Spring Semester Pre-Arrival Requirements
Important news from campus: today we sent an email to undergraduate students about four pre-arrival requirements for the spring semester; a version went to parents and families too. The four key requirements students must complete to prepare for their arrival are:
Complete the pre-arrival testing process
Self-quarantine and monitor for symptoms for 14 days prior to accessing campus or other Wake Forest facilities
Resume using the SneezSafe tool for daily symptom screening for 14 days prior to accessing campus or other Wake Forest facilities
Provide flu vaccination documentation in the Student Health Portal or receive an exemption
The email provides full details. I know it is a lot of information, but it is all important. Read it here.
In other campus news, the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (i.e., the professional association for Greek Life professionals) gave Wake the 2020 AFA/CoHEASAP Award for Outstanding Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program. This award recognizes an outstanding campus or organization for its efforts in broad-based alcohol and drug prevention efforts and the impacts they have had.
There has been a four-year collaborative effort between the Offices of Student Engagement and Wellbeing and the University Alcohol Coalition to create sequenced alcohol prevention programs and campaigns to reduce harmful behaviors. We were also the recipient of an award from Everfi in 2019 for outstanding alcohol prevention initiatives. Congratulations to our colleagues whose work has been instrumental in helping reduce harm and reshape campus norms around alcohol and other drugs.
Know that many of our readers are getting a lot of snow, so thought it might be fun to show a picture of the magnolias covered in snow. Also wanted to take a moment to share the history of the magnolias the south side of campus. Our Office of Sustainability tells the story:
In 1947 while visiting the old campus [in the town of Wake Forest], Dr. Walter Raphael Wiley (BS 1929, BS Med. 1930) and his wife, Monnie Louise McDaniel Wiley learned of the impending move of the University to Winston-Salem. Mrs. Wiley wanted to establish a symbolic bridge between the old and new campuses.
Being an avid gardener and loving the magnolias on the old campus, she had her nephew, Robert Earl Williford, collect seeds from the magnolia trees on the old campus. Mr. Williford enlisted the aid of Dr. Budd Smith, professor of biology, and the seeds were mailed to the Wileys in Chesterfield, SC. Mrs. Wiley planted the seeds in a filled-in swimming pool on their property.
You can read the rest of story of how the magnolias went from a swimming pool to our campus here.
Smell is an incredible jogger of memories. There is nothing quite so lush and heady as the smell of blooming magnolia trees on a hot summer night. Wherever your Deacs go after graduation, I’d wager that whenever they smell a magnolia, their minds will be transported back to Wake. The other scent they will associate with Wake is tobacco, as there are some tobacco-curing plants nearby, and when the humidity is just right, on gray days, it smells like unrolled cigarettes. Another oddly-WFU distinctive smell.
— by Betsy Chapman, Ph.D. (’92, MA ‘949