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The student-athlete balance
October 12, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Athletics, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Recognition, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Established in 2005, the Dean’s Cup recognizes the Wake Forest athletic team with the highest grade point average each academic year. Recently, men’s track and field/cross country and women’s golf celebrated a three-peat. Each team has captured three consecutive titles.
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Hit The Bricks turns 10
October 3, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Alumni, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Staff, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
When Hit the Bricks began in 2002, it raised about $3,000 and had only a handful of teams participate. Last year, the competition raised more than $26,000 and had 89 teams enroll. This year, a new record of 93 teams ran laps to support the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive.
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‘Love, Money and Work’
September 10, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Entrepreneurship, Events, For Parents, Highlights, Life on Campus, Speakers, Student, Top Stories
A social entrepreneur is someone who tries to make things tomorrow better than they were today. That is the definition Jessica Jackley, perhaps best known as the co-founder of Kiva, an online microlending service, gave Wake Forest students, faculty and staff at a talk in Brendle Recital Hall.
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Faculty House Calls
August 31, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Life on Campus, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
On August 30, more than 40 faculty members representing 13 academic disciplines visited first-year students in their residence halls. Each faculty pair, along with a residence life and housing staffer, welcomed an average of 60 students in the Class of 2016 through a program called Faculty House Calls.
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A new Old Gold and Black
August 29, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories
When students picked up the freshman issue of the campus newspaper, “The Old Gold and Black,” on move-in day, they might not have realized the substantial ways the editorial staff is reinventing its coverage, both in print and online.
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Suite new residence halls
August 23, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Sustainability, Top Stories
“I’ve been on many other campuses, and I believe Wake Forest has the best-designed and intentional residential experience for students,” said Donna McGalliard, dean of Residence Life and Housing.
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Juggling it all with a soldier’s discipline
June 29, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Student, Students Taking the Lead, Top Stories, Uncategorized, Wake Forest College
As the 4th of July approaches, members of the Wake Forest community reflect upon the hard work, discipline and self-sacrifice that were integral to our nation’s founding. Senior Alexis Lauria embodies these values. Lauria is a resident advisor, aspiring doctor and one of only 15 women in the Demon Deacon ROTC Battalion.
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Learning outside the classroom
May 16, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Mentoring, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Mentoring, Personal and Career Development, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Almost every university has a mentoring program — independent initiatives hosted by campus life or student development. Wake Forest is one of the first higher education institutions in the nation to adopt a campus-wide model.
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Stress relief during exam week
May 9, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories
This semester’s exam week Wake the Library features beach-themed decorations to provide inspiration amid hours of serious final exam studying.
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Humans vs. Zombies
March 8, 2012 | For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories
A zombie invasion of Z. Smith Reynolds library has been caught on video as a popular college role-playing game finds its way to Wake Forest.
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