Students Present at Great Books Symposium

"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!"
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 5.1

On April 6, 2011, the Jeremy Marks Memorial Intercollegiate Student Symposium was held at Wright College,  Each year for the past several years, students from Harold Washington College, Wright College, and Oakton College have come together to present their own papers on a specific Great Book.  This year students presented essays on the topic of illusion in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  

Two Harold Washington students from Literature 211 (Honors Shakespeare) participated as presenters, Collette Hudson with “Illusion in The Tempest:  An Exploration of the Unreal in Theater and in Life,” and Jessica Brandau with “The Tempest as a Fairy Tale.”  Jennifer Thanos served as a discussant, posing a question to all six presenters at the close of the session. 

Thank you to Professor Ruzicka for bringing this to my attention.

 

Hail to the Herald

Congratulations to faculty adviser Molly Turner and the entire Herald staff for the recognition and awards they received last week. I am very proud of their accomplishments. Faculty, staff and students should extend their own congratulations for these accomplishments. 

From the news release:

"The Herald college newspaper received six awards at the 36th Annual Illinois Community College Journalism Association’s Spring Conference April 7-­‐8 held this year at Moraine Valley
Community College in Palos Hills. 

The Herald staff won First Place in Editorials and Second Place in the coveted Mike Foster Award for Overall Excellence. Brian Alexander brought home a Third Place in the News category, and G’Jordan Williams brought home a Third Place in Features. Latoya Allen and Yvan Naoussi also won Third Place and Honorable Mention awards, respectively, in Opinions."