Re: What's in a name?

[becky.rickly@umich.edu (Becky Rickly)]

I think the way to go is to find a cool acronym then make something fit.
Case in point:  our OWL isn't an online writing lab (too tied to the
physical) but Online Writing and Learning.  We might possibly be working
online w/ the big three (no, not the father, son, and holy ghost--in
Detroit it's Ford, GM, and Chrysler) using the OWL format, and Wayne Butler
thought we could change the acronym to OIL--Online Interactive Literacies
or something like that.  We'll let you know.  :-)

>We had problems being a "center" early in our pe-history because of a
>provost who didn't like centers (too apt to acquire independent budgets
>and autonomy).  Alternatives that were bandied about at the time were
>"Sara's place," "House of red-haired women" (provided several of us
>followed the lead of one of the assistant directors and dyed our hair red)
>and "Five Paragraphers Anonymous (FPA?) -- the suggestion of my summer
>school students.
>
>Sara Kimball
>
>On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, James E. Werchan wrote:
>
>> >Why don't you call your writing center, "Bill" or "Sandra?"  On
>> >second thought, why don't you just call it "Roberta Buck."  That's one
>> >helluva great name.  I wish it were mine.
>> >                                     Warm regards,
>> >                                     Carl W. Glover
>>
>> c.f. the talk in Canada of naming Northwest Territories something like "bob."
>>
>> (dear Canuck friends: have i miss-remembered something geographical that i
>> read?)
>>
>> c.f.(#2)  My tutor-trainee students who were proposing a new student
>> publication had such trouble keeping everybody happy, that the phrase
>> "(insert name here)" is now seeming more and more like the name that will
>> actually be on the publication, with parentheses, plain lower-case Courier
>> font, and all.  The gag is that the publication is planned to be an insert
>> into another campus newsletter.
>>
>> jw
>> aka "faculty sponsor for (insert name here)"
>>
>>
>> """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>>                     Dr. James Werchan
>> (or maybe it's just someone who kinda looks a lot like him)
>>               Ohio State University at Lima
>>                     4240 Campus Drive
>>                      Reed Hall #135
>>                      Lima, OH 45804
>>                       419-995-8882
>>
>>                     werchan.1@osu.edu
>>jwerchan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
>> (for main campus biz)
>> jwerchan@osulima1.lima.ohio-state.edu  (for local biz only)
>>
>>   Come and visit: "http://www.lima.ohio-state.edu/~WACC"
>> """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>>
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