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VOL. 91, NO. 2
“Covers the campus like the magnolias”
New students attend Convocation Program gains recognition By Blake Brittain | Staff writer
University President Nathan O. Hatch, Dean of Freshman Paul Orser and Dean of the College Deborah Best welcomed new students and wished them luck Aug. 24 as hundreds of new students and anxious parents packed Wait Chapel during convocation. “For all of you, students and parents alike, this is a momentous day,” Hatch said. “On any scale, going off to college is a seismic event. The emotional Richter scale jumps to new levels.” Hatch also discussed his experiences as a college student, and explained how three of his college professors challenged him and helped to shape the person that he is today. “My advice today is simple. First, we welcome each of you to this community with open embrace. You are a member in full standing. Second, engage the faculty. They love to have conversation partners,” Hatch said. “Third, become active learners. In most cases, what you get out of a course will be proportionate to what you invest in it. Finally, wrestle with the big questions about the meaning of life, about faith, service and vocation. When all is said and done, ask this question: In what do I want to invest my life?” Orser used his convocation speech to talk about the nature and reputation of difficult coursework at the university. “Right here on this campus we have our own observation on work – highly distilled, created and promoted by our students in their loving nickname for this place – Work Forest,” he said. “Expend high quality energy from day one to the very finish. In just five words — Work First, not Work Forest.” Best quipped about the oppressive heat during move-in day before offering some of her own advice. “You are a special class. You have the distinction of being one of the few classes to deal with temperatures over 95 degrees on move-in day,” she said. “By the time you have children to whom you will tell college tales, yesterday will probably be the only 110 degree weather experienced in Wake Forest history and you had to drag all your electronic toys, futons, clothes up three flights of stairs
Fortune Small Business magazine nationally ranks entrepreneurship discipline By Elliot Engstrom | Asst. news editor
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New students and their parents sit attentively at New Student Convocation Aug. 24 in Wait Chapel. They were welcomed by University President Nathan O. Hatch and others. while your parents sipped Starbucks cappuccinos in the bookstore. “Be kind to each other, make lasting friendships, apply yourself as if your future depends on it, because it does,” Best continued. “On behalf of the faculty and my colleagues in the Dean’s Office, I welcome you and look forward
to our future years together at Wake Forest and beyond. This is the beginning of the Wake Forest magic.” “On behalf of all of us at Wake Forest, let me say again how delighted we are to have you as a student here,” Hatch said. “Welcome to the conversation.”
PREPARE increases awareness of rape
Campus group teaches new students of dangers of assault By Molly Nevola | Staff writer
In 1987, news of an alleged rape on campus spread through the university and caused students to take action, establishing the first group on campus with a mission to promote understanding and prevention of rape and sexual assault. PREPARE, Policy Group on Rape Education, Prevention and Response, is made up of about 60 students from diverse backgrounds and groups on campus who share a common goal of safety for students. The harsh reality is that 20-25 percent of women will be raped during their college career. About 65 percent of all sexual assault cases will go unreported. This is a statistic that has made sexual assault the “silent epidemic,” according to the American Association of University Women. To combat this nationally growing issue and its staggering statistics, PREPARE here at the university is equipped with well-trained student advocates, a small group within the organization. These advocates have received additional training on helping victims of sexual assault. The advocates can be reached 24 hours a day, seven days a week by cell phone. They are available to talk to victims, accompany victims to Student Health or the local hospital or answer any question, however big or small, regarding sexual assault. Each member of PREPARE has been extensively educated in a class that specifically covers rape and sexual assault.
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Juniors Daniel Patten and Tara Tedrow lead PREPARE talks for freshmen. The group intends to educate students about rape. They have all also been trained to All university students should be run the first year aware of the constudent presentatinuous service “PREPARE student advocates tions given during that PREPARE want to help Wake Forest stu- can provide. orientation each dents in any way possible so year. To make accessiThese presentability more availstudents should not hesitate tions consist of able to all students, to call under any circumfacts and statistics, the group recently stances even if they have just a review of the switched from university’s sexual a pager to a cell a small question.” misconduct policy phone. The cell Lizzy Bell and discussion on phone number is Senior co-chair of PREPARE advice to give to a (336) 671-7075. friend who has been “PREPARE stuassaulted. dent advocates want to help Wake
Forest students in any way possible so students should not hesitate to call under any circumstances even if they have just a small question,” Lizzy Bell, one of the senior co-chairs of PREPARE, said. Bell said that she first joined PREPARE as a freshman because she found that it provided her with an effective way to give back to the university community. Bell said that the group is a great way for both men and women to get together and actually do something about such an important issue. There are still many misconceptions about the topics that PREPARE deals with, Bell said. “It is so important to be aware of the prevalence of sexual assault in our community … I hope that we make a difference on campus and that as PREPARE grows, we are able to reach out to more and more students,” Bell said. Sharon Babcock, the other senior co-chair of PREPARE, said that she joined the student group as a freshman after she was immediately drawn to the organization during the orientation program. Babcock said that since rape and sexual assault are such major problems on college campuses, the only way to decrease the number of attacks is through education: informing the student body of statistics and teaching them how to prevent an attack or to help a friend in the case of assault. “It has been a great way for me to get deeply and passionately involved with an organization and a cause that I feel so strongly about,” Babcock said. The group is also in charge of Tie a Yellow Ribbon Week. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Week is an annual sexual assault awareness week held in February that includes several events such as a documentary viewing, See PREPARE, page A3
The entire nation, thanks to Fortune Small Business magazine, is hearing about entrepreneurship at the university. In the magazine’s September issue, the university was listed with 24 colleges as best for cross-campus entrepreneurship education and 26 graduate business schools best for “blending real-world small-business know-how with top academics.” The magazine’s September issue was the first to include such a list. “We are delighted that Wake Forest’s exceptional learning environment for liberal arts and entrepreneurial thinking has been recognized,” Provost Jill Tiefenthaler said in a univeristy press release. “We offer innovative academic programs that encourage our students to link knowledge and experience, to assess resources and opportunities and to initiate change and general value – essential capabilities for the 21st century entrepreneur.” Fortune Small Business maga“We are delighted that zine develWake Forest’s exceptional oped the list through learning environment for a process liberal arts and entrepreinvolving neurial thinking has been in-depth inter views recognized.” over a sevenJill Tiefenthaler m o n t h Provost period with entrepreneurs, professors, students, alumni, administrators and venture capitalists. The list is not ranked in numerical order in the magazine. The university’s interest in entrepreneurship is reflected in the student body. During the past academic year, about 5 percent of undergraduates enrolled in one or more entrepreneurship courses. The faculty also reflect this aspect of the university, as 75 undergraduate faculty members from 24 departments have participated in the entrepreneurship program. “Our goal is to weave entrepreneurship into the fabric of the university and to make entrepreneurship an integral part of the culture,” Elizabeth Gatewood, director of the office of entrepreneurship and liberal arts, said of the recently-founded program. “The distinguishing feature of our entrepreneurship program is that it allows students to pursue a rigorous liberal arts or business education and pursue an education in entrepreneurship that can be tailored to their specific interest or area of academic study.” Over a third of full-time Babcock School of Management students are members of the Babcock Entrepreneurs club, over 90 percent take an entrepreneurship elective and 70 percent take two or more. “We practice entrepreneurship in the design and delivery of our programs,” Stan Mandel, executive professor and director of the Angell Center for Entrepreneurship, said. “We are making the curriculum richer and more relevant for our students by concentrating on diversity in the classroom and providing exciting experiences outside it where students can pursue interests about which they are passionate.” But entrepreneurship courses are not only for business or management students. Courses can accommodate students studying law, medicine and accounting, among other subjects. Internships also can be tailored to students in a variety of fields, and can vary from social entrepreneurship to regenerative medicine. According to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, almost 3,000 schools offer classes in entrepreneurship. In the mid-80s, the number was closer to 300.
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Deacs go 1-1 in ACC/Big Ten Challenge falling 0-3 to Iowa before beating Michigan 3-2. The girls will make their ACC preview Aug. 31 vs. UNC.
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Comedy troupe returns to campus, up to its usual antics of distasteful humor and a side of sass.
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students need to take university’s motto of pro humanitate seriously to improve community.