Lawrence Collerd
Lawrence Collerd is a senior writing major with minors in English and politics. He is also the president of the acahti players, an improve comedy troupe on campus. When he’s not doing homework or trying to be funny, he enjoys writing short fiction, especially about Chicago, his hometown. At the end of the summer, he had a blast camping in northern Michigan with his friends and reading Updike on the beach all day. Though this is his first year working in the Writing Center, he has already helped some pretty important people with their work.
Without Lawrence’s help, I probably never would have finished the Emancipation Proclamation. In fact, the title was his idea. I wanted to call it “Abe’s Extra-Awesome Emancipation Essay.”
-Abraham Lincoln
I came to the Writing Center with a poem about butterflies and rainbows. Lawrence suggested something a little darker, so I wrote “The Wasteland.”
-T.S. Eliot
I just can’t wait to see him again.
-Miley Cyrus
Simi Landau
Simi Landau is a junior English major with minors in general loafing about and whimsy. She has a love for turtles and will one day name a turtle Cholmondeley (which is of course pronounced Chomley).
Blair Lord
Blair Lord is a junior writing major with a minor in music. She loves musicals, seafood, summer, and long walks on the beach. Okay, maybe not the last part. She loves creative writing, especially creative fiction (short stories, novellas, novels, etc.). She is enamored with theater as well, both watching and sometimes performing in it. She is a sucker for 19th century, romantic, and gothic/horror literature (and most combinations of the three). She has never been out of the country except in Canada, and really wants to study abroad at the Ithaca London Center her junior year. She hopes to visit France, too, especially Paris, after her semester in England. She is eager to write and publish fictional prose for her career as well as join an operatic or musical theater company after graduate school, which means she will probably be poor for a long time. Blair looks forward to her first year as a tutor and is determined to do her best for all seeking compositional aid. Oh, and she ís currently addicted to Minesweeper.
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas is a senior philosophy and religion major. As the resident philosopher of the Writing Center, he is the one to go to when you’re struggling to comprehend the finer points of anti-Cartesianism or pronounce “Nicomachean.” When he is not busy philosophizing he spends his spare time endlessly validating his own opinions and reading the marvelous works of Ann Coulter, the smartest person alive.
Rose Zonetti
Rose Zonetti is a senior writing major with planned minors in philosophy and environmental studies. Slightly masochistic and weirdly satisfied by an overloaded schedule, she busies herself with oodles of writing classes, volunteering at Southside Community Center and Loaves and Fishes, giving campus tours, playing rugby for the Ithaca College Renegades, and occasionally writing for various campus publications, and (of course) working in the Writing Center. When her hair isn’t falling out from stress, she enjoys conducting her own sessions of laughter yoga with her closest friends, cooking/mooching/eating food, procrastinating in the library (who doesn’t?), strolling through Ithaca, arguing for the sake of arguing, and talking about her dog Chubbs the Pug.
