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Spring Break Thoughts

Spring Break is just around the corner, and many of our Deacs will be headed off campus – either home, or with friends to (most likely) warm and tropical destinations.  But not everyone leaves for Spring Break, and the Office of Service and Social Action […]


Flow House in Vienna

Today’s Daily Deac is guest authored by David Taylor, Director of Global Abroad Programs (with some collaboration from students and colleagues). But before we get to David’s comments about the Flow House, let me add mine.  I have a niece who studied there in the early 2000s […]


Tony Dungy Coming to Campus

This email just popped into my inbox, and I have to say this is a pretty exciting thing.  Tony Dungy, Superbowl winning NFL coach, is coming to campus for a leadership initiative.  Full details are below in an email from President Hatch. Please, please urge […]


Tie A Yellow Ribbon Week

If your students have been up on the Quad, they will have seen yellow informational signs all over the place, as well as chalk on the bricks.  This week is Tie A Yellow Ribbon Week, which is a campus-wide sexual assault awareness week. […]


Spring? And Senior Orations

This weekend we had our first hints of spring.  The weather was sunny and warm and beautiful.  It was the kind of weekend where it was not ridiculously warm, but if you sat outside in the sun for a while you might begin to feel […]


Founders’ Day Convocation – Today at 4 pm

There is an important event in the life of the University this afternoon at 4 pm in Wait Chapel.  It is Founders’ Day Convocation.  Convocations are defined as follows, according to Wikipedia:  “A convocation (Latin, “calling together”, translating the Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is […]


Seen Around Campus

Today started out as a grey and rainy day, but is now a beautiful sunny afternoon and probably 60ish degrees.  I had to walk to the center of campus this morning and had to go off campus later in the day, and the difference between […]


TEDxWakeForestU – This Weekend

Today’s Daily Deac was written by Michael Tantum, a senior from Pennyslvania.  I met him during the fall semester and he told me about the great plans for the TEDx conference, which will be held this weekend.   Michael wanted to be sure that parents […]


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