English Department News
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April 12, 2000
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Volume 2, No. 18
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April 12
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Department meeting, HC 1203, 3:10 p.m.
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April 12
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English Center Writing Lab: Sentence Fragments and Comma Splices, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.
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April 17
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English Hour, Natasha Trethewey, "The Reality Beneath Bellocq's Storyville Portraits:
Unmasking and Recovering the History of Mixed-Race Women in New Orleans," HC 3104, 4:00 p.m.
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April 17-21
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Summer/Fall term Advising open for Seniors, Graduate
Students, and Priority Students (Honors, Disabilities, Co-Op, Athletes)
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April 18
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Liberal Arts Employment Day, HC Lobby, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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April 18
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"What You Can Do With an English Major," Foy Union, Room 208, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
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April 18
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English Center Workshop: Using Secondary Sources and Avoiding
Plagiarism, HC 3183, 5:00 p.m.
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April 19
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English Center Writing Lab: Semi-Colons and Colons, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.
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April 21-27
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Summer/Fall term telephone or web Registration open for Seniors, and Graduate
Students only (note: open three days before Priority students)
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April 24
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Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Helen Thomas, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center,
4:00 p.m.
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April 24-27
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Summer/Fall term telephone or web Registration open for Seniors, Graduate
Students, and Priority Students (Honors, Disabilities, Co-Op, Athletes)
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April 24-28
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Summer/Fall term Advising open for Juniors
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April 25
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Planning and Priorities Committee meeting, HC 9030D, 3:30 p.m.
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April 25
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English Center Workshop: Coherence in Paragraphs and Beyond, HC 3183, 5:00 p.m.
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April 26
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Graduate Studies Committee meeting, HC 9030D, 1:00 p.m.
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April 26
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English Center Writing Lab: Wordy Structures and Active/Passive Voice, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.
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April 28-May 4
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Summer/Fall term telephone or web Registration open for Juniors
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April 28
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Midterm
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May 1
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English Hour, HC 3104, 4:00 p.m.
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May 1-5
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Summer/Fall term Advising open for Sophomores
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May 3
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English Center Writing Lab: Hyphens, Dashes, and Titles, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.
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May 5
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Benson Lecture and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, Susan D. Gubar, 213 Foy Union, 3:00 p.m.
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May 5-11
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Summer/Fall term telephone or web Registration open for Sophomores
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May 8
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English Center Workshop: Revising and Proofreading, HC 3183, 5:00 p.m.
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May 8-12
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Summer/Fall term Advising open for Freshmen
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May 10
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Graduate Studies Committee meeting, HC 9030D, 1:00 p.m.
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May 10
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English Center Writing Lab: Modifier Placement and Subordination, Dashes, and Titles, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.
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May 15
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English Hour, HC 3203, 3:00 p.m.
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May 12-18
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Summer/Fall term telephone or web Registration open for Freshmen
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May 17
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Graduate Studies Committee meeting, HC 9030D, 1:00 p.m.
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May 17
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English Center Writing Lab: Punctuation with Quoted Material, Dashes, and Titles, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.
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May 18
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Littleton-Franklin Lectures, William Phillips, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center,
4:00 p.m.
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May 22
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English Hour, "Teaching Twentieth-century Fiction in Great Books II," HC 3104, 4:00 p.m.
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May 24
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English Center Writing Lab: Mixed Menu, HC 3183, 8:00 p.m.
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May 29
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Memorial Day Holiday for students, staff, and faculty
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May 30
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Graduate Studies Committee meeting, HC 9030D, 1:00 p.m.
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May 31
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Annual Reception for English Graduate Students, Pebble Hill, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
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June 1
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Classes end
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June 2
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Dead Day
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June 3, 5-8
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Final Exams
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June 10
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Graduation
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Liberal Arts Employment Day
 Please announce to your classes that the first ever "Liberal Arts Employment
Day" will be staged in the first floor lobby of Haley Center from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, April 18, 2000. Career Development Services has finally recognized that yes, you can get a job
with an English major, and several employers will be on hand that day to tell our
students why--if they can write, speak, and think well--they want you. For a listing of
organizations participating, view the Liberal Arts Employment Day website.
What You Can Do With an English Major
You'll also want to announce to your classes that on the same day as the
Liberal Arts Employment Day (April 18th), two successful graduates of the B.A. program in English
will be revisiting Auburn to share how they found jobs--or, in one case, started a business--with
their English majors. This session is called "What You Can Do With an English Major" and
it features: Courtney Donald (class of 1994), owner of Party Art, in Birmingham; and Angela Pulley (class
of 1996), a digital archivist with the Native American Project in Athens, Georgia.
Invite your students
to join these graduates in Foy Union, Room 208 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Ms. Donald and Ms. Pulley
are driving a long way to talk to our students, so please encourage them to come.
Warm-up for Reading Marathon
The English Club of Auburn University and the Kappa Theta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta,
the English Honor Society, invite you to participate in the 2000 Reading Marathon, "I Wish I'd Said That,"
to be held Thursday, May 11, 2000 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the Olde Auburn Ale House,
124 Tichenor Avenue, in Auburn.
This will be our fifth annual reading marathon. This event helps raise money for
our operating costs and for local charities. Portions of the proceeds in past years have gone to benefit the Lee
County Literacy Coalition, Lee County AIDS Outreach, and the building fund for the Jule Collins
Smith Museum of Art. But our overriding goal has always been to increase the appreciation of literature
on and off the university campus.
You may remember last year's marathon, "Favorite Poems." What we're looking for this
year are "major statements": poems or prose that reflect on where we are (and where we need to
be) as a society, or as individuals, here at the beginning of
the twenty-first century.
Newsweek recently published a list of "What Will (and What Won't) Survive
the Century," and predicted that the Beatles will but Elvis won't. We'd like to hear your thoughts--through
the thoughts of the writers you admire--on those ideas and practices that we do need to carry
with us into the next century. These statements may be as ancient as Aristotle's, or as
recent as Rita Dove's: what's important is that they remain important to us.
If you'd like to participate in "I Wish I'd Said That," send 1) the author and title of
your major statement, 2) a short explanation (no more than a paragraph) of why it strikes you as important, and 3) your
time preference (if any) to Tim Dykstal by Wednesday,
April 26, 2000.
Please restrict your selection to something that you can read in ten minutes
or less: we'd like to maximize the number of readers. If chosen to read, you will receive a letter or
email message confirming your participation and the time that you are to read.
We hope you'll join us.--Timothy Dykstal, Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies
Question of the Week
Join the others who are participating in The English Channel Forum.
Start your own discussion, ask a question, or offer your response to the "Question of the Week": "What effects
(positive or negative) will moving from Haley Center (or staying during its renovation) have on your
teaching?
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