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In a wide-ranging Q&A, here's the scoop -- the Loh down, if you will -- on a reporter with an unconventioanl background who, by all accounts, is kicking butt and taking names later in her first season covering the Cougs.
1. CFC: Where did you grow up, who were "your teams" as a kid, when did you know you wanted to do this for a living, et. al.?
I was born and raised in Singapore, where "football" means soccer ... American Football is an afterthought, few watch it, no one understands it, yet as a kid growing up in the mid-90s, I fell in love with the game while watching it on TV from Singapore at odd hours of the day. I taught myself to understand it because this was the pre-Internet era, and it's not like I could Google the rules or anything.The first Super Bowl I ever watched was John Elway's swan song, and I grew up a Peyton Manning fan because I started really following football during his rookie year in Indy, so I suppose I was a nominal Colts fan while growing up ... Monday Night Football and Sunday Night Football NFL games were broadcast in Singapore weekly during the season at strange times of the day, but college football was harder to come by, so I never watched much of the college game until I moved to the US for college. I do, however have a vague recollection of watching Kliff Kingsbury quarterback Texas Tech in the late 90s, and I watched some Joey Harrington-led Oregon teams too, which is what led me to want to go to college at Oregon.
From a young age, I loved sports and loved writing, so it seemed like a no brainer to try and combine the two and make a living that way. I always knew that I wanted to write for a living, and I decided early on that I didn't want to starve while doing it. Thus, journalism seemed to make sense.
My first paid internship out of school was at the Spokesman-Review, where I covered the Spokane Indians for a summer and was also given free rein to run around finding stories all over Spokane. That was a lot of fun.
2. CFC: Your first game covering the Cougars was in a rain storm and they lost to an FCS team. What were you envisioning for the rest of the season? Was that your first time in Pullman?
The season opener against Portland State was my second time in Pullman. My first encounter with Pullman came in the summer of 2007 when I was interning at the S-R and was asked to drive out to Pullman to write a feature on a pair of sisters on the WSU soccer team.
To be honest, I found the fan reaction slightly disturbing. One loss — albeit to an FCS team, yes — and everyone was calling for doomsday and the head coach's firing. It seemed a little over the top to me, but I suppose I haven't had to watch the Cougars lose for a decade. So from that perspective, I understand the reaction a little better. While surprised by the loss, I didn't really have an opinion after that first game. I've seen enough football in my career to have watched teams bounce back in a big way after stinking up their opener, so I wanted to see how the team reacted to that loss because I though that would be a better measure of the character of this football team. Then they went out to Rutgers and pulled off that comeback win and I thought, "there's hope for these guys yet."
3. CFC: What player on the Cougars would you vote for the Most Pleasant Surprise Award and why?
Shalom Luani. He's been an absolute stud on defense. Until about two games ago, when the Cougs got Isaac Dotson back in the lineup, Luani had played every single snap at that free safety position. He's a ball hawk and a tremendous hitter. He's great in coverage, and to hear his former coaches from JuCo talk, he's still somewhat of a raw commodity. This version of Luani is not the finished product. Can you imagine what we'll see from him next year after he's had an offseason to go through WSU's conditioning program, bowl practices and spring ball?
4. CFC: Where does Mike Leach rank on the list of characters you've covered and what's been the most interesting/entertaining conversation you've had with him?
Mike Leach is by far the most interesting and unconventional football coach I've ever had the pleasure of covering. I know he gets a bad rep for being somewhat brusque in press conferences, and his "I won't talk about injuries" thing is as frustrating for me as any other reporter, but at the core of it, I thoroughly respect the fact that he's such a unique guy. He says what he thinks and doesn't give a damn what anyone else thinks of him, and he's got such a wide variety of interests that he's pretty fascinating to talk to.
The first time I met him, we sat down and chatted about everything from his favorite restaurants in Pullman/Moscow, to vacationing in Europe and WWII. That was pretty interesting. But I think my favorite Leachism of the year was the soliloquy he delivered when Oregonian columnist and radio personality John Canzano got him talking about gun violence and what we can do about it in this country. His response was thoughtful and practical from a public policy standpoint. I don't know if Leach has the personality for it — because politicians actually have to care what their constituents think — but wouldn't it be interesting to visualize him running for public office?
5. CFC: Aside from the two clear choices, Jack Thompson and Mel Hein, who would you consider the greatest Cougar footballer of all time?
Hmmm, considering that I am not entirely steeped in the nuances of Cougar football history yet, that's a tough question. I'll table this one for next offseason, after I've had the chance to study up. But my interim answer is this: Didn't Jason Gesser quarterback some of the most successful Cougar football teams in program history?
6. CFC: With social media, beat writers don't have to guess what fans think of them. Talk about the dynamics of your relationship with Cougar fans and whether you've been surprised by how they view your coverage specifically and the sports world generally.
For the most part, Cougar fans have been very nice! And very supportive. I think the only time I was surprised about fan reaction was when I called out the fans for not selling out the WSU-Stanford game, and ignited something of a firestorm on Twitter.
Look, there's no mistaking that West Coast football fans, in general, are less crazed than their SEC counterparts. But that's a double-edged sword ... Pac-12 fans have a sense of perspective and understand that there's life outside of football, and that when it comes down to it, this sport that we all follow so religiously is really just a game. There are greater problems in the world that need our attention, we have families and life issues and things of that nature, and when you put everything in perspective, football is nowhere near the top of the totem pole. So I like that Coug fans, and Pac-12 fans and West Coast football fans are more cognizant of that than some fans I've encountered in other parts of the country, but because of that sense of perspective, football tickets are also, generally, a tougher sell on the Left Coast than in some of the other Power Conferences. And I'm not making this up. It's fact. The numbers support that. Period.
7. CFC: You were covering Penn State when the Sandusky sex abuse case broke and Joe Paterno was dismissed. What are your most enduring impressions of that tumultuous first couple weeks?
The circus of it all, and the way every media outlet in the country jumped on the story and converged on State College, a tiny town in the middle of nowhere — much like Pullman. We competed with everyone for stories — ESPN, the NYT, CNN. And it was my job, and our job as a reporting team from the Patriot-News, to try to always stay one step ahead and think of a next-day story that we could write "today" that no one else would have for tomorrow. The one enduring image for me was of standing in the freezing cold for hours outside Joe Paterno's house next to Lisa Salters and the ESPN crew and just waiting for movement, for anyone to come out or come to the door, and thinking to myself, "This poor family. They can't go outside because there is a horde of reporters camped on their street." I felt both ashamed to be part of that horde, while also a little excited to be part of the story. It was a weird mix of emotions.
8. CFC: Apple Cup Week can be pretty entertaining because of split allegiances among families, friends, coworkers and neighbors. What all do you know about the rivalry and how do you think it compares with others you've been around, like Oregon-Oregon State and Penn State-Pitt?
Oregon-Oregon State was always a lot of fun when I was at school, but I think covering the Pitt-West Virginia rivalry when I was the WVU beat writing for a small West Virgina newspaper during the RichRod era in Morgantown, was what truly helped me understand the intensity of rivalry week. Pitt and WVU fans absolutely HATE each other, and I vividly remember how intensely that hate manifested itself when WVU kicker Pat McAfee — who's now a punter with the Colts — missed a pair of field goals in the WVU-Pitt game at the end of the 2007 season that ultimately prevented the Mountaineers from getting to the national championship. Pitt went crazy with joy. And McAfee had his car vandalized and got death threats from WVU "fans." And I remember thinking, "What is wrong with these people? It's a game. Get over yourselves and leave the poor kid alone." See? Lacking in perspective.
9. CFC: Back in the '60s and '70s, the S-R's Cougar beat writer was a wily veteran named Harry Missildine. He was straight from central casting -- a beautiful writer, a cigar smoker and an occasional whiskey drinker. With the assumption being you're not chomping on a cigar at an old typewriter on Saturdays in the fall, how would you characterize yourself?
Ha! What makes you think I don't gnaw on cigars in front of a typewriter hmm? I think I would characterize myself as a writer, reporter and athlete first, and a sportswriter second. I got into this not to get to go to games for free, but because I believe sports is a microcosm of society and a crucible of human emotion. I love talking to people and hearing their stories, finding out what makes them tick, and how they got to where they are. I love playing sports, and on any given day I'd much rather be out doing something active than sitting on my butt on the couch being some armchair QB. Snooze.
10. The Seattle Times seems to have an obsession with a phrase that shall not be named, be it headlines or tweets by columnists. Is that due to a Husky bias or just knee-jerk laziness?
I HATE THIS QUESTION. Because I hate that fans seem to always jump to this ridiculous conclusion that if you read something you perceive as negative about the Cougs, it's because the writer/copy editor/editor who put it out there has some bias against the Cougs. Stop it. Now. Guys, we don't care who wins… as long as the game ends before deadline! We report the news. No one is trying to slight your team. If you're bad, you're bad. That's how we'll call it. If you're good, you're good and we'll say so. Plus said phrase in question has been thrown about by Coug fans so much over the years in relation to how the Cougs have lost games that I don't think you can fairly say it's the ST has an "obsession" with it. I mean, you all use it. Why can't we? Oh and while we're on the subject, another pet peeve of mine is the perception that the beat writer is supposed to write only positive things about a team. That's ridiculous too. My job is to tell you what's happening. Period.
(Editor's note: We hate that answer. We didn't ask about standard pro and con reporting, just about a tired, Husky-driven phrase of nonsense that for whatever reason continues to diminish the Seattle Times' coverage of the Cougars and undermine the paper's credibility.)
11. CFC: How difficult is it to cover a team 300 miles away? What's the one thing, in-season or off-season, you most wish you were "in town" for?
There are definitely challenges — for instance I don't get to watch practices (though, lately, no one does!), I don't get to go to speaking events the coaches might do, or charity events the team might be at. However, to be honest, Leach's media policy really evens the geographical playing field because he doesn't let anyone talk to players outside of the weekly press conference. So from that standpoint, it's not too bad. The travel takes a toll during the season because basically very game is an 'away' game for yours truly. But I'm eternally grateful to my bosses for letting me fly to games because making that drive every week would be rough.
12. CFC: What's the best piece of advice you've received since taking on the Seattle Times' WSU beat and who was it from? Did you know your predecessor, Bud Withers, and were you able to talk to him around the time you started
Yes, I did talk to Bud when I started. I'd known of him because he's the Dean of Pac-12 Sportswriters. But I'd only had passing acquaintance with him until I moved here. So we met before the season and he was really awesome and let me pick his brain about the team and the coach, and his eons of WSU football institutional knowledge. I still lean on him for that stuff sometimes — putting things in historical perspective, etc. I don't know if I'd say that theres one piece of advice that I've gotten since I've been here that stands out though. Still, lots of people have been very helpful in getting me acquainted with Coug lore. Contrary to popular belief, we have a lot of Coug grads on the ST sports staff, so all those guys have helped me feel my way around. Plus WSU SIDs Bill Stevens and Bobby Alworth have been very accommodating, and that always helps a new beat writer get on his or her feet quickly. Those two are some of the best I've encountered in the business. They're very helpful. And that's not always the case with SIDs.
13: CFC: What's your favorite sport to cover – football or basketball, and why?
Football. It's the modern day equivalent of the Roman Gladiator era in history. There are so few games that each one is so significant. There are so many personalities on every team that you're never going to have a problem finding stories, and it's the quintessential team sport. As Luke Falk likes to say, everyone has to do their job. Otherwise, the bus doesn't move. I love this brutal, beautiful game that's captivated an entire country like nothing else ever has before.
14. CFC: You're going to be pulling double duty in covering both Gonzaga and WSU hoops this season, how will you divide your time and will you get more than five hours sleep a night when conference play starts?
We're going to focus on WSU football until the season ends — whenever that might be. Then I'll hop on Gonzaga. So I don't think there'll be too much overlap. Thankfully, I'm not a hoops beat writer in the traditional sense of the term, where you travel with the team to all the games, etc. We're going to be doing a little more parachute journalism because it's more difficult to cover a basketball team from five hours away than it is to cover a football team, since there are so many more games.
15. CFC: What's been the best thing about covering WSU so far, what's the one thing you wish wasn't the case?
The best thing: Covering an underdog team that's been one of the best surprises of the Pac-12 this year. It's been so fun to watch the season unfold. The worst thing: Trying to book hotel rooms in Pullman/Moscow in August (when I first started this job.) That's a nightmare!


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text: The Mind's Eye Volume 3 Number 3 NORTH ADAMS STATE COLLEGE The Mind's Eye is a journal of revrew and comment published six limes during the coflege year at North Adams, Massachusetts 1247 Robert Bence 2 HUMAN RIGHTS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES , concluded. American foreign policy effective in the Third World needs to forgo Cold War ideology. Michael Haines 4 LIBERAL CAREER EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN William James College offers career preparation from a liberal arts perspective and liberal arts with a practical emphasis. VERSE R. G. Vliet 5 MRS. McELROY REVIEWS W. Anthony Gengarelly 7 THE PRISM OF TIME "Old Creole Days in the Big Easy," by Robert Bishoff ■ "What Ever Happened to the Ethnic Mother?" by Ellen Schiff DEPARTMENTS Gearoid Clerigh 2 The Editor's File MARGARET MARY TOOLE 8 Contributors May 1979 EDITORIAL BOARD W. Anthony Gengarelly Stephen A. Green R. Michael Haines Charles Mcfsaac Thomas A. Mulkeen Ellen Schiff EDITOR Charles Mclsoac The next issue of the Mind ' s Eye will appear in September. Contributions are welcome. The Editor's File MARGARET MARY TOOLE Education, that noble enterprise, is defined and celebrated in the lives of its leading practitioners. Last year North Adams State College lost such a one by the death of Margaret Mary Toole — Chaucerian, Shakespearean, and scholar of Irish literature — who had taught here for twenty years. On April 11 the College bade her a loving farewell in a memorial and dedica- tion ceremony. The following remarks are excerpted from the address of Gearoid Clerigh, Consul-General of Ireland. I think we first came to know Margaret Mary at a meeting of the Eire Society. And then she asked me down here and that was one of the extraordinary days of my life. I had spoken with her class, and before my wife and I left that evening — we had our infant son with us and Margaret Mary insisted that he come into the class, and he left with a gold star report — we had begun a deep friendship. We experienced her hospitality numerous times and I saw again the way she was dedicated, not just to learning, but to people, and how she wished to bring things in people alive in them. She was also, besides being self-effacing, a person of quick and ready spirit. I had the effrontery to present her with a copy of my poems in Gaelic and to say that I was certain she wouldn't understand them. She really bridled at this and then I learned that she had studied Irish under Tom Peete Cross; but she wasn't somebody to project her learning unnecessarily, and she had so many wide fields of knowledge that you never knew about or only came upon by accident. . . . HUMAN RIGHTS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES by Robert Bence Summary of Part One In the previous issue of The Mind's Eye I presented the case that our concern for human rights in the Third World should be focused primarily on economic development. Promoting Western-style political freedoms should be a secondary concern for U.S. foreign policy makers. The conclusion of this essay outlines a strategy for a human rights-based foreign policy toward the Third World. Part Two While public aid from the U.S. government and from private multinational corporate investment projects may provide a transfer of the necessary development capital, there is little evidence to indicate that our efforts have served to relieve poverty in the less developed countries. A recent World Bank study projected that by the end of the century the masses of poor (2% billion or half the world population) will receive less than $200 annually per capita, and some 800 million of those will benefit by less than $100. According to United Nations estimates, even in countries that have had significant growth rates the number of poor does not necessarily decrease, but actually increases. For example, in Mexico in the 1950s the richest 20% of the population had ten times the Income of the poorest 20%. By the late 1960s the rich had Increased their share to seventeen times what the bottom 20% received. Development is mare than the simple transfer of funds and technology. In fact, the problem of development in the poorer countries is not primarily economic, but political and social. It will be necessary in many cases for the less developed nations to institute deep structural changes in their traditional 3 societies in order to obtain the money, the infrastructure, and the general economic systems they need to reduce starvation and provide adequate housing and health care. These traditional soci- eties overfarm small, uneconomical parcels of land, have restrictive class or caste systems, and contain various ethnic divisions unwilling to abandon parochi- alism in exchange for more systematic means of production and distribution. In the past the U.S. has maintained that the introduction of Western technology and limited corporate development would even- tually change these societies in an evolutionary, peaceful style, with the added advantage of some immediate "trickle-down" benefits. But developement must proceed faster if the next few generations, especially those in rural areas, are going to enjoy the right to live relatively healthy, long lives. Development may require that traditions be severely modified, or in some cases, like the caste system, be completely disman- tled. The very foundations of traditional society may have to be shaken, much as the revolutions did in the USSR, China, or Cuba. The Red Guard rampages of the 1960s a t tost to Chinese youth's rejection of the traditional value of respect for elders. It is worth noting that economic advance- ment is always a difficult process. It certainly was In the United States. As Robert Heilbroner outlines the process in his work Between Capitalism and Socialism , industrial development in America meant hardship and often death for workers and their families. But the Western model, which moved too slowly, is not appropriate for the noncomparable conditions in most African and Asian nations. The most convenient model for rapid devel- opment is, of course, communism or some type of socialism. The implementation of this model does not guarantee economic Utopia, but by using it, China, for one, has made some significant strides in reducing the economic hardships of its peoples. Obviously there were some serious tradeoffs made in this process. Opposition was suppressed, lives were lost, and families were uprooted. How- ever, it is necessary to reemphasize the point that major economic changes do not occur smoothly in any country. And if Mao Tse-tung had not been successful, it seems doubtful that the Chinese people would have gained a higher level of human rights of any type. Now, if economic development requires revolution, what should the position of the United States be toward the developing countries, especially in regard to our newfound concern for human rights? First, we must develop a more sophisticated view of human rights — one based not solely on our unique experience as an affluent, individualistic, liberal democracy. We need to appreciate that human rights encompasses basic survival needs as well as political freedoms. Vietnam should have provided a vivid lesson in this regard . Second, we need finally to abandon one of the sacred tenets of our Cold War philos- ophy—that communism and socialism are always less preferable than other political-economic systems. Third, concerning policy initiatives, we will have to split some, very fine hairs in determining what regimes are most likely to deal effectively with human rights, especially the crucial ones of human survival. It might well be that Cuban troops and technicians in Ethiopia and Angola are necessary to insure the polit- ical stability needed to put together a sound economic framework. It is also possible that we should not frown upon antidemocratic developments in countries which — like India — may require more centralized forms of government to resolve their staggering problems of overpopu- lation and poverty. We should also consider our allegiance to questionable allies like President Mobutu of Zaire, who has allowed a corrupt governmental and economic system to severely retard any kind of development. It seems obvious that we cannot be supporters of totali- tarian regimes per se , but we will have to look more closely at the options available to deal with human rights, from simple diplomatic recognition to military and developmental aid. 4 There are many dangers in making human rights a cornerstone of our foreign policy, not the least of which is that we may get tangled up in a pretentiously moralistic campaign recalling the chauvin- istic days of Woodrow Wilson ("We will teach those people to elect good leaders"). But given the high level of economic and military involvement we have in the world already, the decisions our government makes or fails to make will have an effect, even if unintentional, on human rights. We should realize that building a political system that integrates and mobilizes a traditional society may have some nasty side effects that are incon- sistent with liberal democracy. Concern for human rights is valid, but it is important that this concern be placed in a broader perspective than that of our own peculiar history. LIBERAL CAREER EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN by Michael Haines Early in April, I attended a National Conference on Education and Vocation at William James College, one of the colleges of the "cluster college" known as the Grand Valley State Colleges, in Allendale, Michigan (near Grand Rapids) . The confer- ence was funded as part of an overall study of the program at William James under a grant from the U.S. Office of Edu- cation. The basic aim of the conference was to communicate to a national audience the unique program at William James — a program which professes to integrate liberal arts and career education. William James College was founded in 1971 as one of three experimental colleges at Grand Valley (in addition to their "normal" College of Arts and Sciences and their two graduate programs) . One of the experimental schools, Thomas Jefferson College, is based on the English tutorial system — all independent study, no grades, no requirements. The other experimental program, Kirkbof College, is self-paced and competency-based. The fact that the three experiments began in the early 70s is significant: each program in its own way is a response to the 60s. William James College is not named by accident: it was founded on the philos- ophy of its namesake — the American physician, philosopher, teacher, psychol- ogist, and student of comparative religion. As the college notes in its brochure, James "was associated with a pragmatic approach to social, technical, and economic questions; with a pluralistic attitude toward the physical and social sciences he pursued; and with an urbane humanism in his personal life." The goal of James's studies was "action in the world"; likewise, the goal of the college is to reach out into the world, "to enable our graduates to lead personally meaning- ful lives of action." The USOE grant which the college received was one of two awarded to study career education in liberal arts colleges. The other award was to Madonna College, a school outside Detroit. The major differ- ence between the two programs is that Madonna's is essentially a career or vocational education program "added on" to a traditional liberal arts program. The curriculum at William James is the "infused model" — an Integration of career education and liberal arts. The college says it does not make the "usual distinc- tion between liberal arts education and career education"; instead, it attempts to teach "career-related subjects from a liberal arts perspective and liberal arts subjects from a practical point of view." How successful are they? That, I am afraid, remains to be seen. The point of the conference was to demonstrate that they are Indeed successful. Ironically, however, at just the moment they were trying to communicate this message to the hundred or so invited guests, they found out from the administration at Grand Valley that they were facing imminent retrenchment as a result of declining enrollments and curtailments in state budgets. The situation caused a fair amount of def ensiveness on the part of the William James faculty and administration, and this def ensiveness coupled with the missionary zeal of past and present 5 Mrs. Mcelroy by R. G. Vliet The front room was always closed: the half-pulled shades, the listening furniture, old novels, Latin school Cicero, lace tea-brown curtains waiting in the still air. In the parlor she put another chunk in the cast iron stove, then sat in her rocker with the tatted throw, among heaps of Christian Science Sentinels and Monitors, in company with the pain in her hip, the constant witnes of pain in her long hand bones: angels of error she had daily to wrestle with. She wore white drawstring cap, long blue cotton dress with flat white collar and white cuffs, black apron. A cane hung from her chair. I never saw the ankles of her cricket-dark shoes. Her husband had been translated years ago. A rose-wreathed saucer sat on the table beside me with its twice-weekly offering of apple brown betty. Before I split the kindling we visited, she in the loneliness of dwindling time, I in the pain of a boy's eternal present. The slop bucket conjectured by the kitchen door. Mrs. McElroy hobbled through the yard, her cane touching this chore and that chore: slops to be poured, mulch turned, thinning of a strawberry bed, tying up of brambles. Under the mulberries, red stains and bird droppings. April, asparagus. Cuttings of rhubarb thick as my wrist. Raspberries, Loganberries. In August I fought starlings for bushels of bing cherries, fistfuls of damsons for her tart jellies. The sun still shines that shone on her. Since then, my dear, my mother and my bride, I have loved the struggling aged. @ 1979 by R. G. Vliet 6 students who were also a part of the conference made it very difficult to winnow the grain from the chaff. But the fact is that, to a person, the faculty, students, and graduates were incredibly enthusiastic about the program (and how long it has been since you heard faculty and students gushing about a curriculum?) . Visiting consultants, some of whom were present at the conference, were also generally positive about the program, though in their written reports they do have some specific criticisms. An evalu- ation conducted as part of the grant by an outside agency is also positive (at least the summary which I have received — I am still awaiting the full report) . The conference itself had its problems, not the least of which was the coinci- dence with the college's bad news. It also had the usual problems of conferences involving academics, many of whom seem to have an overweening fondness for the sound of their own voices and to be plagued by a chronic inability to organize talks and/or to get to the point. But, try as they did to hide the important ideas and infor- mation, the conference was a valuable experience — at least as a beginning, I think we can (and must) learn from the attempt to integrate career and liberal arts education. We all know how our students have turned into raging pragma- tists and materialists, and we know that, in an age of a shrinking pool of potential students, we must begin to be a bit pragmatic ourselves. But there are those of us who are unwilling — perhaps unable — to let go of the traditional values of the liberal arts. Possibly, just possibly, William James College has some answers for our own expressed concern to integrate career and liberal arts education. Now, that is not to say that we ought to become a branch campus of William James College. One of the speakers at the conference, Jonathan Smith, a dean at the University of Chicago, suggested that we recognize "institutional particularity." That is, we must recognize, and not fight, the fact that each institution has its own particular history which has made it into what it is: William James could not be a Chicago any more than Chicago could be a William James. (As I mentioned above, William James is what it is probably as much because it was founded in the early 70s as for any other reason.) North Adams State College is also what it is because of its history, and there is little likelihood it could become a Chicago or a William James. However, I personally would like to see some dramatic changes in curriculum, and I think the time is ripe. And we can learn from places like William James: not to learn from other institutions could be academic suicide , One thing which William James has done and which I would like to see North Adams State do is to abolish all departments and offer all its degrees as interdiscipli- nary, individualized programs. Such a suggestion might be, because of our particular history, an unrealistic expec- tation, but it is not the first time it has been proposed at this college (several years ago a long-range planning committee offered a similar proposal). If, however, this proposal is too drastic, we can at least continue to build on the foundation of the interdisciplinary program we now have: we can offer a variety of models or clusters of interdisciplinary courses in add ition to traditional departmental ma j or s . Another change we can consider — and here we can learn a lot from William James College — is to think more of relating the liberal arts to the real world, without falling prey to the trap of a contrived "relevance." We can, for one thing, expand our developing cooperative educa- tion and internship programs in order to give our students "real world" experience. We can do more to convince them of the value of the liberal arts in a variety of careers (and here we could probably enlist the aid of people from the outside). But we could also afford to look more closely at what William James College and others do in individual courses to integrate the two types of education so that our students do not so readily write off certain offerings as mere ivory tower hurdles to jump over on the way to gradu- 7 ation. Not to do so could well spell certain death for some of the more tradi- tional courses or departments. Whatever we do, we must do something soon if we are to survive the shrinking pool of students and the governor's cutthroat policies. I think we must demonstrate the value of what we have done, but I think we must also improve what we are doing. Our way to improve might well be to look more closely at programs like that at William James. The Literary Scene THE PRISM OF TIME "Old Creole Days in the Big Easy" By Robert Bishoff "What Ever Happened to the Ethnic Mother?" By Ellen Schiff by W. Anthony Gengarelly On March 30, Professors Robert Bishoff and Ellen Schiff of the North Adams State College English Department delivered papers at the annual meeting of the North- east Modern Language Association. I attended the Conference and heard the papers as an interested partisan. Both presentations dealt with fictional treat- ments of ethnic prototypes. Bishoff analyzed George Washington Cable's image of the Creole culture of ante- bellum New Orleans, while Schiff examined the changing perceptions of motherhood in some contemporary American literature. Bishoff shared the platform with three others in a session titled Fictional Treatments of American History. Adroitly chaired by Lea Newman, also of the NASC English Department, this session launched into several themes dealing with the question of historical perspective— more specifically, how subjective inderstanding informs perception in interpreting the past. 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In marked contrast to Cable, however, Adams In Democracy and James in The Bostonians treat their southern characters sympathet- ically as representatives of the Old South 's genteel tradition and, thus, as important counterpoints to the crass materialism of the Gilded Age. Schiff' s presentation, in a session titled 8 Women in Ethnic Literature, also demon- strated the influence of social values on the treatment of literary figures. In this case the feminist movement has colored the traditional image of the ethnic mother. Schiff commenced by contrasting t^e literary stereotype with contemporary images. Motherhood she observed has been the sole profession of the ethnic mother. "When it comes to establishing her sense of self and her personal dignity, the ethnic mother looks not into her mirror, but to her relation- ship with her family." Such is not the case, however, with the maternal charac- ters in a number of books written in the last decade which "depict very different sorts of mothers, searchers for niche and identity, who neither seek nor find them- selves in the realm of maternity." Schiff then analyzed the personal and maternal struggles of three female charac- ters: Brave Orchid, the subject of Maxine Hong Kingston's biography The Woman Warrier ; Rivkeh Lev, the conflicted mother of Chaim Potok's novel My Name is Asher Lev ; and Maya Angelou in her autobiography Gather Together In My Name . Schiff's description of each struggle is punctuated with dramatically effective declarations from her female heroes. Brave Orchid's daughter recalls that her mother told her she "would grow up a wife and a slave," but that she must cultivate defiance; "She taught me the song of the warrior woman. ..." Rivkeh Lev is "trapped between two realms of meaning" — the ethos of traditional Judaism represented by her husband and the antithetical values of the art world as they have affected her son. Professionally trained, Rivkeh at one point decides to join her diplomat husband in Vienna over the protests of Asher, her artist son, to whom she responds: "You are not the only one in this family with special needs." Engulfed in a seemingly hopeless identity crisis, Maya Angelou, a teen-aged unwed mother, poignantly reflects on her infant son's affection: "While the total trust of a child can mold a parent into a new form, Guy's big smile . . , and happy disposition lost its magic to make me happy. He believed in me, but he was a child and I had lost belief in myself." Ironically, Maya is finally aided in her search for herself by her own mother, whom she had previously rejected. 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Just wanted to post a thank-you to all of you who came out to see me and the rest of the Tablet/Mobile PC gang at TechEd06 in Boston.
Some of the more interesting questions and comments revolved around the idea of "Now that we have these Tablet PC things, how do we manage them?" Well, the first stop you want to make is the Mobile PC Developer Center.
We didn't get a lot of code questions, not that we ever do, since TechEd is mainly an IT Pro conference. But still, we had a number of attendees remark on just how easy it is to integrate ink into new and existing apps.
Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs) were all the rage at the booth this year. Many of you had simply not even seen a UMPC in person. Others of you wondered how anyone would incorporate UMPCs into your enterprise. Well rest assured, we don't think you should have to take up every technology Microsoft offers, just the ones that will make your enterprise and your users, more productive. Do more with more! Keep in mind that the UMPC is at its heart, a consumer-grade device. It's meant to be a go-anywhere, companion PC, not a replacement for your Blueberry, or your Palmspring, or smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0.
And I'm very pleased by your interest at my talks and demos on Touch UI, InkAnalysis and Ink on Windows Presentation Foundation. Windows Vista is bringing powerful new technologies that make Tablets the must-have Mobile PC for Vista.
It really is this easy to develop a great-looking ink-enabled WPF app.
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Chris goes on to give us a hint at the scale of the project thus far, as between Star Citizen and Squadron 42, there are currently over 1255 pages of dialogue. " … about Three times as much as Wing Commander 4."
In addition, alpha patch 2.5 is discussed, which will include a new ship: the Reliant (pictured directly below). This ship looks very much like a Northrop B-2 Spirit- a.k.a., the "Stealth Bomber"- in landing mode, and Star Wars' B-Wing when fully transformed for flight.
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And as a nod to their more dedicated players, each episode (airing Thursdays at 3PM PST) features an MVP. These MVP's are recognized for their significant or unique contributions to the community. In addition, be sure to check out "Reverse the Verse" the following day, at 11am PST on Twitch. This live interaction with the community involves a question and answer session with developers and various other vital members of Cloud Imperium Games.
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Monday, July 15, 2013
10 things you might not know about me
1. If my hair isn't long enough to braid at least sections of, I tend to be unhappy. I blame this on Lee Marvin and his character of Tully Crow in The Comancheros, whose single random braid was the first I imitated. I'm thinking of this because I'm wearing one like that right now...
2. I'd much rather do yardwork than housework.
3. I love catching snakes.
4. I am attracted to Men in Scarves. Seriously. Show me a bunch of pictures and I am immediately drawn to the ones with a scarf around their neck. So much so that I have started collecting pictures of my favorite actors in scarves. Just because.
5. I am not a very forgiving person. I'm working on that.
6. I am a good baseball player.
7. I am allergic to wheat.
8. I own and know how to use a bullwhip.
9. I will run immediately to the grocery store if the cats or dog are out of food, but if I am out of human food, I usually opt to skip dinner instead.
10. I bought a new sewing machine from Amazon seven years ago. I have never opened the box it was shipped in.
I'm going to tag Patti, Tom of Motion Picture Gems, Rabia, and Laura, but please feel free to ignore if not inclined to participate. I know I'm personally terrible about memes and being tagged myself, so just disregard. And if anyone else wants to join in, by all means, do so! It's always fun to learn more about the people I "hang out" with the most.
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You still haven't opened the sewing machine? Oh my. But you don't have tiny people ripping stuff all the time. I'm so thankful to have mine up all the time now, since I can just fix things in a jiffy now.
But the scarf thing is cracking me up :-D Though I find the with-scarf picture sexier too -- but because of his pose, not the scarf.Lee Marvin is your hair inspiration. Oh my gosh. I love you so much.
This is seriously the best. That fact that you know how to use a bull-whip is really exciting.
I'm imagining you as a sixties action hero now, just to let you know.
(This is a really creepy comment. Unintentional, I assure you. haha)RepliesHahaha! You made my day. :-D I'd love to be a sixties action hero. Or an Old West action hero. Or any kind of action hero. Doing tech support work for a software company... dude, this is soooo not my calling. Don't they realize my talents lie elsewhere?? ROFL!
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24th December 2015 TÎM S (Team S) NewsletterManagement of structuresTÎM S (Team S) is a group of professionally qualifed engineers who advise the railway on management of its structures. Their latest newsletter covering inspections of the railway's bridges and stone structures can be downloaded here.
11th December 2014 Tryfan Junction AwardThe station building at Tryfan Junction has been meticulously restored by the Welsh Highland Heritage Group and their work has recently been rewarded at the National Railway Heritage Awards ceremony in London with the announcement that they have won the Volunteers Award for 2014. When the railway first reopened, Tryfan Junction was just a ruin, but over several years the building has been progressively returned to its original state as it was in the days of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway, a notable reminder of the railway's heritage and a landmark at the start of the Slate Trail which sets off from here up the line of the former Bryngwyn branch. Before and after views are shown below. The Welsh Highland Railway Society contributed towards the cost of restoration. For the full press release see here. Roy WoodsWe are sorry to report that Roy Woods died in hospital on Sunday 27th October 2013, aged 60 years.After Roy took early retirement, he moved to North Wales, joined the FR and for some time worked in FfR Travel. He helped to edit and produce the excellent FfR and WHR guidebooks and various other publications. For many years he has been Editor of The Snowdon Ranger, and at the Society's AGM in September 2013, he was presented with the Token of Appreciation in recognition of his work for the Society. The funeral service will be held in St John's Church, Porthmadog (the large Victorian Church up a steep hill just of the start of the Penamser Road, the road at the end of the High Street that goes to Cricieth) at 1300 on Friday 1st November, followed by a gathering Spooner's at 1415 hrs where refreshments will be available. Cremation will follow at Bangor Crematorium sometime next week; this will be for family members only. A collection of messages received by the Society following his death has been posted here 24th September 2013 John Keylock'We are sad to report that on Saturday, 21st September at 22:00 John Keylock died. He was one of the main driving forces behind the Welsh Highland Heritage Group and played a pivotal role in the restoration of Tryfan Junction station building. John was an unique character who was well liked by all who met him; he will be greatly missed.' ------The funeral was on Wednesday 2nd October 2013 at 13:00 in the village church at Childswickham, Broadway where over 200 perople were in attendance 23rd June 2012 Clearance TrainFrom Wednesday 6th June there will be a Clearance Train each Wednesday until 29th August. The material to be cleared may not always be cut timber and other vegetation; it may involve actually cutting the vegetation; litter and other rubbish collection; drain clearance and any other small jobs.The train will depart Dinas promptly at 16.30 (note the revised time) to permit crossing with the service train at Waunfawr during the high summer service. Those who wish to participate please inform Dafydd Thomas or Paul Bradshaw or even better both; contact details are on the Tracklaying Groups' Contact page. 16th April 2012 South African Brake VanThe former South African brakevan, which did sterling service during the construction of Phase 4 of the railway is now in desperate need of some attention. The main jobs are the fabrication and fitting of a new roof (the current one leaks badly and is beyond repair); some maintenance work on the doors and a complete repaint. There is now an opportunity to do this work undercover in the Carriage Shed at Dinas over the spring/summer whilst one carriage set is based at Porthmadog. A team leader is needed to take on this task as well as a small dedicated team to get the job done by the end of September. If you would like to undertake this job or be part of the team please contact me. Dafydd Thomas - e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone 01248 681019. 16th April 2012
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On completion of this Unit, the student will be able to
(a) State the six different levels of living beings
(b) Understand the steps in evolution (from Level 1 to Level 5)
(c) See why the anomalies in the world cannot be wiped out.
Notes to the teacher:
It is generally believed that it is possible to bring about a utopia where the
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It should be explained that the environment and opportunities in life play a
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2. List the names of the profiles from Intelligence Level 1 to 5 (Lesson 6)
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