Storybook stack. As always on Monday, I will have a huge bunch of assignments in the Storybook stack that were turned in over the weekend or on Monday morning. The first thing I will do on Monday morning when I get to work is to update the list of items in the Storybook stack. So, after 8 a.m. or so on Monday, you will be able to check the contents of the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I will be reading and reply to the assignments in the order they were turned in.
Spring 2011 enrollment. (repeat announcement) For those of you who will enrolling for next semester, I wanted to give you a chance to reserve a place in one of the online classes that I teach, if you are interested. The online courses all fill up very fast, but if you let me know BY THIS WEDNESDAY that you would like to take one of these classes in the Spring, I will reserve a space for you. You can get more information about each of the three classes here: 2003 World Literature (lower-div. Gen. Ed. Western), 3043 Myth-Folklore (uper-div. Gen. Ed. Western), and 4993 Indian Epics (upper-div. Gen. Ed. Non-Western). Please make sure you contact me to reserve a space if you think you want to enroll; the Spring semester always has a tidal wave of people looking for Gen. Ed. online classes that they need to graduate. I will gladly reserve a place for anyone who wants one, but you need to let me know BEFORE enrollment starts!
OU Global Medical Brigades. This is an announcement from Dhara in the Indian Epics class: Interested in providing communities in developing nations with sustainable health care solutions? Join us on our upcoming medical brigade to Honduras: Tuesday, October 19th, 7:00pm, Honors College Room 182. We will be discussing the organization and the trip as a whole as well as specific such as fundraising, cost, and our personal experiences from this past year. For more information, visit: ougmb.weebly.com. (If you have announcements you'd like me to share with the class - especially if they have a link to online information as this one does, just let me know!)
October 18: Veerappan. Friday, October 18, in 2004 marks the death of Veerappan, the notorious Indian bandit and smuggler whose outlaw exploits made him a kind of modern-day "Robin Hood." You can read more about his life and outlaw career in this Wikipedia article. Veerappan was famous for his dramatic moustache, as you can see in this sand sculpture created by Sudarsan Patnaik, an internationally famous sand artist:
