Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. Yesterday, I replied to the projects turned in on Sunday, and I'll finish the rest of the Week 6 items in the stack today, plus as many of the Week 7 amd Week 9 items as I can get to also. While you are waiting on comments back from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project!
Faculty Senate support for Evans Hall protest. I am pleased to announce that the Faculty Senate made a strong statement in support of the students in Evans Hall! The students are our real university leaders right now, and I hope there will continue to be productive news coming out of the ongoing negotiations. You can read the Faculty Senate statement here, and you can follow the @OUDaily Twitter feed for all the latest information today. The Daily reporters have been doing an outstanding job with breaking news around the clock, and I am sure there will be more news coming today.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Twitter Stream. From the OUDaily's Blake Douglas, here's a picture from the third floor of Evans last night... where students decided to organize a book club during the sit-in: GO BOOKS! GO STUDENTS!
A Bigger Bookshelf. Today's African American book is Types and Distribution of Negro Folklore in America by Vivian Osborne Marsh. You can learn more about the remarkable Vivian Osborne Marsh at Wikipedia. This book is the thesis she wrote for her M.A. in Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley (my alma mater too!) in 1922, almost 100 years ago.
Blog Stream. It's been an epic couple of weeks with a lot of Mahabharata going on in the Indian Epics class, so I really liked this meme from Brittany's Mahabharata reading notes:
Indian Epics Today. The epic character of the day today is Yudhishthira, the eldest of the Pandava brothers. You can learn more about Yudhishthira here; this painting shows a critical moment at the end of his life: Yudhishthira and the dog. The dog is really Yudhishthira's father, the god Yama (Dharma), testing him.
Words. And here's a word origin that might surprise you: CALICO is a word that comes to English from India, specifically, from the city of Kozhikode (Malayalam: Kolikodu) in Kerala, India. Originally it referred to patterned cloth from that city, and then to cats with a calico color pattern; details here.
H.E.A.R.T.. And here's a happy thought for Friday, or any day: This is a wonderful day; I have never seen this one before.
HEART Video. And here's a different way to look at days going by: The Time You Have (In JellyBeans)
February 28: John Tenniel. Today marks the birthday in the year 1820 of the great English illustrator, John Tenniel, who is most famous for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. You can read about Tenniel's life and career in this Wikipedia article. Here is one of his Aesop's fable illustrations: the donkey in the lion's skin.
