"Your paintings are very ambitious," teachers of Alyssa Monks, a contemporary figurative painter from Brooklyn, N.Y., would say throughout her college career. Monks came to ETSU on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008, to give a lecture on "Rendering Flesh", her concentration since high school.
As stated previously, Nome is a unique place. So when I took my first night of call, I had already learned not to expect it to be like taking call in Tennessee and I was right. Before my duties at the outpatient clinic had even ended that afternoon, my pager went off, telling me that a medevac flight would be leaving soon.
Budding playwrights, poets, songwriters, fiction and non-fiction writers at ETSU are uniting in a new organization on campus this fall to form a support network aimed at improving their writing and their chances of getting their work published.