Happy Friday, Deac families. Hope your Deacs enjoyed the [beastly hot and sweaty] Hit the Bricks yesterday! Fall Break is next Thursday and Friday (Oct. 11-12). An important consideration for Deacs staying on campus is the Fall Break Dining Hours of operation. Dining schedules […]
Hit the Bricks is today, and I would urge you to see if you can catch any of the action on the Quad Cam. the trees are big enough that it obscures a lot, but you might catch the runners as they pass across […]
ICYDMI (in case your Deacs missed it), today is the flu shot clinic. The flu clinic is being held from noon to 7 pm in the Wellbeing Center Living Room of Reynolds Gym. Here is some information that the Student Health Service provided to our office: […]
It’s one of the best times of the year – Family Weekend! I am grateful to all my colleagues in the Office of Student Engagement – they are the giants who plan and facilitate all the great events of the weekend. They worked so hard […]
These photos are from yesterday. I had every intention of making the Daily Deac about them, but I got busy and looked up and it was after 5 pm (and past the Daily Deac mailing deadline). Ooops. A day late, here are some photos that […]
It’s a beautiful sunny day on campus, Deac families. Around 2 pm today it seemed oppressively hot as I walked up to the Quad, but on the way back it was really lovely. As I passed the Sutton Center and rounded the corner you could […]
To all those who will be observing Yom Kippur, I wish you a meaningful fast. Today’s post is a guest message from the Office of the Dean of Students (who plans and facilitates Family Weekend). ———————– Family Weekend is almost here! We’re gearing up to […]
This morning it was tough to watch the coverage of the hurricane on TV. It’s hard to see what is happening near Wilmington, where Florence made landfall, and also in wonderful towns like New Bern, which is experiencing terrible flooding. We have many Deac families […]
As grateful as I was to wake up yesterday and see that it looked like the storm was turning, I was even happier to hear this morning that tropical storm force winds have been removed from the local forecast. Even so, it is hard not […]
Things continue to hop here on campus in regard to Hurricane Florence. Every day we have a Crisis Management Meeting at 3 pm (and there are numerous other meetings during the day on hurricane-related stuff). Trying to keep you all as up to date as […]