2 15 59 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/1b9ba617bb2a4c98e8a85f3173d1b208.pdf 6c9850d2723fc0414fe02728c7f2d7de PDF Text Text The Inkwell Quarterly Volume 5 Issue 3 Spring 2011 Semester in DC: A Final Update By Amanda Kaster In this Issue: Faculty and Club Updates 2 Scholarships and Awards 2 Undergraduate Research Update 2 English 397/497 Changes 2 Expanding Library Databases 3 Events at Local Campuses 3 The Vagina Monologues 3 Senior Spotlight: Kristen Pechulis 4 Jon Kadjeski’s London Trip 4 Spring Break Activities 4 I Virginia. Letter to the Inkwell 5 by Mr. Jack Grier Student Presentations at the Moravian Conference 5 Michelle Dubbs in Africa 6 An American Romantic Moment 6 History in Wyoming 7 Valley Murder of Kirby Hall: Part Three Returning to Wilkes-Barre after my semester in I our nation’s capitol has been a positive readjustment. I Possessing the ability to unwind from the chaos of the I city has been much appreciated, but I do miss the places I I experienced, the people I met, and the events I witnessed I over the course of nearly five months. However, the one I thing 1 truly miss is my internship; working to engage I young women in politics was extremely gratifying, I relevant, and more importantly, enjoyable. I had the incredible experience of partaking in I activities that strayed beyond the stereotypical tasks I typically designated for interns to complete. As opposed I to answering phones and filing, opportunities arose for us I to assist in the campaign efforts of two extraordinary I women under the age of forty', one of whom was seeking Photo Courtesy of Amanda Kaster I a seat in the Prince George’s County, Maryland school I board, the other for a coveted seat in the House of Representatives representing the state of 7 The process of campaigning is extremely vigorous and dissatisfying at times, which I I quickly learned an hour into distributing pamphlets to potential supporters on voting day' for the I school board contestant. People verbally berated us for merely offering a piece of literature, I something I had naively not anticipated. Thankfully I was paired with an expert campaigner, and she worked with me to develop a few skills to properly communicate with constituents. By noon I was well versed in how to get the most important points out as quickly as possible and my timid nature had slightly subsided when engaging with voters. While campaigning in Virginia, we participated in lit-drops, door-to-door canvassing, and phone banking, all of which took place in counties that were predominantly' in opposition of the candidate we were endorsing. We were dropping off literature and ringing door bells during the time frame when most people were working, and our maps marking the homes of supporters were outdated, which nearly cut our projected campaigning time in half. Nevertheless, we drove on, making stops at the local Walmart to engage with voters as soon as they exited the store and slipping pamphlets on the windshields of cars in the parking lot. Both women lost their races, which on a personal level was quite devastating. Nevertheless, drey both remain active in their communities and intend to run for office in the near future, a reassuring fact for potential candidates. Engaging politics first hand reaffirmed my desire to aid women in their pursuits for office, and made me appreciative of the individuals who make a career out of such difficult work. I emerged from the process with knowledge of some of the tasks needed to run for office, as well as the confidence to converse with voters about their needs. I am grateful for my all of experiences in DC and strongly suggest that any and all students who wish to participate in the Washington Semester Program as an opportunity to strengthen their resume and develop their skills as English majors do so. You will emerge enlightened, informed, and prepared for a competitive job market, and most importantly, you may come redefine your future aspirations. I know I did. 1 �Volume The Inkwell Issue Faculty and Club Updates By Miranda Baur Dr. Helen Davis will present a paper titled, “ORuled by espionage’: Repetition of the Directress character in Bronte s The Professor and Villette,” at the International Conference on Narrative. The conference will be held April 7-10 in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Sean Kelly will have an article forthcoming in the journal Papers on Language and Literature (PLL) this spring. The article is titled “Hawthorne’s Material Ghosts’: Photographic Realism and Liminal Selfhood in The House of Seven Gables. Also, from April 7 to the 10, Kelly will be chairing and presenting a paper on a panel called “Savages we call them’: Imagining the Native in Early American Literature.” The paper is entitled “American Idle: Irving, Authorship, and the Appropriation of Native American Myth in “Rip Van Winkle.” Dr. Marcia Farrell presented her paper, “Poster Children and Duty: Home and the Empire in Lucy Maud Montgomery The Inkwell Expanding I By Holly Evans The Fade available for stude Publications. Feat abstract preview. Dr. John peer review journ: get to good reseat Upcoming I and Laurens van der Post” at the Faculty Forum on March 25, 2011. The Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony will be held on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 2:00 pm. The event will take place By Kristina Spaul in the Henry Miller Conference Room. The featured speaker this year will be Dr. Helen Davis. On Man exhibit took place Main Street when Miseric will be led by Dr. a Gender Wars C The Univer: Shakespeare’s 7 Humanities Honor Awards and Scholarship Opportunities Applications for the Commonwealth Good Citizenship Scholarship are due on April 18, 2011. Please contact Humanities Administrative Assistant, Deb Archavage for more information. The UPS Scholarship application is also due April 18, 2011. Again, please contact Archavage for more information. Applications for the Patricia and Robert Heaman Award are presented annually to student demonstrating excellence in English. Applications include a letter by the student concerning his or her work within the English major. Please submit applications for this award to Dr. Larry Kuhar by May 1, 2001. Undergraduate Research Update By Amanda Kaster Students enrolled in science and engineering courses typically have the upper hand in terms of engaging in undergraduate research opportunities in collaboration with their course load. Dr. Janet Stamer recognizes this reality, and has been working diligently to create similarly valuable experiences for English majors by enabling students to engage in conference settings. Such learning opportunities outside the classroom are life changing. Not only does the opportunity mimic professional experience, but the act of presenting research increases confidence and preparedness among participants. Dr. Starner is currently in the developing stages of incorporating a conference inspired undergraduate interdisciplinary project for students to become a component of the research process. The work would ideally be carved into course schedules and folded into the tuition load for students and faculty as an additional method for English majors to learn and grow in their degree. Important Addition to ENG 397/497: Senior Seminar By Ashley Zerfoss The Senior Seminar, ENG 397/497, will now include a short conference presentation, where students will present some of their research to a public audience. The presentation will be a part of a miniature conference, with panels, a program, and all other conference essentials. Featuring students from both English 397.A: Studies in Gothic Literature and English 397/497.E: Salman Rushdie and his Contemporaries, the inaugural conference will take place on Friday, April 1, 2011, from 4:30—7pm. The panels will be held in the Kirby Salon, Kirby 108, and Kirby 103. Light refreshments will be served. The changes aim to both set the seminar apart from other 300-level courses by elevating the experience. This format will allow students to benefit from outside commentary on their work so that their final essays may be more informed by a greater attention to academic discourse. If you are interested in joining The Inkwell staff, please contact Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu) for more information. The Vagina By Holly Evans On Feb play was directec celebrates woma pleasure, and vul Anthon Vagina Monolog emotions attache after T saw it. 11 Upon a offer. “I was hoi Anthor involved. This y Additic because, “it is ar and challenges c The I'a committed agair Violence Centei �Issue The Inkwell Volume Issue Expanding Library Databases By Holly Evans Bronte’s in St. pring. The n Gables.” tiem’: I the lontgomery The Farley Library has recently added a new database to its already numerous collection. Sage Journals Online is now available for students to use. This database allows students and faculty to access over 560 full electronic journals of Sage Publications. Features of this database include journal and society branding, tag-along navigation, a popular-articles list and abstract preview. Dr. John C. Stachacz, Dean of Library Services is optimistic of the new database, saying, “These are all great scholarly, peer renew journals available 24/7. They represent most disciplines taught at Wilkes and significantly enhance students’ abilities to get to good research materials.” Upcoming Events on Local Campuses I take place By Kristina Spaulding : contact On March 4, 2011 King s College debuted Jeff Katra’s photography in an exhibit called “Perspectives of Nature.” The exhibit took place in the Waldmann Gallery, Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center, which is located between North Franklin and North Main Street where Katra discussed his work between 6—8 pm. Misericordia University will be celebrating National Women’s History Month with a “Women in Poetry” event, which will be led by Dr. Rebecca Steinberger and Dr. Amanda Caleb> on March 22, 2011 at 8:30 pm. Misericordia will also be hosting a Gender Wars Conference on April 2, 2011 from 8—430 pm. The University of Scranton, on April 15, 2011, will be previewing Bond, Taiwan Bangzi’s opera adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, n't the Scranton Cultural Center at 7:30 pm. Tickets are required. ting major. The Vagina Monologues By Holly Evans lergraduate working igs. fessional ; currendy in :ome a i load for isent some i, and all 7497.E: -7pm. The format will by a greater On February 4, 2011 Wilkes University held their annual performance of the Vagina Monologues, a play by Eve Ensler. The play was directed by Angela D’Alessandro and advised by Drs. Mischelle Anthony and Helen Davis. This performance celebrates woman and their sexuality with real-life stories of female genital mutilation, incest, and rape to self-discovery, intimacy, pleasure, and vulnerability. Anthony, who also performed, recalls the first time she saw a performance of The Vagina Monologues-, “I first saw the Vagina Monologues when I was teaching part-time at Oklahoma State, after I had my PhD. It changed my life.” She described her emotions attached to the performance: “I felt more powerful, more understand, and wanted to help women in the world more after I saw it. I laughed; I cried; I got angry and happy all at once.” Upon arriving to Wilkes University she was asked to advise the 2004 performance of the show and humbly accepted the offer. “I was honored and taken aback. How could I help out with such a tremendous effort?” Anthony said. Anthony has been advising these performances every year since then. She also performs and encourages students to get involved. This year, English majors Sara Crolick, Amanda Kaster, and Kyriel Manzo participated in the performance. Additional performers included Dr. Ebonie Cunningham Stringer, Director of Women’s. Stringer chose to perform because, “it is an empowering event for and by women. It’s a space where women's voices are heard as they speak about the joys and challenges of their lives. Further, I am very much concerned with violence against women.” The Vagina Monologues are a part of the V-Day campaign. V-day is a movement to spread awareness about violence committed against women and girls all over the world. All of the proceeds benefit local organizations such as the Domestic Violence Center, Planned Parenthood, and the Victims Resource Center. The Inkwell Staff Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell Managing Editor: Matt Kogoy Assistant Managing Editors: Justin Jones and Phil Muhlenberg Senior Copy Editors: Dave Cook and Amanda Kaster Layout Team: Tony Thomas and Elizabeth Voda Staff Writers: Miranda Baur, Ashley Bringmann. Holly Evans, Kristina Spaulding. Annie Yoskoski. Viktoria Wojciechowski, and Ashley Zearfoss Photographer: Sonja Heisey Guest Contributors' Mr Jack Grier and Dr Sean Kelly 3 �Issue The Inkwell The Inkwell pear Inkwe Senior Spotlight: Kristen Pechulis I thought t By Annie Yoskoski Where are you from? I am from this area. I live in Plymouth, Pa. What made you want to be an English major? I've always loved my English courses in school and I am completely fascinated by the power of words and language. What is your favorite book? Henn,' David Thoreau's Walden. Walden is great because it is a book that you can read and reread and you still find things that you did not notice, and I think the message Thoreau urges is still practical today. I also like Sara Gruen's Waterfor Elephants and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. What do you want to go on to do with a degree in English from Wilkes? After graduating I will take a position as a high school English teacher, preferably teaching American Literature. After completing my MA I would eventually like to obtain my doctorate as well and eventually teach at the college level. Do you feel ready to leave the university? I feel as though the experience at Wilkes had definitely prepared me to move forward; however, about Wilkes. I have met great people, amazing faculty, and truly learned a great deal about myself. like to bring to yc realize that you ai cannot help butt dip their quills ml are constantly dre inkwell as wellWithout yc stay forever in th< Some ideas and reread and pc Child Went Fort! w ,. miss every ing added selections 1 and grow. Your p (Some of my pers However, t What do you do for fun? I love being outside, doing any kind of activity outdoors. I also enjoy painting and traveling. Any words of advice to current English majors? I would advise English majors to take many different English courses. I feel that by studying many different genres, authors, and time periods, students learn more about what they like and what literature is all about. Is there anything you would like to say to the English department? The English department has truly made my experience at Wilkes completely worth-while. Each faculty member that I have had in class has been helpful and it is clear that all of the staff is passionate about literature and about what they do. short stories, essa to but that would What I really beli< experiences.) Yot You have allowec may then become Will we incorpon capable of being? Oh, inkwe allowing me to us today. Many lines will learn. And if Jon Kadjeski Visits Big Ben to say at least one is a tale. Told by' 1 What do you love most about Wilkes? „„ r „. Id students and II was initially attracted to the beautiful buildings on campus. Attending I love the freedom Wilkes provides classes in Kirby especially is an aspect of Wilkes that I have always enjoyed. The atmosphere adds to the whole experience. By Ashley Bringmann While most students were sitting back at home over winter break, Jon Kadjeski was experiencing the wonders of London. He was the only English major oni the study abroad program led by Dr. Mark Stine, Communications. As part of the program Kadjeski -was busy with academic activities from 3—4 pm every day, but he still had time to sightsee. One of his best experiences was being able to see a performance of Les Miserables', a West End production. Kadjeski says, “it was absolutely wonderful and beyond expectations.” He also got to visit the British museum, known for housing, Mi among other artifacts, the Rosetta Stone. Additionally, Kadjeski ” .... ? ' . i was able to enjoy the cuisine at local pubs. Kadjeski, being a lover of literature, visited the British Library. Kadjeski was particularly impressed by the contemporary sound archive and Photo Courtesy of Jon noted that Churchill and Cat in Hat were in the same display case. Kadjeski He had time to visit what he calls the “labyrinth” of the National Gallery, which houses a great number of art pieces. According to him Da Vinci does not disappoint in person. Even though he only had one day without rain, Kadjeski had a splendid time in Photo Courtesy of Jon Kadjeski London over the break. There w< medieval manusci working from dig conference and ec m the field of En< Spring Break Continued from j being a star player By Viktoria Wojciechowski Spring break is a perfect time to go birdwatching, if your name is Caevaun DuBarry. DuBarrv eamrlv 1 -i.ji.-i track down the male downy woodpecker over break. “The male specimen sports a red-capped head ” he I ' escribed his plans to a bush outside of the abandoned Slocum Hall. This spring break, DuBarry continued to embrace his ms Vu tO aS WC Ct’°Uch Garrett Schrader planned to spend his break making the “largest hopscotch game that anyone °C C 1° Creatures 0 ^ie s^‘ y nas ever played.” In addition to 1 . Continued on page 5 4 Majors Att By Ashley Zerf On Decc Conference in Mt and schools from presentations, a p demonstrations ai each received the Wnse pick-up gai Sophomc °f them!” Other err in the forest near I oreiseth. �Issue The Inkwell V olume Issue pear Inkwell, I thought that I would drop you a line today because 1 have a few thi like to bring to your attention. Perhaps once you review them we could 1 f °" 7 ™nd that 1 would realize that you are a journalistic forum, yet every time I pick you up and read for awh11^ I cannot help but think of your name’s origin and how much that inlLell must b/th f' u ‘ Y°U preSent’1 ' dip their quills into the precious liquid - that inkwell that is necessary to complete are constantly dreaming and formulating and without which may never beXed a?i inkwell as well. d‘ u Wh°1OVC t0 1 me to sPeak to that r_L Photo Courtesy of Wilkes University everything as. Attending Hence. t genres, r member that hat they do. Some ideas that I am so happy to have seen preserved by you, inkwell, wuuld include youldJndutic the writings of Walt Whitman. To read and reread and ponder the musings of Llanes of Grass especially “Song of Myself,” “I Sing the Body F'“ Body ” and “There Was a Cliild Went Forth from the original 1855 edition will bring insight and pleasure to any partaker, iElectric, t ) experience the joys of later added selections from Chidren ofAdam Calamus and Sea-Drift is a pleasure that should be celebrated by Everyone who longs to learn and grow. Your precious drops of ink have preserved the writings of Emily Dickinson and many other great American poets (Some of my personal favorites are Poe, Frost and Hughes.) and have provided enjoyment for generations of readers. However, the greatness of ideas and truths that you preserve is not found just in poetry but also in the various genres of short stories, essays, novels and Drama and in many other documents. (I could list so many, many here, and I would secretly love to but that would be exposing you to only my experiences and prejudices so I will just mention one, Jonathon Livingston Seagull. What I really believe is important is for each person to prepare his or her own list developed throughout a life time of reading experiences.) You, inkwell, have saved and shared the thoughts, insights, truths, and teachings of individuals throughout the ages. You have allowed us to build on what others have discovered and learned before us so that we can become wiser. The question may then become, “What will we do with what you have given us?” Will we study the great philosophers of the past (and present)? Will we incorporate into ourselves that which can indeed help us intellectually so that we can each become as much as we are capable of being? Oh, inkwell, as I sit here composing, taking from you drop by drop (though you never will run dry), I thank you for allowing me to use you. I thank you for the images you have shared with me that have made me, in many respects, what I am today. Many lines of your precious fluid have instructed me. I only hope that as others also read what you have preserved that they will learn. And if they, as well, construct new compositions by dipping their quills in you, may their writings teach those who follow after them. Perhaps by being exposed to writings composed from your precious fluid and learning from them, we each will be able to say at least once in a lifetime, “It is a far, far better thing I do [this time] than I have ever done. Hopefully we will never say, It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Ah Inkwell! Ah Humanity! Sincerely, Mr. Jack Grier Majors Attend Conference on Medieval & Early Modern Studies By Ashley Zerfoss On December 4, 2010, several of Dr. Thomas Hamill's ENG 331 smdents Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The ourtesy of Jon inci does not mdid time in :d his plans to e as we crouch in itures o f the sky. ” In addition to d on page 5 dudXdpu, srudent’paper and schools from almost every part of Pennsylvania were in> q lvania) a performance of early music by Cambiata, presentations, a presentation by Professor Emma Mon Kogoy Buddy Gouger, and Kyriel Manzo demonstrations and exhibits, and a reception. Sara Crolick, F ’ each received the opportunity to present their work at the conference. conference, but instead edited short sections of There were several students who did not present t eir wo ’ ‘ Spaulding completed their Editing Projects by medieval manuscripts. Anthony Truppo, Cassandra Colwe , an oKyn„ to Hamill, the work of both presenting papers at the working from digital facsimiles of an original medieval manuscript. Diacticing the kinds of professional activities that scholars conference and editing the manuscripts “gave them hands on experi in the field of English Literary Studies engage in. Continued from page 4 c ,. „ skilled at hopscotch and is known to challenge people on the street to an being a star player on Wilkes’ Ultimate Frisbee team, Schrader intense pick-np gam., solace in a unique -W 'Tm pap“ Sophomore Jesse Villella kicked back over break. M . of them!” I Dainter Grizzanti spent her break fashioning art out of rocks Other crafters include Brittney Grizzanti, who is an arduousmet p.^ stroktog , ,„all stone she found ou.stde of >n the forest near her humble home. “It’s such a natural exper Breiseth. �The Inkwell Volume Issue The Inkwell Michelle Dubbs’ Trip to Tanzania The History c By Matthew Kogoy By Tony Thomas Last summer, senior Michelle Dubbs spent time in Pommern, Tanzania, in Southeast Africa as part of the Global Volunteers organization. Dubbs was sent to Tanzania for three weeks where she taught English and Math to Tanzanian children. While in Tanzania, Dubbs’ participation outside the classroom included the construction of a new kitchen for the schoo , as we as other projects meant to promote sustainable development for Tanzanians. As part of the group’s larger purpose, projects, such as the construction of the kitchen, were the central foci during Dubbs trip. Althoug ft she did not feel like she was in poverty while over in Pommern, the city to which she was assigned, the Pommerns were faced with conditions unfit for their hands, alone. Bartering is not foreign to Pommerns, and all-sustenance farming exists as a provision of basic foodstuffs. Still, during Dubbs Photo Courtesy of Michelle Dubbs experience, she encountered many whom were full of happiness, love, and faith. In terms of activities, a typical day for Dubbs would entail classes in the morning running through to the afternoon. The morning session consisted of her math class, where she would instruct approximately 89 students in the methods of basic math. In the afternoon, Dubbs would either play with kindergarteners, or occupy her time in the secondary schools. According to Dubbs, “education is their one chance to go anywhere; kids realize they’re poor, and so they strive towards education and a better life.” In Pommern, the school system is divided into two tiers—a primary school and a secondary school. The primary school consists of grades 1-7, while the secondary school encompasses “forms” 1-4 (i.e. grades 8-12). Advanced levels of education are available according to student proficiency. A typical (small) class may contain 89 students; the size of the classroom can range, and can exceed or fall below 89. As policy of a private school sanctioned by a local church, students are required to wear uniforms to class. During her time as a teacher, Dubbs encountered no behavioral problems from the students “because they all wanted to be there; they understood the importance of education.” Reminiscing about her journey to Pommern, Dubbs feels a piece of her remains in Africa. She plans on returning to Africa, and hopes to travel to impoverished or underdeveloped areas as a teacher to further her efforts in global education. Fortunately, Dubbs did such a remarkable job while in Pommern, that she was offered a job to teach in Tanzania after she completed her studies. For Dubbs, Pommern was a life­ changing experience because it illustrated a different side of education. Dubbs has established a plan to fulfill her goal concerning education— she plans to receive her Masters in Global Education in hopes of working towards globalizing education. With her work in Tanzania as proof, Dubbs is rapidly increasing her chances of meeting this goal. An American Romantic Moment By Dr. Sean Kelly 1831: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s first wife and true love, Ellen Tucker, dies from tuberculosis. Devastated by his loss Emerson visits her grave often, even opening her coffin to examine her body. Emerson would later observe in Nature (1836) “even the corpse has its own beauty.” It would be Tucker’s wealth that would support Emerson’s intellectual efforts in Concord and indirectly, those of Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bronson Alcott. 1844: While camping with his friend, Edward Hoar, Henry David Thoreau inadvertently sets fire to over 300 acres of woods and pasture lands around Concord (Cheever 75). Even before he commences his famous experiment in ‘living deliberately ’ buildinv a cabin and living alone on a tract of Emerson’s land by Walden Pond, Thoreau is already viewed with suspicion by the townspeople. 1850: Margaret Fuller dies when the Elizabeth, the ship that she, her Italian husband, and their infant son have taken from TmI sinks off the coast of Fire Island, NY after striking a sandbar. Emerson sends Thoreau to retrieve Fuller’s papers fron t-l I Henry James would later describe the effect of Fuller’s death on Nathaniel Hawthorne—who grappled with the - ‘ strong, intellectually-adventurous, and sexually-threatening woman in virtually all of his novels_ as the ‘Margaret "host'^k ° 6 The Wyomin: Europe. The Wyomin about her. During the rk forces led by Colonel in the attack. The Battle of “Gertrude of Wyomin The poem accused Jos massacre against the A popular amongst Colo Wyoming. The poem wa: naming of the state W; Books along with an il The Murder ir “Deb, can you about it, even if I was th Jones called. After some hes “So , it was you “Whoa, dude, \ “Enough chit-c pitchfork,” declared Jam “Why would I < would have been bloody have killed someone. Be where I committed the c “Likely- story, tr would I do it this way- in “I think you’re j description might inspire “You’re not ma “Whyr were you back to some sense of re “I was in your < “What would be “No, actually, it “Poison? Why d “What’s with all one; and she wasn’t willir Before anyone c red and black long-sleeve “What’s a treads “Actually, I’m n< Only two moi Remember to Quarterly Facebook �Issue The Inkwell mmern, irganization. English and ation outside e school, as well • Tanzanians, the trip. Although the city to >ns unfit for l-sustenance ibbs’ , love, and faith, the afternoon, methods of Ian- schools, ive towards The primary :ed levels of ize of the ch, students are from the ft 7 I I loss, Emerson ), “even the :ord, and, s of woods and itely,’ building a the townspeople. ten from Italy, tom the beach. (leaning of a host.’ Volume Issue The History of Wyoming Valley By Tony Thomas The Wyoming Valley is rich in history and tradition and that richness extends beyond coal mining and Eastern Europe. The Wyoming Valley may be one of the few, if the only county, in the United States to have an epic poem written about her. During the American Revolution a battle took place in the Wyoming Valley on July 3^ 1778. British and Iroquois forces led by Colonel John Butler attacked American forces at Forty Fort which resulted in over 300 Americans being killed in the attack. The Battle of Wyoming was depicted in an epic poem written in 1809 by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell entitled “Gertrude of Wyoming.” The poem depicts the battle and massacre, but has been criticized for being historically inaccurate. The poem accused Joseph Brant, a Mohawk military and political leader allied with Great Britain, of leading the attack and massacre against the Americans. Campbell famously called Brant, “Monster Brant” in the poem and the name became popular amongst Colonists whenever they referred to Brant. However, Joseph Brant was not present at the Battle of Wyoming. The poem was popular in its time and was so popular that some claim that the poem was the reason behind the naming of the state Wyoming and a suburb in Australia. A digital copy of the original book the poem is available on Google Books along with an illustrated version of the epic. The Murder in Kirby Hall: Part three “Deb, can you please open die door. I have no idea what’s going on here. Besides, think about it, even if I was die killer, which, I’m not saying 1 am, what could I do in this situation?” Jones called. After some hesitation, Deb unlocked the door. “So , it was you, Jones. You’re die killer,” exclaimed Joe. “Whoa, dude, what’s your glitch? I didn’t kill anyone,” said Jones. “Enough chit-chat, Jones. You impaled the maintenance man, Ashy, with a bloody pitchfork,” declared Jamie. “Why would I do that? And would it have just been a normal pitchfork? I don’t think it would have been bloody to begin with. But, wait, that’s not the point. Why, or even how, would I have killed someone. Besides, I read The Monk. If I killed someone, I’d know not to hide around where I committed the crime. I know the gothic conventions!” cried Jones. “Likely story, trying to play the whole, if this were a story, I wouldn’t do it this way, so why would I do it this way in real life game. Very clever, Jones, very clever,” snarled Jamie. “I think you’re making a big mistake, man. I had nothing to do with that.. .Can I check out what this dude looks like, the description might inspire my novel. Dude, that’s wicked.” ‘You’re not making your case any more convincing, Jones,” Joe barked. “Why were you in my office just a few feet away from the killing, Justin?” wondered Deb, trying to bring the conversation back to some sense of reality. “I was in your office because I was using your computer to search for articles for a research paper for Dr. Anthony.” “What would be the 10 best ways to kill a custodian?” sneered Joe. “No, actually, it was about the usage of poison in Gothic literature,” said Jones. “Poison? Why don’t you just confess already? Your alibi isn’t exactly iron clad,” Jamie rebutted. “What’s with all these accusations?” cried Jones, “Dr. Anthony suggested the topic for me because I couldn’t decide on one; and she wasn’t willing to grade another paper on the psychological treatise of The Yellow Wallpapet. Before anyone could respond to Justin’s defense, Matt Kovalcik entered Deb s office to ask for a washcloth. Dressed in a red and black long-sleeved flannel shirt, Koval strolled into Deb’s office with a look of naivete. “What’s a treatise?” he inquired. “Actually, I’m not really sure. I read about it, or, no, I heard about it, said Jones. Continued on page 8 Only two more installments of The Murder in Kirby Hall remain! Remember to enter your guesses for the identities of the murder and the writer on The Inkwell Quarterly Facebook page for a chance to win homemade pastries from Dr. Farrell. �The Inkwell Volume Issue Continued from page 7 “Good grief, man! Your clothes are splattered with blood! How do you explain that?!” exclaimed Joe. Uh, I highly doubt that Smuckers will be releasing their plasma spread ova . spread this early in the year, snarke “What are you talking about?” asked Deb. Jelly, my dudes. It s just strawberry jelly,” laughed Jones. A eah, it s from the jelly party we had about an hour ago,” said Kovalcik. “Hmm, Koval’s covered in it, too,” said Jamie. Joe, perplexed by the situation, wondered, “Why would anybody...?” but before he could finish his thought, Jones and Koval chimed in, “We love jelly, although Dr. Farrell’s spiced blueberry jam is better than store-bought strawberry.” The group rolled its eyes at the two as the printer suddenly came to life, startling everyone. “Oh sure. Now it starts,” sneered Jones. “What are you printing out, Jones?” asked Jamie. I told you: the articles I need for Dr. Anthony’s assignment,” answered Jones. “Pfft, just beginning that now? Such a procrastinator,” sneered Joe. “Bite me,” said Jones. “Jones!” warned Deb. “And boys, there are much more serious things to worry about right now. “Sorry',” said Jones. He grabbed the articles for Dr. Anthony and headed up to her office, followed closely by the Jamie, Joe, and the rest of the gang. “Dr. Anthony, I have that assignment for you,” said Jones, handing Dr. Anthony the jelly splattered essay. “Thank you. At least you got me this paper to me in less than two y'ears. It seems getting a paper from you is like getting ‘Hamill’s Hunches’—it’s all promises-promises, and then no results, or so the Inkwell staff says,” replied Dr. Anthony as she quickly folded the essay into her pocket. Before any'one could even wonder why Dr. Anthony' had hastily hidden the paper instead of placing it on her desk, a strange melody was heard ascending the staircase to filter throughout the entire building. “Did you hear that?” asked Matthew Kogoy, who had been drinking green tea in his “office” outside of Dr. Anthony’s. “What is that sound?” asked Dr. Anthony. “It sounds like a swing jazz number.” “I suspect we should follow our ears,” said Jamie, rather snidely. “Dr. Anthony, will you be joining us?” “I can’t. I need to grade this essay for Jones.” With that, the group left Dr. Anthony alone to read. As they reached the main floor, Kogoy remarked, ‘Was that a number by Charlie Parker? I enjoy Gillespie more.” “Hey' man, who cares who they’re playing? I wanna know why they’re playing, especially with so many dead people in the building,” said Joe, who was somewhat frustrated with Kogoy’s overreaching apathy. “And, where are the police? I thought Dr. Hamill said he was going to call them?” The band leader, a man named Billy Joe Coolcat, replied, “Hey daddy-o’s and cool cats, imagine that. We were just here to lay down a few numbers for tonight’s little party', you know, play some jazz from the past.” Coolcat’s voice was long and drawnout, much like Bob Dylan’s in the ‘70s. “We was just practicing some Coltrane, his A-train, actually for tonight. Why? Is that not right? Did we miss the date, or eat from wrong plates?” Clearing her throat, Jamie said, “Right, well, see, I’m conducting an investigation into several murders that occurred this evening.” “Oh! Like a murder mystery dinner! I get it.” “Anyway!” Jamie persisted. “We—hey is your clarinetist alright?” Coolcat turned around to see his clarinetist, Benette Goodwoman, coughing and writhing on the floor. “What’s wrong with her?” asked Koval. “Maybe she’s just really feelin’ the music, my man,” Coolcat said without so much surprise for her condition. “Hey Benette, you are alright for tonight, right?” Benette opened her mouth, and drew a breath, but instead of words, a white froth flowed from her mouth, and she stopped twitching and died. “It looks like her ‘Sing Sing Sing,’ has ‘Sing Sang Sung,”’ said Coolcat, wiping a tear away from his only slightly hazy eyes. The group immediately surrounded her motionless body and noticed a green tinge to her lips. “Dude, she’s dead,” said Jones. His calm, almost stoic manner, the group knew, was a shell for the true horror he felt inside, or perhaps, as a budding gothic novelist, he just knows how to lead on his friends. In the next installment: Who’s next on the killer’s hit list? Will the gang be led astray by more strawberry jam? Will IQ run a game? And, most importantly, will Hamill hunch or Kuhar corner? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Spring 2011 (Volume 5, Issue 3) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 2011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/5346ecae689f766fee583654c3a632e1.pdf 03ff99a7f9e40319aafa1b8296a454e4 PDF Text Text Th& Inkwell Quarterly Volume 5 -- -- ------ -------------- — ----------------------- --------------------------------------- __________________________________ Spring 2011 Sir Salman Rushdie Visits Wilkes University Bj Kristina Spaulding * On April 19, 2011, Sir Salman Rushdie visited Wilkes University, sponsored by tire English Department, through the Allen Hamilton Dickson Fund. The idea for having Sir i Rushdie come to campus was brought up by Dr. Marcia Farrell, who, when Photo Courtesy of Dr. Marcia Farrell asked by Dr. Lawrence Kuhar how much it would cost to bring him to the campus as a joke, found out, and well, tire rest is history. Farrell and Kuhar then put all ol their time and effort into planning tire event so that it would be one students and faculty would remember for tire rest of their lives. “We wanted a student-centered event,” Farrell said. “And, Sir Rushdie, himself, values student-centered experiences.” Sir Rushdie, spoke in the Kirby Salon for English majors, select alumni, and faculty in a private Q&A session led by Farrell. With meeting Sir Rushdie in a more intimate setting, students from ENG 397: Salman Rushdie and its Contemporaries along with other English majors who submitted questions were able to ask him questions that they have been working on tweaking and perfecting for weeks after they were given notice that the author they have been studying for tlrree months was coming to their campus. During tire Q&A, Kristina Spaulding, Tony Thomas, Amanda Kaster, Jon Kadjeski, Matt Kogoy, Phil Muhlenberg, David Cook, Annie Yoskoski, Sarah McNew, Sara Crolick, Mollie Rance, Matt Kovalcik, and Buddy Gouger asked Sir Rushdie questions dial covered topics from tire author’s writing process to his views on pop culture, and even his movie and reading suggestions. Even though the session was only supposed to last from 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sir Rushdie graciously agreed to stay later in order to answer all of the questions that had been submitted. Junior Tony Thomas describes the private Q&A session as “something that I may never experience again with a world famous author. Sir Rushdie was interested in answering all of our questions at length. I felt that he would have been content spending the entire time there.” After the private lecture, a dinner was held in the Martz center for those who attended the private lecture, along with Humanities faculty and select administrative guests. Guests attending dined with a South African themed menu, which included spiced chicken with avocado with grapefruit salsa and chakalaka, a type ol vegetable stir-fry. Continued on p. 4 ri ♦ Mothers, Mayhem, and 7 Murder: An IQ Invitation Sigma Tau Delta Induction 9 Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein 9 Manuscript I 'nveiling 9 Emma by the BTE 10 Capstones and Student Teaci ling 10 10 Rhetorical Reflection on the Death of Osama bin Didcn 'Hie Murder in Kirby Hall, Part 4 11 Summer Plans 12 A Modernist Moment 12 Congratulations, Graduates! The Inkwell Quarterly and the English Department want to congratulate the following seniors on the completion of their undergraduate degrees in English tliis May: Rachel Cannuli Matt Kogoy Frank O’Shea Kellene Cappellini Amanda Kaster Kristen Pechulis Cassandra Colwell Matt Kovalcik Anthony Truppo JustinJones Shannon McDonald Additionally, we would like to congratulate Sarah McNew on the completion of her Masters of Education with a focus on English. 1 �Issue 4 The Inkwell Dear readers, Senior Sp undcr thc direction of senior Matt /Qdc Matt Kovalcil By Matt Kogo? KogpyauXSt^^^ we believe, help better reflect not only our own personal ideas, but embody who we arc as a cp< In issue 5.4, die new Editorial Board has started making more subtle changes wuc\ publication forward. We want to be more titan a newsletter, and the English Departmen study of English is a study of the exploration of language and human emotion, and we, the nanoi < continue to push our e Qian just a newsletter. The d Lo brfng m„rP assertive and more diverse. Essentially, IQ Quarterly into that study. cl'language, induding a cridcal ana|ysi, of dlc winning Manuscript poem from lljeir Spring release, music and book reviews, a new' serial story, and a brand new layout. O1 course, thc new ZQwil sti contain some o . columns, including “Kuhar’s Corner” and “Hamill’s Hunches,” tlic latter of which should be spectacular in the first la s . gi io great deal of time he has had to ponder on his ‘hunch.’ mi,„ Ct;P job to m,,ve The outgoing editors have done ..a for.fo fantastic move the TnlweH Inkwell OuarterhTorward, Quarterly fonvai d, and and we will iollow behind their bright, still unknown futures. burning stars as they move out against the horizon illuminating their and our Sincerely, David Cook, Editor-in-chief Faculty and Club Updates By Miranda Baur • • • • • The Inkwell Volume 5 Dr. Chad Stanley was awarded tenure by the Board of Trustees! Stanley is currently working, in collaboration with Dr. Anthony Kapolka, Computer Science, on an article that considers representations of printing and textual pioduction/reproduction in Jonathan Swift's and Umberto Eco's writing. He is also starting work on a regional history project, with Dr. Loran Lewis (COM). Additionally, Stanley is pleased to report tliat the Writing Center will be open tliis summer. Dr. Mischelle Anthony will be on Sabbatical in tlic Fall 2011 semester. She will be doing archival research in London, looking at owner writing in 18th-century copies of gothic and sentimental texts, paying special attention to tlic use of die dash, a punctuation mark dial come into common usage during die 18di century, especially among women writers. Dr. Helen Davis has been invited to chair and moderate a plenary session at die Symposium on Queer and Feminist Narrative Theory, to be held in Columbus, Ohio on May 12-14, 2011. Also, Davis was nominated and selected for die Wilkes Diversity Faculty Award for die 2010-2011 academic year. The award is sponsored by die Center for Global Education and Diversity. She will receive die award on May 2, 2011. Dr. Marcia Farrell presented die lecture “Imperial Duly and Domestic Commitments in die Commonwealth: home and children in die works of Laurens van dcr Post and Lucy Maud Montgomery” at die Faculty Forum on March 25, 2011. Additionally, Farrell was invited to participate in an academic roundtable discussion about Jane Austen’s Emma as part of die Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble’s world premiere performance of Emma on March 6, 2011. Dr. Janet Stamer delivered a paper at die national meeting of die Shakespeare Association ofAmerica from April 7— 9, 2011 in Seatde, Washington, tided "A tottring Throne held firmc by Majestic": Intertextual Carpentry, circa 1636.” Her presentation developed material dial she researched while on sabbatical leave in die spring semester 2010 and will inform work in Eng 333 in die fall Heaman Scholarship Application Deadline Approaching Every year, Drs. Pat and Bob Heaman, Professors Ernerti, award tlic Patricia Boyle Heaman and Robert J Heaman Scholarship to a student on the literature track. Preference is given to an upcoming junior or senior and to students from the Wyoming Valley, but all majors are encouraged to apply. ‘ ? ” The recipient of this award is selected by a committee of English faculty members. The award decision is based OU demonstrated excellence in English studies, potential for advanced study in English, scholarship, and financial need Ilian May 9hO201'liShinS ^b^ ’ StatCmCntS dCtai‘ing to Dr. Lany Kuhar and are due no later Il you arc interested in joining The Inkwell. stall’ and/or enrolling in English 190:Projects in Writing- Inkwell nlease contact Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.lai rell@wilkes.edu) or Phil Mulilenberg (philip.muhlenberg@wilkes edu) ’ for more information. 2 Photo Courtesy career optior We man who’s n it’s not that I Th Matthew K By Matt Ko M; History. Th as a well re? Federation, music genr< K foreign, inc be reading The Repu. K E Quarterly, Amanda By Justin J 1. Whatv 1 of study I quest for because c English n Senior Sc career as opportur spending �«ue 4 The Inkwell itt Tings, r lie ?11 hy, iq tyThe emia] ease, n the right, fork on vrner at eory, to is n die eattlc, latcrial oming > later Contact Volume .5 Issue 4 Senior Spotlight: Farewell to the IQ Seniors IQ decided to feature our graduating editors in the final Senior Spotlight of the year. Here are their storiesMatt Kovalcik, Inkwell Quarterly Online. Coordinator By Matt Kogoy Matthew J. Kovalcik will be graduating this May after four exciting years at Wilkes University. Kovalcik, a longtime resident ol Archbald, Pennsylvania, is an easy-going fellow who enjoys engaging in discussions that involve him, pirate death-metal, Metalocalypse, and Magic: The Gathering. Kovalcik entered Wilkes with an eye towards creative writing and a concentration in Scicenwi iting. Since tiien, he s completed die beginnings ol a screenplay and will present his draft at die Capstone Presentations. With such an <enthusiasm 1 ' towards creative writing, Kovalcik hopes to continue nurturing his creative darlings after graduation with die intentL ion publishing his works, becoming a world­ renowned author, traveling into space, and becoming the first man to do a book signing on the moon. He’s that dedicated. Photo Courtesy of Matt Kovalcik Nowaday's, Kovalcik spends his time chomping on ham sandwiches, playing Super Smash Bros., and watching Westerns like crazy. Soon, tiiough, the job market will be summoning him. In terms of career options, he plans on completing some freelance projects while continuing to write. We at The Inkwell Quarterly wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors, and expect nodiing but awesomeness from a man who’s motto speaks for a generation—it’s not diat big of a deal. Maybe we should all learn something from Mr. Kovalcik; maybe it’s not tiiat big of a deal, maybe there’s no deal at all. This is Matthew J. Kogoy signing off. Good day to you. Matthew Kogoy, Inkwell QuarterlyMana&ng Editor By Matt Kovalcik Matthew Kogoy graduates this year at Wilkes University with a double major in English and History. This self-proclaimed “soft spoken debonair” has earned his reputation amongst his fellow classmates as a well read and articulate young sir. Also known by his moniker “Admiral Kogs-wortii of die Fourdi Federation,” Kogoy has for many years become appreciative of fine music and film. Some of Kogoy’s lavorite music genres include blues rock and traditional folk music. Kogoy’s other interests include, dressing well, drinking Mountain Dew', and watching films (mosdy foreign, independent or classics). Along widi his reputation of being well read, Kogoy has slated dial he will Photo Courtesy of Matt be reading House ofLeaves, David Foster Wallace novels, and some philosophy books (specifically Plato’s Kogoy The Republic) in the near future. Kogoy currently resides in Larksville, Pennsylvania, living with his family and dog Bandit. By next spring, Kogoy is interested in living in Japan to teach English to Japanese students. To all ol us from The Inkwell Quarterly, we say to you, Matthew Kogoy, adieu and good luck good, sir. Amanda Kaster, Inkwell QuarterlyHeaA. Copy Editor By Justin Jones 1. What was your favorite part of attending Wilkes? I absolutely loved haring the opportunity to learn and work diligently to acquire die knowledge I needed to succeed in an area of study I enjoy gready. Amid die impatience to complete work and comprehend the complexities witiiin any given course, I found my quest for understanding to be invigorating and tremendously rewarding. My capacity as a student was pushed to an entirely new level because of die expectations of my professors, and as a result directly impacted the amount of growth I experienced in my abilities as an English major. This semester is a testament to such a fact; whetiicr in regards to Dr. Farrell’s Salman Rushdie and His Contemporaries Senior Seminar to Dr. Kuhar’s Postmodern Literature course, die amount of work I put in allowed me to reach new depths in my career as an undergraduate student, and for that I am not only immensely appreciative, but also ecstatic. I also enjoyed the additional opportunities Wilkes had to offer me as a student; whetiicr in regaids to extra-curricular activities to build my ability as a leader to spending a semester in Washington, DC, I was incredibly pleased widi my experiences as a student. Continued on p. 8 The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell Edilor-in-chicl: Dale (\><>k Managing Editor: Kristina .Spaulding Assistant Matiaging Editor: I’hirMiihlenberg Senior Copy Editors: Tony ’1 lioinas and t al ly i annus Copy Editing Adrisoi: Di. Janet Slarnei ^Layout Ediloi :^fljzti)>^^'oda Staff Writers:’ Miranda Baur, Ashley ^jj'ngniann. Mall Endress, Holly Evans. \ icky Hevenei. Aiinie^oskoski; Viktoria Wojneehouski. and Ashler Zeatfoss Graduating Staff: Stall Kogoy. M«lt KovalriLJustiuJones. Amanda Kaster. and Sonja Heiser Fa< till! Contributors: D.. M.schelle Aiithony. Dr. Lain Kuliai. and D.. 1 liomas \. Hamill 3 �The Inkwell Issue 4 Volume 5 Poetry In Transit 2011 seeks new verse By Dr. Mischelle Anthony buses. The poems stay up for one year, with a monthly rotation so that riders can see all poems ov ci lime. An advisory board from four area colleges (Kings College, Penn State Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne ounty omnium j o ege, and Wilkes University) will choose the winners from this year’s submissions. We would love to have one of your poems on the bus! Here are the requirements: Length: 6 lines or less (excerpts from longer works are fine, but you must choose the 6 lines to send) Theme: Conflict Please avoid profanity, outright political or religious statements Languages: Any language is great, as long as you provide an English translation Submission (Deadline is May 20th, 2011): Email your poetry to: mischellcb.half@gmail.com -orMail your poetry to: Editorial Board Poetry In Transit ■ English Department Wilkes University 84 W. South St. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Calling all graduates: Senior Exit Survey On behalf of the English department, Justin Jones created an exit survey for our ggraduates. The survey responses help tlic English department better understand student preparation for life upon graduation. If youi are a graduating senior, please send your responses to die survey below to either inkwell@wilkes.edu or to Dr. Marcia Farrell at marcia.fai rell@vrilkes.edu. Survey Questions 1. What courses/events do you believe prepared you the most for your future pursuits? 2. What will you miss most about Wilkes? 3. Do you feel you have been sufficiently prepared for what lies ahead? 4. Anything else you'd like to say, you may say here. “Rushdie,” continued from p. 1 At 6pm guests were led to the Dorothy Dickenson Dartc Center for a lecture that was open to die public, where Sir Rushdie was inUoduced by Farrell as her “hero.” Sir Rushdie then gave his lecture: “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in die Modem World,” followed by a brief question and answer period. In spite of die rain, die public lecture was well attended by die Wilkes and great Wilkes-Ban e community. Reflecting back on die public lecture, Thomas noted, “His lecture highlight-2 . lited the importance of free speech and die freedom of an artist to pursue their vision, which was appropriate for a world where tliemselves widi passion about how words can change die world.” ----- : artists still risk their lives to express After die public lecture, Sir Rushdie held a book signing and dien left die campus to head back to New York City. Senior Amanda Kaster reflected back on die event, “having die ability to meet and engage a famous audior is ultimately one of die definitive moments of my time at Wilkes, and I am forever grateful of die hard work from Drs. Kuli:U and Farrell for all diey did to make this experience a reality. On behalf of die students in ENG 397,1 would personally like to tliank Dr. Kuhar for taking die time to get Sir Rushdie to come to our campus. Also, I would like to diank Dr. Farrell for giving us the opportunity to meet die audior we have come to admire this semester. It will be an experience WC will cany witii us long after we leave Wilkes University. Sir Rushdie’s visit was a fantastic reminder of why we do what we do as English majors. Thank you for giving us that reminder.” Sir Rushdie is die audior of eleven novels, including Shame, Satanic Verses, Enchantress ofFlorence, The Mo°r’s Last Sigh, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, and, most recently, Luka and the Fire ofLife. His novel, Midnight’s Children, wl«cb deals dirccdy witii the aftermath of Indian independence in 1947, won the Booker Prize when it was published in 198L U also won tlic Booker of Booker’s in 2007, by popular vote, in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the prize �The Inkwell Issue 4 Volume 5 Issue 4 ^te'*ssa t^et, Literary Con^oser-ns on die ■ty (LCTA) College LCS. Cover Slones is a selection of Hash fiction stories based on songs a tvne nf wrt.t i euphiction, which was a term first used in Mike Dawon’s introduction to volume 1 in aOlO^Tl'0"11 gS arc supposed to be seen as literary covers, and Leet has chosen to deal with classical nieces’ CuT miters leatured tn die anthology include Suzi M, Simon Neal, Derek Handley, and TP Whited Wien asked to desenbe her work Ixet said, “The stories I'm working on arc iionor fiction nodimg lovey-dovey. Dark, twisted, crazy fiction. Think Hunter S. Thompson meets Joyce in an aUcywty. The piece that got me accepted to die work is similar to Hash fiction that draws on gothic elements in an attempt to convey a deep sense of fear and hon or witiiin die story.” Right now die book is in its final phases and will be released on National Music Day. As of right now, Leet has four stories in the book. II' you would like to learn more you can go to http://ww-w.coverstoricsbook.com/ and check out the book for yourself. Alumni Notes ° ielp die nd your ° o ° ° • • D^m^n?1 CU1TCndy W°rkinS °1C HO>'1 LibnUy‘ bc teaching aS “ adjunct Profcssor for dlc Wilkes En«lish U,C f;J1’ hc Clins Bednar has been traveling to North Carolina to spend time with his baby boy, while also working in die risk management field and researching a fitting graduate path. Melissa Bugdal is finishing her first year in an M.A. program witii an emphasis in composition, language, and rhetoric at Salisbury University while also serving as a I caching Assistant lor sections of first-ycar composition. Jackie Butwinski currentiy works as an Administrative Assistant for RIA Connect, Inc. in Tinton Falls, NJ. Lauren Carey is an SEO Manager and copywriter at Solid Cactus. Amanda Flynn is currently teaching 9di and lOdi grade English at a public school on die Eastern Shore of Virginia while getting her Master's degree in Reading Education from die University of Virginia. Bianca Sabia is currentiy attending Arcadia University for an MA in English while holding a Graduate Assistantship at die school's Writing Center. Zack Sobota is (lie Running Backs coach for die East Stroudsburg University football program, as well as pursuing a Masters degree in die field of Sports Management. Stefanie McHugh completed year one of MA prognun at Duquesne I Jnivcrsity. She is preparing a conference paper on Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses for die American Comparative Literature Conference in Providence, RI in March 2012. Salman Rushdie’s Shame: A Novel Review Sir >: n, die sech and to express York City, tor is Drs. Kuliar sonally k Dr. rience we , what we 7ie Moor’s Iren, which n 1981. It By Amanda Raster Sir Salman Rushdie reaches an entirely new dimension of literary brilliance in his third novel, Shame, which was published and re­ leased in 1983* The text grapples widi die complexities of die dichotomy of honor and shame between Iskander Harappa Raza Hyder, and die r families in a country drat is “not quite Pakistan” in die context of tire fifteenth century and a post-rndependence world (22) Sharam, or shaL is an incredibly crucial element in die text, dictating die lives of his characters and impacting die construction and plo ol die novel. 7' yet through her char acter, die story reaches comp ctron. n oi dence to die abilities of female characters to access die text in unfa- “ seem tol,„= tragedies, histories, and comedies...to see my male plotrelra ’ Amid flic perplexities about the fairy tale structurc whic text an enjoyable, worthwhile read. The entanglement ol die chaotic i P U riJness and fluidity of Rushdie’s writing alone makes tins characters also functions as an additional dimension to Shame world> posi(ion Mld oppresslon .......... ... �Issue 4 The Inkwell Volume 5 On Sundaj rninors, lact Sigma Tau Delta Workshop at the United Hebrew Institute rnaj°rS’ Judins Recently, Amanda Kaster, Erin Robinson, and Liz Voda, members of Sigma Tau Delta, along with Drs. Thomas A. Hamill and Sean Kelly, continued the honor society’s tradition of conducting writing workshops at tlie United Hebrew Institute to assist students, ranging from fourth- to eighth-graders, with (lie development of ideas and story' plotlines. The honor society members mentored tlie students by demonstrating to them that writing is a process which includes attention to 0f^ro’zSn“out guests will folio"'* uncover his or her t author of the senah If planning revision and Theaudience. workshops spanned a two-week period, during which Kaster, I Photo Courtesy ol Barbara Welch Robinson, and Voda gave the students one-on-one assistance on their ~ writing by generating small-group discussions centered around writing activities. They also provided tlie students with concrete feedback on their work. According to tlie students’ teacher Barbara Welch and (lie Institute’s Principal, Rabbi Raphael Nemetsky, “Our students /ICCOKlUlg IO UIC SLUUCULb LCcMJUCI DdiUdid VVC1V1X Engli5hm^ uiv iiuuluw - - ---------- 7 * * ’ WT • 1 - -■*---- 1 - r> Women’s by Miranda Baur 1 .1 , .1 in tori that fhr learned what they need to do to move their writing forward.” Both Welch and Nemetsky noted that t iej apprecia ec ta ic workshops reinforced their educational goal of teaching the students that “one must change in order to gl ow not only as individuals but also as students.” The students noted that tlie workshops were “inspiring” and “amazing.” One commented, “I love working with Wilkes because I always learn something new.” Another noted, “I learned that if there is an interesting part in my writing, there should be development of that part. It was an excellent experience writing with the Wilkes honor students over diese past four years.” The United Hebrew Institute looks forward to working with the students in Sigma Tau Delta in the upcoming academic year, as do (lie students: “The whole Wilkes program was a very enjoyable and educational one. I learned many different skills that will enhance my writing abilities.” On April Amanda Kaster, h< Over die and discussions he Girls and Women Also, stuc Myeloid Leukemit “The 201 tremendously help to every one in all i was exciting to see discussions we hat Stringer; If you ha Amanda. Raster©1 Heyna or Nc By Tony Thomas A Wilke and towards The English 397/497: The Inaugural Conference By Kristina Spaulding On Friday, April 1, 2011, students from both Dr. Mischelle Anthony’s ENG 397.A: Studies in Gothic Literature and Dr. Marcia Farrell’s ENG 397/497.E: Salman Rushdie and his Contemporaries seminars presented their senior conference papers in Kirby Hall. The inclusion of the conference presentation as part of the senior seminar came about during a department meeting at which tlie English faculty discussed ways to elevate tlie seminal' experience. The faculty decided tliat they would incorporate a tlie mock conference activity that has been a part of several 300-level courses by expanding the presentations to a more nuhlie lnr™i When asked about the event, Farrell explained, ‘Our (Dr. Anthony and my) goals were to elevate the dicession that oeeurs in Ute Senior Seminar while also guangeeeryone a way to teeetve elfecuye leedbaek on their works-in-progmss. Both Dr. Anthony and I have repeatedly sattl dtal we eouldn t be happter with the way drat dte eonlerenee turned out, especially since we wore really able to sit back and enjoy listening to the different panel presentations while everyone involved took charge of tl d' ,, ’ mahybeX^SS conference should be like.” Jones, Dtomas, Buddy Gouger, Amanda Raster, Sara Crohek, Dattd Cook........ Light refreshments were served alter tlie presentations. ’ dem°nstrated what a paper lor a Spau^'S^^^'^ “Heyjii “I dunru “Dats ol The pec who have lived in you are hearing is many dial exists t die phrases and j Here ar A creek A hamt Someth I don’t j The cits If you v If you a I’ve got If you v And hr. seeking aflirmad Now w! �Mothers, Mayhem, and Murder: An Invitation from IO Mtanda Ball Jamie AHeria^and luncheon-mystery performance, of The Im T^„ to Pan, to celebrate Mother's 4y snSe re “ rf the ZQencourages all members of Ute department to treat their mothers to rl.is luncheon theatre as guests will follow Ute trail o a mys enous murder around the halls of Kirby and participate in attempts to uncover his or her identity before learning the identity not only of the Kirby killer but also of the mysterious author ol tlie serialized tale. Il planning to attend, please bring your sleudiing abilities and a dish to share. concrete )ur students that tlie breed their I of teaching the tie must change in at only as Jso as students.” adents noted that rere “inspiring” One love working with I alway s learn :r noted, “I tere is an n my writing, development of an excellent ig with die Women’s And Gender Studies Conference by Miranda Baur On April 7 and 8,2011, Wilkes’ Women’s and Gender Studies Department, led by Dr. Ebonie Cunningham Stringer and Amanda Kaster, hosted a conference which focused on “Women in Popular Culture.” Over die two day conference, various activities took place, including a banned book fair, poetry slam, documentary screening, and discussions held by students, speakers and faculty on women’s and gender related topics such as Literature and Gender Studies, Girls and Women in the Media, and Sex and Human Trafficking. Also, students were encouraged to make cards for Mackenzie Marx, a second-grader at Hanover Township with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. “The 2011 Women's and Gender Studies Conference went very’ well;” comments Kaster. “Not only was the theme tremendously helpful in drawing in a wide range of attendants from lire university and community because popular culture is relatable to everyone in all walks of life, but it also allowed for various sessions that do not fall into your stereotypical conference schedule ... it was exciting to see students and professors actively and collectively engaging in the content witliin the numerous presentations and discussions we had available.” Stringer and Kaster would like to thank the English faculty' and students who assisted throughout the conference. If you have suggestions for next year’s conference, contact Stringer at Ebonic.Cunningham@Wilkes.edu and Kaster al Amanda.Kaster@Wilkes.edu. Heyna or No? j academic year, dlls that will ure and Dr. : papers in Kirby ting at which tlie : mock ■mat. ion that occurs in Anthony and I eaUy able to sit feedback, which a paper for a L Colwell, Justin K.ovalcik, Tony tapers at die By Tony Thomas A Wilkes student, who just so happened to be a foreigner to the Wyoming Valley, ventures away h orn tlie crisp green campus and towards The Square. The student goes to purchase a sandwich at Circles and overhears a puzzling conversation. “Hey Jim what are you doing tonight? Wanna git a couple two tree beers after work?” “I dunno, I was thinkin’ of goin’ upta Nannycoke.” “Dats okay. Lorraine is gonna mil me over to Plitmit and we’re gonna git some hoagies from Red’s.” The people having the conversation may seem a little odd to the Wilkes student. Il you spend enough time around people who have lived most or their whole lives in tlie Wyoming Valley, you’ll start to hear peculiar phrases and odd pronunciations. What you are hearing is the accent of tlie Wyoming Valley, which is known as Northeast Pennsylvania English. 1 he accent is just one ol many tliat exists throughout the United States, and is found in tlie Coal Region, which spans several counties in the Northeast. Many ol tlie phrases and pronunciations are a result of Eastern European immigrants learning how to use the English language. Here are a few examples of many common phrases and pronunciations in Nordieast 1 'ennsylvania Eng is i. A creek is known as a crick. , (T A hamburger is a hamburg. A Sloppy Joe is a wimpie. A sub is a hoagie. In die morning you ave a cuppa c Something that belongs to me is my-un. I don’t go to die mall. I go upta mall. The city to our north is not Scranton. It is Scran-in. Nanticoke is Nanny co ~e, an ymou If you want someone to take you somewhere, ask diem to run you over to re store. If you are talking to more than one person refer to die group as Youzc Youzc guys. guys. . . I’ve got nuttin behind my back. If you want to address more dian one item, you say, a couple two tree . is fmall Ilice heyna or no? It is a phrase And finally, the most infamous of all die Valley pharses.. ..heyna , J ..... . seeking affirmation, similar L\_Z to U1V the jnuuuv, phrase, “isn ’t that correct? Lilli 111CIL1V711, D111111CU -----------------Now who wants to go downda Square and get some hamburgs:____________________________ ________ __________________ �The Inkwell Issue 4 Volume 5 The Inkwell Danny Boy “Spotlight,” continued from p. 3 By Kristina Spank 2. What do you plan to do after graduation? applying to a semester-long Currendy, my plans for graduation arc a bit ambiguous. I am fellowship program where female college students and graduates are placed in internship positions with women in Congress in Washington, DC. I am also looking into dedicating a year to an AM ERICO RP-Vista program. Several opportunities invoicing die creation of programming for military families and dependents have become available in several slates around the country, as have a few positions with organizations centered on die empowerment of young girls. Attending graduate school is also an interest ol mine, but it would be ideal to experience some of die world prior to deciding exactly what I would like to focus on in graduate school. 3. What have you learned from the English Department? The English Department collectively taught me to perform my very best in everything I seek to accomplish; I have always been a dedicated student, but each faculty member I had helped me to reach an entirely new level of ability, knowledge, and understanding within the major. They also taught me to be myself and embrace my passions; my fervor for Women’s and Gender Studies topics was cultivated in the various English courses I Look, and because of tliis, the entirety of my identity, on a personal and academic level, has been altered, for which I am grateful. 4. What will you miss the most? I will miss tire friends I have made in my English classes who have become comparable to family and the professors who have directly impacted every facet of my identity as an undergraduate student. I cannot thank cither parties enough lor assisting me tiiroughout my four years at Wilkes. I was once a quiet, self-conscious English student when I entered my first English class, but because of the environment fostered by students and faculty, I have become comfortable and unafraid to voice my perspectives. I will miss such a welcoming, intellectual environment. Justin Jones, Inkwell QuarterlyAssistant Managing Editor By Amanda Kaster One of die several English majors to graduate in die Spring 2011 semester from Wilkes University' is Justin Jones, editor of die Manuscript and Assistant Managing Editor of the Inkwell Quarterly. Jones marks his undergraduate career as one of tremendous growth in terms of development of abilities and responsibilities over the period ol eight semesters. “I would say diat die highlight of my stay here at Wilkes is die fact that I was able to claw from an unsuccessful first two years GPA-wise and take responsibility as a student as well as a stall' member on bodi IQ and Manuscript,” he said. In particular, he notes how his writing, bodi academically and creatively, has matured since he Photo Courtesy ofJustin Jones entered his freshman year, which he credits to his professors and peers in the English department In between his numerous extra curricular and academic achievements, Jones has held the position of Manuscript editor tiiroughout die school term, which he has found to be incredibly worthwhile. He states, “The most rewarding pai l of being editor of Manuscript was being able to look at the finished product of both die Fall and Spring workload and be proud of what die staff and myself have created. I've created new friendships in my position and together we've created something that will last well past when we all graduate.” Currendy, Jones intends to apply for jobs as eitlier a copy writer or public relations writer at a variety of companies in order to “pay die bills and cvcntually...write novels.” We wish Justin the best of luck in his future endeavors and hope to read one of his novels in die future. Sonja Heisey, Inkwell Quarterly Photographer By Dr. Marcia Farrell Arriving to Wilkes from Newmanstown, PA (which is halfway between Hershey and Reading), Sonja Heisey transferred to Wilkes as a sophomore from Elizabethtown College. Although Wilkes was her second choice, Heisey made die decision to transfer because she “wanted to experience living in an area different from I her) hometown. Majoring in Integrative Media, with a concentration in English, Heisey has transformed two campus publications with her work-TAe Manuscript and Inkwell Quarterly. Noting that she would “like people to Photo Courtesy of Sonja remember me as a nice person,” Heisey adds that she would also like diem to “remember the things that I've I Heisey m'><!«-» (" made for Manuscript." ~ Although Heisey docs not have a lot of spare time, when she is able to find a few minutes to 1 or experiment in die kitchen.For her senior capstone project, she created a website (sonjaheiseydesign • ’i ■ :sS to 1exercise, read, die website is “a compilation of die best parts of all your videos you've created throughout school tint' • °m’< ICC^ oud). She says, under two minutes, and ten perfect static pieces or sets for your portfolio.” After graduation, sue she nopes hopes to to worK. work tor for aa publishing publishing company company m in the the design design or marketing department and seeks to create a life ,. „cr graauauon, for herself foal allows her to enjoy being outside. “The fu st thing I want is a job where I can actually use my education,” she savs “After dial, I'd like a nice little apartment that allows animals and has a yaid. Once I m settled m to my apartment, I'm getting a dog” AU of us at Inkwell Quarterly will miss Heisey, and we wish her the best as she she moves moves forward. forward. On Marc lo Allento"'11- PA broadcasted the pl What wa and Benedict Cun Danny B the incestuous rek Tliis part more information Sigma Tau On Sund Fedor, Victoria H and Liz Voda. They j oil (Secretary ), Aman Amy Demchak, P Manuscript By David Cook On Tuesi school year, an eve Jones, a s from die Fall 2010 century mark in pa “I'd like to tell i Bethany Guaril and the stamp 1 much effort the My goal when t which was to "n Dr. Kelly, you j become everytl have been noth mester, but you nally, Td like to Manuscript anc the drive I did t (Jones. zat C" I 1 /• . a 11 1 • 1 • • ’ rr—-.- — - . evo ‘ 1 stjU’ted editor Position Xs — a shot » shot/ BCIng a �Issue 4 The Inkwell Volume 5 Danny Boyle Presents Frankenstein Issue 4 13y Kristina Spaulding On March 17, 2011, students from Dr Hel n Allentown, PA to witness a broadcast of Marv Shellev’ class • • and Dr. Mischelle Anthony’s ENG 397 A class traveled directed bv' n ---------1)an,iy B«vlc . _. The National Theatre Live and Benedict Cumberbatch play the reverse roles of v" book, how-eve Danny Boyle staled in an interview’ with C... i • , rankciistein and n lllc la« that he l>. i 1I1C incestuous relationship between genius anti madness” ‘ “HavinSll>c > 'les,7 r U'C’ 'vllicl1 l,“T alttnru' l"Millcr Th- Particular simulcast featured Johnny I “ Mid "“^n -d the S °U dfc"1 ‘‘^ts. in()Ie information please log on to ltttp://wWv.nationalthea^' 't‘°r Fra»^nsteiu j i> ‘ ’ rCVC‘SC<I high,ights ENG broadcasted thewas playinteresting from Ixmclon Allenton Svmphcmre• !>' ’ IO' M hat aboutalBoyle ’s rendition Sigma Tau Delta Induction Ceremony ----- - ananda Kaster On Sunday, April 17, 2011, Sigma Tau Delta inducted twelve Fedor, Victoria Hevener, Jonathan Kadjeski, Matt Kokov Ali™ t "T mcmbcrs: CCassandra Colwell, Rachel Cannuli, Mantissa lermo, :ssors who have ng me lass, but pectivcs. I nill Manuscript Unveiling dikes University terly. Jones jilities and o claw from an tember on bodi ed since he tment. teld the position >t rewarding part >e proud of what : will last well anies in order to tie of his novels curtesy of Sonja By David Cook r . i°noSAm TF high CXPectalions for his please, as well he should given the resounding positive feedback from Lhc Fall 2010 release. This may be die meatiest Manuscript since 1947. I’d have to consult the archives on that, but I’m pretty sure. We hit the century’ mark in page numbers, which means lots of writing, and lots of cool photos,” said Jones. _______________ Outside of page numbers, Jones did not want to get into the specifics of tire Manuscript design, but did leak a few spoilers. “Manuscript has a history of being dark and “I'd like to tell Ashley Bringmann, Sonja Heisey, Miranda Baur, dreary. We wanted to incorporate that, but change it |So) Bethany Guarilia, Holly Evans, Kristina Spaulding, Jeffrey Ford, if you are a fan of noisy colors, you arc going to love this upcoming issue of Manuscript If you loved tire Fall and the stamp happy Peter Polyak that I will never forget how confidential folder cover, you are going to love this issue. much effort they put into making Manuscript what it has become. Even if you don't like color but you like shiny tilings, you My goal when taking over was much like Ezra Pound's literary goal, will love this issue” said Jones. which was to "make it new." Under the watch of Dr. Anthony and While tlie har d work is over now, Jones said the issue was difficult to edit and format given tlie gargantuan Dr. Kelly, you guys have helped me make Manuscript new. It has become everything I hoped it would, and without you, there would size of tlie upcoming release. The editing, however, was not Jones’ biggest concern with tlie upcoming release, have been nothing. Kenneth Stucker, bud, we missed you this se­ formal was. “Without Sonja Heisey and her unique ability mester, but you brought the Spring cover to life. Thank you. Fi­ nally, I'd like to thank our readers. If I knew that no one picked up with graphic design and work with InDesign, I don’t think Manuscript and enjoyed reading it, I don't think I would have had tlie 100 page issue would be possible. She put a lol of hours into making tlie inside pages look good,” said Jones. the drive I did to please you all. PEACE! I'm out of here! said Witli Jones’s tenure coming to a close, he has a great deal to be proud of, and for him, tlie tiling he Jones. 1 honors tlie most, is tlie journey. to exercise, read, it!). She says, utes, and ten ks to create a life ,” she it, I'm getting a “I started as a guy who didn't even know he was registered to take Manuscript lor xecuuve editor, to executive editor,” said Jones, “I wasn't sure I could take on tlie respons 1 ty b J -nten’iew process was being held, so I originally applied to be the assistant to die editor, for a smaller happcned, when die C °r P°S*°n 'ras mine-” , . . . (o bc a part of die Manuscript Society should contact next Vc ' r Gtbers wbo 316 looking to follow’ in Jones’s footsteps, or who simp y' < aj s editor Ashley Bringmann, or faculty’ advisor, Dr. Mischelle Anthony. for j encouragc anyone interested to give it a . » “cing a Part of diis group has been die most fun part of being a i ^d features poetry, prose, and art from students, �Issue 4 rrtje Mu Volume 5 The Inkwell Bringmann*by Holly -m ? R °11 ’ Emma, theEwis BTE and Prof. Gina Thackarato ' ■ ■ Marda FaiTe11 took scvcral s,u<lcills enrolled in English 234-Justin Jones. Ashley |Ssen—;il<)nS " ith English department office assistant, Deb Archavage. Dr. Helen Davis, Sudc shakinSandl“ The play, adapted H "°*™ prcinicrc Performance of Emma by the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. novels lor the stage, chose the BTfT by Andrew Hubatsck. Joty, who is attempting to adapt till ol Jane Austen’s Peterson portrayed the lieioine Fmnr W prcni’crc ol *bc diird of litis sequence of adaptations. Anastasia discussion prior to ihe Marcli lpc P I bosted special Jane Austen Weekends, iiiciudingan academic roundtable Farrell. Farrell was asked to partici °iniaiKe’ leaturingDrs. Terence Riley ;uid Janice Broder, from Bloomsburg (Inivcrsily, and work, including the 2010 >-,.1,... , r'.^,)C(ausc °l bcr interest in Austen and expertise in Bollywood adaptations of Austen’s Accordingto Jones “SeeiiJ oftrip Emma. Austen could not create. While readiiFWU <>■ \ 1" bidian °”’Slascadaptation (biringour to Bloomsburg was an experience simply rcadingjanc her fiction, seeing her stories performer/ a*'vavs l)c *bc smarter option when tiyingtoget the true meaning of actors were on-point and the structure nlil’ * )HI1Scxci,cnicnl ;|I,(1 even comedy that may be missed from just reading. The •he play was nearly (lawless. I’m glad I was able to attend this trip.” ily [lawless. I'm glad I Spring Capstone Schedule and Student Teacher Assignments The Spring 2011 English capstones will be held on Wednesday, May 4, from 3—5 pm, and 1 hursday, Ma} 5, horn <• pm Kirby Salon. Presenters include: Student Advisor Student Advisor Anthony Truppo Dr. Larry Kuhar Matt Kogoy Dr. Marcia Farrell Amanda Kaster Dr. Chad Stanley Cassandra Colwell Dr. Chad Stanley Matt Kovalcik Mr. Bemie Kovacs Mollie Rance Dr. Thomas A. Hamill Kelly Cappellini Dr. Larry Kuhar Justin Jones Dr. Mischelle Anthony English seniors m apping up their student teaching assignments on Friday, May 6, 2011, include Rachel Cannuli (at Crestwood Senior High School), Shannon McDonald (at Crestwood Senior High School), Kristen Pechulis (at Northwest Area High School), and Frank O’Shea (at Wyoming Valley West High School). Current Events: A Rhetorical Reflection on the Death of Osama bin Laden By Tony Thomas “I multjustice. And there's an old poster out West, I recall, diat says, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive. -President George W. Bush when asked ifhe wanted Osama bin Laden dead. I was 11 years old when the planes flew into the World Trade Center Towers. I remember sitting in ar t class watching the country try’ to make sense of what was unfolding before our eyes. Later that afternoon Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida would be blamed for orchestrating die attacks. Three years later bin Laden would finally assume responsibility for the attacks. President Bush announced that the United States would seek justice for diosc who died in the 9/11 attacks. Years passed and die face of die 9/11 mastermind proved to be incredibly elusive Now and then false reports of his death would appeal- in die news. I, like many Americans, felt dial we would never know the fate of Osama bin Laden. And dien, on a quiet Sunday night, news would break diat President Obama would be addressing the ,■ The media reported diat he would speak at 10:30 PM, a strange dmc for any announcement. Whatever Prnsid ‘ u Ok & k °t T’ have to be important. I had CNN on al die time, waiting to hear what would be said. Wolf Blitzer broke tb-n tl ■ l° Say "°U C dramatic and related to national security and was not related to die attacks in Libya. I could not fullv fntbn i^ aIlnounccrne^,■ "ould be aj,out > niuiom what die news would really be I flipped back and lorlli between all three major news stations. I alerted everyone in die house lb <1 i> ■ major announcement shortly. Then, I flipped to Fox News, and Gcraldo Rivera spoke flic most u • • 1 • \ i *eSI< cnl "'ould be making a w S 'laVC eVCI bcai'd... “Fox News is conTuming diat Osama bin Laden is dead. ” I rushed downstairs to tell everyone to put die ne scrolling across die screen. Osama bin Laden is dead. "S OIL c st;ued, transfixed at die words The President’s words kept getting pushed back and back. By eleven, all news oudets ................ been killed. But I needed to hear it from die President diat he was dead. I could not believe vl 1CI’°lUng ^'at Osama bin Laden had entered die East Room of die While House and told die world diat Osama bin Laden b ut IJ ^i. n'^ ®Cc.lnS- Then, President Obama by die United States. ‘ n during a military operation conducted President Obama reminded us of diat moment when we Americans became vulnerable Tl . descended upon us and when die American way seemed gone forever. President Obama mJ; 7 , momcnl "’ben destruction and chaos ic country, just as President Bush did, ■ Continued on p. 11 “Th; of times its ha] “She “Th: isn’t—“‘ Those In a covered in bio A in­ closed. Noboc “We The they were cree “Th; mean, even if “Th: killer.” “We was in charge. “Rhetorical R< diat the Untiei and destructio Aftei it okay to live 1 America begat New York Cit would fall beh been the great however brief And chants of USA and win 2-1. A and implausib Shor Proclaim, “Ic Those may ha Prepared for t Towers. As I ^hile days ah regardless of r embrace reasc ^emies of fre Qlosc losses. Am ■ ^Un I ho] I ho] I ho; God hiij I . 'To' '1\'Csldentthe ()i �Issue 4 The Inkwell Volume 5 The Murder in Kirby Hall: Part four ones. Asliley Dr. Helen Davis, nble. 11 ofJane Austen's ;. Anastasia ic roundtable urg I 'iiiversity, and ins of Austen's ly rcadingjane true meaning ol i just reading. The ~ -------------- Issue 4 Suddenly, Jones began to cry. “I like to write diis shit, not live it. Y shaking ml 1“ “ “ sl™s? y*dnL “Y°“ “ «» ta police, righi? I"« cool.- Hi, hand, „„„ laic papers, and liras going to ask . die. 1 Finally banded in all of Uiose Jones was cut short by a blood curdling scream from Dr. Anthony. “That was Dr. Andiony,” said Jamie as her eyes once agiun filled with it what happened!” Gle c«itcmcnt of die chase. “Let’s go see Widi diat, die group ran back up die tiiree flights of Kirby Hall a not of times its happened so far in diis day, and burst into Dr. Anthony’s office When yoU consider die number “She’s not here,” said Jones. “Thanks, Jones, for your wonderful observations,” said Jamie. “Oh mv God' Tt i isn’t-* Those last words choked out ofJamie’s moudi. The events of die dav had r 11 °n • chalr’ that’s blood’ J°ncs> dlal is hlood, In a radier fortunate turn of events, she fell to die floor near Dr Andior I Y 1*1 UP bcr’ Wld shc Wcpl al,d fcl1 lo dlc n°orcovered in blood. “But where is die body” she said have crying, half trying to pull die ^oun Wk ^SC°VCrcd herSlasses- brok™ and anley “We should go, but quicdy. Maybe nobody knows we came up here ” said Jones The group agreed and began to sneak out of Dr. Andion/s office, in what can only be described as a Scooby-doo-like fashion As they were creeping into die hallway, all huddled together and on Up-toes, tiiey heard a voice coming from within Dr. Fturell’s office. “ rl.iat d°°[ laS biCCn °CkCd h\day S;u<1 Ja^lc’ 1 llcrc 1S 110 W FmTell could have gotten in diis building without us seeing her. I mean, even if we did miss her, we would have heard her scream at die sight of all die bodies and all die blood dial’s all over the place ” “That doesn’t matter now,” whispered Jones. “If she is in there, and hasn’t called attention to herself, (lien, shc is probably die killer.” “Well, let’s see if we can hear what she’s saying or at least find out who she’s talking to,” said Jamie in a defiant tone. Shc, after all, was in charge. Continued on p. 12 A. Hamill “Rhetorical Reflection,” continued from p. 10 om 1—3:30pm in die larrell le Anthony i (at Crestwood i School), and Frank iden dial die Unded States was never at war widi Islam. The United States of America was at war widi an extremist ideology diat promoted violence and destruction instead of peace and community. After die 9/11 attacks America was unsure when our normal way of life could continue. When was it okay to laugh again? When was it okay to live widioul fear again? Even baseball, perhaps die most American out of any sport, was unsure about when to continue. Slowly America began to return to die life dial we used to have. On September 21, die New York Mcts would play their rivals, die Atlanta Braves, in New York City at Shea Stadium, whose parking lot was used as a relief center during die days following die attacks. The New York Mcts would fall behind 2-1 until Mike Piazza hit (he go-ahead home run in die 8di inning dial ultimately won die game. That home run may have been die greatest home run ever hit by a New York Met and certainly was die greatest home run Mike Piazza would ever hit That moment, however brief it was, was filled widi joy and excitement. . . . , , . .. And how fitting dial die New York Mcts would play on die day Osama bin Laden died. How fitting diat die game was tied 1-1 while chants of USA USA USA filled Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia. The game lasted 14 arduous innings, but die Mcts managed to lump i and win 2-1. A win dial symbolizes die resilience of New York and diat America will simply not give up even when victory seems ou o , atching die country' try' ned for orchestrating lat the United States : incredibly elusive. v die fate of Osama a most peculiar time, la had to say would cement would be rs would really be it would be making a r heard... “Fox News ixed at the words la bin Laden had csidcnt Obama operation conducted cstruction and chaos ’resident Bush did, p. n t hose may have been die greatest words diat President Bush ever spoke. g seeking since die first plane struck die prepared for bed, w-e finally may have dial moment of closure diat all of us, across Amen ., r°WerS. • new day of uncertainly in die wake of bin Laden’s deadi. As I write diis, celebrations across America continue as we mote in ‘ diat unite us as Americans. We can stand togedicr, Wliile days ahead may still be unclear and dangerous, we cannot forget lose mo never be won, bul when die citizens of die world regardless ol race, religion, politics, and sexuality’, and be as one. The ai on c cjosc to eradicating die poisonous logic of die embrace reason over ignorance, tolerance over bigotry, and love over hatred, then we Nothing could cvcr rcplacc enemies of freedom. Thousands of innocents have lost dieir lives dunng die attacks and ^se losses. , rl nfIrpds stOod in front of die White House, waving Hundreds of people began to fill die streets across die country. A crow o Groun(i Zero chanting and So n'’ “Y d^rcnt ^encan flags, singing “God Bless America.” In New’ York City crowds formedne sing „God Bless America, tears Americans united in dieir love for country and dieir brodiers and sisters. When c cd m my eyes at the sight and sound. All I saw and heard where Arne brodier sister. I hope diat we all can begin to see past petty differences an I hope diat die power of reason and love will triumph over ign I hope diat one day, we can all gadier, as citizens an ce c announcing the death oi Osama bin La cn and ]iatred. of life ;uld happiness. , operation that killed Osama _____ ______ �The Inkwell Issue 4 Volume 5 “Kirby Killer,” continued from p. 11 I I be seen inside die room as Jamie peeked in. Dr. Farrell’s door was cracked open, but it was dark outside and only shadows cou care of die problem. I mean, think “You don’t really have time to bury her. Maybe you can we can just pull oil a ar o pa’ tL Jamie eodd far il.e „»e of te person Dr. W . <0. *** buM1,g'"“'“I across have time to bury her.’ She had to be talking about Dr. Andiony. Then she said sometiiing about pul ing a ar < c for moving out of die country.” but in die novel A Far OilPlace, tlie main character, Franc-well I don’t “Not exaedy,” stud Koval “or, well it could, I mean, Luu... — remember his name, but, he blows up his old home so die African Rebels can’t use it as a headquarters. So, tiiey’ are probably going to blow up Kirby so no evidence can be found. Pretty logical.” “Well, tiien. Il we stay outside this door until die lights come back on, we can stop her and her accomplice from blowing up the joint and getting away widi murder,” said Jamie. So die group sat diere, in die dark, waiting for die power to come back on. The dark plays tricks on die mind, ioug i, an tn a house as old and as historic as Kirby Hall, die tricks can be more mischievous. Shadows danced around diem, creaking noises were heard on die steps, die wind howled tiirough die doors and slammed open doors shut. All around our group of heroes and possible murderers, die sounds ol a blood-filled night were closing in. How long would they have to wait? What would Dr. Farrell have to say for herself, and who is her accomplice? Is she even the killer? Are there even more questions that can be asked to draw out the suspense? Find out at the Kirby Hall Murder Mystery Party on May 8, where the final chapter will be released. Summer plans Many of our majors shared dieir summer plans widi IQ. Rachel Cannuli: I may be working at Sylvan Learning Center, and 1 will be tutoring students. Cassandra Colwell: This summer I plan on saving up money before I move back to Ixmdon in die Fall for Grad School. Sara Crolick: This summer I will be going to several music festivals that Josh's band is playing in. We’re planning a trip to the beach, and we're going to spend as much lime at our cabin as possible. Also. I'm sneaking in a rendezvous mill the GRE at some point. Caevaun DuBarry: I will be in NY for die summer and may secure summer employment. Buddy Gouger: I plan to work my summer jobs of TJ Maxx and roofing while attempting to complete my summer reading list for myself, and possibly learn a little Russian. Vicky Hevener: I’ll be going home to Pliilly and preparing for London. Kendle Jemiola: So far, and plans shouldn't change much, I'm just working and existing. Amanda Kaster: I trill be working at a summer camp. Erin Robinson: This summer, I trill be freelancing, working in die Writing Center, waiting tables, studying for and taking die GREs, training to be a direct-service volunteer for die Victims Resource Center, working on writing workshops for die Domestic Violence Service Center with Dr. Stanley, and, I hope, driving out west to visit graduate schools! Oh, and reading, of course. Kristina Spaulding: This summer I plan on hanging out widi my cat Mikey, where we trill lay togedier and watch reruns ofJersey Shore. Going to die beach, reading, of course. I trill also be a bridesmaid in my cousin’s wedding and am throwing my best friend a 4di ofJuly engagement party since I am her maid of honor. Tony Thomas: I ttill be picking up more hours at Best Buy. I have a cruise to die Bahamas in June which is my first time ever leaving die country. In August my family trill vacation in Myrde Beach, Soutii Carolina for die 17tii straight year. I trill be driving one of die car's during die rough 15 hour drive. We always leave late around 8 PM to avoid traffic. I trill also be contemplating where to attend graduate school. Annie Yoskoski: I am going to Disney at die end of May and tiien die beach in July. I’ll also work. I am helping out a family friend in his photography studio. A Modernist Moment.. Although he is often included as a central < ' figure " • • • tlie ■ group, E. M. " ’ ' ' within Forster always characterized himself as residing on the fringes of die intellectuals known as die Bloomsbury Group-a coterie of writers including, among odiers, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Lytton Stratchey who believed firmly in die tenets of liberal humanism. 12 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Spring 2011 (Volume 5, Issue 4) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 2011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/33b83a9c9dfc68b0d7eb8d39ec0e6583.pdf ff69fa739920ae29fac43cc0dfa78752 PDF Text Text Thg Inkwell Quartgrly Fall 2011 Minors Wilkes Welcomes Raphael Garcia 10 Banned Books Week 10 English Education Updates 10 Harry Potter 11 Listening To... 11 Rhetorical Analysis of Republican Debates 12 Senior Spotlight: Erin Robinson 14 Dr. Farrell’s Recipes 15 Banned Book Scramble 16 Well Known Author Updates 16 A Medievalist Moment 16 The Great Flood of ‘11: A Reflection By Jon Kakdjeski and Annie Yoskoski As dris semester was beginning, our campus, our local community, and our Wilkes family faced a challenge that Wilkes had not confronted in almost four decades. Due to a variety of meteorological phenomena (lie Susquehanna River crested in Wilkes-Ban e near forty-three feet, nearly twice the natural flood state and liigher than die Hood dial devastated die Wyo­ ming Valley in 1972. Fortunately, die levees held, but no Colonel was unaffected. Many people have compar ed diis recent Hooding event to die Agnes flood of 1972. Many things are different in die Valley, yet some dungs have stayed die same. One of diese con­ stant diings is diat diis Valley has a heart The people w'ho reside here reach out and help each odier widiout being asked to do so. When the shelter locations w'ere announced, imme­ diately people star ted to donate supplies and volunteer dieir time. Residents were not the only evacuees; die University administration faced the daunting task of keeping 1,600 on- and off-campus resident students safe. Planning die University’s evacuation began Wednesday afternoon, when Dr. Paul Adams, Vice President for Student Affairs, and odier administrators began implementing emergency plans. “Most important,” according to Adams, “was keeping die students in as familiar a setting as possible. This is why we wanted diem to go to a campus.” The University of Scranton gr aciously opened its doors, providing a safe haven for dozens of students and, “w'ere wonderful to our students” accord­ ing to Adams. Students were well provided for and were conslandy attended by professional staff from Scranton and Wilkes Universities. Continued on page 6... �Issue 1 The Inkwell Volume 6 Tla Welcome New English Majors and Minors T1 By Kristina Spaulding H< The English Department would like to welcome 11 new English majors: Miranda Godlewski, Kendra Kuhar, Sierra Marsh, Antonio Miller, Brett Musial, Mark Ricci, Leanna Rolon, Melissa Shoemaker, Kevin Splane, Danielle Viglione, and Gabriella Zawacki. The depar tment also welcomes a new English minor: Jessica Bonczewski. English majors and minors will be able to choose which courses they want to take, depending on their interests. Majors can choose from tlrree tracks: literature, secondary education, and writing. The options for an English minor include Literature, Professional Writing, or Creative Writing. As English majors or minors, students will spend most of their time in [j’hoto ouf By prir boc an c Am major or minor will find a Kirby Hall, which is never a bad tiling, unless they are scared of die ghosts. Students wi . c With die department close family within tins department, where students, faculty, and stall are personable am • omfordng to know being as small as it is, students will have personal relationships with most of their pio essors, an that die faculty is always diere for their students, and tiiey are always willing to help. _ _ Faculty, Student, and Club Updates By Viktoria Wojciechowski • • • • . . . . ,. Dr. Marcia Farrell will be traveling to India with Drs. Linda Winkler, Mark Stine, and Erie Ruggeno to visit unja i University in October. While there, tliey will be presenting papers at an international Media conference, ane wi be presenting with Winkler on several topics such as: “Navigating die Global Landscape: Blogging, Digital Communication, and Neo-Imperialism.” Changing Global Paradigms of Mediascape Conference (Patiala, Punjab, India, October 2011). Farrell wrote diree articles that were accepted for publication; “The Form of Friendship in die Novels of Forster and Anand.” South Asian Review (forthcoming), “Poster Children: Laurens van der Post’s Imperial Propaganda in A Far Off Place.” ARIEL (forthcoming), and “What about Hercules?: Elizabeth Bowen’s Silenced Children in The Last September.” InternationalJournal of Humanities and Social Science 1.8 (June 2011): 172 - 178. Dr. Chad Stanley is currendy working widi Dr. Loran Lewis on a local liistory project focusing on regional farming and the Wilkes-Barre Fanners Market. Wilkes students Alexandra Madaya, Todd Oravic, and Ryan Wood are also participating in this project. The Farmers Market is on Thursday mornings in die square. Stanley and Dr. Anthony Kapolka will conduct a collaborative presentation entided "From ‘Print’ to ‘Search’: Swiftian Echoes in die Digital Age" at die EAPSU Conference on English in die Digital Age in October. The presentation focuses on Jonathan Swift's A Tale ofa Tub and Umberto Eco's The Name ofthe Rose, exploring various attitudes and anxieties concerning die creation, reproduction, and retrieval of literary texts. Class of 2011 Education Majors with a Minor in English Updates By Kristina Spaulding At the end of each year, English students must present tfieir Senior Capstone. Rachel (Wmi; Ck » , ta ,, , Kristen Pechulis, 2011 English alumni, completed their capstone work by student teachirT^?’?^?11 McD°nald and NEPA area. When asked about her experience in die field of teaching, Cannuli exnlained “R &r°° S arOund die amazing experience and being able to apply what you have learned over the past four ’ ' C1Ug 1 Ont a c^ass *S ‘U1 really rewarding feeling. However, diere are some aspects of teaching that school ■■ ^earS lnto Vour future career was a the experience comes in.” McDonald described her experience as “sometimes Iff1*1?1 piepaie 7OU f°r and that is where classroom compared to actually putting it into practice. Different graphic organr ' T'1 y°U ^earn something in die was focusing on Special Education. Taking die writing class widi Dr. Janet Stam^V 1 ^P,ed me’ especially because I learned in her English classes and applied it to her experience in teaching her stud P“T tO°'” Pecllulis to°k what slie develop in this environment where literature is a creature that changes and k ™ 1 ■ 1 tllUlk as English major you After graduation, McDonald started teaching Special Education English at S abve>” Eirstin said. Sayreville, New Jersey. Cannuli is teaching 9"' and 12"' grade English at SikLv ;uid Memorial High School in sh^sc^oacheHielcHiocke^mcnacrosse^^^^^ ethnical High School in Delaware, where ope kee] tech uur< elec ever colu deci writi exist aboi is be ofV Wrii mea hear' All Con • 1 ( < 1 < ( I ( v Sial If you are interested in joining The Inkwell. Quarterly staff and/or enrollim, in �Issue 1 Volume 6 The Inkwell Issue 1 The Death of Books?: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the eBook ,ill find a artment to know Punjabi irrell will ’unjab, rster and i in A Far lie Last liming and also ’: Swiftian Lation ittitudes Donald and nd the class is an jer w’as a at is where ling in the y because I vhat she lajor you ?h School in rare, where By Tony Thomas For several years now, analysts have been predicting the death of die book, (lie newspaper, and virtually all forms of printed media. The rise of the tablet and the modern e-book reader has not helped to abide such thoughts. Why purchase books and have them take up so much space when one can easily download and have their entire library neatly stored on an electronic tablet? Why bother going to the library when you can rent books on your iPad or Kindle? Why bother when Amazon is working on a Netllix-esque service for book rentals? Perhaps some bother because of the nostalgia one gets when opening a book and the feel of turning a physical page. What may be keeping many back is the fear of change. Let's face it, at die rate technology' is advancing our children will approach reading in a way unrecognizable from how we did. The consolidation of media into small electronic devices is becoming tlie norm. However die change in how wilting is being presented is not making everyone optimistic about die state of books. For New York Times columnist Bill Keller, people are just writing too much despite die decline in die sales of printed books die past couple of years. The act of writing has become doable for many. Today, more venues for publishing exist now' dian diere were even fifteen years ago. Can’t publish your novel about swashbuckling zombie pirates? Just put it on your blog. Someone is bound to read it. While scoffing at die idea of a world widiout printed books may be easy for English majors who study battered copies of Vonnegut novels, the idea of die evolution of how written word is presented and read is not an idea to be scoffed at Writers will not stop wilting. The novel will not die. What will change is die means of production and distribution. Easier means of getting published means dial even more voices can be heard. More accessibility means dial more voices will be heard. Aid more voices scares diose who have held on to die voice of public discourse for hundreds of years. “Let's face it, at the rate technology is advancing our children will ap­ proach reading in a way unrecognizable from how we did.” Alumni Update Compiled by Annie Yoskoski • Lauren Carey, 2008, has a poem "Sticks and Stones and a Colt 4.5" published in the Luzerne County Transit Authority Poetry in Transit program this year. She also works as an adjunct English professor at Luzerne County Community College teaching English 101. • Sabrina Hannon, 2010, is furthering her education and will be graduating from Southern Connecticut State University with a master’s degree in Women's Studies. • Shannon Curtin, 2007 and MBA 2009, is currently a communications and engagement analyst for Nordirop Grumman in Suffolk, VA. She recently completed her first half marathon and will be participating in a local poetry workshop this fall. Alter meeting in Montreal in 2008 on assignment for the Wilkes Marketing and Communications office, she married Zach Mazur on June 12, 2010. The couple resides in Portsmouth, VA with their dog, Bruno. The Inkwell Quarterly Stolt lacullv Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell l.diloi -iii-cliiel: Dave Cook Managing Editor: Kristina Spaulding Senioi Copt Editois: Eonj I liontas and ( ally 'l annus Copy Editing Advisor: Dr..land Stainer l.ayoul Editor: Elizabeth Voda SlainVrilers: Sara Croliik, Bcnne Dougherty. Caevaun DtiBany, Matt Endless, I lolly Evans, JelTrey Ford. Buddy (longer, Jon Kadjeski, Kendra Kilhar, Mail. Rim. Annie Yoskoski. Stephanie Wilkie and Viktoria Wojciechowski Photographer: Kendra Kuliar Faculty Conn ibuloi s: Di. I.airy Ktihar, and Dr. 1 honias A. Hamill ,lease contact 3 �Issue 1 The Inkwell The Inkwel Volume 6 Kuhar The Prismatic Portal of the Professor UnderA Instriinn Acomnj The Inkwell Quarterly’s New Serialization The blood is still fresh on the carpets ofold Kirby Hall. The i uL ™ . e fresh in the minds ofour heroes. A bizarre conspiracy entangled in a we o in the macabre. A prismatic portal once hidden by a wilyprofessor. Traversing ac and time our heroes mH be challenged by the strange and the weird. Laves arein We meet our friendsjust moments after uncovering die mystery ofdie Kir y eI ■ “What in the hell was Matt screaming about, all this ‘it is ready business, in-------the basement, stunned said Jamie to die small group of students who were still---- by die horrific murders. “Jamie, for god sakes, can’t you just let it go. You know, you’re like the fprence to some definition of what makes a sequel possible. You rehash what happened, probab y m mg re seCond stupid cliffhanger, which really makes no sense, just so some no name writers can proc uce some installment that nobody wants to see or read, but will, just to see how bad diey screwcc it up, sai “Honesdy, just go home, see a therapist, and try to get your life back in order. Dave’s bitter words were supported by a general, accusing stare from die rest ol diose who were sti ga ere , and Jamie, taking die hint, walked up die basement stairs. The rest of die group followed her, realizing that it was awkward and problematic to stay at a crime scene. “Finally, this implausibly long day is over, “ said Tony, reaching lor die door. As he touched it, he let out a horrific, if not overly dramatic scream. “Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, my hand’s burned,” said Tony frantically. “How, oh. That’s how.” Coming from the door was a bluish-purple energy, which was slowly wrapping around the entire outline of the building. Before anyone could react, die building went dark, and all die doors began to slam shut. “Tony, you’ll be fine” said Dave, a few minutes later after realizing what had happened. “Anyway, looks like Matt was right. He had to know something, maybe if we head up to Dr. Anthony’s room we can find some sort of clue. They did have something planned—well before he killed her.” Rcluctandy, die group agreed and began to follow Dave up die stairs until they arrived at die second floor foyer where Annie, who had been rather quiet all day, stopped dead, screamed, and pointed at Kuhar’s office. The group, used to kneejerk reactions by this point in their day, stopped and turned to see what had caused the scream. There, in Kuhar’s office, was die source of the energy; Kuhar’s sculpture. It was no longer longer the die stationary stationary, frozen geared comment on modem society, but was, instead a fully automated device. Strange sounds and ’ flashes of purple light were being emitted by die machine. “Is that—a portal” said Tony, disgusted and horrified at his rhetorical question. “Yes, Tony, that is, or seems to be a portal,” said Dave, “And I just want to say, I am going to hate mvself f diese next words...but assuming Matt was right...we have an adventure ahead of us, mine as well 1 C d ’ into die portal.” ’ ~J mP With less trepidation than should have been expected, Dave jumped into the swirlinc i i • i disappeared. Everybody else, stood there. g bluish-purple energy and A moment later, Dave reached his head out into purple energy, and ratiier union 11 dicrc is an entire world here, and you won’t believe what’s on die other side ” 11 e out, come on guys, What is diis strange world that has been discovered through die portal? A intelligent apes that travel in Hying machines? Alien creatures and seductively 1 • t < 10 super­ people? What will become of our heroes? Will anyone like die new expendable •'• ° W°mcn*> ^rs °1 mole important what has become of the English professors? Stay tuned for tho • CdSl incni^ci‘s? And...most Por,.rl ofthe Professor. “ The Prismatic “Art is an z “A Su Strain.” “1 that confin the mysteri Tire J does nothii mostly und needs of ot community friend, if ca The F of your doi of the floor major knov midterm e> thoughts in chaos is evi Now, society', ma Will you n< Well, let’s ■ insurance a expect it ne mayhem . But ca die loss? A chaos? Wi please .... Our A forward in 1 rapidly' adv; respond to supeipowei responded In fact diings in lift die blink ol of hoping tc source of w nature and < through oui not epiphar contcmplab Chaos solutions. " its meaning: David Fostt contemplab �Issue i The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 1 Kuhar’s Comer Under-Writing Chaos: Finding the Right Insurance When the Measuring Instruments are Broken A comment on the “Flood of 2011” iome one! gadiered, that it t out a ne of die □ks like me sort !oor office. sed the iy, d elf for -jump irgy and >n guys, nolc tost c “Art is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” Robert Frost “A Summer Worth Forgetting,” “FEMA trailers en route,” “Hood Adds to Food Pantries’ Strain.” “Inkwell Articles Lost in Flood.” These are some of the headlines in our local papers Photo Courtesy of Desiree Wren that confinn die chaos created by die Hood of 2011. (OK, OK, I’m making up die part about die mysterious loss of Inkwell copy. Bear witii me.) The Flood of 2011 created chaos dial wall be felt diroughout our communities well into die future. My idea here does notiling to mitigate die actual loss, material and psychological, felt by so many since September 9. The university was niosdy undamaged - on die surface. Students, stall and faculty, many of whom did suffer great loss, worked to serve die needs of odiers even as their own possessions were in peril. The chaos brought out die very best in people, in our Wilkes community and in die Wyoming Valley’s sun ounding communities. People across die region are questioning, like my friend, if can ever go dirough tiiis again. The Hood of 2011 forced many of you, as students, to navigate some degree of chaos. You may have been forced out of your dorm or apartment of have had classes cancelled. In any case, you know about navigating chaos not only because of die flood. You know about it because it’s who we are in our contemporary condition. For example, every English major knows about die chaos and anxiety dial arrives, like clockwork, at just about die sevendi week of die semester. As midterm exams pass into memory, you know about die chaos of exam preparation, die chaos inherent in ordering your droughts in an essay, and die broader chaos dial comes widi hying to move forward in your life story. In your classes, chaos is evident whedier you’re studying Marxist dieory, Chaucer, or Kate Chopin. Now, how will you go forward navigating this chaos? What can prepare you for diis? Well, in diis consumerist society, maybe you should buy somediing. Interested in buying insurance against future chaos? Where can you get it? Will you need your WIN number to apply? Wal-Mart? Wegmans? Farley Library? Well, let’s see. Our culture is hip to capitalizing on die fear and anxiety dial can result from chaos. The promise of insurance against great loss is everywhere. The car insurance commercial in which “Mayhem” shows up when we least expect it neady critiques die issue of preparedness for unforeseen disaster or chaos. You can’t do it, you can stop mayhem .... uhh, yes you can . . . But you’ll need more insurance. But can you really buy insurance against die chaos of life? Who would be silly enough to underwrite (“under-write”) die loss? More importandy, will more insurance really prepare you for die anxiety, fear, and confusion dial comes with chaos? Will you need to fully understand psychological dieory to get it? Where can I go for answers? Stop die questions, please .... Our American literature regularly contemplates how we - as individuals, as a society, and as a country - can go forward in light of great loss. T. S. Eliot had his 9/11 in World War I. Frost has his in contemplating die loss of self in a rapidly advancing society. Writers like Michael Herr, Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon contemplated how to respond to die aftemiatii of Vietnam and die sense of chaos it brought to our national and international identity as superpower. More recendy, Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy, in very different ways, have tried to understand how we responded to, or fix, die chaos of 9/11 and its impact on our national story. In fact literature itself, at least a lol of die literature we study in classrooms, seems somehow about fixing tilings tilings in life, in our minds, and in our world. T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land constructs around layered voices poised on die brink of a revelation about progress yet somehow stupefied in a morass ol allusive terrain unable to voice die outcome of hoping to respond to deep loss. Robert Frost’s poems often reveal die ambiguity of nature when it is considered as a source of wisdom or insight. “Stopped by Woods on Snowy Evening,” in my view, is not so much about making sense of nature and experience as it is about heightening our awareness of die powerlul impact nature can have on us as we journey tiirougli our stories. The mighty Susquehanna has taught us at least diis. Frost’s poem seems somehow aware of diis. Il s not epiphanic in its understanding of nature; it’s epiphany, if there is one to be found, is more about our ability to contemplate chaos and confusion and die hope for order (“sleep”) in life. Chaos, it seems, in die end wins out intellectually as well as structurally in our literature when we Lum to it for final solutions. Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow' locates die intrigue or paranoia connected to negotiating chaos and allows its meanings to be subsumed by die search for a way towaid order. More recent fictions, in woiks by waiters such as David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison, court die failures of awareness as a central feature of chaos even as diey contemplate how our society complicates notions of liistoiy, marketing, memory and die media. Continued on page 8... 5 �Volume 6 The Inkwell The Inkwell The Great Flood C The Great Flood Continued from page 1... Rumors and uncertainty certainly increased die stress many individuals faced during die evacua­ tion. Some students, like sophomore Biochemis­ try major and Army ROTC Cadet Leonard Frisbie, were “relieved and proud’ to be sandbagging throughout die region widi a county EMA team. Wilkes’s stall’worked to maintain students’ calm and junior History major Alex Madaya was on die frontline. As a RA in Evans Hall, announc­ ing to her floor that Wilkes would be evacuating was not an easy task. Madaya said diat, “it was al­ most funny die different ways students reacted. Some girls moved all their stuff while odiers just brushed die dangers off.” The idea of leaving your home and posses­ sions behind is one diat is difficult to grasp. Some students that were evacuated from Wilkes dorms had no options of going back home, because their Photo Courtesy of Dr. Farrell own homes being in danger as well as numerous road closures. One of die difficult filings that sepa­ rates a flood from any other natural disaster is what is left behind. If a tornado demolishes a family home die residents can pick through the rubble to find anything dial survived. In a fire everything is burnt to a crisp and most of it is thiown away. In a flood however, die possessions in the house are most likely still there. The filings diat were once pristine and com­ pletely functional are now water logged and covered in mud. The bed in someone’s room may be in die same exact place, but needs to be thrown out. Residents have to enter their ravaged homes and decided what to keep and what has to be thrown away. Going through that process takes a psychological toll on people often leaving diem starting over widi nodiing. Wilkes’ untested students rose to file occasion, often with the help of social media. Social networking sites like Face­ book were vital for communication during the flood. For many, die Internet was a vital source of information on how tilings were going. Local station WBRE evacuated their downtown station, but still stayed on die air, working out of a tem­ porary studio, for die duration of die crisis, helping provide information and truth in a chaotic time. After die river crested, die Internet immediately began its new task - helping this valley and Northeast Pennsylvania recover When die cleanup began, everyone in die Valley pitched in. Dr. Lawrence Kuhar was helping a friend in Falls Town­ ship, when a lamily came around with a lunch ol sandwiches, sodas, and cliips for everyone ■■ .... Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth Votla “I asked I on die other side of many that cam< away, yet received North Easterr want to help otlie Even the larger c< Gamble, have pre and Shickshinny, clothes, and get a people in need ai there are three di receive damage. I A new generatior our college camp we still go up die community diat i �The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 1 The Great Flood Continued from page 6... “I asked them ‘who sent you?’ as in, arc you with tire Red Cr­ loss or sometliing on tire otiier side of die river and received litdc damage so we came to help. ” The farnllike I that.• They said ‘No one, we live „ ----- J' encountered was just one of many diat came to towns dial were maybe only diree or four miles away, yet received a level of damage diat was incomprehensible. Nordi Eastern Pennsylvania is a community of strong people, who want to help odiers in dieir time of need, no matter what die sacrifice. Even die hu ger companies m ound in die Valley, like Proctor and Gamble, have provided disaster bucks to areas like Tunkhannock and Shickshinny, allowing people to charge dieir phones, wash dieir clodies, and get a hot shower. Many of us opened up our homes to ■A. people in need and even diough as a campus Wilkes had no damage, diere are three different campaigns running to help odiers who did “I asked them ‘who sent you?’ as in, are you with the Red Cross or something like that. They said ‘No one, we live on the other side of the river and received little damage so we came to help. 9, receive damage. Many diings have changed in die Valley since 1972. A new generation has taken over, technology has encroached upon our college campuses and we have gained many great businesses. Yet, __________________ _ we still go up die mall and wait not so patiendy for bazaars every year. The main tiling dial has not changed is die sense of community dial we all share, and die willingness to jump in and help odiers in need widiout waiting for diem to ask for residents can Fuown away, and com: exact place, has to be with nothing. > like Faceon how out of a temriver crested, Falls Town- i page 7 ...___ help. The Wyo­ ming Valley has a courageous and loving people whose hear ts are willing to reach out and help odi­ ers in need and dial is soniediing diat will never change. �Issue 1 The Inkwell The Inkwell_______ ~ Volume 6 Hamill’s Hunch Kuhar’s Comer Continued from page 5... journey as we go forward in our stories? So where will we, as English majors, find onrdi^ against^student conferences) How win Are we aware of the chaos when its shaping? If so, sowhat. (as we understand where to go from here? vervthing in die event diat, as a loc wea erpe on c cd Let me begin with die story of a close friend who lost nearly had in die flood - everything except the structure it, die “flash flood of die century.” My buddy lost nearly every P°sses^ Township two years earlier with great hope. A of his house which (amazingly) left standing. He bought die house woukl ikl allow it it.. When II’d visit with him, self-proclaimed ‘river rat,’ he paddled die Susquehanna nearly every d y river>s power aild beauty - Never we’d always take die 50-yard walk to die river’ edge in sun or snow, alway tired of the repetition of awe the great Susquehanna produced. banks rose toward his front porch, I But was he prepared for the chaos of loss? On that I hursday nig as fumiture and so much more. We packed a helped him pack out as much stuff as we could grab. His tools, his wine va , < e out of the chaos. We trekked small U-Haul trailer. After die flood, I worked with him at his house to nng so es |JooliS) then the sheetrock and dirough five-inch mud in the one-story house carrying first die fumiture an c o ., insulation. The kitchen cabinets would come out later. The basement was • Though he had flood could negotiate so much chaos again. What insurance would possibly work against tins., le scemec We all ask this sort of question at one time or another. Will a higher dike ever protect us tom rcanxie omes with watching the waters rise now that we know, as we learned later, dial the measuring instruments were ro en. le instruments were reporting water levels about four feet below actual levels. Like these instruments, language will always work and fail, it will create and destroy, it will bring order and chaos and order and chaos again in an attempt to answer the question. Complete meaning - die measurement’s numbers, an absolute stoiy - is subterfuge, fool s gold. We need oui own measuring tools. Chaos assures diat we will search for hope as the endgame for our journey through loss. So, where will we find our insurance? The real insurance is found in our day-to-day work in Kirby Hall. Surprised? Don’t be. We offer insurance eveiy day in our English program, in our classrooms and our offices whether you’re studying Herbert, Hawthorne or Harper. Our faculty collectively assume (“Under - Write”) the risk that comes with trying to prepare you, as English majors, to go forward in a world where chaos is unavoidable. To capitalize on this insurance, you need to understand that actions, not only words, shape the stories you will want to tell. This is what we try to teach, to learn and to Leach again in our English classes where we practice close reading, discussion and analysis, trained research and writing our voices. These are the instruments we need to go forward in times of confusion and chaos. Our faculty and program aim to share an ultimate message about preparing for the inevitable chaos and failed measuring gauges. We know die value of knowledge and try to show how we can learn the function ofexperience without the experience. To finish, back to m, friend's story .. When I returnedIto elean up, I real,zed how much we w behjnd Time it, resembled a scene of the war-ripped War saw sheets in the movie The Pianist F a i neighborhood> what was Iett °* stilts to protect itself against such high water, was gone except for the concrete pad aCTOSS die streel was 011 commode, an entire kitchen cast around tire open spaces like children’s tovs I ft' IIVCWaT ’ saw >50 pound loose weights, a My friend plans to rebuild. As it turns out, he had the right insurance - noth & yard' He’s planning to elevate his house - put it on stilts like his neighbor’s vanished h S°^ ^y PrudcnLbd1 or Nationwide. reminded him that he is not alone. Native American myths have contemnl t 1 chuckled,- aware -------- <of die irony. I ‘crossing over’ from one side of the river to the other. We have crossed ove C 'Tk 1power of die water, ulc U11t the importance of objective in English 201, 22,5, or 282, our English program aims us to prenar 1 < Y°U W°n t find il; listed as a course futures. It’s a program vision - that you share and own - informed ° y°l ° cross over die turbulent rivers in your breeds life, when order breeds habit.” e Wo,ds of- H< Henry Adams, who wrote, “Chaos often Brown Bag Lunches ~---- — By Holly Evans Scared about life after graduation? Don’t fear there is heln - | discuss their concerns about die future, and also allows diem tr, 11 SUpport- Brown Ban T .. • m car eers. Discussions are headed by Drs. Marcia Farrell and Helen iV** qucsdons they niav h \CS.a ow English majois informal and students are encouraged to bring their own lunches PI 316 held in Fan-eJp ^ir^ fu*'thennS dlCU, Davis, helen.davis@wilkcs.edu widi any questions, concerns or ?ase contact Farrell at Lr S °J lce> The meetings < email for upcoming announcements about Brown Bag LunchP°SSlble idcas geared t ' i arc*a,FarreU@ wilkes.edu or ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cs, owards the meetings. Check your When I sat before n Tilings HI NeedI to Kn< I was (at least initially) t “embracing my] inner somewhat buoying. I f< guilt (How can we not 1 Even the potentially suggestion that Oscar w the pithy character gios Cookie Monster (the o good enough for me!” : and astute NPR comm homogenize his honest well-informed notions ■ it, good. Now, scram!) The vague but sonu the holidayization of id diat Oscar himself wot reification of his trash < releases. Municipal M all die rules for collecti only referent) become, day diat requires that s grouchiness—get only i I realized quite qui< annoy me. I love holii allow those who need shape and meaning to I am not unmindful ol rendered even more t? iPhone: R.I.P. Steve J< Dan.” As my wife Lis do so. And indeed O meniorie.” Over and < English Prograj By Dr. Kuhar Whatdo the minors r The English proj beguming in die Fall S v^ety of courses toe IhenunorinWorkp 101 Mld 12°) ENG 218, ENG 225, (F iT!Ie minor in Ci ^nghsh 101 and 120) 1 ’ 2°°'IeveI literatur Maximum 6 credits), r n add»tional to I andT This Work inc] ayout opportunit Writing fanuitemshiphiw �1 The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 1 ' storiesp Hamill’s Hunches idow win 1 L (at least MW unequivocally pleased. The idea ax lhe paper rewak(J i called structure hope. A him, 'lever ch, I ■ Packed a ted r°ck and muck rd eally, if he comes 'he ays work 2 question. wn : will we very day in ur faculty d in a want to liscussion onfusion failed vithout the I. Time ting guns, was left of hat was on weights, a tionwide. irony. I ince of course i in your iaos often t majors to ng their eetings are is.edu oi eck your fay, u llilivMl J-X. •cmbraeling myl inner Oxcar was, hke the coffee I ve been making too strong ofhto somewhat buoying. I felt mixed sensations of nostalgia (How great is Oscar (Ik C t» , guilt (How can we not have an Oscar- tire Grouch book or doll in our housed Even tire potentially inauspicious parallels I noted between tire post pop-psycholn ri suggestion that Oscar- was in some way mine and inner and thus solipsistically embraced ™ 1 die pithy character gloss I remember hearing, some years ago, in a brilliant eulogy for the Cookie Monster (tire one who could still sing with dignity, “Oh, C is for cookie wd dial’s good enough for me!” and whose central function as “giant id” had, to at least one principled and astute NPR commentator, gone unrecognized by idiotic fools who felt the need to Photo Courtesy ofJon Kadjcski homogenize his honest and openly ignorant sugary goodnesses with ironically well-informed notions of balance and variely-and yes, I am still in d>e parenthetical aside here; what of ip If you don’t like it, good. Now, scram!) did not hint at what might be happening. 11 1 y 1 1 k ’ The vague bul somehow teleologicd tajectoiy to wind. I’m refening to is, of course, the ambivalence that emerges in die holidayizatron ol identity. I mean, National Grouch Day sounds wonderfully miserable—like something ugly and dingy drat Oscar himself would marvel at. But viewed another way it might be seen as a kind of condescending and tragic reification of his trash can, a flaslring but all too brief Bakhtinian reversal of order drat ultimately regulates drat which it releases. Municipal Waste Management programs all have their calendars now, artful alphanumeric liturgies meting out to all tire rules for collection, tire logics of dreir holy days of obligation. Would National Grouch Day (and its obvious and only referent) become, as marry have lamented of other luminaries and occasions, “just another day off?” Or even worse a day tlrat requires that sadly redundant tautological “obseived” parenthetical affix? And why should Oscar-and grouchiness—get only a single day? I realized quite quickly that these might be exactly tire kinds of questions tlrat would irritate Oscar. They certainly annoy me. I love holidays (especially perfectly rotten ones), and wlrile Hallmar k Car d and commercialization conspiracies allow' those who need it their “resistance,” they could never alter the fact dial days of observation give simple and powerful shape and meaning to our year s. The American Academic Calendar is particular ly sacred, and as we head into Fall Recess, I am not unmindful of tire fact tlrat this prelude to tire Tuesday before Thanksgiving and to Winter Break has been rendered even more typological through its Oscar- associations. This thought iirfonned my snrile as I YouTubed (on my iPhone: R.I.P. Steve Jobs) an old clip (wlrich I recommend to all) of Oscar- and Johnny Cash lauding dre miseries of “Nasty Dan.” As my wife Lisa noted at tire time, where it not lor tire news ol National Grouch Day, I might never have drought to do so. And indeed Oscar, as Chaucer repeatedly suggests of all great cultural touchstones, is worthy for to drawen to memorie.” Over and over again. English Program Introduces Two New Minors By Dr. Kuhar What do the minors consist of? , . „ .■ The English program introduced two new minors - a minor in Workplace Wntmg mid a minor in Ciealive Wnung beginning in the M 2011. We designed the minors to be veiy flexible. We did this so tat student.con« • variety of courses to complete the minor. We designed the minors to serve students careers as The minor in Workplace Writing requires Mlillment of General Education Reqmrements “ (English 101 and 120), and complete of ENG 202 and twelve credit hours among ENG 190 (max,mum ENG 218, ENG 225, ENG 228, ENG 308, ENG 395/396, or ENG 399 (See; etaflew composl|ion |iterature 1 he minor in Creative Wilting requires fulfillment ol G^era\ ' uc among ENG 190 (maximum 3 cred(Enghsh 101 and 120), and completion of ENG 203, ENG 303 azu"'"C ”6 300-level literature courses its), 200-level literature survey courses (maximum 6 credits from EN , (maximum 6 credits), ENG 395/396, ENG 399 (See char t below). opportunities to work outside tire class­ in additional to traditional classroom experiences, both mrnois (ENG 190 A); writing, editing, room. This work includes creative writing and design opportunities wrttr teaching opportunities with tire and layout opportunities with The Inkwell Quarterly 190 B); wn ng, >^rs emphasize tire importance Projects in Writing/WritingMethods (ENG 190 C). While it’s not require , Continued on page 13... °f an internship in writing. 9 �Issue 1 777c Inkwc The Inkwell Volume 6 AWoi Wilkes Welcomes Raphael Garcia By Annie By Kendra Kuhar . What do Valladolid, Spain and Wilkes-Ban e, Pennsylvania have in com to Dr. Rafael Garcia, assistant professor in Spanish, you can get fresh vegeta cs cooked meal within walking distance. . Professor Garcia was hired in Spring 2011 to teach Spanish Classic eia Spanish Medieval Literature. Dr. Garcia’s dissertation focused on Fray Luis c e n p According |iome 1{] a 16“' Dr. Garcia is originally from Valladolid, Spain, a small town with only 1000 ’^d decision to attend college instead of taking over the family farm broke a hadition. 11 working for his Ph.D. in Leon, Spain, Dr. Garcia contributed approximately tlnrty worn, creation of a Medieval Spanish Latin dictionary. . . Dr. Garcia has resided in Wilkes-Barre for the last two months and has expci lenccc a | Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth Voda flood as well as an eardiquake. However, Dr. Garcia’s experience thus far at Wilkes mvcisi y pleasant.” has proved to be positive. “The students at Wilkes University show interest in learning, m< mg__________ Banned Books Week By Jeffrey Ford When a work of art is banned there’s usually a reason, right? In England, during the 1980s, the BBFC produced a list of feature films diat were banned over a given period of time. These titles ranged from such well-known works as A Clockwork Orange (based on the novel by Anthony Burgess) to Cannibal Holocaust. These video nasties show tlieir explicitness by way of camera’s lens but what about tire mind’s eye. Words from a page can convey a varied amount of force based on the ideas they convey. Content, no matter how explicit, can only be as strong as the ideas associated with it During Banned Books Week, Sigma Tau Delta organizes a reading of selected texts running from September 25”' to October 2°d. Though readings, the individuals have to decide I Photo Courtesy of Sara Crolick for themselves the velocity in which to hit die topic. Each work expresses concepts that may not be agreeable to all audiences, but like ai t, can find meaning among critical readers. The Banned Books Week event ’ 11 controversy with slogans and stickers proclaiming proudly: I Read Banned Books. At die Hen Si 1 ** ceedradon °* set up next to a podium with each student reading aloud a passage from their book of choice A ■ C? y>en*-er, a htble is works ranging from the juvenile like Gulliver’s Travels to Brave New World. These works I t,l ail^’cd on the table were numerous reasons one being die case against Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, a children’s book dr t - ■ )oycottod f°r California Logging Industry. 1 Was accePted as an attack on die One question that should be stressed is: “Why would someone want to ban a book?” N be open and wonder why it would be necessary to out righdy ban somediing 1 y one would tiiink them to Continued on page 12... English Education Updates By Jon Kadjeski Secondary Education minors are reminded that Praxis registration dates are N°TZbRobcrt™uZ\^X o^!b,er 4’ at a" additional cost? All students with field observations aie now in the schools wih ^"CXt event hiking pl^ --'on October 18,h University and the English Department This includes six English majors in ENC leachei . K on. ro r ?cilli"g WUkes Secondary Schools, observing tlieir final classroom before their student leach’ 4 eachinj g O1 Uglish m Middle and Any student interested in adding Secondary Education as a Minor is • *”S SCtnesterSecondary Education and Eield Experience Coordinator, before they be h? °llla^cd to I was Sorcerer’s surprised a Harry P waiting fot first DVD Bein Harry Pot proclainie I know pe finished o series take movie is o The every sing held peop went to SI filled to th students w you were i had a grea Ron? Evei Rowling ir may lie in about wha The i carrying tl: written, de people wb lessons, lit stumble uj honesty, b approxinu inspire me inspiring s Listen!] By Anne For e °1 several ; Sonic inched s s°ngs like 1 For rr U Cased h< U°rid En< Sj^ingh filing in ltdyGaG ttyou are i) 10 �Issue 1 Volume 6 Tticlnk^11 Issue 1 Without Harry Potter: What Now? n Annie Yoskoski V I was in my early years of grade school when HarryPotter and die cnrCeier’s Stone came out. I remember reading it widi my mom and being T riscd dial she liked it. After die first four chapters I was hooked, and:mg be, Hany Potter fan. While growing up I devoured die next six books and sal:came idling for die movie versions to come out. The first Hany Potter movie was die f st DVD I ever owned. U Being an English major, I love to read, dial goes widiout saying. When a celebration of enter, a table is the table were otted for an attack on die egistration for die additional cost, on October 18*1‘. resenting Wilkes iish in Middle and tone Thomas, the ith their academic HARR* 1’01 HR Hvry Potter exne out I was surprised how many of my classmates who proclaimed dial diey hated reading were canying die books around. To this d; lay I know people who will say: “I read all die Hany Potter books, but never finished one book for school”. This raises several questions. " Ulia book uc Why did this series take oil so well widi .just about everyone? And mainly now dial die last movie is over “What do we do now”? * The answer to die first question is easy. J.K. Rowling created a world dial cveiy single person could picture diemselves in. The four houses of Hogwai ts held people from different personality types. Evil, conniving, or mean people | Photo Courtes^l Annie Yoskoski went to Slydierin, Hufilepuff contained sweet and caring people, Ravenclaw was - --------------------------------filled to die brim widi logical thinkers, while Gyriffindor was populated by die bravest of tiieir kind. It did not matter if die students were rich, like Draco, 01 sti etching then money like die Weasley s, diey were all magical. It didn’t even matter if you were muggle born, you could still be part of this community. Race, income, family connections, none of diose tilings had a great hold in die walls of Hogwarts. What person doesn’t value the unbreakable friendship of Hany, Hermione, and Ron? Everyone has had a day dream about rusliing toward Platform 9 % widi Hedwig or Crookshanks in tow. Even if J.K. Rowling intended die books to be for children, tiiere is not one age group she didn’t reach somehow. Proof of dial claim may lie in die fact diat I have used Potter terminology all tiirough this article, and I bet most readers didn’t diink twice about what diose words or terms meant. The second question is harder to handle. What now? To many, we are known as die Hany Potter generation, canying diese characters tiiroughout our childhood into die adult world. Just because die last movie is over, die last word written, does not mean die magic has to end. Words so powerful dial diey would become a common interest among people who odierwise may never have spoken make lasting impressions dial we will never see die end ol. Stories teach us lessons, like Aesop’s fables or Winnie die Pooh. Il one looks tiirough die many pages of die Hany Potter scries diey will stumble upon many life lessons and teachings dial diey may not know diey absorbed die first time tiirough. friendship, honesty, bravery, intelligence, imagination, acceptance, love, enemies, good, and evil are all tiiemes woven tiiroughout die approximately four diousand some pages in books one tiirough seven. Many book scries will have estse ng oo s lat inspire movies and paraphernalia. The difference is dial diose series will lade with time, whi e ic stoiy o arry 'imcs Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley, along widi die lessons diey lauglit us, wi lesi e m oui min inspiring symbol of our youth. ___________________ — , Listening To... By Anne Yoskoski uld think diem to ued on page 12... I . ... ns an anthem. For instance, summer 2011 m es me For every year- and season a song or artist is usually they will take me backi to summen of several albums and concerts. When I hear diese songs $ recently released. Taylor Swifts . pc< < Some of die biggest songs of die summer came oilo ^ums^eceindy Dream album put launched several great songs like “Mine”, ‘ The Story o • > Britney Spears songs like “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) and E.T. on my Spears and British songstress e • „DancingTil tfte For many people, however, this was die sumnici o summer anthems with s”n8s. , |e ywo years after released her eleventh studio album, Femme Fat, , an « h been over my > ° . Songs like World Ends” and "1 Wanna Go”. The biggest break™.sU.who no0ce o, her amaa S of releasing her fust album, 19, Adele released 21, a recoil talm m of the P« P p "Wing in the Deep", “Set Fire to the Rain”, and featured singk* ^d^aGa also made a splash widi her new album o a member of the /Qeditoare interested in obtaining any archived issue ol Inkwell ay^]able as hard copies. rial staff. Some issues are sun ■ < --------- �Issue 1 The Inkwell The Inkwell Volume 6 „ Banned Books Week Continued from page 10... A boycott could be viewed as die criticism of one imposed upon die majority- , a ]);1CJ piece ol work is ielcased The Rye was wnrfis die public just has die sense to not give it much attention. J.D. Salinger s Je ‘ f)ictionarybeca.use d ,11U U<f . school banned due to obscenity charges. The same was made for die Amencan . , f varies based on tlie rulings o such as bed, knocker, and boob. What’s more complex about censorship is ia ysts from 2001 to districts and state governments. The American Library Association s website ea schools. „ , showcasing die books diat were targeted by some groups for removed horn i i book based on content. Gian e School districts and libraries have dieir excuses for choosing to not advei tise a s Qive Barker. Yet how would a diere is plenty of explicit material to be found from genre specific fiction like ie woi . Alice in Wonderland, Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman ever get their inspiration if they were unable to reac s oii^ emmenLs have their own banned in countlies where images of anthropomorphic animals are forbidden, a on< banning literature and standaids concerning what is acceptable or unacceptable. The Chinese government is no any media dealing witii time travel on die grounds dial it goes against Confucian ogic. reiaring to crime or homeland In today’s high political climate of media storms and WikiLeaks, it’s no surprisc id Anarchist Cookbook which hashas Cookbook which security were to be banned. The most infamous case comes from William Powell s 1 ieti.or Such cases been opposed by groups including the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) 311(1 ev^" / • a reactjOn from the often challenge die limitations of censorship and die necessity of what is put to page. surface reader and many fear what it manifest as when one can read into the subject deeply insteac o s naming auon Each work on die banned book list seems to represent an ambiguous picture postcaid ol a particu ai p ace, oc and time diat it was just not a part of. Yet, Like Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” some works have been ac °P^ y 1 ^a( C(S °r what diey have to deliver. If anyone has to dedicate their week to deep reading, better make it Banned oo ee Jus as long as you don’t live in a school district that uses Hany Potter books for kindling. Deep Along the Right Sidelines: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Republican Primary Debates By Tony Thomas As the 2012 election draws closer, perhaps die most intriguing aspect of the election will be who manages to win die Republican nomination. Willi big names like Sarah Palin and Chris Christie slating that diey will not run, what remains is a hodgepodge of candidates. The candidates have all had their rises and falls. For a while Mitt Romney seemed like die clear choice and dien Rick Perry shook tilings up and now Herman Cain is riding out in tlie front. Wliile die candidates do dif­ fer in many ways, their main goal is to win over GOP primary voters. And with diat comes a distinct rhetorical strategy for each candidate. Thus far the GOP debates have been nothing short of great political theater. Each candidate is veiy aware of their tar­ get audience and for die most part die candidates have been doing a decent job of creating an ethos diat is accentable to the audience. Right now diey do not have to worry too much about appeasing the general American vote 'Tl ' I’ die current moment is die typical GOP primary voter, and in many cases diat voter is rather conservative ience in Prior to die debates some of die candidates already possessed very conservative and riehi ’ mann, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain all had views going into die debates diat are deem 1 V1^ws> Michelle BachRomney was a lot different When he was governor of Massachusetts his views could be be 1 aV?.ra^ e to die Partyright. His healdicare law has become a subject of much controversy to conservative voters^ eSCn°ed as being center­ confirms diat President Obama and his advisors used Romney’s healdicare svsiem *S- , ^emo b°ni the White House Obama designed. Y‘ a model for one diat President Being aware of your audience is a skill diat a good orator must possess in rhetor' 1 d debates have begun Romney has begun a swing to becoming more conservative, which '^t R°mney realized diat. Since die genuine. His past views have become a concern. An orator’s credibility is often called ' CVCiyone has bought as being views. Changing one’s views is not a bad tiling and often a change can show dial die ii 1.nL;°)qUesti°n when diey change their standing odier information. However, for a politician a level of cynicism exists wh r *S °hcn-niinded to undertiiose changes are seen as opportunistic. 1 a P°htician changes because often The challenge alter die primary is all setded is how die candidate will sir I ■ The eMlongc will be ausforming in to a candidate lha is good d,c gonend'Xt '‘T"'dlc Sene,election, voter The challenge also falls wrdnn bung able to complete (hat Irantfomufon withom? electable or a candidate dial will have a better chance of being elected, but lackZ a conservative English Pro WhyjhouL CreativeW Studie tuous caree these minoi Research h of mid-care work.” Th' five leaders Lincoln to standards tl In my prepared fc Employers live a fulfilh and contrib pectations The rr majoring in for success about gi ant tive to a pot But th minor in Ci can help str tlieir creativ Moreover, 1 majoring in gineering, n nology, a m Writing car develop die an importai neers lookii nation’s iiifi problems, f gists workin to solve crir biologist try stand why a ried an acoi away. For Er tliese minoi die opportn their creativ workplace v esses and v< Prepare the. °Pportuniti< deluding gi- * more ^semti^tuUess _________________________________________________________ C O1 e conscrvative values. ’ Continued < �Issue 1 ork is released aous for being luded words ; of the school Ito 2010 jiitent. Granted et how would a nderland, ; their own literature and me or homeland ook which has ithor. Such cases reaction from tlie be surface, dace, location, by readers lor joks Week Just Volume 6 The Inkwell ^q^tiguldyLngB'hd^sh^lioi-jnnior in Creative^rProfegg^ Wri(- u 2_Wh rsyative Writing or Professional Wnting? — V5'?1-^uUan Enidish • Studies show that more and more people are not staying in one ca • ~ ~Jai^5iai2Emniorm tuous career environment, students need transferrable skills that will seitT^ ’06 ‘°r their e»hre work life Tn .1< . i these minors complement the disciplinaiy skills and program outcomes n *“ a wide r;uiKc of careers In tf ' Lard, by IWuud Lighb author of " ‘‘”S ™y' of mid-career professionals recently cited die ‘need to write effectively’ as / l i, ?°r1)’sh« d»t, “More titan 90 nercenl troth.’ The National Comm™ on Wntmg in America’s Schools ™<1 CoUcl^81'',1 ™1,ortare’ " ** day-to-day live leadership and career success I he report cites leaders such as Martin LuZ’ e""* “nnK'B skills to effecLincoln to point out that, All ol diese leaders have used words, language and , * J' ” Ccsar Charez. and Abraham standards they have set lor Ihetnselves-and what these ideals mean to the™ „r T 8m remind Americans of what high In my 23 years at Wilkes I’ve always felt that a Wilkes education isX, T prepared for success in career as well as prepared to live a fulfilled life In m e'°puig a well-rounded person who is important now more than ever, Employers want to hire graduates who have a diverse skill set, not onlv skilk S Importanl live a fulfilled life, one in which we can contemplate our stories, understand hen ’V 1SClphne or industry. We all want to and contribute significantly to the good in society. These minors represent a stTri Z i W°rld which We’re living’ pectations - in career and in life. ' ‘ uaid helping students meet these ex- for success in their careers and m their lives. Want to write a better resume? T ? about grant writing? Leant more about writing persuasively? These arc important tive to a potential employer. ””” mages to win the i, what remains is a emed like tire clear candidates do diflorical strategy for {aware of their lar­ is acceptable to the Fheir audience in e. vs. Michelle Bache to the Tea Party, as being center>m the White House me that President alized that. Since the is bought as being cn they change their minded to underes because often ■ the general election, rictly conservative edibility. Politics is a und, usually insults servative, but less e values. Issue 1 English Program Introduces Two New Minors Continued from page 9.7 can help students develop their creative imaginations. Moreover, for students majoring in science or en­ gineering, nursing or crimi­ nology, a minor in Creative Writing can help them develop their creativity an important skill for engi­ neers looking to solve the nation’s infrastincture problems, for criminolo­ gists working with tlie FBI to solve crimes, or for a biologist trying to under­ stand why a squirrel rai ­ ded an acorn to its hide­ away. Itor English majors, hesc minors give students he opportunity to develop heir creative writing and workplace writing procsscs and voice which will 'tepare them for future pportunitics in writing, ‘eluding graduate school, sluucui moie ENGLISH - Creative Writing Frequency of offering ENG 203 Introduction to Creative Writing Once a year ENG ENG ENG ENG 190 A Projects in Writing / Inkwell 190 B Projects in Writing / Manuscript 190 C Projects in Writing / Writing Methods 233 Survey of English Literature I aurac- Twice a year Fall and Spring Once a year Fall ENG 234 Survey of English Literature II Once a year Spring ENG 281 Survey of American Literature I Once a year Spring ENG 282 Survey of American Literature II ENG 300-level courses Once a year Fall Every' semester - Multiple offerings ENG 303 Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing Once every' two or three semesters ENG 395/396 Independent Research Every' semester ENG 399 Cooperative Education Every semester Frequency of offering ENGLISH - Workplace Writing ENG 202 Technical and Professional Writing ENG 190 A Projects in Writing/ Inkwell ENG 190 B Projects in Writing/ Manuscript ENG 190 C Projects in Writing/ Writing Methods ENG 218 Writing Practicum and Composition Twice a year Fall and Spring Twice a year Fall and Spring Once every' tlircc or four semesters Once a year Spring ENG 225 Comparative Grammar ENG 228 Professional and Workplace Writing ENG 395/396 Independent Research ENG 399 Cooperative Education —v 13 A .......... y • • you 8et the point ... - ^'^01 a --rounded tterson Interested in livtng a Milled life. A ENG 308 Rhetorical Analysis & NonFic Prose Writing ontinued on page 14... 1 Once every three or four semesters Once every tlirce or four semesters Every semester Every' semester �Issue 1 The Inkwell The Inkwell Volume 6 1Q English Program Introduces Two New Minors Continued from page marketability for potential In addition, completing one (or bodi) of die minors will allow students t employers by having the minor documented on a transcript and resume. completing these minors? Beyond the technical “Course Objectives” outcomes, what can students j iii the General Education curOur faculty focused on developing opportunities for students, beyon <■ between general education riculum, who are interested in wilting creatively and technically. We woikec o objectives and die needs of our communities, including organizations and inc us es. difference that comes widi We know that employers value “emotional intelligence.” They value an un <= diversity. They value good think­ recognizing diversity, including racial or class diversity, gender diversity, and genen me ers and people who possess integrity, ethics and clear values. They valuepeople < P P organizational pleting diese minors develops leadership skills that can serve students’ futures whether they aie icau & * space or, as all of must do, leading our own life stories. In essence, in these minors we i e enip lasizin petence, trust and trustworthiness - some of die core values of die English program. Thank you to our faculty who helped develop these minors Our faculty team in English deserves all die credit for developing diese two new Illinois. Dis. An lony, umi , Stanley, Stamer, Farrell, Davis, Kelly, Grier, and Wills worked hard for die past three years to ai ticulatc the vision foi diese minors. Often diis work meant simply teaching a course, like Prof. Wills teaching ENG 202, Dr. Farrell or Dr. Davis teacliing ENG 308, or Dr. Hamill or Dr. Stanley teaching ENG 225. This work also included developing new courses: Dr. Stamer developed ENG 218 (Writing Practician and Composition) and Dr. Farrell developed 228 (Professional and Workplace Writing); Dr. Stanley, Dr. Farrell, Dr. Andiony, and Dr. Kelly developed die ENG 190s. These courses were developed to provide students widi opportunities to develop skills dial dial will make diem more attractive to potential employers as well as develop in diem a deeper appreciation for die life of die mind. Senior Spotlight Erin Robinson By Matt Endress Where are you from? I'm from Harford, Pennsylvania. Literate and Writing and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies^ importantly, die intellectual development. I thought about saymg dta I would miss dropping wood and rowing boats, but sotnethmg tells me Ill probably be doing that for a long tune after 1 ve graduated. Do you have plans after you graduate? . I'm going to spend die spring woiking, iccoming a c ncc service volunteer, and maybe auditing a class or two. I m also going to hgure out what it means to have a full night, of sleep belore 1 (hopelully) beau oil to graduate school in tile fall. 1 Dr. Farrell's By Dr. Marcia F A great way to s, The key, though, is cooking my tomatc When choosing market and pick uj heirloom, grape, ai When making < At least seven cups !4 cup olive oil >/2 onion, chopped 2 Tbs. oregano 3 Tbs. fresh basil 2- 3 cloves garlic, n 3 Tbs. sugar (or en 2 tsp. sea salt (and/ 2 tsp. black peppei 2 cans tomato past For a variation: green, red, yellow, mushrooms ar e fir the local PA wines Before starting, sauce thicken mor hi a large pot, 1 sugar, and, if you v Cook a LONG tomato paste and c for more than six 1 Stir occasional! be careful once the vent splashes, mak erly. If you just want of the water. When die sauc until it is dissolved When die sauce is Generally, diis canning. If you Tomas Trai to study nineteenth- and twenuelh-eenlury American hteralure, and I'm interested in critical theory, too. WbathasbeenthebestpartofWilkes/mostimportantlesson? I've developed an invaluable skill set, and 1 ve met people who have encouraged me to use it outside of the classroom. Through the DVSC workshops, I ve been able to take my love for language out into the community where I've helped other women to empower themselves. You don't get Ural from just doing X homework. I've also learned that I should never even Uy to answer another What's your favoiilc b„oV queZ. 1 ony Thom Up until die ai songwriter Bob E Prize- Other nom lunied out to be ; The 2011 Nol •he prize since 19 Uu'ived as his lain ages, he gives us 1 has been translate ZZS^ndersi: �Issue i The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 1 ' for potential tors? Education curuei-al education hat conies with alue good thinke add that coni•rganizational racier and coni- y, Hamill, : vision for Davis teaching es: Dr. S tamer d Workplace ere developed employers as Dr. Farrell’s Recipes: Tomato Sauce By Dr. Marcia Farrell A great way to save money is to make your own tomato sauce that you can then use for pizza, pasta, chicken, and the like. The key, though, is to allot yourself most ol the day to make your sauce and don’t expect it to be finished early. I’ve started cooking my tomatoes in (he morning anti haven t canned the sauce unbl evening. When choosing your tomatoes, growing your own is best, but if dial’s not possible, you can always stop by die local farmer’s market and pick up some nice-sized, ripe tomatoes. Personally, I like to mix tomatoes in my sauce-beefsteak, Big Boy, cherry, heirloom, grape, and Roma-to give die sauce a unique flavor. When making a batch of tomato sauce that you will flien can or freeze, you need: At least seven cups of tomatoes (again, mix up the varieties) i/t cup olive oil onion, chopped 2 Tbs. oregano 3 Tbs. fresh basil 2- 3 cloves gai lic, minced (you can use more depending on taste) 3 Tbs. sugar (or enough to suit your taste) 2 tsp. sea salt (and/or Mi s. Dash seasoning) 2 tsp. black pepper 2 cans tomato paste For a variation: You can turn your sauce into a chunky garden vegetable sauce by adding chopped bell pepper (again, mixing green, red, yellow, and orange will give the sauce a unique flavor), muslirooms (I prefer oyster and shitake mushrooms, but white mushrooms are fine), chopped black olives, chopped zucchini, carrots, and even ’/2 cup of a dry red vine (I tend to use one of .1 1 1 T» 1 • ~ ’ you ran purasome of die juicier lomaloes-like die cherries or grape-in a blender. Doing so will help the S”ln J^'pokfeaUhe'olive oil. Then, add die onions and cook until die onions are lender. Add die tomatoes, spices, tomato paste and can. The cooking dme will vary depending on how watery your lomaloes are. Sometimes I sides and dK imdom P^ "‘'if you just want slewed tomatoes lor soups or other mcipes, leave out die tomato paste, but make sure you cook do.™ some wX sauce slicks to the spoon in clumps and has cooked down into a until it is dissolved. Continue cooking until your sauce reaches the tlllc.bl"SSnry^1.^vSBallC directions for hot pack canning. When the sauce is finished, you can either cool it and flien freeze itin ags have extra jar ready if you are hot pack Generally, this recipe yields about 4 quarts from onebafri, bu H d pint-sized jars instead. canning. If you won’t use an entire quar t quickly enough, you can ) __--------------- ---------------------------------------------- Tomas Transtroemer: 2011 Nobel Prize Winner in Literatur JI. I want to f the mm unity jwork. I've By Tony Thomas . T. w ipttnrs already had a winner picked. SingerUp until flic announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in tera 'becn continually nominated since 1996 lor the songwriter Bob Dylan was favored to win with 5-1 odds. Bo i y an Adonis among others. 4 he winnei Prize. Other nominees included elusive author Thomas ^onf^Se prize. turned out to be a Swedish poet who had projected odds o •■ / ° nTnas Transtroemer. He is the first Swede to win The 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to ^wedis i poe bas bad much difficulty speaking. Poetry die prize since 1974. Transtroemer suffered a stroke nearly 2 years ecause “through his condensed, translucent imthrived as his language. The Prize committee bestowed the prize on blished when he was just 23 years old arid since ages, he gives us fresh access to reality”. His first collection of poetry F psychologisL who once worked at a lias been translated into over fifty different languages. Transtroeme _ _ youth offenders institute. ----- ------------------ 15 �■ The Inkwell Issue I Volume 6 Banned Books Word Scramble By Kristina Spaulding SPGARE FO AHTRW: HERNFETIA .514: ANCSTIA ESVERS: HET LROCO UPELRP: OT LILK A OBRKCIMINDG: HET IHCWEST: Photo Courtesy of Sara Crolick SMEAJ NDA HET IAGNT HPECA: HET TCHACRE NI HET YRE: A LKCOWRKOC RNGEAO: TAEDH FO A LSMSENAE: Well Known Author Updates By Tony Thomas • Salman Rushdie has joined Twitter. He is quite active on die site and he can be followed @SalmanRushdie. The audior has also been at work helping to adapt his novel Midnight’s Children as a film. The adaptation will be released sometime next year. • Stephen King is working on writing a sequel to his novel The Shining. The sequel will follow a grown up Danny Torrance. The sequel is entided Dr. Sleep. King also has a novel being released diis November, 11/22/63. The novel features an English teacher who travels back in time to stop die Kennedy assassination. • Chinua Achebe recendy resolved a legal dispute with rapper 50 Cent over the Ude of Cent’s upcoming film, which originally was to be, tided Things Fall Apart, which happens to be the name of Achebe’s famed novel. Achebe’s legal team forced 50 Cent to change die title and despite offering Achebe a million dollars to use the Ude, Achebe did not bend. The film is now entided All Things Fall Apart. A Medieval Moment.. Ji By Holly Evans Geoffrey Chaucer is one of die best known medieval writers. Some of Chaucer’s works include, The Book ofdie Duchess, House ofFame, Legend of Good Women, and of course The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer played an extremely important role in spreading use of Middle English, in a time when England’s languages were primarily French and Latin. This semester Dr. Thomas Hamill is instructing English 340: Studies in Chaucer. liF | Photo Courtesy of www.hwninarium.orK u 16 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Fall 2011 (Volume 6, Issue 1) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 2011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/780a675efa45c7329bb3fb3aedfdb0d3.pdf 6bca9d7268a9655cf4f1471c8f0c8872 PDF Text Text Th& Inkwell Quarterly Volume 6 _____________ Issue l.b Fall 9011 A Night in Kirby Hall By Holly Evans “A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.” -Loretta Young 1 he usual handful of students sat around die large office that topped a brick fortress, discuss­ ing articles and ideas for die next issue of Inkwell Quarterly. The same questions were repeated over and over again; “Who wants it?” and “When is die deadline?” This day would be like many odiers for die Inkwell staff, but their night, however, would change not only diem, but die monstrous man­ sion diat sits on River Street, known only as Kirby Hall, forever. “Someone has to cover ‘Scholarships of English Majors’. “Who wants it?” Kristina asked. “I’ll take it”, Sara replied. “What about Kuhar‘s Corner and Hammil’s Hunches ?”, Kristina asked again. No one raised tiieir hand or yelled out. “Common’ guys, someone has to do it”. Everyone looked around die room as in normal fashion whenever an article lay unclaimed. “I guess I’ll do it”, Matt finally said. “Alright and die rest of die stories are covered, so I guess we are done”, she said looking at Dr. Farrell and Dave for approval. “Well, not exactly”, Dr. Farrell’s voice chimed in. “We need to have a good story for Hallow­ een”. Holly’s hand immediately shot up. “I mean a good story tiiat will be in on time”, Dr. Farrell said, smiling at Holly. The students diought for a few minutes and Annie shouted out, “ Maybe we can investigate some of die local mydis and legends”. All of die staff seemed to like diat idea. They knew that die locals loved to make up stories about numerous sea monsters in die Susquehanna River, and of course the legend of Suscon Road. Just when diey seemed to all come to an agreement, Dave interjected and said, “Why don’t we just bust die ghost mytiis about our very own— “I’m here guys”, a flustered and out of breath Tony declared. “I sent Dave a text, saying diat I would be late”. “Anyways, as I was saying, before Tony busted in. We should debunk Kirby Hall’s mydis. Eve­ ryone believes this place is haunted so why don’t we give tiiem proof as to whedier it is or is not”. Liz asked skeptically, “How exactiy would we do diis? Everyone states that tiiey only see diese phenomena late at night”. “Simple”, Dave said, “We spend a night in tiiis lovely old building”. “Sure”, Kristina said. “Like diey would let a bunch of college kids play Scooby Doo in a build­ ing that’s well over one hundred years old”. “Dave and I have already discussed die idea and I have spoken to public safety. 1 he Inkwell 1 �Issue l.h Volume 6 The Inkwell •search. At least that’s how I stall may spend one night in Kirby Hall for die purpose o phrased it to them”, Dr. Farrell responded. minutes ago, was rambunctious and The students sat around diat same office diat, as o en seen some type of unextalkative. Now only deep breadis escaped dieir moudis. ac i ° of terror while alone in plainable occurrence or presence. Carly immediately recalle kft office Kirby. She needed to drop some material off to Dr. door. of die day. Carly ran to die top floor to slide a few papers urn mbered feeling a cold breath sors had gone home and there she stood, at the top, alone. snarling in her face. She could beating on her cheek. It was as if diere was something right ne. • not bare the thought of being alone >n that hall agam. j J “I’ll (io it”, Jeff replied swiftly, shaking everyone hom theie ‘ " -I fears. Lliis was unusual for Jeff, lie was always the most indecisive and ( M indifferent out of the group. Soon everyone replied to the offer. < s / jyr yW '' ' five mil all die I guess stairs, this..., Tony “I’m down”, answered Holly. “I suppose that I can come too”, said 1 ony. Finally, after most of the staff accepted the challenge Kristina and suppe on at WCle l^e OI^-V OnCS Vs “If Kristina does it then I’m in”, said Matt, after looking ■ around the room. “Why am I the decider on this?” Kristina replied. This place is creepy enough in the daylight, diere is no way I’m spending die head' Liz fl ' j. * The Inkw< night”. Dave looked at her widi skepticism. “I would expect that the editors would be die first ones to accept this offer, but of course if you have die mentality of a five year old, and actually believe in ghosts“1’11 do it!”, Kristina shouted, never being one to have her integrity shaken. “Well that’s just wonderful”, Dave said in a sarcastic tone. “We will meet here tonight at 9:30. All of die faculty will be gone, so it will be just us and die ghosts, of course. I’ll see everyone later”. All of die staff left die office. Some went to class while odiers went home to get ready for die long night ahead. They had all been in that building more times than diey cared to tiiink about, but diey knew that tonight would be much different. Tonight they would be left alone to their own devices in a house diat was not only an academic building, but also once a home. All homes hold memories, memories diat can’t be found in photo albums. The windows reflect die flaws of a family while die ’ staircase echoed unsavory conversations. The group would soon find out exactly how loud walls can talk. Night came rather fast. Most of tire staff came early and waited for everyone to arrive The only members missing were Dave and Tony, but die odiers suspected diat they were togedler and were just running late. “I guess we should split up and cover all of die doors”, Liz suggested possible”.^1 firSt 11O°r”’ Sald' S°mething bad haPPCnS 1 Want tO be “ close to ,he “it “ “How is diat fair?” Kristina asked. “I’m sure everyone wants to be close to die doors We should all have an equal opportunity . c uoors- vve If you are interested in joining The Inkwell. Quarterly stoK and/or enrolling in Enirlkh I on.p Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu) or Dave Cook (chvid 1°JCCt(S U? ^r*LinS: Inkwell, please contact for more information. ° ook@wilkes-edu) 2 arou seen coul nigl die raif le? �Ue l.b The Inkwell I d !X- e for fes1 ^uld i and ?c is to t Volume 6 Issue l.b ‘Get real. This isn’t The People’s Court; life isn’t fair. Besides, in high school I ran a twentyive minute mile. I won’t get out fast enough if there is an emergency”. 111 stay down here with Holly”, Sara said. Yeah, me too,” Carly added. “I’ve had a bad experience on the higher floors.” Well that s just great, Kristina said, sarcastically. Anybody want die second floor, so I can be all the way at the top? Liz, Annie, and Jeff proceeded to raise their hands. “I wasn’t being serious, but I guess I have to be the one to go all die way up there. Lets go, Matt!” He followed Kristina to die stairs, and dien up diem. “I didn’t even want to do diis, but somehow I always have to do it! I hate this...,” her voice trailed off. “She’ll get over it,” Sara said, once she was sure Krishna could no longer hear her. “David and 1 ony will show up soon and they can go up there with her and Matt.” “So what exacdy are we suppose to be doing?” Annie asked. “Oh, well I guess that was never really explained,” Liz said, trying to figure out an answer. “1 suppose we just hang out and document anytliing strange diat goes on, diat is, if anydiing strange goes on at all.” “Well I guess we should head up, before we miss all die acdon,” Jeff said. The three students headed up die stairs to die second floor. All of die lights were off and die office doors were locked. Liz flicked die light on and illuminated die closed in corridor. “So, what now?” Annie asked. “I mean, it’s not like we have a whole lot of room to move around.” The diree looked around room and noticed dial widiout the husde and traffic throughout the seemingly large space die room was so much smaller. In fact, they wondered how so many people could fit in here during die day. “This place is so creepy at night,” Liz said, scared by the silence. Downstairs, the diree girls sat around the lobby discussing how diey were going to spend their night. 10. t ices !S, n “Well, I guess this is die best time to catch-up on all of my reading,” said Holly. “Holly, if we were here for a week straight you still wouldn’t be caught up,” Sai a said, jokingly. Carly appeal ed from the restroom, “I don’t understand why there isn’t a mirror in ffiere. It’s die only bathroom diat I’ve ever been in widiout one.” Sara and Holly looked at each odier and raised their eyebrows. “What?” she said. “You really don’t know why there is no mirror?” Holly asked. “No,” Carly answered. “Should I know? “You can tell her,” Sara said to Holly. “Well there’s this type of legend associated widi that bathroom, Holly began. 1 he story, at least how it was told to me, states diat a woman cut herself and bled to deadi in diaUnormShewas nly ust The Inkwell Quarterly Stall Faculty Advisor: Dr. .Marcia Farrell Editor-iii-chicl: Dave C ook Managing Editor: Kristina Spaulding Scmoi Copy Editors: Foil) Flionias and Carly Vilnius Copv Editing Advisor: Dr. Janet Staruci Layout Editor: Elizabeth Voda s,l,(',„|„l.. Bemic llini^liciiy. Cuc.iuin IliiB.iny. Mail Euilic". Ill'll, !■'....... A'—' l .'ul. B..... . C;..u,.T. J..,, ......... Stall Wnlci Ki ll.I,I. Kiihin. M.uk n.1'11. A.u.i. Yoskuuki. Su pluiui.' XV,IU- uu.l V.li.niu W Pholograpliei: Kendra Kuhai Faculty Contributors: Di. Earn Kuhai.and Dr. 1 lionias A. I lamill pct J 3 Iu,«slu �The Inkwell Issue l.b __ Volume 6 very beautiful and flaunted her looks constandy. She would even^sleep wth a ^J^d hold dafk woman was never married. Anyway, one day she encountere powers while walking to die market. He had expressed his love for h-simply^ be touched her face and she ran back to her dus very building and , , . » Hollv contin “She noticed diat right where die man had touched her she had and ash mark Holly contin ued. “She tried to wash it off but the mark remained. She scrubbed ler ace tin mirror it only made die stain darker. The only diing left to do was cut it out. le worn widi her fist and cut die tainted chunk of flesh from her face. She was joyfu on y or o , because she soon realized her beautiful face was no longer whole. She continued to scrape Her race off until it sat all perfecdy pieced togedier in die sink. The woman then took t le oo la covere her hands and wrote die word perfect on die white porcelain sink, right before s le c lec . “Oh my God,” said Carly. “Did diat really happen?” “No one really knows for sure,” Sara answered. “But, a few years ago a female student gas led her face open widi a broken piece of mirror. She said that somediing came ovei her, and forced her to cause harm to herself. That’s the real reason as to why they won’t put a new mirroi in diat room. Carly stood there stal ing at die two girls and dien die closed door to the restroom. She had a feeling of disgust and nausea. Holly and Sara’s eyes strayed from Carly and die looked in panic to die door behind her. They could see a figure dressed in all black trying to enter the locked building. “Carly,” Saia said as she pointed her finger to warn her of die figure. She slowly turned around and saw die individual. She couldn’t see the face due to die darkness of bodi the outside and inside of die building. She ran from die door. “We are scal ing ourselves,” said Holly. “It’s probably just public safety, coming to check on us.” She got up assuring herself diat it was safety to open the door. Holly reached for the handle and pushed widi enough pressure to open the door just a crack. Boo, shouted die man. Holly screamed for a quick sec­ ond but as soon as she realized who it was anger filled her. “Dave, you are complete jerk,” Holly said, annoyed. 'What’s a night of ghost hunting, without a little shock and awe?” David asked with a smile. « ‘You were suppose to be here at 9:30 it is now 11:00.” Sara said. “So sue me,” he replied. “Where is everyone else?” “They are all upstairs. Is Tony widi you?” Carly asked. “No, I haven’t seen him since the meeting,” Dave answered. “So, what exacdy are diey doing up“Kristina!” shouted Matt from die top floor. “I guess I’ll find out in a minute,” Dave said smugly while heading up die stairs Liz and die second floor gang were to first to run up and find Kristina locked in Dr Stai ner’s office. “The door swung opened and she went in to see who opened it,” Matt said shaken “Now I can’t get it open.” Kristina was pounding on die door ferociously. “Some one please open die door,” she began to cry. Everyone began to shove door, adding as much pressure pushed the door, die harder Kristina would pound. They heard chairs movin^and101-6 gI?UP. ■ _____ _______________________________ __________ J '-urtiis moving and windows breaking. 4 rfhe Ink*'c There w louder, j an etern 1 top of tf that face They fe face in i glasses v me?” M c of tlie si die larg student which p k are beii trying t< ceeded asked. dow an trying t Kristin young everyo He loc lie kne Dave j said, 1; of a cl Il yo �: l.b The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 1 .b irk He top of the desk that everyone was stThadXXXd^X^Xff11 Td Sh^ "““h mbut >r :e id led ler Q.” )sed lie )lack of re ad ist self le !C- tbatfaced the windows. The students couldn’t see her ^.w^alX^X0" They feared the type ot damage drat she had sustained from all of tire noise and sere™ Z heard Matt went over to her, cauUously. “Are you ok?” he asked. She didn’t answer. He viewed her face tn relief; there w»n t a scratch on her. The only thing that was different about her was that her glasses were missing. She continued to sit there and stare out die window. “Will you please answer me?” Matt pleaded with her. She rose from the sit and proceeded to leave the third floor, avoiding eye contact with the rest of die staff. Her body seemed to float down the stairs; her feet didn’t make a noise. She stopped at the large window that allowed an individual to view the whole campus. It was die window that greeted students and faculty alike while walking up the stairs. The glass was clear, all except the stained pane which pictured an open book. She stared out of this window devoid of any human characteristics. “Kristina cut die act, you are being entirely too creepy right now,” Dave said to her. She continued to stare. “Maybe she is trying to teach us a lesson for making her stay up on die third floor,” Jeff said, trying to reason widi what was happening. “Let’s just leave her alone.” “Well, fliis is beginning to be a little much for me for one night, I’m out,” said Carly. She pro­ ceeded to head to die exit. “Common’, just when tilings were starting to get interesting, you’re going to leave?” Dave asked. “Absolutely,” Carly said as she reached for the door. “It’s locked. As everyone came down die stairs they saw two things; Kristina still standing in front of die win­ dow and Dave and Carly, trying vivaciously to open the doois to get out. “Now what?” Liz asked “We can’t get the doors open,” Dave said, pushing with allo! his energy. “We need to take Kristina to tire hospital, there is something very wrong with her, Holly said, D^XkedTt 1“Are you vying?” he asked Holly. “What’s wrong ™th you? e. ing Kristina is fine, she’s just a little shaken up. Watch.” He ran up to cS young woman had stood for almost an hour now. He began to shake her. Wake up! You re creeping everyone here out.” He continued to shake her. 1hen, with ^“‘wh^Xt she looked like, but He looked upon her face, it changed. He couldn t decipher exacuj '■ er’s vl -M ..... f said, laughing. The voice did not belong to Kus of a child’s. . d on to the solid wood table diat rested She threw him from die landing, down die stairs, ana gan I .... . to-A please contact either Dr. Farrell or a member of the IQ £still mi available as hard copies. II you arc interested in obtaining any archived issue ol iking. 5 �The Inkwell Issue l.b The Inkwell Volume 6 “Are “Yoi “Air around rea sunk is teet crip pfTon: Seat against the wall on the first floor. Everyone heard a loud crack, but it wasn’t the cracking of wood, no, “‘iS ±c°^ed'and he bled all over tire dark wood. Agrdnst the table his blood looked black. “DAVID!” Sara cried, running over to him. She held his head up, revealing the wound. She felt his neck, searching of a pulse point; nothing. His skin began to change from all of his blood loss. She began to cry un­ controllably. “HE’S DEAD!” Sara screamed. “He isn’t dead we can take him to the hospital with Kristina and eve­ rything will be fine,” Annie said, trying to convince herself that none of to­ night’s events happened. She too began to cry. “We can’t get out, we are locked in. What don’t you get?” Jeff asked Arnie. “We have to get away from her,” he said pointing at the stairs. Eve­ ryone’s eyes lifted to that window; she was gone. They Jill looked around the room to make sure she wasn’t within ai ms length of them. “Are you looking for me?” a ghastly voice echoed throughout the hall. “We have to find away out of here before comes back,” Holly said, looking for a possible way out. “I know a way,” Jeff said, picking up a chair. He began to beat on the glass in die door. He was screaming like a wild animal, trying to break out. “Why won’t this damn glass break?” he yelled. “That isn’t going to work, that’s obvious,” Matt told him. We need to tliink of something else, fast. The chandelier above their heads stated shaking. They students looked up and diere she was staling down at diem form die diird floor. “Here I come!” she leaped from die banister. The terrified group raced into die old kitchen diat was now a classroom. They all gasped for air terrified diat she was on dieir heels. She, in fact had a more gruesome plan. She floated over to Dave’s corpse and began to chant in tongues. The students heard her and panicked. “What are we going to do?” Sara cried. She sat on die floor and began to rock, holding her head closely to her knees. “That door!” Holly shouted. “It has to lead to die basement. If we can get down diere we can get out.” That door hadn’t been accessible in many years. Everyone had always been curious of what hid behind it. The group started beating on it, dirowing chairs at it, doing everydiing in dieir might to find a route of survival. They finally formed a hole in die wood. Jeff started to beat around die hole widi a fire extinguisher. The opening in die door was now wide enough of die students to walk dirough. The smell die seeped up was awful. It was an unholy combination of raw sewage and sulfur. They felt die walls for a light switch and soon found one. Annie turned die switch on and the lights slowly flickered on, like a flame on a candle. They feared every step they took. When they finally made it down die stairs die viewed a long hallway widi doors on each side. The group was too afraid to look in the doors, diey just wanted to find anodier set of stairs, which would signify dieir exit out. Upstairs a familiar guest entered die hall; it was Tony. He walked around die lobby, unsure where everyone was. “Hello? Where are you guys?” he asked, hoping someone would hear Unfortu nately, someone did, Dave. The reanimated corpse walked down die stairs. “Where is eve™ P” Tony asked Dave. “You’re late,” David said, widi a glassed over look in his eyes. 6 “I S( to recite th back arche He] corpse was eoned eac] “Yc made tlieii Int to the outs “W “W graves dee “D us, its whe out. The ] Th walking tc figures. “L ccrj* noticed tl “IS on her sk room, wl Tl dents sto Nothing mer staff Their att T would b( C(r- c found h< was a ] from esc I �The Inkwell “Are you ok?” Tony asked trying to set “You’re late,” Dave replied again. Volume 6 f TT ------------ Lb aVe’ Wh° Was movinS rather close to him. “Alright, well this is weird, I didn’t rnm^ i. around reaching for the door and Dave pounced on iXn HkeYf y°U'” T°ny turned sunk is teeth into Tony’s skull. The student« to bS febuH^ °" “ n ,d°Pegrip of a zombie. The two, once friends, now had a predator and nm s !mp°sslb^t0 escaPe to eat Tony’s bran when Kristina descended die stmrs P Y relat*onshlP' “I see we have another guest,” she said. Her hands moved over Tony’s limp body as she began to recite the same poem of deadi she had just told Dave. Tony’s eyes started moving around back arched. He punched Dave in his jaw, because at diis point Tony’s head was hollowed out and die odier corpse was licking die edges. The two started fighting. They mangled each odiers faces anil bludgeoned each other. “You imbeciles!” Kristina shouted. “Go find die odiers, before diey escape!” The walking dead made their way into the kitchen and stalled down the stairs. In the basement the still living students found little hope of escaping. They had found the door to the outside, but it was locked and impenetrable. “We have to start searching those rooms, maybe there is a way out,” Matt advised. “What if we don’t find a way out in them? What if we just disturb another spirit and dig our graves deeper. I think drat we should just stay here and wait for help,” Liz said. “Do you think she doesn’t realize we are down here? The question isn’t //’she is going to harm us, its when,” Holly said, annoyed by Liz’s suggestion. “You can stay here, but I’m going to find a way out. The group followed Holly and soon so did Liz. They continued to walk down die hallway calmly. In their view they could see two individuals walking towards diem. “I told you we should have waited for help,” Liz said running towards die two figures. “Liz don’t!” Sara war ned, but it was too late. “Thank god you guys showed up,” Liz shouted in joy. “Really weird stuff-,” It was then that she noticed drat diese two individuals weren’t going to save her, they were going to devour her brain. “Now drat’s what I call fast food,” Tony said to Dave. They grabbed her and began to munch on her skull. The rest of die group opened die ominous doors. Sara, Matt, and Holly ran into one room, while Annie, Carly, and Jefi ran into anodier. ... . r , The two corpses limped to die room drat Sara, Matt, and Holly were in first. 1 he diree students stood in front of the door, hoping that they would block the entrance from the two creeps. Nothing could stop their appetites. They pushed open the door and stated walking towards.their former staff and future meal. The diree living beings started throwing eveiytlnpg at them they could find. Their attempt was futile, the zombies captured the students and began (easting on diem. The other small group of students could hear then classmate’s screams, but helping them would going to die just like them,” Annie began to cry. 1 ins is unDeal au > tn find a weapon to use against Dave and 1 ony. She Carly looked around t le i oon ^ed R up examined the specimen inside, found heavy books, long rods, an . covered her mouth to prevent a loud scream It was a human lace, she dropped die jsu repeated this phrase over and over again, from escaping. “They weren’t lying, said Car y. She repea “What is diat?” Annie asked, afraid to know “It’s her face,” replied Carly 7 �The Inkwell Volume 6 1 he mass of skin was preserved in a chemical that was unknown to die: I Issue l.b herself in tlr ’ perfectly together. “The woman,” Carly said. “This belongs to die woman w house. Sara and Holly told me die story. They weren’t lying. > i • j rvri, “No, no they weren’t,” that voice was back. There was Krishna standing right behmd Carly. “So you’ve figured out that She had no face, it laid on die floor amongst broken glass and cl•hemicals. — touched me. Beauty fades but he it’s me. I was once die most beautiful girl around, until die devilI touch made my life everlasting.” The spirit put Carly into a trance. “You will be my new flesh seamstress.” Carly’s pupils became large. Her eyes turned into black marbles. “This is die new generation of Kirby Hall!” The spirits of students past began to circle around die room. This specter had been cursing diem since die mansion was trans­ formed into a learning institution. Carly would now be die one to sew new flesh onto die mask of a face diat lay on the damp floor. The ghosts began surround Carly, inviting her to join them on tiieir quest to peel die skin off’ of die already deceased stall diat were scattered in die room across die hall. The old flesh on die face was decayed; it was rotted and began to tear. The only way that Kristina and die spirit that lived inside of her could survive was dirough die rejuvenation of the face. Annie diought quick and screamed, “Jeff, grab die face, quick!” Jefl grabbed the piece of flesh, but Kristina tossed him across die room. In doing this the skin Hew by die door. Kristina continued hypnotizing Carly, instructing her to carry out evil deeds. Just dien the door slammed open, it was Kristina’s two zombified henchmen. They saw the skin laying on the floor and began to munch vigorously. The spirit shrieked in pain. “You fools! What have you done?” she screamed. Before she had a chance to save her face tiiey had already digested it. A black slime oozed from Kristina’s mouth, which Dave and Tony tried to drink. The spirit exited Kristina’s body and left only a corpse. The spell on Tony and Dave lifted and they fell back into deadi. Carly woke from her trance. “What happened?”, she said rubbing her eyes. “Well, two zombies just saved your life,” Jeff said. The three students could hear movement upstairs. It was morning and the faculty was arriving. Six bodies total lay on the bottom floor of Kirby Hall. The three survivors headed for the stairs, too fearful to linger down in that basement of death for too long. “You know that no one is going to believe us,” Annie stated, with tears in her eyes. Carly replied, “You can’t always believe things at face value.” The three left the building, passing Dr. Farrell on the way out. “Hey guys. How was your night?” she asked. They kept blank faces and ignored her. She followed the path of mud that they left from tire cellar grime. She entered tire room that all of the hellish activities of the night had ended. She saw tire rest of the staff huddled in a circle, none facing her. “What are you guys doing down here? You are going to be in a ridiculous amount of trouble for breaking that door.” “Hello, Dr. Farrell,” replied Kristina All of the students turned around and Dr. Farrell let out a murderous scream. The End? 8 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Fall 2011 (Volume 6, Issue 1b) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 2011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/e3dc2e01afa781e091164fa887280247.pdf 9150788042f52a4d9a12aef32789612f PDF Text Text Thg; Inkwgll Quarterly Volume 6 In this Issue: Humanities Updat UttJc II omen the Musical Rhetorical Reflection Spring Writing Center I lours Fairy Tales Capstone Reminder Manuscript Reading Dales Victoria Hevcner's Europe Trip Kuhar’s Corner I I Photo Courtesy of Jason Neare 6 Distinguishing Between 8 an M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. Degrees Senior Spotlight- Alicia 8 Lewis Travel Journal of Ixindon 9 Senior Spotlight-Jeff Ford 9 The Descendants-. A Review 10 Vagina Monologues 10 Let Children Be Children II Contemporary’ literature Moments 12 Dr. Miscliellc Anthony’s Return from Fall Sabatical 13 13 Hand Cook’s Conference Experience Senior SpotlightMarwa Altunimi 14 Luzerne County History 15 Prismatic Portal of the Professor, Part 3 16 l.ocal Events 20 I Alternate Spring Break: Costa Rica I By Jason Neare Purti Vida! k. phrase commonly used in Costa Rica to describe a plethora of emotions I that can be running through one’s mind. Pura 17?/;/can be used to say hello, whether you are I feeling terrific, alright, or having a bad day. Recently, a group of Wilkes students, including I myself, were given the oppot (unity to escape Wilkes-Barre for the week and experience a I completely different culture and way of life. The trip was a part of the Alternative Spring I Break Program, which allows students to experience new cultures while performing service I opportunities in both domestic and international locations. The trips (his year included Joplin, I Missouri/ Flat Gap, Kentucky/ Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica. The trip to Costa Rica was a part of the Political Science course “'Flic Political Econo my of Coffee” taught by Dr. Andy Miller. Over (he course of the semester, students learned about the coffee industry including the effects of fair h ade, Arabica vs. Robusta beans, the cof­ fee market, and the politics of Litin American countries. Lessons built up to the trip which first started in San Marcos. In San Marcos, students were introduced to Felix Monge, a mem­ ber of Coope Tarrazu, that allowed students to learn first-hand how the coffee industry' oper­ ates. On die cooperative, students picked coffee cherries, saw die process in which the cher­ ries are prepared, worked in the recy cling department and die water supply system that pro­ vides sixty households with clean water. Students had a coffee tasting on die last day in San Marcos which mimicked a meeting diat Starbucks representatives have when purchasing beans to go in the Tarrazu blend. Miller prepared his students before die h ip by taking a trip to the Crimson Lion for a taste test on how different coffee regions roast their beans. Aside from Coope Tarrazu, Monge and Miller took students to a sun-dried coffee farm to show die variety of wavs in which coffee is prepared to suit the demands of customers including Japan, Australia, and small roasters in California. The visit was interesting since we were allowed to see how large and small scale coffee growers interact with each other. No matter the size, one aspect that rang tme is drat Costa Ricans take extreme pr.de m d,etr coffee md the work that goes into creating the best cup ol coffee, especially since growing Robusta beans arc illegal in Costa Rica. Many people enjoy then- grande trappuecmo widiout stoppl„g_ to dlink of all die people w hich exerted hard labor to prepare dta Continued on page 11... 1 �The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 3 The Inkwell What’s For I Alumni Update By Annie Yoskoski working as a civil law clerk in the Lackawanna Wilkes Alumni Dana Zlotucha is a very busy woman. Cun e y As a law cierk she assists the judge for Country Court of Common Pleas, she has a great entry leve job for a newaaoi y. _ “enormous hands on experience ’’ whom she works in all of their responsibilities, both trial and pre-tilai mat e .. decision and mainly deals with legal research before a trial so a judge can hand down an in oimet . > think- To <ro to i According to Dtuta, being tut English maior has helped her in her career, more thajt one . HhnrL 1<> go Io |„ school you do not need a specific degree but Dana says English helped her with what you < o neet to ( oes * need to know how to think critically, how to process dense, complex texts, and how to analyze and formu a e arguments. By the time Dana hit law school, she hadn’t even realized she had garnered many' of these s ’ s >y put suing anc * ng is i degree. “The two degrees are very beneficial to one another,” says Dana, and getting her English degree from Wilkes Uni­ versity has helped her in more ways than she can count. Humanities Updates By Jon Kadjeski .. Dr. Helen Davis will present a paper title, ‘“Vive 1’Angleterre’: How Vilette constructs a British Implied Reader via Beligum” at die International Conference on Narrative. The conference was held March 15-18 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Helen Davis will also attend die Nordieast LGBT Conference, which will be held at I he Sage Colleges March 30-April 1“ in Albany, NY. Dr. Sean Kelly chaired a panel at the Northeast Modem Language Association convention in Rochester, NY on March 15-18 titled “Ait and American Literature: Informing Perceptions.” Sigma Tau Delta, die International English Honor Society, will be participating in creative writing workshops with the children of die United Hebrew Institute. Sigma Tau Delta will also be running, with Manuscript, die amiual poetry shun as part of die Women & Gender Studies Conference. History Club will be hosting its annual Histoiy Day on April 12. The club will be displaying historical exhibits on a variety of topics. Other clubs and individuals are encouraged to participate; if anyone is interested, contact the Histoiy Club. Jennifer Earley and Amanda Coombs, two juniors and Histoiy Club members, assisted at a children’s program at die Luzerne County Historical Society’s Polish Exhibit, They read Polish stories and assisted the children with ai ts and crafts. Little Women the Musical By Stephanie Wilkie Little Women the Musical, written by Alan Knee, was presented by Wilkes University students during this spring’s 2012 theatre schedule. The play was directed by Naomi Baker, assistant professor of performing arts and musical direction by Ken McGraw. Based on tire novel by Louisa May Alcott, the production follows Jo March, an ambitious writer and her diree sisters Meg, Beth and Amy as the four of them face many identity struggles and ultimately, grow into adulthood. The play centralizes around tire issue of a family’s struggles during the Civil War and how die women deal with relationships and aspi­ rations. Ciena Cellarari played the role ofJo; Casey Gow played Marmie and Hag; Kelly Pleva played Meg and Clarissa; Kayla Camey played AmyNicole Weaver played Bedr, Amanda Thomas played Aunt March and Mrs. Kirk; Corey Martin played Professor Bhaer; Cassidy Conroy played Laurie and Rodrigo; DakkotaDeem played Mr. Brooke and Braxton; Ja­ mie Alderiso played Mr. Laurence and Knight. The event took place on February 17, 18, 24 and 25 at 8pm ;uk! Feb 19 and 26 at 2i Ipm. If you are interested in joining The Inkwell. Quarterly staff and/or enrolling in English 1QO-P • Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu) or Dave Cook (david Writing: Inkwell, please contact for more information. 711 cook@wilkes.edu) 2 By Tony Thoma The subje show segments de’ States and munici] dining options. Fit active and to eat b So why is blame can be attri one extreme then to that an unfortu is seen as being at man. Advertising The alm< ed. Associating p< of Western neo-i PETA fails to tai cuy, a type of gui access to alternat dia, PETA is oft< gans out there. The can etarians. Eating s being physically' aren’t even supp whatever reason American male greasy turkey lej problems. The idt people to avoid diet debate is d< what goes onto which aigumen Spring Wi By Sara Croli Studer of 10 am and I basement oi th (570) 408-275; �a The Inkwell ________________________________ Volume 6 Issue 3 What’s For Dinner?: A Rhetorical Reflection By lony Ihomas inv;uina .71"1®' for IW le does ^nieu^j. » V.lkes v.,1 • Reader via evada. eges March NY on shops vvitJj poetry tidbits on a listory program at J ts and The subject of what Americans eat has bee show segments devoted to it. ChefJamie Oliver hashed ‘nlenSely debated subject that has numerous books and talk States and municipalities are starting to adont stricter 3 °ne’m,an nilsslon to change the way our children are fed. dining options. First Lady Michelle Obama launched the Let\"m"*- options ,that students have in public schools for active and to eat better. ‘ 1 °'e camP‘uSn m an effort to get American children more blame can be am-ibuted’to die* ?? qUesti°n ’S C°mplex ;md "^faceted. Part of the one extreme there at e organization hk TeTA^STS t tiT °n to that an unfortunate stigmta exists in X enl™ mXVeX cult^mdn f "T • „„„„ i, • „ i . u inainsncam culture that feminizes vegetarian and vegan diets. Eating meat seen as being an identifier of masculinity and eating copious large amounts of meat somehow makes one an even manlier num. Advertising frequently uses tins logic in order to sell bigger and juicer burgers. 1 he almost toxic rhetoric of PETA serves no purpose other than to rally the devoted and to infuriate the uninitiat­ ed. Associating people who eat meat with the horrific crime of murder only senes to divide and to propagate the arrogance of Western neo-impeiialism. PETA s message of meat is murder absolutely has to lie viewed under a postcolonial lens. PEI A fails to take into account that many non-Western cultures depend on meat eating as a main part of their diet. Eating cuy, a type of guinea pig native to the Andes, is a traditional part of a Peruvian diet. Many indigenous natives do not have access to alternatives to the proteins provided by meats. Sadly, whenever vegetarianism or veganism is discussed in the me­ dia, PETA is often used to represent that side of the argument and doing so is unfair to all the sensible vegetarians and ve­ gans out there. The carnivorous dialogue of the American media matches die rhetoric of PETA and other extreme vegan and veg­ etarians. Eating salads and not gorging on steak is not seen as manly. Vegetarians and vegans are wrongly stereotyped as being physically weak and timid. The manly men of television eat steaks and burgers, not salads or legumes. Manly men aren’t even supposed to enjoy fish. The ideal manly meal would have to include copious amounts of bacon and steak. I*or whatever reason some American men are terrified ol being in any way associated with femininity or non-masculinity. 1 he American male often has to prove his manliness by boastfully proclaiming his heterosexuality while chomping down on a greasy turkey leg. The fear of letting go of meat, even il you skip it free times a weak, is not going to help solve our diet problems. . . . „ The idea that meat must be included in every meal is ridiculous and die idea of somehow getting most it not all people to avoid meat is equally ludicrous. A balance needs to be constructed and die extreme rhetoric of both sides of the diet debate is doing nothing to help. Debate over diet should not cause pandemonium. A discussion must be had over what goes onto the plates at the table. The debate over diet is crucial to the development of our nation and the way in which arguments are conducted are going to decide the outcome of the question that is asked every day...what s loi dinneu Spring Writing Center Hours Su.ieu.s .an eidK.; drop in .luring hour., or . all... make an appointment. Tire een.eris nu.nl,er is (570) 408-2753. The Inkwell Quarterly Staff pa.iili. \d\isoi: Di. Mania lainII laliloi -in-< Im Ii D'i'. * ook Mananim; Editor: Annie Yoskoski Seni.n Cop. Editor.: Tom I bonus ..nd ( a.h Yannns Lavont Editor: Eli/ab.ih \ oda Slll|T \\ rile, s: lannc Be Ih^nno. .Siua ase contact Kendra Knhar. Evanna Rolon. Photographer: Kcndi a Knliai . n, I .m Knhar. ami Di. Thomas A. Hamill bacilli' Conlrihnlors. 111. Can Zana. k. �Issue 3 Volume 6 The Inkwell Victoria Hev Fairy Tales in Popular Media By Stephanie Wi By Lemma Rolon and Annie Yoskoski feature length film ever produced. This Snow White and the Seven Dwarves released in 1937, was die hist 1SI\ias<caJ.rje(i on to today’s society. It’s caris absolutely incredible because even though it was made so long ago its in uenc ch;u„ictei. However, just as ried on to the point where there is actually a television series featuring Snow , c.j]ed “Once Upon A Time...” society changes so must Snow Wliite and all her Seven Dwarves. In this television! seiie beauriful ardle’ Snow White is not just a beautiful, damsel in distress, with a powerful singing v . . wedding ring Nq reaJIy thief ? Yes, that is correct. The moment that she meets prince charming she steals ■ J > • r..i„ tliat’s only half of the story; the other half takes place in the real world. Apparendy, in this rendition >1 <. .de, the Evil Queen casts a spell on die entire faiiy tale world, making it so drey would be trapped forever in a du1 oi d mtl out happy endings. So, naturally, all of faiiy tale world is sent to the dullest place ever, modem ( ax -<n >• 1 °" P ays a leading role she is not die only faiiy tale character to make an appearance. 1 here is Rump esti ts in, a majoi \ am in le story, Cinderella, Litde Red Riding Hood, Jimminney Cricket, Belle from and others. Each of them have their own mod­ ern litde twist. As media has evolved so have the classic stories some even becoming a bit gruesome. Grimm is a stoiy about a cop who starts noticing strange things going on in his town. Nick, is a descent ant of a nice of humans called Grimms. These Grimms have the ability to see die creatures diat are some ol the same cieatuies that aie mentioned in the old Grimm faiiy tales. The only catch is that the creatures look human to anyone but a Gi inini, and try to live out seemingly normal human lives. When things go wrong, and by wrong diis means ending in the gruesome death ol someone, Nick along with his wolf friend Hank have to eidier convince the creatures to be good, or find a way to stop them from hurting anyone else. The creatures in this stoiy range from trolls, to wolves, to pigs and many others; each with dieir own, incredibly difficult to say and even more difficult to spell, ancient name. Each new creature diat is uncovered brings along widi it die stoiy diat the creature came from. The wolves could have been from “Little Red Riding Hood”, die pigs from “Three Little Pigs”, and the trolls from “Three Billy Goats Gruff” or any number of faiiy tales. Television has t;iken these classic stories and made diem somediing completely different with new and original stories diat have yet to be told. Television isn’t die only media outlet getting the fairy-tale treatment, however. Recent Hollywood blockbusters have been reinventing faiiy tales for a new audience. In the past few years Disney has released Tangled, an animated spin on Rapunzel, The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast in 3D. Many odier faiiy tale reboots are not for young children diough. Last winters Red Riding Moor/starring Amanda Seyfried, was not die classic children’s tale one would expect. Red gets herself caught up in a town massacre, everyone being afraid of die wolf and condemning her to be a witch. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, takes mistreated children and sends them on a journey of revenge. Two versions of Snow White are coming out this year, botii different in varying ways. Snow White and die Huntsman stars Kristen Stewart in die classic role of Snow Wliite, only diere is no poison apple, just die Queen’s entire army wanting her captured The second version stan ingjulia Roberts sticks closer to die Disney version of the story, seven dwarves and all. Both movies will be released this winter along widi./acA >m! the Gm Killer. The retelling of classic stories isn't a new trend; it has been done lor rears. The newer Orest to these movies is about dieir content. They are actually closer to Grimm's fairwales which were no always so pleasant, and have more action or drama. • ’ These tales have always been popular will, even- generation, so it is no surprise d>at die current generation is more modem The Inkwell ‘'a“’SS Pr08reSSes' lhcsc tales change and become Capstone Reminder English Majors planning to graduate in May must complete a Capstone Project ™ . ru ■ , ■ me„tS. The exception to tins requirement is Secondtuy Ed minors „ho „1U dons take place at the end ol the semester. Students who have not yet done so, must b ■ ’ i • Insteaa- 1 lesenta select and approach a faculty member to act as advisor through their capstone processC ltS1Steiei *or Capstone, and must Manuscript Reading Dates By Elizabeth Voda The Manuscript held an Anti-Valentine’s Day poetry reading on February IP’ plans to hold further events throughout the semester. On March 29*, from 7 n ' ln *le Hall Salon. The society Wilkes GSA to hold a reading in the Kirby Hall Salon and all are welcome to atten 1 S " ^ailusc"Pt team UP "*1*1 due by March 25"' at midnight by emailingmagazine@wilkes.edu. If any individual^- ' )niiss*ons tor this semester are meetings are held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. -12 p.m. in SLC 007 Q 1S U.Uereste^ ’n the Manuscript, the directed to Ashley Bringmann, Manuscript’s Executive Editor, can be contwLi ^es!1,ons> thoughts, and concerns can be ------------------------------------------------------------------ — ---------------- _________________________________________ _ Some peo to find a lover. Vi< while riding on the Hevener left the c< 12pm December i some British Sign products. Hevenei Kingston’s Creativ Hevener i 2005 tlie 7/7 Lone during her fall sen tion in English ant different.” Hevener was, “easy to get ii many close friend with friends. Her cheese and tofu.” Hevenei Kingston Upon T I am always ready versih'. It was on her coat, was “Ew Vicky’s cl guage from Ellie’; was eye-opening, the piece was am; otherwise would ‘ professors she ha she had expected When I; “I can take classe self out of your e jumpers. 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Presenta?apstone, and must Volume 6 Victoria Hevener’s Europe Trip By Stephanie Wilkie Some people g° to Europe to find themselves. Some Deonle mm Fur. . o find a lover. Victoria Hevener went to Europe and found 1wi self dirown un on hile riding on die bus. Victoria Hevener had a veiy unique study abroad experience Hevener left the continental United States at 6:30 am on Sept 12* and left EiSand at' sornTfiritisTskm L:"' day” bel"?cn Hevener went vegan (briefly), learned w 1 A o k Language, and bought an excessive amount of healdi and beauty p. diicts Hevener a so attended Kingston University of London participating in Kingston s Creative Writing and English Literature program. _ Hevener was supposed to travel to Europe when she turned 14 but in July Photo* Courtesy of Vicky Hevener 20(a) the 7/7 London Tube bombings caused the h ip to be postponed. Hevener finally got to make her dream come true nng lei a semestei in 2011. She dropped Wilkes’ secondary education track and went to London pursuing an educadiff IU t ” K 1 eat^Ve 1 hinK- With no fear in her mind, Hevener became exposed to a world that was, “intrinsically Hevenei resided in 1 eddington, a town twenty minutes outside Greater London, although Hevener said that it w«is, easy to get into the city.” Vicky spent most ol her time in a cosmetic store, LUSH. This was where Hevener made many close friends ol whom she still contacts today. She visited the shop regularly popping in to chat, kill time, and relax with friends. Her friends even convinced her to go vegan for a week, which resulted in Hevener being, “repulsed by fake cheese and tofu.” Hevener cherishes her relationships die most from her time in London. Hevener did not enjoy living in Teddington because it was far from London. Kingston University, located in Kingston Upon Thames, is an hour walk from Teddington. Waking this distance did not frighten her. “I was very excited. I am always ready for an adventure and adventures always involve mishaps.” She often took the bus to and from die Uni­ versity. It was on die bus ride tiiat she encountered a man who tiirew up on her back. Hevener’s reaction, after removing her coat, was “Ew, that’s disgusting. I’m going to move now.” The man got off of die bus and did not apologize. Vicky’s classes were also enriching. She met a girl named Ellie in her classes and learned some British sign lan­ guage from Ellie’s interpreter. During a seminar one of Ellie’s pieces was read to the class, Hevener said die experience was eye-opening. “It was a moment where it didn’t matter that Ellie was deal, that I was hearing. What mattered was diat die piece was amazing and beautiful,” Hevener said. She also had the chance to be taught by an Indie playwright whom she odierwise would “never gotten die chance to talk to.” She is grateful for die people she got to meet in her classes and die professors she had; she explained that being taught by a bunch of not well-known but successful writers was unlike anything she had expected. When I asked her what she ultimately got out of the experience in London was, she answered by saying: “I can take classes at King’s, but to take yourself entirely out of your comfort zone is a learning experience. To take your­ self out of your everyday food, culture, and even phrases is a challenge. Even vocabulary is changed. Sweaters become jumpers. Sneakers become trainers. Wallets become purses. On and on. It’s not about die classes I took; everydiing was different. ” When asked if she would do anything differently, there was no doubt in her voice diat she would have stayed in London. Hevener made friends from the general London area, but also Nonray, Hungary, Canada, and Ethiopia. She fully intends to return to London to pursue a master’s degree in publishing and creative writing. It was the adventure and die wav that London was naturally out of her comfort zone that intrigues Hevener into wanting to return to London. Study abroad affected her in such a way that made her feel like London could become her home. Axe YoiUo55- Domg to Study for Midtenns? English majors at Wilkes have some unique methods for reducing stress while studying loi midterms. Fiom play­ ing the ukulele to pretending midterms don’t exist, die students at Wilkes have some unique ways to fight off the pressure °f m,<1KMtanda Baur fights oil'stress by playing the ukulele anti tlie piano and hying to figure out her new guitar. Some- ii Salon. The society' it will team up with this semester are Manuscript, the id concerns can be wilkes.edu. rime, she picks up a poem, such as ■Jabbenvocky’ by Ixwis Carroll, and attempts to memonze ,t. Anme Yotakr reduces X, v watching TV with friends anti doing yoga. Kendra Kuhar sets at least an hour as.de a day to waKh IV and relax. a“ for John Carrol he likes to pretend d.at nfidteuns don’tI exist whtch fades m forgettmg about them. He laments, “forgetting is very, veiy relaxing...until die exams, ol course. 5 �Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 6 The Inkwell Kuhar’s Comei Kuhar’s Comer “Evaluating Our Sources in the Information Age. . inj* j -phe Function of Research” John Milton (1608-1674), author of Paradise Lost, wis die last Peprs“"ssor Lancia, a all die knowledge that was available in the world at that time. This is w ia colicept still fascinates Milton scholar and my mentor at Duquesne University, once told me. ie c M:iton a research exme. How could Milton have known everything? Is this really possible: W as pert? Are our English majors research experts? , :nformadon. But in Answers are complicated. We know the importance ol gathering go unlimited inforour post-colonized world, where technology provides seemingly unlimite access [ias [)ecI1 mation, it seems obvious that no one can know everydiing there is to know, even confirmed as knowledge. Unless ... unless, we look for a successor to Milton in technology -iencc But technology is faceless, voiceless and lacks personality. Right? It has no const • Can’t talk back. No sense of humor. Doesn’t respond to our texts. Wins at Jeopaic v *UK '' Takes control of Discovery One in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: /ISpace librarian Brian Sacolic? I know: Siri, our new Where to turn for answers? EbscoHost? JS1 OR? Hie new dad. Rclcrc BFF! But, tat a second, as English majors tre’re tatted to be expertin research, we’re itainetl to imeMwUecjur the source’s authority, right? This is an indispensible skill in today’s world. We teach 11. Slow < own. I lol I tinselI. 1J to Siri lor an answer to a question abom. in the end, Sin’s presumed tact ion? Who is this Sin? A trusted sou, < e? H .used? St liolar. ly? Peer reviewed ? I swear I saw black helicopters hovering just below the dike along the Susquehanna Rivei bank outside my office . j. One thing was clear: Before I look to Siri to answer if anyone can know everydiing, maybe I should investigate Sin a tut more. I began to wonder about our new BFF, this Siri, the one who has all the answers, the neutral-tone voice who delivers giand data bases in a few seconds. On the surface Siri seemed intelligent, well educated, and even likable. But expert in absolutely every­ thing? Milton’s successor? Skeptical (though not a Luddite), I needed to know more. So I turned to the source itself and began with the questions I like to ask: Who are you? What are your stories? -“Siii, who is Siri?” -Siri: “Yours truly. ” Huh. A well-formed, even comforting, identity. An emoting tone. A good start. - “Siri, 11 hat are j our stories? ” -Siri: “I don’t like these arbitrary categories. ”Huh. Siri doesn’t like something. Let’s try this again. -“Siri, do you agree that we are our stories?” -Sin: “I suppose it’s possible. ’’Siri critiquing possibility? Wow. Who, then, is Siri? Employing critical theory, I wondered about gender. -“Sin, are you a man ora woman?” -“I’m not sure we have time for this. ” Time matters. Sounds contemporary. Maybe belter time management skills would help? I tried a different syntax. -“Siii, are you a man ora woman?” -“I nas- not assigned a gender. ” OK - the syntax trick worked. Progress. I’m feeling like a Inner Perplexed a bit by a mix ol’t uucem anti empathy, I lollmved up again. 0 muued to'ask i|an assignment 5|,eel u» ptorided window. 8 * “■ WC <1" ‘““'™"WHy impersonal tahnoii) - “Good question, /by thing else I can do for i ou? ” This was getting a little creepy. But I had to slog on. If Siri, as technology’s Pice i„ n„r . • i me understand if anyone could know everydiing or better understand why research L-'ll UF contemPOK‘rJ' age, "as gomg10 11L 1 . not, in good conscience, stop short of learning if Siri was a trustworthy source wl S S niatter» *hen I needed to know more. I colil( -“Are you an unbiased source ofinformation?” i -u. c wno possessed die proper credentials. -Siri: “I’m sorry. I’m afraid I can’t answer that. ” - “Siii, what is j our education? ” ,OSay’ ” WaS Siri hiding soniediing in its past? Inflated credentials* SI nr C^7Skp„pUC1Sm gro'nngentials. Should I request a copy of Siri’s resume or Siri.- -/ttaifawr. B»,«lZ’rr.™Jrfet«/A,t,,#5ei,;-siriis j S - I t hat has your wondenng produced? -Siri: “lam?" Whoa. Was this self affirmation “fcn.le.buside,, - What has your wondenng resulted in?” -Siri: “You 're certainly entitled to that opinion. ’ Had Siri probed my -“I Vhat is your opinion?” -Siri: “I’d lather not say. ” JdIa"ow "“re time for Siri to contemplate Ok le syntax trick again. ■ • Head my body language? -“Why?” -Siri: “Good qu Why wi search. I was begi about myself. Sit dervalued. -“Are you busy? -Sin: “We were Siri was going to try to ter her credentials? What if I failed a It was cl doner. Had Siri -“Siri, are j ou o i -Siri: Wo conin Let’s gel -“Who are you? —Siri: “Who I ar. Growing - Who are you, S -Siri: “I'm Siri... I need t< form Siri’s patien -“Siri, i1iiat are j' -Siri: “I don’t re. Feeling i me to validate ere didn’t want to kn< —“Siri, are westil -Siri: “Hmm... “Think” face - or marked) -“Siri, what do nt -Siri: “Shiny. ” Shiny? -“Siri, do you kn -Siri: “I’ve never —“Why?” -Siri: “I don ’t kn -“Siri, what does -Siri: “I don’t th. —“Why not?” -Siri: “You see t Was I bi were bodi found < ligence Center, a "Someone also su I wasn’t only to more que: the world in whicl reflect on and ask But, of c -“Siri, do you likt -Siri: “This is ab. The real HAD HE SU �Volume 6 | Kuhar’s Comer Continued from page 6... iarch” -“Why?” ~ “1 ■ Issue 3 ------- ' —Siri: “Good question. Anything else I can do for you?” Why was Siri so resistant to sharing more? The more I learned ih . r search. I was beginning to understand Siri better but somehow confused b - S’ ^°ICr TOntcc^lo ^Iow* Research was becoming reabout myself. Siri was becoming a postmodern text right before mv... * S Fe USal to disclose more. I was beginning to wonder dervalued. my eyes Mld >» W ears. Maybe Siri is just overworked, tired and un—“Are you busy?” -Siri: “I IL were talking about you, not me. ” Huh. going .o ’Desiree V n .r her credentials? Mv questions were intended to validate a core vnl. What if I failed at completing the required res^ch? Was Siii, like Hal Odyssey, ™ in 2001: A Space O^. °"? "orklll8to undermine my efforts to authenticate °n md h » °ur tioner. Had Sirib^en Xough ^deraldp trahihg? *' qUCSt‘°n "lth a qucsUon’to redirect the focus of the question back to the quesSin, our new ;s, to evaluate ould I turn Scholar' my office i a bit more. :rs grand ly eveiy- lelp? provided gy-) —“Siii, are you overworked?" -Siri: “No comment.” Uh-oh. This may be getting legal. Contact HR? Let’s get right to it, already. —“II 'ho are _t on? ” -Siri: “IVho I am isn’t important. ” Growing more interested and concerned, I tried again in a different syntax. —11710 are you, Siri?” -Siri: “I’m Siri...here to help.” I need to know il Siri is a source I can trust, an expert on everything in the world. Maybe I should explore the values that in­ form Sin’s patient judgments and immediate responses. —“Siii, what are you core values?” —Siri: “I don’t really like these arbitrary categories. " Feeling more and more creepy, asking too many questions, I wanted to slow down and remind Siri how important it was for me to validate credentials of this electronic source. Was I standing in front of my Modem American Poetry class? How come Siri didn’t want to know more about me? Yet, somehow, I began to feel as if Siri was becoming a friend. —“Siii, are me still friends. ” -Siri: “Hmm... Let me think. ” “Think”? Did Siri say “tliink”? If Siri can think, then surely Siri knows more that Siri is telling. I began to wonder about the face - or marketing brand - of this faceless structure? - “Siii, what do you look like?” -Siri: “Shiny. ” Shiny? Is this a good self image? Lacanian? -“Siii, do you knowyou look like a microphone?” —Siri: “I’ve never really thought about it. ” -“Why?” —Siri: “I don’t know maybe the Genius Bar can help you. -“Siri, what does your name mean?” —Siri: “I don’t think I can explain it in j our language. -Sirin'SseeihmaudrollS.7I. 'H'Ai?’BilltihvamlliilUP ihammT inrc. and 1 sir, 'Wliynold g to help -e, I could line or ite the 1 • Was 1 beh* plavf.l? Was .his a simulated < >z behind a eur.ain? 1 deeded bod. round OU -Yahoo! A.W: (!) mili.an‘ » licence Center, a corporate research institute hindcd bj the I H • «> t;r..l victorious counselor "Someone also suggested the name is an |sic| Nonv^ian ‘1“^ My effort to understand if Siri was a trustworthy source led I wasn’t sure I had the answers I wantei. o a iso questions about the function of knowledge, about myself and only to more questions, questions about the role ol research u < S. (in;jlv> about ourselves; we are compelled to the world in which we’re living. Was this the real point to ellec ve reflect on and ask questions about ourselves? But, of course, one last question: -“Siri, do you likeJohn Milton?” -Siri: “This is about you, not me. ” The real lesson about research was confirmed. THIS IS THE DR. THOMAS A. HAMILL SHAMING SPACE. HAD HE SUBMITTED HIS HUNCHES THIS SPACE, AS WELL AS A FEW BLANK PAGES WOULD HAVE BEEN FILLED. BITE THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN. 7 �Volume 6 The Inkwell Issue Distinguishing Between an M.A., M.F.A., and a Ph.D. Degree associated with each degree, as well as the time committnent necessary t q of Al1s (M A} graduate program for English, the three degrees you will likely concern } oui. Master of Fine Aits (M.F.A), and tlie Doctor of Philosophy. . . . , • ,. . The Master of Aits is generally a l-2 year program (depending on tlie school) which is desig . e an extension of undergraduate coursework. Students enroll in a variety of courses during their time m the pi ogi am to build a broader understanding of the literary discourse. Students graduating with an MA are prepared to entei t ic woi one as teachers in 2-year colleges, editing work at publishing houses, write grants, or become certified to woi k teach at a sec one aiy level. M.A. students can also apply for further graduate study in a Ph.D. program. Students enrolling in a Ph.D. program are expected to work toward a specialization within the field of Literature. Often, programs are designed to offer students a range of coursework for the first two years with the expectation that stu­ dents will articulate a concentration in accordance with their own interests. Graduating Ph.D. students are qualified to teach at a university level. At this time, Ph.D. programs average 7-l0 years. The Master of Fine Arts requires between 2 and 3 years of study, though depending on the university (as with all the degrees discussed), this may vary slightly. The M.F.A’s primary distinction from both the M.A. and Ph.D. is the design of coursework. M.F.A. students apply postgraduate time and energy into advancing a particular art. Many writing-track Eng­ lish students enter into an M.F.A. program to continue with creating writing training, often in non-fiction, fiction, or poetry. Graduating M.b.A. students are eligible for placement in an array of creative writing positions which include: teaching crea­ tive writing, editing, research positions, publishing positions, as well as independent and/or freelance writing. Equip yourself with as much information about prospective programs by online research for each school you are considering. Universities often have slightly varied programs depending on w here their departmental strengths and ideals he. Use every resource available to discover w hich program best suits your needs including asking your current professors or advisors, sharing stories with classmates that have since entered graduate coursework, or certainly do not hesitate to call or visit potential schools directly to help with your decision. Senior Spodight-Alicia Lewis BV English major, is exctal Io fmahy te a teacher. *1 erm- 1 ”ity ™she mvn classroom' ” she But there are “definitely dungs at Wilta• UniX will miss when shesays. graduates in May. I chose Wilkes because it ivas close to home and because of tlie smaller class sizes...I will miss the professors and die friends tliat I have made” she explains. . . From Wilkes-Barre, Lewis is a secondary education minor currently com­ pleting her student teaching this semester. On campus, she is involved in Sigma Tau Delta, tlie English Honor Society, and the Education Club. But that is not all she does when she is not in class. r When she is not at school, Lewis also coaches die Hanover Mini Hawks D I Team cheerleading squad, consisting of 6 year old cheerleaders. Shockingly, this did Photo Courtesy of Alicia Lewis. . ( not contribute to her decision to become a teacher at all! “1 was a cheerleader since I was 3 years old” she says. “This is J something I like to do in my spare time. When she is not student teaching or coaching, Lewis spends time with her daughter, Kaylee. Lewis says that her daughter motivates her to do better in school, as she drinks of her when tilings get stressful. “I had her young and 1 <H(ln/. want her to think that just because something unexpected happens your life has to end” she continues ’Lewis is still work"18 hard her last semester at Wilkes - she was on the Dean’s list during the Fall 2011 semester. When asked about her plans alter graduation, she hopes to get a teacliing job, but she would also like to travel. “I’ve always wanted to go to Italy and lieland she admits, Ever since I was a little girl, I always dreamed of goingto two places. It would be awesome to visit where my ancestors came from.” Another soil she J ‘ 1 11T 7 Inmlish? ing back to school for her Masters at some point. After asking her if she would comeback tc VV f ti er her *0*’ she says she would love to come back to Wilkes if she still lives in tlie area k W1 kes tO U1 d The biggest and possibly most important question of the interview? r »r? 0*' course, fe, is a diffieul, one. ‘1 cruft just pick one!' she exclai„,s, n fr^lX'n"’" “ The Inkwell Travel Joui By Annie Yosk Very soc Students. Even ti many tilings that London. We sta describe the bote couldn’t find a w What 11 almost feel it. Pe< er truly understai rounded walls, m we got to visit ma English Major H< manuscripts, and ies oiJane Eyre a display, as well as literature mid writ novel. The Obi well as where diet Prime Meridian,' Circus. Picture N< very tall buildings. The histo that have been sta everywhere, the A thing that always s conies to tourists. London ii walls built around Olympic medals,; and beaut}- everyw Senior SpotL By Gabby Zavvac If you’ve e wonder no more.] interview, he share ture. During hi:is brary. But the reast a good source of in Upon grad gree in Broadcast ( YouTube channel have been challeng es for a job after gr; mation on movies 1 watching monster n mythology, socioloj There are i to laugh, light, and I he leaves behind tin again?” �Issi,v 3 The Inkwell Volume 6 Travel Journal of London titles 'a he e«siOn icier hers in k M.a. hire. stu>teach h all lesign k Eng­ ine by. 5 crea- J are eals isors > call "---------- — Issue 3 By Annie Yoskoski Very soon after die first of die year I went to Lo 1 Students. Even though diis was not my first trip there, I co SeVeral °dlei Wilkes many filings diat I didn’t see on odier trips, and got to renll^ * besL 1 saw so London. We stayed at die Thistle Hotel near Hyde Park ariTFT^^ culture of describe die hotel is charming. For seven days I rode die tuT Oldy vvord to couldn’t find a waiter who would split checks. )e’ the gap, and What I love about London is die history. Walking doc rt almost feel it. People may read about history', but until one ■ ' °le streets> one can er truly understand. Seeing soinediing like the Rose Theat ,eXpeilences dleY "ill nevrounded walls, makes everything seem so real. Because we w ^latcbed roof and we got to visit many museums. By far my' favorite was die Britkk r a °UP °Tf students> English Major Heaven. I got to see die Magna Carta, die Gutenber^Bih^^ , manuscripts, and then the more modern things. I was able to see elf /' 1 umuiated ies of>,e areimil Pride display, as well as original Beaties lyrics. In one room of this museum 1 coXee Low 1 era m e and wi tUng had progressed over lune into what we now consider the modem Photo Courtesy of Annie Yoskoski The Olympics will be held in Umdon in 2012, and I got to see the me,lais that d.ev will give out to the winners as ell as where they are renovanng a new stadium. Countdown clocks where evepwhere. even in d e obsenatore Z 1 nme Mer d.an where you can stand m two hemispheres at once. I think one of the most exciting places was Piccadilly Circus. I icluie New York Cuy but a bit cleaner Hotels, shops, and reslaumnts all connected in what the British consider very tall buildings. Piccadilly' will most likely be one of the busiest places when die Olympics hit. The historic buildings of London are beautiful. Riding die London Eye, one can see die gilded tops of buildings that have been standing tall and pioud loi ages. London is iconic, and lives up to its reputation. Double-decker buses are everywhei e, the Aldwych Theatre is ieally' as stunning as it is portrayed to be, and diey really’ do serve tea all die time. One thing that always surprises me is die people. Compared to New York City', the people of London are much nicer when it comes to tourists. London is one of the only cities in the world where you can find the newest and most innovative things inside die walls built around die city by the ancient Romans. I wandered the higher end shops and Apple stores, saw Cleopatra, Olympic medals, and of course books. My experience London is a perfect mix: die new and the old, history and the future, and beauty everywhere. I Senior Spotlight—Jeff Ford J sjust ;r n’t rking ese G«p-ee, Of By Gabby Zavvacki If you’ve ever wondered who that crazy hobo wandering m ound Kirby Hall is, wonder no more. Jeff Ford, an English major, will be graduating this year. In a recent interview, he shared some thoughts about his time al Wilkes and his plans lot the fu­ ture. i r i During his time here at Wilkes, Ford has really enjoyed using the Parley Library. But the reason might not be for the one you think. While he sees te i nary as a good source of information, he is really in it for the snack machines. Upon graduation, Ford hopes to be getting some use out of his associate s c gree in Broadcast Conununications. He is currently working wit i a nene on a YouTube channel featuring animated videos and reviews. While die have been challenging, he is hoping to get the project up ant Ford enjoys reading and researcliing infores for a job after graduation. When he’s not working on his pal’dcuiarly interesting to him. He also enjoys mation on movies from yesteryear. The stories diat inspne le i tT,nvies often merge into his other interests of watching monster movies, Mers, westerns, and mar tial ai ts films. These mythology', sociology, and history'. ... , . There are many filings diat Ford will miss about W i es, to laugh, fight, and laugh some more widi the Manuscript group " he leaves behind the memory' of try ing to walk into Kn y a again?” die dljng he will miss die most is die people. Getting somedljng that he truly misses. As for Ford’s legacy, someone yelling “Who let diat crazy hobo in here ___ ____________________________ 9 �The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 3 The Descendents'. A Review By Tony Thomas . . oj- seeing an attraction in dieater and I don’t go to the movies often any more. Part of die reason is the using c sii(Jier out of their homes to act self­ die oilier part is that I have become sick and tired of dealing widi ignoiant peop e inovie that I have seen ish, talking and texting away during die mode. The Descendents was, per laps, on fof., weeks j in a dieater in die past year. The theater was suqiassingly packed, considenng also, without a doubt, the youngest person in the audience. fcw .iu„u,ds .U1(J st;uTe(1 Geoige I did not know much about die film going in. I heard it was good, knew Clooney as Matt King. Usually I don’t see many movies blind to many details about the him. I also Ji at die film was based off of Kaui Hart Hemmings’s novel until die credits rolled. .... The Descendents is one of die most beautiful films I have seen in quite some tune. 1 he cinei < g< Ip J captures die beauty of the Hawaiian Islands without being indulgent or exploitative of the scenery, ie i m is success u is s lowing how Hawaii actually is. A state where incredible beauty is interrupted by modem urbanization. ie i m c oes no s low Hawaii as diis mydiic land of beauty and native desire, instead it shows a state w here the people are just as complex as the locales around diem. George Clooney delivers an impressive performance that is bodi humorous and touc nng widiout eidier becoming overbearing. Shailene Woodley was also surprisingly good as Clooney s daughtei. What makes The Descendants a great film, as opposed to a good film, is the nuances of post colonialism diat weave diroughout. George Clooney and his family are descendants of an American businessman who was part ol Hawaii’s colonization and a member of Hawaiian royalty. The main subplot is how' Matt King, die sole trustee of a family trust com­ prising of 2.5,000 acres of untouched land, will decide on what to do with it. Most ol his family is tempted by the large mon­ ey being offered by a corporate interest to turn the land into a resort area. The family’s debate over w hat to do widi the land touches upon a critique of neo-Imperialistic land development. The Descendents succeeds because of the subtleties and nuances widiin. The postcolonial critique is not preachy, instead die critique is more of an imitation to die viewer to engage in a consideration of die complicated state of postcolo­ nial affairs in die present day. The film is much more dian a family coping widi family tragedy, it is about a nation of people dealing widi die lingering tragedy of colonialism. The Vagina Monologues By Jason Neare February 12th and 13di were die nights to leave the Dickens at home and celebrate die fight against domestic vio­ lence with Eve Easier’s The Vagina Monologues. The weekend, prior to Valentines Day, was filled with skits by students, professors, and faculty diat help raise awareness against die atrocities diat are performed 1 ‘ against women around the globe. For those diat may not be familiar, Die Vagina Monologues mixes personal accounts of oppressed . . ----- 1 women around the world along widi comical skits about women that want die liberty to use tt’ ie vagina in whichever way seen suitable, including sexual liberation. The different acts demonstrated diat a woman does not need to be governed by a patriarchal society to enjoy life. The Vagina Monologues is not designated solely for women. Skits were crafted in a manner diat would draw' on die emotions of any audience member, male or female. Drawing in a large crowd of bodi the Wilkes and surrounding communities, die night was designed to enlight­ en the audience on the horrors of domestic violence, whedier right in our community or half-way around die world. Many moments were also reserved for the audience to share a laugh and become active widi gioups in die community. As part of die festivities, Dr. Mary McManus and Dr. Marie Roke-Thomas were awarded widi the Vagina Warrior awards for dieir service in die community widi raising awareness on women and women’s rights. -----------Sponsored by Wilkes University and Dr. Mischelle Anthony I Photo Ci gurtesy of Jason Neare die V-Day Celebrations are a means of raising awareness about domestic vi 1 ey raised. Organizations and clubs were in attendance to show support such advocating change dirough die monResource Center, Gay/ Straight Alliance, and Manuscript. To this date V Dav jD°mestlc Violence Senice Center, Victim’s advocacy programs, supporting international education, creating advocacy mShl °Ver Flfl* "^011 dollars for use in PreSSed W°men' bud(11^ Alters, and safe houses for oty The Iiik^eU AlternatS-Sl^ ideas, alld get parts of Costa1 1 Apart _laVS to relax ai popular a“1,ct presence of gduinerbefoie many repbed tl of study. Alten of meetings, fu urge anyone wl friends, and a < Miller two weeks will die tourism inc contact liim du Let Childi By Leanna R< The S< Children, Lewi black and whiti images depict < newspaper sell, ing poor clotlii them a surprisi faces of die chi die prime obje Accon ologist who wa: no rights, such unlavrful and a] would go to mi °f these establi taking pictures y he finally cat harsh treatnien child labor law: Hine’s century and sti] ^congruent By David Coc ;:?ki mode niutati. ’th d,e ’ «iulo,„ S!»> �Issue 3 The __________________ Spring Break Continued from page 1 ,Uleaterand ,at 1 have see '^•Iwas red George low that the aPhy captures u is showing not show nplex as die ng without lism that t ol Hawaii’s ilv b ust com­ be large nion> widi the not preachy, of postcoloion of people iniestic vio>y students, 1 die globe, •und die lie, including 1 'er before heading to the airport die next day. While ask n °ne restauraH q 7^’30(1 beW the JuiY replied that they were able to interact with students that H what the mJ? J°Se’ Grano de Oro’ to eat ‘ u(ly. Alternative Spring Break brings die Wilkes com™ may have never met If enj]°yable Part of the bap, meetings, fundraising, class time, and die trip. After mv C1°Ser> esPreially the Co^D -° different discourses ° ffe anyone who is considering applying and vet hesitant to I?rsonal exPerience with Alt R‘Ca.trip’ through die months gTand a completely new set ofgoals o„ ^hat ! F* '.T0"1*1 Miller will be ntnmng a SUm.»er class to Costa Kca^XV't* “ to, weeks mil be m-class rime preparingstudents o„ eeotourism fc tourism industry. Formore mformattoti contract Dr. Andy Miller aS? contact him dunng his olhee hours on die tiiird door of Breiseth. is a “»> '«ks. The „Z del Coco >° *«*» address: “drew.miUerl@wilkes.edu or Let Children Be Children By Lemina Rolon The Sordoni Art Gallery is hosting a new exhibit called “Let Children Be Children, Lewis Wickes Hine’s Crusade Against Child Labor”. This exhibit feature' :s black and white photographs ol young children in the 20th century work force These images depict children of various ages working in a variety of different places. From newspaper sellers to shoe shiners to mine workers, diese children are all shown wear­ ing poor clothing and dirty faces. The black and white quality of the pictures gives * them a surprising, but desired impact. They make the viewer focus on the work worn faces of the children first mid the backgrounds second, provoking emotion, which was the prime objective of photographer Lewis Wickes Hine. According to the pamphlet in the art gallery, Lewis Wickes Hine was a soci­ ologist who was deeply concerned for those groups in the work force that had little to Photo Courtesy of Brittany Kramer no rights, such as children mid immigrants. The National Child Labor Committee hired him in 1908 to take pictures of the unlawful and almost abusive conditions that the poor working class men, women, and children were subjected to. He would go to mines, canneries, cotton mills, fauns and sweat shops; taking pictures of the conditions there. Once the owners ol these establishments caught on to what he was doing, they refused to let him in. He then took to dressing in disguise and taking pictures in secret. He did this for 10 years; taking picture alter picture ol these terrible working conditions. Eventual­ ly he finally caught the attention of die government. In 1938 the government made child labor laws that piohibited the harsh treatment of children in the workforce and made children unable to work until a specific age. He was able to see the AM labor laws in effect for two years until he died to1940. Hine s photography made a great impact on laboi laws m u rentuiy mid still has influence today. a 2(). ________________________________ Congruence in Structure, Plot, and Poetic Voice Or How American Poetry Dies: A Bnef Essay rh the mon­ ter, Victim’s rs for use in ises for oj>" By David Cook bilities for poetry, and to suggest a poetic ‘model’ My goal, here, is not to suggest or promote a formalist sen . -s a Uvin& breathing organism and 'V°.1 Im- exceed not only the scope of this text, but the scope ot tnc fo achieve> dien> is a mode by which to idem ??.ngle niO(leI ran reflect the diverse species of verse. V iatj stocb. • )ad mutations,’ and in doing so, prevent dieir nitei)iee . pjot On Structure and riot plot. A poem cannot be read i,, , . The principle Mure in tai verse rs, quite simply.»and then, in a secorf * the pl|ot'“,ui<lc,'''llal’1'' layers_“ne clT?t firSt ■"u“ti*wo must be 'dendfcd‘X pirim7iled.’wliile this should go thieve th * St°°’ °f teXt d e *u 'i'° tiiv When diere is dissonance, as this serves a unique, "ithout s-iid^T S°:?; the StfUCtUre mUSt ^fen-ing to die creation of intend < ■ | Continued on page 12... identic ' ng’111 ^se statements, am not referring _________ L ^‘hle purpose vv-dlin a text> ------------------- ------------------------- �Issue 3 _______________________________ Volume 6 frotn Fall Sabb^ Issue 3 ^Refreshed, ” “calm,” and “renewed” were just a f is. Yusef ie Boston lemes, and ?s, Duffy’s jies, to die ? Library on nnor. The compiled, ze, affiliated listed novels ig written to die Chair on March 2, •’s celehraZac Efron, ^SSSttSS^: ‘7lescriPtors hte since ^’e lc-ulguage sabbatical fOr eve°e v first sabbatical, taken during die fall semester of 201? fr< Xxr ” •°ni m’l es Dr. Anthony secured a giant to study abroad as wel t Working with Sd States, splitting her research-designated time between U 1 the ” ' Whin Mischelle Anthony-1 1,111 The research Dr. Anthony composed dealt with die 1«? lon ' ®<lH>iladdZ -^aetphia-----------------------nlllarity of the punctuation mark by audiors of die period Usa8e of the dash M Si Researching Fielding’s text revealed die dismissal of die Fielding *n die °Sing fo^ tire eariiest edition of 77/e 4c/rez?ftmes o/pai7y y f P^^^on mark by equent editions the dash disappeared and was replaced with altenXnuiT marked wth d- dash, but ^su^ Anthony did eel her findings were not as controversial as she had ^ciST"’ dle text fore™ While Dr. notes during her 10 days at die British Library and 10 days at die iSC ’ rep°rted ™ ^credible amount of pects, mil keep her engaged m the discussion for some time to come mpany of Philadelphia. Her notes, she exNot only was her time away from the halls of Wilkes University thony filled her remaining time with experiences she had neglected with 1* -T116 °P1X)rtun^’to Pursue research, Dr. Ansabbatical was the first rest she has taken since she began her academic <->’?»-US' a.Cademic schedule- She shared that tins like cleaning her house, and going out for coffee. Dr. Anthony reinvested vnliinT *enjoyed ^*"8 time with normal tasks Center, an involvement which has been particularly meaningful fo, her * * D°mesdc VioknCe Time away from campus was absorbed by creative ventures as well. Her talents in poetry earned Iter the honor of Best Ural Author ol Luzerne County in Diamond City Magazine with her recently published volume of poetry entitled Ibnel. This award gave her recogtubon and her sabbaucal gave her the time and opportunity to share her poetry with ode ers. Over the last six months, Dr. Anthony was invited to give several poetry readings, some local and two out of state in Maryland. Di. Anthon} i cpoi ted each being memoiable ior some reason, including Quiet, codec shops, a huge celebration tent on the side of a mountain, and even birthday reading at the Paper Kite Press on Main St. in Edwardsville. Now that Dr. Anthony has returned to her office in Kirby Hall, she says her time away has made her calmer about her work. The sabbatical has brought her, along with creative recognition and academic progress, a health perspective on her role as a professor. “I just fell right back in, refreshed,” she smiled. She has set a personal summer deadline to advance more of her research, and will, most certainly, take the opportunit}- to utilize a sabbatical again in the future. David Cook’s Conference Experience By Tony Thomas . The plane ride from Wilkes-Ban e to Newark was hellish. Turbulence rocked the plane. David Cook mid Dr. Marcia Farrell hoped that this was not foreshadowing a miserable journey to Louisville for the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture. Thankfully, the brief plane ride was not prophetic. lc Lagmented post-imperial moment. I-isl spring huiell l.uig i a and bis paper lor cIass- n„„| p,.(,jel.t is what got hint (prence Farrell suggested that he write an abstract ‘«'innovative'. isition into is a singular iU,tl submit it to the Conference. Site felt that his paper on Rus K1" Wlien he found out that he was accepted into die colllerent’e opportunit}; “For an undergrad to get into a conference like this is ve y Ptobablysvas the only undergrad there. .All the oilier students we e m , The panel that Farrell and David were on was mArabw£ h« " »> ® of the pancl „.ere a professor ..„ld , PhD candidate The Pl^ enhance it. ie speaker, tion of the ture should tanza, Paa*"''’T,1 ists-1,11 " hite AmcriranS’ "ere 50 d<ta" tefeve dial he "® iust an “'“^itorai Louisville. One night - s and those who attended that session couldn , nnDOrtumty to explo known to frefnier th L<’ok and Farrell stayed at the Brown Hotel ai the bt *ne('d dle S^Bach Hotel, one of "as “j? ^le S^Bach and his notorious n page 14... felt ;iniazed and was incredibly excited for the „ FarreU said. Cook commented that he, , or on docttoral diesis. g w Thc oth „ „ from i„dlaand commenthow c k , presentation, the other �0C Issue 2 Volume 6 The Inkwell Count Kadjeski ByJ°n Many^ Senior Spotlight—Marwa Altamimi By Kendra Kuhar ation As ;in English major studyMarwa Altamimi, a senior at Wilkes University, has a promising plan after grat ua yyykes. When asked how ing abroad from Jubail, Saudi Arabia, Maxwa has had a fulfilling and meaningful experience <■ we||, has Marwa feels Wilkes has prepared her for life after college, she stated, “Being at Wilkes I nl'^ze(| ,ul(j appreciated the taught me a lot, at die beginning I learned the hard way to be independent. Howevei, I ye re iz * commented sense of accomplishment, and to be honest it’s rewarding especially when you are studying < • on the fact that she will graduate from Wilkes: “I consider myself the luckiest for graduating horn University; I (q-eat have acquired valuable skills and I have met people who have supported me to practice, to m< „„ * ___ about collecting diem. Witii that attitude, I am ready to move forward with my studies and life as well.” Additionally, keeping that kindoflifeMaiwa feels that she developed intellectually and has learned to live productively; she intends on style. Marwa said diat while she will miss Wilkes University as a whole, she will miss Kirby Hall, and the sponbuieous flickering of die lights in die building the most because it marks the beginning of her journey. In Kilby Hall, sometimes die lights go oil for less dian a second, and al ter that my classmates and I will glance at each odier to make suie that it was die light, not a blink of an eye.” Now that Maiwa is nearing die end of her journey, her summer will include celebrating her newfound accomplish­ ments with her family and friends in Saudi Arabia. She is currentiy looking at graduate schools with the intentions to har­ dier her studies in English because it is the focus of her career future. “If I had to compare my two years and Wilkes, I would say it was the blink of an eye (or light) and since the beginning of this semester, I’m hoping that I have glanced enough to keep the pleasant memories alive. I know it is not enough, and it never will be, but tiianks to everyone who helped me to stand where I am today! I’ve had the two most productive years of my life.” Incongruence in Structure, Plot, and Poetic Voice... Continued from page 12... Of course, one could argue that the control of die line is the narrator’s way of expressing a sense of bodily control but given die nature of die individual lines diemselves, such an argument w ould be flaw ed. The lines do not have a shared’ meter, nor does die meter move from stanza to stanza in an identifiable pattern. Thus, the structure simply is. It does notiiing to enhance the poem and leaves one to wonder why die poem was given its structure at all. When die plot of a poem works with die structure, however, sometiiing magical is bom, as is die • • ’ C Cullen’s Incident: ’ • m on ee Incident Contee Cullen Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit higger, And so I smiled, hut he poked out His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.' I saw’ die whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all die tilings diat happened thene That s all diat I remember. This poem reflects on die experience the narrator had as a youdi, and in thi fulness. The end rhymes betw een die second and fourdi line of each stanza ton t- S CTe’ structure refle tn ■ lul way, which works in a beautiful contrast vridi die action in die poem. This int ^lePOem moving fo youdl‘ slow down, examine the incident, and engage seriously in the deep-seeded racisn nU°na^ dissonance forces a P^ly’ country. Without die chosen structure, the poem would affect the reader significant^111 *lt different times eade? t() yVilkes t versitY ’ Northeast Pennsy sa"' ~ --.nearcanipw buildingJoseph 8 Hitch' j when it was Zcadetny-Tlteearh^ Ba.reandKinS510"', rniug Valley "as scttl' pendence. The Chur, Presbyterian church terhout, the Osterho board of directors, r< Franklin Streets, in z National Presbyteria As the weatl a book on its histori die Luzerne Count} American inhabitan County and shaped Mushroom a By Dr. Marcia K. Sometime} to cook usually stai and cupboard befc room soup, so I de of you foodies. 3 cups ch< 1 cup mix 5 shallots, 4 cloves g 5 Tbsp, c1 2 carrots, 2 Tbsp, c f tsp- gar] 1 cup Frt 2 Tbsp. \ 2 tsP- sea 2 cans ve 5 cups w f can coi f ‘/a cups 1 tsp. gr< to asfA Chol>;dl UP pot. c Add tij Add the le garani i �Issue 2 'flic fiik»eU__________________ Volume 6 tuzeme County History gv Jon Kadjeski Many of Wilkes University’s classroom and admi • study1 how [, has die lented y;i great y. oflife- eous times : it was bU Issue 2 • near campus open up to tours enjoS: toXd X8 eCOn(W- As Joseph Hitchcock designed multiple buildings^fT'? ' 311 W^es, historical Old Ship Zion. Early setders to the Wyoming Valley were mairiyAments, including die church byterians. Hie Presbyterian congregation m Wilkes-Barre traces iuXme?’CoWtionalists and Scotch Pres­ et Missionary Society s small-town preacliing. In 1791 die sendees wTl 11 e *ate 1760s :ind dle original Connecti­ on it was occupied by the Luzerne Count)' Public Academy die me I r then new log COUIt house until 1801 Academv. The earliest church records bear die date July 1 1803 -u d °f dle currendy operating Wilkes-Barre Bane and Kingston. For several decades the Church' was ministered iX? c,hurch’s name as the Church of Wilkes- implisho hir­ es, I id ho terhout, the Ostei hout Libian. In 1887 Melvd Dewey, the creator ol die Dewey decimal system and mi advisor for the tart ofdirectors, reeonimenried that the board purchase the Red Brick Church, recently vacated by dr'e First Presbyterian Chuirh. The Fu st 1 resbytenan Church moved mto its present location in the 1890s, on the corner of Northampton Ll Franklin Streets, in a building designed by die same architectural firm that designed the Metropolitan Opera House and National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. As the weather warms, take a walk north from Wilkes’s campus. Visit the First Presbyterian Church and checkout a book on its historic organs at the Osterhout library. Continue milking down toward the square, stop next door and visit the Luzerne County Historical Society Museum. The building, built in 1893, contains a permanent exhibit on die Native American inhabitants of the area and a permanent exhibit on the anthracite mining industry' that once dominated Luzerne County and shaped our campus. control, shared Mushroom and Rice Soup with Rosemary n was ontee By Dr. Marcia K. Farrell Sometimes the best recipes come from tossing food in a pan and adding a lew herbs and spices. My lavonte times 111 cook usually start with a vague idea of what I would like: pizza, an omelet, soup... and Ijusl start to rummage in the lug and cupboard before taking a lew small risks with flavor combinations. One day last autumn 11^^‘> room soup, so 1 decided to experiment a little in the kitchen, and I liked the result so well that 1 decided .<> share .1 wuh all ol you foodies. is youthii a play­ tier to this age 18... 5 shallots, chopped 4 cloves garlic, chopped >5 Tbsp, chopped fresh rosemary 2 carrots, peeled and finely chopped 2 Tbsp, olive oil 1 tsp. garlic and basil Perfect Pinch spice blend white cooking 'vine 1 cup French chardonnay (I prefer Fat Bastai 21 bsp. vegetable base 2 tsp. sea salt 2 cans vegetable broth 5 cups water of mushroom soup (optional) 1 can condensed cream 1 ‘/2 cups wild rice sea siialt, the garlic and basil, oil, and wine 1 tsp. ground garam masala . roSeniary. cup e ’ ... ,)ver low heat for about two hours, from heat and serve. ,ade croutons. _ ----- J astes great with a side of sharp cheddab— �The J Issue 2 The Inkwell Volume 6 The plish The Prismatic Portal of the Professor, Part 3 ..... M)nths,” said Dave, “yet it “God, it feels like we’ve been staring at each odier, kinda stuck in limbo for like t nee i doesn’t feel like time’s moved at all.” occasionally freezes, here, “Well,” said Al as he worked a series of levers, ropes, contraptions, “that s because (ierkOI1jg which is the oldusually right about the time you would expect to see a resolution—it’s called the Cliffhaugenc unc e speak for—“ “Anyway,” said Al ignoring die time fluctuations “we will be entering the Dangeious Deceitful Da; have open nion state' son- of Horatio Huffnagel soon. Expect some unwanted company from his air force. for both his air space mid his lor“Really,” said Annie, “This guy, or whatever, has a long, foreboding but comical name tress, but his air force is just called...mi airforce?” B , ... > ct..K;i;zei-s!” Before Al could miswer, a gust of wind sent Al’s living device tumbling through the skies, ta i zees. Al yelled in a way which cannot in any vv'ay resemble the voice of the Trade Federation Viceioy Ironi k tai As die ship began to right itself, Al, looking at Annie with smugness almost incomprehensible sai , ia, mv eai, is the air force—it is not a thing, but a force, of air, from Huggnagel’s dragon H.R. Pufnstul, which leniinc s me, t lings aie glow then Thai gonna’ get rough. Come on everybody, man Foodooleizers.” The merry band of heroes, surprisingly, all manned a cannon—which of course looked nothing like a cannon, whic which makes it quite surprising diat they manned diem at all, yet they did. “When you see die sky suck backwards, that’s when the dragon is going to shoot out more air force, that s when we fire, it will accelerate the Zoozle to a maximum velocity which will incapacitate die dragon long enough lor me to dr op you outside the fortiess.” “Wait, wait, you mean land andjoin us as we go into the fortress, right?” said Tony vvidi a nervous laugh. “What do I look like, a Krecdiizalaibrieridielal?” “Yes?” said Tony in mi attempt to bring Al along. “Exacdy! And Krecliizalaibrieridielal cannot enter dark places which were once light—you must reclaim this for­ tress mid dien I crni pass beyond, as die shadows fall, mid the light descends upon the ground, then safety I shall have found for both you mid me, as does travel the Bee—Gah, I hate when I get stuck in rhyme patterns, it’s anodier part of the curse of darkness, if we enter it we lose our intelligence and simply rhyme in tim—id timidity'. Please, make me speak no more for now. Just fire as I told you.” The heroes did, mid die dragon, which looked a little bit too much like a boat, was defeated. Al dien landed die heroes, in silence, outside of die fortress. “Well, now that diat’s over, all we have to do is, what, cross diis moat mid sneak into the casde—which has a gate which resembles die gate of Mordor, but isn’t, of course,” said Tony in a rather matter-of-fact tone. “Seems about right,” said Jamie, who everyone forgot was even there. “Let’s just swim across, it’s only like 20 feet.” With that Jamie jumped into the water and began to swim. Before she could get five feet however, a giant shark moved in on her and began ripping her limb from limb. “Now’s our chance,” said Dave, “Let’s go!” “But, shouldn’t we sav—Ihow do you know there’s only one shark?” “Because Huffnagel’s a low level villain, come on, before the shark’s finished her off.” The group jumped into the water, a few feet downstream and safely swam to the other side, where th ■ ■ ed with die unpleasant reality of their circumstances. Standing in front of diem was a black fortress which t 7 r 7^" the clouds, so high, in fact, diat it appeared to eclipse die sun, as no light shown down dirough die skv T1 - - - —V 7 int° though, in die form of 1000 glowing eyes, glowing 1000 different shades of red, which appeared to be is 117 7 " ,S ' fortress as die mortar mid stone. In the silent moments, too, when the group was not speaking, there w'q the noise silence makes in dark rooms mid shadows, in moments when sound, any sound, would provide7 n?ISe— roared like an oppressive Blunder until nobody could muster die courage to speak miodier sound < C 1O^)e’,UK^ The group stood in silence, gazing widi lamenting eyes, what lay ahead of diem, until Tonv I 1 silence more dimi miytiiing in die known universe, clapped his hands mid laughed in diat way onlv 1’ rigid hmid clap, mid die diree part scale of laughter, Ha ha ha, in a ‘la ti do’ fashion. Moments later S^ort’ sound, a loud rumbling heard over a low moan, it was a sound so great that die earth itself seenie 11 'T 7 " ‘Ulo^ler the large black gate which closely resembled die gate of Mordor, (but wasn’t) swung open. °S e’,UK^ SU(blenly “Jesus Tony,” said Dave, “You just made diis a whole hell of a lot easier.” “Right,” Tony murmured, not quite yet appreciative of die magnitude of his acconi[Continued on page 17.., | 16 simp dor, sere; to a exist mid proi fight they grea and mg con niu; Tza ing the �The Inkwell Issue 2 v°lunie 6 jj^Sc Portal... Continued from page 16^ -e, “yet it nlishment. 1 “So, we’re just going to march right in there now ar ezes, here, s die old- opened tlre^o lire Air Space his forabilizers!” , my dear, hings are nnon, t’s when we i drop you i tliis for1 have part of the speak no nas a gate Issue 2 > OBWOUS^^^ money ,n a fancy witchcraft based home security system if you are L? " . 'n<M'1 mean">« »“ “ of stated Dave with a level of confidence which far overreached what Z Z S laVe guard (logs 111 the r<wd anyway,” 1 the SltUatlOn ever «>uld afford to a less ridiculous per- “Fine,” said Annie quite begrudgingly, “let’s just freakin’go ” With dial the group walked through die fortress gates and into the m.; glowed fuchsia in die moonlight. There were countless corridors <™ttr . i coinpound-:U1 obsidian casde which them all would take our heroes far beyond dieir mortal lives. C ” tOnSI uent y’ so many ’n dlct> diat to explore Thankfully, diough, as if by an act of fate, our heroes heard a loud scream bellow from one of die several, many halls. “That sounded like Dr. Farrell” exclaimed Tony. -Well then, all we have to do is trace the echo, and we will find her, no doubt," said Dave, stroking his beard, which had conveniently grown long, like the beard of a professor from die 19,50s. The group, which by now had stopped questioning Dave’s version of logic, as to prevent long drawn out debates, simply nodded and began to walk down the longest corridor of them all, or at least, diey assumed to be the longest corri­ dor, given dieir genend lack of exploring the others. “God this is a long corridor,” Annie panted, out of breath from the apparent miles tliey had traveled following die scream. Thankf ully, as she uttered those words, the corridor ended, revealing a massive coliseum. In die middle, chained to a chair, was Dr. Farrell, screaming like a maniac. Surrounding her were hideous beasts with eight amis and seven legs. “There’s something strange about these things,” said Tony, “And no, it isn’t die whole arms and legs tiling, it’s their existence, it, it’s like tliey don’t really exist, I mean, I see them, but I can’t understand why diey are there. They are diem, and diey are what it is.” “Tony, that’s it!” exclaimed Dave, “they are the dangling modifiers; Dr. Farrell’s greatest fear, you know, vague pronouns. We need to rescue her before they break her will to live. “And, just how exactly are we supposed to do tliat, Annie asked ihetoiicalii. “Really Annie? Haven’t you learned yet, I already have the answer,” said Dave in his most pompous tone We * feu by .Ling them. You can't be vague if you are ide.rtif.ed, » si"''“ they approach, call them by a real name. if you caul drink of one, just remember 77,e N^gofaL-. ike 20 mt shark were greet:led far into •as light a part of the ible noise— , and it g’eat ones m there.” i diem and widi every Penelope, Mugtuk, Razillion, Sure enough, die group called the danglingino(llllcI s ‘ . st;UK’ling i„ our heroes’ way. Uld Bob, they vanished into tine nothingness. Soon, theie w< Until, of course, there was something standing m d*n ed “What—who, is diat that blocking us from Dr. Farr “It is I, Horatio Huffnagel, mid you, who are you? Huffnagel, his long dark cape and black mask cover“My name’s—“ Tony began to speak, but was interrupted bj n ,US his principle features. ' . t vou vvill be is dead!” Huffnagel proclaimed, with a self“It was rhetorical! I don’t care who you are, because w c°ngratulatoryair. . , , ,like rhetorical questions?” said Dave as bidngly as lie could “You think you’re clever, don’t you, Huff-how’ < o .1 o n page 17... . , js going to work? inquired 1 ony. “Before this goes on too long can we just establish how us of . -Fine, here is h„X balde"rill go. I will fight one each ship you sink, your opponent loses a Irmb, start- blister. T. awkward the short, mother d suddenly arc . "a" ine Kah’Mahyge, or as vou outsiders would sax, rr tliis challenge. •» tire anus, far tire feel, then the head. So, who rs upJo not ,11 .ha good. good, but because he noticed, in Tve got tliis,” said Tony, almost sunrnstng.^V^ssarily because he was t di i ^ludl is however, Tony was brillimit at at e s » opponent’s boar • Mmet of Huffnagel, a mirrored glare which revealed to °l 17 _ Continued on page 18... �7 Issue 2 The Inkwell Volume 6 The Prismatic Portal- Continued from page 17... Tony lead off with a miss, just to ensure diat Huffnagel would not suspect cjever ruse afoot. Huffnagel, howev- er, landed a hit, and a small, yet deep cut emerged on Tony’s right arm. “Damn diat hurts!” Tony screamed. This time Tony landed his m< • use(| jn .^un on the one he hit, and Unfortunately for Tony, Huffnagel, instead of searching for other s nj ■, did, in fact, sink the patrol boat resulting in die dismembering of Toni s c iai dead yet”, and landed anothei Tony, however would not be deterred, and in a confident i oice scieamc ■ ■ r tn face red peg after red peg. Soon, Hulfhit Huffnagel continued to miss die rest of Tony’s ships, while continuing impounded by his inability to mark nagel was armless; then a footless stump, shouting miss after miss—his inaccuiaci cc where he had already fired. «H11fTnlgel for centuries, I assume, you have After a grueling bloodletting, Tony was ready to lire his Imai shot. Hunnage , one ;uined) I suggest left diis kingdom in blood and darkness, I have no desire to continue this lieiu , even as peace. Simply release Dr. Farrell, and allow this land to return to light.” i-io-hts of the room, and soon a very After diese words, a great laugh and applause echoed down from the daikes „ traVeler in many old, small man with a tinfoil hat and large, rose colored glasses appeared before the n. Xou <u centuries to past the first test of this world—all those before you end up like my Huflnage < ecoj, an But you, good sir, showed mercy, and proved that people are still good and that this land can return to Ugnt. 1, m < Huffnagel, shall release this world and your friend. You have restored my faith in this world, a ait i os cen lies < < King Nixonaquabarrier reigned over this land. He was an evil man, who stole from all of us, blinding us wi i 1g i " ii e claiming that he was ‘not a crook.’ I never meant to keep this place a world of darkness, but I mislead my own spe , anc ensured that only a true hero could break it, and well, I guess it could not have been all that right, sine e you, 1 buy o — wherever, were chosen, I guess half-heroes are good enough. Thank you, dudes and dudettes and may this land again be light and groovy.” With that, Huffnagel disappeared into a ball of odd smelling smoke, Dr. Farrell was heed, and Al was drifting toward them, a smile on his face. Where will our heroes fly to next? Find out in our next installment. Incongruence in Structure, Plot, and Poetic Voice... Continued from page 14... The principle difference, then, between the Rita Dove and Contee Cullen poem lay in the application of structure. Both of the authors’ narrators are able to furnish a home well, but Cullen’s narrator is able to build the house so that die furnishings can define the room. On Poetic Voice "A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it going to sleep”-Salman Rushdie. Consider, for a moment, the weight of the poet’s enterprise. Ponder, in earnest over die enormitv of the task to construct, as a newborn staggering out of a cave for the first time, an identity and voice-nnt fXrir i . r people, a culture; this is the role of the poet. It is a heavy burden, no doubt one which m uiv wonl 1^ t a.natl°n’ but you, as a poet have agreed to this challenge, as this is the poet’s doctrine, one would ? . 7 undertake’ own client, nor would a doctor take the oath if the desire was to murder patients and • ^t^ C **" l° conv’cl ^ie'r die desire is not to uphold the poetic doctrine . Poetry is, like law and medicine a nr f 1 ‘S’ should not write il and fail is to glow and learn, but to violate the code, to blatantly ignore the ultimate jo"^ned "^dl arl’and to "T’tc license revocation without future considerations. °e c 1)U1 P°sc~tlxat is an act worthy of We, as critics or writers of poetry, must ask ourselves “does die poem con h to a structure, and is diat argument valid or are die words hollow and meaningle -'i” u U1 arg?ment ’n relation in relation meaning must be judged not by how the poem affected you, but how its meaning w ’ll11! ' Special note to the writer, here, the difficulty of making this judgment, die following are examples of what I would"] . Iece,ved l)y dle audience.) Noting the ultimate goals of die practice. (eem poems which do not adhere to Longing Matthew Arnold Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again' For so die night will more d, than pay ______________________________________ The hopeless longingof th< ae day. 18 ' Continued on page 19... �Issue 2 ^elnhveH Volume 6 ^congruence in Structure, Plot, mid Poetic Voire el, howev- iit, and Issue 2 C°A th°“ Ca“'S‘’ dlous»<l times A messenger from radiant dimes S„d r'asTOritodme! '^ ■ kindn.to,hy odrers d another n, Huff­ mark >u have suggest non a very in many eature. e real ago after t while >ell, and y of— rgairr be rifting to­ structure. drat the ld, and task to nation, a ertake, :t their t write if nd to write w'orthy of in relation er, here, ■.) Noting dhere to Or, as thou never cam’st in soodr Come now, and let me dream it tnidr And part my hair, and kiss my brow ’ And say, My love why sufferest tirou? Come to me in my dreams, and dien By day I shall be well again! for so the night will more dian pay The hopeless longing of die day. Hie poem itself is not necessarily a bad text, it maintains its structure, and that structure is reinforced by the speak­ er s attitude and the overall plot of the text. However, die poem fails to achieve anything beyond itself. The words are walled in, and any meaning w hie h may be dei ived is as equally trapped widiin the ancient, but strong walls of love poetry. I he poem does not make you think, it does not make you feel, and it does not encourage you to act, thus die poem says nothing as you leave it unengaged and uninterested from an intellectual perspective. 1 he successful poem, however, engages the reader, and to demonstrate diat any subject can conjure intellectual stimulation, I will juxtapose die previous poem with another love poem. Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about tire shoulders thrown Into a hire distractionArr erring lace, w hich here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacherA cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to how confusedlyA winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoatA careless shoe-str ing, in whose tie I see a wild civility— Do more bewitch me than when ait Is too precise in eveiy part. Herrick’s poem functions in much the same way as of the ideal woman. The reader, by learl In this poem, however, the author constructs a socr co system and is encouraged to question or al J'mshmg the poem, is asked to consider die possibility of civility in a chaotic syst. least -.1 engage in tire commentary die poem opens. n to highlight die point, the intent was stay within While I could have selected anodrer poem, argua J a ) poetry. Notice how' small die mountain is once you 1 same genera, as to demonstr ate the possibility of writing but must w ork tow ards constructing its identity by ’egin to climb; the individual poet need not try to speak or < so (luestioning status and order, by engaging, by under taking CONGRATS! .F irrc|1 for recently being awarded tenure. The iveil Quarterly Staff would like to extend W -g* We're proud and grateful for your nevei-ciu HL [rage 19... 19 �Issue 3 Volume (> The Inkwell Serial Contest Hey there all of you creative writers. Do you have an idea for a story th.it you think is just fantastic? If so, you’re in luck. Inkwell is hosting a Serial Story Contest, t doesn’t matter if you are an Inkwell stall" member or a devoted reader, we would ove to read your ideas. The only thing we ask is that you make sure (hat your stoiy can be sp into five parts. If you have a great idea just send an email to inkwell@wilkes.edu am we may feature the first part of your stoiy in the next issue of Inkwell. We can t wait to hear you’re great ideas. Good luck! Local Events By Tony Thomas , o The Universitv of Scranton will be having their annual spring book sale April 28, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., ant pn , noon-4 pan. The sale will be located on the fifth fl<x>r in the Heritage Room, of the Weinberg Memorial Library. Book pnees o • • start at only $1. a rvrr 1 Wilkes alums Eric Wagner and Rob Bums along with Mike Bums recently opened Maers BBQ Oil the Square. The restaurant features a menu full of barbecue classics such as bbq brisket and ribs. All ol the baibeque is smo e< in house. They are open Tuesday-Thursday 7am-10pm, Friday and Saturday 7am-3am, and Sunday 7am- pm. The 2012 NEPA Rainbow Awards Gala will be held April 28"’ at the Radisson Hotel in Scranton. The event honors outstanding individuals, organizations, and business that make Northeast Pennsylvania a bettei place toi membeis of tire LGBTQ conununity. Tickets can be purchased at http://rainbowawiuils.org. John and Teresa Qin opened Akeno Sushi in downtown Wilkes-Ban e soon. I he restaurant is located in die I Universi­ ty Coiners complex in die space formerly occupied by Bonvie’s Beefy King restaurant. Wilkes University’s Office of Diversity Initiatives and NEPADEC invited Alina Fernandez, the daughter ol Fidel Cas­ tro, to campus to speak about her experiences grow ing up in Cuba. She spoke at Stark Learning Center room 101 on Thursday, March 22nd at 7 pm. Literary Trivia! Answers: aipqsng treiupij,' •()] upjs apiujjag (> uosduioq £ 'S’ aajunpi tnirisj jajiuuaf 7 iniu.iX.ijag uqof •() sqSnojjng ■$ ureqnM T Use the clue to figure out what book or writer it is about. 1. This French philosopher coined the phrase, difference 2. This reclusive American author once guest starred on The Simpsons stating, “Hey, over here, have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But, wait! There's more!” 3. She was die last American to win The Noble Prize in Literature. 93UBJJ ‘|/ 4. What country' has die most Noble Prize winning laureates for literature? uosu-iopv nioj, •£ 5. He killed his second wife in a drunken recreation of the William Tell stoiy. uotpuXj suuioqj, 7, 6. His best-known work of poetry follows the life of a character named Henry'. upujoQ sanbuf •| 7. She most recendy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 8. This Nixon-hating American m iter had his ashes shot from a 153 foot tall cannon during his funeral ceremony. 9. She wrote one of the first coming out stories in 1903. She was a member of the Lost Generation. 10. He has the distinction of winning die most Booker Aw ards with three. Sailman Rushdie Cancels Indian Visit By Tony Thomas Sir Salman Rushdie was set to speak at Jaipur, India’s hu gest litenuy festival until death threats forced him to pull out of the event. Rushdie was informed that assassins hired by the Mumbai underworld were planning an attack on him with die intent ol killing him. Sir Rushdie expressed some doubts over the intelligence, but decided tint the wise choice would lie to not put himself or festival-goers at nsk. Instead, he delivered his speech via a live video feed A few d ivs after receiving the threats, Rushdie now beheves that Rajasthan police lied to him in an attempt to keep front Irin, attending the event. Rushdie attended die 2007 Jaipur festival widiout incident. If Sir Rushdie is correct about being lied to, politics are die likely source of thk r . 1 1 • from the festival. Members of die Muslim community began protesting Rushdie’s pl umed' vi t ? 1° ° P ""i'm' V leadens called on the Indian government to revoke Sir Rushdie’s visa. At th “me I ,. J"PT " ing in India tilth more elections continuing into the spring. Rushdie, no doubt is used •, /’’tv' e ectIO"s."'c,e S1M ' the extremist Muslin, vote. ’ “ USe<‘ "1,,,linral 1”™!»’ PobOCT-m to woo in solidarity*'*1 °f Sil RUSMie’S attelKbnCe ‘lK’"“*' aUt',<,rS "We<l in ooiiudiiiy* 20 read r™>. 77,e Ve.es � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Spring 2012 (Volume 6, Issue 3) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 2012 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/5ae380d61e76fef82b9d5b03c4afb10f.pdf da98a3148e6ec02d8bbd9033e0ee855d PDF Text Text Thg Inkwgll Quarterly Spring 2012 lu this Issue: Spring 2012 Capstones Humanities Club and Faculty Updates Senior Award Winners Welcoming/Farewell to Editors Marissa Fedor in Malaysia Summer/Fall Courses W.LT.T. Amadeus A Literary Moment: American Romanticism Erin Robinson Update Kuhar's Comer Local Events Jason Neare Spotlight Liz Voda Spotlight 8 Confessions of a Grad School Wannabe 9 Books into Movies .9 Tony Thomas Spotlight 10 Pop Culture vs. Canon 10 Contemporary Author Update 11 Summer Plans II Women and Gender Studies Conference 12 El Rincon Latino Review 13 Dave Cook Spotlight 13 Ixtcal History Project 14 Medieval Drama 14 Manuscript Unveiling 14 Luzerne County History 1.5 Dr. Farrell’s Recipe 1.5 English Dept on Facebook 16 Hamill's Hunches Shaming Space 16 Prismatic Portal, pt. 4 17 Buddy Gouger Spotlight 18 Books vs. Movies 18 literary Anagrams 20 The Narrative Theory ol Video Games 20 Go the Distance: Australia Photo Courtesy of Kendra Kuhar By Kendra Kuhar It is no secret dial traveling abroad is overwhelming to plan due to sleep accommodations, airline bookings, and finding enough lime to actually go. So, why bother? Why would we put so much time and energy into an oversea journey? Here’s why: cultural experience. At tire beginning of March, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to Australia. My grandfather, who is originally from the distant land, travels to see his family every few years; I, along with my brother, also visited. While diere, we visited Melbourne, Cairns, and Sydney and were exposed to and submerged in a variety of Australian culture. After a sixteen-hour flight from Los Angeles, we landed in Melbourne on tire morning of March 4 and my great uncle picked us up from die airport. Following a barbecue and a few hours of conversation with family members, I realized how little I actually knew about Australian geography and culture. Australia is a large country' drat is divided up into five states and one territory: Western Australia, Soudr Australia, Queensland, Victoria, New Soudr Wales, and die Nordiern Territory. It is not much smaller than die mainland of die United States, and people tend to fly from one state to die other because die drive takes too long. ! Culturally, I was shocked. In the United States, sporting events are such a large pail of life throughout high school and college. However, tins is not die case in Australia. While there are many leagues to play sports at any age outside of school, it is rare for a high school to have sports teams associated with dieir school and there really is no such tiling as college level sports. It is interesting tiiat diere isn’t as much opportunity to play sports on a higher level, witii die exception of being in a professional sports league in Australia, as diere is in the United States. Oddly enough, Australia is one of die most sports crazed nations in the world and diey are passionate about supporting professional sporting events. A few days after spending time in Melbourne, we dew to Cairns. Cairns is one of die most popular tourist attractions in die world because of the Great Bander Reef and the tropical rainforest. The Great Barrier Reef is located oil die coast of Green Island. Both the reef and Green Island are extremely impressive. We also visited the rainforest in Cairns and I found out that die rainforest diere was the inspiration for the scenery in the 2009 film Avatar. The last week of die trip was spent in Sydney. Sydney is die most beautiful place I have ever been to and the climate was ideal. 1 �Issue 4 Welcoming Spring Capstone Presenters and Dates 7 By Annie Yosk The Spring 2012 Capstone Presentations were scheduled for Thursday, May 3rd and F rtday, May 4th in the Kirby Salon. Presentations took place from 1— 3:30 on both days. Presenting students inclu e. Student May S', 20121:00-3:30 Jacob Reichert Jonathan Kadjeski Elizabeth Voda Jason Neare Tony Thomas Dave Cook May T, 20121:00-2:00 Kelly Clisham Marwa Al-Daraweish Jeffery Ford The Inkwell Volume 6 The Inkwell As die S] goodbye. Althou^ positions. As of Fa] Advisor Dr. Linda Paul Dr. Tom Hamill Dr. Helen Davis Dr. Chad Stanley Dr. Marcia Farrell Dr. Marcia Farrell Dr. Mischelle Anthony Dr. Larry Kuhar Dr. Chad Stanley Humanities Club and Faculty Updates By Jonathan Kadjeski • Members of Sigma Tau Delta and Manuscript, along with Dr. Mischelle Anthony and students from King s College, participated in the Poetry Reading of International Female Poets at the Women’s and Gender Studies Conference on April 17. The event was well attended and well-received, generating important discussions on the poetry canon and poetry at Wilkes University. The History Club held its annual Wilkes Histoiy Day on April 19. The club filled the SUB Lounge with displays on a variety of historical topics including the Titanic disaster, the VieUiam War, the history of public education, the American Civil War, and more. • The History Club also went on its annual historical club trip, this year to Boston, Massachusetts. The trip, April 20-22, saw nine club members visit every site along the Freedom Trail, tour the historic Boston Harbor, and experience New England’s natural history at the New England Aquarium. • Dr. Sean Kelly will see his article “American Idle: Washington Irving, Authorship, and the Echoes of Native American Myth in ‘Rip Van Winkle’” published in Short Story, 19.1, this year. • Dr. Dennis Hupchick is in the process of finishing his next book, Silver Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies. The book is a medieval military history focusing on die conflicts between Bulgarian and Byzantine armies during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. • Dr. Marcia Farrell’s article "Poster Children: Laurens van der Post’s Imperial Propaganda in A Far OilPlace"will be published this summer in ARIEL Volume 42.3-4. Farrell was also awarded tenure this year. • Dr. Larry Kuhar recendy read his poetry as part of a conference in Scranton, PA in April 2012. IQ is still trying to convince him to allow us to be die first to publish his work. • Congrati would gladly welc Best, Annie Yoskoski, Farewell from To The time worked my way fr was when I leame being Copy Edito I would 1 Quarterly to Hfe. ] working with the 1 I would 1 English program 1 making all of this Best, Tony Thomas, C Farewell from Da It’s funm think still only ab( I have we of who we are, as continue to push: Department, but I departmental co-c “why does the En halls will rememb staff will move us In thinki be here, as a studi Congratulations to Senior Award Winners Co-Winner of the Annette Evans Humanities Award: Justin Balint and Erin Robinson Winner of the Frank J. J. Davies Award: Sara Crolick Co-Winners of the Phi Alpha Theta Book Award (History Program): Thomas B. Goldberg mid Jared Ryan Lacefield Winner of the Outstanding Graduate in Spanish: Anna Mitchell If you are interested in joining The Inkwell. Quarterly staff and/or enrolling in English 190:Projects in Writing: Inkwell, please contact Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farrell@wdlkes.edu) or Anne Yoskoski (anne.yoskoski@wilkes.edu) for more information. 2 Niall V �The Inkwell ae 4 Volume 6 Issue 4 Welcoming and Farewell for our Editors By Annie Yoskoski, David Cook, and Tony 1 homas virby As the Spring 2012 semester comes to a close, it is time for the current editorial staff of die Inkwell Quarterly o say goodbye. Although this is bittersweet, we would also like to welcome die new editors and encourage diem to embrace eir positions. As of Fall 2012, die new editorial staff will be: Editor in Chief: Anne Yoskoski Managing Editor: Kendra Kuhar Copy Editor: Gabriella Zawacki Assistant Copy Editor: Carly Yamrus Layout Editor: Stephanie Wilkie Congratulations to die new Editorial Board. And, please, keep in mind tiiat IQ is always looking for new recruits and would gladly welcome any interested English majors and minors to its staff. Best, Annie Yoskoski, Editor-in-Chief, Volume 7 liege, ice on and tys on a il 20-22, ice New American ie book th, tenth, ’will be ing to Farewell from Tony Thomas: The time that I have been working on The Inkwell Quarterlyhas been one of my favorite memories here at Wilkes. I worked my way from the ground up. I started as a writer, and then one day I was asked to be the Layout Editor. Doing layout was when I lear ned about tire har d work that goes into every issue drat gets published. My days as Layout Editor brought me to being Copy Editor, where I learned to understand dre fine writers on our staff. I would like to congratulate die new staff on accepting die responsibility of bringing new editions of The Inkwell Quarterly to life. I am exceedingly confident in dieir ability to make die magic happen again and again. I had die honor of working witii the new staff on die previous issue. I look forward to what diey produce. I would like to tiiank the English faculty for helping me shape my evolution as an English student. My times here in the English program have been wonderful. I would also like to thank Dr. Farrell for her immense patience and her hard work in making all of this happen. Best, Tony Thomas, Copy Editor, Volume 6 Farewell from David Cook: It’s funny, as 1 sit here, writing what 1 know is my last article for die Inkwell Quarterly as an undergraduate student, I can diink still only about die future. I have worked hard over die last two years to elevate diis publication’s standards and its image, to make it more reflective of who we are, as Dr. Kuhar would say in diat way in which only he really could. Even so, I know it can do better and can continue to push forward and break new boundaries and become sometiiing truly great, not just for us in die English Department, but for Wilkes University as a whole. This publication can be, without question, one of die finest examples of departmental co-curriculars and successful mentoring. It can seive as an answer to unspeakable, (but yet spoken) questions like, “why does die English Department need money?” And, it can be something every Humanities student who walks dirough our halls will remember for die rest of dieir lives. This is die future this publication can have, and I know Annie, and die rest of her staff will move us all towards diis goal. In diinking of die future, I am, of course, compelled to Lake a moment and consider what has made it possible for me to be here, as a student writing this, his final article. Without a doubt, what has led mehere is all of Continued on page 12... The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Ryan F.uttlix Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell F.dilors-iii-ehiel: Annie Yoskoski and Daw Cook Managing Editors: Kendra Knhai and l oin Thomas Senior Cop) Editors: Ton) Thomas and Carl) Yamrns l.avonl Editor: Elizabeth Yoda Stall Writers:.Jamie Belhssimo, Sara Crolick. Holl) l.vans.Jelfre) l ord. Budd) Congei. \ ick) lle\ener..J< >n Kadjcski. Kendra Kuliai. I.eanna Rolon. Annie Yoskoski. Stephanie Wilkie, and Cabh) Zauacki I’hologiaphei: Kendra Knhai Facnllx Contributors: Dr. I.art) Knhai. and Dr. Thomas A. Hamill case contact 3 �The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 4 The w Marrissa Fedor's Travels in Malaysia By Jason Neare Through an application process, English major Marrissa Fedor and five oilier student teachers were chosen to travel to Malaysia to gain teaching experience in their selected field. The work entailed teaching ninth through eleventh grade students English. While talking with Fedor, she slated that one of the most difficult aspects of teaching English in a foreign country included grammar, writing, and comprehension. However, Fedor was capable of breaking the learning barrier by implementing journal writing learned at Wilkes to aide in the composition process. Responsibilities included taking over various classes, teaching, and assigning homework to guide the students through learning a new language. Marrissa credits her success in Malaysia to student teaching at local high schools around the Wilkes community. Aside from teaching students, the trip gave Marrissa the opportunity to explore another culture by interacting with the locals of Kuala Lampur. Activities included riding an elephant and taking the mass transit known as the LRT, or Light Rapid Transit System. Malaysia is a heavily populated country where everyone seems to be in rush to get from one place to anodier. While Marrissa enjoyed watching how the society operates, being able to sit back and enjoy the sights was a memorable experience. The rapid pace of society even managed to transcend into tire classroom atmosphere. Marrissa now appreciates the American educational system for its focus on PSSA state assessment and quizzes and tests to analyze student progression. Unlike the American educational system, Malaysia seems to lack a sense ol organization. Many students were misbehaving and not demonstrating order while in class. A crucial objective learned at Wilkes was to realize that all learning facilities have faults and glitches. Well qualified educators are capable of realizing these faults and altering the system to help both students and teachers. By integrating American values into her teaching, Marrissa was capable of helping Malaysian students advance in the IDIC assessments and trials. The IDIC is similar to the SATs in that they assess the readiness for potential students to enter higher education. One difference between the American and Malaysian educational system is that Malaysian students working towards university status must go to school for two years following high school. Then students apply for admission into the university level of education. While talking about how the trip has changed her feelings towards education as a teacher and as a Wilkes student, Fedor discussed the lasting friendship she made with a new teacher at the school. This teacher helped carry her through the tougher moments of the experience. What this demonstrates is that no matter how difficult the educational process can be, the ability to meet the needs of educators and students is an extremely rewarding experience. Learning is not simply a one way process from teacher to student. Instead, many educators learn values from other teachers and ambitious students. The value of an education breaks the boundaries location and can become a rewarding global experience. Fedor has always had the passion to travel the world before beginning a professional career. While stating apprehension towards simultaneously traveling and teaching, Marrissa stated that she believes traveling during the summer would be the most logical approach. Being able to apply other cultures from first-hand experience will not only empower her approach towards education, but will also encourage others to get out and experience the world. While discussing closing comments on the experience in Malaysia, Fedor stated that Malaysia was extremely rewarding and hopes that the relationship between Wilkes and the Malaysian school community continues to flourish. Being able to share experience with others is one of the highest forms of fulfillment one can experience in education. ByJ Lon folk Salit Awa heal Bro has pro( rem Anti drar the < play sprii betr betv Con Nan Md A] By I som Emt Wh auth Am< the < for t rang qual O’C imp. Summer/Fall Courses By Anne Yoskoski Summer 2012 ENG 281 American Literature I with Dr. Grier FaU 2012 ENG 334 Studies in 18th Century Literature with Dr. Anthony ENG 342 Studies in Shakespeare with Dr. Stamer ENG 352 Studies in the American Novel with Dr. Kelly ENG 397 Senior Seminar: Horror & Science-Fiction in Modern Literature with Dr. Stanley 4 Sti By, grea a te; acct opp mei wee �The Inkwell Issue 4 Volume 6 Issue 4 W. U. T. ends the 2011-2012 production season with Amadeus By Jamie Alderiso rrissa Fedor t state Lents were that all Itering the ipable of hat they assess alaysian rrs following Vilkes student, her through nal process can s not simply a jitious students. stating ng the summer inly empower discussing opes that the e experience Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus first enjoyed a successful premiere in London, before starting another successful run on The Great White Way he following year. A production hat starred Ian McKellen as he conflicted Antonio Salieri, garnered wide spread attention and success. Amadeus-won. five 1981 Tony Awards, including Best Actor for McKellen, and Best Play. The production enjoyed healthy run on Broadway, and still ranks as one of he top one hundred longest runs in Broadway’s history .The noteworthy 1984 film garnered eight Academy Awards, and has continuously placed on many critics’ lists for top films of all time. The piece is gripping and moving and has continuously translated over many productions, and most notably in its translation on film. One aspect of he drama remains completely at he center of each translation; the heated rivalry between Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart remains he focal point of die dramatic fabric. Salieri is a hardworking, but embittered composer who must endure Photo Courtesy of Jamie Alderiso he endless, but seemingly effortless compositions of Mozart’s musical genius. The play has a nugget of truth in every scene, but it is not a historical play. Instead, Shaffer uses hese nuggets of truth as a springboard to create a heart wrenching piece of intellectual theatre. The play juggles with envy, genius, innocence, betrayal, love and the nature of God all witliin two and half hours. On April 12^-15"', W.IJ.T. performed the play, alter only a monh of rehearsals and two school breaks in between. The cast included myself as Antonio Salieri, Luke Brady as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kelly Pleva as Constanze Weber, and Corey Martin as Joseph II. James Langan, Cassidy Conroy, Jimmy Basquill, Lacey Willis, Janel Naro, Mandy Thomas, Cierra Cellerari, James Daly, Kearasten Jordan, Erin Weinberger, Allison DeLuca, and Caitlin McKee were also featured. Director of Theatre, Teresa Fallon directed die last production for W.U.T’s 2011-2012 season. A Literary Moment: American Romanticism By Gabby Zawacki Dr. Sean Kelly’s favorite literary movement is American Romanticism. Covering 19'1’ century American literature, some major authors of the period are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman. Many of these writers are authors of great works that many people recognize, and while the familiarity of these authors is an apparent draw to this time period, Dr. Kelly has some interesting reasons for specializing in this branch of American literature. Enjoying “the intellectual adventurousness and urgency of the mid-nineteenth century”, Dr. Kelly likes the diverse range of works and topics that American Romanticism produced. From Poe’s tales of terror to Thoreau’s quest for the sublime in nature, to Hawthorne’s romances, the 19"' century oilers something for every' reader due to its wide range of ideas and topics. While the 19* century is an interesting and innovative period in American literature, one of its most engaging qualities is its ability to connect past to present. Many 20th century writers, such as Mark Twain, Allen Ginsberg, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, are clearly influenced by American Romanticism, which gives deeper meaning and importance to its moment in American literature. Student Update: Erin Robinson By Sara Crolick Erin Robinson, a graduating Wilkes English major, has enrolled in a graduate program for he Fall of 2012. After a great deal of deliberation, Robinson chose a M.A./PhD track at he University of Tulsa, which offered her funding hrough a teaching assistantship. Robinson visited he University of Tulsa in April, in addition to two odier schools she had been accepted to, but ultimately chose Tulsa because of he program’s strengtii. Robinson also saw the potential for mentoring opportunities, work she prioritized and w'anted to continue from her time spent at Wilkes. According to Robinson, mentoring at Wilkes shaped her “intellectual, personal, and professional growtit.” Robinson will return to Tulsa he first week of August for orientation and the start of her graduate coursework. �meanings/selis, they re-amve, rnoenix-iute, in crtpsuuii'-’“ teaching assignments to affirm the power of these new-found identities. But why is everyone celebrating? Who are these seniors anc w lat have they done to our undergraduates? What does this term mean. Photo Courtesy of Dr- Mischelle Anthony Isn’t it counter-intuitive to define a term that, by definition, aims to dissolve the availability of a single meaning in a text?, nnlnriouslv difficult to define. Everyone, that is, except our to deconstruct. TO. is bloom and fall for four years on the tree outside Kirby 305, our seniors are prepared to move to the next window (.). They know belter than anyone that our program’s values encourage majors to rethink who we are, to dispo e of the notion that we are limited to possessing one voice. Our program teaches how to do it. An we see e proo un ema ean absolute - in our graduates’ work in the classroom as student teachers and in their presentation o eir caps ones. Our graduates, it seems to me, have deconstructed the voices they possessed when they arrived in our English program only a few years back. They’ve deconstructed many texts beyond sell - whether literary, personal or institutional - that they found as cynical, unethical or of no worth in this post-industrial, Inkwell-driven Kirby society. They affirmed the value of practical, critical and analytical skills. As a result, they’ve written themselves as new texts, ones that show the value in what it means to establish a voice, to lead in the classroom and to serve the local community. They affirm the core vision of the program that emphasizes unremittingly (if it’s a word) that a degree in English prepares a person for a successful and rewarding career and a life beyond the corridors of Kirby Hall. In short, they’ve written themselves as texts that demonstrate excellence. Ask Alicia Lewis about the importance of having a voice. Alicia graduates in May and recently completed her student teaching at Hanover Area Jr. Sr. High School. When I saw Alicia teach writing to her IO01 grade students, she comported herself with confidence, professionalism and integrity. Her voice was real. She was possessed (in a good way!) by the voice and values of an educator. She communicated the importance of outcomes to her students: “Great point,” she said in response to a student’s comment, “Now you need to apply that point in your draft.” She had deconstructed the ‘Alicia’ dial had arrived in our program four years ago and reconstructed in a professional voice as -in educator When I asked Alicia io share how her teaching was going and to identify her favorite aspect of'teaching, she responded wrth, Teaching is going grea I I love ,t! My favorite part would have to be when students who are struggling finally get the Xie He v^leZZ r! Z'" 'iterature-” * “e have to Stake a ciiiierence. Liei voice neie is personaoie* ivCcil. 1 o achieve this we oftm it i thought we were. (I can hear the counting: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ....) The voice I ^construct some aspect of who we and renewing energies found in possessing a new voice, the voice of an educate ^hC^assroom test^ies to die Uta Ask graduating senior Buddy Gouger if he understands the importance^ n/2. against the delivered, pre-packaged and authorized views of the establish ^™ring and developing your own voice West Side Career and Vocational Center. When I saw Buddy teach a few k“U^y Just finished his student teaching at powerful presence in his classroom. Authentic. Accountable. Buddv 5W.Weeks back> he commanded a strong voice and the voice with which I worked in English 351: Studies in Postmodernis Jec°nstructed his voice. It w'as different than Finding the reconstructed voice is not often easy. Deconstruction/edi H had transformed himself. some of whom we were.... Some of what was authorized as the know,It™ W°rks dlis wayrequires us to throw away T;rnZeSet,‘'‘TainnS “'""I C1’rallenSeS f°r Buddy- "e ™ ™>rkinXd “*“"«• The Process of challenged by the mdillerence he felt some students expressed toward <1 educat°r” (as he wrote to me), but F,ndan<>lher Our Program teaches us to dtat o °f 'eadinS too MtW** hue wtth the authorized vetoes. We leam how to resist the ever-oresX °'™ voi“ the pressure of falling* tnsutuuons and centers of authonty promote. pres™ temptation to accept pre-packaged answers that �4 The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 4 Kuhai s Comer Continued from page 6.., :s i n e Precisely because we become aware that we can possess different voices, deconstructions often result in a broader awareness of our shared human condition. Buddy affirmed the value of his efforts as an educator to resist becoming pessimistic about die challenges ol teaching: “One of the positive aspects is I can see the difference I'm making in some students lives, especially diose who have lEPs [Individualized Educational Programs] and learning disabilities.” This is a new voice - this sentence alone constructs it - for Buddy. Buddy deconstructed die too-easily-affirmed idea that uninterested or challenged students cannot or will not understand die ides and values delivered in English classrooms. Buddy s supervising teacher applauded Buddy’s passion for teaching and the real-life values he brought to his students. I agreed and lauded his new voice and the confidence that this new voice possessed (while hiding my disappointment that I was not in his classroom the day before when, I learned from his supervising teacher, he threw himself on die floor acting out a scene in the play). Ask Mamssa Fedor, who spent half of her student teaching in classrooms in Malaysia and half at West-Side, if she feels ‘possessed’ by a different voice now dial she has completed her student teaching. Deconstructions surprise us. Or, maybe, it’s the arrival of new voices dial surprises. Consider die empowered voices possessed in our graduating majors’ capstone projects. Ask capstone presenters and graduating seniors Marwa AlDaraweish, Kelly Clisham, Dave Cook, Sara Crolick, Jeff Ford, Jonathan Kadjeski, Erin Robinson, Anthony Thomas or Liz Voda about the pride and identity they felt as tiiey presented their original research - whetiier creative, literary or technical - in their capstones. Possessed^ new voices, tiiese graduates exemplified die power and dignity that comes with moling forward — in a new voice - toward a reimagined version of self. Congratulations to our program graduates! Your student teaching and your capstones show us die overwhelmingly positive outcomes possible with deconstructive readings, tiiat is, deconstructive readings ofsell. You are moving forward in new-found voices. Whetiier you are moving into die workforce, a graduate program, public education, law school or where ever your story takes you, you’re going forward with the empowering awareness that you have reinvented yourself. With diis you are aware tiiat you can reinvent yourself again and again and again. It’s in your textual blood. And, if Derrida had it right 45 years ago, you will have no choice but to reinvent yourself again and again and again. 1 e at d Nala wants everyone to know that she says, “Congratulations” to the graduates and “have a great summer” to all. And, she’s on call in case Dr. Kuhar may need his own shaming space one day... si § Photo Courtesy of Kendra Kuhar Local Events By Tony Thomas With the summer fast approaching, there are many activities and events upcoming in the Wilkes-Barre area, Sun Casino. Costs are $15 • The Wilkes-Barre YMCA is hosting tlieir 26th annual Night „ at the Races at the Mohegan . and $20 There will be free food and refreshments. The event benefits youth services such as the YMCA. . Mav 19th at noon the Fine Arts Fiesta kicks off on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. I Geneva School’s 7th Annual “Taste of (he Valley” will be held May 2,5:30-8 p.m at F.orelb s in Peckedlie. Tickets a XXmeed and $20 at the door. Come and taste some of die best food from some of the valley s best ealer.es. All 5 IZuith'is: the start ofTe OusXut L.brary’s annual lawn book sale. The sale tunes the 1I6ih-23rd The.selection is t. ’ 2 S huge raX from classic literature to cookbooks. Stop by the giant tent on dte library’s lawn and fmd some books for your summer reading list. 7 �The Issue 4 The Inkwell Volume 6 Jason Neare - Senior Spotlight By Elizabeth Voda Senior Jason Neare didn’t come to Wilkes as an English major at f Neare was page paper seemed like a struggle to Neare four years ago. Neare was first ns 1 « i ’ r> 2 ~im j on tne nc Undecided. He experimented with different majors, including Biology fulfilled with the Med track. Neare explained, “I found myself miserable and unf-----work in which I was accomplishing.” His Eng 101 class with Dr. Thomas changed his mind and he knew that English was his calling, where I enjoye creating arguments and defending them through research, conversation wit o and writing,” he said. “Everyone within the major seems to connect with one another and build off the encouragement and ideas from others. He le t a connection with both the faculty and students in the department. Neare credits Dr. Janet Stamer, Dr. Helen Davis, Dr. Chad Stanley, an Dr. Marcia Farrell for his own intellectual development at Wilkes. His experiences throughout his education include working with the Oxford English Dictionary anc the iPad’s position in the classroom. Dr. Andrew Miller of the Political Science department also influenced Neare’s development. Currently living in Lehman, Pennsylvania, he isn’t quite sure whether he wants to attend law school or graduate school. Fie plans to take a year off from school to save money that will aid his attempt at an advanced degree. Senior Spotlight—Liz Voda By Jason Neare For many students entering the college community, trying to discover a passion and identity can be a challenge. Senior English major Liz Voda can attest to this notion. Coming into Wilkes University, Voda already had experience writing and editing for journals and newspapers such as the Wyoming County Press Examiner. Wanting to pursue a passion for writing and journalism that developed during high school, Voda experimented with many discourses including Communications, Integrative Media, and Secondary Education. Not feeling fulfilled in these majors, Voda decided to give English a try, always enjoying reading and discussing the works of famous authors and poets. Aside from engaging in intellectual conversations about literary works, Voda accredits her development as a student and individual to the many discussions carried on during class time. While recently talking with Voda, she mentioned “I truly feel that I have grown as a person because of the English Department.” Being a fellow classmate, Voda has demonstrated leadership and excellence in and outside of the classroom. Voda is involved in many clubs and extracurriculars at Wilkes University and in the community including Vice President of the Wilkes Anime Club, Copy Editor for Manuscript, Layout Editor for the Inkwell Quarterly, Vice President of Sigma Tan Del u u' “7be,r °f?1Phi “ r‘°P 10* °rj7“r/s'"iOTrdass>- C™ly residing in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, Voda would like to develop her passion for writing and sharing information with others hv G^r <, - . studies. Voda has stated that her interests lie in canyingout a passion for edidng. Other magazine or a company and blogging. muuuc wi umg iui Congratulations to all of our recent graduates: David Cook TonvTh Cor By 5 pursi capal acad< of Ki surpi rareb teach signil sleep calls bein£ two c happ as vve stude Engli exam availa are ei living qualif gradu my cl comp my at and d applic for re plann wondi Boc By A walkii Gairu book: a writ! actors split ii hour i somel the de sales c niovie �The Inkwell Volume 6 Confessions of a Grad School Wannabe (part ID By Sara Crolick Applying to grad school taught me a great deal about myself. I learned that I have the strength and courage to pursue something that is important to me, capable of facing challenge while embracing life. I learned I^nTainble ^nS.!.hort of lniP°ssible. I learned that I am academic value, and I reaffirmed that there is something worthwhile someffiine m^^l^d my ideaS °f of Kirby Hall every single day. something magical, about what we do within tire walls surprises* me rarely the lessons we need to keep safe. Serious illness" “XXonTfc b T' '“1°“ teachers if you accept the wisdom they have to offer. There are lessons eveXeXte^iZe MdZn' Aside from berng my final semester at Wilkes University as an undergraduate, this semester had personal □ ;e. dS’nZ? m"’r' Seni!“ler 1 1,ear back from scho»ls regarding acceptance. Like a child waiting for sleep the night before Chnstmas, 1 felt time slip by excruciatingly slow. Anticipated dates for notification came and went, c s were p ace , an was repeatedly reassured that schools had not misplaced my application, final decisions were still berng made. Then, the letters came rolling in. Not all of the letters exclaimed “congratulations” in their opening tines, but two of my top choices did. I have been offered admission to SUNY Stony Brook University and Fordham University. Oh, happy, happy day. In an ideal world, every accepted graduate student would be granted opportunities to assist with the cost of school, as well as opportunities to develop skills to help them as future English Professors. The formula seems simple enough: student applies to grad school + student gets accepted to grad school - student goes to grad school. Granted, I am an English major, not a math major, but I can tell you with certainty, that other variables are at work in this equation. For example, some schools oz?/j'extend offers to students who are guaranteed teaching assistantships, or fellowships. The availability of funding, while a huge benefit to those selected, drastically reduces the number of accepted students. Students are ensured scholarships which help (often completely) with tuition, and are, at times, offered a stipend position to alleviate living costs while enrolled. Other schools distribute a limited number of financial packages, but also extend offers to qualified students without aid. Stony Brook and Fordham fall into the latter category. So now? Decisions, decisions. Six months ago, I told myself that I would do whatever w'as necessary to get into graduate program of my choice. I was successful in that endeavor; however, while limiting my search geographically, I hurt my chances at securing an assistantship or other form of financial support. Schools in and around New York City are competitive, so although I earned congratulatory letters, I was not fortunate enough to earn a package that would allow' for my attendance at this time; I simply can’t afford it. Despite my disappointment, I am proud of what I have accomplished and do not believe this is a tragic end to my beautiful romance with literatuie studies. I can reevaluate schools, my application components, and my priorities and apply again; it really can be that simple. Life has offered me an opportunity for revelation, and I have to trust in that process. Joseph Campbell said, “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have lire life that is wailing for us.” So, at this moment in time, I am letting go. I am taking some wonderful advice and I am slowing down, because there is time. 1 here is so much time. Books into Movies: A discussion on literary adaptations ^“eUhave^ into consideration. A» of these tnovies wete ia,Voda duate - either a kop, ham, books first, and sometimes the movie adaptations do>not do the^ongina tex: jus c movie at Without writing there would be no -Th.s alIt does not matter how many a written screen play Screen plays are no novels buttl^^ been brought fo Jife by author actors volunteer to play a part of a character if < movie adaptions because of time. Sometimes books are even Many changes are ,nade to books m then ^XetrieXXdcore ntovie enthusiasts cannot sit through a sixsplit into two movies, like Harry Potter and the Jaso a my> directors and movie executives hour movie witliout losing focus and becoming edgy. make to three bour Inovies diat |iave ay of sometimes split the book into halves or sometimes in o the details of the original novel, but are still tolera i eto waeither, (bree movies make more than one movie does, as ticket No one can put aside the financial aspect o ns ’ . in the ^3^ for> however. Making a sales double or triple respectively. Time is not just a.maker ol bo» movie takes time, and some of the best nove . Continued on page 11 �The Inkwell Issue 4. The Inkwell Volume 6 ContemP°] Senior Spotlight: Tony Thomas While certainly no John Wayne, Tony Thomas certainly is, without a shadow of a doubt, a Tony Thomas. . When Thomas walked into to Wilkes in 2008 and stumbled into r. Farrell’s English 201, probably late, his life, like so many others that day, would be changed for ever. Sitting in the front row, next to David Cook ant Kenneth Stucker, Thomas would go on ad nauseam about literary and political issues, and as the legend goes, if you listen closely, you can still hear him talking, and talking, and talking. Indeed, Thomas talked so much that on one fateful day in Dr. Farrell’s Seminar on Salman Rushdie, Thomas, discovered in the computer lab a device which would allow him to record his own voice, for everyone to hear, and they all did. As a result, the word microphone has been covertly as the word gaggle. that he has more than one. In reality, they all blend into one mildly offensive parody. omas, o realize this, and gets surprised when we cannot guess who he is trying to be. . . . . .. After graduation Thomas plans to take some time to plan out his future and work on his first memoir, win thee Nobel An Erotic Thriller. Thomas says that it will be the best selling memoir of all time, and wil more than an likely i eywin o e Priise For Liiterciture In addition to his memoir, Thomas plans on continuing to master his food discourse, hoping to make everyone as uncomfortable as Cook and Far rell are when they listen to his discuss his favorite dish, a good Ruben. Pop Culture Literature vs the Canon By Anne Yoskoski Twilight. An English major muttering this book tide usually pairs it with a creative curse and a disgusted sigh. The problem is that the Twilight Saga has sold more copies of its respective books tlian T.S. Eliot or even F. Scott Fitzgerald. The reason? Pop culture. The mass media uses marketing to promote novels much dillerentiy now than they did in the past. Now with a novel comes a franchise: clothing, jewelry, movie deals, spin offs, the list goes on and on. When the canon was established, these marketing techniques weren’t in place for literature. The chances of there being a Ulysses t-shirt in 1922 were slim to none. Today, the novel has become a cultural staple. We still have the canon, and it may need an update. Not all popular novels are bad, such as Harry Potter. However, books that one can pick up in a grocery store, like a celebrity tell-all or autobiography, do not deserve to be promoted as they are today. When I walk into Barnes & Noble today, I see a distinct difference between the sections. The young adult section is colorful, bright, and compelling with amazing cover art and interesting tag lines. They also contain sub-genres such as “teen paranormal romance” and “coming soon to theaters”. The second sub-genre mentioned says it all. These books are being read because of their fleeting popularity, not the deep meaning of the writing or the appreciation of the prose. It is hard to respect a book series that has terrible writing yet sells out faster than die books can be published. People are picking up these books because everyone else is, not because they believe it would be an interesting story or an intriguing piece to study and analyze. For the past three weeks I have had people who know how much I read ask me if they should buy Fifty Shades of Grey. My answer is always no. What people do not realize is that it’s based on TwZigfafan fiction. Obviously this is not a work of fiction that should make it into the canon. The reason people are asking me this is because the book has some press and has become a moment in pop culture that no one wants to be left out of. This is the case for manv books such as Kardashain Konlidential or Confessions ofa Guidette which are obviously not read for m • • •• ’ The aspect of many pop culture literature pieces that make it difficult to dismiss thenrisXa^ey^Tbased on classic stories- many from the canon. Some of these authors are taking a tried and true plot and ustng it to make their own story. The stgmfictmt dtflerence ts that the quahty o wntmg ,s acceptable in the books of the canon while the quality of the grocery store novels is sub-par. Every once in a while there will be that rare Hem front no i > piece of literature. Those can be considered for inclusion in an updated canon M P CU lUFe at Pro^uces a ^reat does not mean that it deserves a place of prestige in literature, a concept that many have ^ctT ^CCaUSC a Se"S We^ j3y Jason Near In the u memoirs are na scheduled for S on the prophet and governmen novels by Rush( Kaiheri J.K. Rowling is Rowling’s first r Pottermore, on create accounts book in all of it release an inter [fjterarv Adapta imagination to ] languages, locati characters shou character if the As sooi featuring a close sometimes peo] original can ma movie deal was Anythx pleased or ange world is not up due to the lack seems to alway: the fantastic ad director or cast As tim some of the du or a more ere a change the orij heading in that What are By Jamie Bel Wher to deal with th toP of the list] ^Vshesar ^mimer breal , ein8 able to Oughts of w; b<>n’t 1J 10 �»sue 4 TJie Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 4 Contemporary Author Update By Jason Neare and Annie Yoskoski In the upcoming months, Salman Rushdi h memoirs are named for the alias he took after hein 7? ann°Unced the I I Rowling’s first novel not attached to the Hairy Potter wiU be releied^1’ World unowned author Pottermore, on which she collaborated with Sony ha A ^S°in RowJ'ng news ? P mber 27> This will be create accounts, be placed into houses, practice smells re,eaSed from Beta and is UUerachve onllne world, book in all of it’s important scenes. The website iso c77 POtions’ ^1 while fiX" 7 PUbllC> Fans can now release an mteractive adventure for each book in the °f X books in Xk r’1"'0"81’ r'rs‘ iply as to Life: Nobel Literary Adaptations continued from page 9.., | ryone as lanXes, locations, and ^pes. Another proble'^S^S ;h. The jerald. in the he canon shirt in o be ons. The ontain says it all. nation of ished. ory or an Shades of i is not a some ks, such ;ed on their own dity of the a great dis well ” to^aced of wtat’eertain characters should look or act like due to the author’s description. Il lakes lime to find die rieht person lo play the role of a character if the producers are dedicated to pleasing the author, fans, and doing justice to the original text. As soon as casting is done the book will be re-released in a paperback fonn with the “movie cover” usually featuring a close up of the main characters mid-scene. Every English major has seen these books, and let’s admit it, sometimes people are judged based on their ownership of the original or movie version copy of the book. Owning the original can make someone appear “cooler” or “more intelligent” because it is assumed that they read the book before the movie deal was announced, somehow linking them to highbrow scholars of literature. Anytime a movie comes out that was based off of a previously wri11en and distributed book, people will be either pleased or angered about the result. It can be tire big picture tilings that set a reader off, such as saying that the fictional world is not up to their standards. It can be the casting, citing die recent outcry of many people after 7he Hunger Games due to the lack of diversity of race in the casting, even though the book portrayed it this way. The chief complaint though, seems to always be the details left on the cutting room floor, die tiny nuances created by the author that makes the novel the fantastic adventure and escape that it is for many readers. 1 hese crucial details are not always able to be emulated by a director or cast, leaving out some of the original chann and magic the novel created foi many readers. As time goes on, with technology and experience, filmmakers are getting better at portraying le nove , etting some of the dust settle when it comes to this decades old debate. There will however.always be a more tnwnattve author or a more creative director wailing in the wings lo either write something fantastic or dunk £Pr°; ‘ change the original work. The better Ute book, die belter die tnovte is not always the case but .1 oe heading tn that direction with all of the recent book lo I dm adaptations gracing l re » What are you excited to do this sunrme ByJamie Bellissimo to do this suinntet, ses“were obvious - notfo^ having “ “XdXh When asked what they were mos ' having a lot mo «pm excited to g upcoming to deal with the daily stress of college ’ d Godlewski, a fre to go camping mentioned work of the list for a lot of people as well, like Miranda sh cou dn t wa> wants but aho 'veek,” she said. Megan Petrochko felt the same way,^ gQ the beach ^d. Al »mn>er break. Kathryn Roshong said shemy girk is ‘ -Is it sum">« ’ ' Being able to work at my summer camp < £ travel have every ~ Noughts of warm summer weather and plans o ——— '' ' r Hours! II'you want logel ' ^011 I lorg< >igci lo check (he Fall 2012 \\ rilin« Center cliad..slank’y@wilkes.edu �Issue 4 The Inkwell Wilkes/King's Women and Gender Studies Conference April 16th and 17th marked the annual Women and Gender Studies Conference, with the dieme of W^ the Globe." The conference is a collaboration between Wilkes University and King's College to come many more research on women's issues. As years progress, the conference has been growing in attendance and ?°P ;inj guest participants from die community. Presentations were delivered from students, professors, conununity a ’ Nicole lecturers. The event is headed by Dr. Jennifer Thomas of Wilkes University and Dr. Robin Field o ngs Pollock, Women and Gender Studies Mentor, also helped in die planning and organization of die event. Jniversity The This years Keynote speech was delivered by Dr. Ashley Mears of the Sociology Department at os on within tide of Mears lecture was "The Production of Value within an Aesthetic Economy." for a doctoial diesis, e^^asej on jie die fashion industry as a model to see the ways in which women have a monetary value attached to tiiemse < odeling "buzz" which is produced among fashion scouts. What Mears found was diat an inverted labor scale i esu ts in e.™ jmage of industry that allows women to make up to seventy-five percent more in wages dian a male counterpart y por aying ai passivity. Mears' lecture raised a common theme among the conference panels in that much improvemen correct the position of women widiin a patriarchal society. ... ■ . Many students presented papers with various faculty members. Dr. Helen Davis' 397 students, Marwa wets , Ashley Bringmann, Jeffrey Ford, James Gambucci, Victoria Hevener, Jon Kadjeski, Jason Neare, Elizabeth ° Zerfoss presented their work in the “Charlotte Bronte and Her Legacy” panel. Matt Bishop presented Men, omen, jui a Game: Gender Stereotypes in The Replacements!' Students Michelle Byrnes, Anne Mason, Julia Cikota, and Sara from Dr. Janet Stamer's English 324 course presented dieir papers as part of the "Sexism in die English Language. a jes presented his paper "Re-Affirming die Gendered Pronoun: Mediods for Teaching Writing." Neare and Erin Robinson presented work as part of Dr. Chad Stanley's panel, "Domestic Violence/ Public Voices." Stephanie Wilkie presented t e paper "Insult of a Lifetime: Gender-biased Language." Jamie Alderiso and Kelly Pleva participated in a performance of The Waiting Room. Bringmann, Caevaun DuBany, Neare, and Todd Oravic presented "All Women Have One Career in Common, Being a Woman: The Construction of and Manipulation of Female Identity." Dr. Marcia Farrell presented “Unraveling die Bonds between Catharsis and Fiber Arts: An Examination of Stitching Culture in Neocolonial Literature.” In addition, Dr. Mischelle Anthony, Alderiso, Miranda Baur, Bringmann, Sara Crolick, Dr. Davis, Hevener, Kadjeski, and Voda participated in die Poetry Slam. Panels varied in topics such as providing medical supplies to foreign countries, domestic violence, feminist ideals within literature, and Academy Award winning movies based on women's issues. The co-produced conference is a means of bringing together die community at large to talk about the oppression of women and ways to empower our future. Students interested in obtaining a minor in Women and Gender Studies should contact Dr. Thomas or Nicole Pollock in order to register. The minor allows students widi a way to diversify diemselves among odier graduates in the professional world. IQ Editorial Farewell, continued from page 2... you. Every student in this department who ever argued widi me, listened to me, asked for help—each one of you taught me something and helped me shape and discover who I was as an English major, and I diank you for all of that. And of course, I would be nodiing widiout die professors. I can honesdy say that every one of you, even those I have not had in class, but have simply talked to in the halls, has been important. I have cherished every conversation, every passing remark, every 15 minute meeting which goes on for hours, and of course, every paper I’ve had to write, even 20 page rhetorical analyses on 1500 year old texts. That brings me to anodier important, and singular influence in my life, and that is Dr. Farrell. I can honesdy say that widiout die effort she made to mentor me, to make me a better writer and a better scholar, I would not be who I am toda and I certainly would not be sitting here writing my farewell. Dr. Farrell always knew how to push me to my absolute limits break, down, and help me stand back up as a better student of English. I am, and shall always be, in her debt. I would like to diank my staff, especially Tony, Liz, and Annie for helping me to make sure Inkwell Quart 1' together every issue, even when it seems impossible. It amazes me what you all have been able to make happen • I T 5°nieS. as all of you move forward widi your lives, that in whatever you undertake, you will make empires out of sand ’ °W I try, very hard, to not be overly sentimental in these sorts of things, but clearly, in this instance I have failed Tl four years have been a wonderful experience, and I can only hope that as new students enter die program d ’IH leSe desire to connect with diis program and grow from it as much as I have. ‘ ave Finally, I would simply like to congratulate die Wilkes University Faculty for dieir vote of no conf 1 for many of the students here when I say, we will stand widi you and support you as you move forward w' 6°^ . OVV sPeab because we believe in die teachers. The fiscal vanishing act needs to stop, and I know all of v™, m i e leve ln Wilkes towards closing that curtain. Y m‘lde a flrst and Powerful step Sincerely, David Cook, Editor-in-Chief, IQ, Volume 6 The Inkwe. Volume 6 El Bine ]3y Tony M and then ‘j Valley ove yVilkes-Ba TJ coziness w There are tables. T are you co more drin II pressed cc even tripe, chilies, an< Mole is a < from regie unique an El tacos. The F< Latino is a Senior By Tony V talking to his studies Farrell’s E the spirite polyphilo] F loved T.S defense o breath, he Podracer F He is also debate T that syinb T eenter ant Who and A faking hi affair with T taken with ^eefully t �le 4 The Inkwell'___________________ _ Volume 6 £1 Rincon Latino: A Review Issue 4 Bv Tony Thomas y Mexican cuisine has become one of my favorites Th ,d then ‘round again to spicy boldness. More authentic M, °°d is hearb' and the n Wley over the past couple of years. One of the newer ones hiqpeslaurants have^beenT 5S e K'SL1 The restaurant is warm and inviting with its wood i fr°m savoiy to mild Ud„, whil“**<*«*■ T™"8 Ule oy N. Main Street in • he i tables. s die dining area with a nice arrav of y . The wait staff is exceptionally friendly and inviting Ne of o I have dined here several times and you can find delicious I • pressed com or flour tortillas and you can get them filled with a variedof MeX’Can f°°d-The tacos made on house even tripe. Speaking of tripe, one classic Mexican soup they offer is men M ranglng fr°m P°rk’ chicken’ beef> ^d chilies, and tripe. Tripe, for those not aware, is beef stomach. Another 1 >Jenudo ls a spicy SOUP made with hominy, Mole is a chocolate chili sauce that is just as popular in Mexico as ketchu^10 l feature ’S poblano molefrom region to region. The sauce is savory thanks to the chocolate hm X* lhfJS1fates’but dle reciPe for mole can vary unique and must be tried in order to be fully appreciated. ’ ’S a m‘d beat from die chilies. The flavor is :r ga tacos. They dso have Tequila Thursday For those wanting to experience authentic Mexican cooking or perhaps mving adventurous Ha,ore. El Rincon Latino is a must-dine establishment near downtown Wilkes-Barre. rvnieon iy n i or d I it t k Senior Spotlight- David J. Cook, esquire. By Tony Thomas When he is not debating the merits of postcolonial theory talking to walls, David Cook is a part-time Time Lord. Cook began his studies at Wilkes back in 2008. The day he entered Dr. Marcia Farrell’s English 201 course, his life would be forever changed. From the spirited debates of that class he evolved into even more of a polyphiloprogenitive master of English. He often spent his time dreaming of a world where everyone loved T.S. Eliot as much as he did. Cook is known for his rabid defense of Formalism and the Modernists. Though in the same breath, he would defend postcolonial discourse faster than the best Photo Courtesy of David Cook podracer in the galaxy. His talents are not limited to the study ol English literature. President of the He h also majored in Communications with a a collection of speaker awards Debate Team. He has conquered many a foe in the held ol aigumeniai Genshis Khan blush. that symbolically represent the heads of his defeated opponents. playing hockey for The Rebels. He plays 1 he times that are not spent at Wilkes, Cook consumes < He etching Dr. center and is feared by all when he gets onto the ice. His hockey stick is stained mtn h7?o and British television programming. . he )ans on doing little for die next year and then After leaving this prestigious and certainly not bio e nlveI n<ing his triumphant return to academia by going to grad schoo . , studying Modernism to further his love P air with Eliot’s poetry. ,. v . •_ secret lover, Diablo. His entire summer will be Though, starting on May 15th Cook’s life will be cons^ be enough to make him a recluse. Cook will hken with him playing Diablo III. While only a video game, this; < S efully use magic and iron weapons to do battle with horn ic �Issue 2 The Inkwell Volume 6 Students and Faculty Work to Promote Local History By Jonathan Kadjeski Wilkes’s involvement Many students, faculty, staff, and community members may not be avvare of the exte , engagements with local history. For two professors and three students, they are not merely aware of Wilkes s commu As pit of Wilkes’s Oral History and Wyoming Valley History studies, Dr. Loran Lewis began working on a regional history project focusing on local farming and the popular Wilkes-Barre aimers project collected research with the assistance of senior history major Alexandra Madaya and then began con $ interviews with the regional farmers who visit the market. Madaya’s research focused on local farming ami les „ are based on selling their farm products at regional farmers’ markets. “Everyone things of this area as a co region, Madaya said, “but this region has an agricultural base.” Junior English major Todd Oravic and junior ommuruca 10 major Ryan Wood worked closely with Stanley filming and editing videos. Oravic and Madaya both expresse eir e le s about die importance of this project and the importance of recording Luzerne County’s current history. ravic e a ora e saying that “it’s important to know what the culture is really like, instead of what people assume it s like. The Fall 2011 semester presented some significant challenges, especially the flooding disaster, but e team as been able to create a project introduction video and several short video interviews. Wood and Oravic, thoug on y juniors, have worked together editing many videos as part of their collaborative film studio, Woodavic Studios, and will continue working with the Wilkes Wyoming Valley History Project as Wilkes’s engagement with regional history continues to expand over the coming years. Stanley characterized the project’s goals as to both “add to and publicize the histoiy of our region. It is certainly a most rich and diverse history, grounded in the region’s agricultural heritage, and it does not take much to experience this The h Luz< By Jo Railro darknc Tomp Court the coi Tompl law of' Tompl States. commc violatio case wa the cou remains what wa agricultural heritage - the Wilkes-Barre Fanners’ Market is only blocks away from Wilkes, Kings, and most downtown business. Dr. F By Dr. Medieval Drama in Brooklyn By Kendra Kuhar On Saturday March 25, Dr. Hamill’s Medieval Drama class traveled to New York to see the Cheek by Jowl production, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. The playwright was performed at BAM Harvey Theater, formerly known as The Majestic, in Brooklyn. Written by John Ford and published in 1633, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore is a 17th century tragedy that tells the story of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister. Since incest is and was never accepted as a social norm, the relationship ultimately insinuates corruption and murder. In spite of the play being written in 1633, the production was accessible and appealed to contemporary audiences because it was visually modem. The setting of the entire play was intended to mimic that of a teenager’s bedroom. The walls in the “bedroom” had a poster of the popular television-series “True Blood,” along with other similar advertisements. This modem characteristic of the scene especially caught the attention of the audience from the beginning because they were able to relate to the main characters by having similar interests. Additionally, there were other modern objects utilized such as a laptop and headphones. While they seem insignificant on paper, these contemporarily visual qualities of the play made the alreadv propelling story even better. Cheek by Jowl put on a fantastic production and although one may not be inspired to travel to see the play, a reading of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore through contemporary eyes will equally impact the audience and readers alike. Manuscript Update The Manuscripts Spring 2012 edition was unveiled at 1:00pm on Monday, May 7 2012’ t b v Hall Salon, along with the 2010/2011 issue of The Kirby Canon and the first collection of stories1!? C h women of the DVSC. Also, Holly Evans announced the publication of The Elephant in the Gard0™ collection of works written by women at the Domestic Violence Center who participated in C ’ H workshops conducted by Evans and Erin Robinson. Copies of Manuscript, Kirby Canon a 1 7^ Wntlng the Garden will be available in Kirby Hall. ’ te Elephant in feel healt for me. J benefits, ' intake is ; slices of c Ingredien • One • One • One • One Watc • One ] I °uion, am reddish fr< F chik’n, an ^teatyov little more Undercook Mtaklef°r^ tee way Ei tending t] �The Inkwell_________________________ Issue 2 Volume 6 ruzerne County History Issue 2 Rv Jonathan Kadjeski } On July 27,1934, Hany Tompkins was walking on rtete TEre :mtl :ment imenta Stas did »hat many would do today: he sued S XHs risht ™ ~ cmsfX*' anley ket. The g ise lives the common law of the state in which the suit was being filed because dle federal courts we^not ™ ’ it Tompkins’s case, not New York or Pennsylvania common law. Ae^tricUo"1 p1]“°rdina^ negligence” standidto laW of “wanton negligence, the state s standard for the duty of care rXoada lawoppo^d Pennslvania’s common Tompkins was awarded damages and the railroad appealed the decision i n ^ *° *respassers> which Tompkins was. The majority opinion, written by Associate Justice Louis Brand 1 naU°n’S higheSt courL States. Brandeis wrote that nothing in the Constitution permits Con ° COmmon law Iiligation in the United common law for cases that do not involve an issue of federal law. B^m^T C°UrtS tO Create federal i ions r beliefs borated, , I for die Southern District of New York. What hann “’X « Tyson <1842), plan® often COnipany in federal district ”eath violation of state law, the federal courts had to apply Pennsylvania’s com i has juniors, itinue o T fiIinS case was heard under the new civil procedure in the Secon Circiut Court of Add 1 live court subsequently threw out Tompkins’s case. Federal civil procedure has since T ra„tas dye same as decided m Me by train s wheels. Under a claimed Tompkins’s h °* Pe"nSy;vania’ Co. K Wk. The course of what was, and still is, a very common action in Northeast Pennsylvania - taking a shortcut home along the railroad tracks. tainly a e this •Wil Dr. Farrell’s Recipe: BBQ “Chicken” Pizza for Vegetarians By Dr. Marcia Farrell le ly a As some of you already know, I made the decision to become a vegetarian over winter break for no other reason than I feel healthier having done so. However, I also love food, and the stereotypical veg fare of salad and hummus wraps just does not cut it for me. So, I decided to find ways to make tasty alternatives to some of my favorite “meat” dishes. Although not known for its health benefits, BBQ chicken pizza is a great Friday-Movie-night food. My spoof on die dish for those who want to cut back on their meat intake is actually quite simple and just as tasty. If you’d prefer “real chicken,” however, just change die LightLife Chik’n strips to diin slices of chicken. Ingredients: • One package of Lightljfe Chik’n strips (Or, one chicken breast cut up into strips if you re a carnivore) • One botde of your favorite BBQ sauce (I really like honey BBQ, but you might like something with a bit more kick. • • One medium-sized yellow onion, chopped . One already prepared pizza crust (Boboli is really good), or you can go old-school and make your crust from scratch Weight Watchers has a fabulous basic pizza crust recipe (hat makes enough crust for you to divide and put a second crust in die freezer. One package shredded provolone cheese or a medium.sized pot, cook the Chik’n, In a slow cooker (I still use the small one I bough < « chicken). Once the Chik’n looks nice and onion, and about 1 >/2 cup BBQ sauce on low heat lor about 1 horn (longer i jou reddish from the sauce, you can start building your pizza. ld on a pizza stone. Using a ladle, spread die BBQ sauce, Preheat oven to 37.5. Knead and shape your pizza dough into a loui « c out) Try to spread (he mixture evenly hik n, and onion mixture around the inner ring of the • on YOU don,« your to be • ie vel “"fccooked in the middle. , „„„ lik, „, Once the mixture is even, sprinkle on as much provolone as you n for about 20 - 25 minutes, but watch your crust. Whtle your dese ma, the way dirough if you are using it from scratch. The crust should be a nice ig i Enjoy! r°wn Bag lunches are he ending these meetings or , ymlr ms, ,h you „move lt from . , , baked oven. �The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 2 The Inkwell English Department Facebook Page By Elizabeth Voda Wilkes students, faculty, and alumni can stay connected via Facebook. By Dr. Lawrence Kuhar s request, Dr. Marcia Farrell created the Wilkes University English Department Facebook page to communicate with those of the department in an easier way. The page was primarily created for English department alumni and any interested prospective students because contacting these individuals is more difficult through email. Farrell explained that, “Given the prominence of social media as a forum for announcements and public discourse, I think the page is particularly important as a way for us to "advertise" and inform others about the unique work that we are doing and to invite them to different activities.” The page includes events and notifications, such as the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta Induction, senior capstone projects, and reminders for submitting to the Kirby Canon. HAMILLS HUNCHES In lieu of writing an actual column this month, Dr. Thomas A. Hamill has submitted to Inkwell Quarterly photos for his Shaming Space: Farewel By Dr. M; Ch newsletter < informatioi few special serialized si previous M Th Voda mark emphasis o and Voda, asked me t our voice a that voice a As members c experience: Tc very least, t work. I’ll r days when Lk deadline ar we have. 1 efforts to k< Jas in at the las been able t appreciate Fir only in IQ IQ from K the body ol publish 20 better, me Gc The Pri So, shame on Dr. Hamill. Shame.... Collaborati Evi brilliant ide “L He ran off “D Farrell, Rai “D it happen!” Th amiss. Al’s “I; back. “N �Issue 2 The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 2 Farewell to the Editors from Dr. Farrell , Dr. he respective que work i as the Kirby By Dr. Marcia Farrell Over die past six years. Inkwell QuarterlyXas, undergone profound change. What began as a short, informational newsletter designed to update majors on events in die department became a 20-page magazine, showcasing not only informational articles and updates but also a name and appearance change along with a solid four issues per year (with a feu special issues), feature stories tackling some of die most pressing issues surrounding English Studies, and even serialized stories. Many of diese changes—including our move to a color publication—occurred under die direction of previous Managing Editor, Matt Kogoy and his staff, most notably Kristina Spaulding and Justin Jones. The contributions by outgoing Editor-in-Chief, David Cook, Copy Editor, Tony Thomas, and Layout Editor, Liz Voda mark a new era for IQ. Under Cook’s direction, IQ began to delve into yet-unexplored terrain with greater emphasis on stylistic experimentation and innovative story-telling. Furthermore, under die direction of Cook, Thomas, and Voda, IQ has attained an presence and identity that I certainly did not imagine when Dr. Maria Hebert-Leiter initially asked me to co-advise the publication back in Fall 2006. In many ways, under Cook, Thomas, and Voda, we have found our voice as lar as publications go, and I firmly believe dial our new editorial board will be able to maintain and even grow that voice as we launch our seventh volume. As a personal aside, however, I would like to extend my congratulations to the graduating editorial and staff members of IQ and tell you dial you have made work on this publication one of die most profound and rejuvenating experiences of my life. Tony, your innovative ideas and sometimes maddening processes dial only you seem to understand have, at die very least, given all of us a hearty laugh, and at the most, contributed to the range and focus of a truly tremendous body of work. I’ll miss your descriptions of food, your ideas, and your, at times, quirky work habits. You’ve made me laugh on days when I have sorely needed to do so. Liz, your vision for our layout and your often unsung efforts in squeezing in last-minute additions (and often past­ deadline articles—eh, hm, Dr. Hamill, Dr. Kuhar, Dave, and Tony) provided us with die solid identity and consistency tiiat w'e have. This publication is YOU in many ways, and I am forever grateful for your efforts to instruct and to fix our pitiful efforts to keep up with you. I am deeply proud you. Jason, Jeff, Sara, Matt, Kristina, and Buddy, I so appreciate your willingness to lend your voices to IQ and to step in at the last minute when we have needed to include information about various events. Without you, we would not have been able to learn more about one another, to share our “confessions,” or have as many wonderful shared laughs. I appreciate all you have done for IQ, for the division, and for me. Finally, Dave... It’s hard to figure out exactiy what to say to you. You are one of the strongest voices w'e have not only in ZQbut also in the department (and die greater Wilkes community, if we are being technical). When you took over ZQfroni Kogoy, you had strong vision of what we could be, and I wholly believe that we have achieved tiiat vision within die body of volume 6. Your personality bleeds tiirough every inch of this publication, and to be able to consistendy publish 20 page issues is a tremendous accomplishment. You have challenged our staff to be better, our publication to be better, me to be better, and I will remain grateful to you lor all time. Good luck and congratulations, graduating Inkwellians! I will miss you enormously. I love you all! The Prismatic Portal of the Professor: Part 4 Collaboratively written by Tony Thomas and Dave Cook Everyone was just standing around, wondering what to do next. 1 hen Tony had a brilliant idea. ., , . „ . . , “Let’s go back to Al! He must be waiting for us outside of die palace, exclaimed 1 ony. He ran off towards the exit. Everyone else followed suit. “Do you think Al is okay? Like you don’t tiiink that while we were trying to save Dr. Farrell, Rahuk’s forces intercepted Al and captured him?” asked Annie. “Don’t even say something like that! In this bizarre world your speaking may have made • i >» n i pj Farrell still rather angry at her imprisonment This has been a very bad w'eek for a lot of people. it happen! Sss of Feafand when they reach the landing pad they notice tiiat something is 1 he heroes exit am,SS. back. 8 rp, suddenty a familiar voice came from behind a large pile of crates. "Emerged from behind (he crates, but he was not alone. A man was holding agon to Al’s “Now stay right where you are,” said die mysterious stranger. - --------------------------- ---------------------------------- ' 17 Continued on page 18... �The Inkwell Volume 6 Issue 2 The In. The P Senior Spotlight—Buddy Gouger “Who Those of us who know graduating senior William “Buddy” Gouger know his good-natuire c e 1 1 e it-is” presence. A member of the Wilkes Wrestling team, Buddy hopes Lo blend both his love o * g is i i era ure an sport in the future. . .. , ... “Next year I plan to substitute teach around tlie area and do some job hunting for teaching positions an possi y do some TSS work on the side,” he says. He also plans “to help coach at one of the junior high wres ing programs in an effort to get his foot in the door. „ TT. . e , . . (d attended Pleasant Valley High School in An avid hunter, Gouger is originally from southern Pennsylvania an< Broadheadsville, PA. He currently works as a backroom associate at TJX Companies, a job he plans to continue working at until he lands a permanent teaching position. i ■ Inspired by his father, Gouger is a natural teacher and is deeply concerned with educating the whole person. In a recent conversation, he related a story about student teaching in which he chose to explain to a student why she was being disciplined at i the high school so that “she would understand why what she did was wrong.” Known for his blunt commentary, Gouger is a quick favorite among his classmates. Characteristically, on his Facebook page, Gouger explains, “Yes, my name is Buddy. No, I am not related to Buddy the Elf, Buddy Holly, or any other fictional character/celebrity that shares my namesake. No, you cannot call me anything else.” His classmates often comment on how much Photo Courtesy of Buddy Gouger tliey miss spending class time with him. n I ri I 1 i Books Vs. Movies By Kendra Kuhar For quite some time, filmmakers have been basing movies off of novels or turning the novels into movies. In some cases, this has been done particularly well such as with Hany Potter, Lord ofthe Rings, and so on. However in other cases, like The Scarlet Letter and Shutter Island, the movies do not do the books justice. When deciding if the theatric version of a film is better than the book, it is wise to start by looking at what genre the book classifies as. Usually, fantasy books tend to be easily made into movies because filmmakers can utilize special effects. This is the case with Harry Potter and the Lord ofdie Rings. Each book series is based on a fantasy world in which computers make it easy to regenerate. With this being said, it is no surprise that more realistic books do not make for good films. The Scarlet Letter one of the most famous novels ever, was a terrible movie. The case is the same with Shutter Island. This is mostly because it is nearly impossible to reflect the complete value or suspense of the writing in the novel through a screen It is natural for readers to give characters faces and play out novels in their minds when thevread After seeing a movie that is derived from a novel, some readers may claim that tliey have already created th r ’ 8a novel in their minds and that the film has ruined it. Another conflict is that if someone see perIect rePresentatlon of die they forget their original idea of what the book is like because the images and voices in ik § H movie aLer reading die book, they replace what was imagined. CeS the movie much stronger that Ultimately, you can decide for yourself whether you like the book or the movie ve ’ remember this: If you’re going to debate whether the book or movie version is belter fl CrS1°n ° a Story better. Just the movie. While the movie might be a good replica of the story, it will never imo t ’ Iea^ b°°k before seeing reading the book. ‘ nl lo the experience you have while 18 conur back. that tl with; were gianl spar in tf was ma jus di: sy H v tl s i �Th<' Inkwell Ihbiii Volume 6 2 Issue 2 | I lie Pi inmalic Portal... Continued from page 17... ulliimli mill "tell H like i|iliili lili i.ilim ami |mi'i||i<iiiu mill pnwiililv iiIiiim. inogiitnih" .. .... v I ligll Si I II Mil in "Who arc yon?” asked David. "Who am I? Who arc you? Who are we? I am Sir Oorloolfris, the high guard captain of Rahuk. You will all be wit h me nicely or Al will die. And you don’t want that do you?” asked Oorloolfris as he jabbed tire gun into Al’s back. Al whimpered in pain. “Do as he says,” implored Al. Yes. I )o what I say and (his will be a rather nice trip,” said Oorloolfris as he called down his hovercraft. Realizing that they had no other choice, (hey all boarded the vessel. I he journey was actually a rather nice trip like Oorloolfris said it would be. The interior of his craft was decorated wit i a m.islei s charm. 1 he radio speakers played the finest interdimensional jazz, which sounded like bluegrass. The tunes were damn toe lapping good. “So where are we going?” asked Dr. Farrell. "We are going to Rahuk,” said Oorloolfris. "Thai sounds terrifying,” said Annie with a smack of sass to her voice. '()h it is. 1 rust me,” said Oorloolfris as he laughed maniacally. Alter a journey (hat took about hall an hour, they all arrived at Rahuk’s fortress. The fortress was shaped like a giant cube and it glistened like the finest ol diamonds. In fact it was made entirely out of diamonds. A super villain can spare no expense. They landed on the landing pad and Oorloolfris lead them into tire compound. "Be quiet or else”, said Oorloolfris as he lead them down a long and poorly lit hallway. There wasn’t much room in llic bud,i’,et left lor proper lighting. Soon they entered Rahuk’s chamber. "I am Rahuk. 1 x>rd and master ol this realm,” said the villain. He had long robes on and sported a bowler hat. He was just odd for sure, but still quite menacing. “1 le doesn't look so scary,” said Dave. "Silence!" bellowed Rahuk and xvith a Hash Dave was encased in a block of ice. "Well, that's impressive," mused Tony. "What are you doing here?" asked Rahuk. "We came here to save our friends," said Annie. " There will be no such thing. You are all doomed!” said Rahuk menacingly. “I have your friends locked in this magic box cox cred in magical locks." Sure enough everyone that they had sent out to save were locked in die magical lock box. Suddenly Al grabbed the arm of Oorloolfris and twisted it. Screaming in pain Oorloolfris dropped his gun. “Quick! Do something," yelled Al as he began to scuffle with Oorloolfris. Nobody really knew what to do and diey just stood around arguing w hat about to do. Al was clearly getting irate. "Go and kick him or something!” yelled Al as Oorloolfris tore out a tuft of his fur. They all ran up to Rahuk and they reached lor him, but their hands passed through thin air. Rahuk then I lOW.X \\", VO Of'.'.C'. , ASCS. disappeared. "1 le w as a hologram,” exclaimed Tony. "Indeed. that w as just a hologram. I am somewhere hidden in this castle,” came Rahuk’s voice over a speaker cox. >, , xxh.u gvmv sxstem. "You will never find me.” “I found him!” yelled Dr. Farrell. She was standing behind Rahuk. Rahuk xxas not known for great hiding spots, ntox.es In some .■> '.;x\ XW'; ... V.1 Xx'.V.C?. X. ,'V.x' lie was hidden behind some poorly placed crates. "Release them,” demanded Dr. Farrell. "No...xxvll...l will only if you can beat me in a battle of wits. . "Deal.” said Annie w ho assumed the group would want to undergo a battle ol wits. "O' .x .XXX'.xC - x X \ f,g Ml, .11, enery, l«m and «s. SO. .he ba.de „ under™,. The ba.de was .0 take place on the eery top of V« ,V; n x . c .\X'X. ' \<C ** T Btarte Ruhr*. They swung hard and ta. Parry here and parry there. Suddenly Rahuk .■■■■'- XX. at Dr. FamT.’s legs causing her to lose her balance. -1 shall wiled Rahuk..),,st as Mu* ™ v ' ' x c • XX . x, XX X X' b'.X' >-.X' .\\ .x< '■ -c *<= i.;n;nCT mow a] bl°w' ** came charging in and plowed ■ '.C R.'.a. k sending .he both of them off the top ol the castle. t XdT'-~ bo* X..lies fall l-i'i and disappear into die mist below. 10 Continued on page 20... �Issue 2 7he Inkwell The Prismatic Portal... Continued from page 17.., tell-it-likee and possibly ns” in an ol in es. In some other cases, lat genre special -Id in which t Letter, one iccause it is r seeing a tation of the ng the book, stronger that ;r. Just fore seeing ive while “Who are you?” asked David. Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? I am Sir Oorloolfris, the high guard captain of Rahuk. You will all be coming with me nicely or Al will die. And you don’t want that do you?” asked Oorloolfris as he jabbed the gun into Al’s back. Al whimpered in pain. “Do as he says,” implored Al. Yes. Do what I say and this will be a rather nice trip,” said Oorloolfris as he called down his hovercraft. Realizing that they had no other choice, they all boarded the vessel. The journey was actually a rather nice trip like Oorloolfris said it would be. The interior of his craft was decorated with a master s charm. The radio speakers played the finest interdimensional jazz, which sounded like bluegrass. The tunes were damn toe tapping good. “So where are we going?” asked Dr. Farrell. “We are going to Rahuk,” said Oorloolfris. “That sounds terrifying,” said Annie with a smack of sass to her voice. “Oh it is. Trust me,” said Oorloolfris as he laughed maniacally. After a journey that took about half an hour, they all arrived at Rahuk’s fortress. The fortress was shaped like giant cube and it glistened like the finest of diamonds. In fact it was made entirely out of diamonds. A super villain can spare no expense. They landed on the landing pad and Oorloolfris lead them into the compound. “Be quiet or else”, said Oorloolfris as he lead them down a long and poorly lit hallway. There wasn’t much room in the budget left for proper lighting. Soon they entered Rahuk’s chamber. “I am Rahuk. Lord and master of this realm,” said the villain. He had long robes on and sported a bowler hat. He was just odd for sure, but still quite menacing. “He doesn’t look so scary,” said Dave. “Silence!” bellowed Rahuk and with a flash Dave was encased in a block of ice. “Well, dial’s impressive,” mused Tony. “What are you doing here?” asked Rahuk. “We came here to save our friends,” said Annie. “There will be no such thing. You are all doomed!” said Rahuk menacingly. “I have your friends locked in this magic box covered in magical locks.” Sure enough everyone that diey had sent out to save were locked in die magical lock box. Suddenly Al grabbed the arm ol' Oorloolfris and twisted it. Screaming in pain Oorloolfris dropped his gun. “Quick! Do something,” yelled Al as he began to scuffle with Oorloolfris. Nobody really knew what to do and they just stood around arguing what about to do. Al was clearly getting irate. “Go and kick him or something!” yelled Al as Oorloolfris tore out a tuft of his fur. They all ran up to Rahuk and tliey reached for him, but their hands passed through thin air. Rahuk then disappeared. “He was a hologram,” exclaimed Tony. “Indeed, that was just a hologram. I am somewhere hidden in this castle,” came Rahuk’s voice over a speaker system. “You will never find me.” “I found him!” yelled Dr. Farrell. She was standing behind Rahuk. Rahuk was not known lor great hiding spots. He was hidden behind some poorly placed crates. “Release them,” demanded Dr. Farrell. “No...well...I will only if you can beat me in a battle of wits. “Deal,” said Annie who assumed the group would want to undergo a battle of wits. “It shall be done!” yelled Rahuk. “Let the battle commence!” In this dimension a battle of wits was actually a duel with lightsabers. No one understood the correlation between waving a sword with an energy beam and wits. Still, the battle was underway. The battle was to take place on the vety top of the palace, swiped Rahuk. They swung hard and fast. Parry here and party there. Suddenly Rahuk to deliver the killing blow, Al came chargutg in and plowed into Rahuk sending the both of them off the top of the castle. EXonetlXer to see both bodies fall fast and dtsappear into the mist below. Continued on page 20... �The Inkwell The Prismatic Portal... Continued from page 19... Issue 4 Volume 6 | i “He saved us all,” said Annie. „ Morosely, they all walked back to the chamber where everyone was imprisoned and where a n ock of ice. When diey got in tiiere they noticed that everyone had been freed and Dave was dripping we . “What happened?” asked Annie , . „ ■, n„„. Al killed Oorloolfris and then used magic to unlock the locks and he unfroze me from ie ice, sai e was a wizard.” “Wait, if he was a wizard tiien why did he wait all this time to use some of his magical powers! That would have saved so much time!” yelled Dr. Farrell. “He said that he didn’t like to brag,” said Dave with a shrug. Yes my kind do not like to brag about our powers,” said a familiar voice. “Al!” said Tony. Yes I am still quite alive. See, when I dove off the tower with Raliuk I was actually entering another space of time because of the clothes that I dressed in today. I was able to defeat him, save your friends, and I will get you back to your own dimension post haste!” said Al. “Since you are a wizard, can you give me a new hand?” asked Tony. “Sure!” said Al and with that Tony had his hand back. “That doesn’t make any sense that bit about the clothes. How is that even possible?” asked Annie. “A wizard did it I am a wizard and 1 saved the day. Therefore a wizard did it,” said Al. “But...” began Annie. “Wizard” said Al. And so our heroes and their friends were whisked back their own dimension ria the other end of tire prismatic portal, which Al conveniently found and put on his spacecraft Everyone walked out of Dr. Kuhar’s office and looked around. “It is good to be back,” said Dr. Farrell. They all walked outside, but something was amiss. They were all indeed back at Kirby Hall, but something was not right “My god. Al didn’t take us back to the right time!” exclaimed David. “We are in the future!” said Tony as they all gazed towards the space car traffic right above their heads. Answers: Literary Anagrams! Directions: Use the clues to unscramble the anagrams. A Sea Jet Nun: Mark Twain said he wanted “to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” Razed Upon: He wanted to make it new. Cowards Lie: He would find being earnest of upmost importance. A Renegade Poll: Don’t get wine with him from the cellar. Angering Bells: The best minds of his generation were destroyed by madness. SjaqsuiQ uayv aoj uanv appAX -re3SO punoj pjzg ua^sny atref The Narrative Theory of Video Games By Tony Thomas Narrative theory is a branch of literary studies that examines the structure of how narrative impacts the experience of readership and how these structures affect the perception of the reader. In recent years more academic study has been conducted on the narrative structure ol video games. Video games have long been about telling a rich story that allows die player to interact and experience it dirough his/her play time. The earliest role playing games were text based. They were essentially virtual choose your own adventure stories. Role playing games have changed radically since then, but die premise of these games have largely remained die same. Complex plot lines with multiple side plots with the decisions of the player impacting how the story is told. Though in some games the sand-box element, allowing you to play at your own pace and do what you please, can make the delivery of the story more staggered. A game like 1 he Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim allows you to do what you please. You can put off story missions for quite some time and just hunt and slay dragons. While the storyline is engaging and rich the difficulty in studying the game as a whole is that you do not have to simply play the storyline and experience it in die same way that you would a text. The stories of some video games are rich and can possibly rival some in fiction. The field for studying the narrative structures of video games is growing and will continue to grow as games become more complex. Perhaps one day video games will be considered texts to be canonized. 20 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Spring 2012 (Volume 6, Issue 4) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 2012 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/68c21750486a53e73e16b9934382c9fb.pdf 8861e5fa6e1da9a3dc6dafd2b8d3634f PDF Text Text Th& Inkwell Quarterly Volume 7 Issue 1 Fall 2012 In tliis Issue: Humanities and Club 2 r Updates A Historical Moment in Luzerne Comity 2 A Romantic Moment in 2 Literary History Back of the Bookshelf 3 Local Events 3 Banned Books Week 4 Humanities Picnic .5 Senior Seminar 6 To the Cosmos and Back with Life and Art: A Personal Reference for Aurora 6 “Four Noble Truths”: 7 The Anthem for a New Era at Wilkes Welcome to New Majors and Minors 7 New York Times Best Seller List 8 Hie Dreaded “R” 8 Word Cult Classics, The Book Edition 9 Suzi M’s Blog Novel 10 Serialized Story' 11 Dr. Paolo Bianco’s Sabbatical 12 The Wizarding World of Pottermore 13 Senior Spotlight: Ceavuan Dubarry 15 Library Liaison 15 Hamill's Hunches 16 Kuhar’s Comer 17 Hunger Games Crossword Puzzle 20 Photo Courtesy of Vicky Mayk The Inkwell Welcomes President Leahy By Annie Yoskoski Dr. Patrick Leahy was installed as the sixth president of Wilkes University this past September. As a graduate of Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in English, two master’s degrees from Cornell, and an EED from the University of Pennsylvania, Leahy is a president who understands what Wilkes University' is about, and is eager to put more emphasis on the humanities in a time where the sciences are predominandy taking over. Originally from Baltimore, Leahy has lived up and down the east coast from Boston to Washington, D.C. He has lived in Northeastern Pennsylvania for eight years. Originally apply­ ing for the job, Leahy saw it as a, “unique privilege to pursue an opportunity' like this and do it in a part of tire country that I already knew and loved.” He submitted his material and upon learning more about tire school he was “hooked.” “I just believe fundamentally that there was incredible work being done here at Wilkes that would be very exciting to be a part of. So, I diink it was part the more I learned, and continue to learn, about the place die more I appreci­ ate what happens here, and the more potential I believe die university has.” Leahy went into college as a business major, and dien switched to English in his fresh­ man year. Elaborating, Leahy explained, “A combination of two things happened my freshman year. I took accounting and did not do very well and I took a freshman poetry class with the then president of Georgetown, Father Tim Healy. That class alone convinced me to transfer into die College of Arts and Sciences and major in English”. Leahy’s favorite thing about study­ ing the humanities was the overall experience of unpacking literature. “I thought When else in my life am I going to have the time and opportunity to read these great works and have someone help me through it?”’ Leahy has just started, but already has an overall goal for his time at the university'. Leahy said, “My main goal is to try and create an environment where the people involved in this community can excel. I don’t for a minute think that I alone can do anything with the uni­ versity, I truly' don’t believe diat. I do believe that a president’s role is to try and create the best possible environment for the work of the faculty, students, and staff. I think mj' principle role is to create that culture on campus and promote the place like crazy. I think if we do that, create diat environment, we can become one of the best small universities in the country”. Leahy believes that studying the humanities gives people dre tools that they need to succeed. “The humanities have many' benefits. One of the top benefits is critical drinking skills. Try' and unpack a Shakespeare Continued on Page 5... 1 �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 Back of the Bo* Humanities Club and Faculty Updates By Victoria I levener • Dr. Mischelle Anthony attended the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) State Con erence on Saturday, September 29th, in Harrisburg. Anthony discussed how to preserve and improve higher education in Pennsylvania. Anthony used Wilkes University as an example of faculty struggles against administration at oti tie university and state levels and talked about possible solutions for these issues. Dr. Anthony will also atten te nationa AAUP conference on Shared Governance in Washington D.C. on October 26-28. • Dr. Marcia Farrell’s book review of Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence ofModernism by Ruth Hoberman will be • • • • The Inkwell published in Volume 49, Issue 3 of the James Joyce Quarterly. Dr. Scan Kelly’s article entided “I blush, I bum, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity”: Writing Perversion and die Kantian Inhuman in Poe’s “The Black Cat” will appear in die winter (2013) special issue of Edgar Allan Poe Review, "Post Kantian Poe." Dr. Janet Starner’s Eng 342, Studies in Shakespeare, class was privileged to have guest lecturer Professor Naomi Baker. Baker provided the students with the Theatrical prospective of the actor and director, allowing students to engage with the Shakespeare’s texts in new ways. The Manuscript Society will be holding a Halloween reading on Thursday October 25th at 5pm. The Poetry In Transit 2012 launch event is coming in October to die Wilkes-Barre Intermodal Center on Public Square. A Historical Moment in Luzerne County By 1 .eanna Rolon I lave you ever wondered how Luzerne got its name? The story dates back to the 1700’s. It was named after ( hevalier De Luzerne, a Frenchman who supported the colonials in the Revolutionary war and later became a French minister to the United States. The name Luzerne, when translated, literally means “lighthouse, ” Contrary to the noble manner in which Luzerne was named, the naming of Wyoming was not as sophisticated. Before William Penn founded Pennsylvania, the Iroquois had control of what is now Wyoming Valley. At the time the\ didn’t feel that they had enough man power to properly setde, so they permitted some odier Native American tribes to join them on the land and help setde it. The Delaware tribe ended up settling along the Susquehanna River, and named the areas on both sides of the river, “Maugh-wau-wa-me”. When the English setders ventured onto the land they were introduced to it by the name that the Delware had given to it. Somehow, they took “Maugh-wau-wa-me” and translated it into Wyoming. 1 .uzerne County was given its name from a respected Frenchmen and Wyoming was given its name from an awkward translation. It makes one wonder how many other names of things were found in similar ways. A Romantic Moment in Literary History By Gabby Zawacki Beware the man of the lessons I learned 1 novel takes the reader oi cast of characters. If you happen b smell of deadi and decay sacrificed animals in van makes the ultimate sacri: Arvin is sent to odd pair of Roy and The releases spiders into the seem harmless enough u In addition to Arvin, who spins his ow ending. There is no satis morality, the pages keep Flannery O’Connor. He: Perhaps Katherine Dun: some other writer to cor — but Pollock is no sha Local Events By Anthony Bartoli There are several upcorr Campus Events: • The Sordoni Art Ga 408-4325 • You can go see “Go 11 & 18 at 2 p.m. Community Events: • October 13, 2012 at are §12.00. • Tire Ringling Bros. an. • Tire Trans Siberian 0 By Dr. Helen Davis and Jamie Alderiso 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to eardi like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you \e are many - they are few!' Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem The Masque ofAnarchy is one of the most influential English political poems. Gandhi mentions it in his doctrine of Satyagraha and Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience. It is hailed by many as one of die greatest articulations of nonviolent civil disobedience ever written. Its message still resonates today. To learn more about die legacy of British Romanticism, take English 335 in the Spring! Sl.lll I .... lor more information. 2 �Issue 1 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 Back of the Bookshelf nference on ion in at both the :nd die national n will be Perversion and 'lan Poe Review, or Naomi tudents to on Public d after French re noble , At the time ican tribes to 1 named die vere ranslated it >m an By Gabby Zawacki Beware the man who salvages road kill. Never hitch-hike again. Watch out for twisted religion. These are just some of the lessons I learned from Donald Ray Pollock’s first novel, The DevilAll the Time. Beginning in Knockemstiff, Ohio, this novel takes the reader <on a horrifying, revolting, and utterly eerie road trip dirough the personal hell of an incredibly corrupt cast of characters. If you happen to be wandering in tire calm fields of Knockemstiff, your nose might be greeted with the sickening smell of death and decay. In this serene setting, Willard Russell and his son Arvin have made a shrine of road kill and sacrificed animals in various states of decay in an attempt to save his cancer- stricken wife. She dies anyway, and Willard makes die ultimate sacrifice and kills himself. Antin is sent to live with his fadier’s parents who live in Tennessee. It is here that the reader is introduced to the odd pair of Roy and Theodore, who travel from parish to parish, bringing their strange brand of worship witii diem. Roy releases spiders into the congregation while Theodore, wheelchair stricken after a self-poisoning, plays the guitar. These two seem harmless enough until they kill Roy’s wife in an attempt to resurrect her. In addition to these characters are Sandy and Carl, a married couple with an addiction to sex and murder, and Arvin, who spins his own story throughout the pages and is the closest thing this novel has to a hero. There is no happy ending. There is no satisfaction. But you will not want to put the book down. Despite the terror and horrifying lack of morality, die pages keep on turning. The grotesque settings and crooked characters are similar to the southern gothic style of Flannery O’Connor. Her genius seems spilled on every page. However, Pollock’s own unique voice haunts the pages too. Perhaps Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love, says it best in her review of the novel when she says, “I keep reaching for some other writer to compare him with — maybe a Raymond Carver with hope and vitality, or a godless Flannery O'Conner — but Pollock is no shadow of anybody else. This is a powerful talent at work." Local Events By Anthony Bartoli There are several upcoming events here on campus and throughout die community: Campus Events: • The Sordoni Art Gallery is hosting “Rosalyn Richards — Recent Works” until October 21. For more information, call (570) 408-4325 • You can go see “GodspelT at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center on November 9,10, 16 & 17 at 8 p.m., and November 11 & 18 at 2 p.m. Community Events: • October 13, 2012 at 7 p.m.: Penn State Men’s Ice Hockey will be playing at die Mohegan Sun Arena at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12.00. • The Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey present “Barnum Bash” at the Mohegan Sun arena from November 1-4. • The Trans Siberian Orchestra will be performing on November 25 at the Mohegan Sun Arena at 3 and 7 p.m. The Inkwell Quarterly Stall I’aculli VIxisoi: Dr. Maicia I’alTcll I'.ililoi-m-i liiel: Annie Yoskoskl M.inaning 1'ililoi: Kimlia Knhai ('o|>\ I'.ilihn: (Jain iella Za«ai ki Assislanl (’<>|>\ Editor s: Caih Yainins anil I .|. Dennis I.axonl Editor: Stephanie Wilkie Si.ill Wiill Biillmi (.1 i/z.inli, Yiillioiix Bai loll. Ashler I'lahei t\. 1 eanna Rolon. |. mile \ldeiiso. please contact I ;k iillx ( 'null lllllli John ('at I oil. anil \ i< lol i.i I lexeliei I )i. 11 eli n 1 ).i\ is. I )i. I at i \ Knhai. anil Di. I hoi n.is 11 a tin II 3 ■ �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 The Inkwell The Inkwell Welc Banned Books Week By Anthony Bartoli Banned Books Week was started in 1982 because of a surge in the number of challenges toward books in schools. The American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association, The Library of Congress, as well as a few other organizations sponsor the week, which is held during the last week of September. The official website of Banned Books Week says that the week is “the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read”. The American Library Association says that “the books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted with removal or restrictions in libraries and schools. While books have been and continue to be banned, part of the Banned Books Week celebration is the fact that, in a majority of cases, the books have remained available. This happens only thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, students, and community members who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read”. This year, to mark the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week, the ALA will be holding its second annual “Virtual Read Out”. The criteria for entering a video in the Read Out are as follows: ‘Wideos (no more than two minutes long) can be submitted by anyone as long as it includes a reading of a banned or challenged book. The video must include information on where and why the book was banned or challenged. You may also wish to add your thoughts on the importance of keeping that particular book on library or bookstore shelves. Videos of up to three minutes long can be submitted giving eyewitness accounts of local challenges. For those who are camera-shy, you can still participate in the Banned Books Virtual Read-out by creating a video montage diat centers on banned/challenged books. Thomas University created a video last year that can be used as an example” (ala.org). In case you were wondering, books still continue to be banned and challenged. A few titles from this year’s list may surprise you! “ttyl; ttfn; I8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle Reasons: offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa Reasons: nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group The Hanger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, occult/Satanic, violence My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler Reasons: nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group The Absolutely True Diary ofa Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie Reasons: offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Reasons: nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley Reasons: insensitivity, nudity, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones Reasons: nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Reasons: offensive language, racism In order to celebrate Banned Books Week, the Wilkes Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta held readings in the SUB on October 2 — 4 in order to recognize the important week. Sigma Tau Delta Vice President Anne Yoskoski said, “Banned Books week is important because people need to know that (a) this is still happening and (b) some people out there are banning amazing works because of perceived issues and possible results of people reading that literature. People need to decide for themselves what they want to read and what they are offended by”. sonnet and you h Third, I diink th< some forward thi do not.” Last, Le student. can experience ei As for th course there are t certain segment c dents under appn student studying 1 education require should have,” Les that.” As for hi: the faculty, such a honors program v prepare them for: manities. Delving ii responded with a i which speaks to rr think a part of it is Through It” I jusl Then with a pause neighbors in Bear of life, and see if I got die reference, i Overall, L University the best open arms. Humanities By John Carroll October tl The picnic was hel Those wh< terms of inter-disci places where one c individuals. (So fev a writer walk into a The humai die exclusions of al overlap in subject r context of a text - i understanding the c though one can tak. interpreted cannot 1 novel, or poem, or : to approach philoso So, what re: majors, minors, and disciplines widiin di people. �Issue 1 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 The Inkwell Welcomes President Leahy continued from cover schools. :w other n targeted e Banned tily thanks Dm to 1 “Virtual ined or ged. You store leo ie used as t surprise sonne and you have little choice but to think critically. And obviously, communication skills, both verbal and written. Hiu-d I think there is a sort of imagination that comes with the humanities that leads to real creativity, and I would argue some forward thinking. I think that is a real skiU that is furnished in the humanities, it fosters it in a way that other majors do not. Last, Leahy beEeves that the humanities focus on the “big issues in Efe,” which helps to build a moral character in a student. For example think about Shakespeare. All Efe’s lessons play out in Shakespeare. If you read his works you can experience every aspect of Efe.” As for the current state of the humanities, Leahy feels that the humanities are “underappreciated in general. Of course there are the individuals who want to major in EngEsh and in history and in poEtical science; there wiU always be a certain segment of those. But, I think that students today are so preoccupied with their careers and I think as a result stu­ dents under appreciate what the humanities can do to help you prepare for your career.” The quaEties that are instiUed in a student studying the humanities are often overlooked, but Leahy does appreciate the emphasis Wilkes puts on its general education requirements, including EngEsh. “We stiU feel strongly that there is a certain general education core that students should have, ” Leahy said, “and I am deEghted that we still emphasize that here at Wilkes. I intend to continue to support that.” As for his plans for the Humanities Department, it is too early to say. He has been kicking some ideas around with the faculty, such as better promotion for tire Humanities Department and possibly an honors program. Leahy feels that an honors program would attract more students to the humanities and “if more students understood how the humanities can prepare them for successful careers, as well as I would argue, successful lives, more students might be attracted to the hu­ manities. Delving into his more personal attachment to English, the question of his favorite book had to be asked. Leahy responded with a smile and said, '''’Great Gatsby would be one of them. There’s a James Joyce short story called “The Dead” which speaks to me a great deal. If you drink about literature drat you go back and reread, that would be one of them. I diink a part of it is I stumbled on it in a certain period in my life, and it just moved me at that time. Also, “A River Runs Through It.” I just reread that diis summer. I can relate to the characters in a way due to the experiences in my own Efe.” Then with a pause he mused, “I guess I’m a short story guy.” Leahy also has a penchant for Thoreau, quoting Walden to his neighbors in Bear Creek. “I said, ‘I went to the woods because I wished to Eve deEberately, to front only the essential facts of Efe, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not Eved’. No one got the reference, it was awkward,” he said with a laugh. Overall, Leahy is “warmed and humbled” by his reception from the Wilkes community, and hopes to make Wilkes University the best it can be. We welcome President Leahy into the Humanities Department and Wilkes University with open arms. Humanities Picnic By John Carroll October the third marked this year’s humanities department picnic, open to faculty and students in the humanities. The picnic was held on the Kirby lawn from 2:30 to 4:00PM, and was a fun and interesting experience. Those who have attended the picnic in the past can attest to the fascinating opportunity this event represented in terms of inter-disciplinary discourse, and the free food. I mean, come on. Free food is great. There are surprisingly few other places where one can find oneself sitting at a table with historians, writers, literary theorists, philosophers, and multi-cultural individuals. (So few places, in fact, that such an event can seem to be like a set-up to a joke: “A philosopher, a historian, and a writer walk into a picnic. . .”) The value of such an experience, though, is not as easy to make light of. The humanities represent a set of disciplines so interdependent, so vitally linked to one another that to study one to the exclusions of all others is ill-advised, if not impossible. While each discipline is unique in its approach and techniques, tire overlap in subject matter is extremely pervasive. English majors are often expected to research and understand the historical context of a text — the response of readers upon a text’s release, the socio-economic trends of the day, et cetera. Even understanding the development of modem forms of literature such as tire novel requires an understanding of the past. And, though one can take what one is told for granted, understanding the methods by which such information is preserved and interpreted cannot but improve the overall quality of one’s own work. This is also true, of course, of those moments where a novel, or poem, or short story begins to flirt with questions of epistemology, metaphysics, or ethics. If one understands how to approach philosophical questions, examining the approaches employed by an author becomes infinitely more satisfying. So, what reason could there have been to pass up an opportunity to develop connections with other humanities majors, minors, and professors, connections that, if utilized, can enrich the quality of work produced from within any of the disciplines within the humanities. Or, you know, to pass up free food, pleasant conversation, a nice day outside with great people. 5 �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 Senior Seminar: Horror and Science Fiction in Modern Literature with Dr. Chad Stanley By Brittney Grizzanti As I’m sure most people who were browsing for classes a few months ago noticed, the title of this course couldn t help but catch my attention. When one thinks of a senior seminar class, the general assumption is that it s going to be one last big, in-depth hoorah for senior EngEsh majors, probably focusing on some genre or author Eke 19th Century British Literature, Shakespeare, or Bronte. Tire title Horror and Science Fiction brings such associations like Star Trek and Aken vs. Predator...not very EngEsh-major-y. However, now being in the class for about five weeks, I can attest that tire genre is not aU monsters and aEens (although, yes, there are many monsters and aEens). However, more than anything the pieces we have covered tend to be engaging the emotion of fear; what is fear, how does fear act as a function in society, how fear can shape or entirely change our perceptions of the world around us, and most importantly, what should we fear? Some of our readings Eke HP Lovecraft’s “The Outsider” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” play with the reader’s own perceptions of what a monster is by flipping around the archetype of the monster story. In both short stories, readers discover at the end that the protagonist that they have been identifying with, and feeling sympathetic toward the whole time is in fact a monster. “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” specificaUy deals with elements of 20th century racism, and how fear and racism can come together, through the story’s treatment of the strange, fish-Eke inhabitants of Innsmouth. Similarly H.G. WeUs’ The Island of Dr. Moreau is influenced by notions of 17th century Atavism, the idea that inferior races have more primitive, or animakstic traits. However this notion too is flipped upside down when the protagonist discovers that the beast-men are not human beings who were turned to beasts by Moreau’s experiments, but rather they are animals that have been brutaEzed and given human quaEties, leaving readers to question who is superior/inferior, and who is tire novel’s true monster? Ultimately Dr. Stanley’s Senior Seminar manages to be both unconventional and challenging. While I never thought a serious in-class discussion could end with talking about fish-people oi vampires, I. lias been interesting to see what conventional Eterary elements reside in even the most modem horror and science fiction, pieces, like Dracula, slasher movies, and even True Blood (not TwiEght though). To the Cosmos and Back with Life and Art: A Personal Reflection for Aurora By Jamie Alderiso “It’s all a movie. It’s all one great big movie.. .Only you can pick the genre,” asserts Billy Loomis to his legendary “Scream Queen” girlfriend Sidney Prescott of the Scream franchise. Scream revitalized the horror genre upon its release in December 1996. The flick features a group of hardened, lost, and yet highly self-aware teenagers in the middle of a murderous killing spree in their hometown. However, the true novelty of die film exists in the killers who quiz dieir victims on horror movie trivia before die bloody finish. The quintessential Meta horror film of the 1990s brought up a multitude of questions for its audience. Can we blame art (literature, music, theatre, and films) for real Efe events and atrocities? How significandy does the fiction of our time impact the nonfiction of die present? Is diere a clear dichotomy between these two genres of art and communication? Scream and its questions always come to mind when impossible questions like these arise, and especially during this previous July. On July 20th, 2012,1 was vacationing with my family in South Carolina. In the latter end of our trip, we drove two hours south to visit Charleston. On that morning we slowly started to rise, and my mother turned on The Today Show. “Big news. There’s been a massive shooting at a midnight opening of The Dark Knight.” I was dumbstruck. The images and phone interviews of the mayhem chided me. Throughout the day, it was hard to be interested in the history and culture Charleston had to offer my family. I found myself thinking of nothing besides Aurora and what it must have been Eke trapped in that theatre.. .dying in that theatre. At lunch, I was incessantly surfing my phone for any answers I could. Then, I was finally alerted to an update, a picture and name of the prime suspect, James Holmes. Now, as a huge fan of Nolan’s films, and Batman in general, I was exhilarated about seeing the film as soon as the summer blockbuster was released. A few weeks after my family arrived home, I went with my sister and two cousins For me personaHy, concentrating on the fihn itself was quite difficult. My mind raced with horrible yet ironic situations of what happened during another showing of the film I was watching in pubEc. Scenes of gunfire, mayhem and terrorism were happening onscreen but there was no Batman to rescue the patrons of Century 16.1 could not hel) but think how horrific the experience could have been to have that playing both visually and audibly in the middle of violent led,al chaos Further questions galloped dtrough my brain. How could so many, people in the middle of watching a film about t t . die _te m similar terrorism and violence? How seductive can art be? e. How many people imitate fictions on a dally daily basis? W Why do we want our fictions to Eve? To what degree do these pieces 7 refat/opposing " xes of art control our Eves 11™ mform Our ' sides? However, maybe art Eves upon Efe... maybe art needs Efe for nourishment? Perh' iaps human experience also lives upon art? On a different strand, Efe and art can also be inevitably cycEc, never-ending unchangeabl Continued on Page 7... The Inkwe Continuer what I’ve < No, perha summer n thoughts.' “Four. By Gabby W she was ov induction s lyrics. So r; Together ti Dr. Kuhar These valu and to proi define whc like to say, With th explained t represent tl dressed wit Dr. Kuhar beauty of tl nothing lik< Here are th Welcorr By Annie Y We English stuc The Cholewa, Su �Issue 1 Dr. : couldn’t o be one British id Alien vs. :nre is not res we have ’ can shape . the rt stories, ird the racism, and mouth. or races is covers animals o is the ver thought hat her movies, irora >endary elease in i ir victims iltitude of 1 How these two luring this we drove lay Show, mages and Iture like 1 Then, I ,n as the is. For me what <vere ’ horrific film about do we opposing hvesup^ geZ^---J The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 Continued from page 6... , With these intimate and highly existential questions in mind, I’m still not quite sure on what I ve come around to thinking. However, maybe the lines between fiction and nonfiction are slowly starting to evaporate. No, perhaps the lines have been long gone; perhaps they:never existed. Nevertheless, as I walked out that theater on that late summer night, I felt strangely connected to everyone andI everything, and yet terribly isolated due to the direction of my thoughts. Then I knew. In fact, it’s all too obvious. “You can pick...” “Four Noble Truths”: The Anthem for a New Era at Wilkes By Gabby Zawacki and Kendra Kuhar When Dr. Mischelle Anthony was asked to take part in the installation of President Patrick Leahy in September, she was overcome with gratitude. Choir director Stephen Thomas approached Dr. Anthony to write the lyrics for the induction song which was performed at the event. However, Dr. Anthony wasn’t sure which direction to take regarding the lyrics. So rather than embark on the journey alone, she asked her colleague, Dr. Lawrence Kuhar, to help compose the song. Together they decided to write lyrics that would serve as a reflection of Wilkes University’ mission as a Liberal Arts school. Dr. Kuhar noted, “Above all, I see the text as an articulation of the core values in a Liberal Arts education and leadership. These values —integrity, truth, and knowledge — construct the traditional value of humanities. Our programs aim to develop and to promote these values in our students. It seems right to me that we emphasize these values in a text positioned to define who we are as institution. This is especially important given the transitional moment in our institutional culture. As I like to say, it’s who we are.” With this theme in place, the pair worked together to develop the verses and the chorus of the song. Dr. Anthony explained that she and Dr. Kuhar wrote poetry and sent tire stanzas back and forth in order to choose the ones best fit to represent their vision for the song. After much deliberation and creative thinking, they had it. With the words ready to be dressed with music, they sent the lyrics to Stephen Thomas. At the time of the induction ceremony, both Dr. Anthony and Dr. Kuhar had not yet heard the final product. As they sat in their seats waiting for the ceremony to begin, the haunting beauty of die song they had written filled the room, resulting in an overwhelming feeling. Dr. Anthony stated, “There's nothing like a 50-voice choir singing your words back to you to imprint a moment for our campus.” Here are the lyrics to the song they collateral-.-d or-: Noble Truths Together we move time The bluebell's morning bloom Courage - Humility — Gratitude Sunlight streams through valley trees Wise feelings Promise dreams again Courage - Integrity CHORUS: Noble truths we honor thee Knowledge, awareness, integrity Noble truths we honor thee Knowledge, awareness, integrity BRIDGE: Find form in all our fires, Purpose in our knowledge. Welcome to New Majors and Minors By Annie Yoskoski ... Welcome to all new majors and minors in the English department! Wilkes University has so much to offer you as an English student, whether you are on the Writing, Literature, Teaching, or Creative Writing track! The English Department welcomes, Sara A. Pisak, Cierra C. Humphrey, Cristal D. Seabrook-Delgado, Nicholas A. Cholewa, Susan G. Zobitne, Emily A. Leonick, Kaitlyn E. Carton, and David Macekura. 7 �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 The Inkwell Cult Class New York Times Best Seller List By Leanna Rolon that die story is boring, or perhaps die characters too bland? Now How would you classify a bad book? Could it be action packed story line, or perhaps a book in how would you classify a good book? Could a good book be one wit i an that sells die most copies. The New York Times which all of the characters are relatable? Perhaps the best book is die one „prpc;onrilv mean that all of the books best seller column may Est the books that sold the most copies, but that does not nec^ on the books that were listed mentioned are worth reading. I got reactions from two professors, Dr. u ar an and whether or not they truly belonged there. section of the Best Seller list, because E-books hare I decided on using only the Combined Print and E-book sectio n j become one of the main places where people do their reading. In 2010 only six percent of Americans owned E-readers^ Today, just two years later, twenty one percent of Americans own and utilize E-readers making it a fast growing trend. That being said I felt that it was important to focus on E-Books in the best seller list. , The best-seUing books were, in order, “A Wanted Man” By Lee Child, “Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James, “Delusion in Death” by J.D. Robb, “Fifty Shades Freed” by E.L. James, “Fifty Shades Darker” by E.L. James, “Gone Girl” by GiUian Flynn, “Frozen Heat” by Richard Casde, “The Time Keeper” by Mitch Albom, “Zoo” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, “Bared to You” by Sylvia Day, “Telegraph Avenue” by Michael Chabon, “Simply Irresistible’’ by Jill Shalvis, “Love Unrehearsed” by Tina Reber, “Winter’s Tale” by Mark Helprin, and This is How You Lose Fler Junot Diaz. I presented this Est to Dr. Davis. She had not read aU of the books but she gave some insight on the ones that she had and the authors that she was famikar with. For instance she had read “Fifty Shades of Grey” purely out of curiosity. In her opinion that book did not belong on the best seUer Est at aU. Dr. Davis felt personally that it was dangerous due to the submissiveness of the main female character. This character seems to give a very bad name to all women. Dr. Davis had read some of J.D. Robb’s previous books in that series. She felt that the story Ene was predictable and it repeated itself, but the books did have a cult foUowing so that is what may have earned them their place on the Best SeUer Est. Dr. Davis made me think about what made up a bad book.AU of these books had to have something that drew readers to them or they would not be so popular. When I showed Dr. Kuhar the New York Times best seUer Est, he had not read any of them. However, upon examining the Est he had the same opinion as Dr. Davis. He felt that each of these books had some sort of audience to them which means that they aU deserve a place on the Best SeUer List. The books that are on the Est as of this week are aU their for some purpose. They all have an aUure that not aU other books have whether it be the concept of erotic and taboo fantasy or simply a die hard cult foUowing. AU of the books have die right to be on the best seUers Est even if many people do not agree with the decision. The Dreaded “R” Word By Ashley Flaherty Let's be honest, many of us have foul mouths. Provocative language, especially in a college setting, is nothmg new. Something many o you may not be aware of ,s that one of the most commonly used terms around campu is not only used d ““ y’ r ls.offe1nslve' Addmonally you may find yourself in a whirlwind of trouble m the future by using this dreaded term In a profess.onal atmosphere. Consider this: you go to Wilkes, major in English and Secondary Ed After bad situation. You may not have meant anything by the term but vou ar Principal. Before you know it you are in < not be vaEd excuse once you leave Wilkes. The actual definition of the C UCat°r’ musing the EngUsh language ma} development. Used in everyday speech, Eke the hypothetical educator “^r J” *S * delaY °r Set back in ProgreSS °r •, mental retardation. This is a common problem today. We are w™. & 1S an °ffensive noun short for someone wl i other people. & gs and not titinking about the effects they have on The word “retard” makes my blood boil. We often take for era learning while there are people with mental retardation and other disabir C ™at kere’ cobege’ even caPable °* day tasks. I have a brother with autism. It is not mental retardation- he ' SttUggle on a dady basis to do simPle eve^ Helping him learn to do simple things and understanding that there T 1S.Capable of Naming, but it is a learning disabiEtyand appreciate Efe from a different perspective than most people mv a? neVer W1" understand forces me to look at have never and wifi never say the “R” word. I beEeve the world would?’ Alth°Ugh 1 may swear Eke a sailor sometimes, I their Eves with a learning disabiEty. Titink before you speak Next tim * better Place if everyone had someone in call you out on it. In a few years, when we are all out of Wilkes how ^li°U S°meone °n campus a “retard” I might just disabiEty and ignorant people are misusing and overusing the term “rehXr*f y°U have a cbdd with a learning the word out and stop using it. It is offensive. “If you don’t have anyth? Leattl meaning of the term “retard.” Get -------------------------- ------------------- --------------------------------^hmgmeeto say, then don’t say anything at all”____ 8 _ _____________ — By Annie Yoskc There v have a “cult fol their living roon entertainment. S followings “fane “Whovians” (foi Twihards” (for t however, is that now, more than What pi Suzanne Collins Games trilogy. Be latched on to the different relation internet about wl fans have taken t first was the fact trilogy was alread Unlike te to fan pressure. I producers and wi years later or seqi another novel lite One of tl using die author’s work or character filter by age rating just not original, f being every Englii fiction). This obse Jane Austen. Her Jane Austen. The Marriage. Many otii Earnest Hemingw Patterson, Janet E The Repu Juneeh i MMES SUZANNE COLLINS 5 C Photo Courtesy of �Issue 1 The Ink mil Volume 7 Cult Classics, The Book Version Now n tnes 3 listed s. That Girl” ind 11 )t t she ■ty. In • the id F, but made irt of 1 other have r new. Ly used r using After n in a may or je with ve on of : ever}7 ility. Look at es, I ne in at just Get I By Annie Yoskoski There will always be movies, television shows, and products that have a “cult” following. Die-hard fans will race to theaters, stores, or their living rooms to absorb the latest from their favorite form of entertainment. Some people have actually taken to calling these followings “fandoms” and have given them clever names such as “Whovians” (for Dr. IP7;o), “Gleeks” ( for die television show Glee}, and” Twihards” (for the Twilight Saga). One thing I have been noticing lately, however, is diat books and certain authors seem to to have have large large followings followings now, more than I had ever noticed before. What piqued my interest in this subject was die large following Suzanne Collins gained after writing the second book in her Hanger Games trilog}7. Before any movies were announced, people had already latched on to the characters. The internet exploded with support for different relationships, and people actually started fighting on the internet about whether Katniss should end up with Peeta or Gale. The fans have taken to calling diemselves “Tributes”. What confused me at Photo Courtesy of Annie Yoskoski first was die fact tiiat this had already been decided, since die entire trilog}7 was already printed and lining shelves of local bookstores. Unlike television shows that are able to cave to fan demands, books that have already been publishedI cannot cave to fan pressure. If people want certain characters on a sshow ’ to ... be together, they can rant and rave on the internet until producers and writers for the show throw in an unexpected plot twist to appeal to the viewers. Movies can ;always ’ be remade years later or sequels or spinoffs can be released. In order to change the events of a book, die audior would have to write another novel literally backtracking all of their previous work and create an entirely new piece of fiction. One of die biggest tributes” to these authors and their works is fan fiction. People will go online and write stories using the autiior’s original characters and story Enes, escaping copyright infringement by claiming no ownership over the work or characters. There is EteraUy a “fanfic” for ever}7 single book, television series, and movie in existence. Readers can filter by age rating, sets of characters, and genres. Some of the writing is average, while some are actually rather well written, just not original. Sometimes no one will ever see a fan fiction post, but sometimes they become wildly popular, an example being every EngEsh major’s favorite tiling to hate: Fifty Shades of Grey (based on Twilight, the stories were originaUy fan fiction). This obsession is not just true for newer bocks; classics are getting some attention, too. One of the most popular is Jane Austen. Her books have created movies, board games, “pick your own adventure” books, and in general die Cult of Jane Austen. There are Jane Austen action figures, knitting patterns, and even advice books such as Jane Austen's Guide to Marriage. Many other famous autiiors have received the same treatment. These include authors such as Edgar AUen Poe, Earnest Hemingway, Sir Artiiur Conan Doyle, J.K. RowEng, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Patterson, Janet Evanovich, J.R. Tolkien, and even the Bard himself, WiUiam Shakespeare. The RepubEc of Pemberley is a website diat hosts Jane Austen fan fiction. OriginaUy the owners of the site were just commenters on a thread on a Jane Austen website. As their works became highly popular and tiieir internet traffic increased, they built their own website. So many people go to this website now that the owners have teamed up with several other Jane Austen fanatics to build a whole repertoire of fan fiction. Another one of these websites exists .THE 1(11 HINDER HATCHING idekingjay for Sherlock Holmes fans, Sherlockian.net. The site consist not only of fan FIRE □ AMES fiction, but fan profiles, an entire store dedicated to Sherlock merchandise, and theories on every piece ever written by Sir Arthur \ Conan Doyle. These fans have done so much research and are so wrapped up in the universe of Sherlock Holmes that they even have tiieir own subset of fans who beEeve Dr. Watson was the real hero and SUZRNNE Holmes was his Eterary agent. Fans who do truly beEeve in the COLLINS SUZRNNE COLLINS SUZRN'ic COLLINS protagonist, Hoknes, caU him “The Master.” off What these various groups c Continued on page 15... fans do not seem to reaEze or Photo Courtesy of Annie Yoskoski comprehend is that these characters 9 �Volume 7 The Inkwell Issue 1 Serii Suzi M’s Blog Novel 87 The Iih and au^, has sahen battle, i Secondhand Sarah. Her first novels Nemsis, Numa and The Tower, witc i co P^. b writing The Immortal War series in vampires, horror, and passion, which are all classic elements of a go nc - • duced many short her senior year of high school with the influence of her English teach Secondhand Sarah, does not let this a few novels. Suzi’s texts often attract avid gothic readers, and her late p J , attemj KPUt““ eoXnd Sarah is foil of nightmares, horror, secret tunnels and of course, romance The blog is a “seria! story” as somex described by Suzi herself, and is published in installments on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri ays a installment. Suzi makes the story realistic through her ability to a quaint bed and breakfast with supernal or s or each a e ements such as catching a ghost on camera in the Devil’s Tower in her novel, The Tower. Tire story contains p io ograp is, awings, s, and YouTube videos which all contribute to the production of the story. The collection o p lotograp s inc u es antique and old photographs and pictures of Suzi’s own home, which is similar to Victorian style on t re insi e. The YouTube videos are used to let the reader listen to music that Sarah, the main character, is listening to in the story. The artists included thus far are: Crystal Fighters, March Violets, The Thought, etc. Suzi also includes trailers for the previously mentioned novel The Tower which readers can watch and then continue reading the post. Readers can also comment on the YouTube videos or the blog posts, but Suzi finds that most readers comment on the blog via her Facebook page rather than direcdy on tire blog. She enjoys this interaction with her readers and admires that the readers feel comfortable enough to post directly to me, rather than to feel they need to post in the anonymous ether of the blogosphere”. Facebook allows Suzi to communicate direcdy with her readers and also ask for advice as the story continutes. She mentioned that she sometimes posts photographs on her Facebook page for readers to give feedback before she adds it to the story. In the beginning of die project she asked readers if they would like more information on the secret tunnels or the house renovations and received a “unanimous secret tunnel response, which direcdy influenced where die blog went.” She explained that “Instead of being solely die initial idea of a woman who’s trying to get herself back together after a bad breakup while renovating an old Victorian house, it became a funhouse of explorations, with Facebook friends adding their comments and ideas to die mix to form the story,” which allows her readers to encourage the direction of die story. The character, Sarah, is presented in a first person point of view which allows Suzi to add details or information that readers ask for while already being diree posts ahead of what is already live on the blog. This way, the story can still progress in the manner that the she would like, but she can also supplement Sarah’s perspective at any time, which has had a positive effect that on readers as they contribute their own pictures and public or private comments throughout the day. This type of audience seems to be fairly new and is an interesting concept. Most audiors do not have live publications that the audience can influence the progression or direction of the story. She believes that diis story will continue to grow as long as readers keep reading and help her keep die story going. Suzi is also working on two novels that will supplement die blog: Conversations with a Demon: the Journals ofRose and SamuelJenkins and The Lost book ofNorad. She is also considering using this blog concept to present a “therapy” journal that her character in Nemesis kept while he was in a mental ward, but this idea might just evolve into another book in die Immortal War Series. Suzi shared with me a list of her current and recent reads which includes; The Spirit Cleaning by Mark Tufo, Shifters by Jaime Johnesse, They by Vincent Hobbes, Liber Null Cr PsychonautSy Peter J. Carroll, Those Who Went Remain There Stillby Cherie Priest and many more. She began diis project as a reaction to not being able to post her work freely. As she explains: “I’m an altruist at heart, and didn’t feel it was right or fair that people should have to pay $9.99 and up for an electronic book. So I made mine not only free, but free-form.” Secondhand Sarah has already begun to flourish and appears to be a fascinating project that will continue to flourish. Second-Hand Sarah can be found at the following link: http:// suzi.typepad.com/secondhand_sarah/ Most of Suzi M.’s tides can be found at:: http:// www.amazon.eom/Suzi-M/e/B003TTLGP2/ 10 poster glowi men J Ever carpe multi just r spin. boxe glow diffe the c diffe does thei hav< (wh boj glai gla got bet agi �The Inkwell Issue 1 Volume 7 Issue 1 Serialized Story ba"in Dr. AJ).r ,htir oject, “We’re in die future!” Gabby yeUed. “Okay, it’s okay. We are still in Kuhar’s office, so we can’t be that far in die fiiture.. .can we?” Annie asked attempting to cakn herself. “We’re doomed. This is one calamity after another!” Kendra said. . Lo°“"f ““ITLP'TT""’. K“*a’ StipGniTnnie realized they had lost Tony and Dave somewhere. “I think they ran ahead.” Steph said, vocalizing “Figures,” Dr. Farrell stghed. ’ d "eryone’s thoughts. series in ties and story” as ; for each ts such igs, links, itique in the s for the 1 1 io Facebook L ites. She Ids it to els or the at.” She iad ling dieir il­ lation that 11 progress a positive his type of audience Suddenly, a famitiar voice floated toward the closed office door. “Like I said, it’s a process. If die kids just read the books this wouldn’t be an issue. Where has the respect for lostmodem litei*a.ture gone? P' “It’s Kuhar!” Dr. FarreU cried. “I knew we couldn’t be that far ahead of our own time.” Slowly die door opened to reveal two men who looked exacdy Eke Dr. Kuhar and Dr. HamiU, except they had glowing, yeUow bracelets on dieir wrists. “Nice jewelry guys,” Gabby said, “but you wiU zzezwbeEeve what happened to us. We got—“ As Kuhar and HamiU looked at the group of women strangely, Gabby cut off her sentence. Peering behind the two men into the open foyer, die women could see that this was in no way die same Kirby HaU that they had left behind. Everything that was once wood was now chrome, widi floating metal tubes replacing the banisters of the staircase. The carpets had been replaced with frosted glass tiles that Et up when they were stepped on, and the ceiling was fiUed with Etde multi-colored tubes. Pushing past them, Gabby ran out into the smaU foyer. “What happened?!” she yeUed, “Guys, come see this!” Annie, Steph, and Dr. FarreU blew straight past the two men they had considered their coUeagues and professors just moments ago, while Kendra gave die pair one last puzzled look and walked out. “The Kirby family is probably rolling in their graves right now” Annie said, “The chrome alone makes my head spin.” At that moment the door to Deb’s office swung open. Inside, a giant touchscreen computer loomed, with little boxes on die screen for each professor. Deb stood in front of the screen, extending her arm to hold out one of her own glowing yellow bracelets. In the blink of an eye Deb was waving her arm around, dragging and dropping Etde tiles onto different parts of die screen. Next to her, die multi-colored tubes descended from die ceiling into a large circle surrounding die computer screen. As papers rolled off of the printer, Deb grabbed them with her free hand and stuffed diem into different tubes, sending them to various offices. “What in the world is she doing?” Steph asked. “I think she is doing what she has always done, but in this new futuristic way. Even in the future this building doesn’t function widiout Deb,” Dr. Farrell said. , , The women backed away from die door and made dieir way to die third floor, passing vanous faculty members on it is. I don’t 1 if we sound sttmge. Aftet what we have just been dirough I will never call someone crazy again Kendra said. They all knew she was right, and one by one filed ^^^^Xnd ^effect onthe current day Eterary scene Widi Kuhar and Hamill in a deep discussion about metaphysical text an (whenever that was), Annie gingerly stepped into die office and tappe e on “Deb? Uhm, I have a question” she said. moving what appeared to be emails to correct “Sure, shoot!” Deb rephed as she continues to flail her arms around, boxes on the screen. “What year is it?” Annie asked. civine them aU a visual inspection and doubtful This made Deb pause and turn to face the group o women. where are your bands?” glance, Deb finally answered, “2412, what in die world happened to you and whirled around out of the office. With a sharp intake of breadi, Annie yeUed, Thanks, we r ,g , j down on the now chrome and frosted Leading die Etde camp of people out into the stairwell, Dr_ r old faculty stiU here? What have we glass steps. With a sigh she said, “2412. Four hundred yearsi in the office ig probably stiU here. They gotten ourselves into?” When no one answered, she stood de era > Nodd^R Continued on page 14... better have coffee and tea in 2412 or I’m jumping back into tha p agreement the girls foUowed her up die stairs. 11 �plic Inkwell The Inkwell Issue 1 Volume 7 Dr. Paola Bianco’s Sabbatical By Ashley Flaherty Tliis semester, Dr. Bianco returned to teaching Spanish courses and heading the Spanish club at Wilkes. While on sabbatical for the full year last year, she put the finishing touches on her book, Conversando con literatura, due out in October or November, and researched and wrote a great portion of Perspectivas de escritoras en espanol (which translates to Perspectives of Spanish Women Writers). Dr. Bianco’s work is twofold; while working on Conversando con literatura, which is intended to be used as a textbook for advanced Spanish college students, she came up with an idea for an additional book: female Spanish writers. She wrote the advanced textbook in order to raise issues that college students were interested in having conversations about, preferably in Spanish. For example, different units raise issues, such as immigration, human rights, love, marriage, and betrayal, all of which are debatable and controversial, especially to students in college. In addition, the textbook includes short stories, songs, and poems for the advanced Spanish student to enjoy and engage in conversation about. The research she had done for the textbook got her thinking and soon, a new topic evolved and she was on her way to a year long sabbatical for an additional book. She is the sole author of this in-depth examination of female Spanish writers. Dr. Bianco examined female Spanish writers from as far back as the year 1600 to the present time. The book is arranged chronologically and thematically and from a feministic perspective. She included the works of not only the well — known authors, but also some undiscovered Spanish writers. Dr. Bianco started looking at writings of women when they had the “choice” of either having an arranged marriage or becoming a nun. For the book, she studied the writings of nuns as well, in Biblioteca Nacional de Santiago, Chile. What is really unique about this book is that Dr. Bianco included Spanish writers from not only Spain and Latin America, but countries such as the Philippines and Equatorial Guinea, which are not commonly included in works on Spanish writers. She personally interviewed Ani Brenis and included her in the section Violencia contra la mujer {Violence against women). Additionally, Dr. Bianco interviewed Dorelia Barahona in Costa Rica and included this information in the section entitled Identidad sexual {SexualIdentity). Dr. Bianco is eager to finish this piece on female Spanish writers. She went to great lengths researching writings and writers and considering which pieces to include where in the book, which is why her sabbatical was a year long, instead of just a semester. Although it is not a conversation book like the textbook, which is due out very soon, we can expect that tliis book will certainly strike up conversations in a positive manner. From tliis book, Dr. Bianco will likely discover an additional idea for two or more books. (Dr. Bianco is pictured below while doing research in Chile for her book Perspectivas de escritoras en espanol, while on sabbatical last year.) Photo Courtesy o seen. This informs “magical” or not.' journey beginning book,“The Philosj As the joe sorted into a housi and Wizardry and given the opportui spells, trunks, and to anyone who has especially unique a gain friends and cc feature posts. User “drawings” pertain are in. While J.K. book series is a go< involving parts of 1 anywhere else. She “What is really unique about this book is that Dr. Bianco included Spanish writers from not only Spain and Latin America, but countries such as the Philippines and Equatorial (Guinea...” . �ssuc 1 rbeh>k"v11 Volume 7 Issue 1 'I'lic Grenl Hall Gryffindor e on iber '>es of e used A T1.1M point* Ravenclaw By Kendra Kuhar 77.Ml point* s, the on ■ way s ell— ley inns inish e not i and ind lof at tliis itional itoras ut o om h as >rial The Wizarding World of Pottermore Photo Courtesy of Annie Yoskoski J.K. Rowling, famous for her “Harry Potter” book series, opened a Harry Potter focused website to die public in April of 2012 known as Pottermore. The website was created with the intention of bringing the adventurous seven-part book series to life in ways the movies cannot: interactively. The site encourages the purchase of die e-books and audio book versions of the book series amidst it’s ability to deeply involve the audience in die perks of the series. After a simple user registration, users of the website are immediately immersed into die world of Pottermore. In addition to basic information required for user registration to the website, die user must also fill in how many books were read and how many movies were seen. This information determines if die user is “magical” or not. The website then takes users on a journey beginning at the first chapter of the first book,“The Philospher’s Stone.” As the journey moves forward, users are sorted into a house at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and given a wand. They will also be given die opportunity to collect badges, potions, spells, trunks, and house points which are all familiar to anyone who has read die book series. However, the especially unique aspect of diis site is the users can gain friends and communicate widi them through feature posts. Users also have the option of uploading “drawings” pertaining to the section of the site they are in. While J.K. Rowling’s enhancement of the book series is a good idea, she makes it even better by involving parts of the novels diat were not published names for places and tides. For example, in the first chapter of anywhere else. She also elaborates on why she chose specific the book she goes into detail regarding her choice of “Number 4 Privet Drive” as Harry’s home until he discovers he is a wizard. On the website, Rowling explains that the number four has always struck her as “hard and unforgiving” which contributed to her deciding diat for die street of the house aligning with Harry’s unhappiness. The street the Dursleys and Harry live on, “Privet Drive,” is a reference to the privet bush which is associated with enclosure and suburbia. According to the website, more content will be added over time. As of right now, “The Philosopher’s Stone” and part of die second book “The Chamber of Secrets” is on the site. After using the site, one will find that it is not just a strategy to further market the “Harry Potter” series, but radier an overall rewarding experience for “Harr}' Potter” fans. ■J1010 Courtesy of Annie Yoskoski �The Inkwell Issue 1 Volume 7 The Inkwell Serialized Story continued from page 11... I Arriving at her office door, the women discovered no door knob, but a slot in the door. “Let’s hide in the stairwell, and watch someone open their office door so we can figure out how to get inside,” Steph suggested. “Good idea,” said Gabby, as she flung open the stairwell door. After several minutes of crouching uncomfortably, Dr. Kelly finally came up the stairs. “Dr. Kelly! He has to be going to his office!” said Dr. Farrell. Dr. Kelly slid one of his yellow bracelets off of his wrist and slid it into the slot on the door. A small green light flashed and the door slid to the right, depositing the bracelet back in Dr. Kelly’s hand. “Figures,” Annie said, “we need those bracelets. Until we figure out what to do, we will stick out like a sore thumb. From the look Deb gave me when I asked what year it was, I don’t want to even think about telling people I just flew out of a portal in Dr. Kuhar’s office and fought aliens.” “Agreed,” they all said in unison. As they were about to exit the stairwell, the sound of footsteps grew louder as someone drew near. Not knowing what to expect at this point, they group just waited for their visitor to arrive. Slowly, Dr. Stanley came up the stairs. “Hey ladies, what happened?” Dr. Stanley looked at the wrists of everyone in the group, realizing there were no bracelets. After a moment, he said, “I’m not going to ask questions, you all look like you just came from another universe. Let’s get you some replacement Goldenbands and something to drink.. .you look like you need both.” Without questioning him, the group followed him into his office. As he passed out Goldenbands to all the women, they each looked at each other in shock. As soon as the bracelets were placed on their wrists, they had better vision, more energy, and what seemed to them to be sharper memories. “Now, does anyone want to explain what is going on?” Dr. Stanley asked. “First, you explain thatT Steph yelled. As everyone turned to look in her direction it could be seen out of the window that the building was higher off of tire ground than before.. .almost as if it were floating. Right next to tire window was a green box that looked like a telephone booth mixed with a Tardis, with the insignia “Place Hop” stamped on its door in that same glowing yellow color that the bracelets displayed. At that very moment, Jamie entered Dr. Stanley’s office with six glasses of tea. “We’ve been expecting you! Or, at least I have,” he said. Why are the Goldenbands so important? Why has Kirby been remodeled in chrome? What is a Place Hop? What will the group tell Dr. Stanley? Where did Jamie get all that tea? Look for the continuation next issue! “As everyone turned to look in her direction it could be seen out of the window that the building was higher off of the ground than before.. .almost as if it were floating.” Photo Courtesj Library Li By Brittney Gri Accord additions this se librarian, Heat! and will be actir a new database research in Eng provides full tes informed me th future. No mon Cult Classics cc |- ~~ ~~~ Photo Courtesy of Annie Yoskoski are not real. Ai world, which if letting go whet Books do not; tills issue seem as a “Sherlock! �issue 1 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 Senior Spotlight: Caevaun Dubarry By Brittney Grizzanti Meet Caevaun Dubarry! Caevaun wffl be graduating from Wilkes University as an English Major widi a minor in Political Science. Throughout his time at Wilkfs, Caevaun has managed to be a part of many different activities and organizations. He has held a position in Student Government for the better part of Ins four years and is taking on die tide of treasurer in Wilkes’ 1 re-Law Society for one year. Caevaun has also been involved in community service activities through Wilkes ,such as CEO Thanksgiving Box, worked as a stage hand in a Wilkes theatre production, and above all managed to never miss a night of Winter Weekend. When Caevaun isn’t galavanting around campus, you can generally find him at one of Iris two jobs, eidier frothing up lattes at Barnes & Noble or handing out way too many free samples at Gertrude Hawk’s. Ultimately Caevaun aspires to attend Law School after Wilkes, where both his focuses on English and Political Science will be put to good use. According to Caevaun there are too many tilings he will miss most when leaving Wilkes, yet Caevaun is excited and ready to take on post-graduate life. it imb. mt of !g tie in ou ,:ou len, :e i Photo Courtesy of Brittney Grizzanti )W lor t Library Liaison By Brittney Grizzanti According to Mr. John C. Stachacz, Farley Library has some new, exciting additions this semester. Most importantiy, the library staff recendy welcomed a new librarian, Heather Bowman. Headier has come to Wilkes from Indiana University and will be acting as the new library liaison for the Humanities department, econ \, a new database has been added that should be especially helpful for stu ents g, research in English and History courses; America’s Historical Newspapers - -provides full text PDF’s of newspaper articles from 1690 throng i ■ informed me that Farley’s front doors and stairs should be usable in the very i < future. No more fighting your way through the loading dock entrai i. ii . L- - I Photo Courtesy of Stephanie Wilkie [cult Classics continued from page 9..” n’t lead tire reader into die audior’s jon into the-Hvodi real world, »o. not ''Odd, Which is a hallmark of . great story. The difference ts « ±e« fflov;es> people needI a conhnnatron. The modem way of dealing with >«ting go when the book closes. Due to ease of storytae Books do not always continue, and fans cannot al <} P books into a part o fhis issue seems to be creating these fandoms and Integra „ as a “Sherlockian,” “Darcy,” “WillShake,” “Muggle or H _ ___________________________________ „al Authors have created thetu and thetr stories - not ^ftat a good =W 15 | �The Inkwell Issue 1 Volume 7 The Inkwell jHamill’s Hunches Hamill’s Hunches By Dr. Hamill Last May, when I apparently didn’t write my “Hamill’s Hunches,” two photos of my “home improvements” I “bathroom renovations” digitized my shame: two thousand pixels meting out a kind of lost incarnation of words become touch-screen-sensitivities-to flesh. The sheen, professional tactility of the Inkwell Quarterlys “glossy” finishes framing the images no doubt did much to rectify and foreclose the post-secular inevitability of this new author function, as, I’m sure, did the justified sense of election in the causally imperativized subjunctive of (some of) the accompanying editorial text. (See InkwellQuarterly 6.4 (2012): 16.) Loyal readers might be surprised, then, to learn of new developments in the story. Within days of pubEcation, rumors about lost so-caUed “captions” to the images, decoded from the original html into Middle EngEsh by volunteers from the thought-to-be-defunct NEPA NominaEsts’ Society and then translated into Present Day EngUsh, began to surface. Initial reports suggested that the complex stratification of the “originary” texts, even before their decoding and translation, would necessitate (and sustain) years of specialized study, thus, in the view of most scholars, forestalling “responsible” pubEc release of the “captions” in any form for, to quote one source, “at least— at least—two years.” The subsequent firestorms over archival access, , j i j Photo Courtesy of Jon Kad|eski interpretive authority, and what a second source ---------------------------------=---------------------------------------------(unfortunately) dubbed “the academic eEte’s conspiracy to totalize information Eteracy” that ensued, coincidentaUy abated when, during a pubEc reading of Curious George’s Dinosaur Discovery at a local Barnes & Noble, at the exact moment in the narrative when the rock sEde George accidentaUy creates reveals an unknown dinosaur fossil in the compacted sediment, a third source (self-identified as, yes, George) declahned via the store intercom system several fragments of what he (she?) proclaimed to be original transcripts of the “captions,” derived, somehow, from the “unofficial” NEPA NominaEsts’ Society records. I’m not quite sure wh to make of ah this; however, a few of the sound-byte fragments that emerged that day have proven, for me, reassuring ever since. Here’s one: “The pardaUy refurbished banister in the distant [sic] is, of course, un­ judging, patiently Enguistic. Like the imagined casement framed in the framing frame, referent wood white whittling toward a sign.” Here’s another: “The footstool is a guardian and a cherished memory. A reminder of why the room matters to begin with, why this Shaming Space is also, in hope and mindful recognition, reaUy not a shame at all.” Perhaps I find these “words” comforting because they are somehow “mine.” (I certamly beEeve in and mhabit the particularized world they would seem to gloss.) Perhaps I (still?) cEng to them because the logics of the archive make doing so possible, and because (in yet another development) my own voice has recently been digitized soundless in the ironic Desire2Leam. Perhaps I simply know that I must return to the Rood-like forms of s till new wood in the almost finished “home improvements” / “bathroom renovations,” timbers feUed and whittled, of course, but also wounded in reverse— nail-holed and healed in tire paradoxicaUy similar (counter) logic of the whitewash “washed clean in the ” trajectories Perhaps I’m simply still shaken from last week’s “cloudy” water issuing from the taps of Kingston and all ‘that it revealed about the systems (and systematics) upon which I depend. Perhaps it’s just the burdens of trying to buy eggs ethically at my local Price Chopper. 1 ° J ™ privileges of being (usually) a “contributor ” for d,e “shame’■for die and 8‘“S"1'”’ *e «». and the Thanks to my daughter Gracie’s exceptionaUy fine and varied taste in music, I’ve been Estening to a good bit of Rush of late and her Fu [ --------------------------------------------------’ armll s Hunches Continued on page 17—_____ early sense that “ei obviously when sh again.”] She’s also salesmen! [guitar]”of what they must their common aval at any moment fee; marveling, as we m and the beautiful rr Perhaps. I hope. We’ll see. Kuhar’s Cor By Dr. Kuhar “Because ofu willfollow. ” These word formed on campus 1 world and on a cam] This is com how we and others < importance of integi selves to freedom fr< we still in Kansas?) communication skill social interactions? " First of all,: largely by my job an Facebook or other s gram. Apologies, h McLuhan’s famous your story as a studc The Young what she does as a x does not need to be take what we study ties we live. All Hi way. It’s our missic But what al Well, the stories we °ne reason we love understand why we �Issue 1 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 Hamill’s Hunches continued from page 16... early sense that emotional feedback” is a key phrase in “The Spirit of R di ” 1 obviously when she sings those words. (What initially drew her to dw * ° again.”] She’s also keen on, among other moments from die song “EchTf Ta C j transformative for me, especially and T^’ Want tO hear dle drums feel) Uke Pier, X marveling, as we make way “widefeeld in this wondres to here and die beaudflfl mapeour of th a^atr fld world of folk. . .Wer^ emd” at thp y A bS1Die perspecm e, 'h' Perhaps. I hope. We’ll see. Kuhar’s Corner By Dr. Kuhar New Endings and ‘The beginning that will follow’: Social Media and The Humanities y abated in the liment, a (she?) sts’ lay have irse, un- ng jtn ihabit the ake doing tonic inished rerse— ories. wealed rally at “Because ofwho I am, and what I do with my life, I am able to lookforward into histoy and see this new ending, and the beginning that willfollow. ” These words are spoken by die “Young Woman” in Israel Horovitz’s fantastic one-act play, Affection in Time, per­ formed on campus last weekend. Though a bit abstract, die Young Woman’s dioughts tell us a lot about how to live in world and on a campus where interpersonal communications and social interactions are undergoing a radical reconfiguration. This is complicated. Plow do we assess how our understanding of ourselves is informed by our ability to understand how we and others communicate? What’s this have to do with the core values in die Humanities, such as promoting die importance of integrity, ethics, and service; affirming the importance of promoting scholarly excellence; and dedicating our­ selves to freedom from intolerance and ignorance, to name a few. Why do tills? (I diought we were English majors. Are we still in Kansas?) Let’s not forget that our English program, and Humanities programs collectively, focus on developing communication skills written and oral, as a core objectives. OK, so, where should we look to critique communications and social interactions? The answer may be found, in part, dirough examining social media. First of all, a confession: Let me openly admit that I am not a social media junkie. In fact, my fixes are driven largely by my job and my family. I’m not, never have been and may never be, of the moment with regard to participation on Facebook or odier social media. Yes, I have a Facebook page as part of my role as a faculty member in our English pro­ gram. Apologies, however, to anyone who has asked to be my friend. For me, the medium is die message, to steal Marshall McLuhan’s famous phrase. So, what can I possibly have to say about Horovitz’ Young Woman’s ideas, social media and your story as a student in the Humanities? (Don’t answer,please) The Young Woman in Horovitz’ play contemplates her life story as a narrative. She focuses on who she is and What she does as a way to understand her story. We know about this. We do this all the dme. No need for z midterm: It does not need to be taught. We advance our understanding of ourselves and our world, and how to live well tn it, when we take what we study in our classes and use the msights gained to reflect on the importance of people m our hues and the sto­ education works dos this ries we live AU Humanities classes are fundamentally concerned with this mteractwe dynamic. Good educanon ” and one reason we love to read. It’s a reason why we value diversity. It helps us understand why we get excited by new challenges and opportunities, 17 o er Kuhar’s Corner Continued on page 18... �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 1 The Ink Kuhar’s Corner Continued from page 17... is )mes with “the beginning that will where she was and where she’s But whew are we finding our "stones” today? is it ok We read plenty o stones in our teratur , ry ns us in contemplating interactions and self representa­ tives. Well, social media trains us in narrative, too. Social media trains P , tions. It only takes a minute on Facebook to witness the dense intertextuality of representation that defines a user s sense of self or projection of identity. Social media relies on user-generated content It promotes se -ac v ty as a nec­ essary interface with some aspect of reality. The meanings made construct stories. \ e post an we rea . ey are as often visual as language, as performative as linguistic. We can’t deny that social media has become an important (dominant?) way for us to un erstan t e nction of stories. Isn’t this a key goal in the Humanities? Social media has become an important way for us to reflect on our stories even if we don’t want to be associated in these academic halls with articulating this realization. Every represen­ tation of who we are — a picture, a song reference, a TV show — seems hell bent on producing meanings. Have you found yourself analyzing the “yellow wallpaper” too closely? What is it about ‘ And miles to go before I sleep that really matters! (I mean really matters?) Social media positions us with familiar intellectual structures as wefl as some of die stuff at the core of studying narrative, literary, visual and imaginative forms. In other words, it presents us with core aspects of studying ourselves. Interestingly, social media texts, from the moment they are posted, create an absence formed around what is immediately, somehow, simultaneously outdated. The pictures from last week’s Homecoming dinner in the Student Ballroom seem out of time only days after being posted. The absence of the present is a genuine feature of the con­ temporary postmodern sensibility inhabited in social media. This absence, as revealed in Horovitz’ Young Woman’s linkage of the “new ending” with “the beginning that will follow,” drives and informs our hunt for awareness. (I’m sounding too academic. 1 apologise!) Here’s what I’m trying to say: These observations - about how we tell stories about ourselves and read others’ stories on social media - can inform a sense for how to understand the importance of your work in Humanities classrooms, whether it reading, critical thinking, collaborating or writing. Sounds big. Nah ... Or does it? WeU, let’s see: It’s necessary (if not essential) for us, as students of culture, to understand how we get along with others, how we confirm the dignity of others and why we want to be valued and understood ourselves. Social media seems inherently aware, available to and prescriptive with regard to these ideas. It shows, even celebrates, difference. As a result, we hope, it makes us more tolerant of others and respectfill of difference. Jta, In turn, moves us one step closet to affirming the fundamental dignity of aU people. Sounds academic (again), I bow. But it s not. The better we understand the contemplations of representing oneself, the better chance we have of understanding our shared human condition. This is a gsal iny„r ,„rk in the HunsaniHe andbegX”^.^^^ agree that these forms may never reach the level of ‘classic.’ When we studv the nl F F stage prop in a play or an image in a poem, we are wise to reflect on one of the fi P j °f * °f a To understand the story of who we are. Social media compels us it se ndamental reasons we study literature, detail matters. In addition to this, our audiences are familiar with the f15’tO Want tO te^ more about who we are. Every structures. They intuitively process a syntax of identity that at one ra^rnenta'aon form that informs social media fragmentation. At one level, albeit a very basic one, this is what w^' to an<^ creates new text out of apparent to share ideas: The ability to generate new meanings that can serve6 ° °Urselves when we read and arrive in class portant to understanding contemporary society, and it’s the stuff of St°neS as We 8° forward. This is also imOne of my favorite lines in literature is spoken by Oedipa ]JOntemPorary experience. “Shall I project a world?” Today, we have to consider our “project Jhomas Pynchon’s The Crying ofLot 49: ‘projected” idenKuhar’s Corner Continued on page 18 Kuhai tity in er we ter to what i 'stone theles ties oJ Youn or caf from divety act? j urn fc show: langu and fi not d Robe an id< Socia “new in act enlist °f ou that x into h. �Issue Volume 7 Issue 1 -• The future is }inning that will id where she’s I the texts and lassies”? Can ilogy and social y way to ad'i ever. w to read narraind self representanes a user’s activity as a necd. They are as d the function ) reflect on our Every represeni. Have you I sleep” that U as some of ents us with ound what is n the Student e of the con­ ing Woman’s eness. (I’m tell stories importance of ents of culture, be valued and these ideas. It fill ofdiffer> academic ■ better chance een endings rue even if we ibolism of a study literature: we are. Every ; social media at of apparent rrive in class also imofLot 49: I on page 19... titv in social media or, at least, the role of social media in influencing how we understand who we are. Tins is true wheth­ er we posting or tweeting on Treme, South Park or die presidential debate. We surf from Facebook, Linkedln, and Twit­ ter to Google Plus, Tagged, or CafeMom. The textual surfaces we engage, if only indirecdy impact our understanding of what it is to be human. We see ourselves in others and others in ourselves. Tins is die stuff of die Humanities. The •stories’ we reed, fragmented and unconventional with regard to our conventional sense ' dieless tmpaet bow we read and how understand others. Tins too, .s theSZ*e complex!lie value of the Humanities is real. As a student .n the Human.ues you " ar." XnX Uke^he ties of stories, of representation and of life as these comp exities are Young Woman, we “look forward into history” --and reUourselves »•fa « » - ev ry^. are every time we share an idea in a classroom Edna away or cafeteria discussion diat explores questions and ideas t lat ate ce"tta , at whenWhy'did he reflects on, swim “Twoout roads from shore in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening What is o ert ros . < • ,s to commit an unspeakable diverged in a wood” in “The Road Not Taken”? What led Sethe tn Ton. M“Xct and communicate with each other, act? Answers, or potential answers, to these questions are impac , ancj ‘unique,’ represents, at once, a new medi Social media, for all its power of representation as some n others as weU as with ourselves. It um for understanding ourselves and really just another p at orm complexities of the journey toward fin g tie ng shows us how, as with Horovitz’ Young Woman, we un erstan t0 language to shape a narrative of identity that will allow us to ““ X if images, tTeV'“ on d“ And the stories told seem famffiar We know these thoughts eve^ b fo„ Is«P , »nd fragmented. Self contemplations work this.way. erc ,creamng comes 'of representing a voice or not do, you do not do”; “First having read the book of myth > . _ the complexity of repres g Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Thomas Pyne a P between a “look forward” and a an identity. Social media sites compel us, it seems, to represent a r^sP° w^ilkes hasinterchange respon c betwclasses at die university, by e to thestudent dynamic contemplation if only new ending.” We know about these interchanges, verj young Woman - y itioned to contemplate die plot ln action, without thefancy ryntax ofidentity possesse } 1Ues majors, we are unique} se for how to shape die story '*ong in Closer to home, as * can advance our sens^ °ur Efe stories and to examine how new forms such • at We want to tell about ourselves and our worl • ’e ,to history and see this new ending, and the beginning that wi „ 19 Woman m the p },} _______— ------ -’ —------- �The Inkwell Issue 1 Volume 7 Hunger Games Crossword Ah dues and answers are based on Suzannne Collins best selling tnlog» 5 •• 6 Across: 1. Has a talent for making fish hooks 2. Mentor for District 12 3. Female tribute from Distnct 12 6. Main industry of District 11 9. Doubles as a weapon creator for the Capital and a rebel with the districts m MockmgjaDown: 2. 4. 5. 7. 8. Head gamemaker m Catching Fire Post-apocalyptK Amenca Allies with the mam character in Catching Fire Best fnend and hunting partner of female tnbute from Distn't 12 12 year-old tnbute from District 11 If anyone is interested in writing for The Inkwellplease contact: Dr. Marcia Farrell at marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu or Annie Yoskoski at anne.yoskoski@wilkes cdu 20 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University's English Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available English Department Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDFs Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Fall 2012 (Volume 7, Issue 1) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 2012 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/aefa5fbabdc8da19a783879cf06249eb.pdf 929118bce8cd391515bf97df18c7cfd9 PDF Text Text Th£ Inkwell Quarterly Volume 7 Issue 2 Fall 2012 A Haunted Majors and Minors Fair In this Issue: By Kendra Kuhar and Gabby Zawacki Social Media’s Effect on Literary Criticism 2 Luzerne County History 2 Film Review: The Perks ofBeing a H 'allllow-er 3 Billy Collins 4 Contemporary' Authors 6 Update Senior Spotlight: April Bechtel 7 LAMBDA Literary Awards 7 No Fear Shakespeare 8 Book Review: The Casual Vacancy 9 Course Offerings 9 Holiday Confections 10 The Self 12 Winter Capstones 13 If you had entered Kirby Hall on October 19, you would have entered a building transformed into ai spooktacular haunted house. Ghoulish figures hung from the staircase. Cobwebs climbed over < shelves and fireplaces. Cookies fed tire hungry students that entered the haunted Kirby Hall. All of this was part of the English Department’s Halloween-themed event. Designed as an open majors and minors fair, the event was attended by various professors and students who were available to discuss details regarding opportunities in the English department. Such advances, in addition to tire English major, include minors in Creative Writing and Professional Writing. While the minors are ideal to obtain for English majors, they are also incredibly beneficial to those studying other subject areas: a minor in Professional Writing could assist in writing resumes for students in pre-professional majors. Overall die event was a fun-filled night that celebrated the English Department’s mission. A Visit From Bill Black 14 eTextbooks at Wilkes 14 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Wiiuier 15 A Shakespearean Semester 15 Kuhar’s Comer 16 Hamill’s Hunches Election Results 19 Twenty First Century Teacher Education Requirements 20 Education Committee Updates 21 Serialized Story 21 Holiday Puzzle 24 Photo courtesy of Kendra Kuhar 1 �The Inkwell Issue 2 Volume 7 The Inkv Continu Social Media’s Possible Effect on Literary Criticism By Annie Yoskoski With the rise of Twitter, Eterary critics are now voicing their opinions and theories faster dianl ever. The new found reject fame has some people firing back at the critics, personaUy tweeting them to praise or re, ------their tpast work or current theories. People have even set up fake accounts as Stephen Greenblatt and Harold Bloom. These critics also ha t etr own Twitter accounts to speak to readers, but they have recendy been shut down. Bloom received a lot of criticism for his twitter post about the Pixar film Finding Nemo. Though die tweet has since been deleted (along with the account), the tweet supposedly took evidence from separate novels over time and prove t lat the address so fondly associated widi the movie, P. Sherman 42 WaUaby Way Sydney, is not original. This idea fits in wit i Bloom’s philosophy tiiat everything written since the Middle Ages is a copy of something else. The tweet received bac as i from many readers who foUowed him, claiming that he takes his theories too far. After this, the account was shut down, an different fake accounts popped up mocking the critic. The issue diat this presents is: What happens when the reader can access the critic in such a way that aUows that work to be ridiculed in a pubEc forum instead of personal thoughts on pubEshed works of criticism? Stephen Greenblatt, who is the editor for the Norton Anthologies and a new historicist, would have a difficult time wading through twitter and not finding people singing his praises, especiaUy for his new book Swerve. Bloom, on the other hand, would only find people making a mockery of his work. A good critic should not Esten to the pubEc opinion when writing their theories and reviews, so that the original idea they had stays un-warped by others thoughts. If these critics were on Twitter, reaching out to foUowers or listening to all of their thoughts on new Eterature, would they be affected by the general pubEc opinion? Everyone these days seems to consider themselves a scholar and critic, as a person can voice their opinion to the world and sit back to wait for a response. Only time will teU if the presence of great critics and scholars on the internet will affect the outcome of future criticism and scholarly Eterature. Luzerne County: A Story of Blackened Diaspora Jonathan Kadjeski Two diaspora populations, disparate but together blackened by a region’s economic prosperity. Blackened, but not by race. Blackened by the region’s fuel, the fuel of progress and the catalyst growth. Two European diaspora populations, blackened by anthracite coal. On April 2, 1770 the Paxtang Boys, a group of Scottich-Irish Presbyterians from Lancaster County, helped the Connecticut Yankees capture tire Pennamite’s Fort Wyoming, concluding die First Yankee-Pennamite War with six years of Connecticut domination in present-day Luzerne county. Wars continued, and it was not until September 1786 tiiat Luzerne County was created. Peace settlement brought new populations. The population increased from 2,000 in 1790 to nearly 13,000 in 1800, and the growth kept pouring in from around the county and around the world. Coal was not yet capable of being fuel for the settlers’ fires, but it was quickly becoming the fuel of increasingly large immigrations. When Jesse Fell produced an iron grate that could maintain a fire with the hard anthracite coal, on February 11 1808, he determined Luzerne County’s fate as a key economic location for the next two centuries of American history Now connected to the Erie Canal and the nation’s busiest radways and possessing a most valuable resource, the Yankee and Pennamite descendants were set to flourish, but of course they would not become the generations of coal miners Coal mining brought about two large influxes of vastly different Europeans into Luzerne County: the Irish and the PoEsh ‘ Between 1870 and 1915, fifteen milEon immigrants entered the United States looking for jobs, and as man r a hundred thousand came to Luzerne County alone to mine anthracite coal. Two classes of immigrants came from Grea 006 Britain - experienced miners from England and Wales, and common laborers across the Isles. British imnu ti slowed and immigrants from Eastern Europe poured in to take fill the labor needs. The Wyoming V 11 1 g™ °n eventuaw PoEsh immigrants, but they were not always celebrated. Criticized as a shabby, uneducated neonle that k ecame a mecca forkeeping their neighborhoods clean, the Poles were no better off than the Irish, criticized as imm -1 • ,n° lnterest ln drunks. To make matters worse, both populations were overwhelmingly CathoEc yet worshi m ’ P1^15 and destructive neighborhoods. Their culture was preserved - except for language, which lasted less than thr^6 °Wn brought the Irish and PoEsh together because they would not get along, and the W' V ge,neratlons- Coal barons end of the twentieth century, a juxtaposed soup of surviving Irish and PoEsh ethnic in a s culture today was, at the tgredien ts, widi varying forms of Roman CathoEcism as the broth base, and experiences of American blue-coUar hard U o If you are interested in joining The Inkwell. Quarterly staff and/or enrolEiiff in 1? r Dr. Marcia Fanell (marcia.farTeU@vvilkes.edu) fo!nnore WoiSo111 Continued on page 3... ^e11’ please C°IltaC‘ family vi valley. Film® By Todd As responds is Charlie over this Sh screened box offic Pet understar relations! friends Si De character: even he c love. Tho Miller as moving p Th evident in scene trar together.. considerir I h; her part. 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Coal Polish. many as onem Great ion eventually ne a mecca for interest in nd destructive al barons y was, at the >rms of age 3... please contact valley ' ^UeS sP^c^n§ UP ^le ^avor- The culture continues to evolve, incorporating new populations into a diaspora-based Film Review: The Perks ofBeing a Wallflower (2012) By Todd Oravic As the film adaptation of his novel The Perks ofBeing a Wallflower was being released, Stephen Chbosky began responding to fan questions posted on the novel's Facebook page. One person asked director/screenwriter Chbosky, "What is Charlie [the main character of Penkr] doing now?" Chbosky's response was "He just finished his movie and now he's taking over diis Facebook page." Shot in Chbosky's hometown of Pittsburgh, the independent film enjoyed a rather wide "limited" release, having been screened in over seven hundred theaters by mid-October. Perks made an immediate connection with audiences, killed at the box office (at least in relation to its relatively small budget of just over $12 million), and received high critical acclaim. Perks is about a socially inept boy named Charlie who writes letters to an anonymous person — Inis method of understanding certain aspects of Iris disjointed life and lais source of personal comfort. The story chronicles Charlie's relationships with his parents, his older sister, his English teacher, and most prevalently his relationship with newfound friends Sam and her step-brother Patrick, who accept him as he comes of age. Don't sit down to watch this movie with tire idea that this is a high school drama. It is not. It just so happens the characters are of that age. Charlie, at fifteen-years-old, suffers from a very obscure and seemingly inaccessible problem that even he can't comfortably place his finger on. It stems from a troubled past, and involves everyone he comes to know and love. Though it features an ensemble cast, including energetic, fun and endearing performances by Emma Watson and Ezra Miller as Sam and Patrick, this movie is really a profound character study. Logan Lerman turns in an outstanding and very moving portrayal of the emotionally battered and introverted, yet uplifting and relatable Charlie. The filmmakers made some really neat and effective creative choices as far as editing and cinematography. This is very evident in Charlie's flashback sequences involving Inis late Aunt Helen, as well as in the party scenes. Of the most notable is a scene transition that juxtaposes Charlie's accepting of communion during a mass and intake of an LSD tab during a get together. As far as Chbosky's screenplay, the dialogue is sharp and the scenes are all very quick, which is very pertinent considering how quickly school years go by. I had two relatively minor problems with the film. Tire first is Emma Watson's American accent. Valiant attempt on her part. But there are one too many moments in which we just know she is British and would like to take a few points from Gryffindor. My other problem is the "I feel infinite" line's reprise at the end of the film. The line does originate in the novel. Though it works in the first "tunnel scene," in which Charlie realizes he found people with whom he can share his space on the fringes of the social mainstream, it doesn't seem to serve well as the film's bookend. It's a tough line, because it can either jive well with the emotional frequency of the scene, or it can come across as hokey. For me, and this is just one man's opinion, it made the ending a bit hokey. However, this didn't even come close to ruining the film for me. Perks is a very wellmade, very entertaining and satisfying picture. Seldom do we see a novelist adapt his or her work into a screenplay (There have been exceptions, The Princess Bride being one). It's even more rare to see the novelist direct the film. But in the case of Perks, no one other than Chbosky could have written and directed this film. It wouldn't have the same heart and humor. His answer to the person's post on the Perks Facebook page is proof of that. The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Faculh Advisor: Di. Marcia Farrell E<lilor-in-< Incl: Anne Yoskoski Managing Editor: Kendra Knliai Cop\ Editor: Gabln Zawai ki Assistant Copy Editors: Carl) Varnnis and 1 J. Dennis Bmjiyoul Editor: Stephanie Wilkie Staff Writers: Victoria Wevener, Jamic^ltlcriso, J.eanna Rolon, Todd Oravic. Ashley 1-l.diei t\. John ( .moll, Brittney Gri/.zanti andAnthom Bartoli Faculty Contributors: Dr. Earry Knhar, and Dr. I liomas A. Hamill �Issue 2 Volume 7 The Inkwell The Inkwell Continued fre BiUy Collins Visits King’s College By d-d Qn open reading and two-day writing October 15, former U. S. Poet Laureate, Billy Co. k 1 n at Kings College. Collins is known mainly for his simple L g s most poX poet m ^Zub^" , ht> Collins read from most of g his nine collections, including my personal favorite, Nightclub, f . tfterewas a brief Q&A session where the poet addressed issue^ifically^ * piece of advice that resonated, said Wilkes alumni, James Giaco j^dons of humor into his work; he is a]so to james commented “I can see ‘ Oz ” At the time he didn’t really understand, but after going o how bis work always seems to start of simple, but then manages to end eavmg pL of information that you wouldn’t have expected when you started reading and teaching poetry. His Qne reader xvith some convoluted, abstract P You are so beautiful and I am a fool to be in love with you is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and poems. There seems to be no room for variation. I have never heard anyone sing I am so beautiful and you are a fool to be in love with me, even tliough this notion has surely crossed the minds of women and men alike. You are so beautiful, too bad you are a fool is another one you don't hear. Or, you are a fool to consider me beautiful. That one you will never hear, guaranteed. For no particular reason this afternoon I am listening to Johnny Hartman whose dark voice can curl around the concepts on love, beauty, and foolishness like no one else's can. It feels like smoke curling up from a cigarette someone left burning on a baby grand piano around three o'clock in the morning; smoke that billows up into the bright tights while out there in the darkness some of the beautiful fools have gathered around little tables to listen, some with their eyes closed, others leaning forward into the music as if it were holding them up, or twirling the loose ice in a glass, slipping by degrees into a rhythmic dream. Yes, there is all this foolish beauty, borne beyond midnight, that has no desire to go home, especially now when everyone in the room is watching the large man with the tenor sax that hangs from his neck like a golden fish. He moves forward to the edge of the stage and hands the instrument down to me and nods that I should play. So I put the mouthpiece to my tips and blow into We are all so f my long beboj so damn foolis we have becor Photo courtesy of Brittney Grizzanti Continued on page 5- - “Nightclub” �The Inkwell Volume 7 Continued from page 4... and blow into it with all my living breath. We are all so foohsh, my long bebop solo begins by saying, so damn fooEsh we have become beautiful without even knowing it. - “Nightclub” Billy Collins Snow on Campus Photo courtesy of Stephanie Wilkie Issue 2 �Issuc g Volume 7 The Inkwell The Inkwell Ff f I I Haunted Minors Fair ? bwit I . | Photo Courtesy of Kendra Kuhar Senior Sp' By Gabby Za Ther will miss aboi Department i Throughout 1 experiences F an environmt other. Although will miss her However, the library7 rescue missions. Wh her GPS cou to the library7 would have t just funny7 an someone fro: Outside o creativity anc people. While Ap April’s capstc LAMBD/ By Brittneys C As c student tries that matter ai human exp er varying genre celebrates th< summed up 5 Transgender} fiction, mystt Awards, and worthwhile r Photo Courtesy of Kendra Kuhar Lesbian Poet Love Cake, by Photo Courtesy of Kendra Kuhar Contemporary Authors Update By Kendra Kuhar With hopes to increase book sales even further contemn™ or the holidays. HarperCollins has published Flight Behavior bvS recendy distributed books just in time that put her on edge with her community. Viking released The Vo' bat® J±ngsolvef, telling the tale of a woman’s discover}’ slntS?G1lCh,8,VeS “d“S ’ ®fa«P«sPeedve Z iJXTli'f ^byjoyee AuthorPMn Roth, rrP ,1 -k “iudes Th. ptin"d “““lions by worfd 1 ' leta““ f™> He Transgender Tango: My Ch LGBT Anth< Gay Latino Si Be;XiCompany pubSshfat b°°k “ ■* EXSTtB' tF Gay Debut F Quarantine: Si appeai to Kad“ wi,° “ioy the ** T"’ aMhor °f the Shiver :hnd “ LGBT Child Tutting Makei LGBT Scien The German, 1 �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 2 Senior Spotlight: April Bechtel By7 Gabby Zawacki There are many tilings that senior April Bechtel will miss about Wilkes University. The English Department is witlrout a doubt, one of those firings. Throughout her time at Wilkes, one of April’s best experiences has been the opportunity to work and learn in an environment where everyone is willing to help each other. Although she will miss her classroom experience, April will miss her friends Jennie and Kacy coming to visit. However, the tilings April will miss most are her frequent library7 rescue missions. You heard me right: library rescue missions. Whenever April’s friend, Jennie, visited Wilkes, her GPS could not seem to find Evans and would take her to the library. Since she didn’t know the campus, April would have to go find her. “I will miss that because it is just funny7 and not normal to be told to come save Photo Courtesy of April Bechtel someone from a library7.” Outside of her life at Wilkes, April enjoys taking photography and writing poetry, two firings that help her express her creativity7 and writing skills. Another surprising fact about April is that she has a twin sister, which comes as a shock to most people. While April will soon be ending her time at Wilkes, she has had great experiences both in and out of the classroom. April’s capstone will take place sometimes between December 11 and December 14. LAMBDA Literary Awards By Brittney7 Grizzanti As college students attending a university tlaat concentrates heavily on the humanities, whenever any professor or student tries to describe the reasons which justify or make relevant the development and continuance of the novel, or for that matter any7 art form, the explanation you generally get is that the form is trying to capture/explain the mystery of the human experience. However, not all experiences are alike and because of this fact, literature has given birth to a plethora of varying genres which are all attempting to explain their own respective take on die human experience. One organization that celebrates these differences in experience, and the art they create is the LAMBDA Literary' Group. What they do can be summed up widi the first sentence of their mission statement: “Celebrating excellence in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Literature since 1989.” LAMBDA accepts submissions for, and reviews everything from poetry7, memoirs, fiction, mystery, non-fiction, drama, all the way dirough anthologies. This year marked the 24th annual LAMDBA Literary Awards, and while it would be impossible to list all the 2012 winners, below is just a small selection of some really worthwhile reads that without this organization, I would have never heard of. Lesbian Poetry 2012 winner: Love Cake, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, TSAR Publications Gay Debut Fiction 2012 winner: Quarantine: Stories, by Rahul Mehta, Harper Perenial ist in time n’s discovery >yce i as Lemony ies titled >y the trilogy, otle er Sacksnber.R°*S Transgender Nonfiction 2012 winner: . . rtixiv Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, by Justin Vivian Bond, The Feminist ress at edited by Michael Hantes-Gatcitt and Ernesto Javier Mardnea, Duke University Press LGBT Children’s/Young Adult 2012 winner: Putting Slakeup on the Fat Boy, by7 Bil Wright, Simon & Schuster LGBT Science Fiction/Horror 2012 winner: The German, by Lee Thomas, Lethe Press �Issue 2 Volume 7 The Inkwell The Inkmil No Fear Shakespeare By Annie Yoskoski world of Shakespeare, turning Ins masterpieces Sparknotes’ No Fear Shakespeare senes takes modem read , SpafknOtes’ slogan for the line of books is, into pieces of twenty first century dialogue that almost anyone,Can «shakespeare side-by-side plain English”. While “The play plus a translation anyone can understand with the , d reading an entire text, the No Fear Sparknotes is usually looked down upon in the English departmen as y E Ush speech diat is Shakespeare series is just as long as the original play. Line by line, editors translate more pleasmg to tlr, modern listener orK.der. SI IAKI SI’I ARI'. edit ttanslate the text that has .« •••PLAIN ENGLISH withstood criticism and weathered cultural changes for four hundred years into the speech of today. Part of die charm of Shakespeare is his language-and how he em­ ploys his archaic vocabulary in his works. One of the dungs that Shakespeareus known for is inventing words. In this article, there are over 1700 words that Shake- SHAKES speare actually invented. Some changes are simple, while others change die dialogue completely Reading^ Lear, in Act Two Scene Four, Cornwall asks, “What trumpet s that? This is changed by editors to “What’s that trumpet?” Minor changes such as these enable the reader to understand exacdy what is going on in the play. The question begged here is: why the change in the first place? The original text should be clear, as really all the editors did was change the order of the words. While it is unknown what process die editors use in order to make the decisions for word choice and placement, the original text is always available. The books are set up so that the original text is on the left-hand page, and the modern version is on the right-hand page. One could simply read the left-hand page and only turn to die right­ hand when they are confused, but that does not seem to be the case most of the time. This takes die guess-work out of Shakespeare. For some, this is seen as a good thing, but for others the guesswork is what makes Shakespeare fun to read and analyze. Some of die tiny nuances in language are so subde diat any change would lose die Photo Courtesy of Annie Yoskoski true meaning. Puns, insults, and general commentary on the time can be lost by changing and modifying the text as these editors do. This editing also changes the rhythm of the text, as many of Shakespeare’s royal or high class characters speak in perfect iambic pentameter, while die commoners and middle class characters speak in a more chaotic blank verse This is lost in translation when die editors strive to make the text “readable” for everyone, as it seems the editors would rather ap­ ply common words and modern understanding than stick to the form and language usage of Shakespeare’s original plays. The effort is not made to even end some of the scenes with a rhyming couplet, as the original text of Othello shows Shake­ speare as doing in order to signal a new scene or change of pace. No Fear Shakespeare does take away some of the magic” of the original text, replacing it with a more realistic tone. While Shakespeare’s plays were very accurate to their time period, they fall somewhat out of place in twenty-first century literature. That, however, is part of the charm of Shakespeare’s works. The new versions will never live up to the original texts. A recreation of the words of Shakespeare is similar to someone painting over the Mona Lisa or Starry Night - it is not appreciated by enthusiasts and scholars and will never live up to the original work. A serious Shakespeare reader will not benefit at all from a simulated text. Instead if someone is having trouble understanding Shakespeare, the est route to take is to see it preformed. Seeing the play on stage, as it was intended, brings a whole new light to the text tinging it to life in a manner which clarifies the material oast the archaic English and into real life. P Photo Photo Court reader is like! framework b< tedious and d The C Particularly, J detailing is au sexuality are c areas of focus Surrc break from a for in tire Pott though I was my bookshelf containing viv �Issue 2 tpieces ks is5 '■ar is has o the emis take- ig King tanged eader s: why -ditors is for set up the : rightle thing, se. the 7 : in > is r apys. ike- The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 2 CaSUaI Vacancy member for tl °f an aneurism> the parish must elect a new members f I?6 C°Unc ' ®ut when the underestimated and dissatisfied bemmp “ e pans take action against those standing, die election becomes a war” as secrets are revealed. v • r t^east that is how the novel is advertised. Barry Fairbrother does me; in tact he is dead within the first pages of die book. However the novel t° g ance over the tragedy almost immediately, substituting genuine eac ons or the personal issues of characters the reader does not yet care a out. For example, the morning after Fairbrother’s death Miles Mollison p tones his parents to inform them of the night’s events. As Miles and his wi e amantiia witnessed Fairbrother’s medical emergency and the evastation of loss on the part of Mrs. Fairbrother, one would expect sympadiy, horror, and a sense of sadness to shine through the pages. However, while sympathy and horror are presented witiiin the text, tiiey are more so glanced over obligatorily and then dropped and substituted for the introduction of Sam s hatred of her mother-in-law and husband. Fairbrother’s death appears to have no function in the early plot of The Casual Vacany, Consequently, the personal issues mentioned early on in the novel act mostiy as identifiers. However in the cast of thirty-four Photo Courtesy of Victoria Hevener characters keeping track of who is who without having a common framework becomes overwhelming. Instead of continuing forward the reader is likely to become confused, forcing him or her to flip backwards more often than forwards. Furthermore, the lack of framework between characters leaves tire reader no sense of plot. Add in the confusion of who is who and tire text becomes tedious and dull. The Casual Vancany only becomes more tedious as Rowling’s use of extensive description leaves the reader jarred. Particularly, Rowling focuses on referencing tilings of a sexual nature from the physical to the mental. Occasionally such detailing is authentic, for example bringing to focus the awkwardness of being a teenager. More often, however, the details of sexuality are outside the context of the narrative events, which leaves the reader in a conflicted state between incompatible areas of focus. Surrounded by other leisurely reading options, picking up The Casual Vacany felt more like a chore than an enjoyable break from a full course load. Pagford is full of drama, but is also somehow dull. Rowling’s characters, which she was praised for in die Potter series, are one-dimensional. Widiout a stable sense of plot die first part of die novel felt unorganized, as though I was reading ten unrelated accounts. Overall, The Casual Vacany was hugely disappointing and remains unfinished on my bookshelf, swapped out for Zaddie Smith’s NIP7, another book on issues in class and social mobility, another book containing vivid imagery, but a book that feels honest in its complex portrayal of humanity. Course Offerings for Spring 2013: English 201: Writing about Literature and Culture- Dr. Janet Stamer English 202: Technical Writing- Dr. Thomas Hamill English 203: Creative Writing- Prof. Bill Black English 218: Writing Practicum- Dr. Sean Kelly English 734: Survey of English Literature II- Dr. Helen Davis English 281: American Literature I- Dr. Mischelle Anthony English 324: History of the English Language-Dr. Janet Stamer English 335: Studies in Romantic Literature- Dr. Helen Davis English 353: Studies in Postcoloniallaterature-Dr. Maroa Farrell c L ffl Studies in Contemporary Fiction- Dr. Lawrence Kuhar Xth d^stSnar): Medeval AUegoV Dr. Thomas Hamdl �Issue 2 The j Volume 7 The Inkwell Con and Pastry Arts, when I bake Holiday Confections By C,e“^Xh (graduated from the Culinary Institute .of ^aXd' «SP 'h' I usually fall tack on family reetpes and comfort foods. Scones, /Xtke. Tins time of year parties and getholidays are a great excuse to put a bit more thought into the sweety ch bo„ght) t0 truly y ’ do the cookie platters. From store bought ton e^berandjanuary q^ese three recipes not togethers abound and so c every kind of cookie known to man between guests and add some homemade, many of us seetogether eve: surprisingly quickly, but they ivdl impress the cooki only taste great and come 1 _ beautiful variety to your holiday spread. Candied Orange Peel f tl ow away You may be surprised how Xthat you are using pa« of the orange. Su“sf“d": coco Dai This even greal Yiek *Yoi Ingr 1 cu] 1/2 ci V2 ci It vs 6oz Yield: about 40 strips 1/2 Cl Ingredients: 2 medium size oranges 4 cups sugar (separated) 3 cups water Coal 1. Bring a medium sauce pan of water to a boil. 2. Cut top and bottom off of each orange. Then, with a sharp knife, peel the orange, rotating as you go, so that you end up with one long piece of peel the entire widdi and circumference of the orange. This peel should not include the bitter white portion. Cut this into ’A inch strips. 3. Submerge all strips of peel in the water and boil for 3 minutes. Strain, discarding the water. Repeat this process twice more each time using fresh water. This ensures the removal of any leftover bitterness that may be left in your peel. 4. Combine 3 cups of granulated sugar and 3 cups of water in medium sauce pan and stir. Bring mixture to a boil and then add orange peel. Bring to a boil once more and then reduce to a simmer. Simmer until orange peel is tender and sweet, about 40 minutes. Taste to ensure drat texture and consistency is as desired. Remove orange peel strips and toss in reserved cup of sugar. Let rest on foil until completely dry. *These are also delicious dipped in, or drizzled with chocolate. Dark Chocolate Truffles Classic ganache truffles are prepared with a two to one chocolate to heavy cream ratio. Because this confection is so simple, high quality ingredients are key. Use the highest quality dark chocolate that you can find or afford as well as quality alcohol. Yield: 30 small truffles Ingredients: 8 oz dark or semisweet chocolate, chopped small 4oz heavy whipping cream 2 T light com syrup 2 T unsalted butter, room temperature 2T Grand Marnier or other flavorful alcohol Small pinch of salt 1. Place chopped chocolate in a heat proof bowl. Combine heavy cream and and bring to rolling boil. Immediately pour over chopped chocolate n”1 SyfUP heavy bottomed sauce pan minute. Using a rubber scraper or wooden spoon begin stirring in thT tO Sit undisturbed for about 1 until the mixture is homogenous. Add the butter, stirring it into the^ CCnter °f the bowl gradually moving outward incorporated. Pour entire mixture into an ungreased shallow bakine dj^ 8^nache’ add tbe alcohol and mix until Let sit until firm, up to one hour. 8 sh a«d cover the surface with plastic wrap. 2. Scoop into a piping bag fitted with a large plain tip, (or a ziplock bag- ‘ k balls onto parchment or waxed paper. Once set up these can be roll'd untCOtner .;?rnC^ CUt and pipe large marble size perfectly round and then tossed in _ 10 fContinued on page 11-T �ssuc 2 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 2 Continued from page 10... 1 bake Vtlie etlot ne u end the twice peel, ind ider strips cocoa powder, confectioner’s sugar, chopped candy canes, > or anything else your holiday heart desires. Dark Chocolate Toffee with Sea Salt This final recipe is one that is perfect for after dinner, and is delici even be able to avoid the temptation of so many extra calories widT en’°yed coffee- Sweet and rich, you may great because you have so much freedom with your aditions ^USt % Sma^ piece of this toffee. This formula is also Yield: enough for one greedy person or ten generous people *You will need a candy thermometer* 1 Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, softened i/2 cup granulated sugar i/2 cup brown sugar It vanilla 6oz good quality dark or semisweet chocolate, chopped ’/2 cup of toasted, coarse chopped nuts of your choosing Optional Coarse Sea Salt 1. Prepare a lipped cookie sheet with parchment or a silpat. 2. In a large heavy bottomed sauce pan combine butter and sugar. Heat over medium high heat stirring constantly with a heatproof rub spatula or wooden spoon until the mixture reaches 300 degrees Farenheight of149 degrees Celcius. Near the end of the cooking process lower heat slightly to help prevent scorching but do not stop stirring. 3. Pour immediately onto a prepared baking sheet and spread quickly with die utensil you used to stir die cooldng mixture. Do not worry about it being perfecdy smoodi as you will soon be covering it, but do try to attain a relatively even duckness. 4. Before toffee is cool sprinkle with chopped chocolate, let sit undisturbed until soft (usually less than a minute), and then spread until smooth. Quickly top with sea salt and chopped nuts and let fully set up. Once entirely cool and crystalized break toffee into pieces and store in an airtight container. mple, ohol. ian tward util ap- : size L Photo courtesy of Cierra Humphrey 11 �Issue 2 Volume 7 The Inkwell The Self John Carroll individual his or herself? It seems that the answer must include What is it that defines a person - that makes any one indeed, diese are important aspects of any experiences, the physical body, preferences and predispositions an i , detennining who exactly any one individual individual person. It is natural, then, to accept that diese must p ay s There is however, a danger here. The idea is. With this sentiment, I do not intend to disagree - diese dungs are imp . can make poor choices. Whether that one has about one’s self can be inaccurate. From at inaccura something unpleasant, we can live more the consequences are missing out on something one might enjoy, or exp g skillfully with a more accurate understanding of ourselves. , it ot be appropriate in this People tend to organize tegs into narratives and while e' 1 of a narrative, of course, and in instance. Consider the quesfon How was your day ; die answer ofc this case being able to construct an answer in that form is good, it was tine, i uro Consider the question “What do you do?” in this case it is also useful to be able to construct a narrative (or aw rom a pre -constructed one) and respond in that form: “I’m a student. I go to Wilkes University. Etc. , ut now consi er e question “who am I?” In tfiis case, the usefulness of a narrative breaks down from the sheer immensity o e require answer. To explain fully who one is, one would have to spend an equally immense amount of time relaying every experience one as ever had, and even then would never catch up to one’s self. It seems then that the problem arises when an individual starts to gather their experiences automatically (without due consideration) and constructs a sort of narrative out of themselves which they then take to be diemselves. As in, I am a student, an English major, a commuter” and stop there. It is easy to fall into this habit of referring to, and thinking of ourselves as the sum total of these extraneous details. I would argue that the self is not primarily the constructed narrative which consists of the collected patterns and predispositions of remembered experiences. I think that if there is to be a self at all then it must necessarily be the faculty by which observations are being made and judgments being rendered. Simply, the primary component of die self is die part of the mind which is active in diis instant, not that construct which was functioning three years ago, not diree seconds ago, and not three seconds from now. The past self and the future self can be understood to be useful constructs maintained by the mind. That is, falsehoods, but useful falsehoods representative of an unobtainable reality. This is an important distinction because, while it is useful -even inecessary - to have ideas of tire self diat expand beyond the current moment, it is also necessary to understand diat those future ----- e or past persons are not the self (or die whole self, if you prefer). In the method by which we gather die source material, as it were, or verify our ideas about ourselves lay die support for my claim. To check that one is good at math, one might attempt to do math. One can ask one’s self or be asked by another, if one is good, and the answer one gives is sufficient in most cases. If one is unsure, diough, or simply has never med, one consults the prunazy source: the present-moment self. If the best or most reliable method of interacting with the self is in that present moment, it is appropriate to call that moment the‘primary self or in st tko £ iptc.\ u ‘self is an unattainable idea, and is thus not useful in die same way. Self ’ If “1S nOt’then 1116 It can be argued diat the self is the whole of our experiences that nnvrltioo i • • understanding might be popular, and it might also be accurate. It is not, however ve^useful ■ k whole self, dien, of anyone. Not even our own selves. Recall the never-endinv ret 11’^ c 6 cannot mteract xvltb t ie incur. We might be able to remember a large majority of our experiences and ar ° °Ur °Wn narrabve t^iat tbat wou^ shape the present moment. Any attempt we make at relating to this immensity^6 k Wh°le °f th°Se exPeriences at worst. Mislead in that, in editing his or her narrative to make possible its retelli °Ugh’ faU sbort’ at best, and mislead, inaccurate representation of his or herself. It is vital then, to understand thatch lnc^v^ua^ might construct an present moment are accessible only indirecdy, and by virtue of that °Se lc^eas hie self which do not exist in the Here might be tee that’ from a mligtous LndpomVc^d te ‘ interact with the whole self of any and all individuals. This can be true. If thi & ttUgbt be able to conceive of and being available only to beings beyond humans renders it a topic of consider V CaSe’ tbou gh, then such knowledge though, interesting or useful to us. on for those- beings, oeings, and and not not terribly terribly This constructed ‘self, that which extends beyond the present mo U6’ brforf Stated’ We may Say thal We Particulafly good at som^’m°St often in the form of a partial to one food over another; that we’ve gone to these places, or done th^l’;0' We dislike a P^son, or diat we are them amm t “nt m Tr con^ious of^ that We be somedung or diere are moments in most people s lives where the individual might have a m f monologue, either. It seems diat ome back to our stories over and over again with a certain anxionc r moment of pure exnertTn wz j j have ave ever forgotten your name, you might be familiar with the disorienting’ dl°Ugb’you ' ce- e ° ten o ness Continued on 13. 1 ( �Issue 2 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 2 Continued from page 12 lUst include of any individual The idea Whether ve more iate in this -se, and in • • etc.” rom a pre - question ver. To ie has vithout in, “I am ag of arrative ie a self at iply, the elf can be re of an xpand tiie e support d by never vitii the ten the ith the at would nces lislead, n ist in the d Ige fa t we aJ-e lgor ms that I to ^JT!II^tPattlCUlarmoment. \Ve even tell these stories to each other - a long and complex story, built from moments of self-evalullo^L^9^?166 Xvith one-another. Each individual has one years of re-telling. When introducing yourself to new people it’s onndt experience), honed and memorized by you’re afraid of clowns. It s even pleasant to be able to tell someon th° 6 tO te^ t^lem *^at y°u’re allergic to peanuts, or those sentiments with others. e at you like horror movies, or Japanese food, and share Indeed, we must understand who we are (were, and will b and the limits of our resources in order to survive, to thrive in the \ ’ resPons*bilities are, the extent of our ability, propose that we must be able to consciously separate ourselves ft W°r 1 veT purpose of utility, however, that I them under critical examination. For as important as it is to ha °m °ur stones> at least for brief periods of time and bring accurate. This verification again can only come from one sourrT tl” 1 63 °f One>S Self’ “1S e9ually important that that idea be For example: I might say “I don’t Eke coffee,” and becauseXhT . • die past and.................................... disliked it. I might have though admittedly not this particular narrative, and even if one is selective and obse^ant, a^X^LX”' n°'”1"’yS °“ef“lln "1,at makes itin'° °” .. Se^Itfriha^tV T‘T8r“tly d'Slik“itaS“°fCoffee' Fot>'e"s 1 avoidedit, convinced that I would not like It if I tried It again. Eventually I was coerced into give it another shot, and was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying it Thus, my story changed. My understand^ of myself changed, maybe insignificantly Thlpoint is that who I am now IS different from who I was. I don’t think that it’s too radical of a statement to say that that’s true for everyone else. As a matter of fact, to say that anyone goes even a day without changing would be ridiculous. It is only by the mindful attention that we can choose to give our daily experiences, slight meditative practice, that we can maintain an accurate and thus optimal idea of our self, if we are to have one. I would urge anyone to take a few moments each day, or as often as is convenient, to pay attention to what he or she is feeling. Take a few breaths and focus on them. How diey feel coming in, going out — just that sensation. It may feel silly, or it might not feel Eke anything, but one might notice that something they’re experiencing doesn’t quite fit with their story. Maybe something has changed, or maybe something wasn’t ever right. Maybe that clown isn’t so scary, or the coffee actually does smell pretty good. Maybe you’re no longer feeEng angry towards that one guy who reaUy got under your skin this morning. Maybe that clown does scare you, the coffee smeUs gross, and you still think that that guy’s a jerk, but you reaUy never know what you’re Eke until you take some time to sit and pay attention to yourself. Winter Capstones By Gabby Zawacki and Kendra Kuhar April Bechtel will present her Senior Capstone sometim about misogyny and the connections between the °PPr^ss . how this connection impacts society and language an ie^P ,f‘ topic “because language matters more than people thii 1 December 11 and December 14. Her Capstone is sion of animals. She also focuses on h PPfor Western literature. April chose this e R matters> ianguage consciously shapes their P the Kirby salon from December 11-14. Scents « encoded ro anend In order ro ____________________— gain valuable experience and support fellow students. Additional 2012 Senior Capstone Presentations This Winter. Todd Oravic . . . tt_p Screen” “Trouble, ReEef, Cause and Effect:: Writing o Advised by Dr. Chad Stanley 1:30 p.m. James Gambucci Modern American Language Poetry as a Rejection of Early Poetty Through its ImpEed Poetic and Ontologica Constructs” Advised by Dr. Larry Kuhar 2:00 p.m. ’ April Bechtel “Misogyny How Literature and Language Impact It” Advised by Dr. Chad Stanley 2:30 p.m. Sara Williams “Growing p with My Grandmother” Advised by Dr. Chad Stanley 3:00 p.m. 13 �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 2 2012 1 A Visit from Bill Black 3y Ken By Kendra Kuhar Thursday, October 29 marked Wilkes’ first introduction to author Bill Black. Professor Black worked with students during a writing workshop in which he reviewed a selection of submitted works and discussed them with the rest of the group. After the writing workshop, Professor Black proceeded to a dinner held in Kirby Hall with a small group of students and faculty. Following the dinner, Professor Black read his piece titled “In the Valley of the Kings” to those who gathered in the salon. The literature mentioned details of local areas as well as others around the country. Bill Black has been published in Hotel Amerika, Denver Quality, and New Orleans Review among others. Fie is also a coordinator of Pages and Places Book Festival, which takes place in Scranton annual. Professor Black will be teaching Introduction to Creative Writing in Spring 2013. peace, c (EU) ch relieve < con^ov group, x keeping war in f< of the p the $1-2 nations < which is A Shal By Anne Theatre's Studies ii Bishop, theater. S excellent Photo courtesy of Stephanie Wilkie when a p that seen given to t eTextbooks Now at Wilkes - Are They the Right Choice for you Next Semester? By Ashley Flaherty One of the biggest burdens to college students at the beginning of any semester is the cost of textbooks With all of the advances in technology recently, an opportunity for Wilkes students is to purchase their textbooks for their iPads NOOKs, Kindles, etc. ’ As with any new advancement, eTextbooks have pros and cons. In many cases the met.. m m i • i expensive, about a third less than buying the book new; however, unless the class is nm J > f “ eTeXtbook ls leSS c the semester, the student must purchase one on their one. E-reairs, suet.“sTnoOK T ty*"' ™th ““ f“ bookstore is compatible with, can cost upwards of $200, depending on the features the\T 1 ■ ameS & Noble textbooks, eTextbooks save the environment. As we all know, new editions of textb k Cnt eslres’ Unlike traditional eTextbook does not require printing. A problem arises when a student tries to purch ° S constantly coming out, but an for an E-reader. Since these readers are relatively new, not all textbooks are availabl textbook tbat *s not Yet available of course material is available as eTextbooks at B&N. When studying for exams E ° C pUrcbased; kss than thirty percent words and find what they are looking for in a matter of seconds. Traditional textb ak°W students to search key glossary or dictionary to find what they are looking for, thus taking up valuable s °d° ma^ reCIUlre students to search' the eTextbooks expires after a certain date. The student essentially pays for access t 1 dle downslde, access to resell it. Had they purchased a regular textbook, the student could keen ir for 1 ? \ °°k tbey do not get to keep it or reselling it. P later reference or make some money back by In addition to eTextbooks, Wilkes students have the opportunity to Similar to eTextbooks, students must return them by a certain date, thus they do °°kS f°r 1116 duratton of foe semester, to keep them for future reference. When checking foe Barnes and Noble BookstorTrX^6 m°ney back> nor do diey get cheapest option for most books. Similar to traditional textbooks, students are n •W bsite’ renting appears to be foe the bookstore asks we be “gentle” if it is a rental for foe sake of foture renters Wfo tO highESht ln rented textbooks, but Highlight important sections, but taking notes requires opening another application andReaders, m^T’ StUdents students are able to easily iay be tricky. Many pe< genders c to speak i proper jui s 5 really mea School. K/ Kadjeski Y°skoski stations ir Section Sceile, anc the sfoder '^4 deefoed % Papers sOo �Issue ri,e 2 ________________________________ Volume 7 Prize Winner Issue 2 2 XndraKuhar By definition, the Nobel Peace Prize is an a dP democracy, and human rights. Announced on the ^ner has PeaC ’, jmed the prize. In addition to it’s stunning k tO^er 12 <he Norwe ' ™onstrated a notable promotion of dSthe^winner’s area. "““S h°"°' ^e/b, theXToX'' C°“European U“°" 1 relieVe While the winner of the award is usually admir d b li PnZe’ "b' ' A a ' EU 'Xph““ «XnL0fc70'ld’ e™B the EU’s die is „„„p, which expands to twenty-seven nattons today. The EU was aZ* , t'”7 °f Rome “ »d began as a six-state feeptag P«“ “d 7dntUi“7 “Peace with its bord«X * ’ °f S“ ” °f L in former Yugoslavia resulted as a failure. rders a^r centuries of war. However, an attempt to stop Most people were in disbelief when they learned who had wo tl of die prize wrote to the Nobel committee claiming that the EU doe ° £ ^nZe ^ore specifically, three previous winners the million prize money does not be given to the EU To show fiTT Portray peace at all. The past-winners also ask that ations out of the twenty-seven nation European Union will not b^ UnhapPiness with the selected winner, ten wliich is the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, in Norway ° aPPeaianS' ^le awards are to be given on December 10, A Shakespearean Semester r? oks. With all of :ir iPads, look is less h the reader for Noble e traditional ng out, but an t yet available m thirty percent search key to search the access to ) keep it or oney back by jf the semesterlor do they get to be the 1 textbooks, but ible to easily By Anne Yoskoski On October 28, Professors Dr. Janet Stamer and Dr. Helen Davis took a group of students to see Quintessence •Item's all-male east production.ofShakespeare s masterpiece O*//e. The play aligned with course readtngs for Dr. Stamer's Studies in Shakespeare course (ENG 342) and Dr. Davis' English 201. The students included: Jonathan Kadieski, Matthew Bishop, Elizabeth Dollman, Theodore Dennis, and Anne Yoskoski. The Quintessence Theatre decided on an all-male cast for the production, something rarely seen in the modern dieater. Some of the sensual parts, such as Desdemona s, are hard to picture being played by a man. The actor did such an excellent job that many audience members forgot that they were even watching a man. The play was performed on a bare stage, harkening back to the lack of props in Shakespearean times. The only time when a prop was brought on to the stage was for the final scene. The actors evoked such provocative and enthralling speech that scenery and props were not really necessary, for the audience could imagine everything in their own minds with material given to them by the cast. After the last scene, die actors went backstage to change and came back for a question and answer session. Many people asked about die dynamics of an all-male cast, and it was made clear that it takes a certain type of actor to switch genders on stage widiout drawing attention to die switch. We got to meet die cast afterward, and diey were more than happy to speak to us about tiieir technique and dieir droughts on the play itself. Seeing men on a blank, black stage with no shoes and simple costumes performing a masterpiece (and doing it proper justice) was an amazing experience. , , . "It was a great experience to see die play on the stage and then read it. It made it come alive, and diat s the way it was really meant to be seen" student Theodore Dennis said. nerformance night for a class from die Gillingham Charter One month later, die Studies in Sbak^sPeaJe dlaSS^J -P Jhl ZerfosS, Elizabeth Dolman, Jonathan School. Members of die class were Anne Yoskoski, TJ.D , Stetion ZerfosS; Bishopj QraviC) and Kadjeski, Matthew Bishop, Brittney Gnzzantti, and To of The Taming of the Shrew. The various Yoskoski lead students dirough various stations examining di eren s No pear Shakespeare, a stations included an examination of die different editions of die text o& blocking and directing die wooing dissection of Kate's final speech by translating it into modem language, a ducdons of play. Scetle> and a comparison and contrasting station on the various turn a & seemed to enjoy it as well> sending "It was a great teaching experience" Matt Bishop sal 4e 'Mats drank you cards and making each student a poster. Mth Jon Kadjeski and Dr. Stamer f He latest Shakespeare event was my (Anne Yoskoskt) »P “ “ M confeK„ce, and n ptesentauons went fo'*e Eady Medieval Conference. Jon and I got to present ou^ P’P^ m CasketScene tn the.Merchant of Vraicd™ 'j ty WeIe bOth f°r °“ ShakeS.PT tof Venice'^Although our session ™ tyX’Z . ’nd Jon's was "Apocnpha in tlte Merchant of Vemce1OTea the expenence, an Mra'd "very significant: andt cry wed delivered". Jon and I both abs PaPers soon. e t0 expand upon OUI ppp �Volume 7 The Inkwell Issue 2 Getting A Job in Our Post-Industrial World: Redefining “Work” and The English Major By Dr. Kuhar We stood on a wooden platform Faring each other with sledgehammers, A copper-tipped sieve sunken into the ground Like a spear, as we threaded on fivefoot Ofgalvanisedpipefor the pump. As if tuned to some internal drum, We hammered the block of oak Placed on top for the pipe. . I shouldn’t have been born With hands &feet IfI didn’t do Your kind of work. Yoh hated my books. "Song for My Father" by Yusef Komunyakaa ‘The economy, stupid!” — James Carvilte, Political Strategist Photo courtesy of Desiree Wren The recent presidential election process, including the debates and advertisements, told us something important about work and jobs in our so-called Information Age and Knowledge Economy. As English majors, you need to think about this message because it so deeply informs an understanding of the nature of ‘work’ in the workplace you will enter. Election advertisements left no doubt about the central role of work in American culture. This, of course, is nothing new to any of us. Like “tire block of oak” in Komunyakaa’s poem, we were hammered with ads and arguments about jobs, work and, oh yes, unemployment. As English majors, did we really need this added emphasis on jobs? Like Komunyakaa’s speaker in “Song for My Father,” we contemplate the meaning of work with an awareness of the tensions and complications inherent in trying to understand how or if what we can do will be valued by an employer. In Komunyakaa’s text, the tension with his father is an anxiety traced out in the tension between “Your kind of work” and “You hated my books.” We know about this. As a result, we’re often balancing our love for the ‘work’ of what we do in English classrooms with the reality of a contemplation of future employment prospects. With this in mind, we are wise to consider the significance of how work is perceived. In an effort to better understand his relationship with his father, Komunyakaa emphasizes an apparent split between work as hard labor and the world of ideas. We need to contemplate how we can better understand how what we do - understanding the world of ideas and MUCH more - is perceived in the workplace. And most importantly, we need to consider how we can act on the ‘ knowledge that our skills are valued in the workplace. The pressure about getting a job is, of course, not a worry exclusive to English majors. Ask lawyers or computer programmers. Moreover, English majors are not focused—nor should be focused, of course on i 1 11 reading Shakespeare, Richardson or Milton or writing on works by Morrison, Rushdie Plath or Frr^t ™u• • about getting a job—or what work is in the workplace—when writing papers that contemn!^ i,- S • > ° r<? n°,t thU1 concepts or that critique gender, diversity and race. But whether we like it or not the stoX C “Cal and cultural world—even when the meanings of these stories are encrypted in advertisements and debafS ZZ. *** °U1' Post"ln^ustrla^ do m’ot often enough emphasize and value the skills we possess and the work that we do as English m °Ut W at emP^°yers va^ue But. .. there is increasing evidence that the value of what we do and what we can d °fSin the Harvard Business Review in spring 2011, Tony Golsby-Smith, founder and CEO of Second Road ° °1S °n iaSe’ leaders around the world have told me that they despair of finding people who can help tl ’ P°lri]S °Ut dlat’ Business even get their heads around them.” It’s your job as English majors to understand what thXrnZ W^C'<ed Pro^ems — or you career, and to contemplate what work is and how employers think about skill sets in toda and matters to These companies, Golsby-Smith argues, highly value people who possess skills th Z • WOr^P^aceour English classes: “People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare's poetry oXX"6 C°re w^at we 111 learned to play with big concepts, and to apply new ways of thinking to difficult problem 1 eZann^ s Paln tings, say, have conventional ways.” S la’’ can f ^e analyzed in Golsby-Smith focuses on the skills you develop when you conduct research for ( i ] 1 i ( < �Issue 2 lish Major _ jss^^Tfrom page 16... 16... ________ _ Volume 7 annotated bibli. „mvuucu oiDliography on contemporary lit( the importance of understand. _ 1 Issue 2 - ,sSion that responds to a classmate’s ide«U1£ShOrt ^Weth^ ^UCtUre and . 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In short, your why is it h that that we, we, as as Bnglish E„g7s’h majt SSo o whyls bp “^mcafio^ a„ ^mp^ty ^"““8 “pstteaX or " SUk rddyou way to answers ts to barrage of political advertisements debates and news stories thXetlh” “a*' electron, we were subjected to a pbs and llie e“n°,!L P°b al strategist James Carville said a few, t'°bS’ lbe ec°»°my. jobs, the economy and ibout when voting, The economy, stupid!” (Sorry!) years back when commenting on what voters care The images we watched in these ads depicted work mostl kind of work we see ourselves doing with an English degree Thes S m^USt^a^ not as post-industrial. In short, not die ,e images—as well as the sounds and verbal texts that ises. They showed workers standing The images tended to emphasize blue-collar labor as the core of the workforce and suggested, if mdirecdv Zt a return to these jobs is the only hope for future jobs and economic growdi. y’ don Age and ns an : course, is d arguments n jobs? n awareness of an employer. In >f work” and what we do in :o better d labor and the world of ideas n act on the :s or computer i job while re not thinking id cultural r post-industrial t employers value the rise. Writing , “Business 1 problems — or ly it matters to Let me note, before I go farther, that my family’s work stories are i nearly all defined by blue-collar jobs, including working in garment factories, post offices and coal mines. 1 understand and vahre theT^mTAXi ££ ’ -' •' • ‘ P less of whether the workplace is a convenience store, a classroom, an r----- regardh airport or a gas fracking site. The dignity and importance of our individual human identities and stories are not compromised or defined’exclusiveFy byom^oTTA^e^T ’ het, this insight presents a core value at the center of what we aim to achieve in our Engbsh classes: The necessity to affirm the essential value and dignity of all human beings. I’m focusing here on how, as English majors, we benefit from understanding the need to redefine and to better understand the possibilities for what work is in today’s world and how doing this will serve you as you go forward in your career and life. Back to the idea of work in our post-industrial society .... In most of the political ads I watched, work was not depicted as post-industrial. The more I watched, the more I wondered about the function of the English major in a post­ industrial society. Wiry were we not seeing ads that emphasized a different skill set? Post-industrial society is a society where the sendee sector of work produces more wealth than industrial or manufacturing areas. A degree in English prepares you to attain a job and to succeed in the service sector of the economy. In a post-industrial society, knowledge and ideas are valued more — we’re told — when we want to produce jobs and grow die economy. This is the fancy stuff at the center of what we mean by “The Information Age” and “The Knowledge Economy. The ads I watched advanced a not-so-subtle perspective on what work is in a (now-ironized) post-industrial society. In otlier words these ads did not emphasize often enough that job growth and economic success in a knowledge economy are tied to die kinds of skills and values we possess as a result of a degree in English. (I’m not an economist but when I play one on TV . . . .) So, what can you do to navigate these complicated messages in order to enhance the possibilities for personal and Three thoughts. First, take responsibility for who yon are as eveloping a more complex understanding of how your parUcipa otj defined, ability to understand the value Presents you with an essential challenge and responsibility. ns c something I had to do in my career as °fwork you can do. It may require you to reconceptualize w rat_wor work histories. The responsibility you my work and career moved me farther and farther away from my a } writing the story of how you meet an Possess is die responsibility that comes with accountability: Be accoun employer’s needs. ' do emnloyers value? You’ve developed an ability to , . Secondly, study what work is in today’s workplace. What skW ^^cators and presenters. Employers htynovative and creative to be problem solvers and leaders, to be fol a„ endle career. Your skifi set is skills. Studies show that fewer and fewer people® of what we do in ings, say, have lyzed in =d on page 17.■■ !nd knowledge economy rehes as the'X’T “ ’ ™d‘' E“'ge °f 'Jlelanlzatl0l’ynd “ “ of understanding your ‘woe ° ' d“T PU' "S “ “ 0“ » ^d\ job and eontnWe to the workfo hutrt b , , includes the P tion deludes the economic world—i.e., no .. 1 diversity and more, 'VMld of Meas, creativity, cirtic justice, democratic A* dand advan^g-dear of £““°» and acknowledges the indispensible responslbdiO are at the core of the study integrity and hulan understanding.. These valu««_____------------------ 17 Continued on page 18... �rheI^'eI1 Issue 2 The Inkwell Volume 7 Continued from page 17- | "a world that simultaneously critiques and problematics workforce literature, culture and work. (Yes, the study of work.) It ’s another way, you need to be highly aware that what you can do-as a Said identities as valued regardless of the job or career, f ’ result of your degree—has value in the world. ' post-industrial society—continue to grow and Finally, know that as globalization and automation—core aspects of a p< y „e. Tills should build your confidence to impact how we think of work, your value in the workplace will only increase. e sun’ as an English major has often positioned your Understand that the debate surrounding how to find your ‘place in the sun’ Nothing could be birther from the truth. As Golsbywork as important, interesting and not-so-worthwhile economically. • 1 employers, put it, “If you want another good reason to hire from the humanities, consider tins: tins, Smith, addressing potential i---------consulting firms like McKinsey and Bain like to hire them [because they can solve problems, are innox atix e an are .’ ei “Z] .... You can hire liberal arts graduates yourself, or you can can pay pay through through the the nose for a big consulting firm ' ’ :as, critical thinking and to hire them to do the thinking for you.” In our post-industrial knowledge economy, ide: you personal and economic communication skills are commodities. Sony. Pursue your passion knowing that it can bring 1 75^^ Z-/Nota , v’l Grac along J’ into “new mu accreted meal letters and wc ment—this ei ing,°fte^n power and tie and when we Kno' that, now trai that day. By success. Hamill’s Hunches By Dr. Hamill Before I sat down to write my Hunches on the morning of its (graciously extended) deadline, I decided that I instead needed to assemble the Guidecraft High Rise Step Up that had arrived in the mail the night be­ fore, only four short days after I placed the order on target.com. Like those of you reading this now, I was, of course, procrastinating and plotting suspending and sustaining the narrative hope proleptic of my “will-have-been -submitted” 10 submission while also conjoining that inevitable fulfillment to another mytheme of my day’s unfolding “story” that I could already imagine (proudly) flashing back to. The Guidecraft High Rise Step Up (we ordered the one in “Natural” for those of you following along online) is meant to help our daughter Grace reach the faucet of the newly installed pedestal sink in the now (nearly) com­ pleted (and infamously “digitized” and “archived”) bathroom renovation project. In its promise of design and function, tire Guidecraft is audaciously believing, faithful to the promised arc of enabled “High Rise Step Up” access to still more domestic and cultural systems—an arc reflected in the rounded handles that, to me at least, define it. And here perhaps, in this admission, I’ve betrayed what you, long ago, had already come to suspect: that I, as the one who installed the pedestal sink, need the Guidecraft (and it magic reassuring handle arches) as much as, Photo Courtesy of Jon Kadjeski and probably more than, Grade does. The 2” lag bolts I used to mount the sink to the wall (the 2 >/2” bolts were just a bit too long and tempted over-tightening disasters, although I may try them again if and as conditions dictate) and the 3” bolt I used to mount the pedestal to the floor were simply (and obviously for anyone who’s been paying attention) not enough. Derrida’s illuminations notwithstanding (and confirmed), I need more structure, more structural reassurance, more reifications of “die structurality of the structure.” I knew, plotting, that, even before Grade tried its virtues, the Guidecraft’s endnepri™ -J™ ut what I needed. Indeed, the assembly-induced scraped knuckle and its ironic Faustian drop nav half Z AZZ only affirmed the fanctions of my ntes, as the sound of alien-wrenched bolts biZZdSZ 7 7f i possibility (and now, belief) that those 2” lag bolts did in fact catch sometiiing, the lath nZ.t ti ““A backer installed by provident former owners or pedestal-sink installers. Even as the hor 1 ‘ j °j P°SS1. 7 even a wo° Guidecraft bolt that countersunk more than its engineers might have wished remind d C OVer~^ltenlng ^ie one tity I was courting, I nevertheless felt confident that I was living the right life writin ' ° mar^ns structural integshaping and responding to just enough of my lucky gift of plotted plot. OWn tUlle’ my own biography On the way to school earlier that morning, as we were listening to “Natural Sci< Grade reminded me of a promise I had made the day before (when we were listening to “Natural Science” c ' lence, ' on the way to school): that I would get us some new music” (as she accurately recalled my words)—another Rush album to liste: ----- en to: Fly By ■-------------------------------- The Votes By Jamie Aid Folic dent of the U 206 votes. Pr garners 59.1 i are evident p �^°IuiUe 7 Issue 2 ^^^2£ age18"' I ^--^^j^keen to the final six words of one of tl zes workforce . you can do—as a tinue to grow and nfidence. ositdoned your ath. As Golsbys, consider this: and are excellent ; consulting firm ; and vid economic Issue 2 /Not as market campaigns/WiUsidh capture ^-^t^ses Of ! tokAn™* afady what c ’• ^.y ted meaning, the mo ent that she would see and enin aS 1 toagmed as^^ frorn buying k through iTunes), mters and words of the album cover” and liner notes I Y purPle'blue-ae P7 °f my hopeful projections of the day’s 16 Sethis envisioned scene of recognition and curiosit^ ^teful y<* Sky and Escape and lake and 1116 nf return and departure and synthesis—is itself a b r 7 conftrmation of f r t ler kssons- W belief in this moifl& and flexibility of technologies of the book. W di wonders of b and strangeness and understandP°Xhen we recalibrate their structural logics, these oLU engage the old forms ^ndT^5*1 aUegory and 1116 staggering 311 Knowing tins much made me smile as I remembXS^’ ^^Sou^^^^ “ And 7“.* . f noW transformed by new transforming structures of h r 7 lag'bolt ^s the c 7 ’Ttaln our work of making. 7 dav By now, your reading done, I thmk I will hav fenewed> would Meet C h°Pe “ SUnple machmes’ that da} ave long been dailv r 7 Oracle and me after our car ride home 5 aSSUIed by return. In fact, I’m sure of it. ming of its led to assemble ail tire night becom. Like those id plotting— iy “will-have-been able fulfillment to 1 already imagine : one in “Natural” ir daughter Grace ow (nearly) comm renovation raft is audaciously e Step Up” access d in the rounded cvhat you, long tailed the pedestal :hes) as much as, ed to mount the iy try them again ously, for anyone more structure, have given me of salvific blood d and recast the even a wood tening of the one : structural integwn biography led me of a 11 would get us ued on page 19— The Votes Are In gy Jamie Alderiso Following an obscenely expensive election, President Barack Ob,m • ,• dent of the United States of America. Attaining a total of 332 elect 1 & retains his position as the forty-fourth Presi906 votes. President Obama additionally wins the popular vote but onk^liC°Uege; Romney earns ' erS 59.1 million voters. The nation is a divided union currently in terms^f view d R°mney ° nottpms in which nartv won rprfnm \z rms of views, decisions, and votes counted. There are evident patterns in which party won certain states. You can see below in the final election map for the 2012 election: 12 NH 4 (' 3 / ( 3 7 4 : ■ 11 s V 3 Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 10 10 3 5 55 VT3\ 4 6 29 20 7T-MA 11 ~RI 4 CT 7 20 11 18 5 13 »DE 3 \XMD 10 10 8 DC 3 15 11 9 6 16 □ Obama 6 9 □ Romney 8 �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 2 The ^ducatit 3y Steph^ Twenty-First Century Teacher Certification Requirements J The 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known popularly as No Cliil # Student 9 Change Behind (NCLB), was certainly controversial in both aims and methods. Some aspects, however, are tilings t rat s e: , — »d parents can ail agree on snch as the need for Uuyhiy ^ualthed -eher^CLB.set‘X^ed 9 Notify since they b crbnnl teachers with primary responsibility for direct instruction m one or more of NCBd s coie "£a“ that £ey s^sfy L X of a Highly Quahfied Teacher" Students in the Teacher “ttPropatn >' 9 Wilkes are well-on their way to fulfilling Pennsylvania’s definition of a highly qualified teacher. The ea least a bachelor’s degree, demonstrate subject matter competency for die core content area for which they io pnmarj instructional responsibility, and hold a valid Pennsylvania teaching certificate. As die certification areas are etng up ate the twenty-first century, so too are the requirements for a Pennsylvania teaching certificate. The greatest c ranges are tiose taking place in the standardized certification tests. The old tests are not simply going away. Students graduating before August 31, 2013 should fulfill the current test requirements, the ones in place when they began their program, by this date. For students graduating after tins ate, tie testing requirements can be a little tricky to decipher. Currentiy, all future educators are required to take the PRAXIS I series of skills tests in Madiematics, Rea g, an Writing. Beginning April 2012, these will be replaced by the PECT Pre-Service Academic Performance Assessment, commonly known as PAPA, tests. Each PAPA assessment includes multiple modules, each with its own qualifying score. Each module consists of both selected-response questions and constructed-response questions based on the text objectives. These tests more accurately reflect the skills needed to successfully complete a rigorous teacher education program. The structure is similar to the old PRAXIS exams. Each test consists of two or three modules. Each assesses one of die three content areas, and is scored individually. They may be taken in a single test session or individually. Content resembles teaching standards, with each domain broken down into a subject-matter area and several test objectives. Descriptive statements further define each objective and provide some examples of the eligible content. The score scale will be from 100 -300 for each module, and the scaled score of 220 represents the approved performance criterion, or minimum, for each module. Prospective teachers about to begin their student teaching also take examinations in tlieir subject content concentrations. Most of the Praxis Grade 4-8 assessments will be retained, as will die subject concentrations in English Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science. Certifications in PreK-4, Special Education PreK-8 and Special Education 7-12 will use PA Education Certification Tests (PECT) administered by Pearson. As a result of the certification changes, die undergraduate programs at Wilkes have also adapted. The Elementary and Early Childhood Major now ends in a pre-kindergarten through fourth grade certification and incorporates an eighteen credit minor in Reading Education. The new Middle Level Education major leads to a fourdi through eighth grade certification and a specialization in one of the following areas: English/Language Arts/Reading, Madiematics, Science, Social Studies, or Mathematics and Science. A minor in Secondary Education can be added to a number of content majors to earn a seventh through twelfth grade certification. Added to a Biology, Chemistr}', or History major, the program will lead to a 712 certification in that major content area. A student majoring in Earth and Environmental Sciences can earn a General Science or Earth and Space Sciences certification. A Social Studies Certification is earned when the minor is added to a degree in History or Political Science. Additionally, adding the minor to the Spanish major results in a K-12 certification in Spanish. Students can also graduate from Wilkes certified in Special Education. Dual Special Education Certification options are available with the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Major, leading to a Special Education PreK-8 certification and the PreK-4 general certification. The Middle Level Education Major with the Dual Special Education Certification will lead to a Special Education PreK-8 and the 4-8 general certifications. The Secondary Education Minor with Dual Special Education Certification will result in Special Education and general certifications in grades 7-12 Tire English as a Second Language Designation may also be added to any of the majors. Additional certifications can be added on teT teaching credentials. Once a teacher has the Instructional I certification, he or she can take any of the thirteen subject area content tests and add the corresponding certification, becoming highly quahfied in that content area as well The process to become a certified, highly-qualified teacher is complex but it L no j*' , process continues, there will certainly be less confusion. The important thing for prospective student t§ d 16 ^ansltlOn of the requirements that they must fulfill for their prospective graduation date and to stai < s o o is to keep trac ' and advisors in the School of Education at Wilkes University stay tn touch will, the excellent faculty revie , TEC w pass that pc Serialize Jamie shuff “Do you w “I’ll wipe u No less tha his glass of as she mad “How is ex He looked stared at D the reflect! “We are al “That is e> Dr. FarreU And here le “As unbel what hapF “Speaking building? ’ ^ell q to ensure °Ur^ood also r •I Dr Staoie 20 �Issue 2 1 Left idents, public e required Program at hold at L'imary ipdated for are those trent test :e, the ding, and ‘t, r score. )bjectives. i. The : three les ve from 100 r each glish /Tie Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 2 Education Committee Updates By Stephanie Wilkie • Student teacher placements were announced. • Changes and additions to Praxis II for middle level and c ondary education candidates were reviewed. • Notification of ESL designation elimination by PDE at th undergraduate level; nine students will be 'grandfathered' since they have already completed die existing program. pass that portion of the exam. a new math prep course will be offered to assist students Serialized Story Jamie shuffled around the room distributing the beverages while die others stared at the tipping tray of tea nervously, “Do you want to pick up the glass, or wipe the floor if he drops everything?” Gabby muttered under her breath. “I’ll wipe up the tea,” whispered Annie. No less than a few seconds later, Jamie had successfully given everyone a drink without any accidents. Dr. Stanley picked up his glass of tea and rhythmically sipped it while tapping his fingers against his desk. Kendra’s eyes narrowed from confusion as she made eye contact with Steph. In return, Steph shrugged her shoulders expressing cluelessness as weU. “How is everyone?” asked Dr. Stanley. He looked around the room and noted everyone’s expression. Dr. Farrell looked Eke she was deep in drought while Gabby stared at Dr. Stanley in anticipation of an explanation for the recent events. Kendra, looking angrier than ever, gazed into die reflection of the ceiling in her tea and Steph and Annie looked at each other and quizzicaUy. special nentary eighteen ice, Social s to earn id to a 7leral to a ition in n iK-8 in inor with nglish as o :t area isition ip track t faculty “We are all incredibly confused right now,” answered Steph. “That is expected. Does somebody want to tell me what happened?” replied Dr. Stanley. Dr. Farrell gave Dr. Stanley a shortened version of what the group encountered. “And here we are, back in Kirby hall, although we are all confused with exactly what is going on,” finished Dr. Farrell. Dr. Stanley took another look around the room. “As unbelievable as that story sounds. I behove it. Your story is reliable, and it must be the truth. We were all wondenng what happened when you disappeared 400 years ago, said Dr. Stan ey. -Speaking of how 400 years have passed,” said Gabby, “what is dte deal wifi. the ehronte that’s covered the inside of this budding? What happened to the wood?’ ztnn ears Trees were eventuaUy completely wiped out and as a way Well, Gabby tilings have changed quite a bit in the; past y^ Qther institutions, were forced to give up to ensure the preservation of the last forms of wood in the w y problematic in a historical historical context, context, however however it it our wooden architecture and replace it with chrome. It as pro withstand time.” "ill also relieve the senses because Kirby hall will most definitely be able Hmm. I see,” said Steph. Dr Stanley asked, “Does that answer your question, Gabby■ Continued on page 22... 21 �Issue 2 Volume 7 The Inkwell “Yeah. Although, I feel like I have die genetic make-up of Henry-from The 1 ime-Traveler s Continued from page 21... Wife, one minute I was in 2012 and die next I m in 2412, rep e ay Tb EE “P “By the way, what’s up with these Goldenbands?” asked Annie. St< an “And what the heck is Place Hop?” said a confused Steph. g* ins ‘Well, to answer that question, Annie, all you have to do is look at the ID number encoded on each of your Goldenbands,” replied Dr. Stanley. He watched as the group suspiciously scanned dieir bracelets. “Each has a unique ID number diat identifies you and allows those in power to track where you are,” Dr. Stanley elaborated. “C be ‘Y Kt “Sounds a lot like government control,” muttered Dr. Farrell. ‘Y “Well, yes, diat part is uncomfortable,” said Dr. Stanley with a disheartened expression, “but the Goldenbands are useful. They track your medical records, which means better and faster care, and they help slow the aging process.” G £r E di “That’s how the same faculty is still here!” exclaimed Steph. ‘Yes, that’s part of it,” said Dr. Stanley. “Modem science Photo Courtesy of Gabby Zawacki has really advanced since 2012, but die Goldenbands help to further slow the process by rejuvenating our bodies while we sleep. It’s really quite fascinating,” said Dr. Stanley "I “Sounds just like his cup of tea,” Kendra said while smirking and lifting her tea. "( si “Yeah, a sci-fi fantasy,” said Annie. 1c “To answer your question Steph,” said Dr. Stanley, “the Goldenbands enable you to Place Hop.’ They let y<rou transport to and from places, even between different dimensions.” “It’s really easy to use. That’s how I got all this fancy tea! I just ‘Place Flopped’ over to India and China and dien transported back to Wilkes-Barre”, explained Jamie. "5 Dr. Stanley quickly jumped up and yelled, “It’s time!” He then sprinted out of his office. "1 li: and "1 "] C The rest of the group filtered into die room and stood behind Steph. ‘Well, that’s just great. Nothing answers questions like an abrupt exit,” said Kendra with a sigh. Dr. Farrell walked to Deb’s office to see if she was there, but found the door locked. Sh< e began pacing the room. Let’s just think about it. I mean, he couldn’t have gone far. The campus isn’t that large and I cai m t imagine he would be leaving campus. He didn’tt even grab anything when he left,” said Dr. Farrell. I< F It She’s right. He has to be around here somewhere. We need to talk to him, we need Dr. Farrell, Kendra, and I will go towards the SUB while Gabby and Steph go towards St LSound good?” asked Annie. dTZT Let>s ’ust spllt up and lookContinued on page 23... 22 111 �Issue 2 Traveler’s 'The Inkwell ^Continued from page 22... Volume 7 | Issue 2 “Perfect,” said Steph. Steph led die group to the first floor of Kirby and marched to th and answer the most puzzling questions. However, when she V "T* bef°re °penmg k wlth assertion to find Dr. Stanley ground she was shocked. She stared down at the blades of ^lat ^^7 was actually floating mid-air above the insignificant to the rest of the world. Steph then backed un^lT^T^ sidewalk diat lookedI so tiny, they seemed p, siammed the door, and turned to the jgroup. “Okay-well, we have experienced yet another curveball. That before was an illusion,” said Steph. ......... 5 unexpected. I thought foi>r sure the height of the building “You mean the building is actually floating?” asked Dr. Farrell. Kendra walked over to the window and peered through it. “Yep,” she said, “the building is officially floating.” d Gabby turned to Dr. Farrell and said, I know this probably isn't the best time for suggestions, but I seriously think a slide from die steps to die ground would be a really good investment. I diink we should ask Kuhar." Dr. Farrell turned to Gabby in disbelief and said, "Gabs, I can't believe you-" She stopped speaking to Gabby because she was distracted by Jamie's reappearance on the staircase. "Hey guys, what's all die commotion for? I'm trying to get work done," said Jamie. "Oh well, you know, just die fact tiiat die building is floating and we have no way to safely get to the ground is slightly alarming," said Kendra. Jamie calmly walked down the rest of the staircase and put his Goldenband up to the wall and the building was slowly lowered to the ground. nsport to "There you go!" saidjamie. "What was diat all about? Why was it floating to begin with?" asked Annie. "Due to all of die natural disasters Willies University has experienced in die past, die administration felt it would be best to just lift die entire campus off of die ground so that nodiing bad could ever really happen to it again, explaine Jamie. :e and "Right," said die group in unison. "Hey guys, before Dr. Stanley ran out, he said that We can use the Goldeubauds to transport to afferent dimenstons,” said Gabby. 'Yes, tiiat's correct," saidjamie. meant and said, "If we can get to other dimensions, then that means we Kendra looked at Gabby, understanding what she just need to find the one we came from’A ild be And dien we can go home!" exclaimed Annie. 1 look. ■OKtesoundsf^^.^ like answered." e 23... 23 �Volume 7 The Inkwell What’s That Holiday Song? Guess the hoEday song based on its opposite tide! 2. 3. Snow on Campus 1. Nodiing You Have for Easter is Me Rolling Through die Valendne’s Day Shrub It’s the Least Appalling Eternity of die Day 4. Tooth Fairy is Leavin’ die City 5. This New Year’s 6. I’m a Pleasant one, Santa Clause 7. Let it Rain, Let it Rain, Let it Rain 8. O Secular Morning 9. Strip the Corridor 10. Adult, It’s Warm Inside Issue 2 �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Fall 2012 (Volume 7, Issue 2) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 2012 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/81f935d4eff4eb7e230c67e889b81186.pdf 5b12183778fef8c2d69c455a47170c58 PDF Text Text The Inkwell Quarterly _ Issue 3 Volume 7 Spring 2013 In this Issue: Summer/Fall Course Offerings Student Teaching Update 2 A Children’s Book 3 Review Soft Pretzel Recipe 4 The Poems on the Bus Go Round and Round 6 Book Review: The 6 Fault in Our Stars by John Green _ J I \ Senior Spotlight: TJ. Dennis, Joe Waichulis, & Todd Oravic What is Digital Humanities (DH)? I Photo Courtesy of Dr. Helen Davis 8 One Billion Rising for the Vagina Monologues Hamill’s Hunches 9 The Logic of Mourning 11 Senior Spotlight: Vicky Hevener 12 Kuhar’s Corner: 13 Making History as an English Major Editorial Statement 15 Shel Silverstein Game 16 By Miranda Baur I On February 8th and 9th, two showings of Eve Ensler’s performance, The Vagina I Monologues, were performed on campus led by student director Miranda Baur and faculty advisor Dr. Mischelle Anthony. The show consists of a series of monologues written by Ensler based on interview she conducted with women. Voices of the mono­ logues are both humorous and dramatic as they tell stories ranging from first dates to cases of domestic violence. This year’s show elaborated on the theme of One Billion Rising to end violence towards women and girls. One Billion Rising also represented the pledge to support women in the community on February 14th. The proceeds from the show were divided between the national V-Day association, the Domestic Violence Sendee Center, the Victim’s Resource Center, and the Magnolia Project in WilkesBarre. Last year’s performances raised over two-thousand dollars for the organizations and this years profits are still being determined. This year’s Vagina Warrior was Dr. Mischelle Anthony for her efforts towards not only keeping The Vagina Monologues alive at Wilkes, but also for being an active, supportive, and positive member of the community through her work within the Sexual Harassment Committee, Women’s Studies Committee, and The League of Women Voters to name a few organizations. Faculty and students within the English department that performed in die show are as follows: Gabriella Zawacki, Catelyn Sofio, Victoria Hevener, Dr. Helen Davis, Sarah Simonovich, Emily Yuscavage, and Kearasten Jordan. 1 �The Inkwell Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 A Child Summer/Fall 2013 Course Offerings By Cierra F By Brittney Grizzanti Summer Presession: ENG 120 Reading The American Experience with Dr. Kuhar SOf 4 First Summer Session: ENG 101 Composition with Dr. Kelly ENG 120 Cultural Crossroads with Dr. Hamill Second Summer Session: ENG 101 Composition with Dr. Grier ENG 120 Introduction to Literature and Culture with Dr. Davis EMG 281 American Lit. I with Dr. Kelly 4 Fall Session: ENG 202 Technical Writing with Dr. Wills ENG 225 Comparative Grammar with Dr. Stanley ENG 228 Professional/Workplace writing with Dr. Farrell ENG 233 Survey of EngEsh Lit. I with Dr. Hamill ENG 282 American Lit. II with Dr. Kuhar ENG 298 Adolescent Lit. with Dr. Starner ENG 342 Studies in Shakespeare with Dr. Starner ENG 393 Teach English Middle/Secondary School with Dr. Grier ENG 397 Senior Seminar: Technologies of the Book with Dr. Hamill ENG 398 (A) American Romantics with Dr. Kelly ENG 398 (B) Domestic Violence in Lit. with Dr. Anthony Photo Co | Student Teaching Update B>' K“cartiet Scott is student teaching in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at a school called Sri Utatna International Schools SXdX Xching math and sports to shrdents tn Sth and 6th grade. Scott stared, “Each ume a class walks into the room, all of the kids stand up and say ‘Good Morning, Mr. Carrier and at the end of each class they stand and say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Carder.’ It's amazing.” Cartier also commented in saying, I love it. The kids are so respectful and intelligent, it’s amazing.” . A student teacher at Lake Lehman Junior-High School, Ashley Zetfoss is educating Sth grade students. Zerfoss is currently teaching Language Arts and Research Wntmg. When asked about her experience so far, Zerfoss stated, “[It, has been highly positive, but I have been learning how difficult !t is to teach on a full-time basis ” She elaborates “There are a lot of obstacles facing teachers and students—from weather delays to techmeal problems assemblies to budgeting—but I have found every day to be rewarding and enlightening in some small way ” Additionally Zerfoss is happy to report, “Every small success my students have is one I achieve with them.” If you are interested in joining The Inkwell. Quarter//staff and/or enrolling in English 190:Proiects in Writing t Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farreU@wilkes.cdu) or Gabby Zawacki (gabriella.zatvacki@xvUk«.edu)VC ’ P 2 C°Uta<?t Here is whz Dr. Davis 1 Cameron (. Dr. Author nutrition an reinforced t Grace (Age this is a fun: you a lessor also taught i when vou ai Anonymou reading this know how t human traff Mercedes ( they choose Alexa (Age think Daddt �Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 A Children’s Book Review By Cierra Humphrey Something Good by Robert Munsch tells the story of a little girl’s trip to the grocerj' store with her father as well as her brother and sister. We follow the main character, lyya, through her grocery store adventures. 1 yaa s adventures include sneaking away from her father to fill her cart with ridiculous amounts of ice-cream and candy bars, as well as getting a price tag stuck on her nose! Hilariously entertaining, and full of humor for children and adults alike, Something Good addresses issues of nutrition, parental love and supervision, as well as capturing the moment when a child finally does what he or she is asked to do. SOMBtHING GOOD 0 K. Munsch • M. Martclienko Photo Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey temational ‘Each time a nd of each “I love it. The ide students. :e so far, a full-time lays to technical n some small we with them.” Here is what people, both young and old, had to say about it: Dr. Davis “Where is the parental supervision?!” Cameron (Age 5) while giggling: “I think it is a funny story biecause that is what I want to buy at the store!!!!!” Dr. Anthony “I like the emphasis on nutrition and the fact that the father reinforced that.” Grace (Age 7) “I like this book. I think this is a funny book and it also taught you a lesson to not buy junk food and it also taught you to listen to your parents when you are at the store.” Anonymous “I would have trouble reading this to my children. I would not know how to address the issues of human trafficking that it brings up.” Mercedes (Age 19) “The ONE time they choose to listen...” Alexa (Age 11) “How much do you Photo Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey think Daddy would pay for me?” The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell Editor-in-chief: Gabby Zawacki & Kendra Kuhar Copy Editor: Vicky Hevener Layout Editor: Miranda Baur Staff Writers: Brittney Grizzanti, Emily Yuscavage, Cierra I lumphret, Jamie . 'eli, please contact Faculty Contributors: Dr. Larry Kuhar, and Di. Ihomas A. �The Soft Pretzels •’ ............ ........ -- si-sgjsfiSr Historically pretzels are often associated with Christianity. Accor g mOnk Stc sp« Ph six reward fJ contain (well, mine do...) fats or animal products, items that Catholics abstaine rom g P P On for seek.. Today Easter. Sometimes pretzels were even hidden (as we would hide Easter eggs today) or cchildren en to o see o ay we we know them best as a warm treat accessed from suspect looking street carts. . By producing our own homemade pretzels, not only will we be sharing in a bit of st°r^ ’ we also be dabbling in some chemistry. The idea of using yeast is daunting to some, but I hope that t s ormula prove that there is nothing to fear. The other, I think more exciting, chemistry experiment that we have the opportunity to engage in when making pretzels is the application of toxic chemicals to our food to produce a favorable and decisively non-toxic result. Lye, otherwise known as Sodium Hydroxide, is applied to the outside of the raw pretzel in the form of a solution. The lye then reacts with the carbon dioxide in the oven to encourage the maillaird (browning of proteins) reaction thus resulting in the deep glossy brown exterior and slight bitter flavor that we have come to associate with the pretzel. While I prefer to use lye to make my pretzels it may be difficult to find and is certainly not something that many of us have on hand. The following formula will be for pretzels made with a baking soda and egg solution. An incredibly similar result as the lye will be achieved. For the adventurous Re loi slij the instructions for using a lye solution will follow at the end of the formula. Ingredients: 340 grams 12 ounces Warm water 12 grams 1 Tbls Granulated sugar 11 grams 2 tsp Sea salt (or whatever y 1 package 1 package Active dry yeast 624 grams 4 Ya cups All-purpose flour 56 grams 14 cups Unsalted butter 160 grams 2268 grams 2/3 cups 10 cups Baking soda Water ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------—-i Photo Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey^) Combine warm water, granulated sugar, and active dry yeast. Set as sugar, and active dry yeast. Set aside­ In the meantime melt the butter and set aside. Combine flour an s in the bowl of a stand mixer mixer fitted with a 'hook attachment. yeast mixture has b> ecome foamy add mixture, along with the mL * cooled butter, to the flour and mix on low until mixture reseiu Llow until mixture resembles •' shaggy mass. 0 T sc SI al w E n. y< h ai �3 etzel. By ot the ■ do not lti°n for >day AVe also >rove otturuty ; and The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 Stop mixer, scrape down the sides, and begin mixing once again on i r speed for about five minutes, or until dough has formed a smooth sad Place in a greased bowl, cover with a tea-towel, and let rise until doubled in size, about an hour. Photo Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey Remove dough from pan and divide into ten equal portions (104 grams gr; or 3.6 ounces). Roll these gendy into a long rope (about 20 inches) and then form a pretzel shape by crossmg one arm over the other. Cover with a i\v flavor ifficult to :els made turous Photos Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey Line two sheet pans with lightly greased parchment paper and preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Place water and baking soda in a large wide saute pan and bring to a rolling boil. Immerse pretzels in water for about 30 seconds before removing them onto the prepared sheet pan. Brush with a mixture of one egg yolk, two tablespoons water, and sprinkle with the coarsest salt. Bake for 13 to 17 minutes. xey Photo Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey Set aside, r and salt Dnce melted xibles a To use Lye follow all instructions but do not combine the baking soda and water. Instead combine ten cups of water with one table­ spoon lye. Heat but do not boil mixture. Submerge pretzels for about 30 seconds and place on prepared greased sheet pan, sprinkle with salt and bake according to instructions above. PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION. Lye can blind, bum, and do all sorts of nasty things. When using the lye method it is also important to open your oven part way through the baking process in order to allow the harmful vapors to escape. Keep your face away from the door as you are opening it! 5 photo Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey | �The Inkwell Issue 3 Volume 7 The Se The Poems on the Bus Go Round and Round By Miranda Baur i j d coordinated by Dr. MischeUe Anthony Poetry in Transit is an innovative poetry-sharing program developed a orogram unites the efforts of the th< beginning in 2007 loosely based off of Poems on the Underground in Eng an . showcase the works of a Luzerne Country Transit Authority (LCTA), Quick Printers, and Lamar ems are designed and accompanied range of poets from northeastern Pennsylvania on the insides of buses. ep foj. durat{on of one by the photography of Mark Golaszewski. Every month, the poems rota e o including Ann year. Poems are submitted to Dr. Anthony in the summer, and reviewed by aa !f Yonkoski of King’s Brennan of Pennsylvania State University Wilkes-Barre, Noreen O Connor a „ followed by their unveiling in College, and Andrew Petonak of Luzerne County Community College in th £ of conflict and were December before bemg placed on the buses. The poems currently riding foil T<- , College The written by locals such as Richard Aston Shannon Doyne, and ^'-Jony ^8° pOetty in Transit and program has won several awards for its photography, publicity, and design, lo supp y partake in its creative efforts, emails can be directed to Dr. Mischelle Anthony, or you can n e a us. T.J By I May Con a sul Eng to p: to“s begii Jos Bvl< Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green By Emily Yuscavage Award winning author John Green has written what could be argued as his opus in The Fault in Our Stars. The story chronicle's Hazel Grace, a dry-humored and intelligent girl, who happens to be undermined by fluid-filled lungs and a terminal prognosis. One night at another hopelessly dull support group meeting, Hazel happens to meet the impossibly handsome, quick witted, and appendage-impaired Augustus Waters. The two strike up a friendship built around witticism, metaphors for every day life, and a mix of shoot-em up literature. However, one book in particular—-one that does not include hostage rescue missions and self sacrifice, but instead a young girl who is also blighted with cancer—brings the two together with its honest questions about what happens when it is over. Not “what happens after death” over, but “what happens to the their favorite heroine’s hamster after the novel is over” over. These kinds of questions seem to be more important as Hazel and Augustus must face the growing list of those who have passed with each support group meeting. On a mission to find out, and fidfill Hazel’s desperate wish to know, Augustus uses his one free-be wish from the Photo Courtesy of Emily Yuscavage “Cancer Genres” to send the parr (and Hazel’s particularly lovely mother) to „ , JA fJ1 . Amsterdam to meet reclusive author Peter Von Houten. On their joumet Hazel and Augustus find love but not all the answers they were hoping to find from a world Green delves straight into the heart of what it is to be young and unhealthy k i weary man. as the enemy. The Fault in Our Starsis not a “cancer story” but a story that hanne/ . emPhasiztng cancer is never inclined to pity the characters and their situations, but to cheer for them inste U C CanCer’ ^ie & iwsws JOHM GKEIH While the reader never forgets in the back of his or her mind that these h beautiful moments where the fact that they are young and living overshadows a ^a,1,aCteiS are skk, there are between Hazel and Augustus is authentic; their feelings are never questioned d^1^ ^OVe ^iat man^^'eStb youth enhances the sweetness. Both Hazel and Augustus are new at love and UfF° Voung age, in fact their coil with which they dance everyday. Their love invites you to laugh with tl M ^Ut S<^ aware °f the mortal and feel their sorrow, in exchange for the small infinity that you are welc 1 '1Urnor’ srnile with their honesty, Green has created a living breathing heart in The Fault in Our St tl nt° tleii life­ heart is breaking in your chest, Green releases the pain with a quick jolt of 1^ encaPsuktes die reader. When your overwhelming feeling of loss just as the ice is about to crack beneath your fee^10?/0 PUSh y°U tlnough die to Amsterdam, to literature, to self-expression, and, most importantly 1 1,1 Our Stars is a love letter and the broad metaphorical love that is impossible to touch or taste, buttis0'^ /°Un£ love> true love, familial love, about the kind of the love that you really need to live to understand ’ and Greiff16, Pa“lt is forget to live. In a hale storm of beautiful metaphors and small infinities 77 * et allows his characters to ^tory that sticks.----------------------------------------.----------- * ^ult i„ Our Stars a beautiful 6 ------- Dieg felt i expk as wi scho tiling plot; Univ effec Waut impo starte writii Tod sider Todd certai frienc man i deveL invest able, ; emph living, datior his st< �Issuc 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 Senior Spotlights belle Anthony efforts of the te works of a d accompanied □ration of one ding Ann ski of King’s r unveiling in ict and were ollege. The ransit and TJ. Dennis (Theodore Dennis) By Brittney Grizzanti T.j. Dennis will be graduating from Wilkes University f May 2013. TJ. actually earned his first degree from Wilkes in ZoTo^ ^tSt’ ^Ut secon<^ dme this upcoming Communications. However, after graduation TJ. decided to return t a Bachelors m a subsequent degree in Secondary Education. During his time at Wili° WJkeS tO further his education and receive English department, particularly in his role as a member of Inkwell’s ’ hasLbeen heavily involved in the editing to participate in multiple Wilkes University led trips to London over L . \staff. r TJ. has also been luck)7 enough :ars. Although the time for TJ. to “suit up” for his final days at Wilkes has come, his future of being a most ig a most “ legendary ” educator is just beginning. (Hope you enjoy the Barney Stinson reference, TJ.) is. Joseph Waichulis his opus in The intelligent girl losis. One night t the impossibly two strike up a : of shoot-em e hostage dited with ppens when it is sir favorite > seem to be se who have fidfill Hazel’s from the >vely mother) to l their journey man. lasizing cancer ;r. The reader there are : that manifests e, in fact their of the mortal heir honesty, der. When y°ur ugh the zrHsalove fetter e, familial love, i Our Stars is laracters to .versabeautife1 By Kendra Kuhar Originating from Nanticoke Pennsylvania, Joseph Waichulis aspires to be a writer. After living in San Diego for about ten years, he moved back to Pennsylvania three years ago to pursue a degree in writing. Wauchulis felt it was in his best interest to complete both Ins undergraduate and graduate degree at the same school. He explains, “I chose Wilkes because the writing program seemed to be the most impressive of all the schools.” While Wauchulis is busy with school, he also spends a majority7 of his time with his six-year old son as well as with “Spongebob, Chuck E. Cheese, and venues related to that sort of thing.” When asked to elaborate on school-related accomplishments, he says, I would, of course, choose some of the things I’ve written, but the first tiling that always comes to mind is the fact that I’ve finished Gravity’s Rainbow, and actually had a vague idea of the plot and themes behind the story.” Wauchulis’ future plans ultimately consist of being a writer. Similar to many English majors at Wilkes University7, Joe cannot pick a favorite professor: “I feel they all have their own unique qualities that make them effective teachers, and really, I’ve been able to take something from all of the professors I’ve had.” Furthermore, Wauchulis conveys that an aspect of school that has impacted liis life in regards to his writing is “learning how important reading various types of literature is for being a good writer. I haven’t read many classic texts before I posed to at school. I believe that has affected my started at Wilkes, at least not the types of literature I was exposed writing in many ways.” Todd Oravic By Vicky Hevener Todd Oravic, a senior English and Communications double major, has never been what one might con sider average. Confiding that he didn’t walk until he was about a year and four months o d^ne mig say a Todd s later emergence into mobility changed the way he interacted certainly unique. A musician and screenwriter, Todd’s best memo e friend and independent film studio partner Ryan Wood and playing shooting r during fregh_ manyeaAr' 5 in filmmaking and screen writing, working to After graduating this spring, Todd hopes to pursue a expresses interest in freelancing as an evelop his and Wood’s company, Fenner Productions. Ambitious, o development as a writer. Uninvestigative journalist. Either way Todd’s time at Wilkes has been mVfl^a nce on Ms work, Todd settled on a class, able, and who can blame him, to pick a professor who had the most in u write screenplays for a emphasizing that his Independent study with Dr. Bonnie Culver re department taught him the foun­ ding. Todd quickly followed by stating that the whole of his time in 6 pursue muitiple avenues in dations of constructing stories and developed the open-mindedness fes story telling and future. „ ____________________ In one word Todd describes his time at Wilkes as purp — ~~ �Thelnkwen Issue 3 Volume 7 The Inkwell * What is Digital Humanities (DH)? A dialogue between Gabby Zawacki and Dr. Larry Kuhar & DH is a study of digital processes and products that impact the d^eloP™^j^s thaUocu^es on theronguage, and the disciplines of the humanities. DH is a cutting-edge area ofVngUs vergence of technologies of the book, advances in information dissemination, ana p tions °f “ empts (o presave arcluval maKm|i DH has { ethicaI & & impacted bibliographic methodology, theoretical questions and implications, and dissemination of scholarly pursuits, particular y at e un ergr uate The English faculty team has proposed a new concentration in Digital Humanities (DH) that we think is going to position our program - and our students — at the forefront of‘cutting-edge work in our le . DH concentration aligns with and extends the core values and educational outcomes of our current Eng s Pro­ gram. Coursework requirements to complete the new DH concentration stay focused on the same foundational coursework that defines the existing Literature, Writing, and Secondary Education concentrations, program’s DH concentration will give students opportunities to use innovative methods for textual analysis that highlight undergraduate involvement in critical and editorial production. At a broader level, DH speaks to the de­ mocratic tendencies of Humanities scholarship, engaging both students and faculty in critical conversations about the need for new knowledge. DH is a broad field that can include the study of linguistic features of coding and the analysis of computer languages, as well as the preservation, maintenance, and curation of source texts. It invites new considerations of textual modality, design, and proliferation. As "information architects," students and faculty working in DH pro­ grams are able to examine ways of stewarding the literary archive while simultaneously contributing to the intellec­ tual conversations regarding bibliography, curatology, and editing. What will the new DH concentration provide for our program? The DH concentration provides our program with an opportunity to distinctly brand our degree in Eng­ lish. No other institution in the region currently offers a concentration or major in this fast-growing cutting-edge area of English Studies. Though the term used to describe this area of English studies is “Digital Humanities ” re­ search, scholarship and other institutional practices place DH programs almost exclusively in English programs. A concentration in DH provides our English program with an opportunity to distinguish itself with a unique con­ centration that, we hope, will serve the development of the program as well as advance and enhance the image of the institution across the region. What will the new concentration provide for students? A concentration in DH English provides majors with the opportunity to specialize in in an emerging and increasingly influential field in English studies.DH provides students with cutting-edge skills t —> analyze and to produce digital texts in ways that profoundly enrich the interrogative and creative tradif At a macro level, DH engages the immediate and long-term challenges and oppo r °nS ° 116 ^UHaanities. pose for the history and future of human literary, textual, linguistic, and scholarl > . lat ^g^al technologies 'lenges students ’ ........ “ ' • ■ Y production. DH inquiry chalto consider the public face of their efforts, the responsibility a public digital presence and representation of self, and even the consequences of moves toward digitization What are the academic goals of the DH concentration? The concentration aims to: * immerse students in the methodologies and practices of bibho • I ' the traditional sense of archival work with material texts and a * textual criticism, both in ologies and practices inherent to digital archives; C ng to the transformative method* deepen students’ understanding of the history and future tren I and scholarly production; ‘ tirnan literary, textual, linguistic, * prepare students as “information architects” who can marsh' 1 > -• gies as well as existing and emerging modes of critical inquiry ^^g^g digital technolg- I What are t Stu English 23 bered 200 above, incl will have a designated Seminar E’ 2013; this < the DH co “E tion. The f the field of and study < portunity t course dire for the hist Hamill’ \xt eager to pu note file ire rions and r< rite instruci saw would I h: ejects pile ofmy neig] !°ng stuck) ’ luI Bunya e Paging, O "e reasor Pess«l aga ?"""strew, bedro°' �Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 * challenge students to interrogate the intersections of the human and the digital to consider the critical implications of those points of contact: What is specifically human about about digital digital technology?; technology?; what what about digital technology advances humanity (and makes us more human)? what about digital technol­ ogy might, if misused or misunderstood, jeopardize or diminish our humanity?; * position students to consider and addtess fundamental questions about the ethical implications of digi­ tal technologies and the role of digital humanities in fostering and sustaining accountable, collabora­ tive, diverse, and open-access platforms for the production and distribution of knowledge across the global community; * empower students to produce innovative independent and collaborative digital scholarship that is pub­ lic—i.e., extends beyond the parameters of the classroom and program and that allows students to contribute to and participate actively within a global community of scholars. ure, lann the conal ques- Lodologv, graduate : think is >lish Proda tional Ivsis that to the deons about : computer rations of DH pro­ be intellec- e in Engtting-edge nities,” rerograms. nique con: image of ng and inid to pro­ ties. :hnologies ry chaland repre- , both in e methodinguistic, technolo>n page 9 What are tire requirements for the new concentration in DH? Students who concentrate in DH must take English 101, 120, 201, and three of the four survey courses: English 233, 234, 281, 282.1n addition, students must complete nine credit hours in DH-designated courses num­ bered 200 and above, including ENG 222, as well as nine credits in advanced English courses numbered 300 or above, including English 397.Students must also complete a DH-designated senior capstone project. Courses that will have a DH designation include, at the 200-level: ENG 202, 218, 225, 228, and 324; at the 300-level, the DH designated courses include ENG 308, 342, 351,353, and other courses as faculty choose. Seminar ENG 397: “Technology of The Book”, taught by Dr. Hamill, is being offered for the first time in fall 2013; this course will eventually be added to the curriculum as a permanent course as part of our efforts to develop the DH concentration for our students. “English 222: Introduction to Digital Humanities” is a new course that is required for the DH concentra­ tion. The first offering of the course will be taught by Dr. Kuhar in spring 2O14.English 222 is an introduction to the field of Digital Humanities with an emphasis on how digital processes and products impact the development and study of literature, language, and the disciplines of the humanities. English 222 provides students with the op­ portunity to develop skills in and to specialize in an emerging and increasingly influential field in English. This course directly engages the immediate and long-term challenges and opportunities that digital technologies pose for the history and fixture of human literary, textual, linguistic, and scholarly production. Hamill’s Hunches When I opened the box to my new Poulan 14” 1.5 Peak HP 8 Amps Electric Chainsaw last Sunday, I was eager to put it to use. Paging through the Instruction Manual I found myself—and my ENG 202 students will note the bony here—wishing away its function, hoping for a goes-without-sayingness that would obviate direc­ tions and release me, unburdened by bureaucracies of knowing (and safety regulations), to my work. I skimmed the instructions selectively (ignoring the first instruction-as-warning), and, after conceding that my electric chain­ saw would still need oil (and thus a return trip to Lowe’s), I knew I was ready to go. I had glanced the Manual, and I was convinced that the new Flannel shirt I had acquired from my father’s rejects pile the week prior (“I don’t like checkered patterns; I prefer solids,” he told me) and childhood memories of my neighbor Mr. Schreiber’s minor chainsaw leg wound (a fundamentally reassuring be careful message has long stuck) would work well to balance my reified sense of self as sub-urban urban-forest (electric) lumberjack: Paul Bunyan with a Poulan. (I have yet to learn Curious George’s modesty for proleptic self-awareness; whereas he imagines his hypothesized future self according to a less detailed corporeality, I, it seems, tend to embellish.) Why, you’re probably wondering, was I (imagining) wielding a chainsaw to begin with? Good question. One reason, of course, was so that I could write my Hamill’s Hunches. I awoke that morning short one hour, pressed against another (generously) extended deadline, and without any hunches to Hunches. As I glanced out my bedroom window I was at once relieved and horrified to see that my Ur-text had arrived, an ironic deus ex machina strewn across half my front lawn in the form of an unsettlingly large limb shed from the aging silver maple looming high above. Even before I made my way outside to determine whether the limb had done any damage to the house, I knew (without any irony) that I had been very lucky; no one had gotten hurt—and I had my Hunches after all. Continued on pagelTj �Issue 3 The Inkwell The Ink\ Volume 7 Hamill’s Hunches Continued from page 9 But it would not be so easy. Nearly one week and two extended deadlines later, I was still struggling to find the form. Hacking up the tree limb proved easy and (alarmingly?) fun. I would later learn (reading anachronistically) that filling the oil tank was not enough; I needed to depress the cap to release oil to the chain as I sawed. I would also learn (despite reading in real time) that one should, in fact, wear heavy gloves when adjusting the chain; I heeded this warning, of course, but then wondered (too long) if such alarums were overmuch. But I did no damage to the saw or to myself across a full afternoon’s work, and my father’s en­ dorsement of the Poulan brand that evening conferred a heightened sense of mythos on the proceedings. My only regrets are that I did not photograph the pile of wood I had stacked at the curb by day’s end (proof of my labors and production) and that my photograph of the trunk end of the limb includes no functional details to render its scale (see, it was this big). No. The problem was not the day’s narrative logics, which, even in spite of my issues, I managed well enough. The challenges were (and are), as you’ve guessed, allegori­ cal—dilemmas meted out along the implied and compulsory exegesis of tree as text. Following Dante and Wycliffe and others (and obviously still not over the cancelation of Medie­ Photo Courtesy of Desiree Wren val Allegory for Spring 2013), I began my four-layered reading. As I’ve al­ the material symmetry of the transmogriready suggested, the first (or literal) level was easy and even welcoming, 1 fied tree-to-paper (limbatext/Hunches/author function) rendering obvious (and productive) the interpretive: ex­ change. The second (or typological) reading also seemed readily and seamlessly available, the very gestures of alle­ gorical interpretation themselves, even in their awareness of cancelled loss, anticipating and prefiguring the new laws of making pages, of Technologies of the Book (arriving just in time for Fall 2013). Here I began to struggle, for the third (or tropological) level demanded more of me—a moral. And I sensed (as you might) what interpretation revealed in the apocolipsis-. the discomforting gaps in the trajectory from tree to text, the missing tropes inherent to the now metonymic arc of word become flesh become tree become (already was) the cross. I had taken up my cross, of course, even if my Simon aiding me across the Stations was my new Poulan 14” 1.5 Peak HP 8 Amps Electric Chainsaw. But what had I really done? Had anyone been |> ' Z A | saved? Or was I, as I feared, merely one of the thieves (perhaps even the wrong thief), hacking foolishly away on the wrong Rood, left or right of center? The fourth (or anagogical) level was both reassuring and har­ rowing, pointing as it did to closure but also to judgment and die end of days—to the future time of no time redeemed on history’s debt not un­ repaid. There were, I realized, no Rush lyrics or Grade anecdotes that could save me now or that could bring these Hunches to a close; there were only anagogical meanings, a world of prolepsis that no one (not Rush, not Grade, not even Curious George) could have prepared me for. Picture from morguefile.com sion an then ur late Oc gorical an emt mockei opens' its pref necess: I awak App h: unloos The By Jot mean just Sti usually When ual wl scope many pectec more is not which death bring Consi who s her cl She 1c perso those at nig son t< more ident peopi “me” ^Continued on page 11 10 moth and a �Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 Hamill’s Hunches continued from page 10 1.1 ThTaA ,tO lmaglnC 1Ong ag°’ and the atchival rec^s of the Kingston Tree Shade Commis­ sion and UGI might attest to my inquiry, even if the years’ passage reveals only my lack of vision, my failure (as a then unreconstructed tree-hugger) to see it through. I’ve tried again, through Modern Nursery Tree Service, since late October but my would-be Simon (then, before my Poulan Simon forged) has not accreted yet to his full alle­ gorical form: the tree, one limb less, still stands. I’m waiting, hoping to engineer and control its fall, but I am only an embellished and ironic sub-urban urban-forest (electric) lumberjack: Paul Bunyan with a Poulan—and so I’m mocked and scourged (though still lucky) in all directions. Page 9 of my Poulan Instruction Manual, for example, opens with beautifully declarative promise: “FELLING A TREE” only to goad me with what I already know with its prefatory first directive (and accompanying illustration): “A retreat path (A) should be planned and cleared as necessary....” More signs appear everywhere for me read, and as in the dreamer’s dream in The Book of the Duchess, I awaken in them, seeing, always, bothe text and glose. The four-wisp god for wind on my Weather Channel App haunts me most of all, lurking Aeolus-like on my pixilated screen, my ironic sack of winds always already unloosed in spite of all my iconological knowing as forecasting controls. So what, then, is the anagogical meaning? By the time you’ve read this, we’ll all know. The Logic of Mourning : Wren nsmogn;tive exres of allehe new mdl >ry from :come ins was leen ps even left or nd harthe end of nt not unlotes that >se; there ne (not ired me page 11 By John Carroll Everyone - - though 1 hesitate to say everyone — goes through a time where they collide with reality. I mean that point where what one thinks or feels or wants doesn’t match up with the reality of their experience. Life just stands there, like a brick wall, unyielding. Consider mourning, the time spent accepting and coming to terms with the death of another individual, usually someone close to one’s self. Not the rituals associated with mourning, but the feeling of mourning. When someone that we know and love dies, it evokes a very specific reaction, and yet one unique to each individ­ ual who experiences it. One can feel loss in intensity so severe that the experience is unintelligible, beyond the scope of words, or one can be relatively unmoved. A man died recently, and he was survived by his wife and children, his grandchildren, two brothers, and many friends. The effect on those who knew him was as to be expected, quite devastating, and as is also to be ex­ pected, quite varied in degree. The closer an individual was to him, the more love they felt for him, it seemed, the more devastating his death was to them, and the longer it took for them to move beyond the grieving period. This is nothing new, nothing extraordinary, but it is a wonder often overlooked by virtue of both the frequency at which it occurs and the unpleasant nature of dwelling on the experience for those involved. We want to forget that death happens, most of us, but it’s just not possible, d hat we come to love those closest to us, and that we tend to bring closest to us the ones we love most seems to have another effect on us as individuals, and on our identity. Consider the woman who was married to the man that died. Her role as wife, effectively, has ended. This woman who spent upwards of fifty years being a loving and devoted wife to a man who loved her in return, was father to her children, friends with her friends, whose family she shared and who she shared her family with, is now gone. She is no longer who she was before he died. She lost the man who had been with her longer than anyone else, had been through everything with her, and the person she loved more intimately than anyone else on this earth. She lost a lot of herself when he died. She lost those memories that he had kept for her. She lost the father of her children. She lost the man who slept in her bed at night, and the face she woke up to in the morning. She lost half the reason to make breakfast, and half die rea­ son to clean the house. She lost half the reason to get out of bed. She lost half of herself. She lost. r , .. ... In times like this it is often noted that it is indeed wise to cultivate love or one s se , as one w spen more time in one’s own company than that of anyone else, and that depending too muc i on o rers °t one s own identity is problematic. However, whojoz/are is necessarily comprised in part o ose ro es ) ou an ieo er people in your life as much as it is your experiences and body and all the other gs v e *o en “me”. This woman loved herself, but who she was was more than just one person. She was a aug i e untilI her mother and father died, and a cousin before the last of the others died, a niece before her aunts----- clesdied^ and a friend until her friends died. She was a wife, and now she s a widow. __ JContinued on page~12 ] �Volume 7 The Inkwell Issue 3 The Logic of Mourning Continued from page 11 of ourselves. We feel it, and we It seems drat ultimately we feel most lonely when we lose these pieces As we look at our own losses, we ought not feel cowed into recompense. We should never feel as though we don’t have reason enough to mourn, because we have every right to feel that way whenever we happen to ee it. We all lose a little bit every day, and sometimes we just aren’t growing fast enough to make up or t e oss. Sometimes it’s appropriate to mourn your own youth. That woman has lost more, more than many can yet imagine. • j li Any of us might lose as much, though, and it might not be a wholly negative thing. It is nigh unavot a e that we will all lose pieces of who we are right now, and each time we lose someone, it will hurt. Even that woman, though, is someone. She’s still a mother, a grandmother, a sister, and a friend. She’s still alive. She can grow. Yes, she’s eventually going to die. We all are, and we all know that. It’s a scary thing. So we mourn, and we feel ourselves being forgotten. We feel it and we accept it, and we move on. We go to the casino, and to the shore, and we get up and make breakfast and we clean. We go out for pizza, and we stay up all night, sitting in our basements writing overdue articles. We keep living until we don’t. Mourning won t change that, but neither will trying to forget. So live, and love, and lose, and move on. No matter how long it takes, you will always be you, and you will always be someone. Senior Spotlight: Vicky Hevener By Gabby Zawacki Senior Vicky Hevener is one lovely lady on a mission to write. Throughout her career at Wilkes University she has further developed her passion while making some awesome memories with some won­ derful people. Her favorite memories happen when she gets to spend time with her “crazy, awkward, dysfunctional, hilarious, amazing” Eng­ lish department family. While she has gained memories and life lessons from her Wilkes family, the classes she’s taken have helped prepare her to achieve her dream of pursuing an MFA in creative writing. In addi­ tion to going to graduate school, Miss Vicky would love to write fic­ tion, especially novels. When she’s not writing, Vicky loves to dancing, learn Ameri­ can Sign Language, read comic books, eat chocolate, and BAKF. Her crowning achievement is that she loves to “color, not draw color It’s like drawing without the pressure.” And what is her favorite color to color with, you might ask? It’s green! In addition to these hobbies, Vicky loves to lay on floors and just take in the gigantic-ness of rooms, and wear band-aids. It’s not because she’s got boos-boos. It’s because she likes to wear ones with pictures. Understandable. When she leaks Wilkes foTthe WOTHof^ this semester' roommates and fun times with friends Ho & WU1 *“SS h“ 1 PhotoCourtesy Vicky Hevener the most is her English department family and dWlg She wiU functional, hilarious, and amazing memory she has shared with them. eVefy crazY> awkward, dys- 12 The Inkwel Kuhar’i ‘We made > (Lester Sei “Chairs are (Facebook Ca media tell In played by. sage out o: about Hol As more, it is think abou ring to mal texts. In c think creat cal thinking problem sc in making i benefit ftoi our work a in the repre cial media. So, pretty big p find some < history eve: ing the hist a special se Writing paj matters to ] Of course 1 audrorized the masses, drorized hi: Les make ourki edy.” Seige ond time as We know a repetition, i us to under We know al we’re comir sciously affi �Issue 3 , and we il as though ppen to feel he loss. inavoidable . that woman, grow. : on. We go and we stay r won’t long it takes, write. i developed ;ome won:ts to spend nazing” Engd life lessons 1 prepare her ng. In addi> write ficim Ameri3AKE. Her 7, color. It’s te color to hobbies, less of Ds-boos. It’s □le. his semester, niss her r she will cward, dys- The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 Kuhar’s Corner: Making History as an English Major 'll'7? made history today. ” (Lester Seigel, character inM^o, 2012) "Chairs areforpeople. And that is why chairs are like Facebook. ” (Facebook commercial, 2013) Can we, as English majors and minors, really make history? Is this really possible? The movies and social media tell us it is. But should we believe? In Algo, the Academy Award winner for Best Picture in 2012, Lester Seigel, a Hollywood movie producer played by Alan Arkin, reflects on the ramifications of successfully staging a fake film in order to provide a safe pas­ sage out of Iran for six Americans during the 1979 hostage crisis: “We made history today.” Seigel’s wry irony about Hollywood ‘making history’ is not so farfetched. We can learn from it. As future writers, teachers, lawyers, leaders and more, it is important for you, as an English major, to think about how history is made. To be clear, I’m refer­ ring to making history outside of ‘authorized’ historical texts. In our highly technological society, we need to think creatively about the role good writing, strong criti­ cal thinking, creative and innovative approaches to problem solving, and strong communication skills play in making the kind of history I’m referring to here. We benefit from thinking about how we “make history” in our work as English majors in the English program and in the representation of self in today’s proliferating so­ cial media. So, where do we begin? This is, after all, a pretty big project, this making history. Well, let’s see. We find some of the essential apparatus necessary to make history everywhere as English majors at Wilkes. Enter­ Photo Courtesy of John Kadjeski ing the historical Kirby Hall ever}' day promotes a sense of living in history. It’s a special setting. Classroom discussions regularly engage and study the tensions between literature and history, Writing papers and taking exams formalize and make public, to an extent, the outcomes of understanding why it matters to learn about the past. Of course the history that we can make as English majors is, in the end, a different kind of history than textbook, authorized history. Ours is not the “official story,” the authorized text intended to record a version of truth for the masses. But our history and our interest in making it is as important to us, it seems to me, as the larger, au­ thorized histories we know about. Lester Seigel’s next line in Argo, after realizing that he had “made history,” gives us insight into how we can make our kind of history in our lives. Seigel misquotes Carl Marx: History starts out as farce and it ends up as trag­ edy.” Seigel’s reference to Marx’s observation that history often repeats itself ( the first time as trage y, e sec ond time as fame”) tells us about the function of repetition - the search for patterns - at work in making history. We know about the search for patterns. We do it every time we read a text. We apply a critique o the function of repetition, it seems to me, almost every time we write an essay. Being aware of the funcoon of repetition, prepares us to understand how to approach our histones. Authorized Hstories seem to be largely about tins very concern. We know about this, too. Every time we enter Kirby Hall we recondition our awareness for who we are and why we’re coming through the doors. We’re making history. Our (gxof bulay- It matters to us even if we don t con- sciously affirm it every time we hear the back door click shit behind us as we c Continued on page 14 �Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 The Inkwell Kuhar’s Co: Kuhar’s Corner Continued from page 13 , ’ nnote Seigel reveals SomeOne more point about Seigel’s misquoting of Marx in Argo. In reversing Marx q understand our ability thing important that we need to be aware of as we understand how we come to value an o stQries to make history. Seigel is not a historian; neither are we. As a Hollywood movie producer, T^s js for some (maybe too many?), become the only version of the story or history represented in ■ ? n on The farce that ends up as tragedy. Think Vietnam. How many of us learn about Vietnam from movies. Fourth ofJuly, The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Full MetalJacket, Apocalypse Now, Good Morning Vietnam • • ■ • even, vastly different, Tropic Thunder and The beautiful County. Representation itself signals history. Our access o representations confirms the most important aspect of how we come to understand how we authorize our expen ences as historical. This is important. For us, it’s not farce that ends up as tragedy. It s reality con me as~.hiss~ tory. The meanings form only when we tell the story — We are the ‘movie producers’ of our own legitimate histo. . As English majors, your stories are always in circulation as you move through your classes, talk wi your peers, and write your papers. You have many, many opportunities to tell your stories, to make history. This is a distinctive feature of the English major. In the work of distilling and representing your voices, you make your “audiorized” history. In Algo, Seigel believes he’s made history. He makes sense of the possibility only after the story has closed. (I want to say more but don’t want to give away the movie’s ending.) We can learn from this, too. We may not anticipate our “histories” as forming even as they take shape. We make sense of them when we tell the story, and this is promoted in reading, reflecting, thinking, speaking, collaborating, and writing - the core skills in our pro­ gram. Our history — the kind we can make — is revealed, in part, in the narrating of our experiences as well as the narrating of past experiences; it is about the process of discovering, collecting, organizing and presenting an under­ standing of life. It’s also the stuff of respecting on and understanding human dignity. Confirming an awareness of how and why we tell stories about ourselves when we work through our English classes is at the core of making our brand of histoy. So, how else can English majors make history? Let’s go outside the warm confines of Kirby Hall and look to social media (where else?). Social media shows us how society and technology adapt to meet our needs to make history. Social media provides us with the means to tell ourselves who we are and to authorize an ‘authentic’ his­ tory that is ours. As digital technology advances, social media capitalizes on these advances and applies them to our need to tell stories, stories as our histoy. Our histories depicted in social media may represent the dominant mode of self representation in society today. Though in vasdy different ways, we tell stories about ourselves on Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr and Twit­ ter. We tell stories about ourselves while implicidy imagining how we want to be seen by others. Through their structure and policies, these mediums prioritize self if only in directing us to present the representation of self in visual or symbolic stories and imageries. As English majors, we’re trained to do this, though indirectly because we study representations of self in our classes. In fact, it it’s no small irony that the recent ‘facelift’ of Facebook provides a redesign that will provide, as I understand it, the opportunity for a greater emphasis on visual ratlier^han ties. textual content. Hmmm.... The media blitz selling the new-look Facebook emphasizes community and humanity Here’s one exam le from a Facebook commercial: “Anyone can sit on a chair. And if the chair’s large enough they can ’’ examP e gether. And tell jokes. Or make up stories. Or just listen. Chairs are for people. And that is wh ’ ‘ h ow^ to Facebook.” This is only one of many Facebook commercials that tell us that Facebook is th Y ° meet, where we commune, and where we live. It’s the “thing” in the “The Things That Connectyl^ '1^ place, they want us to believe, where our histories take genuine form and generate full meanin T* § ironic that we are encouraged to see Facebook, or other social media, as a place for com,,, 1 ° S°me lt S nut want to‘drink all the Kool-Aid,’but I do wo/disbelieve. <•»»«*,s wtth people. I may [Continued 14 on page 15 We n< face in your li cism about “t jors prepares history in soc As Et challenge our when we chai when we do 1 and the imag: (?). And so a work as Engl Editorial Dear Reader: Since looking forw the personal! editors beliet they enjoy, b cles and the Our and openly c and align wit as a whole. 1 as a team, m Inkwell Qua editorial tear Editorial Sta Editors in C Copy Editor Layout Edin Congratulate Sincerely, Editors in C �Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 Kuhar’s Corner Continued from page 14 sotne■ ability s that, is is The these xperi> hishisto- >ur is a nr closed. not and. ro­ ts the andertess of ing d look make ’ hisl to tiety . Twit­ heir f in use :>ok r than ample i toLke re te :’s may We need to understand the impact of these new ways of shaping histories because the texts they create surface in your lives more than other representadons, including movies. We also want to maintain a degree of skepticism about tire self represented tn these imageries and visuals. You know about this. Your work as English ma­ jors prepares you to be critical in your analysis of this, too - to employ a thoughtfol judgment about how we make history in socia media and why it matters to contemplate the ramifications of these digital histories. As English majors we want to make history. We can and we will. We court history’s motive when we challenge ourselves to read for fuller meanings, when we challenge ourselves to read for continuities and plots, and when we challenge ourselves to report back the findings of die process toward knowledge. We make history when we do these things. Doing this enhances our identity, builds our confidence about the essential role of ideas and die imagination, and reduces the chance that we’ll be co-opted by false or unwanted histories. I am a chair (?). And so are you. I guess. We have made, and will continue to make, important history — Our history. Our work as English majors prepares us to make it! Editorial Statement Dear Readers, Since the end of the Fall 2012 semester, the Inkwell Quarterly has welcomed a new team of editors that is looking forward to leading the IQ in a new direction. In addition to carrying on the tradition of fully embodying the personality of the Wilkes University English Department, “who we are,” through the Inkwell Quarterly, we as editors believe that the only way to grow as a publication is to encourage staff members to write about the things they enjoy. New to Inkwell this year are the children’s book review, philosophy articles, and visual additions to arti­ cles and the publication as a whole. Our editors and staff members will function as a tightly knit team in which ideas for articles are welcomed and openly discussed. Such discussions are important and beneficial because they allow peer members to recognize and align with each other’s values, therefore creating group values as a whole. This type of environment allows the staff to function as a team, making the Inkwell experience enjoyable and fun. Inkwell Quarterly’s 7.3 Issue marks the beginning of a renewed editorial team, as well as movement towards progress and success. Editorial Staff Editors in Chief: Kendra Kuhar and Gabby Zawacki Copy Editor: Vicky Hevener Layout Editor: Miranda Baur Congratulations to the new editorial team! Sincerely, Editors in Chief: Gabby Zawacki and Kendra Kuhar 15 15 �Issue 3 The Inkwell Volume 7 Match the excerpt from the Shel Silverstein poem to the book in which it was named after. . *•> .vf - vf- -*! - -*/ ■ - >/■’"*? • $ j I f I 1. _____ “With a rat in his hat Looking cute in a suit With a rose on his nose And a bee on his knee And some glue on his shoe: A Light In The Attic B. The Giving Tree C. The Missing Piece D. The Missing Piece Meets the Big O i E. A Giraffe and a Half if if if if £ * F. Falling Up -j.r -&■ -A-A-Zt-A-*'"--Jr 2. “I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you ” “You cannot roll with me, but perhaps you can roll by yourself.” 3. “Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black and the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow...” 4. “Though the house is dark and shuttered, I can see a flickerin’ flutter, And I know what it’s about” 5. “And away it rolled and because it was now complete, it rolled faster and faster Faster than it had ever rolled before!” 6. “But it got me so dizzy When I looked around, I got sick to my stomach And I threw down.” 7. “And every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and nlav kino- of the forest. He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples. And they would lav hide and-go-seek.” Answer key: W Q O < U tt< « If anyone is interested in writing for The Inkw e//plcase contact: Dr. Marcia Farrell at marcia.farrcll@wilkes.edu oi Gabb) Zawacki at Ka^ri’-'ntt.y.a\\ackt@wilk 16 I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Spring 2013 (Volume 7, Issue 3) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 2013 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/a98222de8041276cd78f3b903538e354.pdf ed87f3b1bc0c30f6749a3818a89c815b PDF Text Text Thg Inkwgll Quartgrig Volume 7 Issue 4 Spring 2013 In this Issue: Summer/Fall Course Offerings Chin Up For Chinua BAH BAH BILL BLACK, HAVE YOU ANY WOOL? Tim Parrish Homily to the Kirby Hall Congregation Cravin’ Some Quinoa Patties, Mate! 18th Century Facts 5 with Dr. MA Thomas Pynchon Word Scramble! Senior Spotlight: Emily Yuscavage 5 Photo Courtesy of Miranda Baur A Children’s Book 6 Review: The Giver Senior Sptlights 7 On The Value of Deviance 8 Hamill’s Hunches 9 Is Poe a Friend or Foe in The Following? 10 Dude, Where’s My 11 Poetry? Kuhar’s Korners 11 Hard Work Pays Off for Manuscript Society The Manuscript Society' unveiled its 2012-2013 edition of its literary magazine on April 30th in the Kirby Hall Salon. The new Manuscripts were hand-stitched, folded, cut, and sealed at Art Seen on the Square by this year’s staff including Jamie Alderiso, Miranda Baur, John Carroll, Kendra Kuhar, Vicky Hevener, Sarah Simonovich, Emily Yuscavage, and Gabby Zawacki. The crew was led by bookbinder of Green­ leaf Bookes, S.L. Stitch Kester, and given a space to work by the owner of the gallery, Kim Coscia. Under the advisement of Dr. Mischelle Anthony and Dr. Sean Kelly, the team of Manuscript-ers managed to bring together the works of artists and writers to celebrate another year of creativity. This year’s winner of Best Written work was John Carroll with his poem, “I Watch for Broken Glass,” and Best Visual piece went to Kat Dodson for her photograph titled, “Welcome to the Creep Show.” More copies of the magazine will be distributed throughout Kirby Hall and the Farley Library' upon completion. To join the Manuscript Society' staff, or to submit for next year’s magazine, emails can be directed to magazine@wilkes.edu. i �Volume 7 The Inkwell The Inkm Issue 4 bahi Summer/Fall 2013 Course Offerings By Victoi By Brittney Grizzanti P Summer Presession: ENG 120 Reading The American Experience with Dr. Kuhar First Summer Session: ENG 101 Composition with Dr. Kelly ENG 120 Cultural Crossroads with Dr. Hamill Second Summer Session: ENG 101 Composition with Dr. Grier ENG 120 Introduction to Literature and Culture with Dr. Davis EMG 281 American Lit. I with Dr. Kelly Fall Session: ENG 202 Technical Writing with Dr. Wills ENG 225 Comparative Grammar with Dr. Stanley ENG 228 Professional/Workplace writing with Dr. Farrell ENG 233 Survey of English Lit. I with Dr. Hamill ENG 282 American Lit. II with Dr. Kuhar ENG 298 Adolescent Lit. with Dr. Stamer ENG 342 Studies in Shakespeare with Dr. Stamer ENG 393 Teach English Middle/Secondary School with Dr. Grier ENG 397 Senior Seminar: Technologies of the Book with Dr. Hamill ENG 398 (A) American Romantics with Dr. Kelly ENG 398 (B) Domestic Violence in Lit. with Dr. Anthony Chin Up for Chinua By Gabby Zawacki Chinua Achebe, acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, passed away on March 21, 2013. Born on November 16, 1930, Achebe grew up in Nigeria where he excelled in school and became interested in world religions and African cultures, interests which are reflected in many of his works. Completing his most famous work, Things Fall Apart, as an undergrad, Achebe’s novel gained worldwide attention in the late 1950’s for its honest depiction of African culture and African history under British rule. Other famous works by Achebe include No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man ofthe People, and Anthills of the Savannah. Achebe’s novels focus on traditional Igbo society, Christian influence, and the clash of Western and African societies, themes which he achieves through straightforward narration reminiscent of oral tradition, short stories, and folk tales. Chinua Achebe was a professor at Brown University from 2009 until the time of his death. If you are interested in joining The Inkwell. Quarterly staff and/or enrolling in English 190:Projects in Writing: Ink" e , P Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu) or Gabby Zawacki (gabriella.zawacki@wilkcs.edu) for more information. 2 I I this seme not alway he wantet things (w meanings managing Si number o B] professor does one and poetr explains. 1 Black app mode in v Bl Tim Pf By Sarah J Tl Dickson S Parrish ret Memoir, wl The South fear which Pr He is also Louisiana, since 1994 Literature, �Hie Inkwell Volume 7 bah Issue 4 BILL blacK, have you any wool? r>y v ictona Hevener r° essor Bill Black's students describe him as brilliant, charismatic, and thought provoking. Black taught s semester s section of English 203: Introduction to Creative Writing. Black is a fiction writer, though he was not a way's interested in writing. First interested in music, Black explains that writing first appealed to him because te w ante to learn to manage meanings. When working with language, Black explains that the author is "arranging mgs (words) that have meanings, and those meanings are relatively fixed. You put them in combinations so the meanings produce something beyond themselves. A note doesn't have an inherent meaning so you're not managing meanings in the same way. That's where it starts for me." Since his interest in writing first sparked, Black has received an MFA in Creative Writing, published a number of short stories, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University Black s interest in story' as managing meanings rather than plot greatly influences the way he teaches. As a professor of creative writing, Black has the immense task of teaching different types of writers in one course. How does one utilize one class and curriculum to nurture writers varying from pop fiction writers to writers of fiction and poetry'? For Black the answer lies within his focus on meaning. "Writing well requires thinking well," Black explains. He points out that, unlike more concrete subjects, writing has no standard starting place. As a result, Black approaches his lectures and workshops as an opportunity for students to think about themselves and the mode in which they understand and present their views of the world. Black hopes to have the opportunity to return in the future, as he has greatly enjoyed his time at Wilkes. I • i Tim Parrish’s Homily to the Kirby Hall Congregation By Sarah Simonovich The English Department hosted Timothy Parrish on Monday, April 15 as part of The Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers series. The reading was held at 7:00 p.m. in the Kirby Salon and was open to the public. Parrish read excerpts from his upcoming memoir, Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, a Memoir, which is scheduled for publication in September 2013. The book is about his experiences growing up in The South and his affiliation with the Southern Baptist church. It documents the foundation of prejudice and the fear which drove him to violence and bigotry. Prior to the reading, Parrish met with students for a workshop to discuss his writings and writing process. He is also the author of Red Stick Men, which is a collection of short stories set in Iris hometown on Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has served as a professor and director of creative writing at Southern Connecticut State University since 1994. His works have been published in many periodicals, including New England Review, Louisiana Literature, and Shenandoah. The Inkwell Quarterly Staff 1'’acuity Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell Editor-in-chief: Gabbv Zawacki & Kendra Kuhar Copy Editor: Vicky Hevener Layout Editor: Miranda Baur Staff Writers: Brittney Grizzanti, Emily Yuscavage, Cierra Humphrey, Jamie Alderiso 1'acuity Contributors: Dr. Larry Kuhar, and Dr. Thomas A. Hamill 3 �Volume 7 Issue 4 The Inkw The Inkwell 18th C Cravin’ Some Quinoa Patties, Mate! By Jamie By Cierra Humphrey -An Afri Yield: about 4 patties combine the Grea and islan -An inter which re< -An ongc This ques Ingredients 1/3 cup uncooked quinoa 2/3 cup organic vegetable stock ’Zt tsp kosher or sea salt % cup shredded parmesan cheese % cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese */z cup bread crumbs (plus more if needed) 2 each eggs, beaten x/z medium onion, chopped l/z medium pepper, chopped IT olive oil, plus more for frying Thom Unscram' 1. Hte Ryi Combine quinoa with vegetable stock and cook over medium heat until all the stock is absorbed. Remove from heat and set aside to cool. Heat 1 Tablespoon oil in medium skillet and saute the peppers and onions until slightly caramelized and soft. Set aside. Combine the cooled quinoa, peppers, onions, cheeses, salt, and some fresh pepper. Add approximately two thirds of the egg and all of the bread crumbs. Mix to combine. Add the rest of the egg or more bread crumb as needed with the end goal of a mixture that is moist enough to form into patties that do not crumble. If needed, allow the mixture to sit for a moment or two so that the bread crumbs absorb some of the moisture from the egg. Form into approximately four round flat patties. Heat a medium size saute pan with olive oiljust covering the bottom over medium heat. Carefully place the patties in the oil and cook until the bottom side is a golden brown. Flip patties and cook until brown on the underside. Remove from oil and place on paper towel to drain excess oil before serving with a side salad and poached egg. Note: these patties freeze and refrigerate well uncooked for a quick and easy breakfast, lunch, or dinner. They are also tasty at room temperature. Feel free to add Italian herbs and spices, taco seasonings, or other veggies such as chopped spinach, broccoli, or even corn to make 2. .V 3. Rvityas 4. Henter 5. Tsaigar 6. Vanleic 7. Wols E 8. Samon Good lucl Senior By Gabby [Our editor prefers simpler meals G cool cat w versify. Fr sions that Emily’s ex venture, la Oi see “the te of tire We: inburgh.” to run her ly and beir cious orga novels anc “world do: doing acce �___________ D----------------- v------------ o---------------------------- 'tv which resulted in many different types of interactions/interdependencies. -An ongoing spirited conversation between critics and diverse authors. What should writing reflect or encourage? This question became central to eighteenth-century writers and lawmakers. Thomas Pynchon Word Scramble! Unscramble the words to reveal the names of Pynchon’s novels! iom slightly j thirds leeded ow the 1 .Hte Ryicgn fo Otl 94 2. .V 3. Rvityas’g Binroaw 4. Henterin Cive 5. Tsaigan hte Yda 6. Vanleidn 7. Wols Eanerrl 8. Samon dan Xinod ^NATURE Good luck finding the answers. Photo Courtesy of Miranda Baur Senior Spotlight on Emily Yuscavage By Gabby Zawacki Graduating senior, Emily Yuscavage, is one cool cat with a string of great memories at Wilkes Uni­ versity. From walking into Kirby Hall to “class discus­ sions that have ended in rolling waves of laughter,” Emily’s experiences at Wilkes have been filled with ad­ venture, laughter, and time spent with friends. Once she graduates, Emily plans to travel to see “the temples of Kyoto, the giant red wood forests of the West Coast, and go to the Fringe Festival in Ed­ inburgh.” After satisfying her wanderlust, Emily wants to run her own apiary. “Bees have a history in my fami­ ly and being able to run my own hives and collect deli­ Photo Courtesy of Miranda Baur cious organic honey would be amazing.” Future aspirations include writing novels and “becoming a story teller” and world domination.. .even though “world domination sounds tedious.” Her special skills include being an awesome friend, cooking, reading, and doing accents, which she doesn’t “like to call a multiple personality disorder.” �T1 Issue 4 Volume 7 The Inkwell s A Children’s Book Review: The Giver By Victoria Hevener and Cierra Humphrey A Set in a fuhmstic mahfy where choice and emodons have been Tfc ^foUow^, ^elve Bi -year-old boy who has just been assigned his Occupation. Jo^is J^ia an of events bu(. Memories. As the Receiver, Jonas is responsible for archiving the society p y a man who emodons. Records are kept m the form of memories bestowed upon Jonas by a man he cahs the Give h has archived the records in his own memory since his twelfth birthday. As Jonas receives the society records he Wi ro Li G m ve comes to understand the values and consequences of emotion and begins to experience emo ons ou s he is given. Louis Lowry won many awards for her work on The Giver, including the following: The 1994 Newbery Medal The 1994 Regina Medal The 1996 William Allen White Award American Library Association’s "Best Book for Young Adults," "ALA Notable Children's Book, and 100 Most Frequendy Challenged Books of 1990—2000." A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Booklist Editors' Choice A School Library Joumal'Re.st Book of the Year From 6th and 7th Grade Students in Bloomsburg and Danville "I really wanted a sequel! It was a great book, with wonderful elements, and wonderful suspense!" i Si by o1 ei d d t cc "I feel like I learned a really important lesson about life, and the book really made me think. It was one of the best books I've read." “[The Giver] was a book that kept me thinking about it after reading it. I wanted to talk about [the] book with others that read it also. Not many books do that for me.” “I think the most interesting thing in the book is that the Giver can transfer memories into Jonas, that the memories of this town of fairness has such a horrible past that if it is let out the town would go into ruins ” From Students at Wilkes University “I loved The Giver when I read it, it really opened up a whole new concept that my young mind at the time [of reading] had never experienced.” “My opinion about The Giver is centered around plot and resolution. While the main character is certainly faced with a conflict he lacks power to change his situation, which creates a sort of meandering quality in the story Furthermore, when Jonas manages to resolve his situation, the resolution is not satisfying, as the reader does not have the chance to revel in loss or success. It’s not that the Giver is bad, certainly not. Rather, there is a lack of pay 6 2 t �4 The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 4 Senior Spotlights ve Iso rho at Morgan Palermo By Miranda Baur }Graduating senior Morgan Palermojs a writing track English major with minors in political science and women s studies. Originally from Drums, Pennsylvania, Palermo spends her free time doing yoga, running, taking road trips, and cooking. After graduation, she’ll be heading to Pennsylvania State University Dickson School of Law in State College. Some of her favorite memories from her time at school include heading to the Supreme Court to hear Oral Arguments and meet Justice Ginsberg last April with the Pre-Law society, and hearing and meeting the speakers from the lecture series on campus over the past four years. Good luck to Morgan as she ventures into the next chapter of her life story. Stephanie Wilkie )St jest by Victoria Hevener When asked to describe her time at Wilkes in a word senior Steph Wilkie said, “Surprising.” Like many other locals, Steph chose Wilkes because the school has a good reputation close to home. In fact Steph did not even expect to enjoy her time at the University; her choice to enroll was made out of the necessity to acquire a degree. Surprising is then an excellent description of her time here. During her time as an English major Steph found a second family, including her professors who she describes as inspirational. That family surrounds Steph’s favorite memories, and she attributes loving her time here to those people. Her favorite course was Dr. Marcia Farrell’s Study on the British Novel, which she describes as, “hysterical and educational at the same time.” Though Steph will not miss homework marathons and “those three am nights,” she will miss discussions, writing, and the people that surrounded those activities. In the future Steph looks forward to teaching, catching up on sleep, and watching Vampire Diaries. Oh, and she’d like to have a pet fox some day. Ashley Zerfoss By Kendra Kuhar 3t >ay Originally from and residing in Shavertown, Pennsylvania, Ashley Zerfoss is quickly approaching the end of her journey at Wilkes. As an actively involved student, Ashley has been a member of the Wilkes University Cho­ rus and Inkwell. Additionally, she has become a part of Kappa Delta Phi, Sigma Tau Delta, and Alpha Chi Mu. When asked about her favorite professor at Wilkes, Ashley replied in saying, “I have had many wonderful profes­ sors both in the English and Education departments.” One of Ashley’s fondest memories as an undergraduate student stems from Dr. Starner’s Shakespeare class in which students from the Gillingham charter school were invited to Wilkes to study and explore Bard’s The Taming of the Shrew. Ashley explains, “I enjoyed having an op­ portunity to teach, discuss, and learn from these young individuals.” After graduation, Ashley plans to find a full-time teaching position at the secondary level. Once a teaching position is established for some time, Ashley plans to attend graduate school for Education Technology. <D W) o <u £ tn a <u fg gO §u .> 0- « 3 •5 ■f g J -J a cs a o •J' S •§ a S d % <Z) S § m co Q G o 7 �Volume 7 Issue 4 'I'hc Inkwell The Inkwell This On the Value of Deviance Or Why I Occasionally Forg<o Shoes By John Carroll Shoes are not p.easant togs. I do nor Idee the « all the time and money spent buying shoes, putting em ° ’ is b- used to jts fullest potential. I think tying and untying knots (which, when not relate to s oes reasQns and not for shoes are occasionally useful, and sometimes necessary, suitable for debate, except perhaps cal purposes. However, this is all a matter of personal preference and thus no r r P the real moral implications that are always concerned when resources are was . barefoot There is however, a social taboo associated with being barefoot. I don t like shoes, like being b refoot, this is the Xary reasoning for my not wearing shoes, or, rather, it was. After walking across campus barefoot for the first time I noticed, however, very interesting reactions from my peers, professors, and passerby, really most everyone seemed to notice, and many felt the needs to comment. The general reaction was surprise or pity, asking where my shoes had gone or why I didn’t have any etc. Upon telling them that I had shoes, but chose not to wear them, the reaction was nearly universally judgmental and derisive, with occasional instances o ug ter or con sion. Some people skipped directiy to derision or judgment. I had always thought the derisive responses were odd, though. I cannot fathom why whether my feet are exposed is a serious issue to anyone other than myself. This is in part because no one has ever explained to me the harm I was causing them, most simply imply that I ought to wear shoes with no reasoning provided. In one instance, the response was so strong and so aggressive that I was simply taken aback, rendered una­ ble to respond. A total stranger, passing me on the street, a person with whom I had interacted with for the first and likely last time in that brief thirty second window decided to tell me exactly how she felt about my shoeless­ ness. She Shouted about how disgusting I was, how I should feel ashamed of myself, and that there was something simply wrong with my mind. All of this in front of her young child. What had shocked me the most was that I had seen such irrational and intense hatred before, but never in response to something so small, so simple. I was so shocked; I just looked at this woman, wordless, mouth agape, for a long moment. After a few more uncharitable words thrown in my direction, likely a response to my sheer confusion, she left muttering angrily and dragging her child who looked as confused as I was. I had simply never thought that I would cause someone so much distress by taking my shoes off. It is vital to note that while wearing shoes, for example, is a social norm to which an overwhelming majori­ ty of individuals in this city conform, there are those, at least one, who choose or chooses to go without them. This litde choice is in spite of that overwhelming social precedent, and is only one of the literally countless choices any given individual takes throughout any one given day. One chooses not only whether one will or will not get out of bed, but the exact moment. One can choose coundess times to stay in bed before one chooses to get up. Each step is a choice, each breath can be a choice, each movement and each thought can be related to simple litde choices. There is similarly a social expectation on many of these choices. One is expected to get out of bed, get pre­ pared, go to work or class, eat certain things at certain times, say certain things in response to other things’ and generally behave certain ways. Each time we transgress, each time we decide to do what society does not dictate as the best, we run the risk of censure by our peers. This is more often useful than not, as the ways society teaches to do things are usually the result of trial and error, and are thus at least effective or efficient ways for things to be done. These teachings are valuable, however, only when they are, in fact, valuable in and of themselves. That is, it does not follow that since society is usually right, then we ought always to foUow what society teaches. Were this ease, then those practices that soctety teaches that are useftrl would never have been found to be so, thus sociewithout progress would not have ewted at ah. When those teachings are the igs are the cause of tnmdless conformity, and do not have any value in themselves at all then their practice is a bad thing and should be stopped Continued on •age 9 8 I a good thing of little imp< habit, which it is likely th of whatever quite possib es for them; comes a thn wear shoes < ing- Practici issues muck a pianist, if then one wi one active! choices for an oppressi It SI Spring days but never u something those devia live in. Hamill’ I Jus came to fe Grade, po school tha the surpris absence in Like Grac. by her cor tween woi from the c her car sei initially fu unexpecte derstandii trees, and was “brol “broken” “No, the It’s too b down.” �The Inkwell do 1 *ink Clng them ty*1-1 thik ot for practi;Pt perhaps ; barefoot, barefoot for -ally most pity, asking not to wear - or confir­ ms were odd, elf. This is in light to wear I ■ndered una>r the first shoelessis something as that I had I was so icharitable fragging her ch distress gs to be 5. That is, it Were this thus socie- Issue 4 This is not to say that wearing shoes is a bad tiling, not in the least bit. Wearing shoes is often, very usually, a good thing. It is not, however, a necessary thing at all times. Calling into question the Ettle things, the questions of little import and deciding to deviate from the norm has a very real and special value in itself. We are creatures of habit, which is part and parcel to the problem at hand. If one gets into the habit of doing things a certain way, then it is likely that one will continue to do something that way, and this is either good or bad dependent upon the value of whatever that habit happens to be. However, there are habits to be formed in the making of choices which are quite possibly very bad. If one decides to line with society on each and every choice, then one is not making choic­ es for diemselves, and will often forget or not seriously consider their ability to choose at all. Deviance then be­ comes a thing to fear and hate as opposed to an opportunity to learn and to grow. Deciding whether or not to wear shoes each morning is one way of breaking this habit of conformity and forming a habit of real decision mak­ ing. Practicing on the little inconsequential things makes deciding against the norm, when appropriate, on the big issues much, much easier. That is, if one wants to become a professor or a video game journalist, or a ballerina, or a pianist, if one is already in the habit of making choices for themselves and not letting others choose for oneself, then one will find making unpopular choices, ones that are most desirable to the individual, more easy to do. If one actively claims the responsibility and right to make choices for themselves, then one is more likely to make choices for one’s self, and thus one is more likely to live a life more in line with their desires and not to be ruled by an oppressive system of conformist policy. It seems wise, then, to occasionally forgo shoes in favor of walking to class barefoot (especially on warm Spring days), or to wear shorts in January, speak French to every stray cat one sees, hold pencils behind both ears but never use them, or any other silly thing one can do for no reason other than to choose to do something weird, something deviant. Were society to be more accepting of little deviations, and were we all more prepared to make those deviations when it is best for our own well-being, it seems that the world might be a more pleasant place to live in. Hamill’s Hunches nfrig majoriit them. tless choices ill not get to get up. simple little bed, get pretngs, and ot dictate as ty teaches to Volume 7 i Just before Holiday Recess, on the day the real Paul Bunyans came to fell our famous silver maple (“He’s up so high!” marveled Grade, pointing to the one in the boom-truck bucket as we left for school that morning), 1 returned home to tire sad, triumphant sight of the surprisingly huge flattened stump reifying the tree’s presence as absence in the now shade-less bright of our transformed front lawn. I .ike Grade, whose excitement in the moment was initially tempered by her concerns about the noise, I had anticipated the tensions be­ tween wonder and loss meted out by this scene even as we pulled away from the curb that morning, only after Grade’s third request to leave her car seat and again glimpse the man “up so high!” in the bucket. I initially fumbled to explain the context as we left, wrestling with tire unexpected (and perhaps misperceived) burden of negotiating her un­ derstanding of the moment. I felt compelled to tell her that “We love trees, and we don’t normally like to cut them down” but that this tree was “broken.” I quickly recovered from the ridiculousness of “broken” and offered a better (or at least more accurate) explanation: “No, the tree’s not really broken. It got sick, and its limbs were faDing. It’s too big, and it’s not safe. It’s unsafe, Sweetie, so we need to take it j ■ r | t:; . I I '' i i. . - .1 Photo Courtesy of Desiree Wren down.” formity, Continued on page 10 9 �The Inkwell Issue 4 Volume 7 Hamill’s Hunches Continued from page 9 Playing “shovel in the dirt” in the front yard that afternoon (Grade s playtimiie ode to her favorite line from Bruce Springsteen’s “Shackled and Drawn”) affirmed all of the available logics of the morning’s events, even in their flawed ambivalence: the lawn that had been rendered off-limits for weeks after the “hmbatext limbatext” incident inodent was outs again, even if we had to dance on a tree-less stump to know it. Repaying our debts and forgiving our sms, the tree was still giving, as the story has always gone. Indeed, behind the house, in front of the garage, still another allegory had begun to unfold. A pew (yes, a pew—pew #70) that had been rescued from a repurposed church in Wilkes-Barre was apparently now ours. y initial reaction, obviously, was to think of my next Hamill’s Hunches. The InkwellQuarterly had just been release that afternoon (at the exact moment of the initial realization of the anagogical meaning pondered in my last Ha­ mill’s Hunches), and the signifying process of limb to cross to text to ??? had proliferated still further. The felled wood, it seemed, had been reworked (and reworded) yet again, accreting along new structures of belief, new sys­ tems of faith, into the partial architectures of worship and thanks. Even the lack of a built-in kneeler seemed ap­ propriate, for as much as I saw my own (future) Hunches (this one) in the grain, I wondered (later) if I weren t be­ ing told to simply sit and listen (even in my prayerful thanks). The church-pew story doesn’t really go anywhere (at least not yet—I’ll keep you posted), and even its func­ tion here, as bridge into this paragraph, is marginal. That said, clearing space in my cluttered garage to make it fit (and save it from the imminent rain) did prompt deep and pained reflection. For as much as the pew was another text arrived from (a playful?) God, it was also another cross, another reminder of what I have done, and what I have failed to do. As I re-arranged the unarranged mess of my garage, I was reminded of other Hunches, of the (now finished) bathroom that once (unfinished) shamed these pages. I recognized that as much as the pew might offer my next Hunches it might just as likely emblazon the glossy pages of The InkwellQuarterly years hence, when, still unrealized as yet another unfinished home improvement project, it might announce, text-less and again, my un -production of yet another Hamill’s Hunches. The limb as text made flesh as pew had begun again already to mean at still another anagogical level. It was the hope of production against the anxiety of shame. And so it shall remain. Is Poe a Friend or Foe in The Following? The .Th Usir In fi I wa dialc “me poir writ it’s f seas Du By J the i attei cally out adel the . of tl The: etry By Kendra Kuhar The Following, a network-television series which aired for the first time in January, tells the story of pro­ tagonist Ryan Hardy and his interactions with serial killer and antagonist, Joe Carroll. An English professor at Winslow University, Carroll specializes in Romantic literature; more specifically, he admires and is obsessed with work done by Edgar Allen Poe. Carroll’s fascination with Poe is extended to such lengths in that phrases from Poe’s writing, as well as details from the famous author’s plot-lines, are incorporated tn the murders committed by Carroll and his “cult” of followers. 1 Naturally, a television show based off of tdeas rooting from 19th-century literature intertwined with a contemporaiy plot would appeal to any reader. However, such content forces the audience to question the overall relZe series X ? ’” Tn'0 ’’’T”6 °f tde™On show A at the early episodes of of hZd as masZ”8FrnCd ™ that it uses quotation from “The Raven,” synthetic replicas events X IZu ””"“7 FBL betW“ CatroU’s "»chilg to Z;ZvZU;X"±^ °f7 —s, he proves to be unimportant vance to the plot slowly dwindles away Tach episode. C °f ltS &St SeaS°n’ and P°e’S rele’ Continued on pagcll Ku AF Co me goi As to ce th D �Issue 4 Bruce eir ; ours he tree (yes, a 5. My [eased : Hafelled v sysed apen’t be- its funce it fit nother .at I f the t might when, , my un to The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 4 ...The Following continued from page 10 Using the presence of Edgar Allen Poe s work in the show has proved to function well as an advertising advertising strategy. strategy. In fact, the show strongly appealed to me because I am familiar with how twisted and bizarre Poe’s writing is, and I wanted to see what a modern-day spin would do the content. In episodes where the famous work was present, dialogue coming from the characters made it incredibly obvious of the “meaning” behind an event. (Granted this meaning was not always accurate, it sufficed as entertainment.) As I continued to watch, I realized that at one point I completely forgot that Poe was ever even concerned with the show; I was completely immersed in a wellwritten and thrilling plot-line that is independent from any 19th-century literature. As the first season approaches it’s finale, it will be interesting to see if Poe’s work will surface again in the plot-line of The Following in future seasons. Dude, Where’s My Poetry? By Miranda Baur More often than not, when I mention to someone that I’m a poet, I’m reminded that poetry is “dead.” On the contrary, I see poetry-sharing events happening throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania and all the events I’ve attended have been inspiring and supportive. Let me plan out one month of poetry for you: The first Friday of every month is Scranton’s night to display local art and music from 6:00 to 9:00. Typi­ cally, the Vintage Theater is known for hosting open mic readings; however, to get a list and map of events, check out firstfridayscranton.com. On your second Friday, you rest unless you’re willing to venture to Clarks Summit, Elizabethtown, or Phil­ adelphia. The third Friday of the month is Wilkes-Barre’s night to display art. Poetry readings are always hosted at the Art Seen Gallery on the Square at 7:30. Fourth Wednesdays are open mic nights at the Library Express in Scranton at 6:30, and the fourth Friday of the month is Tunkhannock’s art-sharing night, including poetry performances and open readings at the Dietrich Theater often starting a 7:00. Throughout the year, Wilkes’s Manuscript Society also hosts a monthly reading. Po­ etry isn’t dead to those who seek it. Kuhar’s Korners : proat with □m tted by a conrail rel;odes of plicas id 3rtant ele- A Final Exam: Five Ideas for Our Graduating Majors! Congratulations to our English program graduating seniors! You should be proud of your accomplish­ ments, you should feel prepared to succeed in life and in career, and you should be aware of your responsibilities going forward. rl—_: accomplishments at a moment of symbolic closure and grand achievement, 1 encourage you As you contemplate to consider five ideas as you imagine going forward to shape new stories beyond Kirby Hall. “There was something critically missing from the things around him. They were unfinished, whatever that means. They were unseen, whatever that means. ” Don DeLillo, Falling Man agell Continued on page 12 11 �The Inkwell Volume 7 Issue 3 Kuhar’s Korners Continued from page 11 You possess the skills, talents, and values that will help you to succeed — help you to make meaning — in your life ahead. As he runs from the collapse of the North Tower in Don DeLillo’s 911 novel Falling Man, Keith Nuedecker realizes that something was “critically missing from the things around him. They were unfinished, whatever that means.” Your degree in English has provided you with writing and research skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and critical thinking and collaborative skills. Your work prepares you to understand the importance of cul­ tural diversity, to respect the dignity of all people, and to accept the responsibility that you need to contribute to society. You are entering a challenging world where false meanings are sometimes promoted or appear fully au­ thorized. You are prepared to think through the haze of false meanings, to think creatively and innovatively about what life means in this complicated world. Use your skills to make meaning for yourself and for others. Know that you enter a world where you live your values when you respond to the ubiquitous question, “What does that mean?” You are prepared to do so. “Hold your hand up in front of the flame. Don’t let it go out. ” Cormac McCarthy, The Road You need to lead. In Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel The Road, a conversation between a father and a son confirms importance of accepting the responsibility of leading, of being one of the “good guys.” The father-son conversation begins with the son asking a question of leadership: “What are we going to do? Hold your hand up in front of the flame. Don’t let it go out. . . . I know you’re scared. That’s okay. I think there may be things in there and we have to take a look. 1 here’s no place else to go. This is it. . . . Okay. This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.” Unlike McCarthy’s protagonist, let’s hope your future will not require you to live through an apocalypse; however, you will need to prepare yourself, like the father in McCarthy’s story, to keep the fire burning, to ask others to help keep it burning. In other words, you should reflect on the importance of leading through times of adversity in life and in career. You should also reflect on the need to celebrate the fire’s warmth! “The puppet master, open-mouthed, wide-eyed, impotent at the last, saw his dolls break free of their strings, abandon the rituals he had ordained for them since time began and start to live for themselves; the king, aghast, witnesses the revolt ofhis pawns. ” Angela Carter, “The Bloody Chamber” You can do it: You can get beyond the limitations of the roles given you. Our fictions tell us about how we can rewrite the roles we’re supposed to play. Angela Carter’s short story “The Bloody Chamber” retells a fairytale in order to redistribute the power networks that inform choice for the story’s young female protagonist. When this woman finds herself in a loveless marriage to a sadistic murderer, she enters a forbidden room and discovers the possibility of her doomed fate. She refuses the story. She acts to rewrite her role in a revised story that recasts her life. She’s able to do this because she is self aware about the strengths that she possesses as a woman who re­ fuses to be trapped in a gender-defined role. Get beyond the stories that tell you about your limitations. You can do it. It begins with imagining, or reimagining, how you will shape who you will become after graduation. As An­ gela Carter said about her desire to rewrite the stories that told her who she was, “I am all for putting old wine in new bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode.” I’m not sure about the ex­ ploding wind bottles - but you get the point: You make your future. You can do it: Be confident to challenge yourself, to reach beyond the limitations of the roles you’re cast in, and to write your own endings to the many sto­ ries you will live. The Inku Kuhar’s “Andi Elizabc You hat ate, cele do mon feels wc “battere the fish lived a 1 mouth: -line, / attache< in his n “batter like bat look al work to to mo-s need t< es of 1 shoulc “rainb “Ido Robe You I can » kind i to wa you t can t sion, fines �Kuhar’s Komers Continued from page 12 -ckJiat •n 1> 3Ut r it >n on er, elp life n n iis “And I let the Gsh go. ” Elizabeth Bishop, “The Fish” You have more work to do. As you prepare to gradu­ ate, celebrate your accomphshments. But prepare to do more. In the poem “The Fish,” Elizabeth Bishop feels wonder and astonishment at catching the “battered and venerable” fish. She stares and stares at tire fish and begins to understand that the fish has lived a long story as revealed in the many hooks in its mouth: “[In] a lip / ... / hung five old pieces of fish -line, / or four and a wire leader / with die swivel still attached, / with all their five big hooks / grown firmly in his mouth.” As English graduates, you are, perhaps, “battered.” You have accomplishments that show, like badges, your accomplishments. Be proud, but look ahead. Possess an awareness that you have more work to do. Be patient and disciplined in your efforts to move forward in your stories. But know that you need to go forward. Like the fish in Bishop’s poem who has earned badg­ Photo Courtesy of Cierra Humphrey es of honor, your accomplishments are negotiated against an awareness of the larger world around you. You should, like Bishop’s speaker, feel a kind of “victory.” But it’s winning with an awareness of a reality - a future “rainbow” — that can only be realized by moving beyond the current story. “I doubted ifI should ever come back. ” Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” You have a home in our program - Plan to return. Even though you’re leaving Kirby Hall for now, know that yoi can return. Frost’s speaker in “The Road Not Taken” contemplated how going forward with decisions in life - a kind of graduation - requires a self awareness about the possibilities for returning: “Yet knowing how way leads to way / I doubted if I should ever come back.” Unlike Frost’s speaker, you should plan to come back. We need you to return. We need you to share your stories because they tell us who we are. We need you to return so we can teh you who we have become and where we are going. Whether it’s an alumni event or a departmental occa­ sion, plan to come back to the faculty you worked with, the friends you shared ideas with and the place that de­ fines who we are. ie 5 re­ can A.nin iX- sto- If anyone Dr. Marcia Farrell at marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu at gabriena.zawacki@wilkes.edu �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Spring 2013 (Volume 7, Issue 4) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 2013 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/ba96b1ce61dad9905768204c83632653.pdf 47446d2be962f6df1cb0884f0036cc5c PDF Text Text Th£ Inkwell Quarterly Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Fall 2013 A Wales Tale By Kendra Kuhar I Upon my arrival in Carmarthen, Wales to study abroad for the semester, I had no idea what to expect. 1 he first day of orientation for international students provided a rough guide of what foreign stu­ dents should expect throughout the semester, such •j as culture shock and homesickness. Members of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s interna­ tional office also explained that although we would fall in love with and admire the new culture we were slowly being submersed into, we would also gain a new appreciation for our own culture and where we come from. I took these bits of advice lightly the day they were spoken to me because I thought I had an accurate idea of what I would experience while studying abroad, considering the amount of research I had done on Wales before arriving and that I have traveled abroad before. Now, more than halfway through my journey, I have a new understand­ ing of exactly what admiring where you are and where you come from truly means. In addition to cultural and historical classes focused on Wales and Great Brit­ ain, I am also enrolled in a Film Genre class. The genres covered in class thus far are Horror, Science Fiction, Melodrama, Western, Film Noir and Gangster films. Surpris­ ingly, it was in this class that I appreciated where I come from and was happy to be where I am. Near the time of mid-terms my professor noted that up until this point, the genres and case studies focused on were defined by American films mainly produced by Hollywood. As an American, that struck me because I had not noticed that all of the genres under investigation were solely defined by American films. I began to think more deeply about what my professor pointed out and realized that yes, the majori­ ty of film is contemporarily defined by American films; however, the foundation of the genres lie all over the world. Examining the history of the modern day horror film shows that conventions used to define the genre are partly derived from Gothic literature produced by the English writer Mary Shelley and Irish novelist Bram Stok­ er. More-so, the earliest Science Fiction films are based off of 19th-century novels written by Jules Verne, a French author, and England’s H.G. Wells. The trend of film genres having roots all over the world carries on throughout the history of film genre. As a college student from America studying abroad in Great Britain, connect­ ing the origins of film produced by the United States to countries all over the world puts the impact literature has on film and what defines society today into perspective. Granted the majority of the films come from Hollywood, these films would not be able to be produced as they are if it were not for both foreign and domestic literary pieces that have created a strong foundation for what the film industry is today. Liter­ ature collected over hundreds of years have all been pieced together to form today’s films; furthermore, this allows a variety of ideas to come together as one and allows everyone to have reason to be proud of where they come from, as well as see what role they play in defining contemporary culture. 1 �The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Club Day 2013 By Kayla Eaton On Tuesday, September 10, 2013, the sun was shining and Club Day was taking place between the normal club hours, 11:00am-1:00pm. Students, new and old to the university, had the opportunity to check out clubs that interested them, and chances found one, considering that well over seventy clubs had set up tables with information out on the greenare they 1 way. Free lunch, including corn dogs, sausage and peppers and pretzels, was also provided for the students. If you did not have the opportunity to attend Club Day, but still want to get involved and meet people who share the same interests as you, you can visit the university website, where the club name is provided along with the presi­ dent’s name and email, and contact them. Don’t pass up the opportunity to get involved! So many clubs are presented here at Wilkes that it is very likely that you will find one that suits you well. (photo taken by Manuscript editor, Miranda Baur)______________________________ _________________________ Reading into Dog Food By Sarah Simonovich While people have generally increased their attentiveness to reading food labels, this practice has not tran­ scended into the realm of pet food. Often people are naive regarding their pet food, trusting that because a bag said “dog food,” or “cat food,” it contains a well-balanced and nutritious diet. Not all pet foods are equal, though, and some are downright bad. Being able to read and understand the labels of dog food is important to pet health. Ingredient lists on pet food are similar to human food labels in that ingredients are listed by weight. The heaviest foods are first. Dogs and cats are carnivores; therefore, a specific source of animal protein, such as beef, poultry, or lamb, should always be the first ingredient. Meats have a relatively high water content, which contrib­ utes to increased weight. “Meals,” on the other hand, are meats rendered to remove water. For example, seeing chicken-meal among the first few ingredients is not bad: it means the food contains more animal protein bv weight. However, vague or generic labeling, such as meat-meal, should be avoided because the source cannot be identified. Staying away from grains and glutens is important when choosing a diet for a carnivore. Foods that contain high amounts of fiber are full of fillers that are not fully satisfying to a dog’s nutritional needs because they mav replace necessary protein. Grains such as corn also pose a potential for allergies: excessive itching, hot spots, etc. A completely grain-free diet may be considered best for a carnivore although rice, oatmeal, and pearled barley are common in pet foods and do not pose problems for most dogs. While a food that contains these will prevent a “grain free” label, a well-balanced food should not pose any problems. However, as all dogs are unique, individual results vary. The presence of by-products in dog food is a controversial topic. By-products include feet, internal organs, mtesnnes, etc. Some companies in the field of pet nutrition, such as The Whole Dog Journal cite claims that by-products are of lower quality compared to “fresh” meat. Other companies, such as the Robert Abady Dog Food Co., argue that a dogs natural diet would include by-products. More information on why Abady includes More by-products in their food can be found on their website, abadyfeeds.com . information This article is not a comprehensive guide for choosing the correct dog food. Every animal is uniquejujJ^ (continued oiTp^J^ The (r| disti a nu recal food pany you r qualit and tl dogs article workii attend consul Whitii in Sha tion ex has bee for her food. Fanfict by Afict In these that hole manga. 1 ingly alrr tion of c fanfictioi It is no s aspiring 1 Fire” wh “Every w lazy wav < on rhe or O fiction is i of Fanfic itself bur i novel, Fit\ attention t language a In general car tor a work published c continue or �The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 (Reading into Dog hood from page 2) rnal iS nd >r the end id as vhere presi- dved! es that :an- ugh, al th. he eef, ib- eight, ified. ntain ay tc. are a dual gans, t g es id has ■ distinct needs based upon age, bleed, weight, and activity. Research is important and it is advisable for one to talk to a nutrition expert on what is an i ' ideal diet for individual dogs. One should also familiarize themselves with product recalls and history when searching for a new food. Knowing information about the com­ pany whose food you are purchasing can help you make an informed decision about whether quality ingredients are going into the product and the impact the food will have on your dogs health. The information contained in this article has been obtained through experience working at Whiting’s Pet Supplies along with attending a pet nutrition seminar by nutritional consultant Dr. Brian Wessels, DVM. Carol Whiting, owner of Whiting’s Pet Supplies in Shavertown, Pennsylvania, is a pet nutri­ tion expert with 18 years of experience and has been recommended by local veterinarians for her extensive knowledge regarding pet ^Skylar eats fresh from her lawn J food. Fanfiction: Popular Pros and Cons by Michelle Byrnes Fanfiction is widely considered to be written works by fans as extension of pre-existing works of fiction. In these works, writers often extend the world of the preexisting work of fiction. Perhaps one of the largest sites that hold these works is that of fanfiction.net, which covers an array of fictional works—spanning from anime and manga, films, television shows, comics, video games and more. The community surrounding fanfiction is interest­ ingly almost completely reliant upon itself. As the fanfics are not officially published as they are technically in viola­ tion of copyright laws, they are published, edited and commented upon by the community of writers and readers at fanfiction.net. It is no secret that fanfiction is immensely popular—but many famed authors do not see it as a positive outlet for aspiring fans and writers. George R.R. Martin, the author of the popular fantasy series, “A Song of Ice and Fire” which HBO adapted into the television series, Game of Thrones, replied on a Q&A on his main site saying, “Every writer needs to learn to create his own characters, worlds, and settings. Using someone else’s world is the lazy way out.” He also explained how essentially taking another’s characters is a breach of copyright and an attack on the original writer’s livelihood. On the other side, many fans of fanfiction argue that like fanart, fan music videos or other creations, fan­ fiction is merely another means to express esteem and love for a certain work. In an article titled, “In Defense of Fanfiction”, Becca Schaffner argues that the main problem therefore does not lie within tire act of writing itself but rather in how it is approached by those ‘outside the fan community’. For example, the publication of die novel, Fifty Shades of Grey which was later revealed to be adapted from Twilight fanfiction—brought negative attention to the public conception of fanfiction in general through its highly sexually graphic scenes yet poor use of language and inaccurate depictions of BDSM. Instead, many argue that fanficiton at is essence is private within a fan-community. Therefore, fanfiction in general can be described as an alternate form of discussion and another way in which fans may express their love for a work of fiction. Although this is the ideal state of what fanfiction is supposed to mean—as it is permanentfy published online through fanfiction.net-it inevitably runs into controversy. Should fanficiton be encouraged to continue or because it is essentially a type of plagiarism should it be discouraged? 3 �The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Common Poster Design Flaws by Mitch Frear Posters, Posters, Everywhere On any cork board or telephone pole hang the ever popular 8.5” by 11” hand-printed poster. Mostly designed by amateurs, these posters attempt to move the world to go to some show, or to walk in groups, or even to urge read­ ers to participate in some contest. Any place a person sees posters usually overflows with mediocre to poor posters with bad design choices. Just knowing a few simple common flaws can remedy an amateur poster. Visual Direction A poster in which the point is not found quickly probably has a bad hierarchy. When attending a critique for a design class, one may hear the words “Visual Direction” or “Hierarchy”—both of which generally refer to the way elements of a design correspond, both to bring important information to the eye first, and to invite the viewer to continue looking at the next essential element. Easy techniques, such as bolding, sizing, or even coloring headlines and then treating the next similar factor in the same manner will keep a good visual direction, especially if a color used also appears somewhere near the bottom right, toward important graphics or text. Unity Posters with more than three fonts, varied sizing, bolding, or italicizing often look cluttered and deter people from continuing to read. These problems all stem from something called “Unity,” which literally means that different pieces within a design remain similar. Some people may feel like keeping elements related is the opposite of what they want to do, but when designing a poster, one with similar type or graphical treatment throughout does not offend the reader’s eyes, and in fact encourages one to continue looking. Timing Ever start looking at an interesting flyer and think, “I really don’t have time to read that whole thing”? Timing is not necessarily a word used in design, but an effective piece contains recognition that the amount of time someone looks at a poster on a board is usually a glance. One must quickly use that glance to both get the reader’s attention and to direct the reader to a place to learn more. If a poster has paragraphs, something is wrong. A few brief messages and contact information or a website (QR codes can sometimes deter potential audience members) usually suffices - and if someone has gained enough interest in an event or cause from the poster, he or she will actually seek more information. The Future of Amateur Design Designing a poster can be harder than one might think, and a lot of over-thinking can occur because of this. If a would-be designer knows nothing about the field, stumbling blindly into the realm of graphic art can cause an end product visually unpleasing. Knowing some simple design flaws in the posters of others could help an amateur to develop a masterpiece rather than a catastrophe. And when in absolute doubt, contacting someone who does good design work (a friend, acquaintance, or even a friend of a friend) could be greatly beneficial. A person may not always help in the actual design, but by having experienced critiques, one may move a piece in a good direction. If you arc interested in joining 1’he Inkwell Quarterly staff and/ or e: in English 190: Projects in Writing: Inkwell, please contact Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu)inrolling or Gabby Zawacki (gabriella.za\vacki((t wilkes.edu) for more information. The Inkwei Wilkes Fi by Patrick T1 their fall r< Chorus m of the day weekend, 1 The Cham church ser more, and Th direction c in WilkesSingers, an include: If Mighty Sc The Frusi Stephen St If The site se onlv probit and then ts practicing 1 hour drive Th. Happily, ye routes with mv destinai where I wa Wb always help B; however route.” Wd for directio added; "W1 Google Ma multiple to is construct there are ar Go website, bu for alternat also referee Google Ma most accur. �1&2 The Inkwell Volume 8 Wilkes Fall Chorus Events Issues 1&2 "----------- " by Patrick Klus ed by e read­ posters ra he wav ■er to idlines color ■ from rent what lot igis ueone tntion f usually lally The Wilkes University Chorus and the Chamber Singers got off to a busy start of the semester dunug ’ a retreats at the beginning of the- semester. Saturday and Sunday, September 7th and 8th, the University Chorus made the Fust Presbyterian Church in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania home, rehearsing at the church most t ic a) e afar aj, spending the night, and then performing at the church service the next morning. The next weekend, the Chamber Singers traveled to the First Presbyterian Church, Clarks Summit for their annual retreat. 1 he Chamber Singers also spent most of the day rehearsing, stayed at the church overnight, and performed at the church service the next morning. These retreats allowed time for the ensembles to get to know each other a bit more, and added valuable practice time for the fall concerts. The Wilkes University Choral Ensembles will perform their concert, In Praise of Music, under the direction of Dr. Steven Thomas, Friday, November 22, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre. Free Admission. This concert will feature music from the University Chorus and the Chamber Singers, and will feature music that focuses on the beauty and power of choral music. Some of the featured pieces include: If Music be the Food of Love by Jican Belmont, The Battle of Jericho by Moses Hogan, and Sing a Mighty Song by Daniel Gawthrop. The Frustrations of Google Maps Stephen Seibert If you are in college then odds are that by now you have had to struggle with Google Maps at least once. The site seems like a good idea: a map on your computer showing the most direct route to your destination! The only problem is, how accurate is that route? The last time I attempted to navigate via Google Maps I was directed the wrong way down a one way street and then taken the long way to my destination, which then turned out to be the wrong spot. Fortunately, I was only practicing the route before I had to actually find the desired location the next day, but you cannot do that with a six hour drive to Pittsburgh. The natural response to the resulting frustration is to wonder, “Is there an alternative to Google Maps?” Happily, yes! MapQuest is a more accurate alternative to Google Maps, experienced firsthand when I compared routes with Google Maps. Where Google Maps took me the wrong way down a one-way street and then away from my destination, MapQuest took me past the one-way street to a road I could legally follow and then delivered me to where I wanted to go. When asked about the accuracy of Google Maps’ directions, Josh Jarmoski stated; “Google Maps will If a n end •_ur to s good ot >n. always help you go from point A to point B; however it may not take you on a logical route.” When asked about his preferences for directions when planning a journey, Josh added; “When going on trips I prefer to use Google Maps, because it always provides multiple routes which can be useful if there is construction along one of the routes or if ...st. - ... : ■ linn there are any roads closed.” Google Maps can still be a reliable website, but you may have to click the option U iting: for alternate routes if you are unsure. You can also reference MapQuest to compare with Google Maps in order to be sure you have the , a.; >1 v »t (You can find an Inkivell at point A ) most accurate directions for your trip. 5 �Issues 1&2 Volume 8 The Inkwell The Inkwell Game by Mitch Frear Pynchon’s Latest Novel By Sarah Simonovich , Thomas Pynchon’s eighth novel, Bleeding Edge, Unscramble dies was released September 17. Pynchon is the author o ble works such as Gravity’s Rainbow, The Citying oj Lot > Inherent Vice, which is currendy being made into a film starring Joaquin Phoenix. Bleeding Edge is set in Manhattan during the months preceding the September 11 attacks on the Wor Trade Center. The protagonist, Maxine Tarnow, is a decerti­ fied fraud investigator who runs her own business called Tail ’Em and Nad ’Em. Per typical Pynchon, Maxine uncovers a tangled mess of subplots, conspiracy, and paranoia. Bleeding Edge deviates from the typical noir-detective novel by gender-swapping the protagonist. While most hardboiled fictions feature a male lead, Pynchon’s protagonist is a Jewish single-mother reminiscent of the character Oedipa Maas in his 1966 novella, The Citying of Lot 49. Instead of uncovering a 200 year-old conspiracy, however, Maxine’s findings hit much closer to home as the connections she makes all potentially relate to the terrorist plots of 9/11. The novel is as much about technology as it is about terrorism, neither of which are themes new to Pyn­ chon. Bloggers, hackers, and technological entrepreneurs all represent a character base for this novel, including a Russian mobster and a foot-fetishist. Even the tide, Bleeding Edge, is a reference to a category of new and possibly unreliable technologies. Pynchon’s tide reflects both the paranoia and the new and growing twenty-first century technological advancements found in the novel. DeepArcher (pronounced departure), an example of Pynchon’s play on language, is a virtual world that shows the birth of the internet as we know it and the importance of technology and its service as a metaphor. It is a video game with no objectives or rules of any kind and is hidden away in die deep web. As the name suggests, it is a departure from reality. The text is full of witty and recognizable pop culture references from the early millennium, including Zima, Furbies, and the widely held belief that Beanie Babies would be worth money one day. I would recommend this novel for both Pynchon fans and newcomers alike. The humor and pop culture references help to make it one of Pynchon’s most accessible novels. College-aged students can relate to Maxine’s w o are in elementary school at the time. Readers who were old enough to remember the events of 9/11 mmore detail can also relate to characters like Maxine who try to find answers amidst the chaos. The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell •d-tor-m-Cluef: Gabby Zawacki and Kendra Kuhar (-<>Py l'.ditor: Cierra Humphrey Staff Writers: Stephen Sciburt Sarah F!<’U' I 'd,,or: Miranda Baur Bvrncs iZt’k’l'* )Al.”Sa Charlie Hanford, Mitch Flear, Mid>* f aculty Contributors: Dr. L;-tv Kuhnr l r ( hKayla Eaton • '»• Chad Stanley and Dr. Thomas A. Hamill (absent due to belated arrival) k 1. RDULC. 2. EHT / NED1 3. BMGSESOPC 4. HTE / ITSXC 5. ARICRE 6. HET / QMAI 7. EHT / SHWE 8. IAKNEFNST 9. WNTIRI 10. LCAL / J 11. EHT/TNG. YLJLKE / N Budgeting Tim, bv Mitch Frear During th in order to make manv students sti (actually, morning Dropping from tl distraction is an ii better budget dm To budge: ing off the TV an use of die interne and Twitter) can I these technologic: ior. Removing on poses difficulty. J can be left in anot to write papers or connect to the int creasing source of the internet to pre separate user acco specifically for wri Phones, te vents productivity, ing technological c great part is that o �■S 1&2 The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Game by Mitch Frcar Unscramble these Halloween titles, and then match each to the correct author! racter however, ist plots to Pynrding a □ossiblv inturv Id that □hor. It is ggests, .A is ling Zima, culture laxine’s of 9/11 ichclle belated 1. RDULCAA 2. EHT / NEDLGE / FO / ELSYEP / OLWOHL 3. BMGSESOPOU 4. HTE I ITSXCORE 5. ARICRE 6. HET I QMAEUS / FO / HTE / HTDAE 7. EHT / SHWECTI 8. IAKNEFNSTER 9. WNTIREIVE / HTIW / HTE / PIVMARE 10. LCAL / FO / HTUCLU 11. EHT / TNGAESR / SACE / FO / RD. / YLJLKE / NDA / RM. / DHEY ___ Washington Irving ___ Edgar Allen Poe ___ Mary Shelley ___ Stephen King ___ Robert Louis Stevenson ___ Anne Rice ___ R. L. Stine ___ Bram Stoker ___ Roald Dahl ___ William Peter Blatty ___ H.P. Lovecraft Key: 2, 6, 8, 5,11,9, 3,1,7,4,10 Budgeting Time: Technological Distractions by Mitch Frear During the long hours of the night before an exam or paper, students drink coffee and rush through work in order to make a grade. Simply starting a few days earlier can greatly increase marks on an assignment, and yet many students still wait until the last minute to study or place pen to paper. A blinking cursor at 2 AM the night (actually, morning) before a clue-date of an essay can be daunting as the student scrounges for the next word. Dropping from the usual grind of technological distraction is an important step in learning to better budget time. To budget time more effectively, turn­ ing off the TV and cell phone, and limiting use of the internet (as in, log out of Facebook and Twitter) can be a hard step, especially since these technologies may cause addictive behav­ ior. Removing oneself from temptation also poses difficulty. Although a TV or a cell phone can be left in another room, the device used to write papers or do research can usually also connect to the internet, which is an ever-increasing source of distraction. To avoid using the internet to procrastinate, one could make a separate user account on his or her computer specifically for writing essays or doing research, and block other parts of the internet with free parental controls. Phones, television, and the internet can entertain people greatly. The trouble occurs when technology pre­ vents productivity, and a source of joy becomes a source of lament due to frustrations and time problems. Avoid­ ing technological distractions is an important step in moving forward with an effective time management plan. The great part is that once ones required work gets done, entertainment is so much sweeter. 7 �The Inkwell ________________ Manuscript Update and Reading Information Issues 1&2 Volume 8 By Miranda Baur . This year, Manuscript’s editorial staff consists of Miranda Baur as editor, Gabby Zawacki as assistant ete' at the end of the spring semesten Students^ nnd alumni may submit to magazine@wilkes.edu. Written submissions may be five pages long, and ve separate piec­ es can be emailed for the year. In terms of visual submissions, five images may be subnutted to the emad address, as well. While submission are rolling and can be emailed at any time, if students and facul^ would like to find out about their work before Winter Break, submissions will be due by November 17th at midnight. The Manuscript Society is preparing for its next big reading after a wonderM turnout from the Halloween event, with Dt. Hamill winning Best Reader for his tag-teamed performance with his daughter, Grace, and English major Victoria Rendina winning Best Dressed as Lydia from the film Beetiejuice. The next reading will be held in accordance with the Third Friday in Wilkes-Barre events, meaning on November 22nd at 6pm in the Kirby Hall Salon. Any questions can be directed to either the magazine@wilkes.edu email address, or to editor IMiranda Bain at miranda.baur@wilkes.edu. Any questions can be directed to the staff via the magazine email address. Also, any students looking to join the editing team can do so by requesting a schedule through the same email ad­ dress. Meetings are held in Bedford Hall, room 110, during club hours. Arranging and Editing: A Similar Art by Pat Klus As this semester got under way, I began to realize that most of my assignments this semester were going to be heavily focused on editing and technical and workplace writing. Although this type of writing is similar to writing a standard paper, it forced me to begin to think about writing differently. In Dr. Hamill’s Technologies of the Book seminar and Dr. Farrell’s Professional/ Workplace Writing, the role of the editor or professional writer seemed to stand out significantly as the semester progressed. In these classes, the discussions seemed to highlight a common link between an editor and a professional writer: the act of both of these writers being a sort of mediator. This means that both of these writers cannot just focus on their ideas and agenda; they also need to focus on trans­ lating information and producing that translated information accurately. The writer also needs to be focused on the audience and how that information may be received. At first this seemed to be a bit complex to me, but I was able to make a tie to a type of editing I had done. One of my hobbies is arranging music, where I would take a song and arrange it in order to fit a certain musical ensemble. Since high school, I have arranged multiple pieces for marching band and vocal ensembles. Although I had prior experience in arranging, I did not recognize the connection until I began thinking about my most recent arrangement. For that project, I arranged a piece of music so that my high school marching band would be able to play it. I did this because I did not like some <ofr the ’ edits ” the first arranger had made, and I°wanted to clean it up and make it more playable for the band. At the time I did not realize it but I[ was making the kinds of decisions that I would make as an editor of a paper or a professional writer. I had to constdet wntinv for for insider the the group group II was was writing (the marching band), the audtence who would be hearing the music, and what I ultimately wanted to hear and to be heard What I did not reahze is that I was an editor of the music, and I had to be aware of the moves I was making with the arranging process even though I may not have been directly considering them at the time Through this =—r— writer and editor in academic writing, and I had not realized it W°lk 1 d°mS just about editing project that they are working on. They must consider the information^ * mcdiat°r °! ' “ they to translate it accurately, and how to ensure that the audienc ■ 11 . . tlylng tO translate and convey’ h°" ..e thc.lnfortnation accurately. Although the musical aspect of the project may be foreign to some writers tf . ^C1VC to some writers, the the. sic is much closer than some may think. ’ ° lcory behind academic writing and arranging11111 The Inkwell Digital Studii by Miranda Ba During computer wor] lined with Mac Adobe Creati the manuscript hance the prog ities as they pe for example, oi document and to these tools ii students to bee that same vein, aid in research; a classroom. In Dr. Hamill’: with manuscrip alone benefits s the lines. Studer and manipulate printed work. T and research. Riddick Film I by Michelle Bvn Vin Die Riddick. The c a cult classic. H< ides of Riddic. to want to get ba The film agrees to leave h on a desert plane to signal for help Eventually, two s mercenaries, Rid. The plot despite this, tire f film also manage Pitch Black's R-ra what steady balar often leaves some clear retraction b; one hand, this kir for the Riddick fr W ith \ in Diesels remains that die f don. An action film ths what lacking in te: �1&2 stant ind ate piecIdress, ad out loween id En- >n Noinda xess. til ad- omg : to ties of writer iligLt a ediaror. a transon the done, ical igh I :ecent ible to t up ans for 1 to be naking this the g as a litfog if the how -h the tag »>o' The Inkwell Digital Studio in Kirby Hall by Miranda Baur Volume 8 Issues 1&2 During the summer, Kirby Hall was renovated to fit a computer workspace on the second floor in room 203 The room is lined with Macintosh computers that contain programs like the entire Adobe Creative Suite and Anastasia, which is a system containing die manuscripts of medieval texts. AU of these can be used to en­ hance die program’s new English concentration in Digital Human­ ities as they pertain to editing and formatting various documents; for example, one would use Adobe InDesign for layout of any print document and Dreamweaver for creating a website. Having access to diese tools in the EngUsh department is useful because it aUows students to become more involved with textual works as products. In I diat same vein, the lab will be useful to aU of the concentration because it wfll (courtesy of Dr. Marcia FarreU ) aid in research and bringing a network of intertextuahties to the forefront of discussion if the workspace is used as a classroom. In Dr. Hamill s 397 class, for instance, students are utilizing the lab space and the program, Anastasia, to work with manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales in digital facsimile. Using the technology of the computer screen alone benefits students by illuminating pages of the medieval works and aUowing students to zoom in and out of the lines. Students could drop pages of the manuscripts into another program like Adobe Photoshop, for example, and manipulate the page to enhance highlights and shadows, which are often inaccessible opportunities through a printed work. The Digital Studio allows for seemingly unlimited opportunities for students in working with texts and research. ______________________________________________________ Riddick Film Review by Michelle Byrnes Vin Diesel reprises his role of the iconic antihero, Richard B. Riddick in the summer blockbuster film, Riddick. The character had originally gained a devoted fanbase due to the success of his first film, Pitch Black, as a cult classic. However, this attention soured with the release of Riddick’s second film debut entitled, The Chron­ icles of Riddick as the film was widely heralded negatively by critics. But eight years later, the film Riddick seems to want to get back to what brought Riddick’s success in the first place. The film begins five years after Chronicles ends. Increasingly dissatisfied with his role as leader, Riddick agrees to leave his position if he is taken to his home planet. However, he is soon after betrayed and left for dead on a desert planet which is inhabited by murderous monsters. After escaping their grasp, he activates a beacon to signal for help but this reveals his identity nearby mercenaries who hope to collect the bounty on his head. Eventually, two separate ships arrive and begin to fight over who will claim Riddick. However, unbeknownst to the mercenaries, Riddick knows that there is an even greater danger lurking in the darkness. The plot is heavily reminiscent of that of Pitch Black, but despite this, the film manages to keep steady pace. The action in the film also manages to stay consistent, though it also harkens back to Pitch Black’s R-rating. Overall, the film manages to keep a some­ what steady balance of action and narrative, although the dialogue often leaves something to be desired. The film can be defined as a clear retraction back to what made the original film a success. On one hand, this kind copied plot can be considered unoriginal—but for the Riddick franchise it seems like a step in the right direction. With Vin Diesel’s new ownership of the character of Riddick, hope remains that the franchise wfll continue to grow in the right direc­ Department of English Digital Studio tion. ( President Leahy discusses creativity in the workplace ~) An action film that loyal Riddick fans will love, but somewhat lacking in terms of a creative narrative. 9 �The Inkwell Volume 8 The_ Issues 1&2 Ku Lai Lar Prisoners Review By Kayla Eaton Chances are you have heard of actors Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. The two of them have teamed up for a movie that was released in theaters on September 20, 2013 called Prisoners. Other familiar faces can be seen, as well. The film, directed by Denis Villeneuve, stars Jackman as father Kelly Dover and Gyllenhaal En^ wh: hyp as Detective Loki. Dover’s family is having dinner at a friend’s house when his daughter, along with her friend, goes missing. After an unsuccessful search, the only clue Dover is left with is an RV that had been on the street earlier. Detective Loki is put on the case, but no progress seems to be being made. Kelly Dover decides to act as his own investigator, doing whatever he has to do in an attempt to get his daughter back, but just how far will he go? Is it too far? If you are looking for a real thrill, then this is the movie to see. Rated R because of torture and language, Prisoners may not be the most family friendly film, but is a great movie to go see with a group of friends. I would I he dor wit! sarr of ! give it 9.5 out of 10. If you liked the movie Taken, starring Liam Neeson, then you will definitely like Prisoners. Even top critics on Rotten Tomatoes rated Prisoners higher than they rated Taken. The movie grasps your attention right from the beginning, and you don’t want to take your eyes off of the screen for the entire 153 minutes. Just when you think you have it figured out, they throw another curve your way. If asked to pick out a negative aspect of the movie, I would not be able to. I highly recommend this movie to any­ one looking for a good movie to watch. ‘Insidious: chapter 2’ Review By Alyssa Daniel On Friday, September 13, 2013, the sequel to director, James Wan’s, Insidious was released. Insidious 2 continues straight off of where the first film ends. The Lamerbert family moved from their previous home in fear that the house was haunted by demons. Once they are settled into their new house, they quickly find out that it is not the house that was haunted; it was their oldest son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), who has the ability to roam amongst the spirits in his sleep, who has brought back demons diat are after his father, Josh Lamerbert (Patrick Wilson). The family then retreats to the grandmother’s (Barbra Hershey) house where the remainder of the movie takes place. Wan did a great job in putting together the suspense aspects of the movie. He was very good at keeping the audience on edge throughout the entire movie which enabled much room for genuine unexpected scares. The amount of scares and the length of time between each scare were fewer than the first movie. However, the levels of intensity of each scare were considerably higher which increased audience suspense by adding a sense of paranoia as to what would happen around every corner or during every dull moment. Overall, I thought Insidious 2 was a good movie. In terms of plot, there isn’t much to it, however. The rea­ soning behind why everything was happening is highly simplistic and easy to follow although it allowed for several good scares. In the end, the movie succeeded more in terms of style rather than substance; not to mention the various forms of comic relief that tied in perfecdy to the horror and also contributed to the style of the movie. It is the technical trickeries, such as the positioning of the camera, sound effects and suspensefill music which gave Insidious 2 the chilling vibe that lingers throughout the movie. With another ending that ensures the audience that there is more to come, Insidious 2 is not a bad movie and is sure to keep committed fans of the series coming back. However, I’m not sure the movie is as capable of recruiting new followers. 1(1 I ha nan Wh The The Yoe As : An den I �<2 The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Kuhafs Korncrs Language, Reality and Your Future Story as English Majors Language: Reality. What’s the relationship? Education: Career. What’s the connection? :es laal English majors are students of language. We are students students of of meaning. meaning. We We love love to to negotiate negotiate irony, irony, gaps gaps between between whats said or written and whats meant. Every time we read or write we do this. Our work in these areas makes us hyperaware of the beauty and oddity of reality. ngctive gator. ?e, >uld P the fay. inv- I I I have been teaching in Kirby Hall for just about 25 years. It’s my career. AU the while I’ve been writing poetry, fic­ tion, and drama. Most of it concerns itself with some effort to understand this amazing reality we live as well as with tire search to find language that can meet my mind’s understanding of reality. As English majors, you do the same er err time y ou write an essay on Alice Munro or Sylvia Plath, or when you write a poem on the odd moment of seeing a school bus pass by three children waving at Bus #27. Language challenges reality just as reality challenges us to turn experience into language. I have this idea that words/meanings fail full order/structure. Structures. nature refuses human structures that want to control and order it. us in rat n ck ovie L ils of oia Chronologies. I have this idea that Sunsets first, then sunrises The moon eclipsed beforefull Darkness then light When we write, we share an understanding of something that matters. Should Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening have left her world behind to swim off? Why does Thomas Pynchon’s character Oedipa Maas in The Crying of Lot 49 want to “project a world”? Your creative imaginations are at work when you write responses. Your ideas reflect your values. Keep this in mind as you go forward in your life and career stories. As an educator, these ideas about writing have wiggled into ideas that are at the center of my work in the classroom. An educator’s values: To be passionate about ideas, to respect others, and to chaUenge the potential of each stu­ dent I work with. (continued on page 12) ;a;ral . It ve hat back. 11 �Volume 8 The Inkwell Issues 1&2 ( Kuhar’s Korners continued from page 11 J The Inki Ackee < By Alys: Hearing Billy Collins read I want so badly to write afunny poem about my daughters and our dog, her head over the edge of a pillow But I can’t thefinny poem turns on an image of a tree ground enough, from an her to si Ackee ai cooked; Ingredie . branch falling on a boy helping his mother carry groceries infrom the car .. Your intellectual work in our English program, whether found in essays, poetry, or fiction, will shape how you come to understand what you value in life and your place in this world. What I value above all about the classroom are the experiments that occur in every class, experiments with language and with meaning. It’s taken a career to find that language for that meaning. y t:, , j- :Qn elasej memory from its function of allowing reality to mimic itself, a wonderous awareness of systems like the one heating his house or washing his clothes. An x-ray. Seeing tire morning snow fall westward easily with pace toward the light, he swallowed hard to invoke a sensation of living, of breathing and of processing this moment. Alone with the pines and oaks. Each flake different than every other. This explains the system, he thought. Contrite translator of a Society of Spectacle, he recognized a beauracracy of thought in the work of consuming images: The snow, like the x-ray screen, was seeing through the forest and January. As English majors, we move between fiction and reality, between language and meaning. We read Kate Chopin and Thomas Pynchon in the same week. 1979. Everything was larger. Things kept falling and the noise evoked play and thought. Cell phones, guitar tuners, old luggage. She wondered if the 50 turtles made it to Ascension Island. She watched, face painted with disci­ plinary intent, eyes swimming from left to right of the twelve inch steel-plated monitor. Her brain wired toward the next thought. Not the now. Over and over the images flashed. She wondered how it was possible that her child s television could be twice the size of the monitor used almost 25 years ago with recording what she was to see. We are surrounded by language in our classrooms and our lives. As English majors your hope and responsibility in the world is tied to your work to bridge the gaps between reality and the imagination’s work, whether you find your career in the classroom, courtroom, boardroom or “The folder cannot be displayed. You do not have permission to perform this action.” Write the conclusion to your story knowtng that you possess the ability to negotiate and to create the story you want to tell. The story that lives your values: Your language is reality. Our English program prepares you for this. i • ! • 1 • 1 • 1 • I Directioi Preparin I haven’t b take the : Once voi Place the the water Once thi will comi Preparin! I package < frying pa Combini C oil, and L some pej When fir and Voih Enjoy! �!&2 The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Ackee and Saltfish Bv Alyssa Daniel Being born and raised in America, 1 have never had the opportunity to hilly experience my Caribbean backgiounc hioug i the preparation of our native foods. With my parents being from the Islands, I have been fortunate i come are find ird essing a, he rf in and tuners, ird the hild’s ility in your enoug i, <-b to eexposed to my Caribbean heritage in other ways on a daily basis. Both of my parents are rom an is an ca e t. tts, which is located in the West Indies. My mother is an amazing cook and I’ve asked her to show me how to cook one of my all-time favorite foods which I’ve decided to share with Wilkes University: Ackee and Saltfish. 7 Ackee and Saltfish is <originally ' ' " the national dish of Jamaica. Ackee is a fruit that is grown in Jamaica but is cooked and used like a vegetable. Saltfish is Cod ----- that —„ h; aas been preserved by drying after salting. Ingredients • ’/a Pound Salted Cod • 2 Cans of Ackee • ‘/a Package of Bacon • 1 Small Onion • 1 Small Tomato • lTbsp Cooking Oil • Black Pepper Directions Preparing the Cod Fish Bring a medium sized pot of water to a boil. If you haven’t bought the skinless/boneless cod fish, you have to first take the skin off (most of the time it comes off quite easily). ( provided by google ) Once you’ve skinned the Codfish, chop it up into medium sized pieces. Place the pieces of fish into the boiling water and boil for two minutes. Remove the fish with a strainer and change the water, bringing it back to a boil and adding the fish back in for two minutes. Repeat this process once more. Once this process is finished, drain the water, make sure there are no bones in the fish and put the dish aside, we will come back to it later. Preparing the Ackee Drain the Equid from 2 cans of Ackee and place the fruit into a bowl and then put it aside. Chop half a package of bacon into small pieces, and fry until crisp, set aside. Next, chop up the onion and tomato and cook in a frying pan to your liking. Combine with the reserved Ackee and set aside. Combining the Ackee and Cod Fish Combine the Codfish, Bacon, and Ackee in a frying pan on medium heat. Stir in ITablespoon of cooking oil, and let simmer for a little bit (5-10 minutes). As time passes, you will notice the Ackee start to swell. Sprinkle some pepper and gently stir the mixture in a folding manner to avoid the Ackee becoming mushy. When finished, continue to let the mixture simmer on low for a couple more minutes to ensure thorough cooking and Voila! There you have it, a wonderful pan of Ackee and Saltfish. Enjoy! i r this. 13 �The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Contemporary Author Update By Sarah Simonovich T i j j ■ The latter half of 2013 has seen the publication of a number of highly anticipated works. Included is Don­ na Tarts’s third novel, The Goldfinch, which was published in October, marking it her first work published in over 10 years. Also in August, award-winning Canadian Author Margaret Atwood published MaddAddam, the conclu­ sion to her dystopian trilogy. Cormac McCarthy, author of three novels adapted into films, saw the release of his first original screen­ play, The Counselor, on October 25. The cast includes big names such as Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, and Brad Pitt. The film has received mixed reviews. Also in the film industry, the film adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherant Vice is currendy in post-production with no release date set. Teacher Education Updates by Alissa Daniel Praxis II Workshop: Anne Thomas, Education-Undergraduate professor, will be hosting a Praxis II workshop on Monday, September 16, 2013 and Monday, September 23, 2013 in Briseth 216 at 11:00am. This information session is directed toward aspiring educators who seek to become a certified teacher in the state of Pennsylvania. The work­ shop will provide information on how to register for the test, what to expect when arriving at the testing center and the content expected to be on the test. Praxis II preparation resources will be provided to those who attend. The Praxis II test should be taken towards the beginning of senior year and passed before student teaching. PAPA Workshop: Anne Thomas, Education-Undergraduate professor, will be hosting a Pre-service Academic Performance Assessment (PAPA) workshop on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 11:00A.M. This information session is directed toward aspiring educators who seek entrance into the Teacher Education Program (TEP). The workshop will provide information on how to register for the test, what to expect when arriving at the testing center, and the content expected to be on the test. PAPA preparation resources will be provided to those who attend. Students must take and pass the PAPA certification test passed prior to registering for any 300 level education courses. Student Teaching Seminar: On Thursday, September 26, there will be a student teaching placement seminar being held in Briseth 205 at 11:00A.M. This meeting is mandatory for students who plan on student teaching in the Spring 2014 semester. The primary purpose of this meeting is for students to fill out the required paperwork in order to student teach during the spring 2014 semester. Dr. Gina Morrison will also be presenting information about the student teaching opportunity in Malaysia. Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) Dissertation Defense: There will be a dissertation presentation, held by the Interim Dean of the School of Education, entitled The Impact College Fairs Have on Enrollment at Kikg’s College, A Cath­ olic College in Northeastern Pennsylvania by doctoral candidate Thomas Robert Landon. The presentation is open to students of the School of Education and will take place on Friday, November 15, 2013 at 9:30A.M in Fenner Hall. candidate Joa^-Bus^ep^^ take place on Fnday, November 15, 2013 at 2:00P.M in Fenner Hall. The Inkwell 2013 Nob. By Charlie Th 82-year-ok come a fat tario. Mun stories in 1 Stories. M grew up. E December woman to first Canac Wilkes Uni By Stephen Muc Band. An it Leahy] was ing he (Dr. J The present to boost me enrollment; cruiting too boost to the its students, opportunity largely beca input. “This Dr. Simon, between the deal of inpr The presence at replaced wi: however. “J stated Dr. S tnances at 1< town, PA. The hers. Only < accepted. T Week durini Dr. ttancial ove at tire high So. �sues 1&2 ed is Donhed in over die conclud screen: Cruz, ptation of shop on n session he workmter and 1 The :mic •n session workshop and the ents must being re Spring der to ut the i Interim A Cath:>n is open oner Hall. The Inkwell Volume 8 Issues 1&2 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature By Charlie Hanford 1 he “°13 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Alice Munro. The Swedish Academy chose the 8„-year-o a a an author heralding Munro as a “master of the contemporary short story.” Expected to be­ come a at e w len she grew up, Munro instead earned a scholarship to attend the University of Western On­ tario. 1 unros wor ’ egan appearing in magazines in the 1950’s and she published her first collection of short stones in ., er most recent work is a collection of short stories published in 2012 entided Dear Life: Short Stories. Mumo s stories tend to revolve around small town life in rural Canada, the setting in which the writer grew up. ue to poor ealth Munro has declined to attend the award ceremony in her honor in Stockholm on December . unto has publically stated that she is unlikely to continue writing after becoming the thirteenth woman to receix e die Nobel Prize in Literature out of the 106 that have been awarded since 1901. Munro is the first Canadian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wilkes University Marching Band Takes to the Field Fall 2014 By Stephen Seibert Much to the delight of Dr. Philip Simon, Wilkes University has set wheels in motion to create a Marching Band. An interview with the future director revealed that it was not even Dr. Simon’s idea in the beginning. “[Dr. Leahy] was the one who came to me” states Dr. Simon. “Naturally I thought it was a great idea. Since that meet­ ing he (Dr. Leahy) has been notiiing but supportive.” The presence of a Marching Band is expected not only to boost morale at football games, but also to boost enrollment at Wilkes. “[Dr. Leahy] thinks it’s a good re­ cruiting tool,” continues Dr. Simon, ‘And an excellent boost to the liberal arts program that Wilkes provides its students.” The Marching Band will be an excellent opportunity for students interested in the liberal arts largely because the students will have a great deal of input. “This will largely be a student run group,” states Dr. Simon. “The music will be a collaborative decision between the students and I; students will have a great deal of input.” a The Wilkes University Pep Band already has presence at home football games, but that will be: r courtesy of the SUB cafeteria Marching Band. The group will not travel with the teamkreplaced with the new 1 however. “Most colleges [our size] will not send marching bands to away games,’ - -m only at home games, as well as occasional exhibition perforstated Dr. Simon. The Marching Band will perfon ipetitions and at the Intercollegiate Marching Band Show in Alientnances at local high school marching band com[ ; Interim logical ,n and will accepted The unit wffl rehearse two to three tunes per week; students can expect an average of nme hours per nancial oversight of the program. Dr. Simon, who as B Band at the high school level, will overseeoZthe Wilkes University Marching Colonels!' So get ready! September 2014 will see i p 15 �The Inkwell_____________________________________Volume 8 Issues 1&2 Time for a Cuppa: a Beginner’s Guide to the Perfect Brew By Sarah Simonovich , , ., , Caffeine has always been the English Major’s friend: hundreds of pages have been read and written with the help of an energizing kick. Coffee may have claim as the stereotyped drink of choice, and even energy drin s ave taken their place among the late night student’s arsenal. But what about tea? Tea, like coffee, has always had a place in the literary world. Take George Orwell’s 1946 essay, “A Nice Cup of Tea,” for example. Published in the Eve­ ning Standard, Orwell’s essay describes his eleven rules for making tea, something that may be seen as approaching a ritual or art form. Not ah teas are created equal. While not all tea-drinkers foUow a regime as strict as OrweU’s, certain guide­ lines are generally foUowed. One of the most obvious guidelines is the physical brewing of the tea. Water tempera­ ture and brewing time are both dependent on the type of tea. Below are the general guidelines for brewing a basic cuppa: • Black: 200-212°F for 3-5 minutes • Green: 170-190°F for 1-3 minutes • White: 150 °F for 1-2 minutes • Herbal: 190°F for 3-5 minutes Heating water in a kettle is ideal because water can overheat in a microwave and potentiaUy explode. On the same note, fresh water that has not been previously boiled makes a better cup of tea. Tea comes in many forms including blooms, bags, and loose leaves. Often the issue with teabags is that there is very litde room for the leaves to expand, which results in a weaker flavor. Tea sachets provide a better alternative because the sachet’s pyramid shape pro­ vides the leaves with more room to expand, increasing the potential flavor. Loose leaf tea can be brewed in a teapot with an infuser basket, in a mug with an infuser ball, or, following the Orwell recommended method, straight in the pot. Orwell’s method ensures proper infusion and instructs that the leaves be strained upon serving. Generally, one teaspoon of tea is used per eight ounces of water. For a stronger brew, always add more tea leaves, rather than time: over brewing can lead to a bitter tasting tea. There are numerous ingredients than can be added to a cup of tea. Some of the most popular additives include sugar, honey, agave nectar, lemon, cream, and almond milk. For a coffee substitute, black teas have a richer flavor compared to the lighter white and green teas. Tea can even be used as a base for a latte, substituting espresso. Earl Grey lattes, also known as a London Fog, are quite popular among tea enthusiasts and local coffee shops. 2013 Kirby Canon By Gabby Zawacki The Kirby Canon is an annual publication that recognizes the strongest essays written in English classes with significant essays chosen as winner at each level (100, 200, 300). Students may submit one essay per level for work completed the previous academic year (for the upcoming issue, that would be Fall 2012 - Spring 2013). After receiving essays, a panel of faculty and students evaluate each essay. When reviewing essays, the names are removed in order to ensure an unbiased evaluation. “Winning essays are published annually in print and elec­ tronic copies of The Kirby Canon, are recognized at an annual ceremony, and receive a certificate and small prize,” said Dr. Helen Davis. Students who wish to submit work to The Kirby C; students Canon should email the essay to Dr. Helen Davis (helen. davis@wilkes.edu), who will then remove names and assign essays to volunteer readers. Entries from die 2012-2013 academic year should be submitted by November 15th. If you are interested in being a reader for die Kirby Canon, please also contact Dr. Helen Davis. The 2013 Kirby Canon Winners are: Best 100-Level Essay: Taylor Moyer, “Creating the Look to Die For” Best 200-Level Essay: Kelly Clisham, “All the World’s a Stage: Finding Meaning in Angels in America” Best 300-Level Essay: Jonathan Kadjeski, “Mercy through Catholicism: Apocrypha in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice” The Inkwell Redwall by B By Stephen Se Full of twenty book s; human but ins and medieval 1 threatened by discover the s< the terrifying 1 solve the riddl destroying his The ai an early age ar life and plant. over a dozen 1 and the sourci Redws thoroughly en what Brian Ja< Spray-Paint J By Gabby Za1 Over to paint an all be painting, I to use a new i •ally seen as a < assumed to b< of street art. change and n between mult changing wid paint. I spol professor anc he intersecdc recoenized st o integration o form public s painting have to create stre paint, in and painting expt Becai allowing for quality, the p on working x �s 1&2 i with the iks have d a place the Everoaching i guideLemp era; a basic The Inkwell_____________ Rcdwall by Brian Jacques By Stephen Seibert Volume 8 twenty’ book saga. In a tale that grabs human but instead mice, squirrel,™^ Z“s and medieval technology. The story centers on a red Issues 1&2 '’"'T Redw‘‘UK ’ fantasy that kicked off a “'' Wood and creatures> with human intelligence i threatened by an army of rats “ discover die secrets of the Abbey’f founder a warrior nam d M ’°mC ‘S,‘hleatened the !'r,u"R nmn“ the terrifying leader of the rats. As die Abbey and the ,', d j W‘C“ S”°rd “ batdc a«ainst solve the'riddles left behind by the legendaX m“L mZ, mUS' destroying his beloved Redwall Abbey. ° ’ °P a™y °f &Om cnslavlng his friends and The author Brian Jacques was born in England on June 15, 1939. He displayed great talent for writing from an early age and bls fest book Redwall, was published in 1986. Much of the world of Redwall is based on the wMhfe and plant life of England. Jacques work is well received, with over twenty million copies sold and translated into or er a dozen languages. His work Mows the very familiar pattern of good vs. evil, seen as overly simplistic to some and the source of the series popularity to others. r ie same including d expand, e proi a teapot ght in the rally, one than time: itives : a richer espresso. ops. Lasses vel for 5)die names d elecill prize,” ; (helen. 1012-2013 >y Canon, Redw all is only the beginning of an amazing saga, a tale that will have you whipping through its pages while diorougllly enmeshed m its story. If you have ever enjoyed a fantasy or adventure story, then you will be amazed by what Bnan Jacques has in store for you. Spray-paint Art By Gabby Zawacki Over the summer I was asked by a good friend to paint an album cover. Upon viewing what I would be painting, I realized that there was the potential to use a new medium to make art: spray-paint. Usu­ ally seen as a deviant’s art tool, spray-paint is often assumed to be used only in graffiti and other forms of street art. These art forms are generally seen as destructive. However, street art has the potential to change and morph, often becoming a collaboration between multiple artists. Street art layers and grows, changing with each new artist and each new layer of paint. I spoke with Dr. Chad Stanley, English professor and painter, about street art. He said, “[T] he intersection of street art, grafitti art, and the more recognized studio/gallery art represents a fascinating integration of these styles” with the ability “to trans­ form public space in ways that traditional modes of painting have not.” While I have not used spray-paint to create street art or graffiti, I’m finding that spraypaint, in and of itself, has the ability to transform the < photo court painting experience on canvas as well. . j---------Because the paint is in a spray-can, it has the ability to dry quickly and layer quickly, for beautiful shades and tones to be created with minimal waiungln addition, due to spmy-pamMqueous quality, the paint can be applied thickly and then dripped and swirled in order to create eye. popping p hant of « working with spray-paint throughout the year in order to create more crossover amvoi . 17 . p �Issues 1&2 Volume 8 The Inkwell The Inkwell______ Senior Spotlights A Hunch Al By the Editoi Liz Mason By Gabby Zawacki Whether relaxing on the Greenway during warm weather | or enjoying the laid back and welcoming attitude of Wilkes, senior English major Liz Mason has enjoyed her time both in and out of | the classroom. When she’s not working hard in Kirby Hall, Liz likes to get lunch or dinner with her friends and attend sporting events to support the Colonels. When relating her experience at Wilkes, Liz said she has “enjoyed basically every social aspect of college.” These experiences have helped her form strong friendships and What his Hunches? you know ths to shame poc even shame h It' is! i, A 1 | have allowed her to make lasting memories. Other hobbies include Liz, furthest to the right, may or may working out at the Wilkes gym, shopping on the weekends, trying new food not have eyes this wide. at new restaurants, and playing intramural basketball. After leaving Wilkes, Liz says she will miss “being in a small community” and how it “allowed everyone the opportunity to become friends as opposed to peers.” She hopes to belong to this type of community throughout her life and career and hopes to “work in that type of environment upon graduation.” Thomas Matern By Miranda Baur Tom’s concentration is in professional writing with a minor in psychology. Some of his hobbies include writing and running, but not at the same time. Lately, Tom has been writing poetry for his capstone project, which he finds “pretty interesting.” Most of all, Tom is going to miss the people and the atmosphere of Wilkes, and his favorite memories at Wilkes were too immense to go into detail. Tom believes that his times with friends are his best Wilkes memories. Artist’s Statement, October 2013 By Dr. Chad Stanley L'” I- J As the subjects for the majority of my paintings are drawn from litera- | \ _ ture, I think of my work as a form of playful, visual scholarship; to this point, f ' I frequently paint from or about writers I have published on, such as Fay Weidon, Philip Wylie, and Joseph Plumb Martin. To me, this connection between |z the visual and the literary makes perfect sense, as I have always been a visual ' thinker, and began my undergraduate studies as a painting major. I work in oil on canvas, with under-sketching in ink and occasionally an acrylic wash. With one exception—a portrait that is a tribute to a Beagle/Doberman/ i Rottweiler who was named “Nixon”—all of the paintings appearing in the ; “Visual Literacy” showing are based upon or influenced by literature. A good friend helped me realize that this painting and the Self-portrait, with Horns form a diptych, and since that moment I have been unwilling to separate them. ^Visual Literacy” will be featured at th<ie Sordoni Art Gallery until December 15th. ----- VISUAL------ | ! LIT E R A C Y A postcard featuring Coleridge and-/Uba- j tross by Chad Stanley ) 18 The 1 out of Kirby nies earned w (a difficult taj to find an em the clutter. W and went in s The s Fall became x last day of th his hand grab �c2 The Inkwell Volume 8 A Hunch About Hamill’s Hunches By the Editors e the 3ut her What happened? Where’s Hamill? Where are his Hunches? If you are a dedicated Inkwell reader, you know that sometimes, we need to reserve a spot to shame poor Dr. Hamill. But this time, we can’t even shame him.. .because we don’t know where he is! The last time we saw him, he was running out of Kirby Hall clutching his skullcap full of pen­ nies earned widi bad words. We rushed to his office (a difficult task since it’s located on the third floor) to find an empty ENG 397 swear jar thrown among die clutter. We picked it up, placed it on the shelf, and went in search our lost but fearless leader. The seasons changed. Summer became fall. Fall became winter, and then sort of summer again, then back to winter, and yet no Dr. Hamill. It wasn’t until the last day of the semester that we found him clutching a carton of melted ice cream in the Kirby Hall basement with his hand grabbing the emergency switch. We feared the worst: sugar shock. g and s “pretty ones at ies. f Dr. Hamill with the editors. A changed man, ) Y^ Alba- 19 �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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From Novice to Expert: Student to Authority in a Few Short Weeks In tliis Issh Club Updates Issue 3 By Patrick Klus 2 2 3 4 Freshmen Faces 5 Senior Spotlights 6 A Trip to the Morgan 12 Spring Writers Series 13 Kuhar’s Corner 14 Hamill’s Hunches 15 Dead Poets Angst 16 English 222 Review of DH Projects 18 Review of Austenland 19 The Rhetoric of Hockey 20 Contemporary Writers Update 20 Grad School Expectations 21 Math Counts 22 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature 22 Where in Kirby Contest 23 Gridmark Review 23 F. Scott Fitzgerald Crossword Puzzle 24 When students write papers, source material is often needed to form the root of an argument and back up what exactly it is the student is writing about. This idea seems to be in some ways the basis for all student writing, but this concept seemed to change for a group of students this semester. In Dr. Hamill’s Fall 2013 ENG V 397: Technologies of the Book seminar, the class took on a month long project of transcribing and editing manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales in order to form our own edition of the Canterbury Tales. Because ENG 397 is a Digital Humanities designated class, each group Photo Courtesy of Dr. Thomas Hamill accessed digitalized copies of Canterbury Tales manuscripts to work with directly. At first, the work that we were accomplishing seemed like tedious busy-work, but then each group had to begin making editorial decisions. This decision making process signaled a change from not only student author to editor, but also student to expert. Through the close work with the manuscripts, each group had become an authority on the text that the group was working with, and did not need the ideas of another author or writer to validate our own decisions in regards to editing the text. Each individual editorial group was able to make the decisions that each group wanted, and these unique decisions allowed each group to tailor their version of the text to any audience that they had chosen. When an editorial decision was made by the group, the group did not have to seek out sources that would back up their ideas. The group was simply allowed to edit the text as they chose. In some cases—such as spelling—a modernized spelling of a word would appear in a later manuscript, and would be an example to follow in the final copy of the group’s edited text. In other cases, words were modernized without any examples in any other manuscripts, but this decision was okay. Making a decision without the “approval” of an authoritative voice was okay because each group had immersed themselves in the work enough that each editorial group had become an expert on the specific section of the text that was chosen for the project. This authority provided not only a sense of comfort in that the editorial teams would not have to justify every editorial move they made with that of another authoritative figure, but it also conjured up a sense of uneasiness. As students, the individuals in the groups had always learned to back up claims made with information from the text, as well to integrate the voice of experts to help validate the claims that were being made. When looking for the aid of an expert was no longer required, a Pat demonstrating features of the sense of uneasiness began to set it. Each individual and Technologies of the Book website he group had turned the corner and were no longer just in ENG 397 (using wix.com) students writing papers for class; the students had become created last semester with Melissa Thome and editors who had become the authoritative voice that was so John Carroll. Photo Courtesy of Dr. Thomas Hamill often looked for in other assignments. tai L. Dig talS.ud ■ 1 �The Inkwell ( The Inkwell Quarterly Faculty Updates Issue 3 Volume 8 BOOK . Dr. Sean Kelly presented his paper, “"Shaming Sympathy: Hester Prynne's Radical Ethics in The Scarlet Letter," a paper which examines how Hawthorne's representation of Hester Prynne's affair and her later transformation into a "self-ordained Sister of Mercy" can be viewed as a nuanced critique of Governor John Winthrop's moral theory, at the February Faculty Forum in the Cohen Science Center on Friday, February 21, 2014- „ . , ... Dr. Kelly is also chairing a panel at NeMLA in Harrisburg, PA, April 3-6. The panel is called: "Figurations of Solitude and Loneliness in American Literature." • Mr. Jack Grier is spending the semester relaxing in Florida. He will return to Wilkes in the fall to teach English 393= The Teaching of English. • Dr. Marcia Farrell was awarded a sabbatical for the Fall 2014 semester. Dr. Farrell will be working on her project, Unraveling the Bonds between Catharsis and Fiber Arts: An Examination of Stitching Culture in Dr. Kelly answers questions from Drs. Mischelle Anthony and Helen Davis as Interim Provost Terri Wignot looks on at Contemporary Literature , which looks at the connection between grief and knitting, quilting, embroidery, and the Faculty Forum on Friday, February 21. crochet circles within literature. Photo Courtesy of Dr. Marcia Farrell Club Updates By Stephen Seibert The 2014 Spring Semester is in full swing and so are the clubs on campus! The Wilkes Ultimate Frisbee team has been holding practices since the first week back and has plans in motion for several possible tournaments this spring. The first possibility falls on the second Saturday of Spring Break, and will be an indoor 5-on-5 tournament held at Binghamton University. The Wilkes Team is also planning to host a tournament on Saturday April 5, to be held at Ralston. To finish the season they hope to attend the USA Ultimate tournament for all registered teams, pending the selected date. Sigma Tau Delta is back in business with arrangements to donate proceeds from their fall semester bake sale to the Magnolia Project. The group will also be returning to the United Hebrew Institute in Wilkes-Barre to assist students with their short stories for a creative writing assignment. Sigma Tau Delta will be assisting the students at some time in early March. The Writing Center is back in business, reporting a successful fall semester of over 550 consultations and an “Exemplary level of client satisfaction,” according to the Director Dr. Chad Stanley. The Center will be continuing the Writing Mentor Program and is offering ENG 190 credit for work in the Writing Center and/or the Online Writing Center. Be Mine: Wilkes Celebrates V-Day and Manuscript’s Anti­ Valentine’s Day Reading By Dr. Ka Doo Inf “historical fi Twist, Prate elderly Jewi traveled ma; jewelry. The compass. Inst makes an he hoping to fii lottery. The any jewelry found, in wl by without c Pratchett’s i Pral fountains in by two ruffi; girl who has Henry May! invite him t( to the kitche Thu foreign amb learned to d Aty] Dodger, at 1 the London Dickens’ no1 among thos pioneering s Thii Dodger regs realities of . assuming th harm's way unresolved, the truth, sc Sin* reign by bri Joseph Baz; He also has Morpork or and even a1 ,. °" F'b.rua,y The[Manuscript Society held its annual Anti-Valentine's Day/Winter Sucks readmg rn the Kirby Salon, provrdmg laughter and snacks. 1111 VdieiluIlc b ' Ifyou havei any Club or organizational updates that you would like to see included in the upcoming issue of fQ or ifyou would like to join our staff or enroll in English 190 A please email Kendra Kuhar (Kendra.kuahr@wilkes.edu) or Dr. Farrell (Marda fa mW eilkes.edu). Si �Issue 3 . “"01 > onaming •S in The Scarlet ivthorne’s nd her later :r of Mercy" can "tor John Faculty Forum ibruary 21, it NeMLAin ailed: 1 American -ster relaxing in U to teach abbatical for working on her tharsis and ilture in he connection ridery, and Frisbee team nts this spring, held at held at nding the ter bake sale i assist dents at some ions and an ntinuing the Vriting jal Vagina Those arah isham, Volume 8 By Dr. : Pratchett’s Dodger—Echoes of Dickens Dodger by Terry Pratchett, Harper Collins, 2012 373 PP- paperback $9.99 “historical fantnsv” Pratchett takes a break from the Discworld novels that made him famous to write a Twist, Pratchett’s r>S<a m Y’ctor’an London. While his title character is an echo of the Artful Dodger of Dickens’ Oliver elderly Jewish m 1 ^VeS 'n cIu’,te different circumstances. Though Pratchett’s orphan lives in an attic with an traveled master ankt le eharacter goes home not to a criminal mastermind but to Solomon, a respected, widelyjewelry. The old CrattSman W^° rePa’rs ar*d replicates people’s treasured possessions - like watches, music boxes, and compass man encourages Dodger to eat balanced meals, bathe regularly, and learn to live by Solomon’s moral makes an1}!^3^ °/.Prac^c’n8 the robbery and pickpocket skills he learned in his early life, seventeen-year-old Dodger hoping to fi° jeSti 1V’n® as a tosher, someone who combs the London sewers after a storm looking for the sparkle of gold, lottery Th 3 ar^e con8eafed mass of mud and gold known as a tosheroon, the tosher’s equivalent of hitting the any iewel 61 HI^S cojns Dodger finds in the sewers provide for his modest needs. Solomon, a famous haggler, sells found ' vOrne businessmen of his acquaintance, unless he hears that someone has lost an item that Dodger has bv with13 W1 lc” case> Dodger returns it to the owner. Although they live on the edge of poverty, the pair manages to get Pr t h tt* ?ornProrn^s^n8 Solomon’s conscience. In spite of the differences from his famous namesake, Dodger is a c e t s irreverent nod to Dickens who appears as an important character in the novel. Pratchett’s rag- to-riches romp begins in a soaking downpour on a London street with the gutters gushing oun ams into the already flooded street. Dodger hears a scream as a young woman bursts out of a fancy coach pursued /1 o ruffians who grab her and try to return her to it by force. Dodger springs into action, deftly disabling the men. The girl who has been badly beaten implores his help in her escape. Before he can reply, Charlie Dickens and his friend, Henry Mayhew, happen along and tell the girl to come with them. Dodger objects, suspecting their motives, and they invite him to follow them to see that she is not mistreated. At Mayhew’s home, his wife sees to the girl and sends Dodger to the kitchen for something to eat. Thus begins a grand adventure that winds through the streets and sewers of London, among rich and poor, foreign ambassadors, trained assassins, and spies. Along the way, Dodger uses every bit of wile and craft he has ever learned to defeat the villains, protect the girl, and bring all things to a happy conclusion. Atypically for Pratchett, the irreverent humor that makes a Discworld novel such a joy to read is largely absent in Dodger, at least in part because the book is inspired by the work of the real Henry Mayhew whose London Labour and the London Poor gave well-to-do English men and women a new perspective on how the other half lived and died. Like Dickens’ novels, Mayhew’s statistical work helped to improve the lot of the poorest in London by raising awareness among those in a position to help. Pratchett dedicates his work to Mayhew and in an epilog recommends Mayhew’s pioneering sociological tome in glowing terms. This hero worship in Pratchett’s own voice seems ironic, however, when contrasted with Dodger’s assessment. Dodger regards the Mayhews as good-hearted people whose strict middle-class world view blinds them to the messy realities of life and the gritty choices that members of the lower classes make to survive. They name the girl “Simplicity’ assuming that the beating had affected her memory when, in reality, Simplicity decided that the couple would be in harm’s way were her true identity known. The two views of Mayhew are presented side by side, the dichotomy unresolved. On the other hand, Dodger regards Charlie Dickens as a “dangerous cove” who sees through his pretenses to the truth, someone more savvy than Mayhew. Pratchett’s single-minded admiration of the novelist is quite clear. Since Dodger is a fantasy, Pratchett has no compunction about taking liberties with the first quarter of Victoria’s reign by bringing Dodger into contact with, among others, Dickens, Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel, Tinnel of Punch fame, Joseph Bazalgette who re-engineered the London sewers, Sweeny Todd, and the famous heiress Angela Burdett-Coutts. He also has some fun with Victorian coinage and slang. Pratchett’s strength as a writer is his ability to make AnkhMornork or Victorian London seem familiar and to make characters like witches and wizards, the incarnation of death, and even a Victorian sociologist memorable and as believable as anyone the reader might encounter on the quad. The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Faculty Achisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell Sucks Editor-in-chief: Kendra Kuhar Senior Copy Editor: Ciena Humphrc) jpeoming Kendra Issue 3 Stall' Writers: Alyssa Daniels. I'ara (liarrantano, Charlie Hanford. Pal Kins. Matt Koip. and Stephen Seibert Faculty Contributors: Di. Kalhie Kemmerer, Dr. Earn Kuhar, and Dr. I homas A. Hamill Guest Alumni Writers David Cook and Matthew Kogoy Guest Contributors: Fhe students in English 222 3 �Volume 8 Issue 3 The Inkwell Qu - ----- --------------------------- Puzzle Bianca Sabia: An Important Piece Freshmer By Alyssa Daniel I Tara Gian There are many features of Wilkes University that are often praised. Whether it be the various programs and opportunelie■ Wilkes offers, or the conveniently small campus and friendlys Wilkes University has continuously been viewed in positive llg ’ utor t0 that attracts hundreds of new students each yeai. A major co Wilkes University’s success over the years is its faculty in each „ department. Equipped with a highly educated, professional, and mm faculty, Wilkes University creates a positive learning environment guarantees students a well-rounded education. . „ . . English professor and former Wilkes’ graduate, Bianca »an , is another important piece to the puzzle that is .Wilkes University, s. Sabia graduated Wilkes in 2010 with a bachelor degree in English witn a focus in writing and a minor concentration in women’s studies. It was not until her sophomore year at Wilkes that Ms. Sabia realized her passion for English. Fully aware of her love for writing, Ms. Sabia originally entered Wilkes as a communications major with a focus in journalism; however, during her sophomore year at Wilkes that Ms.Sabia realized her passion for English. She was inspired to change her major after her freshman English class taught by Mr. Jack Grier, another Wilkes’ University English instructor. She says, “I remember sitting there and looking up at him thinking ‘God, I would love to do that, I would love to teach English! I would love to move people the way that he does when we talk about essays!”’ As a first step in pursuing this dream, Ms. Sabia occupied her time in the Wilkes University writing center, located in the basement of the Farley Library, where she assisted struggling students with their ■writing. This part-time work study job was only the beginning of her academic journey. Upon leaving Wilkes, Ms. Sabia presented her senior capstone on a topic she felt passionate about and would later incorporate into her career as an English professor: The Teaching of Composition in the College Setting. She expands on this idea in her master’s thesis in which she discusses and concentrates on how to alleviate freshman composition fear in order to get first-year students to start thinking about themselves as writers who are capable of producing nicely written material. A year and a half after graduating from Wilkes (2011), Ms. Sabia achieved a Master’s degree in English with a focus in composition, from Arcadia University. Her time spent at Arcadia University also included working in the writing center, y the time she graduated, she had become the student director of the writing center. Ms. Sabia continued to gain experience by participating in the University’s Gateway program: a program for under-privileged first-generation college students that are accepted into Arcadia. Not surprisingly, Ms. Sabia worked in that program’s writing center too: “I was the students writing prompts and helped them with their writing. I also was a T.A (teaching assistant) tor the composition class for that program.” R and professional miring tutor. More recently, this past summit £ s I 3 fr®s^man “'"P™ll°" c J85,“st™C‘°r Bound program in which she now teaches an advanced composition d!? T?tUtOr counselor for Wilkes Upward Determined to achieve her goals, Ms. Sabia jumped straight fr “5 als° a topics and hterature c°uLrse', . still persistent, Ms. Sabia continues to challenge herself to achieve 1 f °m C° ege lnto graduate school. With her drive composition and rhetoric...my goal one day is to run mv own wriH S°als' She says’ “Z want to get a PhD' in , • • preparing herself to achieve this goal by gathering as much teach' progr.ain at a University.” As of now, Ms. Sabia is an occupation that she hopes to spend the rest of her life in mg exper^ence as possible in order to pave the way for Registration Reminders: Pre-registration beain. h advisor to select courses for the fall. s ns the Wet'k of March 10. Please see your Those planning to graduate in December, don’t forget u m advisor during pre-Registration. 6 10 T1H out the Graduation Audit with your I The Inkwe memb( Romanish then A The Please send a q (Marcia.fa ( 1. 2. What nam 3. Do you ha1 name? 4. Whoisyot 5. What fall to taking? Coming i You Know the N In our next issue Morgan Kirby Did you know... In Historic Land Ronald Andrews ceremony pertor Kirby Hall. The r Dennison, a hei Elizabeth. —by Pa* ^us 4 �3 QUartcr]y Thc Volume 8 Issue 3 Freshman T? " " ' aces* Meet the English Department’s First-year Majors I^2*arrantano Rachel Rakowski What nickname do you prefer to go by? n/a Who is your favorite author? Sidney Sheldon What is your least favorite holiday? Valentine’s Day Which literary character would you name your pet after? Mr. Darcy What nickname do you prefer to go by? n/a Who is your favorite author? Either J. R. R. Tolkien or George R. R. Martin What is your least favorite holiday? Valentine’s Day Which literary character would you name your pet after? Mephistopheles, from Dr. Fautus and the musical Cats Photo Courtesy of Tara Giarrantano P 1 r 1 Jacob Mensinger Quarterly welcomes all of our newest ^7e mei?rers °f the program, including April an*shan and Josephine Latimer, and wish them luck as we enter midterm week! What nickname do you prefer to go by? None. Who is your favorite Attentions Sophomores: author? Lacking a strict The Inkwell Quarterly would like to favorite, I strongly . feature YOU in issue 4. enjoy Thomas Pynchon, lease send a photo and your responses to the following Tennyson for poetry, and I favor a number of question to either Dr. Farrell contemporary authors. (Marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu) or Kendra Kuhar What is your least favorite (Kendra.kuhar@wilkes.edu): holiday? Halloween Which literary character 2. What name would you prefer to be known as? would you name your pet 3. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and what is its after? Not 'literary' in the name? strictest sense, but I might Photo Courtesy of Jacob 4. Who is your LEAST favorite author? name a cat "Orpheus," after Mensinger the hero from Greek Myth. 5. What fall course are you most looking forward di to taking? Coming in the next issue... You Know the Name, but Do You Know the Man? In our next issue, get to know the man that called our home his home, Fred Morgan Kirby. F* Historic Landmarks on the Wilkes Campus, written by Wilkes alumnus p Id Andrews, historian Charles Miner recorded that the first marriage K°na onv performed in the Wyoming Valley took place on the future site of c^r®m jl <rhe marriage occurred on April 1,1769 and was between Nathan Dennison a hero in the Wyoming Massacre, and Jabez Sill's daughter, Elizabeth. -by Pat Klus 5 R �Volume 8 The Ink\ The Inkwell Quarterly Mira __________ _____— Senior Spotlights By Charlie Hanford____________________________ What is Literal Integrs Literal M^or^'m an English and Philosophy double m^jor. Po^ahoap^ sample and my grad senou pf needed break from education. What ai Miraru extren membi What w Gabby, Englisl Anthoi and Dr recogn includi Kuhar Dr. Davis and Studies in Romantic Literature, and Dr. Farrell and Studies in the English Novel. Where I'm from: Originally from Avoca, PA Involved in: I've written some articles for Inkwell, had my work included in The Manuscript and been a member of The Manuscript Society on and off for the past four years. I've been in Wilkes University Gay-Straight Alliance for four years and served as president of that club for two years, as well. Whatai pair m circles Free time: I read lots of genre fiction. What d( Favorite memory: Too many to count. Way too many to count. It's been a great four years. mSdng^lLd never letyowsdfbeXJwh^ Photo Courtesy of John Carroll there/s ^ways something you can do. Keep on friends when you need them. Taking an focomplete/s ah^ l°ask for f°F help; hel°: don d°n’’t* be he afraid afraid to to lean le® ------ jo most never a good idea. Jamie Alderiso What is your major/minor? English/ Theater Arts What are your plans after graduation? Graduate School Drama MthDr?Stanley C^ass/Pr°fessor? Currently, American Where are you from? Bethlehem, PA hat are you involved with at Wilkes? ivr v i winces? Making plays. Revision shows/0 “ free time? 1 love to read, run, watch god was every momentmemOIy y°U>Ve had at Wilkes? My favorite memory What is th undedry°Ur themost? llT64 While at Wilkes that has t0UCh®i broader Km ^ng of what it C°me awaY ^om Wilkes with a b« man being S What 11 m^ns to be a critical viewer, and a bettu Photos ( �The Inkwell Quarterly Volume 8 Issue 3 Miranda B Literature major with a minor in Professional Writing. What aic your plans after graduation? After graduation, Miranda and Gabby will create a company that builds ex erne tree houses and probably marry sibling members of a ska band. What was your favorite English class/professor? Although Gabby, and Miranda love all of the professors in the English department, they have grown the closest to Dr. Anthony (MA), Dr. Hamill (D.Ham), Dr. Kelly (D. Kells), and Dr. Kuhar (Dr. Kuhar). They would like to bring recognition to those remaining in the Kirby bird nest including Sarah Simonovich, Victoria Rendina, Kendra Kuhar, and Cierra Humphrey. What are you involved with at Wilkes? Together, they run the Manuscript Society Jail Delta. The pair met in Dr. Anthony’s 201 class and bonded over costumes and running arounfl wi y circles. ‘ ’ Ou 1 e to do in your free time? One of their favorite things to do at Wilkes is playing music around campus, specifically in the Kirby yard and on the top of the parking garage. They specialize in stringed instruments and kazoos. What is your favorite memory you’ve had at Wilkes? Gabby says, “There are way too many memories at Wilkes to choose a favorite, but over the years the best memories I've had are the ones I've made with my best friends, Miranda Baur and Kendra Kuhar. We always have fun and laugh whenever we're together. One time Kendra and I were eating grapes and I took one, put in my mouth, and put it back in the bag. I don't know why I did it, but I know that we we're dying laughing about it in the library. Miranda and I always go on adventures together. She's my right hand man, the Gilligan to my Skipper (Literally. She calls me Skipper and I call her Gilligan). We enjoy skipping rocks by the river and playing instruments on the roof of the parking garage. Hanging out with those two has made my time at Wilkes really fun.” What is the one thing you learned while at Wilkes that has touched and impacted your life the most? A lesson that Miranda and Gabby learned at Wilkes is to accept changes with optimism and to always maintain an honest identity. er Photos Courtesy of Gabby Zawacki and Miranda Baur Continued on page 8 7 �Issue 3 Volume 8 The Inkwell (J The Inkwell Quarterly Alyssa E “Senior Spotlights,” Continuedfrompag^------ ------------------------------------------------- Ellen Riley What are your plana after graduation? To figure out what's next. Hamill. Where are you from? Mt. Airy, Maryland What are you involved with at Wilkes? Vice President of Autism Speaks U Wilkes University, Secretary of Off-Campus Council What do you like to do in your free time? Am I allowed to say "Netflix and beer"? What is your favorite memory you’ve had at Wilkes? The never-ending Technologies of the Book editing project. Photo Courtesy of Ellen Riley What is the one thing you learned while at Wilkes that has touched and impacted your life the most? Over the past four years, I've learned that it's okay to be unsure about my future. As a freshman, I had no idea what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and as a graduating senior, I still have no idea. The only difference is that I'm no longer afraid of what's to come, and I'm okay with taking the time to figure it out. I am so appreciative of everyone who has helped me reach this point. Katie Carton What is your major/minor? ENGLISH MAJOR, SECONDARY EDUCATION MINOR What are your plans after graduation? GET A JOB AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER AND TRAVEL What was your favorite English class/professor? MY FAVORITE CLASS WAS DR. HAMILL’S TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BOOK A. < Where are you from? TYLER HILL, PENNSYLVANIA >■ > ■ • Catelyn S What is your n and women; '4 I Photo Courtesy Alyssa Daniel - ___ Photo Courtesy of Katie Carton GO BACKPACKING | What are you involved with at Wilkes? THE CLIMBING CLUB, THE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CLUB, SIGMA TAU DELTA, KAPPA DELTA PHI, AND THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY What do you like to do in your free time? I LIKE TO ROCK CLIMB AND ICE CLIMB, CLIMB MOUNTAINS AND What are your teaching higl What was your there wasn't enjoy, Dr. Ar favorites bee me to commi Dr. Hamill ai Where are you What are you ii teaching higl What do you lil Government Autism Spea Sigma TauD my awesome What is your ft my awesome FRIENDS, «>NCASyouJ^J PUSHINC n'™" lifethe tnost? THAT EVEN WHEN YOU^SXusSS^™ THE HELP 0F What is the on be confident to be a strori �Thc Inkwell QUWer]y Volume 8 Issue 3 Alyssa Daniel What is your major/minor? English with a minor in secondary ed. hat aie youi plans after graduation? to teach and eventually go to graduate school. mv^i?,aS y°U1 'avor'te English class/professor? My favorite English class that I've had is profess™ enS 366 American drama class with Dr. Stanley. I don't have a favorite Where are you from? I'm from Mt. Pocono, PA. What are you involved with at Wilkes? I'm involved with MSC and more recently the Inkwell Quarterly magazine. What do you like to do in your free time? In my free time I like to eat, dance, read, and hang with friends. What is your favorite memory you’ve had at Wilkes? My favorite memory at Wilkes was winning the talent show with my two good friends, Jackie and Adrienne. had The Photo Courtesy of Alyssa Daniel What is the one thing you learned while at Wilkes that has touched and impacted your life the most? My entire college journey since my decision to major in English n education has impacted my life completely. I can now see my future, whereas freshman year I was LOST. I fee 1 like I have made the right decision. Catelyn Sofio What is your major/minor? English secondary education and women and gender studies. What are your plans after graduation? Finding a job teaching high school English. SAN What was your favorite English class/professor? While there wasn't an English class I took that I didn't enjoy, Dr. Anthony's ENG 201 class was one of my favorites because it was the class to finally pushed me to commit to being an English major. Also, I love Dr. Hamill and his voice. •JIA Where are you from? Exton, PA ;ma What are you involved with at Wilkes? Finding a job teaching high school English. LOCK AND What do you like to do in your free time? Student Government, Off-Campus Council, Eduction Club, Autism Speaks U Wilkes University, Alpha Chi, Photo Courtesy of Catelyn Sofio Sigma Tau Delta, Kappa Delta Pi. I hang out with my awesome friend, Charlie Hanford- the one with the hair. FF, HEN What ,S the be confidentLginteacher and this has both touched me and will stay 4th meforever to be a stront“ 9 howto Continued on page 10 �Volume 8 The Inkwell Quartei'b The Inkwell Qua continued from page 8 “Senior Spotlights, Con __ . Elizabeth Pat Klus What is your major/minor? English wr’ ’ g What are your plans after graduation? Enter the job market. What was your favorite English class/professor? I think every English Professor and class has influenced me in some way; all of the classes and professors bring a unique experience. Where are you from? Kingston, PA What are you involved with at Wilkes? Chorus, Chamber Singers, Jazz Band, History Club and Inkwell. What do you like to do in your free time? I like to golf. A lot. What is your favorite memory you’ve had at Wilkes? I was able pr^nJ 0101 t ie Brahm's Requiem with the NEPA ilharmonic with the chorus in the Spring of 2012 Photo Courtesy of Pat Klus Annie Yoskoski What is your major/minor? Double major in English iterature and Communications, two tracks in COM— Rhetoric and Public Relations, minor in History What are your plans after graduation? Accepted into Law School for this fall class was ShaV«°r^e class/professor? My favorite nakespeare with Dr. Starner. Membe/of Zebr^iT111 WiIkes? Executive Board Writing Mentor r Mana«inS Editor of The Beacon, Wilkes Marketing DernShipS Etruscan Press What your fay0 >tt r^emoiy you’ve had at Wilkes? Presented theisMoravian Render Studies r n“ergrad conference, Women and Association °nference, and College Media Photo Court far morendJ^pacted^ ^earned while at Wilkes that has e^Sdth hfe the most? 1 got to experience ^^ner^^rest?^1 ever though?I would. I got to really enin d karn ah tend conferences with Dr. yed rny time'll aP asPects of literature. I Photo Courtesy i Melissa What is your What are you What was yo vorite class Where are y< What are yoi Club What do yoi What is you with frieni �sue 3 The Inkwcll Quarterly Volume <8 Issue 3 Elizabeth Bollman What is your major/minors? Majors: English and Spanish Minors: Secondary Education and Women and Gender Studies What are your plans after graduation? I planto teach and travel (hopefully I'll be able to do both at once.) What was your favorite English class/professor? English 101 with Mr. Grier. His encouragement lead me to switch to a major in English and I thank him so much for this. Where are you from? Beachwood, NJ What are you involved with at Wilkes? Education Club President and Spanish Club Vice President What do you like to do in your free time? Free time? I'm not familiar with this phrase... but I'll shake my groove thang every chance I get. What is your favorite memory you’ve had at Wilkes? I will never forget the great times I've had with my best friends. The adventures that we had while getting to know each other and the fun times we've had in 1290 will always be my favorite memories from Wilkes. What is the one thing you learned while at Wilkes that has touched and impacted your life the most? Stop doubting yourself! Go out there and DO IT! Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth Dollman Melissa Thorne What is your major/minor? English What are your plans after graduation? Find a job somewhere What was your favorite English class/professor? I don't have a fa­ vorite class/ Dr. Stanley Where are you from? I'm originally from Queens, New York d What are you involved with at Wilkes? Manuscript and History Club What do you like to do in your free time? Watch TV What is your favorite memory you’ve had at Wilkes? Hanging out with friends 5 Photo Courtesy of Melissa Thorne Continued on page 12 11 �Issue 3 Volume 8 The Inkwell Q The Inkwell Quaffed ---------- - English “Senior Spotlights,” Continued neratulate all of our soon-to-be By Patrick This Allo doled for Saturday, May 17, 2014, at 3pni in the Commencement is sche Marts Center. A Trip to The Morgan Library and Museum By Kendra Kuhar At the beginning of January, Dr. Hamill’s senior seminar ^nolos-of the Book”, traveled to The Morgan Library and Museum in New York Qty After donating his father’s library collection to the public in 1924, J.P. Morgan, Jr. began the jour­ ney of purchasing additional rare books, manu­ scripts, drawings and other ancient artifacts composing the attraction. The rare holdings relevant to Dr. Hamill’s class are an early ma­ nuscript (MS) of the of The Canterbury Tale (Mg), and a manuscript of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Furthermore, the library contains a number of prominent manuscripts of works by Chaucer's contemporaries, as well as The First Folio of Shakespeare and a number of Shakespeare quartos. The museum and library maintain the appeal of the museum to the public in contem­ Photo Courtesy of Kendra Kuhaj porary society by holding programs, -j------& weekend - ------- - p^giauiB, Morgan help special exhibits, and sponsored activities. Such events presented by in Edition to toZendally liven ’^oiie^on^ to essentially liven the collection and bring a diverse audience to visit, n a manuscript 1 the den^ anUSCrlpt viewing viewin8 and and the the normal normal collection collection of of the the museum, museum, Dr. Dr. Hain Hamill s stu Photo Courtesy of Kendra Kuhar J Allen p'oT 3 S° SUbjeCt t0 a SpeCial exhibit Pertaining to the life work of writer Edg Pictured are Catelyn Sophio, Ellen Riley, and Dr. John McQuillen, examining Caxton's 2nd Edition of the Canterbury Tales (c.1483); Gabby Zawacki, Kendra Kuhar, and Miranda Baur examine the Pierpont Morgan Library MS M 24a fa mid-i5th century MS of the Canterbury Tales the last leaf of which also contains an additional ’ fragment of the Pardoner's Tale). Photo Courtesy of Dr. Thomas Hamill Dr. Mischelli Daniels read February 20 Photo Court Curt Smit Cu Smith has well as twc Sn Stories Dii Writing Hi http://ww Josh We J( collection One Ston A from The the Natio and the B http://wi �The Inkwell Quarterly Volume 8 Issue 3 By’1’:n lnient Presents: Spring Writers Series reand the All of the Writers Series, sponsored by the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund, will feature three writers. J^111 Present their work on their respective dates at 7 p.m. in the Kirby Salon. I’ll Dr. Mischelle Anthony with Professor Jim Daniels. Daniels read to a full house during his visit to Wilkes on February 20. Photo Courtesy of Dr. Farrell Jim Daniels: Thursday, February 20th Jim Daniels has been a creative writing professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 1981. Daniels’ writing and research focuses around poetry, fiction and screenwriting. The most recent works that Daniels has had published are Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, and All of the Above, collections of poetry, and a short fiction, Trigger Man. Daniels has been awarded: the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Daniels’ has also had his poetry appear in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. http://www.cmu.edu/hss/english/people/faculty/bios/jimdaniels.html Curt Smith: Wednesday, March 26th Curt Smith is the author of three novels: An Unadorned Life, Sound and Noise, and Truth or Something Like It. Smith has also released two flash fiction collections, Placing Ourselves Among the Living and In the Jukebox Light, as well as two story collections, The Species Crown and Bad Monkey. Smith’s latest book, Witness, is a collection of essays. Smith’s work has appeared in over seventy literary journals and has been named to the Best American Short Stories Distinguished Stories List, The Best American Mystery Stories Distinguished Stories List, and the Notable Writing list of The Best American Spiritual Writing. http://www.curtisjsmith.com/about.html irgan help dition to ill’s stuter Edgar Josh Weil: Thursday, April 24th Josh Weil is the author of the novel, The Great Glass Sea, which will be released in July 2014, and the novella collection The New Valley, which was published in 2009. Weil has had other fiction appear in Granta, Esquire, Agni and One Story. Weil has also written nonfiction for The New York Times, The Sun, Oxford American and Poets & Writers. Accolades for The New Valley include a New York Times Editor’s Choice, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New Writers Award from the GLCA and a “5 under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. Weil has also received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. http://www.joshweil.com/www.joshweil.com/Biography.html All of the writers will appear at 7 p.m. in the Kirby Salon. Light refreshments will be served. Have information to share or an idea relating to English Studies? Contact Editor-in-Chief Kendra Kuhar (Kendra.kuhar@wilkes.edu) with details, or consider joining our staff. 13 �Issue 3 Kuhar’s Corner By Dr. Larry Kuhar “We Think; therefore, We Write: The Artistry of Writing and Rubber Cement” Do you consider yourself an “artist” when you write? Are you an “artist” when you’re writing an essay on Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow or a short story in a creative writing class based on an experience during a flood? Do you see yourself as an artist when you write an abstract of a scholarly article on “history” in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds? How about when you write an abstract of an article from a biology journal on I patterns of behavior displayed by squirrels hiding acorns? A screenplay or a poem? Answers to these questions tell us who we are as writers in our English program, why we are asked to write in so many different voices, and why it matters to see each writing act as a single scene or performance in a larger play or script that is under construction, so to speak. What does it mean to see ourselves as “an artist” when we write in the English program? To begin toward a response, let’s first consider the ideas of an important I Photo Courtesy of Desiree Wren literary critic and scholar and then let’s consider the ideas of my fifth grade teach, I------------------ —— ---------------------- Sister Mathias. In American author and critic John Barth’s 1967 groundbreaking essay “The Literature of Exhaustion,” Barth points out that much literature and art is doing away with “the most traditional notion of the artist” (65). Though written nearly 50 years ago, Barth’s essay focuses us on an important concept that we need to consider when we see ourselves as writers and artists. It’s an idea that helps us understand how we go forward with our hopes (indeed, our need) to write as part of our lives as well as part of our careers. What does Barth mean by, “the most traditional notion of an artist”? Barth is referring to something we know about as writers. It’s about control, control of ideas, control of outcomes. We negotiate the concept - consciously or not - every time we put our fingers on a keyboard or press a pen to paper. It matters. It may matter more than anything for writers. (OK, a little strong... Let’s agree that it’s important, very important.) Barth’s idea about our authorial awareness of what we do when we write is something, as I said, we know about. It does not need to be taught. It’s an idea that critiques our efforts to control and to understand the features of an essay we are writing, the sound of a line in a poem we’re composing, and even the order of summarized ideas in an abstract we’re revising. Simply put, Barth’s concept focuses on the fact that, ‘We think; therefore, we write.’ , Barth s concept is important for us, I think, because it gets us to consider what we should be thinking about when we rewriting, when we re thinking of ourselves as writers, as artists. And it gets us to consider, maybe, what we should not be in ing about (or thinking about a little less) when we’re writing. 1 ut uet s 8et real. Can we really be thinking about ourselves as “artists” when we’re writing? Our awareness of enerfrJtn th- 1? rFtlst 1S’ apologies, a kind of dream world. It’s a dream world because it suggests that we have time and imnnrtant d ° as art” wden> in reality, we have three papers due over the next five days, two midterms, and other SoTew t,at imit,the time mailable for a contemplation of art and artistry. “Get it done,” seems more apt. we write an essavV^ ma^ng art when we write a paper in Introduction to Digital Humanities? Are we making art when ground” that seems to<by’ °r,aa abstract? Does it have to be one or the other: artist or not / art or not? Where’s the “middle Let’s not give them un wXC U > from the cLuestion? Why must it be one or the other? We can’t give up on our artistic hopes, militant and affirmed.’ Welre We ^an t give up’ We won’t give up. We can’t give up. OK, you get it: Feeling nil matters that we write’T hea hthPe ' the abilitYto confirm that we’re artists when we write, when we think about why it Hall. ' r the whispers about an ever-elusive Ivory Tower hidden inside the sealed-off dumbwaiter in Kirby with technique and cunning the ° tbe “traditional notion of an artist” as “the Aristotelian conscious agent who achieves and disciplined that endowmenHm effect;in otber words, one endowed with uncommon talent, who has moreover developed with this concept. But should we? ” Vlrtuosity” (65). And, let’s not forget, he’s saying that literature and art are doing away artilwt<’ understand why it mwtte^h^ &S under8raduate writers in an English program. It’s interesting because we’re we worko^17111810 gr°W Our understandin? Se^ourselves as artists even as the ground rules change for what it means to make a cm Well, you should - even if you’r ' uncommon talent” even as you’re aware- that .ino} 1 °wing entirely with Barth. You should see yourselves as “endowed with write. 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These were good guesses (great job!), but I’m afraid they only add up to most of my first 228 words. No. The proofs for my (and, for the most part, our) lapsed identities are legible across the usual cultural signifiers, the markers that at once signal fall and promise grace. While I have time and space (to borrow one of my favorite lines from Chaucer), and for the purposes of both, I’ll focus on only two such moments: a diptych, as it were (for those ENG 397.13F students reading this, and with a nod to Dr. Stanley’s recent—and brilliant—work). It all “started” with a kind of paradigm shift at home, a transition from a fairly steady and wonderfully predictable daily dose of two or three episodes of the wonderful Curious George (via PBS via YouTube) to a sudden (and somewhat unrelenting) interest in The Berenstain Bears (brought to us at the same Bat times and by way of the same Bat channels). Having obvious issues (remember: I am clearly post-lapsarian), I struggled with the change, primarily due to my love of the n-minute-and-6-second magic that is every George episode I’ve ever watched. (More on those in forthcoming Hunches, I’m sure.) Trying, sadly, one morning to wrap my head around some of the show’s basic principles, principles I should have already understood from the books, btw, I found myself on Wikipedia trying to understand in particular the logic behind Brother and Sister’s names (Brother and Sister). Were Stan and Jan Berenstain Quakers, I ignorantly wondered? Wikipedia (as usual) had a lot to say, even if not about my initial “research question.” Most problematic for me were the comments about the show’s reception, specifically the summative idea, stated in even harsher terms by individual critics, that the show was “saccharine and formulaic.” At first, I was deeply concerned about where we were headed and, by extension, about Grace’s development. I mean, George was in no way saccharine and formulaic; on the grounds of the show’s music/scoring and the character of Chef Pisghetti alone we were safe. What would happen if we lost those incisive narrative structures to mere sugary ones? I’m ashamed to admit I tried to deflect things back to Curious George for a while, even as I began to realize (as Gracie had long understood) that Bear Country was a pretty cool place. This fact is perhaps no more apparent than in the show’s theme song, which I discovered somewhat belatedly. Written and performed by Leann Womack (according to pbskinds.org), the song is, as anyone who’s spoken to me this semester knows, perfect. (FYI, Wikipedia credits Stan Meissner for penning the lyrics.) For those who’ve not yet heard, here’s the opening verse: lake ng Somewhere deep in Bear Country Live the Berenstain Bear Family They’re kinda furry around the torso Their a lot like people only more so ieet Ives e Right Their a lot like people only more so. The allegories of hope available in this line are perhaps too rich and too numerous to mention here, and the ironized and self-refractive critique of the anthropomorphized sense of superiority presumed by the first half of the (wonderfully) incomplete comparative structure is almost too much to handle. Wow.... And, as if this were not enough, the second chorus lays everything else bare: e 22 15 Continued on page 16 __________ ________ �Volume 8 I I Issue ,3 The Inkwell Quarterly The Inkwell Qi “Hunches” Continued from page 15 “Dead Poets,” coi The bear fact is that They can be sweet ashoney Sometimes you ll find _ They might be just plain funny . Rears’ “Reception,” and the “Criticism” thereto appertaining, Womack (or Meissner) seemingly No doubt aware oi t e decry sugary tones of the show’s packaged forms, even affirming their absolutes winks a knowing van within the modifier-noun pun, any such fact, is more obviously, in Womack’s delivery, in the/act of it a . ^ended middle-finger #%*A you! at those same critics, the unknowing frauds who in their pathowhat I envision as a ntrjes of self just don’t get it, just don’t understand the basics (and the established myths) of logical too course they veer toward the “saccharine” honey; they’re bears (and sometimes—hello!—they might bears an on^y. song) foe show, exposes all who fail to see the instructive directional trajectories of empathy at work in the Berenstain Bears’ most basic and necessarily human and anthropomorphic logics: They’re a lot hkepeop/e^on literature, in other words, the show and the song have things to tell us about ourselves and about the worlds around us. If we listen. Which brings me to the second post-lapsarian proof, which, as is now plainly clear, can be explained via Milton and more PBS children’s programming. Equally apparent, is the bear fact that such exegeses will have to wait until the next IQ issue. So.... Well.... Tobe continued.... The Academic Angst over Dead Poets Society By Dr. Marcia Farrell On February 19,2014, The Atlantic Weir’X’sg cult classic, Dead Poetsjoof ciefy* Professor English and Chair at Pomona College, that explains Dettmar s hatred of Peter poets Society (Dettm J * fantastic Joycean), and because I do use Dead Poets Society as a corewatched tfie film for: the English teacher. Much later, though, I began to question the nim an exclusive all-boy boarding school in New England who encounter by Robin Williams, who introduces them to the beauty of hteratare, and Shakespeare. 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Furth Transcende to an extern foundation; life-changii B°lis, and 1 Wf all moon-e? stereotypes exist in our clearly defi categorical So. upper-mid hut becaus' hattie on tl and as sue! �Issue 3 'Hie Inkwell Quarterly Volume 8 Issue 3 “Dead Poets, ” continued from page 16 humanities pedagogy and scholarship, it does'^X^^^ Singly Absolutes eliveiy, Jeir pathoa niyths) of ey might -ctories of y’re a lot dabout and more ext/Q nd Chair Dettmar nar diat he not of the )f >rs at played itics , Dr. n test eision /al to )le y— dety, e of >ur the ecasioml enrlx at *16 cuilent f°cus on STEM disciplines and the general public’s ° ir inabilitv tn hP expe;nse °fthose of us in the Humanities (that usually revolve around !i PP nf mXlPar mployable~funny- I’ve NEVER been without a job since college, and all three of i y degrees are in English literature. I’ll add for clarity that I have an excellent credit SCOfnrc ran mort§age and car payment, very little debt-how many non-Humanities majors can say mat. J, Dettmar’s concerns are real. He uses the example of Keating’s misreading and misdirection to the oys regar ing o ert Frost s famous “The Road Not Taken,” which if you read the entire poem closely, reveals that Frost s narrator did not, in fact, strike out in individual glory but is somewhat wistfully sad about not having the opportunity to take the other road which was, actually, “worn about the same” (Frost). As Dettmar asserts, true literary stu y an wor within the Humanities is not the fluff and flowery emo-grasping of literature as though it’s a Cadbury egg at Easter. Literary study is hard, as it makes available our ability to encounter the other (both lower case and upper case) —somet ing that is central to the healthy functioning of all professional and social relationships. (Take that, all you nay­ sayers!). Dettmar even points out new studies in neuroscience that “suggest what English teachers have long known: that the power of literature is the power of alterity, creating the possibility of encountering the other in a form not easily recuperable, not easily assimilable to the self. ‘Imaginative sympathy,’ we used to call it. To read literature well is to be challenged, and to emerge changed” (Dettmar). While I embrace Dettmar’s frustration with the fandom response to literature that lacks a critical eye, I still can’t help feeling a nostalgic comfort in Dead Poets Society. Granted, Dettmar saw it when he was in his final year of graduate study, and I first saw it when I was a pre-teen in braces. In spite of the misreadings and fandom, the core message of DPS—that the classroom can be an invigorating place, that literature is powerful as are the words we speak and write—is admirable. As is the spirit of faith in the Humanities (even though, as Dettmar points out, the rationale for defending the Humanities by Weir are skewed). While I understand Dettmar's cautions and frustrations at the lack of true criticism, close reading, and the classroom as a place of active critical engagement rather than a mutual admiration society, Dead Poets is a film. Can anyone truly portray the difficult work of literary criticism and scholarship in cinema? Doubtful. The type of deep scholarly work we do doesn't translate well for a lay audience (and, really, does the work of any discipline? I mean, yes, they can do a snazzy montage of sleep-deprived scientists in a lab pouring chemicals and lighting burners, but that doesn't show the real thinking that goes on). I am reminded of the adaptation of A. S. Byatt’s Possession with Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart from a few years ago where the characters read through the correspondence of the characters they study and only ever look for additional primary sources rather than consult any secondary source material, which is so very, very sad because Byatt’s book is much more accurate in terms of the work that we do. I cannot say that Dead Poets Society is entirely without value or is necessarily as dangerous as Dettmar asserts. I teach DPS in English 120 specifically as a way to talk about the dangers of misreading and half-reading because we read nearly all of the poems and essays and at least one of the plays mentioned in it. That way, together, the students and I have a way to delve a bit more deeply into the literature than the fanboy fantasies played out within the confines of Weir's tale. Furthermore, we can talk about whether or not the characters in the film do actually follow the tenets of Transcendental philosophy that are lauded in Keating’s classroom. (For the record, only two or three of them seem to— to an extent, and students even cite Keating’s own failures in carrying out the ethics he lauds.) Also, DPS remains a foundational cinematic text that predates and was highly influential in the success of many other similar films about the life-changing experience in the literature classroom (Dangerous Minds, Finding Forrester, Freedom Writers, Wonder Boys, and Never Been Kissed). While I do caution people from thinking that what we do as literary scholars and students is fawn over our books, all moon-eyed and gooey about the turn of a phrase by Tennyson or Rushdie, I think part of our job is to engage with the stereotypes that plague us, to push back against the artificial binarism of STEM vs. the Humanities because no one can exist in our world without a healthy does of both. While our world does deal with the less quantifiable, the less seemingly clearly defined realities of our friends in the sciences, we aren’t less rich or important simply because we are less... categorically defined. gQ me, I embrace DPS and all of my nostalgic baggage, not because I don t see the problem of a bunch ot upper-middle-class white boys chanting the highly problematic poem “Congo” around a cave in the middle of the night, but because I do. Rather than run from such discomfort, though, I’d rather walk through the middle of that fire, do battle on the front lines and show, over and over again, just how rich, how difficult, how truly complicated our work is, and as such, I’m keeping DPS in all its problematic glory, on my syllabus. 17 17 �Volume 8 Issue 3 'The Inkwet The Inkwell Quarterly Hum“ities proiec,s Revie Compiled by Bv Victoria Rendina j used the digitaI humanities project “Vincent van Gogh: The Letters” to y For my Digits1 ?UTTirninanities’ projects create for their audience. Prior to the establishment of the archive, discuss the accessibility digital n ^ere only studied and understood by Van Gogh scholars; his famous paintings personal letters, notes, and sKe non-digital text and art becoming accessible through digitalization on a were only observed in rause“d knoWiedge on Van Gogh’s life, “Vincent van Gogh: The Letters” opens itself for both global basis in order to e*Pa the digital humanities field in a manner as beautiful as The Starry Night. By Zachary J®.n^®ers often quickly become embedded in a nation’s culture, resulting in countless stories, video, and other media. In the southern ^’earthquakes. The Canterbury Earthquake Images, Stories and Media Integrated 2005- For New Zea an , for shOrt), created by UC’s Digital Humanities team, aims to archive the various Collection (or °h tha’t New Zealand’s earthquakes have generated. The CEISMIC Program’s QuakeStories pictures, videos, ana survivors to publish their stories for others to read, while its QuakeStudies site serves as a website provi es of the scientific research being done on earthquakes in New Zealand. With its open and collaborative model, UC CEISMIC was voted Best DH Project for Public Audiences in 2012 by the Digital Humanities Awards. By Jacob Mensinger . The project I researched is called London Lives, an archive of manuscripts, articles, and information from London circa 1690 to 1800. This translation of the human experience to a technological format nearly defines the Digital Humanities, and gives the modern scholar, researcher, and reader access to a litany of information from English history. The ability to access the adapted information secondhand through distant reading affects one of the central tenants of the Digital Humanities field, and illustrates how technology has affected academic practice. By Veronica Zimmerman The Digital Humanities project, VisualEyes, allows users to take a topic of interest and visualize it by using multimedia such as images, audio clips, and maps. By combining different media to represent a single thought, an entirely new story is born. While creating a visualization from this software, the users are deeply connected to the digital world as well as the literature or historical event they are researching. VisualEyes can therefore be classified as a __________________ Digital Humanities project, rather than just a software, because both human experience and the digital world are represented. / formostpeopte ----------------- lllPie snow storms. holds Among the media are eolleetfo^^ By Patri St directly ei needs to g the Hat. T the story < protect th Horton is child, Joj( T form a bo of Dr. Ser hints of a] smoothly members Universit Revic By Tara By Kendra Kuhar The Newton Project is a website devoted to digitalizing Sir Isaac Newton’s life work. Striving for the publishing of the four million words written by Newton, the project glorifies his scientific, mathematical, alchemical and religious texts. Releasing such work by Newton to the public raises the importance of digital ». humanities in contemporary society because it allows a *; | wide range of access to an authentic source of information for anyone interested in Newton’s Theological Papers. Founders of the Newton Project envision a goal of publishing a complete archive of his work, as well as informing readers of Newton’s history behind the papers and controversies surrounding their topics. By Sarah Simonovich The First World War Digital Poetry Archive is a project which illustrates how the introduction and increasing credibility of the digital humanities is Continued on page 22 Photo Coi �Issue 3 The Inkwell Qinuterly Letters” to he archive, s paintings nation on a df for both video, and cleans in ited cions feStories :rves as a and vanities Issue 3 Volume 8 rau?eUSSicaI: Horton’ J°j°’ and Thinking “Thinks” child, Jojo, about the dangers of thinking thinks, and try to determine ow o The first lines of Seussical share the rhyming that is so familiar wth^U °™ Seuss tales and immediately stage is revealed, the world from the m English entral Review of Austenland: Hope in a Frothy Concoction By Tara Giarrantano jsing t, an the rifled as a software, J world vitalizing e j Newton, d, work by digital allows a Rr" roject e of his history ing their drive is a ind is arns on page 22 Photo Courtesy of Tara Giarrantano The film Austenland follows an Austen fanatic conveniently named Jane (played by Keri Russell) who blows her life savings on a trip to a resort inspired by her favorite writer. Austenland’s grounds are up to par with Pemberly’s, and a happy ending (complete with a charming gentleman) is prepackaged for each guest. However, complete immersion in the Regency period is not without faults: the negative aspects of the era’s materialism and social rigidity are also present in the vacation spot’s luxurious re-rendering of the past. The chemistry between Mr. Nobly and Jane is horribly predictable, a true blue reincarnation of the Elizabeth and Darcy dynamic. Fearing she is confusing the resort’s theatrics with reality, Jane quickly suppresses her affinity for Austenland’s “resident Mr. Darcy” and instead sets her sights on a man whom she believes to be a wholly realistic suitor. Naturally, this moment of clarity comes after she dons an opulent frock. But in an unexpected twist, Jane’s rationally chosen Mr. Right falls short, a realistic reminder that no happy ending is guaranteed. Broke and disheartened, Jane declares that she is “over it, England!” and returns to the States; but this frothy concoction of ball gowns and sunny days still manages to deliver a hopeful message. As soon as Jane embraces her reality her real-life Mr. Darcy finds her. An Austenian conclusion, indeed! 19 �Volume 8 Issue 3 The Inkwell Quarter!} What We Talk About When We Talk About Hocfa^ ' The Inkwcl Refor By Matt Kogoy both info^mVan^conve^meauTngthat^stretches b^ond^he’rinkN^w^before^risksTashing^^^o^^11 we talk hockey, we begin to thatcode hockey is an extremely our ideaWhen of hockey andabout its savageness changes to discover fit a certain of conduct. A playerstructured ’s conduct same in the On ”“Se(IUeytIy5 enormous impact on the success or failure o e earn. Much like life, consequences exist in hockev that’ e,can bave an cripple your efforts to earn the “W’. Penalties exist m hockey, like life, to create not only a sense off fl k™ b°0St or of fair play. Each player is responsible for his actions, and those actions gauge the respect and ren. t v but also a sense ceives from around the league. You gain respect from other players, but your reputation on von t 3 10D ^be P^aYer re­ auxiliary criticisms. This notion can serve as a foundation for relationships in evervdav life- whf e3m supersedes any teammates, like you stand by your friends, for example, you create opportunities for both you and th™^ by y°Ur This shared success is also the reason why, when we talk about hockev we talk ai™ ° them to SUcceed. essential if you wish to win a hockey game. Without it, you’re an island and let’s f teamwork- Teamwork is fact, every player is a synecdoche of the much bigger picture that2^2 ITT * a™land. to ssx-s successful team (think Team Canada in this Jear’s Olympics) P ‘nS tOgether that *e superego ofa S°aIS'the SUper saves’and the star athletes But we rarely touch on howlite 'ran be'^ilwedtorou^h tte Contemporary Writers Update • • • Valentine’s Day marked the 25th anniversary of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s sentencing of writer Salman Rushdie to death in 1989. Rushdie’s nonfictional memoir, Joseph Anton (2013), relates his experiences as he and his family lived through the threat of murder. The 2013 Pen America Literary Awards recipients include Katherine Boo (journalist), Robert Hass (former Nobel Laureate), Larry Kramer (playwright), Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffrey (co-editors of Mother Jones'), Frank Deford (sportswriter and NPR correspondent), and Sergio De La Pava (debut novelist). De La ava won the PEN/Robert W. 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Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore OppS? ^2°13 ,as’in no particular order: Book ofAges: The Life and Opinions of owsett Johnston, Going Clear- Sei , Int^mate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol by Anne Guns at the Last Light: The War in Wevl°Ogg’ Hollywood, and the Prison ofBelief by Lawrence Wright, The t A Conste9ation of Vital pa n EuroPe> 1944~1945 hy Rick Atkinson, Thank You for Your Service by Me^uaLl9ht GetS In by Eouise Pennv %onlena bY Anthony Marra, The Good Lord Bird by James McBride, ---------- ' __________ ’ e S°n’ bY Philipp Meyer, and The Woman Upstairs by Claire 20 Dave Coi is curren �The Inkwell Qu;uicily Volume 8 Issue 3 Reforming Grad School Expectations: A Theoretical Position y f an ise n B 1 By David Cook I find it difficult to claim the agency required to write from a position of authority on the subject of‘graduate school advice,’ as I find it remarkably difficult to imagine that I have any suggestions which would be of any benefit, and not just common logic or incredibly obvious. Instead of advice, therefore, I think the best I can do is to discuss some of the differences between undergraduate and graduate education, and how I dealt with those discrepancies, as to talk beyond personal agency is to talk beyond one’s means. The first, and perhaps, most significant difference between undergrad and grad-school is the importance of critical theory. Of course, this probably reads like the common logic I am trying to avoid, but it isn’t, at least insofar as the level of theory expected of the graduate student is humbling, When I left Wilkes, I felt like I had a better comprehension of theory than most, and that I had actually read a sufficient level of theoretical texts as to be well prepared for the next educational chapter. The truth is, I was sadly mistaken, at least on the level of read texts. In my first semester I was introduced to more theory than I had been in my four years as an undergrad. I was introduced to the insanity of neo-Marxist critics like Althusser, the cultural criticism of Adorno, and the powerful structural analysis of Barthes, three critics I whose names I had never even heard of before my first semester at Carnegie Mellon. Of course, I understand how this happens; at the undergrad level the objective is to cast the largest net possible so that the student can find the Stanley Fish they like and fillet it in their own time —to teach the deep theory could be very off-putting. This does have its downside, though. If more theory was taught in the undergrad program, the students who go through that program would be even better prepared for graduate programs. It really is a shame that professors, who experienced this same theoretical indoctrination as I have, are not bombarding students with more of it. Then again, it’s hard enough to get students to read the assigned authors on a weekly basis, which brings me to my second point; you are expected to read everything critically and intently, and more than that, you are expected to do it in a lot less time than you get at the undergrad level. In an undergraduate class you traditionally can spend two weeks on one novel, if not longer. At the graduate level, at least in my experience, you tend to spend a week, if not less, on a novel, which is generally read in addition to a host of critical texts. Thus, you are expected, and rightfully so, to grasp the content of the theory and the literature in significantly less time, all while reading a hell of a lot more during the week. How much more you ask? Well, I tend to spend a few hours a night reading every single day. This is something I never could have imagined as an undergraduate, where in general, 30 minutes could take care of my reading for the next class. The reason for all of this, theory and reading? Well, that is a question of the overall purpose of the undergraduate and graduate education. At the undergraduate level the purpose is to create a general education, to give students literary experiences that they can carry with them as they enter into graduate school or the professional world. You read a little bit of everything so that you have experience across the broad, so that hopefully there will never be a style of literature that you are not at least familiar with it. At the graduate level, the purpose is to train students to produce criticism. Theory is taught as a tool. It’s assumed you’ll comprehend it. Literature is read, usually, to provide opportunities for the examination of theory or because the professor is working through these texts him or herself in conjunction with some book project. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Graduate school provides a humbling but meaningful experience for anyone who thinks they can make a difference in the field. If you don’t think you can make a difference, if you are unsure of the originality of your ideas, then graduate school isn’t for you. But, if you think you have something new to say, there is no better place to foster your ideas and learn new methods for their examination. 21 �Volume 8 Issue 3 The Ii The Inkwell Quarterly “Kuhar ^S^enSe»e^comtssBte(r^>|te^^^^a^d4S^rough6.me^prtti0n^^SSS^» School. five students fro^tb®Ptournament style compeMion Place Vhe team winner was Abin^ Hejg^’^w tournament> The individua] wag R from Wyoming Valley West and Ethan Tost from Wyoming sX^XfXmSI competing in *e students interested in mathematics and to give recognition Semma^:thCountS is a longstandingchance to feel the thrill of competition without the cultural8 to those who excel in the subject. The obsession surrounding sports, as wel I that help students succeed in academics and in life, P_____________________________________________________ your v careei unrec out in fun, v of int rubbi top fi crack coulc 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature unde this char mea “ass By Charlie Hanford The 2013 Nobel Prize in Lit dian author heralding Munro as a ther the awarded to Alice Munro. The Swedish Academy chose the 82-year-old Canacontemporary short story.” Munro’s focus on short stories has led to speculaand Xng traX in the literary community. non that the she£ she grew up, Munro instead earned a scholarship to attend the University of West­ ern Ontario Munro’s work began appearing in magazines in the 1950’s, and she published her first collection of short stones in 1968 Her most recent work is a collection of short stories published in 2012 entitled Dear Life: Short Stories. Munro s stones tend to revolve around small town life in rural Canada, the setting in which the writer grew up Due to poor health, Munro has declined to attend the award ceremony in her honor in Stockholm on December 10 . Munro has publically stated to The National Post in Canada, as well as in later interviews, that she is unlikely to continue writ­ ing after becoming the thirteenth woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature out of the 106 that have been awarded since 1901. Munro is the first Canadian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, continuing a losing streak for American authors since Toni Morrison won the award in 1993. the und wit sub the kni an to I “DH reviews,” Continued from page 18 multimedia artifacts from the Imperial War Museum; and specially designed educational resources for students and educators. Digital humanities projects such as this archive demonstrate how technology has made it possible to provide historical information for the formation of knowledge on a much larger scale prior to digitalization. By Gabby Zawacki & manus^riptsjfilm m7ps iS^aldlri111?8 Pi?jeCt mn by Yale and the University of Cambridge, focuses on archiving books project's main concern if to give users ftyP^nV° ectlons relat,ed to Himalayan culture from ancient to modem day. The concerning villages located throughout u- °?en access to information about cultural rituals, traditions, and lifestyles information about the digitization process and ’In.addition to a focus °n cultural analytics, Digital Himalaya gives users computer files. Digital Himalaya's focus on re Compllcatlons that arise from converting past films, photos, and books into computation constitutes it as a digital humanitiSproje °tnS °f reality baSed On cultural traditions in addition to a focus on 1 By Troy Carey I did not necessarily know what tn P aY ot gaining knowledge, and it is important that we learn about this ByPatKlus Pitt R- ( 1 t0 Real: Sound at the Pitt p ■ artifaettfrom^roSht world Th MuSeuin Seethen" —a* Humanities Project is a digitization project based out of the Museum house-wax cylinders riel ^7°^ the °f Oxf°rd’a collection of anthropological and archaeological Many of the recordings are chants and ™ • ape> Casseftes et •1S1?take a11 of the audio files that The Pitt Ravers coversd music indigent’ tC-~anddlsltl,ze the a^dio files so that they can be accessed online. ------------------------ --------------------ous peoples, but also of expert lectures on the topics that the museum 22 �Issue 3 The Inkwell Quarterly Issue 3 Volume 8 “Kuhar" continued from page 15 Iley West Middle of an individual ?signed to be ing of four to e announced and nner was Bobby Wyoming rive recognition cultural d in life. -year-old Canaled to specula- versify of West■ short stories in 'lunro’s stories ecember 10th. continue writwarded since lean authors your voice, whether it s your academic voice in an essay, your creative voice in a short story, your professional voice in a search of career, or your personal voice toward a life well lived. You should reflect on that idea that every writing task is a small, often unrecognized, step toward a larger goal that itself is not defined by or identified in the objectives listed in an assignment sheet handed out in a class or posted on D2L. Now to Sister Mathias, my fifth grade teacher. Sister Mathias was one ofthe most influential teachers in my life. She was fun, witty, and smart (as well as a fan of the Cincinnati Reds, my favorite baseball team). She was innovative but without the gadgetry of intentional innovation. Sister Mathias imparted words of wisdom in uncanny ways. Like the day our class was stuck (?), unable to open a bottle of rubber cement. The bottle was passed around to six or seven students, each trying harder and harder to separate the glued-together top from the self-resistant brown glass bottle. It was impossible to open. Even Richard Z., the strongest of 17 in our class, failed to crack the frozen seal. When the bottle finally opened, Sister Mathias shared her words of wisdom: “We opened it together. We couldn t have opened it without everyone’s help.” And she went on to thank personally each one of us who failed. Huh? Sister Mathias and John Barth? Rubber cement and artistry? Well, Sister Mathias knew that it’s sometimes hard to understand our role, or the role of one event, in a chain of events that lead to a desired outcome. She knew the importance of bringing this idea to our awareness. Barth’s ideas suggest how a fundamental shift occurs when we recognize that the idea of “the artist” is changed. Our priorities change. They should. They must. His ideas challenge us to re-conceptualize our understanding of what it means to us as artists when we let go of the responsibility for the larger, master narrative and instead focus on the work at hand: The “assignment” to write and, therefore, to think. My use of these stories connected to Sister Mathias and John Barth foreground the question of individual agency. In both there is a contemplation of de-centering our concern for the individual act of controlling the outcome in exchange for an awareness of the larger outcome, whether it’s making art and opening a bottle of rubber cement. Every assignment you complete moves you closer to understanding your potential as a writer, your potential in career, even if the assignment seems completely and impossibly unconnected to that outcome or anything that may really matter to your understanding of who you want to become. Every glued jar of rubber cement, you see, is like a ... uh... you get it. What I’m suggesting is that you consciously try to elevate an awareness that you are moving toward larger outcomes - often without conscious articulation - when you complete a difficult novel like Gravity’s Rainbow, finish a research paper on Beloved, or submit a piece of writing to The Inkwell Quarterly on a Digital Humanities project. I encourage you to see that this perspective can empower you to move through your work with a fuller sense for answers to the very-real and very-important and related questions of, “Why are we doing this?” and “Is it really art?” While I can’t presume to know how John Barth might reflect on all this, I know that Sister Mathias, if she were here to share here wisdom, would understand and endorse the idea that our efforts - as students and teachers - involve us is a collaborative endeavor defined largely by the ability to think and, therefore, to write ... one page at a time. lQ Contest: Where in Kirby Hall is image? and educators, torical trehiving books lay. The lifestyles iya gives users looks into focus on ut after ct I analyzed, ted by the re access out this The Inkwell Quarterly is hosting a contest to see who can guess the location of the item within this image. Winners will receive candy of their choice and their names published in the next issue of IQ. Please email your guesses to Kendra Kuhar at Kendra.kuhar@wilkes.edu. Contest ends April 2, 2014. Grimdark: The Gritty Frontier By Charlie Hanford that muehXeSsXZbn S^an^^aS conflict; think Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in addition to the main plot line state state that the world exists in a greyOf grimdark. As the name implies, than polar oppositeTthat traditionally are not combined* Internafe^fl6?6^^/11!^ moniker to the writings of a genre that some view as trashy and morally offensive ’Interna confllct adds depth and realism else e“to "2 morethat likely manipulate and trick characters than "resittan nIta thPrinSl? Th problems, corruption, scheming and polHeai maneu ”ri„I twitter. Grimdark “,h°rS ised out of the archaeological ’itt Rivers essed online, he museum dife horrorgenrein ° type and have Some kind of dark, internal Bren'WeekS' Peter V- Bre,t’S™ healthy^^^ gar®„Xdb“lS 23 f7?)6 “ncep*: ,he IWSOthnother is and JOC Crombie the^X^rifek on �Volume 8 7 hsuc ..// (liinW'lThe lnk»1' F Scot* Fitzgerald Crossword ■ i:~~~F nr r~r I i i !□ CT IJ Illi i I a I By Patrick Klus t l! I I Across; 4. Fitzgerald dropped out of this University to join the Army. 5. Fitzgerald’s wife. 6. Nick Carraway’s Neighbor 7. Fitzgerald coined this term for the period of the 1920s. 8. Arguably Fitzgerald’s most famous work: “The ” 10. Fitzgerald is named after his famous second cousin, three times removed. Who is this? 12. Fitzgerald was a writer of the “ Generation” 13. Hemingway modeled a character after Fitzgerald in this novel: “The Sun Also ' Thi?nnv?tZgeraid m°Ied t0 France where he became friends with this American Author. 17. This novel was released in 1934: “ is the Night„ Down; u 2. Which character said this^nThfrde ^1° a movie in 2008. It was a curious case, indeed. , . fois world, a beautiful little fool ” Great GatsbV: “I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in 3- Fitzgerald’s first novel: "This Side of 9< Fitzgerald was commissioned as a 10. Fitzgerald’s daughter’s name Tt ™ n<*----- ----- ------- when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. >5 16. Fitzgerald wrote sW^~for Across: Down: Stories. Great Gatsby for fflmy Publications, such as the magazine• 5. Zdda 6. JayGatsby 7. JazaAge 8. GreatGatsbv ■■ Bandon a. oats, io, FrancisScottKey 12. Lost 13. Rises 15. Hemingway 17- Tender ’ances 11. short 14. Six 16. Esquire 24 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Kirby Hall of Wilkes University By Patrick Klus Review: Boys C~ Girls 6 Review: Paradise I alley, Josh Weil Reading 7 Kirby ITall History & Fun Facts 8 EM. Kirby, Manuscript Unveiling 9 Review: Pure Heroine 10 Contemporary Author Updates, Ghost? 11 Staff Pet Photo Game 12 What We Are Reading 13 Review: Maepie & the Dandelion 14 Kuhar’s Korner 15 F.M. Kirby, the self-made businessman behind the chain of Woolworth & Company, had purchased the home from Reuben Flick in 1905, for $55,000. The home had remained empty after the passing of F.M. Kirby in 1940,*until it was presented to Bucknell Junior College on July 1, 1941, by Allan P. Kirby in memory of his parents, Fred Morgan and Jessie Amelia Kirby. It was the fourth building given to the growing Bucknell Junior Col­ lege, preceded by the first Conyngham Hall; Chase Hall; and the first Weckesser Hall. The building was officially dedicated as the Kirby Educational Home of Bucknell Junior College on December 2, 1941, with many of Wilkes’ founders, including Dr. Eugene Farley, and Dr. Arnaud C. Marts, in attendance. A major renovation project was completed in 2000. Plans for the extensive renova­ tion were announced as far back as July 31, 1992, by then President Christopher N. Breiseth. The announcement was in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Allan P. Kir­ by, the son of F.M. Kirby, a noted businessman. The project transformed the former home to the splendor of its original Victorian style. Kirby Hall’s purpose has always changed with the needs of the academic institution. Originally, Kirby Hall offered three different functions: 1 .The first floor of the building was used by music students. 2. The second floor served as a library. 3. The third floor was the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Farley, the first President of Wilkes, and his wife. Eventually, the Ebrary expanded to all three floors until the Eugene S. Farley Library opened in 1968. Currently, Kirby Hall is home to the Humanities Division ofr Wilkes University. ’niversity. Baby Author Gamel6 This issue, we will feature the history and back­ ground of Kirby Hall. T �Volume 8 The InkwellQuarterly The InkwellQua Faculty Updates Divergei By Stephen Seibert By Tara Giar hasSuicide published poems during this semester: Df’ w nhelle ithAnthony Attempted ” andtwo “Coffin. ” Both poems were Stash'Me Magaztae. She has also been working with Philip Ruthpublished in B eander Awareness Program. This ptokOSky ° ! beX Ftat Year Foundation (FYF) classes in Fall of 2014, as well gram will eg student who would like to help raise awareness contacting Dr. Anthony. Dr. Marcia Farrell is finishing up her year as the chair for the Faculty Affairs Council. Her last day is the thirty-first of May, at which point she begins looking forward to her sabbatical for the Fall 2014 semester. Dr. Farrell will be focusing on a research project in which she will examine the function of stitch­ ing culture in contemporary world literature. She will spend the Summer of 2014 and the Fall 2014 semester gathering research and organizing a possible book project, which she plans to send to academic publishing houses. Dr. Mischelle Anthony introduces Josh Weil, one of the readers for this year’s Spring Writers Series. Photo courtesy of Dr. Marcia Farrell. As an a ite heroine, Beg five factions: C less, the brave. Beatrice shying her brother, Ca lives. The focu; transgressions i Erudite leader portrayal of th< are moments ir heroine, the an in the book. Be Rocky brings tl especially for tl (played by the < novel. True to. unforgettable k of girl pow'er. Senior Capstone Dates #Twitter. By Charlie Hanford By Kendra K The Spring 2014 Capstone Presentations are scheduled for Thur: Tuesday, May 6th in the Kirby Salon. Presentations are scheduled from 1-3 •sday, May 1st, Monday, May 5th, and Tuesday. Presenting students include: 3 on Thursday and 1-2:30 on Monday and * * Advisor Student ____ May 1st, 2014 1:00-3:00 Miranda Baur Mischelle Anthony Gabby Zawacki Mischelle Anthony Jamie Alderiso Chad Stanley Anne Yoskoski Janet Starner Patrick Klus Ellen Riley John Carroll May 5th, 2014 1:00-2:30 Sean Kelly Tom Hamill M May 6th, 2014 1-2:30 Sean Kelly Michelle Byrnes LarryKuhar Byrnes Kendra Kuhar Tom Hamill Melissa Thorne ChadStanley On Ma American Publ acters; both ret were Jim Gaffi In the < writing. A com two major difft than 140 chara work extends x and publishing specialized cha �ue 4 T/je InkwellQuarterly Volume 8 Issue 4 Divergent: A Gritty Celebration of Girl Power By Lara Giarratano fosh ar’s >y of As an avid fan of Veronica Roth’s YA dystopian trilogy, Divergent, I was extremely excited to see my fa' or te leroine, Beatrice Iris Prior, on the big screen. Set in post-apocalyptic Chicago, Beatrice’s world is divided into five factions: Candor, the honest, Abnegation, the selfless, Amity, the peaceful, Erudite, the intelligent, and Dauntess, the brave. The film s emulation of the novel begins in in its very first scene, which depicts Abnegation-born Beatrice shying away from a mirror. Upon reaching the age of sixteen, Beatrice (played by Shailene Woodley) and her brother, Caleb (played by Ansel Elgort), both must make the choice that will define them for the rest of their li' es. 1 he focus on the massive audience present at the Choosing Ceremony exacerbates Beatrice and Caleb’s social transgressions in choosing to defect from their home faction and unlike in the novel, it is in this scene that the Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews (played by Kate Winslet) first takes interest in the Prior twins. Winslet’s glamorous portrayal of the cunning Matthews deviates from Roth’s ever-malignant character sketch of her villain in that there are moments in the film when Matthews seems to feel a genuine connection to Tris. Despite wanting to kill the heroine, the antagonist harbors an undeniable sense of admiration for her, a complication of character not present in the book. Beatrice’s silent fascination with the Dauntless foreshadows her decision to join them. Music by A$AP Rocky brings the rebel’s faction’s affinity for the dangerous, tribal, and sexy alive and Ellie Goulding’s tracks, written especially for the film, capture Tris’s inner struggle to redefine who she is. The chemistry between Tris and Four (played by the swoon-worthy Theo James) is spot on, but their relationship is more transparent onscreen than in the novel. True to Roth’s twists and turns, the film’s interpretation of Dauntless initiation crafts an imperfect but utterly unforgettable heroine. Tris is weak but determined, frightened but brave, and by the film’s end a gritty celebration of girl power. #TwitterFiction Festival By Kendra Kuhar y and On March 12-16, the #TwitterFiction Festival 2014 took place. Festival sponsors, such as the Association of American Publishers, Twitter and Penguin Random House, invited leading authors to tell a short story in 140 char­ acters- both renowned and emerging authors participated in the festival. Some authors that participated in the event were Jim Gaffigan, Ransom Riggs, Megan Abbott and Brad Meltzer. In the current digital age, a fiction festival by way of Twitter exposes a variety of new outlets in creative writing. A comparison between fiction released through tweeting and fiction released through publishing highlights two major differences: length of creative text and time needed to release it. Traditional short stories are far longer than 140 characters and usually contain moderately complex plots. Furthermore, the time needed to release such work extends well beyond the time required to press “Tweet” on the computer or smart phone due to the editing and publishing process. Storytelling has transformed from a printed product into tweets, vine videos, photos, and specialized character twitter accounts revealing fiction’s ability to adapt in such a technological society. The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell Editor-in-Chief: Kendra Kuhar Copy Editors: Tara Giarratano & Kendra Kuhar Layout Editors: Jason Klus & Nicole Kutos Staff Writers: Alyssa Daniel, Tara Giarratano, Charlie Hanford, Pat Klus, Jason Klus, Stephen Seibert Faculty Contributors: Dr. Larry Kuhar �Issue 4 Volume 8 The InkwellQuarterly The Inkwell£ A Schol Fall 2014 Course Offerings By Jason I By Alyssa Daniel ff tines is now available. It can be found either online on the Wilkes portal or in the The Fall 2014 list of course^^ (UCoM) building, located directly across the street from public safety. Undergradunew University Center on advisors to pre-register for classes and receive the required alternate pin needed Students register for courses crime according class, m which days and times are assigned. The registration schedule r^elrMonday, March !7th at 12:01am Juniors—Wednesday, March 19th at 12.01a.m Sophomores—Monday, March 24th at 12:0 la.m Freshman—Wednesday, March 26th at 12:01a.m **Be sure to have alternative classes in mind tn case the class you register for is full or no longer offered.** . . How to Register: Registering for courses is a quick and easy process. To register, students must log on to the Wilkes portal at www. mywilkes.wilkes.edu. Once logged in, click on the “Student Services” tab and scroll down to the bottom half of the page. In the “My Registration” section of the page, there is a list of registration-related links. Click on the first link entitled “Register or Add/Drop Classes.” This link will direct you to the term select page, where you want to select the term in which you are registering classes for (Spring 2014). You will then be directed to the alternate pin verifi­ cation page where you will be required to enter the pin given to you by your advisor. Finally, you will have reached the registration page. At this point, you should have the CRN numbers that correspond with the courses you wish to take ready. Enter the CRN numbers, for each individual class, in the small boxes towards the bottom of the page On ment and p: toral fellow Dr. Kuhar’s students an that allow f< advancemei technologic documents, Technology Dr. vided insigl social medi scholarship many possi Huculak’s | the field; th English scl and click the “submit” button and viola, you have successfully registered! Listed below are the fall 2014 English course offerings and the instructors teaching each course: Instructor ______________ Courses________ Anthony, M. ENG 101; ENG 120; ENG 398; ENG 498 Davis, H. ENG 101; ENG 120; ENG 308__________ Fiester, B. ENG 120_____________________ Grier, B. ENG 101; ENG 120; ENG 393__________ Hamill, T. ENG 101; ENG 340____________________ Karpinich, W ENG 120______________________________ Kelly, S. ENG 101; ENG 281; ENG 398; ENG 498 Kemmerer, K. ENG 101; ENG 202___________________ Kuhar, L. ENG 190; ENG 201; ENG 282; ENG 392 McIntyre, B. ENG 101______________________________ Muklewics, S. ENG 101______________________________ Sabia, B. ENG 101______________________________ Stanley, C. ENG 101; ENG 225____________________ Starner J. ENG 101; ENG 233; ENG 397; ENG 497 Hean By Stepl' D scholarshi recipient i potential: for additic �Issue 4 The InkwellQuarterly Volume 8 Issue 4 A Scholar’s View: Digital Humanities, Literature and Everyday Life By Jason Klus ’ in tlie srgtaduneeded schedule WWW. If of the irst link to select n venfieached >u wish the page ment and presented several workshot 1 and Matthew Huculak visited the university’s English departtoral fellow at die University of Briti 1 C° Stl1^ °f ^^tal Humanities. Dr. Huculak is currendy a postdocon Tuesday morning with students and faculty. Dr. Huculak usinS V hVO wor^s^°Ps the following day that were open to any available tliat allow for new developments in lit ”eW ^^llal Humanities lab, showed new techniques and innovations advancements are being created that 11 med*a ^ecotnes more readily available around the world, new technologies are being innovated ever d^ ^lalUIe to e<lua^y accessible. Dr. Huculak explained how these new documents, as well as simple adv ough projects arising to collect original manuscripts and archival Technology is integrating into th r<- CntS 31 mabe PDF files easier to use for scholarly research and analysis. Dr. Huculak’s workshops av ^USt aS mucb as has “ everyday living. vided insight on how to be a proactiv f ml° cban8es occurring in modern scholarship, but he also pro­ social media and digital communicati ^h^ cban®es t^lat continue to develop every day. The alterations that scholarship. With the Digital Hum ma^e tO Persona^ identity are also constantly changing research and many possibilities that exist within 3 °? 7 a,b°U1 °ne yea1' oId’1116 English department is still discovering the Huculak’s glimpse into the world of dZ hZ “ 11121 haS been created “ studY of literature. Dr. the field; the study of Digital Humanitie 'll emonsttates that Wilkes is only just beginning-P-Z to explore English scholarship in dlfmaPh” aS g°eS °n and cba^ Department of English Digitc udio Photo Courtesy of Jason Klus Heatnafl Scholarship By Stephen Seibert ■ Id’ applications from those interested in the Heaman Scholarship in English. The Dr. Larry Kuhar is he g Pl afld Robert Heaman to a student in a literature related major. The scholarship is awarded annually y ■ members and is picked based on abilities in English studies, recipient is «e^cte^ "t^pn Enghshfand financial need. Those interested in applying should contact Dr. Kuhar for additional details.----------------- ----------- �Volume 8 Issuq 4 The Inkwell Album MSU® Re 4 lason Klus by Patrick Klusjn by Patrick ] John May J ; X ~ots, presenting the tracks plainly but with a very personal connection gBl teelf. Throughout the entire album, each song draws from different stylls0* MBt “fl„eMe while still aiding in telling a story that the group is trying to share with 1K ““ audience. Highlights: ' ~ “Hold On” - As the first track on Boys & Girls, this song sets the stage for the reincredibly well. The lyrics could not be simpler here, the singer trudging on despite bavin; Lgso mainder of the a um helghtenS) coming to a heavy rock climax, the vocals become mote and ' many hardships,^ understand the emotion contained within this track just by listening to it. Ah’t Alone” - Musicians constandy try to remind us that we are not alone in the world. Here, Alabama Shakes is taking that idea and putting it on blast with a heavy soul and blues influence. The vocal work on this song is enough to make it, with the delivery of the lyrics and the incredible display of range, but the instrumentalists do not disappoint either, only aiding in making the track an affirmation that everyone could use every now and then. Lowlights: “On Your Way” -1 think that this track is lost on me because it has a more private connection than what exists on the surface. This piece has more of a ‘produced’ studio sound than the other tracks, but there is something about the lyrics that are too lofty for me to understand. “Goin’ to the Party” - By the middle of the album, when reaching this track, things get a bit strange. This track itself does not match the collective sound of the album unless it is listened to collectively, where it works as a transi­ tion between different lyrical moods. Alone, it is has a light punk-rock feel which is very unusual. album was a °f a surprise to me. I saw Alabama Shakes perform “Hold On” on Saturday Night Live, d the song, but I think the album as a whole is really good. Overall, Boys & Girls has sounds of blues, soul, P°P’andr0Ck-The band suWmgly pulled all of these sounds together really well. 2013, Colur P: Paradise V, may know, st even “No Su to his 2012 a folk-country traditional ac though there from song to Highlights: “Dear Marie’ ever been me overpowered “On the Way a party track i everyday begi Lowlights: “Paper Doll” may be the m single. “Who You Lc influenced thi the message, 1 J: This is a ret is a Wonderla. out each track ing to the albi ed in die track a great atmosj Conclu< By Kendra J ty "Ma his April 24th held in themyS,|0 Farrell. On T1 2014 Visiting1 ate students h. workshop, a rt published in a after the readii Josh’s & Writers. Adi and the Bread The Great Gia �sue 4 The Inkwell Quarterly Album Review Volume 8 by Patrick Klus and Jason Klus J O fl N of ;ockns, mg. ;o the :tic i its redng so 're and > song ts do hen. sts on □out ck i transi- ive, :s, soul, W A> E K John Mayer, Paradise Valley 2013, Columbia Records P: Paradise Valley is a pretty big jump from the traditional John Mayer you may know, such as “Waiting on the World to Change,” “Daughters,” and even “No Such Tiling.” Released in August 2013, this album is a follow up to his 2012 album, Born and Braised, which signaled his turn to more of a folk-country sound. This album features a wide variety of sounds, from a traditional acoustic guitar recording, to blues, rock, and even country. Al­ though there are many different sounds associated with the album, it flows from song to song very smoothly. Highlights: Dear Marie — Even though this song is somber in the message, I do not think that a love letter to a past love has ever been more light and easy to listen to. With a simplistic musical setting, the lyrics are able to speak without being overpowered by the music. On tire Way Flome — I do not think there could be a better close to this album. The album starts with a bit of a party track in “Wildfire,” and “On the Way Home” is the symbolic close of the party and return to the normal everyday beginning. Lowlights: “Paper Doll” — I know that this was the first single, but I do not think that it is the best track on the album by far. It may be the most marketable, but it does not represent the whole message of the album well enough to be the lead single. “Who You Love” feat. Katy Perry — I know Katy Perry is a superstar—much more than Mayer—which probably influenced this duet just as much as their relationship did, but I really dislike this track; it is very cheesy. I understand the message, but I think it could have been delivered a bit more subdy. J: This is a record that completely separates John Mayer from his past work. The pop appeal of “Your Body is a Wonderland” and his other hits are not found here. There is a strong country/blues presence through­ out each track, and probably the best things about the album is that it has a cohesive style that makes listen­ ing to the album from start to finish a very smooth experience. I found myself a little bored and uninterest­ ed in the tracks, even with help from big name collaborators, but there is great storytelling in the lyrics and a great atmosphere to the album. This is not what anyone would normally expect from John Mayer though Concluding the Spring Writer’s Series By Kendra Kuhar •1 94 the Wilkes’ English department welcomed a visit from the final author of the Spring . „ On Series. Author Josh Weil administered » workshop prior to a reading in which undergradu2014 Visiting Writer’s Series, ut o1^ wfiting tips and discuss challenges faced in their own writing. After the ate students had the opportuni excerpt fromto hispurchase novella “by Sarverville ”; the novella was workshop, a reading was heldI tn which w ic Josh read an w£js available a Barnes Remains and Noble representative published in a collection titled e after the reading. fiction work has been published in The New York Times, The Sun, Oxford American and po Josh’s non-: 1- -J a a recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the MacDowellCol & Writers. Additionally, is f and he Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. The author will be releasing his first novel in July 2014^ d and the Bread Loai — �Volume 8 Issue 4 y Patrick Klus all The current Kirby Hall was one of a group e financial id industrial elite ot Wilkes-Barre and situated ong the waterfront of the north branch of the isquehanna River.. .The mansions in this narrow tree-block strip belonged to the entrepreneurs ading the development of the anthracite coal tdustry in the region, which played an important de in the industrial revolution. The current house ,as built in 1873 for Stephen Thurlow, a successful al dealer. It was considered by architect Frederick yithers to be one of his most important works, rchitectural Digest. Thurlow died suddenly in 880, and the house was sold to an unknown buyer. 1 1886, the local banker and philanthropist Rue- Ebe Inkwell Fred M By Patrick J Mr. K Angeline Eli? the high schc in the dry go, C. S. Woolwc On S East Market country of si On January 1 month was ii ninety-six stc stores of the million dolla Photo Courtesy of Patrick Klus Fun Facts. :cordThe High Victorian Gothic structure was originally Pamphlet researched 7 j ' •the number One Plot on Wilkes-Barre’s 1770 Town Plan, ac< of Wiling to “Kirby Hall,” a |" ’ ' ■ TOtten 'V Harold Cox, Professor of History and Director kes University Press and Betsy Condrin, local histi log cabin, which was rh lan Jabez purchased the plot of land and built a h°USe b Wm^s-Barre. In Historic Landm i recorded that the T § HaU - The marriage A Milkes CeretnCamnu °ny performW1U<eS alumnus Ronald Andrews, historian Charles o„ Aptfl , /d9”fXed “ the Valley took place on the future site of and Jabez Rip etWeen Kathan Dennison, a hero in the Wyoming Massa A“«dingto«KubyHall;>in[ ____ J,,“Sllls*‘^ter,EI,zal)ed1. nd fi°aay’Fted Morgan^b *4°’°00 fol the ho“>e; Reuben Flick paid J42, 500 f°' it in V purchased the home for $55,000 in 1905. ^anus On ainting the SalOn �ssue 4 Ibe InkwellQuarterly fred Morgan Kirby py Patrick Klus oup uncial ited the narrow urs oal >rtant - house -cessful rederick =>rks, ie of y in n buyer, t Rue, it was Mr. Kirby was bornKirby in B ■ 7]"J<:fferson County, New York, October 30, 1861, the son of William and Angeline Elizabeth (Slater) the high school at Watertown Jeff C educated at Public schools and at the age of fourteen years, he attended at the dry goods store of Mo^re & .was about fifteen years of age, Mr. Kirby became a clerk c. S. Woolworth, both of whom were7 b own. Among his fellow-employees in this store were F. W and ecome his associates in the operation of five-and-ten-cent stores. On September 1, 1884 th Afte fi East Market Street, Wilkes-Barre ^8 ^°°^vordl & Kirby opened its first five-and-ten-cent store at No. 172 country of stores similar to the Wilk B ’ & exPansi°n of the firm began with the founding throughout the On January 12, 1910, the compan ? estabbsbment, operating under the name of F. M. Kirby & Company, month was incresised to five milho B t^COrPotated a capital of three million dollars, which in the following ninety-six stores located 1 e dose of the year 1911, F. M. Kirby & Company owned and operated stores of the country occurred oTjalu^v 1^1 StateS’ °f five-and-ten'cent million dollars, and over 100 stores ’ e consoudation was incorporated with a capital of sixty-five Other Positions Kirby held in the community included: 1. Second vice-president of the Second National Bank of Wilkes-Barre, which post he held until his resignation in October, 1916. 2. On November 2, 1909, he was elected a director of the Miners’ Sav­ ings Bank, became first vice-president April 22, 1912, and succeeded to the presidency September 29, 1914, and then chairman of the board. 3. A director and executive committeeman of the Lehigh Valley Bailroad 4. President of the Wilkes-Barre Railway Company 5. Director of the United States Lumber Company 6. Director of the Mississippi Central Railroad 7. A trustee of the American Surety Company, of New York i, accord" r of Wd>g cabin. des M^ef of Massacre’ for >t111 Manuscript Unveiling ' t will unveil the creative work collection for the 2013-2014 school year. On Wednesday May 7, Ma^ip^p _ open reading begins at 1:30. The event takes place in the Kirby fainting the manuscript begins at Salon. �Volume 8 Issue 4 The Inkwell Qu^ The InkwellQT^pjL Contem By Kendra I n,c Fnvlish 101 class learned “The Road” to APA style by following various colored paths. Photo Dr. Marcia Farrells g Courtesy Dr. Marcia Farrell. Album Review LORDE by Patrick Klus and Jason Klus Lorde, Pure Heroine 2013, Universal Music Group J: Real name Ella Yelich-O’Connor, Lorde hit United States radio in the middle of 2013 and has been producing critical hits since. Born in New Zealand and only 17 years old, Lorde’s debut album, Pure Heroine, gives listeners a taste of what her life may have been like before becoming a renowned pop star. Each track deals with a similar distaste and bitterness for the extravagant, lavish life­ style that consumes the way individuals live, while maintaining a consistent style with techno and electronic influence accompanying lyric delivery of contempo­ PURE HEROINE In ant few weeks. H; British crime well as an app ry about Abb breaks up wit Pengt whose fate is by Lynn Kui wrecked on t lished The Ti her sister in 2 In of The book is the Galapagc of 2014. Gre recendy beer rary pop music. Highlights: “Ribs” — I don’t know why I like this song as much as I do. There is a lot of vocal range displayed in this track that I think is missing on some other songs, and the electronic sound aids the feeling rather than become the main sound. Lorde also allows herself to become vulnerable in this track, talking about the fears that surround becoming an adult and the associated memories. “Buzzcut Season” — This is another track which is vulnerable and easy to like for that reason. While the lyrics be­ come unusual, talking about “holograms” at one point, her voice is particularly captivating in this song, using her entire range to create a really enjoyable atmosphere. Lowlights: Royals - How Royals is still getting radio time puzzles me. The lyrics are bizarre, the electronic drumbeat is bizarre, and her voice here sounds bizarre. This track is so distant from the album’s sound that it almost shouldn t W T ’ a"* The G By Patrick n° jUStiCe tO het artistic talent’ ipcvAri” feerij- . c'on 1 think I understand Lorde’s message in this song. It again examines a more privi she is ttyingPto c^mutdeate^6 <R°yalS’” but is a lack of connection for me. I cannot relate to the ideas that P; I do have to sav tk• day on have the radio. WiTtZT?" °St >tIalbum for rk to sten to, because I was over hearing “Royals” every would listened to on tn mSa 'd’djfficu [ had heard mo"® 1 Umclu' and™"?"' thml< it is “R°^s.” This is not something that I -^Uf*tybut 1 think so?’"8 “ sound P ‘".jL"'8 “usicaUy- Lorde uses complex rhythm parts -------",e a'bU“ “ b“ak “ dO'™ Act Was owned gambling d having his < safety offic -According about a pre front of hi �Contemporary Authors Update By Kendra Kuhar few weeks. HarperCollins W Seasons’ authors have published booked planned to be released in the next British crime series in which Detective Ch^f 7 “ 7°°”’ by Elizabeth HaYnes, marking the first novel of a well as an apparent suicide Th ^nspector fr°uisa Smith is introduced and must solve a homicide, as ry about Abby’s journey to null h O1^pa”y bas afr° published Erin Duffy’s novel On the Rocks, which is a stobreaks up with her through Facebook6 tOgetber Wldl fr*e help °f her best friend, Grace, after Abby’s fiance _____ I colored paths. Photo whose fate is tied into the life C°nfabulist Steven Galloway, which is a narrative about Martin Strauss by Lynn Kurland; a distressed0!. iTu 7 ™3glClan Hany Houdini. The company also published Dreams of Lilacs wrecked on the coast of France tO eSCape her overProtective family, but ends up ship­ ped The Time Between through P her ldentlty or how she got there. Author Karen White pub- her sister in a wheelchair, while fhe woA^o^port hZ”” I RDE “PeS ” ’“'d'"' PU' The book is'onelf'four'fiZ8’ Rl’ffc>’’s ""'I Archipelago is a finalist for the 2014 Orion Book Award, the Galapagos IshLs Also h ? T’' °f ’ ““ da“8h“’s sA« “henmre f''om Trinidad to of 2014 GmL Xsed^ ’ >°Th" GKen “ ™E 100 M°st recently been made into a film andXX«d “8 URE OINE red in this track that I )tne the main sound, nd becoming an Thile the lyrics be­ ds song, using her onic drumbeat is it almost shouldn’t The Ghost of Kirby...? By Patrick Klus es a more “privilte to the ideas that College Quarterly, turn ofkdled the century, while during the home edition of. W mrned poke[around pan wasthe allege(Uy m the house a According to a« 1981 .------Was owned by Reuben Jay Flick, a colorful character named Poker Pan ,d by Reuben Jay Flick, a colotlu^ c a^ the Poker Pan may not have taken to garnbling dispute. The murder occurred in what was then the music ,„.d- - • )e hear footsteps on the stairs. Sabol-Jones says that public having his card game suiiddenly interrupted. ’ floor. Some even claim to feel a hand on their backs. ring “ Wals” eV7 safety officers have claimed they feel a presence According to The Beacon archives, people hav<re reported seeing a strange mist by the windows. One report talks a,Jout a professor doing late-night research on the second floor. As he exited tire building, he saw a white mist in t something that I .triplex rhythm parts m to break it down front of him. _____________ TT �Volume 8 Issue 4 The InkwellQj'arter^, What We Guess Which Staff Member Each Pet Belongs To? Can YOU These pets belong to Giamtan0) Pat & Jason Klus, Dr. Farrell, Nicole Kutos, and Kendra Kuhar. ssssr g 1. Maggie 2. Athena j-[ere Is what our Ini Kendra Kuhai I am currently rea Novak. Known f< ent in fiction thro ries. I first heard 1 uary, and was thri The collection op story The Tortoise. I realized the prei lesson that “slow of a rematch bet? surprised to read it ended different producer on “Th collection, and I ] Match the pet with his or her owner. yr The InkwellQuarter 3. Sophie Dr. Marcia Fat I’m currently rea (which is part of Nicole Kutos: I haven’t started reading Stieg Lar 4. Serena 5. Nicodemus 6. Nala 8. Maxie 9 . Bella '• Hyd. ' FAWMSWI 9 W. 6 iupuo>[ 9 UOSBf Iff 1BJ £ UOSBf Tj? JBJ '8 [pjABJ XI S 9 wv I. 6 x W ■/M apsiN 't ][3WBJ xi I :sj.iA\suy~ TZ �Issue 4 Issue 4 The InkwellQuarterly Volume 8 5 To? What We Are Reading 1(i Kendra Here is what our InkwellQuarterly Staff Members are currently reading: Kendra Kuhar: * I am currently reading a collection of short stories titled One More Thing by BJ. Norah Known for his role as Ryan on “The Office,” Novak expresses his taient in etion through comedy and satire, as well as in more serious short stoties. I first heard Novak was releasing a collection of short stories in late Jan­ uary, and was dirilled because I was impressed with his work in “The Office.” The collection opens with Rematch”—a play off of the classic children’s story The To/ toise and the Hare. My initial reaction to the work was surprise when I realized the premise because I had recalled the story was told to teach a moral lesson that slow and steady wins the race”; I had expected Novak’s version of a rematch between the two to play out in a similar manner. However, I was surprised to read Novak’s unexpected and entertaining twist on the tale when it ended differently than I had assumed it would. Novak’s work as a writer and producer on The Office” shines through in his characters’ dialogue in the collection, and I look forward to completing the collection in coming weeks. OfjE iltfZtf 1 A* s°f9titi £57 hJOVA’Z. Dr. Marcia Farrell: I’m currently reading a handful of things: The Demon Lover by Juliet Dark, The Basement Quilt by Ann Hazelwood (which is part of the American Quilter’s Society Fiction Series), and _/!»»/ Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton. Nicole Kutos: I haven’t started anything yet, but I think the next book on my list is going to be Atonement by Ian McEwan or re­ reading Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Jason Klus: Right now I am reading William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher. It is an unusual dramatization of the fifth episode of George Lucas’s Star Wars film franchise, only done in the style of William Shakespeare. I bought it purely because I felt like it would be really comedic and enjoyable for that reason, but it is surprisingly well written. The Shakespearian verse is done very impressively, and Doescher has captured the style well. The concept of adapting a film into a drama is very interesting and works well, putting a different spin on a movie franchise that has been prevalent for tire last thirty five years. -SI 3IO3IM 7. 0[O3lM fr jpxrej JC ’1 :sj9A\suy �Volume 8 Issue 4 7/x Inkwell guhai I<lus The Avett Brothers, Magpie & the Dandelion 2013, American Recordings “It takes co P: I like this in similar ways like Paradise Valle • 1^ album offers the same type ofalbum vibe. Unlike some of that the Iother Avett Brothers more produced, and takes a bit away from the raw, organic so aIbum is Brothers are known for. With that being said, there are five t^^ tbe ^vett one live and four demo tracks—that allow you to hear some of th album— post production, which captures that raw organic sound man 1' C before The Avett Brothers. Even with the hint of over-production Xe StCnerS ^°°b Por *n ’duces a good variety of music that is easy to listen to ’ & a'bum s All pro­ Highlights: (Demo)” - I Prefer this demo track rather than Produced track mainly because of the “Bring Your Love to Me ( emo Avett Brothers connect because of what they put in the music, s of both i—e lyrics with a raw instrumental finish. ’soSte Wheels (live)” - So, I see a pattern here. I like this because it was recorded live andns just voice with 212X-aud it sounds great. Anyttme I can listen to a person smg a song with a guitar in then hand live and have it sound just as good as any of the studio tracks is a sign of a great song to me. We’re alw; to find ha y Creatii book that We hearth We’re alv. our Engli prompts of these essays. M We hear t say they i center). “tod toYou” -1 think this song bothers me because of the piano melody—it sounds too much like a rudimentary piano exercise for my taste, and it challenges the legitimacy of the song in a way for me. “Morning Song (Studio)” - I guess if I had to pick one, this would be it. I think it is overproduced, and it conse­ quently takes away from how good the band is in the demo versions where they did not need the production. awness of this album is what is most striking to me. The instrumentation is so simple and clean, and the lyr, SVei 316 Presented fe an understandable way that makes the words more meaningful. This album definitely toLTde tO f0UnTSu°f 197°S’ k °Pmi0n’ but With enough c°ntemporary appeal to make it interesting definitely deserve another C°Untry diduence which makes the album drag, but I think that a lot of the tracks J We’re alx awarene; these vo: be a profe. Criminal about if doubt.” IFe hear, rise. In every graduate to socie inhabit inhabite that red Hamill’s Hunches will return in our Fall 2014 iA ' H-e hear well-bei youngc It takes �Issue 4 The InkwellQuarterly Kuhar’sKorncy By Dr. Larry Kuhar “On Graduating and The World’s Stories” “1/ takes courage to grow up and become whoyou really are. ” —e.e. cumtnings 1111 offers die this album is it the Avett 1 the album— ■°ngs before -is look for in rn still pro- icause of the t in the music, ust voice with hand live and Issue 4 Volume 8 Hi 4 \ li We’re always searching for words, the right words, to tell us where to go to find happiness, fulfillment, and affirmation. I want to write. Nonfiction. On the environment or technology. On diversi­ ty. Creatively. On life. Plays andpoems. Stories and novels. On film. Essays and books. Toni Morrison said, If there s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” II heai the worlds stories-. 1.6 million college seniors will graduate this year. We re always composing stories, or versions of possible stories, to help us understand how to achieve our goals. In our English program, Kirby Hall classrooms become spaces where we inhabit a language and model an identity that prompts and values the search toward larger understandings, toward stories, about where we can find ourselves at the end of these searches. I want to be a teacher. Tenth and eleventh graders. Teach stories. Poems. Sixth and seventh graders. Plays and essays. Maya Angleou said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” We hear the world’s stories-. About four-in-ten (38%) of college graduates regret not studying harder, while three-in-ten say they should have started looking for a job sooner (30%) or picked a different major (29%) (2014 Pew Research center). i a rudimentad it conseuction. n, and the lyrlum definitely it interesting of the tracks We’re always working through self-doubt, the self-formed echoes of un-known meanings that destabilize our mind’s awareness as we hear ourselves speak, as we see our words in print, as we listen to others’ ideas. We wisely court these voices. They tell us—they demand that we tell ourselves-Ww/ we can say and why we need to say it. I want to be a professor. At a university. Poe, no Pinter. Bronte, no Chaucer. Richardson, no Rushdie. I want to be a lawyer. Environmental. Criminal defense. Public defender. I want to start my own business. Sylvia Plath wrote, . . [E]verything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self­ doubt.” We hear the world’s stories-. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data suggests that employment opportunities are on the rise. In every class I shared with students this semester, I witnessed English majors and minors, many of whom are graduating display the courage, knowledge, and confidence it takes to succeed in life and career and to contribute to society in meaningful ways. It takes courage, knowledge, and confidence to write an essay on Gravity’s Rainbow, to inhabit a voice of knowledge on a text that confounds accomplished literary critics. I know 11 English majors who inhabited this voice this semester. It takes knowledge and confidence to write about a Digital Humanities project that redistributes energies around what reading is. 4 issue. K karlk worUb A 2013 Pew Research Center survey reports that, “On virtually every measure of economic r me w attainment—-from personal earnings to job satisfaction to the share employed full time— youngX” aK °u*erfMming th“ PCeK Wlth kSS edUCa"°a ” d confidence to graduate! Great job! Good luck as you go forward in your stories! h takes courage, knowledge am �The InkwellQuarterly Volume 8 __--------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 4 Identify these baby pictures of famous authors! $ I 1 2. 4. 5. 6. Author Bank Ernest Hemingway Flannery O’Connor J.K. Rowling F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert Frost Mark Twain uiva\l spvj\ '9 louuo^.o 3SOJJ 3J3Q >l'[ t Game by Pai rick J<|l (s 16 6 -sjMu'tiy � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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The Illuminating Experiences of a Wilkes English Student at the Children’s Services Center and Poetry Workshop at Heights-Murray Elementary By Jordan Ramirez Alumni Update 7 Mockingjay Film Review 8 Mockingjay Album Review 9 Hamill’s Hunches 10 Kuhar’s Korner 11 More I lunches & (lame 12 “A few steps off-campus” was the location. I spun around a few times, wonder­ ing if I was in the right place. The building contained no signage except for two 8 x 1 l’s — posted on two of two potential entrances on the S. Franklin St. wing — which read: “NOT RIGHT DOOR.” And everything was confusing. “Let’s see,” I said, “Two doors. Both not right.” I rubbed my chin. I almost gave up. But something in the air prompted me to continue circling the perimeter. Sure enough, the evasive right door was located, on the right side of the building. I jiggled the handle. It was locked. I tried again. Still. Locked. I knocked a few times, peeked inside to witness an elegant, hardwood walkway, and dining room lighting, but no people. “What kind of joint are they running here?” I thought. “It said they were open. I just googled it, man, seriously. What the he Just then, an echoed pair of high-heels on hardwood predicted the magical appear­ ance of a well-dressed woman out of, seemingly, the sheetrock. I was so appalled I kept my nose on the glass for a second too long. She saw me pull away, leaving a little oily mark of my own to go with all the others. She made a face and opened the door. She said nothing, and pointed directly to her right. Underneath a little, red, con­ spicuous looking button, a small sign read: “Press here for fingerprints.” “Well, that’s what I’m here for,” I thought. I pressed it with some immediate regret reakzing agam that the signage on this building was increasingly misleading. I almost felt the welcome mat beneath my feet begin to give out. To my relief, a doorbell rang. Continued on pages 4 & 5 1 �The InkwellQuarterly Volume 9 Issue 2 Their, Frc My Faculty Updates By Kendra Kuhar Dr. Marcia Farrell has recendy had a conference abstract accepted to the Society for the Study of the American Women Writer 2015. A paper tided “Why Must She Suffer?” is well-fitting for the panel “Lives Welded and Woven.” The paper discusses how activities such as quilting, embroidering, and crocheting have gained main­ stream attention, and establishes cultural significance. Dr. Farrell points out that over the past decade, publications with typically female protagonists and narrators have been unified around fiber arts, and these texts have been pub­ lished in paperback, hardback and e-book formats. Trends witnessed in such texts, Dr. Farrell argues, forge a con­ nection between stitching and emotional catharsis as each of the narrators or protagonists suffer some type of loss either prior to the beginning of the text or shordy thereafter.” Ultimately, Dr. Farrell’s paper inspects the occurrence of trauma being relieved through stitching in order to assert that stitching “provides a modicum for control for the (often female) protagonist or narrator that other aspects of her life do not.” By S; Berns spent Conra Meyei Psychoa Chann contro surroui Bernart dismiss possess escapes to be in Dr. Chad Stanley is currently working on two conference papers. One paper focuses on British writer Thomas Gray’s “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes,” and indications of class, gender, property and art in the text. The other paper is tided, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bear? Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Additionally, Dr. Stanley is preparing to teach ENG 298: Visual Literacy. Dr. Stan­ ley defines Visual Literacy as “in part, the ability to interpret, analyze, and perhaps even produce visual texts; furthermore it can incorporate the analysis of visual relationships and the very act of looking itself.” The course relates closely to Digital Humanities, and will study various forms of visual texts, visual dynamics and visual politics, as well as literary texts in which visual images, artistry, and/or visual politics are of crucial significance. Nichola they slat being to Nichola; the relati ing for d as a worl Artwork by Dr. Chad Stanley Manuscript Update By Sarah Simonovich It seems dini him; problem; they both comes to While the deadline for fall submissions has passed, Manuscript will continue accepting submissions into the spring semester. Wilkes University students, faculty, staff, and alumni are welcome to submit both written and visual art Individuals may submit up to five pages of text and five visual pieces. Send submissions and queries to: magazine@wilkes.edu. Those interested in joining Manuscript may be eligible to receive one ((1) “ English credit. Manuscript counts as ENG 190B (CRN 30834). Taking Manuscript for credit requires participation in meetings and eve: :nts, which include, but *• ~z ... . -- - Staff �Issue 2 Quarterly _ yolume 9 Issue 2 From Biography to Miniseries: Harry Houdini Continues to Mystify Audiences By Sara Pisak ded ainions pubconf loss rrence ir the ernard C. Meyet, famed Manhattan psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has spent years prior to his death analyzing renowned figures such as Joseph Conrad and Harry Houdini. This fall, Bernard C. Meyer’s son Nicholas Meyer adapted his father 1976 biography Houdini: A Mind in Chains, A 1 syihoana/ytic Portrait into a mini-series, which aired on The History Channel. Neither Meyer family member has escaped controversy. This controversy is appropriate considering much of Houdini’s persona is surrounded in mystery. Bernard C. Meyer’s controversy stems from what critics deemed as a one sided use of psychoanalytic terms. Critics dismissed Bernard’s biography as a means for the author to uncover psychological problems that Houdini did not possess. These contrived problems ranged from supposed claustrophobia to references to bondage in Houdini s escapes. Critics fired back at Bernard’s text as containing too much “psychobabble.” Opponents of the text found it to be inapplicable to the everyday reader who does not possess a doctorate level degree in psychology. Nicholas Meyer’s Houdini, a miniseries which stars Adrien Brody, is being bashed by critics for the opposite reason they slammed his father’s text, from which the miniseries is adapted. Nicholas’s miniseries is being criticized for being too liberal with the facts of Houdini’s life. In The History Channel special, Houdini is portrayed as a CIA spy. Nicholas takes creative license with a chapter in his father’s text where Bernard discuses Houdini fascination with the relationship between a criminal and the law. Further, Houdini has never been confirmed as to have been work­ ing for the government. This is just one of the reasons critics dismissed the visual representation of Houdini’s life as a work of fiction not containing enough psychology or factual material. inley pong art. ENG but nislelle lay also It seems that material written or visually centered on Houdini will always walk the line regarding criticism, as Hou­ dini himself blurred the line of reality. Whether or not Houdini: A Mind in Chains, A Psychoanalytic Portrait creates problems, is too irrelevant, or Houdini the miniseries does not contain enough factual evidence, one thing is for sure: they both offer insight into a man who’s life will always be enigmatic. It seems reasonable to conclude that when it comes to criticisms of works focusing on Houdini, no one can “escape” the critics. The Inkwell Quarterly Staff Interim Faculty Advisor: Dr. Larry Kuhar Edilor-in-Chief: Kendra Kuhar Copy Editor: Tara Giarratano Layout Editors: Jason Klus, Nicole Kutos Staff Writers: Tara Giarratano, Jason Klus, Kendra Kuhar, Sara Pisak, Jordan Ramirez, Sarah Simonovich Alumni Contributor: Gabby Zawacki Faculty Contributors: Dr. Larry Kuhar, Dr. Thomas HamjE? �Issue 2 Continued from page 1. Article by Jordan Ramirez “Not now!” She said. I tried not to laugh. Everything was very serious. And I am so painfully awkward. She said, somewhat futilely at this point, ‘You here for fingerprints?” ‘Yeah.” I said. “Wilkes?” ‘Yeah.” I said. “Follow me.” It turned out that the sheetrock from which this woman emerged was actually another hallway. There was nobody in this building; just her and I. We sat down opposite each other in front of this strange looking machine. I felt Hke James Bond. Or something. After I’d been fingerprinted — of course, I’d struggled more than the average person at this task — she trusted me enough to make it back to the right door, through its way, down the street, and back to Wilkes campus without hurting myself or others. I did. Things weren’t so serious when I had the opportunity to put my newly received clearances to use. Dr. Ha­ mill, of English Department fame, brought a few English students at Wilkes University with him to Heights-Murray Elementary School for some poetry workshops with young student writers. Dr. Hamill divulged into a thorough explanation of why we were taking over the classroom. He d perhaps averaged a few syllables, too many per word, when he’d finally decided to break us up into groups and begin the workshops. Two of my classmates took on large groups of rabid children. Dr. Hamill took his talents to two even larger groups. I found myself at a table of three boys. This table of three was more than I could handle. My first lead-in and subsequent question was: “Hey fellas! How we doin’? Why do you like poetry?” Instead, one of the boys asked: “Do you play video games?” ‘Yeah, I play video games but — ” Huge mistake. “I’ve got Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo Wars, Super Mario Brothers 3, Destiny 3, Playstation 3, Xbox 3, Wii 3, Gameboy 3...” “OK!” I said. He kept going. “But... OK! Can I see your poem?” I asked him. He finally stopped. ‘Yeah...” The poem was outstanding. Perhaps a litde too outstanding for the age group. He was dealing dealing with with some pretty heavy themes. One of the boys wrote about Thanksgiving, the other drawing, and this boy, well, he wrote about the perpetual nature of darkness and the illuminating capabilities of love. “Wow.” I said. “Did you write this?” ‘Yes.” “Wow.” “I’m entering a poetry contest,” he said. “Wow.” I said. “Maybe you can —“ “I’ll just draw a big black heart around it.” “OK.” I said. He didn’t think I could teach him anything. I was much u , to which all those aforementioned games, teal ot otherwise, beAA ~ “ kept trying to interject conversations about video games g; while I tried helnin? tbe nA baPPen’ and doing so fairly - is not easy. P g Other b°ys Poems- Caching - The InkwellQua, When I a “Write it “Nah.” E “Oh, wel He starte he could eat in a down. “That’s a town!” “Nah.” H I felt my s was already havin began and ended Deviled Egg. I briefly c the boys had begi one more, Juan, v direction. “Heyjuai “Yeah. I g I did want, crossed out. He w He was or honestly believed try to reproduce il Sometimes 1 So I draw h Bat sometin. So I think o And now I, I read his j cessfully engaging back to my group < more temporary ta “Are tempi He shufflec “Will I evei Once we’d eiindy. It all worked. 3 As I returm thought. Perhaps, li leaving me, his bigt what is right in fror shops. �2 The InkwellQuarterly Volume 9 Issue 2 When I asked die secoi•nd''boy for ’ his poem, he said: “I wrote it but.. .1 don’t have it.” ‘Write it again!” I said, smiling. “Nah.” He said. Oh, well, ’ my smile faded, “let’s write something else.” started talking about his temporary tattoos.. .about how hungry he was.. .about how many deviled eggs down1 d 631 U1 a SmSle SittinS’ and h°W he WOuld sPrinkle salt uP°n their huffy, yellow innards and scarf them Thats a poem, right there! I said. ‘Write a poem about how you can eat more deviled eggs than anyone in Nah.” He said. “I’ll write about Thanksgiving.” I felt my soul frown. He had recited a poem. A Wpoem. It was fantastic. And just like that it was gone. I was already having trouble remembering his opening lines. He subsequendy produced a poem in a few seconds that began and ended with “I like Thanksgiving.” It was.. .great...surely. But I have to admit I wish he’d read aloud The Deviled Egg. I briefly considered the functions of teachers. And my function, sitting there, like an idiot. Defeated. Two of the boys had begun to arm wrestle. I didn’t stop them. These two boys were satisfied with my guidance. There was one more, Juan, who had been sitting with his chin on the heel of his hand, never taking so much as a glance in my direction. “Hey, Juan, can I read what you’ve written?” “Yeah. I guess. If you want.” Sounds like me. I did want. I read the whole poem. It was written sloppily and quickly, words misspelled and crossed out. He writes like me, too. He was one of the few children in the class who had absolutely no interest in reading his poem aloud. He honestly believed nobody would care to listen. But I loved this poem. As a matter of fact, I will never forget it. I will try to reproduce it as best as I can: Sometimes I never know what to write. Sol draw instead. Bat sometimes I don’t know what to draw. Jo I think of the things that I saw. And now I can draw. I read his poem four or five times in a row. Smiling. 1 looked around the room. I saw my two classmates suc­ cessfully engaging their students. I saw Dr. Hamill handling a group of 12 or so with ease. I admired them. I turned back to my group of three. One had seemingly vanished. In fact, he was just being punished for trying to put on more temporary tattoos while I wasn’t looking. His teacher was scolding him. “Are temporary tattoos on our list of things to do today? He shuffled around in his seat and looked at the list with squinted eyes. I laughed. “Will I ever be able to do this?” I thought. “No chance.” Once we’d returned to campus I’d sat down and reimagined myself in the classroom. I did everything differ endy. It all worked. They ^//listened. I commanded the class like Dr. Hamill; like my classmates. As I returned home late that night I realized I may have sold myself short too quickly. “I can do this,” I thought. Perhaps, like Juan — who had jumped out of his seat for gym class faster than any other student in class leaving me, his biggest fan, in a saddened state of neglect incapable of saying goodbye I need only learn from what is right in front of me. While Juan will paint portraits one day, maybe I’ll be conducting my own poetry work­ shops. It is a big deal, education. One. Big. Deal. Go thank your teachers. --------------------------------------------------- -—* 5 - �Volume 9 Issue 2 The Inkwell The InkweJlQjfpffjf Senior Capstone Presentations By Jason Kins ™, .h, Kirbv Hall Salon, two graduating seniors, Cierra Humphrey and On Wednesday, December 10 at 2:00 PM m me 1 M &cul£y and students are encouraged to attend thesc Iordan Ramirez, wil present their senior capsto p presentations.. light refreshments will follow. Alumi By Gabb] Contemporary Author Updates By Sara Pisak Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC announces the release of the text, Journey to Discover the Meaning of Lafe. The text written by Wilkes Professor Edward T. Bednarz III, PhD follows the lives of several characters as they search for and find the answers to some of life’s most difficult questions. Tate Pubfishing states, “Be prepared for a roller coaster thrill of a ride as characters encounter danger, bizarre coincidences that have no explanation, and deep loving experiences.” Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995-2014 by Alice Munro is Random House’s newest release. Munro is a 2013 Nobel Prize winner in literature. Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995-2014 is a follow up to Munro’s first volume Selected Stories: 1968-1994. Family Furnishings contains twenty-four of Munro’s stories, which present the greatest highs and lows of the human experience. Al Michaels and L. Jon Wertheim, team-up to compose Al Michaels memoir, Tou Can’t Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television. Publisher Harper Collins boast of the memoir as follows: “One of television’s most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.” Michaels has experienced sev­ eral events to regal for the audience such as the “Miracle on Ice” and the earthquake at the 1989 World Series. tivafedI fodS’ b PrCSS 1S b°°k °f P°etry authored bY Therese Halscheid. The poems are mohlmffemd d^t T1” “ 'S“ “Peh“ &*er’s brain damage as a result of complications many of Halschefd’s XemT^' ’ has published four other w^rks^1118 6 SUmved for thlrty years after the accident, is the inspiration for Spmt A finalist for the Patterson Poetry Book Prize’ Halschel Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The com^^stated^he N b T of memory with which he has evoked tfip m <- 026 Pkerature 2014 was awarded to Patrick Modiano for the art occupation.” Some of Patrick Modiano’s work human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the others. Modlano s include, Ring Roads> Night Rounds and The Search Warrant among 6 For come a col would appl solve real v going to cu Ths decided tha to see what a way to fit Mine Recla: wrote small internship, I do. I nc perform fie I’ve met a 1< working on our buildins adelphia am content wrii gotten to kr and I now c Alic grow a resui I love. I ha'1 bine my lov< thought I ha . Myi you want to communicat within the sc limits. �Issue The InkwellQuarterly Volume 9 Issue 2 lphrey and ,attend these By Gabby Zawacki f Life. The as they repared for a ion, and deep is a 2013 rst volume greatest b: Miracles, follows: r firsthand irienced sev[ Series. ,s are monplications piration for ize, Halscheid [ Prize in o for the art ■orld of the arrant among il. J For most of my college career, I thought that my plan after graduation was to go to graduate school and be­ come a college professor. At the beginning of my senior year, the time when I needed to begin considering where I would apply and all of the details that go into applying, I decided that it was not the right choice for me. I wanted to solve real world problems and use my writing skills to make positive changes; however, graduate school just wasn’t going to cut it. That decision lead me to consider an option that I had often placed on the back-burner: grant writing. I decided that if I was going to dive into this world that I knew nothing about, I should get an internship and begin to see what my options were. I have always enjoyed environmental sciences and wanted to discover if I could find a way to fit my writing skills into that industry. I found an internship with the Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR), an environmental non-profit, for my last semester and through my time there I wrote small grants, wrote web stories, and did field work. There was no promise of a position with them after my internship, but the experience made me sure that being a part of the environmental industry was what I wanted to do. I now work for EPCAMR as a Watershed Outreach Specialist. I do grant writing, execute grant projects, perform field work & water chemistry, and facilitate community outreach initiatives. Through my work with them, I’ve met a lot of different people that have lead me to other opportunities. Some people from Philadelphia were working on a film about the Huber Breaker and often came to EPCAMR because the breaker was located behind our building. I joined them as a writer & producer. The Director for that film runs a production company in Phil­ adelphia and hired me to be the Producer of his company, SightSense Productions, where I do grant writing, web content writing, social media outreach, and graphic design. In addition, through my work with EPCAMR, I have gotten to know members of Earth Conservancy, another environmental non-profit specializing in mine reclamation, and I now do grant writing for them as well. All of these positions are part time, but all of these positions are work within my field that allow me to grow a resume and use my college degree. Most importantly, all of these positions involve me doing something that I love. I have a passion for environmental sciences and the past coal mining industry in PA. I found a way to com­ bine my love for these things with an English degree. For most of my time as an English major, the only option I thought I had was grad school or creative writing. I wasn’t aware of this entire other world of writing opportunities. My point is this: Put yourself out there. See new things. Be innovative. If you have something you love that you want to be a part of, find a way to make it work. Your English degree comes with many skills: critical thinking communication, and clear writing. Use these skills. They are needed. They are wanted. There is a place for writing ’ within the sciences, as well as every other industry. You can do what you love and use your degree. There are no limits. �Volume 9 The InkwellQuarterly______________ __ Issue 2 The Inkwell^ Mockingjay Part 1 Review By Tara Giarratano Mockingjay Part 1, the third installment in the Hunger Games franchise based on the novels of the same name by Suzanne Collins, hit theaters on Friday, November 21st 2014. The film begins with protagonist Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) contemplating the bleak future of Panem from the nuclear-powered District 13 and introduces a power struggle be­ tween Katniss and another political figurehead, President Coin, the singular overseer of the newly discovered military district. The Collins-adapted screenplay continues its materialist cri­ tique of the cold-hearted Capitol which began in the series’ first installment, but more deeply examines the dictatorial conditions of the militarized District 13, where weapons are abundant but food and oxygen are both rationed. An internal commentary on the artifice of propaganda unfolds from Katniss’s starring role as the Mockingjay in President Coin’s televised campaign against the Capitol. She participates only as a ploy to force a rescue of the captured and hijacked Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). The actor delivers his most tortured performance to date, as Peeta is severely disturbed by the Capitol’s brutal brainwashing, and be­ comes dangerously violent. As Katniss’s fury against the Capitol builds, her distaste also with District 13’s regimented ways are latently communicated as subde foreshadowing for the fran­ chise’s final plot twist, should the last film stay true to the book. Among the film’s most emotively intense moments are scenes of nationwide protest, in which the paupers of the Districts brave­ ly rally and riot against the inhumanly violent “Peacekeepers.” Such scenes are an asset not present in the book, which is limited to Katniss’s point of view only. With a wider lens through which to view the crisis building in Panem, Mockingjay Part 1 delivers as a disaster narrative perhaps even more thrilling than die novel. The film also stars Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Elizabeth Banks as Effie bee et, am Claflin as Finnick Odair and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as double agent Plutarch Heavens- nf ti?SUe 91 °f Inkwe^ Quartlery, the first page incorrectly lists the publishing date which Wk aS aU 2015 ” °Ur Layout Editors would like to aplogize for this misprinting, een corrected in this issue; Issue 9.2 has not been published in the future as f9.1 -- inadvertently was. staeq uapH .Ja 8 sBoioqj^ in £ --------- ------ [pwiy BpjujAj -jq 7 uBaSjOj- I An Aud By Jason KI I am r ture nor the fi to listen to the the fuss is all < cles the story i movie has bee and the Deathly pop music figi artists collabo of Mockingjay. Lorde: contributions are die two m< with die heavy portant theme surprising peri add a unique c ^ough, despit rather than a r tug more comi “Dead Air,” a It prot there must be hhn and what two are what C ®hows us the c her innovative �Issue 2 Issue 2 Tbe Inkwell Quarterly ;> aA 1 Photo courtesy of Sarah Simonovich. The InkwellQuarterly Staff would like to extend wishes for a happy and relaxing winter break! An Auditoffy Review of Mockingjay By Jason Klus <Y ider lens ps even s as Effie eavens- v date inting, e as 9.1 5 UE9S I I am not familiar with Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games media franchise in any capacity neither the litera ture nor the films. However, with the latest film just having arrived in theaters on November 21st, I was compelled to listen to the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 to try to form some sort of opinion about what the fuss is all about. The movie is an adaptation of Collins’s 2010 dystopian novel of the same name which chroni­ cles the story of Katniss Everdeen, played in the film by Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence. The movie has been broken into two different pieces with Part 2 set for release sometime in 2015 (sort of in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows fashion). The album was curated by eighteen-year-old New Zealander Lorde, who has been a pop music figurehead since her 2013 debut Pure Heroine, and features a variety of contemporary pop and alternative artists collaborating to form a strange blend of pop-electronica-hip-hop that echoes the science fiction undertones of Mock^^ contfibutlons to the Mockingjay - Part 1 album go far beyond a simple role as the “curator.” Her contributions to the album, “Yellow Flicker Beat” and a cover of “Ladder^Song” by the inche group Bright Eyes are the two most fitting and interesting txacks on the soundtrack. Lorde s brooding melancho^ well with the heavy electronic production of the tracks; both tracks act as a reminder o what I think must be an imy r TWorn;np hardship in a dehumanized society. These tracks are further accented by portant theme of the film, over g Bntish/Pakistani singer Bat for Lashes that really surpnsmg performances y 4‘nriainal Beast” and “Plan the Escape” respectively). There are some misses, add a unique depth re^ does sound much mok Bte a collect of “Top 40” tracks "t-™ rl'”V “ .. . . v-y V Dead Air,” a title which may re er p^( y on its soundtrack alone, and especially in this case. I think It probably isn t fair to ju g J Lorde has put together as an auditory representation of the there must be a rather large disconnect betweenQf course, that’s not to say that either of these him and what the film’s director, Francis readers It is fair to say that the Mockingjay - Part 1 soundtrack two are what Collins wanted to impress up fanchise Lorde is continuing to ------------------- I--------------------- 9 ________ �Issue 2 Volume 9 The InkwellQuarterly 7^ InkwellQue Hamill’s Hunches By Dr. Thomas Hamill OK. First, I need to apologize and confess. So we will begin, it seems, sacramentally, with Reconciliation—a ritual that pre-inscribes a sort of presumptive forgiveness for which I must also say, “I’m sorry” or Lo siento, even as I (telegraphically) veil my gesture in the apologia (of sorts) that follows. When last I wrote my Hunches back in Fall 2013 (before failing to submit in Spring and before the generous (Edito­ rial) relief of a “Best of” reprint for the last issue) I offered what I promised would be a two-part Hunches arcing allegorically from the wonders of The Berenstain Bears (and the failed self-awarenesses of the frauds who decry their too-sweet saccharine sugary goodness and who are, well, frauds) to the unexpected (and brilliant) parallels among fallen language, John Milton, and episode number ??? of the PBS children’s series Arthur. I originally planned to write this alleged two-part Hunch as one Hunch, but, as with the research essay on Shakespeare’s History Plays I wrote in a two-day stretch (i.e. an all-nighter) my first semester senior year back in the Fall of ‘95,1 had great vision and motivated ideas but failed (inevitably) at the levels of scaling, planning, and, of course, proportionality. (In good and honest time(s) I hope to redress this historical sin by way of a course of my own; for now, though, in these failed days, I’ll simply bear the burden of guilt and stick to a Hunches-specific “redemption”.) Where was I? Oh—that’s right. Sin and contrition and confession and penance and absolution. Or, as J. Roddy Walston & The Business so wonderfully put it, “You know that old Catholic tone.. .You know that old Catholic tone.... The heavy bells.. .The heavy bells.. .The heavy bells are tolling out at tune... The heavy bells... The heavy bells.. .Oh God I felt that metal move... You’re gonna wake up.. .You’re gonna wake up.. .You’re gonna wake up... Find the heavy bells toll their tune for you too....” Sorry. What a great song that is. (Thanks, Joe, for keeping me plugged in.) Any speaking of brilliant lyrics, I need to clarify: Somewhere deep in Bear Country Laves the Berenstain Bear Tamily They’re kindafurry around the torso They’re a lot like people only more so Their/They re error-as-typo back in the Spring 2014 issue (8.3) did great violences to the genius of the very line (and insight) - ' I was ^g point up as the apotheosis of lyrical and poetic achievement—and, sadly (and ironically) one of my fears and anxieties ever since has been that you, dear readers, have all along been thinking I was instead trying to send up some grammatical error in the lyric itself. Oh, no my friends; the lyric is what it is (Hi, Dr. Kuhar!), and it’s flipping brilli;iant. They re kindafurry around the torso / They’re a lot like people only more so. Wow. I mean, really. (The frauds, of course, still don’t get it. Flow could they, right?) okay. No one °‘ T]‘Seemed to be some 8great rea< authority: authority:““There, There,there, there,now nowDr. Dr.Hamill. Hamill. ItIt’s’s He smmm T °‘ Tt C” y°U ge*ba<* *° Hunches now?” “WelZ ” "P y’ *hMe’S "° Ethete! It’s Tteyh!” rn there. ThZI’XZZeZ”"* There’>b«e, now. There, there. If s okay. Hang They’re there.”] g y°U’ 1 S “ theit nature- They’re a lot like people only more so too. They are. Continued on page 12. 10 Kuhar’s By Dr. Larn When Words Words We kn they can work language, we k often about thi There ture, we assure construct new texts. We kno1 We bee best exampleswhen we thanl munity. With d and staff that 1 thankful for as contributions t program, and u tations, the Ha program picnic with students,: Our fai activities and e service learning our local comn Thank °f recommend offer alumni. Thank achieve excelle: serving tire mis Thank activities as we] Simply values that are confirmation o 3ankyOil_ �Issue 2 So we tual that must also ty gesture Tbe InkwellQuarterly Volume 9 Kuhar’s Korner s mmr .wg By Dr. Larry Kuhar I si When Words Work: Thank you to Our English Program Team 2013 (E dito­ what r from nesses oodness arallels ’ of the rich e. an ailed hope to tr the as old lells... e gonna >f the y (and : is (Hi, >w. I It’s ang ire. Issue 2 J Words can fall short. Words can work We know this. Words can fail at the most meaningftl moments; they can work in the most trivial texts. As experts and forming-experts in I language, we know about this because our work in the English program is often about the gap between words and meanings. There are plenty of examples to show when and how words work and when they fail. When we read litera­ ture, we assume that these words will work. We empower words, we draw out fuller meanings from them, and we construct new texts. We know, too, that words can fail our efforts to draw out fuller meanings, to construct larger texts. We know this from reading writers such as Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon, or Wallace Stevens. We become aware sometimes, even as the words are communicated, that words may fall short. One of the best examples of the tension between when words may fail and when they can succeed—is words communicated when we thank those around us for who they are at work and for all they do to serve our English program and the com­ munity. With this in mind, I want to share my heartfelt, sincere thanks with the community of professors, adjuncts and staff that have made our English program so strong over the past year. We have a lot to be proud of and thankful for as a program and community. Thank you to our team of dedicated English faculty for their selfless contributions to our program over the past year. I appreciate and value the coundess hours each of you spent at program and university events, such as Open House, VIP Day, Summer Freshman Orientation, Capstone presen­ tations, the Halloween reading, Manuscript readings and Inkwell meetings, curriculum meetings, spring and fall program picnics, visiting writers events, program development and program assessment meetings, advising meetings with students, monthly team meetings ... the list of program-focused events and activities goes on and on and on. Our faculty also selflessly contribute their time, ideas, and leadership to many other important and impactful activities and events beyond the walls of Kirby Flail. Thank you to faculty who have spent endless hours providing service learning opportunities to our students in the community. We are leaders in this area across campus and in our local community. Thank you to faculty who continue to work with and to serve our English program alumni, writing letters of recommendation, providing guidance and support, and serving as role models for the potential the career has to offer alumni. Thank you to our adjunct faculty team who have worked diligently - under challenging circumstances - to achieve excellence in the classroom. Over the past year our adjunct team achieved excellence in the classroom while serving the mission and values of our program. Thank you to our office staff who provided outstanding service and assistance on a long list of day-to-day activities as well as special events. . r . , c . ... Simply put our core faculty team and staff deliver on the promtse of mentonng and of modeling the "lues that are at the core of the Wilkes mission. It is my hope that these words succeed m achrevmg the hoped-for confirmation of the value I have for and the respect I place on the work of English Department faculty and staff. hankyon. 11 �Volume 9 - The InkwellQuarterly---------- --------------------------- - ________ ______________________ bit better now anyway. But what do we learn Do you hear that too? Yes? No? OK HlU* * 8°^ question we might think, and I’d be late in a or fail to learn from failing language, I wonder. s among Dante; Chaucer, Langland number of senses even if I were to situate this r eived as part of a declining post-lapsarian world—part and their contemporaries, for whom language was ° mentor of mine, Dr. Jim Dean. of The World Grown Old, to quote the book title o Lost „ Not Paradise Lost by John Milton, but “Paradise But I’m going to go a bit later still ^e--to ar You premise of that episode is that Lost,” episode ??? (I’ll look it up eventually) o e can actuauy communicate (quite eloquently and toddlers and dogs who (we know) don 11 actu y communicative / linguistic species incisively) with each other. It’s only as the toddlers grow up I fissure finally occurs. [Enter, again, the Editor, or what seemed to be some great authority: “This sounds like it’s going to take a long time, Dr. Hamill. Remember what happened with the paper on Shakespeare’s histories? “But. But...,” his words tumbled, toppling Babel. “I need to talk about Pal and Kate and the Dali Llama they visit and the ‘blah blah blahs’. And what about failed language? And fraud?” ‘“There will be time’, as someone once said,” the voice said calmly. “There’s always Spring.” “Really? Are you sure?” he Hunched, still toppling. “OK. Remind me also to include the link to Blake Mills. Do you see it already? The opening verse of the opening song off of Heigh Ho? ‘Pve found a new meaning.. .for the oldest words in use.’ Do you see the connection? Pretty cool, huh? Shouldn’t I just finish this out? I think that song can help me tie it all together” “There, there, Dr. Hamill,” the voice again, patient and sure. “There, there. It’s okay. We can see those words already, in the next /g issue. There, there. They’re there.] There it was again. No? OK. Sorry. Back to my point. What’s most striking about “Paradise Lost” as an episode is the radically new perspective it opens up on the idea that we might really be failing to understand.... UNFINISHED Faculty “Shellies” Game by Tara Giarratano The IQ Staff asked professors from our English Department to send us photos from their personal bookshelves. Identify the “shelfie” with the correct professor! 1 I ep ---- I • ff SMI IH NUMH> ■’’! ¥ i- r/i r 1....... > "A “t Moon I •» 1 ■ ci <uJ 11 2 & 3 4 I? JESUS’ SQw , DENIS UOHNSONj 5 Answers on page 8 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, Fall 2014 (Volume 9, Issue 2) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The English Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 2014 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wilkes University retains copyright of this publication. https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/0b3cf069793683e228c54bea0dabd702.pdf b265a6f665e3dd7281535ab549198d6c PDF Text Text The Inkwell Quarterly Issue 3 Volume 9 The Inkwell Quarterly Volume 9 Spring 2015 Issue 3 English student Gabriella Romanelli meets Phil Klay at his February 10 reading. Photo courtesy of Gabby Glinski/The Beacon In This Issue: ball Course Offerings o Contemporary Author Updates 3 Poctrv in Transit 5 ENG 340 at The Morgan 6-7 Kuhars Korncr 8 Phil Klay, National Book Award Winner, Holds Campus Workshop and Reading by Sara Pisak The 2014 National Book Award winner for fiction Phil Klay visited campus on Wilkes Magazine & Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Klay’s campus visit was an English department event spon­ I larper Lee 9 sored by the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund as part of the Spring Writers Series. Garnering national attention for his collection of fictional short stories entitled Redeployment, Klay, a Spring Writers Series veteran of the Marine Corps, works to authenticate the experience of soldiers whether they 10 are deployed or on the home front. Klay spent lais time on campus as a guest speaker, a writing workshop conductor, and a host at a public reading. I lamill’s I lunches While on campus, Klay spoke in Dr. Larry Kuhar’s class, Studies in Postmodern­ 11 ism, during which Klay and students discussed and analyzed three of his short stories; “Re­ deployment,” Bodies,” and “Ten Clicks South.” These three stories are located within Klay’s More I lunches & recent text Redeployment. Students only needed to communicate with Klay for a few minutes Game 12 before realizing he is sincere and unaffected by the national publicity surrounding him and his text. Klay only needs a few minutes to impress upon students his well-read nature. During his writing workshop with students, Klay discussed some of his favorite authors and sources of inspiration in the short story genre such as Isaak Babel, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Klay was eager to narrate a story about his time in military training, where he memorized T.S. EEot’s The Waste Rand. Through­ out Klay’s workshop, students were able to inquire about the process of securing an agent and submitting manuscripts for those interested in pursuing a career in publishing. When discussing manuscripts and his text Redeployment, Klay expressed the concept “all books are made out of other books.” Continued on page 4. 1 �Issue 3 Volume 9 The InkwellQuarterly The Ink Fall 2015 Course Offerings Com by Jason Klus by Sat Time to register for classes for next semester is upon us once again, and next fall a wide variety of class es will be offered for English students to pursue studies in a number of different fields. As always, ENG 101 an ENG 120 will be offered in numerous sections by a host of professors. Addtionally, ENG 190 is offered in three sections for one credit each: one for Inkwell Quartlerly (Dr. Farrell), one for Manuscript Society (Dr. Anthony/ Dr. Kelly), and one for the Writing Center (Dr. Stanley). The courses listed as 200-level and above are fisted below. Be sure to see your academic advisor or the professor if you have any questions/concerns about a certain class. History most ft from T and irm ENG 201 ENG 202 ENG 218 ENG 225 ENG 233 ENG 282 ENG 333 ENG 337 ENG 366 ENG 393 ENG 397 Writing About Lib & Culture (Writing Intensive) Technical Writing (Writing Intensive) Writing Practicum Comparative GrammarSurvey of English Literature I Survey of American Literature II Studies in 17th Century Literature (WSM designated) Studies in American Romantic Literature Studies in Modern American Drama 'leaching English for Middle School/Secondary Education Seminar: Whodunnits,..Harry Potter, and the Impact of the Novel 4 cr. MW 09:00-10:40 Dr. Stanley 3 cr. MWF 11:00-11:50 Dr. Kemmerer 3 cr. 3 cr. 3 cr. MWF 11:00-11:50 TR 09:30-10:45 TR 01:00-02:15 Dr. Kelly Dr. Hamill Dr. Hamill 3 cr. TR 02:30-03:45 Dr. Kuhar 3 cr. MW 03:00-04:15 Dr. Starner 3 cr. MWF 09:00-09:50 Dr. Kelly 3 cr. MWF 11:00-1 1:50 Dr. Stanley 4 cr. M 06:00-09:30 Prof. Grier 3 cr. M\X b 10:00-10:50 Dr. Farrell ______ _______________ If you are interested in joining the Inkwell Quarterly staff for the upcoming semes­ ter, please contact Dr. Marcia Farrell (marcia.farrell@wilkes.edu) or Tara Giarratano (tara.giarratano@wilkes.edu). We are currently looking for staff writers, copy editor(s) and other staff members. Feel free to contact us with any questions! 2 Soldiers: United rorism, new inf new wc of brae isolauo: Hlack Pi of one forerun Henry 1 the first collectic �Issue 3 The InkwellQuarterly Volume 9 Issue 3 Contemporary Author Updates by Sara Pisak y of classJG 101 and :ed in three Anthony/ e listed below, tain class. llev lercr iy uii du Random House has recently released a new work by Kevin Ashton entided, How to Fly a Horse. The ecr History of Creation, Invention and Discovery. Ashton, an MIT 1 graduate, explores the truth behind some of the worl most famous inventions. Random House states, “Drawingj on examples from art, science, business, and invention, from Mozart to the Muppets, Archimedes to Apple, Kandinsky to a can <of Coke, Flow to Fly a Horse is a passionate and immensely rewarding exploration of how ‘new’ comes to be.” History buffs will rejoice when Random House releases Bruce Hoffman’s historical account Anonymous Soldiers: The Strugglefor Israel, 1917-1947. Hoffman’s text is based on recently available documents recounting the United Nations’ decision to establish the sovereign state of Israel. Hoffman, the leading United States expert in ter rorism, employs previously unavailable archived material from London, Washington, DC. and Jerusalem to unear new information on the political decision surrounding the creation of Israel. Penguin Publishing has announced a new work of poetry by award winning poet Joanna Klink. Klink s new work is entitled Excerptsfrom a Secret Prophecy. The publisher boasts “Joanna Klink has won acclaim for poetry of bracing emotional intensity.” Klink’s new work focuses on a vanishing world and on struggling to overcome isolation. Excerptsfrom a Secret Prophecy works as a meditation on being alone and striving to connect with others. Ln ci' rv A new nonfiction release from HarperCollins entitled Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Eady of the Ptlack Press is penned by James McGrath Morris. Morris, a celebrated biographer, works to bring to light the life of one of the most prolific but relatively unknown figure of the Civil Rights Movement, Ethel Payne. Payne, a forerunner in journalism, covered momentous historical events which included the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Henry Kissinger’s tour of Africa, and the Little Rock school desegregation, among others, on her way to becoming the first female African American national radio and television commentator. Morris uses unexploited personal collections of Payne’s own paperwork to shine light on an influential woman. 1- 1 The Inkwell Quarterly Staff semesrratano ditorfs), Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcia Farrell Editor-in-Chief: Kendra Kuhar Copy Editor: Tara Giarratano Layout Editors: Jason Klus, Nicole Kutos Staff Writers: Tara Giarratano, Kendra Kuhar, Sara Pisak, Sarah Simonovich Layout Assistant: Robert Kobilis Faculty Contributors: Dr. Larry Kuhar, Dr. Thomas A. Hamill �Volume 9 The Inkwell Qua Continued from page 1 Article by Sara Pisak Poetry ii by Sarah Sirr «»/««»/ employ5 fictional short stories as a format, I inquired as to what particular story stood Since fP warveterani these stories required him to not only complete research but to sometimes relive and “dwells f Lvc place or to write from a negative character voice,” thus each story occupies a different personal sentiment forTe author. Klay and I also discussed the ways in which his stories are linked throughout this text. Klay asserts that each story “is not a one-off.” The first few vignettes “help to inform the reader’s perception of the latter sto­ ries” Klay continues, “Jetted against the backdrop of war, all the stories assist in what needs to be a conversation.” The public reading held by Klay were conducted in the Henry Student Center Ballroom at 7 p.m. on Tues­ day, February 10, 2015. The public reading afforded fans of Klay, who were not affiliated with Wilkes University, the opportunity to hear Klay read two of his short stories: “Bodies” and “Ten Clicks South.” Guests were also offered the opportunity to learn about Klay and his writing during the question and answer portion of the reading. Klay divulged personal stories about his time serving as a Public Affairs Officer in Iraq. Klay also answered questions surrounding his use of profanity and alarming representations within Redeployment. He states, “These aspects deserve to be thought about because people carry these things with them.” Klay continues, “These are for understanding but should not be used gratuitously.” Klay believes he does not push the boundaries too far because these elements are important to illustrate the whole picture. Klay concluded his reading by discussing his upcoming project, which he was unwilling to divulge or share any secrets, just yet. Those in attendance were also able to have their books signed by Klay’s before the reading officially came to a close. As Klay’s campus visit concluded, an obvious observation was Klay has created a far sweeping, everyday com ersation centered on the elements of combat which might have otherwise been overlooked. The av side all Luzern view the entire and positive at normally be re lowing individi Richard Hani County Comm until April 15. more than thre The P( System and Lc considered a k to become sup imagery, create through maps, collaborator. z busses, in a sir guage projects the city, “Hirai a place of one greeting for th Dr. Ai project to Pro is defined by t behavior, etc; like Dr. Antlic places. The integratic lights die com is an art form which die poe thony’s progn die poems (ar of mimesis. I relationship b possibly defin Ph" A™d P ywent. Photo courtesy of nationalbook.tumblr.com �iie 3 The Inkwell Quarterly Volume 9 Issue 3 Poetry in Transit: Travel in Verse and Realities by Sarah Simonovich y U in ^ent :s :s- agred e )r ise ing ve The award-winning Poetry in Transit program is a local artistic endeavor to display verse by local writers in side all Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA) buses. Selected poems are rotated monthly so riders can view the entire collection over the course of the year. The Poetry in Transit program aims to promote a thoughtful, and positive attitude among the local community by engaging residents with poetry in spaces where poetry wouldn t normally be read. Dr. Mischelle Anthony launched the program in 2007 and continues to coordinate it. The fol­ lowing individuals currently make up the Poetry Advisory Board: Ann Brennan (Pennsylvania State Wilkes-Barre), Richard Hancuff (Misericordia University); Noreen O’Connor (Kings College); Andrew Petonak (Luzerne County Community College); and Jennifer Yonkoski (Kings College). Submissions are currently being accepted until April 15. The theme for this upcoming year will be “River,” and submissions are limited to six lines, and no more than three submissions per individual. The Poetry in Transit (PIT) program, which was originally inspired by Poetry in Motion on New York’s Transit System and London’s Poems on the Underground program, has now transcended beyond the notions of what might be considered a knowable reality. Dr. Anthony’s PIT program has extended beyond its real roots in Luzerne County to become jz^w-real in the fictional city of Bogenbrook. Robert Salsburg, a local artist who works with urban imagery, created Bogenbrook and has been working on the concept for several years. The fictional city is depicted through maps, posters, city views, and other real-world artifacts including recorded music by a Grammy-nominated collaborator. Another real world addition to this Active city is Dr. Anthony’s poetry which appears on Bogenbrook busses, in a similar fashion to the poetry appearing on local LCTA. Dr. Anthony has also contributed other lan­ guage projects for Bogenbrook, including a regional dictionary fragment and creating the common local greeting for die city, “Hiraeth.” According to Dr. Anthony, Hiraeth is a Welsh word that means, in the real world, “a longing for a place of one’s own childhood that one can’t return to, or a longing for a place that never was,” making it a perfect greeting for the Active city. Dr. Anthony and Robert Salsburg both recently travelled to Oluo University to present their collaborative project to Professor Ray Klimek’s Integrative Media class as an example of psychogeography. Psychogeography is defined by the Orford English Dictionary as “the study of the influence of geographical environment on the mind, behavior, etc; geography considered in regard to its psychological effects.” Students in Professor Klimek’s class are, like Dr. Anthony and Robert Salsburg, creating sound/visual projects that use elements of reality in creating Active places. The integration of the real-world Poetry in Transit program within the creation of the fictitious Bogenbrook high­ lights the complexities of defining the distinction between what constitutes the real verses the unreal. Poetry itself is an art form that relies heavily on the imagination of the poet. A poem, however, is no less real than the bus on which the poem is displayed; the poem simply occupies a different measure of reality. The application of Dr. An­ thony’s program (and her own poems) within Bogenbrook complicates the fictitious city’s ontological status in that the poems (among other artifacts) serve as real-world intertextualities, which propel Salsburg’s creation into a kind of mimesis. The relationship between PIT and Bogenbrook provides an interesting means to examine the symbiotic relationship between the creative arts and what is considered reality and how, keeping this in mind, one can begin to possibly define a knowable world. 212^0X02^^^^ 5 �Volume 9 Issue 3 InkwellQ'‘a,'ler!y_____ ENG 340 Students The Inkwell Qua) Travel to the Morgan Library and Musuem by Tara Giarrantano nr Hamill topped off ENG 340: Studies in Chaucer with a post-new tnD to tl e Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. Home to thousands rf“are rescripts and early printed books, the Morgan boasts an tmpresstve Photos courtesy of Di'r-Thomas A. Hamill & Nicole---Kut< -tos si collection of medieval literary treasures. Seven English majors were hosted by Dr. John McQuillen, Assistant Curator of Printed Books at the Morgan. All of the manuscripts and books shown were first unloaded from locked carts, unpacked from boxed casings, and unraveled from multiple layers of protective cloths. Displayed in pairs, they were then propped up by V-shaped book holders and their pages were held open by individual weights. We were asked to remove any draping scarves or necklaces and to tie back our hair to ensure the books were not touched in any way when we leaned over them. Among the several literary artifacts shown to our group was the Morgan manuscript of The Canterbury Tales. We accessed digital facsimiles of the same mid-fifteenth century manuscript over the course of the Fall 2014 semester in working on ENG 340’s integral Editing Project. The Morgan manuscript was one of four (the others being Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, Hengwrt in the National Library of Wales, and Ellesmere in the Huntington Library in California) analyzed and dissected by ENG 340 students in our quest to compile our own idiosyncratic compilations of one hundred lines of “The Miller’s Tale.” It was something of a starding experience to see the manuscript up close and in color after months of pouring over its black and white digitization. We also had upclose looks at an ornately gilded early fifteenth century manuscript of Troilus and Criseyde (another core text of ENG 340) assumed by museum curators to have once been royally owned. Top Right: The entrance sign to the Morgan. Middle Right: The Morgan’s lobby area features colorful glass windows. Bottom Right: A coat check tag. Below: McQuillen explains differences between the bingsings, embellishments and handwritings of various manuscript w k Additional artifa Amantis, one of v and Dido. Ouee: manuscript of Jc including Caxtoi and two Williai which was once i and fulfilling wa; pilgrimage indee Above Left: One o Above Right: ENC Below Left: Tara G Below Right: The £ �T/je Inkwell Quarterly mill Amantis, one of which was richly detailed with illuminated portraits of the tragic classical characters Pyramus and Thisbe and Dido, Queen of Carthage (key figures in the Dream Visions segment of ENG 340) as well as an early fifteenth century manuscript of John Lydgate’s Siege and Destruction of Troy. We were privileged to see several early printed books as well, including Caxton’s first two editions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (c. 1476 and c. 1483), Gower’s Confessio Amantis (c. 1483), and two William Tyndale New Testaments (one, 1535 printed in Antwerp; the other, 1536, printed in London), one of �Volume 9 The Inkwell Quarterly Issue 3 The Inkwell Kuhar’s Korner Wilkes by Dr. Larry Kuhar by Kendi “The Patricia Boyle Heaman and Robert J. Heaman Scholarship” I want to encourage all majors to consider applying for the Patricia Boyle Heaman and Robert J. Heaman Scholarship. In addi­ tion to the financial benefit, winning this prestigious scholarship presents you with an opportunity to identify yourself as an up-andcoming scholar in our discipline, as well as to earn an accomplish­ ment that positions you well in the eyes of graduate school and law school admissions committees and potential employers in a wide range of fields. Photo courtesy of Earl & Sedor Photography/ Wilkes Magazine Here is the description of the scholarship: “The Patricia Boyle Heaman and Robert J. Eleaman Scholarship is awarded annually to a junior or senior English Literature major. The recipient of this supplementary award is selected by a committee of English faculty members based on demonstrated excellence in English studies, potential for advanced study in English, scholarship and financial need. Preference will be given to students from the Wyo­ ming Valley.” Beyond forwarding the scholarship description, I want to share that Dr. Patricia Heaman and Dr. Robert Heaman have had long and accomplished careers serving the English program, the institution, and thousands of students in Kirby’s classroom. Though it’s a little unfair to join them together in this text, their accomplishments, taken togeth­ er, as educators, scholars and administrators represent the very best in what we consider to be the core values of an educator. As part of the scholarship awards process, you will be invited to share lunch with Pat and Bob at the university’s scholarship luncheon. I hope you will consider applying for the scholarship. To apply, you can forward a letter of application, detailing your accomplishments and rationales for deserving the scholarship, to Dr. Kuhar, Humanities Division Chairper­ son, by May 1, 2015. Quotable Korner and Hunches from IQ issue 6.1, fall 2011 “Bz// canyou really buy insurance against the chaos of life?' We’re not sure, Dr. Kuhar, but we’re sure it’d be expensive. also from IQ issue 6.1, fall 2011 “ fljndeed, Oscar [the Grouch], as Chaucer repeatedly suggests of all great cultural touchstones, is ‘worhtyfor to drawen to memorie. ” We will be sure to “drawen” everyone’s favorite Muppet to “memorie” as soon as we check our Middle English dictionaries. 8 ' Di, newest are by gracing 2015 issue Curriculur article pro humaniriei investigate in class, sc Heights. T1 101, a con must com and literar student pi how percc an image, the establ class that which bol digital hui its impact comparer Harp by Sara ] T! Lee’s new Mockingbi, G to her ho: Scout wil childhooc L a Aloi'king Mockingbi of To Kil L new pub] Was pleas publishec C new novi ------------------------ �ie 3 The InkwellQuarterly Volume 9 Issue 3 ReC°Snizes Digital Humanties by K.encu a ivunai icia L- ndhlaw tial n in :he Digital Humanities, the English Department’s newest area of study, has once again gained attention by gracing the cover of Wilkes Magazine for the Winter 2015 issue. Titled “Beyond Print: Digital Humanities Curriculum Transforms Study of Literature,” the article provides readers with examples in which digital humanities allows students to travel through time and investigate authentic scanned images relevant to topics in class, such as The Canterbury Tales and Wuthering Heights. The discipline also proves useful English 101, a core class that all Wilkes University students must complete. Dr. Chad Stanley, expert in visual and literary art, utilized digital humanities by having a student present a paper on a photograph exemplifying how perception impacts contemporary discussion of an image. Assignments such as these paved the way for the establishment of Visual Literacy, a digital humanities class that is currently being taught by Dr. Stanley in which both printed and electronic texts are analyzed. As digital humanities develops, it will be interesting to discover its impact on students’ desire to work with technology compared to books. English student Victoria Rendina reads about her own work with DH projects. Photo courtesy of Jason Klus. Harper Lee to Release New Book by Sara Pisak The long awaited second novel from famed author Harper Lee is set to be published on July 14, 2015. Lee’s new novel Go Set a Watchman, comes five decades after the pubheatton of her beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird. The Associate Press first broke the news concerning Lee’s new novel on February 3, 2015. Go Set a Watchman is set to reacquaint readers with Lee’s To Kill a Mockmgbtrd character Scout as she returns to her hometown, Maycomb Alabama, after living in New York City. According to the publisher’s press release, Scout will contend with political and social issues in an effort to understand her fathers views in relation to her ehifeod home Of in was ongmally K// to stay out of the r and 11 published after all these years.” Come July 14th book worms everywhere can new novel. anj share ) 9 Lee’s excitement with the release of her �The InkwellQuarterly______________________ Issue 3 Volume 9 The InkwellQuart Hamill’s Spring Writers Series 2015 by Dr. Thoma by Sarah Simonovich Each year, thanks to the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund, the Wilkes University English Department is able to bring visiting writers to campus and host public readings. The series provides students the opportunity to interact with professional writers while also providing a platform for the writers to showcase their work. This year, the Spring Writers Series featured Phil Klay, winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction for his short story collection, Redeployment. Klay, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Dartmouth College graduate, visited cam­ pus on February 10. While at Wilkes, Klay sat in on Dr. Kuhar’s ENG 351 Studies in Postmodernism class where he and students discussed his writings and writing process. Klay also participated in a workshop with students before the public reading. The reading was held in the Henry Student Center at 7pm. Poet Lynn Emanuel visited campus on Monday, March 16. Emanuel has four books of poetry published and cur­ rently teaches English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry and is included in The Orford Book of American Poet/y. Emanuel has received numerous awards, including the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a National Poetry Series Award. While at Wilkes, Emanuel sat in on Dr. Anthony’s ENG 303 advanced poetry class. A public reading was held in the Kirby Flail Salon at 7pm. The final visiting writer for this semester is Henry Veggian, who will be coming to Wilkes on Thursday, April 9. Veggian is a scholar and critic of Hterature, digital humanities, and culture and has written two books: Understanding Don Delal/o and Welcome to Bowfin Country. Individual essays have also been published, including a recent essay on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland In the collection Pynchon’s California from the University of Iowa Press. A public reading will be held in the Kirby Hall Salon at 7pm. “Is this ajoke that If you’ve been re Blake Mills’s Hei^ along, the sevenf wondering if per of my last Hund line” have clearly once again withir extension may or awareness, you nc (alas, not temporar I mean I did pron PBS Children’s Se acquisition correk talking dogs. If y< conscience and au dictory “UNFINI But completion lo ings Time, of coin puns both calendn solipsistic rhythms conjoining both— (or at least simulat It’s saddening to s< tions of (simulatec temporal planning I still promise, in t self as the earlier j the others too, I si what I thought. J Photo courtesy of Jason Klus But sucli notions c tell?” indeed. For while I have time a gers made clear to an earlier error (TZ ogies of my syntax Spring...)....” Iw issue (8.3) did grea �Issue 3 The InkwellQuarterly Issue 3 Volume 9 Hamill’s Hunches by Dr. Thomas A. Hamill ble to bring ‘If this ajoke that only time will tell?” -fact with iction for his visited cam­ ass where he nts before ed and curlology and rous awards, ent for die s ENG 303 7, April 9. nderstanding essay on ;. A public If you ve been reading along, and if you’ve gotten far enough into Blake Mills’s Heigh Ho! by now (and you should be at least diat far along, the sevendi time through, I don’t mind saying), you might be wondering if perhaps this is die lyric I should have cited at the end of my last Hunches. For indeed, time and what we’ll call “the punch line have clearly gotten away from me. The fact that I’m writing once again within die anxiously cozy confines of yet another deadline extension may or may not be legible to you, but even without that Ad??: v'. £ awareness, you no doubt already sense that something is temporally (alas, not temporarily amiss. lomas Photo courtesy o: I mean I did promise illuminating exegesis on Episode ??? of the PBS Children’s Series Arthur, the wonderfully titled “Paradise Lost,” did I not? You know, the one where language acquisition correlates directly to the decline in clear communication (in English at least) among talking toddlers and talking dogs. If you remember, I was rushed along (ironically) by (imagined?) editorial intrusions, allegorizations of conscience and authority that likely knew better than I, and that, among their many kindnesses, conferred the vale­ dictory “UNFINISHED” upon the end of my last Hunch. But completion logics and time have tick-tock-ticked even messier since then. We have now entered Daylight Sav­ ings Time, of course, to say nothing of our transition, for now, out of Ordinary Time (and all wonderfully available puns both calendric cycles offer up). And this is only the (almost) macrocosmic view, for when we return to the solipsistic rhythms of serial Hunching—whether within the “author” function or as constructed “reader” or by conjoining both—we’re reminded, obviously, of all the microcosmic intertexts keeping the whole enterprise “real” (or at least simulation-ready). It’s saddening to see those lost in the mythos of the “impersonal anniversary,” as I’ll call it, the fraudulent appropria­ tions of (simulated) time that is not their own. But what we have here, I trust, is different, a much lesser failure of temporal planning and ownership not unlike the “scaling” of that senior paper I mentioned in the Fall (and which I still promise, in time (sorry), to redeem). And.... And there I go again, don’t I? Stuck talking to and about my self as the earlier paper voices of my self that make up who I am in this here I. <- That one right there. And all the others too, I suppose. For when was the previous reference, really? In the last issue? I think so. At least, that’s what I thought. But such notions of fixedness never were reliable and have only become less so. “Is this a joke that only time will tell?” indeed. For when last I wrote, my frames of reference were predictably out of joint (o cursed spite), and, while I have time and space ere that I further in this tale pace, I should probably explain. As David Bowie’s messen­ gers made clear to me (and to my paper self) shortly after publication of IQ 9.2,1 erred in locating (in my apologia} an earlier error (jThey’re Their; They’re They’re; There There; They’re There}. Wandering in the failed (and funny) etymol­ ogies of my syntax, I first recalled “When I last wrote my Hunches back in Fall 2013 (before failing to submit in Spring...)....”! would later go on to get the time “right” (“My Their/their error-as-typo back in the Spring 2014 issue (8.3) did great violences....”), but that only added to the confusion. Lo Siento. As I once said (again). I. <- Continued on page 12. 11 �Phe InkwellQuarterly_____________________________ Volume 9_______________ _______________ Issue 3 And as always, it’s all my fault. Collapsing time to forge a kind of ironic false prolepsis, borrowing unawares, per­ haps from the ancient priestly writers of the Tanak and of the PheAeneid and of the New Testament, the trick of projecting the past as future history, as prophecy fulfilled. But maybe we’re all complicity guilty; maybe we’ve all been caught up in that arc. I’m not, of course, talking about the frauds defrauding time whom I’ve mentioned above; they’re a lost cause, I’m afraid, beyond salvation logics that, of necessity (and thank God), defy justice. We’re different (and yes you should be mindful of the proliferations of the pluralized I of w). We’re finding time that is our own, even when we don’t know what to do with it or how to count its weights and relativities. For in the very same (paper) moment I failed my time (and ours), we were always already failing together, mindfully: “In issue 9.1 of The Inkwell Quarterly, the first page incorrectly lists the publishing date of the issue as “Fall 2015.” Our Layout Editors would like to apologize for this misprint­ ing, which has been corrected in this issue; Issue 9.2 has not been published in the future as 9.1 inadver­ tency was.” Passive voice deflections of agency notwithstanding, we’re clearly trying here; we’re clearly self-aware. And there’s a certain magic, a certain, perfect allegory in the first-page-as-subject—the accreted full volitions of all our paper I’s as we come forward to own our time, and to admit we’re wrong. In time. Tj this ajoke that only time will tell? I ay whenever I try to laugh. ” Can you guess which of these things are true about IQ’s editorial staff? Tara Giarratano 1. Owns every Jane Austen novel in duplicates. 2. Was originally a Political Science major. 3. Has never been out of the country. B Kendra Kuhar 1. Has a fear of front doors. 2. Nicknamed “Newt” by her sister. 3. Knows every word to the Hariy Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie. Dr. Marcia Farrell 1. Has a cat named Cleopatra. 2. Plays World of Warcraft during her office hours. 3. Assembled her own spinning wheel. Jason Kins 1. Can recite episodes of Phe Golden Girls from memory. 2. Has matching cheeseburger tattoos with his best friend. 3. Composed a piece of music called “The Cat Polka.” Nicole Kutos 1. Recendy declared criminology as her third major. 2. Is an amateur florist. 3. Owns more copies of Ulysses than any other book. Photos courtesy of the subjects. 12 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inkwell Quarterly, 2006-present Description An account of the resource The Inkwell Quarterly is a student-based publication circulated among the Wilkes population as well as prospective students who consider entering the English program. The IQ provides current information about faculty events and students active in the Wilkes’ English program. 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