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Throwback Thursday – Where in the World Are Wake Foresters?

Here’s a Throwback Thursday story for you, folks. I was in the Benson Center yesterday and in the atrium I saw one of our Deacons on Parade. Your Deac may walk by this every day, but do they know the story behind it? […]


Spring Break Safety

Spring Break is next week.  Knowing that many of our Deacs will be traveling, this is a good time to offer a reminder about spring break safety. General info: the web site safespringbreak.org has a long list of things to consider for your safety. […]


Prompts

One of the things I loved the most about my own time as a student at Wake Forest is that this was a place and space where you were prompted to think about Big Things. Certainly that meant big ideas in classes – notable theories, […]


Third Senior Oration

Some great news from campus that I hope you had already heard: our top-ranked men’s tennis team won its first-ever national championship on Monday afternoon, defeating No. 7 UCLA, 4-2, to win the 2018 ITA National Team Indoor Championship. This is an amazing accomplishment and worthy […]


Happy Lunar New Year!

There was a treat for your Deacs in the Pit today. The Deacon Dining, Chinese Studies Club, and Chinese Students and Scholars Association collaborated for the first time to celebrate the Chinese New Year in the Pit. Students could enjoy a Chinese buffet, wrap their own […]


Friday food for thought

Happy Black and Gold Friday, Deac families! Are you sporting black and gold (or WFU apparel) today? Thanks to all of you who show your WF spirit every Friday by donning our colors. It is cold and windy today, so rather than venture out of […]


Full Info Friday

I’m back from my event and it seems like this week has lasted a year. Let’s jump right into the tough stuff. We’ve tried to keep parents and families informed of the status of the shooting investigation as those details are released to us from […]


There Are No Good Words

I wrote the Daily Deac post below on Sunday.  As most of you know by now, there was an incident on campus early Saturday morning which resulted in a student from Winston-Salem State, Najee Ali Baker, being shot; he later died from his injuries. There […]


Let It Snow

As you have probably heard from your students, we had a snow day yesterday. Despite a prediction of 1-3″, we got a whopping 6.5″ of snow at my house, and I am only 3 miles from campus so I assume it was the same there. […]


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