Literary, Art, and Music Festival

“Its a festivus for the rest of us!”

OOoOOk so on the 21st, the Literary Club is putting on its annual Literary, Art and Music Festival. Its a showcase of talented students and also the release of the Calliope magazine. Dr. Champagne has sent out a mass email to the student body giving everyone an opportunity to perform [sing or play an instrument] or read their poetry, short stories, reflections, etc.

Its very exciting because this will be my last LAM Festival, and as this year’s President of the Lit Club, I really want it to turn out perfect! I want to plan a small party for the club, but I’m kind of running low on ideas. So if y’all have any suggestions: COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT. lol

I’m also thinking of gag awards to give out. I just need to think of some categories. Fun Fun

Pep in Holy Cross’ Step!

So we just finished up the newspaper, and although there are some grammar issues and mistakes made, overall the hard work of the staff and everyone else involved really made for a great issue. I hope that it continues to grow after I graduate. In the year that I’ve been editor, we’ve become members of the Associated Collegiate Press, attended the Clinton Global Initiative University conference, expanded the newspaper to include an Arts and Entertainment page and Opinion columns, and really with a bit of interest and dedication the paper can grow larger and larger.

But it gets me to thinking… Because OLHCC is such a small college, it is sooOOOOooO difficult to plan anything extracurricular or have a successful club or organization like the newspaper. When people go to Holy Cross, they tend to arrive, go to class, and leave. There really isn’t the interest in the student body to invest extra time into other school related things. It can be disappointing to those who work so hard to plan and organize events and have poor turn-outs or other related situations.

There needs to be some enthusiasm for school participation. We need some SCHOOL SPIRIT. Maybe we can start a pep-club I bet a bunch of the faculty would join in as well!!! Can you imagine some of your teachers with pom-poms and tube socks?! Okay so maybe I took it a bit too far. But you get my point.

Get to know me a bit…

Ok so this is my first blog, and I feel it is appropriate to introduce myself. My name is Jillien. I’m an English major graduating [FINALLY] in May of this year. I tutor in the writing lab, and I’m trying to prevent my gpa from plummeting to a -2.3. These last few weeks have been some of the most incredibly busy, stressful, and all around frantic weeks of my life! I’m sure most seniors can feel me on that note.

Everyone’s been asking me what I’m going to do after I graduate, but the truth is that I can’t even see that far in the future yet. I still have a British literature paper due Monday, a Shakespeare paper due Tuesday, a few waltzes to learn for Dr. Gitz by Tuesday morning, all while commuting from Baton Rouge and all that personal jazz. Anyways… I’ll be posting [more like venting] my thoughts here occasionally. Thanks for reading.

peace