-house horror film in which Guadagni-

no proves his visual ideology to be adaptable to any subject matter, and pleasurably so, in a way that entails a slow but meaty absorption into his world of storytelling. This alone will make his films worth watching in the future. The score as well, by Thom Yorke, imbues the film with a wistful dread. Like the jagged-edged moan of a one eternally lost at sea, Yorke’s composition guides the narrative further into a will-o-wispy echo-chamber of lost souls.

Yet Guadagnino’s prodigious commitment to his aesthetics is a double-edged sword. He alone makes Suspiria a film worth seeing, if only due to its idiosyncratic departure from most anything you will see this year. But it is perhaps this very commitment to artistry that floats the film into its overlong, 152-minute run-time. With about thirty minutes left, and a few sequences up until that point, the consummate visuals bloat the film past high-art and into indulgent fever dream. Coherence, or progression of any kind, crumble into the absurd, orgiastic fit the last sequence entails, and, sadly, the problem sits not only in the last thirty minutes, but in parts of the preceding 120.

Although I am never one to be offended by “excessive violence,” certain moments in Suspiria seem to needlessly focus on, say, someone’s compound fracture, or multiple capital explosions in the name of our (and Guadagnino’s) febrile hallucination. It becomes an unseemly, Final Destination-esque spectacle of depravity that detracts from all the creepy, aesthetic buildup Gaudagnino achieves.

This is where some will say the new could have drawn from the old, that Argento’s original could have informed a more cogent update, but how effectively?

If Gaudagnino embraces Argento’s B-movie simplicity, his art would have been a banal re-telling; yet when Gaudagnino goes full-bore art-house horror, he finds himself taking missteps. Perhaps the middle-ground could have been achieved if Guadagnino’s engaging style was pared almost directly with Argento’s original, injecting the already great visuals with languid grace and trance-like momentum. That may have allowed Suspiria to move at a different, yet effective pace, without pushing the end into gobbledygook. But retrodiagnosis is always 20/20, and the only film we see is the one we receive.

In art, the consumer usually needs to feel like he is contributing something, that they are using their mind to understand, on however low a level. Plot, motive etc., become clear as a film unfolds, and a great artist can lead you in subtle ways to make you believe you’re solving it with them. In some films, we solve nothing, but immerse outselves instead in the intersubjective nuances of the characters. In Suspiria, the togetherness we feel with Guadagnino is in the fact that he slowly replaces our banal vision with his grandiose one. Throughout the film, we form the bond of perception, and share an all-absorptive angle on life.

Although that angle, from time to time, shakes under the weight of its unprecedented mode of seeing, it nonetheless proves itself to be revolutionary. Suspiria is far from a perfect film: the vague, political-metaphoric didactics of late-70s Berlin are unnecessary and uncommitted, the length hurts conviction and the end melts into morass. But the visual artistry of Gaudagnino saves Suspiria from its own obscurantism and makes it a scintillating entrée into one of our great director’s artistic vision. For Suspiria the film, we can only ever be half on-board, but for Gaudagnino’s viPhoto Courtesy of imdb.com sual revolution, we must be eternally grateful.

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Advice Column | How to start a podcast

THE HOT Easy tips to create a podcast LIST Expressing your opinions can be easily accomplished through podcasts

BY DAVID AJAMY Opinion Editor ajamdg15@wfu.edu Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like everyone and their mom is either a podcast fiend or starting their own podcast. I am not here to knock podcasts. Like many, I am a big fan of the medium. Rather, I am here to show just how easy it is to start your own.

The key to a good podcast is having an idea or topic you want to focus on. When I was thinking about the topic for my podcast, I had many different ideas, but narrowing it down is key. You want to make sure the topic has enough material, but not so much that it is too broad.

Let’s say you wanted to run a podcast about “sports.” This topic is too large, you need to narrow it down to maybe the NBA; however, narrowing it down to just one single player on a team is too slim. Once you have your focus down, it is key to get those creative juices going because a title is needed.

A title is one of, if not the, most important aspects of a new podcast. It doesn’t matter if your podcast is full of great material if the title is boring and won’t draw people in. When I started to create my own podcast I knew I wanted it to be humor-based revolving around my friends and me. I know, I know, narcissistic much? I digress, but I knew that the premise

wasn’t original or new enough to just work without a catchy title.

At first I was thinking Juulin’ with the Judes or The Greasy Boys and hoped Moe’s Southwest Grill would sponsor us. After a while though, I decided on Dumpster Diving with David.

Again, I know, narcissistic much? My thought was, it was grey enough to fill with my trash humor, but also concreate enough that it could be a podcast about a kid, David, who dumpster dives.

Okay, so you have your title? Everything else comes into place easily. From here you will need some equipment. You need a microphone, computer, a podcasting distribution website, a graphic or two and of course you need to record. While most computers have microphones built in, most podcasters use external mics. I use a Blue Snowball Microphone, but most will work. Considering that a podcast is all about the sound, I recommend a quality microphone.

The location you decide to record in is a big deal. Finding a place with as little outside noise as possible is key so listeners aren’t overexposed with noise beyond your voice. I usually record in my suite when I know no one is going to be home. Just don’t record in the Pit and if you plan to record outside, make sure you have the correct mic, so a gust of wind won’t destroy your audio.

Once you have your recording, you will need your computer and one of the many audio editing software programs. I used Adobe Audition because it is, in my opinion, the best audio editing software out there and Wake Forest provides it and the rest of the Adobe workshop to students for free. However, it can be

intimidating, so if you want something more user-friendly, look at Audacity or GarageBand.

Now that you have your podcast recorded and edited, you need to think about how often you plan to publish. In the start, try to keep to a steady schedule that is realistic to you. Once a week or every other week is a solid plan. If you record for an hour and edit for an hour, that is only a two-hour commitment every week or two respectively. But where are you going to publish it? There are many websites to host your podcast from SoundCloud to iTunes. I use SoundCloud because more people have access to this platform, since some people don’t have iTunes or an Apple device, but it’s up to you.

The last part is advertising your podcast to the world. Of course, you are posting it online, but sharing it on social media, sending it to your friends and forcing your parents to listen is the key in making sure everyone knows of your creative adventure with audio. Good luck, and maybe your podcast will be the next big thing dominating the ears of the podcast patron army.

For those of us who haven’t lost our childlike sense of wonder and joy as the Christmas season rolls around, there is a new take on holiday music provided by John Legend. Although released on Oct. 26, it was difficult to truly appreciate the new music until after Thanksgiving. Brief nod to the executive idiot that wanted to cash in on our consumerist tendencies before it was truly the holiday season. Just because there are Christmas trees in Target doesn’t mean we want the holiday spirit shoved down our throats. Luckily, the smooth jazz and angelic quality to Legend’s voice takes away the frustration.

In his first studio album since his 2016 Darkness and Light, the musician puts his own spin on Christmas classics with quicker tempos and soulful vocals. As far as holiday music goes, Legend brings his own style to the often times repetitive Christmas songs we hear every year. It is most comparable to Michael Bublé’s Christmas, with Legend’s typical style spinning the standard Christmas song with soul-powered vocals, instrumental interludes, altered tempos, special guests and a few original songs.

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A Legendary Christmas features a mix of Christmas classics and new songs.

The album consists of 14 songs; eight are Christmas classics and the other six are original tracks. Legend has taken the classics and made them recognizable, but new and different. It takes a few listens of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” to be able to sing along with the new tempo and pacing. His version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” which features Esperanza Spalding, has been praised as the best classic song of the album. Legend and Spalding’s voices compliment each other and the slower melody as the song builds.

His original songs meet every expectation

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New album reinvents Christmas

BY CATHERINE REGEN Assistant Life Editor regecl17@wfu.edu

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Album Review | A Legendary Christmas

John Legend creates a new take on classic Christmas music in A Legendary Christmas

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of what a holiday song should be. I have a feeling several will be added to the canon of classic celebrity Christmas songs, alongside Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” Of the original tracks, “Bring Me Love” is the one to play repetitively until you are quietly humming it to yourself while waiting in the Starbucks queue. Legend sings about needing a special someone to love during the holidays, and the song is made sweeter by imagining him singing it to his wife, Chrissy Teigen. The song is so catchy it is currently being used in the Christmas advertisements for Target and Macy’s.

Typically when a musical celebrity releases a new Christmas song or album, most are romantic, and Legend is no exception.

However, Legend is unique in his music because when he sings about love and family his audience knows exactly whom he is crooning about. Legend’s wife, Chrissy Teigen, and their two children, Luna and Miles, are very much in the public eye.

This would explain the couple’s televised Christmas special, “A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy.” If you would like to listen to Legend’s new album — including his songs with musical guests like Stevie Wonder — with the visual component added and cooking sketches featuring his wife Chrissy and celebrity guests including Kris Jenner, it is premiering on Wednesday, Dec. 10. Until then, the album makes for a great holiday atmosphere in the car, while studying for exams or even playing softly during your annual holiday party.

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• 2 cups milk • 2 cups half & half • 1/2 bag white chocolate chips • 1 tsp. peppermint extract • 2-3 drops green food coloring Heat milk and half & half, add white chocolate chips and stir until melted. Add extract and food coloring, stir and then serve!

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Advice Column| Touching Tips

Tips on acing your job interviews Take inspiration from Madame Chirpington during your next stressful job interview

BY PETER SCHLACHTE Staff Writer schlpj15@wfu.edu

Elizabeth W asks, “What are your tips to ace my next job interview?”

Dear Elizabeth, For sixteen years, I have been the proud owner of Madam Chirpington, a female sparrow and my dearest friend. Madam Chirpington would sing in the evenings — usually the Star Wars “Imperial March”, but occasionally Johann Bach’s “Symphony in G Minor.” Until last night, that is, when Madam Chirpington was eaten by a snake.

Lizzie — I feel like I can call you Lizzie now that we’ve shared this special moment. Close your eyes, Lizzie and consider Madam Chirpington the sparrow. Hear her birdsong in your ear and realize that the beauty of the sparrow’s song is nothing without a listener to appreciate it. In your job interview, you must become Madam Chirpington the sparrow; you must answer questions not for yourself, but so that your listener will appreciate you.

What does this look like in practice? In any interview, you must stand out as the most memorable candidate. This begins with the handshake. Most

cupation. The employer might ask, “Why did you apply for this position?” In response, you should profusely flatter your interviewer. Examples include, “Business Insider says that you caught six Black Mambas using only your left foot, and I want to learn that skill too,” or, “Forbes ranks you behind Steve Irwin as the second most famous animal hunter of all time, but at least you’re still alive.” It doesn’t matter if your answers are truthful — in fact, it’s generally more advisable to lie — because your goal is to always say what your interviewer wants to hear.

Most other interview questions are pretty straightforward with the exception of the classic “what is your greatest weakness?” Buffoons will answer this in one of two ways: phonily or funnily. If you’re a phony, you’ll say, “I just work too hard all the time,” and if you think you’re funny, you’ll say, “my greatest weakness is my quads; I can only squat 100 pounds.”

Craig Pittman/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press/TNS In memory of Madame Chirpington, make sure to These are both disastrous answers. Instead of being include elaborate handshakes when interviewing. phony or funny, be infallible. Your answer should always be, “my greatest weakness is that you didn’t hire candidates will simply arrive and give a firm hand- me the moment I popped out of the womb.” After shake to their interviewer, but this is a pedestrian you drop that answer, stand up and leave, because mistake. Instead, you must craft a secret handshake you’re guaranteed a job.

Now, I would like to close this column with a haifor each interviewer — make sure that you throw in a couple fist bumps with modern twists like “the jel- ku to Madam Chirpington, without whom, I would have never learned to ace job interviews. Chirp in lyfish” or “the snail.”

If your interviewers aren’t impressed enough by bird heaven/lovely sparrow of my dreams/I really your handshake to give you the job on the spot, the hate snakes.

Please excuse me; I have a bird funeral to attend. question phase of your interview will commence.

XOXO in sorrow, Let’s assume that you’re applying for the position Peter of snake exterminator, as there is no more noble oc-

Art Column | The Cardi/Nicki paradigm

Art requires you to embrace all of its aspects To truly appreciate that one modern art painting, one should not view it as serving one specific purpose

BY JACK PORTMAN Staff Writer portjt17@wfu.edu

My Uber driver raised an interesting point on our way to the airport last week. She asked whether I prefer Cardi B or Nicki Minaj, and I replied that I thought Nicki a more talented vocalist, but had no strong opinion either way. When asked for her own take, the driver admitted she resonates strongly with what Cardi “talks about,” but likes Nicki’s sound more.

She appreciates both, turning to one when she wants to relate to something personally, the other when she wants to feel something strong.

This dichotomous paradigm for appreciating art bounced around my head all thanksgiving week, and in the tired nighttime silence of my returning Uber commute the idea congealed with other art-thoughts into what in retrospect seems like an obvious model for appreciating art.

For an individual, I think context and aesthetic quality shouldn’t be conflated into an ultra-expectation of art and, obvious though it may seem, I think my appreciation of art has suffered for my failure to acknowledge this fact.

It’s often the gripe of the uninitiated that “modern art” looks childish. What this person really means is, “I too can paint colorful rectangles, so what?” and seemingly this is true. What matters, I realize, is that standing before an eight foot by 10 foot canvas of bright, rhythmic, technicolor striping can be unknowably gratifying, and the particular eight foot by 10 foot

canvas of bright, rhythmic, technicolor striping on the museum wall happens to be Gene Davis’s. While producing his Colorfields throughout the 1960s, Gene presumably never thought, “other people can’t do this, only I can do this.”

So if one were to classify every single piece of art using my Uber driver’s Nicki/Cardi model, and one probably shouldn’t, the former would be this kind of experiential abstraction which you may or may not think yourself capable of replicating. Art from the Cardi family grants viewers the satisfaction of personal resonance. Mediums such as literature, film, photography, and to a large extent painting particularly strike me as bearing personal significance as they offer a direct discourse on the human experience. For example, Robert Frank’s photography, while often times aesthetically interesting, is striking primarily because of its melancholic portrayal of American humanity. It’s Cardi-esque resonance is what inspired Jack Kerouac’s poetically romantic introduction to Franks’s book, The Americans, referring to “the humor, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-NESS and the American-ness of these pictures!”

But the more I think about it, the more I see that Nicki and Cardi are not so different — both are a means towards feeling some way, maybe happy or sad or just contemplative. You can’t say “Nicki” art doesn’t have context — it does — and you can’t say “Cardi” art has no aesthetic or experiential quality — see Basquiat.

And again, you really shouldn’t adopt the Cardi/ Nicki paradigm of appreciation. It’s absurd. But do consider your emotive reactions to art, especially art Photos Courtesy of imdb.com which initially seems devoid of meaning and tact, just Both Cardi B and Nicki Minaj teach us that as you acknowledge its historical context and the artart can be invested in many ideas at once. ist’s own feelings.

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Movie Review | Beautiful Boy

Film heartbreakingly depicts addiction Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet embody the memoirs of a father and son

BY OLIVIA FIELD Life Editor fielor17@wfu.edu

Severe drug abuse has been the center of films ranging from the blockbusterstyle Wolf of Wall Street to the jarring Requiem for a Dream. When I think of any of these films, it’s easy to recall that same feeling of despair — painfully engrossed, you watch the characters spiral into the abyss of addiction.

Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy is no exception to this emotional experience. That being said, the movie does work beyond this one plot point, providing both an important message and shockingly pleasant affects. Based on the individual memoirs of Nic and David Sheff, Beautiful Boy is a gorgeous, heartbreaking story of a son’s addiction to crystal meth and a father’s struggle to save him.

At the level of plot, the film moves past the archetypal drug abuser so often portrayed in movies about addiction. In fact, I spent much of the movie trying to pin down a reason as to why Nic (Timothée Chalamet) became addicted to crystal meth. He comes from a loving, intellectual and trusting family. His house is swanky, he is a talented writer and he has two adorable step-siblings. Alongside his father David (Steve

Carell), I was searching to find an explanation. As the movie progressed, it became clear that I wasn’t supposed to figure it out. As Van Groeningen stated in an interview with BUILD, addiction has no face.

During one of his periods in rehab, Nic tells a crowd of other recovering addicts that he has this “black void” inside of him that he can’t figure out how to fill. This “black void,” which is often filled with drugs, is a universal affliction. Although I wouldn’t call this movie a public service announcement, it works to redefine the misconception that only a certain type of individual can get addicted to these substances.

Despite sadness and pain being at the helm of Nic and David’s story, there are many elements of the film that were visually pleasing. The camera angles and colorful settings were almost whimsical, seemingly contradicting the severity of the issue at hand. In a way, the sundappled shots of San Francisco and artistically angled portraits worked in the film’s favor. It put Nic’s struggle in direct relationship with the gloriousness of life, creating even more of a desire within the audience to see him change for good. The soundtrack thread these elements together, with John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy,” Nirvana’s “Territorial Pissings” and Pavlov’s Dog’s “Of Once and Future Kings” moving in time with the story.

However, this is not to say that there aren’t horrifying scenes as well. Watching Nic inject himself with heroin and

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The movie, based on a pair of memoirs, follows David as he continuously attempts to save his son Nic from a severe crystal meth addiciton. walk around his college campus with a zombie-like high was hard to take, as well as the many sorrow-filled fights between Nic and David.

One of Van Groeningen’s most prominent delineations from a classic plotline was his decision to lay out the movie non-chronologically. Rather, the film is organized in the way that made the most emotional sense, with vignettes from Nic and David’s past injected throughout. Beginning a year af-

ter Nic’s first time trying crystal meth, the movie jumps back to the start of Nic’s spiral just after the audience becomes aware of the severity of his addiction.

Ultimately, Beautiful Boy is purposefully a beautiful film. It made me smile, it made me frustrated and it made me cry. To experience a raw, human depiction of addiction and its effects on those who love the victim most, watch this movie.

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How to decorate for the holidays

BY EMILY BEAUCHAMP Life Editor beauea17@wfu.edu

It’s crunch time at Wake Forest, as there are only a couple weeks left before the break. Many students are frantically finishing up projects and papers while also starting to study for final exams. In the midst of this chaos, you have to find time to take a break, and what better way to spend that break than decorating your dorm for the holiday season. There are many different holidays coming up and to get into the festive mood, take a moment to turn on some holiday music and hang up some string lights.

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For those of you who celebrate Christmas, throw on some Michael Bublé and drag out every minurature Santa figurine you own. To start, go to the store and buy a tiny two-foot tree. It can be predecorated or you can get a slightly bigger one that you and your roommate can decorate together. Set it up either on someone’s desk or in the corner of the room and put all the little presents you are planning to give or ones you have already received underneath it.

Next on the decorating agenda grab, all of those miniature Santa figurines and put them in every nook and cranny not already inhabited by books and all the laundry you haven’t done. When you invite your friends over to do a Secret Santa gift exchange, you could host a scavenger hunt to find them all. Whoever finds the most Santas wins a prize.

To top off the Christmas atmosphere, go to the Dollar Tree and buy stockings for your roommates to hang on the wall. This will be a cute place to take Christmas photos for Instagram and you can add candy or cute knick-knacks.

For those of who that celebrate Hanukkah, pull out your menorah and head to the store to get some electronic candles to fill it with. Since Hanukkah starts during finals week, go ahead and turn on a candle every day. If you have a windowsill in your room, use the space to set up the menorah so that everyone that passes by your dorm can enjoy it too. Make sure your room is blanketed with cobalt blue and white accents to keep the Hanukkah theme going.

To add to the ambiance, pull out all of your dreidels and chocolate gold coins to scatter around the room. Similar to the Santa Claus game, hide some around the room so when friends come over you can also have a scavenger hunt and whoever wins can get a prize.

Finally grab a few Stars of David and hang them on the wall. You can add some flare by making your own with popsicle sticks and adding cobalt blue designs. Hang your homemade stars in fun patterns over your bed. Also if you’re feeling extra festive, you can make or buy a Happy Hanukkah sign to hang on your door.

For those who do not celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, here are a few ways to get excited for break. Drag out every set of string lights and plush snowman you have out of your decoration box and get started. Grab all of those string lights you took out and hang them all over the walls and on your bed posts to add to the festive atmosphere.

If you are extra creative and good with command strips, you could even hang them in fun patterns like a star on the wall to compliment the rest of your decorations.

Next take out those snowmen; there’s no need to feel left out, take them and also host a scavenger hunt around your dorm room for your friends. You can even find snowmen that dance and sing if you head to the store. Then, grab some chocolate from the P.O.D. and have it as a prize.

Finally, head over to your printer and get a few sheets of paper. Take this paper and fold it so that you can cut it into a snowflake. Make a few of these and hang them on the walls or on your door. If you don’t mind a mess, then grab some glitter glue and add some sparkle.