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College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Vol. 21 • Summer 2005 News from the chair Departmental excellence endures, despite losses ast year I began this column with a passage from Samuel Beckett’s Lnovel The Unnamable: “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” This sentiment, as you will recall, was motivated by the human losses we sustained with the passings of Albert Wertheim and Tim Wiles. And, as you will read in this issue, our friend and colleague Jim Jensen succumbed to a fatal infection as last year’s News in English was in press. The endurance of which Beckett speaks is, thus, still requisite; we often measure our time, it seems, much as Clov and Hamm do in Endgame — by loss. But, unlike them, we don’t lose our ide- als, and we celebrate our many victories as well. You will read of many such victories in Chair Stephen Watt meets with the editors of The News in English. the pages that follow: the accomplishments of our colleagues Judith Anderson, Tony participation in the national Carnegie Ini- tion, will reach completion in the coming Ardizzone, Scott Sanders, and others; the tiative on the Doctorate, is also undergoing year. hiring of truly wonderful new faculty; and a major revision, which includes the secur- There is, therefore, much to celebrate. the significant awards won by our graduate ing of support to reduce teaching loads We do go on, and we will persist in our students Kyle Dargan, Gina Brandolino, from 2-1 to 1-1 for many doctoral students efforts to deserve our reputation as one Melissa Jones, and Tobias Menely, among at crucial moments in their programs.
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