Activities

During the first week an entertainment committee will be formed. The committee’s role will be to arrange activities that will allow us to meet informally. On selected evenings, for instance, we can gather to view and discuss selected films, or take advantage of a variety of campus and local events, or further our discussions with visiting humanities scholars, or any of a number of other opportunities. An exciting possibility may involve expanding our creative talents. What I have in mind is that we give a performance of (and perhaps “re-write”) Sartre’s play No Exit. Here we can examine Sartre’s claims that life is absurd and that no values exist outside ourselves, that we are the source of all values. In doing this, we will be creatively wrestling with issues that deal with the larger meaning of human experience—and hopefully having some fun. Of course many other opportunities will present themselves: picnics, golf outings, trips to Cincinnati, etc.