On September 28th, one of the most beloved campus traditions will take place: Hit the Bricks. Teams of students (and some faculty and/or staff) run or walk laps on the Quad. The runner (or walker) has a baton with a barcode, and each time they […]
This morning we had our final Crisis Management Team meeting on Hurricane Irma, as its path had shifted well west of campus. We put one last message on our Hurricane Irma page, or you can read it at the end of this post. In […]
Quick Daily Deac today – and a bit of a mish mash of items – as we have been following Irma today and are quite busy with that. Re: Irma, I anticipate we will perhaps have one more email message going out to Wake parents and […]
In early afternoon, we sent the following message about Hurricane Irma to all parents and families for whom we have an email address. I wanted to replicate it here, as sometimes our emails go to people’s spam folders (hint – search your junk/quarantine/spam folder for […]
This article, The Real Campus Scourge, by Frank Bruni appeared in the New York Times this weekend and it is well worth your time to read it. It is about students coming to college and finding – to their surprise/dismay/horror – that they are […]
Today’s Daily Deac is a laundry list of opportunities. Some for your Deac, some for you. Student Involvement Fair is TODAY from 3:30-6 pm on the Manchester Quad (Mag Quad). Your Deacs (of any class year) should go and sign up for some clubs and […]
BIG win last night over Presbyterian (though that should not have been a surprise, we were heavily favored). Still, great to see the Deacs undefeated! This is the end of the first full week of class and whether your Deac is a new student or […]
Tonight is the first home football game of the season, so for the sports fans among us, this will be a big night. We play Presbyterian at 6:30 tonight, and by the time the Daily Deac gets emailed out to y’all, I suspect many […]
The start of any semester is kind of like trying to balance in the middle of a see-saw or on a balance board. You try your best to keep your footing steady, but there are moments where you feel like you are sliding one […]
I spent some time in the both the ZSR Starbucks and the North Campus Starbucks this morning (I had meetings in both buildings). And today is FDOC – the First Day of Classes. So it feels like the right time to do a Five Senses […]
