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Spring 2012 Housing Issue

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Home Sweet Wake is a special publication of the Old Gold & Black, published by Stone Printing of High Point. If you have any questions are comments, email [email protected]. To sub-scribe, please send $35 to P.O. Box 7569, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. © 2009 WFU Media Board. All rights reserved.

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Special thanks to: Residence Life & Housing, Old Gold & Black Business Office

Meenu KrishnanEditor-in-chief

Ken Meyer Online managing editor

Renee Slawsky Print managing editor

Dear Readers,

Students sprawl out on the Quad, the trees are beginning to bloom and generous professors are hosting classes outside. It’s official — spring has arrived at Wake Forest.

Along with celebrated spring traditions like Shag on the Mag, Big Campus Connect and Springfest, this time of year often means one thing for students — picking housing for next year.

Not to be dramatic, but choosing the right dorm is a decision of critical importance. Your room is your sanctuary, an escape from the rigors of daily life at the Forest.

Residence life is one of the best parts of the Wake Forest experience. Some of our most cherished univer-sity memories are those late-night conversations with roommates, the Sunday night family-style dinners and the countless hours spent just enjoying each other’s company.

But it can be hard to choose a dorm — some of them, like the Quad halls, just seem so similar.

In order to help you out, we at the Old Gold & Black are excited to present our first annual housing issue, a guide designed to aid you in your residential choices.

In this special issue, we have compiled short summa-ries of each upperclassman residence hall, (we excluded freshmen halls, as most students currently on campus will not be living there) the theme houses and the most popular off-campus apartment complexes.

This issue is no sugarcoated brochure. All of the articles’ writers have personally lived in the

dorms and apartments described, which means these

often hilarious accounts are based 100 percent on real-life experiences.

Want to find out which dorm has the best (and the most unsanitary) bathrooms? Which has the most strict residence hall directors? Which of the Crownes is the best? Which dorms to avoid and which to snag?

The answers to each of these questions lie within these pages.

Curious about the newly constructed (and swank) Deacon Station? The lowdown on laundry situations in each dorm? The pros and cons of theme housing?

In addition to answering all these questions, the is-sue also features a look at the university’s most famous individuals whose names grace many of the residence halls, including Efird, Taylor, Kitchin and Palmer.

We also got some inside tips from Residence Life staff members about how best to navigate Wake residence life and included a handy page that gives you useful designing advice on how to transform your room from a prison to a homey sanctuary.

Lastly, as tremendous changes are coming to the hous-ing scene on campus, we take a look at the future of residence life on campus.

We’re really excited to be putting out a housing issue for the first time. We hope you find it informative and entertaining.

Read on to get the inside scoop. And happy hunting for your new campus home!

Best,Meenu KrishnanEditor-in-chiefOld Gold & Black

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TABLE OF CONTENTSWhat’s Inside: Welcome Letter C2

On-Campus Residence Halls Davis & Taylor C4 Efird&Huffman C5 Poteat&Kitchin C6

Martin&Polo C7 What’s In A Name? C8-C9

Meetthemenwhoputaroofoveryourhead

North Campus and Off-Campus Housing StudentApts.&NorthCampusApts. C10

PalmerandPiccolo&DeaconStation C11

TheCrownes C12

ThemeHouses C13

RL&H Interviews C14

Designing Your Dorm C15


By Scott Frankel | Staff writer

Fall 2010 marked the beginning of my sopho-more year. The previous spring, five of my friends and I had signed up to live in a six-person suite, Davis 307. When my dad and I first lugged my belongings up two flights of stairs and into my double room, I was pretty upset. The room must have been half the size of my previous room in Babcock. I called my roommate and told him, “this place is tiny.” It was.

But years of Tetris finally paid off; with a few shrewd moves, we were able to debunk the beds and still find space for the dressers and desks. Everything fit — barely. Hint #1: use risers to lift the bed over the air conditioner. Hint #2: remove the closet doors! There’s simply no room for the doors to swing open.

Location, location, location! This, above all else, is what makes Davis a great place to live. Davis is maybe the most centrally located of any dormitory on campus. Living right on the Upper Quad, Davis residents are never more than a few minutes’ walk from classes or most other dorms (sorry, Palmer and Piccolo). This was partially the reason that Davis 307 quickly became the hangout spot for my suitemates’ and my larger group of friends.

Additionally, Davis is attached to both the ATM machine and, more importantly, Subway. Being so close to Subway is both a curse and a blessing,

depending on your eating habits and budget. Take it for what you will, but by the end of my sophomore year, the Subway workers knew my suitemates and I all by our names and could pretty much make our subs without having to take our orders. Finally, Davis is next door to both Benson and the Pit, so good food… err, food… is always nearby.

The one downside to Davis’ location is its distance to the ever-shrinking student parking lots; however, even these walks are only about five minutes.

The facilities in Davis seem a little old but okay for the most part. The bathroom in my suite had two shower heads with no dividing wall or curtain between the two showers. So there was essentially one shower for the six of us, but this was very manageable. The lounge has a pretty nice study room and a new ping pong table. Generally, though, it smells like piss which is certainly a turn off… On a more positive note, there always seemed to be enough washers and dryers for Davis residents — the only setback be-ing the dreaded trip up three flights of stairs with a full basket of laundry. Those stairs were killer.

My memories from Davis are innumerable and some rather fantastic. (Fun fact: “Gullible” is actually written on the ceiling in 307D!) Like any dorm, Davis isn’t perfect — the rooms are fairly small and standard — but its location can-not be beat.

DAVIS

By Meenu Krishnan | Editor-in-chief

Named after the university’s sixth president (not the former dictator of Liberia), Taylor is one of the most centrally located dorms on campus. Like all Quad dorms, Taylor is only a few minutes’ walk from academic buildings, Lot Q, and everyone’s favorite place to eat fresh, Subway.

Admittedly, when I moved into my ground-level double room back in Fall 2010, I was a little concerned by the lack of space. Since sleeping in a bunk bed is so freshman year, my roommate and I decided to debunk.

After a few hours of sweating and cursing in that hellish Winston-Salem August heat, we finally managed to creatively rearrange our room to make our clunky dorm furniture fit. The downside, however, was we had almost no floor space. So just be aware of the cost of debunking in Taylor.

Luckily, I was living in a ground-floor suite, so moving in was a breeze. Those stairs in Taylor can be a doozy, especially if you live on the third floor. The laundry facilities are located on the basement level, and while finding a machine can be a problem during peak hours, I never found it to be an issue.

You’ll be thankful you chose to live in Taylor when it comes to buying and returning textbooks. Unlike everyone else, who will be struggling to hoist 50 pounds of books in those flimsy canvas or paper bags, you can easily deposit them in your room five feet away.

The bathroom situation, though not the most hygienic experience, is better than hall bathrooms. I lived in a suite of eight so we had one bathroom for all of us. Sharing one shower among eight people was a bit rough at times, especially during peak hours (9:30 classes on Tuesday/Thursday comes to mind). And we never quite figured out what purpose that inexplicable second shower head served.

I did spy a couple of cockroaches at night, but just swat them with your shower shoe and you’ll be fine. A word to the wise — if you have one of those bathrooms overlooking the parking lot behind Taylor, be aware that the frosted glass window near the toilet isn’t quite as opaque as it seems. One evening, my roommate and I con-ducted an experiment and you could see a clearly outlined silhouette in the bathroom.

For all you party people, you have two lounges nearby: Sigma Chi and Sigma Pi. While this can be convenient on weekends (if you’re the fratting type), it can be a real headache at other times. The walls in Taylor aren’t soundproof, so be prepared to listen to a constant stream of the latest pop songs. I remember one terrible night before midterms, during which I was forced to listen to a muffled version of Katy Perry’s “Teen-age Dream” on loop for three hours straight.

Overall, Taylor’s location can’t be beat. If you can manage to score a single room and track down a heavy-duty pair of Bose soundproof headphones, you won’t regret your choice.



TAYLOR

By Peter Siderovski | Junior business manager

What are you looking for in the YouChoose housing registration this year? Are you the type of student that wants to live in a social environ-ment, where loud and exciting parties are right outside your door most days of the week? Or do you spend more time in the library and wish you could live in one of the study rooms on the sixth floor? If you relate more closely to the latter, Efird is probably a good fit for you.

Efird is a hall-style dorm on the Upper Quad, nestled in-between Taylor and the chapel. I was pulled into my current room after going abroad in the fall, and I really don’t see much of any residents except for my roommate.

Unlike the freshman hall-style dorms, there is minimal hall chemistry and camaraderie. Com-paratively, Efird seems like a graveyard where people mostly converge in the lounge to study silently. However, there are definitely positive aspects of Efird that make it a real “sleeper” pick in the housing draft.

First of all, the rooms themselves are larger than some of their suite-style counterparts on the Up-per Quad. Efird has inhabitable singles and large doubles, including many that used to be triples — debatably the most spacious that one can find at Wake Forest. The elephant in the room doesn’t have to be just an idiom in Efird. Efird’s location is another one of its draws. The front door opens

out onto the Quad, and the back door provides quick access to Scales, Lot Q, and the barber shop. Never has it been so easy to go hang out with Dean Shore. Also, one of the great liberating feelings has been rolling out of bed consistently at 10:58 a.m. and making it to my 11:00 a.m. class on time in Wingate Hall.

As for the facilities, Efird succeeds in some areas and fails in others. The sweet plasma TV in the first floor lounge is a plus, as well as the kitchen that I’ve used for countless late-night Easy Macs. In each bathroom, there is at least one shower that provides two shower heads. Whoever is daring (or wasteful) enough to use both heads at once will discover the king/queen-like experience of a double shower.

The toilet stalls are inexplicably small and don’t leave much maneuvering room for the larger and taller residents. I’m guessing that people were a lot shorter in the ‘50s when most of these dorms were being built?

Another issue is that the laundry room in the basement has only two washers and two dryers. I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember the last time I considered doing my laundry with just two loads. Taking a casual four loads down there is more of a night-long event, so luckily the expansive Taylor laundry facilities are available to Efird residents as well. Going there for laundry also offers you the opportunity to talk to the chatty students that you’ve missed while living in Efird.


EFIRD

HUFFMANBy Alexa Renfro | Contributing writer

Huffman can certainly be considered an exception to the Wake Forest housing com-munity. Usually, your typical Wake student does not call Huffman home, thus giving the dorm a certain unique quality.

Let’s be real — outcasts, non-Greeks, artsy folks, hippies and even regular joes tend to flock to this quirky atmosphere. Perhaps this is because the T.R.E.E House resides in Huffman as well. Indeed, while living in this dorm, one is exposed to Tolerance, Respect, Education, and Environment, elements that the T.R.E.E. House so earnestly promotes for the welfare of the university.

As for the positives of living in Huffman, the dorm provides a significant amount of privacy and personal space. It is perfect for people who want to live in singles. But it also provides opportunities for people who choose to live with a roommate.

The rooms are quite spacious, especially double rooms; they have fairly large closets, tile floors and, of course, the generic white, cinderblock walls that give us that homey feel of prison.

In my own experience, I was able to fit a large futon in my room, and still had more space than I do now in Polo. Also, the clean-ing staff in Huffman does an excellent job of

maintaining clean facilities for the students to use, including the kitchen.

Another aspect that I particularly enjoyed about Huffman was the small courtyard con-nected to the building.

It was here that I spent a great deal of time, whether I was studying in the sunshine, or chatting with friends. This is a nice feature that most dorms are lacking.

On the other hand, the communal bath-rooms are the worst aspect of living in Huff-man. The first, second and basement floor bathrooms are tolerable. They are well lit and fairly large in size.

But in total contrast, the third floor bath-rooms are frightening. First of all, they only have one shower for a hall of 7-8 people to use.

What is more, they have dark brown tile walls, which make it difficult to see if a spider or a suspicious bug is lurking around, as is often the case. Furthermore, since the laundry room is in the basement, it is a true hike just to do laundry.

Residents on the third floor must climb up and down six flights of stairs, with heavy laundry bags in tow.

Overall, Huffman is a fun place to live. In-deed it possesses both positive and negative aspects, just like all of the dorms at Wake. But if you are looking for a breath of fresh air, I strongly recommend living here.

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Photo courtesy of Alexa Renfro


By Erica Oates | Contributing writer

Poteat Hall is an upperclassman suite-style residence hall that houses 264 coed students each year. Home to Kappa Sig fraternity, Kappa Beta Gamma sorority, Alpha Sigma fraternity and Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Poteat is one of the quieter “core four” dorms on the Upper Quad.

A beautiful study lounge provides a great space to work in, complete with a big flat-screen TV, kitchen and ping pong table. With the recently-renovated bathrooms that are larger than most, it would appear Poteat is an ideal living space.

However, looks can be deceiving. Make sure to check the floor plans before you register for your room. Poteat’s suites are mainly 5-person and 7-person suites, laid out like Kitchin but with a lounge you can actually work in and a much larger and cleaner laundry room. Some of the 7-person suites feature one huge room, literally two times the size of a normal room, which is a great spot for pregames. You can clearly see on the floor plan where these jumbo rooms are located. If you can score one, it’s a huge plus to Poteat.

Other 7-person suites are not quite as wel-coming, though. They are essentially the size of the average 6-person suite with two doubles and two singles, except Poteat features the

great addition of cramming two people into a room the size of a single. Think of it as living in a closet for a whole year — not enjoyable! As long as you avoid the forced double, though, Poteat isn’t a bad place to live.

Living above the post office is extremely convenient, so you don’t have to trek all over campus to lug those huge care packages back to your dorm. The walk to the academic buildings is also quick enough that you can roll out of bed 15 minutes before class and still make it.

Poteat also offers easy access to the tennis courts, Reynolds Gym and the track for those who like to work out on a regular basis. How-ever, if you are a person who likes to nap in the afternoon, Wait Chapel’s carillon of bells can be heard blasting through the halls of Poteat every afternoon at five o’clock in the evening.

Another downside is the continuing con-struction of Farrell Hall, which takes away from the beautiful view of campus and replaces it with loud construction and the infrastruc-ture of an unfinished building instead. That being said, Poteat provides a vibrant social atmosphere to live in and access to many of the amenities on campus. Though it has its downsides, Poteat’s location on the Upper Quad and suite-style living delivers the fun atmosphere an upperclassman dorm should have.

POTEAT

By Hilary Burns | Life editor

Need a close walk to the Pit? Want a balcony to sunbathe on during these sunny days? Looking for spacious rooms with kind resident directors? It sounds like Kitchin is the place for you. Kitchin is the dorm above the Deacon store and has been a great living experience for my suitemates and me.

Kitchin is in a prime location on campus and is located on the beautiful upper quad. While you could argue that all of the upper quad dorms are essentially the same, Kitchin offers the best location as well as a thriving night scene.

Love to party? Kitchin has you covered. Sigma Nu and Chi Psi lounges are conveniently located on the ground level. Don’t mind the bumping music every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night — just invest in earplugs.

Lucky for you, the laundry is located in a cave down a steep set of stairs in the middle of the court-yard. Don’t be the girl carrying your overflowing laundry basket into the middle of the courtyard, down the treacherous steps every week. I learned the hard way that you can simply go down one more set of stairs in the corner staircases and arrive at the other door, avoiding public embarrassment.

Beyond laundry, the living conditions are very spacious and welcoming. Just kidding. The suites in Kitchin open from a balcony to a ten-foot long hallway where you are not allowed to keep ANY personal belongings. Seriously, if you leave one shoe in that hallway you will get an angry email from

the Residence Hall Director. Apparently shoes are fire hazards, and they really hold you to the 11:59 p.m. deadline.

From the hallway, you have two double bedrooms, two singles and a bathroom. The single rooms are actually the perfect size to live comfortably. My suitemates who have singles keep a lofted bed and couch or chair in their rooms with room to spare.

The doubles, on the other hand, are quite cramped. My roommate and I insisted on de-bunking the beds first semester and thereby ended up living in a glorified closet for four months.

We had one bureau in the closet (yes, there is only one closet) and the second bureau just outside of the closet so the door was inoperable. As a result, a four-foot pile of clothes was on my bed at all times. We finally gave in and bunked the beds.

I have now saved the best for last. The bathroom comes equipped with one shower and one toilet and TWO sinks for six girls. The shower has two showerheads though; we have yet to figure out the significance of the second, good luck perhaps?

One anonymous Kitchin resident said they had a bit of a mold problem on the ceiling of their bathroom first semester. No worries though, the WFU maintenance team painted over the mold over winter break. Problem solved.

Sarcasm aside, it is so convenient being on the Upper Quad. It is in a central location on campus and the suite style living is a great setup. I just wish the rooms were a bit larger and, a little further down the road, Kitchin probably needs a little updating.



KITCHIN

By Ken Meyer | Online managing editor

If you’re reading this article, Martin Resi-dence Hall is not for you.

Two Greek organizations, the football halls and ice hockey theme housing have turned this dorm into a bastion of hedonism rivaled only by Animal House.

This North Campus supposedly suite-style residence hall sits in between Student Apart-ments and Polo yet has the amenities of neither complex.

The suites are glorified freshmen dorm hallways.

There are six primarily double rooms on each hall. If you’re lucky and planning ahead, you may be able to sneak into one of the singles.

There is a hall-style multi-shower and multi-toilet bathroom at the end. It will be just like you’ve landed back in Babcock or Bostwick.

There is also a small kitchen area in each suite that Residence Life & Housing pretends is a lounge.

Did you want to do your laundry while you lived here? Don’t even bother.

The laundry room will only allow you to start one washer every 10 minutes. If you break this rule, you’ll find out the dangers of flooding a drain.

Were you planning on walking to classes? With the construction, the university has decided to block the typical paths to class.

Add an extra fifteen minutes any time you have to walk to and from the main campus.

Want to eat next year? Your options are taking 30 minutes out of

your day to walk to main campus, buying a pre-made meal at the sundry in Student Apartments or using your glorified kitchenette to cook yourself some Ramen.

Once the construction is finished in Fall 2013, there will be a great new dining hall on North Campus that you’ll be able to frequent. Until then though, don’t plan on having actual food options on North Campus.

If you’ve gotten to this point in the article, you’re certainly wondering why you would ever willingly choose to live in Martin.

Are there any saving graces to the residence hall?

If you’re living in Martin as a member of a team or Greek organization, you’ll have a great year.

There is a great camaraderie within the groups that choose to live together in Mar-tin. If you’re in one of those groups or make friends with them, you’ll find yourself in a fun residence hall.

Otherwise all you’re looking forward to for the 2012-13 year is odd smells in both stairwells, clogged drains, bathrooms that fog up any time you turn the shower on and the loudest residence hall on campus. Don’t say you weren’t warned.


MARTIN

POLOBy Meenu Krishnan | Editor-in-chief

Well, you’ve hit the big leagues. You’re one of the lucky ones if you manage to score a room in the much-coveted Polo. When I visited campus in March 2009, I stayed in Polo and left naively thinking that all dorms at Wake would be palatial, multi-level extravaganzas. I got played for a fool.

Polo consists of two-person suites with a double and four-person apartments with singles. I recom-mend the four-person apartments. They have two levels, a kitchen and spacious living room and – here’s the jackpot – two bathrooms. Yes, two. Just take a second and imagine the luxury of having a shower and toilet basically to yourself.

However, competition for any Polo room, and particularly the apartments, is fiercer than the Hunger Games. This year, my roommates and I landed the last available apartment, despite our senior having an excellent lottery number.

Polo’s elevators, especially if you live on the fourth floor like I do, are a blessing. The laundry facili-ties are located on the ground floor, so not having to haul bags of clothing and bottles of detergent downstairs makes Polo a tempting choice.

But even paradise has its flaws. If you live in a four-person apartment, all rooms are not created equal. Two rooms are considerably larger than the others. If you’re one of the fortunate roommates, good for you. If not, expect a cramped room, especially if you don’t want to loft your bed. In addition, the

smaller rooms have an awkwardly placed step in the closet that compromises space.

Expect erratic temperatures in Polo. During the summer, two of the rooms were glacial, while the other two felt like an inferno. And in the winter, the situation was reversed.

Moreover, the kitchen is quite tiny, especially in comparison to those in Student Apartments and North Campus Apartments. The stove takes an eternity to heat up, so if you just want to make a quick omelet or bowl of pasta, it would be faster (though likely not tastier) to go to the Pit.

Also, you better hope that your roommates and neighbors are quiet, as the walls in Polo are paper-thin. You will be able to hear everything going on both next door and between rooms. In addition, when the lounges in Martin throw parties, you might as well rage in your room as the music can be deafening.

Finally, with the new construction and park-ing hullaballoo, it has become nearly impossible to park outside Polo. And now that the walkway across Q has been fenced off, you can count on the walk down Allen Easley to South Campus to be around 12-15 minutes (yes, I counted). That might discourage some of you who like to roll out of bed and dash to class.

Overall, you can’t beat the luxury of landing a suite or apartment in Polo. While other dorms of-fer more convenient locations and larger kitchens, Polo still offers a taste of the high life on campus.


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WHAT’S IN A NAME?Meet the men who put a roof over your head

ARNOLD PALMERPalmer is arguably one of the univer-

sity’s most well known names. The world-famous golfer attended

Wake Forest in 1947 on a golf schol-arship and turned pro after his win in the 1954 U.S. Amateur.

Palmer makes up the “Big Three” in golf, along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. These three individu-als helped make golf a popular sport commercially around the world.

Known as “The King,” Palmer has won seven major championships

throughout his career, including the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Open Championship. Palmer was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974 and given the PGA Tour Life-time Achievement Award in 1998.

With his 95 professional wins, Palmer is a legend in the golfing world. He also owns the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, helped found The Golf Channel and participated in the deal that brought the first golf course to China.

J.B. EFIRDJ.B.Efird, the founder of the Efird department store chain, gave 100,000 dollars through the Efird Foundation to construct the resi-dence hall.

Efird maintained an office at Charlotte at his position.

The Efird stores were sold to Belk department stores in 1967.

Efird was a revolutionary in the industry, pioneering one-price cash stores and the provision of insur-ance and pension benefits for his

employees. During the time of Efird’s donation, two anonymous members of the Reynolds Founda-tion had offered to give $2 million to the university, but only if Wake could raise $3 million by the end of 1953.

Toward the end of the deadline, the university lacked 150,000 dol-lars.

Efird’s donation of 100,000 dol-lars made the goal more manage-able.

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rock, you’ve seen the construction of two new residence halls on North Campus, set to be opened in August 2013.The new suite-style dorms will house 480 upper-class undergraduate students across 150,000 square feet.

Each building will have kitchens, study lounges and media rooms on every floor. In addition, the dorms will provide space for student organi-zations and will meet LEED certifica-tion silver level standards. The new

residence halls come in the wake of the university’s decision to up the resi-dency requirement to three years.

Featuring the university’s character-istic neo-Georgian look, the residence halls are also set to incorporate a new dining facility, though no announce-ment has been made as to whether or not this location will open in conjunc-tion with the new dorms.

These dorms, along with the recently built South and Polo halls, are (as yet) not named in anyone’s honor.

THURMAN D. KITCHINThurman Kitchin, who served as

the ninth president of the university from 1930 to 1950, graduated from Wake Forest in 1905.

After graduating from the uni-versity, Kitchin attended medical school at the University of North Carolina and Jefferson Medical Col-lege in Philadelphia. He eventually joined the faculty of the Wake For-est Medical School.

During Kitchin’s tenure, the university negotiated an offer with

the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to relocate the campus to Winston-Salem, N.C.

Kitchin’s administration was marked by significant achievements, including the admission of women, the sale of the old campus and expansion of both the medical and law schools.

Kitchin also led the university during the Great Depression and responded to the fire that destroyed two campus buildings in 1934.

BRIAN PICCOLOBrian Piccolo, one of the most

well-known names on campus, played professional football for the Chicago Bears for four years.

Graduating from Wake Forest in 1964, Piccolo made national records in rushing and playing during his senior season. Named ACC Player of the Year, Piccolo went surprisingly un-selected in the 1965 NFL Draft and thus joined the Bears as a free agent.

Piccolo died from embryonal cell carcinoma in 1970 at the young age

of 26. His legacy is celebrated with Wake Forest traditions like Hit the Bricks and Wake ‘N Shake, which raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund. He is also remembered all over the country. There is a school named after him in Queens, N.Y., and each season since 1972, the ACC has awarded the Brian Piccolo Award to the conference’s “Most Courageous Player.” The film Brian’s Song, which is screened annually on campus, was based on his life.

EGBERT DAVISEgbert Davis, a 1904 Wake Forest

law school graduate, worked for R.J. Reynolds for 21 years.

An all-star in the business world, Davis also organized the Atlas Supply Company and served as president of Security Life and Trust in 1934.

Davis was integral to planning and development at the university.

He was a member of the planning, building and architect’s committee.

In addition, he was a trustee at both Wake Forest and North Carolina

Baptist Hospital for several years. He received the medallion of merit in 1971 and was named a life trustee in 1986.

Davis also helped bring about the university’s relocation to Winston-Salem in 1956.

Davis’ children, Egbert Davis, Jr., Thomas Davis and Pauline Davis Perry, donated a home and 6.2 acres at the corner of Polo and Reynolda Roads. Known as “Sunnynoll,” the home was built in 1925. In

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By Matt Poppe | Executive sports editor

Student Apartments are a great housing loca-tion on the North Campus of the university. The apartment complex is made up of Building A and B that houses 110 upperclass co-ed students. Each building has two floors surrounding a small grass courtyard in Building A and the North Area Sundry in the area inside of Building B.

Each apartment contains two single bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and a bathroom. The bed-rooms are a bit smaller than a room found on one of the Main Quad halls, but they definitely beat having to share a double. You also will have your own closet in addition to the customary desk, dresser and bed. One thing that you will immediately notice, however, is that the walls are extremely thin on both sides. These so-called “walls” are thin enough that even a normal phone conversation, television or ... other things ... can be heard disturbingly clear.

The living room is fairly large but will already have space taken away by the couch, cushioned chair, table and two accompanying sitting chairs like the ones found in freshmen lounges. The kitchen is not a separate area as it is in North Campus Apartments, but simply takes the side wall of the living room and main walkway.

While not being terribly large, the kitchen area has a full size refrigerator in addition to a full sink, microwave, stove and oven with multiple

cabinets. The wood flooring is also different than most living areas on campus, but don’t expect much as they have been there for quite a while now and, in my case, look like fireworks were lit off the floor in places.

In terms of location, be ready to walk. Student Apartments are probably the longest walk to class of any residence hall on campus as it is adjacent to Rosedale Circle that connects to Polo Road. Especially with the recent construction between Polo and Lot Q, a walk to class from your room is anywhere from 10-12 minutes so make sure to leave enough time. Although this may seem like a disadvantage, it is also nice to be in the North Campus area as many places are just a short walk away.

The North Area Sundry is definitely an added benefit to living in Student Apartments, especially in building B where it is no more than five steps from your front door.

Also, between Building B and Martin Hall there is a sand volleyball court that many people take advantage of in warmer weather.

Another pro of the location is that there is a park-ing lot located between North Campus Apartment Building 10 and Building A. You can usually find a spot that provides very close access to your car.

In general, Student Apartments provide a great living area and despite being a bit farther than most locations, can be an enjoyable spot to spend your free time.

STUDENT APTS.

By Renee Slawsky | Print managing editor

Oh, the campus apartments del norte. These are arguably the nicest places to live on campus. Once reserved for faculty and their families, these are total swag. I think it is the hardwood. With a kitchen and living area larger than Polo and Student Apartments, you have tons of space to keep calm and carry on, or whatever it is you do.

The kitchens are nicely equipped with re-frigerators, a microwave, a sink, a stove and an oven. Wow!

Plus lots of cabinet and drawer space. We have a cabinet reserved only for liquor in ours. Yeah. That’s right.

The living area comes with a square table (!!!) with four chairs made out of some nice faux wood as well as a couch, two armchairs, two sidetables, a television stand and a coffee table.

There are two rooms in North Campus Apartments’ suites: a double and single. In the double room, when you first walk in there are shelves on either side of the closet.

Then you get a bed (!!!!!) and a desk, a set of drawers, and more shelves. The closets are separate in the double room, so that is nice. But if you really want to win win win no matter what, try to get into a single.

The singles in North Campus Apartments are where it is at. It is basically the same size as the double but with only one bed and shelves

and etc. And the closet is the same size as the doubles… yeah.

There is a large closet in between the two rooms near the living room, and the rooms are also connected through a bathroom.

The weird thing about the bathroom is that it has an extremely large window so be careful with that. Unless you like the thrill, in which case get down with your bad self.

If I had to pick the best thing about living in North Campus Apartments, I would have to say it is the hardwood floors and non-cinderblock walls.

They add a real homey feel to the place, which is nice when you are stressed out to the maxxxx from school and friends and stuff. These apartments just make you want to put on some slippers and curl up in front of a fire (which they don’t have so don’t get your hopes up).

North Campus Apartments are placed in a good spot too, especially in light of the cur-rent construction, which is blocking people living further up the road.

It is really not a bad walk from the apart-ments to the center of campus so that is also a nice plus. The scariest thing is trying to cross that road where people DRIVE WAY TOO FAST. Seriously, slow down.

But overall, North Campus Apartments are an awesome place to live, and I highly recom-mend you try to get a spot there.

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NORTH CAMPUS APTS.


Don’t get me wrong, I love Arnold Palmer. He makes fantastic drinks. But I hated liv-ing in Palmer dorm, way out in P-town. It is infinitely unfair that students who are not atheletes have to live way the hell out in the middle of nowhere near all the athletic build-ings in tiny little rooms with hall bathrooms that just suck overall.

I lived there the first year it was assigned to sophomores, and it was no bueno. I mean, it had a bed, and a desk, and there is a sink in the room, which I guess is cool… but overall it was not worth the eight-minute walk from the center of campus. Not in the least.

The rooms in Palmer and Piccolo are small doubles where you pretty much have to loft your beds in order to have any room to do anything.

They are cinderblock and tile, so you feel (and start to think) that you live in a mental hospital. Again, there are sinks in the room so that is good for… pretty much only brushing your teeth or washing your hands. The closet is shared, which is just awful. Oh, and you get one window through which you can look at the life which passes you by as you sit in basically a jail cell.

As mentioned, the bathrooms are hall style with four showers and four toilets. There are

urinals in the girls bathrooms, which is just uncomfortable. Then there are some sinks. That is it. Girls, there are only a few places to plug in hair dryers so you are probably going to be waiting or just having to do it in your room. It always smelled weird, at least when I lived there.

There is a lounge space which has been renovated, I have heard. So that may be nice. But the only time I spent in a lounge was when I was on my way from my room to the detached laundry room inhabited by all the bugs on campus.

There is a plus to living in Palmer or Pic-colo: it is quiet. Like, really quiet. So if you like that then cool. Or, if you are a bigtime baller and just love hitting up the courts, they are right outside.

There is a parking lot right in front of the buildings so you can park really close to your rooms. You might want to do that and then drive yourself onto campus because the walk is really uncomfortable. You either have to walk on the main road and look like an idiot or walk in the dark and badly-lit path next to the Miller Center. Seriously, it is scary at night in the rain.

I find it hard to believe that anyone chooses willingly to live in Palmer or Piccolo, but if you get stuck there then I feel for ya. Someone has to do it, I guess.


PALMER/PICCOLO

DEACON STATIONBy Renee Slawsky | Print managing editor

Deacon Station is a lot like the golden snitch: you are always striving for it, and you have to dodge a lot of bludgers to get it, but every once and a while, it is there in your hands. Prior to the recent construction of this glorious chalice of condo complexes, there were not many really, really nice options for students to live in. The nicest you could get would be one of the Crownes, and even they are iffy sometimes. But Deacon Station blows them all away.

Featuring four bedrooms with four and a half bathrooms, this will be better than the first apartment you will own when you get your first job. Talk about plush. These babies are 1,650 square feet and have two stories. And… drumroll, please… THEY COME WITH FURNITURE! I’m talking fully furnished. Like beds, tables, a rug, desks, washer/dryer, plenty of sinks and counter space, a glass TV stand, and oh so much more. The cabinets are white. The whole place is carpeted except for the kitchen and bathrooms, which are tiled. I mean, you’ll just have to see these places in order to believe how amazingly nice they are. YOU GET YOUR OWN ROOM AND BATHROOM! Zounds.

Despite the palace that is the inside of these condos, I like the fact that it has a little front

yard so you can technically have cute little garden. Also, it comes with a doorbell. Your very own doorbell and a nice front door with windows along the side. Like I said, your first home you ever own probably won’t be this nice. Unless you are a business student.

According to their website, the community amenities include a state-of-the-art fitness cen-ter, a yoga room, a coffee bar, a resort-style pool and a barbeque area with grills. Yeah, nuff said. Sounds kind of like a utopian commune.

Deacon Station is located off of Polo Road (when you get to the fork in the road near the church, you veer left) and you go down Quincy Drive. These are kind of far away, same as the Crownes pretty much, but the shuttle does offer service there.

This is the first year that Deacon Station has been open to student use and I am expecting them to become wildly popular and sold out, if they aren’t already. They cost between 700 dollars and 750 dollars per person, about the same as the Crownes.

Honestly, Deacon Station is the ultimate living experience for any university student as of right now. These places are brand new and afford students the chance to live in a really nice place with all kinds of swag.

Just don’t get too spoiled. Which I am sure you will because it is hard not to when you live here.


Photos courtesy of Deacon Station


THE CROWNES

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The Crowne apartment complexes are by far the most popular option for off-campus living. While the newly constructed Deacon Station might enamor some people, do not be mistaken, the Crownes still reign supreme.

The complexes are relatively similar in ame-nities and allow students to choose from one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom layouts. Crowne Park and Crowne Polo are about tied, but Crowne Oaks is by far the worse. However, all three of these beat hav-ing to live with three roommates, sleep in a pre-soiled bed and pay more for it.

Crowne PoloBy Ashton Astbury | Senior writer

Crowne Polo Apartments, located right off of Silas Creek Parkway, often gets the rep of being the “worst of the Crownes” because of a single factor: a “dreadful” U-turn that is necessary to reach the Reynolda entrance to campus.

Potential apartment hunters: after about eight months of completing this turn mul-tiple times a day, I’m here to tell you it’s not as bad as it’s made out to be. In fact, if anything the anticipation of adhering to the left turn signal on the way to class is what keeps me awake and aware on my drive to school each morning. Well, that and a large cup of coffee.

But really, the accommodations and ame-nities at “Crolo” can’t be beat. Apartments come in various layouts of one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom, so they are perfectly compatible with whatever your living situation may be. When my mother, a long-time native of New York, first walked into my apartment, she couldn’t believe how much space and comfort you could get for the price of a little over $1,000 a month. Put our three-bedroom Crowne Polo apartment in New York City and you’d easily pay an ugly 5,000 dollars.

Since the alleged evil U-turn has never bothered me, I have had very little to com-plain about in my time residing at Crowne Polo. The pool is simply glorious and pro-vides the perfect place to sit down with a Landshark, catch some rays and do a bit of homework (maybe). The gym is definitely not the most impressive fitness center I have ever seen, but the two ellipticals, two tread-mills and several weight machines serve their purpose, and usually do not have a wait.

If you are like me and always dreamed of owning a dog in college, but it would never realistically work with your schedule, never fear: Crowne Polo is home to pooches galore to befriend. And if you are lucky enough to own a pet yourself, the Crowne Polo com-plex has plenty of grassy areas to play with your pup.

Crowne Polo onto campus, which makes the journey by foot only about 20 minutes, but I have thus far been too lazy to embark on this endeavor. However, I’ve been told

far been too lazy to embark on this endeavor. However, I’ve been told it’s a great experi-ence on a sunny day.

Lastly, I’d like to tip my hat to the staff at Crowne Polo. Meeting the demands of a plethora of first-time apartment renters (i.e., Wake juniors and seniors) cannot be an easy task, but the office managers do it with competence and always a smile.

I’d have to say my one questionable experi-ence living at Crowne Polo surrounded our refrigerator breaking over Christmas break, leaving everything in our fridge and freezer to defrost and thus cover every service of the appliance with slime. When I first walked into the apartment, I was convinced an opos-sum must have died in our laundry room (that’s right, you don’t have to make the trek down three flights of stairs to do your laundry anymore, unless you want to use the communal washer/ dryers), but after I discovered that the fridge was the culprit of the stench someone was up within an hour to fix our broken appliance.

Crowne ParkBy Bobby O’Connor | Senior writer

Crowne Park Apartments are just like Crowne Polo, except for one significant difference: location. They are the easiest to access, located on Fairlawn Drive right off of Silas Creek Parkway, and on the Grey Line of Ride the Wake.

The accommodations and amenities at Crowne Park are comparable to the oth-er two complexes, and have everything a college student needs. Like Crowne Polo, there are one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom layouts, providing a variety of living arraignments for any budget. My one-bedroom place is exactly 900 square feet, way more space than I probably need but it’s been a wonderful place to live. In addition, the pool is great on a sunny af-ternoon with friends and a few beers, and the gym is by no means large but has the basic equipment.

One of the best aspects of living here has been the people. The complex is a good blend of students and young profession-als, and the staff is wonderful. They have always been helpful, either with delivering a package or replacing a broken water heater at 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Overall, it’s been a great place to call home.

Crowne Oaks

I’m glad I have never lived in Crowne Oaks; this place sucks. The complex is the oldest and most run down of the three. It has the thinnest walls so you can hear your neighbors going at it while you are in the middle of a dry spell. While I’m sure it has some redeeming qualities, you are much better off living at Crowne Polo, Crowne Park or even Deacon Ridge.


By Kathryn Rohlwing | Staff writer

For anyone who hasn’t heard of the theme housing program at Wake, it provides clubs on campus the opportunity to register for a house where its members can live together. It is comprised of eight houses that line cam-pus on Polo Road across from Spry Soccer Stadium, which are occupied this year by organizations like Sustainability, Crew, Ice Hockey and Wake Radio.

I lived in theme housing through Wesley last year, and it was easily my best housing experience, and one of my best overall experi-ences at Wake. The house had nice hardwood floors, a giant kitchen and a sunny front lawn. My roommates, three other girls from Wesley, were amazing. It came fully furnished and included a living room, a kitchen (that also housed our washer and dryer), two bedrooms and a bathroom.

Like all on-campus options, the theme houses have RAs, but they also have program assistants who are responsible for organizing one house event each month and one cam-pus event each semester. The house events are usually small and designed for everyone in the house to get to know each other bet-ter, while campus events are usually for the club as a whole.

Some of my best memories come from these events. We used to have Lord of the Rings movie nights where, over the course of the semester, we would all pile into the living room to watch the extended editions. To get the full experience, we checked out a projec-tor from the ZSR and played the films on the wall (we’re super nerds, I know). We also had chocolate and cheese nights where we stayed up past one in the morning talking

and snacking. For our campus wide event in the spring, we baked cookies and invited everyone in Wesley to come over for an open house and a game of Frisbee.

Having that big grassy yard all to ourselves was definitely one of the best things about the house. That year it snowed during finals week in December and we made a snowman for our doorstep. When winter finally started turning into spring, my roommate and I would lie out and do homework in the sun.

This year, I lived in North Campus Apart-ments, and what I missed most was having that front door step, our own lawn, our own parking and our own laundry machine. I liked the peace and quiet of living off campus, and there is something about living in a house that feels so much more like home than liv-ing in a dorm.

Theme-housing, however, does have its cons. There is a fairly long walk to class, about 10-15 minutes, even though I kept telling myself I’d have great legs by the end of the year. But it got old fast, especially as I perpetually left my homework or laptop charger sitting on my desk when I left.

When you live in a theme house, you are in some ways cut-off from campus life be-cause meetings, whether for clubs or just for a group of friends, are usually based on campus. Not many people will want to walk all the way out to the house for a get-together. But, overall, I would highly recommend looking into theme-housing options for clubs that you are involved in.

The only real con to them is that long walk and the accompanying sense of disconnected-ness, but for me the pros of having a quiet place to live, guaranteed parking and the homey atmosphere easily outweighed it.


THEME HOUSES

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Just this past year there have been some major changes in Residence Life &Housing.

Donna McGalliard, Dean of Residence Life and Housing, Matthew Clifford, Director of Residence Life and Hous-ing, and Bill Yost, Associate director of Housing, answered questions about the changes coming to campus housing, the housing process and student concerns.

What will the future of on-campus living look like? Say, in two years?

DM: The establishment of a new residential com-munity on North Campus near Farrell Hall will have a significant impact on students, and will create an additional area for students to gather, socialize, and live together.

It will serve to bolster the North Campus area and add needed amenities for those residents.

What tips would you give to students in choosing where they want to live next year?

MC: Who you live with is much more important than where you live. Solidify your roommate situation for the year and then think about several options that will suit all of your needs — proximity to class, friends and so on.

How do you suggest students plan for their three year living requirement without getting bored or feeling stuck?

DM: We have set up housing options so that students can have the opportunity to live in a variety of com-munities. From South Campus to the Quad to North

Campus apartments, students should have the chance to live in a variety of areas.

What tips do you have on logging onto YouChoose and gaining your room assignment?

MC: Read the instructions that are sent to you by email. The day you’re scheduled to choose your room, log onto the system to see what rooms are available — and come up with several options for you and your group. On the night you’re scheduled to choose your room, think about coming down to RL&H in Benson 101 (we’ll be open!) just in case you have questions or technical problems. Also, don’t try to log into the system until your scheduled time, because it may cause issues for other students trying to log into the system.

How do you foresee on-campus living with all of the construction going on?

DM: There will certainly be some growing pains with the construction, and we’re cognizant of those issues. We have tried and will continue to make efforts that will ameliorate the effect of construction on current residents.

BY: Please be aware of your surroundings when walk-ing around construction sites. There will be increased vehicular traffic in and around the residential areas on North Campus, so please be aware of that.

Anything else you would like students who are about to choose housing to know?

MC: Make sure you have several options available before you choose housing, and please come to Benson 101 if you have any questions about housing.

RL&H INTERVIEWS

Photos courtesy of WFU Residence Life & Housing

Donna McGalliardDean of Residence Life and Housing

Matthew CliffordDirector of Residence

Life and Housing

Bill YostAssociate Director of Residence Life and

Housing


After choosing where it is you’re going to live, you must now tackle the project of deco-rating your space.

While many of you many not believe that beautifying your dorm room is worth it, I promise you that you will be so much more satisfied coming home to a well-decorated room than one that looks like a prison cell. So take the time and a little extra money to make your room your sanctuary.

The first place to start is with the bedding. You may have your favorite sheets and com-forter, but take the time to make your bed in the morning and maybe add a few decorative pillows. Not only is it a good way to start the day, you will love coming home to a nicely tucked away bedroom. Have a theme carry through from your comforter or duvet, to solid colored sheets to your shams and other pillows.

The next thing to take on are your walls. Of course, you can go with some posters of your favorite bands and photos from home — those are a necessity in any college students’ room. But buy some white canvases (you can get them pretty cheap at arts and crafts stores) and just go to town. Even the least artistic people can make something that they would want hanging in their rooms. Also, I am a big fan of the peel-and-stick wall decorations like leaves and flowers. They add depth to

any room and are pleasing when put on in an interesting fashion.

And don’t neglect your floor. You can find really nice rugs for pretty cheap so go ahead and get one that matches your bedding. This will definitely make you feel more at home instead of cold tiles.

The biggest step to making a dorm room feel like home is to control the lighting. The florescent lights are never flattering for a room so invest in a couple of lamps that you can turn on instead of the blaring overhead ones. Another good option is to buy a string of Christmas lights and hang those up. If you go with just plain white, they can be up all year and not be tacky. The softer lights will help make your room less like an interrogat-ing room. Another suggestion is to keep some flowers or some sort of plant in your room. It sounds lame but it adds a really nice, fresh take on a room that can become stuffy at times.

Be creative with the setup you use as well. Sometimes, a loft can add a whole new feel to your room and provide a lot more openness. Also, having a lounge chair that isn’t at your desk can be a really good way to relax after class and just watch TV without having to go to your bed and risk falling asleep.

If you live in an apartment, there is a plethora of options to decorate your place with. A good idea is to go to some websites where you can find free printable art, laminate it and put them up wherever you like. And don’t forget about your kitchen and bathrooms. Adding a few small pieces of art or little things can make a world of differences in those places.

Everyone wants a comfortable places to stay — even boys — so go ahead, unleash your interior designer and go crazy! You’ll be surprised at how fun and rewarding it is.


MAKE IT YOUR OWN

PLACES TO SHOP

Take the time to decorate your living space next year, as you will appreciate it later

Always a solid place to find anything you need, Bed Bath & Beyond is great for kitchen supplies in particular. You can get really great deals here. Be sure to check out what kind of organizing materials they have as well.

You may think of Urban Outfitters as only selling clothes, but they also have some great items for apartments. Everything from bedding to wall decor is awesome at this place and always interesting with some good prices.

Goodwill is not just a place to get a costume for that theme party, they often have gems of furniture or vintage decor. I know it sounds weird, but just go take a look. You might be surprised. Also be sure to check out other thrift or resale stores in the area for deals.

Oh, Target. We all know you can find pretty much everything here. Target is a mecca for kitchenware like plates, cups and mixing bowls. They also have some awesome decorations for pretty cheap. So on your next run, stop by the housewares section.

Happy Hunting!

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