The Carolinian [April 17, 2013]

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Wednesday, April 17 - 23, 2013 • Volume XCIII No. 29
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2 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 17 - 23, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM See campus, page 4
NC A&T University, along
with eight other Guilford Coun-ty
schools, went on lockdown
Friday morning after two faculty
members thought they spotted
the back of a rifle sticking out
of a man’s backpack near the
General Classroom building at
A&T’s campus.
The two mistook the wooden
stick in the bag for a gun, and
quickly phoned the Dean before
calls to the police were made.
Greensboro Police and the Guil-ford
County Sheriff ’s Office
teamed up with NC A&T cam-pus
police to search all campus
buildings with K-9 units, rifles
and other weapons, but came
up short after no gunman with
the described description was
found.
The university’s lockdown
lifted at 12:15 pm Friday after
police deemed the campus was
safe, allowing classes to resume
at 2:00 pm. Shortly after the
lockdown was lifted, the NC
A&T campus police chief said
the investigation was currently
ongoing, but that after reviewing
video surveillance, they believed
the man’s “rifle” could have been
a misidentified umbrella. Due
to updated reports from various
news networks, radio broad-castings,
and surrounding shut-downs
of other schools, students
and staff reacted quickly to the
scare.
Shortly after 1:00 pm, some 40
minutes away, North Carolina
Central University also went on
lockdown after reports of an at-tempted
armed robbery in the
Eagleson Residence Hall. NCCU
school spokeswoman Ayana
Gun scares on three campuses Friday
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Above: Pat Toomey is one of the U.S. senators pushing for increased gun safety laws.
Below: North Carolina Central University was one of three NC campuses to experience a gun lockdown on Friday.
Stephanie Cistrunk
Staff Writer
Hernandez said the robber es-caped
the scene without harm-ing
anyone or taking any prop-erty.
That lockdown was lifted
before 3:00 pm, as the Eagles
campus police said they would
continue to investigate the inci-dent.
Prior to A&T’s lockdown,
before dawn, a third NC univer-sity
went under lockdown, after
someone reported they heard
gunshots at Elizabeth City State
University’s Mitchell Lewis Resi-dence
Hall. Fortunately, campus
police reported no injuries or fa-talities.
Friday’s string of back-to-back
school weapon emergen-cies
is considered yet another
reason for some to question their
state’s gun laws.
A major turning point for the
debate on stricter gun laws came
See gun scares, page 5
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WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM April 17 - 23, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 3
New Weatherspoon shows highlight unconventional themes
The Weatherspoon Art
Museum has two new
exhibitions open to begin the
summer season, one dealing
with artistic expressions of the
head, and the other dealing
with the various certificates of
authenticity found throughout
the world of art. The museum
itself has many more exhibits
open free to the public, and
has a history of showcasing
collections with a wide
range of cultural and social
backgrounds.
The first exhibit showcased
was “Head to Head,” an
exhibition focused on the
human head. According to an
official press release statement,
“The human head is the nexus
of thought, emotion, and
expression. Four of our five
senses are located there. The
importance of human head,
regardless of size and shape,
visually links the great variety
of artworks in this exhibition,
which range in date from
1907 (“Tete d’enfant” by Henri
Matisse) to 1995 (“Trophy
Head” by John Ahearn).”
The various depictions
of the human head in this
gallery helped to promote
this theme. One such piece
was John “Ahearn’s Demon
Head,” done in 1995 using
acrylic and plaster. The piece
was a depiction of a seemingly
human face with lines and
swirls on one side, and a long
goatee.
According to the official
press release, “A number of the
pieces are portraits of specific
individuals and they present
some interesting artistic
linkages.”
All works in the exhibition
are from the permanent
collection of the Weatherspoon
Art Museum, and Nancy
Doll, the director of the
Weatherspoon, organizes the
exhibition.
The second exhibition, “In
Deed,” is a gallery devoted to
different types of certificates
of authenticity. Certificates of
authenticity are an important
and pivotal aspect of making
and selling artwork today. They
may sometimes represent the
artwork itself, but often times
they may serve as its deed, legal
statement and fiscal promise.
Certificates by artists help to
validate the authorship and
originality of the work of art
and allow it to be positioned in
the marketplace as a branded
product, no matter how
immaterial or transient that
product may be.
Many certificates in this
exhibit were extremely simple.
One certificate read, “This
is to certify that (blank)
has a certificate.” Other
certificates were long, binding
legal documents, such as
Aaron Bryant
Staff Writer
See ART, page 4
“The Adrian Piper Research
Archive’s Agreement of
Original Transfer of Works of
Art.” This particular certificate
was much more than a
signature with an official seal,
and asked for the date to which
the binding agreement was
signed, to whom you are selling
it, for how much you are selling
it, and what the actual piece of
art or work entails.
Regarding the “In Deed”
exhibition, the press release
said, “Providing examples
of artists’ certificates from
the past fifty years, the
exhibition reveals shifts and
developments in how art is
considered, as well as how the
materials and content of art
have changed. Works range
from the most official-looking
printed documents to dashed-off
notations that perform the
same definitive function of
authentication.”
The Weatherspoon Art
Photo Courtesy of COCO MAULT /Flickr
Left: Despite the typo, this serves as an example of how simple and concise some of the certificates of authenticity at the exhibit could be.
Right: Art has always had a fascination with the human head, for widely-varying reasons. This exhibit explores some of the most prevalent and unique.
Photo Courtesy of Msdee23/Flickr
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State News Briefs
N.C. House bill
would bar sex-selection
abortions
Guilford education
budget cut to
remain as is
Compiled By: Elizabeth Yarrington and Olivia Cline
New UNC chancellor
seeks to carry
school onwards
The Guilford County school
system will not get the budget
raise they want next year.
Superintendent Maurice
Green, also known as “Mo”,
requested the budget for the
school systems be raised after
the budget was cut last year. This
budget cut was $41 million.
The school budget would
rise to a total of $705.8 million
dollars if Mo’s new budget got
approved, which includes local,
state and federal money.
The majority of the budget,
$629.1 million, would be used to
facilitate the schools’ operation.
Mo planned for the leftover
money to be spent raising
teacher salaries by three percent,
hiring more teachers to lower
classroom sizes and to fund
the Mission Possible teacher-incentive
program, which pays
teachers an increased salary to
work in low income schools.
This money would provide
63 more teachers for Guilford
County schools.
However, Guilford County is
currently $900 million in debt,
and county commisioners felt
that the county could not afford
to raise the education budget.
Nevertheless, Guilford
County’s debt is expected to
grow to $106 million in 2014.
Currently, Guilford County
commisioners have said that
they do not want to raise taxes
on Guilford County citizens and
are therefore trying to put a stop
to spending in an effort to curb
the rising debt.
It is unclear, however, whether
this will be successful, and
whether the cuts to education are
worth the decreased spending.
A new bill being seen in
the state congress could make
abortions based on the child’s
sex illegal.
North Carolina women had
about 30,952 abortions in 2010.
This number could lower now
that doctors may face fines and
even legal action for performing
them. If a doctor performs an
abortion on a woman who made
her decision based on the sex
of the fetus, the mother, family,
spouse or a health care provider
could sue the doctor for damages
and the doctor could be fined
heavily by the state.
This fine could be as much as
$10,000 on the first offense, and
$50,000 for the second. Every
abortion performed after the
first two offenses will be fined
$100,000 for not following the
court’s orders.
A dozen other states have
passed laws banning these
abortions as well. This is the
second time that North Carolina
has tried to pass this law since
last May.
The state Planned Parenthood
said that they do not condone
the act of abortion based on sex,
but they oppose the bill. The law
would intrude on patient-doctor
confidentiality and could cause
bias among doctors.
The bill has a high chance
of passing, as it was filed by
Ruth Samuelson, a leader of
the house GOP. Samuelson
also cosponsored a bill last
year requiring women seeking
abortions to watch a narrated
ultrasound of the fetus. A
federal judge stopped this from
continuing, pending a lawsuit.
The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
has elected its new chancellor.
Carol Folt, chancellor-elect,
is currently serving as interim
president of Dartmouth College,
where she has worked in various
capacities for the past thirty
years.
Despite the long stint at a
small, elite, private school, Folt
says she prefers the “bustle” of
a larger school and surrounding
network, and that she is excited
to return to that.
Her own alma maters are
all larger public universities,
including the University of
California at Santa Barbara and
Michigan State University.
When asked about the recent
athletic, legal and academic
scandals to hit UNC in the past
few months, Folt was confident
in the university’s ability to move
on.
“It’s viewed very, very
positively in the world,” Folt
told the Raleigh News and
Observer. “It is thought to be
one of the great places. And
though you live in a place where
you see the issues of immediate
consequence in the moment,
none of that has tarnished the
institution considered one of the
great universities in the world,”
Folt admits that she has little
experience handling educational
policy issues, including
budgeting, due to her long
employment at a well-endowed
private school. Nevertheless, she
has committed to work closely
with UNC president Tom Ross
to address issues the system faces
and how UNC as an individual
campus can grow.
Museum has one of the
largest collections of modern
and contemporary art in the
Southeast, and maintains a
significant focus on American
art. According to the museum’s
own website, “Through
[its] activities, the museum
recognizes its paramount
role of public service, and
enriches the lives of diverse
individuals by fostering an
informed appreciation and
understanding of the visual
arts and their relationship to
the world in which we live.”
The museum contains
fifteen or more exhibitions per
year, year-round educational
activities, classrooms,
scholarly publications,
and an auditorium. The
Weatherspoon has plenty of
new, upcoming events, all of
which are free to the public.
On April 18, the museum is
showing a compilation of local
filmmakers’ films, aimed at
increasing awareness of local
experts on sustainability.
The Weatherspoon Art
Museum and its current and
future exhibitions exemplify
the importance that art has
in a modern and changing
world. From sculpted heads
to different certificates of
authenticity, the Weatherspoon
exhibits show that art over the
years has evolved from being
a barometer of social progress
to the purest expression of the
human soul.
Art
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News
WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM April 17 - 23, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 5
four months after the New-town
tragedy.
Last Wednesday, spurred by
the Newton tragedy, Congress
approved lawmakers to begin
proceedings with a new gun
control bill. Senators Joe Man-chin
and Pat Toomey set up a
Senate debate to happen as early
as Thursday on gun legislation.
White House press secretary
Jay Carney informed reporters
that President Obama had asked
Francine Wheeler, the mother of
six-year old Ben Wheeler, who
was killed in the shootings at
Sandy Hook Elementary school
last December, to present the
weekly presidential address.
Throughout the week, Wheel-er,
along with other families who
lost their children in the Sandy
Hook massacre, finally got what
they hoped for when the two
senators announced the official
plans to begin the debate on a
new gun bill. The parents of the
Sandy Hook victims were in
communication with President
Obama, Carney told reporters
“[Obama] believes their voic-es
and resolve have been critical
to the continued progress we’ve
seen in the Senate,” said Carney.
Though Manchin and Toomey
have both been considered by
most to be advocates of gun
rights, the NRA responded to
the bill, saying it would have no
effect on the core issues of gun
violence.
“Expanding background
checks at gun shows will not pre-vent
the next shooting, will not
solve violent crime and will not
keep our kids safe in schools,”
the gun association wrote in a
statement. Following the New-town
attack and taking into ac-count
the statistic that the U.S.
has had the largest number of
school shootings and fatalities in
the world, President Obama and
most Democrats have pushed
for universal background checks
on all gun purchases rather than
letting private sales be excluded
from background checks. While
some congresspeople in “gun-friendly”
states claim this would
never work, Toomey and Man-chin
think otherwise.
“The bottom line for me is
this,” said Toomey. “If expanding
background checks to include
gun shows and Internet sales can
reduce the likelihood of crimi-nals
and mentally ill people from
getting guns and we can do it in a
fashion that does not infringe on
the Second Amendment rights
of law-abiding citizens, then we
should do it, and in this amend-ment
I think we do.”
Gun scares
from page 3
Two explosions at the finish
line of the Boston Marathon
Monday have left three
confirmed dead as of Monday
night, with estimates of those
wounded topping 100 by the
same time. While rumors
concerning the nature and
intent of the explosions abound,
the FBI has confirmed only
that there could be a “potential
terrorist investigation.”
News footage of the incident
and its aftermath captured
the gruesome results of the
explosions, with an estimated
30 to 35 people missing one
or more limbs following the
incident.
The White House was
immediately responsive, stating
that it had no prior intelligence
of any incident, a message that
was echoed by Boston Police
Commissioner Edward Davis.
President Obama released
a televised statement offering
his personal support for the
victims and their families,
and pledged to unearth those
responsible and bring them
to justice. He said, “But make
no mistake - we will get to the
bottom of this. And we will
find out who did this; we’ll
find out why they did this. Any
responsible individuals, any
responsible groups will feel the
full weight of justice.”
Boston police have
encouraged citizens to stay
inside, and while there is not
yet any evidence to suggest that
the incident is part of a larger
plot, airport security is to be
tightened in Boston, New York
City and Washington DC.
The Boston Marathon is a
foot race put on since 1897 by
the Boston Athletic Association
on Patriots’ Day, the third
Monday of April.
As of Monday night, Reports
as to the number of wounded
climb hourly, and the full scale
of this tragedy remains to be
seen.
Olivia Cline
News Editor
Boston Marathon explosions kill at least 3
The UNCG Police Department
is seeking help in identifying
a male and female walking
through Walker Parking Deck
on March 23 at approximately
2:40 AM, who were caught on
camera vandalizing the deck.
The unknown white male
subject had dark hair and was
wearing a black long sleeve shirt
or jacket, blue jeans and a black
backpack with multiple strips of
white reflective material on it.
The unknown white female
had long hair and was wearing a
pink shirt and black slacks.
The male was the primary
culprit, but the police
department seeks to contact
both individuals.
The UNCG Police Department
are encouraging anyone with
information about these
individuals to contact them
immediately. The UNCGPD
telephone number is 336-334-
5963.
UNCG Police Department seeks
information about vandalism suspects
The pair pictured is suspected of vandalism by the UNCG Police Department.
All photos provided by the uncg police department
Olivia Cline
News Editor
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Features 6 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 17 - 23, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM The College Issue: profile of Duke, the
UNC system & UNCG Greek Week
Jonathan Waye
Staff Writer
The University of North Caro-lina
at Greensboro offers a wide
array of educational programs
and several excellent academic
departments. UNC Greens-boro,
especially known for its
renowned music program, spe-cializes
in the arts and humani-ties
and is also popular for its
business and nursing schools;
lest I should forget to mention
the sciences, which also have a
profound presence at our school.
While UNCG, as well as
other universities like it, play
an important role in North
Carolina’s higher education
system, they do not hold the
same renown as the state’s private
educational institutions. Though
this may be directly influenced
by both the rigorous nature of
their curriculums and funding
available for these schools, it
cannot be denied that, across
the board, our state’s private
universities offer remarkable
educational opportunities.
These private institutions offer
dedicated scholars the chance
to pursue the advancement of
their own knowledge, real world
applications of that knowledge
for the betterment of their
communities, as well as the
opportunity to become leaders
within highly technical and
specialized fields.
Take Duke University, for
instance. While everyone
knows their basketball team is
what really commands their
popularity, the university’s top
notch academic programs are
what commands the school’s
respect and reputation. In fact,
for the second year in a row,
Duke University School of
Medicine was ranked among
the top ten medical institutions
in the nation by US News &
World Report. Ranking ninth
last year, the school improved
its rank to eighth this year, tying
with Colombia University, The
University of Chicago, and the
University of Michigan Ann-
Arbor. Duke’s medical program
also earned recognition for
several of its educational fields
and areas of expertise, the
five being Geriatrics, Internal
Medicine, AIDS, Family
Medicine, and Women’s Health.
Besides being ranked in the
top ten medical institutes in the
United States, what separates
Duke University’s medical school
from others like it? While Duke
not only teaches their medical
students the science behind
the medicine, the institute
continually performs research
on serious health concerns
(such as those specialties listed
above), and strives to provide
only the best in patient care and
quality treatment. The opening
statement of the Research tab
of Duke University School of
Medicine’s website exclaims:
“The Duke University School of
Medicine strives to transform
medicine and health, locally
and globally, through innovative
scientific research and rapid
translation of breakthrough
discoveries.” This is accompanied
by a “list of firsts,” which denotes
several of the school’s premier
discoveries, various drug trials
and developments for disease
treatment, as well as surgical
and treatment practices.
Among these are several
innovations, including the first
use of magnetic resonance
technologies to observe the
effects of medication on the
brain and brain activity, the FDA
approval of the drug Myozyme
(provides treatment for children
with Pompe disease), and trials
conducted during the 1980s
of the drug AZT, which was
the first drug to finally provide
AIDS patients a degree of relief
and “substantially improved…
their quality of life.”
The school has also prompted
several educational “firsts” and
initiatives, as well, both greatly
improving and diversifying
the Duke University School of
Medicine curriculum. These
initiatives include new programs
which were formed through
various partnerships both
nationally and internationally,
bolstering the school’s
already formidable arsenal of
graduate programs and degree
concentrations.
Aside from its academics,
Duke is also well known for
its impact and influence on
the surrounding community.
According to the Duke
University School of Medicine
website, “Duke is the largest
employer in Durham County
and the second largest private-employer
in North Carolina.”
The Duke University Health
System is massive, employing
15,700 people full-time. The
Duke University Medical Center
staff includes 7,658 full time
members.
Duke University has not only
made enormous contributions
to its local community, but the
nation at large, making itself
known across several different
fields in medical science. The
Duke University School of
Medicine ensures its graduates
will not only understand their
respected educational focuses,
but be able to practice in their
respective fields competently and
confidently. Through rigorous
academic programming,
extreme applicant selectivity, and
the highest academic standards,
Duke University’s exemplary
performance represents the
fundamental principles of the
North Carolina higher education
system.
J.B. Duke’s statue stands tall at gorgeous Duke University.
photo courtesy of wikimedia commons
The important role of Duke University
WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM April 17 - 23, 2013 T h e C a r o l i n i a n 7
Features
Emily Brown
Opinions Editor
The University of North
Carolina was the only public
university in the United States
to graduate students in the
18th century. Our single-campus
institution in Chapel
Hill, North Carolina has
now expanded to 16 satellite
campuses. Some carry the
namesake, such as our home
here in Greensboro or at our
coast in Wilmington. Others are
tucked away in the mountains
with the names Appalachian
State or Western Carolina. The
campus serves, according to
a Facts and Figures report on
the North Carolina education
system, approximately 183,000
students. In 2008, the UNC
system accounted for 75
percent of the baccalaureate
degrees awarded in our state.
Military bases and banking
institutions are known for
enveloping the town around
them. The families of those
individuals who participate
in either institution become
the students, laborers,
entrepreneurs and consumers
for the institutions themselves
and for the businesses or
operations that exist nearby. It
could be argued that the same
is true for college towns. I find
it difficult to visit Wilmington
without visiting Flaming Amy’s
Burrito Bar, and it never fails
to delight me that the various
businesses - even the BB&T
bank - are all painted teal and
branded with some message
cheering on the Seahawks. In
Boone, it is difficult to parse
where Yosef ends and Doc
Watson begins.
The same is true in
Greensboro, but in a different
manner. Although our
designation changed over time,
upon entering the UNC system
The first university to graduate a class in the U.S., the legacy of UNC is something to be proud of in North Carolina.
photo courtesy of wikimedia commons
The legacy of the UNC system tradition
we were the Women’s College.
It is increasingly difficult, but
still possible to stumble upon
someone with some garment
that boasts “WC.” Our presence
as not only the Women’s
College for the system, but as
the largest public institution
for women in higher education
on the East Coast at one point,
was the foundation of our
present role in Greensboro
and the triad as a whole. For
one, without any intentions
for large stadium sports, land
purchases made in our early
development period now puts
us in the difficult position of
being a rapidly growing campus
in a rapidly growing city. It feels
sometimes as if we are growing
out of our own skin, and our
administration is investing a
great deal of time and resources
to plan the most appropriate
expansion for our needs.
But the UNC system is
accustomed to growth and
adaptation. It is the only reason
we exist today, in fact. During
the Great Depression, the North
Carolina General Assembly was
tasked with saving dollars from
the state budget without losing
one of the three colleges. It
was at this time that their plan
to consolidate campuses was
created, and out of it came the
combination of schools that
started the UNC system. In
addition to Chapel Hill and our
own University, North Carolina
State University helped create
our collegiate network.
Later, the integration of black
and white students took our
campuses by storm. To date, our
historically black colleges and
universities are still home to a
large majority of our African
American students, but each of
our campuses is comprised of a
racially diverse student, faculty
and staff population. When our
campus eventually accepted
male students, the system as we
knew it changed yet again. The
creation of business schools,
schools dedicated to educators
and nursing, Teaching Fellows
programs, dual high school
enrollment institutions
through the Early and Middle
colleges, have crafted the state
to be what it is today.
The public education
we receive in this state is
guaranteed to us in our state
constitution. It is maintained
by our tax dollars, comprised of
the alma mater of most of our
statewide representatives, and
brings in millions of dollars to
our state through its athletic
programs annually. This
system, for all of its flaws and
each of its benefits, is perhaps
the most powerful presence in
each of the towns that is home
to one of our campuses.
Features 8 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 17 - 23, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Nadia Stevens
Staff Writer
There are a lot of exciting
events put on by the Greek
community. One might even
say that Greeks are known for
being characteristically lively,
active people. Sometimes
they are hard at work planning
fundraisers; sometimes they
are just trying to have fun.
Every year, there is one week
in which every fraternity and
sorority at UNCG participates
in a series of festivities meant to
reflect the expressed pillars of
Greek Life: scholarship, legacy,
leadership, unity, and service.
Greek week is an annual,
six-day spectacle packed
full of friendly competition,
showmanship, awards, and
philanthropy. This year, the
hoopla began on Monday, April
8 with the Greek Gauntlet, and
finished on Saturday, April 13
with the Fraternity and Sorority
Life Excellence Awards. Also
included were the Legacy Gala,
the Kickball game, the Greek
Swap, and the Banner Reveal
and Lip Sync competition. All
in all, it was a busy, exhilarating
week for all of UNCG’s Greek
community.
At UNCG, there are four
national Greek councils
represented; the College
Panhellenic Council, the
InterFraternity Council, the
Multicultural Greek Council,
and the National Pan- Hellenic
Council. Mixing the Spartan
fraternities and sororities from
every Council and subsequently
stratifying them into four
separate groups forms the teams
for the Greek Week contest.
This process allows for equally
sized teams, while also assigning
the task of effectively working
alongside a group other than
your own. As the one of the
only occasions which petitions
Greek Week exemplifies values, tradition
the participation of each and
every Greek group on campus,
Greek Week is unique in that it
involves and joins together every
fraternity or sorority, regardless
of governing affiliation.
As a great representation
of Greek philanthropy, one of
the most important aspects of
Greek Week was the fundraising
competition. Each team was
given the task of collecting
donations for the Summer
Reading Program at Triangle
Lake Montessori School.
According to a rough estimate,
each team was able to acquire
upwards of $500 for the charity.
During every Greek Week
occurrence, the student
fraternity and sorority
association, the organization
which is largely responsible for
making Greek Week possible
every year, chooses a theme
for the festivities. Generally,
one theme is designated per
year, which each team should
follow in their banner designs,
and of course in their costumes
and uniforms throughout the
competition. Most thrillingly,
this year the theme was a “make
your own” matter. Each team
had the opportunity to get as
creative as they pleased. This
years themes were: 90s TV,
Disney, Lifestyles of the Rich and
Famous, and Greeklings.
At the end of every event, a
winning team is chosen, and
awarded a winning number
of points. At the end of the
week, the points are added up,
and a final winner is chosen
and bestowed with glory and
bragging rights. It is perhaps
the most prestigious and sought
after victory that a group of
Greek organizations can win.
Just before the Lip Sync event
on Friday night, I had the chance
opportunity to speak with and
observe the Greeklings as they
prepared to perform. Their
excitement was palpable as they
described how they practiced
all week long in parking lots and
parking decks as they tried to get
their routine down. I watched as
they hastily spray painted T-shirts
behind the Gatewood Studio Arts
Building in bright neon yellow
and pink to look like alien flesh.
As of the prior night’s events, the
Greeklings were sitting sturdily in
second place. Naturally, they were
itching to give a groundbreaking
Greek organizations from Greek Week team “90’s TV” painted a banner to show that they are “All That.”
photo courtesy of lauren holt/ fraternity & sorority association
lip sync performance in order
to jump ahead, and take home
the final trophy at the end of
the night. It was quite a sight
to watch them decked out in
neon spray painted getups,
hauling their giant homemade
banner across the street in
synchronization to the Aycock
Auditorium at show time.
Little did I know, when I
met with the Greeklings, I
was in fact meeting with the
eventual winner of this year’s
Greek Week. Following Team
Earth, the winners from 2012,
the Greeklings worked tirelessly
all week striving for first prize.
After an exciting Banner Reveal,
and an even more spectacular
Lip Sync demonstration, the
Greeklings, consisting of a mash
up of several distinct sororities
and fraternities, took home
the gold. Congratulations,
Greeklings!
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A&E 10 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 17 - 23, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM On Friday, April 12, hundreds
of the Triad’s LGBT community,
friends and bingo enthusiasts
packed the Regency Room of
the Elm Street Center for the
Guilford Green Foundation’s
Green Queen Bingo. If a night
of bingo is not enough to grab
your attention, the performers
certainly will: The show is
emceed by the area’s most
creative and artistic drag queens.
Green Queen Bingo takes on
various themes throughout the
year, Friday’s being “The Real
Housewives of Bingo.” Themes
in the past have included
“Cirque De So Gay Bingo” and
“Bugle Boy Bingo”. These bingo
nights, along with other various
Guilford Green Foundation
fundraisers such as the Guilford
Green Foundation Gala fund
grants that support LGBT
community organizations.
One such organization
is UNCG Pride, a campus
organization that has been
promoting the culture of LGBT
students since the 1960s.
This particular Green Queen
bingo aligned with UNCG
Pride’s Pride Week. Other
Pride Week events included
Gay Cinema Night and Second
Chance Prom. UNCG Pride has
been celebrating Pride Week
since its start.
“One of the ways that we got
money for this Pride Week was
winning a scholarship from
Guilford Green, which was
really helpful for funding the big
week,” said Nathan Clapsaddle,
the Treasurer of UNCG Pride.
Among the other UNCG
groups that the Guilford Green
Foundation funded are the
UNCG Safe Zone Training
Program and the UNCG Speech
and Hearing Center, which has a
transgender voice program.
“Since our inception 15
years ago, we’ve rewarded over
$700,000 in grant funding back
into the community,” said Shane
Burton, the Executive Director
of Guilford Green Foundation.
Although the funds from
Green Queen Bingo are used to
bolster the LGBT community
and raise awareness and
equality, the main goal of the
event is certainly to entertain.
It was difficult to settle on who
was having a better time, the
performers or the contestants,
with the Regency Room erupting
in laughter and applause through
the night.
While the game carried on,
several performances took
place including an extravagant
lip sync and dance. Fuchsia,
the drag queen emceeing the
event, assigned contestants to
call “bingo” before they actually
won, holding signs that read,
“I am not participating in my
own recovery” and “I must learn
to follow rules.” The prizes all
ended in sixty-nine cents.
“I think that people love it,”
said queen Rose Jackson. “Who
doesn’t want to come play bingo
with the queens?” Jackson has
been participating in the Green
Queen Bingo since it was started
over 8 years ago.
Green Queen Bingo is one
of the largest events for the
Guilford Green Foundation.
“I’ve seen [Green Queen
Bingo] grow as far as
entertainment,” said Jackson.
“The crowd and the theme [are]
always changing. If it is a theme
from the past, it’s always bigger
and better.”
Jackson will be competing
this year for the North Carolina
Entertainer of the Year. “They
do look for pretty queens, but
they also look for the most
creative,” she said. “Something
has to stand out.” To make a past
performance stand out, Jackson
Kelly Fahey
Special to the Carolinian
made a gown completely out
of rose petals, which took her
over 80 hours. She has been
competing in pageantry for over
6 years.
Green Queen Bingo takes
place throughout the year, the
next one being “Green Queen
Bingo- The Shirli Horror Picture
Show” on Sept. 13 in the Regency
Room.
Green Queen Bingo ‘strikes’ once again. The Guilford Green Foundation holds several fundraisers a year for LGBT community organizations.
Photo Courtesy of Rachelle Williams
Photo Courtesy of Rachelle Williams
Many see drag as an art form that reveals the performativity of gender itself.
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TYP TAPES: DIT GSO
Evidence of the existence
of poetry dates back to the
Sumerian culture of ancient
Mesopotamia, wherein poems
were written on clay tablets. With
roots embedded so far back in
history, poetry has encountered
claims by some as a dying
art. However, one of the core
elements of poetry is expression
and considering this limitless
concept, poetry remains as alive
and pronounced as it was on clay.
The MFA Writing Program
hosted Poetry Day in the
Faculty Center Thursday, April
11. UNCG’s graduate and
undergraduate students and
featured poets such as Elizabeth
Lindsey Rogers and L. Lamar
Wilson had a chance to share
poems of their own to anyone
who wanted to hear and attend
a celebration of the art of poetry.
Students from UNCG’s
advanced undergraduate poetry
workshop shared a series of
poems dealing with a variety of
subjects such as love, religion,
violence, and immigration. This
diverse group of 12 students
unites through a passion to
write and share feelings that,
no matter how conflicting, can
be turned into a beautiful piece
of rhythmic words. A variety in
style and experiences was seen
throughout the group.
“I like bold poetry,” said
student poet Lanae Medley. “I
like stuff that says exactly what it
wants to say.” Medley discovered
her passion for writing early in
her life, but was assured after
taking poetry classes at UNCG
Maria Perdomo
Special to the Carolinian
See Poetry, page 13
Using plastic and magnetic
tape, Steven Biddy is going to
bring together the Greensboro
music community. Creator of
TYP Tapes, a local music label,
Biddy is releasing a new (literal)
mix tape of Greensboro artists,
and doing it in an enthusiastic,
do-it-together manner.
Biddy, a sophomore English
major at UNCG, started the label
in order to release his friends’
music. “This gives artists the
chance to have a pretty cheap
medium. It’s something that’s
odd and tangible and easy to use.
It’s more fun than mp3!”
These quirky tapes are
designed to bring Greensboro
together through music. “We
decide the best ways to expand
the mindset of tapes was through
the TYP mindset,” said Biddy.
“It would be a mixed tape of all
cool music – past and present –
to make a relic of our time here
in Greensboro. It would be a
sporadic mix that would reflect
the times here in Greensboro.”
Biddy has collected 95 minutes
of the music of Greensboro,
titled “DIT GSO” to be released
on Record Store Day, April 20, at
Maya on Tate Street. A tangible
release of 50 free tapes will be
followed by a digital release of
the music April 21. “Adrian at
the Maya gallery was one of the
first to send us tracks from an
old band called Lion Infancy
that doesn’t even play anymore,”
said Biddy. “He had a show on
the twentieth and I just wanted
to get the mixed tapes out. I just
thought this would be a really
good shot because [the show]
has the DIY, do-it-yourself,
aspect to it already.”
One band Biddy is very excited
have on the tape is Workday/
Schoolnight. “Before I came to
Greensboro two years ago my
friend showed me this album,
‘Plastic Ocean’ by Workday/
Schoolnight, and I think it
made me set up this vision of
Greensboro,” said Biddy. “This
weirdo, nerd 80s pop trash kind
of town.”
Biddy seems to have two
philosophies: “Do it where
you’re at!” and “Do-it-together.”
“There are really beautiful,
cool people here,” said Biddy. “I
really discovered my city doing
this – seeing everything that
comes out of Greensboro has just
gotten amazingly impressive…
We’re all here! Just work at where
you’re at!”
Along with the various music
enthusiasts of Greensboro,
Biddy said he hopes to reach
musicians themselves, “…people
who are interested in the music
happening in Greensboro. It’s
like hey, this is your city! This is
happening your city! Hopefully
this will inspire people to go out
and start making music.”
Using the cheap, easy medium
of the tape, Biddy uses his tapes
to push his second philosophy.
As the community aids artists,
the artists in turn aid the
community. Do-it-together.
“With a DIT mindset, you
can give artist pathways to reach
their goal,” said Biddy. “This
inspires people to make art.
That’s the only important thing
we can really do in life.”
“My mix tapes are a weird,
eclectic mix of people,” Biddy,
smiling. “It’s like Greensboro.
You go to a lot of shows in
Greensboro and some artists
don’t go together, but that’s not
the point. Their music doesn’t
go together, but their esthetic.
They’re humans anyway, they are
just people. It’s supposed to be a
mix of artists and genres. It’s not
supposed to cater to anyone, but
just be a mix of Greensboro.”
As artists become inspired by
the do-it-yourself aspect of TYP
tapes, they can better themselves
as musicians and member of the
Greensboro community. “You
can be in shows and release
music,” explained Biddy. “You
can have a gallery opening and
have people come look at your
art, try to understand it, and
help it because that’s how you
cater your art. That’s how you
fine tune it. You have people look
and criticize your art. You get it
out there. It’s trying to be artists
together. That’s what we do on
the tape; we get people together
on this very loose format to be
our Greensboro. We’re going to
do this together.”
You can visit the TYP Tapes
website at http://typtapes.
bandcamp.com/ or visit their
Facebook page at https://www.
facebook.com/TypTapes to
find out more about bands and
events.
UNCG celebrates its annual poetry day.
MEGAN CHRISTY/THE CAROLINIAN
Steven Biddy holds some of TYP Tapes’ various local music releases.
Megan Christy
Staff Writer
A&E 1312 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 17 - 23, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM San Francisco prog-rock
outfit Tartufi graced the small
stage of The Flatiron on April
11 as part of a WUAG Presents
showcase. The event included
Durham’s Hammer No More
The Fingers and their own
brand of raucous indie-rock
that set the audience dancing
and sweating profusely. The
unseasonable heat prompted
shirtless performances and
flabbergasted remarks from
band members, but the
showcase’s sheer volume
drowned out the discomforts
of a humid night.
If North Carolina’s climate
provided the heat, Hammer
No More The Fingers started
the fire with punchy riffs and
a bodily performance. The
trio drew the largest, most
active audience of the night
with gang vocals shouting
lyrics that even first time
listeners could sing along to.
Vocalist Duncan Webster
admitted that it was the band’s
first show in months, but any
imperfections that might have
been there were thrown down,
danced upon and ultimately
made irrelevant. HNMTF gave
a light-hearted beginning that
main act Tartufi crushed and
grinded down in favor of a
much more severe tone.
Tartufi—Italian for “truffle”—
spawns sprawling instrumentals
that often get shoved under the
banner of post-rock, but the
trio’s truly menacing sounds
proved that one umbrella cannot
serve their varied material.
Vocalist and guitarist Lynne
Angel dexterously intertwined
the band’s signature loops with
surging post-metal riffs. Ben
Horne’s bass lines rumbled
underneath the band’s heavier
material, and it was through
his fingers that the band found
a unique home between starry-eyed
post-rock and doom-laden
metal.
Tartufi’s live performance has
changed since they last traveled
through North Carolina, but the
addition of Horne has allowed
the band to be aggressively
experimental without worry.
“Our rig had expanded to the
point we couldn’t fit on many
stages,” said Angel. “It became
where I couldn’t enjoy playing
live anymore,” said Angel.
Horne’s skill with the five-string
bass allowed Angel and
Kyle Minton
Staff Writer
WUAG Presents: Tartufi
drummer Brian Gorman to keep
their eclectic sound without
the hassle of extra equipment.
Additionally, Horne’s past
experience playing in post-hardcore
bands makes him the
ideal candidate for Tartufi’s
heavier stage presence.
While Tartufi still shatters
in a live setting, their new
record “These Factory Days”
sounds more melodic and at
peace with their songwriting
than ever before. There are
genuine folk-inspired pieces
and conventional verse-chorus-
verse compositions
on the record, two very large
departures for the band.
“We’re getting older,” said
Angel. “I think we’re mellowing
out with age...And one thing I
think we didn’t do a good job of
before was giving the listeners a
little bit of a break,” said Angel.
The break is only for the studio,
however, and Tartufi continues
to be a vociferous force to
behold live.
Part of Tartufi’s bewildering,
genre-blending sound comes
from the way the band performs
their songs. Tartufi focuses less
on songs as whole compositions
and more on weaving the
discrete chunks in a set list that
flows organically.
“It’s fun to listen to bands
talk sometimes...but you come
to see music, and you want to
hear music,” said bassist Horne.
The band’s Frankensteinien
approach to set-building
allows them to flow from one
enormous climax to the next
without interrupting the show’s
rhythm, and that care made
Tartufi’s unwieldy pieces far
easier to digest.
Since Tartufi builds wave
upon wave of looping sound,
it is easy to lose the band’s
intricacies in the resulting
noise. Lynne’s dense lyrics
were lost to the guitars,
despite having the aid of five
different microphones. Tartufi’s
instrumental focus makes
Angel’s voice a nice ambient
element when drowned in
feedback and curling bass lines,
but it was a loss nonetheless.
What the audience lacked in
interaction with Angel was
made up by Horne’s effusive
stage presence, where he did
everything from complaining
about the humidity to
equipping himself with another
microphone “because it sounds
cool.” The change from a duo to
trio may be mostly rhythmic in
nature, but Horne also serves as
a much-needed stage presence
for Tartufi.
The title “These Factory
Days” symbolizes the routines
the members of Tartufi work
through to make and record
their music. It is bleak to hear
musicians struggling to find
the time and resources to do
what they love, but Tartufi’s
live presence provides a clear
example of a band refusing to
let go of the vigor that started
it all.
Ioan Opris/The Carolinian
Ioan Opris/The Carolinian
After adding bassist Ben Horne, prog rock band Tartufi is now a three-piece.
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poetry
from page 11
The Place Beyond the Pines”
may be the most ambitious
American film of the last two
years.
Director Derek Cianfrance’s
film spans a series of 15 years
and covers two generations of
men, attempting to create an
epic about male identity, father-son
relationships and the sins
of the father haunting the son.
Sometimes “The Place Beyond
the Pines” crumbles under its
own self-importance. At heart
it is a fairly simplistic story with
some obvious plot points, yet
Cianfrance pitches every scene
at the level of Greek tragedy.
The film begins with a
gorgeously crafted tracking shot
that lasts at least five minutes as
we follow Luke (Ryan Gosling),
a motorcycle stunt rider, as he
walks through an amusement
park and eventually ends up
in a steel cage with two other
motorcycle daredevils to engage
in a death defying stunt.
Obvious metaphor number
one: Luke continues to play out
this death-defying stunt as he
learns he has a one-year-old baby
wit his ex Romina (Eva Mendes)
and turns to robbing banks to
provide for his child. Luke’s life
soon intersects with an ambitious
rookie cop named Avery Cross
(Bradley Cooper), who is looking
to quickly move up the ranks of
a police department riddled with
corruption. Cianfrance then
fast-forwards 15 years to show
these men’s sons (Dane DeHaan
and Emory Cohen) as they start
a friendship, oblivious to their
interconnected pasts, and begin
on their own collision course.
Epic in scope and technical
achievement, the movie is
essentially set-up in a three-act
structure. In the last two-thirds,
the film too often falls back on
clichés and simple moralizing,
never reaching the emotional
heights that Cianfrance
obviously wants.
The first-third of the
film, however, does reach
those heights, with content
matching execution in terms
of emotionality. This section is
filled with beautiful, languid
shots of Luke riding around
on his motorcycle, the camera
often floating behind him,
creating a sense of melancholy
and foreboding that Cianfrance
unfortunately never recaptures
Brad Dillard
Film Critic
that her love for poetry was
not a mere passion; she wanted
to dedicate her life to this form of
expression. Poetry continuously
drives one back to the word
expression, a concept that seems
to become a common goal for
those in the poetry world.
Naihomy Reyes, a student
originally from the Dominican
Republic, came to the United
States with her family when she
was four years old. “I learned
English through reading,” said
Reyes, explaining the start of
her love for poetry. “I’ve always
been really enamored by words,”
Reyes, as many immigrants
who come to this country, has
endured a number of obstacles
and experiences which she
expresses through her work.
“I think it’s part of the
immigrant experience to
constantly reflect and think
about where you came from
and either how to avoid going
back or how to always go back,”
said Reyes. The last poem Reyes
shared on Thursday dealt with
in later scenes. Mike Patton’s
minimal, ominous score is
tremendous everywhere, but
most effective during these
scenes of Luke riding around.
Also fantastic is Sean Bobbitt’s
cinematography. Cianfrance
comes from a documentary
background and the film’s
aesthetic reflects this. Bobbitt’s
images are gritty and often
loosely composed, emphasizing
long takes to help this sense of
reality come through.
Cianfrance’s documentary
background comes to betray
him though, as the last two-thirds
of the film try too hard
to be emotional and “real.”
Cianfrance’s concept of “real”
seems to involve a heavy reliance
on simplistic melodrama
and coincidence, sometimes
falling back way too heavily on
forced tragedy. For a filmmaker
who wants to portray reality,
Cianfrance’s film feels heavily
manipulated at times. The
second-third of the film that
focuses on Cross and the corrupt
police force is where the movie
comes to a screeching halt. The
plot points here are obvious
and the emotional stake is not
much above that of a mediocre
TV cop drama. The last third
of the film regains some of the
momentum, but can never quite
reach the level of emotionality
that Cianfrance clearly thinks
Movie Review: “The Place Beyond the Pines”
Photo Courtesy of MacGuffin Podcast/Flickr
Ryan Gosling and Derek Cianfrance collaborated on “Blue Valentine” in 2010.
her story, the infinite frustration
that comes with homesickness
and the thin line that divides
past and present. Both Medley
and Reyes, while focusing on
different topics in their work,
managed to express themselves
with ease through their poems.
“The things a poem can teach
us to see and hear and listen
for are essential to our survival
as human beings,” said Terry
Kennedy, associate director of
the MFA Writing Program at
UNCG, who along with faculty
from the program put the Poetry
Day together in order to keep a
tradition at UNCG. Kennedy’s
thoughts were reflected through
the way people reacted to
poems being read on Thursday.
Different emotions were
shown by listeners who sat and
appreciated the work of students.
A burst of laughter, embarrassed
giggles, or simply vigorous head
nods in agreement were brought
out of people. While some may
condemn poetry as a dying art,
the reactions and feelings evoked
by both poets and listeners do
become undeniably essential and
give poetry the life it has always
had.
his material contains.
Despite all these negatives,
“The Place Beyond the Pines”
is something to behold. To
watch Cianfrance reach for such
grand heights is exhilarating.
When the film does manage to
attain its director’s aspirations,
the result is heartbreaking and
stunning. Ben Mendelsohn and
Gosling are standouts among
the uniformly terrific cast, with
Gosling in particular giving an
Oscar-worthy turn. Though
it too often fails, “The Place
Beyond the Pines” never bores
and strives for heights that few
American films attempt. That
alone makes it a worthy film, and
Cianfrance must be commended
for trying something so grand.
Opinions
1514 T h e C a r o l i n i a n April 17 - 23, 2013 WWW.UNCGCAROLINIAN.COM Emily Ritter
Staff Writer
The spectacle of death is im-portant.
The emphasis on the
life of a celebrity or politician
is indicative of the posthumous
value placed on these “special”
people. They are untouch-able,
and in the same way that
the world loves to see a famous
mistake, they love to discuss
a famous death. This is not to
say that these people are not
important, that the value placed
on them is not earned, that their
contributions are not real. It is
to say that their death is not an
event that is shocking. Death is
powerful, grief a force, but it is
not shocking that famous lives
end. Their beginning and end
are as natural and predictable as
anyone’s. Maybe that is where
the novelty lies- that even the
most beautiful, the shiniest, the
smartest do eventually end the
way we all will. The media ex-plosion
that came after Margaret
Thatcher’s death was telling.
It sparked conversations
across the board. From the
depths of hatred that she caused
in some to the complete adora-tion
harbored in others, there
was a lot to say. A great re-minder
that she had existed,
and that in her big and politi-cally
relevant life, she had made
friends and enemies, was show-cased.
There were conversations
about the backlash being stron-ger
because she was a woman,
and snarky comments rang out
Death: the Iron Lady way
about how no one “really un-derstood”
her policies. It was a
soapbox to stand on, and many
people seized the opportunity.
This push for discussion for peo-ple
to understand, is interesting,
and would not have happened
over the past week if the former
Prime Minister had not passed.
Is it fair to place all this emotion
and intensity on one death? The
contributions that a celebrity or
politician make, are made, for
better and for worse, and the
drama that their deaths create
does not change that. It only
brings them back under the mi-croscope.
Every media outlet has
to cover such a major event; ev-ery
source of media needs a spin,
a discussion, a new insight.
The idea is to get people talk-ing,
remembering, to make them
feel, and to make them want to
get involved. It is a historical
event in its own right, but are
there not other conversations
to have? The cost of a celebrity
funeral is outlandish, but what
comment does that make? Mar-garet
Thatcher’s funeral will run
around 10 million pounds, and
this idea of such money for a fu-neral
has not gone unnoticed.
The precedent has already
been set for “important” deaths.
Just as lavish and otherworldly
weddings are anticipated from
“special” people. What does that
say about media and consumer
awareness? Isn’t it equally im-portant
to point out that in depth
policy discussions that span po-litical
parties and countries and
demonstrate deep communica-tions,
should be happening more
often? That these people that
are in the news, the media, that
are representatives of “everyone
else” really are put on a pedestal?
This huge gap between “them”
and “us” is ever widening, a fact
that spans beyond death and the
reaction to it.
Is it okay to spend this kind
of energy debating whether a
life should be honored? Is this
a healthy discussion? Within
reason, a “huge” life should be
celebrated and critiqued, but
the blitz is a ridiculous spin on
a natural event. The world that
the media creates, and that we all
tune into via smart phone, Face-book,
or print, revolves around
the salacious. A story about the
life of Margaret Thatcher and
the simple and important facts
of the woman, her death and
her history does not sell in the
same way that outrage or love
does. Margaret Thatcher was a
political figure, a globally rec-ognized
leader who made his-tory,
and she has been put on
the highest pedestal and drug
through the thickest mud fol-lowing
her death. Which is all it
was, a death, and she should be
honored in the way that every-one
deserves to be honored, and
she deserves acknowledgement,
but it is not noble to remember
her just because “it’s important.”
That is not grief, they feel a pull
to stir up something that looks
like grief. Does death immortalize us?
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ronald reagan’s legacy
AIDs and the gay community
When asked about Ronald
Reagan’s response to the AIDS
crisis, blogger Andrew Sullivan
said the president failed to lead
on the subject, but added that
there was not much he could
have done, as the disease was
mysterious at the time. Further,
the government cannot be
responsible for curing disease.
While I cannot nor would
ever speak for an entire group
of people, I offer here my
perspective. Ronald Reagan is
one of the greatest presidents
the gay community has ever
had.
California voters headed to
the polls on November 7, 1978.
Along with the candidates
running for state senator and
county commissioner was an
initiative named after Orange
County legislator John Briggs.
This initiative, ignited by the
Joseph Winberry
Staff Writer
success of Anita Bryant’s “Save
Our Children” campaign in
Florida, was designed to ban
openly homosexual people
from teaching in public schools.
While such a measure may
seem preposterous in the age of
“Modern Family,” it was quite
popular at the time. Indeed, for
months leading up to Election
Day, polls showed that the
Briggs initiative was not only
going to win, but win big.
The Briggs initiative lost 58-41
percent. How did this happen?
Many credit the activism of
Harvey Milk, President Jimmy
Carter and other public leaders.
However, I argue it was Ronald
Reagan who played the most
effective role.
Reagan had a greater influence
on the state of California than
Harvey Milk or Jimmy Carter,
because he actually held
statewide office there. More
importantly, Reagan was a
conservative. Many liberals who
agreed with Milk or Carter were
opposed to the Briggs Initiative
from the start. Conservatives
were strongly in favor of the
initiative prior to Reagan’s
public opposition to it. Come
Election Day, the initiative even
failed to win in Brigg’s home
county, which was known to be
a conservative stronghold.
Reagan’s decision to publicly
oppose the Briggs initiative
could have been much more
politically costly to him than to
its other opponents. Two years
prior, he had come very close to
defeating the incumbent Gerald
Ford in the 1976 Republican
nomination due to the support
of social conservatives who saw
Ford’s pro-choice, pro-Equal
Rights Amendment positions
as being the antithesis of
conservatism. Reagan risked
losing these voters in the
upcoming 1980 Republican
primary by opposing Briggs.
Reagan did not merely oppose
the measure, but did so actively.
He took reporters’ questions
on the matter, published an
informal letter in September
1978, and penned an editorial
for the Los Angeles Herald-
Examiner one week before
Election Day. Reagan’s actions
put his opinions in stone; there
could be no devolving on the
issue. Reagan led on gay rights,
and did not end his support
with the initiative.
During the 1980 election,
Fidel Castro announced that
Cuba would be dispelling
homosexuals, and they were
“unwanted.” Reagan declared his
support for the Cuban migrants
immediately, much to the
dismay of other conservatives.
It is true that the issue did not
become a major priority of his
administration. Yet Reagan was
a close and personal friend to
Rock Hudson, one of the first
gay celebrities who was publicly
living with AIDs, and was
devastated by his fellow actor’s
death. Reagan did promise to
help fund AIDs research.
Even if the government could
be held responsible for disease
control, our knowledge of the
disease was extremely limited
in the 1980s. Reagan compared
to Harry S. Truman, who bused
homosexuals out of Key West
when he vacationed there in the
1940s, was very progressive. If
we want to discuss a president
who failed to lead on gay rights,
Bill Clinton signed the Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell policy and the
Defense of Marriage Act in to
law. Recently, Reagan’s daughter
said that she believed her father
would have joined Gerald Ford
in supporting marriage equality.
Unfortunately, we will never
know. We do know that Reagan
was more of a leader on gay
rights long before the left found
it fashionable.
Healthcare for minors under attack
Last week, I wrote about
Governor Pat McCrory’s
budget, and how it hurts our
communities living with HIV/
AIDs in North Carolina. North
Carolina Republicans, much
like Britney Spears, did it again.
The State Senate filed Senate
Bill 675, which will limit some
of the access minors have to
medical care and treatment.
These include STD testing,
substance abuse treatment and
counseling, mental illness and
Samantha Korb
Staff Writer
pregnancy testing. If passed, this
will require minors to obtain
parental consent to receive
these services from places like
Planned Parenthood, or other
health clinics.
This bill flew under the
radar until last week, when I
noticed an alert on Planned
Parenthood’s action network.
Frankly, with all the craziness
coming from the General
Assembly lately, Senate Bill
675 almost got lost in the mix.
When the General Assembly
is filing bills to establish a state
religion, it makes sense that a
bill to eliminate health access for
minors would get lost in the mix.
This legislation was filed with
the assumption that all minors
have the type of relationship
with their parents that they can
openly discuss their mental,
physical and sexual health.
While that is the rose-colored
ideal, it is obviously not true.
Talking with parents, or
finding a trusting adult to confide
can be hard for any teenager, but
for some it simply is not feasible.
Healthcare professionals are
therefore trained in a variety
of ways to work with youth in
these circumstances. However,
Senate Bill 675 not only strips
the adolescent of invaluable
resources, but does not allow
the healthcare professional to
serve in their position. A sad
extreme to this reality would be
in the case of a dependent that is
raped or otherwise assaulted by
a parent or a guardian. It forces
the victim to rely on their abuser
for necessary treatment.
Left untreated, medical
conditions will affect a teen’s
health through adulthood.
These health concerns are
extremely sensitive in nature
and time, and a minor should
not have to wait to seek the
proper care they need. With one
in four teenagers acquiring an
STD sometime in their lifetime,
it is imperative that teens are not
afraid to seek medical advice
and testing if necessary. North
Carolina schools are not doing
the proper job of educating
young people about STDs and
pregnancy, despite the passage
of the Healthy Youth Act in
2009, which does not touch
on homosexuality or abortion.
Teens often seek medical advice
either from the internet or their
peers, when they should be
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able to trust organizations
and medical providers.
One in five teenagers have
a ‘diagnosable’ mental health
disorder, and suicide is the third
highest cause of death among
teens, so it is imperative that
Senate Bill 675 does not pass. For
many of us that came to UNCG
straight from high school, we
still remember the emotional
rollercoaster adolescence can be.
Mental health affects everyone,
especially our youth, and
passing Senate Bill 675 severely
limits the options teens have
when it comes to every health
service.
It becomes personal for me
when I remember being that
depressed kid in high school who
had a solid enough relationship
with their parents to ask for
help. But our legislators are
naïve to think my relationship
with my parents is like every
other teenagers’ relationship
with their parents. This bill is
not really about that though. It
is about limiting one more arm
of the rights of the youth in our
state. First, the voting rights of
18 and 19 year olds (and college
students in general), now the
health access for minors. It has
only been four months, I am
waiting for 2014.
Thomas O’Connell
Staff Writer
ALL RELIGIONS ARE EQUAL,
DOWN TO THEIR CRITICISM
A Libyan woman was recently
threatened with lashings and
death for offending the Islamic
community. She posted nude
photos on her Facebook with
“[expletive] your morals,”
written across her chest. It
caused uproar among Libyan
Muslims, with many calling
for the death penalty. There
have been reactionary protests
around the world in support
of the young woman. She has
since gone into hiding, and
some are speculating that she is
still at risk.
This is not an isolated
incident. The Arab Spring
that seemed promising for
democracy and equality is
turning into an Autumn
nightmare for women. In
both Egypt and Libya, public
assaults of both the physical
and sexual nature are becoming
commonplace. The ability to
criticize such actions or any
violent behavior carried out in
the name of Islam is becoming
difficult in progressive circles.
Islam has become a controversial
subject in discourse, and
constantly labeling critics as
“Islamaphobic” does not help.
As I write, I know that the line
between paranoia and rational
criticism in this country is a thin
one. One only has to look at our
state legislature passing bills that
effectively create Sharia Law to
witness the absurdity of such
fervent xenophobia. Muslims
in this country pose no threat
of establishing a theocracy, and
this kind of McCarthyism only
provides propaganda for those
who wrongfully preach that
the United States is at war with
Islam. However, the absence of
Joe McCarthy does not mean
we should stop critiquing
communism. While Islam
is becoming a taboo subject
in American conversations,
the world should not stop
expressing concern where it
is due. There are some racists
who use Islam as a veil for
xenophobia and nationalism,
but there are equally as many
who have legitimate complaints.
Unfortunately, many
progressives in our country
attack those who are rationally
skeptical or critical for being
“racist” or “intolerant.” But if
a Christian were to bomb an
abortion clinic, most western
media would act on it as an act
of extremism, fundamentalism,
and the dangerous of heavy
religiosity in America. However,
barbaric behavior carried out in
the name of Islam is acceptable.
Criticism of their faith is often
attacked as western imperialism,
and then a laundry list of sins
committed by the west in the
Middle East is brought up.
Often solidarity with the Islamic
world trumps solidarity for
the victims of strict Islamic
societies. Look no further
than a recent article in the
Guardian by Chitra Nagarajan.
In her article, Nagarajan
criticizes the tactics of Femen,
a feminist organization that
started “International Topless
Day” in support of the young
woman I mentioned at the
beginning. Nagarajan criticizes
the group for forcing western
values onto Islamic women,
calling it a form of “feminist
imperialism.” So in Nagarajan’s
thinking, westerners must first
do intellectual jumping jacks
before demonstrating outrage at
such behavior.
Meanwhile, the systematic
abuse of women and young girls
continues in Afghanistan, Saudi
Arabia, and Iran. As someone
who has read the Qur’an, I
can assure you that its views
towards women condone this
abuse. What is happening to the
young woman who attempted to
express herself on social media
is indicative of how oppressive
theocratic thinking is. It is
not an insult to a culture or
people to say that this may give
validation for rampant sexism
and brutality.
Religion is not just a belief
system, but a philosophy and
a value system that informs
not only personal choices but
politics and family life. Much
like politics or values, religion
can and should be critiqued.
If anything, religion should be
under much heavier scrutiny
given the divine authority that
authorizes these values.
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Chris McCracken
Features Editor
Not all colleges created equal
An emerging trend in
journalism has been to bash
the higher education system.
“Is a college degree worth it
anymore?” Press wires are rife
with stories of kids graduating
with mortgage-sized debts
and not getting jobs to pay it
off, along with stories about
misery in almost every single
sector of the economy. Some of
the stories are so bad that they
would keep the oil industry’s
publicist up at night, and the
resounding message from the
media seems to be: “Do not go
to school!”
Lawmakers seem to be
listening. On Governor Pat
McCrory’s website, he is
quoted as saying, “Starting in
high school and continuing
through our higher education
system, we must ensure our
students are on the right path to
acquiring marketable skills that
will lead to a productive and
satisfying career.” His vision is
for graduating seniors to go to
trade schools and community
colleges, where they can quickly
and cheaply find work without
getting into debt.
As a soon-to-be college
graduate, I am dumbfounded by
these developments. I attended a
public high school in one of the
biggest public school districts in
North Carolina. Virtually every
piece of the system was pushing
me to go to college.
In 2005, during my last few
months of middle school, I went
through a process similar to
college advising. A teacher and
employee of the State of North
Carolina took my middle school
transcript and a high school
bulletin, pieced together my
schedule, and figured out that
I should take a track of classes
over the next four years called
“university prep.” When she
asked me what I wanted to do
when I grew up, she neglected
to tell me about the wonders of
small engine repair, or about all
of the prosperity that was to be
had in the plumbing industry.
I wanted a career that required
years and years of education.
“Good for you!” she said warmly.
Over the next few years, I
progressed through the high
school track that was designed
to prepare me to enter college.
I took several classes that
were labeled as “Honors,” and
then progressed on to the big
leagues: “Advanced Placement.”
These classes, only for the best
and the brightest, were meant
to help high school students
earn college credit. They had
some pretty clear incentives.
Some high schools would even
cover the cost of your exam.
For those that do not, you could
earn three hours of college
credit simply for the cost of a
test. The grades were measured
by a weighted scale, which
allowed you to boost your grade
point average significantly. The
system was designed to take
the best students in the school
and prepare them for college
courses, while making them
more attractive candidates for
colleges and universities. This
was created with one purpose in
mind: getting butts in to seats.
Educators did not come up
with this system overnight. The
Advanced Placement program
was founded in the 1950s and
has continued to serve its
mission for about 60 years. It
has been tested by generations
of high school students, and
has grown to the point that it
is tough to even get into a state
school without proving yourself
to be college-ready. The reason
why is because educators have
seen past success with these
kinds of programs. According
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
the unemployment rate in 2012
was just 4.5 percent for college
graduates, compared to 8.3
percent for those with just a
high school diploma. Those
with a college degree also earn
much more on a weekly basis
than the average worker, and are
less likely to rely on government
programs like disability for their
support.
The community colleges
politicians and the media keep
touting? The unemployment rate
for those with just an Associate’s
degree was minimally above
average in 2012, and they made
less per week than the average
worker did. A four-year degree
may be expensive for graduates,
but with those kinds of statistics
it is clear that two-year schools
are not really equipping students
with any more “marketable”
skills than their larger and more
rigorous counterparts.
The decision to go to college,
and where to go, is ultimately
the choice for individuals and
their families to make. However,
everyone should be skeptical
of making long-term decisions
based on the advice from people
with short-term goals.
Emily Brown
Opinions Editor
North Korea is a sensitive
subject for Americans on any
given day, but in the weeks
since they assured the world
there would be a missile test, the
sense of desperation to “handle”
the problem has increased ex-ponentially.
Per usual, people have differ-ent
ideas of how one could han-dle
the conflict. Some believe
we should compromise, still
others would rather we strike
first. Although I cannot fathom
it reaching such an extent, I
have to wonder if this is how it
felt in the early days of the Cold
War. Further, it causes me to re-flect
on when a war is just, and
The human cost of war
what that means for the people
involved.
My brother is in the United
States Army, and he is a Ser-geant
something-or-other that I
have never really listened to or
registered, but involves telling a
bunch of other people what to
do and when and for how long.
It is some title that makes people
raise their eyebrows and want to
shake my hand, and strangers
ask me to thank him – which I
rarely pass along. Deployments,
wars, just causes and worthy
battles are all another way to
describe an ocean that separate
me from him. I have to wonder
how many people on the other
side have brothers that are fight-ing
– or how many are brothers,
hoping they can make it home
in time for a graduation or a
birthday, ‘lest they miss another.
The question we have to ask is
not whether a missile is a wor-thy
concern, because of course
it is. It is not to discern whether
“terror” is bad, but whether a
tangible expenditure of our re-sources
to fight an intangible en-emy
is worth the lives that will
be lost in the process – because
war happens among men, not
land nor missiles nor the egos of
world leaders who forget how it
feels when your dinner table has
a missing seat.
There are three elementary
explanations of conflict, one be-ing
that the world exists as it did
in the pages of Leviathan. The
argument of “realism” in is that
conflict exists over power, typi-cally
through acquiring land.
Another is liberalism, which
involves monetary resources.
A third, somewhat more mod-ern,
is that of constructivism,
in which conflict is born out
people’s inability to understand
another’s values. I think that
each could exist any given time
and all have occurred, but that
enlightened peoples should
force themselves to always err
towards the third.
I am sure there are just wars.
I remain predisposed to support
our participation in World War
II, but it is not as if we got in-volved
based on a humanitarian
effort. But what about invading
Pakistan to pursue Bin Laden
without officially declaring
war, effectively ignoring their
sovereignty? As an American,
it seems like a worthy cause. I
imagine Pakistanis feel differ-ently.
The way we think of war
should change first in our rhet-oric.
We are all personally re-sponsible
for not believing any
nation should be wiped off the
planet, and understanding our
sovereignty is the root of the
lifestyle we lead, and it is just as
important worldwide. The price
of war is only partially counted
in dollar signs, but mostly in fu-nerals
and empty places at the
dinner table. Human life has to
be worth more than helping a
country flex its muscles unnec-essarily,
and that has to be worth
avoiding conflict when possible.
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Philly hosts NFL concussion fight
Hannah Nystrom
Staff Writer
For all of those mothers who
feared the worst and insisted
their child wear a helmet,
their nightmares came true. In
recent news, a “billion-dollar
problem” has transpired as a
result of concussions in the
NFL.
Philadelphia is the official
homestead of the debilitating
lawsuit between players and
those who question the cause.
Eleanor Perfetto, whose
husband, Ralph Wenzel, played
guard for Pittsburgh and San
Diego, found the concussion
pandemic horrific. “There are
people who aren’t going to be
able to be around long enough
to find out the end of this case,
and my husband is one of
them…He died last June, and
I’m here for him. He was sick
for almost two decades, and, in
the end, had very, very severe,
debilitating dementia.”
Most find the big screen one
of the main culprits spreading
the meaning direct and heavy
conflict. Players believe the
NFL “glorified and monetized
violence through NFL films,
therefore profiting from vicious
hits to the head.”
Additionally, there is
speculation according to the
NFL’s lawyer, David Frederick,
that “the league concealed
studies linking concussions
to neurological problems for
decades.”
Other players have suffered
from concussions along with
Ralph Wenzel. Within the last
few years NFL players have
been diagnosed after their
deaths with chronic traumatic
encephalopathy or CTE.
The most recognizable
effects come at the expense
of Pro Bowler Junior Seau
and Ray Eastening, who both
committed suicide in the last
year.
The lawyer for the NFL,
Paul Clement, feels differently
in regards to the situation.
Clements thinks the fatal
occurrences of concussions
originate from the players
themselves not the NFL.
Clement says “Teams bear the
chief responsibility for health
and safety under the contract
along with the players union
and the players themselves…
The clubs are the ones who had
doctors on the sidelines who
had primary responsibility for
sending players back into the
game.”
Even though each side
disagrees with the other, all
individuals believe concussions
are horrible injuries.
Lisa McHale, wife of Tom
McHale, watched her husband
battle continuous bouts of
depression. McHale was
forty-five years old when he
committed suicide due to
addiction and depression.
Lisa McHale found out her
husband was diagnosed with
CTE. McHale stated “to know it
wasn’t his fault, that there was
something neurological going
on, it helps.”
Since the case is not set to rule
for several months, perhaps
both sides of the issue can team
up to reduce concussion rates
and promote healthy playing
habits.
A positive sign for current
players health is the NFL’s
plan next season to provide
professional neurologists on
the sidelines of every game,
which should help players
tremendously.
Photo courtesy Chrisphoto/FLICKR
The picture above shows the late Junior Seau with the San Diego Chargers. His death opened the sporting world’s eyes to concussion damage.
SPORTS
FROM
UNCG
AND
BEYOND
• UNCG’s men’s and women’s
golf teams will travel to South
Carolina this weekend to play
in the Southern Conference
Tournament.
• UNCG’s Annette Rios was
named the SoCon’s women
tennis player of the week. Rios
went had a 6-0 record for the
week in singles matches, 2-1 in
doubles play.
•The Yale Bulldogs won
the 2013 NCAA hockey
championship last weekend.
Despite being one of the oldest
hockey playing institutions
on the collegiate level, dating
back to 1896, this was the first
time Yale won the national
championship.
• Bad news for Lakers fans, as
star Kobe Bryant will miss 6-9
months with a torn achillies.
Derrick Rose, star point guard
for the Chicago Bulls, missed
the entire 2013 season with this
same injury.
• 14 year old Guan Tianlang
became the youngest player to
ever make a PGA cut with his
performance at the Masters
Golf Tournament. While
finishing nowhere near the
top of the board, it is still
considered an amazing feat.
• The semifinal matchups
in the 2013 UEFA champions
league are FC Barcelona vs
Bayern Munich and Borussia
Dortmund vs Real Madrid. The
winner of each series will face
off next month.
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Basketball hall of fame class equals star power
Everick Davis
Staff Writer
In life everyone thrives to be
the best they can, better than
the next man and better than
the one before him.
Greatness is something that
is earned and only the best can
truly achieve that type of feat.
This idea is reflected with the
unveiling of the 2013 Naismith
Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame is where
every single basketball player
wants to be someday. It takes
a long and successful career to
make it to the Hall of Fame as
these people have done. The
best part of the Hall of Fame
is it is not just given to people
within one organization, but
simply the greats of basketball.
The list is highlighted by
legendary coach Rick Pitino,
Gary Payton, Bernard King,
Dawn Staley, Guy Lewis, Jerry
Tarkanian and Sylvia Hatchell.
In the NBA, it is generally
known that the big men are
there to act as the rim protectors
and are usually the ones who
get the credit for being great
defenders, but Gary Payton was
the exception.
Gary Payton is the only point
guard to ever win the Defensive
Player of the Year, which is a
major accomplishment since
the point guard is usually the
smallest player on the court.
Payton used to shut players
down as he was nicknamed
“The Glove” for a reason.
In addition to being a great
defender, Payton was just as
good on the offensive side of
the floor as he finished his
career with multiple all-star
appearances and earned a
championship ring with the
Miami Heat in 2006.
Just last week Rick Pitino
secured the 2013 NCAA
Championship with Louisville.
This was not surprising since
Pitino is simply one of the
greatest coaches of all time and
has the track record to prove it.
Pitino is the only coach in
college hoops history to win a
national title with two different
teams, and he did it in two
completely different decades
(1996 and 2013).
Pitino is also the only coach
to ever lead three different
schools to the Final Four, which
proves he is definitely no fluke.
The coach of the year awards
are piled up on his resume as
well as his national titles. Pitino
has a long branch of successors
and is simply a winner.
It is surprising that it took
them this long to put Bernard
King in the Hall of Fame.
King was scoring champ once,
has multiple all NBA and all-star
appearances, while also
ranking 16th on the NBA all-time
scoring list. King was the
ideal small forward of the 1980s
and his appearance in the Hall
of Fame is well over due.
The former University of
Virginia star Dawn Staley is
another well deserving Hall of
Famer as she was a multiple
WNBA all-star. Staley also
won three gold medals in the
Olympics and is considered a
top 15 player in WNBA history.
After 30 years of head
coaching in Houston, Guy
Lewis deserves to be a Hall
of Famer. During his time in
Houston, Lewis led the Cougars
to the NCAA tournament 14
times and posted 27 straight
winning seasons. Lewis coached
many future NBA greats such
as Clyde Drexler and Hakeem
Olajuwon.
Jerry Tarkanian is right up
there with Lewis as he has won
over 700 games at the college
level as a coach, with only
four other coaches in NCAA
history having more wins then
him. Tarkanian’s teams made
the Final Four four times.
Tarkanian also accomplished
the very difficult task of leading
three different schools to 20 or
more win seasons.
Lastly we have Sylvia
Hatchell, who is the second
most winning coach in college
women’s basketball history.
Hatchell coached the Tar
Heels for many years and she
has led her squad to multiple
championships, winning over
500 games.
All of these people have left
their mark on basketball and
fill the Hall of Fame with more
credibility, as well as star power.
With a class of professionals
as great as this one, it can only
make basketball fans more
excited to see who gets in next
year.
UNCG takes doubleheader vs Liberty with ease
Hannah Nystrom
Staff Writer
The UNCG Women’s softball
team recovered after losing
their last doubleheader versus
Virginia Tech by winning a
doubleheader against Liberty
University.
The Spartans won their first
game 5 to 4 and their second
game 8 to 10.
The Spartans began with a 1
to 0 lead when Junior Katelyn
Bedwell sent out a single to the
middle plate giving Bedwell her
38th and team leading RBI of
the season.
Junior Aisha Figueroa singled
to left field and followed it up
with a stolen base. With two
outs Bedwell came back giving
UNCG the lead with another
RBI.Th
e second inning began
with Liberty taking a 2 to 1
lead, but it did not last too
long. The Spartans reclaimed
control in the second and third
innings.
Toni MacReynolds produced
a two run single to left center
field which pushed UNCG
to a 3 to 2 advantage. The
third inning, Heather Robb
rocketed a two run home run
to left center field, bumping the
Spartans to a 5 to 2 lead.
Liberty attempted to creep
back in the fourth and fifth
innings boosted their score line
to 5 to 4. Junior Raeanne Hanks
ended the game with 1-2-3
seventh inning to maintain
victory.
Hanks improved to 15 to 4
only allowing one earned run
on six hits with six strikeouts.
Game two against Liberty
was a mimic of the first game as
UNCG was able to take control
first, pushing Liberty to the
side with ease.
The second inning, UNCG
came out guns a blazing. The
Spartans scored four runs on
five hits, with another home
run by Heather Robb. Figueroa
gained an RBI on a walk,
soaring the Spartans to a 2 to
0 lead.
With two outs in their back
pocket, Freshman Lindsey
Thomas snagged an RBI giving
the Spartans a 3 to 0 lead.
Finally, Bedwell knocked a
single to the middle grabbing
another RBI making the score
4 to 0.
Towards the end of the fourth
inning, Freshman Allison
Geiner, advanced to third after
hitting a single and eventually
scored due to a wild pitch
bringing the score to 5 to 0.
UNCG eventually ended the
game with two runs in the sixth
inning. The two insurance runs
came from Thomas and Eileen
Horsmon.
The Spartans were able to
improve their record to 27-10
while Liberty lowered their
record to 17-20. This was the
boost the Spartans needed to
kick them back into gear.
UNCG followed this series
with a win at home against
Appalachian State on Friday
night 3-1.
UNCG hopes to keep this
momentum into next week
when they play Chattanooga.
Women’s Softball., Wed
Game 1
UNCG 	 5
Liberty 	 	 4
Women’s Softball., Wed
Game 2
UNCG 	 10
Liberty 	 	 8
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UNCG and App State exchange victories
Calvin Walters
Staff Writer
The UNCG baseball team
played host to rival Appalachian
State this past weekend,
marking the final visit from
the Mountaineers as a fellow
Southern Conference member.
The series did not start well
for UNCG as App State cruised
to a 9-1 victory on Friday.
UNCG responded with
an extra innings victory on
Saturday to even the series
through two games.
The Mountaineers jumped on
UNCG starter Max Povse early
scoring one run in the first and
second innings, before a two
run third inning pushed the
score to 4-0 early. Meanwhile
Appalachian State starter Jamie
Nunn allowed only two hits
through the first seven innings.
The Mountaineers added
another pair of runs in the
seventh inning, before adding
the finishing touches in the
ninth inning with three runs.
The Spartans scored their
lone run in the eighth inning
when Christian Wolfe singled
in TJ Spina who led off the
inning with a single.
UNCG bounced back in the
second game of the series on
Saturday afternoon, knocking
off the Mountaineers 6-5 in
eleven innings.
UNCG racked up 16 hits
compared to just nine for the
Mountaineers, but struggled
to string together some timely
hits.
It did not start out well for
the Spartans as App raced out
to a 4 run lead in the top of the
first inning. Davis continued
his hot streak with a double
that plated the first run of the
game.
The Spartans responded
with two runs of their own in
the bottom half of the inning.
Christian Wolfe walked to open
the game and moved to second
on a balk. Ray Crawford
followed that up with a walk
of his own and Cambric Moye
walked as well to load the bases
with one out. Eric Kalbfleisch
hit a sacrifice fly to drive in
Wolfe before Zach Leach drove
in Crawford with a single.
App State padded their lead
with another run in the third
inning. Again the Spartans
answered with a run of their
own as Kalbfleisch drove in
another run, plating Trevor
Edwards with a fielder’s choice
groundout.
The Spartans went scoreless
until the sixth inning when
UNCG inched closer with
another run to cut the
Mountaineer lead to 5-4. Spina
singled to open the inning and
stole second before advancing
to third on a groundout. The
senior would come in to score
on a wild pitch drawing UNCG
within one.
The Spartans tied the game in
the bottom of the eighth inning
when UNCG strung together
three hits. Zac MacAneney
led off with a single and stole
second to put himself in scoring
position, but was tagged out
when Spina grounded into a
fielder’s choice. Spina moved to
second on a balk after a Spartan
strikeout putting him at second
base with two outs. Wolfe then
singled up the middle to score
Spina.
UNCG threatened App State
in the ninth with three hits, but
could not push a run across.
In a hard fought 11th inning,
UNCG found a way to score the
winning run.
Kalbfleisch singled to open
the inning and stole second
before advancing to third
via a wild pitch on a walk
to Leach leading to runners
on the corners with no outs.
MacAneney then drove in
Kabfleisch with a walk off
squeeze bunt to give UNCG a
6-5 victory.
UNCG used four pitchers
in the game with Ryan Clark
picking up the victory with
three innings of one hit ball.
Men’s Baseball., Fri
UNCG 	 1
App State 9
Men’s Baseball., Sat
UNCG 	 6
App State 5
emma barker/carolinian
UNCG pitcher Max Povse struggled against the Mountaineers on Friday night. Luckily the Spartans were able to pick up a win on Saturday.