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Service tied to the American Dream
October 11, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
Service is the key to rekindling the American Dream, Time magazine columnist and bestselling author Joe Klein said in his Oct. 10 speech in Wait Chapel. He also shared stories from more than 40 years as a journalist covering politics and wars.
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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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WFU celebrates world cultures
October 1, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Diversity, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
Featuring music, dancing and fun, the World Cultural Festival is an annual campus event highlighting differences that unite, inspire and entertain the entire community. This year, the festival was held under the “Faces of Courage” banner — a University celebration of 50 years of integration.
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Grappling with the cost of debt
September 26, 2012 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
With just six weeks until the presidential election, it is rare to find political leaders from both sides of the aisle making joint appearances unless there is an organized debate – especially in a swing state such as North Carolina. But Wake Forest hosted Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles as part of its Voices of Our Time series.
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Historic Homecoming
September 26, 2012 | Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
For Edward Reynolds (’64), coming home to Wake Forest meant a standing ovation from more than 500 people in Brendle Recital Hall and emotional reunions with many of the students, faculty and administrators who helped him when he enrolled as the first black undergraduate student at Wake Forest 50 years ago.
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Focus on wrongful executions
September 19, 2012 | Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Law, Top Stories
One year after the execution of Troy Davis, whom many believe was innocent of shooting a police officer, several Wake Forest groups will discuss whether wrongful executions occur. Events on Sept. 20-21 include a documentary screening and a news conference at the School of Law’s Innocence & Justice Clinic.
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Talking Tech in Winston-Salem
September 18, 2012 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Daniel Kim-Shapiro, physicist and director of Wake Forest’s Translational Science Center, will offer beet juice samples after his talk at the upcoming Technology Briefing, which highlights innovative local companies and institutions. Three others with WFU ties also will present.
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Conservation liberal-arts style
September 17, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Faculty, For Parents, Humanities, International, Sustainability, Top Stories
Forty years from now, the world’s rainforests may be gone and with them our chance for a stable environment. Wake Forest’s JAMAZON celebrates that creative minds from biology to music to history to English can join together to find the answers.
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Faces of Courage: Ed Reynolds
September 14, 2012 | Alumni, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
In September 1962, a Ghana native named Ed Reynolds (’64) became the first black full-time undergraduate to attend Wake Forest. Fifty years later, Reynolds comes come back to campus to mark the anniversary of the integration of Wake Forest as part of “Faces of Courage: Celebrating 50 Years of Integration.”
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Telling stories, building bridges
September 14, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Student, Top Stories
Refugees, ballad singers, classic car collectors and victims of forced sterilization —Wake Forest third-year documentary film students have spent the last year working on movies that show what life is like from these different perspectives.
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