[Magdalen] the can

[Susan Hagen]

Our version of this is called the Stall Street Journal, a product of our
Risk Management and Safety Committee.  They do a good job with it.
Susan

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:12 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>



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