[illustration: the view from the Academic Center at 7:28 AM]
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Despite both my kids wearing their pajamas inside-out last night, the snow gods saw fit only to shower upon us a modicum of white fluff.
Classes before 10 AM are canceled. Mine is at 11:10, so it looks like I’ll be teaching. Not that I don’t love my students … but professors wish for snow days, too, you know.
Prof. Priyamvada Gopal Please join the English Department as we welcome Prof. Priyamvada Gopal, of the University of Cambridge, on Thursday, Feb. 10 from 4-6 pm in Rome 771. The title of Prof. Gopal’s talk is “Is Feminism Bad for Multiculturalism? Gender, Cultural Identity and Literary Controversy” Prof. Gopal is the author of two books,…
Our intrepid Front Office Student Worker, Sasha, somehow conned the department chair into opening a Twitter account under the name “GWENGL.” A series of tweets erupted yesterday, with more likely to follow. We consider this twitter twaddle to be a two week experiment. Most of what will be disseminated will be lies (we are a…
Brian Becker, one of my favorite former students, writes: I came to Chicago directly after graduation to get an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, which wrapped up in 2006, and have since been working in a number of capacities for The Princeton Review–most recently as a trainer of incoming teachers for the…
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Today’s Hatchet featured a front-page article about the new general curriculum passed recently by faculty in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. As many of you know, the G-PAC curriculum (the “PAC” is for “perspective,” “analysis,” and “communication”), which affects students entering GW in the fall of 2011, does away with the current General…
Hello everybody, my name is Rajiv Menon and I am the English department’s new communications liaison. I am a junior, majoring in English and International Affairs. In addition to working with the English department, I also intern at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and tutor at GW’s writing center. Also, in addition to writing…
