EGSA Digest 12-2 from your *famous* secretary (waco trib)
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Letter to the Editor from a concerned peer:
Books are Friends…but so are People!
It’ʹs come to my attention over here at the department’ʹs headquarters for Observation and Judgment that, sometimes, English grad students can be…how to put it…ANTISOCIAL. Yes, we all love our bookshelves filled with our “ʺfriends,”ʺ but one eventually must venture out into society, especially in this most festive season. As invites for Christmas parties are filling up your inbox, I can hear you think, “ʺA party? No! What about my papers? What about my friends, the books? Won’ʹt they miss me? People? I don’ʹt want to talk to people. Christmas? Holidays? Festivity? ARRGHHH NOOO.”ʺ Well, grab your inhaler and get ready for this: You should, nay MUST, go to a Christmas party. Really. It can be fun. Also, I know how grad students love to read and prepare for things, so I even have a primer for socialization for you: How to Circulate at Holiday Parties. Yes, I’ʹm suggesting you GO to a party and then actually TALK to people. Mind-Ââ€â€‘blowing, I know…but it’ʹs social protocol!
Please take note of the following notices and events regarding the next two weeks of English Graduate Student life, as well as upcoming and ongoing events.
SBA, Secretary
ANNOUNCEMENTS
T-Shirts! Deadline for Designs on January 6
- Kalani has volunteered to coordinate the T-shirt design contest. To give you all of Christmas break, the deadline for designs will be January 6, 2012. Email submissions to Kalani_Pattison@baylor.edu (as image files like .jpg, .png, etc., front and back, with a unique filename.) Voting will be the first week of class.
- All submissions will remain anonymous, except for the winner’s (so don’t be embarrassed about submitting things because Kalani will be the only one who knows who submitted what). Collaboration is allowed and even encouraged.
Friendly Reminder for May Graduates
- January 19th is the last day to file for May 2012 Graduation.
In the Next Two Weeks (Dec 5 – Dec 18)
- Christmas Tea (by EGSA)
TODAY @2:30pm in 4th Floor Lounge of Carroll Science
- Thank you to those of you who have volunteered to help with the English Department Tea that EGSA will be hosting this Friday, December 2. For volunteers: please bring your dessert to the lounge by 2:15 p.m. If anyone would like to arrive early to help set up the tables, we will be there beginning around 1:00 p.m. If you have not yet volunteered to make something delicious, it’s not too late! Please contact Danielle at danielle_williams2@baylor.edu.
19 C Research Seminar: British Political History
- Wednesday, December 7 @ 3:30-4:30pm in the ABL Seminar Room
- “The Case of the Tamworth Reading Room: Sir Robert Peel and Civil Disorder in Early Victorian England” given by Dr. David Clinton (Political Science, Baylor).
2011 EGSA Christmas Party by the Wondrous Watsons
- Saturday, December 10 @ 7pm at the Watson home
- James Watson and family will be hosting a classy Christmas party for us this year, as usual. Please see James’s invitation sent out earlier today for details, and please RSVP to him at James_Watson@baylor.edu.
UPCOMING
Calling all authors!
- Submit to Baylor University’s premier student publication, the Phoenix! Published for over 50 years, the Phoenix provides both undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to submit their creative works for publication! In addition, the Phoenix offers monetary prizes in several categories. The Phoenix accepts publications of all types of creative fiction and nonfiction, as well as artwork (including photography, paintings, drawings etc.). All submissions are anonymous and made online through the Phoenix’s website found at www.baylor.edu/phoenix . Selections from previous issues are available online for viewing. The deadline for submission this year is January 20, 2012. For further questions please contact Benjamin_crawford@baylor.edu .
ONGOING
Midday Prayer
- Thursdays at noon in the Bobo Spiritual Life Chapel. A quiet service for faculty, staff, and grad students with silence from noon to 12:15, then a short liturgy
Medieval Reading Group
- Thursdays 5-6pm. Contact Adam_Marshall@baylor.edu or d_clark@baylor.edu for topics and locations.
Call for Papers
- Please consider submitting work to the first issue of The Wide Net, the theme of which is “Occupying Spaces—Reclaiming Cultural Spaces for Liberatory Causesâ€. The deadline for submissions is December 23, 2011. All submissions should be emailed to thewidenet@truman.edu. The first issue should be released in January. Visit http://thewidenet.truman.edu for more information.