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Colleague Misery

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:10:16 +0000

Oh my fucking god. I hate to drag this old meme back out from RYS days, but I’m in my office trying to work and my next-door neighbor is on the phone with a former student. You would not know this, however, by the intimacy with which she is discussing the most intimate things in her life. “Oh, you and [other former student] just have to come over! I haven’t seen you guys in forever!” And on and on it goes. One of these students actually said to me “I think of [first name of this colleague!] as a friend, but I think of you as a mentor.” Another told me she hated going to her classes because she plays favorites with certain students who are her friends — and given the rest of the comment I’m quite sure she was talking about the first Read more

Panel Will Discuss College-Town Culture and Town/Gown Relations Nationwide

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:22:35 +0000

CHESTERTOWN, MD—Town/gown relations will take center stage on Thursday, November 18 when geographer Blake Gumprecht, author of the widely-praised 2008 book The American College Town, comes to Chestertown to highlight a wide-ranging panel discussion about college towns and the people – young and not so young – who live in them. “The College Town: A Conversation” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Norman James Theatre on the Washington College campus, 300 Washington Avenue. View photos from the event. Comprised of both townsfolk and gownsfolk, the panel – which includes Gumprecht, three Chestertown residents and a city planner from Newark, DE – will explore some of the enduring questions about college towns. Is every community with an institution of higher learning a Read more

Castelli Exhibit Extended Two Weekends

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:13:54 +0000

CHESTERTOWN—The Kohl Gallery exhibition “Marc Castelli: The Art of the Waterman, The Simison Collection,” originally set to close at the end of Downrigging Weekend, will remain open for the next two weekends, November 5-7 and 12-14. The exhibition features more than 20 paintings of working watermen and their boats by beloved Chesapeake Bay artist Marc Castelli. Seventeen of the paintings are on loan from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michael’s, which received them as a bequest of Tilghman Island collector Diane Simison. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Maritime Museum and the Center for Environment & Society at Washington College. The Kohl Gallery is located in the Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts on the Washington College campus, 300 Washington Read more

Experimental Poet Ken Chen to Read October 28 at Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:21:47 +0000

CHESTERTOWN—Ken Chen, a young poet praised for emotionally piercing, often wry poems that chronicle his relationship with his immigrant family, will read from his work Thursday, October 28 at 4:30 p.m. at the Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College. Chen’s collection Juvenilia won the 2009 Yale Younger Poets competition, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Gluck, one of the competition’s judges, wrote that Chen’s writings “have isolated and dramatized the profound dilemma of the adult’s relation to childhood in poems of riveting intelligence and sharp wit and profound beauty.” The poet “manages to be both exhilaratingly modern (anti-catharsis, anti-epiphany) while at the same time never losing his Read more

This is why I teach . . .

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:12:02 +0000

One of my colleagues has a huge “Why?” sign on hir office wall. Well, here is one answer. I present to you, with no English-teacher snark, an email I received from a humanities student the other day: Hello Ma’am! I was just writing to tell you about my awesome trip over break. We went to Nashville and were able to go to the Hermitage, which was Andrew Jacksons home after he served as president. We learned so much from where the slaves lived, to where Andrew slept, to seeing their graves. As we toured the home it was very awesome, and I actually knew one of the lithorgraphs and its creator on the wall, and the tour guide who knew EVERYTHING had no idea. I would not had known if it was not for humanities. I felt smart;) Read more

When Is It Okay To Call Someone an Asshole?

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:13:59 +0000

I was filling up my car with gas a few days ago, and as I was getting ready to leave, some guy in one of those gigantic diesel pick up trucks, swerved quickly through a maze of gas pumps and people, and jammed his brakes on so that he had effectively pinned my vehicle in. He got out and talked to someone filling up nearby. They were friends, and they had a 3 minute animated conversation, all while his truck blocked my exit from the gas station. They finally did a fist bump and the guy got back in his truck and took off as quickly as he arrived. As his truck disappeared, I said to myself in my car, “Fucking asshole!” Of course he didn’t hear. I wouldn’t have said it if he hadn’t already left. I wouldn’t have said it with my windows open either. I know Read more

A New Mantra

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:11:11 +0000

I’ve had it. While I tend to remind myself that I am fatal to most grandparents, this semester the students aren’t even trying to come up with cleaver excuses for missed work. This time most of the requests are written poorly and/or come up with the lamest excuses that I’ve ever seen. So from this point on, I’m just saying “no” to everything. Clueless Clara: Can I make up the test. I wasn’t ready for it but now I am. CO: Well I’m not ready to give you a makeup so no ADD Anthony: Can I make up the writing assignment. I have severe add and wasn’t taking my meds. I now know that was very harmful to my education.CO: Well duh. And no. Mathematically-Challenged Martin: I got a 92/200 on the exam. Is that an A? If Read more

Director of National Gallery of Art to Deliver Janson-La Palme Lecture

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:10:25 +0000

Chestertown, MD — The Washington College Department of Art and Art History and Kohl Gallery present the Janson-La Palme Annual Distinguished Lecture in European Art History, “The National Gallery in the New Century,” a talk by Earl A. Powell III, Director of the National Gallery of Art, to be held Monday, April 5, 5:30 p.m., in the Hotchkiss Recital Hall, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend. In 1992, Earl A. Powell III, known as “Rusty,” became only the fourth director of the National Gallery of Art, which opened to the public in 1941. This world-renowned collection has more than 107,000 European and American paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, books, and decorative arts dating from the 13th Read more

Starr Center Director Goodheart Launches "New York Times" Online Series on America’s Civil War

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:10:51 +0000

CHESTERTOWN—Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, will offer glimpses back to our nation’s most tumultuous time in a new online history column for the New York Times that launched Monday, November 1. His articles are part of a series entitled “Disunion,” marking the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Goodheart’s contributions will recount what was happening on specific days 150 years ago. The first installment, “The Last Ordinary Day,” sets the stage for Lincoln’s election as the nation’s 16th president: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/the-last-ordinary-day Washington College students James Schelberg ’12 and Kathy Thornton ’13 are contributing research to the Times’ Read more

Advice from Flake

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:13:36 +0000

CM readers, I need your advice ! What can one reply to the student who is scoring the lowest in class, never reads assigned material, and never participates in class – and when asked to participate, says”I did not read the material”. From: Dildert DinoProf. Mundo, After reading your review about my midterm I am seriously considering dropping this class. My poor performance may end up with a very bad grade, which might affect my GPA in a negative way. Although I am really interested in Advanced Basketweaving and it is also one of the career options for me after graduation. One of the question I wanted to ask you was if I try my best in the remaining class participation, project and final exam, what is possibility I can still get an A- and above? Read more