2008 Woodie Awards
English Club Aspires To New Levels
Diana Muniz Staff Reporter
Issue date: 9/22/05 Section: News
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The English Club, in its fourth year of existence, is beginning to tap into the creative spirit here at SHU. Also known as "The Literati," the English club was founded three years ago by senior Chris Crutchfield (Somers).
"I started it with Sabine Auguste," said Crutchfield, "to provide an intellectual medium for English majors and like-minded individuals to co-exist. Oftentimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Despite this, for me it has been and will always be a success. Through the group I have made friends and forged relationships with people I otherwise would have never met."
Meetings are held every Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Mahogany room. It is a place for people with any form of creativity in the arts; whether it is in music, art, dance, drawing, painting or writing.
"We need everyone," said Brad Holland (Vernon, B.C.), current Literati president. "We need writers, musicians, artists, web designers, poets, actors, playwrights and cartoonists. We want everyone here at SHU to get together and share their talents, in order to get new ideas out into the University."
Holland said, "This is a revolution. We want to develop new ideas and new forms of creative and imaginative writing. We need everyone we can, all the talented people here at SHU to come together to build something bigger than all of us."
He also believes the group will be good for mental well being. "Open discussion is healthy," he says. "It gives you an upper hand and keeps you on edge; it keeps the mind and spirit going, it is food for your intellect."
In addition to sharing ideas and establishing a place for discussion, students can go to get help from other students by having their work revised, corrected and improved. Each month the group plans to host paper sharing nights, where courageous souls go to read their papers and submit themselves to interpretation from the group.
"We aren't here to tear anyone down though," said Robinson. "We're here to build."
Criticism is integral to the creative process; it takes flat pieces of work and fleshes them out. Criticism also allows a person to view a regular piece from different points of view, just as Picasso did with his profiles. It gets the creative juices flowing.