Student Open House
Kelli Custer

DU students helped the new Writing and Research Center kick off its grand opening on November 2 with games, pizza, and an opportunity to meet potential future faculty. While munching on pizza, groups of students were challenged to rounds of speed haiku, writing as many of the three-line Japanese poetry forms as possible in five minutes. Under the appropriate topic of pizza, students wrote elegant poems about the evils of pizza overtaking their very beings, with the staff-picked best entries winning prizes. More prizes were awarded to mad lib stories as students remembered what it was like to play with the parts of speech for surprise results. The highlight for many students seemed to be the chance to speed greet the new writing instructors. Students moved in small groups around a large circle of pairs of instructors, asking questions about their classes, teaching styles, or themselves. The instructors enjoyed the time just as much, getting to know their possible future students. The day ended up being an overall balance of fun with language and a time for students to get to know the newest resources in writing: The Writing and Research Center and the lecturers of the new Writing Program.

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