Last Call for Writing Excellence Papers

A few weeks back, we promoted the Writing Excellence Awards, an on-campus context through which students can win some cold, hard cash. This coming Thursday is the last opportunity to submit a paper for consideration, so dig out those term papers and get ready to start paying off this semester's bookstore bill with your prize!

Rules for the Contest

Papers written as part of the requirement for courses taken at the University of Puget Sound during spring, summer, or fall of 2009 are eligible. Papers of any length may be submitted; short papers are as likely to win as long ones. A total of nine prizes ($250.00 each) will be awarded: two prizes in each category--Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics--and one prize each for Freshman Seminars, Connections, and Graduate Programs.

Students may submit no more than one paper in each category, and each paper must be accompanied by a description of the assignment and an entry form. (Entry forms are available in the Center for Writing, Learning, and Teaching, HO 105/109 and at www.ups.edu/writingexcellenceawards.xml.) Students should submit the original paper with the professor’s comments, or a photocopy of it, to the Center for Writing, Learning, and Teaching by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 28, 2010. We are unable to accept papers submitted after this deadline.Questions

If anyone has any questions about the process or the prizes, please call Julie Neff-Lippman at x2696 or e-mail neff@ups.edu.

1/28 Event: Tamales & Music with LAS

*/Tamales & Music/*

*with*

*Latin American Studies*

Thursday, January 28, 5:00pm in Wyatt 109

*Current minors, possible minors, and those simply interested in Latin
America, tamales and music are all welcome. *

* *

*LIVE LATIN MUSIC by: (2/3s of) **BOLERO TRIO** *

*We will*: eat tamales; listen to music; introduce Latin American
Studies faculty; discuss the minor; and consider ongoing projects
related to Spanish and Latin America, such as study abroad
opportunities, charlas, speakers, student initiatives, etc.

For more information, contact LAS director John Lear, 879-2792, or
lear@ups.edu

Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber

Professor Sackman's new book, Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America was released today in a surprisingly affordable hardcover form. From Amazon's product description:

"When Ishi, 'the last wild Indian,' came out of hiding in August of 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man, but for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink: one culture was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether.

Ishi was a survivor, and viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. He and his people had ingeniously used everything they could get their hands on from whites to survive in hiding, and now Ishi was doing the same in San Francisco. The wild man was in fact doubly civilized--he had his own culture, and he opened himself up to that of modern America.- Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi's culture, his civilization. What he didn't count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own.

Though Ishi's story has been told before in film and fiction, Wild Men is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber's friendship and to explore what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America's fascination with the wild even as it was becoming ever-more urban and modern. Wild Men is about two individuals and two worlds intimately brought together in ways that turned out to be at once inspiring and tragic. Each man stood looking at the other from the opposite edge of a chasm: they reached out in the hope of keeping the other from falling in."

Learn more at Google Books or Amazon's product page.