Daily Deac Guidelines

The Daily Deac aims to bring a variety of news, event information, tips/advice, and perspectives from campus. We try to provide a wide range of topics so that all readers can find something of interest.

Submitting content

• Any member of our campus community can submit information to be considered for inclusion in the Daily Deac. Suggest an item.
• We try to balance the range of topics we include, so that no one area of campus is overrepresented.
• We reserve the right to decline to publish submissions.
• We do not accept requests from entities outside the Wake Forest community (e.g., guest posts, requests from businesses, vendors, or individuals unrelated to Wake Forest).
• We do not amplify marketing for student-owned businesses unless they have an official relationship with the University (such as Residence Life and Housing’s partnership with Storage Scholars, or Wake Wash, which was established via the Center for Entrepreneurship). The same is true for alumni- or family-owned businesses. There are so many individual entrepreneurial ventures that we cannot equitably advertise all.
• If a content submission names a student (and that student is not the submitter of the request), we require written permission from that student to be able to use their name (and contact information, if applicable) in the post; an exception to using a student’s name would be stories written by the News team (as they have already worked the student on the story).

Solicitations/Fundraising

The Daily Deac does not promote student fundraising initiatives. There are two reasons for that:

1. The Parents’ Campaign of the Wake Forest Fund is the primary fundraising activity geared towards parents/families, so we need to direct families there first until the donor goal has been met (which is typically at WFU fiscal year end in June). Even so, we only mention this fundraising effort in the Daily Deac a few times a year: in December and at the end of June, to correspond with tax year end and fiscal year end, respectively, if there is a Deacs Day of Giving, or if there are special promotions (where you can get a customized gift for your donation).
2. There are so many worthy philanthropic causes that Wake Forest students are engaged in (individually or through their student organizations); if we promoted one fundraising effort, we would have to promote all student efforts. Even for University-affiliated events like Hit the Bricks and Wake ‘N Shake, we do not share links to make gifts to those efforts in the Daily Deac. We will share information about the event, including the main event website; families who are interested can find giving links that way.