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Happy New Year everyone from the Paterno Fellows!

To all the sophomore Paterno Fellows -- we thought we'd kick the new year and new semester off with a social night. Come out to the Memorial Lounge in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center from 7-9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 16th, for a trivia night. If you like Sporcle, this will be perfect for you. We plan on having some team challenges as well so bring your friends and your brains for some food and fun! Pizza and drinks will be served.

• We expect that Sue Paterno will be there (!), as well as some of the Paterno adult children;
• Liberal Arts Dean Welch and Associate Dean Long and Schreyer Deans Brady and Upneja are set to be there--as well as faculty and some special guests;
• One Featured Speaker will be women's volleyball coach Russ Rose (Mr. Rose, as you know, is among the greatest coaches in women's athletic history, with five NCAA championships to his credit, as well as numerous Coach of the Year designations, five NCAA championships, and a winning percentage of over 85%.  He has coached here since 1979 and has almost 1100 wins);
  
• Paterno Fellow Brian Prewitt will be the second Featured Speaker;
• PF Advisory Board has designed the special PF hoodie that Fellows will receive;
• Irreconcilable Differences and performance poet Jamaal May will entertain with song and verse;
• dessert reception will follow the formal recognition;
• plenty of et cetera.
  

• "I don't live far from here.  Can my parents attend?"

ANSWER:  Yes. There won't be many parents there, but they are sure welcome if they'd like to attend. (When senior Fellows graduate next spring, parents will be invited to a May event honoring Fellows.)

• "I'm still an aspiring Fellow, not yet an admitted one. I should still attend on January 14, right?"

ANSWER:  Absolutely right.  This night continues a tradition that involves first-year and second-year aspirants as well as admitted Fellows.

• "Do I have to pay for the hoodie?" 
  

ANSWER: Absolutely not!

• "Is it a dress-up affair?"

ANSWER:  Dress as if you were going to an event in Eisenhower.

In the past decade literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions that have been characterized as "turns," including (but far from limited to) the spatial, temporal, postnational, hemispheric, secular, and ethical turns. Symposium participants will reflect theoretically and methodologically on the moments in which the field of literary studies seems to gather itself and venture in presumably new directions. More broadly, we will meditate on the moments in Americanist literary criticism when momentums shift, when an approach practiced by a few becomes a movement, when there is impetus for change in a field.

For more information: http://english.la.psu.edu/events/turn-turn-turn-cals-fall-symposium

• Starting at 10:00 a.m. the hosts will be cooking Spinach, Pesto, and Cheese Lasagna and also Sausage and Mushroom Lasagna.  They have room for 2 chefs to join in!  First come, first served:  If you would like to join, please fill out the following survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFg2ZGNEaGdJTE1ZSUtYUkh6RlU2eGc6MQ. For the "Room Number" question, please enter "PF."
• If you will not be able to join as a cook, but would like to join to watch the film and eat at 12:30 p.m., the hosts have room for 10 people there.  Please indicate your interest for this option by filling out this survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDRMc3dOcVVSTnRib01pUUtldVp0V0E6MQ.  NOTE WELL:  Please fill out this survey by 5:00 p.m. Thursday so that an appropriate amount of food can be purchased.