This weekend we had our first hints of spring. The weather was sunny and warm and beautiful. It was the kind of weekend where it was not ridiculously warm, but if you sat outside in the sun for a while you might begin to feel […]
There is an important event in the life of the University this afternoon at 4 pm in Wait Chapel. It is Founders’ Day Convocation. Convocations are defined as follows, according to Wikipedia: “A convocation (Latin, “calling together”, translating the Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is […]
Today started out as a grey and rainy day, but is now a beautiful sunny afternoon and probably 60ish degrees. I had to walk to the center of campus this morning and had to go off campus later in the day, and the difference between […]
Today’s Daily Deac was written by Michael Tantum, a senior from Pennyslvania. I met him during the fall semester and he told me about the great plans for the TEDx conference, which will be held this weekend. Michael wanted to be sure that parents […]
Happy Monday to you, Deac families. It’s a regular day of classes today – the first full day since last Tuesday. All told, Winston-Salem probably got snow in the 6-10 inches range, depending on where you live. Though it was warmer yesterday (the 40s) and […]
Happy Valentine’s Day to all our Deac families and their students. I don’t know if love is in the air, but there was certainly plenty of snow and cold in the air. School is closed again today. I have not been to campus myself, as […]
Today campus is closed, Deac families. Take a look at the Quad Cam and you can see why. (Note: the Quad Cam is best viewed on a desktop, not a mobile device. We’re having a glitch with the mobile users we’re trying to fix, […]
There is no doubt about it. Snow is coming. The only questions remaining are “exactly when?” and “how much?” The Weather Channel is predicting 6-10 inches of snow, but we are still seeing some variations in accumulations. So right now we are playing the […]
Greetings from campus, Deac families! Your students got to see a bunch of snow yesterday, though none of it stuck to the ground. It started snowing early – big, chunky flakes at first, and then it tapered off to smaller flakes throughout the day. At […]
I had a meeting on Friday afternoon at Zick’s, the on-campus pizza/pool/pub spot. As we sometimes do at the Daily Deac, here is an impressionistic view of the 20ish minutes I had to peoplewatch and observe. I see: – One student at a the […]
