Faculty Open House
Rebekah Shultz Colby

The Writing Center was packed Friday, Nov. 3 as faculty members from all over campus, including the provost and the chancellor, took part in the festivities for the Marisco Writing Programs grand opening open house. The highlight of the event included informal remarks from both the provost, Gregg Kvistad, and the chancellor, Robert Coombe, in which they welcomed the Marisco writing program to the university and briefly told about the many challenges and eventual breakthroughs which faced the Marisco writing initiative. They both offered great optimism and encouragement about the current and future efforts of the program.

The opening festivities included a mad lib contest about a beleaguered superhero. At the door, participants could request a word a noun or an adjective which they then pinned to their nametags. So, various faculty members walked around with baroque, tulip, or, the best by far, scintillate next to their names. On a dry-erase board, Marisco lecturers added best/worst FYS titles such as Blocked Again: Colon Use in Academe and Youre Fired: A History of the Toupee from Whigs to Trump. Meanwhile faculty and lecturers alike gleefully penned 5/7/5 haikus which included a German haiku, along with several comical attempts to translate it, and this gem: Hey Calliope, I need a haiku now. This pen awaits you. For those not so poetically inclined, participants could add to a collage and visually depict with pictures what made them write. Pictures included a spider web, with the word context written inside, a dog, a rainbow and clouds, and a satirical political cartoon of the GOP.

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