The week may be starting on a rainy note, but this is a week for celebrations nonetheless. Wake Forest is having a birthday this week! Mother So Dear (as she is lovingly called in our alma mater song) turns 180 this week, and I […]
Today was pretty much back to normal on the weather front. The snow is 100% gone in places that see a lot of sun; the north side of Farrell Hall still had snow on the ground, since the sun had not gotten to that side […]
Campus is opening on a delayed schedule today – 10 am, to allow people to get to work. The snow began to melt yesterday in parts; depending on whether you are looking at a sunny spot or shady, you might have snow or just really […]
Our thoughts are with all the Deac families dealing with snow today, especially our friends to the south who do not have the sort of infrastructure needed to salt and plow. Hope you are faring well. Our campus started seeing snow yesterday (Tuesday) in the […]
This morning it is very much colder – only in the teens, but with the wind chill it feels like single digits. For NC, this is *cold*. All eyes are turned to the forecast to see if it will snow. It looks like most of […]
It’s a new week and a sunny one, and at last the weather is warm enough that you don’t need your heaviest winter coat. After so much cold, it is a refreshing change to be able to skip wearing a scarf, or wear a fleece […]
Today’s Daily Deac is a guest post from Kline Harrison, Associate Provost of Global Affairs. Dr. Harrison is a wonderful person I’ve known for many years. When I first came to Wake Forest, he was a very talented and popular professor in the undergraduate […]
I had a meeting in the North Dining Hall today, so I arrived a bit early and decided to peoplewatch in the seating area by Starbucks. As we periodically do at the Daily Deac, here is a description of the time using the five senses. […]
Binge Thinking. What a concept. So often when you hear the word “binge” on a college campus it has negative connotations, but this week we are encouraging students to take part in Binge Thinking. This exercise is part of what we call “Living Our […]
Winter can sometimes be a crazy season in North Carolina. Yesterday our low was around freezing and the high was 60 degrees. Today there is a winter weather advisory. As I was driving in this morning, I saw a young man walking to Farrell […]
