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I hope everyone is enjoying this nice fall weather!
Here's the BOLE for October 30. The next one will
come out around November 15, so please email anything
you'd like to see posted in the BOLE to me
(yadenlbe@plu.edu) by Nov. 14th. Have a great week!
-Bridget
I. NEW EASTERN VP
II. 2001 NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE WEEK POSTER
III. PIÑATAS
IV. REFRESHER COURSE FOR SPANISH TEACHERS
V. TEACHING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THROUGH FILM
VI. NATIONAL SPANISH EXAM
VII. NEXT EDITION OF CLAMOR
VIII. CENTER FOR SPANISH STUDIES
IX. INTERNET SITES
X. NY TIMES ARTICLE ON MEXICO
I. NEW EASTERN VP
Congrats to Ricardo Chama, new Eastern VP!
!Bienvenido Ricardo!
II. 2001 NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE WEEK POSTER
The 2001 National Foreign Language Week Poster
Foreign Language Week, March 5-11, 2001.
Alpha Mu Gamma, the National Collegiate Foreign
Language Honor Society, announces the availability of
the 2001 NFLW Poster.
The Theme for this year's poster is: "FOREIGN
LANGUAGES:ALL THAT YOU NEED 2 COMMUNICATE."
Poster size is 25"x18". It is available with and
without dates. Price: $5 per poster plus $5 shipping &
handling (1 to 5 posters). Pls. indicate whether
poster ordered is to be with or without dates. The
poster can be ordered from: [Make check payable to
"Alpha Mu Gamma National"]
Alpha Mu Gamma National,
855 North Vermont Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 90029-3500
Tel & Fax: (323) 644-9752 or Fax: (818) 548-1970
amgnat @email2.lacc.cc.ca. us
To view the poster go to our Website:
http://citywww.lacc.cc.ca.us/activities/honor/amg/homepage.htm
III. PIÑATAS: HOW ABOUT A PINATA FOR A CLASS
CELEBRATION? HOME BIRTHDAY? SPECIAL GIFT? Hand-made
to order piñatas, price depends on size/difficulty.
Artisan is a recent Mexican immigrant with great
artistic talent and limited funds. She'd like to
work, but can't get a regular job because she has two
small children, limited English, and a husband who
wants her to stay home. Email me, Flo Ariessohn,
(flo@nwrain.com) with all the information and I'll
pass it on and get you a firm price and pickup date,
or at least I'll have her call you to discuss it in
person (en español). Note: She lives in Sumner, and
you'd probably have to pick your piñata up there.
IV. REFRESHER COURSE FOR TEACHERS OF SPANISH, July
2nd to 13th. at the
University of Cantabria - Santander, Spain. Tuition,
room and board with a family and regional field trips
$995. Optional 4 graduate credits (Span508)$160.
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and
Distance and Continuing Education at Oregon State
University. Contact Anuncia Escala Aescala@orst.edu
Tel 541-737-3949 and 800-235-6559.
V. TEACHING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THROUGH FILM
This is our chapter's next event and it is
co-sponsored by the Center for Spanish Studies at the
UW (see below for info on this center). We will watch
two films "La Lengua de las Mariposas" and the
documentary "Art in the Struggle for Freedom", hear a
presentation on the project "They Still Draw Pictures:
Children's Art from Spanish Civil War Refugee Camps
(1937-38)" with Tony Geist, and have discussions on
both films hosted by Paloma Borreguero, María Dolores
Rodríguez, and Abe Osheroff, Lincoln Brigade Veteran.
This promises to be an exciting event, so don't miss
it! You can receive 5 clock hours (at no extra
charge) for attending this event.
WHEN? Saturday, November 18, 2000. 10:00am-3:30pm
WHERE? Balmer Hall 413, University of Washington,
Seattle
COST? $15 ($12 for AATSP members and university
students) This includes paella and refreshments!
REGISTRATION? Contact the Center for Spanish Studies
at spnrectr@u.washington.edu or call (206) 221-6571.
You must register by November 15th.
VI. NATIONAL SPANISH EXAM
By now all members should have received the brochure
for the 2001 National Spanish Examinations. If you
would like to participate this year, please order the
forms from ORIANA CADMAN, your chapter coordinator,
ocadman@kalama.com no later than Dec. 15, 2000.
Participants must be current members in good standing
of the national AATSP and of the local AATSP chapter.
Dues for next year must be paid by Dec. 1st, 2000.
Send your national and chapter dues to DANDY PORTER,
treasurer. Check the web page for further info on
membership! http://www.users.uswest.net/~eledu/aatsp/
VII. ARTICLES FOR NEXT EDITION OF CLAMOR
The next edition of our chapter's newsletter CLAMOR
will be coming out the first week of December. The
theme will be : "La celebración de Navidad y ritos
navideños de Latinoamérica, España, y Portugal."
Please feel free to submit any articles in English,
Spanish, or Portuguese related to this theme, such as
recipes, lesson plans, songs, personal anecdotes, etc.
Although this will be the theme of the newsletter,
we accept any articles on any topics of interest to
Spanish and Portuguese teachers at all levels. Please
get your submissions to our editors by November 10 so
that we may include them. You can send your
submissions electronically, by fax, or by regular mail
to our co-editors Paloma Martínez-Carbajo and Inés
Miranda. martinaa@plu.edu, mirandia@plu.edu. c/o
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447. Fax:
(253) 536-5132
VIII. CENTER FOR SPANISH STUDIES:
The University of Washington in cooperation with the
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the
Education Office of the Embassy of Spain has opened
the new Center for Spanish Studies. The mission of
this new institution is to cooperate in the promotion,
dissemination, and study of the Spanish language and
in the appreciation and understanding of the cultures
whcih use this language as a means of expression. For
more information you can contact the center at: (206)
221-6571 or via email spnrectr@u.washington.edu.
IX.INTERNET:
1) LINGUAWEB SITE: Learn Spanish on-line (free).
From beginning to advanced levels!
http://www.linguaweb.ndirect.co.uk/pages/spanlev1.htm
2) WebCT.com has recently launched LA TERTULIA, an
informal meeting place for students of Spanish and
native speakers to exchange and practice their
Spanish. La Tertulia is one of the discussions
available at the Spanish Community at WebCT.com
(http://www.webct.com/spanish), an online forum for
both students and teachers of Spanish.
If you study Spanish, you will find tools, documents
and activities to help you in your studies as well as
connect you with others, practice your Spanish and get
some answers to your questions. If you teach Spanish,
you will be able to share ideas with colleagues, post
documents and course plans, help students across the
world...
As a first step to joining this community, we
encourage you to register. Registering enables you to:
· Receive newsletters and updates
· Participate in discussions and attend online events
· Access special resources and communities
· Build collaborative online courses
X. NY Times Article: Mexico Revisits the Past
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/19/opinion/19THU3.html
October 19, 2000
When Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party ceases
to be the world's longest-ruling political party on
Dec. 1, it will not only surrender control over the
presidency. It will also surrender its control over
the past. The PRI for decades has zealously kept
government archives from public view and pushed its
self-serving version of history. So it is appropriate
for President-elect Vicente Fox to promise Mexicans a
new look at their own past.
Mr. Fox is considering appointing a "transparency
commission" to shed some light on shameful episodes in
the nation's past. Society will demand inquiries into
alleged instances of corruption and, at long last, a
thorough accounting of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre of
students and other protesters by troops in Mexico
City.
In the political sphere, the burden of the past has
not been entirely overcome with one historic
presidential election, as evidenced by last Sunday's
gubernatorial election in the southeastern state of
Tabasco. Both the PRI and the leftist Party of the
Democratic Revolution (P.R.D.) are declaring a narrow
victory. The P.R.D. maintains that the official
vote-counting process is tainted. The dispute is of
national consequence because the election was presided
over by Gov. Roberto Madrazo, who aspires to become
the PRI's national leader. Governor Madrazo says he
wants to take the party back to its populist roots,
amid serious questions whether the PRI can remain
united without its ownership of the presidency. Power
was the glue holding the PRI's ideologically diverse
supporters together for decades.
As the PRI struggles to redefine itself as an
opposition party, the former leader most responsible
for its shift away from populism is trying to
refurbish his image by peddling his own version of
recent history. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president
from 1988 to1994, created a stir when he returned from
a self-imposed exile in Ireland earlier this month to
promote his 1,380-page memoir, "Mexico: A Difficult
Step Toward Modernity." Mr. Salinas unfairly blames
the outgoing president, Ernesto Zedillo, for the
party's loss after 71 years in power.
President Salinas' administration privatized state
enterprises, reformed agriculture, mended church-state
relations and ushered in the North American Free Trade
Agreement. But within four months of leaving office
Mr. Salinas departed the country in disgrace, blamed
for the economic crisis that followed Mr. Zedillo's
decision to devalue the peso in his first month as
president. Worse, his brother Raul was arrested after
it was revealed that he had squirreled away some $90
million. Last year Raul Salinas was convicted of
ordering the assassination of Francisco Ruiz Massieu,
the PRI general secretary and his former
brother-in-law, and still faces charges of illegal
enrichment.
In his book, Carlos Salinas attributes the dramatic
implosion of Mexico's economy in 1995 to his
successor's clumsiness in carrying out the December
1994 peso devaluation. Mr. Zedillo clearly made his
share of mistakes, but it is misleading to pretend
that they derailed an otherwise healthy economy. The
peso at the time was wildly overvalued because of Mr.
Salinas' determination to maintain an inflated sense
of prosperity during his term.
President Zedillo presided over the PRI's defeat at
the polls in July despite high approval ratings not
because of the economy, but because of public
weariness with his party's corrupt past. No amount of
historical spinning can alter that fact.
The New York Times
on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com
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Steven Green, President, Steve has no e-mail at present
Kerry Chama, Prov. Eastern V.P., cheetah101@earthlink.net
Paloma Borreguero, NW V.P., paloma@u.washington.edu
Oriana Cadman, SW V.P., ocadman@kalama.com
Jay Adams-Feuer, Secretary, jay@alumni.middlebury.edu
Alexandra Porter, Treasurer, dporter@universityprep.org
WATSP web page: http://www.users.uswest.net/~eledu/aatsp