RE: blah center

["Carroll, Max" <CarrollM@barton.cc.ks.us>]

Yes!  The plants in my writing center have next to no sunlight, but they
thrive under the fluorescent stuff.  Give it a try.
Max Carroll

English/Reading Specialist
Barton County Community College
Great Bend, KS  67530-9283
(316) 792-9267
carrollm@barton.cc.ks.us

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> From: 	Karl Fornes[SMTP:karlf@usca.usca.sc.edu]
> Reply To: 	wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> Sent: 	Tuesday, October 13, 1998 11:07 AM
> To: 	wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> Subject: 	Re: blah center
> 
> Over the years the English department has saved and framed signed
> posters
> from visiting writers. Last year, they were donated to the Writing
> Room and
> do fair job of covering one wall.
> 
> Also last year, Kurt Vonnegut spoke on campus and, as part of his
> presentation, used a four foot by eight foot chalkboard to trace
> plot/fate
> lines of well known stories. The chancellor was so excited by the
> result, a
> mass of scribbled lines, that he ordered the chalkboard framed and put
> behind glass. The Writing Room was the grateful recipient of the, er,
> artifact. We've also mounted a color photo of the chancellor and
> Vonnegut,
> with the chalkboard in the background, on the wall. It's a
> conversation
> starter, I'll tell ya'.
> 
> I have been pushing for an aquarium, but computing services claims
> that the
> increased humidity will damage the computers. Has anyone else heard of
> that?
> 
> On a related note, I would love to have some plants, but we have no
> windows. Does anyone know of plants that thrive in the "warm glow" of
> flourescent lighting?
> 
> karl
> (who, at one point today, will have to explain the *^$*%$%^
> chalkboard)
> 
> 
> 
> Karl Fornes, Director
> USC Aiken Writing Room
> University of South Carolina Aiken
> 171 University Parkway
> Aiken, SC 29801
> karlf@aiken.sc.edu
> 
> Office: (803) 648-6851 ext 3706
> Writing Room: (803) 648-6851 ext 3262
> 
> Check out the On-line Writing Room at:
> http://www.usca.sc.edu/uscaonlinewr/olwr.html
> 
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