The Peace TimesVolume 16, Issue 3 The Student Newspaper of William Peace University, Raleigh, N.C. Thursday, November 17, 2011

Promoting wellness In the mood for good food?Peace’s newest club gets students to de-stress

– Page 4Great places steps away from campus.– Page 5

Will Peace lose its accreditation? Answer on page 7

Fall Cocktail photos by Josie Carmona and Carlyn Kline

WPU students Summer Nowlin and Andrea Ruedas and their dates at the 2011 Fall Cocktail held at the Capital City Club.

WPU announces WCPSS and Wake Tech partnerships

First male student accepted to WPUBy Samantha Pendergraft Times Staff Writer

Thomas Hunter Edge is the first accepted male student at William Peace University for the fall of 2012.

Edge says he chose WPU because of the small class sizes. A bonus for him is that the university is close to home.

He is excited about the opportuni-ties at WPU.

“I plan to pursue a biology major,” said Edge. “I am excited about the small class sizes and the chance of making the basketball team.”

The legacy continues on with Edge attending the university.

“My mom has some cousins who went there, as to when they went I don’t know,” said Edge.

He is thrilled to attend WPU in the fall, but he feels it might be overwhelm-ing being one of the first males to attend the university.

Edge currently lives in Cary, North Carolina and attends Hopewell Acad-emy.

By Taylor Shaw and Olivia HallTimes Staff Writers

William Peace University has two new partnerships in the works.

First, administrators announced that WPU was working with the Wake County Public School System to develop single-gender leadership academies for students in grades six through 13 effective fall 2012. Both academies would be located on Peace’s campus.

The Wake Young Women’s Lead-ership Academy and the Wake Young Men’s Leadership Academy would re-

quire applications for admission. According to a WPU press release,

“The academies are designed to develop future leaders through team cohesiveness, academic rigor and personal attention in a highly structured environment committed to success.”

Although the program is still in de-velopment and has not yet been approved by the Board of Trustees or Wake County Schools, many Peace students expressed concerns.

“I feel that it is too many transitions at one time,” said first year Samantha Davis. “I can deal with guys in my class,

but not middle or high schoolers. I think our campus is small for this program.” First year student Kendal Tart agrees. “Its not the same school I applied to.”

However, Justin G. Roy, Vice Presi-dent of Communications and Social Me-dia Marketing, says it is too early to say where on campus the academy students would take classes because the partner-ship very early in the development stage and still pending approval.

“I don’t see anything wrong with it,” said senior Mollie Dameron. “When I was in high school, I took college courses. They could eventually become Peace

students, if they like it.” WPU also announced a new partner-

ship with Wake Technical Community College.

The “Transfer2Success” program allows students who have completed two-and-a-half years of education at Wake Tech admission to WPU, with the ability to earn a WPU bachelor’s degree in one-and-a-half years.

Program transfer students, will be taught by WPU faculty members, and have the option to take the remaining courses needed in earning their bachelor’s degree on the Wake Tech campus.

By Lindsey JohnsonTimes Staff Writer

This year’s Fall Cocktail was held the first weekend in November at the Capital City Club in Raleigh.

The theme was Masquerade, and Peace students came donning their masks.

“There was a lot of people there,” said Jeanna Buck, Peace student and 2011

Fall Cocktail chairperson. “We sold 225 tickets, and of those 225, I would say about 200 people showed up.”

Students enjoyed food and drink and showed off their moves on the dance floor.

“A lot of girls just came as a group, but others came with dates, friends and their friends’ dates,” Buck said.

Organizing such a large event is

no easy task, and many students gave compliments to the committee that put it all together.

“Since this was my first time going to Fall Cocktail I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a wonder-ful night full of fun, dancing, and lots of picture taking,” said Kimber Graham, a Peace senior.

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By Olivia HallTimes Staff Writer

In a world where social media reigns and technology is consistently changing, Nabeel Jaitapker is an award-winning success.

Jaitapker joined the staff of Wil-liam Peace University as the Commu-nication and Social Media Marketing Specialist in September 2011, bringing with him more than seven years of experience in several areas, including internal and external communications, social media, journalism, public rela-tions, and management.

“When I moved to North Carolina, my friends and I would drive past cam-pus and I would think about how nice it looked,” said Jaitapker. “I am excited to be working at Peace.

Jaitapker was born and raised in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and came to the United States for his un-dergraduate studies.

As an undergraduate, Jaitapker majored in Broadcast Management with a minor in Journalism from the University of Texas at Arlington.

After receiving his Bachelor’s de-gree, Jaitapker later went on to obtain his Masters in Arts in Strategic Com-munication and Leadership from Seton

Hall University.“I was the youngest in my graduate

program, so it was a bit intimidating,”

he said. “But grad school helped me to be more patient and how to better deal with people.”

After beginning his position at Peace, Jaitapker jumped in and imme-diately began becoming involved in the Communication field at Peace.

Currently, he has successfully helped to create an online website for The Peace Times, and is helping fac-ulty work on the templates for their newsletters.

Jaitapker has been showcased for articles written while working for the Houston Chronicle, one of the largest newspapers in the country, and has won numerous awards from the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association, as well as working on the staff of an award winning student newspaper during his undergraduate studies.

Jaitapker is excited to be part of the future at Peace, especially as it relates to media.

“The freshmen coming in are going to be more tech savvy, because that is the world they were raised in.” he said. “ I would like to see Peace being more tech savvy in classrooms, as well as seeing effective technical support for faculty and staff”.

When he isn’t being a rockstar at work, Nabeel coaches Little League in Cary, where he lives with his wife and two children.

New Peace staff spotlight: Nabeel Jaitapker

Photo courtesy of Njima Murphy

Nabeel Jaitapker is the new Communication and Social Media Marketing Specialist

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Peace to William Peace, class rings and apparel

Cupcakes preferred, “Your own piece of cake.”

By Rachel HouseTimes Staff Writer

The campus bookstore has an-nounced that starting in January, there will no longer be a variety of Peace Col-lege apparel and items for sale. In fact, what students find in the bookstore now, are the last “Peace College” items that will be sold.

The store does plan to sell Peace Col-lege items until they sell out, but book-store manager, Brittany Little suggests “if they want it, students and alumnae should get it now.” Little said, “there will be a couple, two or three, more items that trickle in, but we have already started receiving the William Peace University items.”

Although Peace College has made the decision to go co-ed and change the institution’s name to William Peace Uni-versity, there are still three more years of possible Peace College graduates.

The bookstore recently made the decision to keep only one rack of Peace College apparel for Peace College alumnae and students. “I didn’t want to completely get rid of Peace College items while Peace College students are still here, and also because of the alumnae,” said Little.

Hannah Mullis, a senior in Commu-nication and English said, “Peace, as a legacy, should not be swept under the rug to make room for a school that its current students didn’t even choose to attend,” she said. “I refuse to contribute to any-thing associated with William Peace Uni-versity, and that includes buying WPU items or apparel in the bookstore.”

Taylor White, a junior studying Po-litical Science and English, also does not agree with the decision to limit or stop selling Peace College items. “It actually

alienates the students and active alum-nae involved with Peace College to stop selling them,” she said. “Quite frankly, I don’t really like all of the items that are in there now, but I will buy Peace Col-lege items now, until they are gone. I will never buy anything that says ‘William Peace University.’”

White bought her class ring as a Ju-nior, because she was worried she would not be able to get a “Peace College” ring. Jostens, the company that makes the rings, said that although they will keep the Peace College design molds, they

are already making the William Peace College molds.

Depending on how the contract with William Peace University is drafted, the old Peace College molds may not be available for students to buy after this year. “The new contract has not been drafted yet,” said Jostens sales represen-tative, Robbie Hunt. “My best advice for current Peace College students who want the PC or Peace College Seal design, is to get them now.”

Pat Smith, a Peace College employee for 22 years, has worked in the book-

store since 2000 and said the bookstore remains a neutral company.

“We didn’t know this was coming, we’re kind of taking it day by day to making decisions,” said Smith. “We try to cater to the past, present, prospective and future students and do the best to please the ones who come here.”

Little said she would like to have a Student Advisory Board for the book-store to guide the bookstore’s decisions on what they order. “I take the students’ opinions, I do listen,” Little said. Such as the demand for tie-dye shirts. “Person-ally, I am not a fan of pink or tie-dye,” she said, “but I do listen to the feedback we get.”

Mullis already has some ideas to of-fer. “I would love to see more designed shirts as opposed to just pink and green typed logos,” she said. “Maybe have a design made by a graphic design student once a month to have something new and fun to choose from.”

Justin G. Roy, the Vice President of Communications and Social Media for William Peace University, said it would be acceptable if the bookstore decided to sell more than just one rack of Peace College apparel. “The school does not control the bookstore, but the bookstore orders within the regulations of the school. The demand will drive the orders,” said Roy.

The bookstore is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bookstore items are also available on-line.

For questions about the Bookstore’s Student Advisory Board, contact SGA Vice President Jenna Buck, or email Dawn Dillon at DDillon@peace.edu.

By Anna ThompsonTimes Staff Writer

Cupcakes can be seen at weddings, birthday parties and other social events. But what is it about cupcakes that make them so much more appealing than cook-ies?

To get an answer to this question, I turned to Sara Coleman, owner of “The Cupcake Shoppe,” and Rebecca Swayze, media consultant from “Sweet Memories Bakery.”

Coleman believes that cupcakes are preferred more by customers because; “There is just something so simple and special about your ‘own piece of cake.!’

Cookies are much more common. You find them in the grocery store, in the gas station, and the airport…but cupcakes are not something that can be baked and

wrapped in plastic and stored weeks later so you know you are getting something special for yourself.”

“Cookies don’t have the same impact from a ‘presentation’ standpoint,” Cole-man sad. “You can do a lovely tower of cupcakes at a wedding that would make the same statement as a wedding cake, but cookies are hard to achieve the same effect.”

The Cupcake Shoppe owner also ex-pressed that icing adds more flavor to the

cupcake, whereas a chocolate chip cookie is just a chocolate chip cookie.

Swayze from “Sweet Memories” also said that cupcakes are more popular because of their individual size and pre-sentational value. ”A cupcake is more of a show stopper - a real presentation piece as compared to a cookie.”

So will cookies ever become as popular as cupcakes? Swayze believes, ”Cookies might become as popular as cupcakes - you never know!” Coleman

insists they will never be as popular be-cause they seem a little more “ordinary” and don’t have the same impact as cup-cakes, presentation wise.

The Cupcake Shoppe has a different flavored cupcake each week along with their regulars and have a wide variety of cookies to choose from as well.

Sweet Memories Bakery in Apex has a large selection of cupcake flavors as well as cookies such as Italian and butter cookies, old-fashioned chocolate chip, white macadamian nut and many others.

If you are a cupcake fan and live in Raleigh or Apex make sure to check out the Cupcake Shoppe and Sweet Memo-ries Bakery as well as to pick up a cookie or cupcake.

Photo by Njima Murphy

The bookstore is phasing out Peace College items and bringing in WPU items.

“There’s just something so simple and special about your own piece of cake”

-Sara Coleman, owner of The Cupcake Shoppe”

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Students join the effort to promote wellness

Love, honesty, and mistakes: Values that count

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By Faith InmanTimes Staff Writer

Experts put emphasis on eating healthy, exercising frequently, and get-ting seven to eight hours of sleep. People often believe these factors are the main methods of living a healthy lifestyle. However, there are more elements to living healthy that experts do not neces-sarily prescribe.

College students forget that mak-ing healthy choices can benefit them as students. Socially, students strive to fit in by looking or dressing a certain way. Therefore, body image becomes an issue with some students.

Goals also take heed on person’s health and students strive to be perfect.

In an interview with Nurse Mari Lippig at William Peace University, she honed in on elements that create a wholesome lifestyle by having; humor, the absence of fear, love, different daily routines, the will to travel, and an imper-fect mind set.

According to Lippig, each element is necessary for a person’s social, emo-tional, physical, and mental health.

Humor is a key component in all relationships. Working and interacting

with people who make you laugh is great for individuals, stated Lippig.

She also mentioned that taking fear out of everyday situations allows people do more with their creativity so they’re not held back from new goals.

Lippig, who is happily married with children, says that with love people should have no expectations. If someone is mad about something, then they need to get up and get over it.

Lippig said that lighting candles during mealtime, dressing up to wear a nice outfit and nurturing your wildness are great ways of changing your routine without making drastic changes.

With travelling, she stated, “Travel is one of the most wonderful gifts you can give yourself. Get everything out of your system before you settle. Change jobs, change countries and find out what you want in life.”

People strive for perfection, Lippig said.

“You can’t afford to be perfect. It kills a person’s creative spirit,” she said. “Don’t strive for perfection.”

If you love nice things, go to thrift stores, reuse them, be a minimalist, and be ready to go for the next move, ex-

By Haylee DamatoTimes Staff Writer

A place to relax, clear your mind and rid yourself of unhealthy causes- that’s what you will find at the Peace College Wellness Center.

The Wellness Center is a calm, re-laxing environment that both promotes and wells the body, both physically and mentally.

Associated with the Wellness Cen-ter, The Student Wellness and Advocate Team, otherwise known as SWAT, is an organization that promotes wellness around campus.

How important is wellness on a col-lege campus?

Promoting a healthy lifestyle is an important part of SWAT says club Presi-dent, Becky Veirs.

“Stress can be as harmful to your health as a virus,” Veirs said. “Anything preventing you from being at your best is detrimental to your health.”

The most recent event SWAT has hosted is “Body Image Week”, which includes a day without make up, a face mask party, STD testing, along with nutritional lunch and learns”, according to Veirs.

SWAT is always looking for students to join their wellness team. It is one of the newest clubs on campus and the only one associated with the Wellness Center.

The Wellness Center is open Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Services are offered through health, counseling and disabilities.

SWAT is a club open to all students wanting to join. Veirs reminds students, “When you are healthy, you are capable of anything”.

plained Lippig. Meredith Stokke, a Professional

Counselor at Peace, explained that val-ues are essential to a person’s overall health.

Stokke’s key values include: bal-ance, honesty, and patience. She claims that everyone needs to balance their time wisely, be honest and patient with

themselves as people. Lippig and Stokke each stated that a

person should be happy with who they are as long as they live a healthy lifestyle with their elements and values. “It’s all about turning bad things into good things,” stated Lippig.

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Hungry? New eateries downtown worth checking outBy Jami UpchurchTimes Staff Writer

Can’t decide what to eat? Take a break from the cafeteria and check out downtown Raleigh’s new hot spots to grab a bite.

Downtown Raleigh constantly has new restaurants popping up all the time. These great restaurants, such as The Pit (Davie St.) and Roast Grill (West St.), haven been fea-tured on popular television shows.

Even though we live in a town with so many choices and variety, why is sometimes hard to decide where to go?

WPU Senior, Katie Lewis says, “I usu-ally just eat at home. It is hard to keep up with the new restaurants and makes it hard for me to know what is out there to choose from.”

Because of the constant changes, it can be difficult for students to know exactly what their choices are and what is actually worth checking out.

If you are looking for quality food, a great atmosphere and reasonable prices then one place you may want visit is Joel Lane’s Public House.

Newly opened in August, right behind the Diner on Glenwood Ave. you will find a great staff, amazing sandwiches, and an environment anyone can enjoy.

After the owners Zack Medford and Ben Yaneesa opened Isaac Hunter’s Oak City Tavern on Fayetteville Street two years ago and had such great success, they decided to expand.

Medford, who some may know as “Mr. Peace 2004” says, “We wanted to expand into a different area of downtown, and we wanted to try our hand at food. We really wanted to focus on bringing everything that makes Fayetteville Street great over to Glenwood South.”

Joel Lane’s goal is to provide their cus-tomers with a quality experience and to bring variety to the area.

“There’s plenty of restaurants, and plenty of clubs on Glenwood but the one thing the district really lacked was an upscale, non-pretentious pub like Isaac Hunter’s,” Medford said. “The whole idea behind Joel Lane’s

Public House was to create a classy establish-ment that made our customers feel completely comfortable. You can stop by for a beer at Joel Lane’s wearing your finest cocktail dress, or a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and no one will bat an eye.”

Joel Lane’s is also a perfect place to go for a satisfying meal while enjoying drinks with friends. They have an amazing selection of wine and local beer, as well as the largest Bourbon and Whiskey menu in Raleigh.

Medford adds, “Our food menu is full of new twists on traditional tavern classics. The most popular item is our French Dip sand-wich, but all of our sandwiches are hearty and

delicious. We really focus on flavor with our food, instead of just using butter and a deep-fryer to trick people into thinking its good.”

Two other great new places to check out would be famous chef, Ashley Christensen’s Beasley’s Honey and Chicken, and Chuck’s Burger Joint.

Conveniently located right beside one another on the corner of Wilmington and Martin streets, these are two restaurants that have become quite popular.

Beasley’s Honey and Chicken has a sim-plistic, artistic theme that you will notice as you choose from the large chalkboard menu what fried chicken entrée you will have.

Though the idea of a restaurant based solely on fried chicken may odd, once you bite into that sweet crispy crust you will real-ize it is brilliant.

If you’re not in the mood for chicken then just go next door to have the best burger you will ever eat.

Chuck’s Burger Joint also has a very interesting, artistic theme proving the time and thought put into its construction.

Chuck’s is definitely that place to go when you are craving a big quality burger. Both of the menus at the restaurants provide large portions with everything in an $8-12$ price range.

There aren’t too many restaurants you can find with a laid back environment, cheap price range and a chef that has battled it out against Bobby Flay on Iron Chef.

Photo courtesy of Joel Lanes

Joel Lane’s Pub is one of many new eateries in downtown Raleigh.

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By Jeanna BuckTimes Staff Writer

Few know that deep in the heart of downtown Raleigh lies one of the best art galleries in the triangle: Artspace. This gallery is a visual art center where over 40 artists work in an open studio environment.

Artspace is free to the public so at anytime, people can come and walk around, and view the artistic process in progress and interact with the artists.

Alyssa Pence, class of 2013 started going to Artspace during the first semes-ter of her freshman year.

“I love how the viewers can observe the process of the artists and even chat with them in their studios,” Pence said.

Artspace is a great place for every-one. Whether you are interested in art or simply never thought about it, Artspace has something to offer.

“Our goal at Artspace is to inspire creative energy for everyone- so no mat-ter what your passion is, it is our hope that you will be inspired by our artists and exhibitions,” explains Rae Marie Czuhai, Development Director at Artspace. She

is passionate about the creative environ-ment that Artspace fosters.

The personal relationship that each visitor can have with the artists is what makes this gallery so special.

“I think that non-art students can gain more of an appreciation and knowledge of art and they many varieties it comes in,” Pence said. “Most people wouldn’t know that felt making, and jewelry would be considered art, and by seeing the work

Artspace has, realize how much talent and skill they take.”

Community outreach is very im-portant at Artspace. Czuhai explains the Community Outreach Program. ”With this program, our Exhibition and Pro-grams Director, Lia Newman, matches professional artists with a large scale art project.These programs provide an envi-ronment that encourage the participants to explore themselves and their work

through art, and to encourage artistic expression beyond the length of the program.”

Pence agrees and believes that Artspace is an important asset to the downtown community. “This place is definitely an asset. I think people over-look art in it’s rare form and Artspace not having an entry fee, it is a great place to appreciate it and have no other excuse.”

For Peace students who love to vol-unteer, Artspace has great volunteering opportunities as well.

“We have numerous volunteer op-portunities at Artspace from office sup-port to working directly with artists in our summer program,” said Czuhai. “We have special events through out the year so we use volunteers to organize and distribute marketing materials and often have opportunities for design students to contribute to our communication with designs and content. “

From volunteering to community outreach, Artspace has lots to offer. No matter your interests, Artspace is truly a great place for everyone.

Profile of Artspace: Inspiring creative energy

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Getting to the bottom of the Peace rumor millWe h a v e

all heard them at one point or another. In the café, talking be-fore class, even while watching television in the lounge.

R u m o r s about our school having financial difficulty, and other “Facebook

facts”: rumors about our president and the “power” she has over our school.

It is time to put some of these un-truths to rest, so we can all move forward with a clear understanding.

WPU president, Dr. Debra Townsley,

and Justin Roy, Vice President of Com-munications and Social Media Market-ing, were very happy to sit down with me and have an open dialogue about some of these rumors.

First question on my list was about Peace’s finances. I am happy to report that our school has $40 million in its endowment. However, just like any other school, Peace needs to grow in order to stay in business.

Townsley states, “We need enroll-ments because our enrollments help us meet our operating expenses every year and gives us more flexibility in what we do and what we offer.”

That led to more answers about Peace:

Peace is a non-profit school; which means we don’t pay dividends and our

money doesn’t go to shareholders.Peace’s Board of Trustees act as our

owners and they are the decision mak-ers.

President Townsley delegates these policies to administration, faculty and staff personnel, who then carryout these policies.

Peace is not in any danger of los-ing its accreditation. We are just going through our 10 year re-accreditation process.

Peace is looking to add new courses, new majors, and new student activities.

Peace did not pay millions for the “Glee” advertisement. Roy wouldn’t give me a definite figure, but I asked if it was closer to $10,000 and he said “yes.”

The “Glee” advertisement covers only our region and we will have an-

other advertisement during “Vampire Diaries.”

In conclusion, rumors are nasty little warmongers.

They stir up trouble where there is none, and can put a halt to positive progress.

If you have any questions about any-thing you have heard, or just want to put a face with the name, stop by Dr. Towns-ley’s office on Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m..

She would gladly tell you the tale of the missing chandeliers, why she hosted “Treats with the Townsley” instead of dessert at her home 30 minutes away, and what’s really going on with Joyner House.

“Veritas vos Liberabit”= The truth will set you free.

By Asia SanchezTimes Staff Writer

By Anna WingoTimes Staff Writer

Dear first-year students of William Peace University,

You are now almost done with your first semester of college. Congratula-tions! Now that you have somewhat been through the trials of college, I wanted to give you a bit of advice to help you for the rest of your journey.

First, my biggest suggestion is to talk to your advisor. If you know what you want to major in then talk to the advisor of the major now. They can help you figure out the best path when considering that major.

For those of you who were like me, think about your interests, hobbies and even your childhood dreams. Based on what you come up with, narrow it down and talk to the advisors your list match

up with. It will at least help you check off the areas that you don’t like.

Another great tool is to talk with Barbara Effird, the Director of Career Services who may be able to help you narrow that list even more.

Once you have found your major, find ways to be involved in it. Anna Thompson, junior, certainly believes in being involved.

“The biggest piece of advice I can give to in coming freshman is to get involved,” she said. “It will look great on your resume if you take a leadership position in a club and also even if you are just a member.”

Getting involved my freshman year is what I wish I had done more of. Also being more involved on campus will al-low you to meet more people and make new friends. Being a leader in college

will get you far”.Another big suggestion is to work on

finding the balance between school and you personal life. That may mean work, social life or extracurricular activities. There is no handbook on how to do so, but leaving procrastination behind is a good start. It’s also something we all deal with.

Procrastination has always been a my biggest hurdle and even as a senior, we remain frenemies to this day.

College is an amazing place to be but can also be the biggest distraction from your studies.

Enjoy your time on campus. Have fun, celebrate, but most of all, remember that college is what you make of it.

Taylor Shaw, a senior, sums it all up very nicely by saying “The best advice I can give about college is: Get involved.

Don’t be afraid to take risks. Plan for the future. Step outside of your comfort zone”.

My last little piece of advise is to take time for yourself. Being on campus, all of the time, can be hard. Being surrounded by people, events, and school is a great deal different from high school. I know so much is going on, but remember to take a second to breathe.

Whether it is reading a book all day on a Saturday or taking a walk around the campus, or even sitting on the balcony of Finely Residence Hall looking at the city at night. Take a moment to relax and enjoy. This next three years of your life will be a time you never forget.

So good luck to all of my new Peace sisters and I hope you enjoy your time as much as I have enjoyed mine.

A letter of advice to all of my new Peace sisters

By Kaitlyn DavisTimes Staff Writer

What better way to start off with the infamous question: Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob? Of course I am talking about “The Twilight Saga.”

With this being the last book of the series and the last movie out of two that sum up the end of the book, there were many reactions to end of this beloved saga.

With the release date of the movie being November 18th, the tickets for this movie are currently being sold for the midnight preview.

“No, I have not purchased tickets to see the movie, but that’s only because

I have a show the opening night of the movie,” said Hannah Murphy, sopho-more. “However, I definitely plan on going to see breaking dawn part one ASAP”

These movies that were made from the books written by Stephenie Meyer have been a huge hit all over the world.

Murphy admits to liking the books way before they became movies. “I read the books before they were popular, be-fore they had their own section at every bookstore. I also watch the movies. But I, of course, love the books way more. However, I do own every movie and enjoy watching them when the fancy strikes me.”

I took this as a positive reaction to the movies, but what happens when you take a negative side?

Rochelle Campbell, sophomore, claims that she’s not as into the movies as a lot of girls.

“I like the story behind it but I wouldn’t sit down and watch the movies myself in my free time.”

When I asked Campbell if she was a Team Edward or Team Jacob, she said, “I had to Google the guy’s name just to see who they were but I am team Jacob but only because he is HOT.”

Hannah Murphy also answered the same question but it seemed that she had changed her mind recently regarding the

team she was on. “I used to be Team Edward all the

way because I REALLY did not like how pushy Jacob was with Bella, but then I read Breaking Dawn and re-read the series several times.

I started to understand why Jacob did what he did. HOWEVER, I am now Team Switzerland. I like Jacob for his friendship, good heart and compassion. I like Edward for his deep sense of love, protection ( I like a guy who looks after his lady!) and care.”

WPU students are experiencing Twilight Mania

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Review

The Peace Times asks: What are you thankful for? “I’m thankful to be able to spend time with all of my family and just to be able to relax a little.” - Molly Rengear ‘13

“I’m thankful I have a file who supports me.” - Jeanna Buck ‘13

“I am thankful for the opportunities that I have been given and the people that believe in me and continue to love me even when I mess up.” - Katerina Dema ‘13

“I am thankful for my friends, family and CHICKEN!” - Rebecca Ann Pilkington ‘12

“I’m thankful I have less than a month until I am out of college!” - Erika Klees ’11

I’m Thankful for my family and friends I have who love and support me” - Taylor Hawkins ‘14“I’m thankful for the amazing people I have in my life.” - Alyssa Pence ‘13

“I am thankful for having a vehicle to drive, a place to rest my head and a family that cares for me. I am also very thankful to be able to attend Peace, because I know many people are not able to have any of these opportunities.” - Kimber Graham ‘12 “I am thankful everyday for the second chance at life God has given me, and the wonderful family and loved ones I have been blessed with that support me and are always there for me.” - Melissa Willis ‘12

“I’m thankful for my education as well as the people who love and support me.” -Robin Story ‘12 I am thankful that SHRM sent me to Vegas last Summer! Peace College has really opened doors for me!” - Courtney Myrick ‘12.

“I am thankful for the support system I have in my life and the love they give me.” - Kayleigh Simmons ‘12

“I am thankful for my macbook pro, boxed wine, and my boyfriend, Alec Baldwin who has helped me through so many rough times. He’s totally not a scrub. Also, I am thankful for the dog that [doo doos] all over my house so I can use her poops to my advantage.” - Madeleine Carney ‘12