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2 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM At the 57th presidential
inauguration, President Barack
Obama offered a repudiation
of contemporary conservative
philosophy with unequivocal
support for liberal ideals,
including recognition of gay
marriage, the need for action
on climate change, and a call for
collective action to protect and
expand the social safety net.
The inauguration was held
privately on Jan. 20 at noon as
per custom. However, the day
fell on a Sunday, and as a result, a
public ceremony was held on the
following day, in which President
Obama officially took the oath
of office four times, a feat only
matched by Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. The inauguration
had approximately one million
people in attendance, down
from the 1.8 million in 2008.
Nevertheless, the crowd reviled
in the historic moment, and
people from around the country
were in attendance.
President Obama’s speech took
place on the 50th anniversary
of the March on Washington,
when Dr. Martin Luther King
delivered his “I Have A Dream”
Speech, and 150 years after
President Abraham Lincoln’s
Emancipation Proclamation.
In his speech, President Obama
used both men as references
when he talked of social injustice
and economic poverty. “We
cannot walk alone,” President
Obama said, quoting Dr. King.
He also said that “every drop
of blood drawn with the lash
shall be paid by another drawn
with the sword,” in reference
to Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
address.
In his speech, President
Obama spoke of the need of
many in our society to be taken
care of in times of crisis. He said,
“For we have always understood
that when times change, so must
we, that fidelity to our founding
principles requires new
responses to new challenges,
that preserving our individual
freedoms ultimately requires
collective action.”
The most specific issue
President Obama addressed
was the need to monitor climate
change, and stated that America
needs to lead the world in
development of sustainable
energy based economy. “Some
may still deny the overwhelming
judgment of science, but none
can avoid the devastating impact
of raging fires, and crippling
drought, and more powerful
storms. The path towards
sustainable energy sources will
be long and sometimes difficult.
But America cannot resist this
transition. We must lead it,” he
said.While the speech made a
pointed reference to climate
change, President Obama’s stark
representation of gay rights
issues was historic, equating
them with women’s rights and
the civil rights movements of
Americas past. He said, “We the
people declare today that the
most evident of truth that all
of us are created equal -- is the
star that guides us still; just as
it guided our forebears through
Seneca Falls and Selma and
Stonewall; just as it guided all
those men and women, sung
and unsung, who left footprints
along this great mall, to hear a
preacher say that we cannot walk
alone..”
The President defended social
safety programs such as Social
Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
from attacks saying that they
turn people into leeches. He said
that such programming frees
us to take on the challenges of
our time. He defended modern
liberalism, and spoke of active
government as a positive force in
American lives.
57th inaugural address tackles
controversial issues
Aaron Bryant
Staff Writer
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave to crowds of people on the way to the inaugural cer-emony
last Monday.
Photo courtesy of DWNPS/Flickr
See inauguration, page 4
News
WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 3
Dick Gregory, the Civil
Rights leader and personal
friend and ally of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., spoke in Aycock
Auditorium on Wednesday Jan
23. Gregory's appearance, as
well as the other celebrations,
were in remembrance of Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, and were
co-sponsored by UNCG and
North Carolina Agricultural
and Technical State University.
Gregory had the packed
auditorium laughing and
cheering as he told stories about
his life fighting racism. He said
he felt sorry for everyone in
the audience because they had
never gotten the chance to meet
Dr. King. “You never really
understood him except for
what you saw in The New York
Times, the Washington Post,
and the Boston Globe, and they
told you what you wanted to
know.”
He was also very forward
on issues concerning sexism.
He joked that he had never
understood white women’s
lack of suffrage, since they did
not receive the vote until 1920.
“My god, white boys treat their
mama like that?” he asked.
Concerning both sexism and
racism, he said that we should
not depend on our children to
do the changing, because if we
sit back and do nothing, then
they are going to sit back and do
nothing as well. It takes every
generation doing something to
make a difference, not just one.
He pointed out several
instances where there is racism
in everyday life that white
people may not even notice,
but black people do. He also
praised the new movie, Django
MLK Day joint celebration with NC A&T
resounding success
Unchained, for its love story
between a black man and a
black woman that did not
use any sort of sex scene. He
said he was sick to death of
black relationships being
seen as promiscuous in films.
Gregory said he'd been asked
if he had seen the film and
responded, “Yes, nine times,
and I'm going back tonight.”
He also complained about
seeing mostly white men in
history books , with very little
representation of black people
or even white women.
Gregory also made it clear
that he was in favor of gay
rights. Gregory said he did
not understand why someone
would “hate on” gay people.
Gregory was often jailed
with King during their
demonstrations of civil rights
in the 1960's. Even though
Gregory began his quest for
civil rights before he met King,
King urged him to become
more involved in programs
such as the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(SCLC), which was dedicated
to efforts in bringing freedom,
justice, and equality to all black
people in America. King also
taught Gregory a principle of
non-violence, which he still
follows today.
In 1974, Gregory developed
his 4X Formula, a nutritional
formula that requires no
cooking or refrigeration, in
order to combat world hunger.
To call attention to it, he ran
from Los Angeles, California
to New York City in 1976,
averaging 50 miles a day for 71
days total, consuming only his
4X Formula.
Today, Gregory is still
known for his activism against
racism, but he also works to
Devon Lail
Staff Writer
UNCG’s Aycock Auditorium was host to the first ever joint celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, bringing UNCG and
NC A&T together to hear Dick Gregory speak.
combat sexism, drug abuse,
and violence in America. He
is a veteran of over 100 fasts
encouraging non-violent social
change. He is a comedian,
author of 15 books, a television
and film personality, and a
recording artist with 7 records.
Other events that occurred
at the celebration included
opening remarks by Chancellor
Brady as well as Chancellor
Harold L. Martin from NC
A&T.
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News 4 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM International News Briefs
Hillary Clinton
takes responsibility,
receives criticism
North Korea tests
rocket launches,
U.S. reaction
Compiled By: Stephanie Cistrunk
Female doctor
meets gruesome
end of practice
The National Defense
Commission in Pyongyang,
North Korea, announced plans
on Thursday for a third nuclear
test and continuation of rocket
launches aiming at the U.S. The
threats to the United States are
understood to be North Korea’s
reaction to the US backing the
United Nations Security Council
resolution that would tighten
sanctions against North Korea after
they breached UN regulations with
a rocket launch last December. A
month ago, the communist nation
insisted their launch was a part of
its “peaceful space program.” That
message has quickly dissolved. The
National Defense Commission says
the launches would be a part of
an “upcoming all-out action” that
would target “the sworn enemy
of the Korean people, the United
States”. This clearly demonstrated
how Kim Jong-Un will handle
policy in regard to the US, Other
affiliates covering the North
Eastern Asia see the risky move as
the North’s attempt to drive away
foreign powers away from their
regime.
“I don’t believe they have the
capability, the intention or the will
to invade or destroy the United
States,” said Daniel Pinkston, senior
analyst for the international crisis
group covering North East Asia.
US State department officials are
hoping Pyongyang will refrain
from carrying out a third test,
as concern lingers that with two
relatively successful rocket launch
attempts, North Korea’s technology
is advancing. This could open the
door to the nation possibly having
possession of ‘highly enriched
uranium which could set off a
bomb that would aim at U.S land.
Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton
went toe to toe with Republican
senators on Wednesday during
the two part Benghazi hearings
set on Wednesday afternoon.
Clinton was attacked by Republican
senators, who described her and
the administration’s handling
of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack
as misleading, malpractice, a
deathtrap, while Senator Rand Paul
suggested that Clinton would have
been fired from her post if he were
president. As she defended the
Obama administration’s response
to Benghazi, she acknowledged
after the Sept 16 remarks made by
UN ambassador, Susan Rice, stating
that the reason for the attacks were
not clear.“If you wish to fault the
administration, it’s that we didn’t
have a clear picture, and we probably
didn’t do as clear a job explaining
that we did not have a clear picture,
until days later, creating what I
think are legitimate questions,” said
Clinton. An independent review
board could not find any evidence
of a U.S government employee who
“engaged in misconduct or willfully
ignored his or her responsibilities”
prior to the attack.
Though Clinton says she still
takes full responsibility for the
handling of Benghazi, that did
not stop many from demanding
answers from her on the lack of
security surrounding the diplomatic
compound. In response, Clinton
said: “With all due respect, the fact
is we had four dead Americans, was
it because of guys out for a walk one
night decided they’d go kill some
Americans? What difference does it
make? It is our job to figure out what
happened and do everything we can
to prevent it from ever happening
again, Senator.”
Shocking news shook Pennsyl-vania
town this past Thursday, as
well-known doctor Melissa Ketu-nuti
was found strangled to death,
and her body set on fire in her
home.
Police have identified alleged
killer, Jason Smith, Ketun age 36,
through surveillance footage and
tips.
He is accused of murdering Ke-tunuti
after an apparent argument
took place once Smith arrived at
her home.
According to police reports,
Smith, an exterminator, was called
by Ketunuti to take care of a ro-dent
problem.
Surveillance video showed Ke-tunuti
inviting Smith into her
home, where an argument abrupt-ly
began shortly after in Ketunuti’s
basement.
Smith struck Ketunuti, knock-ing
her to the floor, and proceeded
to strangle the victim with a rope
he found in the basement, said Po-lice
Captain James Clark at a news
conference.
Smith then lit the body on fire,
said Clark. As Smith was brought
in for questioning, he did not state
why the argument started, but ac-knowledged
that he Ketunuti had
not met before.
The suspect has had no pre-vious
criminal record, with the
exception of a few minor traffic
tickets. He lives with his girlfriend
and her younger daughter in Lev-ittown,
PA, 30 miles away from
doctor’s home. Smith has been
charged with murder, possession
of an instrument in a crime, abuse
of a corpse, and causing catastro-phe,
as stated by Tasha Jamerson,
spokeswomen for the Philadel-phia
district attorney’s office.
INauguration
from page 2
Many pundits did not think the
inaugural address was the time to
delve into issues. Representative
Paul Ryan responded, “No
one is suggesting that what we
call our earned entitlements –
entitlements you pay for, like
payroll taxes for Medicare and
Social Security – are putting
you in a ‘taker’ category. No one
would suggest that whatsoever.”
NRA executive vice president
Wayne LaPierre said the speech
was an assault on liberty. “We
believe we deserve, and have
every right to, the same level of
freedom that our government
leaders keep for themselves, and
the same capabilities and same
technologies that criminals use
to prey upon us and our families.
That means we believe in our
right to defend ourselves and our
families with semi-automatic
technology,” he said.
Others offered praise.
Historians suggested that
President Obama’s second
inaugural address could be more
consequential than most, and
more so than his first. “This is
the moment in history were
President Obama explained
why he is a liberal,” said Brian
Balogh, a professor of history at
the University of Virginia. David
Gergen, a Harvard professor of
government, said the speech was
“the strongest embrace of 20th-century
liberalism since Lyndon
Johnson and the Great Society.”
Many view the inauguration
as a continuation of the hope
and change rhetoric the
President espoused in 2008, but
instead of a plea for common
ground, it was a call to action, an
irrevocable defense of liberalism
in America, and an explanation
as to why collective action is
the past, present and future of
these United States. Obama’s
second inaugural address was a
response to Reagan’s first, and
may have marked the end of the
Reagan era in American politics.
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WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 5
Another of the slew of
shootings that have occured in
the past few months happened
this week in Albuquerque,
NM, as a 15 year old teen,
Nehemiah Griego, was
charged as an adult on Jan. 19
of the murders of his parents,
Greg Griego, 51, and Sarah
Griego, 40; younger brother
Zephania Griego, 9; and two
youngest sisters, Jael, age 5
and Angelina Griego, age 2.
Bernalillo County Sheriff ’s
Department interviewed the
suspect after they discovered
the five victims in their
Albuquerque, NM home.
They had all been murdered
with a .22 caliber rifle and a
semiautomatic AR-15 rifle.
The boy’s attack on his
family is now being considered
as premeditated by law
enforcement officials. Griego
explained to investigators that
he had planned the shooting
spree for nearly a week. The
motivation stemmed from
a disagreement with his
mother.
Mother Sarah Griego was
the first victim of the fatal
assault. In the early morning
of January 19th, the teen
took a .22 caliber rifle and
went to his parents’ room
where Sarah Griego and her
youngest son Zephania lay.
He shot his mother, instantly
killing her. His youngest
brother woke up to the noise
of the gunshot. After he had
told his brother what he had
done to their mother, the
youngest couldn’t believe at
first. “So Nehemiah picked
up his mother’s head to show
his brother her bloody face,”
the affidavit said. “Nehemiah
stated his brother became
upset, so he shot his brother
in the head with the same
rifle used to kill his mother.”
Nehemiah Griego then
went on to shoot his two
younger sisters before he
pulled the trigger on father
and former pastor, Greg
Griego, after he returned
home from volunteering at a
homeless shelter.
The cold nature of the
crime, as well as the age and
“normal” teenage personality
of the suspect, left many in
disbelief as to what brought
the boy to commit the crimes.
Albuquerque police
reported that the boy sent
pictures of his dead mother to
his twelve year-old girlfriend,
as well as attending church
the same day.
Albuquerque security chief
Vince Harrison was informed
that the boy told a pastor
he found his family dead in
their home. When Harrison
arrived to the church, he
sensed something was off
with Griego, as the boy told
Harrison exactly where he
found the bodies and where
the guns where located.
Just recently, it was revealed
that the boy had plans of not
only killing his parents, but
his girlfriend as well. He also
expressed a desire to continue
his shooting spree at a local
Wal-Mart, envisioning that he
would then die in a shootout
with the police.
As Griego’s 12 year old
girlfriend was cleared for
having anything to do with
his plans, it seemed like a
classic example of “boy gone
crazy” for the general public,
especially in light of the
Newtown school shootings
which happened a month ago.
Family members have since
spoken to the public, some
claiming that the boy could
have experienced some sort
of mental breakdown, and
that he was no ‘monster’.
“Whether it was a mental
breakdown or some deeper
undiagnosed psychological
issue, we can’t be sure yet,” his
uncle, former New Mexico
state Senator Eric Griego,
said.
Other family members
released a statement last
Wednesday telling the media
and public to refrain from
using the Griego murders
as a topic in the most recent
debate on gun-control. “To be
clear, our family has differing
views on gun rights and gun
control. What we do agree on
is that those who wish to score
political points should not
use a confused, misguided,
15-year-old boy to make their
case,” the family statement
said.
“We ask those in the media
and those who would use the
media to make their political
case, to not use Nehemiah
as a pawn for ratings or to
score political points. He is
a troubled young man who
made a terrible decision that
will haunt him and his family
forever.”
The family members of the
accused would have stood
by their kin despite the evil
they’d committed, as did Ryan
Lanza, the brother of Adam
Lanza whom carried out the
December 14th Newtown
school shootings.
As gun-control is more
talked about than ever in
2013, the issue becomes even
more complicated as the
killers, come in the form of
‘harmless’ child.
Relatives, and those who
had known the Griego family
for years, went on to describe
the 15 year old as athletic, a
churchgoer, a musician, and a
wrestler.
Members of the families
church chose to not spend
time on questioning why the
boy done this, yet joyfully
reminisced on memories of
their loved ones, including the
one held in custody. Annette
Griego, one of Greg and Sarah
Griego’s older children said it
best, as she spoke about her
father at the Church’s prayer
vigil: “My dad never gave up
on me. He never gave up on
any of us. He never stopped
giving us Jesus and so I know
he would want us to do the
exact same thing for our
brother, Nehemiah,” she said.
“So if you wonder where we
stand, we stand alongside our
brother.”
New Mexico shooting revives gun control talk
Stephanie Cistrunk
Staff Writer
The number of shootings that have occurred in the past months have resulted in numerous protests, including this Jan.
26 protest march on Washington DC.
Photo courtesy of Elvert Barnes/Flickr
Opinions 6 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM In my previous article I
vowed to venture into the great
unknown to see the quality of
reproductive resources that
are available to women both at
UNCG and in the surrounding
communities. For this
particular article I put myself
in the role of a woman looking
for Plan B, and explored UNCG
Health Services, Walgreens on
Spring Garden, CVS on Spring
Garden, Planned Parenthood,
The Greensboro Pregnancy
Care Center, and The Guilford
County Health Department.
Pamphlets were collected,
questions were asked, and prices
were compared. The general
attitude and demeanor of those
representing the resources
were taken into account, and
the level of helpfulness offered
to men, an assumed sexual
partner, seeking Plan B was
also under examination. The
routine was to phone a place,
ask the price, if it was in stock,
and if it could be purchased
today. Both myself, and a male
counter-investigator, followed
this protocol and these are the
results.
The Good resource, based on
the questions posed, is UNCG
Health Services. They were
friendly on the telephone, and
were very informative. Plan
B costs about $38 on campus,
compared to the $45 price
the chain pharmacies offer,
and can be purchased either
on a student account or out-right.
This was an informative
find, the location is accessible,
the price is reasonable, and it
does not have to show up on
a student account. Meaning
privacy can be retained for the
The good, the bad and the misinformed
student purchasing, even if a
parent or relative has access to
a student account, and can be
purchased by either a male or
female student. The only draw
back to Health Services was
their lack of readily available
information. When pamphlets
were requested it took some
explaining, some time, and one
simple “Oral Contraceptive
Pills: Instructions For Their
Use” print off was produced. The
print off, while very informative
about traditional oral birth
control, did not mention Plan
B. It is a small victory that Plan
B is accessible, affordable, and
discrete on campus.
There were three runners up
for “The Good” and the three
solid sources came as a bit of a
relief. Planned Parenthood, on
Battleground Avenue, is close
to campus, about 5 minutes
away, and was very informative.
They offered pamphlets on
Emergency Contraception in
both English and Spanish- and
were very open to walk-ins.
The strong positive for Planned
Parenthood is there are trained
medical physicians, and the
environment is geared towards
women’s health. This is the
closest runner up, but is not on
campus, and therefore could be
less accessible to students. Both
CVS and Walgreens were able to
confirm the product was in stock
over the phone, and appeared to
be willing to sell the product to
either a male or female in need.
Walgreen’s offers Plan B for
about $45, and is an accessible
location. CVS is also accessible
and offers the $45 brand name,
the $35 generic, and some very
friendly and compassionate
pharmacy staff. Neither had
pamphlets or hand outs about
the product, but did seem
informed in general. All would
be viable, low stress, options for
a woman seeking Plan B.
The Guilford County Health
Department, while a valuable
resource, was unreachable over
the phone. Once connected
I inquired about Plan B, and
was placed on hold for over five
minutes, placing myself in the
position of a woman seeking
Plan B- I moved on. While
the location is central, it is not
particularly close to campus,
and I did not pursue it further.
This was a neutral find. Not
good or bad, just not explored.
During the foray into the
reproductive resource world,
The Greensboro Pregnancy
Care Center, on North Elm
Street, was also taken into
consideration. While the staff
was friendly, although initially
Emily Ritter
Staff Writer
perplexed by the request for
Plan B, it was an experience that
would have to be described as
biased. While trying to contact
the center via telephone, it was
clear that an appointment was
necessary, but a drop-in still
seemed sufficient. The staff
there were very involved and
questioning about the need
for Plan B and the relationship
status, moral views, and
experiences that would lead
to a need for Emergency
Contraception. They offered
the most pamphlets, but also
spun Plan B as an abortifacient,
when Plan B only prevents
pregnancy and does not end
it. There are a lot of “what
if ’s” that seem to be geared
toward making women doubt
Plan B (claiming it is “rarely”
effective) and convincing them
it is similar to the abortion pill
(RU486) which it is not. While
the idea of this venture is not
to dive into a moral debate, I
think it is important to note
that the information is biased
towards avoiding all decisions
that would prevent or end a
pregnancy. The Greensboro
Pregnancy Care Center was
very up front about not selling
it, not supporting, and not
encouraging women to seek it
out.
Overall, the experience proved
to be even more informative
than expected. The next article
will explain these same sources
from the viewpoint of a woman
experiencing an unplanned
pregnancy. It is important to
ask question about women’s
health, and equally beneficial to
find answers.
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Opinions
Most important line of the inaugural speech
This past week, Obama
delivered his second and last
inaugural address as President.
Unlike his first speech, he had a
bit more grey hairs on his head,
and four years of a record to
account for. A different speech
in its entirety, Obama had
to lay down an agenda until
January 20, 2017; a reason for
the majority of Americans to
see why they made the right
choice this past November.
For millions of Americans,
Obama’s final inaugural address
reaffirmed our Presidential pick,
but it also restored faith in some
of America’s citizens that this
country was for them as well.
The words uttered in his address,
“We, the people, declare today
that the most evident of truths –
that all of us are created equal – is
the star that guides us still; just as
it guided our forebears through
Seneca Falls, and Selma, and
Stonewall…” were some of the
most defining words of Obama’s
presidency thus far. This simple,
but powerful actualization that
women, African Americans, and
LGBT Americans were not just a
part of the American fabric, but
deserved a mention and much
more in the inaugural address
lifted many spirits, including
mine.
The Stonewall Riots of
1969 was a watershed
moment for LGBT Americans
as it opened the closet door, so
to speak, for the visualization
of the movement. Of course
there was a LGBT movement
before Stonewall, with some of
the earliest activism coming in
at the turn of the 20th century.
LGBT historians will note that
there was a LGBT movement
before and one after Stonewall.
It was the community’s most
visual civil rights moment at
Samantha Korb
Staff Writer
the time. In fact, there are two
documentaries highlighting
the LGBT movement prior to
Stonewall and the other one
documenting after Stonewall.
For the President to mention
the LGBT community in this
type of manner is beyond the
scope of what a President is
expected to do, but with the
LGBT community, Obama has
often exceeded expectations.
For the most pro-LGBT
President in American history,
President Obama simple words
acknowledging Stonewall in
the same regard as Seneca Falls
and Selma, were bar to none.
The stage for these simple, but
powerful words was one of the
most important speeches in his
Presidency and will define his
legacy.
The most important piece in his
speech regarding civil rights was
that these movements, although
drastically different in tactic,
strategy and history, each include
reference in the importance of
American history. For many,
including those younger LGBT
Americans, Stonewall is hardly
a household name. In my AP
US History classes in high
school, the Stonewall Riots got
a paragraph of attention, barely
explaining what happened, not
the implications of those riots.
I doubt many Americans knew
of Stonewall before of Obama’s
inaugural address, and there are
a lot more people know trying to
understand what Stonewall was
and what it means.
The significance of his mere
mention of the Stonewall Riots
will hopefully stir some inquiry
and interest into why those
riots happened and why there
needs to be further discussion
of the riots. It is my sincere hope
that Stonewall will now get the
attention it deserves, in the
classroom, in history textbooks,
and in the media.
A generation has passed since
the Stonewall Riots and the
moment had become almost
lost to many, including some
of the youngest in the LGBT
community. However, with
President Obama acknowledging
the importance of LGBT civil
rights in his inaugural speech
and throughout his presidency
thus far, he is opening the door
for society to acknowledge
Stonewall and its impact on
LGBT America and American
civil rights history. It is about
time Stonewall got the attention
it so rightfully deserves.
Barack Obama started his second administration off with an unprecedented speech, mentioning the LGBT rights movement.
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Are Libertarians the way of the future for the GOP?
President Obama is still burn-ing
off the cake he ate during his
second inaugural ball, but based
on the hurried political talks be-ing
held in offices across the na-tion,
you would never know that
we are just weeks into the presi-dent’s
second term. The 2016
sweepstakes has already begun,
with candidates in both parties
already making the case for why
they should be the party’s nomi-nee
in the next presidential con-test.
While a number of interest-ing
characters are letting their
interests be known- Governors
Cuomo and Christie in New
York and New Jersey to name a
few- there are still some possible
candidates who have been mute
on their presidential plans. You
can expect that many of these,
including Kentucky Senator
Rand Paul, will not stay “mum”
for long.
As the party defeated in two
consecutive presidential elec-tions,
you can expect to see co-pious
interest on the Republican
primary. A few of the names
thrown around already include
Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Bob
McDonnell, Bobby Jindal, and
2012 vice presidential nominee
Paul Ryan. However, out of all
these candidates, possibly none
of them seem as enticing as
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.
First elected in 2010 as part of
the Tea Party wave, Senator Paul
has earned a name for himself as
one of the most fiscally conser-vative
and politically indepen-dent
voices in the United States
Senate. Formerly a practicing
ophthalmologist and founding
chairman of Kentucky Taxpay-ers
United, Paul has never run
for public office prior to his 2010
senate bid.
Paul is one of the children of
former Texas Congressman Ron
Paul, the libertarian Republican
who made waves in his 2008 and
Rand Paul and the GOP ticket in 2016
Joseph Winberry
Staff Writer
2012 presidential runs that had
more public support- particu-larly
among young people- then
originally expected. The senator’s
family tree comes with it some
good leaves and bad fruit. The
presence of Ron Paul in his son’s
presidential campaign will likely
energize the millions of support-ers
who voted for the former
congressman in the past, earning
him essential funding and in-stant
credibility with the party’s
growing base of libertarian vot-ers.
However, Ron Paul has often
be caricatured in the press and
by political opponents for his
unorthodox views on military
spending, the Federal Reserve,
and the role of government in
general. Senator Paul will need to
prove he can balance his father’s
supporters with those who view
themselves as more establish-ment
friendly.
The senator has made an effort
to reach out beyond his father’s
libertarian base. He is considered
to be more fiscally conservative
than libertarian, a plus in a na-tion
and party still reeling from
the financially irresponsible Bush
Administration. He also has sup-ported
a number of establish-ment
candidates for office, in-cluding
endorsing Mitt Romney
for president in 2012 and Senator
Mitch McConnell’s 2014 reelec-tion
bid. Still, the senator main-tains
some positions uncommon
in the Republican Party, such as
criticism of military spending,
anti-terror programs such as the
Patriot Act and the Transporta-tion
Security Administration,
and is also seen as moderate on
an number of social issues such
as gay marriage and marijuana
legalization, positions that may
help him with younger voters.
Rand Paul’s greatest strength
is probably his ability to cre-ate
a new political coalition for
the Republican Party. Since the
election of Ronald Reagan in
1980, the GOP has seen electoral
victory through a coalition of
Republicans and Reagan Demo-crats-
socially conservative, fis-cally
moderate voters. However,
the collapse of this coalition was
evident early in Bush 43’s admin-istration
and all but made obvi-ous
by President Obama’s strong
reelection showing this past fall.
The nation’s demographics and
political values are changing, and
if the Republican Party wants
to remain viable in the future, it
must as well.
Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald
Reagan, and Bill Clinton all
proved that the president is in-strumental
in creating the pub-lic
image and philosophy of the
party. The GOP is in desperate
need of a new roadmap for its
future. A President Paul, with
his beliefs of a constitutional
government that incorporates
social libertarianism and a more
realistic foreign policy for the
twenty-first century could bring
more women, young people, and
minorities into the party, helping
to create a coalition that could
prove viable for decades.
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The only true social war in
America is on appropriate po-litical
discourse. As dramatic as
it sounds, the “war on women”,
the “war on Christmas”, the “war
against Christianity” have merit,
sort of. People are actively en-gaged
in conflict that aims to
demean, decrease or completely
eliminate the presence of any or
all of those groups or the exten-sion
of their influence. The prob-lem
is that we amplify the rami-fications
of these efforts in a way
that further divides our nation,
its regions, political factions or
socioeconomic groups. We more
often assault one another for the
purpose of a witty campaign ad
than because we actually do not
respect one another, and then
Once the campaign is over, inflammatory remarks can bite back
Emily Brown
Opinions Editor
find it impossible to rebuilt the
burnt bridge once the election is
over.
For example, Christianity is
the most prevalent religious
group in America. There is merit
to the idea that some factions in
the nation wish to decrease the
influence of Christianity, but
that is not really a “war”. It is ir-responsible
for anyone with a
particular amount of historical
knowledge to allow people to
continue suggesting our nation
was founded on Christian values
with the intention of promoting
Christianity as a whole. Rather, a
Christian interpretation of social
justice and moral rightness was
imposed for the purpose of co-hesion
in lawmaking and human
interaction. Further, mainstream
historians have accepted that
Christmas was a man-made holi-day
meant to compete with a Pa-gan
tradition, and clearly Christ-mas
won. It is a simple fact that
our nation was founded with the
intention to keep religion out of
lawmaking, and yet Christianity
exists to the extent that legislative
sessions open with prayer, public
money is printed with tribute to
one particular deity, and we hold
those speaking in court account-able
for their words by making
them swear on a religious text
that they are telling the truth.
In fact, there is specific symbol-ism
to the particular Bible used
in each swearing in ceremony
for public officials, particularly
the Presidential inauguration.
Although teachers may not lead
classrooms in prayer, there is
nothing that legally bans a stu-dent
from conducting a personal
moment with the deity of their
choice during class time. The re-ligious
right in this nation have
concocted a “war on Christian-ity”
for the purpose of scaring
their followers in to believing
that they must vote against can-didate
X or Y ‘lest their religious
values be questioned or de-meaned,
when in reality they are
instead voting against their best
economic interests or against so-cial
policies that could improve
the quality of life for many of our
neighbors.
To follow on my point of the
religious right, I must point out
that it is this same political fac-tion
that is so flabbergasted by
the leftwing assertion that there
is a “war on women”. And al-though
there is not necessar-ily
a concerted effort against
women in mainstream politics,
there remains obstruction or
defiance to policies that would
create equality between the two
genders. Women obtain higher
degrees than men on a regular
basis in this nation, and enter
higher education at any level in
higher numbers than their male
counterparts. They outnumber
men in raw population size, and
they outnumber men in entre-preneurial
ventures in many
states across the nation, includ-ing
North Carolina. And yet
women remain to be a class that
is underpaid, overworked, and
marginalized by their represen-tatives.
While many progressives
and their political organizations,
such as EMILYs List, aim to put
women in to power who will em-body
values that they believe aim
to perpetuate the momentum of
even more women holding office,
I believe that it harms women as
a whole to suggest that the only
way we will see progress is to elect
other women. As a woman voter,
I hold any representative ac-countable
for understanding his
constituency and serving it to the
best of his ability. Straight, white,
wealthy, land-owning Christians
who take office should be able to
serve their gay, Latino, impover-ished,
apartment-renting atheist
constituent as well as he serves a
neighbor that looks exactly like
himself. It is no longer a qual-ity
excuse for men to not under-stand
reproductive rights or the
biology of a woman’s body if he
wishes to pass legislation regard-ing
either.
The phrase “war” when used in
a social policy context is divisive
and catastrophic for bipartisan
relations, but it likely does exist
and is a relevant motivation that
brings voters to the polls. While
each political faction should be
responsible for controlling its
rhetoric and behaving in a man-ner
that is conducive to compro-mise
more than inflammatory re-marks
that breed greater conflict,
it is also important for politicians
to recognize the merit that each
complaint has and make an effort
to step away from the group that
their classification typically weds
them to. Republicans should be
able to understand that secular-izing
legislation for all of Amer-ica
is not an assault on Christian
values, while Democrats should
recognize that screaming about
a “war on women” falls on deaf
ears when we are attempting to
make progress with a party that
also elects women.
Public servants need to cam-paign
with the intentions of
winning, which means with the
intentions of governing. While
many preach this philosophy
to argue that they have the best
interests of all of their constitu-ents
in mind, they also need to
consider the best interests of
their individual agendas, and ap-proach
the other side as future
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Where is the line between a campaign and a boxing match?
A&E 10 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM The innocuous location of 930
South Chapman Street has been
home to local art haven and
musical practice space CFBG
for several years now, but on Jan.
26 the space celebrated its first
anniversary as a record co-op.
CFBG’s ownership is shared
between Max Benbassat and
Jack Bonney, with Bonney and
a few other collectors providing
the stock of vinyls that has
fueled the fire of local collectors’
hearts. Saturday’s stock included
the tantalizing artwork of Yo La
Tengo’s fresh record “Fade” along
the wall, Bill Evans and Gil Scott
Heron records peeping over
the live DJ that provided music
for the event, and a wealth of
clearance and one dollar records
on the floor underneath the
record bins. The store’s selection
stretches from world music
to punk to classical, and from
CFBG’s small confines Bonney
and Benbassat have proved their
dedication to supplying both
collectors and newfound lovers
of vinyl with every type of music.
The co-op is both a haven for
older customers seeking records
of their youth and a playground
of cheap selections for bargain
hunters. Simply put, year one has
produced a great success.
Bonney’s review of the
operation was a bit more modest:
“We took a chance, and it
worked,” he said. Bonney began
the record co-op alongside
Benbassat in hopes that he
could provide an affordable
and accessible locale for local
record junkies who shared his
joy for putting needles to discs.
CFBG has certainly provided
generously over the past year
with sales for Record Store Day,
back-to-school season, and
Black Friday.
What is perhaps most
admirable is the organization’s
dedication to independent
artists of all breeds from the
community. Local food truck the
Great Escape was present for the
anniversary, friends and loyal
CFBG: One-Year Anniversary
Kyle Minton
Staff Writer
customers spun records and the
walls, as always, were decorated
with eccentric tastes and
expressions from local creators of
all mediums. Benbassat said that
CFBG’s existence was predicated
on supporting the local artists
of Greensboro, to give both
sculptors and bands alike a place
to display and practice without
judgment or interruption.
“We also sell local artists’
CDs too, to make sure they
have access to the market,”
said Benbassat. CFBG’s ties to
the local community may be
one of its greatest assets, but
it does not hurt that the duo’s
business model for the co-op
made a significant amount of
sense when first recited to the
Carolinian a year ago.
In Jan. 2012 Bonney predicted
CFBG’s success would come
from its lower prices, the store’s
listening station that allows
people to hear the quality of the
record before purchasing, and
purchasable turntables to entice
listeners who may have never
purchased a record before. A
year later and the record store
is thriving, inspiring veterans
and newcomers alike to sit on
CFBG’s floor and peruse piles of
records one disc at a time.
More of the same might be
enough to continue CFBG’s
success into 2014. However,
Bonney admitted a few ambitions
for the co-op’s future: a larger
Record Store Day selection and
the kernel of a concept for what
Bonney called a “North Carolina
coalition of independent record
stores.” Bonney cited a system
in Austin, Texas as a reference,
but the lofty plan includes a
record fair centered within the
enormous Hopscotch music
festival in September where the
record stores would gather and
sell their wares during the event.
CFBG’s ambitious minds
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Jack Bonney and Maxi Benbassat behind the counter at CFBG.
A customer flips through the record selection at CFBG.
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When it comes to choosing art as a career,
a young artist usually carries a feeling of
uncertainty in the midst of the adrenaline of
creation. In many cases, a student who devotes
their college education to the creation of art feels
discouraged and doubtful. “What do you plan
on doing with that?” and “How are you going to
make money?” are questions often asked towards
someone whose dreams are rooted in leading a
life of constant creativity.
To artists, the beauty of making art is not
solely focused on the profit made from it. The
satisfaction that comes from creating something
unique and appealing might be the greatest profit
of it all. However, it is important for aspiring
artists to look for ways to be involved in the art
world and give their work a chance. That is why
UNCG student Jason Duarte and young artist
Magena Morris started Dreamcoat Studios, an
online collective through which young artists can
sell their work and boost their early careers.
Duarte and Morris’ art training started early,
which led to a number of hopes and dreams they
developed together. The idea to create the online
collective was established early and the two
worked on it for quite some time, but they are now
finally getting to launch this greatly anticipated
project. Duarte and Morris made the effort to
spread the word about their upcoming business
Maria Perdomo
Special to the Carolinian
by informing the staff at UNCG, contacting other campuses, and
using social networking to reach artists all around the country.
The process begins with artists’ applications. An artist who
wants to be on the site will send pictures or links to their work so
it can be reviewed. If Dreamcoat decides to display the artist, their
work will go up on the site to be sold. The purpose of the site is to
give artists exposure, explained Duarte. Dreamcoat, Duarte said,
hopes to help those who share a passion for art as strong as that
of its founders.
To get to this point in their careers, Duarte and Morris went
through a process of discovery. Morris, whose art exposure began
when she was 7 years old, attended UNCG as a psychology major
from fear of picking an “impractical” career, a way she used to
describe how people view art in school. Morris’ attitude changed
after speaking to her professor of “life drawing,” a 200-level
art course. “If you love it and this is what you really feel you’re
supposed to be doing, then do it,” Morris recalled her professor
saying. These words encouraged Morris to pursue what she has
always known to love. She knew art was what she wanted to do and
decided not to deviate from it. Duarte also found his interest in
art at an early age, through experimenting with classes at his high
school and now at UNCG. Even though deciding to go to school
and pursue studies in art is a scary thought for many, Morris
and Duarte show their support for aspiring artists
through Dreamcoat. “That’s where we come in,” said
Morris. “To let them know that it’s not that scary.”
Dreamcoat’s official launch date is Feb. 18, their
website (http://www.drmcoat.com/) is up and
running, but no work will be sold until this date.
As the official launch approaches, anticipation and
excitement fills Morris and Duarte who cannot wait
to help those who will trust their initiative to pursue
their art.
Dreamcoat Studios: GSO’s new art collective
photo courtesy of magena morris
photo courtesy of magena morris
photo courtesy of magena morris
photo courtesy of magena morris
“Glitched Brush Strokes 3” by Clinton McKay. “Glitched Brush Strokes 1” by Clinton McKay.
“Harold” by Jonathan Ryan, available for
sale at www.drmcoat.com.
“Shaky Hands” by Jessica Treece, available for sale
at www.drmcoat.com.
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kicking off, and with the
dumping ground of January
in the past, we can now look
forward to some significant,
and interesting releases in the
coming months. Here are five
releases that might just prove to
be some of 2013’s best.
“A Glimpse Inside the Mind
of Charles Swan III” (Feb. 8)
The name Coppola should
serve as an instant attention
grabber for cinephiles, and with
this irreverent, quirky comedy,
Roman Coppola will try to live
up to it. “A Glimpse Inside
the Mind of Charles Swan III”
looks to be in the vain of a Wes
Anderson film, with whom
Coppola has collaborated on
many projects. Charlie Sheen
plays the semi-autobiographical
role of Charles Swan III, a
graphic designer whose enviable
life slides into despair when his
girlfriend breaks up with him.
Boasting a cast that would make
Anderson proud (Bill Murray,
Jason Schwartzman, Patricia
Arquette...), “Charles Swan III”
should be an eccentric treat
for all fans of Anderson-style
comedies. The film opens at
Geeksboro Coffeehouse Feb. 15
.
“Side Effects” (Feb. 8)
The purported final film of
director Steven Soderbergh’s
career looks to continue the
filmmaker’s recent obsession
with the way individuals in our
society function, and attempt
to cope with their problems.
Here Soderbergh, in a sort-of
thematic sequel to his film
“Contagion,” takes a look
at the world of prescription
medication as a woman (Rooney
Mara) turns to pills as a way of
handling her anxiety concerning
her husband’s (Channing
Tatum) upcoming release from
prison. This is Soderbergh’s
third straight collaboration with
Tatum co-stars Jude Law and
Catherine Zeta-Jones. If this is
truly Soderbergh’s final film, let
us hope he can go out continuing
his recent run of terrific work.
“Stoker” (March 1)
The American debut of South
Korean director Chan-wook
Park (“Oldboy”), “Stoker” is
a horror/mystery about a girl
named India (Mia Wasikowska),
whose Uncle Charlie (Matthew
Goode) whom she never knew
existed, comes to live with
her and her unstable mother
(Nicole Kidman) after her father
dies. She comes to suspect this
mysterious, charming man has
ulterior motives and becomes
increasingly infatuated with
him. This looks like a truly tense
mystery, an underserved genre
as of late.
“Spring Breakers” (March
22)
Looking at the four main
girls in “Spring Breakers,”
(Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson,
Vanessa Hudgens, and Rachel
Korine), one might mistake
this for a Disney film. Yet the
film, written and directed by
boundary-pushing satirist
Harmone Korine looks to be
his most perverse work to date,
turning the “party movie” into a
nightmarish, debauched vision.
With its bright neon colors,
dangerous imagery, co-stars in
James Franco and Gucci Mane
and score by Skrillex and Cliff
Martinez (“Drive”), “Spring
Breakers” is sure to be one of this
year’s
most polarizing films.
may not need to tinker with
CFBG’s business model to stay a
success this year, but Bonney and
Benbassat refuse to set the store
on auto-pilot. They said they
have been scouring other record
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Max Benbassat and Jack Bonney are co-owners at CFBG.
stores (particularly Bonney, who
admitted his love for traveling)
in search of concepts to take and
apply to CFBG.
A joyous celebration and
grand plans all predicted one
truth for 2013: CFBG continues
to be the place for vinyl records
in Greensboro.
cfbg
from page 11 Film preview for February & March
Brad Dillard
Staff Writer
photo courtesy of divasss/flickr
James Franco co-stars in “Spring Breakers.”
“The Place Beyond the Pines”
(March 29)
After spending 12 years
trying to bring “Blue Valentine”
to the screen, director Derek
Cianfrance finally released in
2010 the best love film of the
past several years. For his follow
up Cianfrance is re-teaming
with Ryan Gosling for this crime
drama about a motorcycle stunt
rider (Gosling) who turns to
robbing banks as a way to provide
for his lover (Eva Mendes) and
their newborn child, a decision
that puts him on a collision
course with an ambitious rookie
cop (Bradley Cooper) navigating
a department ruled by a corrupt
detective. With great words
about the film already coming
from Film Festivals, this epic
about fathers, sons, and the
consequences of choice should
be another right step in the
career of this talented young
director.
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To “solve” a genre implies
that there is something
fundamentally wrong with it,
but Toro Y Moi clearly needed
to find a solution to “chillwave.”
For those unaware, chillwave is
an electronic style characterized
by lax rhythms infused with
dance-pop, and is the one genre
that Wikipedia seems to link
both to the Beach Boys’ “All I
Wanna Do” and Washed Out’s
sun-blazed, affected pop music.
For the many listeners that
consumed 2010’s “Underneath
The Pine” with its tendency
to go from drone to dance in
one song, Chazwick Bundick
of Toro Y Moi could have
stayed comfortable with the
same, head-bopping routine
of chillwave and found great
success. Whatever restrained
Bundick from indulging himself
in full-on pop music, though,
has vanished, and his new
record “Anything In Return” has
no qualms about meeting a new
body or two in the dance hall.
In Bundick’s interview
with Pichfork, the young solo
artist claims the independent
world has mostly overcome
the stigmatization of pop
music; if that section of the
world’s reception to Grimes,
Purity Ring, and other artists
of their ilk is any indication
of a movement toward a more
wholesome reception to pop,
then Bundick’s surmise of
pop’s place is on-point. What
matters most about “Anything
In Return” is Bundick’s
commitment to pop’s ideals of
accessibility and cheap hooks.
There are songs on “Anything
In Return” that could have been
pulled from the boy band era,
when Justin Timberlake had his
likeness on action figures—it
can be difficult to digest at first,
but the Toro Y Moi eccentricity
works well when
morphed into
such sublimely
enjoyable chunks.
An artist like
Grimes loves
to deal out
eccentricity and
i n t e r g a l a c t i c
femininity to
avoid such sugary
beats, whereas
here Bundick is
leaping headfirst
into some of the
most saccharine
material of his
nascent career.
Bundick bills the
lyrics of “Anything
In Return” as a
testament to his
self-improvement.
Aiding the record’s
natural sensuality
in “So Many
Details” may be
Bundick’s lyrical height, giving a
lascivious wink with a line such
as “I just want to tease your eyes”
to the Bieber-level of arrogant
flair in the sweetener “Cake.”
Coincidentally, Bundick has said
that these two songs happen to
be the only pieces that diverge
the self-improvement theme
of the record—an unfortunate
decision to isolate the true
bubblegum pop to simply those
tracks, but the words end up
being chewy filler for the silk
surrounding them.
As earnest as Bundick is
within “Anything In Return”
and its relation to dance-bent
electronic music, the young
South Carolinian has not
forgotten his layered past. The
sweetest teeth of the record tend
to sit in the back half, where the
sharp skyline of Bundick’s vocals
can stretch freely in a song like
“Grown Up Calls,” or a neon
synth can bounce happily in the
aforementioned “Cake.” Bundick
intelligently puts his best foot
forward, injecting a tightrope
balance between tight-lipped,
slick dance moves and his quaint
sincerity in the “Say That,” a
commitment to fusing Bundick’s
whisper-thin delivery with a
beat that sweats sex. The song
serves as a symbol for “Anything
In Return’s” dedication to
melting Bundick’s career out
of chillwave’s frigid grasp, and
providing his audience with
proof of his inability to find
complacency in art.
“Anything In Return” does not
seem that large of a divergence
when you take in the funk-fusion
exhibited by several of
the tracks off of “Underneath
The Pine.” In a way, the new Toro
Y Moi record is simply more
honest. Bundick surfaces his
approachability through the use
of drum machines and a wealth
of intoxicating hooks, and not
even the young songwriter’s
unnecessary restraint on bubbly
pop can prevent this ear-pleaser
of a record from finding success.
It’s a zombie epidemic! The
much-anticipated zombie love
story “Warm Bodies” that has
left zombie enthusiasts waiting
on the edge of their seats is
finally coming to movie theaters.
The movie was inspired by the
novel written by Isaac Marion
and tells the love story between a
zombie, R, and a human named
Julie. In his memory-free,
identity-free and pulse-free life
as a zombie, R lives in a world
that was completely destroyed
by war between the humans
and his undead companions. R
is unique in that he has dreams
and ambitions beyond brains
and blood. While consuming a
young man’s brains, R absorbs
the man’s memories and
makes the choice to form a
relationship with the victim’s
human girlfriend, Julie, who is
also daughter of a zombie-killing
general. Alluding to Romeo and
Juliet, the relationship between R
and Julie forces them to protect
each other from their violent
reality.
The novel itself was inspired
by the short story “I Am a
Zombie Filled with Love” author
Marion posted on his website.
In an interview with the online
magazine “The Void,” Marion
described the publication
process. “Cori Stern found it,
contacted me, and suggested I
expand it into a novel,” Marion
said. “I did so, and printed
about 200 copies to sell on my
website. It eventually fell into
the hands of Bruna Papandrea,
a film producer, who then went
on to secure a film deal with
Summit and get it into the
hands of my current literary
agent, who proceeded to sell it
to Atria Books. So it was pretty
backwards. The film deal was
actually inked before we even
had a publisher onboard.”
The film stars Nicholas
Hoult as R and Teresa Palmer
as Julie. In an interview with
“People” magazine about why
he chose the role, Hoult said,
“I understood that feeling of
wanting to connect and caring
about someone a lot and wanting
to look after them.”
Director Jonathan Levine
was anxious to direct the film.
“I read the book and I just fell
in love with the world and the
ideas of it and the characters,”
said Levine, “It’s not something
I ever really imagined myself
doing but it was very specific
to these characters and specific
to this world that there was an
opportunity to create something
unique that I don’t think you get
to do much in movies these days
with everything people are doing
on this scale, even though it’s not
a huge movie.”
The film has brought back an
enthusiasm for zombie-themed
stories. Both the actors and the
director have commented on
how fun it is to be a part of a
zombie film like this because of
how unique the story is. Being
the first love story of its kind, the
actors are always finding ways
to add more onto their zombie
performances on screen. “If Nick
didn’t work, the whole movie’s
preposterous,” said Levine with
a laugh, “He’s essentially playing;
with every line he has to find
what it means to be a talking
zombie. There’s not that many
historical references for talking
zombies so he’s essentially
creating it.”
“Warm Bodies” opens in
theaters on Friday, February
1. It is rated PG-13 for zombie
violence and language.
Kyle Minton
Staff Writer
Megan Christy
Staff Writer
“Warm Bodies”: a tale of
undead love
Record review: Toro Y Moi
Chaz Bundick in concert in 2011.
photo courtesy of arek olek/flickr
Features
1514 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM The environmental issue: your environment and
happiness, science and animals, and global warming
Robert Ross
Staff Writer
Global warming is a potential
hazard. For many of us we will
not live to endure its maladies
and the extreme consequences
of the globe’s temperature
increase. However, our
posterity and especially the next
generation will suffer its wrath.
Would we not all like to
protect our children and family
lineage? Is it not our duty to
clean up our mess and shield
the innocent from harms way?
I would certainly like to think
so. Yet they are still those, the
skeptics that deny any serious
calamity is at our doorstep.
Such disparity of opinion may
be ascribed to the relatively
unnoticeable changes in our
day-to-day weather. It still
gets hot in the summer and
cold in the winter. The earth
has undergone radical shifts
in temperature: hence, the Ice
ages. So it is hard to believe
such a thing if there is little
empirical evidence to support
it, right? That line of rationale
is understandable but do not
be fooled. The upward trend in
temperature is happening and
if we wait for everyone to jump
on board before we take action
the consequences might be
irrevocable.
The atmosphere acts as the
planet’s natural blanket. It is
composed of predominately
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon and
Carbon dioxide gases. These four
gases are supremely important
to the planets life forms. They
absorb, scatter and reflect the
sun’s ultra violet (UV) rays. The
planet’s levels of green house
gases were once in a state of
equilibrium. There was an equal
difference between the amounts
of light that was emitted into
the earth’s surface (warming
process) and the light that was
released (cooling process.) The
greenhouse effect is the planet’s
natural way of maintaining
an even temperature. When
the sun’s UV rays penetrate
through the atmosphere 50
percent of them is absorbed
into the land surface. From
there they reflect back into the
sky where they are absorbed by
gases such as Carbon dioxide
and re-radiate back onto the
earth. This process known as
the greenhouse effect works to
insulate the earth. However,
when there is an abundance of
these gases in the atmosphere
the results can be dangerous
and trigger a chain reaction of
adversities.
Historically speaking
the earth has naturally
undergone extreme changes
in temperature. In the last
650,000 years there have been
seven cycles of glacial changes.
The artic glaciers have innately
receded and advanced. During
the Ice ages carbon dioxide
(CO2) in the atmosphere
was about 180-210 parts per
million (ppm). Furthermore,
the warm periods between
the Ice Ages, CO2 levels were
higher at 280-300 ppm. There
is no surprise then that carbon
dioxide is a powerful factor
in the planet’s temperature. In
fact, humans have accelerated
the rate the earth warms itself.
Before the industrial revolution,
atmospheric CO2 levels were
about 280 ppm. Come mass
transportation, the manufacture
of plastic and other harmful
activities that burn fossil fuels,
atmospheric CO2 is at 390 ppm.
This is an unnaturally large
change over a short period of
time.
As a result of these drastic
changes in CO2 levels scientists
have begun to observe the
residual effects. For one, the
ocean’s acidity has noticeably
increased. To be precise, the
acidity of the ocean waters has
increased by 30 percent since
the beginning of the industrial
revolution. Every year the
amount of C02 being absorbed
by the ocean is increasing by 2
billion tons. Because humans
have emitted more CO2 into
the atmosphere more is being
absorbed in our oceans. Another
hazardous predicament we face
is the glacial retreat. This is
occurring almost everywhere
around the world; including in
the Alps, Himalayas, Andes,
Rockies, Alaska and Africa.
These are conspicuous signs
that our climate is warming.
As more ice melts more land is
exposed to the sun’s UV rays,
which allows the land surface to
heat up receding the ice further
and further. The Greenland
and Antarctic ice sheets have
decreased in mass as well. Data
from NASA’s Gravity Recovery
and Climate Experiment show
Greenland lost 36 to 60 cubic
miles of ice per year between
2002 and 2006, while Antarctica
lost about 36 cubic miles of ice
between 2002 and 2005. Hence,
the U.S. has witnessed a number
of torrential rainfalls.
Over the last 300 years humans
have accelerated the growth of
C02 levels at an unprecedented
rate. In other words it shouldn’t
be a huge surprise that the
average global temperature has
risen. It is imperative we find
an alternative to burning fossil
fuels and change our destructive
ways. We must be responsible
and care for our planet as if it
were the lives of our posterity. If
we don’t take drastic measures
to change the issue would
only worsen and temperatures
could rise so dramatically the
damage is irrevocable. It is a fear
inspiring and perhaps realistic
thought to imagine.
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WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 1514
Jonathan Waye
Staff Writer
After nearly two years of
careful consideration, research
and analysis, The National
Institutes of Health (NIH) will
likely decommission hundreds
of chimpanzees used for medical
research and testing. According
to “The Scientist” magazine,
these retired apes would be sent
off to various animal sanctuaries,
which must meet stringent
guidelines concerning the space,
movement, and treatment of the
animals.
This call comes after a 2011
Institute of Medicine (IOM)
report concluded that, while the
chimpanzee is and “has been a
valuable animal model in past
research, most current use of
chimpanzees for biomedical
research is unnecessary.” As
posted on the NIH’s Division
of Program Coordination,
Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
website, the IOM compiled
the following three criteria to
determine whether or not a study
legitimately requires the use of
chimpanzees:
1. That the knowledge gained
must be necessary to advance the
public’s health;
2. There must be no other
research model available by
which the knowledge could be
obtained, and the research cannot
be ethically performed on human
subjects; and
3. The animals used in the
proposed research must be
maintained either in ethologically
appropriate physical and social
environments (i.e., as would occur
in their natural environment) or
in natural habitats.
That being said, the “working
group” provides further outlines
which guarantee adequate
living conditions for the retired
chimps that are sent off. As listed
by the New York Times, these
parameters include a multitude
of things, consisting of: groups
of chimpanzees no fewer than
seven, at least 1,000 square feet
“per chimp,” climbing space, as
well as “access to the outdoors in
all weather and opportunities to
forage for food.”
The Working Group’s report,
which was submitted on Jan. 22,
will be reviewed and analyzed
over a 60 day public comment
period, after which the NIH will
make deliberations on how the
chimpanzee retirement process
will be executed. As of now,
the report is only compiled of
recommendations, and no change
in policy will occur until after the
comment period on March 23.
The 84 page report details several
different factors involving the
treatment of the chimpanzees,
including finding “ethologically
appropriate physical and social
environments,” “determining
research colony size and
placement,”…and the creation
of a “review process for future
proposals to use chimpanzees in
NIH-supported research.”
The report then delves
into the NIH’s chimpanzee
testing history and major
contributions to the medical
science community. Significant
research benefits include the
identification of the hepatitis C
virus, the determination that
“dietary salt is a causative factor
in elevated blood pressure,”
and even the development and
experimentation of new cancer
treatments and treatment
procedures. The report also
reveals that the number of
chimpanzees requested for study
rose steadily in the 2000’s prior
to the submission and review of
IOM’s analysis.
According to the Working
Group’s recommendations, of
the 30 projects reviewed, just
over half have been slated to
be discontinued. Many of the
projects that were approved to
continue, however, were only
approved conditionally, meaning
that although those projects “met
all of the other IOM principles
and criteria…,” they didn’t meet
the new requirements for the
chimpanzees’ containment and
housing. The Working Group
also formulated a table to show
the current number of research
chimpanzees available, which
is 451. Of these, only 360 are
owned and supported by the
NIH, which the working group
advised keeping a small portion
of for future studies. All approved
projects may only continue
operating through the rest of their
project term without extension.
With advances in
biotechnology, using
chimpanzees as research models
is not warranted in most cases, as
evidenced by the working group’s
report. The former research
chimpanzees will be distributed
between different facilities in the
coming months, and finally be
retired from medical research
testing.
A chimpanzee looks on toward a future with less medical and scientific testing on his species.
PHOTO COURTESY OF chi king/ flickr
The abrupt end of scientific and medical
testing on certain chimpanzees
Features 1716 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Quality of life and environmental phobias
Nadia Stevens
Staff Writer
There are a multitude of
worldly stresses that can
infiltrate the inner workings
of the human mind. So many
things, large and small, can
cause anxiety so unbearable
and painful; it can even drive
a person to the brink of their
own sanity. Though the origin
of your worry and fretting does
not necessarily have to exist
in your present setting, your
current personal environment
indubitably plays a substantial
role in your mode of being.
For example, certain colors
are known to trigger certain
moods, and the amount of
personal space you are allowed
at a given time can have a strong
correlation with your emotional
state.
It can be said that for
everyone, environment has at
least a small effect on mental
disposition; but for some,
it can represent a constant
source of angst. Agoraphobia
and claustrophobia are two
formidable, recognized anxiety
disorders that are characterized
by an intense or even crippling
fear of inescapable situations.
Their sufferers fall victim to
the unpredictability of their
surroundings. Ranging in
severity, those who are forced
to endure the most extreme
form of the condition can
become so absorbed by their
preoccupation that they go to
unbelievable lengths to attempt
to in some way win control over
every aspect of their physical
existence.
While similar in their most
basic definitions, the two
afflictions are distinct because
of the specific implications each
one carries. While agoraphobia
consists of a fear of wide open
spaces, claustrophobia is a
fear of closed, tight spaces.
Most agoraphobics, granting
not all, maintain a loathing
fear of encountering any type
of trouble, or unforeseen
circumstance. Ultimately, the
fear is not only that something
unexpected will happen, but
that the abrupt occurrence
will lead to a sensation of
helplessness. Oftentimes, this
fixation leads to an avoidance
of large areas, whether empty
or filled with people. A
claustrophobic, on the other
hand, fears getting stuck in an
enclosed space; such as elevators
or closets. The concentrated
forbearance of being lost or stuck
without hope is the common
thread that unites the two.
Although they certainly have
their variances, being of an
equally external nature, both
disorders cause the nagging
compulsion to control your
surroundings; even if they are
not meant to be controlled. In
this day and age, it is all but
imperative for cognizant
citizens to at least participate
in society by holding some
type of job, and most
occupations to some extent
require at least minimal travel
and intrapersonal interaction.
For someone dealing with such
a powerful aversion to certain
situations, even getting into a
car and going for a drive, or
even going for a walk can be
the stuff of nightmares. Every
new experience is frightening
because each one is more
unpredictable than the last.
At any given moment there
are quite possibly millions of
things to become preoccupied
with, whether present in your
current situation or not; but
for a sufferer of an anxiety
disorder dealing with personal
environment, there may be
no end to your immediate
complications.
This wall contains very worldly advice on how to find happiness in life. Unfortunately for many phobia sufferers, the real solutions are much more complex.
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WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 31- Feb 6, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 17
Korey Weaver
Staff Writer
Since day one of the
University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, there has been
a College Avenue. When the
school first came to be all those
years ago, there were only two
buildings that were located on
both sides of the street (that
was at that time, nothing but
path of mud). In fact, the very
first two buildings were built
on a corn field and aside from a
few boardwalks connecting the
two buildings the, only buffer
between the students and the
mud were fallen corn stalks.
In the mid 1900’s, the school
experienced an expansion and
construction boom funded
by the economic boom at the
time. The mindset was to create
better campus experience and
academic facilities to better the
schools ability to educate its
students. With this expansion
came the development of
College Avenue, which went
from a muddy road to a paved
street that served as a vehicle
artery through the schools’
campus. Essentially, it became a
main road.
It was not until the a little
while before 2003 that the school
decided that they wanted to
transform College Avenue from
a vehicle artery clogging up the
schools’ campus and sometimes
impeding students ability to
get to class, to a peaceful brick
and cement walkway lined
with willow oaks, red maples,
cherry trees, and magnolia. The
school announced that the new,
pedestrian oriented, College
Avenue was meant to provide a
colorful backdrop all year long
for students walking to class.
The walkway was completed
and opened during the summer
of 2004 for the students of the
2004-2005 academic year to
begin enjoying the very next
semester.
Since its re-opening in the
2004-2005 school year, College
Avenue has become a key part to
the schools’ campus. Its beauty
often ‘wows’ people touring the
school and in some cases, help
touring students decide if the
college atmosphere is right for
them. It has served as a common
skating ground for skate and
long boarders alike. It has
served as a reunion ground year
after year for students moving
back into dorms along its
streets. It has served as the path
of a romantic stroll for many
lovers throughout its days. It has
even been a path for crowds of
happy students to take after the
re-election of Barack Obama as
president.
In conclusion, it is important
(just as it is with the completion
of the quad-facing side of the
Cafe and the Minerva Statue)
that when we are walking past,
through, or on College Avenue,
we take a moment to take in
its beauty, convenience, and
history. When we do this, we
can once again, feel proud that
we are UNCG Spartans. We can
brag to our friends back home
about the evenings spent with
friends on College Avenue,
and we can be thankful for the
fact that the school did this in
order to better our academic
experience and we can plan for
the future and the days when
we will no longer have everyday
access to places on campus like
College Avenue because we will
be going on to the careers that
architectural developments and
improvements, like College
Avenue have created for us.
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1918 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM
Sports
Simpson-led Spartans defeat Samford
Calvin Walters
Staff Writer
After watching Samford
University erase a UNCG lead
that had been as high as 13
points and tie the game up for
the first time, Trevis Simpson
decided he had seen enough.
The Spartans leading scorer
knocked down a contested
jumper to give UNCG a lead
it would never relinquish.
Simpson then followed it up
with a thundering slam dunk
over a Bulldogs defender
that brought the Greensboro
Coliseum to its feet, on the way
to a 66-64 victory.
It was part of a 30 point effort
that saw Simpson score 22 of the
Spartan’s 27 second half points,
including the final 12 points of
the game for UNCG.
“I just wanted to be aggressive
tonight,” Simpson said. “Coach
kept calling plays to get me in
great scoring position and my
teammates did a good job of
screening for me and getting me
the ball. It was a team effort.”
The Bulldogs did not go away
quietly, forcing UNCG to make
a defensive stop on the last
possession to hold onto their
third Southern Conference
victory of the season.
As important as Simpson’s
performance was, it was
an improved commitment
to defensive effort and
communication that proved
vital. At no point was that
more prevalent than on the
final series, where Simpson and
David Williams led the way to
preserving the Spartan’s victory.
“David made a little bit of a
mistake going under a screen
on a shooter, but Trevis was all
over it, switched and David was
all over the communication side
reacting” Miller said. “I thought
that was the biggest play of the
game by both of them.”
UNCG jumped out to an early
lead in the game, riding a nine
point first half performance
from senior Derrell Armstrong.
The Spartans pushed their lead
to 13 early as it was 30-17 before
the Bulldogs clawed to within
two points with under a minute
to play in the opening half.
Armstrong knocked down
a three point basket as time
expired in the first half to give
UNCG a 39-34 halftime lead.
Simpson’s second half
effort was reminiscent of the
performances the All-SoCon
performer put on during the
Spartans five game home
winning streak a season ago.
When the junior gets going
offensively, it sets the tone for
the rest of the team.
“It gives us confidence,” David
Williams said about Simpson’s
performance, “seeing another
teammate roll and get hot, it
just boosts us up to go down on
defense and get stops.”
Although the Spartans
probably would have preferred
a little more breathing room at
the end, Miller recognized that
a tight victory might be the type
of win his team needed.
“I feel great for our guys as
we desperately needed to win
a close game,” Miller said. “We
honestly needed to win a game
that was a one-possession game
for our confidence and our belief
that we could, as we have lost
so many one or two possession
games this year. I was really
proud we won it with a defensive
stop.”
After dealing with nagging
injuries and illness for the past
several weeks that kept him off
the court for stretches at a time,
a healthy Simpson bodes well for
the Spartans.
“When you don’t have a
rhythm and you are not on
the floor with the guys that
you are playing with, that can
cause communication issues
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Trevis Simpson secures tight win vs Samford and dominates Chattanooga.
Men’s Bask., Thur
UNCG 	 66
Samford 64
Simpson also ties UNCG single game scoring record in victory against Chattanooga
and throw things off,” Simpson
explained, “now that I am
dedicated and I am here I think
we can make a turnaround.”
Trevis Simpson followed up
this dominating performance,
with an even better performance
against Chattanooga on Sunday.
Simpson scored 41 points, tying
the record for the most points by
a Spartan in a single game. This
was UNCG’s first back to back
win set this season.
Men’s Bask., Sun
UNCG 	 77
Chatt. 69
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SPORTS
BRIEFS
• Hakan Ilhan was drafted
by the Montreal Impact
in the third round of the
2013 Major League Soccer
SuperDraft. Ilhan reported
to training camp with the
Impact on January 21st.
• Abraham Kemboi was
UNCG’s top finisher at the
Hokie Invitational, placing
fourth in the 5,000 meter
race. Kemboi was only 20
seconds behind the winner
of the race. The Spartan
track and field team’s next
challenge comes this week in
Winston Salem.
• UNCG men’s baseball
start their season February
15th in a three game set with
the army. The UNCG softball
team gets back to action
sooner as they will play in
the Charleston Southern
Tournament on February
9th.
• UNCG men’s basketball
finishes it’s five game home
stretch on Thursday night
against division leading Elon.
UNCG is currently 3-1 on
the stretch and a win against
Elon would put the Spartans
back in the hunt for a bye in
the 2013 SoCon tourney.
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WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 19
Sports
New women’s soccer league brings hope to the game
UNCG women at a loss
Everick Davis
Staff Writer
If there was any night UNCG
deserved a win, it was definitely
tonight with all the heart the
women played with. After
Saturday’s 63-56 loss to Georgia
Southern University, our
women have dropped to a 3-15
record overall, 0-9 record in the
Southern Conference.
Right from the beginning the
Spartans came to play getting an
early 4-0 lead. UNCG did not
settle for jumpers, often looking
to drive the ball to the rack.
Georgia Southern had a nice
size advantage and it showed
early in the first half, as they had
the advantage on the glass. The
game went back and forth, until
Georgia Southern went on a 9-2
run to get a 14-8 advantage, by
making the most of UNCG’s
turnovers and turning them into
easy baskets.
Coming from behind, the
Spartans started to really push
the ball to stay in the game
and continued a very intense
defensive style led by Breonna
Patterson. Patterson did a good
job of picking up her man at half
court, really pressuring the ball
handler. With seven minutes left
in the first half, UNCG cut the
lead to two, making the score
20-18.
At around five minutes left
in the half, UNCG took a 23-
22 lead. The game had a very
intense dogfight feel, as the weak
officiated half ended with a tie
game at 28.
The beginning of the second
half can be described as a game
of one-upmanship, as both
teams would continuously score
in the same exact ways. The
ladies really amped up the effort,
going straight to the paint and
getting numerous foul calls. The
Spartans quickly jumped out to
a 39-35 advantage.
With ten minutes left in the
game, things started to get out
of control, as there were way
too many traveling violations.
Everytime UNCG made a nice
driving attempt, the whistle
would go off for a traveling
violation.These calls changed
the mood of the game, as the
Spartans lost the advantage and
Georgia Southern had a 46-41
lead.
Soon Georgia Southern
countered UNCG’s full court
press with their own trapping
method. The UNCG fans were
not happy with all of the foul and
traveling calls by the officials.
The increase in foul calls on
UNCG, gave Georgia Southern
all the momentum. The second
half calls by the refs were like a
cop trying to fill a quota, since
there were few fouls called in the
first half.
The game ended in a tough
defeat for the UNCG women,
dropping their eighth straight
contest.
Women’s Bask., Sat
UNCG 	 56
Georgia Southern 63
Women’s Basketball SoCon Standings
1.Chattanooga(9-1 SoCon,16-3 Overall)
2. Davidson (8-1, 11-8)
3. Elon (7-2, 10-8)
4. Appalachian State (6-2,12-4)
5. Samford (6-3, 9-9)
9. Georgia Southern (3-6, 4-14)
10. Wofford (1-8, 6-11)
Hannah Nystrom
Staff Writer
Unfortunately, it is a
known fact that women have
consistently battled sexism in
sports. For years, young aspiring
female athletes have looked
towards The Women’s Sports
Foundation to help them pursue
and advance their careers as
athletes. Inspiring female sports
stars such as Mia Hamm, a
world renowned soccer player,
has fought for these necessary
rights. Mia Hamm herself has
walked through many of the
Title Nine achievements. Hamm
stated “To me one of the reasons
we were so successful was that
we respected and cared about
the game and felt the same
way about each other… My
teammates always understood
there was a greater purpose.
The opportunity to play was
extremely special and let’s try to
make sure as many young girls
have that opportunity.”
Society has come a long way
since Billie Jean King founded
The Women’s Sports Federation
in 1974 and thanks to Mia
Hamm’s accomplishments in the
1990s. Today, we look forward
to their efforts in the formation
of the 2013 National Women’s
Soccer League. Prior to this
inaugural season of the National
Women’s Soccer League, there
was the Women’s United Soccer
Association, which lasted from
2001 to 2003, as well as the
recent Women’s Professional
Soccer which began in 2010 and
ceased in 2012.
In a recent interview with
Fox Sports, U.S. women’s soccer
gold medalist, Abby Wambach
stated, “I took responsibility
and a failure on my part that
the last previous leagues didn’t
succeed.” Wambach, who is
recognized as the best women’s
soccer player in the world
today, holds high hopes for the
establishment and success of
the National Women’s Soccer
League.
Wambach also discussed
what she believed went wrong
in the previous leagues, “Where
I think we went wrong in the
past and probably in both
scenarios, is that we started off
too big, where our salaries were
too high…I think that we have
to have other jobs, which in my
opinion isn’t hopefully the long-sighted
vision of where we want
to go.”
The National Women’s Soccer
League consists of eight teams:
the Boston Breakers, Chicago
Red Stars, FC Kansas City,
Portland Thorns, Seattle Reign
FC, Sky Blue FC, Washington
Spirit, and Western New York
Flash. Every member of the
2012 gold medal winning U.S.
women’s team will be partaking
in the new league.
The Executive Director of
the National Women’s Soccer
League stated “Ultimately the
goal is to pair the teams and
players in such a way that we
achieve a fair distribution of
talent across all eight teams.”
These eight teams will consist
of 55 players from the United
States, Canadian and Mexican
national teams.
The implementation of this
league is in simple terms,
hope. What this means is that
young girls can hold onto their
dreams and pursue a career as
a professional female soccer
player.
Perhaps one day young ladies
all over the United States will
be inducted into the Billie Jean
King International Women’s
Sports Hall of Fame.
20 T h e C a r o l i n i a n Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Sports
The Harbaughs’ battle it out this Sunday
Joseph Abraham
Sports Editor
It is always a rare occasion
when two members of the same
family tree meet one another
on a big stage. Super Bowl
XLVII marks the first time two
brothers squared off as head
coaches of their respective
teams in the big game’s history.
This year’s Super Bowl has
been nicknamed the Harbowl
because of this matchup of two
young head coaches, who both
learned how to coach from their
father. Jim and John Harbaugh
both worked hard to make it up
the coaching ranks to earn the
title head coach in the National
Football League.
John never played in the NFL,
but after proving himself as a
good coordinator at schools like
the University of Cincinnati and
Indiana University, he earned
a job in the NFL as special
team’s coach of the Philadelphia
Eagles. After serving as special
teams coach for a few years,
John was promoted to defensive
backs coach, which was what
he spent most of his college
coaching career doing. In 2008,
the Baltimore Ravens were
impressed with John Harbaugh’s
pedigree and hired him as head
coach. For five straight years the
Ravens, under John Harbaugh,
have made the playoffs and
have always gotten past the first
round.
Jim Harbaugh’s story was
a slightly different than
his brother. Jim was a star
quarterback at the University
of Michigan, which earned
him a career in the NFL. Jim
played in the NFL for fourteen
seasons, making some playoff
appearances, but never won a
Super Bowl as a player. Jim spent
a few years as an assistant at the
University of San Diego before
getting his first head coaching
job at Stanford University in
2006. It was at Stanford that Jim
Harbaugh helped to resurrect a
football team that had not seen
success in many years. After
leading Stanford to a BCS bowl
win in 2010, Jim was a highly
coveted candidate for head
coach and got a job coaching
the San Francisco 49ers. In his
first season, the 49ers went to
the NFC Championship game,
losing to eventual Super Bowl
Champion New York Giants in a
highly competitive game. In his
second season, Jim Harbaugh’s
49ers have a chance to win the
Super Bowl.
The Harbaugh brothers
both received some scrutiny
for some very tough decisions
made earlier this season. Jim
Harbaugh benched starting
quarterback Alex Smith in
favor of Colin Kaepernick,
which was surprising because
Smith did nothing to lose the
job. Kaepernick brings an
ability to run the spread option,
which is harder to defend than
Alex Smith. John Harbaugh’s
tough decision was firing
offensive coordinator Cam
Cameron after a late season
losing streak. Cameron was
and still is considered one of
the best offensive coordinators
in the NFL. Both Jim and John
Harbaugh have finally silenced
their critics, as both their teams
are Super Bowl bound.
The 49ers and Ravens took
two very different routes to get
to the playoffs. The 49ers had
the second best record in the
NFC and have been a force to be
reckoned with, defeating the red
hot Green Bay Packers and the
Atlanta Falcons to earn a trip to
New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
The Ravens have been riding an
emotional rollercoaster as star
linebacker and future hall of
famer Ray Lewis announced he
would retire at the end of the
season.
While the Ravens will use
the emotional advantage seen
in their upset wins versus the
Broncos and Patriots, the 49ers
may be too much.
Sports writers’ super Super Bowl picks
Hannah Nystrom: I have to
go with the 49ers. I am siding
with the 49ers because of Colin
Kaepernick. Yes, Joe Flacco
is a good quarterback, but
Kaepernick has the advantage
with his arm, as well as his legs.
Kaepernick is going to seal the
win for the 49ers.
Everick Davis: I cannot pick a
winner because I like both teams.
I really want to see Ray Lewis
end his career with a ringbut I’m
also a Colin Kaepernick fan and
I think it would be great to see
him pull out the win.
Calvin Walters: Colin
Kaepernick and Joe Flacco
have emerged as an explosive
quarterbacks capable of leading
their team to a score whenever
needed.
Ray Lewis is on his last ride
and has inspired a city and team
onto an improbable run and the
49ers defense has answered the
bell when needed.
Neither team seems to have
a clear advantage, and it could
easily come down to which
quarterback makes the first
mistake.
Look for the Ravens to play
inspired one more time and
make a defensive stop late on
their way to a 24-17 victory to
send their captain out a Super
Bowl champion.
Joseph Abraham: The better
team on paper is no doubt the
San Francisco 49ers. In addition,
Joe Flacco will fail to come up
big down the stretch and Ray
Rice will not see enough touches
to keep Kaepernick off the field,
securing a 49er victory.
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Ray Lewis and Colin Kaepernick lead them teams to battle this Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII