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Urdupoint News (Pakistan)
Minneapolis ‘lynching’ underscores urgent need to reform US police
“It’s very disturbing to hear how helpless we feel. But that’s not true. The thing is we could have avoided this,” said Kami Chavis, professor of law and director of the criminal justice program at Wake Forest School of Law. “Substantial criminal law is the reason why we’re in this place,” said Chavis. “The ‘Broken Windows’ policy has a questionable impact on actual violent crime. And it does include infringement on our civil liberties.”
May 30, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
City takes on landlord-tenant mediation
The Winston-Salem Human Relations Department on Monday will begin mediating landlord-tenant disputes related to the non-payment of rent due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The department will get help from lawyers, professional mediators and from law students who staff the free legal clinic operated by the Wake Forest School of Law. The law students will go through a training course to make sure they are familiar with landlord-tenant law and the special provisions put in place under COVID-19 emergency declarations related to non-payment of rent.
May 29, 2020
Spectrum News
University offers online resources for LGBTQ+ community
“Reach out to your support systems at your schools,” said Angela Mazaris, director of LGBTQ+ Center at Wake Forest. “They all really care about you and want to know how you’re doing. Reach out to your friends. Reach out to your teachers and professors. Reach out even if you think there’s no point or you might be bothering someone because I promise you you’re not and other people are looking for that connection too.”
May 28, 2020
Victory Institute
Meet the summer 2020 Victory Congressional interns
Leilani Fletcher, a rising junior at Wake Forest, is one of twelve outstanding undergraduates selected nationwide for this summer’s Victory Congressional Internship. The Victory Congressional Internship (VCI) is developing the next generation of out public leaders, and it’s proud of a continued and growing partnership with the LGBT Equality Caucus and other LGBTQ-friendly members of Congress.
May 28, 2020
Religion And Politics
Former Obama staffer offers a primer on religion in public life
“In the past, Americans have reached across their differences and sometimes been able to find agreement about religious expression and exercise in the public square,” said Wake Forest School of Divinity visiting professor Melissa Rogers. Rogers served as executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships during the Obama administration. “I hope Americans from across the religious and ideological spectrum will recommit to seeking common ground on religion in public life issues.”
May 27, 2020
The New York Times
It’s not too late to get a virtual internship
“What we have been telling students is that this is not a time to be picky or overly choosy,” said Andy Chan, vice president, innovation and career development at Wake Forest. “This is a time to get experience.” He urges students to work closely with their colleges’ career centers to keep track of new postings, polish their resumes and practice virtual interviews. “We have a team of people who are contacting alumni, as well as searching the job boards and finding jobs that are hard for students to locate. Over these last few months we have found a thousand more jobs than a student could find on their own and are putting them in front of students.”
May 27, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
N.C. House bill would allow business owners to sue over shutdowns
“The extensive emergency powers exercised by state governments generally, and by governors in particular, in responding to the pandemic in recent months are already generating various proposed laws and constitutional amendments around the country,” said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest. “Those efforts would seek to limit or compensate for the exercise of state emergency power, or give legislators more of a role alongside governors in emergency governance.”
May 27, 2020
Postindustrial
Solve the Monty Hall Problem with simple math – if its psychology doesn’t trip you up
Monty Hall, host of Let’s Make a Deal, regularly presented a puzzle that challenges the way we handle predictions and outcomes. Although contestants mathematically increase their chances of winning by changing their original prediction, people rarely switch. John Petrocelli, a psychologist at Wake Forest, conducted a study in which subjects repeat the game hundreds of times. On recall, they remembered when they switched and lost more strongly than when they switched and won. It’s not about math, he says. The emotional angst that almost winning incites is just too painful. So they stay put, and lose two-thirds of the time.
May 26, 2020
Romper
The candy challenge is taking over social media — Here’s what experts think about it
“The skills tested by the adult are self-restraint and delayed gratification, two crucial life skills that adults do need to help children learn,” said Cheyenne Carter, assistant teaching professor at Wake Forest’s Online Master’s in Counseling program. “The harm that can come from these ‘experiments’ with children is housed more in the parent having unrealistic expectations of the child’s developmental level, using shame as a response if the child ate the candy, or having a lack of empathy in using this form of entertainment to taunt, tease, or ridicule the child.”
May 26, 2020
The Daily Signal
Market forces can help winnow out bad charities as well as bad businesses
“When people choose which businesses to patronize, they do so based on a variety of factors—everything from price to service to virtue. They choose, therefore, on the basis of their values, which includes their moral values,” said James R. Otteson, Wake Forest Thomas W. Smith presidential chair in business ethics. “Some unethical business people or firms might still succeed, at least in the short run. But if a firm really is unethical, competition from other firms will relentlessly seek to expose it. They will want to do things better—according to how we consumers define “better”—so that they can succeed by capitalizing on other firms’ errors.”
May 26, 2020
Yes! Weekly
Real-time lessons in global health
When Karin Friederic began teaching her Anthropology of Global Health class in January, the first coronavirus case outside mainland China had not yet been confirmed. Teaching this course in the spring allowed Friederic’s students to see the theories they were learning play out in the world. “They used the frameworks from the course to make sense not only of the pandemic itself, but also of what it has revealed about our society. Illnesses and pandemics are mirrors that reveal not only who we are, but our deepest cultural anxieties.”
May 26, 2020
The Black Media Authority
National Reconciliation Week: For self and family
Linda Nielsen, Wake Forest professor and expert on father-daughter relationships, will be one of the speakers for National Reconciliation Week: For Self & Family, a week of events helping women reconcile first with themselves, then with their families. The program, organized by Esther Productions Inc. and Young Parents Elevation Network, focuses on restoring families, reconnecting fathers and daughters and encouraging co-parenting.
May 24, 2020