• • Professors share works at confecence'--f fl el OU Harding University hosted the 29· llUlual meeting of theArkansas Philo– ogical Association Oct .11-12. The neetingwasconducted for collegepro– :essors who wanted to associate and earn from each other. More than 6Oprofessors from across \rkansas and a few other states were Ible to see what their colleagues were tudying, thinking and learning. The meeting was conducted at airField Bay on Greers Ferry Lake t the Shadow Ridge conference cen– er. Dr. TerryEngel, assistant professor fEnglish and programchair,did most f the preparation for the conference, Nhich included the presentations of ademic papers. Almost two-thirds of the profes– rs attending the English conference resented papers, speeches o r pieces f original literary works. Another part of the conference £0cused on how to teach ideas to stu– dents. Because teaching any new concept could be a challenge, the profesof English, also presented poems at this year's conference. The conference was divided into sessions. Up to three sessions sors looked to each other for g u idance con– cerning the best methods for por– traying literary ideas to students. " [Noel] Polk is quite prominent. He is one of the best known were conducted simultaneously, with as many as three academic papers pre– sented per ses- Faulkner scholars ." Eleven faculty members partici– pated in the con– ference. -Dennis Organ, chairman of the English department sion. Papers were organized b y topics,including American, Brit– ish and world lit– erature, as well as movies, poDr. La rr y Hunt, associate professor of English,and Dr. AliceJewell, professor of English, shared papers, as well as Karl Kukta and Jon Singleton, adjuncts in the English department. Sherry Organ, assistant professor etry and novels. "We try to group the papers so that similar topics are together and people can go listen to the papers that they are interested in," Dr. Dennis Organ, chair of the English department, said. As host of the conference, the En– glish department chose the keynote speaker, Noel Polk, professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. "Polk is quite prominent. He is one of the best known Faulkner scholars," O rgan said. Polk was a distinguished Faulkner and Welty critic and editor of "New Corrected Texts" of "Faulkner's Fic– tion" and "CorrectedText" ofWarren's -"Ali the King'sMen." Polk's topic was "Faulkner and Detective Fiction." The APA's journal, the Philological Review, was published twice a year and was indexed by the American Hu– manities Index and the MLA bibliog– raphy. Professors who presented at the annual conferencewere eligible to sub– mit their written works for a possible publishing opportunity. - Jenna LlCaze Senior Abbey Smith and sophomore Tessica White, lab instructor, practice their French conversation skills. The first two years of instruction in a foreign language required a lab. (Photo by Russ Phillips) Seniors Sharon Hall and Alicia Bright pay attention to a lecture in the 191t1 and 20th century Spanish prose class. As a Spanish major, Hall was required to take the literature class. (Photo by Melissa Wilson) english &foreign languages 159 1iI11 .
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