Student Government candidates platform overview Page 6 & 7
Letter to the Editor: Rolling the quad was warranted Page 8
Spotlight: Mytoia Gathings Page 13
Revamp your work out with YouTube videos Page 21
OLD GOLD&BLACK WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
VOL. 97, NO. 25
T H U R S DAY, A P R I L 3 , 2 014 “Cover s the campus like the magnolias”
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A day in the life of President Hatch
BY IAN RUTLEDGE Print Managing Editor rutlig11@wfu.edu A native of Columbia, S.C., and son of a Presbyterian minister, Nathan Hatch became the 13th president of Wake Forest on July 1, 2005. Hatch graduated from Wheaton College in 1968 and later earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1975 he became a member of the history department faculty at the University of Notre Dame, where he also served as the vice president for graduate and research studies and eventually as the provost for nine years. He is also the author of the book The Democratization of American Christianity. Hatch wears a number of hats in addition to president of the university that take him all across the country to a wide variety of conferences and meetings. He serves as the chair of the Division I Board of Directors of the NCAA, is the immediate past chair of the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, serves as a board member of the United Way of Forsyth County, and last but not least, is
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a grandfather. The Old Gold & Black recently had the opportunity to shadow Hatch for a day to see what a day in the life of the Wake Forest University president is like. At 9 a.m. sharp Hatch entered into his office on the second floor of Reynolda Hall carrying a small black briefcase. His first appointment, Jim Otteson, executive director for the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, was already sitting in the waiting room. Hatch welcomed him into his office but not before going to the desks of his various staff members and saying hello. Hatch and Otteson sat in decorative upholstered chairs around a small wooden coffee table going back and forth about their respective tenures at Notre Dame before diving into the business of the meeting. Hatch and Otteson discussed various initiatives Otteson has developed for the center he directs as well as where he would obtain funding for such initiatives. Hatch actively made recommendations
throughout the meeting pointing out what ideas might better received and what outlets would be the best places to look to obtain resources. The meeting wrapped up after about 45 minutes giving Hatch a small break before his 10 a.m. meeting. He took the time to glance at an overflowing email inbox and skim through a thick orange folder that is placed on his desk every morning filled with documents he must review or sign. Shortly after 10 a.m. Rogan Kersh, university provost, knocked on the door and stepped into the office for his weekly meeting with Hatch. The two exchanged a friendly greeting and then dove straight into business affairs. A wide variety of topics were covered including initiatives Kersh is overseeing, faculty benefits, the composition of the incoming freshman class, and even a small tangent about histori-
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Students express frustration with parking policies Many students complain that the policies implemented by Parking and Transportation Services are unclear BY MOLLY FINEGAN Contributing Writer finemj12@wfu.edu Wake Forest Parking and Transportation Services have gained an infamous reputation among the student body for its enforcement of parking policies and frequent distribution of tickets and fines. Students are constantly left feeling frustrated by the appearance of one or two small white tickets adorning their cars after being parked on campus. “The most frequent citation that is issued to students is for failure to register their vehicle,” said Alex Crist, the director of parking and transportation services. Other frequent citations include parking in a fire lane,
parking on campus during restricted hours with an offcampus permit or parking in reserved spaces and lots that are not allowed with students’ specific permit. Ticket costs vary, but they can certainly add up, running as much as fifty to seventy dollars per ticket. The Parking and Transportation Advisory Committee determines the severity of the fines associated with various tickets. But where do these fees go once they are extracted from the offender’s student account? “Parking permit and parking citation revenues are used to support the long-term upkeep of our parking lots and campus shuttle programs,” Crist Crist said, “including shuttles to the offcampus apartments, shopping outlets and downtown restaurants and upkeep and maintenance of our shuttles.” But many students question that the total revenue brought in each year goes entirely to these various programs.
“It seems like the revenue collected through parking citations would be way too much to be solely devoted to the upkeep of parking lots and shuttle programs” said sophomore Siobhan Callahan. The annual revenue earned by Wake Forest through parking citations is not available to the public, but according to students, with the number parking tickets given on a daily basis, they feel like the upkeep budget should be enough to pave the parking lots with gold and replace the shuttles with some sort of town car service. When looking at the Parking and Transportation Services’ ticketing from an efficiency standpoint, it can be argued they might out perform everyone on campus, which at Work Forest is saying a lot. But students wonder if it is perhaps too efficient, serving as more of a tool to exploit and frustrate students than to “ensure efficient and secure parking and transportation options that exceed customer expectations,” a promise found
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