Earlier this morning I directed your attention to one article from The Hatchet. Now let me call your attention to another, in which it is revealed that the chair of the Sociology Department is also a crime busting superhero. Note to all English Department faculty, students, and alumni: you will never read an article in The Hatchet about me chasing criminals to the Foggy Bottom Metro and preventing them from absconding with stolen goods by blocking their hailing of taxis. My only superpower involves good sight translation of Latin, and I don't think that will restore any stolen property to its rightful owner.Speaking of the pilfering of money from all available wallets, the Hatchet also has an interesting short piece by Andrew Pazdon, who makes the astounding argument that perhaps some misplaced priorities are revealed when a university's capital budget allocates $175 million for student life, housing and recreation, and then a mere $18 million for academic spending. I thought I was the only one who worried more about the availability of journals in Gelman than the necessity of burritos and pizza at J Street. Proposal: use $2 million of the $175 million (that's 1%) to found a funky coffee house (student life!) furnished with really good books and a place for poetry readings (academic spending!). Have a take-out window on the side for burritos and pizza if that is the only way to get it through: but please, could we have an arts and humanities space for our students and faculty to gather and to be together outside the classroom?
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Yes! Yes! How do we do this? How do we get this done?!
Also, until that happens: A sofa in the Engl Dept office would be a great way to foster community among majors. Enh? Enh? Nudge nudge. Wink wink.
(My GW English shirt came in the mail yesterday!)
I smell a Hatchet op-ed!
I've been trying for a while to get the sofa -- probably right outside our double doors, as a kind of lounging space for English majors. Maybe this summer when we do some minor renovations.
Why can't this come true? JJC, can we start some big petition for a student run, gw affiliated coffee house? Is there really any way of making this happen?
Also, I love Leah's sofa idea. I also love the word sofa, it's kind of like mittens, it just sounds cute. Except you can't sit on mittens, but you can sit on a sofa!
Jokes aside, is there really any of petitioning the school to allot some money toward turning fishbowl, or whatever into a coffee house run by students, that I guess, gives most, if not all of the profits earmnd to GW? There could be so many fantastic student readings there and the possibilities are endless! Students could showcase their art, etc, etc, etc. I feel so out of the loop and kind of silly not having a GW Coffee House, we just have Starbucks (4?), Starbucks pt.2 in the Marvin Center, ABP, Setttle's Best (Is that it?), and the others I am forgetting at the moment.
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