Busy Monday

In this Issue:

• Critical must do for students re: class registration and important reminder about Workday
• Asian/AAPI Heritage Month events and Spring Festival (April 5)
• WFU Theatre presents Urinetown
• Letters So Dear for our ’27s
• Local high school engineering club using WFU facilities for Guinness World Record project

While Wake is now and will always be my #1 allegiance, must admit it was a happy weekend in my household with both the men’s and women’s teams at NC State getting into the Final Four (our ’27 enjoyed a raucous celebration at the NC State bell tower). For those not from North Carolina, you should know that basketball is serious business in this state. One of my friends on Facebook shared a post from a Wake alumnus laying out the rules of basketball fandom in NC. I won’t share the whole thing (because it’s long), but rules 1 and 2 are a pretty good primer:

“1) You may pick one primary ACC team (Duke, UNC, Wake, NC State). If you did your undergrad at one of these, that’s your school. If not, you can pick based on the following: Graduate education, workplace, regional affiliation, family allegiance, availability of gear at your local big-box store.

2) You are allowed – but not required – to choose another North Carolina ACC team to pull for if your team is not playing, so long as it’s not your arch-rival (unless your spouse/kid/other close family member goes to the rival school).”

It’s a busy Monday with a lot of news, so let’s get to it!

Critical must-do for students re: class registration and important reminder about Workday

IMPORTANT REMINDER: In order for students to be able to register for courses, they must complete all WorkDay onboarding tasks and communicate with their advisor to remove holds on accounts. Visit the following website from provided by the Office of Academic Advising (OAA) for important information on this matter: Info and Help with WorkDay Course Registration

I am told there is a sizeable number of students who have not done their Workday tasks (and thus won’t be able to register). Those students have received messaging about this, but we are asking families to please reinforce the importance of logging into Workday and taking care of their onboarding tasks.

No one wants to find out the hard way that they can’t register on time because they have a hold they hadn’t cleared. While we normally encourage you not to get involved, this is a moment where giving your students a little nudge now might save them a lot of downstream issues later.

Asian/AAPI Heritage Month events and Spring Festival (April 5)

Today, April 1st, is the first day of Asian/Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Nationally, AHM is celebrated in May, but like most college campuses, the Intercultural Center is observing in April due to the academic calendar. 

I particularly want to recommend that your students check out the East Asian Spring Festival, which is a huge festival that will be held on Friday, April 5th in Sutton C407 from 6-8 p.m., hosted by the Japanese Studies Club and the Chinese Culture Club. This event celebrates Asian cultures with performances, games, catered food, and more with a theme of spring, as it is important to many East and Southeast Asian cultures. For those faculty and staff readers of the Daily Deac, the organizers want to be sure you know you and your families are welcome; this is not just for students!

You can see the East Asian Spring Festival poster and the Asian/AAPI Heritage Month calendar below (click to enlarge).

WFU Theatre presents Urinetown

I got a message about our upcoming spring theatre production:

“In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought have led to a ban on private toilets and the domination of malevolent Urine Good Company. The poor revolt, led by brave young Bobby Strong, fighting tooth and nail for the freedom to pee “wherever you like, whenever you like, for as long as you like.”  Urinetown is a wickedly funny, fast-paced, surprisingly intelligent musical satire, and the winner of multiple Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics’ Circle, and Tony Awards.

Audience Notice: This production will contact smoke and haze that some members of the audience may be sensitive to.

Prices are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens, and $10 for students.”

Shows are April 6, 11-13 at 7:30 p.m. and April 7 & 14 at 2:00 p.m. in Scales Fine Arts Center. For tickets or information, see theatre.wfu.edu or call 336-758-5295.

Our theatre productions are always amazing, and the talent of our students is just exceptional. Please encourage your Deacs to go and support their fellow students in the production.

Letters So Dear for our ’27s

It’s Monday, which means our ’27s got their weekly installment of Letters So Dear.

Local high school engineering club using WFU facilities for Guinness World Record project

Your students may be seeing a bunch of high schoolers on campus each evening for the next two weeks. Local high schoolers who are part of the ExtremeSTEM Engineering Club of the Triad are attempting to break YouTuber Mark Rober’s Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s largest jello pool (see below; click to enlarge).

The ExtremeSTEM students will be using the Wellbeing Center pool for their attempt, which will take place April 4-11, so the pool will not be available to students those days. As part of the agreement to lend our pool – the largest in the county – for this effort, ExtremeSTEM has agreed to use yellow jello for their attempt, to approximate Wake Forest’s old gold color. Read more. And if you made it this far, did you think we would really do this? Happy April Fool’s to all (and as we say in my household when we do something cheeky: “love you, mean it!“)