Office Hours are Canceled for Wednesday!

Due to the impending snowstorm tomorrow (4-inches or so), I'm going to cancel my office hours for tomorrow, December 17th. Grades are due next week anyway, but if anyone wants to find out early, you can always email me at:

tc_wsu@hotmail.com

Thanks for the great class and everyone have a wonderful holiday break.

Hermon Joyner

Office Hours for the End of the Semester

I'll be in my office (VMMC 102P) on Wednesday the 17th of December from 9 a.m. to noon. I'll bring some goodies to share for those who show up.

You can pick up your final results for the semester, including your final grade for the course, at that time.

It's been fun here at WSU-Vancouver and I enjoyed our time together. You should all be proud of the work you did in this class. Happy holidays and take care. I wish you all success and prosperity in the coming new year.

Hermon Joyner

Intern Opportunity

INSTITUTE ON BUSINESS & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

This summer: June 6 – August 1, 2009

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

www.DCinternships.org/ibga

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR EARLY DEADLINE OF DECEMBER 5, 2008

Sponsored by The Fund for American Studies in partnership with Georgetown University, the Institute combines substantive internships, courses for academic credit, career development activities, exclusive briefings and lectures led by prominent policy experts.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the Final Deadline of March 5, 2009. Students applying by the Early Deadline of December 5, 2008 are given preference in admissions and scholarship decisions and will receive a 5% discount on their tuition balance.

This face-paced Institute offers a rigorous combination of professional experience and academic learning that will provide students with an unparalleled experience in the nation’s capital.

• Internships – Competitive placements with government affairs offices in leading corporations, trade associations and lobbying firms
• Classes – Up to 9 transferable credits in business and political science from Georgetown University
• Housing – Furnished on-campus apartments in the heart of D.C.
• Guest Lectures & Panels – With lobbyists and former congressmen
• Site Briefings - At the State Department, U.S. House of Representatives and White House Complex
• Leadership & Professional Development – Leadership, mentoring and career building activities
• Networking – With hundreds of other top student and business leaders from around the world
• Scholarships – Over half of all students receive full or partial funding based on merit and financial need

In addition to the Institute on Business and Government Affairs, there are three other summer programs offered in the following subject areas:

• Public Policy, Economics & International Affairs
• Journalism, Communications & Public Relations
• Nonprofit and Community Service

For more information about the Institute on Business & Government Affairs, please visit the website www.dcinternships.org/ibga. Questions may be directed to Jonathan Tilley at IBGA@tfas.org or 1-800-741-6964.

Final Presentation Schedule

This is the schedule for the class presentations. Each presentation will last approximately 10 minutes.

December 1
1. Vanessa Pritchett
2. Shannon Robinett
3. Jake Brosius
4. Preston Zepponi
5. Janine Millen

December 3
1. Yaroslav Mudryy
2. Christel Liebhaber
3. Andrew Haines
4. Kyle Hinze
5. Kendra Nelson
6. Dan McLean

December 8
1. Shawn Kepfer
2. Lance Brazier
3. Nathan Goodman
4. Derek Huhta
5. Christie Hougham
6. Racheal Johnson

December 10
1. Brandon Brownlee
2. Mark Hohman
3. Andrea Schweikhardt
4. James Archibald
5. Chum Hak
6. Philip Cyphers

Reading and Due Dates

Please read in the textbook, pages 182 through 185, about Executive Summaries.

The Executive Summaries are due November 12th.

Blog Entry: Write about the feedback you received concerning your Process Papers. Discuss the input you got from the other students, whose feedback was most helpful, and why.

Reminder: The finished and bound Formal Report is due November 19th and it's time to start thinking about the content of your presentations: what you will cover and how you will present it. You'll be able to use any of the multi-media equipment in the classroom. Presentations will occur on the last two weeks of the semester.

In-Class Assignment

The following sentences will be used in-class on Monday the 27th. Instructions for what to do to them will come during class.

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I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness – that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.

Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.

This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what – at last – I have found.

I have wished to know why the stars shine.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.

These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.

And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux.

A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

This has been my life, I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

I have wished to understand the hearts of men.

But always pity brought me back to earth.

I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Blog Entry

Write about the process of writing these instructions. What was easy in the process? What was challenging? Talk about the contributions of your tablemates. How did you decide what exact style of sandwich to make?

Remember, Rough Drafts for the Process Paper are due in one week (October 29).

And remember this, as well:
Last week's blog entry was on what works to persuade people. Think back to the Crocodile Creek story and consider how your group came to a consensus. How were people convinced and persuaded to the same agreement?