<p>With great honor I accept a position in the Department of Transcendental Geogology. Now if I can only muster enough discipline to offer my services in this interdisiplinary field of study. :)</p>
<p>You need to consult the Dean of Procrastination about scheduling classes!</p>
<p>I wish to apply for “Director of Edible Landscaping.” I feel strongly that every student should be able to walk out of a dorm and find breakfast, 24 hours a day. In addition, I might be willing to give tutorials in Self-Sustainable Horitculture; that is, horticulture that can be used to sustain oneself as well as others. At the graduate level, this should be listed as “how to survive the $ deficit by eating nothing but zucchini.”</p>
<p>Update to add all this week’s self-nominations follows.</p>
<p>Seems to me, though, that we need to add certain specific functions. There probably are others, but the ones I have in mind are **Director of Developments<a href=“no,%20that’s%20not%20a%20typo%20-%20we%20need%20someone%20to%20plan%20and%20set%20up%20new%20developments%20of%20all%20kinds%20at%20the%20College”>/b</a>; Dean of Student Affairs, Director of Information Services and **Marshal<a href=“need%20someone%20to%20lead%20the%20penguin%20and%20other%20parades”>/b</a>.</p>
<p>And we need to hear from some of the CC stalwarts - SoozieVT, Jamimom, Digmedia, Newmassdad, Concerneddad - please, please self-nominate before all the good positions are spoken for.</p>
<p>And we need the adcoms to start meeting, establishing admission standards and getting out application forms so that we won’t have all faculty/administration and no students (we gave a party and no-one came?)</p>
<p>College name: Confidentialia College</p>
<p>Motto: It’s all about fit
Latinate motto: Aptus est omnia (or perhaps “Aptare omnia est”; any Latin scholars?)</p>
<p>Emblem or logo (work in progress): background of CC blue; a pair of bloodshot eyes above a computer mouse draped across a pair of topsiders </p>
<p>School colors: Emerald and blue</p>
<p>School mascot: the sluggbugg</p>
<p>Housing options: yurt, Southeast Asian longhouse, treehouse, painted vintage VW bus, suites w private bath, underground dorm
OneTentative dorm name: Beddbugg</p>
<p>Presidential portrait: :eek:</p>
<p>Student tradition/legend: Stealing Pres. C’s topsiders, walking a mile in them, and returning them</p>
<p>Sports: co-ed varsity skateboarding, poker, ping-pong, Quidditch,coed wiffleball, cafeteria tray boarding team (snow or no snow). </p>
<p>Departments: art history, musical theater, Latin, personal finance, history, comparative literature, winter clothing, world travel, psychology, most non-dead languages, Sanskrit, Elvish culture, hieroglyphics, ancient Greek, dance, ethnomusicology, religious studies, physics, geology</p>
<p>Location: tbd - separate summer and winter campuses? California? Oceania? New Mexico?, Shenandoah Valley?, Berkshires?, Aspen?, virtual campus?</p>
<p>Campus amenities: pool tables, massages, and Antabuse for those under 21. Dorm rooms: allow all pets except reptiles, amphibians and elephants. Special dog and cat-themed dorms as well as pet-neutral. Bicycles can be rented.
The campus is fully wired, and all laptops have CC as a home page </p>
<p>Campus hub: pent (5-sided quad) w/ statue of President Curmudgeon wearing topsiders, 10-gallon hat, holding an as-yet-to-be determined item in one hand and a copy of a Kurt Vonnegut book in the other, standing on the head of a rattlesnake, with a joint behind him</p>
<p>President:Curmudgeon</p>
<p>Adminstration
Director of: Food Services - Mootmom
Head of the Campus Store - Jmom
Head of the Radio station-Shoolmarm
Director of Procrastination - NJres
Director of Edible Lanscaping/Sustainable Horticulture - Wyogal
Director of Housekeeping/Groundskeeping - Jym626
Director of Admissions - Reidm
admissions committee -Mootmom, Overanxious Mother
Director of recruiting - Andi
Scrupulously Honesr Bursar - Flireflyscout
Director of Enology - Cangel</p>
<p>Faculty:
Assistant Professor of Bodhran, director of the Early Music Ensemble, and Quality Control Consultant for the Rathskellar - BassDad
Professor of Music - Cangel
Profesor/Chair of the Music Department - SBmom
Esteemed Chair of Tolkien Studies/Elvish Language and Literature, and in charge of the Celestial Navigation club - Voronwe
Perfect Fit Study Abroad program committee - Cheers, Momrath, Cupcake and Robrym
Professor of String Theory and Practice - Lefthandofdog
Assistant Professor of String Theory and Pottery - Ariesathena
Professor of Environmental Sciences - Garland
Professor of Music - Cangel
Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology and Religious Studies - Dadofsam
Professor of Botanical Latin - Mezzomom
Director of Performing Arts - TheDad
Athletic Director and player/coach for wiffleball and cafeteria tray boarding - Maize&Blue
Professor of Waterskiing - Over30
Professor of Literature - SBMom
Professor of Transcendental Geology - Gnusasaurus
Professor of Theology and Physical Chemistry, specializing in Liquid State Physics - Marite</p>
<p>Fight song: Brave Buggs will never fail - see post #62 in the archived thread for the words</p>
<p>School newspaper: The Daily Curmudgeon</p>
<p>Slogan:ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM</p>
<p>Frat/sorority houses:Phi Slugga Bugga, Beta Upsilon Gamma (B.U.G)</p>
<p>School store necessities: Chocolate and stale marshmallow peeps (color tbd, but probably yellow and blue); Snapple and Taylor pork roll, New York pastrami</p>
<p>Mascot name: Sir Mudgeon</p>
<p>Commencement exercise marshals: penguin parade</p>
<p>School cheer - Squish 'em Buggs, Squish 'em!</p>
<p>ok. I’ve always thought it would be fun to be a professor of psychology but I know better than to do anything that involves departmental meetings or university politics. (This is why I have remained in community mental health where we just have glacial bureaucratic drag.) I will head the psychology department on the condition that meetings will be no longer than 7 minutes and will all be held at Sinner’s Alley after 5pm…</p>
<p>Shoot, and I was going to suggest Tom Cruise to head the psychology department!</p>
<p>Firefly: You are in a good position to influence the administration on this one. But in keeping with the scrupulously honest part–wouldn’t we have to say that he has some behaviorial and boundary problems that just might be a hazard for the college in the future??? And he jumps on furniture…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be as much fun to look at but I’d probably be easier to work with…</p>
<p>mmaah:</p>
<p>Good point! Maybe you could apply for the position of Head of Student Furnishing Dept?</p>
<p>Mmaah - go ahead and be the chair of psychology. Perhaps Tom could be in charge of the alien subcommittee of religious life?</p>
<p>Firefly. I accept and thank you. You’ll have to contact Tom on the other position you proposed. Letting celebrities in would certainly have it’s risks–They should probably at least come on in pairs–so if you call Tom, maybe Oprah as a balance? She’d bring a lot to convocation and all-college event planning. Actually–Oprah and Curmudegeon as co-hosts as some appeal to me.</p>
<p>The Founding Fathers and Mothers had given some attention to admission criteria at the birth of Confidentialia, to wit:
Of course, then reidm, as Director of Admissions, held a preliminary meeting with his underlings and reported in that admissions would be random in order to keep administrative costs low.</p>
<p>So, here, in our first revisionist constitutional convention, others can have at it to tweak the criteria, reidm willing that is.</p>
<p>Updating and correcting tupos (I mean typos) and hoping not to make any new ones. Please also weigh in on the proposed admissions standards and continue to self-nominate for positions.</p>
<p>College name: Confidentialia College</p>
<p>Motto: It’s all about fit
Latinate motto: Aptus est omnia (or perhaps “Aptare omnia est”; any Latin scholars?)</p>
<p>Emblem or logo (work in progress): background of CC blue; a pair of bloodshot eyes above a computer mouse draped across a pair of topsiders </p>
<p>School colors: Emerald and blue</p>
<p>School mascot: the sluggbugg</p>
<p>Housing options: yurt, Southeast Asian longhouse, treehouse, painted vintage VW bus, suites w private bath, underground dorm
OneTentative dorm name: Beddbugg</p>
<p>Presidential portrait: :eek:</p>
<p>Student tradition/legend: Stealing Pres. C’s topsiders, walking a mile in them, and returning them</p>
<p>Sports: co-ed varsity skateboarding, poker, ping-pong, Quidditch,coed wiffleball, cafeteria tray boarding team (snow or no snow). </p>
<p>Departments: art history, musical theater, Latin, personal finance, history, comparative literature, winter clothing, world travel, psychology, most non-dead languages, Sanskrit, Elvish culture, hieroglyphics, ancient Greek, dance, ethnomusicology, religious studies, physics, geology, psychology</p>
<p>Location: tbd - separate summer and winter campuses? California? Oceania? New Mexico?, Shenandoah Valley?, Berkshires?, Aspen?, virtual campus?</p>
<p>Campus amenities: pool tables, massages, and Antabuse for those under 21. Dorm rooms: allow all pets except reptiles, amphibians and elephants. Special dog and cat-themed dorms as well as pet-neutral. Bicycles can be rented.
The campus is fully wired, and all laptops have CC as a home page </p>
<p>Campus hub: pent (5-sided quad) w/ statue of President Curmudgeon wearing topsiders, 10-gallon hat, holding an as-yet-to-be determined item in one hand and a copy of a Kurt Vonnegut book in the other, standing on the head of a rattlesnake, with a joint behind him</p>
<p>President:Curmudgeon</p>
<p>Adminstration
Director of: Food Services - Mootmom
Head of the Campus Store - Jmmom
Head of the Radio Station-Schoolmarm
Director of Procrastination - NJres
Director of Edible Landscaping/Sustainable Horticulture - Wyogal
Director of Housekeeping/Groundskeeping - Jym626
Director of Admissions - Reidm
admissions committee -Mootmom, Overanxious Mother
Director of recruiting - Andi
Scrupulously Honest Bursar - Fireflyscout
Director of Enology - Cangel</p>
<p>Faculty:
Assistant Professor of Bodhran, director of the Early Music Ensemble, and Quality Control Consultant for the Rathskellar - BassDad
Professor of Music - Cangel
Profesor/Chair of the Music Department - SBmom
Esteemed Chair of Tolkien Studies/Elvish Language and Literature, and in charge of the Celestial Navigation club - Voronwe
Perfect Fit Study Abroad program committee - Cheers, Momrath, Cupcake and Robrym
Professor of String Theory and Practice - Lefthandofdog
Assistant Professor of String Theory and Pottery - Ariesathena
Professor of Environmental Sciences - Garland
Professor of Music - Cangel
Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology and Religious Studies - Dadofsam
Professor of Botanical Latin - Mezzomom
Director of Performing Arts - TheDad
Athletic Director and player/coach for wiffleball and cafeteria tray boarding - Maize&Blue
Professor of Waterskiing - Over30
Professor of Literature - SBMom
Professor of Transcendental Geology - Gnusasaurus
Professor of Theology and Physical Chemistry, specializing in Liquid State Physics - Marite
Chair of the Psychology Department - Mmaah</p>
<p>Fight song: Brave Buggs will never fail - see post #62 in the archived thread for the words</p>
<p>School newspaper: The Daily Curmudgeon</p>
<p>Slogan:ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM</p>
<p>Frat/sorority houses:Phi Slugga Bugga, Beta Upsilon Gamma (B.U.G)</p>
<p>School store necessities: Chocolate and stale marshmallow peeps (color tbd, but probably yellow and blue); Snapple and Taylor pork roll, New York pastrami</p>
<p>Mascot name: Sir Mudgeon</p>
<p>Commencement exercise marshals: penguin parade</p>
<p>School cheer - Squish 'em Buggs, Squish 'em!</p>
<p>Perhaps, to appeal to all types of students, CC should have several campuses. There can be a small, urban one; a large, rural one, and a few other combinations. This would be do-able, considering that it’s supposed to be a super-select safety. We take all of the bright kids.</p>