Monday, 10th March
Hey guys, just a quick reminder that we are meeting at the City College Cafe tomorrow at 2pm instead of in FH307. Here’s a map link in case you haven’t been there.
This week, we’ll be deciding on our first trip, so do your homework! Some of the ideas that were thrown around at the last meeting were: the coroner’s office, Gibbon center, LA Zoo, Natural History Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, UCLA’s anthropology department, eating at Tunis, or going to the Japanese American National Museum. Also, if think of anything else that you would like to do bring along your suggestions and we’ll talk about them at the next meeting. I can’t wait to get started! See all of you tomorrow!!
Elizabeth
Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?
I recently saw this video of a TED talk by Jane Goodall that really impressed me. Here is a quote from their website:
“…she draws a dozen parallels between primate and human behavior, making the point that we really aren’t all that different. Our big advantage, she says, is the ability to communicate with sophisticated spoken language — yet, sadly, we are abusing this power and destroying the planet.”
I love her suggestions as to how we can combat this and responsibly live within a world that we depend on and that depends on us. I hope you enjoy it.
It’s all about you…
I’ve decided to set up this blog for the Anthropology Club at LACC for a couple of reasons: first, the weeks remaining in the semester are too few for us to be able to cover everything that we’re going to want to discuss if we only meet once a week, second is to (hopefully) create a lasting (past this semester) online community that we’re all able to contribute to and feel a part of and lastly, to provide a way for others to be a part of our club- even if they’re not able to come to the meetings. I know that we’re all busy with school and work and families and social lives, but my hope is that we will all be able to find a little bit of time (even if it’s just once a week- or once a month!) to post something here that we find fascinating or to comment on something that someone wanted to share.
We all will have the ability to submit a post, or a link or even just a picture and I hope that you guys will get as excited about the possibilities here as I am. I know that some of you may not be familiar with WordPress, but I’m sure that you’ll find it easy to use. If you’re interested, please send me an e-mail and I’ll set up a user for you! And if you’re having any trouble getting used to the system just send me an e-mail and I’ll help you out as much as I can.
I’m really excited about this semester and what our club is capable of achieving. So, welcome to the LACC Anthropology Club for Spring 2008!
