[Magdalen] the can

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

We have a summer workshop for two weeks when we work on various aspects of
early music. We are at Connecticut College, a very nicely appointed
campus.  They are oriented toward a lot of performance art and such.
Amherst Early Music has been at CC for a bit over a decade now, and they
are very happy with us.  And we with them.

I discovered a intervention I've not heard of before.  It's a one page
(approx. 11x17 or so) that has critical stuff from student government and
so forth.  One copy of this is fastened to the wall of every stall in the
dormitories.  It's entitled "On the Can." I thought, this is an ingenious
way of putting important info out there where every student has a chance to
contemplate it -- at some leisure.

It's always a chore to get students to listen to stuff, and this may not
get a large amount of material out, but it certainly gets seen by the
students. I've seen several clever things at CC, and this is one that just
might have wider applicability -- or not.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy