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College folk cultures, formal and informal
I’m currently in Pennsylvania, having come up here with my family for my wife’s 20th reunion at Bryn Mawr College. Last night we went to the reunion stepsing, which has its roots in a thrice-yearly ritual at the college of undergraduates’ gathering in the evening to sing a bunch of songs. At one level, the […]
Joanne Jacobs’ self-marketing
Joanne Jacobs is trying out a new way to generate buzz for a new book: asking bloggers to mention two book-readings in May, one last week in Washington and one this week in Philadelphia. On May 4, I received an e-mail from her asking me to mention the events in my blog, and I’m guessing […]
Data recovery…
Grades are in, mother and mother-in-law have left town, and so it’s time to see about that data recovery… Update (5:30): So far so good. Almost all of the data is safe and transferred. I’m worried about my Outlook files, as anyone who uses Outlook can probably attest. I have too many things hidden in […]
Summer tasks
As Profgrrrrl has noted, the space between terms can be odd for rhythms, and May is like that for me, even when I’m not teaching in the summer. This morning, I’m one student’s late-final tech-glitch away from finishing grading, and then I will see what’s on my data-recovery disk, and then the May crash hits […]
On the limits of reunions
By Sherman Dorn on May 30, 2006
Since my previous entry on Bryn Mawr’s reunion drew a few responses, I should note that the entry wasn’t about the broader reunion (of which I saw little) but more about folk cultures on residential campuses. I didn’t see who showed up at every event, but I think that those alumnae who came back were […]
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