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

Upcoming Pebble Hill Programs
The following is a list of programs occurring at Pebble Hill in the next few weeks.  Please make plans to attend.

Southern Gothic Dinner
The annual Southern Gothic Dinner will be Wednesday, October 30, at 7:00 p.m. at Pebble Hill. Faculty are invited to join the English majors for Southern food and ghost stories. To that end, please volunteer your culinary talents. Side dishes and desserts are needed, with Southern dishes especially welcome.  

Last year some faculty children came to this event and wore their Halloween costumes. Everyone seemed to enjoy this; children are welcome at the dinner from 7:00-9:00. (Ghost stories begin at 9:00 and are genuinely creepy.)  Alicia Carroll will work on getting a sitter if there is demand and parents would like to contribute. Please let Alicia Carroll know as soon as you can if you are coming, and what you will bring in light of food or children.

Listen to the Sounds of the String Quartet 

On Wednesday October 30th the Artis String Quartet from Vienna, Austria will be performing at 7:30 in the Goodwin Recital Hall on campus.  This concert is sponsored by the Auburn Chamber Music Society as the first of its series of three concerts for the 2002-2003 season.  The program will feature Mozart's F Major String Quartet (K. 590), Schumann's A minor String Quartet (Op. 41#1), and Brahms's A minor String Quartet (Op. 51 #2).  Tickets are $20 apiece, or you can obtain a season ticket for all three concerts at $50.  Admission is free for all students.  A reception for the quartet at Greystone Manor to which all audience members are invited immediately follows the concert.  For tickets or more information, please contact Craig Bertolet, who serves as co-president of the society.

Students to debate C.S. Lewis at English Hour
Is C.S. Lewis good for children? Students from Tim Dykstal's ENGL 3190 Studies in Children's Literature class will debate that question at a special English Hour on Monday, November 4 at 4:00 p.m. 

The question was prompted by the class's reading of Lewis's The Horse and His Boy, the third book in the Narnia series. On the one hand, Horse is an exciting romance about a slave boy who discovers he is really a prince, a fantasy that--like all the Narnia books--aims to persuade us that there is a greater power behind our stories. On the other hand, the book--more explicitly than Lewis's other children's books--contains some deeply embedded ethnic stereotypes, stereotypes that may be harmful to children. Can we abstract the message from the medium used to convey it, or does the one invalidate the other? 

Speaking for Lewis will be Wellon Lee, Lauren Vautier, and Jane Walker. Speaking against Lewis will be Trey Lyles, Jill Frank, and Eliza McAllister. Comments and questions from the audience will be welcome after the debate. Please come and participate in what promises to be a lively discussion!

Women and Politics: A Global Perspective
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the College of Liberal Arts are pleased to invite you to a major university-sponsored public event entitled "Women and Politics: A Global Perspective." This event will be held at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center on Thursday, November 21, 2002.

The purpose of this event is to focus state, national, and international attention on the subject of women and politics--particularly the difficulties females encounter as they seek to gain public office--and to explore ways to help women candidates to overcome the obstacles they face. The international scope of the forum will provide an opportunity to examine the situation of political women in various parts of the world and the strategies developed in their countries to increase the number of females in the political landscape. The event also will stimulate a productive dialogue on the issue, and inspire a new generation of young women to consider a career in public office.

There will be two parts to this program. The morning sessions will focus on Women and Politics in Alabama, and the activities of various groups that seek to help women to gain elected office. The afternoon sessions will consist of presentations by female leaders of various parts of the globe, including the United States.

For more information about the event click here. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

EGO Halloween Party
Calling all graduate spooks!  Join your fellow graduate students Saturday, October 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the annual EGO Halloween Party hosted by Kat Privett.  Click here for more details.


MTPC Alum to Talk about Tech Writing, the Job Hunt, and the Real World
Lowell Lambert, Auburn Graduate 2002, will be giving a talk entitled "Going Down that Bumpy Road to Your First Technical Writing Job" on Tuesday, November 5 at 3:00 p.m. in HC 3228.  His talk will cover the following topics:

Career Panel
The Sigma Tau Delta/ English Club will have a Career Panel on Friday, November 8 in Haley Center (location TBD).  Participants all hold B.A.'s from AU's English Department. They include: 

If you would like to include an item in the "Professional Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note to Betsy Smith or Alise Chabaud.

---

Please submit items and direct all questions or comments about The English Channel to Betsy Smith or Alise Chabaud.

To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 a.m. for publication Wednesday. Graphic images are due by the preceding Friday at 11:40 a.m. Submit items by email or by putting a note or disk in Alise Chabaud's mailbox (disks will be returned). If you submit an image on disk, please make sure that it can be edited to fit and be read clearly on the page. Items over fifty words in length should be submitted on disk or sent by email. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion--all calendar items and meeting announcements must include the date, time, and location of the event. Please omit all unusual formatting.