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Debate team wins back-‐to-‐back titles Wake Forest’s debate team recently won their second ACC title in two years. BY JULIA HAINES News Editor hainjm15@wfu.edu Junior Jack Manchester and freshman Adam Tomasi represented the Wake Forest Debate Team at the ACC Debate Championship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 15-17, earning the university its second championship in a row. They were undefeated in competition this year. This win follows a win by debaters junior Corrine Sugino and sophomore Charles Athanasopoulos at a large debate tournament at the University of Texas. The Wake Forest Debate team is supervised by Jarrod Atchison, assistant professor in the department of communication. “What makes winning a debate competition so difficult is that every opponent presents unique challenges, and you must be prepared to debate up to 13 opponents in one weekend,” Atchison said. “Unlike basketball or football where you prepare for one opponent per event, college debate requires you to face eight different opponents in preliminary debates and then five different opponents on elimination day.” This year’s debate topic was “Resolved: That the United States should adopt substantially stricter gun control regulations, including a prohibition on carrying firearms at college and university campuses.” Manchester and Tomasi went the entire season undefeated and beat the University of Miami in the final round. Also representing the university were graduate students Sammi Rippetoe and Eli Smith, who last competed in the quarter finals in Washington, D.C. “[Debate] is one of the, if not the, most impressive academic achievements possible for an undergraduate to match wits with the best and brightest from across the nation for hours on end,” Atchison said.
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House Bill 2, passed in late March, was met with outrage from by individuals, corporations and several artists who cancelled shows in the state in protest.
University hosts panel on HB2 Wake Forest professors and student activists spoke about the controversial bill BY HEATHER HARTEL ơ harthf15@wfu.edu At a panel discussing the recent legislation regarding transgender rights in North Carolina, eight speakers were posed the simple question, “Who agrees with House Bill 2?” The answer was an overwhelming silence, complimented with nervous looks around the room, and panel members awkwardly anticipating the silence to be broken. The cause of the tension is the recent law signed by Governor Pat McCrory, requiring
that all state entities provide single-sex bathrooms based on biological sex. This overides local governments’ existing legislation. Critics have deemed HB2 as one of the most discriminatory laws for the LGBTQ community to ever pass through a state legislature, while those in favor argue it keeps women safe from males in their bathroom. The discussion panel titled “Beyond Bathrooms” was made up of Wake Forest professors, student activists and faculty members who brought unique knowledge to discuss, speaking in opposition of HB2. Tanya Jachimiak, the first full-time Title IX coordinator for Wake Forest, was the second panelist to speak. Her knowledge focuses on the intersection between Title IX and HB2. “HB2 actually would not apply to Wake Forest regarding bathroom and discrimina-
tion provisions because we do not fall in the executive branch,” Jachimiak said. The law only directly applies to public institutions, which does not include Wake Forest, a private university. However, the negative implications of the law still reach the community in a very explicit way. Dani Benitez, a student activist and a speaker on the panel, is a member of the transgender community who sees the direct impact on the larger population beyond Wake Forest. “Of all the trans-youth in North Carolina, many of them are thinking about suicide just hearing that their bodies are wrong or are something to be disgusted about,” Benitez said. “Forty-one percent of transgender people attempt suicide [during their lifetime.]”
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Administration responds to OGB investigation Hatch calls for another internal review of the volleyball coach after OGB investigation BY BUCK HINMAN & WILL BRAUN Staff Writers hinmsb12@wfu.edu & brauwh12@wfu.edu In the week since the OGB released its inves-
tigation into claims of abuse against head coach Ken Murczek of the Wake Forest women’s volleyball team, new evidence has raised questions about the administration’s handling of student athletes’ complaints. When asked for comment, President Nathan O. Hatch said he would be conducting another internal investigation into the allegations. “My top priority is the wellbeing of all Wake Forest students,” Hatch said. “To that end, I
am appointing a committee from the adminis- partment officials obtained by the OGB protration and faculty to review the ongoing treat- vide new insight into how the complaints by ment of players on the Wake Forest volleyball players against the coach were handled last year. team. This review is being done with full supWhile Murczek was cleared of Title IX genport of the athletics department. It is my intent der-based charges after a 2014 investigation, that the current review is completed as soon as phone conversations with Tanya Jachimiak, possible and I plan to share publicly the out- the department’s coordinator, revealed a list of come.” what she called “questionable behaviors” pracRecordings of phone calls and conversations with various administrators and athletic de- See Volleyball, Page ͻ