{"id":372,"date":"2014-03-06T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=372"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:18","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/03\/06\/oops\/","title":{"rendered":"oops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday March 6 – re-set<\/span><\/p>\n

Several people reminded me that my shorthand sketch of Spring Break is not quite accurate – “The core business — research and teaching and learning and service — takes a break.” \u00a0<\/span>I would have more accurately described the “break” in Spring Break by observing that it is primarily a break from “teaching and learning on campus.”<\/div>\n

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1) Lots of faculty use this time to work on their\u00a0research<\/strong>, a labor that is often less visible to the wider public than it’s central importance in the university warrants.<\/span><\/div>\n

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2) \u00a0There are lots of\u00a0service<\/strong>\u00a0actions that are keyed to this week, most notably the remarkable Alternative Spring Break trips 35 UDM people are out working to help people who need the help; this year they are in:<\/span><\/div>\n

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1. Detroit (4 day trip, March 1-4)\u00a0 worked with Peoples Community Services in Delray and Alternatives for Girls.<\/span><\/div>\n
2. Chicago: at Misericordia<\/span><\/div>\n
3. Salem, West Virginia: at Nazareth Farm doing house repair<\/span><\/div>\n
4. Sacramento, CA: work with Loaves and Fishes<\/span><\/div>\n
5. Milwaukee: I can’t recall the name of the organization, but the focus is on urban poverty.<\/span><\/div>\n
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3) Lots of other UDM people come to work in their usual fashion to maintain theoperations<\/strong>\u00a0on which UDM depends across the whole range of what an institution needs to stay healthy.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Nevertheless,\u00a0\u00a0there is an unmistakable de-compression around campus that creates some stillness. \u00a0I don’t have this week off but I am glad for that stillness; \u00a0I hope the rest of us who are working as usual are glad for it too. \u00a0 Besides, each day gains a few more minutes of daylight and snow is very gradually shrinking. \u00a0Breathe a little.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Back Monday.<\/span><\/div>\n

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john sj<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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