Please join us welcoming the new class of GIs to the department. Pictured here during their GI "Boot Camp" (along with Assistant Director of Writing Lezlie Park, Evelyn Funda, and 1010 Ads Trisha Haber and Brian Cook), the new GIs are coming to us from a variety of backgrounds and locales. Included in this year's class is a former online marketing professional, a folklore student who has studied how myths and folklore are a part of everyday life in modern Ireland, a former member of the Americorp Literacy Initiative, a freelancer for the outdoor recreation industry, an artist and poet from Amman Jordan who once taught English in a Jordanian orphanage, and a writing student who loves theory and believes, as Alfred Whitehead posed, that all Western thought is simply “a series of footnotes to Plato.” This is just a sampling of the interesting backgrounds they bring to our department, and we are fortunate to have them join us.
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