Tuesday, October 30, 2012

SLU Is



SLU is Tony Albrecht (Law, 2009)
SLU is Josh Aranda (A & S, 2009)
SLU is Laura Aranda (A & S, 2010)
SLU is 783 Facebook friends
SLU is 14 years of life
SLU is 50-something courses I facilitated/animated
SLU is all the surrounding cafés (6 North Coffee, Laclede Coffee, Cafe Ventana, Na-Doz)
SLU is Fr. Biondi
SLU is composed of non-Fr. Biondi elements
SLU is Jesuit
SLU is corporation
SLU is men and women for themselves
SLU is men and women with others
SLU is My Name Is Rachel Corrie
SLU is making a splash
SLU is looking good
SLU is doing good
SLU is faculty and student intifada
SLU is the era of Mev as an undergrad, 1981-85
SLU is the Mev Puleo Scholarship
SLU is one long litany of woe
SLU is a thousand haikus of "Ahhhhh..."
SLU is Buddhas, everywhere I look
SLU is beer pong, whatever that is
SLU is SLUCAP, Saturday mornings
SLU is countless Karen House community members & volunteers
SLU is Avis Mayer
SLU is Lainey Trahan
SLU is John Kavanaugh
SLU is Romaytha Abdullah
SLU is Ignatius of Loyola
SLU is Pius XII
SLU is forgetting the Holocaust
SLU is SLU Solidarity with Palestine
SLU is Midnight at the oasis
SLU is School's out FOREVER
SLU is the many of  best people I know
SLU is making the path by walking it
SLU is gracias a la vida
SLU is more than I can write for three straight days on benzedrine
SLU is following Jesus
SLU is putting the gag on Jesus
SLU is worshiping the consumer society
SLU is palsy-walsy with Boeing
SLU is regular dalliances with Monsanto
SLU is trying to change the world
SLU is sweating to maintain the status quo
SLU is falling asleep so as to be successful
SLU is Lindsey Weston coming alive in El Salvador

--writing practice, Sunday 28 October 2012, at the Aranda home, Dogtown 63139


Magan Wiles, "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," Xavier Hall, SLU, Summer 2011

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