Media Report for Jan. 16-26, 2018
January 29, 2018 | wfu_news_&_communications
The Wake Forest News Media Report for Jan. 16-26, 2018 is now available online.
South's slow-motion freeze begins to relent
January 17, 2018 | Associated Press
A figure leans into the snow hauling a pallet across the snowy expanse of Hearn Plaza on the Wake Forest University campus in Winston-Salem, N.C. The university was closed for the first heavy snowfall of the season.
World War I, American Art - American Artifacts Preview
January 19, 2018 | C-SPAN
Professor of Art David Lubin is interviewed on C-SPAN about his book “Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War.”
President Trump is actually allowed to have Robert Mueller fired, according to the Constitution
January 26, 2018 | Time
President Trump technically does have the power to have a special counsel like Mueller fired — and the reason goes back to the Constitution. Katy Harriger, a professor at Wake Forest University and author of “The Special Prosecutor in American Politics,” says that’s because of the complicated history of the job Mueller holds. The job has gone through many permutations over the many years since it was first used in response to the Whiskey Ring scandal of the 1870s, but it’s important to note that the theoretical underpinnings of the President’s power over such a position go back to the beginning. “In Article II [of the Constitution] it does say that he has to take care that the laws are faithfully executed – that’s the source of his enforcement power,” Harriger says. “The courts said a long time ago that officers who are executing that power on behalf of the president have to be removable by him.”
'Blood gold' in your jewelry is poisoning workers and the rainforest. Here's how to stop it.
January 16, 2018 | Miami Herald
To stop the unrelenting environmental and human devastation, an array of competing interests will have to collaborate to extract gold in a more humane way, according to workers’ rights advocates, environmentalists and industry experts. Luis Fernandez, a tropical ecologist at Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, and a team of researchers are leading efforts to study how to reforest such a devastated ecosystem, including using charcoal-enriched soil to grow vegetation again and testing a mix of 40 native plant species for their viability.
Media Report for Jan. 6-15, 2018
January 15, 2018 | wfu_news_&_communications
The Wake Forest News Media Report for Jan. 6-15, 2018 is now available online.
What Japan can teach us about the future of nationalism
January 8, 2018 | The Washington Post
This is an op-ed article discussing lessons for the future of nationalism, co-authored by Wake Forest history professor Robert Hellyer.
Writing a to-do list will help you sleep better
January 15, 2018 | New York Post
Instead of counting sheep, spend five minutes jotting down what you need to take care of tomorrow – and you may fall asleep 10 minutes faster…. A 2011 Wake Forest University study co-authored by psychology professor E.J. Masicampo, found that people who wrote tasks down also completed them more effectively than those who went into the activity cold.
Cliven Bundy case: How big a problem is prosecutorial misconduct?
January 11, 2018 | The Christian Science Monitor
“It’s important that we have protections for prosecutors [from spurious misconduct claims] to be able to do their jobs effectively, without fear of a chilling effect on their performance,” said Kami Chavis, director of the Criminal Justice Program at the Wake Forest University School of Law, and a former US attorney.
More colleges than ever have test-optional admissions policies - and that's a good thing
January 11, 2018 | Chicago Tribune
Joseph Soares, Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University, writes that at it is a myth that standardized scores predict college performance better than high school grades. “At Wake Forest, we’ve never had academically stronger students with as much racial, ethnic and economic diversity from across America since 2009, when we went test-optional. As reported in The New York Times, the average high school GPA of our incoming freshmen increased after we stopped using standardized test scores as a factor.”
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