NEWS | 3 New stArt exhibit features student photography
FEATURES | 7
OPINION | 8 Students discuss the issue of censorship
SPORTS | 11
LIFE | 14
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VOL. 108, NO. 19
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 S I N C E 1 9 1 6
FEB. 17, 2022
“Covers the campus like the magnolias”
Wake Forest celebrates Mental Health Week The Student Government initiative focuses on the theme 'Love Yourself' EMILY TORO News Editor Mental Health Week kicked off this Monday with the theme "Love Yourself", embracing the spirit of Valentine’s Day. Led by Wake Forest Student Government, Mental Health Week encompasses a series of large and small events through Feb. 18, which, per Student Body President Ally Swartzberg will “promote a normalization of mental health as a part of our overall health and wellbeing and a destigmatization of mental health concerns with the idea that they are part of who we are." Sophomore Jackson Buttler, cochair for Campus Life Committee — along with junior Tonia Christou — orchestrated the planning of the week. Buttler explained the connection between Mental Health Week and Valentine’s Day. “While of course many use Valentine's Day to express their love and affection for those they care about, it’s impossible to love anyone else if you don’t love yourself first,” Buttler said. “Our goal was to exhibit the various ways in which we could help students love themselves, particularly by highlighting the connections between mental and physical health and wellbeing.” Buttler also explained how offices around campus helped to organize 12 events throughout the week.
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Green, blue, purple and orange flags line Tribble Courtyard in lieu of Mental Health Week, representing the various mental health issues faced by those living in the United States. “Mental health is a topic that is very significant to both Tonia and me, so we are both incredibly honored to have been given the opportunity to work on this meaningful week,” Buttler said. “This year, we were able to cultivate a record number of collaborations
with offices across campus, including the athletic department, the CARE Team, CLASS, the Counseling Center, the THRIVE Office, the Wellbeing Center, the Office of the Chaplain, Student Health, the Office of Wellbeing and the LGBTQ Center,"
Buttler said. "With their help, we were able to plan 12 events spanning the entirety of the week.” Swartzberg continued to describe the motivation behind hosting Mental Health Week events.
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Lam museum displays student-curated exhibit The anthropology museum celebrated the exhibit with a lecture on the endurance of Latin American culture MADDIE STOPYRA Contributing Writer
The Timothy S.Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology held a lecture on Feb. 7, entitled “The Endurance of Latin America Through Colonialism”, by Dr. Scotti Norman. The event celebrated the opening of a new studentcurated exhibit titled “Experiences of Colonialism in Latin America”. “Experiences of Colonialism in Latin America” was spearheaded by Dr. Carla Hernandez. During her time at Wake Forest as a visiting professor, Hernandez oversaw students as they compiled a variety of Latin American
artifacts that represented the effects of colonialism on different cultures and groups. To present the exhibit, Norman, who is a personal friend of Hernandez, was asked to share her related research and connect it to the students’ curations. Norman is a visiting professor at Wake Forest University who specializes in Latin American studies, specifically the religious traditions of Andean societies. Her current fieldwork focuses on a 16th-century religious practice called Taki Onqoy, a resistance movement of Andean nations against Catholicism and the influences of Spanish colonizers.
Meaning “singing or dancing sickness” in the Quechua language, communities participated in fasting, chanting and intricate dancing that lasted multiple days — all in an effort to solidify their identity as indigenous peoples and to promote their non-cooperation with European colonizers. Norman’s expertise on this native tradition taught the lecture’s audience how Latin American cultures have been forced to adapt due to European impact. In her talk, she also explored the diversity of Latin American cultures prior to colonization, highlighting preservation of Latin
American traditions through a presentation of the artifacts displayed in the exhibit. These artifacts included figures that ref lected Latin American religion as well as pottery that blended both European and Latin American design. Norman emphasized that these artifacts related to the theme of the perseverance of tradition. Norman aimed to combat the longstanding discrepancies in the general public’s understanding of these communities by focusing on the history of multiple Latin and South American civilizations and their cultures.
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