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Wake Debate Team Champions

Big news on campus yesterday!  We want to congratulate Wake Debaters Richard Min (a senior Politics and International Affairs major) and Ken Bailey (a senior Computer Science major) who won the American Debate Association National Tournament.  They defeated Emory University in the finals on […]


Quiet Campus

Spring Break is here, and the feeling of spring is here as well.  Yesterday it was sunny and reached nearly 70 degrees.  If your students had been here, they would have patterned the fields with blankets to sit outside and read, nap, catch some sun, […]


Senior Orations: Daniel Stefany

Last but certainly not least, we want to share with you the senior oration of Daniel Stefany.  (Editor’s note: I have known the Stefany family for years.  His parents are both Wake Forest alumni and they have another son who graduated in 2009.  The Stefanys […]


Senior Orations: Chesleigh Fowler

We have two more Senior Orations to feature, and today we are showing the work of Chesleigh Fowler. ——————— Statistics of Success 19th century German anatomist Julian Wolff proposed a theory that a bone once broken will grow back stronger than it was before the […]


Wake Forest Post Secret

Just after Spring Break, Student Union is hosting ‘the most trusted stranger in America,” Frank Warren of Post Secret fame.  He will speak on Tuesday, March 19th at 7 pm in Wait Chapel.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with Post Secret, here’s a […]


Senior Orations: Andrea Beck

We are coming to the last few Senior Orations, and hope you have enjoyed the very thoughtful and poignant reflections of our senior finalists.  Today we are featuring the oration of Andrea Beck. —————————— We Are Not Equals I’d like to share a story about […]


A Glass of the Finest – Chris Paul

It’s a sunny but cold morning in Winston-Salem, Deac families, and your students are almost certainly hurrying and scurrying to get the last of their papers and projects completed and studying for whatever midterms they might have prior to leaving for Spring Break. But this […]


Senior Orations: Benjamin Magee

As we continue to feature the top finalists in the Senior Orations, today we hear from Benjamin Magee. ———————- “Trail Blazing”    My mother’s mother was a 4-foot, nine-inch woman with a towering personality.  Those who met her at the end of her life in […]


Senior Orations: Meenu Krishnan

Today we are featuring the senior oration of Meenu Krishnan.  Enjoy it! —————————— An Education, Or Something Like It  I found myself in fairly improbable circumstances the first time I seriously considered the purpose of higher education. Slogging knee-deep in murky waters through Mumbai to […]


Meet a Deac – Paul Pauca (’94)

There are many people on campus who touch the lives of your students, and we like to feature profiles of our campus community members in a segment we call “Meet a Deac.”  Our Intern C (’13) checked in with Dr. Paul Pauca (’94) […]


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