SNOW!

by Betsy Chapman

In this Issue:

  • Late Night Breakfast on Weds.
  • Photostories: Anderson Cooper and Lighting of the Quad
  • Jesmyn Ward Face to Face Dec. 5
  • Preparing your residence for Winter Break
  • For our P’28s

Winston-Salem went to bed last night with a light snow falling – and it was still here this morning when we woke up. It is not much more than a dusting, as you can see from this screenshot from the Quad Cam that I took around 8:20 a.m.

A light dusting of snow on the campus 12/3/24

You can see the snow best underneath the Quad trees; the circles of white are where the leaves still shade the ground. The sun will probably melt most of this before noon(ish). save for shady places.

A Wake Alert message went out this morning to advise the campus community that we are operating on a normal schedule and to exercise caution if traveling. For the majority of our students who live on campus, this snow is likely to be a nonevent, as we have an exceptional facilities team that gets sidewalks salted and roadways cleared (if the roads even needed it today). They do a magnificent job.

Late Night Breakfast on Weds.

Our pre-finals tradition, Late Night Breakfast (and the Link Loot auction) will be held tomorrow night (Wednesday, Dec. 4) from 10 p.m. until 12 midnight in the Pit. This is an opportunity for our Deacs to power up for late night studying with delicious breakfast fare, served by staff and faculty volunteers. This is always a really fun event – food and music and stress relief – and I hope to see your Deacs there during my shift.

Photostories: Anderson Cooper and Lighting of the Quad

If you were not able to be there in person for our Face to Face with Anderson Cooper, my talented colleagues have created this Anderson Cooper photostory.

And as a bonus, we also have a photostory on last night’s Lighting of the Quad. If you want new photostories to hit your Inbox as soon as they are published, you can subscribe here.

Jesmyn Ward Face to Face Dec. 5

We have another Face to Face coming up this week, writer Jesmyn Ward:

“MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ recipient and two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation, proving her “fearless and toughly lyrical” voice in novels, memoir, and nonfiction. Betsy Burton of the American Booksellers Association has called her “the new Toni Morrison.” In 2017, she became the first woman and the first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fiction—joining the ranks of William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Philip Roth, and John Updike.”

This event is free and open to the public. Your students can come to Wait Chapel on Thursday evening; the event starts at 6 p.m. Registration is not required. Here’s what else anyone interested in attending should know before you go.

I hope your Deacs will attend. This event is being held in partnership with the Program for Leadership and Character, and promises to be a great one!

Preparing your residence for Winter Break

The Office of Residence Life and Housing sent this message to resident students today with information about how to prepare for Winter Break. These are important dates families may need:

Fri., Dec. 6 at 5 p.m. through Sat., Dec. 14
24-hour quiet hours

Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 2 p.m.
Residence Halls close for winter break and card access will end. Those approved for Winter Break housing and informed to relocate must be in their winter break housing assignment by this date and time.

December 15, 2024 – January 11, 2025
Winter Break

January 6, 2025
Deadline to decrease your meal plan selection

Early Arrivals
Those approved as part of an early arrival group for Spring 2025 will receive confirmation from our office by December 18. We are unable to accept individual early arrival requests.

Saturday, January 11, 2025
9 a.m. – Communities open for all students to return.

Monday, January 13, 2025
Classes start

For our P’28s

Yesterday we had our normal Monday publications for new students: the last Letters So Dear of the semester, as well as Life in The Forest for our ’28s.

For our P’28s, our Weekly Message is As Finals Approach. Note that this will be the last P’28 weekly message of the year; we do not do one weekly in the spring because there are not as many standard transitions to talk about as there were in the fall semester.

That’s all the news that’s fit to print on this chilly Tuesday!

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