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National Day on Writing
October 20, 2010
The Writing Center teamed up with student publications and the Writers' Union to host activities in celebration of the writing culture at Washington College. Also on site were students from Zeta Tau Alpha raising money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Alpha Omicron Pi registering community members for Queen of the Roses, and the academic majors festival, hosted by Career Development.
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As editors of the The Elm, Maegan Clearwood '13, Chantel Delulio '11, and Alice Horner '11 demonstrate how to use writing as apparel with the "Make a Newspaper Outfit" activity.
Kat Muller '11 has props on hand for explaining the major in anthropology as part of the academic majors festival, which coincided with the National Day on Writing.
Lindsay Haislip '13 checks out a "Sonnet-Attack" poster at the entrance to the National Day on Writing activities.
Assistant Professor of Spanish Shawn Stein brought his Advanced Spanish Proficiency I class to Hodson Hall Commons to partake in the linguistic atmosphere.
Emmy Landskroener '11, Editor-in-Chief of the Pegasus, displays photo captions suggested by student participants in the National Day on Writing.
As part of their national philanthropy, students in Zeta Tau Alpha offered free yogurt to participants in the National Day on Writing as part of a competion with Salisbury University to collect Yoplait lids, each worth a 10-cent donation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Many students bookended their visit to the academic majors festival by partaking in the variety of writerly activities just outside the Egg.
Ellen Huffman '13, Multimedia Editor of the Elm, places the finishing touches on her handcrafted newspaper watch.
The Elm Editor-in-Chief Alice Horner '11 sports decorative attire in promotion of student publications.
Students who participated in the writing activities entered into a raffle for Washington College keepsakes.
Washington College Mad Libs were recited throughout the event.
In the spirit of inspiring ecological awareness, the Caesura writing initiative uses guerilla notes (and a symbolic comma) to educe critical thought relating to campus sustainability and cultural consciousness.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Ricky Sears brought his Beginning Drawing class to the National Day on Writing celebration to explore kindred forms of written expression.
The creative contributions from student writers accumulated for display throughout the day.