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The National Interest
Political Poison: How the coronavirus pandemic could poison the U.S.-China relationship
Over the past two months, rhetoric on China has become noticeably more strident in the United States. Terms like “China virus,” “soft on China,” “weak on China,” and “rolled over on China” saturate the political discourse, writes Will Walldorf, associate professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest. Some pundits consider this moment xenophobic, others seem to welcome it, and still, others say it’s a phase, soon to pass.
May 20, 2020
Endango News
Wake Forest biology professor Dave Anderson joined Endango News to talk about the blue-footed booby. Anderson has studied the blue-footed booby – a type of bird that lives on the Galápagos Islands and the coast of central and South America – and its population decline for several decades. “Sea birds in general are increasingly in trouble because of climate change,” said Anderson. The blue-footed booby eats fish found in cold water, but as the oceans warm, their food is becoming less plentiful. The boobys “just can’t get the food that they need to breed, so they’re not breeding successfully, and they’re not producing young adults.”
May 19, 2020
The Philadelphia Inquirer
America’s death-care industry is getting squeezed as cremations rise at an ‘astronomical rate’
More Americans have opted for cremation over burial since 2015, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, with that proportion becoming a majority in 2016. Tanya Marsh, a professor of law at Wake Forest who specializes in funeral and cemetery law, said many traditional funeral providers were hesitant to embrace this change because people who opt for cremation “don’t always do the whole nine yards” with embalming, visitation, a service, and burial. That’s changing. “If it’s economically harmful to you, you’re unlikely to adopt it. They didn’t facilitate the middle ground. Now they’re trying to make up for that oversight.”
May 19, 2020
The Wall Street Journal
Shosi Hansen (’21), a rising senior at Wake Forest, is one of several students who weighed in to debate whether colleges should drop standardized testing as an admissions requirement. “Standardized scores are an easy way for universities to filter applications, but in doing so inequalities are amplified and many promising students get left behind. Although everyone takes the same test, there are an endless number of textbooks, tutors and practice tests that students can employ to improve their scores.”
May 19, 2020
WRALsportsfan
Wake Forest AD John Currie optimistic college sports can return – with help from all of us
Wake Forest athletic director John Currie has been in talks with medical experts and other administrators about ways to play college sports safely this fall. Currie believes wearing masks will help facilitate a safe return. “We need to all wear masks. We’ve got to socially norm that deal because that’s going to be important so we can get back to playing football and soccer and everything else this fall.”
May 19, 2020
Vox
While the delay in arrests has unsurprisingly led to anger and frustration around both cases, Ronald Wright, Wake Forest Law professor of criminal law and expert on the work of criminal prosecutors, says we’d be better off asking what the prosecutors have been doing as opposed to how long they are taking. Cases of police use of force “are especially difficult to win at trial, so you really have to build a very solid case. That takes time. So the delay could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on whether they are putting the effort into building a great case.”
May 18, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Cooper says Phase 2 reopen decision could come mid-week
The legal court success that a religious coalition had Saturday — getting a preliminary injunction to allow for more than 10 individuals at an indoor worship service gathering — is not likely to be repeated in the short term, said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest and a national expert on state legislatures. “There is little expectation that North Carolina residents and business owners looking to ease or speed up the governor’s current shut-down rules will have further success in court. There is little legal ground or inclination for federal courts to block or ease gubernatorial shut-down orders.”
May 18, 2020
WNYC (New York)
How the pandemic is warping how you feel time
Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest, appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss how pandemic conditions warp our sense of time. Bardon distinguishes between the subjective duration of events as they’re happening and our retrospective judgments about the passage of time. “When we’re stressed out and anxious and out of our routine, the day seems to drag by. When we look back on a day when nothing much happened and we weren’t productive, it seems like we don’t know where the time went.”
May 18, 2020
Joint Action
Losing weight and osteoarthritis – why and how
Stephen Messier is a health and exercise science professor at Wake Forestand director of the J. B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory. He appeared on the Joint Action podcast to discuss the impact of weight loss on osteoarthritis, how to lose weight and resources for weight loss. “As you increase your weight, the load on your knee increases exponentially. It’s not just a one-to-one relationship,” Messier said. “The other thing obesity does is increase inflammation.” Joint load and inflammation are thought to be the two main factors driving the progression of osteoarthritis.
May 17, 2020
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
Coronavirus: China’s aid effort in Africa is nothing new, observers say
Lina Benabdallah, a Wake Forest assistant professor of politics specializing in China-Africa relations, said Covid-19 had provided an opportunity for Beijing to show it was “not only a goods provider but also an expert on pandemic management and global health.” Beijing had been sending medical teams to Africa for almost 60 years and was part of its soft power push to solidify China-Africa relations, she said. Despite the lengthy relationship between China and Africa, Beijing has faced criticism for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and the mistreatment of African citizens.
May 17, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Nathan O. Hatch: What I told Vice President Mike Pence
Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch joined a recent conversation with US Vice President Mike Pence and 13 other college and university presidents across the country to discuss what it will take to reopen campuses in the fall. “What will it take to reopen our institutions of higher learning? The same principles that will allow us to reopen our communities, re-energize our economy and keep ourselves and our neighbors safe: adapting to our changing circumstances and adopting recommended practices to keep one another healthy,” Hatch wrote in a guest column for the Winston-Salem Journal. “And so the people of Winston-Salem will ‘wear a mask, love your neighbor, protect yourself, and stop COVID-19.’ We all are part of the solution. When we offer what we have — an idea, a quieted manufacturing operation, a monetary donation, an hour or two delivering masks to neighbors — we slowly become whole.”
May 17, 2020
88.5 WFDD
Lower production output by meat plants could drive up prices at the store
Jeff Camm is a professor and the associate dean of business analytics at Wake Forest. He said it’s hard to tell what the economic impact of COVID-19 will be on the industry because it’s a fluid situation. “Certainly workers being out, a decrease in capacity, even having to go in and reconfigure things so that people can be further apart so they can be safer when they process, all of that is going to have an impact on capacity of processing plants,” said Camm. Panic buying can also impact supply and drive up pricing for meat and poultry.
May 15, 2020