Hello Gradcoll,
          The end of first semester, the holiday, the beginning of the second,
 on-going projects-commitments-responsibilities and on, have perhaps (I hope)
 been the prime reason why we may have lapsed into a familiar rut.  We've done
 the personal introductions, placed our personal positions into view, and I
 imagine that's a step that we're used to as graduate students: who you
 (individually) are and what you (individually) are doing along with some
 fantastic reasons about WHY.  I can't help thinking that this is the easy
 although certainly necessary part.  It was great to hear the voices, to read
 the investments, to notice the tremendous overlaps in our individual concerns.
 Except, of course, they aren't simply individual concerns, they are OUR
 concerns but haven't quite been stated as such.  And I'm still interested in
 working for this to be collectively enACTED.  Here's an immediately practical
 offering:
              A Pot Luck chez-moi, 718 S. College
              Friday, January 31, 6:30
              Meet, chat, connect, build.
              Bring what you want, we'll eat what's there.
 This is contingent on the consent of my roommate, but he's on this listserv
 too.  So Dave . . . I hope it's OK.  I know this is short notice, we can
 arrange something else if we need.  Aled mentioned earlier the possibility of
 having us go over a short essay about the fate of the academy by Gillory (sp),
 a Bourdieuian who has some provacative (and not so rosey) things to say about
 university and their attendent academics.  In any case, what do people say?
 
             --Rich