March 13, 2020—Thank you again for your patience as we work through details regarding the complex cancellation of the Sigma Tau Delta 2020 International Convention in Las Vegas. We have updates on a few items that you may have questions about: Rio All-Suite Hotel Reservations If you made reservations at the Rio, it is your […]
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March 12, 2020 “How all occasions do inform against me”—Hamlet It is with sadness and great regret that we announce the cancellation of this year’s Sigma Tau Delta/Sigma Kappa Delta Convention (due to take place in Las Vegas, March 25-28, 2020). We know this will come as an enormous disappointment to the many students and
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CONVENTION BLOG With the Sigma Tau Delta 2020 International Convention in Las Vegas, NV, fast approaching, it’s time to start planning how you will spend some of your downtime and where you will go to eat with all the great new friends you’re about to meet. During the fall Sigma Tau Delta Board meeting, the
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CONVENTION BLOG After a long, cool summer spent in the mountains, I decided to make a quick trip down to Las Vegas. My friend, Ashley, jumped in the car, we cranked up the music, and hit the road toward Vegas with Hozier’s “Almost” playing in the background. The red rock of the Southern Utah desert
CONVENTION BLOG As we are getting nearer and nearer to our Las Vegas adventure, I wanted to give a bit of a preview of the excitement that awaits us at convention this year. In addition to the exciting research and creative work that you will all be sharing, we have invited a few special guests
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CONVENTION BLOG Our judges’ decisions about the submissions for the 2020 Convention have been made. Everyone who submitted a paper should have received an email from englishconvention@niu.edu today. Thank you to all of those who submitted; and to those who have been invited to present, let me offer our congratulations! If you received such an
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CONVENTION BLOG You know you’re brilliant, and it’s time to share that brilliance with others who will instantly recognize that genius the moment you share that well-crafted paper or creative piece. To be reminded that there are others in the world who get those nerdy word and literature jokes that nobody else seems to—and these
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CONVENTION BLOG This year’s common reader, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, by Terry Tempest Williams, invites us to reconnect with our home ground and tell the stories of the places that shape us. Red is set in the red rock desert of Southern Utah, and its collection of vignettes captures the multifaceted relationship
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CONVENTION BLOG Diane Vanner Steinberg and Felicia Jean Steele have served as co-Advisors for The College of New Jersey’s Sigma Tau Delta chapter for 13 years, with Diane co-advising it with another faculty member before then. They became serious about fundraising in 2009, after the Wall Street crash, because state college budgets would no longer
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