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Old Gold&Black WAKE FOREST’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1916
VOL. 101, NO. 2
T H U R S DAY, JA N UA RY 19 , 2 017 “Cover s the campus like the magnolias”
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Inauguration Day will bring students to D.C. Students have plans to travel to the inauguration, the Peace Ball and the Women's March on Washington BY AMANDA WILCOX Asst. News Editor wilcaf16@wfu.edu
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Taking a course downtown provides students with an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate across disciplines, learn from medical school faculty, access new labs and study spaces and broaden the scope of their academic and professional experiences as an undergraduate.
Wake Downtown unveil continues
The Innovation Quarter offers study spaces and opportunities for cross-discipline learning BY LAUREN BARBER Staff Writer barblp0@wfu.edu On Tuesday, Jan. 10 nearly 300 undergraduate students attended class in a repurposed manufacturing building once owned and operated by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The rehabilitated space known as “Wake Downtown” is a state-of-the-art academic and research facility in the heart of Winston-Salem’s Innovation Quarter, adjacent to the Bowman Gray Center for Medical Education. Among the 18 undergraduate classes that have moved to Wake Downtown, the new space will be home to several new programs of study. This includes bachelor of Science degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology and engineering, a concentration in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery and a minor in biomaterial science. “The programs that anchor the space will really mix and mingle nicely. We're right at
the interface of medicine, chemistry, biology, and technology once engineering starts this fall,” said Rebecca Alexander, professor of chemistry and director of academic programming at Wake Downtown. “We hope that both our teaching and our research will go beyond the typical boundaries that people think of as chemistry research or biology research.” The new facility will also support new undergraduate offerings in entrepreneurship, bioethics, public health policy and the humanities. “About a third of the classes this semester aren't science classes, but in education, communication, history, politics and a first year seminar,” said Alexander. “We're looking forward to welcoming people who don't think they belong but know they want cross-disciplinary seminars and informal conversations between sciences and humanities, sciences and art, or art and medicine.” In fact, undergraduates will enjoy an unprecedented opportunity to interact with and learn from medical school faculty, a reflection and extension of the Reynolda Campus’ long-standing commitment to meaningful student-faculty engagement.
“Wake Downtown is the physical convergence of so much: an undergraduate presence under the same roof as the School of Medicine in the urban area of downtown Winston-Salem. That coming together is truly monumental and is one of the most significant developments at Wake Forest in the past fifty years,” said Sam Perrotta, event and project manager in the office of the provost. Aishwarya Nagar (’16), a recent alumni and Wake Forest Fellow for Wake Downtown, echoed Perrotta’s excitement, saying “Wake Downtown's new academic programs and proximity to the School of Medicine will provide undergraduates with incredible avenues for complex, intellectually-stimulating collaboration.” Many students are already confident that Wake Downtown will broaden the scope of their academic and professional experiences as an undergraduate. “As a potential Ph.D. or M.D. candidate, greater access to both the medical and graduate schools gives me even more motivation to reach my professional goals,” said senior Hakeem Oufkir, a chemistry major with a concentration in biochemistry and a minor in biology.
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A myriad of Demon Deacons from both sides of the political aisle plan to travel to the nation’s capital the weekend of Jan. 20 to join hundreds of thousands of others for president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration into office. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security anticipates that 800 thousand to 900 thousand people will be present at the 58th presidential inauguration, which will be approximately half the attendance of Barack Obama’s 2008 ceremony. After Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts administers the Oath of Office to Trump, the “President’s Own” United States Marine Band, which has performed at every presidential inauguration since Thomas Jefferson’s first in 1801, will play “Hail to the Chief.” Other performers will include the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and 16-year-old “America’s Got Talent” veteran Jackie Evancho. Tom Barrack, Trump’s top inauguration planner, said that he and his team plan to forgo a “circus-like celebration” in favor of “soft sensuality” and “poetic cadence.” Along with his fellow members of Wake the Vote, freshman Caleb Woody looks forward to continuing his frontlines exposure to American democracy by witnessing the swearing-in. “I am attending the inauguration because despite who may or may not be taking the office, seeing the transfer of power from president to president live and in person is something incredible that transcends party politics,” Woody said. “I wouldn't be able to attend the inauguration at all without the hard work and planning of Melissa Harris-Perry and all the others who work really tirelessly over at the Pro Humanitate Institute and through Wake The Vote. So much work goes into making these memorable experiences for me and my peers and I really appreciate all the hard work.” Freshman Jackson Blodgett, also a member of Wake the Vote, agreed.
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