SPORTS
OCTOBER 4, 2013
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Construction on new Jack Jensen Golf Center hidden from view behind gym
BY LEK SlU
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Have you wondered what's going on
with all the construction behind the gym?
Brick by brick, the Jack Jensen Golf Center
is taking shape.
"The golf center is named in honor of
former golf and basketball coach Jack
Jensen, who passed away in 2010," said
Sports Information Director and Assistant
Director of Athletics Dave Walters. "It's a
building constructed behind the Ragan-
Brown Field House which is to be a training
facility for the Guilford golf team."
Jensen developed Guilford's golf success
during his 45 years as a professor and
coach. The Quakers won three national golf
championships and secured five runner-up
finishes during Jensen's reign.
"Jack Jensen was a great man and a great
teacher for young people," Athletic Director
Tom Palombo said in an email interview.
"Our golf program is one of the best in the
country."
The members of the 2013 golf team have
high expectations for the season.
"We are currently the number two-
ranked golf team in the nation," said junior
golfer Travis Tolbert. "This facility will only
help us."
Head golf coach Corey Maggard believes
that the new center will be instantly
valuable.
"We will recruit more," said Maggard.
"(Also), players will be able to practice in
inclement weather."
Unfortunately, the golf center is not for
everyone.
"The building will be exclusively for the
golf team," said Maggard. "No different
than the baseball field and batting center for
the baseball team."
The idea for the center was first put
forth by the college's Advancing Excellence
campaign, with an overall fundraising goal
of $550,000.
In order to aid the fundraising efforts.
former professor and administrator Herb
Appenzeller donated the first six months'
royalties from his book "Ethical Behavior in
Sport" to the project.
Appenzeller also dedicated the book to
Jensen.
"Every so often, a person comes along
who touches the lives of countless numbers
of people without fanfare or publicity,"
said Appenzeller in his dedication.
"This was Jack Jensen, golf and basketball
coach at Guilford College for 45 years, who
was a role model for ethical behavior in life
as well as sport.
"Jack, in a quiet, modest and humble way,
exemplified all that is good in sport today."
The Jack Jensen Golf Center is currently under construction behind the Ragan-Brown Field House. Herb Appenzeller donated six months’ royalties from one of his books to help fund the facility.
Miley Cyrus helps everyone find their inner twerker
BY OLIVIA WERNER
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Twerking. We have all seen it, we have all tried it, but only
Miley Cyrus can call herself the queen of twerking.
According to The Lapine, "Prime Minister Stephen Harper
told a group of community leaders that he enjoys 'twerking'
but only with close friends and every now and then with
President Obama."
Twerking has been defined by the Oxford English
Dictionary as "dance to popular music in a sexually
provocative manner, involving thrusting hip movements
and a low, squatting stance."
While many are under the impression that twerking was
recently invented, it can actually be traced back to the 1993
bounce music scene in New Orleans.
Following this, musicians, such as the Yin Yang Twins,
Beyonce and Justin Timberlake mentioned twerking in their
songs, giving it more recognition.
Since then, Miley Cyrus has taken twerking to a whole
new level.
It all started in 2010, when Cyrus traveled to New Orleans
to film "So Undercover."
According to Fuse, this is where Cyrus first learned the art
of twerking. The rest is history.
The dance is so physically strenuous that some even
consider twerking a sport. The Twerk Team, composed of
three teenage girls from Atlanta, has reinforced the idea of
twerking as exercise since 2009.
Can twerking actually be considered a sport, or even a
form of exercise?
"Anything that involves body movements can be
considered a form of exercise," said senior Kevin Tiller.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines sport as "a
physical activity that is done for enjoyment," so according
to this definition, yes, twerking can be considered a sport.
"The booty dancing move is a good "twerkout" for your
butt and thighs," said Michelle Olson, professor of exercise
science and a certified strength and conditioning coach at
Auburn University, in an ABC News Article. "It also works
the deep muscles of the hips and the core muscles of the
lower back and abdominals."
Just imagine Monday night twerk contests on the ESPN.
"If there was a competition with judges involved with
different twerking teams and different categories of
judgment, then I guess you could consider twerking a sport,"
said sophomore Trenor Colby.
Many people cannot even begin to consider whether or
not this dance is a sport due to their concern with the racial
and cultural issues tied to twerking.
Following Cyrus' performance at the MTV Video Music
Awards, the public became outraged by her behavior on
the basis that this was "cultural appropriation at its worst,"
according to The Guardian.^
While possibly unintentional, Miley chose to use only
African American females as her backup dancers.
"The African American women in Miley's video were
portrayed as ratchet," said junior runner Jasmine O'Neill.
"She created the stigma that these are the type of people that
twerk, and she wants to twerk just like them."
This is where Cyrus crossed the line into controversial and
potentially racist territory.
"She used the tedious trope of having black women as her
backing singers, there only to be fondled by her and to admire
her wiggling derriere," said Hadley Freeman in an editorial
for The Guardian. "Cyrus is explicitly imitating crunk music
videos and the sort of hip-hop she finds so edgy,"
Did Cyrus have racist intentions in mind while performing,
or was this simply a bold career move? The answer is most
likely the latter.
"Miley's been very smart in all of her moves," said
freshman Najha Zigbi-Johnson. "She knows that twerking is
going to give her attention, which she needs with her new
album coming out.
"Everyone is saying 'Miley's crazy,' but all of these people
will buy her album."
While there are right and wrong ways to do everything,
Cyrus is an example of the wrong way to twerk.
Twerking should not be done to mimic African American
culture, but rather to embrace this culture while partaking in
a fun, physically challenging activity.
"Twerking is something that everyone should be able to
enjoy," said Christa Wellhausen, part-time lecturer in theatre
studies and sports studies.