<p>you were not entirely wrong. BassDad can have many interpretations. Bass ale works as does bass violin (my daughter plays double bass, hence I’m a BASSist’s DAD). Our illustrious president has also pointed out the fishing tie-in (if you’ll pardon yet another pun.) You could also think of it as Big A** DAD - curmudgeon and I are about the same (fairly hefty) size. I even happen to sing bass in a number of ensembles, so that’s at least five separate ways my screen name works. Give me a while and I’ll probably cook up a few more.</p>
<p>I’d love to attend all of your concerts. But we need to balance the extra-curriculars here. Being a sports nut, I would like be the player/coach of the coed wiffleball team and the cafeteria tray boarding team (snow or no snow).</p>
<p>Admissions Dept Report: Just wanted to let everyone know that the admissions task force has already met and announced that its admissions criteria report will be delivered in June 2007. Early front-running proposal is random selection of admits, as a way to cut down administrative costs.</p>
<p>Special note to CC faculty. . .the task force would like to know what you don’t like about the report well in advance of its publication.</p>
<p>So we’re looking for a counter-tenor? Isn’t Michael Jackson suffering from a cash crunch? We may be able to kill a few birds with one stone here.</p>
<p>I think I found the exhibits for our zoology department.</p>
<p>Voronwe: OK, guess we have to scrap plans for the pre-law program and law school as inconsistent wih the college’s stated policies. Or someone with an “amateur” interest in that subject will have to take charge of those programs (might not be a bad idea, come to think of it). I will revert to my earlier proposal of teaching in the music and religious studies departments. </p>
<p>Reidm and others: ya gotta welcome Greensleeves1028, our first Legacy applicant!</p>
<p>I’ll be an avid appreciator of the early music ensemble, but to earn my keep, I can teach botanical Latin (midwestern vernacular). Somehow else would have to pick up the slack for the the southwest/California material.</p>
<p>I could also be costume mistress for the MT department, but since I would be devoting so much time to the college, someone would be needed to teach my daughter that clothes can be bought in stores. (Maybe that’s a hook for her…a 16-year old girl who still prefers that her mom sew her clothes and only sets foot in a mall under duress!)</p>
<p>And I recommend Berurah and Katw/kittens for Resident Directors; will we need to start a prep school for their families who aren’t yet of college age?</p>
<p>I wonder if Curmudgeon has any idea what he hath wrought… :)</p>
<p>Bassdad: He loves to give away sample sixpacks, so you’re in luck.</p>
<p>And, if you’re into early music, you’re gonna love this: he makes mead, too. (The stuff from our backyard strawberries is truly incredible!) We can serve it during concerts.</p>
<p>Countertenors are almost as rare as castrati these days, so we may have to settle for a baritone with a good falsetto. This particular voice type is known as a bargain countertenor. It is subdivided into the categories of transvoicetite if the singer still performs as a baritone on occasion, or a transectional if he does not.</p>
<p>Garland and others:
Sample quantities of beers, ales, bitters, pilsners, stouts and, yes, even meads are all welcome. Purely for evaluation purposes in outfitting the Rathskeller, mind you.</p>
<p>Mais non! No, no, no! I am not Miss Bossy-Pants Princess Queen of the World! It was only a suggestion! You can teach whatever you like! But I AM intrigued by the idea of “amateurs” (from the Latain root “love”!) doing the teaching! </p>
<p>Oh, man, will C-mudge be surprised when he gets back!</p>
<p>We need to discuss location so we can begin to shop for appropriate parcels of land.</p>
<p>I respectfully submit to the Board and Faculty 3 suggestions:
Santa Fe NM, incredible air and light; somewhere in the Shenandoah Valley, perfect 4 season climate; or on the beach in the Fla Panhandle, it is the “Emerald Coast” and one of the most beautiful beaches on Earth.
Now, worldwide satellite campuses could take us to a number of places!</p>
<p>Voronwe: Just as the Board is open to anyone who self-nominates, so are our “stated policies”, i.e. the policies are made by any of us who states them, unless quickly contradicted by another. Anyway, I much prefer teaching something that is not my day job.</p>
<p>Cangel: I think that because most faculty will have to be using virtual classrooms it would only be fair to have the campus located in a beautiful location where none of us reside, to avoid undue jealousy. Anyway, the fact is that any land acquisition here in the San Francisco area would immediately bankrupt the college unless we were prepared to charge unconscionable tuition or take faculty pay cuts.</p>
<p>But, but… I thought we already had a parcel of land picked out somewhere in southern CA? Or did I misread that? As the food service coordinator and horticulturist, I’d have to be onsite wherever we do locate eventually.</p>
<p>So, sorry to disappoint anyone (and I promise this is as political as I will get, then I will say no more), but I won’t bring my culinary talents to any red states, not even to any blue islands within red states. Hey, maybe we can develop a good method of teleportation so I could oversee meal preparation in one location, and just !POOF! push them over to wherever the students are located! That’d be pretty high tech: can we get our engineers working on that right away, please? :)</p>
<p>Sam’s Dad - the beautiful location goes without saying, that’s why I picked 3 of my favorite locales. Also we have to get out of the virtual classroom occasionally for Board and Faculty meetings, not for classes, of course.</p>
<p>We should have a summer campus and a winter campus. The Berkshires for the summer. Near Williamstown (hah, would this be competition for Williams?).</p>
<p>A suggestion for our January Plan: a four-week service project involving a location or a group of people with whom the student has had little or no prior experience. Students may suggest their own independent or group project, or they may get involved with an existing program (Habitat for Humanity, Elderhostel, the Nature Conservancy, the Heifer Project, etc…). The most interesting projects will be invited to present a report at a convocation held in the spring semester.</p>
You can teach whatever you like! But I AM intrigued by the idea of “amateurs” (from the Latain root “love”!) doing the teaching! </p>