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SG runoff elections to decide two executive positions By Ken Meyer | News editor
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Presidential runoff candidates stand between the newly elected speaker and secretary.
Of the four Student Government executive positions, the offices of speaker of the house and secretary are now locked in for next year, while the offices of president and treasurer will go to runoff elections. Election results were posted at 12 a.m. April 6. Sophomore Benjamin Strickler won the post of speaker of the house with 65.83 percent of the vote, beating freshman Will Readhead, who took 34.17 percent of the vote, and sophomore Alex Hollifield, who was disqualified prior to election day. Running unopposed, sophomore Tré Easton was elected to the position of Secretary. Easton commanded 100 percent of the vote. For the office of president, three candidates initially announced their intentions to run March 28. Junior Nilam Patel gained the largest percentage of the vote with 43.48 percent, junior William McClure took a close second with 41.14 percent and junior Russell Lyons
earned 15.37 percent. Patel and McClure will now move into a runoff election that will take place on WIN Thursday April 7. For treasurer, junior incumbent VJ Cerniglia took the highest vote percentage. Cerniglia
How Student Government serves Does the poor turnout in SG elections reflect the support they give the university? See SG, Page A6 won 38.03 percent, above junior Daniel Richard’s 33.53 percent and sophomore Nick Lee’s 28.45 percent. Cernigilia and Richard will now move into a runoff election on WIN April 7. The rising senior legislators elected are Latisha Simone Di Venuto, Thomas Francis Looney, Emily Patricia Maciag, Skyller Eliza-
beth Jordan, Sean Patrick Farrell McDonald, Gregory Edward Gorman, Keely Trimble Lawner, Caitlin Elizabeth Davis, Luke James Schwartz, Martin Frederick Booth, HsienChing Chen, Monica Barbara Carusello and Xiaoyuan Zhu. The rising junior legislators elected are Leanna Marie Little, Jacob Nazareth Blackwell, James Braiden Rex, Caroline Collins Hales, James Edward Johnson, Ryan Patrick Heaney and Mark Graham Gerelus. The rising sophomore legislators elected are Hayley Claire Sultana, Lydia Lea Sandy, Robin Alexander Haddock, Amelia Caterina Fatsi, William Adams Bode, Jacqueline Reine Sutherland, Aaron Colston, Kimberly Renee, Mary Katherine Miller, Andrew Steven Koch, Cleo Lorriane Johnson, Sarah Matheson Davis, Aubrey Anne Peterson, Christopher William Earle, Andrew McBeath Harvey, Jeremy Robert Hefter, Daniel John McLaughlin, QuaMisha Shawaan Powell, Yasin M Ali, Mark T. Seres, Sina Zolghadr and Sean Spiros Logan.
Tiefenthaler bids Deacons fond farewell
A rapist and explosives hit the emergency alert system
By Ken Meyer | News editor
Crisis Management Team sits down to discuss last week’s notifications By Lindey Campagne | Asst. news editor The University Police, in conjunction with administrative departments, set in motion Wake Alert, the emergency notification system after alleged rapist Tereso Celestino Santiago eluded police across campus and alleged explosives were found on the university grounds. This procedure remains in place to notify all students immediately of campus crises and emergencies. The system includes emails, texts, sirens, a public address and a display on the university cable system. How does this system work? How did the University Police and the Department of Communications and External Relations decide which
parts of the system to utilize in these recent campus incidents? University Chief of Police Regina Lawson and Director of Communications Kevin Cox sat down to discuss and clarify the “Wake Alert” system and crime notification policies on campus. A Crisis Management Team, appointed by the administration and led by Vice President of Student Life Ken Zick, follows a protocol for informing students of on-campus emergencies. Lawson and Cox are both members of the CMT task force. It is this body that decides the danger level of individual incidents and how to notify students. “The crisis management plan and team is broad, and the action taken is driven by the state of the crisis,” Lawson said. “They funnel all that information through the communications plan.” Cox explained that the communications aspect of the plan involves notification of students via voicemail message, campus weather line and information provided at wakealert. wfu.edu.
University Police are responsible for the text alert system, the cable television alert,the sirens and the pre-recorded messages. The most frequently used notification system in place is the email notification, according to Lawson. “The text and federal outdoor notification systems are reserved for what we consider imminent danger,” Lawson said. The Crisis Management Team and University Police do not make the specific protocol for setting the different parts of the notification system in motion open to the public. However, the type of notification students receive for individual incidents is indicative of its level of severity and danger. As indicated by a mass email last week, Winston-Salem police officers were on campus March 28 after Santiago eluded arrest following charges for a second-degree rape that occurred off campus. He was unarmed and working for a company contracted with the university. On March 31, he was found, arrested and taken to a county
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Colorado College announced April 5 that university Provost Jill Tiefenthaler will lead the Colorado Springs college as its 13th president. Tiefenthaler began her tenure with Wake Forest University in 2007, serving as both provost and professor of economics. In an email, President Nathan Hatch described Tiefenthaler as having displayed Tiefenthaler an unsurpassed commitment to the faculty, staff and students of the university. “Her creative spirit and dynamic nature have been a source of energy throughout the campus, particularly in the areas of strategic planning and student life,” Hatch said. Tiefenthaler’s accomplishments range from implementation of the university’s strategic plan to new faculty development to extended recruitment and retention efforts. Her guidance brought about the new Institute for Public Engagement and the new Humanities Institute. With Tiefenthaler set to tender her official resignation June 30, Hatch bid the provost a fond farewell, while assuring the university that the search for a new provost has already begun. “This moment provides new opportunities for us,” Hatch said. “In our search for a new provost, which will begin immediately, we will have the chance to build on the successes we have achieved together during Jill’s tenure.”
New social center prepares to open its doors to student party scene By Sam Perrotta | Staff writer
It is the moment the university students have been waiting over a year for: the moment students celebrate the opening of an oncampus venue to finally call their own. The Barn, in a few short weeks, will open its doors. For those students who, after that statement, find themselves envisioning a red wood-paneled building bustling with pigs, roosters and cattle and complete with a silo in the middle of the Reynolda campus, think again. The Barn is the new social spot on the university’s campus. Located behind Palmer and Piccolo Residence Halls, the Barn will serve as a venue for club meetings and events, Greek date functions and fraternity parties. Meghan Haenn, Wake Forest Fellow in the Division of Student Life, said that “all students, Greek and non-Greek, have yearned for a place to collaborate and celebrate.” “This is for students, it welcomes them.”
After the events of the Janu- our lives and the Winston-Salem solution to the issue, Haenn ary 2010 Pledge Night held at community.” and Davis gathered with only Determined to work with the affiliated students, bringing in downtown’s Millennium Center, where six students were taken to Greek student body to find a to speak only briefly two adminWake Forest Baptist Hospital, the istrators and one police official. university held a town meeting Suggestions from students differed, yet when one student stood for all Greek students to confront the issue. up and suggested that the univerHeld in Wait Chapel just days sity create an on-campus venue after the infamous event, the for students to host events, of which he called the meeting brought in upwards of 2000 students who wearily filled Barn, he was met the rows. The meeting was run with strong by two notable student faces support. on campus — then Student Government President Haenn and President’s Aid Jermyn Davis. Haenn explained that “the meeting was an effort to gather students and discuss where we had gone wrong as a student body; instead of being celebration (of new fraternity and sorority members), we had turned Old Gold & Black the event into file pho to a night that The Architectural Plan For The Barn endangered
Unbeknownst to students is that the Barn has been in the conception stage for years. During the 1960s, students would rent the Reynolda Village Barn for social events. When that area became a business venture, the Barn disappeared, as did any oncampus venue for student social events. When the fire marshal began enforcing occupancy limits in fraternity lounges in the late 1990s, student social gatherings moved off-campus. It was then that Ken Zick, vice president of Student Life, knew something needed to be done. After formulating and proposing the idea years ago (which m a n y referred to as Ken’s Barn and Grille) o n l y to get nowhere, Zick saw
the events of last January as the perfect opportunity to make this vision a reality. While talking to a Sigma Chi fraternity right before the Wait Chapel meeting, he threw out his idea. George Dorsey, who pitched the Barn at the meeting later that night, was a member of that organization. The rest is history. And so, nearly a year and a half later, the Barn is in its final stages and fully booked on weekends for the fall 2011 semester. At 7 p.m. April 4, student leaders attended Student Life’s “Selection Sunday” in Pugh Auditorium. To book a Barn event for the fall 2011 term, organizations were required to have one member present at the event. Organization names were then drawn and dates were filled. In total, 54 events were booked including 34 Greek-sponsored (including Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity Council and National Panhellenic Council) and 20 non-Greek sponsored
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