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T HURSDAY , M A R C H 2 2 , 2 0 0 7 PAGE A 4 O N L I N E A T : http://ogb.wfu.edu [email protected] OOLDPINION GOLD & BLACK This column represents the views of the Old Gold & Black Editorial Board. Increase in Calloway’s rankings a positive sign t’s been a good year school have been marked as for the Calloway competitive and marketable School of Business and but also have the firm IAccountancy. grounding in the liberal arts Earlier in the year, the that every university graduate school ranked first in receives. the country in Certified This ranking can only help Public Accountancy exam the university. Whether these passing rate and a team rankings represent the school from Calloway took first or not, prospective students in a national accounting care about the rankings. competition. However, we feel that the Now, the Calloway business school’s ranking is undergraduate business representative and that the program has been ranked university’s program offers No. 17 in the nation by advantages not found at larger BusinessWeek magazine. schools. Last year, the magazine Calloway offers the small ranked Calloway as 24th, so class sizes and professor Submissions this year’s ranking shows a attention found in all considerable jump and puts departments of the university The Old Gold & Black welcomes the university in the coveted and instills the university’s top 20. work ethic in its grads. Money can’t stop submissions in the form of editorials It’s interesting to note We congratulate the and letters to the editor. Letters that a school that prides Calloway School on this should be less than 300 words and itself on providing a liberal achievement and hope to editorials should be under 750 words. arts education has gained see the unversity’s overall North Korea talks Send yours via e-mail to ogboped@ Now, this isn’t to say that we national attention for the rankings follow suit in the should just let North Korea take wfu.edu, by campus mail to P.O. Box business program. Graduates upcoming US News & World over this account. This could prove 7569 or deliver it to Benson 518. We of the university’s business Report. to be dangerous in terms of further negotiations – it would show that we reserve the right to edit all letters for can acquiesce to whatever demands North Korea wants, which could be length and clarity. No anonymous problematic. North Korea could keep letters will be printed. Senior players embraced dangling their weapons over everyone’s Jeff Merski heads, reminding them that whenever Opinion editor they want something that is being a the underdog role contentious issue in negotiations, they Quick Quotes ew moments in this for their perseverance and will wenty-five million dollars. can walk away from the table and keep To probably every person that their weapons. year’s men’s basketball to win and play hard in that reads this column, $25 million However, what is needed is true “We believe these new season were worth game and for the whole of Tis a lot of money. To most countries, negotiations. North Korea can Fcheering about. their careers. however, it isn’t all that much, even have the $25 million in these bank passports are sinful. They have for the poorest of countries like North accounts. However, a there should be these bar codes and people An overall losing record (the Visser is the only player of Korea. monitoring of financial activities that first since 1990), an abysmal four in the 2003 recruiting However, it is precisely this amount involve these accounts that are currently say they contain three sixes. 5-11 mark in ACC regular class who remained on the of money that could be the difference frozen. That way, North Korea has We are against that.” season play and no invitation men’s basketball team for all in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. their money, while the rest of the world North Korea is refusing knows precisely what to compete in any sort of four years. He worked on his to come to the six-party is being done with -Russian citizen Valentina post-season tournament game over his career at the talks until it receives that money. Thus, if Still, it’s disappointing Yepifanova on refusing new marred what could have been university and transformed access to funds in a questionable activities to think that with all the a respectably successful year. from perennial benchwarmer Macau bank account. are being conducted, passports with bar codes on According to events that happened the international However, even in the midst to go-to guy. them because they believe the United States envoy within the past year that community of the disappointments, any No one can ever question Christopher Hill, this immediately knows and codes are satanic symbols. fan could find a few glimmers Drum’s commitment to continued freeze on the something as trivial as appropriate measures of hope in the form of seniors the team, either. Having monetary assets could be $25 million, about $1 per can take place. “ ” problematic, with him person in that nation, What is most Kyle Visser and Mike Drum earned a spot on the team noting, “I think we’ve got important from these that will continue to last after playing in Division II, a lot to do.” could have such a dra- negotiations is that each “I’m so proud of the little well after their tenure at the Drum was always vocal about Still, it’s disappointing matic effect. side gains something stinker.” to think that with positive, and there is university. how thankful he was for the all the events that evidence that this is The two seniors made opportunity to play in the happened within the happening. In return -Paula Tuck of Vermont on sure to leave their mark on Atlantic Coast Conference, past year (remember, it’s been less for a safer world (one that does not her daughter’s sneakers being a basketball program they a childhood dream of his. than a year since North Korea tested have the North being a nuclear power), a nuclear weapon and three months North Korea gets essentially a treasure named the smelliest shoes in have dedicated years of Visser and Drum will be since negotiations over the communist chest of wealth – oil, food for the their time to as they led the remembered as the underdog nation’s disarmament started) that starving population and increased aid. the nation, winning for her Deacons to a win over No. – the underdog that achieved. something as trivial as $25 million, This all comes at a time when future daughter a $2,500 prize. about $1 per person in that nation, events could easily provoke the North, 25 Virginia and a first round Congratulations to Visser could have such a dramatic effect. as the United States will be holding ACC Tournament victory and Drum for playing the At this point in time, the world its annual military exercises with “ ” over Georgia Tech. Visser and role of the underdog … and needs to make sure that North Korean South Korea. Since the threat they are Drum will be remembered for proving everyone wrong. president Kim Jong-Il loses his nuclear preparing against is from the North, weapons, and the current six-nation it is possible that without a solution “If I’d a had my gun, I’d a talks have gotten him to the point in place, these exercises could further where he is on the brink of surrendering undermine progress. probably shot him.” these weapons. All this progress is being held up by At this point, it’s imperative that a a Macau bank over $25 million. It’s a OLD GOLD BLACK mere $25 million, which when it comes small price to pay for a safer world. -Dean Blevins of Roanoke, The Student Newspaper& of to governments that are nuclear powers, Va., on being run over by a Jeep Wake Forest University since 1916 is nothing more than a minor tripping Jeff Merski is a political science major point – one that can easily be avoided. from North Andover, Mass. while he was in his bed. Caitlin Kenney Editor in chief Jae Haley Max Rubin Managing editor Business manager News: Liza Greenspun and Lizzie Rosen, editors. Elliot Engstrom and Jenn Kimbal, ETTERS TO THE DITOR assistant editors. L E Lack of respect for campus wonder, when they actually visit and I mention the little globs of mucus, Opinion: Jeff Merski, editor. find litter everywhere? Cigarette butts, often referred to in the vernacular as Sports: Ryan Durham, editor. Allison Lange, assistant editor. property disgraceful food wrappers, drink cups and every “boogers,” that some students are fond Life: Kell Wilson, editor. Mariclaire Hicks and Siobhan Wright, assistant editors. imaginable kind of trash carelessly of depositing on the walls above the Photography: Nick Babladelis, editor. Sophie Mullinax, assistant editor. Alison I’ve been at this university in one abandoned or thrown down by students urinals? Perhaps it is time that the Cox and Kelly Makepeace, photo assistants. capacity or another for most of the too self-absorbed to seek out a trash university offered “Potty Training 111” Graphics: Ryan Caldwell, editor. past 29 years. I don’t know whether can? If these visitors enter one of our because some folks certainly aren’t Online: Kevin Koehler, editor. that makes me a seasoned observer of men’s rooms while they are here, their learning the lesson at home. Business Staff: Dan Lovrich, invoices.