CASE Concordia

Hello fellow English students!

This is a call for Members at Large for the current school year, 2011-12. The position is a great way to get more involved with the English Department as well as an opportunity to meet fellow students and faculty. As a Member at Large you will be asked to help host C.A.S.E. events – as events are organized, I will be e-mailing you to find out if you are available.

If you are interested, please e-mail me, Tullia Monaco, and I will forward any additional details. I hope to see many of you interested in taking part!

Thank you for your support!

Tullia Monaco
English Literature Member at Large
case.elml@asfa.ca

OFFICIAL CALL FOR C.A.S.E. BY-ELECTIONS!

To all English Lit and Creative Writing students: This is the official call to fill remaining C.A.S.E. Executive positions for the 2011-12 academic year!

The NOMINATION PERIOD will be from October 3rd – 6th. There will be an information session on Thursday, Oct. 6th, at 5:30 in LB-646. Nominees will be asked to submit their forms at this time.

If you are interested in a position, please email Jess Marchand at case.communications@asfa.ca ASAP! She will give you a further information on the available slots and will keep in touch with you on anything to do with the proceedings. This is a really great chance to get to know your peers, to have them get to know you, and to be more involved with your program and your faculty!

The four available positions include:

VP INTERNAL: shall be the primary liaison between our association and the department.

VP EXTERNAL: shall be the primary liaison between our association and other social bodies.

VP FINANCE: shall be assigning authority and will hold responsibility over the financial matters of our association.

VP ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: shall be the main representative of the association on all matters relating to curriculum within the department. The VP Academic shall also be responsible for coordinating all academic services and events provided for the members.

Bring yourselves, because drinks are on us!

It’s that time of year again – after the back to school jitters have come and gone, students and faculty find themselves in a desperate state, contemplating why they have chosen to come back to school when the beach is calling their names! BUT HAVE NO FEAR, THE C.A.S.E MEET ‘N GREET IS HERE! That’s right! Come join your fellow students, Faculty and C.A.S.E Exec. for our Meet ‘n Greet, and find reason again!

Meet us at the Mckibbins Speakeasy on Bishop for a night of shmoozing ‘n boozing! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

McKibbin’s Irish Pub: 1426 Bishop St.

The time has come to be more involved with your program! Three committees are looking for students in English Lit and Creative Writing and require not a large amount of commitment and it is all for your personal benefit and the benefit of your peers!

If you want to sit on the Curriculum Committee and help develop new courses, fine-tune calendar descriptions and freshen up old courses then this is the position for you!

If you’re interested in talks and lectures offered at Concordia and you want to help decide and invite guest scholars then the Speaker’s Committee is for you!

And finally, if you want to help solve any issues pertaining to the Creative Writing department then the Creative Writing Committee is the committee for you!

Email me, Jess Marchand, at case.communications@asfa.ca if you have ANY questions or concerns and if you are at all interested!! I’ll be in the office this week Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00-2:45 and Thursdays from 4:00-6:00 if you want to stop by our office LB-646! I hope to hear from you!

Official Letter from the Department:

The English Department is calling for nominations for undergraduate student representatives to sit on Department Committees for the current school year, 2011-12. Students are encouraged to self-nominate for the following positions:

1. Creative Writing Committee (1 position, must be a student accepted in the Creative Writing program). The Creative Writing Committee is responsible for all issues pertaining to Creative Writing (the program, admission guidelines, Writers Read at Concordia, Summer Literary Seminars, Matrix).

2. Curriculum Committee (2 positions). The Curriculum Committee is responsible for developing new courses, refreshing older ones, fine-tuning Calendar descriptions of courses, and selecting Honours special topic courses.

3. Speakers’ Committee (1 position). The Speakers’ Committee is responsible for selecting and inviting guest scholars to give academic talks. The Committee also coordinates and promotes the talks.

Nominations should be sent directly to Dr. Meredith Evans, Student Liaison Officer, Room LB641, and received no later than 10 a.m. Friday, October 21, 2011.

If there are more candidates than positions, an election will be held on Friday, October 28, 2011, in Room LB-646. Only registered English students will be allowed to vote. The vote will be held between 10 and 11 a.m.

Thank you for your support.

Dr. Meredith Evans
Student Liaison Officer
Department of English
meredeva@alcor.concordia.ca
848-2424, x.8930

A new year has begun and a new executive takes their place in LB-656! As a whole, we are interested in creating awareness of what it is we do as your Concordia Association for Students in English (C.A.S.E.) executive and all of the (really, really easy) ways you can get involved with us, your program, and your school. We are going to be putting out a call over the next few weeks for Curriculum Committee members, Speakers Committee members, and Creative Writing Committee members. It’s pivotal that we fill these positions with members of the student body so that the English Department Faculty and Staff have a better idea of what the students would like to see, hear, or learn about throughout the course of their studies. Also over the next few weeks, C.A.S.E. will be putting out a call for a VP Finance, a VP Internal, and a VP External for all of you who want a more involved position within the English department.

One of our major goals this year is to organize an undergraduate colloquium (for those of you who have no idea what colloquium means like I had no idea before meeting my co-execs Veronica and Paula, a colloquium is a conference at which scholars or other experts present papers on, analyze, and discuss a specific topic). From the papers selected for the colloquium, we would like to develop and publish an undergraduate academic journal. Our goal in doing all this is to get you guys thinking about other views on works of literature other than your own. Our goal is to get you guys published before you finish your undergrad. Our goal is to make you realize your academic potential.

Another one of our smaller but yet still important goals is to increase attendance in both the department’s academic and social activities. We’ll be organizing a Christmas party, an end-of-year blowout party, scrabble nights, poetry/open-mic nights, meet your profs nights, launch parties, a breast cancer fundraiser, as well as some interfaculty events to spice things up. Here’s the catch: Out of approximately 1200 students we’re tired of seeing the same 50 people come out and have a great time because we know that so many more of you would enjoy yourselves and get to know your fellow students and professors on a more personal basis. We want attendance and awareness to go up and lack of knowing what’s going on to go down. For most of the above-mentioned events you can bring all of your friends so if you work better surrounded by people you know feel free to bring as many people as you want!

These are only a few of the many ideas and hopes that we, as your 2011-2012 executive, have this year and we’re really counting on you, the English Literature and Creative Writing student body, to help us make that happen. Here’s to a great 2011-2012 year!

Wishing you a great semester both in class and out,

Jess Marchand, Veronica Belafi, Olivia Taddio, Paul Wilson
C.A.S.E. 2011-2012 Executive

PS: Stop by our office on Tuesdays between 1:00-2:45 or Thursdays between 1:00-2:45 and 4:00-6:00 if you have any questions on nomination forms, elections, and any general questionson how to get involved!

Next week are elections for C.A.S.E. 2011-2012! Check out the candidates and vote for your department’s student association! Make sure that your student fees aren’t wasted!Elections take place on MARCH 22nd & 23rd on the 2nd floor of the HALL BUILDING.