Demon Deacon wields plunger. What’s up with that?
This morning’s Winston Salem-Journal answered a question about that plunger in the hands of the Demon Deacon on Saturday.
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Archimedes: the talk of NY, Washington and The Atlantic
From The New York Times to The Atlantic, the Archimedes Palimpsest is in the news.
Read MoreThe Wall St. Journal on the Archimedes Palimpsest
A Baltimore museum will display the secrets of Archimedes, says The Wall Street Journal today. Wake Forest alum Michael Toth (’79) was part of the exhibit’s “painstaking conservation efforts.”
Read MoreMelissa Harris-Perry (’94): a ‘marquee name’ at Tulane
TV, NPR, online, The Nation, libraries, the classroom: You’ll find Melissa Harris-Perry (’94) there.
Read MoreThe Wake Forest ‘mystique’
OG&B columnist Hamlin Wade (’12) asks: What is it that really makes our ‘mother so dear?’
Read MoreIraq War blogger Matt Gallagher on 9/11
Two weeks into his freshman year, on 9/11 Matt Gallagher (’05) saw the world change for his generation. He went on to join the Army and blog from the Iraq War. Talking with MTV News, he looks back on the decade.
Read MoreWake Forest by the alphabet
How does a creative coastal photographer spell Wake Forest University?
Read MoreHonoring a Rocky Mount Double Deac
My friend Marybeth Sutton Wallace (’86) met me for lunch last week, wanting to tell me about a loss for North Carolina and her former community. “He was a Double Deac,” she said, lamenting the death of Fred Turnage (’58, JD ’61, P ’84 and ’87). He died of pancreatic cancer at age 75 on […]
Read MoreZiggy’s: A WFU musical tradition
Any Demon Deacon who loves roots, rock and reggae knows about Ziggy’s, the famous music venue where bands touring the Southeast felt compelled to crank it up in Winston-Salem. From the start a hangout with Wake Forest alumni running the show, Ziggy’s attracted crowds to its doors just off Deacon Boulevard near BB&T Field for […]
Read MoreFlying WFU colors
What do you get when you cross a Grateful Dead skull with a Demon Deacon? Tom Radulovic (’83) is armed with the answer.
Read MoreHappy Bloomsday! (from a poseur)
“Ulysses”: Best book ever written or bane of readers everywhere? I decided to ask Associate Professor Scott Klein, our resident James Joyce expert, on this “nerdiest of all holidays.”
Read MoreThe book rang a bell
There is a bell that binds us at Wake Forest University. Call it our own brand of Campanilismo.
Read MoreReynolda House: 4,000 photos, good vibes
Here’s Barbara Babcock Millhouse’s happiest childhood memory of Reynolda estate and a conversation about her new book: “Reynolda: 1906-1924.”
Read MoreParty on! A WFU grad will help
Mary Tribble (’82) is named to the Charlotte in 2012 host committee for the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Read MoreShane Harris on the Patriot Act’s renewal
Shane Harris (’98) has written about spies and national security for a decade. He discusses the congressional decision to renew the Patriot Act on NPR’s “On the Media” this week.
Read MoreGlobal graduation
The scene on the Quad at Commencement provided a reminder of Wake Forest’s global reach.
Read MoreImagining tomorrow’s world circa 1957
In 1957 an alumni speaker outlined for seniors “the world of tomorrow” — a “world that desperately needs you.”
Seems pertinent….