English Department News

            

February 21, 2001

          

Volume 3, No. 19


February 26

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

March 2

  

Mid-Semester

March 5

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D

March 5

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, E. O. Wilson, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

March 12

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

March 12

  

English Hour, Christian Gregory, "Captivity as Farce: Patty Hearst and the Proletariat of Fear," 4:00 p.m., HC 3104

March 21

  

Book Author Reception, 3:00 p.m., Pebble Hill

March 26-April 1

  

Spring Break

April 2

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D

April 9

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

April 9

  

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Lynn Margulis, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

April 16

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D

April 23

  

Great Books Committee meeting, 3:00 p.m., HC 9030D

April 26

  

Benson Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, Patricia Yaeger, 3:00 p.m., Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium

April 30

  

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, 2:30 p.m., HC 9030D

May 2

  

Classes end

May 2

  

Graduate Student Reception, Pebble Hill, 4:00 p.m.

May 3

  

Reading Day

May 4-5, 7-9

  

Final Exams

May 12

  

Graduation

May 22

  

Classes begin for Summer Term


Alabama State Senate Approves Trustee Appointments

Despite protests from students, faculty, and alumni, including an organized boycott of classes on Tuesday, February 20th, the Alabama State Senate approved Earlon McWhorter and Golda McDaniel to the Auburn University Board of Trustees. Mr. McWhorter was approved by a roll call vote of 28 to 6. Ms. McDaniel was confirmed by a vote of 21 to 12.
During the debate, Senator Lowell Barron, a member of the Board of Trustees, refused to answer directly questions from Senator J. T. Waggoner, who asked if he thought there was an image problem with the Board of Trustees. Instead, Barron replied that he "loved Auburn." Even though the Senate Gallery was packed (capacity 122) with students, faculty, and alumni, with many more students standing outside in the hallways, Barron [under]estimated the number of people who were "upset" with the Board of Trustees at one percent of the student population.

University Senate Calls Special Meeting

The Auburn University Senate will meet on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 at 3:00 p.m. in Broun Hall Auditorium.
The speakers scheduled for Wednesday's meeting include: Mr. Jimmy Samford, President Pro Tempore of the Board of Trustees; Dr. Larry Gerber, American Association of University Professors; Mr. Lindsey Boney, SGA President; Ms. Debra Carey, Staff Council President; Mr. Owen Brown, a concerned alumnus; and Dr. George Crandell, President, Auburn Chapter, American Association of University Professors.
Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Forum Updated to Include Semester Syllabi

The English Channel Forum has been updated to include links to on-line syllabi. You'll find on-line syllabi for each of these courses, with several examples for some of the core courses: English Composition II (ENGL 1120); Great Books I (ENGL 2200); Great Books II (ENGL 2210); Technical Writing (ENGL 3040); Business Writing (ENGL 3080); Survey of Linguistics (ENGL 3110); and Modern English Grammars (ENGL 6480).
Take a look at the resources available to you, and I encourage you to share ideas about syllabus development by talking with others or by using the Forum.

Question of the Week

What are the essential ingredients in a course syllabus? Please respond to this week's question in The Forum. If you have forgotten your password, please contact George Crandell.


Jim Ryan is going to the Southern American Studies Association meeting in Atlanta (February 23-25) and will present part of his project on literary representations of automobile culture in the early years of motoring. The paper is called "Cars of Destiny: Globalism in the Gilded Age of Motoring, 1885-1915."
Shea Stuart's article, "Subversive Didacticism in Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless," which won the graduate student paper award this past year was accepted by Studies in English Literature and will appear in the Summer 2002 issue. Her thesis, "'This is not behaving well by the absent': Isolation, Discipline, and the Displaced Village in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park," won the ACETA Calvert Award, which was presented on Saturday, February 17, 2001.
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