Wholistic Wooster Weekend
Friday night we had the privilege of attending the Academic Awards banquet in place of the math dept. chair and his wife who were taking some much needed respite from the intense responsibilities of foster parenting two pre-schoolers. We enjoyed good conversation with the math students at whose table we were placed and I was pleased to see my own FYS student receive an award for most-improved first year writer (due to her own hard work, the splendid guidance of my TA and a bit of help from me). That was the academic....
Saturday night we invited the new young math prof for dinner and his first experiece at a Wooster basketball game. Having beaten Wittenberg twice, we knew that a third victory would be hard coming. Was such a belief prophetic? The hordes of fans on both sides made the experience a deafening one (6th man? 3000th man!), but Wooster was cold for much of the game. Nevertheless, we came within a point of forcing the game into overtime though for most of the time we were rarely within 5 points. We didn't win, but we will get a bid to the tournament. (We understand Calvin lost to Hope, so I guess a Calvin/Wooster match isn't in the cards, though that would have been fun.) That was the athletic....
This afternoon/evening I spent five hours with the committee charged with bringing the proposed Honor Code (that we call the Wooster Ethic) to the campus. We're nearing the end of (for some) four years of work. We wanted to create a document that, unlike the Scots' Key, didn't deaden the minds of its readers with legalese, and so **by committee** we wrote eight paragraphs of spirit/rationale/philosophy to undergird the brief statement of the Ethic and to lead the students and others (ultimately by hyperlinks) into the codes and judicial processes. We wanted this one-pager to communicate clearly and compellingly. Hard work but challenging in a good way. That was the moral....
Add to that the painting Chuck did and the frenzy of cleaning that is still possessing me and the normal Sunday morning responsibilities at church, and you have two tired people going into a new week.
Saturday night we invited the new young math prof for dinner and his first experiece at a Wooster basketball game. Having beaten Wittenberg twice, we knew that a third victory would be hard coming. Was such a belief prophetic? The hordes of fans on both sides made the experience a deafening one (6th man? 3000th man!), but Wooster was cold for much of the game. Nevertheless, we came within a point of forcing the game into overtime though for most of the time we were rarely within 5 points. We didn't win, but we will get a bid to the tournament. (We understand Calvin lost to Hope, so I guess a Calvin/Wooster match isn't in the cards, though that would have been fun.) That was the athletic....
This afternoon/evening I spent five hours with the committee charged with bringing the proposed Honor Code (that we call the Wooster Ethic) to the campus. We're nearing the end of (for some) four years of work. We wanted to create a document that, unlike the Scots' Key, didn't deaden the minds of its readers with legalese, and so **by committee** we wrote eight paragraphs of spirit/rationale/philosophy to undergird the brief statement of the Ethic and to lead the students and others (ultimately by hyperlinks) into the codes and judicial processes. We wanted this one-pager to communicate clearly and compellingly. Hard work but challenging in a good way. That was the moral....
Add to that the painting Chuck did and the frenzy of cleaning that is still possessing me and the normal Sunday morning responsibilities at church, and you have two tired people going into a new week.
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