tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15439133824796222532024-03-05T05:06:02.073-05:00How many English honor students does it take...?TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-37851080670803470162011-05-18T13:38:00.002-04:002011-05-18T13:45:47.213-04:00To Reflect on Another Year of Learning?It's May! -- exams have been taken, final essays have been written, and grades have been turned in by students and faculty. It's time to think about what another year of learning has added to our brains, and about the people we'd like to thank for their contributions to our success.<br /><br />First off, I'd like to thank my students and their families for choosing The College of New Jersey as their "learning destination" -- not to be confused with a vacation destination. We're proud of the education we offer, and we are pleased that you selected TCNJ.<br /><br />Next, I would like to thank the residents of New Jersey for continuing to support public education for young (and not-so-young) New Jerseyans. Many many middle class families throughout the US would have never achieved economic stability without our American commitment to public education. I myself would not enjoy a nation in which only those families who could afford private schools were able to obtain degrees for their children.<br /><br />Before we all get too caught up in summer, let's think about what this academic year has brought us.TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-12451726343053404762011-04-06T21:43:00.005-04:002011-08-08T09:26:18.279-04:00To Defend 'The Fountainhead'?<span class="Apple-tab-span"><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I first read <i>The Fountainhead</i> the summer before entering The College of New Jersey. At the time, my rejection from Princeton was still a fairly fresh wound. Little did I know, the novel was incredibly relevant to my situation and would set the tone for my college career.</span></span></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Political implications aside, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">the chief message of the novel is the idea of responsibility to oneself. To me it's an uplifting message: You have a responsibility to achieve to your highest ability. This should be your guiding virtue. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">No one has any right to you or your work, except you. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">As the hero, Howard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Roark</span>, says, "</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; white-space: normal;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; white-space: normal;"> do not recognize <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">anyone's</span> right to a minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine." </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Do not depend on the greatness of others to define your own work because you have the capacity to create. In order to love and respect others, you need to be able to first respect yourself. This prerequisite of love, is described in the novel: " '</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'. "</span></span></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Howard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Roark</span> refuses to remain tethered to the work of his predecessors, to cower in the shadows of what is defined as greatness and thereby admit automatic inferiority. He is determined to forge his own path. Now, as a graduating senior, I can't think of a more empowering sentiment, as my peers and I embark on what's next.</span></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><i>
<br /></i></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><i>The Fountainhead </i>has the potential to resonate with anyone with an individual dream who is willing to fight for it. It is my hope that my classmates and I follow <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Roark's</span> example in our careers:</span></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">
<br /></span></div><div style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">“But you see, I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">ve</span> chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards — and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT644" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT645" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">may</span></span>, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.”</span></span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">-Katie <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Brenzel</span> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">Todd Petty contributed to this blog post</span></i></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-11771185763432277742011-04-05T13:20:00.008-04:002011-04-05T20:58:44.684-04:00To Argue With Their Sponsor About Literature?So, here I am, Felicia Steele, earnest Sigma Tau Delta sponsor, proud bearer of my five year anniversary letter from the national organization, embroiled in a dispute about literary merit with my chapter's members. Each year our chapter has a marathon reading at the end of the spring semester, partially to celebrate the season, but mostly to come together around one text and the long-lost art of social reading. The origins of this custom are fuzzy--most people on campus credit a marathon reading of Homer's <em>Odyssey</em> that took place in 2003 or 2004, but I, of course, give myself credit for initiating the custom, since I insisted on reading <em>Beowulf</em> from "Hwaet" to "lofgeornost" (in Modern English, of course) in April of 2002, at the end of my first year at The College of New Jersey. Few remember the event, but I recall it fondly, especially since I believe it might get the prize for the shortest marathon reading ever. In the early days, marathon readings were very faculty-driven: my <em>Beowulf, The Odyssey, </em>Joyce's <em>Ulysses </em>in honor of the retirement of beloved professor Lee Harrod, <em>Song of Myself</em> in honor of the 150th anniversary of its publication (which fortuitously corresponded with our college's Sesquicentennial), Milton's <em>Paradise Lost</em> (coordinated by a senior seminar on the book).<br /><p>But last year we decided to open the competition up to student preference. As a result, I had to face one of my demons: books I don't like. It started with <em>Catcher in the Rye. </em>I acknowledge Salinger's importance to our culture and recognize that it would have been appropriate to read his most famous and influential book right after his demise. But I really hate Holden Caulfield. I wanted us to read Chris Abani, since I was so impressed with the talk he gave at last year's convention. Nonetheless, I was happy to read the birthday party episode from <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> in my West Country accent. Yet this year...this year. We have reached a bridge too far my friends--what do I do now? The students have selected Ayn Rand's <em>The Fountainhead</em> as one of the three candidates in the penny wars they're conducting to choose the book (and to support the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen). Ayn Rand's ideological rant faces up against <em>Sense and Sensibility</em> and <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</em>. I've been ranting and raving, scowling and snarling about this choice for over a month now, but I finally decided I needed to lay out my reasons against this book. The penny war is a contest, so I can be overruled, and I refuse to be the principal donor in the war, but I wanted my chapter members know why I object so viscerally to this novel, especially since I pride myself as a champion of academic freedom. And I invite my opponents to provide their reasons for the texts in question. Thus, patient reader, allow me to put Rand's <em>The Fountainhead</em> on trial.<br /></p><p>My charges are thus: one count of bad prose, one count of bad economics, and one count of irredeemable misogyny. My evidence follows.<br /></p><p>First, I'm working from Google books, so I do not have a page number for this Penguin edition. My apologies:<br /></p><p>"Keating looked at the sketch. He had known for a long time that Howard Roark had been chosen to build the Enright House. He had seen a few mentions of Roark's name in the papers; not much, all of it to be summed up only as 'some young architect chosen by Mr. Enright for some reason, probably an interesting young architect.' The caption under the drawing announced that the construction of the project was to begin at once. Well, thought Keating, and dropped the paper, so what? The paper fell beside the black and scarlet book. He looked at both. He felt dimly as if Lois Cook were his defense against Howard Roark."<br /></p><p>My evidence from this one paragraph suggests that Rand 1) overuses pronominal constructions making it difficult to follow the logic of her narration, 2) overuses past perfect constructions so that the text exists in a time vacuum, 3) lacks a narrative perspective. I consider all three of these traits to be sins of prose fiction and poison to an extended live reading.<br /></p><p>Second charge: bad economics. Take this one quotation, admittedly with little context:<br /></p><p>"He's only a common worker, she thought, a hired man doing a convict's labor."<br /></p><p>The suggestion of a 20th century author that labor is something appropriate only for convicts is abhorrent to me--I cannot suffer to hear this kind of thing.<br /></p><p>Third (and damning) charge: irredeemable misogyny. I somehow doubt that the students who have not yet read <em>The Fountainhead</em> know that it includes, as one of the actions of its nearly divine hero, the architect Roark, one of the most appalling rape fantasy scenes in all literature. I won't quote the rape itself, but from its aftermath--from what it does to the character of Dominique.<br /></p><p>"She could accept, thought Dominique, and come to forget in time everything that had happened to her, save one memory: that she had found pleasure in the thing which had happened, that he had known it, and more: that he had known it before he came to her and that he would not have come but for that knowledge. She had not givene him the one answer that would have saved her: an answer of simple revulsion--she had found joy in her revulsion, in her terror and in his strength. That was the degradation she had wanted and she hated him for it."<br /></p><p>Now, as many of my students know, I'm no shrinking violet, and have taught some graphic, quite horrifying literature in my classes. I think most fondly of <em>Last Exit to Brooklyn</em>, which one of my students thought was too scandalous for a woman to read while pregnant, as I was when I taught the book. I'm not queasy about violence. But I simply am horrified by the idea that my students will sit around a lounge, many of them in their last year of college, after having participated in presentation and event after presentation that says that "No means no," that "No woman deserves or asks to be raped," and have to listen to this indictment of female sexuality. I confer the matter to the jury, respectfully. May you vote with your spare change and pennies. --Felicia Steele</p>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-73592057472837295372011-03-21T23:09:00.005-04:002011-03-21T23:48:29.477-04:00To Compete In A Scrabble Tournament?Last Wednesday, word lovers joined in Bliss Hall Lounge for the first Sigma Tau Delta Scrabble Tournament at TCNJ. Sixteen players competed in the tournament, hoping to win prizes including TCNJ library-approved mugs, Sigma Tau Delta swag, and Amazon gift cards.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuaPnW8JZiiEKyNw9wA8hDM3Ax6hlB1QQxOEo5ophXqwPMaZugbjWG9dq4V1Hyq-85tMk8K0W3CJ3ZKKi6axfrpUT3Dt1hUUdzbO3tc1ko2L7nzpp6Soj2XEkC-SF_X2ombjPPfIG3qHDp/s1600/IMG_0894.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuaPnW8JZiiEKyNw9wA8hDM3Ax6hlB1QQxOEo5ophXqwPMaZugbjWG9dq4V1Hyq-85tMk8K0W3CJ3ZKKi6axfrpUT3Dt1hUUdzbO3tc1ko2L7nzpp6Soj2XEkC-SF_X2ombjPPfIG3qHDp/s400/IMG_0894.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739058085974850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The tournament used a single-elimination bracket. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioGQW2jV7oaxs9Zx_-sjpRGUOOuVswjMEeEGK2zCEXD_GPPg7HYZ-LXN3_neH2zjOg08zBJP10QAG0IGVe1fUO36Mn0fLwc9ZOx97BnBjT-Sv-FDGRXiJLkFvqRhL10j67q6e8Opdwc21/s1600/IMG_0900.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioGQW2jV7oaxs9Zx_-sjpRGUOOuVswjMEeEGK2zCEXD_GPPg7HYZ-LXN3_neH2zjOg08zBJP10QAG0IGVe1fUO36Mn0fLwc9ZOx97BnBjT-Sv-FDGRXiJLkFvqRhL10j67q6e8Opdwc21/s400/IMG_0900.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739080152510530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Eric and Frank battle it out in the first round.<br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqIOxuAw2px5FmjmkZpMx2_rDx9eYo7Bhc_uw5hlx4rz8EWWfdhSyWzRVq8Q0xf_mKOgJ29v8MlKPAM3PKR9q09Cgctf7JdvD6e5KNaqbAvGK3pDYWv8JwgxDWkX8yF8u41vhG241Ga4_j/s1600/IMG_0899.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqIOxuAw2px5FmjmkZpMx2_rDx9eYo7Bhc_uw5hlx4rz8EWWfdhSyWzRVq8Q0xf_mKOgJ29v8MlKPAM3PKR9q09Cgctf7JdvD6e5KNaqbAvGK3pDYWv8JwgxDWkX8yF8u41vhG241Ga4_j/s400/IMG_0899.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739069865994802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Lou contemplates his next move while Becca prepares to put down a word.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhoQVzCe4iFZySu3EUMvRWjkxVEmkVwqYLr7bW25To9ZROzyWzIgdFzwhxyJrh3bnco9FC-IZpQk3xx6WZi3udA8dAqjJxsV1AayX4q4rSFDjVbLBCv8GukNfBSJQ4oEAZ5M1S7IWbJDK/s1600/IMG_0895.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhoQVzCe4iFZySu3EUMvRWjkxVEmkVwqYLr7bW25To9ZROzyWzIgdFzwhxyJrh3bnco9FC-IZpQk3xx6WZi3udA8dAqjJxsV1AayX4q4rSFDjVbLBCv8GukNfBSJQ4oEAZ5M1S7IWbJDK/s400/IMG_0895.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739065279103026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Ten players anxiously await the end of the first round, hoping they will advance in the tournament and gain the fame and glory they so crave.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGg5ekCC4DMr3NpQ2FK6DoPr4lkXsd03b9pOlmi8BLhrKRtjmwp790V17Rxacf71kXfV0y5S5ftQGsrunkoXQM9CHvH033ZXXVcUZ2wks1nstuxzADiQe_R58di7apnP9Z_aCq-t6pffdt/s1600/IMG_0898.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGg5ekCC4DMr3NpQ2FK6DoPr4lkXsd03b9pOlmi8BLhrKRtjmwp790V17Rxacf71kXfV0y5S5ftQGsrunkoXQM9CHvH033ZXXVcUZ2wks1nstuxzADiQe_R58di7apnP9Z_aCq-t6pffdt/s400/IMG_0898.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739070373589858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Emily watches as Jenna plays another made-up word.</span><br /><br /></div>The tournament was set up so that no matter when a player was eliminated, he/she would receive a prize. This element of the tournament was important to the two Sigma Tau Delta students who organizes the tournament, seniors Enrico Bruno and Todd Petty. They wanted to make sure that each player left the tournament with a prize, even if they were eliminated in the first round.<br /><br />Eight players made it to the second round, four advanced to the semi-finals, and finally Frank and Alexa played in the final match.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6dNQ-_FHciXAT9TesYTEiq6wO6cXEv76KDV-1mn-p6UUrCgRJHW74J9_TSB8ttqC-u5UrWE-za7nk6LIvoplZumwgbcP9HbloM_gX-W-iECk5gCmfady-TwqXey_cR-Ro07YTZ546MyT-/s1600/IMG_0904.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6dNQ-_FHciXAT9TesYTEiq6wO6cXEv76KDV-1mn-p6UUrCgRJHW74J9_TSB8ttqC-u5UrWE-za7nk6LIvoplZumwgbcP9HbloM_gX-W-iECk5gCmfady-TwqXey_cR-Ro07YTZ546MyT-/s400/IMG_0904.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586744720383305922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Frank and Zach begin the game that will determine who will make it to the final match.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmfhVfcYafRo6vAle5wK-vmtCYxVaV6lJZE38pEKhin-Gn_YkxW6NONvmUeC2ePWmxb6W680byPztZytrotUtvEbrUSfwH4xvUq52F4AFJG6vLeo438NHzPFaCo88Kv1qDslwTrPTHrjhD/s1600/IMG_0903.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmfhVfcYafRo6vAle5wK-vmtCYxVaV6lJZE38pEKhin-Gn_YkxW6NONvmUeC2ePWmxb6W680byPztZytrotUtvEbrUSfwH4xvUq52F4AFJG6vLeo438NHzPFaCo88Kv1qDslwTrPTHrjhD/s400/IMG_0903.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586744718677855666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Alexa organizes her letters while Kristen eyes her tiles suspiciously.</span><br /></div><br />Congratulations to Alexa for winning the tournament and taking home the grand prize of a $30 giftcard to Amazon.com.<br /><br />And thank you to all sixteen players who competed in the tournament!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRXCSu3PjxCxdi5QFq7lH6mKUkx_PocuUhGINmfiAgB732aNqcrAP5Lmsp2wesTaQFcI6Lj33PYeJu6Nqym-OghyphenhyphenHHsGqz5L6yRcFoYlAtSE8KwVbn9UShgbCsmmma_XcrTO2JujF37sUr/s1600/IMG_0902.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRXCSu3PjxCxdi5QFq7lH6mKUkx_PocuUhGINmfiAgB732aNqcrAP5Lmsp2wesTaQFcI6Lj33PYeJu6Nqym-OghyphenhyphenHHsGqz5L6yRcFoYlAtSE8KwVbn9UShgbCsmmma_XcrTO2JujF37sUr/s400/IMG_0902.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586744711373765122" border="0" /></a></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-30498934532599603082011-03-11T22:37:00.007-05:002011-03-11T22:47:39.353-05:00To Read Dr. Seuss Books?<div style="text-align: left;">Thank you to everyone who came out and supported our Dr. Seuss Day on Wednesday, March 2nd. Below are some pictures from the event. Special thanks to our member Cynthia, who organized the event and brought ample Dr. Seuss books for us to select and read!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzbIkDX9oYQ1owWbmfhcb6B3LCFLEEkb0FzPfe5Tmw7hwJbqRpRXctQ6wZ5Taak74x2vb5Jwh6__srAPDZ29PwH3txTg9Dg7d90ivP7npf3yxKpufgP2OLZYMyZ2gd0CslQiPh22nDOLom/s400/DSC00471.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583033344463206658" /><div><div style="text-align: center;">The wonderful selection of books we could read.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsrCTGHg8pyUIdwTUElLbN-K9Jr0ogxyJh_RDZ4BeN1nCoLZy6yuJTDyw3iwPHnVZD4uvMVwgIJHtveF-VZiy9Me4W_qqrdxvVBn042nokST9Zytvv46WfGZXxfSpludn6HFYQcaIjeEx/s400/DSC00485.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583034545111000866" /><div><div style="text-align: center;">Some of our audience members.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSx9Uv7LH7COLb9SgoMk3w_vVYcciTmnPHTOgkRSBGIsZczxwgxw3uMl3Hswu4rwe5EQ7EetPkFVmOQJmFA9CNzenQXq5amSihC3UVUhDH84zVAMSGyAphPQxQi3lR8s1zrst-yYwQwGe/s400/DSC00475.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583033715476231330" /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">We can't forget to mention the delicious cake!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhOT2787p8UX7VGtW7HjLZpEbZWCAqcVZt5tUhsh_GY_JOZfeUL65mxorXWcRD9BxlCXn_kktiQMAIXv7JWIFVT75mj9AE8kNdZjNO7do26xqCmvwNv9i5y2ShihM8AhTmult16VI3ZzL/s400/DSC00482.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583033958081103010" /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Kim reading <i>Daisy Head Maize</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-80261375212413547522011-02-28T20:19:00.002-05:002011-02-28T20:23:44.140-05:00To Celebrate Read Across America Day?<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">Remember having fun with these?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZ2gjIvWXTxcsHSpLo8zpm57Xae1OKo8ahr6oCk2aAypI1KwF3tKjGHza8ZY8A-Fq79EiQ3oxzeL3kB0l4GaUC7G5s6Q3Kqdj-gnfHugwOFwvRR3ItB7NHAOd45Z7KqhNwgwT0PEFTxXG/s400/dr.+seuss+books.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578915274851019042" /><br /> If you are reading a book for class, which seems to grow extra pages the longer you read it, you might realize it’s time for a break. But you’re still a book-loving English major (minor, etc) and you don’t quite want to move away from your books.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; "><br /> Let me introduce you to Dr. Seuss Day on March 2nd. Clearly, an event all fans of the printed word would be interested in. Who doesn’t remember those early years when fish were red or blue, one or two? Look fondly back on the days when green eggs and ham didn’t refer to a bad dinner pick from our Eickhoff dining hall.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; "><br /> Come join us from 1-3 in Bliss Lounge. Why? Because we’re fellow adults who still love hearing Dr. Seuss. And eating cake. Did I mention the Dr. Seuss themed cake that will be available for free? Well let me now: there will be a Dr. Seuss themed cake that will be available for free. At 1:30 and 2:30 we will have marathon readings. If you want to read, go stop by and sign up; if you don’t, then sit back and have a story read to you for once in way too long.<br /> At the end, don’t forget to sign the guest list and get your certificate e-mailed to you!<br /><br /> Check out our Facebook event: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT362" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT363" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198371190191289" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198371190191289</a></span></span><br /><br /> Hope to see you there! <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT364" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT365" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">Wed</span></span> March 2nd. Bliss Lounge. 1pm-3pm. Cake and other goodies from 1pm-3pm. Marathon Readings 1:30 and 2:30.<br /><br />-Cynthia</span></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-58355910568205507612011-02-25T17:15:00.003-05:002011-02-26T15:20:13.080-05:00To Learn Teenage as a Second Language?<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>As English majors, we are all required to take at least one linguistics course, but even learning about code-switching and vernacular was unable to prepare me for what I stumbled upon while surfing the Internet...a new book entitled, <a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/event/momentsofmotherhood/how-to-learn-teenage-as-a-second-language-2457014/">Teenage as a Second Language: A Parent's Guide to Becoming Bilingual</a>.<div><br /></div><div>It wasn't long ago that I was part of the teenage generation that made words like <i>whatever</i> and <i>fine</i> into dangerous verbal daggers. Whenever I wielded one of these words my parents instinctively knew I meant business and adolescence was rearing its ugly head. </div><div><br /></div><div>I remember getting my first e-mail address, along with most of my friends, in 1999 when I was in fourth grade. My friends and I quickly integrated computer slang into our own e-mails and instant messages, asking each other <i>wu?</i> and telling each other we'll <i>brb</i> or we've <i>gtg</i>. And who can forget being warned about instant messages from strangers requesting our <i>A/S/L</i>? </div><div><br /></div><div>But computer language is one thing--verbal speech is another scenario entirely. Would you consider "teenage" to be a separate language? Any thoughts?</div><div><br /></div><div>-Kristen</div><div><div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicmvP-tTKSMs-Lj13ZtoaIpRKuZI0iXrR4R-8VK1oMoHmbjyeU3nk6UCCjqOFUfs4fVLJ82DXwVX18oA488B_XxfDOl5xfanC2yRvScrXNREzYfwdQT70AIMkfA2xVt7RKE824KGq9L4kC/s400/teenage+as+a+second+language.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577757457416068498" /></div><div><br /></div></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-56954406767883768602011-02-24T16:07:00.004-05:002011-03-08T09:05:56.595-05:00To Discuss Pride and Prejudice?Our chapter of Sigma Tau Delta recently met for another book club meeting. This time around we discussed the Jane Austen classic, <span style="font-style: italic;">Pride and Prejudice</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYdag5WDgYWuiLWgUL6Szah_zKGParJ1nGdFed-X2CZwmoVPLl7I3TYIqjlI7tlDzH4uILBxMfaTR2gHpU27YsnFiaAwUB7tO_zk0EmUN9CAHZ1SQ6QpcCdvctPblw8P3wWEG8MSoW6OS/s1600/bookclubp.png"><br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEideZth8wy45Cb5Rf2smeWV9Ix_U4F8fjjtTRJoO5AtCiPcTFygB26RZzYfjO0H_5eokhWPT31QWpjkvmGhnMfmwlBKPdT_vfymMhP4vv_PFM3n26h-HNr42bEFuTqIedO-hK_HGXwhT4EE/s1600/bookclubpp.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEideZth8wy45Cb5Rf2smeWV9Ix_U4F8fjjtTRJoO5AtCiPcTFygB26RZzYfjO0H_5eokhWPT31QWpjkvmGhnMfmwlBKPdT_vfymMhP4vv_PFM3n26h-HNr42bEFuTqIedO-hK_HGXwhT4EE/s400/bookclubpp.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575215231035072738" border="0" /></a><br />Sigma Tau Delta advisor Professor Steinberg began the meeting with a reference to an article she had recently read. The article stated that the American education system failed to teach one important lesson to teens: how to pick a suitable marriage partner. Professor Steinberg asked, is this one of the functions of teaching <span style="font-style: italic;">Pride and Prejudice</span>?<br /><br />Other topics of conversation included the original title of the novel (<span style="font-style: italic;">First Impressions</span>), Austen's prose, and social norms in Austen's England, especially regarding marriage and the expansive age gap common in marriages at the time. The role of women in the novel was discussed at length, primarily the binary of the intelligent, composed female and the frivolous, rash female so common in Jane Austen novels.<br /><br />One student questioned the recent phenomenon of infusing Austen's novels with monsters; does <span style="font-style: italic;">Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</span> bring Austen's work to a wider audience, or is having the Bennett sisters protect a ball from a zombie attack sacrilegious?<br /><br />If you weren't able to attend the meeting, sound off in the comment section!TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-45549782039874866282011-02-09T14:13:00.003-05:002011-02-09T23:23:37.697-05:00To Host A Scrabble Tournament?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/j/ja/jaymarr/441384_lets_play.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/j/ja/jaymarr/441384_lets_play.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />This year our chapter of Sigma Tau Delta will be hosting its first campus-wide Scrabble tournament.<br /><br />We got the idea while in St. Louis during last year's convention. After spending the better part of our days attending each others panels and wandering the streets of St. Louis, we would often end our nights with friendly games of Scrabble. This attracted a lot of attention, both from members of Sigma Tau Delta as well as from various passerby in the hotel. It gave us the idea that we could possibly plan an event that would get not only members of Sigma Tau Delta and the English department involved, but professors and students from other disciplines as well.<br /><br />The tournament will be held on March 16th, from approximately 1:00pm-4:00pm in the main lounge of Bliss Hall - the nexus of all things literary at The College of New Jersey. Participants will be randomly paired in brackets. Games will be timed (1 hour long) to ensure that the pace of the tournament is fair. We are currently in the process of selecting prizes, although there will be a prize for every participant. Although we are still in the planning process, we have already generated a considerable buzz on campus.<br /><br />Please email us at enghonor@gmail.com if you are interested in joining!TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-30953705051899981962011-02-09T13:03:00.004-05:002011-03-08T09:12:05.479-05:00To Teach in a Foreign Country?<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">YES. Do it. If you have the opportunity, it is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">I have been in Rome, Italy since the beginning of January. TCNJ has a unique program that allows Education majors to complete half of their student teaching overseas and I immediately jumped at the opportunity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">A long and arduous application process many months later and… here I am! A true Roman… kind of. There is nothing like spending two months in a foreign country to make you realize how hard communication can be when you don’t speak the same language as most people around you, and need to communicate using hand gestures that you silently pray are not rude or obscene.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">My student teaching placement is in a 3<sup>rd</sup> grade classroom at an American school here in Rome, and even if you feel as though you have experienced diversity within a classroom, you probably haven’t seen what I have. There are 22 children in my class, only half of which are native to Italy. The remaining half comes from the United States, Egypt, Israel, India, and China. Only the English language is permitted within the classroom because some of the children are still learning it, but the languages native to the various students are Italian, English, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and Hindi. On my third day in the classroom, it was a child’s birthday and I listened to the “Happy Birthday” song in English, Italian, Arabic, French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Chinese. It was one of those eye-opening experiences that gave me goosebumps and made me realize just how lucky I am to be able to experience all of this.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">While the variation of English language skills in the classroom ranges from late kindergarten to 11<sup>th</sup> grade, I have not yet found teaching the children in English to be that challenging. There are a handful of students who leave the classroom daily for ELL, and I have to be careful not to talk too quickly, but the children are all wonderful and have a passion for learning that you don’t really get to see that often. Occasionally, they will have one of those moments where they slap their hand to their forehead and go, “Ohh…uhhh… ummm, Miss Gargiulo, what is the word for ‘[insert Italian word here]?” or “Miss Gargiulo, how do you say [insert Italian word here] ?” When this happens, I try to exercise the little bit of Italian I know or ask one of the students around us, who usually seem to know the answer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">To say the least, it has been an adventure and an experience that I know I will never forget. I will be sad to go but will be walking away with a newfound appreciation for those children who are bi- or tri-lingual and have acquired more language skills in their lifetime than I could ever hope to obtain.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">-Katie G.</span></p>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-24187067319184704262011-02-07T23:16:00.006-05:002011-03-08T09:19:49.358-05:00To Nominate?<span>In preparation for what is likely to be a very heated penny war, Professor Steinberg is accepting nominations for Sigma Tau Delta's annual 24-hour Marathon Reading. The first ten nominations will enter the competition. Thus far, we have received three nominations:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sense and Sensibility </span><span>by Jane Austen<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">American Gods</span> by Neil Gaiman<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Fountainhead</span> by Ayn Rand<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</span> by J.K Rowling<br /><br />Unhappy with the selection so far? Nominate your choice! Stop by Professor Steinberg's office in Bliss 205 with $5 to propose your pick!</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-10370667070097784412011-02-04T14:48:00.004-05:002011-02-04T14:56:38.091-05:00To Raise Money for The American Cancer Society?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXFeVgmp8CsyHgObEwaJp6-nA611Q4TGNEnDregZWHbnjMOdTtxrPmlF72d5J0jQkI4VdegpSIZBvMXFouVI2-1RShefvmM0lbFO3KTXEMFd9jUqvOJKBXjr2Sw4uhg-Up8_7y_QBl1BXe/s1600/relay+for+life.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXFeVgmp8CsyHgObEwaJp6-nA611Q4TGNEnDregZWHbnjMOdTtxrPmlF72d5J0jQkI4VdegpSIZBvMXFouVI2-1RShefvmM0lbFO3KTXEMFd9jUqvOJKBXjr2Sw4uhg-Up8_7y_QBl1BXe/s400/relay+for+life.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569925706607025762" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br />This year, we are proud to announce that Sigma Tau Delta will have its very own Relay For Life team. Each year for the past several years at The College of New Jersey, an organization called Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) has organized this event, raising money for The American Cancer Society. Relay For Life will be held at The College of New Jersey from Friday, April 1st until Saturday, April 2nd. <div><br /></div><div>If you would like to sign up for our team and walk with us (the registration fee is $10), please go to the event's homepage at the following link: <a href="http://relay.acsevents.org/site/TR?sid=33294&type=fr_informational&pg=informational&fr_id=29301">TCNJ Relay For Life Registration.</a> Once you get to the website, click on "Join a Team" and select "Sigma Tau Delta" from the drop-down menu. Each member who raises at least $50 will also receive a free t-shirt!<br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY11EA?team_id=868716&pg=team&fr_id=29301">Check out our team page, and please donate to our team.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Our goal as an organization is to raise at least $1000! After only two days, we are already 12% towards our goal. With the event 56 days away, we can possibly double or triple our donation to The American Cancer Society!</div></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-90179186041882915882011-02-02T13:50:00.006-05:002011-02-11T15:50:02.646-05:00To Meet Online?Due to today's inclement weather, our first Sigma Tau Delta meeting of the Spring 2011 semester will take place in the "logged chat" section on SOCS. Our president, Todd, sent out the following message to members this afternoon:<div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><i>Because of cold, wet, icy and generally treacherous weather today, we have decided to not meet on campus. Instead, we will hold our meeting in the "logged chat" room on SOCS at 4:30 today. You can join us in ENGL HONR in SOCS. Then click the "logged chat" tab on the lefthand side toolbar.</i></p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><i>If you can make it please join us as this is our first meeting of the semester and we will be talking about lots of fun and interesting things like: an upcoming Applebee's fundraiser, scrabble tournament, the conference in Pittsburgh, etc. However, if you cannot make the meeting, the logged chat will record what has been said so that you can read it at your leisure. Take care and I look forward to meeting with you all in cyberspace!</i></p></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-56385321860283313562011-01-25T10:18:00.007-05:002011-01-26T14:03:57.554-05:00To Trade Books?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMSy3lv9IgRyS3lICUzoP3-G6pajb2KIwlauwlouKUptpN38sJohyphenhyphen6sB0Le2CKMxE14B2l6j5NjiXjJFY9Gt6T4zyCCaskN4E-9xXeAxvly1khpRRpVB0WdPxYlmzqAdSoIdM_Tl7o5VW-/s1600/book+mooch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMSy3lv9IgRyS3lICUzoP3-G6pajb2KIwlauwlouKUptpN38sJohyphenhyphen6sB0Le2CKMxE14B2l6j5NjiXjJFY9Gt6T4zyCCaskN4E-9xXeAxvly1khpRRpVB0WdPxYlmzqAdSoIdM_Tl7o5VW-/s400/book+mooch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566145950569123154" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Photo courtesy of bookmooch.com</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Have you ever heard of a swap meet? Have you ever heard of a swap meet for books? <div><br /></div><div>I just learned about a new website, called <a href="http://www.blogger.com/bookmooch.com">BookMooch</a> where people can trade books that they don't want anymore for books that they do want, which another user has posted. Apparently the website is free to sign up for, and all a person needs to pay for is shipping. <div><br /></div><div>How does the website work? People can search for books in a variety of ways: by genre, by recently added, by country (yes! the website is International), by language, by title/author, by topic, etc. Then, once a person finds a book they want, they can swap a book of their own with that user.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Skeptical? Intrigued? Would you be willing to swap your books for "new" ones?</div><div><br /></div><div>~Kristen</div></div></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-52384655592138081652011-01-02T14:52:00.006-05:002011-02-08T13:18:53.448-05:00To e-read?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This Christmas I was turned into a hypocrite. <div><br />Since the advent of the e-reader, I've been a fierce opponent. Nothing compares to holding a book; it's weight, it's smell, it's texture. I demonstrate my love for literature by demolishing books. I fold pages, highlight, write myself notes, write "witty" remarks that I hope someone someday sees. And the Kindle? The iPad? The Nook? Where is the new book smell? It's replaced by cold, clean, computer screens. Sure, it's "green," but in this case, I shut out the pleas of the sprouting resident Loraxes and acquire books like an addiction. Sorry, trees.<br /><br /></div><div> Materialism and book sniffing aside, the e-readers have always frightened me as an aspiring writer. What does this new technology mean for writers? Is it good or bad? What will happen to bookstores? The only bookstore in my town, an Annie's Book Stop, recently went out of business. I'm devastated. Is this just a prelude of what's to come? Will there be a time when bookstores will be completely extinct?<br /><br />I received a Kindle for Christmas.<br /><br />Though I am still terrified for the future of bookstores, though I prefer print above all technological advances, I'm afraid I've been won over. Here's how I am choosing to justify myself: I am not replacing my beloved books. The Kindle is merely allowing me to mobilize my addiction. I can be a nerd everywhere and instantly, download the classics for free (it is unbelievable how many books are free), listen to a book while I'm driving, play electronic Scrabble and read the newspaper on a train. I can even write notes and highlight passages.<br /><br />I will still buy print books. There are certain authors' work of which I need the physical representation. I don't foresee that ever changing. It's my perhaps naive hope that there are enough people who share my "archaic" need for paper. Hopefully they will be enough to save bookstores (and newspapers for that matter). I'm hoping that the e-reader will remain a supplement to print, rather than render it obsolete. Again, I know it's naive. For the time being, however, I'm enjoying the coexistence of the two.</div><div><br /></div><div>-Katie Brenzel</div><div> </div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-60451963235578240592010-12-04T18:47:00.004-05:002011-02-08T13:20:48.793-05:00To Read Literature in New Ways?I couldn't resist blogging about this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/books/04victorian.html"> article</a> about the <a href="http://www.victorianbooks.org/">Victorian Books</a> project that exploited Google's scanned corpus of Victorian literature. The project searched for key words characteristic of Victorian literature and attempts to draw conclusions about the nature of the Victorian mindset as exemplified in that literature. <div><br /></div><div>Although the method doesn't replace good old-fashioned reading, rereading, and close-reading, it does suggest that the digital age does hold the possibility of allowing new insights into literature. I would really like our chapter to think about how the digital revolution has changed the way we read, not just what we read (blogs, websites, social networking sites). </div><div><br /></div><div>--Felicia Steele</div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-69421387427592000932010-12-02T12:30:00.004-05:002011-02-08T13:21:16.042-05:00To Convince Others of the Value of Literature?As the American economy seems to be in free-fall to an unimaginable bottom, I ask myself if what I am doing has any sort of real world value. If money is tight, I reason, why would anyone pay anything for the chance to read great literary works, or to argue on paper about what literature means to us, or to discuss literary themes with others? Should Americans today focus only on business concerns, and is literature or language a luxury with which no one can afford to concern themselves?<br /><br />Of course, I both hope that literature is still of value, and fear that these sentiments are shared by few. We inheritors of the Western tradition "own" many of the world's literary gems -- come to think of it, we humans taken collectively own all of the world's literary gems. We need not ever experience war ourselves, but Homer's <span style="font-style: italic;">Iliad</span> or Crane's <span style="font-style: italic;">Red Badge of Courage</span> still have the power to teach us. We may never ourselves be the victim of genocide, but the <span style="font-style: italic;">Diary of Anne Frank</span> moves us. We need never fall in love to enjoy Austen's <span style="font-style: italic;">Pride and Prejudice</span>. So, keep reading, and keep believing in the value of literature.TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-25373508681329837362010-11-29T10:57:00.004-05:002011-02-14T19:22:57.623-05:00To Write those End-of-Term Essays?Bliss Hall is buzzing, and everywhere I look I see students with books and papers. Faculty offices are filled with students with paper drafts and questions about their sources. A semester's work of thinking, reading, and discussing is all coming to fruition with the final essay of the course. It is both wonderful and a little scary.TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-33064307417034292572010-11-23T09:36:00.001-05:002010-11-23T09:37:53.154-05:00To Race to Nowhere?<dl class="avatar-comment-indent" id="comments-block"><dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-8608628223161787414"> <p> I just heard of this new documentary that is coming out called "Race to Nowhere", and I thought it would be appropriate to share on this blog posting, since it's school related. If you go to www.racetonowhere.com you can watch the trailer, but essentially it's a documentary about the pressure on students to become over-achievers. Apparently you can even fill out a request to 'host a screening' of the documentary at your school, which I think is a cool idea, or at least something to consider. </p> </dd><dd class="comment-footer"> <span class="comment-timestamp"> <a href="http://enghonor.blogspot.com/2010/11/it-take-to-collect-school-supplies.html?showComment=1290120796827#c8608628223161787414" title="comment permalink"> November 18, 2010 5:53 PM </a></span></dd></dl> Katie PucciTCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-580984843567554672010-11-18T15:41:00.004-05:002010-12-02T23:49:06.925-05:00To Collect School Supplies?<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEFtK26jiPTZlh1x4UEW7OHDX5A18JelEnF0YsbwTEDPJXMMs51nKFnHuaR1PgyUDWloRIuyAv2BaHK3pNQE6bRp9iws8c0Uav-yYBFKVAXwlkApXkKYUkk6q-gCopv5LB6Xov9pkfb29X/s400/1202102329+-+The+Giving+Tree+Donations.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546312604582640482" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Turns out, it takes very few! Over the past several days, bags of pencils, notebooks, crayons, coloring books, pens, index cards and highlighters have been appearing at my office door -- as if by magic!<div><br /></div><div>All of these school supplies are destined for the pediatric wing at the Richmond University Medical Center. What better than a fresh new notebook, thousands of blank coloring book pages, and newly sharpened colored pencils and crayons to put a s</div><div>mile on a deserving child's face?<br /><br />So far, we have two large boxes filled, and we're happy to fill another, so keep those pens and paper coming. Remember how much fun a new box of crayons is to a child -- a picture can be made with little crayon stubs, but it is just not as much fu</div><div>n.</div><div><br /></div><div>These pictures only show the first half of the donations we received. Thank you once again to everyone who donated school supplies and helped decorate the box!</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-lYMR1dFJt5KU9msAychjEBC-QXi3vzjFYi0NVECV-6hxwApj5y_KtLpQkFAIirm5yMwH2rn16KydadgvmW3T6nlSdLbeQcLkdyJe4LQp2vCFuH93ZhkfJkYjkHxalDH2ir447JtwJYq/s400/1202102336+-+The+Giving+Tree+Box.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546313314912845666" /></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-87403365051467579952010-10-30T11:50:00.001-04:002010-11-06T00:42:19.332-04:00To Discuss Lolita?Earlier this month, Sigma Tau Delta members met for the second installment of our book club, where we discussed Vladimir Nabokov's classic <span style="font-style: italic;">Lolita</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzH6884P2NY9VW8_rrWsaMvnaJABRHoRJNsGJfP5UEHAfme6ZJZKEitpt3AEUcfXzRb97j8fwR6TLjM-pGDnbna7ZOHex5bV82xvFcuPvtUrkcKFz_MnpSq_qcUoLj97OwbDjrMZ3N0N2/s1600/bookclublo.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzH6884P2NY9VW8_rrWsaMvnaJABRHoRJNsGJfP5UEHAfme6ZJZKEitpt3AEUcfXzRb97j8fwR6TLjM-pGDnbna7ZOHex5bV82xvFcuPvtUrkcKFz_MnpSq_qcUoLj97OwbDjrMZ3N0N2/s400/bookclublo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533867231877013554" border="0" /></a><br />On a track from her latest CD, pop star Miley Cyrus sings: "I've been to New York and to L.A. and to Baton Rouge / I met a boy in every city / No one kept me amused. / But don't call me a Lolita / 'Cause I don't let 'em through. / 'Cause I'm saving all my lovin' for someone / And it's you."<br /><br />Whether or not Ms. Cyrus has read <span style="font-style: italic;">Lolita</span> is not the important point here<b>—</b>it's the cultural impact of Nabokov's chilling novel. The term <a href="http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50135149?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=lolita&first=1&max_to_show=10">Lolita</a> is now commonly used in reference to the situations found in the book, most often to describe a sexually precocious young lady. And as Miley shows above, the term is not limited to older generations.<br /><br />Since its publication in 1955, the novel has been an object of controversy. It struggled to find an American publisher, was recalled because of its contents, and is frequently found on <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1842832_1842838_1845288,00.html">banned books</a> lists. But despite it's controversial subject matter, the novel is still a quite profound object of beauty. Nabokov's brilliant narrator tells a sordid tale in undeniably beautiful language.<br /><br />Keeping this post as spoiler-free as possible, discussion covered topics such as Humbert Humbert's status as an unreliable narrator, the way the writing contrasts with the subject matter, and one of the novel's most controversial questions: how much HH is to blame for the events of the novel. We also discussed the novel's great closing, and used it to gauge HH's remorse.<br /><br />If you have not read <span style="font-style: italic;">Lolita</span>, please do so immediately (winter break is coming soon). Not only is the book culturally important, but it is also one of the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1951793,00.html">best</a> <a href="http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/">novels</a> ever written, showcasing Nabokov's extraordinary skill as a writer.TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-13015590255606330122010-10-17T20:21:00.000-04:002010-10-17T20:30:39.393-04:00To Read Our Sigma Tau Delta Newsletter?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSS5IkqDVlKQAlnSuaxmwNh7pmUNms2NJJg_og__FGH-LTZcMntCtuxyf1IKTGsoeAFeGstKDoltd4o7FkoZ8GnkhDSLYesA_xNzO_EByIdAnEwYZAWws-ARh_iddjZ8yitntM9UyQDce/s1600/Sigma+Tau+Delta+Newsletter.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSS5IkqDVlKQAlnSuaxmwNh7pmUNms2NJJg_og__FGH-LTZcMntCtuxyf1IKTGsoeAFeGstKDoltd4o7FkoZ8GnkhDSLYesA_xNzO_EByIdAnEwYZAWws-ARh_iddjZ8yitntM9UyQDce/s400/Sigma+Tau+Delta+Newsletter.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529176960064107394" /></a><br /><div>The Sigma Tau Delta National Newsletter is going "green"! Rather than receiving a paper copy of the "Fall 2010" edition of the newsletter, you can now view the newsletter at the following link:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.english.org/sigmatd/pdf/publications/Newsletter.pdf">Fall 2010 Newsletter</a></div><br /><div>What do you think of the new online version? I like the .pdf format because of its convenience. Rather than losing or misplacing a paper copy of the newsletter, I can now save an electronic copy to my computer's hard drive. </div><div><br /></div><div>Be sure to check out pages 5 and 6, which contain information about this year's convention speakers: Dave Eggers, Kay Ryan, Jacqueline Woodson, and Lorene Cary.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also, if you are planning on attending Grad School or taking the GRE, check out the articles on page 16 and 18.</div><div><br /></div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-86109746573687539582010-10-06T15:26:00.000-04:002010-10-06T16:18:50.262-04:00To Discuss Black Ice?Our chapter recently met for our first <a href="http://enghonor.blogspot.com/2010/08/to-start-book-club.html">book club</a> meeting of the year. At the meeting, we discussed the Sigma Tau Delta <a href="http://www.english.org/sigmatd/commonreader/">common reader</a>, Lorene Cary's <span style="font-style: italic;">Black Ice</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJOGm5dndsQG2j9hVv-FYMeJ5JMNA-lrbB61-AaYu3qUB1M8SNqjrskYHkauqT6VU6-RYAZYI-o2IcUjUpt7FHP8pwmLVpL5hLW-w68ZM4gWds5IrX4JMht8XnwJUJ2yFDBTbCYjiOsfd_/s1600/bookclubblic3.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJOGm5dndsQG2j9hVv-FYMeJ5JMNA-lrbB61-AaYu3qUB1M8SNqjrskYHkauqT6VU6-RYAZYI-o2IcUjUpt7FHP8pwmLVpL5hLW-w68ZM4gWds5IrX4JMht8XnwJUJ2yFDBTbCYjiOsfd_/s400/bookclubblic3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523533907073974994" border="0" /></a><br />The memoir follows Cary as an adolescent, when she moves from Philadelphia to New Hampshire to attend a prestigious private school. As one of the first generations of black students to attend Saint Paul's School, Cary recalls the challenges she faced adjusting to the school while still remaining loyal to her roots. While the memoir details Cary's life after graduation, Saint Paul's is always the focus of the memoir, revealing the profound impact the school had on her life.<br /><br />Topics of discussion included key passages in the novel, such as Cary's experience at a school science fair, her lesson in failure, and her sexual assault while at St. Paul's. We also discussed the thought-provoking title of the memoir.<br /><br />Our members are excited to see Lorene Cary next spring, when she reads at the Sigma Tau Delta 2011 Convention in Pittsburgh, PA. Maybe she can shed some light on the tough questions we had concerning the book!<br /><br />If you read the book, feel free to share any thoughts/opinions in the comments!TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-79656700714698391482010-10-02T12:38:00.001-04:002011-02-14T19:23:45.404-05:00To Celebrate our 2010 Inductees?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMx9RinjSzwEslhE8qvkX1dLQNOrTmsc1e21PTqhe9FXLNbogG-MpEJXNLIhpRZdALoehP49RNxt-hn0vHET1ZoySWYwQYZByOyAKGFKLH5y9vaqCC8fZwQbcPQY5sumuc9VCezDuBhC_Y/s1600/DSC_0254.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMx9RinjSzwEslhE8qvkX1dLQNOrTmsc1e21PTqhe9FXLNbogG-MpEJXNLIhpRZdALoehP49RNxt-hn0vHET1ZoySWYwQYZByOyAKGFKLH5y9vaqCC8fZwQbcPQY5sumuc9VCezDuBhC_Y/s400/DSC_0254.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523494857876043026" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd0p4IiiCIoavEnGKQCQXI498-C4WUl5GdTZM_6cpYmnuSC0zG4mYz8JuSL0j8ke0wA9ZKo1jtoW9huSsTLm-UzuSzrL8K3M7obOcvGApdtrzi599EnXXziE8GHUPPv1xjY3sfaIa-Qsfh/s1600/DSC_0259.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd0p4IiiCIoavEnGKQCQXI498-C4WUl5GdTZM_6cpYmnuSC0zG4mYz8JuSL0j8ke0wA9ZKo1jtoW9huSsTLm-UzuSzrL8K3M7obOcvGApdtrzi599EnXXziE8GHUPPv1xjY3sfaIa-Qsfh/s400/DSC_0259.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523491929921257810" border="0" /></a><br />This morning the Alpha Epsilon Alpha chapter of Sigma Tau Delta inducted our new members for 2010. We were honored by a welcome by the Dean of TCNJ's School of Culture and Society, Dr. Benjamin Rifkin, and an address by the chairman of the Department of English, Dr. David Blake. Dean Rifkin highlighted the close match between the goals of Sigma Tau Delta and the <a href="http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Eculture/mission.htm">mission of the School of Culture and Society</a>. Professor Blake explicated the quote we chose to illustrate the importance of "Truth" to members of Sigma Tau Delta: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, -- you can never have both"--<a href="http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-1st_Series_11_Intellect.htm">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>. <div><br /></div><div>We were also honored at the end of the ceremony by a visit from our college's president, Dr. Barbara Gitenstein. We want to thank all three of them for taking time out to celebrate <a href="http://enghonor.intrasun.tcnj.edu/currentmemberspages/inductees2010.htm">our new members</a> and the accomplishments of our chapter.</div>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543913382479622253.post-41440244994691619552010-09-10T13:28:00.000-04:002010-09-10T13:32:46.257-04:00To Plan the 2010-2011 School Year?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2epG3uiJis0_txrEjeFwkweNPFR_CcWW_idRomk_YHM0HVYniELGwXKAbUC9dx6N_8oSlPkSxkOqmxb22Zv8Ld-vXXOcNG1V5Rzr9YdV_z8jYx9l-ARJNJxlSfLEuIu8RdfQ32QuG9nCC/s1600/100_3037.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2epG3uiJis0_txrEjeFwkweNPFR_CcWW_idRomk_YHM0HVYniELGwXKAbUC9dx6N_8oSlPkSxkOqmxb22Zv8Ld-vXXOcNG1V5Rzr9YdV_z8jYx9l-ARJNJxlSfLEuIu8RdfQ32QuG9nCC/s400/100_3037.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515339009540137602" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(40, 64, 112); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;"><pre><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here are minutes from our first general body meeting of the semester.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Introductions!</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Google Calendar: Check for Event Dates</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT33" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=usgeke5njj38gc997hehfr47ag%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=usgeke5njj38gc997hehfr47ag%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York</span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">3.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Inductions: </span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT34" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">October 2, 11</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> am in the Library Auditorium. (Coffee with the Dean 10 am.)</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">4.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Membership: Only Full, National Members </span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT35" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">may</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> apply for scholarships, awards, or to attend the national conference. Social members are encouraged to attend all chapter (TCNJ) events.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">5.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dues must be turned in by September 15</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in order to be inducted this year.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">6.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Terhune Fundraiser: Contact Todd (</span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT36" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="mailto:petty4@tcnj.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">petty4@tcnj.edu</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">) if you would like to sign up! Shifts are 9-6 on any available day (see Todd for dates) and Terhune will donate $90 dollars to the organization per volunteer. (Also, there are delicious donuts and a great employee discount for any day you work!)</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">7.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Book Club: Our first book will discuss </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Black Ice</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, the STD Common Reader for this year, and we will meet </span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT37" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">next Wednesday</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (9/15) at 4:30 in Bliss 228.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">8.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Convention (Pittsburgh): March 23-26 2011</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For those who would like to submit: send Professor Steinberg (</span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT38" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="mailto:dsteinbe@tcnj.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">dsteinbe@tcnj.edu</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">) what you plan to submit by October 22.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">b.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">All Scholarship and Award applications go through Professor Steinberg.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">c.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Members </span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT39" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">may</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> apply for anything for which they fit the award description.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">d. If you would like to be added to the Pittsburgh Module inside SOCS and did not sign up at the meeting, please email Professor Steinberg.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">9.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Blog/Website: If you have something you would like to write, email an E-Board member and it will be posted to the Blog! Also, remember to comment on posts!</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">10.</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Also, additional fundraising information not mentioned at the meeting: The Student Finance Board is sponsoring live music and an outdoor grill every </span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT40" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Friday</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> before Fall Break and is offering $150 dollars in fundraising money to any organization that volunteers to grill for one of the events. If anyone is interested in looking further into organizing our participation, please let us know!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Other Important Links, also listed in the SOCS homepage:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Our award-winning chapter webpage is </span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT41" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://enghonor.intrasun.tcnj.edu/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://enghonor.intrasun.tcnj.edu</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Our award-winning chapter blog is </span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT42" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://enghonor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://enghonor.blogspot.com/</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Our national organization's website is at<br /></span></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT43" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://www.english.org/sigmatd/index.shtml" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.english.org/sigmatd/index.shtml</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. Please bookmark this site and check it for information about internships, conference opportunities, scholarships, and publishing opportunities.<br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Take care,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rebecca</span></span></p></pre></span>TCNJ Sigma Tau Delta, The English Honor Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853200030261974151noreply@blogger.com1