The Carolinian [April 24, 2013]

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News
2 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 24 - Summer 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM A wide array of people filled
UNCG’S EUC this weekend
for the Southeastern Women’s
Studies Association (SEWSA)
convention. A sense of commu-nity
and cooperation was pal-pable
throughout the throngs of
attendees.
This was the first time UNCG
has hosted the SEWSA confer-ence.
The event ran from Thurs-day
April 18 until Saturday April
20, bringing people from all
parts of the country, as well as
some from as far away as Can-ada.
The convention had close
to 400 people registered. This
year’s topic stemmed from po-litical
outrage about the North
Carolina marriage amendement
to the congresswoman from
Michigan who was ostracized
for saying the word “vagina” on
the House floor. The title of the
program for this year’s conven-tion
was appropriately named:
“Outrage! Discourses, Practices
and Politics of Protest and So-cial
Transformation.”
The event was sponsored by
many different departments at
UNCG, some of which included
the Center for Creative Writing
in the Arts, the Department of
Dance and the Department of
Kinesiology, though many oth-ers
also sponsored the event.
It was also cosponsored by the
University of Georgia’s Institute
for Women’s Studies.
There were many prominent
speakers at the event. The key-note
speakers included Wah-neema
Lubiano, an Associate
Professor of African and Afri-can-
American Studies at Duke
University; Victoria Marks, a
UNCG hosts women’s studies conference
Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth Yarrington/The Carolinian
Crowds of conference-goers wait for a keynote speaker to arrive on the podium at this weekend’s SEWSA conference.
Elizabeth Yarrington
Staff Writer
professor of choreography in
the Department of World Arts
and Cultures at the University
of California at Los Angeles;
Caitlin Breedlove, who organiz-es
many different community
projects in North Carolina; Kai
Lumumba Barrow, who resides
in Durham; and Andrea Smith,
an Associate Professor of Me-dia
and Cultural Studies at the
University of California at Riv-erside.
The convention centered
around the keynote speakers,
but many different miniature
programs were held in between
these lectures. These lectures
had an assortment of different
topics, ranging from the educa-tion
system, Darfur’s use of rape
as a tool of war and women’s
health and body issues. These
lectures were spread through-out
the EUC. Many people
participated in small group dis-cussions,
opening the door for
engrossing conversation about
these issues in today’s societies,
internationally and nationally.
Some had UNCG students read-ing
their own poetry or reciting
monologues about the social
climate of North Carolina and
the United States as a whole.
UNCG students took an active
role in the convention through
volunteering and participation.
The convention was an oppor-tunity
for UNCG to show off
its Women’s and Gender Stud-ies
program to other academic
professionals and community
members.
The head coordinator of the
event was Isabell Moore, the
Women’s and Gender Studies
program administrator. Moore
has been a part of UNCG since
2012, and was deeply involved in
the work of planning this event
on UNCG’s campus. Planning
for the event took more than a
year, according to Moore, who
came into the planning process
after the retirement of Carole
Lindsey-Potter, the previous
Women’s and Gender Stud-
See sEWSA, page 5
News
WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM April 24 - Summer 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 3
Boston Marathon bombing suspects found; one killed, one captured
Two bombs exploded
last Monday at the Boston
Marathon, killing three people
and injuring at least 183 others.
As the nation reacted to this
news, information filtered in
later in the week revealing
who the suspects were. A
police officer at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology was
killed on Thursday, and the two
incidents seemed to share the
same perpetrators. A firefight
occurred in a neighborhood
in Boston, killing one of the
suspects. Late Friday evening,
the final suspect was captured
and taken into custody. The
city of Boston, the nation and
members of the international
community reacted in grief
to the traumatic events that
occurred over the week.
The city of Boston was
attacked Monday afternoon
at the Boston Marathon. Two
explosives hit the marathon,
one of the city’s trademark
events. The first bomb exploded
near the end of the finish line,
and the second bomb blew up
further up the street. Media
attention was focused on the
city during the immediate
bombings and over the course
of the remainder of the week.
The bombs contained shrapnel
and ball bearings. A third
bomb was located close to the
race and dismantled before it
could explode.
Wednesday evening the FBI
released photos of the two
suspects that were caught on
video. Police identified the
two suspected bombers as
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and
his younger brother Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, 19. The brothers
were from Chechnya, a federal
dependency of Russia, but
had lived in the United States
for over a decade and become
citizens. As of Monday night,
information about their
motives is still not clear.
Despite a lack of evidence,
some have attempted to
infer connections between
the brothers and Chechnyan
Islamic terror groups.
Later in the week, a police
officer was shot and killed
Aaron Bryant
Staff Writer
See Boston, page 5
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Above: Spectators rush to assist the wounded just after the first explosion.
Below: Bostonians erected a memorial on the scene of the finish line.
This closeup image of the aftermath shows the devastation caused by the Photo Courtesy of anubisabyss/Flickr
explosion.
Photo Courtesy of hahatango/flickr
News
4 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 24 - Summer 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM International News Briefs
Bird flu outbreak
in China affects 66
and kills 17
Earthquake
impact muddied by
conflicting reports
Compiled By: Stephanie Cistrunk
New Zealand passes
marriage equality
bill
An earthquake hit Iran and
Pakistan Tuesday afternoon.
According to the U.S. Geological
Survey the 7.8 magnitude quake
hit 50 miles southeast of the
town of Khash in Iran.
Along the Pakistan border,
at least 34 people were killed in
one village alone, said a Paki-stani
military official, adding
that another 80 were injured on
its side of the border. However,
reports of the fatalities became
unclear when a local govern-ment
official said the earthquake
claimed 3 lives, not 34.
An estimated 40 people were
injured from collapsed mud
walls and the wooden roofs of
their homes and shops.
Following a similar pattern of
conflicting reports, an Iranian
news station, Press TV, said that
at least 40 people died on the
Iranian border, but these reports
disagreed with other Iranian
news agencies who claim those
statements to be untrue.
With some Iranian news
commentators blaming the
news media for “exaggerating”
the facts, there is still no official
announcement of the death toll
from Tuesday’s powerful quake.
Pakistani Policeman Azmatullah
Regi said three dozen homes
and shops collapsed in the
Mashkel village, which was
the hardest hit by Iran’s second
quake in less than a week,
following last Tuesday’s 6.1
magnitude quake.
Additional troops along with
the Pakistani army have been
sent out in army helicopters
carrying medical practitioners,
medicine, and other relief items.
66 people have been infected
and 17 killed by the H7N9 bird
flu strain in the eastern provinces
of China. The bird flu, a common
virus in birds, was first detected
in humans on March 31.
The World Health
Organization is still investigating
whether the virus can be
spread between people. The
organization has already ruled
out birds’ contact with poultry as
the source, and is now examining
other options to stop the flow of
the deadly virus.
“In a significant percentage
of cases there is no known
contact with poultry,” said WHO
spokesman Timothy O’Leary. “I
mean that we still don’t know
what disease reservoir is. We
need to establish where the virus
is living in which animal, its
reservoir, and then try to figure
out how it’s being transmitted to
people. All the evidence points to
animal-to-human transmission,
but which animals, and how is it
being transmitted? This is the big
mystery.”
An entire family infected with
bird flu in Shanghai struck the
attention of Dr. Bai Chunxue, a
respiratory expert. In the family
an 87 year old and his two sons
all caught the virus without any
contact with birds or poultry.
Other possible connectors could
be migratory birds flying over
people’s homes and gardens,
spreading the virus through
their droppings, said David Hui,
whose expertise is in infectious
disease at the Chinese University
of Hong Kong. The WHO
experts will begin a week-long
investigation starting Friday.
New Zealand’s parliament
legalized same-sex marriage last
Wednesday with 77 votes to 44.
National Party Prime Minister
John Key backed the legislation,
which was originally introduced
by Labor MP Louisa Wall.
Although the country’s
younger population had been
the forerunners on supporting
same-sex marriages, the vote
showed a change across the
board politically, indicating that
New Zealand has a positive view
on same-sex marriage, with 7
out of 8 of the country’s political
parties supporting the bill. The
legislation will take effect in as
little as four months, making
it a huge success for same-sex
couples who want to adopt in
the future.
Even with the wide range of
political support in New Zealand,
the Protection of Marriage
Campaign recently came out
against same-sex marriage in
an ad made in the national
newspaper. The ad claimed the
bill would make marriage seem
“meaningless” and it would be
an act of “cultural vandalism.”
New Zealand’s Presbyterian
Church takes the same stance
as the campaign, but will allow
its ministers to make their own
personal choices if they want to
marry same-sex couples. With
the country being the first in the
Asian-Pacific region to legalize
gay marriage, the Australian
Marriage Equality lobby group
says hundreds of same-sex
couples will be flocking to
its Pacific neighbor territory
to marry their partners this
upcoming summer.
Olivia Cline
News Editor
Texas fertilizer plant explosion
kills 14 and injures 200
A fire burns at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant after Wednesday’s explosion.
Photo Courtesy of The Bay Area’s News Station/Flickr
An explosion at a fertilizer
plant in West, Texas on
Wednesday killed 14 people and
has injured over 200. Several
people have also been reported
missing.
The explosion is thought to
have been accidental, but no
information is known about the
possible cause or causes.
A massive fireball emerged
from the plant on Wednesday
evening, producing a tremor on
the level of a minor earthquake
that flattened homes and
businesses and knocked passers-by
within a five block radius to
the ground.
The blast was so severe that a
Texas resident, Brad Smith, who
lives nearly 50 miles away, felt
the tremors.
A large portion of the town
was immediately evacuated
due to the presence of volatile
ammonium nitrate. While
citizens are slowly being allowed
to return, there is still a great
deal of danger around the site of
the incident. When ammonium
nitrate is mixed with water, it
can be highly poisonous. While
the rain that the area recieved
on Thursday and Friday helped
to quench the fires at the plant,
it also increased the risk of
chemical damage from the
plant’s leaking pipes.
Despite this, authorities
have indicated that the area is
contained and that the town is
safe to re-occupy. City Council
member Steve Vanek was
quoted as saying “It is safe, safe
and safe” at a news conference.
Doctors at nearby hospitals
have indicated that most of the
injuries sustained have been
cuts, burns and other wounds
from the explosion itself,
rather than chemical damage,
indicating that the authorities’
analysis is most likely accurate.
The group of people killed
included ten emergency
responders, including five
volunteer firefighters and one
off-duty firefighter from a
Dallas district.
Between 50 to 60 homes were
damaged. Other buildings
See texas, page 5
News
WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM April 24 - Summer 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 5
Showers
ies program administrator. The
conference went well overall.
According to Moore, “We got
feedback from the president of
SEWSA that this felt like one of
the most community-engaged
conferences.”
The Master’s Women’s and
Gender Studies program has
undergone some changes in
recent history, and Moore feels
that this conference showed off
the program’s new way of look-ing
at Women’s and Gender
Studies. “We wanted to show
that our program is really strong
in intersectionality, which is the
connection between race, gen-der
and class in today’s society.”
The Women’s and Gender
Studies program is known for
incorporating a lot of com-munity
work and organization
into their projects. “We don’t
separate the community from
the academy,” said Moore. “We
think the interactions with the
community through internships
and organizations really played
a role in having the kind of dia-logue
between the academy and
the community.”
Friday’s keynote speaker, Vic-toria
Marks, gave a lecture on
the ways in which dance can
be used as a learning tool for
those with physical and mental
disabilities. The EUC audito-rium
had over 50 people spread
among the seats, with groups of
young and old nestled in tiny
pockets. Marks works with
American Veterans with PTSD
and uses dance as a method
for veterans to cope with the
trauma from war. At her lec-ture
she said, “It is not about
making people better, art is a
healing process.” Marks held
an open discussion period at
the end of her lecture, allow-ing
people to communally dis-cuss
and ask questions about
her lecture. Marks was given a
standing ovation at the end of
her lecture.
The final day of the conven-tion
brought eager, bustling
people into the EUC audito-rium
to see the final keynote
speaker, Andrea Smith. Smith
spoke to the packed audito-rium
about the “Academic In-dustrial
Complex,” and how
to make higher education for
women and men more acces-sible
and enjoyable. Smith gave
a two hour-long lecture, allow-ing
small groups of discussion.
The lecture incorporated many
professors and academic pro-fessionals
sharing their opinion
on the structure of academia. A
common idea throughout the
academic professionals was less
grading, better syllabi, and less
student-teacher structure.
Next year’s convention will
be held at UNC Wilmington
with a different topic. The date
for that event has not been set
yet, but will be available on
SEWSA’s website sometime this
year.
SEWSA
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on the campus of MIT. The
suspects were then reported
to have stolen a car from an
individual, and forced him
to withdraw money from an
ATM. Early the next morning,
members of the Boston Police
Department engaged in a
firefight with the older brother,
killing him. The younger
brother escaped the scene.
The following day, a massive
manhunt, including the Boston
Police Department, soldiers
and security forces began. The
hunt lasted until around 10
p.m. Friday when police found
the suspect hiding in a boat.
Massachusetts Governor
Deval Patrick offered a few
words, saying that the capture
would allow the night to be one
“where we’re all going to rest
easier.” On Wednesday, newly
elected Senator Elizabeth
Warren expressed solidarity
with the victims of the crimes
committed over the last week.
Warren said, “I rise with the
gratitude of a fearless people,
gratitude for the nation’s
prayers, strength, and resolve.
Two days ago there was a
cowardly and despicable
terrorist attack in the city of
Boston. Two times blasts from
hidden bombs rocked the
streets of Copley Square. Two
times courageous Bostonians
ran toward danger to help their
fellow citizens.”
The national response to
the bombings was immediate.
President Barack Obama gave
an address to the nation three
hours after the bombings,
promising that the suspects
would “feel the full weight of
justice.” Lindsey Graham, a
Senator from South Carolina,
suggested the 19-year-old
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should
not be read his Miranda
rights. Controversy began
soon after; one side of the
debate argued that the suspect
should be treated as an enemy
combatant, and therefore lose
his right. The other side says
that to deny him his right to
remain silent, especially as U.S.
citizen, not only undermines
the U.S. Constitution, but also
flies in the face of centuries of
social justice and American
democracy.
Boston
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which were entirely destroyed
or severely damaged included
three schools, a nursing home
and an apartment complex.
Thursday night the number
missing totaled 60. Since then
some people have been located,
but unfortunately most were
added to the rapidly rising
casualty count.
The mayor of West, Tommy
Muska, described the explosion
as “like a nuclear bomb went off.”
D. L. Wilson, a member of the
Texas public safety department,
echoed Muska’s sentiment,
calling the blast “massive -- just
like Iraq, just like the Murrah
(Federal) Building in Oklahoma
City.”
While search parties are
focused on locating survivors,
many of the citizens attempting
to be allowed to return to the
town are more concerned with
missing belongings, including
important legal documents and
sentimental items.
As many citizens had little
to no warning of the need to
evacuate, several people are
concerned with nothing so
much as obtaining changes of
clothing, or even the money
left at home needed to purchase
new ones.
Police and government
officials are working to find
temporary housing for many
citizens who lost their homes.
Since the homes lost were in
close proximity to the fertilizer
plant, many were also employees
of the plant, meaning that these
individuals lost their homes and
their jobs in one night.
However, a lost job is minor
in comparison to many of the
injuries sustained by citizens.
One family’s mother had both of
her feet crushed and lost a part
of her ankle. Her daughter’s face
and hands were cut, and her son
required staples in a wound on
the back of his head.
In the aftermath of the
explosions, concerned citizens
can help by donating blood
to the Red Cross, making
a donation through Baylor
University or utilizing the Red
Cross’s Safe and Well website
to inform friends and family
members of the safety of victims
who cannot get in touch with
each other.
Texas
from page 4
Opinions
6 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 24 - Summer 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Joseph Winberry
Staff Writer
Rand Paul became a sena-tor
by happenstance. He rode
coattails past the Republican
establishment during the 2010
primary race, and subsequently
rode anti-Obama coattails in the
general election, despite facing
a strong candidate who prod-ded
Paul’s libertarian leanings.
Paul is the son of former Texas
Congressman Ron Paul who
made waves as the anti-Fed,
anti-internationalist, constitu-tionalist
candidate in the GOP
2008 and 2012 presidential pri-maries.
People expected small
government shenanigans - and
they have gotten them. Howev-er,
Paul has also done a good job
of uniting his libertarian prin-ciples
with the ideas cherished
by the party establishment.
Tough prospect: how the GOP can reach African American vote
2013 has been a busy year for
Kentucky’s junior senator. He
served as the Tea Party’s choice
to rebut the State of the Union
Address. He gave a 13-hour
filibuster. These already proved
that Paul is a potential 2016 Re-publican
presidential nominee.
Then he went to Howard Uni-versity.
Howard University is a His-torically
Black University lo-cated
in Washington, D.C.
Chartered shortly after the end
of the Civil War; Howard has
long been one of the most pres-tigious
HBCUs in the country.
According to campus data, there
are more black Ph.D. students
on Howard’s campus than any-where
else in the world. One
might wonder why a middle
aged, white Republican from
Kentucky was invited to speak at
their graduation.
Founded in the 1850s as an
anti-slavery party, the Republi-can
Party pushed for adoption
of the Reconstruction amend-ments,
founded the NAACP,
and aided the 1960s Civil Rights
movement while many South-ern
Democrats stood in opposi-tion.
Why is it then that in 2012
Romney only won two percent
of the black vote? Polls indicate
that minorities generally tend to
be more liberal, particularly on
economic issues. So, Democrat
Barack Obama being his opposi-tion
would be the obvious, how-ever
incorrect, answer. The real
reason for Republican loss is the
idea within the black communi-ty
that conservatism is respon-sible
for slavery and the rem-nants
of it, which survived for a
century. With the implementa-tion
of Voter I.D. laws and other
legislation that has been deemed
by some as anti-minority, blacks
continue to view the GOP skep-tically,
or even hostilely.
Rand Paul’s visit to Howard
has not been particularly ac-claimed;
it has been called ev-erything
from pandering to elit-ist.
Republicans must do more
listening and less talking when
it comes to winning minority
support. History suggests that
minorities should give the GOP
a second look. In this instance,
a libertarian like Paul can be
quite helpful because in addi-tion
to the “Republican” argu-ment,
there is a liberty argument
to be made as well. While Paul
spent a majority of his time talk-ing
about the history that once
united the Republican Party and
our black community, an argu-ment
for liberty would be better.
We should allow blacks to de-cide,
if either of the two major
parties, maximizes the freedom
that Civil Rights leaders wanted.
Rand Paul has been criticized
for his time at Howard and per-haps
rightly so. It is difficult for
a white Republican to discuss
civil rights and the black com-munity
without sounding out
of place. However, the sena-tor’s
decision to seek out the
black vote without amending
his actual beliefs is a sign that a
positive, productive discussion
between the Republican Party
and the black community may
be possible. The rest of the GOP
would be smart to follow Rand’s
lead and reach out to black vot-ers.
The Republicans cannot ex-pect
to maintain their status as
a majority party by shutting the
door on everyone. Outreach to
unlikely Republicans and a re-minder
of the benefits of liberty
are necessary.
Emily Brown
Opinions Editor
At its current trajec-tory,
the Republican Party will
be irrelevant after the 2030s.
The first thing that comes to
mind is their stance against ba-sic
human rights, such as the
equality of marriage. The more
libertarian wing of their party
likes to argue that the govern-ment
should not play any role in
marriage, but until they actively
lobby for non-legal measures
of matrimony, they may as well
save their breath for their next
empty talking point. Around
80 percent of young Americans
believe in marriage equality. It
was around this time in the Civil
Rights movement that the now-
Republican party let go and al-
End-times for the GOP
lowed legislation to pass, but the
mainstream GOP iinstead main-tained
their resolution against
gay marriage unanimously at
their last conference.
As mentioned, the Civil Rights
movement was effectively the
birth of our modern parties.
Many Southern Democrats were
better suited for the Republican
Party than their own. Likewise,
many Republicans began to align
themselves more appropriately
with Democrats. Our modern
parties emerged on their current
ends of the political spectrum
due in part to racial equality,
which makes it impossible for
any Republican to effectively ar-gue
that their party has a history
of racial inclusion. Making the
point that they were the party
against slavery is a superficial
attempt to pretend that names
matter more than people – that
titles are more important than
our philosophies. Being a Re-publican
does not mean having
an “R” next to your name were
you to file for office, but it means
believing in a fundamentally
outdated set of rules that were
meant only to be the framework
for future progress, achieved by
reassessing the status quo and
redefining the system to which
we adhere. The party that lauds
itself as constitutionalists has
forgotten that were their prized
piece of paper still the law of
the land in its original form, I
would be in no position to vote
to begin with, and our President
would be in chains.
I could not write about the
future of the Republican Party
without taking note that not only
have they failed to serve our larg-est
minority population, but that
they have no purpose legislating
in a nation that is so comprised
of intelligent, capable women.
Women entrepreneurs increase
in number every year, and the
Republican Party remains the
voice for workforce inequality in
wages and labor practices. The
argument surrounding a wom-an’s
reproductive rights is futile
so long as the GOP fails to serve
in the basic respect of guarantee-ing
equal pay for equal work.
The only appropriate gain the
Republican Party has made in
the past decade, given their new
habit of voting against benefits
owed to our Veterans and ensur-ing
their safety domestically, has
been in immigration policies.
Several notable Republicans
have supported immigration
reform, but it hardly sets them
apart from the Democrats, as
some in both parties have suc-ceeded
and failed.
I do not hate Republicans,
nor their party. I do not believe
that the Democratic Party gets it
right, nor do I believe they will
always be the voice of reason
or inclusion. I am not proud of
historical actions of people who
share a partisan relation with
myself. However, I can say with
the utmost confidence that the
modern GOP has failed to be a
relevant political power across
the nation. It is not because they
do not “reach out”, it is because
they do not see the world as it is
and therefore do not serve the
world as it should be.
Opinions
WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM April 24 - Summer 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 7
Thomas O’Connell
Staff Writer
Drug screenings and gun control:
deciding when safety matters
Every time I check my
Facebook feed, it appears
ignorance has increased and
empathy has decreased.
It has become sewage for
every pseudo-intellectual
and anyone that believes they
are making a clever point. A
recent example of this is the
call for “drug testing of welfare
recipients.” The appalling
classist and elitist attitude
aside, this idea is completely
ridiculous because it has no
basis whatsoever.
If you ask these brilliant
social media policy makers
their plans to implement
the doctrine, if any, they are
laughable at best. If they so
adamantly support mandatory
drug testing, should they not
support a similar regulation of
guns? Forget it. According to
them, the second amendment
guarantees them the
unconditional right to own
guns, and taking away their
semi-automatic weapon is
an invasion of privacy if not
blatant sacrilege.
All sarcasm aside, let us
look at why controlling gun
ownership makes so much
more sense than controlling
substance abuse among
welfare recipients. There is
an important distinction to
make between the two in
public policy as the bill for
more background checks on
firearm sales has failed in the
Senate. The final count for the
background check amendment
was 54 to 46. Many of these
same Senators have supported
the drug testing idea in the
past. Senator Orin Hatch of
Utah voted against the bill
but proposed a bill in 2010
to drug test those receiving
unemployment. According to
the Senator, his constituents
suggested, “About time. Why
do we keep giving money to
people who are going to go
use it on drugs instead of their
families?” Clearly, Senator
Orin Hatch looks to Facebook
for citizen proposals.
Substance Abuse Policy
Research indicated that only
a small percentage of citizens
were drug-dependent, and drug
use was significantly smaller
among welfare recipients
than those not receiving
government assistance.
According to the FBI, over
8000 people were killed as a
result of firearm use in 2010,
whereas narcotic use caused
only 39 deaths. The least
lethal, most readily available
illegal drug is marijuana. The
use of marijuana alone kills
zero people a year according to
the US Drug Abuse Network.
Legal, prescription drugs kill
more people than both illegal
drugs and guns. If we are going
to test for illegal drugs, like
virtually harmless marijuana,
should we not also test for
prescription drugs?
No rational person would
want to deny anyone the
medications required to
maintain their health. For
that reason, prescription drugs
are legal in certain justifiable
circumstances, but illegal
otherwise. Applying that same
logic to gun control, farmers
should be able to own a
shotgun to protect their cattle,
but government should not
guarantee everyone’s right to
possess one.
What I find most interesting
is that advocates of stricter
welfare qualifications never
demand that someone with
welfare not be allowed to
own a gun. In their eyes, gun
ownership is a constitutional
right while drugs are
completely unacceptable. Ask
these individuals whether
mandatory screening qualifies
as improper search and
seizure, and you will receive an
abundance of characterizations
and stereotypical remarks
including terms such as “dirty
hippie” “bleeding heart liberal”
among others. Then ask if they
believe all firearms should be
legal including fully automatic
weapons, flame throwers and
grenade launchers, and prepare
for awkward silence.
The demand for mandatory
drug testing for federal and
state assistance over gun
control is just another example
of how vitriolic and abundantly
stupid our political discourse
has become. I am targeting
specific political groups at the
moment, but I do acknowledge
that progressives engage in
silly ideas as well. Right now,
liberal and centrists in this
country are simply calling
for reasonable regulations on
certain weapons and better
documentation of sales. What
we are not saying is that we
want to drug test all welfare
recipients indiscriminately,
while keeping every citizen
armed to the teeth regardless
of their mental health history
or criminal background.
If ever you find yourself
supporting these suggested
pieces of legislation, I suggest
you stick to Facebook.
Are drugs a greater risk to the public than civilian access to guns?
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Opinions 8 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 24 - Summer 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Emily Ritter
Staff Writer
Talking about sex: how should teens learn?
How we talk about sex matters.
From the way parents
approach their kids, to the way
sex education is handled in
public schools - it matters.
While North Carolina is
allowed to teach comprehensive
sex education, it is left to the
discretion of the counties.
In many instances, tradition
outranks necessity. The
antiquated idea of abstinence
is just that for many teens - a
charming throwback. The
reality is that young adults
need to know the truth
about pregnancy, STDs, and
establishing healthy sexual
relationships. The Healthy
Youth Act of 2009 opened a
lot of doors for sex education
to be taught to seventh, eighth
and ninth graders. It was
implemented in the 2010-2011
school year, and amended the
previous guidelines. Although
it should be noted that the act,
amended House Bill 88, still
clearly states that the program:
“Teaches that abstinence
from sexual activity outside
of marriage is the expected
standard for all school-age
children.”
This should not take away
from the comprehensive STD
and pregnancy prevention
curriculum that it does outline,
but it should help spark a much-needed
conversation. It is not
enough to simply teach young
adults the bare minimum,
because there are a lot of gray
areas. The way bodies, and
the interactions between those
bodies, are perceived and
discussed is extraordinarily
important. Young adults
today have no conception
of “healthy” or “satisfying”
sexual relationships. There
is no curriculum, there is no
discussion and the media only
widens this gap. The standards
that young people must meet
to feel desired, sexy and wanted
are unreachable. The pressure
to constantly look sexy, be
desired or to be a completely
sexualized being is damaging.
These mindsets follow young
adults into adulthood, and into
the political realm.
According to the U.S.
Department of Health and
Human Services, in 2010, North
Carolina was ranked 19 out
of 51 states and the District of
Columbia in teen births rates
among females aged 15-19.
That year there were 12,309 teen
births recorded. It is obvious
from this statistic that teens are
having sex. They are having
sex that may not be safe, may
not be healthy, and may not be
what they actually want. This is
a point that needs examining,
because it is a question rarely
considered: what do young
adults want out of sex?
This question is jarring in
that it in some ways allows
young adults to think that sex
is okay, which many politicians,
educators and administrators,
and guardians believe to be
opposite of what we should be
telling young adults.
This distrust makes sense
on many levels. Young adults
are impressionable. They are
developing and they need to be
molded in some “moral” sense.
If this attitude worked, there
wouldn’t have been 3,704 births
reported for women aged 15-
17. Which is why the question
“what do young adults want
out of sex?” is so important; it
redefines the conversation and
steers it in a new direction.
Right now, the dialogue hinges
on what officials are comfortable
with, and not on the actual
needs of the students of these
sex education programs. These
students are not asked what
they need out of sex education.
Instead they are told what they
need, taught the bare minimum
and again reminded that sex is
bad. Sex is bad unless you’re
older, unless you’re married,
unless you’re straight. So, young
adults think sex is bad and it
becomes a rushed, shameful
secret in many respects. Young
adults do not consider what
they need out of sex, or what
they want out of sex. Half the
battle is breaking the biggest
ruled laid out for them: not to
do it at all.
Legislation surrounding sex
impacts access to abortion,
affordable contraception and
it deals with people’s lives in
broad, general terms. Sex is
powerful, it is important and
it should be respected. We all
need to start asking ourselves
these essential questions: How
do we want our bodies to be
discussed politically? And more
importantly, what do we want
out of the discussion? When
we can answer these inquiries
for ourselves, we can start
asking for what we want from
educators, from politicians, and
from partners.
Does sex education encourage healthy sex for teens?
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Samantha Korb
Staff Writer
Aggressive canine adoption: unprecedented regulations
Another week, and yet
another ridiculous bill is being
proposed by the North Carolina
General Assembly.
This week, it is House Bill 956,
titled the “Regulate Ownership
of Aggressive Dog Breeds” bill.
The title itself is problematic,
but the contents of the bill are
much worse. I am sure some
people already have an image of
what constitutes an “aggressive
dog,” but if passed, what
breeds are we really talking
about? Sadly, we are talking
about pit bulls, rottweilers,
mastiffs, chows, wolf hybrids,
Presa Canarios and any other
breeds that are mixed with
these breeds. These breeds are
often banned from apartment
complexes, renting houses, and
even dog parks because of their
anticipated aggressive behavior.
In shelters and pounds across
America these breeds tend to
be the ones last adopted and
the first euthanatized because
of their public perception and
certain restrictions already in
place. House Bill 956 reinforces
stereotypes about these breeds
and makes it much harder for
these breeds to be adopted.
If passed, House Bill 956
would require people seeking
ownerships of one of these
breeds to undergo a criminal
background check as well as a
4 hour education course, notify
their residential or housing
institution of their aggressive
breed and apply for a 25-dollar
aggressive breed permit. The
reasoning behind this bill
according to Democratic
Representative Rodney Moore
of Mecklenburg is that the
feedback he has received about
these breeds deems them
aggressive, and therefore pet
owners of these breeds need to
be accountable.
I can agree on the importance
placed on ownership
accountability, but it is not
necessary to go through such a
rigid process to be a responsible
pet owner. If passed, an
owner can be charged with a
misdemeanor for not satisfying
all of these complicated
requirements, and would also
have to pay a fine of 50 dollars.
Of course, I recognize that
irresponsible pet owners exist,
but sadly this fact applies to all
breeds and species. Although
there are dog bites from these
“aggressive” breeds, there are
dog bites from every other breed
as well. It is stereotypical and
unfair to say that these breeds
only are the ones that should be
deemed aggressive, especially
so vehemently by the state. The
classification of these breeds as
“aggressive” aids in increasing
events of canine euthanasia,
and it reinforces preexisting,
inaccurate stereotypes.
With many bans already
existing in housing areas and
dog parks, these unnecessary
and dangerous restrictions
unfairly blacklist these breeds.
It is also important to note
that these breeds might not be
socialized because of these bans
and additional restrictions,
leading to what folks see
as stereotypical aggressive
behavior. Representative Moore
says he does not want to unfairly
label these dogs as bad dogs,
but wants owners to know what
type of dog they are getting. He
also stated that despite many
owners taking responsibility of
their pets, it is in their nature to
be aggressive. To say a handful
of breeds possess certain innate
tendencies that others do not
ignores the impact of a positive
upbringing, which many of
these dogs have. Many of these
dogs are sweet and loving
creatures who are taken care of
and raised responsibly.
The sad truth is many of
these dogs already face grim
futures. Pit bulls used to be the
king of all dog breeds in the
early twentieth century; now
they are seen as pariahs, the
dog no one wants to have. They
are seen as vicious creatures
with no other motive but to
attack. Giving House Bull 956
a chance gives North Carolina
the unprecedented power of
permanently labeling dogs with
stereotypical traits and making
ownership of these animals even
harder than before. Responsible
ownership shouldn’t have to be
mandated by the state, making
these sweet animals even harder
to adopt. There have been too
many breeds like these put
down and it is time to act to
make sure this horrendous
legislation is not passed.
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A&E 10 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 24 - Summer 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Some believe the problems
of American society will be
solved by complex computer
algorithms. Others say there
are no problems. An increasing
number of people are looking
to their environment and
neighbors to find like-minded
folks able to shed light on
human plight.
For those who question
establishment, make things,
bring things, or just enjoy
hanging out in the grass, it
can be hard to find a place to
express oneself freely. That’s
why the four-day long Shakori
Hills GrassRoots Spring
Festival, hosted by the Shakori
Hills Community Arts Center
invites soul-searchers to learn
and love in an environment
that promotes harmony and
creativity. This year’s festival
ran from April 18-21.
“There’s so much energy in
this land that sometimes it just
shoots-up out of the ground,”
said Bill “Kill-Basa” Guthrie,
sitting behind his alternative-healing
booth on the third day
of the festival. Guthrie and
his business partner Honey
Music (who offered to show her
birth certificate) have practiced
alternative healing at Shakori
for ten years now. Guthrie
and Music have witnessed a
rise in attendance, specifically
in the youth audience, and
they make a point to connect
each individual integrally and
definitely spiritually to the
festival grounds.
“When you see a guy throw
his [cigarette] butt on the
ground, the best thing to do
is put your hand around him
and try to teach him with love,”
said Guthrie, a true North
Carolinian Gandhi. Saturday’s
rain and mud had had little
effect on Guthrie’s positive
humor. According to Guthrie,
it has rained at every Shakori
festival since 2002; “Rain
follows open-back banjos,” he
said.
Music, who is also a guru
of alternative health in her
own right, spoke positively
about the learning experience
many young music-goers
are getting. “I saw a group of
people yesterday and with no
leadership, not a word, [they]
just started picking up trash,”
she recalled, “the feelings
[around here] are inclusive, not
exclusive.” Guthrie and Music
occupy a booth in the middle
of the festival grounds where
a tent conglomeration offers
techniques to supposedly heal
any detriment the human body.
Daniel Wirtheim
Special to the Carolinian
Shakori Hills GrassRoots Fest 2013
Photo Courtesy of Carlos Morales
Photo Courtesy of Carlos Morales
Photo Courtesy of Carlos Morales
The Dance Tent, pictured here, was one of several stages at Shakori Hills.
Itagui Correa from Locos Por Juana and Elliot Martin from John
New Orleans’s Dirty Bourbon River Show headlined Saturday night. Brown’s Body hung out in between sets on Saturday.
See Shakori, page 13
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The Sapphires Hold Domestic Violence Concert
Rob Zombie certainly
understands horror movie
history. His films are riddled
with images and concepts
inspired by some of the great
horror directors of all time.
Zombie started out his career
making fun, intensely gory
pictures like “The House of
1000 Corpses” and “The Devil’s
Rejects,” which remains his best
film to date. With “Rejects”
Zombie accomplished a feat
that few modern filmmakers are
capable of; he managed to create
a singular, horrifying vision
while still wearing his influences
on his sleeve. Like Quentin
Tarantino, Zombie makes films
for genre fans, because he is one
himself.
Zombie may have worn his
influences a bit too openly with
his remake of “Halloween,” a
film marred by the director’s
inability to separate his vision
from John Carpenter’s original.
In the followup, “Halloween II,”
Zombie rectified this situation
by veering towards the surreal.
The results were at times
thrilling, though perhaps a little
muddled. With “The Lords of
Salem,” Zombie makes a wildly
uneven, sometimes terrifying
homage to about 20 different
directors.
Zombie’s aim is too broad
here, and as a result the film
ends up buckling under its own
weight. The film follows Heidi
(Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio
DJ who receives a wooden box
containing a record – a “gift
from the Lords.” As the
Brad Dillard
Film Critic
Movie review: “The Lords of Salem”
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Megan Christy
Staff Writer
The UNCG Sapphires held a
benefit concert on April 16 to
raise funds and awareness for
victims of domestic violence. The
concert was part of a semester-long
project for a sociology class
on family violence.
“The students who put this
together are members of a
group in my family violence
class this semester whose
semester project was to raise
awareness of family violence
among sociology students,“ said
professor Saundra Westervelt.
“They have completed many
activities over the course of the
semester to accomplish this,
including putting together a
short YouTube video for sexual
assault awareness month.”
Through this concert and
the various other projects, the
sociology class hoped to help
UNCG students learn more
about domestic violence. “We
simply want to raise student
awareness regarding the
prevalence of family violence
issues in our culture” said
Westervelt.
Culture influences the way
people perceive family violence,
and these influences can distort
what people believe about
domestic violence. “We are a
culture that spends an inordinate
amount of time… talking about
stranger violence, when the
vast majority of people in the
US who are victims of violence
are victimized by someone they
know or by someone within their
own family,” said Westervelt.
“Hopefully, increased awareness
will increase the likelihood that
students will seek assistance if
they are struggling with these
issues, and maybe even they will
take that next step to try to do
something about it once they
leave UNCG and go out into the
world.”
The Sapphires gathered on Tate
Street’s stage to sing poignant
pieces like Delta Rae’s “Bottom
of the River” and Marina and the
Diamonds’ “Lies.” The a capella
group’s expressive performances
of the tragic compositions
added emotional weight to the
facts relayed to the audience
throughout the night. The
Sapphires introduced statistics
about domestic violence
between songs, reminding their
audience of the purpose behind
the event. “As women we are
taught to fear strangers who walk
at night,” read Sapphire member
Lydia Davis. “However, a survey
reports that over 80 percent of
women who were raped were
victimized by someone they
knew. 57 percent of rapes occur
on dates. And sadly, only 27
percent of women identify it
as rape.” Real world numbers
and statistics made the difficult
subject of rape and domestic
violence more real to those who
may not have realized it before.
Westervelt has a list of the
most common myths about
family violence, which she
and her students continue to
find inspiration from to help
victims of domestic violence.
Of the top 20 myths, the most
widely believed are that family
violence is rare; family violence
is committed by people who are
severely mentally ill; battering
victims do not leave; leaving
an abusive relationship stops
the violence; and domestic
violence (including dating
violence) begins very early in a
relationship, and thus victims
knew what they were getting
into and are responsible for their
own victimization.
“The truth behind these
myths are: the family is the most
violent institution in American
society,” said Westervelt. “Most
family violence offenders do not
suffer from a diagnosable mental
illness, most victims of violence
do attempt to leave but it on
average takes them attempting
to leave four-to-seven times
before they are successful, the
most violent time in an abusive
relationship is after the victim
has left and physical violence
in a relationship typically
does not begin until after a
significant commitment has
been made in the relationship.”
When individuals learn to stop
generalizing what is known
about rape they can become
more knowledgeable about what
they can do to stop this abuse
and help those affected by it.
All donations made during
the concert went to My Sister
Susan’s Home, a safe haven for
young women who are pregnant
or taking care of a child and are
affected by domestic violence.
The shelter, which opened in
2010, accommodates 10 teenage
mothers ages 16-21. In addition
to housing these mothers are
provided counseling, education
and life skills training.
The Sociology 420 class also
has a drive going on the third
floor of Graham to collect
donations for My Sister Susan’s
Home. People are encouraged to
donate and help make the world
of a battered woman a more
comfortable place.
The Sapphires read facts about domestic violence in between singing songs. .
See Salem, page 13
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Record stores across
Greensboro celebrated the
sixth annual Record Store
Day on Friday, April 20. The
event pushes music enthusiasts
across the world to their local
brick and mortar record stores
in a movement to celebrate the
thriving medium of vinyl. As
per Record Store Day tradition,
several of Greensboro’s local
stores offered exclusives and
sales available only for the
event.
For the record co-op of CFBG,
the Record Store Day festivities
felt larger than ever. Learning
from last year’s turnout, co-owners
Jack Bonney and Max
Benbassat made certain CFBG
had even more to offer their
voracious shoppers this time.
“Last year we totally
underestimated it” said Bonney.
“Last year we had twenty
people in line, today we had
fifty.” Bonney and Benbassat
ordered three times more
exclusive stock than they had
last year, and the majority
of it was put on display in
the garage behind the main
store. The extra large stock
included promotional items
such as exclusive tote bags or
free stickers and buttons, plus
the wealth of records released
specifically for the event. Big-name
exclusives like Dave
Matthew’s Band’s “Live Trax
Vol. 1” sold out immediately as
customers swarmed and picked
away at the Record Store Day
offerings.
CFBG enlisted popular DJs
like Prez from WUAG’s “In the
Beat of the Night” to entertain
customers, but the store elected
not to bring live music to the
event this year. “Last year we
had performances and it gets a
bit hectic,” said Bonney. Many
customers took advantage of
the store’s four-for one sale on
used records, an attribute of
CFBG Benbassat and Bonney
felt set CFBG apart from the
exclusive-centric nature of
Record Store Day.
For stores not involved with
promotional sponsorship from
Record Store Day, the event’s
exclusives can seem harmful to
the spirit of celebrating vinyl.
Katie Johnson of the Maya art
gallery on Tate Street feels the
price-gouging on Ebay and
other online venues following
Record Store Day lessens the
Kyle Minton
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO CELEBRATES ANNUAL RECORD STORE DAY
impact of the event. “We feel
Record Store Day isn’t about the
exclusives,” said Johnson. “It’s
about supporting your record
store.”
Maya served record lovers by
hosting a sale on its hundreds
of used records and even added
an artistic flair to the day with
first annual record art show.
The show, contributed by
members of Piedmont Artists
United, covered Maya’s walls
with colorfully painted, melted
and re-purposed records.
Some of the records served as
painting canvases while others
transformed into abstract
shapes, masks, and even fish.
Maya’s support of local artists
on Record Store Day extended
past its wall decorations,
however. The gallery supported
Greensboro’s vast history of
local musicians through the
release of “Do-It-Together,” a
mixtape from TYP Tapes. Local
artists, including experimental
trumpet-pop act Heralding
performed in Maya to cap off
the celebratory day.
Edward McKay’s on
Battleground Avenue hosted
their own selection of Record
Store Day exclusives, though
the selection was slimmer,
even offering exclusives from
previous years, like The Flaming
Lips’ “The Flaming Lips and
the Heady Fwends” from
2012. Contests were held for
Record Store Day goodies and
customers could walk to the in-store
DJ and recognize certain
artists’ songs for free swag.
Jack White served as the
ambassador for Record Store
Day this year, the mainstream
face for an event focused on
the spirit of independent stores.
Big-name exclusives for the
day included The Flaming Lips’
four disc set which requires
four record players playing at
the same time and a new single
from comedy rap group The
Lonely Island, through neither
group would need a holiday
to sell out in stores across the
world. Record Store Day’s reach
is expanding exponentially by
the year, and there seems to
be no end in sight for vinyl’s
resurgence.
“It’s black Friday for record
stores” said CFBG’s Bonney.
Record Store Day’s growth
and exclusive influence may
worry some independent
shoppers, but record store
owners insist the holiday serves
an important purpose: getting
people into local record stores,
buying their favorites and
supporting the community.
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CFBG held plenty of the holiday’s most valued exclusives in their store.
Maya’s record art show hosted a variety of disfigured vinyl records.
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Salem
from page 11
This July UNCG’s School of
Music, Theatre and Dance will
welcome Peter Alexander as its
new dean.
Alexander has had 30 years
practicing his profession as a
musician. After receiving his
training in classical music, he
went on to perform as a part of
a prestigious orchestra as well as
compose some of his own pieces
in New York. He performed as
a principal clarinetist for the
Hudson Valley Philharmonic in
Poughkeepsie, New York from
1970 to 1997.
After his tenure with the Hud-son
Valley Philharmonic, Alex-ander
entered several teaching
jobs. He was dean of the Uni-versity
of Southern Mississippi’s
College of the Arts and dean of
the School of Fine and Perform-ing
Arts at the State University of
New York at New Paltz. His most
recent dean position was within
Butler University’s Jordan Col-record
plays it triggers violent
flashbacks of her town’s violent
past. The band is later dubbed
the Lords of Salem, and it turns
out this may not be a rock band
at all, but a coven of witches who
are coming back to take revenge
on the town that wronged them.
The first 40 minutes of the film
are fantastic, as Zombie slowly
creaties an atmosphere of dread
and tension that, unfortunately,
only partially pays off in the
film’s last hour.
Make no mistake; the last hour
contains some of the more daring
imagery that can currently be
seen in cinemas. The problem
is, Zombie does not know how
to use these images to create
anything meaningful. Zombie’s
film includes many disparate
One-on-One with Peter Alexander, new
dean of School of Music, Theatre & Dance
elements that he can never quite
get to click, and they end up
becoming shallow knockoffs of
70’s and 80’s exploitation horror
and cult films.
His film could basically
be described as having the
supernatural plot of a Mario Bava
film, the atmosphere of a Dario
Argento Giallo, the gore effects
and surrealist aspects of Lucio
Fulci, the religious iconography
of Alejandro Jodorowsy, the
psychology of David Lynch,
and the narrative construction
of Stanley Kubrick (specifically
“The Shining,’ and to a certain
extent “2001: A Space Odyssey,”
most notably during his gonzo
finale), among others.
Certainly these are some of
the best directors of all time. In
terms of the genre Zombie is
working in, there are no better
filmmakers to take from. The
lege of Fine Arts in Indianapolis.
“I heard about the position
through Steve Roberson, the
dean of undergraduate stud-ies,”
explained Alexander. “We
worked together at another uni-versity
and he nominated me for
the position.”
In order to successfully look
over the School of Music, The-atre
and Dance, Alexander plans
to keep quiet in his first few
months as dean to learn as much
as he can about the department.
In a phone interview, he said,
“Starting out, I plan on find-ing
out as much as I can about
this department and learn what
makes it tick.”
“I am most excited about the
quality of the program!” Alex-ander
said. He spoke with en-thusiasm
about integrating the
different programs within the
school, which he said he hopes
will bring the programs closer.
“I have had lots of experience
with integration of the arts,” said
Alexander. “I can only hope to
Megan Christy
Staff Writer
fact remains, though, that if any
of these directors had made this
film it would be considered a
minor work in their filmography.
The final 15 minutes of the film
is like a journey through hell,
and taken on its own this section
is somewhat of a triumph. Yet,
when taken in the context of
the rest of the film, it just does
not make a whole lot of sense.
Zombie throws a mess of
elements at the wall, and very
few of them stick.
The current state of the horror
genre needs a film like “The
Lords of Salem” to reenergize it,
but Zombie seems only partly
up to the task. Zombie’s reliance
on atmosphere and haunting
imagery as a source of horror are
refreshing in the age of the jump
scare, but his film can never
quite reach the lofty heights to
which he aspires.
bring what I have done in the
past and bring it to UNCG to
inspire more integration within
the arts.”
Asked what his position as
dean would require, Alexander
chuckled and said, “I do it all!
The responsibilities of dean in-volve
balancing the budget and
making sure it is spent wisely,
hiring faculty and staff of the de-partment,
working with tenure,
recruiting students, reaching
out to all our current students,
making sure everything is up-to-date…
it’s endless! I’m the prob-lem
solver chief.”
Alexander will combine what
he has learned from his past
experience to further improve
UNCG’s performing arts.
Alexander replaces Dr. Sue
Stinson, who has been interim
dean since last July. Before Stin-son,
John Deal was the dean of
the School of Music from 2001-
2010, and the dean of the com-bined
School of Music, Theatre
and Dance from 2010-2012.
Shakori
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Various other strips of
land around the festival were
designated to crafts, boutiques
and non-profit organizations
who use the festival as a way to
gain notoriety for their cause.
“About one to two percent
of people seem interested,”
said Zachariah DeBartolo, a
member of Go Conscious Earth,
an organization dedicated to
preserving rainforests in the
Congo. “Its hard when you
say, ‘I’m trying to save the
rainforest,’ it sounds so cliché,”
he said.
Another man, John Moyer,
ex-touring musician, was
trying to pitch health insurance
to traveling musicians. “I’ve
been in their place myself and
now I just want to give back, by
interweaving the medical field
and the music field,” said Moyer.
Many of the booth attendants
are dedicated individuals who
are looking for a way to give
back to their community.
The music of Shakori
represented an eclectic blend
not limited to bluegrass, hip-hop,
folk, or jam-bands. Music
could be heard everywhere,
from the banjos of a muddy
truck bed to the horns of a
spicy New Orleans marching
band. A few acts have claimed a
permanent spot for themselves
at Shakori. Most notable is
loosely New York state-based
Donna the Buffalo, who can
call claim to establishing the
festival.
Members of Donna
The Buffalo started the
first Grassroots festival,
Finger Lakes Grassroots, in
Trumansburg New York in
1991. Later the group’s then-bassist
John Puryear decided
to move the festivals south. A
private donor (who wishes to
remain anonymous) gave the
land to Puryear and a board
of coordinators who designed
the first Shakori Hills festival
in 2003. It would be an outdoor
festival with variety and in
family in mind.
“You have all walks of life,
really,” said Tara Nevins, one
of the Donna the Buffalo’s
founding members. “You’ve
got just music lovers in general,
some people who are more
alternative-minded than maybe
some others. It’s a very wide
audience in age and in style.”
Nevins and her band set
the example for the positive
mentality that surrounded
the festival. “People who
leave Grassroots really leave
refreshed and inspired,” said
Nevins. “It’s kind of like hitting
the restart button on life. That’s
how it should be in all festivals,
I think,” said Nevins. Donna
The Buffalo played six times in
this year’s spring festival alone.
“Our main buzz is
community, arts, and
education,” said Sara Waters,
the co-coordinator at Shakori
Hills. “We have anything
from students working on
agriculture, to booths on
North Carolina fracking (an
environmentally detrimental
process of obtaining
petroleum).” Besides working
with the organizers, many
of the agricultural students
also work in the community
gardens, which are free to the
public. The students build
irrigation systems and tend to
vegetation, and sometimes a
few animals.
“At the fall festival we’ll have
some pigs, and when it’s over,
we’ll feed a couple of them to
the bands,” said Waters.
For ten years now the Shakori
Hills Grassroots Festival has
brought artists from around
North Carolina and beyond to
engage in a celebration of life.
The people of Shakori are those
who come to learn, to create,
and to enjoy music. In the
fitting words of Honey Music,
“Shakori is in your heart and
your mind. Here we have more
fun than people.”
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identity and interesting people
Academic research highlights identity
Jonathan Waye
Staff Writer
How many times in your life
have you been asked to give to
a charity? A fair amount, no
doubt, and if you were asked
to give, did you? How many
cans of food have you donated
to food drives throughout your
early school years, and how
many times have you taken the
old (but still good) TV down to
Goodwill? Now, collect all of
those times in your mind, and
answer this: Why did you do it?
When I ask myself that same
question, I try to tell myself
that I did those things “out
of the goodness of my heart.”
However, now that I remember
that food drive back in fourth
grade, some of the finer details
are just coming out of the
woodwork.
While I may have only
brought in 20 cans to class
because I wanted that ice
cream party, I am still a “giver,”
right? It was a food drive,
after all. “Donate to the Food
Bank!” So despite my selfish,
chocolate-coated elementary
school desires, I still thought
of myself as giving, donating,
and ultimately helping.
Jennifer L. Aacker of Stanford
University and Satoshi Akutsu
of Hitotsubashi University
study how we identify ourselves
in specific instances. In their
2009 publication “Why do
people give? The role of identity
in giving,” they ultimately
claim that identity guides
our philanthropic tendencies.
Essentially, we give because
we see ourselves as fulfilling
certain roles. Aacker states that
the ways we identify ourselves
“have significant implications
determining whether and
how much people will give,”
which, if accurate, could greatly
impact the way non-profits and
volunteer organizations market
and advertise their respective
causes.
So how are these identities
aroused? Do we simply carry
around these identities in our
subconscious, which are only
activated by certain scenarios?
Although that would be
interesting, Aacker and
Akutsu’s theories are not quite
so Freudian. They identify that
“extant research addressing…
[charitable giving]… have
honed in on factors such as
guilt, sympathy and empathy,
and happiness.” However, “less
work has been focused on the
role of identity in giving.” So
while researchers have invested
countless hours in deriving the
emotional factors behind giving,
the much larger concept of
consumer identity has received
the short end of the stick.
Aacker and Akutsu utilize
the identity-based motivation
model (IBM) in their work.
Daphna Oyserman explains in
“Identity-Based Motivation:
Implications for Intervention”
that the IBM model “assumes
that identities are dynamically
constructed in context. People
interpret situations and
difficulties in ways that are
congruent with currently active
identities and prefer identity-congruent
over identity-incongruent
actions.” In other
words, we are more likely to
act according to our perceived
identities, rather than against
them. Therefore, actions that
appear to be in line with our
respective identities assume
greater significance, whereas
those “identity-incongruent
actions” become less important,
maybe even completely
meaningless, quickly being
dismissed as someone else’s
responsibility.
According to Aacker and
Akutsu, “the premise is three-fold:
…identities are highly
malleable and context sensitive,
…identity influences what
action people take, and third
identity helps make sense of the
world.” How, though, is identity
considered malleable? While
our personal identities certainly
change over the course of our
lives, how can identity both
be formulated and accepted in
much shorter exposures?
Cue identity categories,
simply divided into two
groups: “broad” and “narrow.”
Oyserman continues, explaining
that these broad identities are
more likely to be triggered than
narrow identities in a variety
of situational circumstances.
While reaching these “narrow”
identities is important,
appealing to “broad” identities
will generate a greater response.
For instance, Aacker and
Akutsu explain that “’donor’
or ‘volunteer’ is more specific
than the identity of the ‘giver,’”
and that this distinction has
a significant impact on our
personal response to that
scenario. What they are asking
is “does evoking the broader
identity increase the chance
that the individual will agree
and give in larger amounts?”
This premise has outlined the
importance of “(a) how one is
asked and (b) what identity is
evoked in the decision-making
process?”
While Aacker and Akutsu’s
research focuses on the
quantitative gains from identity
categorization, the IBM
model simply underscores the
importance of identity in both
achievement and charitable
giving.
How is it that some humans can rely on charity for their survival?
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The Nadia Stevens
Staff Writer
One of the most prolific,
yet lesser known serial killers
in American history, Ed
Gein of Plainfield, Wisconsin
committed crimes of murder
and body snatching during
the mid twentieth century that
inspired an entire generation of
horror and slasher movies. The
most fascinating thing about
Ed Gein, or The Plainfield
Ghoul, as he is sometimes
called, is not the fact that he
committed crimes heinous
and noteworthy enough to be
emulated by various entities
of the entertainment industry,
but rather that there were
several distinct narratives and
characters which were based
only on small fragments of his
gargantuan repertoire of sins.
In 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
released the movie “Psycho.”
The movie’s main character
Norman Bates is characterized
as a simple man who is driven to
kill by the malicious lingering
spirit of his dead mother. The
extreme relationship Bates is
portrayed as having with his
mother, in life and in death,
is strikingly similar to the
relationship that Ed Gein has
been described as having with
his own mother.
Gein has said that he
committed murder because
he, like Bates, believed that
his mother had willed him to
do so. Both matriarchs had
a vicious, unyielding hold on
their sons, which ultimately
seems to have led to a form of
Stockholm syndrome. Norman
Bates and Ed Gein alike fell
inappropriately and absolutely
in love with the totalitarian
presence of their respective
mothers. Of course, as a result
of this leeching attachment,
upon their deaths, Bates and
Infamous killer influences pop culture
Gein lost their ties with reality,
and went on killing sprees. They
killed, not simply for the sake of
killing, but to eliminate those
who they believed would have
offended their mothers. While
Gein closed off his mother’s
bedroom, leaving it completely
untouched for over ten years,
Bates kept his mother’s corpse
in his home as a resident,
pretending she was still alive.
Despite certain elements of
fiction, the similarities between
Ed Gein and Norman Bates are
unambiguous.
Norman Bates was clearly
a glorified manifestation of
Ed Gein’s psychological traits
and motivations. The reasons
the Bates killed were perhaps
the exact same reasons that
Gein killed. But, murder was
only one of Gein’s crimes. The
next movie to be made would
depict another dark obsession
that Gein had. The very first
installment of “The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre,” released
in 1974, showcased a new
Hollywood villain: Leatherface,
the man who killed wearing
a mask of human flesh. In
addition to being a murderer,
Ed Gein was also a rampant
body snatcher. Trained in the
utilitarian ways of a low class
farming family during the
depression, Gein experimented
with various parts of the human
body, finding everyday uses for
skeletons and decomposing
parts. Upon entering his
home, police officials found
bowls made of human skulls,
wall hangings made of bones
and flesh masks, just like the
one worn by Leatherface. Less
than twenty years later “The
Silence of the Lambs” debuted,
with Jame Gumb, aka Buffalo
Bill, as its main antagonist. A
man who desperately wanted
to be a woman, Buffalo Bill
skinned female victims and
attempted to make a bodysuit
out of his collection of skin
“fabric.” Even more recently,
a character called Bloody Face
who harvested his victims’
skin and even wore a flesh
mask much like Leatherface’s,
was portrayed in the popular
series “American Horror Story:
Asylum.”
Gein admitted to two
murders in the late 1950s, but
was subsequently declared
mentally unfit to stand trial
until 1968 when he was
sentenced to life imprisonment
in a mental hospital. According
to accounts from his lawyer,
and other courtroom witnesses,
Ed Gein had the sensibilities of
a child; afraid of what would
happen to him, unaware of his
wrongdoing. He saw the world
with distorted vision and acted
on otherworldly impulses.
Although we may see him as
a hellish, irrational individual
because of his actions, by all
eyewitness accounts, he was
a seemingly normal, simple
man. Neighbors said that he
would even visit their houses to
complete various manual tasks.
There were even families who
had him babysit their children.
The true circumstances under
which Ed Gein committed
his crimes are quite possibly
more horrifying than any
Hollywood romanticism. He
was a man whose actions
terrified an entire generation,
despite that fact that through it
all, he meant no harm.
Ed Gein, whose 1930 census card is shown above, is one of the most notorious murderers in American history.
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Coy
Goodbye from editor Chris McCracken
Chris McCracken
Departing Features Editor
When I started writing for
The Carolinian, I was frustrated
with the “progressive” political
climate on campus. I found that
writing conservative articles
helped me to express myself and
inform our readership. I have
truly loved my job for the past
three years, and think that this
paper is one of our school’s best
assets.
I have had an awesome
experience at UNCG, and have
too many people to thank them
all here. From the newspaper,
I want to thank Casey Mann,
Derrick Foust, Kaycie Coy,
Emily Brown, Caleb Patterson,
and the rest of my co-workers
that have helped to foster an
amazing experience. I also want
to thank my fraternity brothers
in Lambda Chi Alpha, Chelsea
Boccardo, Meredith Swain, all my
friends in SGA, and the members
of the College Republicans where
I served as president. I have a lot
of friends to thank as well. I want
to give a special shout-out to my
good friend Lauren Weaver, who
is one of the funniest and most
interesting students at UNCG
and who really supported me
when things were stressful at
school.
My departing advice to
continuing students is this:
“Work hard, play harder.” College
can sometimes be stressful
or difficult. Do not forget to
socialize. In today’s market, it is
“who you know” and not always
“what you know.” There are plenty
of opportunities in our great
nation, and America remains
the world’s only superpower. If
you work for something long
enough and hard enough, you
can achieve it.
Newt Gingrich once said,
“We’re at the crossroads. Down
one road is a European centralized
bureaucratic socialist welfare
system in which politicians and
bureaucrats define the future.
Down the other road is a proud,
solid, reaffirmation of American
exceptionalism.” The future of
our nation is uncertain, but you
can always re-affirm your own
exceptionalism.
I have been accepted into
graduate school at Wake Forest
University, and hope to earn
my Master of Arts degree in
Management in the next year.
I hope to work in the field of
government relations, and
especially want to think our
“learning paper” for preparing
me for such a communications-dominant
field. Chris McCracken and Lauren Weaver.
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Goodbye from editor Emily Brown
Emily Brown
Departing Opinions Editor
I am a North Carolina native,
a barefoot enthusiast and a
lover of good deeds. At least,
my Twitter description says so
(@emilybrowns, if you want
to keep in touch post-grad). In
reality, I spend most days trying
not to trip on College Avenue
and many of my evenings in a
booth at Old Town. I love my
home, I love following our state-level
politics, and I have loved
getting to voice my opinions and
help my writers express their
own while working with the
Carolinian. The greatest part of
my time with the Carolinian has
been the opportunity to work
with some of my best friends,
including our Publisher Derrick
Foust, the Features Editor
Chris McCracken, and several
of our writers. This brings me
to the point in which I think
I am supposed to give advice
to younger students. The best
thing I can offer you is that the
injuries you will sustain learning
to long-board are not worth it,
but you should try anyway. Join
a club and talk to people. Vote.
Read the Carolinian, write a
letter to the editor when you
disagree. Stay up late, unless you
start to skip classes, and then be
adult enough to say you need to
go to bed. When your parents
want to visit, let them, because
they will buy you food and new
socks – and learn this now, you
could always use new socks. The
perfect plan you have right now
is not going to happen, but the
trick is to keep your head up and
to be the friend, employee, child
and partner you would want to
have for yourself. Learn to be
alone, make time to go out, argue
with your teachers in the most
respectful of discourse, and never
forget that your education here
is a product of the hardworking
people of North Carolina, who are
proud to have you home.
I have an apartment across from
the Greensboro Arboretum, and
will keep the job I have with a local
insurance agency after graduating.
I am looking for employment
that allows me to marry my love
for writing with my love for
public policy and helping other
people, and I will continue my
participation in partisan politics.
In the same week that I will turn
in my final senior capstone, I will
graduate from the Institute of
Political Leadership, which is a
multi-partisan organization based
out of UNCG. There is simply no
talent worth having if it is not
used to help other people. Emily Brown at Hanging Rock State Park.
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Features Goodbye from Publisher Derrick Foust
Derrick Foust
Departing Publisher
I am a mostly
simple person. I like
my scarves, my one-gear
bicycle, organic
body soap and my deaf
bulldog mix, Chestnut.
My life would be easier
if I could sustain
myself on Old Town
Brown or grass, but
I never expected to
have it all. I have
become a connoisseur
of loose-leaf teas and
spontaneous tattoos.
College showed me
that oppression and
problematic gender
binaries are nearly
inescapable, but that
the most surprising
people may be the ones
you want to talk with
about either. I also
learned that I like to
read self-help books,
and that seagulls
usually have one failed
relationship before
being monogamous with
a long-term partner. If
seagulls and Elizabeth
Gilbert do not have it
figured out yet, I think
there may be hope for
me. I am working on
obtaining my visa to
teach English in South
Korea, which is an
appropriate use of the
degree, but the most
exciting part is that
I no longer have to
maintain a twitter so I
can claim to have social
media experience. If I
could give any advice to
anyone, it would be to
postpone any and all
serious relationships,
make time for napping,
watch RuPaul’s Drag
Race and never turn
down free guacamole. Derrick would like to thank everybody.
photo courtesy of Derrick Foust
Writing is a job. It is a labor of
love, an outlet for the soul, and
a provider of reassurance. You
do not need to have the imagery
of Paula Vogel or rebel nature
of Edna St. Vincent Millay to be
considered a writer. A pen and a
paper will provide you with the
proper ammunition to create
the simplest yet most profound
words that will ever escape your
mind. They are your thoughts,
affirmations, and questions you
dare to share with the world.
This vulnerability makes writing
the most dangerous profession
imaginable.
When I first approached the
Carolinian, I was looking for a way
to travel, meet people, and make
something of my time as a college
student. I wanted something I
could hold onto beyond my college
career. I did not think that picking
up a copy of the Carolinian would
do so much more.
Most of my favorite stories
from college start out with “When
I worked for the Carolinian…”
I have literally talked about the
weather with Young the Giant
and avoided arrest during the
tuition hikes protest at UNC.
I have exchanged stories with
English rock artist Frank Turner
and unearthed the loving father
behind the hijinks stardom of
Jonny Knoxville.
Some people have considered
these experiences dull or less
than valuable for my future as a
teacher. Personally, I have learned
lessons that I will never gain in a
classroom. If a classroom is built
for safety, how do you take risks?
If you are constantly surrounded
by your peers, how do you
introduce yourself to a stranger?
If you are always expected to
answer the questions, when will
you learn to ask them and what
will they entail? You can be taught
techniques and absorb lectures
with what attention span you
can muster after sitting still for a
solid hour, but you will never have
the confidence in your ability to
implement these skills until you
strive to encounter a life outside of
the classroom.
This job was never easy. I left
events bruised, tangled, and out of
breath. I lost an immense amount
of sleep and an expensive lot of
gas. My sanity has a mind of its
own and chooses when it wants to
appear along with my willpower
to wake up in the morning after
chasing a story the day before. I
have taken the blows of enraged
witnesses saying I am a sick and
twisted individual because I was
searching for the truth.
In the spring of 2010, a teacher
asked me where my allegiance
lied: with the Carolinian or with
theatre. My instinct was to choose
theatre because it is my major.
Today, I look back and see that I
was completely wrong. I am going
to be a teacher and a writer. I am
going to pursue two passions and
no one can tell me that I am only
allowed to have one. If anything,
consider my journalist status the
most rebelious part of me.
None of this would have been
possible without the guidance
and support of my co-workers,
professors, friends and family.
A special thank you goes out to
the Editorial Board for putting
up with my disheveled self at the
weekly meetings. An abundance
of appreciation and respect goes
to Derrick Foust for fighting to
keep the paper running after our
printer disapeared. A heart full of
gratitude goes to my educational
director Joshua Purvis for
believing I can juggle both the
newspaper and education. Most
of all, an amount of love far too
immense to actually describe
on paper goes to my friends and
family who stood by for me when
I felt like I was losing my balance.
I have one more year of college
and one less thing to worry about.
What is a girl to do now?
Kaycie Coy
Departing Editor-in-Chief
Goodbye from Editor-in-Chief Kaycie Coy
After 1.5 hours of editing, Kaycie was able to fit in a photo. She likes to write.
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Spartans pluck the Eagles in doubleheader
Hannah Nystrom
Staff Writer
The Spartan Softball team
was victorious over the North
Carolina Central Eagles,
conquering a doubleheader
with 21 runs. The lady Spartans
won the first game 10-0 within
5 innings and the second match
11-3 after 6 innings.
Game one can be seen as
a moment of victory for the
Spartans who maintained the
lead throughout the match.
Quickly beginning with
three runs off of two hits, the
Spartans were up 3 over the
Eagles. It was Katelyn Bedwell’s
home run, ninth of the season,
which moved the advantage in
favor of the Spartans.
At the bottom of the second
inning UNCG pushed through
scoring six runs off of six hits.
Three of the runs were based
off of Senior Heather Robb’s
home run of perfection. Robb
finished the series with two
home runs and four RBIs.
Junior Aisha Figueroa hit a
two run double to left center
giving the Spartans a 5-0 lead
over North Carolina Central.
Freshman Danielle Vega earned
an RBI, which was sacrificed to
send Figueroa home. The rest
of the inning was completed
by back to back singles from
Lindsay Thomas and Katelyn
Bedwell as well as a home run
from Heather Robb. In the
fourth inning, Dominique
Madruga hit an RBI groundout
which led to pinch runner Kiah
Ruffin stealing second base and
sending Madruga home for the
10-0 win.
Game two did not come
as easily to the Spartans.
Confirmation of a win was only
recognized in the sixth inning
after six runs.
The Eagles took an early lead
in the second inning when
Camille Hampton hit her
third home run of the season.
Elation was quickly ceased
when UNCG scored two runs
in the second inning boosting
their score line to 2-1. With
two outs in the second inning,
Sophomore Tatiana Alcala
sent a single to infield which
allowed Senior Aubrey Baldwin
the chance to score.
Heather Robb continued
with her home run streak in the
third inning. At the bottom of
the third inning, Robb sent one
soaring over left center giving
her, her fourth home run of the
season and second of the series.
At the top of the fourth
inning, there was a chance for
the Eagles to come back. North
Carolina Central tied the game
with two home runs from
Camille Hampton.
During the bottom of the fifth
inning, the Spartans regained
control after grabbing two runs,
making the scoreboard read
5-3. Junior Toni MacReynolds
earned an RBI groundout while
Nicole Thomas snagged herself
a single RBI.
UNCG finally sealed their
win with six runs in the
sixth inning of the second
game. Eileen Horsmon and
MacReynolds both had RBIs,
with MacReynolds from a hit
by pitch. With two unearned
runs, the Spartans suddenly
changed their pace. Chelsea
Strandlund finished the game
with two run double down to
the left field line.
It was Strandlund’s play
which gave the Spartans an
11-3 victory.
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Game 1
UNCG 	 10
NC Central 	 0
Women’s Softball., Thur
Game 2
UNCG 	 11
NC Central 	 3
NBA playoffs filled with intriguing matchups
Everick Davis
Staff Writer
The NBA playoffs are finally
here. After a full 82 games it is
finally time for the stars to truly
shine.
The experts always say that
the regular season does not
matter and that the playoffs are
where it truly counts.
This idea could not be more
right. The playoffs are the only
reason why the Boston Celtics
even have a shot at beating the
New York Knicks.
The Celtics are the team that
can play awful throughout the
entire season and then come
alive, with the possibility of
making it all the way to the
Eastern Conference Finals.
Even with all that said the
advantage is still with the
New York Knicks as Carmelo
Anthony is playing his best
basketball this year and is
desperate for playoff success.
The Miami Heat and
Milwaukee Bucks series is not
even a competition as the Heat
are going to make quick work
of the Bucks in four games, as
the Bucks lack star power.
The Indiana Pacers should
beat the Atlanta Hawks as they
have one of the best defenses in
the league and can get a lot out
of all their players. Paul George
made the all-star team this year
and this series will be a defining
moment for him.
The Brooklyn Nets and
Chicago Bulls series is a toss
up as they are both unproven
teams. The Bulls have a great
defensive team but lack a go
to scorer with Derrick Rose
injured. If Deron Williams
plays like the all-star he is, the
Nets should be able to pull
out this series. Williams is the
key to Brooklyn’s postseason
success.
As for the Western
Conference matchups, the
Oklahoma City Thunder and
Houston Rockets will be a great
series. James Harden has shown
that he can lead his own team
but in the end the depth that the
Thunder have and star power
of Kevin Durant and Russell
Westbrook will get them the
series win.
The San Antonio Spurs
and Los Angles Lakers will
be another series that will be
great to watch. The Lakers have
had one of the most dramatic
seasons of all time and almost
missed the playoffs together,
while the Spurs have been one
of the most consistent teams
this year. With that being said,
the Lakers have a legitimate
chance to win. The Spurs are
old and injured right now and
every year it seems they are
about to fall off. Even without
Kobe Bryant, the Lakers still
have Dwight Howard, Pau
Gasol and Steve Nash, which is
enough for an upset.
The Denver Nuggets and
Golden State Warriors series
is going to be a battle since
neither team has a true
superstar. In this series, look to
see a lot of different role players
step up and lead their teams
to victories with the Nuggets
winning because of home court
advantage.
The Los Angeles Clippers and
Memphis Grizzlies is the only
series that should go straight
to game seven. Every game is
going to have a game seven feel
to it. These two teams have been
at the bottom of the barrel for
years and are now are legit title
contenders. It is a shame that
they are playing each other in
the first round again because it
would be nice for both of them
to make a playoff push.
In the end, the Clippers still
have the best point guard in
the league in Chris Paul, which
should secure them a trip to the
second round.
No matter what drama and
teams flourish in the playoffs,
expect the Miami Heat to breeze
by the playoff field and face
little opposition in the finals
from whichever team comes
out of the Western Conference
to repeat as NBA champions.
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MLB faces decline in African American players
Joseph Abraham
Sports Editor
On April 15th, Major
League Baseball celebrated the
memory of Jackie Robinson in
their annual tribute to him.
Jackie Robinson Day
commemorates all that
Robinson did to pave the
way for the integration of
professional baseball.
However, this year’s
celebration revealed a growing
problem for Major League
Baseball. Since 1986 Major
League Baseball has seen a
steady decline in the number
of African-American players in
their league.
In 1986, 19 percent of the
league’s players were African-
American. Twenty seven years
later the league’s African-
American percentage has
dropped to a staggering 8.5
percent.
Baseball is still labeled
America’s pastime, but it is far
from the most popular sport
in the United States today. An
argument can be made that
both football and basketball are
more popular.
Most MLB teams are
composed of mostly white
or Hispanic players. The San
Francisco Giants, last year’s
World Series champs, had no
African-American players on
their roster.
This drop has led to MLB
Commissioner Bud Selig
realizing that this issue deserves
attention. Selig held a meeting
with a 17 member diversity task
force to discuss the efforts the
league will take to discover why
this drop in African-American
players has occurred.
Commissioner Selig phone
said in a New York Times
interview, “I don’t want to miss
any opportunity here. We want
to find out if we’re not doing
well, why not, and what we
need to do better. We’ll meet as
many times as we need to come
to meaningful decisions.”
Dave Dombrowski, the
president of the Detroit Tigers,
was selected as the head of
the task force. Dombrowski
believes the committee is
heading in the right direction
saying, “A lot of people can say,
‘This is a problem. But trying
to come up with a plan and
recommendations to get all of
these ideas tied together will be
extremely important.”
While the Detroit Tigers
have not seen much growth in
African-American attendance,
there is hope this will change
since baseball has become more
popular among Detroit’s youth.
The task force search for
reasons as to why this problem
exists should not take long
at all. Baseball as a college
program does not offer as much
to young athletes as football
and basketball.
Big name colleges offer
an average of 85 full ride
scholarships for football.
Schools of high college
basketball prestige offer
an average of 13 full ride
scholarships, while the most
popular baseball schools
offer an average of only 11.7
scholarships.
Trying to work with
schools to take some of those
many football or basketball
scholarships and put a few
more towards baseball may
make a big difference.
“Kids in the inner city play
basketball and football, because
they give out full scholarships
and parents don’t have to worry
about anything,” said LaTroy
Hawkins, veteran pitcher
with the New York Mets. “In
baseball they give out quarter
scholarships. That’s what needs
to change. In the inner city,
you need to get a scholarship
because most families can’t
afford to send a kid to school,
especially when you’ve got
more than one.”
Many young athletes
who have hopes of playing
professional football or
basketball have less to go
through than those who want
to play professional baseball.
The most talented college
football and basketball players
usually choose to leave school
early to go pro, but in baseball
this is less likely.
Most baseball players stay at
school because no matter how
good a player is, they still start
out in the minor leagues and
have to work their way up.
This differs from basketball
and football because the highest
draft picks usually get playing
time right away.
While it is unsure how
to immediately solve this
problem, the fact that Major
League Baseball and Bud Selig
are trying to fix it is worthy of
applause.
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The image above shows where Jackie Robinson’s number rests at Dodger Stadium. Let’s hope MLB can solve this problem in his honor.
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UNCG splits doubleheader with Davidson
Calvin Walters
Staff Writer
The UNCG baseball team hit
the road this weekend to make
the short trip to Davidson to
take on the Wildcats in a three
game Southern Conference
series. Weather delayed the
first game on Friday so the two
teams played a doubleheader
on Saturday with the Spartans
and Wildcats each winning one
game.
UNCG jumped on the board
early in the first game scoring
runs in first and second inning.
Ray Crawford got things started
for the Spartans by singling in
the first inning.
Back to back errors by the
Wildcats allowed the Spartans
to load the bases and Crawford
scored on a groundout RBI
from Eric Kalbfleisch.
TJ Spina would open the
second with a single and
quickly stole second base to
put another UNCG runner
in scoring position early on.
Spina advanced to third on a
Lloyd Enzor groundout, and
was driven in on a sacrifice fly
by Benigno Marrero.
The Spartans would pad
the lead in the fourth inning,
pushing across two runs for a
4-0 lead. Zach Leach led off
the inning with a home run
over the center field wall. Spina
followed that up with a double
and stole his second base of the
game to reach third with no
outs. Lloyd Enzor scored him
with a groundout, picking up
the RBI in the process.
After Davidson tightened
things up in the bottom of the
fourth, UNCG would answer
with two more runs in the
fifth inning. Trevor Edwards
doubled to open the inning but
was tagged out on a sacrifice
bunt attempt, leaving the
Spartans with a runner on first
with one out. An error allowed
Kalbfleisch to reach and a Zach
Leach single loaded the bases.
Spina knocked his third hit
of the game through the right
field side to score one runner
and Enzor walked to plate the
other run in the inning.
Davidson answered with
two more runs in the bottom
half of the inning, but UNCG
would once again stretch the
lead in the seventh inning
scoring twice. Spina collected
his fourth hit of the game with
two outs and Enzor homered to
drive in what proved to be the
winning runs.
Max Povse earned the win
for the Spartans, pitching six
innings and allowing four runs
on seven hits, while striking out
six. The sophomore improved
his record to 3-2 on the season.
Dylan Hathcock pitched
two innings, while Ryan Clark
earned the first save of his
career closing out the game in
the ninth inning.
In the second game, things
started well for the Spartans
who struck first with a sacrifice
fly from Zach Leach in the
second inning that scored
Cambric Moye. Moye led
off the inning with a walk
and advanced to third on a
Kalbfleisch double.
Davidson responded with
three runs in the fourth inning,
all unearned after an error on a
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UNCG 	 8
Davidson 6
Men’s Baseball., Sat
Game 2
UNCG 	 4
Davidson 5
sacrifice bunt scored two, and a
single drove in the final run of
the inning.
The Wildcats would add
another run in the fifth to
bring the score to 5-1 midways
through the game.
The Spartans would draw
closer in the seventh inning
as Morrero singled and came
around to score on a Christian
Wolfe double. A Trevor
Edwards double one batter later
would bat in Wolfe, closing the
Spartan deficit to two runs.
In the ninth inning the
Spartans put together a rally
which threatened to tie the
game. Back to back walks to
Moye and Kalbfleisch loaded
the bases for the Spartans, but a
groundout ended the game 5-4.
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Ray Crawford was responsible for two hits as the Spartans split a bittersweet doubleheader with Davidson on Saturday.