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Old Gold&Black WAKE FOREST’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1916
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Senior Ryan Wolfe appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Feb. 28 to discuss his experience with the Wake Forest Bias Inicdent Reporting System, regarding a specific series of events from the fall of 2016, in which he perceived harrasment by students.
Bias incident report creates controversy Senior Ryan Wolfe discusses harassment incident on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” BY JULIA HAINES Editor-in-Chief hainjm15@wfu.edu
On Wednesday, Feb. 28, senior Ryan Wolfe appeared on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to speak about Wake Forest’s response to a bias incident report he submitted regarding perceived harassment he was facing by his peers. On the show, he claimed that the university’s perceived lack of effective action in response
to his report exemplified that the university’s policies against bias are not enforced equally for all students. Wolfe submitted the report a year and a half ago in the fall of 2016, against a group of students who he claims violated the Code of Conduct and harassed him for his race and political views.
Wolfe was upset with the way the university handled the situation. The story broke following an article published by The Wake Forest Review on Monday, Feb. 26, and has since garnered national attention.
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Carl Bernstein explores modern echoes of Watergate Journalist who broke the Watergate scandal spoke at a Winston-Salem synagogue BY AMANDA WILCOX Digital Media Editor wilcaf16@wfu.edu “The best obtainable version of the truth.” Renowned journalist Carl Bernstein repeatedly emphasized this ideal, which he said has guided his decades-long career in reporting, at his lecture at the Temple Emanuel synagogue
on Feb. 24. Bernstein was sponsored by the Winston-Salem branch of the United Jewish Appeal and spoke to more than one hundred congregants and members of the WinstonSalem community. As a young reporter for the Washington Post in the early 1970s, Bernstein teamed up with his colleague Bob Woodward and did much of the original reporting that uncovered the Watergate scandal and corruption in Richard Nixon’s White House, leading to numerous government investigations and Nixon’s eventual resignation. His career since Watergate has continued to
focus on the use and abuse of power in government, and he is the author or co-author of six books including “All the President’s Men,” which recorded his reporting efforts with Woodward; “The Final Days,” which concerned the last months of the Nixon administration; and “A Woman in Charge,” the standard biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bernstein opened his lecture by reflecting on his early reporting days as a copy boy for the Washington Star, which he self-deprecatingly said often out-reported the Washington Post. In 1960, when he was 16 years old, he was sent to most of then-candidate John F. Ken-
nedy’s press conferences to dictate a running text back to the newsroom. There, he noticed that the investigative reporting necessary to keep tabs on politicians, no matter who holds office, just wasn’t happening. “And whatever Kennedy’s failings, he instilled a sense of common purpose and promise to Americans of all backgrounds,” Bernstein said. “But there’s no question that the press, in its real failure to use the methodology of investigative reporting during the Kennedy administration, left us with a distressingly incomplete picture of the man.”
See Bernstein, Page 6