Hello!

I hope everyone is doing good. Forest Festival is over and we have started working on mid-terms. I hope you are all prepared. This weekend (Oct. 10-11) is the D&E Shinning Star weekend, featuring Karoke and the debut of The Icehouse House Band! But don't forget about your mid-terms! The weather this week looks wonderful! It's supposed to be sunny and warm, in the 70s!

Keep in mind some important dates that are coming up. We have Homecoming coming up on the 18th, which is also Alumni/Parent's Weekend.

The Theatre Department Presents, "Anton In Show Business" a madcap comedy about life in the theatre by Jane Martin. The show opens October 16th showing through the 18th starting at 8pm. Then showing again on the 23rd and 24th starting at 7pm. The show will be at the Boiler House Theatre. For more information or for reservations, please call x1212.

Are you interested in finding a job that is close and can work with your class schedule? Well, look no further! D&E has started a new student work program. It can be arranged around your class schedule and it's close to your room, so check it out! For more information just contact Joel Turley at joelturleyspe@yahoo.com, or stop by the Student Life Office.

I hope everyone has a safe weekend!

-Ali McKeon

Aurora Literary Magazine Poem of the Week

This week's poem comes from pulitzer prize winning American poet, James Tate. It's a variation on the poems we've done previously, written in the unassuming shape of a paragraph. But don't be fooled . . . this is a good one. Enjoy!

THE LIST OF FAMOUS HATS

Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for show. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all honesty wasn't much different than the one any jerk might buy at a corner drugstore now, except for two minor eccentricities. The first one isn't even funny:
Simply it was a white rubber bathing cap, but too small. Napoleon led such a hectic life ever since his childhood, even farther back than that, that he never had a chance to buy a new bathing cap and still as a grown-up--well, he didn't really grow that much, but his head did: He was a pinhead at birth, and he used, until his death really, the same little tiny bathing cap that he was born in, and this meant that later it was very painful to him and gave him many headaches, as if he needed more. So, he had to vaseline his skull like crazy to even get the thing on. The second eccentricity was that it was a tricorn bathing cap. Scholars like to make a lot out of this, and it would be easy to do. My theory is simple-minded to be sure: that beneath his public head there was another head and it was a pyramid or something.

posted 10/9/08 by Ali McKeon. To submit information, email schulerc@davisandelkins.edu.