Months after set of threatening emails sent a wave of fear through the sociology department at Wake Forest University, the department chairman says he's still waiting for university leaders to announce a meaningful response.
Slightly more than 70 percent of the 5,287 undergraduate students are white, according to a 2019 fall school report. More than 6 percent of its students are black. Latino students make up 8 percent.After the email incident, there were"a few people who didn't want to set foot in or around this building for a very long time,” said Alexander Holt, a senior sociology major. “We've never been a department of locked or closed doors.
Last year, Hatch formed a Commission on Race, Equity and Community that includes students, faculty and staff. A spokeswoman says the 32-member panel met three times during the fall. It has yet to release any findings. Earlier in 2019, the school acknowledged its past yearbooks had included some blackface images. Days later, photographs of former Wake Forest students posing with the Confederate flag came to light. Two of those former students are now university administrators.
In 2014, an associate chaplain who's black found a bucket of urine in front of his office, and a predominantly white fraternity canceled an off-campus party that critics said caricatured black culture.
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