February 2005 Archives
This essay was gotten from a book that talks about Racism in the country. The author here feels that there are a lot of reasons why African Americans and White Americans cannot get along, he believed that the more African Americans lost in power, they gained in innnocence. He feels that the major reason why we still dont get along is that some of them might still have some kind of grudge and disdain against each other.
My agenda item is that do you think that the more a race is victimized, it is the more they begin to grow stonger and gain power?
Established upon the 75th anniversary of W. W. Norton & Company, the Norton Scholar's Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding undergraduate essay on a literary topic.
The Norton Scholar will receive a cash award of $2,500 plus transportation to the 2005 meeting of the Modern Language Association, where the award will be presented. The Norton Scholar's nominating instructor will also receive transportation to the meeting.
Four runners-up will each receive a cash award of $1,000.
The deadline for submissions is May 2, 2005.
(More rules and links to previous winning papers are available at http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/scholar.htm)
The winner of PAPME’s 2005 Ralph Flamminio Memorial Scholarship will receive:
$2,500.00 cash award
A paid summer internship at a Pennsylvania newspaper
For those who would like to help more with Eye Contact, but can't find enough time to do so, we, the young, energetic, overachieving, neurotic staff of Eye Contact, have found yet another way to rope in y'all and claim first dibs on your free time.
Eye Contact is in the process of bringing together an Events Organization committee, and the first meeting will be held on Friday, March 25 at 1:00 p.m. in A406. On the agenda: poetry slam at DV8 and increased publicity for Eye Contact.
We realize your free time is precious, but it couldn't possibly be more important than the glory of working with your university's literary review! If you have any questions, you can contact me at nehabawa at hotmail dot com or call me at X2121. We're hoping to see you there!
New Media Journalism @ Seton Hill University: To blog this unfamiliar way is strange.
To blog this unfamiliar way is strange.
I write, I read, delete, and write again.
My thoughts run far ahead of what I type.
It maketh writing labored, slow, and spare.
The judging session for this issue, "Consequences," will be held this Wednesday, February 23rd at 9pm in 402 Admin. Please bring a pen/pencil and your best reading skills. Bring a friend, too if you'd like. The more judges we have the faster this will go.
We'll also be judging the art at this time--remember to go take a look and keep the theme of "Consequences" in mind.
Last issue was dynamite so we've got something to work towards. Let's make it great, gang.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. On campus my extension is 3408, and a good email to reach me is kjk_moi13@yahoo.com. Or, if you can't reach me you may contact our Editor in Chief, Mike Rubino, at littlemike@thecellardwellers.com.
Thank you and I hope to see you Wednesday!
-Karissa Kilgore
Literary Editor, Eye Contact
what's the dealio? I know it's winter but why are guys hibernating? Yesterday, Friday February 18 was the deadline for Eye Contact's Consequences.
I found out that we only had ten art submissions, TEN! I was quite disappointed considering that SHU is a liberal arts university and has a strong Art curriculum and foundation.
Don't make excuses about not knowing about it. I placed three large and popping posters (which are very unique and unconventional in comparison to the regular 8 by 11.5" flyers) in strategic places (the post office, 2nd Maura "Solarium" and ground level Lynch) where people often pass or congregate atleast once in a day. In the past, you've seen posters, people have "pestered" you about donations (thank you very much for your donations, we're always grateful for them!), some of your art teachers have made announcements, and Eye Contacts representatives have visited your classrooms.
There have been advertisements in The Setonian and The Communicator. Word of mouth is also prevalent.
I'm pro "subjective" art, art for personal use, art to express oneself etc. Don't feel that having a theme such as "consequences" is in any way restrictive or belittling your artistic style/ inclination. Just remember some of the great artists in the past, such as Michelangelo (Pope Julius pushed him to make the best art for his personal collection and in doing so Michelangelo strived to do his personal best and he did as he matured as an artist). Having "commissions" was the way artists thrived in their craft, and it was how they gained experience. It was how they learned. In a positive way think of Eye Contact as "commissioning" you to do an art work that deals with "consequences."
I urged you to submit artworks you'd be proud of, and most likely it''ll have a "consequential" theme. What are you afraid of? Consequences may favor you and your artwork, next thing you know you may be published. Other consequences may be a rejection letter. So what, the rejection letter is objective, it doesn't say anything personal, however it only states that the artwork was irrelevant to the theme.
Consequences. I just hope SHU artists respond to their calling of being artists, making art and sharing it for others' edification, enlightenment, and salvation. Save us from the enniu of a world lacking art!
...and the Consequences to face.
Your time is running short!---the deadline for submissions to Eye Contact is this
Friday, February 18th!
The Consequences? You won't be published... unless you submit.
The theme is "Consequences," and we're looking for short stories, poetry, photography, art, and anything else you might find fitting to the theme.
(The guidelines for submission are in the Extended Entry below.)
Get 'em done and get 'em in. Mail submissions to Eye Contact, campus box 246 or literature may be e-mailed as rich text file (as text or .rtf files only) to eyecontact@setonhill.edu. We cannot accept artwork via e-mail, but can receive floppy diskettes, Zip disks, or data CDs.
Questions? Contact me, the Literary Editor, Karissa Kilgore; Mike Rubino (Editor in Chief), or Neha Bawa (Assistant Literary Editor).
The poetry selections for last Friday and today in "Intro to Literary Study" include a few poems on death and revenge, in addition to poems on love.
If you'd like a broader range of love poetry to sample, try we discussed Friday and
Valentine's Day Help From Poetry ProfessorsWe asked some of our favorite poetry professors -- many of them poets themselves -- for verses of love academics might want to recite for their Valentines. We hope some of their ideas may inspire.
If you would like to help in posting and formatting the print paper for the Setonian Online in the Publications Office, the times and dates are as follow:
Tuesday, February 15, 2005:
1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
4:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005:
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
*A 15-minute training session in blogging software and Setonian Online formatting will be offered at the start of the Tuesday meeting.
*We may finish on Tuesday--if we do, the alterations to the schedule will be listed here accordingly.
*The Publications Office is on the third floor of Maura Hall.
Hope to see you all there ;-)
i stress the again part because i almost went crazy when i almost finished my entry and somehow my computer made the page go back. so now im typing it again. Lord knows what is preventing me from spouting words out of my mouth that only demons can decipher. Anyway, Bernice Bobs her hair is about social acceptance and female liberation. These themes appear at the beginning and end of the story respectively. She is tearning for acceptance from her peers after being portrayed as an "ugly duckling" by Fitzgerald. However, when she gets too much attention, her cousin Marjorie, gets jealous and insists that she bob her hair, which Bernice saw was a big mistake when it was too late. The liberation part of the story for me is when she takes her own revenge on Marjorie (LOL) and flees on the train. trully classic!!!
First of all I have to say that I really love Fitzgerald. I liked Bernice Bobs her Hair a lot and I also really got into this story. I love his use of language. It may seem a bit flowery but he chooses his words so well to describe the message he is trying to convey. I think I was supposed to read this story in high school but I must have been slacking off or something because I don't remember doing so but I am glad I finally have the chance to. For 12.95 I'm keeping this book!
Anyway, one of the things I noticed about the story was the symbolism of Daisy being a flower. This may seem really obvious but I honestly didn't catch it until i started reading the first chapter for the second time. He always describes her as "opening up again in a flower like way." Plus the obviousness of her name being Daisy. Daisies are simple flowers and I wonder if she is really as simpleminded as she appears. She talks about roses (possible a symbol of love) a lot, like at the Buchannans the porch is described as rosy and she tells Nick he is a rose. "I am not even faintly like a rose" I love that line. I dont think she is as ditsy as she seems to be. In fact she almost mocks her own husband's dull mindedness like when she is telling him that she and Nick were talking about the "Nordic race" and calling him a "hulking brute" I think she makes herself seem simple minded so she is no competition for her husband. The part about the night before the Buchannans wedding made me think that there is more to Daisy than what she lets on. She seems concerned about losing her husband I could be wrong. Please tell me if I am. I am kind of going out on a whim here. Maybe this is why Gatsby doesn't think things are the same between the two of them. Maybe she got too used to being the stupid one that she is no longer intriguing to him.
While our ISP and I were in the process of upgrading to a new server and MT 3.15, we got hacked again. Our ISP, Peter Seebach, took the compromised machine offline.
I don't think we lost any data -- I see entries from late Sunday, just a couple hours before I heard of the problem, and I see that people are already posting comments and blog entries as I am writing this.
As before, if you see a strange message when you type in the URL of your blog, just rebuild the site, and it should return to normal.
Those of you who were expecting to use your blogs for homework: bring the work to class and hand it in the old fashioned way.
Catch up on your blogging and commenting by the next class period.
What remains for me is upgrading to MT 3.15. That'll be a task for another day.
Meanwhile, I seem to remember some people called "family" at a place called "home", and a thing called "sleep". Then there is also this thing called "grading" that I have this feeling I'm supposed to be doing.
If a woman cries rape,she is asked who rape her, if a man cries rape, he is asked who did he rape. this is not to say females are necessarily inferior but, stereotype point a murder at a myterious man first, rather than the wife of a sheriff. The innocence and secondary role of women jumps out at me after reading they jury of her peer. snapping the neck of a canary doesnt equate the taking of a life.
If a woman cries rape,she is asked who rape her, if a man cries rape, he is asked who did he rape. this is not to say females are necessarily inferior but, stereotype point a murder at a myterious man first, rather than the wife of a sheriff. The innocence and secondary role of women jumps out at me after reading they jury of her peer. snapping the neck of a canary doesnt equate the taking of a life.
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Where Newspapers Can Start the Conversation
For anyone who's been following our local blog discussion on The Topic that Must Not be Named, here's an online journalist's take on how the world of the professional journalist can benefit from and build upon the kind of energy and passion that we've seen on this community blog from time to time.
I personally hope to see, on this community blog site, much more of the frank and open discussion that leads to productive ideas, and much less of the name-calling, generalizations, vulgarity, and territorialism that leads to division and isolationism.
Those of you who continue to take the high road, and who look for common ground and workable solutions are to be commended. We are stronger as a community when more voices are heard, so please feel free to join in, or to start your own discussions by posting to the NMJ blog.
A SCHOOLGIRL has become a publishing sensation after her first novel sold 50,000 copies in six weeks. A second print run for Emma Maree Urquhart’s Dragon Tamers has been ordered.
Emma Maree, 13, from Inverness, wrote about a teenager who is dragged into a virtual reality game involving a dragon. If she dies in the game, she dies in the real world.
I've just purchased and downloaded Movable Type 3.0.
I've made a backup of all your blogs as of about a half hour ago, and I plan to make another backup right before I do the switch (possibly later tonight, possibly tomorrow).
At some point this weekend, blogs might come down during the transition.
I've never tried to restore a blog from a database backup, so just now I used the "Import/Export" button to "Export" a text version of all the comments and entries posted to my adacemic blogs.
If you've put a lot of effort into your stylesheets and templates, I'd recommend that you back those up too.
I've asked our ISP to make a backup of the whole directory where our blogs are located just before we make the switch, so that if something is wrong we can easily revert to the way things were...
The deadline--she approaches...
It's time to showcase your creativity, SHU crew.
Pens rolling, mouse scrolling, camera clicking, paint flicking... let's see it.
Turn in that work! The deadline is
Friday, February 18th!
Check the submission guidelines below for all the technical blather--make sure you follow the instructions about submitting.
(It makes my job a little bit easier in the long run--thanks in advance ;-)
Last night, this site was attacked by a script kiddie (a hacker using a well-known, ready-made toolkit).
If your blog has been replaced by an unexpected message, all you need to do is rebuild your indexes, and your site should return to normal.
I've notified the ISP that hosts this site for Seton Hill University, and I hope the vulnerability will be repaired soon.
If you find that any of my course pages are defaced, or if you rebuild your blog and the vandalism returns, please let me know immediately. Thank you!
