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C E L E B R AT I N G 1 0 0 Y E A R S O F WA K E F O R E S T ’ S S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R VOL. 100, NO. 25
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General Mills partners with Campus Kitchen General Mills will match all of the cereal consumed by student body in the Pit BY MELISSA LIBUTTI News Editor libumd13@wfu.edu
feeling much safer downtown than in the neighborhoods across University Parkway surrounding the Wake Forest Reynolda campus. Meanwhile, when evaluating crime statistics for the downtown during the same period, the Winston-Salem Police Department (WSPD) report three issues with security in the immediate area surrounding the Innovation Quarter. The area is currently monitored by both the WSPD and by Sunstates Security, a private security firm. Once undergraduate classes move downtown next semester, Wake Forest University Police Department (WFUPD) personnel will work in a designated space inside Building 60 and will patrol the area. “We view this as a satellite campus and an extension of our current operation,” said Sgt. Lesia Finney, coordinator of community policing for the WFUPD.
For the month of October, eating cereal in the Pit has been helping feed the hungry, and that doesn’t just mean you. Whether your cereal of choice is Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs or any other General Mills brand, every time you have been filling your bowl, you are filling someone else’s as well. The Campus Kitchen partnered with General Mills, one of the largest food companies and the owner of several major cereal brands, to donate cereal to 10 of Campus Kitchen’s community partners in Winston-Salem. “General Mills first approached Aramark this summer with the idea for a substantial cereal donation, and from there one of our long time partners in Aramark, Jessica Wallace, reached out to Campus Kitchen,” said Bradley Shugoll, assistant director of Public Engagement in the Pro Humanitate Institute at Wake Forest. “It seemed like a great fit and opportunity for our organization and community partners, so we started working to make it happen.” The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest pursues their goal to recycle prepared but never served food from campus dining into new meals for social service agencies in the Winston-Salem community. According to USDA, approximately 39,000 people in Winston-Salem earn less than the income threshold. Those people who do not have cars and are unable to reach local supermarkets live in what are known as “food deserts,” which refers to a location whose population lives with little to no access to a grocery store. In urban areas, this means they live more than one mile from a grocery store, and in rural areas more than 10 miles. “The goal is to eat and donate around 5,000 bowls worth of cereal,” Shugoll said. “This will only happen if we get participation from students across campus to commit to eating cereal during the month of October. For each bowl of cereal a student eats, a bowl will be donated to the Campus Kitchen.”
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Located in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem, the remote campus in the Innovation Quarter brings up questions of security as crime in the area has become more frequent.
Downtownraisessafetyconcerns Questions arise regarding student safety in class buildings that will be offered downtown BY KATIE DICKENS Staff Writer dickkp14@wfu.edu As Wake Forest expands its undergraduate class offerings downtown next semester, new security concerns accompany the move. Downtown Winston-Salem has experienced a less-than-stellar reputation in the past, but businesses and institutions have recently challenged preconceived notions of safety in the area by expanding their operations downtown. Wake Forest announced in March that the second half of Building 60 in the Innovation Quarter will open in January to host undergraduate biomedical sciences and engineering classes, accommodating more than 300 undergraduate students and neighboring the new Wake Forest School of Medicine. As news spreads, questions about the
security of downtown Winston-Salem linger, even amid rapid urban development and lower crime index ratings. Mckenzie Ziegler, a Wake Forest alumna who is now a development associate for the university, said she feels safe downtown. She lives in the residences at the Kimpton hotel, located in the historic RJ Reynolds building on Main Street. Every day after work, she parks on Church Street and walks up a side entrance to the art deco hotel. She said the only times she doesn’t feel the same sense of security is when she is walking alone at night, especially if all the bars have closed and the street resembles a ghost town. “Ten years ago, downtown was scary,” she said. “You just didn’t go downtown. It wasn’t safe. Even though it might still carry a stigma in some people’s minds, downtown has completely transformed in the past 10 years. It’s a place where people are working and walking — there’s so much more life.” Ziegler, who lived at Deacon Station as a senior, said she remembered