We are channeling the Pacific Northwest the last few days. We’ve had a light rain/mist that has been near constant, and it finally feels cold (well, cold for here. It was 48 at lunch). But the dreary and the grey are starting to wear on […]
A few years ago, we had an art installation with red solo cups (the ubiquitous party cup), arranged to spell out the words BINGE THINKING, part of a campaign to talk to students about thinking about alcohol differently. Today’s Daily Deac is a heavy one, […]
Happy Black and Gold Friday – and a hot one here, high 70s. Definitely strangely warm weather for November. One of our faculty members, Professor Barry Trachtenberg of the History department, is going to testify before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary next week. Committee Chair […]
It is a picture-perfect day on campus today. Temps in the mid 70s, sunny, a light breeze that wafts some of the leaves out of the trees. Really couldn’t be nicer. Pics to prove it below :) A few items of business: We need […]
Family Weekend is concluded, and the staff of the Dean of Students office did a terrific job with all the events of the weekend. (And it did not rain during the football game! Which after the last couple of years is a big win!) Today […]
And it is one of my very favorite weekends of the year! Can’t wait to see all the families on campus and watching your pride as you discover how much your Deacs have been blossoming since last you saw them. Because it is a […]
Today is Project Pumpkin, one of the best days of the year. Student volunteers have planned and organized a ton of carnival games, they are decorating the Quad as I type, and will be welcoming a ton of kids (1,000 is not uncommon in past […]
Today is an all-day crisis management training class for me, so this Daily Deac will be brief. A Deac parent sent me a link to this article – and the even better video – about the adjustment to college and making new friends, and […]
It is a gray and rainy day. Neither cool nor hot. But a fairly steady rain that is small drops and a misty feel. When the wind gusts, it blows some of the leaves out of the trees, so in moments of bluster it is […]
So today I took one for the Daily Deacdom by road testing one of the services our Thrive office offers: massages. This is a relatively new service, and I am not sure all our Deacs know about it, which is why I wanted to try […]
