UA students, staff fan out across Akron for Make a Difference Day

“Hello, President Wilson,” Devon Anderson hollered Saturday afternoon, standing waist deep in peonies, waving at the University of Akron’s new leader with hedge clippers in one hand and a fistful of withered perennials in the other. Matthew Wilson, days after being named UA’s new president, walked toward Anderson and other UA student volunteers, with his wife and two teenage sons at his side. “What can we do to help?” Wilson asked, surveying the wilted flower