Today’s Senior Oration is entitled “Islands, Trees, and the Self-Directed Life,” by Leah Haynes. —————————– College can make you feel lonely. And so, when you first arrive, there’s a lot of emphasis put on finding your “place” here: clubs, organizations, the student-involvement fair, etc. This is […]
Hope you are having a great Spring Break (maybe with your Deac home with you, along with his/her friends?). Since it is quiet on campus, we’re continuing our feature series on Senior Orations. Today we hear from Tori Tschantz (’16). ——————– It’s 5 o’clock-ish Somewhere […]
During Spring Break, we conclude our coverage of our Senior Orations. Today we have Pro Humanitate and the Rhetorical Importance of our Interpretation by Darius Williams (’16). —————- Pro Humanitate. For Humanity. A wondrous motto; a simple phrase. We are privileged, as heirs of Mother So […]
Slogging through midterms is no fun. And it had been so beautiful and warm at the start of the week, but yesterday and today have been cold by comparison (high 40s instead of the high 60s/low 70s we’d had). So your Deacs are probably more […]
We continue our look at the Senior Orations read during Founder’s Day Convocation in late February. Today we have two that were read in Wait Chapel: “The Case for Generalism”, by Robert “Tripp” Maloney (’16) Even as I approach the end of my time […]
Spring Break is next week. The break comes right after midterms, and students will be ready for a break. Some of them might come home to you to visit, others might go to the beach (either in the US or the Caribbean). Some will go on […]
The long-awaited addition to Worrell Professional Center (WPC) is now completed, so our department of Health and Exercise Science has moved in there. I have seen students and faculty coming and going so I decided to take a little walkabout. (True confession: mostly I got […]
I sure hope you have ESPN U as part of your cable TV service and could watch last night’s incredible men’s basketball game. Our Deacs had not been doing well of late – hadn’t won a game since January 10th, I believe – but that all changed […]
Yesterday was Founder’s Day Convocation. At the ceremony, there were numerous awards given for teaching and research – I hope you will take a look at the list of faculty who were honored, as it is a great list. At Founder’s Day we also […]
Today is a nice and sunny day on campus. The air is cool, but the sun is warm. I had lunch in the Benson Center today and saw a lot of students hanging around at the tables on the patio. After having had snow earlier […]
