ESGA Digest 12/9
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Hello, I mean, goodbye everyone! Your beloved secretary is headed to Music City first thing tomorrow, so this is the last digest until we return in January. Savor it. Maybe the Watsons’ party tomorrow night will help you cope. Oh, and Merry Christmas and stuff.
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.
Notes from the Chair and GPD: ATTACHED HERE
President Danielle and Vice Pres. Nathan met with Drs. Barcus and Vitanza Tuesday afternoon about some of the pressing matters all of you have mentioned in our survey. Please see the attached meeting notes from Danielle.
In the Next Two Weeks (Dec 10 – ∞)
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 last week 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.