About 15 students from Wake Forest University will head east this weekend to help the university's birthplace of Wake Forest, N.C., recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Fran. It's something that I felt we needed to do. Students who have volunteered to help will be coming at different times over the weekend. Susan Brinkley, a Wake Forest alumna and president of the Wake Forest Birthplace Society, Inc., is coordinating the students' visit and clean-up efforts. Convocation Opera legend Beverly Sills, one of America's most prominent advocates for the arts, will speak at Wake Forest University's opening convocation Tuesday, Sept. 24.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The event marks the beginning of Wake Forest's Year of the Arts, a year-long celebration of the arts including concerts, a symposium, visiting artists and numerous other special events. Jack Fleer, chairman of the Wake Forest politics department, says that Republicans must press their attacks on the Clinton administration and intrusive government regulation without appearing insensitive to efforts to curb underage smoking, which enjoy broad support. Democrats must convince the state's voters that a compromise on tobacco can reduce teen-age use and still maintain a healthy economy and jobs. Starr's problems are heightened because of questions raised about his objectivity from the beginning, she says. Harriger says probably not.