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WAKE FOREST’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1916 VOL. 105, NO. 4
T H U R S DAY, F E B RUA RY 7 , 2 019 “Cover s the campus like the magnolias”
Hamilton star performs at Wait Chapel Renée Elise Goldsberry spoke to and performed for students and the greater community BY CAROLINE WALKER Asst. News Editor walkct18@wfu.edu
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On Friday, Feb. 1 at 6 p.m., the altar of Wait Chapel was transformed into a Broadway stage as Hamilton star Renée Elise Goldsberry captivated the Wake Forest community during her interview and performance of three songs. Goldsberry’s keynote interview and performance commenced the international conference on “The Arts of Leading: Perspectives from the Hu-
manities and Liberal Arts,” which was organized through the collaborative efforts of Wake Forest University and the Oxford Character Project. Michael Lamb, the director of the program for Leadership and Character, opened with remarks upon the conference’s aims. “[The goal] is to catalyze the international conversation that informs how we lead while drawing on lessons from the humanities and the arts … [and] to promote a more inclusive and creative vision of leadership,” said Lamb. Goldsberry has received a Tony Award, Grammy Award, Drama Desk Award and Lucille Lortel Award for her performance as Angelica Schuyler in the musical Hamilton, and she has since starred in other title roles like Henrietta Lacks in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The conference began with a moderated question and answer session between Goldsberry and Derek Hicks, who is an associate professor of Religion and Culture in the Wake Forest School of Divinity, and a close friend of Goldsberry.
The conversation emanated a sense of intimacy through Goldsberry’s inclusion of personal anecdotes and the sense that leadership, like her keynote interview, is a collaborative and inclusive conversation of inspiring others. Goldsberry initially described her upbringing in a predominantly scientifically-oriented family, where she, the sole musician, found inspiration in the music that was constantly playing in her household and her father’s embrace of a diverse range of music genres. Furthermore, Goldsberry explained that her work as a musician coincides with her childhood comprehension of “loving and being able to ingest all kinds of music.” This valuable aspect of her formative experience as a musician led her to the creative genius of Lin-Manuel Miranda, who she described as a “walking playlist” when she worked with him
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THRIVE campaign creates controversy The new campaign takes inspiration from the popular Cards Against Humanity game BY ELIZABETH MALINE Asst. News Editor malied17@wfu.edu
during the production of the Broadway musical, Hamilton. She also explained how her role as a musician began when she fell in love with music at Houston International Music School. She subsequently embarked upon what she called “a career of first,” including notable experiences like her first show, first play, acceptance to Carnegie Mellon University and first job. Although these first experiences each had their individual significances, Goldsberry could not identify a specific moment in her acting career when she “blew up,” or had a spectacular breakthrough that was the pinnacle of her career. Instead, she humbly identified lesser-known roles as those which shaped her character and continue to motivate her to improve today, such as her role as Nicole Taylor in All About You, an independent movie that never became a blockbuster, and her role in soap operas like “One Life to Live.”
THRIVE, an organization committed to student well-being on campus, has used the popular card game Cards Against Humanity as the template for a new marketing tool to educate students about alcohol misuse. While much of the student response for the campaign has been positive, the campaign struck the wrong chord with English Professor Omaar Hena and a group of his students. “The game is Cards For Humanity instead of Cards Against Humanity, which works well with our motto Pro Humanitate,” said junior and THRIVE member Alexis Nickl. Peter Rives, Assistant Director of Wellbeing - Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention said that the “Cards for Humanity” campaign is the latest effort by THRIVE to catch the attention of students and create programming that helps prevent ongoing alcohol misuse on campus. “Cards Against Humanity has brand recognition with our target audience, resonated well with students that assisted with the development of materials, and gave us a way to deliver the Wake Forest statistics in multiple ways :cards, table tents, posters, video message boards,” said Rives. However, part of the brand recognition of the original Cards Against Humanity among students can be attributed to its inclusion of controversial topics, not entirely different from what this campaign does. Professor Hena and his students expressed that they were disturbed by the campaign’s contents. The campaign has manifested into the form of posters, interactive decks of cards students can play with their friends, and even slideshows on the TV screens in Benson that boast these controversial statements.
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