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Winston-Salem Journal
Our view: An important apology
The Winston-Salem Journal editorial board wrote a reflection on President Hatch’s Founders’ Day Convocation address. “It was a bold statement, one that acknowledged past misdeeds and asked for forgiveness. It couldn’t have been easy. But it was a necessary step,” they said. “We appreciate President Nathan Hatch’s recent apology on behalf on Wake Forest University for its historic role in perpetuating slavery. We hope it will be beneficial to the university’s students, faculty, staff and alumni, and help to bring about a sense of healing and unity.”
February 27, 2020
WRAL
Fact check: Did Tillis vote to ‘take away’ coverage for pre-existing conditions
In 2015, U.S. Senator Tom Tillis voted for a bill meant to “repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 entirely,” according to its statement of purpose. “Certainly, this provision, if enacted, would have removed coverage of pre-existing conditions because it would have repealed the ACA in its entirety, which would have restored law to what it was prior to 2010, when pre-existing conditions often were not covered in most states or by federal law,” said Mark Hall, a law and health professor at Wake Forest.
February 27, 2020
Mashable
Why is it so tempting to rewatch your own Instagram Story
According to Dr. Allison Forti, an assistant professor of counseling at Wake Forest, the tendency to watch our own fleeting content can be partially explained by a psychological concept called the “looking glass self,” which posits that people’s sense of self is rooted partially in how they feel they’re perceived by others. “Applied to repeatedly viewing Instagram stories, it is possible that people are viewing how they look and what they said or did to inform their self-identity,” she said. “They might repeatedly view that story to reinforce a positive aspect of their identity in which they have value, worth, and other people accept them.”
February 26, 2020
The Wall Street Journal
Top public and private colleges in the South
Wake Forest ranked on the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education list of top colleges in the South. The WSJ/THE rankings are based on 15 factors across four main categories: student outcomes, including measures of graduate salaries and debt burdens, the school’s academic resources, diversity, and how well the colleges engage students.
February 26, 2020
Triad City Beat
Winston-Salem TEDx speakers talk about revision, rebirth
On Feb. 22, TEDx came to Wake Forest in Wait Chapel. The lecture series created in 1984 by Richard Saul Wurman, flies under the flag of “Ideas worth spreading.” Originally the program focused primarily on technology and design, but since then has broadened its horizons to include lectures ranging from the academic to the cultural, the scientific and political.
February 26, 2020
Triad City Beat
Fresh eyes: Winston-Salem scholars to tackle big questions of transportation and inequity
There is a needed symmetry developing in the Local push to reduce poverty, and Winston-Salem State and Wake Forest universities will continue that alignment with a panel on Thursday, February 27 at Wake Forest: “Transportation and Inequity in Winston-Salem.” The event is the first in a series, “Transportation is Everything,” organized by the Wake Forest Humanities Institute.
February 26, 2020
Voice Of America
Did tweets help deescalate recent US-Iran tensions
While the world was awaiting a major confrontation between the U.S. and Iran following the retaliatory Iranian missile attack, Twitter messages from both sides helped mitigate the tensions and allowed back-channel diplomacy to take its course, experts argue. “The relatively synchronous transmission of tweets, albeit of limited content, allowed both parties to publicly counteract the more strident messages coming via official news agencies and press releases,” said Randall Rogan, professor of communication at Wake Forest.
February 26, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Area universities monitor coronavirus for students studying abroad
Wake Forest has suspended all in-person classes, both in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, until further notice. Classes are canceled from Monday, March 16, through Sunday, March 22, so that faculty and staff can plan for academic continuity and prepare for remote delivery of course instruction. Classes will resume remotely on Monday, March 23. “Our first priority has been to safeguard the health of the Wake Forest community and our neighbors, even as we sustain our vital educational mission,” said Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch.
February 26, 2020
Next Avenue
One way to avoid surprise hospital bills
Surprise hospital bills — often called “balance bills” — happen when out-of-network providers charge more than insurers pay and patients are responsible for paying the balance. By writing in their own limits, patients might have leverage. It isn’t easy to speak up, particularly in emergencies, which are already fraught. “I believe it would be legally effective,” said Mark Hall, a professor of law and public health at Wake Forest. “However, it requires patients to be much more astute and well prepared than is typical in most surprise billing situations.”
February 25, 2020
Q-Notes
Easing funeral planning into the digital age
Ever Loved, a funeral planning website that helps users navigate the financial side of death, was launched in 2017 by CEO Alison Johnston. “People are changing their preferences in respect to how they want to memorialize and dispose of the dead at an incredibly rapid rate,” noted Tanya Marsh, a law professor at Wake Forest who specializes in funeral and cemetery law.
February 25, 2020
WalletHub
2020’s Best Unsecured Credit Cards for Bad Credit
Stephan Shipe, assistant teaching professor in the Wake Forest School of Business, answered common questions about unsecured credit cards. He explained that applying for an unsecured credit card only makes sense in a few specific cases. “It largely depends on why you have bad credit, to begin with. If your dismal credit score is due to your lack of being timely on payments and general difficulty paying and maintaining credit, then adding a credit card with a high-interest rate is likely to make the problem worse,” Shipe said.
February 25, 2020
MSN
Differences in how cardio and strength affect your health
The fitness world loves the debate: cardio or strength training? The reality is cardio and strength don’t need to be mutually exclusive – nor should they be. Research suggests that weight training is important when it comes to decreasing body fat. A Wake Forest study published in 2017 in the journal “Obesity” suggests that weight training – in combination with a low-calorie diet – can help older adults become slimmer while preserving lean muscle mass that might be lost through aerobic workouts.
February 24, 2020