Year-at-a-Glance Department Calendar University Calendar Graduate School Calendar

Great Books
At today's Department meeting, the Great Books Committee will ask the faculty to approve two changes to the GB program. First, we will ask the department to approve changes to the AU Bulletin description of the courses to more accurately reflect current teaching practices. The revised copy in the Bulletin we are proposing is, for ENGL 2200: "Culturally diverse readings in world literature from the ancient period to 1600." The revised copy for ENGL 2210: "Culturally diverse readings in world literature from 1600 to the present." Corresponding changes will be proposed for the Honors versions of these courses. 

Second, we will ask the faculty to vote to change the names of ENGL 2200 and 2210 from Great Books I and II to World Literature I and II. Again, the Honors versions of these courses would have their names changed in a corresponding fashion. We will have all the appropriate forms filled out and available for your review before the meeting. These changes would bring the courses into greater correspondence with the course guidelines as we revised them last fall and would more accurately reflect to students the connect of the courses as we currently teach them. The changes would not, according to Linda Glaze, have to be reviewed at any level beyond the relevant curriculum committees. 

If you want to discuss these changes with members of the GB committee in anticipation of the April 2 meeting, please do so. 

Auburn Concert

The Auburn Chamber Music Society will present its third of three concerts for the 2002-2003 season on Wednesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Goodwin Recital Hall. The Quartetto di Venezia will perform Haydn's Quartet in D Minor, Opus 76 #2 "The Fifths," Boccherini's Quartet in A Major, Opus 8 #6, Puccini's "I Crisantemi," and Beethoven's Quartet in C Major, Opus 59 #3, "The Rasumovsky 3." Tickets are $20 apiece. All students are admitted free with a student ID. For more information, contact Craig Bertolet.

National Libraries Week
The libraries of AU are celebrating National Libraries Week next week, April 6-12.  Throughout the week there will be speakers (including AU grad Tim Dorsey), workshops (by our department's own Miriam Clark), demonstrations, an open mic night, and free food and prizes.  Visit the library for more information and  click here for the week's complete activities.  Encourage your students to attend and participate!

Softball Schedule
Spring is here and softball season has begun!  Below is the softball season for Spring 2003. All games are at 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.  Anyone who shows up and wants to play will play.  See Frank Walters or someone who’s played before if you’re not sure how to find the fields.  Try to arrive at 4:45 to give yourself time to stretch and Frank time to see who’s available to play.  Come out and have some fun on the field or on the sidelines!

April in Auburn: STC Workshop
The STC Birmingham chapter will have their April meeting in Auburn at the workshop "Fifty Years......And Counting" on Saturday, April 12, 2003. Registration begins at 9:00 am.

The keynote address "On the Leading Edge of Technical Communication: Trends in Our Profession" will be given by George F. Hayhoe, Editor, Technical Communication, and Professor and Director of the M.S. program in technical communication management at Mercer University.  Professors and professional technical communicators will present throughout the day on MS Word, e-portfolios, and knowledge harvesting.

The registration fee is $10 for STC members and $15.00 for non-STC members.  There is no registration fee for students.  All proceeds go into the Birmingham STC Chapter scholarship fund.  For additional information, click here, or contact Don Cunningham (cunnidh@auburn.edu or 334.844.9061).

W.T. "Rip" Lhamon to Deliver 2003 Benson Lecture
W. T. "Rip" Lhamon, the George M. Harper Professor of English at Florida State University, will deliver the 2003 Benson Lecture as part of the English department’s annual undergraduate awards ceremony. Professor Lhamon’s topic will be "Blackface Performance: You Can’t Tell Where You’re Going Until You Know Where You’ve Been."

The 2003 Benson Lecture is scheduled for Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 3:15 pm in 3195 Haley Center. The lecture will be free and open to the public. A reception for Professor Lhamon will follow his presentation.

In his lecture, Professor Lhamon will explore views of early race relations in the new Republic as evidenced through the minstrel show, an exploration that will show how the original performances relate to current American culture. His argument demonstrates how American culture is missing important evidence about white/black relations because it has repressed or forgotten the early enthusiastic attraction whites felt toward black culture before the minstrel show. 

Professor Lhamon’s scholarship includes the books Jump Jim Crow: Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture (Forthcoming 2003), Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop (1998), and Deliberate Speed: The Origins of A Cultural Style in the American Fifties (1990). 

Prior to the lecture, the film Ethic Notions will be shown from 1:00 – 3:00 pm in 3309 Haley Center with discussion following. The film traces the evolution of Black American caricatures in cartoons, songs, and films, and the prejudice they fostered.

EGO Meeting
EGO meeting today, April 2, at 3:00 p.m. in Haley Center 3184. On the agenda:

• Nominations for EGO officers and positions on department committees for 2003-2004 will be taken.  
• Nominations for the EGO Faculty Appreciation Award are due by 4:00 today.
• Prom plans will be discussed; prom will be on May 3 at Nate Meier's apartment.

National Libraries Week
The libraries of AU are celebrating National Libraries Week next week, April 6-12.  Throughout the week there will be speakers (including AU grad Tim Dorsey), workshops (by our department's own Miriam Clark), demonstrations, an open mic night, and free food and prizes.  Visit the library for more information and  click here for the week's complete activities.  Encourage your students to attend and participate!

Softball Schedule
Spring is here and softball season has begun!  Below is the softball season for Spring 2003. All games are at 5:00 p.m. on Fridays.  Anyone who shows up and wants to play will play.  See Frank Walters or someone who’s played before if you’re not sure how to find the fields.  Try to arrive at 4:45 to give yourself time to stretch and Frank time to see who’s available to play.  Come out and have some fun on the field or on the sidelines!

April in Auburn: STC Workshop
The STC Birmingham chapter will have their April meeting in Auburn at the workshop "Fifty Years......And Counting" on Saturday, April 12, 2003. Registration begins at 9:00 am.

The keynote address "On the Leading Edge of Technical Communication: Trends in Our Profession" will be given by George F. Hayhoe, Editor, Technical Communication, and Professor and Director of the M.S. program in technical communication management at Mercer University.  Professors and professional technical communicators will present throughout the day on MS Word, e-portfolios, and knowledge harvesting.

The registration fee is $10 for STC members and $15.00 for non-STC members.  There is no registration fee for students.  All proceeds go into the Birmingham STC Chapter scholarship fund.  For additional information, click here, or contact Don Cunningham (cunnidh@auburn.edu or 334.844.9061).

Auburn Circle Hiring
The Auburn Circle, AU's general interest and literary magazine,  is looking for qualified individuals to apply for the positions of Editor-in-Chief, Business Manager, and Graphic Designer for 2003-2004.  All applications are due on April 3, 2003 by 4:00 p.m. in the Circle office.

Please contact Brooke Bullman for more information (844-4122, acircle@auburn.edu, or www.auburn.edu/circle). 

National Libraries Week
The libraries of AU are celebrating National Libraries Week next week, April 6-12.  Throughout the week there will be speakers (including AU grad Tim Dorsey), workshops (by our department's own Miriam Clark), demonstrations, an open mic night, and free food and prizes.  Visit the library for more information and  click here for the week's complete activities.  

April in Auburn: STC Workshop
The STC Birmingham chapter will have their April meeting in Auburn at the workshop "Fifty Years......And Counting" on Saturday, April 12, 2003. Registration begins at 9:00 am.

The keynote address "On the Leading Edge of Technical Communication: Trends in Our Profession" will be given by George F. Hayhoe, Editor, Technical Communication, and Professor and Director of the M.S. program in technical communication management at Mercer University.  Professors and professional technical communicators will present throughout the day on MS Word, e-portfolios, and knowledge harvesting.

The registration fee is $10 for STC members and $15.00 for non-STC members.  There is no registration fee for students.  All proceeds go into the Birmingham STC Chapter scholarship fund.  For additional information, click here, or contact Don Cunningham (cunnidh@auburn.edu or 334.844.9061).

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