The Department has once again has hired a good group of student workers, who assist in our main office and help the faculty with some of their research. This is the second year that the College of Arts & Sciences has helped REL to employ those of its student workers who assistant professors with their large enrollment REL 100 classes.

An important change to note is that this year students who are hired to work in the Department are now known as Silverstein Fellows, in distinction from our Silverstein Scholars (who receive academic awards each year during Honors Week).

Thanks to Betty Dickey for her photographic exerptise.

Harrison Graydon, known for his love of heights, his pro-clear-cut-logging politics, an irrational aversion to socks, and his fascination with 19th and 20th century philosophy, is assisting Prof. Murphy's Fall '07 section of REL 100. How Harrison does this high from his arborial perch is, at present, unclear to us. (How he climbs in flip-flops is equally puzzling.)

Jaci Gresham, who seems to have a pleasant look of surprise permamently etched on her face (yes, we agree: the Department's a great place to work), reports that she was so impressed with the Department's website while researching university's during in high school that she decided to attend the University of Alabama. No kidding! Her interests tend toward things Christian origins and she's also the Vice President of our loca chapter of TAK.

Chris Hurt, a senior with a penchant for striking rugged out-doorsy poses and singing, first caught the religious-studies-bug by attending REL 100 many, many moon ago. Since then, he has been active in the Religious Studies Student Association and has become increasingly intrigued by not only the impact of classifying a "this" from a "that," but also the methodological approach used to systematize the Religious Studies Main Office. "There's a cabinet for everything? Radical!" he's been quoted as saying. "Groovy, man. Groovy."

Last, but not least, Sarah Kelly is majoring in History and assisting Prof. McCutcheon in his Fall '07 section of REL 100 (having taken it with him last year). Her passion for mapping North American hummingbird migration patterns is odd, we admit, but at least she knows the capitals of all the states (and three provinces!) as well as being versed in the air speed velocity of an unladened swallow.

Joining the team in the Spring '08 semester, and assisting Prof. Trost with his large enrollment section of REL 100, is none other than Dan "Do I Look Good in Green?" Mullins. A senior double majoring in Anthropology and Religious Studies, Dan is currently knee-deep in applications to graduate school; he can therefore be excused for his temporary lapses. Despite this, Dan is currently the driving force behind RSSA.

The gang seated outside Manly Hall. (Why can't guys sit up straight?) Scroll over to see them at historic Gorgas House.