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Housing advocates fear waves of homelessness as moratoriums expire
At the height of the pandemic, 42 states and the District of Columbia had statewide moratoriums on evictions in place, covering millions of renters, but presently, a little more than a dozen states have some kind of eviction protections in place, Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest, said. “So now, less than half the country is covered by an eviction moratorium that isn’t federal in nature. And as the unemployment insurance expires at the end of July, along with the majority of the remaining eviction moratoriums, we can expect to see a severe eviction crisis in the United States.”
July 4, 2020
Live Science
Looted skulls and human remains are being sold in black markets on Facebook
Most countries around the world have banned the looting of archaeological sites and graveyards. In the United States, “there is no law in any state which grants permission or acknowledges that it is legal to sell human remains. On the contrary, it is expressly illegal in a number of states,” said Tanya Marsh, an expert in cemetery and funeral law at Wake Forest School of Law. In the private groups, some sellers claimed that they got their bones from medical colleges; but even if those claims were true, “there are no exceptions for human remains even if there is documentation that they are from the collection of a medical school or museum.”
July 3, 2020
Newsweek
Facebook Investigates Sales of Human Skulls in Private Groups
Tanya Marsh, a professor at Wake Forest, who specializes in funeral and cemetery law, told Vice in 2018 regulations are vague because it doesn’t neatly fit the definitions of “people or property” in the U.S. legal system.
July 3, 2020
Ivanhoe Newswire
Elderly exercise: Losing weight safely as we age
“When people want to lose weight what they want to lose is fat, but some of what you lose is muscle and bone,” explained Kristen Beavers, assistant professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest. Resistance training can prevent muscle and bone loss, so Beavers and her team developed a weighted vest that provides resistance for the wearer. They asked 40 seniors in the pilot study to wear the vest up to ten hours a day and found that those who wore the vest preserved their bone, especially at the hip.
July 2, 2020
News & Record
Governor vetoes bills that would reopen gyms, bowling alleys and other venues
Even with the bipartisan support for reopening gyms and fitness centers, it is unlikely Democratic legislators would vote to override a Cooper veto, said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest and a national expert on state legislatures. “Some Democratic legislators who are willing to support a bill on its initial passage are often not willing to hold to this position and be seen as challenging a Democratic governor when it comes time to hold a veto override vote.”
July 2, 2020
Psychology Today
The psychology of bullshit: Psychology research unpacks this increasingly pervasive phenomenon.
Wake Forest psychologist John Petrocelli found evidence to support that bullshitting tends to happen when there’s social pressure to provide an opinion and a social “pass” that will allow someone to get away with it. Fast-forwarding to the “post-truth” world of 2020, where facts and expertise have been declared dead, opinions are routinely confused with news, and objective evidence is endlessly refuted, the case could be made that bullshit has reached epic proportions.
July 2, 2020
Pure Earth: Pollution Blog
What it means to be ‘aromantic,’ according to experts
Folks in an online asexual community started talking about the fact that they see sexual attraction and romantic attraction as two different things, said Kristina Gupta, an associate professor in women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Wake Forest. You could be both interested in a sexual relationship and a romantic relationship, you could be interested in only sexual relationships or only romantic relationships, or you could be interested in neither.
June 30, 2020
NBC News
‘Eviction crisis’: Housing advocates fear waves of homelessness as moratoriums expire
At the height of the pandemic, 42 states and the District of Columbia had statewide moratoriums on evictions in place, covering millions of renters, but presently, a little more than a dozen states have some kind of eviction protections in place, law professor Emily Benfer, said. “So now, less than half the country is covered by an eviction moratorium that isn’t federal in nature. And as the unemployment insurance expires at the end of July, along with the majority of the remaining eviction moratoriums, we can expect to see a severe eviction crisis in the United States.”
June 29, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
N.C. favors Cooper for re-election. Forest hopes COVID-19 fatigue will become a factor
Gubernatorial responses to the coronavirus have become an issue in campaigns in several states, said politics professor John Dinan. “Various candidates around the country have taken issue with how governors have handled the virus response.”
June 29, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Hanes Mall reaches crossroads with shift in two anchor spaces
The planned arrival of Truliant Federal Credit Union, a second non‑retail anchor at Hanes Mall, has drawn both glass-half-empty and glass-half-full perspectives. “The presence of hundreds of new people working in what was once Macy’s can be a boost for mall business in the short run — as Truliant employees step into the mall for some of their specialty shopping needs, as well as immediately accessible food service,” said Roger Beahm, the executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest School of Business. “It will also mean a further long-term loss in overall shopper traffic that could have been generated by a major retailer.”
June 28, 2020
Baptist News Global
Tell the Jesus story and stop worrying about numerical growth, historian advises
“COVID-19 is the most challenging threat to church life and human life that the country has seen since at least World War II,” said Bill Leonard, founding dean and professor emeritus of Wake Forest’s School of Divinity. “Congregations now must be intentional about their identity. In the past, denominations and denominational networks aided churches in identifying who they are and what they do.” But no more, Leonard explained, recommending that each congregation must be clear about what it does and why. To be successful in reaching their communities, those explanations should appeal to tradition but avoid dogmatism. “Dogmatism can be a door that closes to those who may not understand.”
June 26, 2020
Bloomberg Law
Senate’s scuttling of EPA’s no. 2 pick unlikely to slow agency
Stan Meiburg, who served as the EPA’s acting deputy administrator in the Obama administration, bemoaned the agency’s lack of a full-time deputy chief. “By law, the deputy administrator is EPA’s chief operating officer and plays a critical role in the effective operation of the agency under the administrator’s leadership,” said Meiburg, who now directs Wake Forest’s graduate programs in sustainability. “Without regard to the merits of any particular candidate, it is unfortunate that a permanent deputy can’t be confirmed.”
June 26, 2020