Stephen Lind passes Exams

Third year RCID doctoral candidate Stephen Lind successfully completed his Exams on September 30th.

The multi-modal component of his Exams included an exhibit of collectibles and rarities from the Peanuts franchise, followed by a presentation/defense of his proposed dissertation titled "Schulz's Religion: Exploring Faith in the Mainstream Media through the Peanuts Franchise." READ MORE about the exhibit and Stephen's dissertation plans over at the official RCID blog.

Carolina Rhetorics Conference

Hello all you fine rhetors.

Since you're all stuck in the snow today, you should write an abstract instead.

The Carolina Rhetorics Conference deadline is THIS FRIDAY, January 15th. So, get yer abstracts together kiddos. And e-mail them to sorsa@mailbox.sc.edu with “CRC proposal” in the subject heading. All I know is that it's going to be EPIC, or at least it'll be a nice quaint gathering with some other people in the area who know what rhetoric is.

It'll all go down at USC on February 25-26.

Be there.

Welcome, Nicole McFarlane

The Clemson Society for the Third Sophistic has officially elected Nicole McFarlane to fulfill the officer role of S3S/RSA Coordinator. The community felt that, with the addition of new responsibilities for the S3S, we needed someone to keep track of all of the things that we have to do as a newly minted chapter of the Rhetorics Society of America. Nicole is that person! It's a wonderful thing to see how we are changing, morphing, and growing into something grander.

The only question is... what's next?!

November Burning Man... and Woman

The November S3S gathering was filled with toasty marshmallowy goodness. Folks came out to the new Butts household in Central. Fun was had by many.

The little ones of our bunch giggled around the fire.

Pictures can be seen below...

Dr. Richard Murphy, the newly appointed head of the languages department, charmed many with his British accent and highly recommended that we all watch M, a nearly perfect film...

so here it is... enjoy.

November Pictures!

RSA Chapter

Hello out there in the rhetoric world.

It's been a while since this blog has been updated; however, there is some important news to go down in the archives!

The Society of the 3rd Sophistic has become an official Rhetoric Society of America chapter. So, now S3S/RSA will function as our student organization for all things rhetorical!

You can now see us listed on the RSA website here.

A little history of S3S can be found in the first post on this blog, here. But one of the main functions of the organization's founding was to be able to have a student organization that could host a triennial conference called the Carolina Rhetorics Conference. Though other activities have evolved with the group including our monthly gatherings.

We hope to update rhetorical things here more regularly this year, and that this blog can become a space for professional development, community building, and other interestingness.

Aug 09: New Year, New Piñata

Every school year needs an initiation rite. Three years ago they used to stuff a first-year student full of Skittles and whack him with an old laptop. We've come a long way.

Check out the entire roll of pictures from the Vitanzas.

In the weeks since, Bernard, Jimmy, Lauren, Juanrong, Walter, Steven, Stephen, and Taerhim have settled into Strode 205.

Soon they'll be unable to separate their first RCID memories from the preplatonics.

Next up: disco, disco, disco!