Quad View: As seen from the Alumni Office

Tomorrow is the last day of exams, and it is very, very quiet on campus.  Many of the students have already left - those who are here still are obviously in full throws of exam fever.  I have seen an oddly high proportion of unshaven men and people who look like they didn’t shower before rushing off to their finals.

As quiet as it is now, Tuesday will be another day of madness with the visit of presidential candidate John McCain.  He is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Wait Chapel.  I will be here at dark-thirty in the morning, since I will be one of the staff to help work crowd control and serve as a resource to the McCain staff, just as we did for Hillary Clinton. 

I feel very fortunate to have heard from 2 of the 3 major presidential candidates on our campus.  In what will no doubt be a very interesting and competitive election, I am glad Wake Forest is on the map for these campaign stops.   We are a force to be reckoned with these days!

As for the new  logo…it has been very interesting for me to see the response to it.  I have heard from people who love it, those who hate it, and a lot of ground in the middle.  I am told that when the old “bar logo” was introduced in the mid-80s, there was a great uproar about it and so many people complained that we had changed and abandoned our past.  We are getting some of those same comments now, which is ironic to me since so many people did not like the bar logo.