This was the first question my American Literature students asked me as we arranged ourselves in a tight circle outside yesterday.
Outside? UD doesn’t do outside! Teaching outside is a waste of time! Too many distractions! (GW ain’t Kenyon.) No one can hear anything! I’ve tried it before!
But it’s the end of the semester; it was a spectacularly beautiful day; and my students, who charm me right down to the ground, were insistent. They pointed out that we were discussing one of Annie Dillard’s nature essays (we trashed her), and it was all too inescapably appropriate for us to talk about her while staining our slacks with grass.
And so we sat in the mild sunlight, surrounded by flowering cherry trees and daffodil beds. A few yards away, a student from my DeLillo course gently played a guitar.
Everyone heard everyone else perfectly, and we had a terrific discussion in which almost every member of the seminar (there are fifteen students in it) took part…
But first they wanted to express their anger at the now-famous Fox News headline: GW SUICIDE TRAGICALLY COINCIDES WITH OBAMA SPEECH.
Fox has taken the story down, but as The Daily What says: Fox News: Just like the Onion, minus the kidding.
April 15th, 2011 at 11:39AM
A commenter on the Hatchet site took a screen shot of the story, apparently before it was taken down: http://i.imgur.com/VFy8o.png.