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Schools of Business develops tailored career services center Division between career advising centers reflects majors’ divergent needs By Sam Perrotta | Promotions manager
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On May 21, with diplomas in hand, newly minted university graduates will all face a similar question: “Now what?” “What are your plans now, grad?” Nine out of every 10 will have a concrete answer, says the Office of Admissions for the university, a figure that has increased over 20 percent in just three years. Yet in the eyes of the Schools of Business, that is not enough. At a town hall meeting Sept. 8 hosted by Steve Reinemund, dean of the Schools of Business, students were told of changes in their career service department: namely various additions specified for business majors beyond the university’s Career Services department. The additions were prompted from a demand from Schools of Business students who hoped their career placement program would be tailored just for them.
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“Undergraduate business school students wanted specialized, business-focused career support,” Matt Merrick, senior associate dean for students, said. Naturally, this dissension to create career counseling focused on one program did not come without tension. “It’s a biased dedication toward getting [Schools of Business] students jobs,” Hannah Kay Hunt, English and communications double major, said. “If Wake Forest is so concerned with statistics and numbers, the school should seriously pay more attention to the bulk of its student body in the liberal arts.” Many non-business majors, however, see it in a different light and praise the new developments associated with the university’s Career Services, including the creation of the Office of Professional and Career Development (OPCD) and a career service center solely meant for Schools of Business students. The center will implement businessfocused interview preparation, counseling and programming through new hires in leadership including Mercy Eyadiel, executive director of employer relations for the
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Piecing together Living Our Values A document unknown to many students reveals that the school is working toward creating a more unified student body. In response to past events such as Pledge Night 2010, committees of administrators and students worked together to create the “Living Our Values” Administrative Report in August 2010. Although this report is neither new, nor breaking news, it contains a broader plan for the university that we are now feeling the effects of today, much to the ignorance of most undergraduate students on campus. This report was made for the purpose of “Strengthening Residential Life and Campus Vibrancy” and addresses the university’s attempts to move the social scene back on campus. Many students are unaware that the changes they are witnessing being implemented were laid out in this report. “Our plans for the future involve bringing Greek organizations back on campus and strengthening the harmony and community between Greeks, independents and the entire university,” the report states.
The construction of the Barn is contained within this report, but some students do not realize that the original intentions for an on-campus venue included encouraging a more collaborative student body. “I didn’t know that the Barn was part of a larger plan to make us all hang out together instead of with just our sororities or fraternities,” sophomore Delta Zeta Kristen Young said. According to the university website, 45 percent of all undergraduate students participate in Greek life. This statistic in addition to immense alumni support for Greek life reveals the influential role it plays
on campus. While Greek life promotes an active social and philanthropic scene on campus, the offcampus parties that occur every weekend do not
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By Molly Dutmers | Contributing writer
This year, the university instituted a medical amnesty policy that encourages students to seek medical attention for alcohol and drug-related emergency situations without fear of radical repercussions. Students and friends of students who seek help under this policy will not be charged with alcohol violations, and they will not have to go through the judicial review process as long as they cooperate with medical personnel, and did not violate any other serious policies such as vandalism, sexual misconduct or physical assault. Instead, they will receive medical attention and afterwards they will be required to meet for alcohol assessment and substance abuse counseling with Christina Rush, the substance abuse prevention coordinator. Other universities, like Cornell University and Clemson, Rush have similar policies. Rush researched medical amnesty policies at other schools when she was working with other leaders on campus to formulate Wake’s policy. “In some situations, it is completely necessary that students seek help for their friends, and the medical amnesty policy makes this easier,” senior Allison Osborne said. “For this reason I hope that other schools would offer medical amnesty, or implement related policies
“In some situations, it is completely necessary that students seek help for their friends, and the medial amnesty policy makes this easier.”
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By Hilary Burns | Life editor
Leniency given by medical amnesty policy
so that students feel comfortable to seek help during a potentially life-threatening medical emergency.” According to DR. Cecil Price, director of Student Health Service, Student Health has had a policy that students who went there to receive medical attention for alcohol-related emergencies would not be written up, nor would their parents be contacted. However, this policy resulted in students bringing their intoxicated friends to Student Health and avoiding reporting services such as University Police or resident advisors. With this old policy, students could still be written up if they were not brought directly to Student Health or if other emergency personnel were contacted.
Voices From Ireland
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Opening reception celebrates launch of new anthology By Julie Huggins | Contributing writer
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The sound of traditional Irish music, performed live by the Irish duo The Belfast Boys, echoed throughout the entrance hall of the Porter B. Byrum Welcome Center as a crowd gathered, chatting excitedly, for the event to follow. On Oct. 24, Wake Forest University Press and Imagine Ireland kicked off the Women’s Anthology Tour: Voices from Ireland in Kulynych Auditorium in the new Porter B. Byrum Welcome Center, hoping to promote the newly released second edition of the anthology. An eclectic mix of attendees filled the auditorium to hear the poets, Caitríona O’Reilly, Rita Ann Higgins, Leontia Flynn, and Eiléan
Ní Chuilleanáin. This version is drastically increased in size from the original publication, going from almost 300 to nearly 600 pages long. “The first edition was published to counter the negligence of women poets in the 80s and 90s, while the second volume reflects what are now the accepted achievements of Irish women’s poetry,” Jefferson Holdridge, the director of the University Press, said. “Importantly, this expanded and revised edition charts the emergence of a significant new generation of women poets as well as the continued output and growing stature of the previous generation of Irish women poets.” The featured poets read a selection
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Caitriona O’Reilly
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin