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Winston-Salem Journal
Legislature adjourns with many pivotal loose ends remaining
The N.C. General Assembly went into adjournment Thursday with most pressing budget funding issues addressed during the 10-month long session. Given that the projected state budget for 2019-20 has not been signed into law, and no Medicaid expansion legislation advanced, some legislative analysts and observers have questioned why the four-month, often high-political theater was necessary. “Some business was handled that may not have been handled if the legislature had adjourned by July 1,” said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest. “But, much of the legislation passed since the start of July could likely have been handled next spring.”
November 2, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Mahan Esfahani will perform Nov. 14 at Wake Forest’s Brendle Recital Hall. The concert will feature a mix of early works for the harpsichord, paired with contemporary pieces for the instrument. Peter Kairoff, a Wake Forest professor, will give a pre-concert talk.
November 2, 2019
News & Record
Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia will chat at Wake Forest in the Broyhill Auditorium on Nov. 11. Burr is a Republican, Warner is a Democrat, and their discussion “will highlight how two leaders from opposite sides of the aisle are able to work together on issues of national importance.” This is the first event presented by the Richard Burr Center for Legislative Studies. Burr, a Wake Forest alum, announced last year that he will donate his Congressional papers to the university.
November 1, 2019
91.5 WUNC
Dis-embodied: The legal challenges of our death-denying culture
Tanya Marsh is a law professor at Wake Forest and teaches one of the nation’s few, if not only, courses on funeral and cemetery law. In a recent interview, Marsh discussed the intersection of death and the law, and how we live in a death-denying culture. “We have this real ongoing tension between these real, strict rigid protections of the dead. And then the practical reality that we don’t always live up to that.”
October 31, 2019
ABC News
In North Carolina, legal actions could have a big impact in the upcoming 2020 election
In North Carolina, a closely-watched swing state that for years has had lawsuits winding through the courts amid partisan claims of voter disenfranchisement, a new series of legal actions could have a big impact in the upcoming 2020 election. On Monday, state and national Democrats filed a lawsuit to overturn the early voting restrictions put in place in 2018 by the Republican-controlled state legislature, which was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, but overridden by the General Assembly and signed into law. Following a swell in early voting in 2018, state Republicans in North Carolina lost their veto-proof majorities in the House and the Senate. Many of these fights can be traced down to the competitive nature of the state, according to John Dinan, a politics professor at Wake Forest. “You have a very competitive state in North Carolina. And so you had a Republican legislature that kind of was able to redraw the maps after the 2010 census and also make some changes to voting rules. It’s no surprise that [Democratic] groups have said, ‘Look, let’s see what we can do to push back against this and see if we can win some more seats in North Carolina.’”
October 31, 2019
The Conversation
Cada vez más universidades en EEUU rechazan los examenes estandarizados para admitir alumnos
Wake Forest sociology professor Joseph Soares published an article on the growing number of U.S. universities that no longer require standardized test scores for admissions and on testing bias against low-income and non-white students. Wake Forest announced in May 2008 that it would no longer require applicants to submit standardized test scores, and the policy went into effect for the class entering fall 2009. “The quality of our students has improved because we look at the person comprehensively, not by the result of an exam. We emphasize high school grades because those have always been the best prediction of university academic performance,” said Soares. “The fairness and merit are best served in a holistic review rather than a number court.”
October 31, 2019
Aljazeera
More protests taking place outside Chile’s presidential palace
Peter Siavelis, director of the Latin American and Latino studies program at Wake Forest, discussed the unrest and dissatisfaction that has led to large-scale protests against Chile’s government. “These protests are really about thirty years of bottling up social pressure against a lot of the injustices that take place within the context of Chile’s neoliberal system and inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship. While superficially it may appear that this is about a subway fare increase…it’s really about unfairness in the educational system, the social provision system, the health system, retirement system, an incredibly low minimum wage, and the increase in transport costs and the tone-deaf reaction of the Pinera government are really just the straw that broke that camel’s back that has been long in the making.”
October 30, 2019
Forbes
Does social media make the political divide worse
“Social media is a contributing factor to the political divide in our country,” explained Dr. Nathaniel Ivers, the department chairman and associate professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest. “It is hard to know, however, if social media is helping to widen the rift or make salient how deep and broad the divide already is.” One of the factors is that social media companies might not be doing enough to stop the spread of fake news and misinformation.
October 30, 2019
National Science Foundation
4 awesome discoveries you probably didn’t hear about: Episode 36
The National Science Foundation’s YouTube series highlighted research published by Wake Forest doctoral candidate Noah Bressman in Integrative Organismal Biology and funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Bressman’s research found that the invasive northern snakehead fish will voluntarily leave bodies of water that are too acidic, salty or high in carbon dioxide.
October 30, 2019
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Arnold Palmer Trust granted $1.5 million to Wake Forest to endow the Winifred W. Palmer professorship in literature.
October 30, 2019
Triad Business Journal
Power players 2019: Nathan Hatch
While Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch leads the third-largest university in the region and 11th largest in the state, he ranks among the region’s Power Players because of his impact in downtown Winston-Salem. Under his leadership, Wake Forest Innovation Quarter has emerged as a medical and tech hub, and the opening of Wake Downtown in 2017 and the new engineering school have amplified Wake Forest Baptist’s impact. As of early 2019, a fundraising campaign launched in 2013 called “Wake Will Lead” has raised $900 million, with a goal of $1 billion by 2020.
October 30, 2019
Vox
Exhuming bodies: What lies beneath
The very idea of disturbing the dead has been a source of angst and spooky entertainment for much of recorded history, and digging up bones remains taboo, in part because many religions forbid the practice. Exhumations, however, continue across the globe. While no one knows how many are carried out globally each year, forensic experts extract DNA from human remains for criminal investigations, genealogical research, and identification of victims of war; and government agencies can relocate entire cemeteries to make space for a new skyscraper, bigger airports, or hydroelectric dams. “I have talked to people who have been involved in disinterments of older cemeteries,” says Tanya Marsh, a law professor at Wake Forest specializing in funeral and cemetery law. “There’s no intact casket, there’s no intact skeleton. They can find the casket handles because they’re metal. It’s just discolored soil.” Still, many consider that discolored dirt to be human remains. Since the advent of Roman law, Marsh says, “real estate that contains human remains is never just soil again.”
October 30, 2019