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Your Present: To Be Present

Your Deacs are slogging through Finals Week and they are going to come home tired, weary, maybe a little self-indulgent in wanting to sleep all day and do nothing of import.  Give them the grace to just “be” for a couple of days and settle […]


Why I Love to Write – by Kevin Jordan (’15)

The fall issue of the English department newsletter came out recently, and when I got my copy of it as an English major alumna, I was struck by this story below.  It is written by Kevin Jordan, a member of the Class of […]


Send Your Deacs An E-Card for Finals

Game on!  It’s Finals Week, and your Deacs are wrapping up the semester with final exams, or perhaps papers and projects.  Finals Week is normally Stress Central, so here at the Daily Deac we wanted to give you a little something to help boost your […]


The Lovefeast – This Sunday

This Sunday evening at 8 pm, Wake Forest students, faculty, and staff (and some community members as well) will gather in Wait Chapel for the Lovefeast, one of the most cherished holiday traditions on campus.  The official description of the event is at the […]


Sweet Miss Ming

Yesterday on campus I heard the sad news about the passing of Miss Ming, the beloved golden retriever of our Communication professor Allan Louden.  Ming was a fixture on campus, frequently seen in and around Carswell Hall and on the Magnolia (aka Manchester) quad and […]


A Good Reminder – Emergency Preparedness

Several times a year, the University’s Crisis Management Team meets to review plans and procedures and to practice ‘tabletop exercises.’  Tabletop exercises present the Crisis Management Team with a hypothetical crisis and the team is asked to formulate a response in real time, with changing […]


A Walk Worth Taking

If you are going to be on campus to pick up your student for Thanksgiving and have a little time, there is a walk worth taking.  You can do this with your student, or on your own with a little help from the Campus […]


Witness

Last night I was a witness to a really moving event on campus.  Students who had been friends of Andrew Pillow’s, the student who passed away last week, organized a candlelight vigil for him at 8 pm.  While I know some of the students who […]


Now It All Makes Sense

Summertime on campus is really different – because obviously there are fewer students, that is the time for construction projects and summer camps and conferences and so on.  One day during the summer, I was walking to Starbucks at the ZSR Library and I swore […]


Class Changing

Here’s some observations from mid-campus during the class change period where one has ended and you have 15 minutes until the next one begins. As one class ends, there is a ton of movement out of the doors to the various buildings.  People are […]


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