Case Western Reserve Alumnus Uses Poetry, Prose to Express Love for City of Cleveland
If Cleveland officials need a poster child to help promote the city as a modern metropolis rather than a community trapped in its industrial past, they need look no further than Sean Santa.
So enamored is Santa with this Midwestern city that he has written a book to express his feelings about the place that has been his home since childhood.
Down and Out And… prose poetry and stories from Cleveland (2007, RoseDog Books, Pittsburgh, Pa.) describes the good, the bad and the hopeful about Cleveland. Santa, in his curt, pointed way, uses gritty language and deft details to depict the people he's known, the neighborhoods he's frequented and the experiences that he's had. He wrote much of the contents while he was an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University. Read more.
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Reminder: The university evening shuttle bus will have adjusted hours during the winter break. Only one campus evening shuttle bus will be in operation for the north and south side routes, from 5:15 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The day shuttle routes will maintain the normal schedule. All university shuttle routes will be inactive on New Year's Day, although the shuttle will run from 5:15 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on New Year's Eve. All university shuttle routes will return to normal hours of operation on Saturday, January 12, 2008. Refer to the Web site for general information.
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Beginning January 1, 2008, the IRS standard mileage rates for the use of a car (including vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be 50.5 cents per mile for business miles driven. The new rate for business miles compares to a rate of 48.5 cents per mile for 2007. The university policy is to reimburse at the IRS rate.
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Monday, December 31, will be observed as a university holiday and payday will remain December 31. Employees having direct deposit will have their funds available on that date. Employees and students not on direct deposit will have their checks mailed to them before December 31. Interested persons can sign up online for direct deposit.
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Sandeep Rekhi, research associate at the Case Center for Synchrotron Biosciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Mark Chance, professor and director of the Case Center for Proteomics Mass Spectrometry, learned that their carbonado diamond
research was ranked number 60 among the 100 top scientific stories of 2007, as published in the January 2008 issue of Discover Magazine
Lauren Geiser, a first-year student at Case Western Reserve University, has won the female lead role in a Pennsylvania production of Damn Yankees. Geiser is a political science and philosophy major with a theater minor. Read more.
Professor of English Ted Gup recently earned the 2007 George Orwell Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, for his book Nation of Secrets. The award "recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse." The National Council of Teachers of English presents this award to one person each year.
