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Who pays to maintain old graves at a cemetery?
Depending on the state, there are statutes that require certain cemeteries to take a portion of the money that they generate from grave site sales and put them into what’s called a perpetual care fund or endowment, explained law professor Tanya Marsh. Cemeteries owned by religious organizations, individuals and families are generally exempt from having to establish an endowment. “In the state of North Carolina, we have about 30,000 cemeteries, and there are only about 100 that are actually regulated by the state and subject to those requirements.”
October 27, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Susan Wente named Power Player 2023
President Susan R. Wente, who took over as the school’s 14th president and first female president in July 2021, has quickly made her mark on the university. She named a new law school dean (Andrew Klein) and a new CFO (Jacqueline Travisano) in 2024 after previously installing a new provost (Michele Gillespie) and new deans for the schools of medicine (Dr. Ebony Boulware) and business (Annette Ranft). Wake announced in August that it would offer early action specifically for first-generation students after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled is affirmative action unconstitutional.
October 27, 2023
Greensboro News & Record
Walker finds he already has a ‘real world’ GOP challenger in new Sixth District
A second Republican primary challenger for the Sixth Congressional District seat has emerged less than 24 hours after Mark Walker abandoned his bid for North Carolina governor to pursue a return to Congress. Politics professor John Dinan said that “there was little indication that Walker had a path to victory in the Republican nomination for governor, and so it makes sense that he would consider running instead for a seat in Congress.”
October 27, 2023
Houston Chronicle
Deception researchers investigate how the recipient and the medium affect telling the truth
“An emerging body of empirical research is trying to answer these questions, and some of the findings are surprising. They hold lessons, too – for how to think about the areas of your life where you might be more prone to tell lies, and also about where to be most cautious in trusting what others are saying. As the recent director of The Honesty Project and author of “Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue,” I am especially interested in whether most people tend to be honest or not,” writes philosophy professor Christian Miller in this piece for The Conversation.
October 26, 2023
The Conversation
Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
“Being intellectually humble – in a way that promotes good thinking – likely involves being both curious and open-minded about new information. Focusing on a single characteristic such as intellectual humility rather than the totality of intellectual character ends up promoting lopsided character development, similar to that of a bodybuilder focusing their efforts on one bicep rather than their whole body,” writes psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme.
October 25, 2023
News24 France
The Lewiston shooting puts a spotlight on the US’s unique gun problem
At least 16 people have been killed, and several dozen injured in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine — the northern state’s second-largest city. “America is unique in that guns have always been present, there is wide civilian ownership, and the government hasn’t claimed more of a monopoly on them,” said sociology professor David Yamane, who studies American gun cultu
October 25, 2023
Latin American Advisory
Will Chileans be able to agree on a new constitution?
Politics professor and international affairs professor Peter Siavelis writes that “The release of Chile’s latest draft constitution came days before the fourth anniversary of the estallido, the massive social movement marking the beginning of the country’s experiment in constitutional design. The burden of addressing Chile’s deep-seated societal inequalities, which initially triggered the constitutional reform process, now falls upon future governments, and they must do so within a constitutional framework inimical to change and widely seen as illegitimate.”
October 25, 2023
AACSB Insights
Research Roundup: October 2023
The Andrew Sabin Family Foundation has donated 5 million USD to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which the school will use to turn its Center for the Environment, Energy and Sustainability into the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability.
October 25, 2023
Yes! Weekly
Día de los Muertos: Celebrating the holiday in the Triad
A regular collaborator and supporter of the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, Assistant Director of the Lam Museum Sara Cromwell has been curating the “Life after Death: Celebrating Day of the Dead” exhibit for many years. A staple of Winston-Salem, this exhibit has been around for more than 20 years and returns each time with something new to ponder. Consistently highlighting the diversity within the celebration itself, this year’s exhibit, which is on display through December 8, is split into three main sections. One focuses on public celebrations, another on the variety of ofrenda setups, and a third on cemetery celebrations.
October 25, 2023
Yes! Weekly
WFU Theatre presents civil rights drama
The Wake Forest University Theatre in collaboration with the Loire Valley Theatre Festival will present “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom” starting this week in the Scales Fine Arts Center. The production is sponsored in part by a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant. “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom” is based on the award-winning memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery.
October 25, 2023
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Eric G. Wilson, “Point Blank” (British Film Institute, 2023)
John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognized as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento (2000). Eric Wilson’s compelling study “Point Blank” (British Film Institute, 2023) examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema.
October 24, 2023
The New York Times
Facing scrutiny, a museum that holds 12,000 human remains changes course
The American Museum of Natural History is planning to overhaul its stewardship of some 12,000 human remains, the painful legacy of collecting practices that saw the museum acquire the skeletons of Indigenous and enslaved people taken from their graves and the bodies of New Yorkers who died as recently as the 1940s. “There is no expressly legal way for human remains to end up in a museum,” said law professor Tanya Marsh, who specializes in the law of human remains.
October 15, 2023