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Department LifeSo you're looking for some life around here? Good idea - we have a band, plenty of sports teams, and a student linguistics association. Lots of ways to hang out with people who happen to be linguists ... MusicThe Remainders,
a rock band with roots in Oxley Hall, played their first
show for their friends in the department in October 2000. Playing a mixture
of indie rock and retro pop, the Remainders can still be seen once a month or so
playing in some bar on High Street. For the past year and a half, the
The Remainders have been linguists Chad Howe,
Grant McGuire, and Jeff Mielke,
and ska legend Jason Packer. Former members include Steve Winters,
Paul Davis, Patrick Arnold,
Jenny Vannest, and Ken Bame.
You can acquire a copy of The Remainders' debut album Halfway Between Then
and Now or follow-up EP The Last One to Talk, or reserve a copy of the
Remainder's forthcoming full-length CD by sending an e-mail to remainders FoodSpanish Dinners
What is the most common thing a linguistics student gets asked outside
of the university? Right, "How many languages do you speak?". Instead
of relying on the oft-repeated line "That's not really what
linguistics is all about ..." we decided to take the opportunity to get back to
our foreign language skills. Department Spanish speakers and friends,
from beginners to advanced, meet once a month for some culturally
appropriate cuisine at one of the many area Spanish or Latin American
restaurants. We also enjoy some informal readings, special
presentations and, most importantly, take advantage of the opportunity
to speak la lengua divina. The contact person is Angelo Costanzo (costanzo AthleticsDistinctive Features
The Distinctive Features have been playing basketball as
subdiscipline of linguistics and classics since 1979.
``Unfortunately'' the students on the team graduate ever so often,
so that few of the current team members have benefited from all
these years of training - but some are still around, like group
contact Brian Joseph (bjoseph Running Speech
Interested in running? Join Running Speech
for Columbus road races! Most recently linguists and friends-of-linguists
ran the Columbus Marathon Relay, sporting three teams - Onset, Nucleus and
Coda (they even finished in the right order). Cheered on by extrasyllabic
material (otherwise known as onlookers), two team members ran all 26.2 miles!
For more information, contact Beth Hume (ehume Binary Feet
No, this isn't a second running team - but you sure won't get around running
if you join us for soccer. Contact Robin Dautricourt (rdautric OtherSLA (Student Linguistic Association)
The SLA represents the interests and needs of the department's graduate
students - basically covering everything not included by the other groups
above. Just a few of the functions of the SLA include representing the graduate
students at department meetings, electing graduate students to departmental
and university committees and, most importantly, throwing parties.
For more information about the SLA or about grad student life, contact SLA
President Kathleen Hall (kchall Underlings (Undergraduate Linguistics Club) The Underlings is a club for undergraduate linguistics majors, minors or any other undergrads interested in linguistics. They meet several times a quarter, often with a speaker. They also host TongueFest every year. For more information, contact president Nadia El-Yousseph (el-yousseph.3 Columbus Last but not least, the city that never sleeps (at least some graduate students in it don't seem to get much sleep) with its endless activities for linguists and some other people. We plan to add some information on the gallery hop and other fun events here. In any case, the cowtown days are long gone with movies at the Drexel Gateway Theater in the South Campus Gateway, the Drexel Arena Grand Theater or the AMC Lennox Town Center 24 and performances from rock via classical to jazz almost every night in the Wexner Center, the Ohio Theatre, the Southern Theatre, a burgeoning Arena District downtown including the LC Pavilion which, along with Germain Amphitheater and OSU's own Schottenstein arena, is a stop on many national tours of bands and various performing groups, ... Students generally get amazing discounts, like free entry at the classical concerts Monday evening in Weigel Hall or $8 for any seat at the Columbus Symphony when you buy the tickets the evening of the show at the Ohio Theatre. On the sports side, Columbus is a major-league city with the Columbus Blue Jackets professional hockey team, the Columbus Crew major-league soccer team, as well as the Clippers AAA baseball team, and of course all the great sports here at OSU ... - way more than you'll ever have time for ;-) |
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