What were they thinking?

Some big news recently came from Wake Forest not related to its basketball standing in the ACC. It involves their choice for new president: Nathan Hatch. Hatch will come to Wake after serving as Provost at Notre Dame. He graduated from Wheaton College and is, according to press and blog accounts, an Evangelical Presbyterian. This is surprising news for a school that has all but scrapped its Baptist heritage in favor of a more secular academia. Perhaps these winds will blow southward to that better school down the road...