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VOL. 103, NO. 10
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Wake ‘N Shake continues growth as a successful event Wake Forest’s annual 12-hour dance marathon celebrates cancer survivors as champions BY ABBY MCMULLEN Staff Writer mcmuaj17@wfu.edu
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A crowd of 1500 people gathered in downtown Winston-Salem for the March for Our Lives on March 24. Like the movement started by survivors of the Parkland shooting, the march was led by young people.
Students march for their lives Hundreds gathered to demand legislative action in the WinstonSalem March for Our Lives BY AMANDA WILCOX & OLIVIA FIELD Digital Media Editor & Life Editor wilcaf16@wfu.edu & fielor17@wfu.edu At the March for Our Lives in downtown Winston-Salem on Saturday, March 24, Corpening Plaza was filled with the sounds of a Bob Dylan song written in 1964 in the depths of the Vietnam War: “Come senators, congressmen / Please heed the call / Don’t stand in the doorway / Don’t block up the hall … There’s a battle outside / And it is ragin’ … For the times they are a-changin’.” The 1500 protestors insisted that their senators and congressmen “heed the call” today and enact gun control legislation in the wake of a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL last month. The march, similar to others held in over 800 cities worldwide on the same day, was
part of a movement started by teenage survivors of the shooting, which left 14 of their classmates and three of their teachers dead. A moment of silence in remembrance of the victims was followed by speeches — many of them by high school students — after which the protesters flooded the downtown streets. Rain and snow did not quell the protesters, who held rain-streaked signs with slogans such as “Prayers aren’t bulletproof” and “If I die in a school shooting, just drop my body on the steps of Congress.” Two Wake Forest students shared the role of master of ceremonies. Junior Char Van Schenck and freshman Tris Harper acted to transition from one speech to another while keeping the crowd engaged with chants such as “vote them out” and “this is what democracy looks like.” Although both Van Schenck and Harper are members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at Wake Forest, a sponsor of the march, they took on their roles as individuals. Van Schenck and Harper said that they contributed to planning the march by encouraging organizers to incorporate the topic of the intersection between gun violence and
white supremacy, as Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland gunman, was trained to use guns by the Republic of Florida, a white supremacist organization that hopes to turn Florida into a white ethno-state. As such, Harper and Van Schenck urged the march’s organizers to diversify the list of high school speakers, which was originally majority white. “This issue, like every struggle, needs to be lead by diversity or else it will collapse into another in a long list of pipe dreams that failed or were used against marginalized people,” Harper said. Freshman Jonathan Trattner also took on duties behind the scenes and on stage, helping to plan the event and ultimately leading the crowd to begin marching. Many of the speakers — including Ira Guttenberg, the uncle of Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg, and Shawn Roycer, survivor of the 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando — focused on the problem of easy access to guns and urged listeners to vote against politicians funded by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
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Special musicians, Dance-Dance Revolution, featured speakers, a mock body combat class, inflatables, minuteto-win-it games and, of course, dancing filled the Sutton Center on Saturday, March 24 as over 1,400 students participated in the 13th annual Wake ‘N Shake. Wake ‘N Shake, a 12-hour dance marathon, is one of Wake Forest’s largest fundraising events along with Hit the Bricks, which both benefit the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. By the conclusion of the evening, a total of $376,730.29 had been raised from participant fundraising and corporate donations. This qualifies this year’s event as the most successful yet, showing extensive growth from the first Wake ‘N Shake in 2005, that raised $30,000 with only 300 dancers. Over 200 students serving on 10 different committees plus the 39 students on the Executive Board worked to plan and organize to make the event possible. Throughout the event, nine speakers currently fighting cancer or who have already won the battle, called “Champions,” shared their stories. This year, Wake ‘N Shake’s theme was “Dancing Through the Decades.” Each Champion speaker served as a representative for each of the decade teams of either the 20’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s or the future. Team Champions for this year’s Wake N’ Shake were: Wake Forest Tri Delta alumni Helen Adair King and Laura McKenna, community member Laura Beaty, author Robert Lipsyte, local elementary school teacher Melody Hayes, IT specialist Manuel Garcia, board chair of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Lisa Rhoades, Wake Forest parent Doug Hotvedt and current sophomore Grace Franzese.
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