EGSA Digest 04.26.13

EGSA,

We got some good ones. If you voted for the other candidate, accept the fact that he or she wouldn’t have fixed your academic, social, financial, or communication problems either and join with me in congratulating our new EGSA officers. After you read some moderately important announcements.

Announcements

Do Not Scroll Down to the Voting Results Until You’ve Read This Announcement

• Before his unceremonious fade into regular EGSA member status, Former-President Kilpatrick had me post before your eyes the following EGSA Secretary responsibility: gathers signatures for “Thank You” cards to secretaries, GPD, the Department chair, the director of freshman composition, the Writing Center director, and EGSA’s faculty advisors.
• Since there is no dodging it now, cards will be available for you to sign next week. They will probably circulate among the CS 4th floor offices and the CS Writing Center. Please find them in one of those locations and write your name and something original, clever, profound, sincere, and moving on each of the 10ish cards. Don’t think of it as a chore. Think of it as not writing your seminar paper.

Wait, This One, Too, Especially If You Don’t Like German or French or Other Languages People Speak or If You Don’t Want to End Up With Regrets Like Dan Quayle’s

• A few dedicated EGSA members have successfully petitioned for a Latin class this summer. It will be offered as a single-session course in Summer II (July/August), and you may register through Bearweb.
• Quayle: “I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”
• Okay, so Snopes says it’s not true, but we’ll forgive them because they give us all these quotes (scroll down) from Dan Quayle that are even funnier and that you can use next time you teach ethos.
• Anyway, if you want Latin language, sign up for this class. If you want Latin dancing, take it up with the new VP. Or the social chairs. Or anybody but me, who had a bad experience.

Last Day of Classes

• Friday, 3 May
• Can you remember the moment in your education when an announcement about the end of the semester became an occasion for panic instead of celebration? Was it
• a) when you had to start writing seminar papers,
• b) when you remembered you’d have to get a job after you finish school,
• c) when you realized that you would go weeks without an EGSA Digest, or
• d) all of the above?

19CRS, Today, 3:30-4:30pm, ABL

• Rex Carr, “Overcoming the Past: Nietzsche’s Creator and the Contributions of Christianity”
• Jeremy Leatham, “Newborn Bards of the Holy Ghost: The Seven Seniors and Emerson’s ‘Divinity School Address’” I’m more comfortable with electronic correspondence than that thing with your vocal cords, but Rex from Poli Sci will be there, too, and he’ll probably have to say Nietzsche out loud a lot, so there’s that.