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Sexual assault reckoning has yet to come Despite the high prevalence of sexual assault on campus, many cases go unreported

BY LILLIAN JOHNSON News Editor johnlg16@wfu.edu On a regular February morning in 2014, Elizabeth Kuehn didn’t wake up to her alarm.

Instead, she woke up to something alarming — a male student raping her.

Afterwards, Kuehn, then a sophomore, knew what happened but couldn’t process it. She didn’t cry for two weeks. She blamed herself for months. She constantly worried about taking action against her rapist, wondering if she could prevent him from doing it again.

In the four years that have passed, Kuehn fought to take back control and to heal.

Despite her accomplishments, the #MeToo movement caused Kuehn so

much discomfort that she originally did not want to speak out.

When a man tried to grab her underwear through her dress in a bar, Kuehn decided her time had come. She recently published an online article, “Time for Me to Say #MeToo,” about the mental process behind her recovery.

“It’s a lot easier to be vocal when you’re angry than when you’re sad,” Kuehn said.

The #MeToo movement gained traction in October when, in the wake of scandals

such as the Harvey Weinstein accusations, actress Alyssa Milano encouraged her Twitter followers to post their experiences of sexual misconduct online or to simply respond with #MeToo, assuring other survivors that they are not alone.

While #MeToo has empowered many people to come forward with their stories, the high frequency of sexual assault on college campuses, including Wake Forest, remains unseen.

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Alumnus Richard Burr to donate his congressional papers Senator Richard Burr declares Wake Forest as a congressional repository for primary sources

BY JULIA HAINES Editor-in-Chief hainjm15@wfu.edu

On Monday, March 12, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (‘78) announced that he will be donating a collection of memorabilia associated with his career to the Special Collections room of Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

A former Demon Deacon himself, Burr is currently serving his third term as U.S.

Senator for North Carolina, before which he served in the House of Representatives for 10 years. Throughout his 24 years as a public servant, Burr has gathered an extensive collection of documents, manuscripts and other primary source material, which he hopes Wake Forest students will be able to learn from in the future.

“I hope that once I retire and all my papers are collected here, this will present an opportunity for all students and others who are interested in public policy and government service to learn more about the issues faced during my tenure,” Burr said.

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Editorial Board Endorses SG Candidates The editorial board of the Old Gold & Black met with each of the candidates running for executive positions for Student Government for the 2018-2019 academic year. Each candidate gave a three-minute pitch for the student body to watch before having a Q&A session with our board. The Editorial Board has decided to make the following endorsements based on their platforms and interviews: In the race for Student Government president, all four of the candidates presented thoughtful platforms on their plans to improve student government and the campus as a whole. The candidates running for president are: David Ajamy, Matthew David, William Morgan and Danny Reeves. Most platforms emphasized topics of diversity and inclusion, unity on campus, safety and encouraging student leadership.

With this in mind, our endorsement is split among the candidates that went above and beyond.

After hearing David Ajamy’s platform, we were intrigued by his attempt to bring humor and lightheartedness into the race. Video-chatting in from his semester in Washington, D.C., Ajamy shared his desire to use his previous experiences to change how Student Government is perceived on campus. Ajamy also noted the need to introduce something different to the race as a non-Greek, white male. In addition to his platform, we appreciated Ajamy’s refreshing,

comedic take to the race, introducing himself at the beginning of the interview as “Welcome to Moes” or “Dumpster Trash.”

Sophomore Matthew David brought many unique, thoughtful ideas to his interview. David’s platform was inspired by his tenure serving as co-chair of the Academic Committee and a member of the Alcohol Policy Committee in Student Government. Among other ideas, David mentioned creating an inaugural president’s committee, in which the presidents of all organizations on campus would come together for collaboration and mentoring. David also explained his position on Greek life, emphasizing that productive Greek life on campus is beneficial for all students, and that he can more effectively represent the Greek community as a non-Greek student. We believe David is an influential member of Student Government and has a promising future in the organization.

Running for president for the second time, William Morgan’s platform echoes last year's but has been updated with more specifics and new ideas. His platform is based on the acronym RATIO: Representation, Accountability, Trust, Inspiration and Openness. Morgan is an experienced member of Student Government, having served on various committees and showing tangible successes.

We appreciated Morgan’s professional approach to

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the position, as he came prepared and knew his platform extraordinarily well.

The Editorial Board similarly found Danny Reeve’s ambition and accomplishments to be admirable as a candidate for president. Reeves is a tenured member of Student Government, as he served as secretary his sophomore year. This experience taught him what it takes to achieve tangible success. During his time as secretary, Reeves enacted justifiable change in the way the organization is run, such as changing meetings from every other week to weekly and implementing an orientation event for senators. We understand and respect Reeve’s capability as a candidate for president, as he has proven his capacity to lead.

Ultimately, our vote fell to extremely close margins.

In a staff vote of all four presidential candidates, we were unable to determine a majority endorsement.

Danny Reeves initially won a plurality of the votes, and after a runoff vote seeking a majority, Reeves and Morgan split the votes equally among the staff.

As both of the races for speaker of the house and treasurer are uncontested this year, we have decided to endorse junior Will Hargrove and junior Sydney Packard, respectively, for the positions. Hargrove has been a part of Student Government since his freshman year, serving on the Public Relations Commit-

tee, as the co-chair for Campus Life and currently as a member of the Cabinet. Packard is currently serving as Student Government treasurer, and hopes to continue the work she has done this year into the next term, as she has many goals currently in the works.

In the race for secretary, we unanimously chose to endorse junior Thomas Kellogg. We were impressed with Kellogg’s drive for execution and ambition for the implementation of ideas for both the Senate and for Student Government as a whole. We believe that Kellogg has a strong understanding of the structure of Student Government and has achievable ideas on how to improve communication and action within the organization.

Sophomore Maia Kennedy is also running for secretary, and her platform includes pillars such as diversity and inclusion. Other main points in her platform were working on campus safety and creating open spaces for dogs on campus. We recognize that Kennedy is a strong member of Student Government, and hope she will continue her success within the organization.

We are grateful for the opportunity we had to meet with each of the candidates, and recognize that they have all been strong members of the campus community in their various capacities. Those who are to be elected will continue to serve the student body in a positive aspect.

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Deacon Profile: Dean Shore

Dean Shore is officially the Campus Barber, but is more widely known, unofficially, as Wake Forest’s campus photographer.

However, Shore isn’t even paid for his photography and struggles to keep clients during the summer months, so why does he do it?

During an initial interview, Shore said hello to at least a dozen people passing by. They seemed just as excited to see him as he was to see them. Shore's dedication to the Wake Forest community is what makes him so well-known across campus.

Shore has worked in the Wake Forest Barber Shop for 12 years. He cuts for an average of 15 students per day, for $16 a cut.

The Barber Shop is one of the few places on Wake Forest’s campus that is a common denominator for the community. Students can come in and end up sitting next to President Hatch, Coach Clawson, a custodian or any other student they have yet to meet.

“There are not many places on this campus where I can actually see these people come together in one place."

Shore said. "When people come to Wake Forest and see that barber shop, they see that it is more than just a campus. It is a community.”

During the second interview, two of Shore's clients, who didn’t seem as if they had even ever met, were talking, laughing and sharing stories with Shore.

In fact, online reviews of the Barber Shop say that 10 minutes in those oldstyle, traditional barber chairs will have you filled in on the most recent campus news.

“It is more than a haircut. We build friendships and we care about our customers” Shore said.

Being a barber had always been in the back of his mind. His grandfather was a barber, his uncle a barber and his mother a beautician. What many people do not know, though, is that before coming to

Photo courtesy of Dean Shore

Wake Forest, Shore worked as a youth minister for 23 years.

It wasn’t until his mother, Doris Williams, began to get sick and moved in with Shore that he he made the decision to attend barber school in WinstonSalem. Not a lot has changed for Shore since moving on to his new career. He is still working with students, but just in a different way.

Aside from the Barber Shop, Shore is also commonly known for his photography. At every football, basketball, baseball or any other sports game you can think of, you can find Shore snapping pictures of students tailgating, teammates chatting on the bench, or crowds screaming at whatever is happening on the field.

“The parents love me because I can do what they can’t do," Shore said. "They

aren’t here all the time, but they want to see photos of you guys. They tell me all the time it gives them a chance to see into [student] lives.”

He has had a passion for photography since high school. When he came to Wake Forest, he began photographing some of his clients from the Barber Shop. Next thing he knew, Shore would turn around to see multiple groups posing for a picture.

“Ten years later people can look back at my photographs and remember the best four years of their lives. It is a privilege for me to be a part of that,” Shore said.

During the summertime when students leave campus, Shore and Lloyd Howard, the other campus barber, lose a quarter of their business at the barber shop, forcing Shore to take up other jobs.

When seniors living off campus come back in the fall and decide to live off campus, many of them go elsewhere for a haircut. However, these obstacles do not stop Dean from doing what he loves because, for him, it is not about the money.

“We don’t see our customers as just dollar signs. We try to do the best we can because we care,” Shore said.

When interviewing Shore in the Barber Shop, I looked around to see the walls covered with his own photography. In fact, he couldn’t even think of any photographs that weren’t his.

These photographs mean more to him than just pictures on a wall. They represent the countless memories he has made with each client, each football player, and all the students that keep him coming back every day, to do what he loves.

WAKE IN A WEEK Seventh Annual Research Symposium on Gender and Sexuality Time: March 14 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: ZSR Library This event features moderated sessions of scholarly and creative presentations by Wake Foest students. It showcases the exciting work undergraduate and graduate students are doing on gender-related issues across disciplines.

Japan through the Photographer's Lens Time: March 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Museum of Anthropology This exhibition presents photography by artists documenting traditional Japanese culture. Works by Hideo Haga capture the celebration of folk festivals in Tohoku, a region in northern Japan.

Lenten Meditations Time: March 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Location: Davis Chapel Mondays during Lent at 11:00 a.m. in Davis Chapel, student and faculty-led meditations are held to engage minds, bodies and spirits. This Monday's theme is contemplative jazz meditation with Raven Hill (MDiv '19) Lunch 'n Learn: The Ins-and-Outs of Plant-Based Nutrition Time: March 19 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Location: ZSR 404 Join Cindy Silver, a registered dietitian, for a fun group session to learn the ins and outs of plant-based eating, such as vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian approach. This event will have lots of practical ideas, sampling and recipes.

WakeHacks Time: March 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Location: Benson University Center 4th Floor This is a collaborative all-day computer programming competition. The event's theme is "Pro Humanitate" and hopes to promote the university's service motto. If you have any questions, contact Nick Gerace, Collin Roemer or Makenzie Whitener.

Digital Wellness Day: "FOCUS" Workshop Time: March 15 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Location: Reynolds Gym A330 Explore the latest advances in attention and cognitive control with WFU alum and founder of Digital Detangler, Peter Dunlap.

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Reckoning: #MeToo is unseen on campus

Continued from Page 1

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that 80 percent of sexual assaults committed against college women go unreported.

“We have no reason to believe that the Wake Forest campus is any different,” said Tanya Jachimiak, the Title IX coordinator.

“We do know that the number of reports that we receive do not capture all of the survivors out there.”

There are many factors, both social and personal, that affect a student’s decision to report sexual violence. According to Steph Trilling, assistant director of the Safe Office, these can range from fear of not being believed to worries about consequences.

“Many students say that after an experience of sexual misconduct they just want things to

go back to normal,” Trilling said. “Participating in a reporting process can remind them of their experience, which may contribute to further emotional distress.”

In May, Kuehn wanted to report with the school, but as her rapist had graduated, she would have had to press official legal charges.

After talking with a criminal defense lawyer who told her that she had a strong case, Kuehn weighed her options. In the end, she made the right decision for herself: to not press charges.

“I thought it would hinder my healing process to have to go through that,” Kuehn said.

Exactly how many collegiate cases exist is hard to discern due to the lack of reporting.

A poll by The Washington Post reported that 1 in 5 collegiate women are sexually violated.

According to the Wake Forest Annual Crime and Fire Report, there were 12 reported cases of fondling on campus from 2014 to 2016 and 10 reported cases of rape on campus in the same period.

Juniors Katy Marget and Emily Walton believe there is a high prevalence of sexual misconduct on campus. Together, they run an online blog, titled ‘End the Silence, Wake Forest,’ which publishes anonymous submissions from Wake Forest students in an effort to raise awareness about sexual violence.

On average, they receive three to four submissions per semester of direct stories about experiences of sexual misconduct in addition to the many that express support of survivors.

Marget believes that the anonymity gives

more power to the stories than it might take away in how it exemplifies the prevalence of sexual misconduct.

“When you’re reading [the blog], it’s someone you could have class with, it’s someone you could walk by every day,” Marget said.

After publishing her article, Kuehn received responses from 14 current and former Wake Forest students — many of whom she didn’t know — who shared with her their similar experiences. In the era of #MeToo, Kuehn hopes that the stigma of sexual misconduct will dissipate.

“It shouldn’t be that scary for me to tell people that I was raped because I didn’t do anything wrong,” Kuehn said. “What am I so afraid of?”

Burr: Gift to be a part of Special Collections Continued from Page 1 The donation will be the 6th congressional collection housed in the library, following those of Donna Edwards, Charles Orville Whitley and Horace Robinson Kornegay, among others. Burr is one of seven Wake Forest alumni to have been a U.S. Senator and one of 11 to have been in Congress.

“Senator Burr has offered, and Wake Forest has accepted, a collection that includes photographs, sound and video recordings, manuscripts, letters, speeches, notes and handwritten documents of these more than two remarkable decades in the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate,” Provost Rogan Kersh said at the event.

The collection is currently housed in storage at the Smithsonian, and the timeline is indefinite as to when it will be available at ZSR Library.

In front of the audience, President Nathan Hatch and Burr signed the official agreement between the university and the Senator with specially-crafted pens made of the wood from old shelves of the ZSR Library.

“From these documents, students will read about situations that demanded leadership, collaboration, patience and wisdom,” Hatch said. “They will learn from circumstances they have not yet seen or anticipated.

They will see first hand the kind of work that engages high level law making in our land.”

The ceremony was attended by many notable figures, including Congressman Mark Walker, Hatch, Kersh and Board of Trustees Chair Donna Boswell, as well as the chancellors of both Winston-Salem State University and the North Carolina School of the Arts.

“This gift is a mark of leadership by one of our own community, for our community,” Edwards said. “Contributions such as this expose our students to a part of our democracy they might not otherwise get to see.”

The ceremony also included an announcement that the university will establish a Richard Burr Center in

Photo courtesy of Wake Forest News

Burr signed an agreement on Monday with the university to donate his congressional papers with a pen crafted from reclaimed wood of old shelves in the ZSR Library. partnership with the library. The center will make a strong effort to bring nationally-recognized speakers to campus in the future. Specifics have yet to be disclosed.

“It is our shared hope that we can focus our energies on building a better understanding of the legislative process, how it works and how our young people can use that for our own leadership capacity,” Hatch said. “I look forward to using our collective efforts to establish a world class resource for our students that also honors our distinguished alumnus and public servants.”

Burr, a Winston-Salem native, went to Richard J. Reynolds High School and graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Communications. He lettered

for the Demon Deacon’s football team his freshman and sophomore years, and was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He currently chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and has stated that he does not plan to run for a fourth term in the Senate.

“My responsibility to my home of Wake Forest University is not to influence the direction a student goes, but to provide a clear pathway from which to learn how to make their mark on life,” Burr said. “We’re not in the business of influencing, we’re in the business of inspiring … The donations of my paper will only be the beginning of my partnership with Wake Forest in this regard.”

POLICE BEAT Larceny •Unknown subject(s) took rented violin stolen from a locked locker around Nov. 11, 2017. The report was filed on Feb. 26 at 2:17 p.m.

• Offender took a $600 wallet in Reynolda Village and was issued a state citation. The report was filed on Feb. 26 at 10:19 a.m.

Underage Consumption/Possesion • Offender was found intoxicated and transported to WFUBMC from Palmer. The report was filed on March 2 at 12:04 a.m.

• Offender was in possession of a stolen tag and was issued a state citation. The report was filed on Feb. 26 at 1:57 p.m.

Miscellaneous • Unknown subject left an obscene voicemail at the Office of the Dean of Students. The report was filed on Feb. 28 at 10:25 p.m.

• Offender was using victim’s debit card number to order pizza. The report was filed on March 2 at 11:11 a.m.

•Underageoffenderswerefoundtobeinpossessionofmarijuana and alcohol.The report was filed on March 1 at12:54 a.m.

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Reverend Graham leaves nonpartisan legacy Reverend Billy Graham, who died on Feb. 21 at 99, was famous for his nonpartisanship

BY KATHERINE BONTRAGER Contributing Writer bontkr16@wfu.edu A renowned Southern Baptist evangelist preacher and North Carolina native, the late Billy Graham has more connections with Wake Forest than most students may know.

President Nathan Hatch and Graham both attended Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. More significantly, Graham visited Wake Forest’s campus in 1962 and in 1984.

Thousands worldwide mourned after Graham passed away on Feb. 21 at the age of 99 in his home in Montreat, NC. “[Graham] was the most enduring and perhaps the most beloved preacher in American religious history,” Bill Leonard said, an expert on Graham and professor of church history in the School of Divinity at Wake Forest.

Coined the “Pope of Protestant America” by The New York Times, Graham made significant global steps for evangelism, sharing Christianity with 215 million people in over 185 countries. Graham became the first to engage religion with innovative technology such as radio, television and film to reach wider audiences.

In the midst of the world’s political unrest and partisan division, Graham represented something different than religious leaders today; he remained politically neutral. Although he was a religious advisor for 12 presidents, from Truman to Obama, and attended eight inaugural ceremonies, Graham found a way to stay nonpartisan and stand firm to his religious calling.

“Evangelists cannot be closely identified with any particular party or person,” Graham stated in a 2013 interview with The New York Times. “We have to stand in the middle in order to preach to all people, right and left.”

Yet in the aftermath of Graham’s death, nonpartisanship has been endangered, especially among religious leaders.

“For someone like Franklin Graham (Billy Graham’s son) and other religious leaders to back [President Trump] just because he’s a part of the Republican Party says to me that there are two widely diverging versions of Christianity in America,” said James Franklin, campus minister for the Episcopal Campus Ministry. “People who are in the millennial generation have this no-BS filter, and they see the hypocrisy of the contrast.”

In the 2016 polls, President Trump carried Protestants, Catholics and 81 percent of Evangelicals, which were some of his largest supporters and also Graham’s main audience. Between his extramarital affairs with porn stars and misogynistic comments, Trump’s actions contradict core Christian values. Regardless, religious leaders continue to back him and his policies.

As generations evolve, moods and opinions on religious involvement within politics seem to be shifting, and the current generation of Wake Forest students are aware of this shift.

“It’s funny to think that [evangelists] would vote for a man that is so egregiously unqualified in many ways to further their agenda,” senior Lauren Tarde said. “But it doesn’t come down to them wanting to have a cup of coffee with Trump, it comes down to the Supreme Court.”

Presenting insight into the intersection of religion and politics in today’s world, Tarde raises the question of how much religion affects politics, a question that still seems to produce tension and discourse in America. While the separation of church and state is required by the Constitution, some interpret it differently.

“I think Jesus was inherently political,” Franklin said. “We’d be remiss to think that religion and politics are two separate things. Sure, [there is] separation of church and state, but I am still guided by Christian moral ethics, and that’s going to

Photo courtesy of the Winston-Salem Journal

Reverend Billy Graham, a famous Southern Baptist evangelist preacher, visited the Wake Forest campus in 1962 and in 1984. affect what policies I think are going to be in line with that.”

There seems to be a dilemma and disagreement about Christians’ role in politics. Graham led a life with love and acceptance as a guide, simply keeping his focus on uniting all different denominations and the Christian faith as a whole.

“My take on [politics in religion] will always be what the Bible tells as truth, whether that’s a part of the Republican or Democratic beliefs,” said junior Genevieve Paucious. “At the end of the day that’s what Christianity is about: loving other people, whichever party, in a Christ-like manner. That’s really what Graham represented.”

OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Famed physicist and best-selling CORRECTION to be replaced by Mike Pompeo author Stephen Hawking dies On Tuesday morning, President Trump announced on Twitter that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would be replaced by Mike Pompeo, CIA director and former Tea Party congressman. Gina Haspel will become the CIA director, the first woman to hold that position.

Tillerson, who had recently been away on a trip to Africa, learned that he had been fired via Trump’s tweet.

About three hours later, Tillerson received the call from President Trump, confirming his dismissal.

The decision to oust Tillerson comes in advance of the possible upcoming talks with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un. In recent months, the relationship between Tillerson and President Trump have been filled with tension as they disagreed over policies like the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Russia and the tone of American diplomacy.

Explaining his decision, President Trump said, “We were not really thinking the same.”

Stephen Hawking, a Cambridge University professor, died on Wednesday at 76 in his home in Cambridge, England. Hawking studied black holes and relativity, combing relativity and quantum mechanics in a theory of cosmology. He discovered that black holes leak energy and fade to nothing, a phenomenon called Hawking radiation. In addition, he wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.

Recognizable from his wheelchair that he spent most of his life in as a result of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Hawking was also a pop culture icon. His science reached many people through his clever witticisms.

“Not since Albert Einstein has a scientist so captured the public imagination and endeared himself to tens of millions of people around the world,” Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, told The New York Times.

In the previous edition of the Old Gold & Black, the article titled “Bias Incident Report Creates Controversy” stated that junior Brianna Reddick handed senior Ryan Wolfe a box of crackers with his face photoshopped onto the box of crackers. This was an error.

Instead it was a normal box of crackers that Reddick handed to Wolfe, with no photoshopped image of Wolfe’s face on a cracker.

Additionally, an image circulated in a GroupMe conversation with Wolfe’s face photoshopped onto a saltine cracker.

This photo was the same photo seen on Fox News on Wednesday, Feb. 28 when Wolfe discussed a bias reporting issue he faced with the University with host Tucker Carlson.

Further, this correction has been made in the online version of this article.

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SG ELECTION PROFILES

David Ajamy President

Matthew David President

Junior David Ajamy is a politics and international affairs major and journalism minor. He hopes to use his previous experience as a senator his freshman year and president’s aide to Jordan Monaghan his sophomore year to bring about a cultural change in how Student Government presents itself on campus.

While he has not served on Student Government this year, he decided to return when he noticed that some senators viewed Student Government as a resume-builder.

He therefore emphasized the need for a lighter, less pretentious tone among Student Government officials. Ajamy also pointed out that many previous student body presidents have been white men involved in Greek life and noted his intent to bring about something different.

Finally, he emphasized the important role of public relations in Student Government and the need for senators to be accessible and active in the community, arguing that the Senate’s weekly meetings in the basement of Greene lack public visibility. Another policy he promoted was a requirement for all Senators to be involved in public service.

The platform of sophomore Matthew David, a philosophy and history double major, is informed by his experience as co-chair of the Academic Committee and service on the Alcohol Policy Committee. An initiative he has already taken action on was to move the Academic Bulletin online so that more content could be added, and he wrote a resolution for longer course descriptions to be available during course registration.

Other policies he outlined included implementing organizational medical amnesty, which would mitigate punishment for organizations seeking medical help for intoxicated students at their parties.

Although he is not in Greek life, he emphasized that a thriving Greek presence on campus is beneficial for all students and stated that he has an advantage in advocating for Greek organizations in that he has “no dog in the fight” and could approach the administration without fearing consequences for a specific organization. He also proposed organizing a student leadership summit bringing together presidents from all university organizations to discuss problems on campus.

William Morgan

Danny Reeves

The main tenets of junior William Morgan’s platform — who is a history major with minors in politics and international affairs, Latin and creative writing — are summarized by the acronym RATIO: Representation, Accountability, Trust, Inspiration and Openness.

Morgan has a record of policy accomplishments during his tenure in Student Government, including serving on the Committee for Academic Affairs, which had a hand in lengthening the fall and winter breaks and adding a second Reading Day. He also initiated the Listening Campaign last year, which reaches out to the student body and directs concerns to the Committee of Community Outreach and Concerns.

One of the first priorities that Morgan said he would take on as president would be to decrease student parking ticket fees. He also proposed holding a leadership summit led by Student Government and holding office hours in order to make the Student Government office a welcoming place for students to talk to their representatives.

Junior Danny Reeves, a political science and communication double major, has served as Student Government secretary and stated that his year of experience on the executive board helped him recognize the changes needed to improve the efficiency of Student Government.

He has already enacted structural changes in response, including increasing Senate meetings from bi-weekly to weekly and restructuring the attendance policy. Reeves has experience on every level of Student Government — Senate, cabinet and executive — and has also served on the Alcohol Coalition.

Serving under three different executive boards, he said that he has learned from the performances of others. If elected, he wants to encourage freshmen and sophomores to take the lead in proposing legislation in order to secure the future of Student Government. He also wants to use the findings of the Duke Demographic Survey to improve the diversity of Student Government.

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SG ELECTION PROFILES

Thomas Kellogg Secretary

Maia Kennedy Secretary

If elected, the biggest problem that junior Thomas Kellogg, a biology and math major and neuroscience minor, wants to address is the lack of accountability in the Senate.

He said that senators often bring up problems and state that they will contact someone, but are not held accountable for following up. Also, he added that constituent concerns are not enough to motivate senators and that he wants to hold people accountable by publicly posting minutes and helping senators find the people they are supposed to talk to and have a clear path of action. He emphasized that the role of Student Government secretary should be a contact point for campus organizations.

Kellogg has held other secretarial roles in the past, such as on the Student Organizations Council, and said that he has experience in motivating people and organizations to fulfill their roles.

Finally, he emphasized that he wants policy to be informed not just by dictates handed down from the administration but also by student reactions and data. “Because we are student representatives, we have to ask questions when policies are implemented,” he said. “It’s our job, even if we agree.”

Sophomore Maia Kennedy, a BEM major, proposed a three-pillar platform consisting of diversity and inclusion, safety and creating spaces for on-campus dogs. She was the Public Relations Committee Senator of the Year last year and now serves as the Public Relations Committee co-chair and has worked with the Diversity and Inclusion Committee on several initiatives, including incorporating traditional Greek life with multicultural Greek organizations.

Kennedy said that her strengths for the position include her organizational skills, which she has already utilized to redo the Student Government website and archive legislation. She also played a role in current student body president Spencer Schiller’s campaign with diversity and inclusion, especially collaborating with the Organization of Latin-American Students.

If elected, she hopes to use her role to ensure that everyone’s voices are heard; she has already pursued this goal by holding the Student Government’s first reverse town hall forum earlier this year. She also proposed releasing a Student Government newsletter.

Will Hargrove

Sydney Packard

Junior Will Hargrove, an economics and Spanish double major with a minor in entrepreneurship, said that he is prepared to serve as speaker of the house based on his experience as a committee co-chair for the past two years.

He recognized that being a leader is not something one individual does, but is rather a collaborative effort. The role is a lot more internal and the work is not always recognized. He added that his role as co-chair has taught him when to ask for help. He has been involved with student government since his freshman year on the Public Relations Committee and was co-chair of the Campus Life Committee last year. He helped organize Mental Health Week, which included popular events such as Puppies on the Quad.

He also emphasized the need for unity and cultural inclusion across campus. A specific initiative he proposed tackling was Residence Life and Housing’s restrictions on the practice of certain cultural customs, such as boiling tea in a kettle, which is currently not permitted.

Junior Sydney Packard, a finance and computer science double major, is the incumbent student body treasurer. As she seeks to continue her tenure for a second year, she emphasized the need for a longer period of time to implement her platform. Some of her biggest accomplishments this year have included revamping outdated funding guidelines, benchmarking with 10 other schools to ensure that the Wake Forest rules system is fair and understandable and creating how-to guides for easy steps such as check reimbursement for club treasurers with different levels of experience. She has also worked on tailoring funding guidelines based on differences between campus organizations.

Something she said she learned this year that she hopes to carry over to her next year as treasurer has been understanding where club treasurers are coming from. She said that rules and guidelines have been drilled into her head so she has been working on sitting down with different groups one-on-one to ease their budget processes. Like last year, her campaign aims to minimize confusion, stress and misinformation.

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“ have the power to memorialize moments Good conversations Philosophy

The indelible mark of a nuanced conversation makes life less of a rote timeline and more of a joy

Kyle Ferrer

Staff Columnist ferrka16@wfu.edu

“We don’t talk anymore, like we used to,” Charlie Puth laments. His love, his conversationalist, has become an opacity. Her obscurity knocks the singer into the throes of sorrow, and their once-great dance of words has slowly pirouetted.

Their backs are now turned.

Puth’s lyric is a pop cultural example of a sentiment thinkers have toyed with for decades. What is the best mode of human experience? Is it solitude, the brain’s reward to the silent mouth? Is it conversation as a sort of glissade down the slope of masses? Or is it somewhere in between?

“A subtle conversation, that is the Garden of Eden,” Caliph Ali Ben Ali supposedly said. I stumbled on this quote

It's an unforced, verbal tango, a fully-sensate ooze of words and logic and philosophy that works to investigate life." some time ago, in a book whose title is irretrievable. To compile the media I’ve encountered, the art that expresses a sentiment similarly and eloquently to the Caliph, would be to compile the stars in the sky. To name a few films: My Dinner with Andre, Before Sunrise, Blue Jay, Beatriz at Dinner. To quote John Updike’s story “The Happiest I’ve Been: “The important thing, rather than the subject, was the conversation itself — the quick agreements, the slow nods, the weave of different memories; it was like one of those Panama baskets shaped underwater around a worthless stone.”

I could go on.

The beauty of a good conversation is in its ineffable error. “Errare,” to directly quote the Latin, meaning “to wander.”

What makes subtle conversation the best of all possible moments is that it is not the moment of the dyspeptic isolate nor is it the vapid moment of the glossed socialite.

It is a space in between where one works out things through the visage of another person or persons. Moods, brief physical infirmities, intellectual ticks, they all flicker across the face of the conversationalist, and provide for a protean dialectic whose beauty is in its non-shape, in its wander.

Whenever I try to conjure up my most poignant remembrances, I see through the fog of memory a low-lit moment in the library, about 1 a.m., where my bleary-eyed friend and I simultaneously and spontaneously take a break from humdrummery and begin a conversation as subtle and tinkering as any I’ve had.

It isn’t the specific substance I remember (although I do remember a debate about the Second Amendment), it is more so the mood of untried lucidity. It is the sort of verbal jazz that proved an ephemeral brightness in our thoughts. What made the experience so searingly memorable was not its concrete resolution, but its interpolation of subjectivities. I call it interstitial happiness, a sort of space in between, suspended and writhing and mutating like a small, gaseous cloud above two people talking. The cloud itself is just

a symbol for the flow of the conversation, but the feelings created in the two parties are the simultaneous awareness and disassociation from the “conversation” itself.

You are aware of your fugue state, aware of your unconscious conjecture, but are also loose and un-trying with your mind, making such spurts of thought nuanced jewels. It is wonderfully improvisational yet pulled from your deepest intellectual center. It’s an odd sensation, but aren’t most great things a bit odd?

I would argue our deepest memories (some of them, at least) are bound up by a good conversation, a moment of transitory lucidity that didn’t come when alone (those are much harder, more frustrating, less reactionary), but when shadowing another’s words and dancing with them. It’s an unforced, verbal tango, a fully-sensate ooze of words and logic and philosophy that works to investigate life. It is On the Road, in words. The act and purpose of a Moriarty displaced into moment-by-moment jargon. If the “goal” of life is to find a few fleeting answers to the unanswerable, I think this is how we can stumble into staying solvent.

were age 20 or younger. And the majority of children killed by guns are not killed in mass shootings but by accident, by their own hand or by other children or adults — with weapons legally obtained by adults.

Nor is the problem mental illness. After the Parkland shooting, President Trump blathered about committing people to mental hospitals against their will in order to prevent mass shootings, even if they hadn’t committed a crime. Never mind that among 133 acts of gun violence studied by Everytown, only 11 percent showed “evidence that concerns about the mental health of the shooter had been brought to the attention of a medical practitioner, school official or legal authority.” Trump’s ramblings are reminiscent of Soviet-era tactics, when doctors used dubious claims of schizophrenia with a slowly progressive course to imprison dissidents on the grounds that they were on the way to becoming insane. Mental illness does not cause gun violence, and unjustly stigmatizing the mentally ill and blaming an inadequate mental health system allows the gun lobby to sidestep responsibility and dilute the gun violence debate.

The real problem is that there are too many firearms in the U.S. — more than 300 million, or about one for every American. They are too easy to obtain and they are becoming more lethal, they are defended by

a part of the Constitution revered as gospel, written almost 250 years ago when the country lacked a standing army or navy and when guns could shoot only one bullet at a time. Nor could the Founding Fathers conceive the technological advances that have made many firearms coldly efficient killing machines with no civilian purpose. The gun lobby has conned Americans into believing that they have a God-given right to own an unlimited number of any type of firearm without any restriction. But the Constitution was once amended to ban alcohol; it is not the word of God and should not be treated as such.

We can debate gun reform legislation until the cows come home, but as a country, we must address the widespread gun culture, fascination with violence and interplay of guns and toxic masculinity in relation to the gun violence crisis.

“The American idea is caught up in carnage … Its very beginning is rooted in gun violence,” wrote Charles Blow in a recent column in The New York Times. “It is by the barrel that this land was acquired. It is by the barrel that the slave was subdued and his rebellions squashed. And that is to say nothing of our wars. We have venerated the gun and valorized its usage. America is violent and the gun is a preferred instrument of that violence. America, in many ways, is the gun.”

“ Gun control intransigence is difficult to overcome Civil Liberties

While both political parties deride the other's gun policies, neither operate using a viable platform

Amanda Wilcox Staff Columnist wilcaf16@wfu.edu

“Those who say that nothing can be done are wrong.” Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), repeatedly insisted in regards to the country’s gun violence crisis at a town hall last week, which was attended by 1,300 of his constituents. I fervently pray that my congressman is right. But if we are to overcome political intransigence and radio silence from members of Congress who are beholden to the NRA, some aspects of how we think about gun control need to change. We seek The Fix, a magical one-and-done solution, but such a thing doesn’t exist. Instead, we need to change our attitude and goals, and debate for the long haul.

We often deride the predictable and insin-

More importantly, I actually believe Ingraham's response was the most telling part of this incident." cere “thoughts and prayers” from the right, but the left usually has an equally unproductive reaction: “Nothing is ever going to change.” This world-weary prediction of inaction is deleterious to the efforts of those actually motivated to fight against the gun lobby and lets opponents off the hook from defending their position. Yes, the gun lobby is influential, but not just because of campaign money; the NRA also depends heavily on the popular perception of its power, and reflexive liberal defeatism only underscores its impression as an indomitable force.

And with this liberal fatalism, card-carrying NRA conservatives can hijack the gun violence debate with a series of incoherent and inadequate policies. The risk is that these half-hearted measures will drain the energy from the movement demanding change — this is what the gun lobby is counting on. Raising the legal age to buy a semiautomatic weapon to 21 would be a step in the right direction, but it’s not a solution. Everytown for Gun Safety found that only five percent of mass shooters it studied

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“ The Wake Forest Review practices poor journalism Politics

A recent article violates basic journalistic principles that one would expect from an honest news organizaiton."

Without any concrete journalistic experience, the Wake Forest Review falters Kory Riemensperger

Guest Columnist reimka16@wfu.edu I’m in favor of an honest conservative voice on campus.

My father and both grandparents are veterans; a 2009 Gallup poll found this demographic skews conservative at all age levels. I grew up with Bill O’Reilly on the television and a Huckabee ‘08 bumper sticker.

As a result of this exposure, I appreciate the dialectic of political ideologies as a way of arriving at an accepted truth. Put another way, when we honestly navigate our differences — when you propose something and then I respond with an opposing view — we reconcile our way to understanding.

The non-profit Wake Forest Review makes both implicit and explicit claims to be a journalistic enterprise.

Though they publish no print copy, their website is structured to resemble those of popular news organizations.

Their tagline is “The Independent Newspaper at Wake Forest University,” while the “About Us” section

reads: “…the Review aims to educate Wake Forest students and younger generations with balanced journalism from an unintimidated, conservative and libertarian position.” Their team is made up of Managing Editors, Associates Editors and Vice Presidents.

It all looks very much like you would expect an official news publication to.

However, a recent article violates basic journalistic principles that one would expect from an honest news organization.

On Feb. 26, the Review published an article titled “Wake Forest Declines to Enforce Harassment Policies for Conservative Student.” It details Digital Director Ryan Wolfe’s process with university administrators following his submission to the Bias Report System.

First, the article does not address any reason for its publication 16 months after the incident that encouraged it. There is no note from the author, no editor’s note, no hint of clarification to answer the simple question: “Why now?” Though there is obviously some leeway for a reporter to file a story, waiting more than a year seems to warrant some explanation.

When I commented on the Review’s Facebook page with this very question, my neutral question was not deleted, but slyly hidden from view.

I could see it, but my friends could not. A follow-up question was also hidden. These are not the actions of an organization interested in facts.

In a personal Facebook post, one of the students who Wolfe filed against actually points out that the author of the Feb. 26 article misreported their class year— calling them juniors though they were sophomores at the time— the insinuation being that the story was held for so long the writer wrote about their present status instead of their past.

Wolfe’s interview on Tucker Carlson a mere two days after the article went live does the Review no favors in attempting to appear as a legitimate news publication. After 16 months, Wolfe gets his story told and appears on national television in the span of 48 hours? Is this supposed to be news or entertainment?

In addition, though the article reports the incident’s date, it does so in the ninth paragraph. Any reputable editor would insist such newsworthy information (remember the five Ws?) is covered immediately, then described in a comprehensive and proportional manner.

Second, this article is woefully onesided. Journalists and the news organizations they work for must always support a public discussion and rep-

resent the multitude of viewpoints that frame these dialogues. Anything other than this is a dressed up blog post. Excluding the primary material that Wolfe found offensive, this article only ever cites a single person: Wolfe himself. The story’s perspective of this incident is seen only through his eyes. This works on a personal blog, but a news story must strive for more.

Third, this article is not comprehensive. When Wolfe appeared on Fox News, he revealed information not mentioned in the Feb. 26 article, claiming that “in so many words” the Dean of Students used the 2016 election to justify deescalating the process from a judicial hearing to mediation. Where was this in the original article? That’s a huge claim to withhold in print but make on national television.

As a result of these violations, the Review should immediately cease all claims to their status as a journalistic enterprise until such time that a member with extensive journalism experience holds a position on their board or is able to reasonably contribute to their editing process. As illustrated, there is a dire need for such reform.

I’m in favor of an honest conservative voice at Wake Forest, but not one that confuses entertainment for journalism.

“ leads to gun violence Hyper masculinity Gun Violence

A cultural shift needs to occur if we want to adequately combat the proliferation of mass shootings in America Ethan Bahar

Staff Writer bahaea15@wfu.edu

On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 people were killed and 14 more were injured at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. They were mowed down by a lone gunman with an AR-15 Assault Rifle. This shooter, Nikolas Cruz, purchased his weapon, along with his ammunition and large capacity magazines, legally. There are many appalling aspects to consider about Cruz’s rampage. Perhaps one of the most disturbing is that his act was not an aberration. This was not the first mass school shooting (defined, in this circumstance, as a shooting where three or more people are killed) in America, and it will not be

Gun violence is an American public health issue...But more specifically, it is a problem exacerbated by American men." the last. Since the Columbine High School massacre occurred in 1999, and 15 students were slaughtered, there have been 122 people killed in mass school shootings. The crimes committed at Columbine High School were the first of their kind, but today they are far from unique. Further, if the danger of guns is considered beyond the scope of mass school shootings, the numbers are far more daunting. Since 1968, when these records started being kept, there have been 1,516,863 gun deaths on American soil (this statistic is from October 5th, 2017. Today the number is higher). This figure is especially staggering when taken into consideration that in its entire history, the U.S. has seen 1,396,733 soldiers die in war. This number accounts for approximately every American soldier’s death since the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Therefore, as of Oct. 5, 2017, an estimated 120,130 more American lives have ended due to both accidental and intentional domestic gun violence

since 1968 than have died defending the country at war since the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1775. These numbers suggest that gun violence is an American public health issue.

Clearly, it is. But more specifically, it is a problem exacerbated by American men.

In a column for USA Today, Alia E. Dastagir points out that “many disturbing details are known about Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 people ... at his former high school in Parkland, Fla. Many questions remain about Stephen Paddock, still largely a mystery months after he gunned down 58 in Las Vegas. But the piece of their identities that are alike are also the ones that were almost a given: they are men.”

She then explains that while there have been 97 mass shootings since 1982, only three have been committed by women, and one of these attacks was the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack which was committed by a husband and wife.

Therefore, men have been involved in 95 of the last 97 mass shootings. Further, she notes that American men are three times more likely to own a gun than women, according to recent sur-

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vey data collected by the Pew Research Center in 2017. Men are also killed by guns more often than women. Consider data collected by the Kaiser Family Foundation. According to their statistics, Alaska is the state that sees the highest number of women killed by guns, at 9.8 for every 100 thousand people. Conversely, Massachusetts has the fewest number of men killed by guns, at 6.7 for every 100 thousand. Only five states on the list can boast having fewer men killed by guns for every 100,000 than Alaska’s 9.8 figure for women. This disparity is astonishing.

Perhaps these disproportionate statistics are the result of a corrupted culture of hyper-masculinity in America. Men feel a need to assert dominance. Sometimes this expression becomes deadly. An obvious example of deadly masculinity can be seen in Elliot Roger’s vicious attack in Isla Vista, a gorgeous Southern California beach community home to UC Santa Barbra (UCSB), where Roger was enrolled as an undergraduate. Roger left a manifesto before he went on his shooting spree. In the opening, he wrote, “All of my suffering on this world has been at the hands of humanity, particularly women...All I ever wanted was to fit in and live a happy life amongst humanity, but I was cast out and rejected...all because females of the human species were incapable of seeing the value in me.”

After writing the rest of his 141-page manifesto about how he has been constantly rejected by women and therefore deserves revenge, he proceeded to stab or shoot seven people to death, and injure 14 others. The main target of his attack was a sorority house at UCSB. A culture of hyper-masculinity taught Roger that he needed to assert dominance over the women who had eluded him for so many years, so he murdered them. Three of his weapons were fully legal handguns.

Certainly, while guns adversely affect men and women, the exploitation of their deadly force is uniquely masculine. Before the Parkland shooting, I had long thought it curious that feminists have never embraced guns en masse. It seems that these weapons serve as the ultimate symbol of power. After all, when people use the phrase “you brought a gun to a knife fight” it means that whoever has the gun has the ultimate upper hand. Generally, feminists want to equip women with the proverbial gun at knife fights. So why not arm them with the real thing too?

This perspective of mine was half-baked and naive. After more deeply considering the implications of the American gun problem, I realize that it would be an obvious misstep for feminists to arm themselves. The intent of feminism is to raise the status of women so that it is equal to that of men. I am not suggesting that it should be considered some major point of pride amongst feminists that women don’t shoot random clusters of people with guns because of pent-up rage the way men do.

We should expect our citizens to never commit such heinous crimes, and when these crimes are committed, we ought to be ashamed. If feminists decided to arm themselves at higher rates, they would be recognizing a disturbing reality that the behavior of villains like Stephen Paddock and Elliot Rodger is normal. Instead, fighting to quell the proliferation of guns is an assertion by the movement that male gun violence is unacceptable and will be eradicated.

A solution to this major public health crisis is not greater proliferation of arms, whether they be in the hands of feminists, school teachers, or anyone else who suddenly feels unsafe due to the normalcy of these heinous crimes. I am no expert on the matter, but it seems to me that banning certain types of firearms makes perfect sense, both from a constitutional and

pragmatic perspective. In fact, if we want to continue to call our government a democracy, we have an obligation to pass comprehensive gun reform, as this reform is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans.

While gun reform is important and necessary, so is the cultural battle that comes with creating this reform. In one of my classes, “Women, Gender and Politics” we discussed the gendered nature of ordering coffee at Starbucks. In North Carolina, it seems that there is an unwritten rule that men cannot order anything but black coffee at Starbucks, for fear of being cast aside as feminine. In Los Angeles, where I am from, I suppose this feeling sort of exists, but to a much smaller degree. Generally speaking, you are much more likely to see men ordering lattes in Southern California than you are in the Piedmont Triad. Similarly, you are much more likely to meet gun-owning men in Winston-Salem than you are in Los Angeles. At a minimum, men in this area tend have a far greater understanding of guns than do men in Los Angeles. In fact, I have had many conversations with my mostly conservative fraternity brothers about gun culture and gun ownership. Early in these conversations, my masculinity has been questioned because my only knowledge of guns can be traced back to experiences on the BB gun range at summer camp. My friends, on the other hand, were raised with guns and taught to handle them properly. Most of their sisters weren’t.

This leads me to the conclusion that perhaps the best way to reduce mass, seemingly unprovoked gun violence is to demasculinize gun culture without allowing feminism to embrace this very same culture. Admittedly, I have no idea how to go about doing so. However, I am confident about one thing. Greater proliferation of guns is a horrible response to repeated gun atrocities.

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What do you want next year’s student government to do?

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NCAA Tournament kicks off Thursday Several dominant teams go head to head in the NCAA Division I Mens' Basketball Tournament starting this week

BY DANIEL PACHINO News Editor pachdb15@wfu.edu

This Thursday, Mar. 14 marks the start of the most exciting sporting event of the year, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, also known as March Madness. This year in college basketball has been one of the more fascinating seasons in recent memory. It is a notoriously down year without any clearly dominant teams in college basketball. Many of the teams predicted to be the nation’s strongest entering the season, such as Duke, Michigan State, Arizona and Kentucky, have faltered throughout the season and have not lived up to expectations. Meanwhile, unexpected teams such as UVA, Purdue, Cincinatti and Xavier have been among the nation’s most dominant.

The tournament’s opening round is often its most exciting, and here I will highlight some of the most interesting matchups.

This is probably Coach Calipari’s least talented Kentucky team in recent memory; however, they are playing their best basketball of the season, coming off a dominant SEC championship run. Meanwhile, Davidson is also playing its best basketball after cruising through the A10 Tournament.

Everything about this matchup points towards one of the most exciting first-round games between a perennial powerhouse and Steph Curry’s alma mater.

Additionally, if Kentucky wins this game, they will likely face 4-seeded Arizona in the second round, which would make for one of the most exciting opening weekend matchup in recent memory. Kentucky and Arizona are typically among college basketball’s elite, so seeing them meet in the Round of 32 would be a rare and gripping opportunity.

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(5) Kentucky vs. (12) Davidson – Thursday, Mar. 14 at 7:15 p.m.

People always love picking the 12-seed over 5-seed.

Even if Davidson does not win this game, this has the makings of a particularly exciting matchup.

These are two of the nation’s hottest teams and undoubtedly the two best of the five and 12 seeds, respectively.

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Kentucy Wildcats guard Hamidou Diallo recovers a turnover during the SEC Championship last Friday, March 9 against the Georgia Bulldogs. Kentucky beat Georgia 62-49 in the Scottrade Center in Saint Louis, MO.

Legendary golf coach Jesse Haddock has died During his tenure Coach Haddock led Wake Forest to three national titles and 15 ACC championships

BY LIZZIE SNYDER Sports Editor snydem15@wfu.edu Distinguished former Wake Forest golf coach and alumnus Jesse Haddock (‘52) passed away at the age of 91 on Wednesday, March 14.

During his time as a student, he was drafted in World War II and returned to Wake Forest to earn his degree seven years later. Before signing on as head golf coach for an accomplished 30-year career, he served as assistant athletic director for Wake Forest.

His accolades as coach from 1962-93 range from three national championships in 1974, 1975 and 1986 to coaching an impressive spread of golfers who went on to find great success on the PGA tour. Leading the Demon Deacons to 15 ACC Championships during his tenure, Haddock’s legacy stretches farther than the Reynolda Campus in Winston-Salem. His contribution to the sport of golf as one of the best coaches of all time will not be forgotten.

The 1974-75 Demon Deacons Mens’ Golf Team coached by Haddock was recognized as the best college team of all time by PGATOUR.COM in 2014. Many of these players expressed their condolences and tributes to their late coach via Twitter.

Wake Forest graduate and 17-time PGA Tour winner Curtis Strange ('77) tweeted: “[Haddock] made a difference in my life and many others. He gave me my greatest gift, an opportunity to play at Wake. RIP my friend.”

In an interview with Wake Forest Athletic Communications, Wake Forest Athletic Director Ron Wellman remarked that Coach Haddock, “will always be remembered for the relationships he built not only with his players but with all that knew him.”

In October 2016, Wake Forest honored Haddock by naming the newest edition of the Wake Forest golf complex the “Haddock House.” The $4.5 million dollar facility for the Wake Forest golf program is the most recent addition to the Arnold Palmer Golf Complex on the university’s Reynolda campus. Not only is the facility complete with state-of-the-art locker rooms, but it also serves as a center for Wake Forest golf memorabilia and tributes.

At the Haddock House dedication, former player Jay Haas (‘76) stated, “I knew he always had my back and I know he somehow got me to play at my best.”

While the university plans to honor his life and contri-

bution to Wake Forest in a memorial service on March 19 in Wait Chapel, he will always be remembered as an integral part of the Demon Deacons’ golf program legacy for years to come.

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Coach Jesse Haddock passed away early Wednesday morning, leaving a strong legacy for Wake Forest golf.

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Deacons end season against Syracuse The Wake Forest Demon Deacons were eliminated in first round of ACC Tournament play against Syracuse

BY KYLE TATICH Senior Writer tatika14@wfu.edu

“They came out with more energy than us,” said junior Doral Moore following Wake Forest’s 7364 loss to Syracuse in the first round of the ACC Tournament. “We just weren’t prepared and we did a poor job of rebounding.”

Moore’s words perhaps best summarized Wake Forest’s final outing of the season but arguably defined the season as a whole — one elucidated by inconsistent efforts and late-game collapses. The realization that the 11-win season would be coming to a close seemingly became a reality just eight minutes into the game as the Deacs had scored just four points and faced a 16-point deficit at the time. Despite the poor start, the Deacs did battle back, however, cutting the halftime deficit to a respectable six points.

The second half had a similar script. Wake Forest fell into another hole and somehow managed to fight back, only to come up short. Wake Forest found itself down by 19 with less than eight minutes remaining but shaved the deficit to six — just as it did in the first half — following two free throws by Brandon Childress with 1:24 left.

Syracuse responded immediately, however, as freshman forward Marek Dolezaj assisted on an alley-oop to the 7-foot-2 Paschal Chukwu, followed closely by

a play on the defensive end to send the Orange to the charity stripe to put the game out of reach.

“We can’t start games like that, we can’t start the game and we can’t start the second half the way we did as well,” said junior guard Keyshawn Woods, who finished with just five points.

“Knowing that, initially we should have done something, had more fight starting the game and starting the second half.”

Bryant Crawford echoed similar sentiments after the game."We came out flat," Crawford said. "They came out with way more energy than us." Wake Forest has a rich basketball tradition, but success in the ACC Tournament has been an obstacle for the program in recent years.

Since the passing of the late Skip Prosser the Deacs have just two wins in the Tournament, thus hardly making the early exit last Tuesday afternoon a surprise to anyone familiar with the program.

As Coach Manning prepares for the offseason, it will be interesting to see how the team looks come October. With the departures of Rich Washington, Sam Japhet-Mathias and, most recently, Donovan Mitchell, at least two scholarships have become available to individuals perhaps unknown to the program at this point.

Manning will most likely use at least one of these available scholarships on a graduate transfer, as he has done in the past two seasons, and could also look to add a late addition to the 2018 recruiting class.

Wake Forest did not know the fate of its 2017 roster until early August, so it is likely that there will be some moving parts and perhaps a few surprises surrounding the program in the next few months.

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Junior Bryant Crawford (13) dunks against Syracuse in the ACC Tournament at Madison Square Garden.

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(8) Virginia Tech vs. (9) Alabama Thursday, Mar. 14 at 9:20 p.m.

The eight-nine matchup in the East region shapes up to be a great game. Both Virginia Tech and Alabama are very solid teams and this game is a toss-up.

Virginia Tech has shown it can beat anybody by being the only team in the ACC to beat Virginia all year. Additionally, they had wins over KenPom top20 teams in North Carolina and Clemson. On the other hand, Alabama has also shown it can hang with anybody. They had a dominant win over Tennessee, beat Auburn and Texas A&M twice each and also beat Rhode Island. Alabama also has one of the nation’s top players in Collin Sexton and boasts an elite defense.

The winner of this game will likely play Villanova in the second round. Villanova will be heavily favored, but it is important to remember that the Wildcats have only reached one Sweet 16 since 2009, which happened in 2016 when they were the champions.

ball, South Dakota State’s stud power forward Mike Daum has been one of the nation’s top performers for several years now. He was second in the NCAA in scoring a year ago, and is sixth this year, averaging 23.8 points to go along with 10.4 rebounds per game.

Another particularly interesting aspect of this opening round game is that it is being played in Boise,

ID, somewhere much closer to South Dakota State’s campus than Ohio State’s in Columbus, OH, which could serve as a unique venue for the lower-seeded Jackrabbits.

This year’s tournament has the potential to be one for the ages. With no clear favorite heading into the tournament, it is completely up for grabs and it should be exciting to see how the Madness unfolds.

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This game is particularly interesting because it features two of college basketball’s most unknown and underappreciated stars. Ohio State’s junior star Keita Bates-Diop has quietly been one of the nation’s top performers all season, averaging 19 points and nine rebounds per game, and has helped make Ohio State one of the best teams in the Big 10 in what was supposed to be a down year in the first year without Thad Matta at the helm. On the other side of the

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Alabama guard Collin Sexton goes for a fast break against Auburn during the SEC Championship last weekend in St. Louis, Mo. Alabama is a nine seed in the NCAA Division I Tournament this season.

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Spotlight: Sam Hartman

BY LEO KONE Contributing Writer konell15@wfu.edu Sam Hartman enrolled at Wake Forest this semester after graduating high school a semester early. In his senior season at Oceanside High School, the three-star quarterback threw for 3093 yards and 29 touchdowns and rushed for nine more scores. With senior John Wolford leaving the Deacs this year, the quarterback spot is up for grabs and Sam Hartman will be competing hard for playing time with three other quarterbacks on the depth chart.

to playing with ‘Big Phil’ (Phil Haynes, Sr. Offensive Guard). It’s actually pretty cool to be playing with such incredible athletes, the wide receiver core is amazing up here, so it’s nice to be able to throw balls and have those guys make plays for me.

say my man Steve (Claude), number 88, that’s my boy right now. We’ve had some good connections so far.

LK: What are your goals for the Demon Deacons football team next year?

SH: The next big step for the team is to win an ACC championship. It’s hard for me to say at this point if that’s achievable as I’ve only been to a few practices so far. I certainly want to be an ACC champ and that is what everyone is working toward. We just have to take it one day at a time.

LK: Do you have a favorite receiving target yet?

SH: I’m going to hurt some guys’ feelings right now, but I’m going to have to

LK: How do you see yourself helping the team next year, especially if you redshirt?

LEO KONE: You’re on the show QB1 on complex.com which shows your senior season at the less than talented Oceanside High School after transferring from powerhouse Davidson Day, where you played running back Cade Carney. What was your reasoning for transferring your senior year after having so much success at Davidson Day?

SH: If I redshirt, the main thing I’ll try to do is make sure that the other freshmen that are redshirting stay involved and buy into the culture that the older guys have set for us.

The culture is something that has already been engrained in me and the other mid-years.

I mean if there is a chance that I don’t redshirt, I just want to be the best leader that I can be and push for wins week in and week out.

SAM HARTMAN: QB1 perfectly depicts the low level of competition at Oceanside. The main reason I transferred down there was to focus on my leadership skills and to try to take over a locker room of guys that I have never met. That’s something that I want to do up here at Wake. I learned a lot from that experience.

Personal Profile Hometown: Charlotte, NC Position: Quarterback Height: 6-1 Weight: 185 Year: Freshman Major: Undeclared Accolades: -9481 yards passing and 98 touchdowns in HS career -No. 12 pro-style passer in the Class of 2018 -Led Davidson Day School to a State Championship in 2015

LK: Who do you look up to as a quarterback and who do you model your game after?

SH: NFL guys that I look up to are Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre. I always modeled my game after them. In this offense and for college football quarterbacks, I’m a big John Wolford guy ‘#WhyNotJohn,’ and I wish him all the best in his future endeavors. Just from watching his tape of last year and off the field, he’s really helped me understand this offense, so he’s been a good role model to me.

LK: You just arrived here this semester and are still adjusting to the college life — what has that been like for you?

SH: My first experiences here have been great. Academically it’s hard, very hard, but a lot of good times have come of it, especially the aspect of getting to meet new people. I have gotten to meet a lot of athletes and there are definitely some characters.

Football has been great so far, it’s definitely a lot of work. The speed of the game has changed a lot, just the athleticism of everyone around you is at another level. All of the guys are just bigger, faster and stronger. It’s crazy going from playing with the guys at Oceanside

LK: All the girls on campus would be mad if I didn’t ask, are you a single man?

SH: Yes, I am currently a single man.

But my mom is the number one woman in my life, so if you can win her over then you got me.

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Deac Notes

Wake Forest baseball gets series win over No. 3 Florida State Seminoles

Two members of Wake Forest’s women’s golf team to compete in Palmer Cup

After dropping game one of their home series against Florida State, the Demon Deacons rallied to sweep the remainder of the series. In a game two thriller that featured several comebacks from the Deacons, freshman outfielder DJ Poteet hit a walk-off home run to seal the win. In game two, Wake Forest cruised to a convincing 8-1 win, which featured a three-hit game from sophomore Patrick Frick.

Junior Jennifer Kupcho and freshman Emilia Migliaccio will travel to the Evian Resort Golf Club in France this summer to represent the United States in the 2018 Palmer Cup. In years prior, the event did not feature women’s golfers, but it has expanded in 2018. The 2017 competition was held in Johns Creek, Ga. at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

No Wake Forest golfers competed in the event.

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Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications

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Happenstall earns All-American title Junior Rob Happenstall wins 800meter finals at NCAA Division I Indoor Championships

BY ABBY MCMULLEN Contributing Writer mcmuaj17@wfu.edu

Preparing to head into the outdoor track and field season as the weather begins to warm, Wake Forest’s Track and Field team wrapped up the indoor season on a rather noteworthy foot as Rob Happenstall earned the title of 2018 All-American. Happenstall earned this honor after he finished third in the 800-meter finals at the national NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 10 in College Station, Texas.

Happenstall is a junior from Ontario, Canada and holds the school record for the indoor 800m with a time of 1:46.71 set at last year’s ACC Championships. 1:46.88, his second-best indoor time of his career, is the time that landed Happenstall this win and the best finish of his indoor career thus far. In both of his previous appearances in this event he finished fifth.

This is a slight improvement from his qualifying time of 1:47.74 in Friday’s preliminary round. The title marks Happenstall’s fifth All-American honor, making it his third in the indoor 800m in addition to his two outdoor 800m. Happenstall’s thirdplace finish was surpassed only by Michael Saruni of University of Texas at El Paso, who finished with

a 1:45.15, and Isaiah Harris of Penn State, who finished with a 1:46.08.

Prior to the win in El Paso, Happenstall, along with teammate, senior Sebastian Fishbach earned All-ACC honors at the conclusion of the ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships held in Clemson, SC between February 22 and 24. Happenstall received a bronze in the 800m and was predicted to place fifth in the NCAA Championships, before upsetting the ranks and finishing third. Fishbach finished sixth in the men’s mile finals with a time of 4:05.65, earning him second team All-ACC honors.

Alexandria Florent also earned a first team award in the high jump, totaling to three All-ACC honors received by the Deacs. The Deacs left the three-day meet with eleven top-10 finishes. Freshman Daniel Viegra in the 300m and in the men’s 4x400m relay team also finished in the top ten, along with shot putter Janese Lynch who threw 14.21m.

The Deacons kick-off the outdoor track and field season by hosting the Wake Forest Outdoor Opener at Ketner Stadium on March 24. This meet will feature teams from Davidson College, Duke, Harvard, High Point and NC State. Field events will begin at 9 a.m. with women and men’s hammer throws, while running events will commence at 1 pm with the 4-by-100m relay and then plan to end shortly after 4:30 p.m. with the 4-by-400m relay.

Looking through the end of the month, the team intends to send runners to the Pepsi Florida Relays hosted by the University of Florida, the Raleigh Photo Courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications Relays hosted by NC State and the Stanford Invi- Happenstall holds the school record for the 800 meter tational in Palo Alto, CA. dash event from last year’s ACC Championship.

NBA Finals contenders and pretenders emerge A few months out from the NBA Finals, Celtics and Rockets may be top competition for Warriors

BY JONATHAN BELL Staff Writer belljh15@wfu.edu With the NBA playoffs only a few weeks away, the debate over who is in line for a shot at the reigning champion Golden State Warriors is in full swing. So which teams actually have a shot at taking down the Dubs in June?

Boston Celtics: Contenders While some people are (understandably so) dismissing the Gordon Hayward-less Celtics from legitimate championship contention (and have been doing so ever since their new star free agent went down just minutes into the season), let me tell you why the Celtics have a legitimate shot at winning it all. The main reason is health. Apart from losing key reserve Daniel Theis for the year earlier this week, the Celtics will be at their healthiest since the beginning of the season come playoff time. Star point guard Kyrie Irving has been nursing a sore knee for the past month and Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart are also still ailing. If the Celtics offense hasn’t looked the same the past month or two, you can be sure having the full roster (apart from Theis and Hayward) come April, May and June will help. Let’s also not forget that Brad Stevens has a thing for beating Golden State. With at least a seDavid Santiago/El Nuevo Herald/TNS ries split the last three seasons, Stevens just knows how to coach against Steve Kerr and his cast of all stars. Look for Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul (above) passes the Celtics to surprise some and at least reach the Finals the ball in a victory over the Miami Heat on Feb. 7.

Houston Rockets: Contenders In my mind, the Rockets aren’t just a contender for the title-- they’re the favorites. Given a better chance to win the finals than Golden State via ESPN’s BPI stat, the Rockets have been playing the best basketball anyone has played outside of the Bay area in years. The Rockets lead the league in team plus/minus with a differential of 8.8, just a hair ahead of the Warriors’ 8.6.

Also, the stat that everyone has been talking about this season belongs to Houston: when star trio James Harden, Clint Capela and Chris Paulare 34-1 when playing together, thirty four and one. That is the best record of any other three-man lineup in NBA history to this point. Holding a 2-1 series advantage over Golden State this season, the western conference finals matchup that everyone is yearning to see can’t come soon enough.

Toronto Raptors: Pretenders The only team north of the border has been getting a lot of buzz lately, as they have opened up a four-game lead on the second-place Celtics, but does this actually lead to title contention? I don’t think the Raptors have what it takes to make a serious run at the title.

Splitting the season series so far with Boston at a game apiece and down 0-2 against Golden State, look for the Raptors’ relatively surprising regular season success to slowly fade as the postseason comes around.Getting swept by the Cavaliers and Lebron James last season in the second round, don’t expect things to change this season for the team up North. Look for Toronto to once again come up short of reaching the promised land a date with the Western conference champion.

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8 Virginia Tech 9 Alabama

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8 Creighton 9 Kansas St.

5 Kentucky 12 Davidson

4 Arizona 13 Buffalo

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7 Nevada 10 Texas

3 Tennessee 14 Wright St.

7 Texas A&M 10 Providence

2 Cincinatti 15 Georgia St.

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3 Michigan 14 Montana

6 Houston 11 San Diego St.

4 Gonzaga 13 UNCG

5 Ohio State 12 S. Dakota St.

8 Missouri 9 Florida St.

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Predictable evening at the oscars With Jimmy Kimmel as the host of the 90th Oscars, Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water took home the award for Best Picture.

BY KYLE FERRER Opinion Editor ferrka16@wfu.edu This year’s Oscars were more convention than revolution, as Owen Gleiberman expounds in his column in Variety. Although for Hollywood this was a year of scandalous revelation (and hopefully paradigm-shifting progress), the massive exposure of Harvey Weinstein and others did much to engender a mood of inclusion, but little to revolutionize actual Oscar winners.

But before all that, a quick word on the host, Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the ceremony in a middling, inoffensive fashion (much as one would expect), and whose comedic style seemed to be a perfect match with the year’s fragile moral disposition Kimmel did a great job staying within the confines of cable comedy, but personally made me yearn for the distinctive crow of a Chris Rock, or recall fondly the insensitive, acerbic wit of a Don Rickles, who was shown respect during an in memoriam slide show of the year’s deceased legends.

Returning to the bulletin, it was easy to tell which films and performances would win Oscars. Usually — excepting last year’s Best Picture winner, Moonlight — the most bombastic theatrical performances (the most “showy,” as they say in the trade) win.

Sometimes that matches up with individual preferences, most times it does not. I happened to believe La La Land was the best picture of 2017, and it was indeed the most showy, but it lost to Moonlight. Many considered Moonlight’s Best Picture nod to be a positive shift in Academy perspective, away from films who exhibited the Academy’s insular, artistic conservatism towards films who captured the zeitgeist.

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Four winners of the night pose with their respective awards. Sam Rockwell (left) won Best Supporting Actor and Allison Janney (second from right) was awarded Best Supporting Actress for her role in I, Tonya.

But in 2016, Spotlight won Best Picture, which I would have placed behind Room, the film for which Brie Larson won Best Actress. In 2015, Birdman took home a polemic Best Picture, which, for myself and many critics, unjustly reigned over Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s trailblazing masterwork, and Whiplash, an indie tour-de-force. All this must be qualified, though, by the fact that I, and many others, knew films like Room and Whiplash probably wouldn’t win. This, I think, remained the case with this year’s Oscars. For The Shape of Water, a formidable film by a similarly formidable director, Guillermo Del Toro took home Best Picture, beating out the worldwide cultural phenomenon Get Out, the debut film by former YouTuber Jordan Peele. Del Toro’s film is a story about a mute woman and a sea-creature who fall in love with one another. It is a portrait of human empathy and love in a time bereft of decency. Does this sound like the type of allegorical, feel-good film that would win an Oscar? Perhaps. It is definitely the Academy’s projection of what they wish the world to look like. A searing horror-comedy about the black experience in America certainly captures more of the zeitgeist, but it is an ambivalent film that makes one squirm, not sing. Greta Gerwig’s humanistic portrait of a girl in the throes of adolescence in Lady Bird, as well as the intellectual, human connection between two gay men, in Call Me

By Your Name, both are films with innumerable virtues. But there seemed to be only one film that critics thought would win, and that was Del Scott Varley/TNS

Toro’s The Shape of Water. It’s an impressively oldguard film, with the elaborate trappings of a studio production and accessible allegory. That it won is no great surprise, although it is a bit of a letdown.

That said, to focus only on the Best Picture winner is a bit reductive of an award show that did produce winners of merit. Jordan Peele did win Best Original Screenplay for Get Out. Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress for her role as the Draconian mother in I, Tonya, which many saw as a “showy” performance, meaning it would generate the most attention and eventual acclaim, but I also saw it as consummate and deserving. Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which I found, in congruence with Gleiberman, to be expected but not quite as deserving as the others. Willem Defoe’s understated brilliance in The Florida Project, or Christopher Plummer’s stentorian portrayal of intractable greed in All The Money In The World were both more compelling. Although Rockwell is a great actor, the role itself — that of a hardened, racist, ultimately moralistic cop — was what won him the Oscar. Frances McDormand took home Best Actress, and was perfectly predicted to do so, as did Gary Oldman in the Best Actor category for his once-in-a-lifetime portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.

Maybe it is not best to hope for revolution in an institution like the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

After all, it is an institution, and change is slow.

But it is one of the only critical metrics we have.

Although there seemed to be a cultural shift in Hollywood as a whole this year, the royals still remain somewhat conservative in choosing who they pick to wave the industry’s flag.

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Abroad Column | Worrell House

THE HOT Students should experience culture LIST The educational experience is the most important aspect of traveling while abroad

BY ANDREW MURPHY Contributing Writer murpat16@wfu.edu Don’t deny it: for many of us, studying abroad means that we get to go somewhere exotic every weekend. If you want to go to Amsterdam multiple times in one semester, you can. If you want to go to Oktoberfest in Munich, spend spring break in Ibiza or try to hit every pub in London, you can. However, if you are the sort of person who travels solely to party, you’re doing study abroad wrong. There’s no problem with having fun — I went out everywhere I went — but it’s disrespectful to local people and cultures to treat travel in such a superficial way. I was lucky to study abroad at Worrell House with a group of open-minded people, but I was always shocked when I talked to other people studying abroad who seemed to be proud of embodying every negative stereotype of Americans studying abroad (being disrespectful to local people, not caring about culture/history, etc.). The most important part of traveling while abroad is the educational experience. I might vaguely remember a fun night in Budapest when I’m older, but I will definitely remember visiting the Tower of London or the Louvre.

One of the best things about traveling is that it makes learning enjoyable. Visiting historical sites is one of the most rewarding ways to learn. I visited Inverness, Scotland — Scotland’s northernmost city — around last Thanksgiving. Inverness is surrounded by important places in Scottish history; I went to Urquhart Castle, to get to which involves a cruise on Loch Ness. The local guides filled me in on the history of the castle, pointing out various landmarks on the way there and telling stories of the Scottish people’s battles for independence. I felt engaged with history while walking around the ruins of the castle and I left knowing more about Scotland and its people. I had similar experiences visiting historical sites across Europe; I always left having learned something important.

Museums can be far more interesting and inspiring than they seem. There is something to be said for seeing the Rosetta Stone, or the Mona Lisa or the Ishtar Gate in person. In addition to housing well-known art and artifacts, museums serve to highlight diversity and to remind us of the importance of cultural preservation. The British Museum, for example, emphasizes LGBT+ history across its collections, using objects from around the world. Museums themselves are often stunning buildings. Places like the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Rijksmuseum and the British Museum are architectural masterpieces. The Musée de Cluny in Paris is my favorite, as it incorporates a medieval palace and Roman

Stephen Hawking Quotes

In light of the recent passing of Stephen Hawking, here are five of his memorable quotes.

By Emily Beauchamp be tragic if it 1. “Life would weren’t funny.”

“It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.”

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The White Tower is the main building of the Tower of London. baths. The Musée de Cluny’s collection is interesting, but it is the building itself that is stunning.

Finally, the easiest way to learn about history and culture while abroad is to get lost.

Go to that tiny local pub. Take the train to the other side of town and walk around.

Talk to people. Eat new things. Above all, however, be respectful of other cultures and people. Studying abroad is a privilege and an educational experience.

Lifestyle Column | St. Patrick’s Day

Holiday celebrates a notable past St. Patrick’s Day is reminiscent of a larger Irish tradition and the customs of Christianity

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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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BY BECKY SWIG Print Managing Editor swigrr15@wfu.edu St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday which many people look forward to each year, and while many celebrate by wearing green and pinching those who don’t, there are other ways to celebrate the day.

St. Patrick’s Day is on the death date of Saint Patrick, a notable patron Saint of Ireland. It commemorates him and the beginning of Christianity in Ireland.

While the holiday is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat, it is more widely-celebrated than any other national festival.

Celebrations typically involve festivals and parades, wearing green and Shamrocks and, for those who are Christian, attending church services.

The Lenten restrictions of alcohol are lifted on the holiday, leading to the perception that the holiday is for alcohol consumption.

It is important to remember that this holiday is not supposed to be a day to stereotype Irish people and culture but to celebrate Saint Patrick and Christianity.

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One way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day is to eat a traditional Irish shepherd’s pie. It is one of twelve meat dishes and it consists of chicken, pork and beef.

St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in the United States since the 1700s.

Here are a few ways to celebrate this weekend: 1. For those who are 21, stop in at Finnigan’s Wake Irish Pub. One tradition for St. Patrick’s Day is to drink Irish whiskey, beer or cider, and to “drown the shamrock” by putting a shamrock in a cup and filling it with one of those three drinks. This is to toast Saint Patrick, Ireland or the present. This is typically done at the end of celebrations for the holiday.

2. Foothills is having various events on Saturday to celebrate the holiday. Some of these events include a viewing party for the Ireland v. England sport game at noon, food trucks in the afternoon, Irish dance performances, music and more.

The events are hosted in partnership with

the Winston-Salem Wolfhounds, an Irish football club.

3. It is typical to wear green, shamrock or green accessories. Saint Patrick used the shamrock to explain to the Pagan Irish the meaning of the Holy Trinity.

Additionally, since the 1640s, the color green has been associated with Ireland, and green attire and shamrocks have been worn on St. Patrick’s Day since the 1680s.

4. Another way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day is to eat some Irish cuisine like shepherd’s pie, Irish stew, scones, potato bread and more.

There are many ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, whether you like to go all-out or wear a simple green outfit. Regardless of what you do, enjoy the holiday and celebrations of Irish culture.

• 2 cups Vanilla Ice-Cream • 1 cup whole milk • 1/4 teaspoon Peppermint Extract • A few drops of green food coloring Combine all of the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Top with green sprinkels and whipped cream and enjoy!

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Television Review |Ugly Delicious

New show offers refreshing take on food Ugly Delicious, a new Netflix series, aims to explore the world of food from the eyes of an ordinary consumer.

BY NICHOLAS DEMAYO Senior Writer demanj14@wfu.edu

Netflix’s newest original food and travel program, Ugly Delicious, stars James Beard Award-winning chef David Chang and friends as they focus on the history and geography of some of the world’s favorite dishes, challenging traditionally-held norms of “authenticity” in favor of a more egalitarian approach to food television. Like other well-established food and travel shows starring the likes of Anthony Bourdain or Andrew Zimmerman, Ugly Delicious examines a cuisine from both its plebeian roots all the way up to its gourmet preparations. Unlike other food and travel shows, however, Ugly Delicious looks closely at one dish each episode as the show takes the viewer around the world, explaining that dish’s origins and demonstrating how chefs elevate and adapt the dish to their regional tastes and resources.

The show takes what some might call a global viewpoint on food, destabilizing universal truths of the food world such as “New York is the city with the best pizza” or “only pizza from Naples can claim to be authentic pizza.” Rather, Chang makes such bold claims as “Tokyo has the world’s best pizza” and “Dominos is also authentic pizza.” Such claims made on a food and travel program are as refreshing as they are puzzling, for if those “greatest hits” of the gastronomical world that foodies look at on their food television programs are no longer regarded as the

“greatest hits,” then why even turn on the program?

Why not just order a pie from your local Dominos and say “this is the best pizza in the world” and leave the boujee television personalities to work out the debate about the authenticity of New York thin crust and Chicago deep dish? To deconstruct the tradition in favor of the fresh and new and to proclaim “Dominos is the world’s best pizza because I say it is so” is, in essence, the point of Ugly Delicious.

With all of its academic ideals and intellectual notions of food culture out in the open, you are probably thinking that this show is sure to be boring.

But in practice, the show develops some of the best dialogue that I have seen on food television. For example, in the show’s first episode, owner of the beloved Brooklyn pizzeria Lucali, Mark Iacono, talks about a time when he incorrectly measured the water in his pizza dough and, subsequently, could not stretch the dough. Iacono called his brother to bring him “grandma’s rolling pin,” but the line stretched out the door and his brother was taking too long. So Iacono, having to make do with what he had immediately available, took an empty wine bottle and used it to roll the dough. And as if this story could not become any more stereotypically Italian-American, the pizza comes out crispier than ever.

Now, Iacono explains, he always uses that bottle of wine to stretch his dough. This story about making do with what you have is something that I imagine my own grandmother doing, something that I imagine every home cook and experienced chef having to do at some point. Iacono’s story is the kind that plays with the world’s collective imagination about what pizza means to us. Pizza brings people together with a story. Pizza collects the best of what is around it, be it the mozzarella or the tomatoes or a little ingenuity.

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The new Netflix series includes features on pizza restaurants and other well known food categories.

Pizza is cherished, and the writers of Ugly Delicious cherish the pizza.

While the show tackles pizza in its first episode, it also masterfully unpacks the history and culture of other staple dishes in episodes such as “Tacos,” “BBQ” and “Fried Chicken” — just to name a few of my favorites. It is the show’s treatment of the ordinary dish as an object of extraordinary study and discussion that has got me hooked on the program and confident enough to say that it the most interesting food show out right now.

Travel Column| Utah ski trip

Students travel to Utah for OP Spring Break trip Outdoor Pursuits took eleven students on a six-day trip to the ski slopes of Salt Lake City over spring break

BY MILLER LIGON Staff Writer ligorm15@wfu.edu What makes a great Spring Break Trip? Fantastic leaders, a group of friends and apparently lots of snow. Just like many of the great opportunities Outdoor Pursuits offers throughout the year, spring break was no different. Eleven students traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah for six full days of ski slopes and exploring. The small crew led by Rebecca Wiebke, Luis Herrera and Swain Lewis stayed in an Airbnb in a suburb of the city decently central to most places the group traveled to. It was only a short drive each morning on a bus or in the rented vans, Black Ice and Pow Pow, to Brighton and Snowbird ski resorts. A nice blanket of snow from the night before primed the slopes the first day of skiing and snowboarding. Locals came out in full force as it was an event that had not been seen in months.

The group was quite diverse in skill level. Some students had been skiing all their life and had no trouble maneuvering down a double black diamond. Others had only been skiing a few times in their lives yet grew a lot in the short amount of time they had. One student tried snowboarding for the first time and was able to confidently tackle some decent intermediate level slopes by the end of the trip. Lunch was packed the night before to eat at the slopes

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Students pose at the top of the slope during their Utah ski trip at Salt Lake City. The spring break voyage was facilitated by the Outdoor Pursuits group on campus for students interested in the winter sport. and meeting times were set to make sure everybody was still alive throughout the day. Dinners were cooked and eaten as a group. Over the few days, the crew enjoyed some spaghetti, homemade pizza, low country boil and even pho noodles.

The group decided to take a rest day in the middle of the week to explore Antelope Island. A state park in the middle of the Great Salt Lake connected to the mainland by a land bridge, the island is home to lots of great hiking and several herds of bison. The main visitor center had lots of information on the lake as well as some helpful park rangers wellaware of the best hiking trails around. The crew ate lunch at a scenic overlook, played hide and seek among the rocks

at the top of a mountain and even had a snowball fight on the climb down. The most interesting part of the day was certainly the old ranch house that had existed on the island for over a century. The group met a nice guide who knew a lot about the 1920s sheep herding business and how to lasso cattle. He was even nice enough to show the Wake Forest students his owl in the back yard.

At the end of the week, everyone left the trip having improved in their skiing and snowboarding abilities, having made new friends and having had a great time. The leaders of the trip are confident there will be more trips much like it in the future.

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TWO PERSPECTIVES ON TAKE TWO As most students are deeply divided on this Benson Center staple, two Old Gold & Black staff members review the Asian Fusion options.

CON:

Take Two Asian Fusion has minimal healthy options and little-to-no flavor

BY HEATHER HARTEL Online Managing Editor harthf15@wfu.edu

BY LILLIAN JOHNSON News Editor johnlg16@wfu.edu

Many Wake Forest students remember the horror that they experienced upon returning from summer break last year to find that one of the favorite Benson dining options, Boar’s Head, had been replaced. Where were students supposed to get their sandwich fix — a much different craving than for Subway — in Benson? The Pit sandwich line was too slow and nobody wants to waste a Pit swipe just for a sandwich.

Students, still reeling from the sudden removal of a fan favorite dining location, were quick to try the new option, Take Two Asian Fusion. They had been hopeful about the new dining option, wishing that it would be a satisfactory replacement. But, that did not appear to be how it turned out.

Rumors about the new dining option spread throughout the campus with reports of the food being disgusting, food-poisioning-causing and, worst of all, inauthentic.

The first time I tried Take Two Asian Fusion in September, I did not like it one bit. I could not bring myself to call what I had consumed Asian food.

There was virtually no curry in my chicken curry and the noodles tasted like wet flour. I was ready to shun Take Two Asian Fusion for the rest of my Wake Forest career. However, upon coming back from winter break, I was delighted to see that Take Two Asian Fusion had revamped itself. I knew I had to give the dining option it’s rightful second chance.

Yet, even after trying the improved Chipotle-style Take Two Asian Fusion, it was difficult to really get behind this dining option as a worthwhile, enjoyable eatery. I created a bowl with white rice, beef, broccoli and carrots — something that seemed to me to be straightforward. Unfortunately, no part of my meal was satisfactory. The rice, the base of the meal, was mealy and hard, as was the beef, in addition to being chewy. I was surprised to find that the broccoli was uncooked, sadly cold in contrast to the pleasant warmth of the rice and beef. I did not use any of the sauces offered by the station, instead opting for the classic soy sauce. Still, nothing about this meal felt inherently Asian to me. As someone who grew up on Asian takeout, this was quite disappointing.

I acknowledge that Take Two Asian Fusion provides the international student population familiar foods that remind them of home and that the students who have worked with Aramark to create this dining option deserve great recognition for their accomplishments. However, there are better options. Someone wanting to use an Old Gold swipe can create a satisfying meal at Forest Greens or at Moe’s. Someone looking for an authentic Asian meal would be much better traveling off campus to an established Asian restaurant.

Despite the fact that Take Two Asian Fusion fails to deliver a delicious ethnic cuisine, I will continue to retry their food in hopes that they will constantly look to improve and strive to be what college students look for in their food: healthy, delicious and satisfying.

TRIVIA QUESTION

PRO:

For a vegetarian, Take Two Asian Fusion offers an array of fresh dishes

Q: Who is this week’s Sports Spotlight?

We all know the dreaded feeling when your friends decide to avoid the monotony of The Pit by proposing eating at Benson. Here, your options are seemingly limited by either eating unhealthy fried food at Chick Fil A, overeating a burrito and chips at Moes or remaining unsatisfied by a salad at Forest Greens. Until recently, I dreaded Benson for these very reasons — never knowing what to eat and fearing I’d leave either unsatisfied or uncomfortably full. Upon returning from studying abroad last semester, however, I was happily introduced to the Asian Fusion option “Take Two.” I had heard mixed reviews of the Chipotle-esque build-your-own option, from reviews that it made people ill, was too greasy, or on a slightly more positive note was meerly stomachable for dinner.

After trying it out multiple times, I have discovered the best combination of ingredients that leave me feeling satisfied but also somewhat healthy after a quick Benson meal. Take Two has now transitioned from a dining option I had only heard negative rumors about, to my go-to for on-the-go dining. I know that most counterparts will complain that Take Two leaves them feeling “sick,” or “too full,” but I would argue that this relates more to their individual orders than with the food itself.

My go-to bowl is as follows: white rice topped with tofu, edamame, jalapeno peppers, kimchi and seaweed salad. I top the bowl with a little avocado dressing and sriracha to add more complex flavors and a little bit of spice. Although fried and heavy, the tofu is an outstanding option, as it offers plant-based protein with added flavor from the sauce it is cooked in.

As a vegetarian, Take Two is absolutely the best option in Benson, as there is enough protein from the tofu and I am left much more satisfied than eating a measly salad. I will concede in the argument that the meat available is sub-par, but anyone ordering pork or beef from a fast-food hot bar must proceed with caution regardless of the circumstances. Another major mistake one can make would be to start their bowl with the chicken fried rice; there are already enough complex flavors available in the bowls, wherein the white rice offers a blank palette to build upon.

In sum, the Take Two option is the best tasting, most satisfying option that Benson has to offer. For an Old Gold swipe, students can get a rice or salad bowl with four toppings and various sauces to top. While there are some less-than-ideal options for toppings, such as the pork or the uncooked broccoli, Take Two allows students to eat a filling, healthy, satisfactory meal. For criticizers of this delectable dining establishment, I would advise them to reflect upon what they are deciding to put in their bowls, for their order could be the source of blame opposed to the restaurant itself.

A: Sam Hartman

Tuesday Trivia will take place Mar. 20 at Shorty’s

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DEACON HOROSCOPES

While most horoscopes are broad and nonspecific to a college students’ hectic lifestyle, these celestial forecasts will guide your life here at Wake Forest. Disclaimer: I am not a qualified astrologist.

BY OLIVIA FIELD Life Editor fielor17@wfu.edu

ARIES:

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The stars have romantically aligned for you this week, fire sign. While waiting for your penne in the pasta line, you may suddenly find yourself striking up a flirty conversation with another carbs lover.

Although you can barely remember what you learned in HES 100 your first year, it may be time to look back at those powerpoints. Practice some much needed selfcare this week with a balanced diet and run in Reynolda Gardens.

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Wait for the weekend and hit up the more economical Juice Shop instead.

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Although you’ve already written a formidable number of papers during your college career, take a chance and stop by the reference desk with research questions. You never know what you will learn, or who you will meet.

SAGITTARIUS:

While you usually wait in the Starbucks line for your caffeine fix, it’s time to treat yourself. Make your way to Campus Grounds, and order one of their specialty drinks.

CAPRICORN:

Although you swore to never go out on a weekday again, Last Resort is calling your name tonight. Find a group of friends, turn on your “pump up” playlist and make sure you arrive no earlier than midnight.

AQUARIUS:

Happy birth month, Aquarius! To celebrate, make this the week to try new things.

Wake up early before class to grab breakfast, take a group fitness class at Reynolds Gym, try a new order at Moe’s or head up to the OGB office and help with edits.

PISCES:

After trying to curb the late-night munchies in preparation for spring break, it’s time to embrace your cravings.

When everything else on campus has closed, make your way to Zick’s or Subway for a satisfying late-night meal.