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essays by Nancy Mairs
The art of writing personal, yet informative essays and. better still,
those that grasp the very heart of a universal human condition, is alive
and well in Nancy Mairs "Plain Text “
Institutionalized for severe depression, stricken with multiple
sclerosis. Mairs is a college instructor, a PhD in English, a feminist and
author of mi award winning volume of poetry, a mother of three, an
agrophobiac and a keeper of a wide variety of house pets. Biograhpicaiiy
recorded. Nancy Mairs emerges, through her essays, to the present, wit
ty, intact and with an amazing capacity to witness humor In her set
backs She covers a broad plane of subfect matter ranging from being a
"fortegn student advisor" to "a potential teenage suicide." from an In
competent scientist" to a "a cripple." Each essay Is saturated with
historical, observational and clinical fact depicted through a fluid, con
versattonai tone and manner And funny In letter-form Mairs speaks as a
feminist and as a mother to her adult son—
l am demanding something of you that tehee more courage than
entering a battle not to enter the battle I am asking you to say "no"
to the values that have defined manhood through the
ages — prowess competition, victory — and to grow into a manhood
that has not ousted before. It you do. some men end women will
HOKUM and even deep*as you They may caM you spineless, possibly
even (harshest ol curses) womanish But your life depends on it My
Die depends on it t wish you well
Now go help Aunt Helen with the dishes
l love you —
"Plain Text Is a lesson in persistence and courage ot one woman's
teaming process The author is a feeler, a questioner and a seeker of
ideas But. above all. Nancy Mairs remains a scholar with an insatiable
quest to know "Plain Text" deaerves wide attention and praise I say
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Dormitory RAs selected for next year
Dormitory resident assistants, or RAs. for
next year have been tentatively selected and the
Housing Department now is waiting for accep
tance letters from the students.
Fifty-four RAs were chosen from t37 ap
plicants. The selection process began in early
April with general meetings for all applicants,
followed by group exercises and 45-minute in
dividual Interviews, said Dick Romm, residence
life director.
Romm said 10 of the chosen applicants will
be seniors next year. 15 will be sophomores, nine
more will be sophomores academically but have
been in school for more than a year and the rest
are juniors. He declined to give a list of names
since he has not yet received all the acceptance
letters.
RAs already have been assigned to com
plexes. and (he Housing Department has a good
idea of which dormitory each person will be
assigned to. Romm said.
In order to recruit students according to
affirmative-action guidelines. Romm said he has
taken posters around to various ethnic student
unions, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance and student
organizations.
"The last two years, we've tried to go beyond
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The department is looking at proposals to put
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Romm said. That system was implemented at the
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floors. Romm said the department has appointed
a committee to study the idea, but the soonest it
would be implemented would be the 1987-88
school year.
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