Not exactly about our class, but some good information for those of you who are not in your final year.

http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/how-to-succeed-in-college/

Beside the fact that I was in the same room with a draft of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, I think the thing that struck me most about our time in MARBL on Thursday was how much we bring to our own interpretations of artifacts. Each one of us looked at the photo of the protest in front of Cox Hall in 1969 that Liz Chase and Erica Bruchko provided and saw such different things. I was also really excited by what astute critical skills you all already have. You read that photo: fashion, hair styles, body language, interactions, and used those clues to work toward solving the mystery of what event the picture was capturing. I can’t wait to see what else you all come up with.