Place and
Placelessness
in America
Lecture Focus
By Nicole Burkholder
Capital Times Staff Writer
On Thursday, Nov. 18, the
American Studies department
presented a lecture by Dr. David
Glassberg. Glassberg is a mem
ber of the History department of
the University of Massachusetts-
Amherst.
In line with current debates
about urban sprawl, Glassberg
delivered his lecture entitled
“Place and Placelessness.” The
focus of his current research is
the study of Americans’ sense of
place in society, history, and
nature.
Throughout the lecture,
Glassberg used a variety of slides
to support his point. Using pic
tures as diverse as generic shop
ping malls and historical monu
ments, Glassberg presented his
interpretation of how Americans
perceive certain places to be
more or less important than oth-
The lecture also focused on
the historical perspective of the
so-called urban sprawl.
Glassberg pointed out that the
tendency for Americans to build
or use an area, become dissatis
fied with it, and build again is
nothing new. He cited many
examples from the beginnings of
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Dr. David Glassberg
International Internship an Amazing Experience
By Judson C. Davis
Capital Times Stall Writer
Meghan scurries down the hall
way hoping to avoid yet another
conversation with yet another
classmate or club-member about a
question she will probably have
the answer for but not the time to
fully articulate.
Feeling somewhat like the rab
bit from Alice in Wonderland,
checking her watch and saying
“I’m late. I’m late,” she longs for
the weekend, when her hectic rou
tine will slow to a peaceful gallop.
She wishes there was a hole she
could pop into and escape the real
ities of her busy life, if only for a
moment. Meghan realizes that the
internship she did this past sum
mer has prepared her for this may
hem.
Meghan Jasani, 22, a senior at
PSH majoring in Finance and
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minoring in International
Business, will graduate in
December.
As if her schedule wasn’t busy
enough with classes and her role
as the president of the Finance
Club, she is also going to one job
interview after another.
Hoping to land that job that
may turn out to be a career, Jasani
knows that the summer interna
tional internship with Fleet Bank,
N.A., in London has also helped
her land these interviews.
“I arrived in London not know
ing where I was staying or who I
was staying with,” Jasani said. “It
was a leap of faith.”
She proceeded to go through a
two-day orientation, and then, on
June 17, she moved into a flat that
she would share with three other
interns.
On the 18th, Jasani interviewed
Library Collection
to Move During
Semester Break
By Cathie McCormick Musser
Nobody likes to move. But,
compared to moving the average
household, moving the PSH
library is the move from hell.
The plan to move the library
over the semester break is in
place and it looks like the plan
for the Normandy invasion.
One thing that can’t be
planned, however, is the weather.
Library Director Dr. Harold Shill
would have preferred moving the
library during the summer.
“The construction just worked
out this way,” Shill said.
Barring bad weather, moving
over the semester break should
work well. Historically, the
library is quiet over the break.
According to Shill, once finals
are over the majority of library
transactions are students return
ing books or professors research
ing suspected plagiarism.
"Most people are getting
ready for the holidays," Shill
said. Shill does encourage stu-
with Fleet Bank and began her
much sought after, and much
anticipated, internship with them
on the 21 st.
“1 was treated well,” Jasani
said, “I didn’t feel like a foreigner
in the office, except maybe during
Wimbledon. When introduced to
people outside the office, I was
referred to as a colleague."
This type of treatment helped
Jasani make the cultural transition
from America to England and
from academia to the real world of
business.
“You wouldn’t think that
England's culture is much differ
ent than ours, but it is,” Jasani
said. "Their business atmosphere
is laid back and relaxed."
Jasani sought an international
internship because of the opportu-
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Capital Times Siall Writer
dents and faculty to return or
renew books before the move
begins.
The library staff will make
every attempt to offer emergency
services during the dates the
library will be closed to patrons.
Staff should be able to locate a
book or periodical depending on
the status of the move for that
section
In addition, an information
desk for “book returns and gen
eral questions” is promised in a
memo to PSH faculty from Head
of Public Services Gregory
Crawford and Circulation
Supervisor Fay Youngmark.
The memo included the dates
and hours of operation from Dec.
13 through the opening of the
new library on Jan. 10 (see box
below).
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MODIFIED
LIBRARY
HOURS
Dec. 13 - 16
Bam -11 pm
Dec. 17
Bam - spm
Dec. 18 - Jan. 5
Library closed
to patrons
Jan. 6-7
12pm - spm
Jan. 10
Regular hours
resume