At the first meeting, we discussed the following plans:
- An in-school poetry reading for Valentine’s Day, to be held on Monday the 15th during the free period, hopefully in the campus center. It will be open-mic and Leona will enforce the time limit/”no depressing poetry” policy. Three or four people volunteered to bake cookies and cakes!
- Our first out-of-school reading, the Revenge Poetry Fancy-Dress Tea Party, to be held on the evening of Friday, Feb. 19th. Details to come.
- Possible trips: NYC, a theatre, the Renn Faire, Medieval Times, Washington DC with the Honors College. Any ideas?
- The department website, which might be kind of lame. Can we help with this?
- Getting the ESO its own page on the department website, with a link to the blog.
- Creating a Facebook page for the club.
- Starting the National English Honor Society chapter (for real this time) and having everyone in the club join so we can honor ourselves. We will also publicize it through the department so other people can join, too.
- Our colloquium series: we should invite some professors to talk to us outside of class about their interesting work. To be held every few Wednesdays at 4:30 in the faculty lounge. We didn’t decide on who the first speaker should be.
I also added Professor Habib’s website and blog to the list of links on the right. Go check them out!
Big thanks to all the new members who came out – both students and professors.
- Sarah
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Posted by timothy martin on February 4, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Sarah and All
A great summary and a really nice meeting yesterday. But I don’t think the newly designed english main page, which sits on top of all four departmental programs, is lame! What’s lame is our undergraduate_ site, which is still under construction in a new format. I’m more or less in charge of this for now (and take responsibility for its lameness), so any comments about what students would like to see there would be great. I love the idea of an ESO Facebook page, but maybe this cool blog is enough, since it’s got room for announcements and links.
TM
Posted by esosar on February 4, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Upon visiting the undergrad page, I am forced to concur that it is intensely lame, particularly in that the links revert back to old versions of the ugly grey department page. Uniformity would be rad. And a link to this blog!
Posted by Thetis on February 4, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I’m very much looking forward to the upcoming events. I would like to help with the English page…but I probably will need help (re)learning how to use Dreamweaver, and…um, I don’t actually have access to the program. Yikes.