Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the corner from Mam Street is the one-room cement block community center with its two blue-curtained voting booths. Not a building anyone would notice, except that it was where Jimmy Carter cast his vote. The man seeking the presidency was not moved ahead of the others; the first man in line was his lifelong friend, Billy Wise, who was waiting when the doors opened...
...organizers did not have great expectations about students' response to the idea. "I thought I'd spend weeks alone in the room waiting for someone to come," said Weinstein. Actually, this week, like most other weeks since the opening of the center, he's booked solid. Open three days a week to undergraduate, graduate and extension students, the center is flooded with requests from students with a wide variety of problems. Weinstein said the problems ran from "those of the undergraduate from Japan who is uncertain where to insert the definite article, to those of the senior who wants...
Many students have the impression that the faculty doesn't care what they think and that professors just want a student to give a "correct" response. Weinstein said that actually the opposite may be true. Before starting up the Writing Center, he asked 12 members of the faculty what their expectations were for students' papers. Most of them said they wished students would put more of themselves into their writing. "The faculty wanted to see more passion," Weinstein said. "It is really a shame that students think otherwise...
...explain exactly what goes on at the Writing Center, Weinstein gave the example of the undergraduate who came in hoping to clarify her thoughts for a paper about de Tocqueville. As with most of the students who come to the center, she didn't appear with a draft in hand. She was having trouble getting started. Weinstein suggested that she take a desk outside the office and "think the question through on paper." To explain what he meant, he posed another question for himself and demonstrated. The staff, Weinstein said, will never actually do any of the work on students...
...center has presented two lectures, Professor E.O. Wilson on "How to Write About Science" and Professor William G. Perry on "Styles of Agony in Writing." It has also sponsored six "mini-courses" on a variety of topics, including "What Does it Mean to Have Something to Say on a Topic?", "Writing Scared (Writing Blocks, Deadlines, and Panics)" and "Liberating Language from Sexism." Five women and two men registered for this last course, but only the two men attended the class...