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2 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM On Friday, Dec. 14 at about
9:30 a.m., the unthinkable
happened when twenty-year-old
Adam Lanza forced his way into
Sandy Hook Elementary School
and began shooting. Principle
Dawn Hochsprung, school
psychologist Mary Sherlach,
and Vice Principle Natalie
Hammond went out in the hall
to investigate. Only Hammond
survived.
Continuing through the
school, Lanza moved towards
two classrooms filled with
kindergarten and first-grade
students. Within a matter of
minutes, 20 children and four
more adults were dead, making
this the second deadliest school
shooting in United States history,
next to the 2007 Virginia Tech
Shooting, which left 32 dead.
With the close community of
Newtown, Connecticut, reeling
from the shooting, people across
the country looked for answers,
and as people are drawn to do,
they turned to the issue of gun
control. No one is ever able to
comprehend why people commit
these crimes, but the fact that
nearly all the victims were under
the age of six caused even more
shock and horror.
As a result, reactions were
swift and strong on both
sides, some calling for more
guns to protect ourselves, and
others demanding stronger
restrictions to prevent further
mass shootings. The National
Rifle Association (NRA), one of
the most prominent gun rights
groups and a powerful lobbying
group, argues that more guns,
not fewer, provide true security.
“The only thing that stops a bad
guy with a gun is a good guy
with a gun,” said NRA Executive
Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
They announced that they will
fund a team to design a program
to get armed security personnel
on school grounds across the
country.
On the opposite side of the
debate, The Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence, one of
the leading gun control groups,
said on Friday Dec. 11 that
they want the White House to
focus attention on expanded
background checks for gun
buyers. In a recommendation
made to Vice President Joe
Biden, the group emphasizes
that “closing the hole in the
background check” is their top
policy priority. However, Dan
Gross, the group’s president,
said that he and other advocates
continue to feel strongly about
the need to limit the availability
of military-style assault weapons,
though they do not want the
debate to focus primarily on a
possible ban.
President Obama appointed
Vice President Joe Biden to lead
a task force that will look for
ways to curb gun violence. Biden
announced Thursday, Jan.10 that
a set of recommendations will be
in place by Tuesday, Jan. 15. With
the knowledge that a ban on
military-style assault weapons
will be exceedingly difficult
to pass through congress, the
White House is working to make
sure that the passage of a new
ban is not the sole definition of
success, emphasizing other new
gun rules that could feasibly win
bipartisan support and reduce
the number of gun-related
deaths.
However, White House
officials say that a new ban will
be part of the final package of
recommendations proposed.
The task force is not only
looking at bans on military-style
assault weapons but expanded
Sandy Hook’s long term impact
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A moment of silence was held at the White House in memorial of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
background checks, limits on
high-capacity magazines, ways
to keep guns out of the hands
of the mentally ill, and ways to
crack down on gun sales that are
already illegal.
As the White House
continues with their efforts,
states are seeking their own
legislation that would limit
the availability of guns and
ammunition. In Colorado, Gov.
John W. Hickenlooper called for
universal background checks
on all gun sales. Additionally,
New York governor Andrew M.
Cuomo has made gun control
efforts a main focus of his next
year in office.
President Obama’s push for
new federal action is the first
serious one in several years,
with Biden meeting with
representatives of hunting and
wildlife groups, advocates of
gun ownership, gun control
advocates and officials with the
industry.
Elisabeth Wise
Staff Writer
News
WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 3
A female intern was beaten
and raped by a group of six men
on Dec. 16 in Delhi, India. She
died a week and a half later due
to brain damage and injury to
her intestines. The incident has
sparked enormous public re-sponse
and numerous public
demonstrations, and has high-lighted
a growing social divide
between men and women in
Indian society.
The incident occurred
when a couple got aboard a bus
in South Delhi after leaving the
movie “Life of Pi.” Six men be-gan
to verbally assault the cou-ple,
asking them why they were
out so late. The male victim
was attacked by the group and
knocked unconscious, and the
woman was taken to the back
Gang rape highlights inequality in Indian society,
results in countrywide protests
of the bus and raped with the bus
still in motion. Graphic events
unfolded in the moments after,
as the victims intestines were
ripped out of her with a rusted
bar. Afterwards, both victims
were tossed out of the bus as it
was moving. The couple received
medical treatment, but the wom-an’s
injuries proved too severe.
The six men, along with the
bus driver, were arrested. None-theless,
a persistent culture of
perpetual social stratification
has caused rampant allegations
of inequality in India. Outrage
over how the Indian government
handled the situation resulted in
bouts of protests. Days after the
incident occurred, protests in
New Dehli occurred at the In-dian
Palace and the House of the
President. Thousands of protes-tors
clashed with police, and the
city sustained significant damage.
See india, page 4
On Jan. 8, the Weatherspoon
Art Museum held their
monthly Noon @ the ‘Spoon
tour of one of the museum’s
newest exhibitions. This
month’s featured exhibition
was a collection of artwork
and artifacts given to the
Weatherspoon Art Museum by
sisters Claribel and Etta Cone
in 1949, which the museum
has dubbed The Cone Sisters
Collect.
During the 20-minute tour,
the curator spoke about the
massive collection that the
sisters amassed over many
years. While the Weatherspoon
only showcases a very small
portion of those works, the
ones displayed gave insight into
the types of pieces the sisters
collected.
Vivid green walls with an
eclectic variety of artwork
displayed on them draw in the
viewer. The exhibition includes
sketches, paintings, textiles, and
letters sent between the sisters
during the time that one of the
women spent in Europe.
The Cone sisters were two
of thirteen children of Herbert
and Helen Cone, a prominent
immigrant family in America.
Claribel graduated first in her
class from Woman’s Medical
College in 1890 and continued
to pursue a career in pathology
at John Hopkins Medical School.
Etta managed the domestic side
of the Cone household and
had a variety of interests, from
history to French language and
art.Th
eir collection began when
Moses Cone, the sister’s brother
(as well as the namesake of
the local Greensboro hospital)
gave Etta $300 to decorate their
Baltimore family home. She
used the money to purchase five
new oil paintings from the estate
sale of Theodore Robinson.
Etta later traveled to Europe
where she learned about and
fell in love with art. Part of what
contributed to this newfound
love was her friendship with
Leo Stein, brother to Gertrude
Stein and a family friend of the
Cones.
Etta shared her love with
Claribel, and in 1905 the two
began to seriously collect
artwork. The Cone family’s
successful textile business in
the South allowed the sisters
to have an unlimited allowance
that helped fund many of their
purchases.
The two had a passion
for collecting avant-garde
European art as well as various
smaller pieces such as Japanese
prints, antique furniture, and
textiles. As their collection
of modern art grew, they also
became acquainted with and
helped to financially support a
wide circle of up-and-coming
artists in Europe.
Eventually, the sisters were
able to acquire more than 3,000
pieces of modern art. Their
collection included drawings,
sculptures, prints, and many
other mediums. The collection
also included more than 500
works by the artist Henri
Matisse, resulting in the largest
collection of his work in the
world.
The sisters also bought
113 works by Pablo Picasso
showcasing his work from his
early years in Barcelona to his
Rose period in Paris.
When Claribel died in
1929, Etta began working on a
catalogue of the Cone collection
that she later distributed to
museum directors, collectors,
The Weatherspoon presents Cone
sisters’ beloved art collection
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Demonstrators protest the rape in Delhi, India’s capital, in the days after the rape occured. The sign reads “Delay in
justice is injustice”
Many of the demonstrators were
beaten with batons, hit with water
cannons and tear gas, and were
ultimately arrested.
After the woman’s death on
Dec. 29, the protests spread from
the capital city across India. Vari-ous
states in India began to enact
proposals and legislation in re-sponse
to the protests. In Karna-taka,
a state located in the South
of India, a 24/7 hotline was made
specifically for women to register
sexual offences. In Tamilnadu, a
state in the southwestern part of
the country, officials implement-ed
a thirteen point plan to help
ensure fair and equal treatment
of all cases of sexual abuse and
harassment. Women were also
appointed to various positions
within government. The Kashmir
government announced plans to
bring change to the country’s
See CONE, page 4
Aaron Bryant
Staff Writer
Alaina Monts
Staff Writer News 4 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM India
from page 3
federal laws, with plans to set
up state and district level com-mittees
to review all pending
cases involving women being in-volved
in harassment.
The international community
reacted to the violence as well.
United Nations Secretary Gen-eral
Ban Ki-moon said, “Violence
against women must never be ac-cepted,
never excused, never tol-erated.
Every girl and woman has
the right to be respected, valued
and protected.” The United States
embassy issued a statement, say-ing,
“We also recommit ourselves
to changing attitudes and ending
all forms of gender-based vio-lence,
which plagues every coun-try
in the world.”
Social inequality is now an is-sue
at the front of India’s public
debate. Women face sexism, sex-ual
harassment, rape and many
and various friends in 1934.
The Weatherspoon was able
to come into this collection
due to the work of one of the
sisters’ sister-in-laws, Laura
Weill Cone, who was a graduate
of the 1910 class of the Women’s
College. While the majority
of the collection went to the
Baltimore Museum of Art as
specified in Etta’s will, Laura
encouraged Etta to help out the
new college art gallery.
Etta agreed to give the
Baltimore Museum of Art
first pick over the pieces, but
anything they did not want and
any duplicates were given to the
Weatherspoon.
The museum came into
242 works as a result of this
negotiation. Artists in the
collection include Matisse,
Picasso, Dufy, and many
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other different crimes against
women. Since the attacks, many
people have actually come out
in defense of the rape. A spiri-tual
guru said that the victim was
at fault because she could have
avoided the assault by chanting
God’s name and falling at the
criminal’s feet. The head of the
main opposition party in India,
the pro-Hindu political party,
made a statement saying that
rapes are the result of women
adopting western lifestyles in In-dian
cities. One of the accused
attackers’ lawyers went so far as
to blame the male victim for the
assault, because of his failure to
protect his wife.
In a greater context, the social
movements and changes neces-sary
to move India further away
from a modern caste system will
not be easy. With recent com-ments
such as these, the reforms
necessary will take time to come
to fruition.
others. Since the priceless
pieces came to UNCG in 1950,
they have been displayed at
the Weatherspoon, the former
Elliott Center, Jackson Library,
and many other campus
locations.
At Duke University, the
Nasher Museum of Art is
presenting Collecting Matisse
and Modern Masters: The
Cone Sisters of Baltimore to
complement the Weatherspoon’s
collection. The exhibition will
be on display until February 10,
2013. This collection features
the works of Matisse, Picasso,
van Gogh, Renoir and many
others that are on loan from the
Baltimore Museum of Art.
The collection also includes
many of the textiles and other
decorative arts that the sisters
collected from Europe, Asia and
Africa, as well as a virtual tour
of the adjoining apartments that
the sisters owned in Baltimore.
The exhibition will be on
display until February 17,
2013 in the Weatherspoon Art
Museum. Students are welcome
to visit during its hours of
operation for no cost at all.
The Weatherspoon also offers
monthly tours and discussions,
as well as various other events
to highlight their newest
exhibitions.
Check out the
Weatherspoon
Art Museum
February 12 for
the next Noon
@ the ‘Spoon
guided tour
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WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 5
Weekly
Forecast
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Thursday
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Partly Cloudy
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Showers
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Sunny
While President Obama has Showers
secured the presidential bid
coming into 2013, issues remain
on Capitol Hill; the future of
the Republican Party, reaction
over the “fiscal cliff ”, and a new
Obama cabinet.
As President Obama swept up
nearly all battleground states in
the 2012 Presidential election,
a question of insecurity faces
of the Republican Party. Many
conservative voters have said that
in the November election that
they didn’t see their presidential
candidate, Gov. Mitt Romney, as
the real face of their party.
Similarly, an obvious split
has been repeatedly shown
on Capitol Hill between Tea
Party Republicans and Senate
conservatives regarding what the
Conservative Party should stand
for, amidst a new and diversified
America.
As the year of 2012 brought
new bills along with deadly
Hurricane Sandy, prominent
leaders of the GOP have lashed
out against one another in their
own party.
New Jersey legislator Chris
Christie was the subject of
conservative backlash as he
thanked President Obama with a
hug for his response and efforts
to Sandy victims back in late
October. North Carolina Gov.-
elect Pat McCrory was reported
by The Times to have mentioned
to Christie that people had been
asking him “Why were you so
nice to the President?”
As the end of December
approached, Congress stood in
their final hours to strike a deal
before New Year’s to prevent a
budget crisis that could result in
yet another economic recession.
Even though Congress
had worked since August
2011 to determine a debt
ceiling agreement, extreme
bi-partisan politics between
Political changing of the guard fast approaching
House Republicans and Senate
Democrats nearly sent the
country “over” the cliff, as the
Senate passed a budget bill two
hours after the deadline.
The two congressional houses
struck a deal January 2, 2013,
to prevent a possible economic
collapse from occurring. The
plan maintained the same tax
cuts for most Americans, while
increasing tax rates for the
wealthy.
House Republicans remained
adamant on the new measure,
creating some worry of a
standstill, as they argued with
Senate leaders January 1st
for more spending cuts in its
proposal.
Disappointed House majority
leader Eric Cantor gathered with
other Republican senators in
expressing their opposition to
the Senate’s bill.
“The lack of spending cuts in
the Senate bill was a universal
concern amongst members in
today's meeting. Conversations
with members will continue
throughout the afternoon on
the path forward," said Cantor
spokesman Rory Cooper.
With Congressional leaders
on a time crunch, the Senate
refused any amendments. House
leaders continued to push
changes to the bill to increase
the number of spending cuts in
the budget.
With an 89 to 8 vote in the
Senate, and a 257 to 167 in
the House, the measure was
eventually passed by both
Democrats and Republicans,
though many conservatives
were displeased with the final
outcome.
The House vote to avert the
fiscal cliff reflected the way
Congress has operated over the
past 4 years under the Obama
administration.
The recent vote exhibited
Republican congressmen voting
against the Senate bill, requiring
a majority of Democrat support
to pass it.
Within the last 4 years,
Republicans have opposed
nearly all bills proposed by
the Senate during the Obama
administration, in what has
turned into a bad cycle that
caused public approval ratings
for House speaker John Boehner
(R-Ohio) to hit an all-time low at
31 %, according to Washington
Post/ABC poll released Tuesday.
Despite this, in the aftermath
of the “fiscal cliff ” crisis President
Obama’s approval ratings
increased to 52 %, whereas
most of the public support for
the bill stemmed from women,
minorities and lower income
groups, with other groups being
indecisive.
As the inauguration for
President Obama approaches,
it’s more than evident that
the majority of GOP leaders
have counted their losses from
the last Presidential election
regarding the recent tax bill.
Issues such as immigration
and gun control are said to
be top priorities on President
Obama’s second-term plan.
Republicans may not change
their main ideology, but could
make compromising across the
aisle a lot less difficult than in
previous years.
As the new 113th Congress
takes its place, some new and
familiar faces remain, some of
whom have been nominated
into cabinet positions. Despite
some notions of disapproval
from fellow Republicans, House
speaker John Boehner was re-elected
to the post.
A more experienced President
Obama has nominated Sen.
John Kerry, D-Massachusetts
to become the next Secretary of
State, replacing Hilary Clinton.
Other key positions include
White House chief of staff Jack
Lew now nominated to replace
Timothy Geithner as Secretary
of Treasury, and former
Republican Senator Chuck
Hagel, who is nominated as
Secretary of Defense, replacing
Leon Panetta.
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Changes await Capitol Hill in the months to come.
Stephanie Cistrunk
Staff Writer
Opinions 6 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM The pressure to get married starts young One of the worst but most fre-quently
volunteered pieces of
advice offered to college stu-dents
is that this is the best time
of our life. Primarily, the advice
is bad because it is never solic-ited.
We never happen to invite
our grandparents to a cup of tea
so they can give us the chrono-logical
order of our happiness.
Second, the logistical implica-tions
are merely terrifying. If we
start college between the ages of
17-19 years old, spend roughly
four years there, and then live
to a ripe age of anywhere from
60-90, that means that some-thing
like 40-70 years of our life
will be downhill from this al-mighty
stage of all-nighters and
questionable choices. Nonethe-less,
we know that the advice is
driven by the best of intentions.
The individual is expressing the
need to enjoy our present rou-tine
and experiences, rather
than being in a rush. However,
this happens to be a time in our
life that is engrained in rushing.
As a woman, there is an exag-gerated
pressure during these
years to prepare for the next two
decades – primarily, for settling
down (which is code for getting
married and reproducing). I re-main
forever confused that the
institution of higher education
would further groom women
for domestication, reproduction
and outdated roles engrained in
hegemony.
Self Magazine recently pub-lished
an online column that ex-plored
the phenomenon of time
limits, in which women have
particular goals for the age at
which they will be married, po-tentially
even at what age they
will be married and at what age
they will reproduce. Genera-tion
X and its predecessors were
known for having particular
landmarks in life in which they
envisioned a husband (“I will be
engaged by the time I finish my
bachelors degree”, for example).
Generation Y, however, is more
likely to put a particular num-ber
to it. A little under half of
the respondents to the survey
(distributed to women in col-lege
specifically) still reported
their intentions to be married
by the age of 25, and over 80% of
the respondents reported their
intentions to be married by the
time they were 30. Although
Self Magazine’s editorial was
emphasizing the improvement
since the era in which 25 was
the magic number, the general
idea is still that while women
plan their immediate futures
regarding higher education,
they emphasize marriage and
family-planning as a primary
goal by setting a time limit. The
message being conveyed here is
not that they want to achieve the
most in their education, obtain
the most fulfilling career, and
find a satisfying relationship (in
whatever fashion they find ful-filling)
or familial unit during
their lifetime, but that they need
to obtain a particular degree in
a particular timeframe so that
they may achieve a particular
level of success in their career
by a separate timeframe, so
that they can explore the more
overarching priority – marriage,
children, and pushing the rest of
their goals to the back seat.
`I want to emphasize that I do
not believe it is wrong for a
woman to ultimately want to
be married or have children. I
believe that one of the essential
values for self-identifying femi-nists
should be that any woman
should pursue her self-actual-ization
in the same manner as
a man does – that the ultimate
goal for any human in life is to
die satisfied. If a woman genu-inely
embraces her maternal
drive and wants nothing more
than to be a fantastic mother
who is madly in love with the
husband she monogamously
committed to, then I hope that
woman gets exactly that. But
I want that woman to under-stand
she had other options,
and I want that woman to have
sincerely chosen, through self-exploration
and opportunities,
that life. The problem with this
line of thinking and the general
public’s emphasis on women’s
emerging adulthood being
merely stepping stones to their
nuptials and procreation is that
it perpetuates the obstacles that
keep women from, in fact, be-coming
aware of their second
options, and it cheapens this
stage in life for those of us who
have chosen different routes.
Our parents begin to express
the fear that we will not give
them grandchildren when we
are barely old enough to legally
consume alcohol, and our pro-fessors
either emphasize the
aged assumption that we are in
school to obtain a career to es-tablish
ourselves before getting
married and having children,
or they feel the need to express
that we should avoid marriage
until we have established said
career, because serious relation-ships
present a geographical
limitation for those of us pursu-ing
jobs that may not be read-ily
available in the immediate
region we attend school. Either
way, it proves that the go-to phi-losophy
is still that of a house-wife,
a homemaker, one whose
career is characterized by what
she does to take care of others,
primarily her male partner. For
those of us who may want chil-dren,
and may want to get mar-ried,
but know for a fact that we
have higher academic and oc-cupational
pursuits, it becomes
a message that we have to con-stantly
respond to. At this time
Emily Brown
Opinions Editor
Are women in college already being pressured to “settle down”?
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See MARIAGE, page 8
Opinions WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 7
Amidst all the wars going on
across the world, you were hard
pressed during your winter break
to hear anything about those in-ternational
dilemmas. Turn on
Fox News or tap into any con-servative
media outlet and the
biggest war going on during this
time of year would be the ‘War
on Christmas.’ That is right la-dies
and gentleman, the War
on Christmas, the one leverage
some Christians wage every No-vember
and December declaring
that Christmas is under attack.
This Christmas was no different.
Fox News was adamant about the
‘war’ declaring that Christmas in
the United States is becoming
devoid of its meaning and that
secularism is permeating any
mention of Christmas in adver-tising,
schools, and other public
institutions.
The modern idea of a War on
Christmas grew notoriety at the
beginning of the century. In our
history, our holidays, not just
Christmas have become more
commercial. I dare you to turn
on the TV or go on the internet
without seeing an ad for buy-ing
the perfect gift for the loved
ones in your life. But the War on
Christmas folks are not specifi-cally
referring even to how com-mercial
the holidays have be-come,
but who they are targeting
in their advertising. Companies
like Gap, Target, Lowes, Home
Depot, and yes, even Walmart
have become under scrutiny for
saying “Happy Holidays” in their
stores, either through advertising
or the greeters at their doors in
the last decade. Pressures from
groups like the Catholic League
and the American Family As-sociation
over the years to these
companies were only slightly
successful, as Walmart was the
Commercializing the holidays
may not be a bad thing
only company to overturn its
holiday policy back to saying and
displaying Christmas advertising
in all its stores.
Jon Stewart, even though not
a newscaster or official analyst
by any means, nailed the ‘War
on Christmas’ argument on the
head during an episode of the
Daily Show. He stated that you
cannot go anywhere without see-ing
something Christmas related,
in advertising, on television, and
in stores that does not refer to
Christmas in some way. I would
have to agree with that point ex-actly.
I would also like to take the
argument further and say that
not only is Christmas seen ev-erywhere
the last 3 months of the
year, but no one other holiday
exists. I doubt most would know
that Hanukkah is going on in the
middle of the Christmas celebra-tion.
I would argue many people
in our country see Hanukkah,
and Kwanza as an after though to
Christmas, the holidays we often
forget in the hustle and bustle
of buying gifts and decorating a
tree.
According to a 2007 Gallup
poll, approximately 95 percent of
Americans celebrate Christmas,
including those who do not iden-tify
as Christians. If that number
was applied to the entire United
States population that would
mean nearly 280 billion Ameri-cans
celebrate Christmas in some
way. If you look at the numbers
of those celebrating holidays
other than Christmas, the num-bers
hardly even compare. 6 mil-lion
people in the United States
celebrate Hanukkah, while 2
percent of African Americans
in the United States celebrate
Kwanzaa. In the war of numbers,
Christmas has an astronomical
advantage.
Last year, a group called Public
Advocate for the United States
sent carolers to the American
Civil Liberties Union offices
in in Washington, D.C. Often
pegged as the “enemy” in the
War on Christmas, the ACLU
commented on their “supposed
role” in the War on Christmas
in an editorial by their direc-tor
of their Freedom of Religion
and Belief program, T. Jeremy
Gunn. Gunn stated they did not
know what the carolers were try-ing
to accomplish by sending
carolers to their offices. He said
their offices are indeed closed on
Christmas, and since they do not
really get carolers to their offices,
the ACLU staff joined the carol-ers
outside in singing. Does that
sound like a group who really
wants to take down Christmas?
Gunn did make a point towards
his editorial, stating that Christ-mas
displays are fine at religious
institutions and churches as that
is their First Amendment right to
display such imagery; but when it
comes to government buildings
and property, it is not acceptable
to display any religious imagery
of any kind, as it promotes one
religion over another, which is
not in the business of the govern-ment.
I have to agree.
When did it become wrong to
consider all people of religious or
non-religious during this time
of year? Christmas will always
dominate this time of year and
even earlier into the year tak-ing
over Thanksgiving and Hal-loween.
Moving forward after
the holidays, let us commit to
spending that time of the year to
celebrate our holiday(s) with our
family and friends without draw-ing
battle lines in the sand. That
time of year is not about presents
or giving the most expensive gift,
but sharing time with your loved
ones. No matter the holiday, let
us focus on being together and
not drudge up this false War on
Christmas. Our country will be
better for it.
Samantha Korb
Staff Writer
Joseph Winberry
Staff Writer
Jon Huntsman and the
2016 GOP
Going into the 2012 presiden-tial
election, there was one can-didate
who Republican primary
voters considered to be unaccept-able.
Was it Rick Santorum, the
former two term senator who
lost reelection by a staggering
seventeen points in 2006? No; he
won the Iowa Caucus. Maybe it
was Minnesota Congresswoman
Michelle Bachman with her thin
federal resume? Nope; she did
well in early polling. How about
businessman Herman Cain of
Georgia who was charged with
illicit sexual behavior by several
women? No way; he rode his 9-9-
9 tax plan into American political
history. Instead, the GOP Base
decided to raise its noses to Jon
Huntsman, a man of several do-mestic
and foreign accomplish-ments.
The son of extraordinarily suc-cessful
chemical entrepreneur
and Mormon leader Jon Hunts-man
Sr., Jon Huntsman Jr. is one
of nine children. Although in
his youth he achieved he many
of the accomplishments you’d
expect from a man of his back-ground
such as his rank as Eagle
Scout, and a bachelor’s degree
from the prestigious Univer-sity
of Pennsylvania, Huntsman’s
personal life carries within it an
eccentric streak; he dropped out
of a high school to serve as key-boardist
for a rock band named
“Wizard.” Later, he would go join
the family business and began his
political career as staff assistant
to President Ronald Reagan, a
job befitting someone attempting
to revive the conservative move-ment.
Mr. Huntsman rode a wave
of domestic and foreign accom-plishments
such as deputy as-sistant
commerce secretary and
became the youngest American
ambassador in a century when he
presented his papers to the leader
of Singapore in 1992 at the ten-der
age of thirty-two. His long list
of accomplishments eventually
lead him to the governorship of
Colorado in 2004. Over the next
four years, Governor Huntsman
developed a conservative record
of school vouchers, tax cuts, and
regulation decreases, while also
taking a more progressive out-look
by supporting some level
of environmental protection, gay
rights, and immigration reform.
He was reelected in 2008 with
77% of the vote and held approv-al
ratings into the nineties during
different points of his gubernato-rial
career.
Governor Huntsman de-veloped
an impressive resume
of personal accomplishments
matched with a long and success-ful
list of conservative accom-plishments
both in federal and
state offices. His ability to cham-pion
small government while
also updating conservatism for
twenty-first century challenges
should have made him a top
contender for the 2012 Republi-can
presidential nomination; this
would not be the case. Hunts-man’s
chances to become his par-ty’s
candidate for chief executive
were stifled for two reasons in-cluding
his service in the Obama
Administration, and a series of
comments in which he mocked
social conservatives.
If the twenty-first century is
going to be dominated by any
one political event, it will be the
rise of the People’s Republic of
China. The growing power of the
Far East is already being felt on
the world stage and this will like-ly
lead to impassioned tension if
not all out conflict between Chi-na
and the United States. It makes
sense then that each of our coun
See Huntsman, page 8
Opinions 8 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan16 - Jan 22, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM in our life when casual relation-ships
make the most sense for
our busy schedules, our life-af-ter-
college vision automatically
has an asterisk, because we can-not
be sure of what we will do
with our degree (and honestly,
when or if or how swiftly we will
obtain that degree), but instead
is characterized by a rhetoric
born of family-planning. And
those casual relationships are
earmarked by the inevitable
conversation in which we have
to declare it is in fact casual,
establish any necessary rules,
and prepare one another for the
fact that it may end when oth-ers
are already studying poten-tial
mates for their ability to be
a long-term mate, capable of
meeting our standards for mar-riage
and procreation.
I am incredibly frustrated that I
am the one who has to explain
myself to a bar full of my female
friends that without having met
anyone I wish to commit to, I
simply cannot know where or
when or why my wedding will
take place – or that I feel no
anxiety about the possibility
that it will not. Many college
students still cannot rent auto-mobiles
for travel in North Car-olina
yet, much less be the only
party financially invested in any
property we rent or (even more
rarely) own, so it feels unnatu-ral
(in the context of our social
constructions and what we as
residents of a first world, west-ernized
nation) to be the one ex-plaining
myself when I remark
that I do not care at what age, or
if ever, I have a child. We as a na-tion,
given our privilege regard-ing
the opportunities we have
for education, for careers, and
ultimately the length of years we
can expect to live a healthy life,
need to hold ourselves to higher
standards in the pursuit of our
goals.
I would be remiss to note that
Marriage!
from page 11
my perspective is that of a het-erosexual
female, and I have no
reason to believe that I will not
be able to biologically repro-duce.
For those who cannot be
legally married, or those who
cannot reproduce, emphasizing
the pursuit of the Norman Rock-well
form of life is incredibly
dangerous. Not only would a gay
woman in North Carolina have
to deal with the ongoing dis-course
attempting to change our
legal definition of marriage, but
the social stigma surrounding
any woman that does not want
to get married is only enhanced
for a woman that supposedly
chooses to be gay and thereby
does not have the option. There
first has to be the conversation
in which they compel society to
accept their naturally-inclined
sexual orientation, and then
the conversation in which they
compel society either to uphold
their general right to create the
same lifestyle that we want for
ourselves (marriage, children),
and then potentially the conver-sation
in which perhaps they are
not interested in monogamy, or
at least in a formal commitment
through the institution of mar-riage.
The reverence we have
for wedding bands, an expen-sive
ceremony, and the obliga-tions
or responsibilities we take
on by agreeing to partake in the
tradition highlights the need for
those of us in the institutions of
higher education to make dif-ferent
choices, and to stop plan-ning
our life ahead of time.
If ever I do get married, I can
only hope that it will because
someone is so fantastic that I
actively want to declare to the
world that I will share my walk-ing
cane with them later, and
not because my biological clock
was ticking and they were “good
enough”. Do yourself, the cost of
your education, and your rela-tionships
a favor: stop caring if
you get married by 30, and start
focusing on how you can be the
happiest person alive even be-fore
that happens.
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try’s major parties would like
to surround itself with individu-als
who are intimately familiar
with this region. This was likely
(if not fully) the reason why
President Barack Obama asked
Governor Huntsman, fluent in
Mandarin and connected to the
region in a myriad of ways, to
serve as his ambassador to Chi-na.
The experience Huntsman
earned while serving in Beijing
is almost immeasurable and its
worth is likely to only increase
as China continues it meteoric
climb. Like George H.W. Bush
before him, Huntsman’s service
in the People’s Republic prepares
him for a higher office. Howev-er,
many Republicans don’t see
Huntsman’s service in Obama’s
Administration as rewarding
or tactful; they view it with sus-picion
if not full out treachery.
The GOP primary electorate of
2012 consisted of many of the
Birthers, Tea Partiers, and reli-gious
fundamentalists who see
the president not only as incor-rect
on policy but as a success-ful
plant by those wishing to see
the collapse of the United States
from the inside out. Although it
is likely that Obama benefited
from the old saying, “keep your
friends close but your enemies
closer,” Republicans would be
foolish to disregard Huntsman’s
skills just because of the adminis-tration
they were learned under.
In addition to his service in the
Obama Administration, another
cardinal sin has kept Hunts-man
from catching fire with the
GOP base. It is penchant for
crisp, and at times mocking, re-buttals
of statements by social
conservatives. The most noto-rious
example of this came in
2011 when Texas Governor Rick
Perry described global warming
as unproven and not backed by
science. Huntsman replied with
a tweet that read, “To be clear. I
believe in evolution and trust sci-entists
on global warming. Call
me crazy.” Huntsman went on to
suggest that if the GOP becomes
the anti-science party, then they
lose voters who can help them
win national elections such as
2012. Huntsman’s comments,
while sincere, were rejected by
many conservative commenta-tors
and voters in part because
of his tone. If Huntsman wants
to reach party members who are
a bit more skeptical of concepts
such as global warming, he has
to take part in a calmer, gentler
conversation.
Huntsman has described him-self
as a “center-right conserva-tive,”
and has been described as
conservative by many Republi-can
leaders such as former RNC
chair and Mississippi Gover-nor
Haley Barbour. Still, he was
handedly rejected by the GOP
base who felt more comfortable
with candidates such as Mitt
Romney, Newt Gingrich, and
Rick Santorum. Unfortunately,
Huntsman’s chances for being
nominated in 2016 or beyond
may have been destroyed by his
service in the Obama Adminis-tration,
his decision to heckle so-cial
conservatives, and even his
calls for a third party. Still, I be-lieve
he has the right ideas for the
Republican Party and for the na-tion
as a whole, and to keep him
out of the national conversation
in at least some capacity would
be to the detriment of both.
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The unassuming layman
might think bluegrass
something of an antiquity, a
swift thrust into the past with
earnest workmanship and
deftly handled musicianship.
While certainly not left solely
to the past, the combination
of a southern vocal tic and a
fiddle can certainly mean a
temporal transformation for
an audience: a blackened rock
venue suddenly shares more
in common with a sunset and
a casual backyard gathering,
and personal space is eroded in
favor of cheerful embraces and
enthusiastic flailing of limbs.
On Thursday Jan. 10, modern
bluegrass legends the Infamous
Stringdusters wooed their
Greensboro audience at the
Blind Tiger not with nostalgia
but with an honest embrace
of the modernity that has led
to their national acclaim and
stardom. The Charlottesville,
Va. quintet’s live show defies any
expectations one might have for
bluegrass in the modern era. A
robust light show, sprawling
instrumentals, and covers that
span from the Grateful Dead
to U2 make the Stringdusters
modern scions of their craft.
Through their instrumentals
the most significant elements
of the Infamous Stringdusters’
craft come into play to create
a place where calloused, well-practiced
fingers bleed into
a modernized, fireworks
display of bluegrass intricacy.
The impressive lighting
display and droning, spiraling
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separate the mental concept
of what separates a grand rock
performance from an intimate
encounter with bluegrass.
The crowd brimmed with
friends and family greeting
familiar faces with kisses and
hugs, romantic embraces, and
enough ambient bar chatter
to provide a low hum beneath
each song. Stringdusters
bassist Travis Book anticipated
the atmosphere, and used
his boyish charm to vocally
encourage the audience to do
whatever they pleased to have
a pleasant time during the
performance, even suggesting
at one point that couples might
“make out in a dark corner.”
As one might expect, the
Infamous Stringdusters were
five handsome smiles, a group
of gentlemen happy to oblige
the feverish wishes of their
audience.
Winston-Salem act the
Wurlitzer Prize served as the
opening band, contrasting the
Stringdusters’ bluegrass with
a mouthy punch of bluesy
southern rock and roll. Vocalists
Molly McGinn and Dave Willis
belted out lyrics ranging from
adultery to the triumphant “Keys
to the Kingdom,” where Willis’
earthy baritone sang “I’ve got
the keys to the kingdom, and
the world can’t do me no harm”
with thick bluesiness. The
Wurlitzer Prize’s execution of
gritty, crunchy guitar riffs went
largely underappreciated by
the bar crowd who were clearly
present for Stringdusters, but
a few ardent Wurlitzer fans
applauded the band’s diligence.
If anything, breaching
the night with the Wurlitzer
Prize’s bluesy, if a little typical
southern rock emphasized just
how reluctant the Infamous
Stringdusters are to sit
still inside their respective
space in southern music.
The Stringdusters’ music is
equestrian, capable of galloping
from one hallowed classic
Kyle Minton
Staff Writer
(Jody Stetcher’s “17 Cents,”
for example) to a Grammy
nominated instrumental
(“Magic #9”) without
exhausting the band or losing
the sound’s dusty roots. That
the Stringdusters welcome
outside influences is to the
benefit of their style, and it
gives the quintet the ability to
carve out a live show worthy
of recognition beyond the
genre they play in. A dark and
crowded bar in Greensboro may
not have been the bluegrass
ideal of an evergreen lawn, but
the Infamous Stringdusters
conduct a special sort of
transformation with their
fiddle-heavy symphony.
The Infamous Stringdusters
Grace Greensboro
Photo Courtesy of kelly cdb/flickr
The Infamous Stringdusters in bring life to classic hits and creative melodies of their own.
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2012 was a hallmark year for
the American movie. Several
big-name directors released new
films this year, and a number of
their new works ranked among
their best to date. The year also
saw a number of films from
up-and-coming directors, both
American and foreign, making
2012 one of the strongest years
in recent memory. Here we take
a comprehensive, categorical
look back at the film year that
was, culminating in a year-end
top ten list.
Best American Film: “The
Master” (dir. Paul Thomas
Anderson)
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s
kaleidoscopic, hypnotic vision
of megalomania, two broken
men search for acceptance from
society, but, tragically, only gain
acceptance from each other.
Where Joaquin Phoenix is a
force of nature, all animalistic
instinct, and Phillip Seymour
Hoffman is a paternalistic,
charming liar, the two men form
a father-son relationship that
culminates in one of the most
heartbreaking scenes of the
year. “The Master” is profound
cinema, the work of a director
who may be this generation’s
most gifted auteur.
Best Foreign Film: “Alps”
(dir. Giorgos Lanthimos)
Lanthimos’ film, though
not as absurdly polarizing as
his previous film “Dogtooth,”
is a confounding but effective
film about the process of
acting. A group of people start
a business impersonating the
recently deceased in order to
help their clients through the
grieving process. The film soon
Brad Dillard
Staff Writer
The Best films of 2012
becomes an absurd tragicomedy,
wherein the actors begin to
lose themselves in their new
roles until eventually they have
lost their identities, and are left
searching for meaning.
Best Drama: “Zero Dark
Thirty” (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
At heart a police procedural,
Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up
to the Oscar winning “The
Hurt Locker” is as much about
the battle of one woman (here
Jessica Chastain, in a terrific
performance) with her personal
demons as it is about a nation
searching for demons of its own.
The film’s realistic portrayals
of torture and its powerful
ending ultimately question the
unknowable cost of maintaining
order with deplorable violence.
Best Action Film: “Django
Unchained” (dir. Quentin
Tarantino)
Shockingly violent, wickedly
funny, absurdly entertaining,
Quentin Tarantino’s Spaghetti
Western is also a thoughtful
rumination on the causes and
repercussions of slavery. It is
Tarantino’s most mature movie,
boasting some of the year’s best
performances, and several jaw-dropping
set-pieces. This is
about as off-the-chain as they
come.
Best Comedy: “Tim and
Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie”
(dir. Tim Heidecker and Eric
Wareheim)
With this absurd, surrealist
comedy, Tim Heidecker and
Eric Wareheim suddenly
find themselves emerging as
important voices in an era
of improvised, non-sequitur
comedy. Seemingly a series of
disparate gags, by the end Tim
and Eric manage to thematically
tie all their loose bits together.
Their other movie this year, “The
Comedy”, though not as out-and-
out hilarious, is a terrific
look at privileged youth run
awry.
Best Blockbuster: “The Dark
Knight Rises” (dir. Christopher
Nolan)
A masterpiece of sound and
fury, Christopher Nolan’s final
installment in his Dark Knight
trilogy is like a Wagnerian
Opera, full of feeling and
momentum, with crescendos
and grand gestures of beauty
and destruction. Including an
ending that may not be as cut-and-
dry as most viewers might
think, Nolan’s goodbye to the Bat
is filmmaking on the grandest of
scales.
Most Underrated Film:
“Magic Mike” (dir. Steven
Soderbergh)
Steven Soderbergh pulled a
fast one on unsuspecting movie-goers
with this dark, sinister,
and wholly successful film about
how we live our lives in this day
and age of instant gratification.
“Magic Mike” recalls Kubrick’s
final film “Eyes Wide Shut,” in
putting on a front of being about
sex, but using that front as a
means of probing deeper into the
way our society functions: How
does our generation use sex,
drugs, and alcohol as an answer
to our problems? “Magic Mike”
is the real deal, and the crowning
achievement of Soderbergh’s
illustrious filmmaking career
The 10 Best Films of 2012:
10. Looper (Rian Johnson) 9.
Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
8. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim
Trier) 7. Killing Them Softly
(Andrew Dominik) 6. Magic
Mike 5. Alps 4. The Dark Knight
Rises 3. Zero Dark Thirty 2.
Django Unchained 1. The Master
Photos Courtesy of movie_fan, marvelous roland, & pink cow photography/flickr
Clockwise from top: Channing Tatum & Alex Pettyfer in “Magic Mike,” “The Dark
Knight Rises,” Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Django Unchained
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and Books hosted Pittsburgh
noise-thrash veterans the Mi-crowaves
for what could be rec-ognized
as one of the loudest
shows in Greensboro history.
Joined by local acts Hi Rollers,
Taylor Bays and the Lazer Rays,
and the Three-Brained Robot,
the Microwaves delivered a cha-otic,
ear-punishing set, serving
as the core to a night of nasti-ness
by all bands involved. The
weather was dreary and the
crowd was accordingly small,
but they did their best to match
the musicians’ intensity.
Greensboro staples the Three-
Brained Robot started the eve-ning
with their typically bizarre,
theatrical punk-rap. As usual (if
this can be called usual), vocal-ist
Sam Martin stripped down
to a pair of leopard-print tights
and pranced about the carpet
in Glenwood’s concrete back
room, screaming about things
no one else would think to sing.
Highlights included “300 Years
of Gout,” “Thank You for Your
Patience,” and “Ritual of 1000
Showers,” the latter with Mar-tin
emulating a thorough bodily
scrubbing onstage.
“Usually people want to bathe
after they see this mess we call
a band, kind of,” Martin ex-plained.
After the Three-Brained Ro-bot
came Taylor Bays and the
Lazer Rays, a seriously tight
southern rock and roll three-piece
led by long-haired, soul-patched
Taylor Bays. The group
sped through different tempos
and styles easily, touching influ-ences
from ZZ Top to Primus to
Aquarium Rescue Unit, all so
fluidly the band never seemed to
lose their own voice. Bays’ voice,
incidentally, was great, matching
his band’s tight dynamic leaps
with unfaltering confidence.
As Bays stood in his long-legged
power stance like some
sort of Gumby Allman, he de-livered
lines like, “Punch me
so hard that I fly to the moon.
When I get there I’ll meet moon
people, and I’ll tell them they’ve
been living their lives incorrect-ly.”
And though his guitar lines
were often as quirky as his lyrics,
Bays did everything so darn well
one had to take him seriously.
Where the first
two acts with their
goofiness invited
the audience to
loosen up and par-ticipate,
the Micro-waves
had nothing
to smile about. The
first song began
with a minute of
throbbing, un-nerving
blips from
drummer John Ro-man’s
sampler, be-fore
bassist Johnny
Arlett and gui-tarist
Dave Kuzy
launched their in-cendiary
layers of
dissonant, distorted
chaos into the room. Arlett’s
bass produced low noises like
the grinding of tractor-trailer
gears. Kuzy’s hyper-effected
guitar blared out the sounds
of emergency alarms. Roman
whacked his drums as if bent
on breaking them. After the
first song, during which he had
screamed unintelligibly, Kuzy
asked the crowd, “Can you hear
everything? No? Good.”
Since 2000 the Microwaves
have been ruining hearing with
like-minded acts such as AIDS
Wolf and Pretty Little Girls, and
have released four albums along
the way. Kuzy and Roman have
been in the project from the
start, but “Jonny [Arlett],” said
Roman, “is bass player number
five.” After losing their previous
bass player, the band performed
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A night of nastiness with the Microwaves
as a duo for three years, during
which time they released their
latest album, “Psionic Imped-ance,”
on ugEXPLODE.
Arlett seems to have found his
way easily into the band, con-tributing
frightening, animal-istic
vocals with the other two
members as they crash about
their listeners’ heads. The ex-perience
was like being trapped
on a self-destructing spaceship.
I found myself wondering, af-ter
twenty minutes, when there
would be a moment of reprieve,
a pretty chord, a chance to
breathe. The Microwaves, how-ever,
don’t want to make their
listeners smile; they want to ter-rify
them. Whether the experi-ence
is enjoyable is up in the air.
It is certainly terrifying.
After the Microwaves, closing
two-piece Hi Rollers seemed re-freshingly
spacious. Hi Rollers,
however, are a metal band with
fast tempos and very prominent
drumming, so the perceived
spaciousness may only further
testify to the Microwaves’ in-tensity.
Between guitarist Clay
Davidson’s winding, electrified
lines, drummer Jeremy Foun-tain
found space to knock out
intelligent, yet entirely head
bang-worthy lines on his kit. By
Hi Rollers’ set, the audience was
thin and its members worn out
by the heaviness of Microwaves,
but still Hi Rollers managed
to communicate something
thought-provoking with those
who remained.
Overall a weird but impres-sive,
and criminally under-at-tended
show.
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Sam Martin (front) and Dylan Wood of the
Three-Brained Robot
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After weeks of fundraising,
it came as no surprise that
Triad Stage, the professional
regional theater in downtown
Greensboro, exceeded their goal
of raising $250,000 this January.
In December 2012,
Triad Stage launched their
fundraising campaign to the
cover increasing debt caused
by both the economic recession
and the relocation of their
production facilities. Through
requests to their Facebook
fans, news coverage, and article
submissions, the twelve season-old
theater company was able
to go beyond their goal, by
$20,000. These extra dollars will
go towards upgrades needed in
the space used for the theater’s
two venues: the Mainstage,
which seats 300 viewers, and the
Upstage Cabaret, which seats 90.
Both managing director Rich
Whittington and artistic director
Preston Lane were deeply
touched by the tremendous
efforts put into financially
assisting the theater. On the
company website, visitors are
welcomed by a big thank-you to
all who donated. “We are deeply
grateful to the 877 donors who
stepped forward during the
$250,000 Challenge,” the website
reads. “Thanks to you, Triad
Stage raised $270,345 to surpass
the Challenge goal. Support
came from a broad spectrum of
donors. Gifts came in from 25
states coast-to-coast and from 51
cities within North Carolina. Of
the gifts received 75% were from
new donors. The average gift was
$308. Thank you, and see you at
the theater!”
Though Triad Stage may
have succeeded in completing
their fundraising goals, theaters
will always need the support
Megan Christy
Staff Writer
of their communities, both in
Greensboro and beyond. “I want
to emphasize that, even though
we’ve met this challenge, there
are still challenges to come,” said
Whittington via telephone. “We
need people to come out and see
our work. That’s one of the best
ways to support us.”
Triad Stage produces a
variety of professional shows
throughout the year, in which
many UNCG theater students
and professors are involved.
This year their spring season
includes “Kingdom of Earth”
by Tennessee Williams, “My
Fair Lady” by Lerner & Loewe,
and an original play by Lane,
“Tennessee Playboy.”
Students can receive $10
rush tickets for all productions
by presenting their ID at the
Triad Stage’s box office one
hour before the performance.
Various benefits, specials, and
ticket prices can be found on
the company website, triadstage.
org.
A$AP Rocky –
LongLiveA$AP
After a spectacular 2011, then
a rocky 2012 (including record
release setbacks and a July
arrest for attempted robbery),
Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky
finally released his first album,
“LongLiveA$AP,” Tuesday on
Polo Grounds Music.
The album remains close in
style to “LiveLoveA$AP,” his mix
tape released in 2011, but is still
new. Upgrading his sound while
preserving his taste and craft,
A$AP Rocky has undeniably
secured his place as a major new
rap star and hit maker.
Along with the preservation
of A$AP’s natural talent and
craft come new ideas that, while
surprising, prove successful.
A collaboration with Skrillex,
“Wild for the Night” includes
aggressive techno beats and
mixes that at first seem to need
a separate track. However, A$AP
Rocky manages to rap over
the aggressive but contagious
rhythms of Skrillex to produce a
cohesive work. Perhaps the most
impressive thing about A$AP
is this adaptability. Rapping
seems to come so
naturally to him
that he comfortably
controls every track
he releases, despite
how different they
may be.
“LongLiveA$AP”
also features
collaborations with
various artists such
as Kendrick Lamar,
Joey Bada$$, Danny
Brown, Action
Bronson and Big K.R.I.T. who
all come together in the longest
track of the album, “1 Train.”
This cut, along with “F*cking
Problems,” which features
Drake, 2 Chainz, and Kendrick
Lamar, has helped the already
almost-guaranteed success
of the album.
The album contains
verses about A$AP Rocky’s
childhood memories
and struggles while
introducing the changes
brought into his life by
the music industry. On
the final track, “Suddenly,”
A$AP closes the album,
saying, “It all changes man/
it was just like yesterday,
times was so ugly, and
now I’m comfortable.” His
storytelling skills are vividly
exposed through reminders
of his childhood and heritage.
“LongLiveA$AP” is the perfect
comeback.
Wiz Khalifa – O.N.I.F.C.
Since Wiz Khalifa’s major
label debut, “Rolling Papers,”
his fans have been waiting for
a return from pop rap back to
the stoner sensibilities of 2010’s
self-released “Orange Juice
and Kush.” Even after his latest
release “O.N.I.F.C” in December
2012, the artist seems to be
struggling to get back to what
his fans are asking for. However,
the album manages to dig back
to some of Khalifa’s musical
roots and show his current state
of mind.
The record displays Khalifa’s
attitude of making music for
fun and entertainment. Though
the title, short for “One Night in
First Class,” suggests journeys
Khalifa might be taking, he
sticks to his usual shout outs
about Taylor Gang, money and
ambition. Khalifa seems to be
relying on what he knows.
Although some of the tracks
on the album are forgettable,
through the record Khalifa
showcases the talent his diehard
fans are familiar with. His lead
single “Work Hard, Play Hard”
includes career and life advice.
“The quicker you’re here, the
faster you go, that’s why from
where I’m from the only thing we
know is work hard, play hard.”
The track is full of references to
the amount of money his career
and talent have produced, a
common subject in Khalifa’s
music.
Some might argue the
artist’s commercial success has
impacted his career, but it does
not look like Wiz Khalifa will be
changing styles anytime soon.
hip-hop records for
the new year
Maria Perdomo
Special to the Carolinian
A$AP Rocky in concert
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Wiz Khalifa in Concert
Triad Stage
fundraiser successful
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Robert Ross
Staff Writer
Even for the most open
minded and least ethnocentric
people, it can sometimes
be a challenge to imagine
cultural practices that are so
drastically different from their
own standards of normality.
When it comes to romance and
partnerships, western citizens
practice serial monogamy.
This social construct allows
consecutive homo and hetero
relations, but only one partner
at a time.
Strict homosexuality and
heterosexuality are, in fact, very
rare, making less than 9 percent
of the human population.
Yet many societies, including
western ones, condemn this as
deviant behavior. An example
of this is the aboriginal tribe
of Papua New Guinea that
practice ritual homosexuality.
This is the case of the Etoro,
a tribe of 400 that live by
hunting and gathering as well
as horticultural living. It is a
belief among their culture that
humans contain a vital force,
but the highest concentration
resides in semen. In order for
a young boy, as little as 12, to
grow and mature properly into
manhood, they must undergo a
pietistic ritual where they will
ingest the semen of their elders.
It can be seen as a rite of passage
between mentor and mentee. A
few years later, once the boy has
developed into a man he in turn
will be an inseminator from an
inseminee.
The boys will partner up with
an older male. Often times the
former older male will have to
marry the former young males
sister. This reinforces the bond
between partners. Because of
the vital force only subsisting
in semen, women have a lower
social status. The role of the
woman is to get pregnant; if
a woman does not concieve
she is seen as wasting the vital
force. The married couple
lives separately and rarely has
contact. They are permitted
to only have intercourse for a
stringent 100-day period per
year and it is forbidden around
the household and garden.
On the contrary, homosexual
relations are permitted at any
time aside from turning boys
into men. Not surprisingly this
causes difficulties continuing the
population. Children are often
stolen from other neighboring
tribes and raised as if they were
their own.
Normalized homosexuality in the Etoro tribe
In many cultures, homosexuality has historically been seen as a deviant lifestyle.
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Jonathan Waye
Staff Writer
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spot-less
Mind” (2004) chronicles the
growth, decay, and eventual fall-out
of relationships, particularly
Joel Barish’s (Jim Carey) and
Clementine Kruczynski’s (Kate
Winslet). Directed by Michel
Gondry, the choppy romantic-comedy
hybrid may not make
you cry, but it will certainly
evoke memories of your own
past relationships: the initial ex-citement,
the warmth, the rough
patches and the eventual fallout
afterwards; however, “Eternal
Sunshine” ultimately leaves you
remembering them fondly (even
the bad parts), thankful that they
happened.
At the film’s start, however,
Joel does not seem thankful for
anything, particularly his own
life.
Joel, our rather down trod-den
protagonist, is a man of few
words – often times his dialogue
taking the shape of his thoughts.
While subtle, the audience is
planted directly in Joel’s mind
from the get-go, which exempli-fies
one of the film’s strongest as-pects:
viewer immersion.
This theme continues
throughout as we venture deeper
into the mystery of Joel’s clouded
relationship with Clementine, a
quirky fluorescent-haired girl he
meets on the train. The movie’s
core revolves around memory
and experience, which is execut-ed
through Joel’s frantic attempts
to retain and recover those expe-riences
as he travels through the
passage of his own life.
In Joel’s world, clinics exist
that have the ability to perma-nently
erase memories from
people’s minds. The prospect
sounds tempting, even in reality.
Who does not have a few things
they would like to forget? While
the nature of the clinic may seem
therapeutic, Joel’s “operation”
quickly turns traumatic, and be-cause
he’s asleep, there is no way
for him to communicate with the
operators controlling the pro-cedure
(Kirsten Dunst, Elijah
Wood, Mark Ruffalo, and Tom
Wilkinson). In one memorable
scene, Joel manages to wake
himself, staring upward at the
ceiling with water-glazed eyes,
unable to speak – sadly, it is the
culmination of all his efforts, and
the last time he will have any ac-cessible
memory to his precious
Clementine.
While the cast of Eternal
Sunshine offers a wholesome,
supplemental performance, it
is really Joel and Clementine
that truly define the film. Jim
Carey affords viewers a mov-ing
performance, especially to
those who are unfamiliar with
his more dramatic, non-come-dic
acting. Jim Carey embodies
Joel, and excellently captures his
concerns, worries, and depres-sion.
Kate Winslet, too, puts
on an excellent performance,
fully engaging in Clementine’s
peculiar, offbeat personality.
Together, these two form one of
the most memorable couples of
the romantic-comedy genre.
The story itself unfolds in a
very non-linear fashion, jump-ing
from memory to memory
as Joel chases after his quickly
disintegrating memories of
Clementine. While unconven-tional
(although not a lot about
the film can be called “conven-tional”),
the jagged plot line not
only works well, but is executed
flawlessly, as it exemplifies the
scrambled, tumultuous state Jo-el’s
mind is in. Viewers span the
entirety of his lifetime, from the
rank confusion of infancy and
pre-adolescence to the over-whelming
embarrassment of
his teenage years. This leaping
time frame actually lends itself
to the characteristic viewer im-mersion
of the film, as the audi-ence
essentially lives Joel’s life
one memory at a time, each as
poignant as the last.
Essentially, “Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind” seeks to
elevate the importance of hu-man
experience and memory,
as well as their necessity, despite
the irony of the title. If you have
been looking for an offbeat,
emotionally engaging film late-ly,
look no further than “Eternal
Sunshine.” Thankfully, this is an
awesome movie that you defi-nitely
will not soon forget.
Kate Winslet (right) had a stellar performance in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
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Romantic film review: “Eternal Sunshine
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Features 1716 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Dec 5, 2012 - Jan 15, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Compatibility when seeking a match
Nadia Stevens
Staff Writer
As an essential facet of
romance, and an unspoken
reality of every single
interaction we make as humans,
compatibility is a term that
represents the intangible,
tenacious constituent of every
relationship that inevitably
determines in what capacity
individuals are meant to exist
in relation to each other. Two
people might be so compatible
that they fall madly and
eternally in love. Alternatively,
they might repel each other
more fervently than oil and
water. That is not to mention, of
course, everything in between;
they might simply enjoy a short,
intense fling of infatuation,
or just be acquaintances for a
month, or even become best
friends forever.
In the course of a lifetime,
it can be expected that every
human being participating in
modern society will meet and
share many relationships with
a plethora of different people,
with which they will share
perpetually varying degrees of
compatibility. Throughout every
relationship we share, and every
new acquaintance we make, we
only seek to find those special
individuals with which we are
compatible. Specifically, unless
we have already found them, we
each tend to look for that one
particular person with which we
are completely compatible.
The unique individual that
we not only get along with, but
are also undyingly attracted to;
we search for the one person
that makes our heart flutter with
every word and every glance,
who also effortlessly holds the
ability to fill our lives with every
little bit that we lack. The only
one who adds to our life in such
a way that five minutes with
them is infinitely more fulfilling
than an eternity without them.
In a simple word, compatibility
is what we long to experience.
As simple as it is to explain,
and in our minds imagine
what it would feel like to find
the one person who can make
us feel like all the books and
movies describe, to actually find
someone that harbors the very
characteristics that complement
our own can be a formidable
journey complete with a great
multitude of wrong turns and
red herrings. Compatibility
is so elusive in fact that in
today’s technological age, there
are even websites that utilize
mathematical formulas that are
meant to produce a perfect match
as quickly as you can type in
your date of birth. Services like
this are meant to allow people
to bypass the unpredictability of
attempting to find a match on
their own. Some might consider
the online dating websites that
employ algorithms to create true
love to be the ultimate travesty to
the traditional idea of romance.
Despite the skepticism of some,
there are others who believe in
the process; for whom solitude
becomes too much to bear. For
these individuals, dating sites
have proven unquestionably
valid and successful.
Loneliness is more than
an emotion; it is truly a state
of mind. The paradox of
loneliness is that it is generally
accompanied by a longing
to meet someone you can
fall in love with who will fill
every void and every deep
seeded yearning. No matter
how profoundly you desire it,
however, relationships cannot be
forced, and compatibility cannot
be feigned. It requires two
people who share equal parts in
each other’s happiness to make a
commitment to bettering each
other’s lives. Whether it is the
result of a chance encounter,
a blind date, or a scientific
formula, to have someone in
your life with whom you share
complete compatibility is as
monumental as it is gratifying.
Pugs are known to create strong bonds with one companion in their lifetime, whether it is their human counterpart or a canine friend.
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Jonathan Waye
Staff Writer
UNCG students have been
waiting in intense anticipation
for the completion of the
construction being done on the
Quad facing side of the cafeteria.
The construction, which began
in April, 2012 and is projected
to be completed in it’s entirety
in May of 2014, is part of a string
of improvements being made
by UNCG. When the cafeteria
is complete UNCG students
will be able to dine amongst
friends and converse which will
only add on to the excellence
that is expected of and common
in UNCG students.
The cafe is being completed
by several businesses being
contracted by UNCG including
W.B. Moore, which is an
electrical engineering company.
Rob Blythe, the man in charge
of all W.B. Moore employees on
this project, stated that things
were going smoothly and the
only real obstacle they have
faced thus far was coordination
with other contract companies
on the project (completing
work on projects like the actual
building and pavement of the
fountain and glass installation).
For many students, aside
from the fact that UNCG
offered the major that they
planned to pursue once getting
here, a large factor of why they
were attending UNCG was the
beauty of the campus. I can still
remember the first time that I
toured the UNCG campus in my
Junior year of high school. One
of the things my parents and I
both could not obsessing over
was how beautiful the campus
was and how neither them nor
myself would mind spending
four years of our lives at an
institution as beautiful as UNCG.
I also distinctly remember that
one of these aspects of beauty
was the cafeteria which, if you
remember, had a trees and
and “closer to nature” area for
students to enjoy their meals
in and of course the long and
“hilly” sidewalks of UNCG.
Upon completion, the UNCG
cafeteria will be just another
thing on our school’s beautiful
campus for visitors and tourist
to “wow” at while considering
this institution for themselves,
family or close friends. Some
wide eyed or big dreams high
school senior, junior, and maybe
even sophomore may end their
college search here upon seeing
how beautiful our school’s
campus is and how much our
school has to offer them and it
is important that we remember
this. So to every early morning
math student who wakes up half
an hour early to get something
to eat before class, every music
and/or art student who has
spent hours in the studio
practicing and creating and take
a break to eat lunch with friends,
and to the science students who
take breaks from their all night
study session in the lab to get a
last meal in for the day; Please
remember to treat the cafe with
respect as you would your own
home. It is essential that we, as
UNCG students, make extra
effort to take care of the cafe
once it is complete so that we can
continue to participate in those
traditional daily luncheons with
friends. It is imperative that we
have pride in the quality of our
school and make it last as long
as we can. So when the cafe is
finally complete, be sure to treat
it with respect and in doing so,
we continue to be community
leaders as well as promoters of
excellence in school.
Spartan Traditions: The new UNCG Quad
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Easy Hard
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Simmons, Barnekow earn national team attention
Two of our very own Spartans
were requested to train with two
prestigious national training
camps. Freshman goalkeeper
Jamie Simmons was asked to
the U.S. Goalkeeping National
Training Camp, while Senior
Cat Barnekow was invited by the
Philippine Football Federation
to train with the Philippine
National Women’s Football
Team. Who would not want
to have those organizations
attached to their names?
The U.S. Goalkeeping
National Training Camp
requested five goalkeepers from
U.S. colleges to compete for
the 2014 U-20 Women’s World
Cup. This is the very first youth
camp which pin points the
best of the best in relation to
goalkeepers from birth years
of 1994 to 1995. Simmons
stated , “I am honored to be
getting the chance to represent
UNCG at the highest level of
competition.” Jamie Simmons
was amongst additional all-star
goalkeepers, Caroline
Casey (William & Mary), Andi
Tostanoski (Santa Clara), Jordan
Brown (Tennessee Tech), and
Jillian McVicker (Ohio State).
Hannah Nystrom
Staff Writer
Head coach Steve Nugent
stated, “I am very excited for
Jamie and she is very deserving
of this prestigious honor…Our
players at UNCG aspire to play
at the highest level possible,
and this will give Jamie the
best chance to do that. The
opportunity to showcase your
skills as a top-level goalkeeper
doesn’t come around often.
Jamie is focused on doing her
best over the four-day camp. We
wish her the best of luck as she
pursues the dream of playing for
the United States one day.”
As part of her journey,
Simmons was asked to blog
about her experiences. “The
goalkeepers I got the opportunity
to meet and train with were
awesome. They pushed me in
every training session and made
me compete at a high level.
It was so cool to meet people
who have the same interests.
We were all very similar and
all share a common goal. I
learned I will get to play some
of them in the college setting,
which is really neat. I wouldn’t
change this opportunity for
anything and I look forward to
taking everything I learned and
applying it to my game here at
UNCG.”
Similar to Simmons, Barnekow
was awarded the prestigious
opportunity to train with an
outstanding program, the
Philippine Football Federation.
“It’s very exciting for me to have
the opportunity to play soccer
beyond college, especially
since it will be in my home
state and for an international
team…I am very thankful for
this opportunity and have every
intention of making the most of
it.” Barnekow, who is of Filipino
decent, trained with a pool of
players who will be dwindled
down to compose the roster for
the LA Viking Cup as well as
additional FIFA events.
Head coach Steve Nugent
commented on Barnekow’s
opportunity by stating, “We are
very excited for Cat and this
prestigious opportunity…Cat is
a tremendous player, a tireless
worker and will make a great
addition to this group of players.
Cat has aspired to continue to
play at the highest level possible
after college and this is a great
step in that direction.”
Just like Simmons, Barnekow
was asked to document her time
training with the Philippine
National Women’s Football
Team. “Over the past week we
played random teams in order
to practice our attack and
defense as a team. As the week
past ladies would continue to
come in for the tryout. There
were players coming in from
Canada, Oregon, Virginia, New
York, California and coming
from teams like ECU and
Miami. It’s really great to meet
all these ladies because you end
up finding out you have mutual
friends, find out you’re from
the same area, or have played
against them.”
It is evident both of these
outstanding players have
gained more than physical
experience, they have achieved
enlightenment. Congratulation
ladies- the Spartan community
is exceptionally proud of your
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Women’s Basketball SoCon Standings
1. Davidson (4-0 SoCon, 7-7 Overall)
2. Chattanooga (4-1, 11-3)
3. Elon (4-1, 7-7)
9. Georgia Southern (1-5, 2-13)
10. Wofford (0-5, 5-8)
11. UNCG (0-5, 3-11)
record and a 3-11 overall
record is not the place UNCG
wants to be at halfway through
the season, there is still time
for the Spartans to turn their
season around. The Spartans
travel to Elon Monday to face
the 7-7 Phoenix, in what should
be a nice chance for UNCG to
gain some positive momentum
heading into the second half of
the season.
Simmons invited to USWNT U-20 GK camp while Barnekow plays with Philippines national team
history. With that said, the
Spartans need to step it up to
give a reeling fanbase something
to cheer about. And if recent
history repeats itself, that time
may be coming soon.
Last year, Wes Miller found
his first wins as a coach on a
trip to Charleston, beating the
College of Charleston and The
Citadel (on a last second alley-oop
dunk by Simpson) before
starting a five-game stretch
at home. UNCG won all five,
leading to a seven-game win
streak that sparked a run to the
SoCon semifinals for the first
time since 2008.
If the Spartans are to make my
preseason prediction of making
the SoCon Final for the first time
since 2005 true, they will have to
find their form in the upcoming
five-game homestand (starting
today vs Wofford). Even at 3-11,
though, that does not seem too
outlandish a possibility.
optimism
from page 19
furman
from page 20
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3-11, 1-2 SoCon.
On the surface, these statistics
do not look particularly
inspiring. Especially considering
those three wins include two
against division 2 opponents
in Winston-Salem State and
Lees-McRae and a third against
perennial SoCon doormat
The Citadel. Add to that non-conference
losses against fellow
mid-majors James Madison,
UNC Wilmington, NC A&T,
ECU, and High Point, and
a 30-point drubbing from
Davidson and we have ourselves
a fairly unimpressive resume.
As a result, people start to ask
me questions at College Hill.
Was this not supposed to be the
year the Spartans took a leap
forward in their first full year
under Wes Miller? Why does
this year resemble last year so
much?
Some points are certainly
valid. UNCG should have more
than three wins right now.
Miller himself admits that. Of
ECU, HPU, JMU, UNCW, and
A&T, you would expect the
Spartans to take at least two of
those instead of zero.
That being said, there is
cause for optimism. Freshman
Don’t fret Spartan fans, season not lost yet
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Sports Editor
forward Kayel Locke has
emerged as a legitimate inside
threat offensively. UNCG alums
are calling him “Kyle Hines
with a jump shot.” Sophomore
Nick Paulos has grown into his
role as a three-point shooter,
even creating his own shots and
finding holes in the zone.
Add those two to an offense
that features a hyper-athletic
guard who can create his own
shot in Trevis Simpson and a
slasher who gets to the rim in
Derrell Armstrong and you
have, well, a pretty solid offense.
Either way, calls for Miller’s
job so early into his first fulltime
season are a little premature.
According to Miller, the offense
is doing a better job of sharing
the ball. The defense is also
improving, holding Western
Carolina to about 30 percent
shooting in the mountains.
In the NFL, hiring interim
coaches fulltime is not
encouraged. Teams show
improvement when their coach
is fired mid-season more often
than not. When that coach
brings optimism and is retained,
he usually performs poorly (see:
Romeo Crennel with the Chiefs
this year).
There exists a huge difference:
in the NFL, moral victories are
meaningless. Panthers fans
like me head into next season
cautiously optimistic. On the one
hand, the Panthers finished 7-9
for the 7th time in team history.
On the other, they won their last
four games, dominating #1 NFC
seed Atlanta along with San
Diego and Oakland and pulling
out a thriller in New Orleans.
On the other hand, there lie
some not insignificant moral
victories in the early UNCG
season. They played hard with
NC State in PNC Arena for 40
minutes without all-conference
Trevis Simpson. Saturday they
played terrific defense against
Western Carolina and was
within a banked last-second
three pointer from taking the
Catamounts to overtime in
Cullowhee, again without Trevis.
Further, Miller’s freshman
class coming in next year is one
of the better in UNCG recent
media timeout, but after a 4
point play by Nicholas Paulos
the game started to heat up.
The momentum was not on the
Spartans side, though as the WC
went on a 13 to 3 run to push
the lead to 18 to 11 and force
a Spartan timeout. After the
timeout the UNCG Freshmen
Kayel Locke (who got his first
start on Saturday) started a
10 to 2 run after scoring on
off of an offensive rebound.
Armstrong and David Williams
finished what Locke started by
throwing in a few points each
during the Spartans run.
What really helped the
Spartans stay in the game
during the first half was their
offensive rebounding as the
Spartans gained eleven second
chance points during the
period. The Spartans ended
the first half only down by one
point with WC holding a 24 to
23 lead.
Coming out of the half the
Spartans came out blazing on a
9 to 2 run, while working to hold
down the lead with 10 minutes
left to go. Finally around the 5
minute mark Western Carolina
tied the game up at 45 with a
layup. At this point UNCG and
Western Carolina traded points
until Western Carolina broke
away with a pair of free throws.
Only down by 3 the Spartans
looked to Derrell Armstrong
to tie the game but his 3 point
attempt hit the back of the rim
as time expired.
When looking at the box
score it looked like Western
Carolina got the home team
advantage calls as they took
38 free throws to our 22. A
problem with that theory is
if we could have hit a little bit
better than 59 percent of our
free throws (13-22) than we
could have pulled off the upset.
On the other side, Western
Carolina connected on 82
percent of their free throws
shooting 31 of 38. Hopefully
the Spartans can bounce back
from this defeat on Monday
as they travel to Boone, NC to
face Appalachian State.
emma barker/carolinian
western
from page 20
UNCG will have to deal with a Trevis Simpson concussion and KVD broken hand in near future
Men’s Basketball
Five-Game
Homestand
1.16-Wofford
1.20-Furman
1.24-Samford
1.27-Chatt.
1.31-Elon
Signs for optimism abound for men’s basketball amidst an uninspiring 3-11 start to season
See optimism, page 18
20 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Sports
Spartans suffer heartbreaker in the mountains
Everick Davis
Staff Writer
The UNCG’s Men’s Basketball
team fell to Western Carolina on
this past Saturday. Our Spartans
did not go down without a fight
though, as the game came down
to a final shot at the buzzer
that was missed by Darrell
Armstrong, which kept the final
score at 62 to 59. With this lose
the Spartans fall to an overall
3-11 record.
On the bright side, UNCG
almost beat the leading team in
the Southern Conference while
shorthanded. What made the
heartbreaker all more exciting
was that leading scorer Trevis
Simpson (averaging 18 points
per game) and starting point
guard Korey Van Dussen were
Men’s Bask., Sat
UNCG 	 59
W. Carolina 62
Joseph Abraham
Staff Writer Women’s Bask., Sat
UNCG 	 48
Furman 67
UNCG drops fifth straight conference game
The Spartans SoCon struggles
continue at Furman, where a 67-
48 defeat caused UNCG’s SoCon
record fell to 0-5 on the season,
a 3-11 record overall. This game
can be explained in one major
statistic, the two team’s shooting
percentage. The Spartans had
a shooting percentage of 29.7
percent, as opposed to the
Furman shooting percentage of
46.7 percent. A common debate
topic in sports is this idea of
exactly how much statistics can
explain the outcome a game.
While I would say statistics
do not always tell the story, in
this game shooting percentage
made all the difference, because
both absent on the box score.
With the team’s leading
scorer inactive for the contest,
somebody for the Spartans had
to step up. Who else better than
the Spartans second leading
scorer, Derrell Armstrong, who
averages 16.6 points per game
this season primarily coming off
the bench. The Spartans super
6th man did not disappoint
against Western Carolina
getting his 3rd consecutive start
and leading the team in scoring
with 25 points, which included
17 in the second half alone.
The shorthanded Spartans
put on an inspiring effort and
words from coach Wes Miller
only prove the point further,
“I am really proud of our team
and the fight they showed but
that doesn’t mean we are happy
with the result,” Coach Miller
added, “For 35 minutes, we were
the tougher team and took the
fight to Western Carolina. We
couldn’t close it out in the last
five minutes but we were resilient
in our play, playing without two
starters in Trevis (Simpson) and
Korey (Van Dussen).”
The game began very slowly as
Western Carolina only had a 5 to
2 lead going into the first
rachel sanders/carolinian
See western, page 19
Last-second Armstrong three clangs off rim in Cullowhee as Spartans fall to 1-2 in SoCon play
Armstrong, shown dealing with an A&T double team, had a monster effort fall short at WCU
besides that statistic UNCG and
Furman had similar numbers
when it came to rebounds and
turnovers.
Some positives from the
game was that UNCG Junior
forward Janae’ Stevenson had a
solid game with 15 points and
11 rebounds. Freshman guard
Ebona Goins also had a good
game, getting her career high
in rebounds with 6. UNCG
dominated the boards, picking
up 25 offensive rebounds, which
gave them significantly more
shot attempts than Furman;
however, UNCG failed to get any
consistent offense, only making
22 of their 74 shot attempts.
If UNCG had not such a poor
night shooting, they would have
easily won this game with their
offense.
Furman opened up the game
on a 6-0 run. The Spartans
responded to tie the game at 6.
UNCG hung tight with Furman
for a good part of the first half.
After some early offense, the
Spartans went seven minutes
without scoring, which allowed
Furman to gain control of the
game and a 16-6 lead. UNCG
was resilient and cut the lead
to 4 with just under six minutes
to go in the half. The Paladins
closed the half strong, going on
an 8-2 run to have a 32-20 at the
break.
UNCG had a rough start to the
second half as Furman opened
up with a 10-4 run to extend
their lead to 18 points. The
Spartans looked as if they were
going to going to get a run going
after a three by Ebona Goins to
make the score 44-31 Paladins,
with twelve minutes remaining
in regulation. However, UNCG
would go on another scoring
drought, only scoring one
point in four minutes off a Lucy
Mason free throw. This allowed
the Paladins to extend their lead
to 24 points, going up 56-32. For
the remaining minutes UNCG
had many opportunities to bring
the game within twenty or so
points, but could not manage to
threaten the Paladins.
Besides UNCG’s off night
shooting, an interesting
statistic to point out is that the
Spartans have not had great
bench production in their last
five games, which have all been
losses. Teams who are beating
UNCG are getting between
25-40 points a night from
their bench, while UNCG is
struggling on average to get 20.
An example of this was seen in
this game against Furman where
UNCGs bench was outscored
34-11. While a five game losing
streak, winless conference
See furman, page 18