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Wake Forest Football finally entered the AP Top 25 at No. 21 on Sunday, following Saturday’s road victory in Raleigh, N.C., over the North Carolina State Wolfpack by a score of 38-14. The Demon Deacons had been left out of the polls to this point despite a 4-1 record and two road wins over power...
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Six days after being left out of the AP Top 25 following a blowout win over Stanford, the Demon Deacons took a very familiar road trip just down Tobacco Road to Raleigh, N.C., on Oct. 10 to take on the North Carolina State Wolfpack. This year’s edition of the second-longest-running rivalry in college football was...
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Justice Neil Gorsuch writes just before midnight. He signs a remarkably short opinion lacking in substantial reasoning entitled Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson. It allows Texas’s restrictive abortion law to stay in effect under legal pressure. This is the shadow docket. University of Chicago Law School Professor William Baude first employed the term “shadow
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Four miles from our campus, cameras have been photographing cars at Winston-Salem State University, and thousands of government agencies from across the country have been accessing these photographs. Between May 30 and Aug. 28, roughly 2,900 agencies searched WSSU’s Flock Safety network, according to DeFlockILM, which requested a copy of the university’s Flo
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A voter registration table on Manchester Plaza on Sept. 15, 2026 opened a space for students of color to ask questions about voting, see people like them involved in civic engagement and even enjoy boba and donuts. North Carolina Asian Americans Together, a nonprofit founded in 2016, promotes civic engagement among Asian Americans and other...
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This letter represents the view of Old Gold & Black Managing Editor Maria Silveira, not the Old Gold & Black. I have never been good at dealing with uncertainty. In fact, my Common Application personal statement centered on the comfort I found in an established routine: the childhood ritual of reading the Harry Potter series...
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Public speaking in itself is difficult, and reading personal writing can be even scarier. You could stumble over your words or have sweaty palms, trembling hands or a shaky voice. Or you can project your voice, tell a story and make people feel things. Even if you do both, as I’ll admit I did during...
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Most bacteria live outside human cells. Mycoplasma penetrans does not. Instead, it inserts a spear-like structure into a living cell and then moves in, a behavior more common in viruses. M. penetrans was first identified as a co-infection in immunocompromised HIV patients, and it contains a very small genome, or DNA, that is essential for...
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Wake Forest men’s basketball tipped off their 2026-2027 season this Sunday, Oct. 4, in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum with an exhibition game against Georgetown. Although the Demon Deacons came up short, leaving with a 94-77 loss against the Hoyas, the exhibition matchup showed fans have a lot to look forward to. For many,...
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