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VOL. 91, NO. 7
“Covers the campus like the magnolias”
Business schools realigned
Big Brothers and Sisters mentor locals
By Caitlin Brooks | Contributing writer
In accordance with the university’s long-term strategic plan, the administration has announced the realignment of the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy and the Babcock Graduate School of Management. Calloway School is currently headed by Dean Jack Wilkerson and the Babcock School by Dean Ajay Patel. Starting next year, the two schools will operate under a single dean whom Provost Jill Tiefenthaler will appoint. “It will be the new dean’s responsibility to think and plan strategically for business and management education--to capitalize on our strengths, promote collaboration in teaching and scholarship and create innovative opportunities to ensure that our students have the most comprehensive and forward-looking “The school wants to inexperience crease synergies that can be p o s s i b l e ,” found by combining certain Tiefenthaler said in a press areas of the two schools.” release. Yvonne Hinson “Both the Associate professor and director Calloway of graduate studies in account- and Babcock ing at Calloway Schools have developed distinctive areas of strength and expertise in which we all take great pride,” Tiefenthaler said. The new initiative is merely a conduit through which to capitalize on these strengths. “The school wants to increase synergies that can be found by combining certain areas of the two schools,” said Yvonne Hinson, associate professor and director of graduate studies in accounting at Calloway. “They want to increase collaboration in research, and I suppose if any faculty were interested, there would be cross-teaching opportunities.” Though the plan marks the official start to collaboration between Calloway and Babcock, the two schools have been working together in various ways for years. “Accounting already works with Babcock,” Hinson said. “In the last year, we have organized a way for our students to take classes at both schools. They just indicate interest in a course at Babcock and then we send their information along to the registrar at Babcock and vice versa.” Business professor Umit Akinc oversees the Calloway half of the formal Calloway Babcock Research Workshops. Over the last six years, the workshops have allowed Calloway and Babcock professors to intermingle while learning about research projects their peers are performing. See Business, page A3
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By Chantel O’Neal | Contributing writer Big Brothers Big Sisters is a national organization under United Way that helps children by giving them a mentor. “We match children that need a positive role model with caring volunteers in the community,” Sasha Suzuki, university alumna and case manager on staff at BBBS said. The goal is to help create mentoring relationships for children, and in turn make a positive impact, not only in their life, but in their schools and their communities.
“They call it Big Brothers Big Sisters because that is what you become to the child you’re matched up with. You just develop a relationship and give them a friend and a mentor,” senior Lindsay Widing, a big sister, said. There are two programs within the BBBS organization. The site-based program works with Speas Elementary School. The volunteers, or Bigs, visit their Littles at school. Bigs are required to visit one hour each week and must commit for a full school year. The community-based program is more popular for university students.
This program, according to Winding, also requires one weekly visit, but Bigs are committed to a full calendar year. The Littles can be visited outside of school and can be taken to different places. Many of the Littles enjoy going bowling or to the movies, as well as simple things like going out to eat or coming to visit the university. This helps the children experience new things and build a closer relationship with their Big. “It gives them a break from every day life,” Winding said. See Big, page A2
Wake Press and NEA collaborate on Irish anthology National Endowment for the Arts chose to fund university press for publication of book By Elliot Engstrom | Asst. news editor The National Endowment for the Arts has chosen Wake Forest University Press to publish an anthology of Northern Irish poetry through the endowment’s International Literary Exchange program. The program funds presses in the United States to publish translated versions of literary anthologies. “This is the second collaboration for Wake Forest University Press with the NEA,” said Candide
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Jones, assistant director of Wake Forest Press. will be different from our usual books, in which “Last year, we received a grant we choose all the poems, and for an upcoming second volume do all the editing,. of the Wake Forest Series of The editor for this volume is “We’re delighted that it will Irish Poetry, a new series that Chris Agee, a poet in Northbe included in Wake Forest Press Director Jeff Holdridge ern Ireland, who will choose the began a few years ago.” University Press’s catalogue.” poets and poems. The press will receive $35,000 The Press will handle the Candide Jones to publish 2,000 paperback Assisstant director of Wake For- production, publication and copies of the anthology, feapromotion of the book. “We’re est Press turing poems by 30 Northern delighted that it will be included Irish poets. in Wake Forest University Press’s All of the poets to be featured catalogue,” said Jones. in the anthology were born in 1955 or later. Agee is editor of Irish Pages, a jour“The book will be important for many reasons, nal of contemporary writing published in including that it will feature a number of newer, Belfast. He is also a former editor of Poetry of younger poets from Northern Ireland, as well as a Ireland Review, Poetry (Chicago) and Metre, few poems from the older, more established poets who have influenced them,” Jones said. “This book See Press, page A2
Debate team reaches out to middle school students By Lauren Wright | Contributing writer
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A student rides a mechanical bull at HollyWAKE Sept. 29. The Student Union-sponsored event was held from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and featured various fun activities and refreshments.
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at least once or twice a week to instruct the students in a formal setting, where the kids are The university’s debate team, ranked second broken up into small groups and their weekly in the country and first in district six, has progress is monitored. launched a successful program during the While the work is demanding at times and past year to facilitate a the students are practicing new debate team at Paisley entirely new skills, this kind Middle School. of extracurricular stimulaWith new debate coach “Their (the kids’) excitement tion has improved the public Ross Smith, the team is speaking and communicais very fulfilling because moving in a direction that tion skills of the middle it shows that my work has will give the same kind of school students and provided passion about debate that an invaluable outlet for their given another person the they experience to the next creativity. opportunity to bring debate generation. Members of the debate into their lives.” “Their (the kids’) exciteteam such as Isinhue said that ment is very fulfilling they remember the middle Shawn Isinhue because it shows that my school days when they were Junior, debate team president work has given another searching for a passion themperson the opportunity to selves, as they reflect on the bring debate into their lives,” importance of early programs said junior Shawn Isinhue, president of the like this that encourage students to explore their debate team. Junior Tara Tedrow and Isinhue go to Paisley See Debate, page A2
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