Today I have a few items to share from various corners of campus. First, a feel proud to be a Deac story, courtesy of our News Service: “Wake Forest University senior Addison S. McLamb is one of 111 Schwarzman Scholars selected for the master’s degree […]
Your students are not going to be enjoying the weather today, unless they are fond of cold and wind. It’s probably high 30s/low 40s but there is a very brisk wind, which makes everything feel colder. Wandered over to the North Dining Hall for lunch […]
The parking lots are filled once again, so students are back! Classes don’t start until tomorrow, so I haven’t seen them outside in earnest, save for a few early morning joggers. I wish the students had all been at the Joel lastnight for the Wake […]
Students will be returning to campus this weekend, and it will be nice to have them back. Campus doesn’t feel quite the same without them. Here’s a few miscellaneous things to close out your week on this dreary, misty Black and Gold Friday: Our superstar midfielder, […]
With the new year comes the Real Deal: ACC basketball games. Tonight at 7 pm it’s Wake vs. Duke, a perennial rivalry. For our Deacs and Deac families, it will be on ESPN U, and there are a number of ways to follow the game […]
Though faculty and staff are back on campus, we’re still awaiting the early arrivers who will be coming back for sorority recruitment, and campus is pretty calm (and COLD) right now. At the end of 2015, there were many “Best Of” lists – but today […]
Today’s Daily Deac offers some advice for parents of female students who will be participating in the sorority recruitment process (formerly called “rush”) later this week. Recruitment can be an exciting, emotional, and/or possibly stressful time for your students. Having observed recruitment for many years […]
This last shot in our “picture of the day” series doesn’t come from the fall semester. This was from our Wake Will campaign kickoff – and is the only time I have ever seen fireworks on campus. Since it’s New Years, fireworks seemed appropriate. On […]
Pro Humanitate isn’t just old Latin words – those words mean something to Wake Foresters. “For humanity” is our charge to learn what we can here – in the classroom and out – and to do something with that knowledge for the good of humanity. […]
There is WF ironwork all over campus. It adds a touch of elegance and uniqueness to our campus. When you catch a WF just right, like our intrepid Ken Bennett so often does, you can see something really grand. Like this. — by Betsy Chapman