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Daily Nous
$4.4 million grant for philosophical exploration of honesty
Christian B. Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest, and a team of researchers, have been awarded a $4.4 million grant for his “Honesty Project.” The Honesty Project brings philosophy together with psychology, as well as business, economics and political science. The grant, awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, is the largest grant ever awarded to the humanities at Wake Forest.
August 24, 2020
The Trace
Gun sales have hit record highs. Will it change how Americans vote
“People within the gun culture are very excited about these new gun owners and are hoping to bring these people into the fold politically,” said David Yamane, a sociologist at Wake Forest, “but I think that’s going to be more easily said than done.” Yamane cautioned that acquiring a gun does not guarantee a shift in attitude toward firearms regulation and that Americans are too politically entrenched for the high sales alone to swing the debate or bring about a further loosening of laws.
August 22, 2020
News & Record
Wake Forest students return to campus and hope they can stay
Student move-in went smoothly this week, said Matthew Clifford, the university’s dean of residence life and housing. About 1,400 new first-year students had checked in by Thursday. Another 2,350 upperclass students who are living in campus housing are scheduled to move in by Monday. For both new and returning students, move-in was an entirely redesigned experience…Miles Middleton, the Student Government Association president, said he feels for the freshmen. It’ll be important for returning students to follow the rules, be good role models for freshmen and make the new students feel comfortable, the senior said. Wake Forest, he said, is a small and connected place with a strong community and a good plan for dealing with COVID-19. That’ll help.
August 21, 2020
88.1 Blue Ridge Public Radio
Why Black defendants don’t get judged by a jury of their peers
Non-white jury pool members get excluded from juries twice as often as their white counterparts in North Carolina, according to research by Wake Forest law professors. This discrimination persists despite a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating that striking jurors on the basis of race is unconstitutional. The racial inequity of jury selection was the recent topic for a meeting of Gov. Roy Cooper’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice.
August 20, 2020
CNBC
Evictions are expected to skyrocket as pandemic protections come to an end
“HUD’s new moratorium only applies to a slight fraction of the units covered under the CARES Act and does nothing to protect the overwhelming majority of renters in the United States from eviction and its devastating consequences,” said Emily Benfer, an eviction expert and visiting professor of law at Wake Forest.
August 20, 2020
Newsweek
Federal eviction moratorium lapse will lead to COVID surge, poverty and future housing shortages
Black and Latinx Americans have been disproportionately affected by every aspect of the public health crisis, from health care to mortality to unemployment, and eviction is no different. “Communities of color entered the pandemic at a major deficit. This is in part due to our country’s long-standing sordid history of racial discriminatory housing laws and policies that locked people of color out of wealth accumulation and created this cavernous gap,” Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest, said. Studies have shown that Black households are twice as likely to be evicted than white households.
August 20, 2020
Patch
13 NC colleges make Princeton Review’s 2021 ‘Best’ List
Wake Forest made The Princeton Review’s annual list of the country’s best colleges. The 2021 Best Colleges were selected based on “our high opinion of their academics,” the Princeton Review said in announcing its newest list. The organization said it monitors colleges “continuously and annually” to collect data on more than 2,000 schools.
August 20, 2020
Quartz Africa
Housing advocates, legal experts expect wave of evictions following expiration of state moratorium
Emily Benfer, a visiting professor at the law schools in Wake Forest and Columbia University, has been working in partnership with The Eviction Lab to track the different policies between states. “It became very clear early on that moratoriums were not equal, with the exception of one thing — they all expire,” Benfer said. “If the only thing the state does is pause the eviction process with a moratorium, the only thing the state has done is delay the crisis. The moment the moratorium lifts, the crisis will still exist and will most likely amplify.”
August 20, 2020
WGHP
Wake Forest University students follow strict guidelines during move-in
Matt Clifford, the dean of residence life and housing at Wake Forest, said while the university can’t control every factor they are confident in their plan to keep the community on campus safe. “We have embraced a Show Humanitate, which is a reflection and a different take on the university’s Pro Humanitate motto, and Show Humanitate is a broad-based effort to help encourage the entire campus community to follow these health and safety guidelines and expectations. We Show Humanitate, we show care for one another by adhering by these expectations.”
August 19, 2020
CNBC
With negotiations on next stimulus package at an impasse, here’s what you can actually count on
Trump also said he didn’t want people evicted during the pandemic and that the bill he was signing “will solve that problem largely, hopefully completely.” Experts disagree. “The executive order on eviction does not in any way create a moratorium on eviction, nor does it direct federal agencies to issue a moratorium,” said Emily Benfer, an eviction expert and visiting professor of law at Wake Forest. “Any statement otherwise is false and should not be relied upon.”
August 18, 2020
Cheddar
Renters use credit, debt to avoid eviction as COVID-19 moratoriums lift
The severity and timing of the crisis is hard to pin down, because tenants will often go to great lengths financially to avoid eviction, delaying the worst outcomes potentially for months. “The basic necessity to keep your family safe is a roof over their head, so families will divert all of their resources, all of their other expenses toward the rent to keep their family safely housed, especially during a pandemic,” said Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest. “So you’ll see increases in credit card usage, increases in food pantry usage, increases in applications for public benefits.”
August 17, 2020
News & Record
Wake Forest University cancels homecoming and postpones commencement for a second time
Wake Forest announced it has canceled its annual homecoming and Family Weekend celebrations scheduled for this fall and postponed commencement for a second time this year. President Nathan Hatch, in a message to the Wake Forest community, said the changes are necessary “because of the ongoing global pandemic and the continued risk of large gatherings.” The university said the in-person commencement for the class of 2020 will now take place May 22, 2021.
August 13, 2020