Please just us for the upcoming Ling 801 panel discussion on issues of competence and performance in human language. Please feel free to forward this along to interested parties.

The panel will be held on Friday, April 18^th 2008 from 4:00-5:30pm In 403 Lorch (Catford Conference Room).

Light refreshments will be served.

In addition to his colloquium talk this Friday, Professor David Pesetsky of MIT will also be giving a talk on Music & Language. This talk will take place Thursday afternoon on the 3rd Floor Terrace in East Hall:

Tell your friends.

Next GLaM meeting will be this Thursday, Nov 15 at 4 pm (location TBA – probably Catford?). Hooray, November GLaM meeting!

Also, GEO is having its second mass membership meeting this Thursday, Nov 15, at 7 pm in Angell Hall Auditorium C. This meeting is important because:
a) Members will be voting on a final bargaining platform (see Lauren if you want to look at the latest draft), and discuss said platform. This will drive the union’s contract negotiation efforts this year.
b) Members will elect a lead negotiator and bargaining team. These are the people who will represent the union in the bargaining process with the university.
c) There is a Bargaining Kickoff Party afterwards, at the new GEO headquarters: 330 E. Liberty St., Suite 3F (the CEW building). Free beer and t-shirts will be abundant.
d) All of the above.

[Note that our department still doesn't have a Steward. It would be helpful if we did. Hint. Hint.]

We are seeking two volunteers for the upcoming Graduate Student Colloquium on Friday, December 7. You will have 20-25 minutes to present followed by 10 minutes for questions. Your talk should be accessible to a general-linguistics audience. This would be a great opportunity for people who are presenting at the LSA to give a practice talk though, of course, other people are encouraged to speak as well.

Please let us know soon if you would like to be one of the speakers. E-mail: linguistics [dot] colloquium [dot] committee [at] umich.edu

Our second meeting of the year is this Thursday, Oct 11^th at 4:00pm. I will send various annoying reminders and reserve a room for our meeting as well. If there’s anything you would like to discuss, please let me know and I will include it in the agenda for our meeting.

There will be food. Remember GEO representatives are coming to this meeting.

Also, I’d like at least one of the members of each committee to attend. The list of committee assignments is pasted right here:

Exec Committee: Susan
Grad Committee: Eric, Damon
Undergrad: Chris O
Admissions: Anthony, Terry
Colloquium: Miki, Xinting, Joseph (Kevin, Lauren co-chairing)
Social: Miyeon, Yu-fen, David, Jonathon, Lisa
Web: Li, Kevin
Newsletter: Brook
Rackham Forum: Gerardo

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, complaints. Thanks!!!

Gerardo

Andries and I need a couple of native English speakers to come in to the sound lab today or tomorrow and read 35 words (that’s it, just read). This will take you less than half an hour and pays $10.00. Please comment here or contact me via e-mail if you’re interested.

[update: Two hours since I posted this and I have all the participants I need, thanks! --kevin ]

I don’t know if other people know about this already or not, but it is possible to open a virtual desktop session with a campus computing sites pc.

This means you should be able to run site-licensed software (e.g. spss, matlab, photoshop, mathematica, visual studio c++, etc.) from your own computer (Mac or Windows) over the network.

Anna pointed this out to me last week and I’d guess most of us could make use of it: 7fast has a pilot running right now that allows faculty and grad students to get library materials delivered on campus with charge. From their web site:

7-FAST is starting a pilot project fall term 2007 to deliver copies and loans to all faculty, graduate students and proxies for free. We also deliver UM materials to undergraduates and staff, online and on campus for $3.75 per request.

Thousands of faculty, students and staff have used 7-FAST because we offer:

Convenience –

* PDFs of articles or book chapters delivered on the web
* Books delivered to your office or one of our campus pick-up locations
* Rush service available
* We forward to ILL if we cannot fill your request
* Order and pay online using your credit card or shortcode

Service –

* Delivery within 2 business days
* 20 years of staff experience available by phone or email
* Custom microform copying
* Special requests welcome

Here is last year’s picture. It’s time for us to take a new one.