...check out the show's blog: http://frankgilandfriends.blogspot.com
New Britain Herald Coverage of CCSU's '100 Years of Sinatratude"!
"Doing it Sinatra's Way at CCSU" by Erv Dworkin, New Britain Herald, 14 December 2015.
12 December 2015
11 December 2015
10 December 2015
09 December 2015
SInatra Centennial Music Marathon, 12/12/15
24-Hour
Sinatra
Centennial
Music
Marathon
Saturday,
12/12/15
Midnight-11:59
PM
WFCS 107.7 FM
www.wfcsradio1077.com
08 December 2015
07 December 2015
06 December 2015
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Connecticut Edition)
"No one argues about the need for a liberal arts base. Everyone needs to walk, talk, and chew gum at some point in time."
?!??!!!
Don't the students of CT's largest university system deserve BETTER than this?! If this is what the ones in charge of higher education think about higher education, well then, as the Roman satirist Juvenal once asked, "Who will watch the watchmen?"
If you are justifiably concerned by such an attitude, contact the governor, your state senator, and/or representative.
See Mr. Donofrio's comment here at minute 32:00.
If you are justifiably concerned by such an attitude, contact the governor, your state senator, and/or representative.
See Mr. Donofrio's comment here at minute 32:00.
05 December 2015
04 December 2015
03 December 2015
02 December 2015
Day 204: Sinatra Centennial Memorabilia Celebration
Good to know other universities had the sense to
host a Sinatra Centennial Film Fest, like CCSU!
01 December 2015
30 November 2015
29 November 2015
28 November 2015
27 November 2015
26 November 2015
25 November 2015
24 November 2015
Sinatra Music Marathon, 12/12/15
24-Hour
Sinatra Centennial
Music Marathon
Saturday, 12/12/15
Midnight-11:59 PM
WFCS 107.7 FM
Calling Dr. Freud! Calling Dr. Freud!
(And, no, I definitely wasn't staff writer Buddy or Sally.)
Anyway, the song for the skit is Frank Loesser's duet "Baby, It's Cold Outside." As usual, the guy is trying to get his gal to stay with him, despite her protestations that she "really must go," because... well "... it's cold outside."
The Alan Brady Show twist here is that, while Alan is Alan, the woman is Joan of Arc (played by my mom, Laura Petrie), in full battle armor.
Lots of clanking, pratfalls, and at least one close call with a mace ensue.
I woke up before I heard my dad's response. Do you think it'll make the show?
Help me, Doctor!
23 November 2015
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31 October 2015
30 October 2015
My comments at the AAUP "Fair Contract Now" Rally @ CCSU
AAUP Rally @ CCSU 10/29/30
My
name is Gil Gigliotti, and, with a brand-spankin’-new PhD in hand, I arrived at
CCSU in the fall of 1992. They were troubled financial times then; no raises at
all for at least the first three years.
In fact, my wife and I even qualified for a low-income mortgage program
here in New Britain! Over the years, there have been wage freezes, and
furloughs, and give-backs, and I’ve even had good offers to go elsewhere. I haven’t gone anywhere else because I have become
quite fond of my adopted hometown of New Britain and have grown to love and
respect CCSU -- my students (current and alumni), my colleagues from across the
campus, and the mission we have for all of Connecticut.
Today,
in honor of my current ENG 213 students, I was going to serenade ConnSCU
President Ojakian with a rendition of Randy Newman’s “Mr. President, Have Pity
on the Working Man,” with such verses as,
We’re not asking
for you to love us
You may place
yourself high above us
Mr. President,
have pity on the working man!
But
I can’t sing or play the piano, and, more importantly, we are not asking for anyone’s
pity.
What
we seek today are fairness and respect for our students, our faculty and staff,
our university, and our fellow citizens – a fairness and respect that seem oddly
lacking in the Board of Regents’ initial contract proposals (not to mention the
misbegotten Transform 2020).
What
we seek is help in running our university the way a university needs to be run
so that it REMAINS a university – that is, a universe of learning, and
teaching, and researching, and creating, and building!
Now
I’ve written a little something, entitled “DISS-ed,” on which I’ll need your help!
When
I say “Dear Board of Regents,” you yell out DON’T DISS CCSU!
DISS-ed (Dear
Board of Regents)
It
would be easy to be DISS-heartened,
but
the students, alumni, and faculty of CCSU have too much heart.
Dear
Board of Regents, DON’T DISS CCSU!
It
would be easy to get DISS-couraged,
but
the students, alumni, and faculty of CCSU display remarkable acts of courage every day.
Dear
Board of Regents, DON’T DISS CCSU!
It’s
very tempting to DISS-trust each other,
but
real negotiation requires mutual trust.
Dear
Board of Regents, DON’T DISS CCSU!
and
finally
We
must never DISS-engage,
for true education
(that is,
learning, and teaching, and researching, and creating, and building)
demands our engagement
with each other,
with our cities,
with our state,
with our nation,
with our world!
Dear
Board of Regents, DON’T DISS CCSU!
DON’T
DISS CCSU!
DON’T
DISS CCSU!
DON’T
DISS CCSU!
DON’T
DISS CCSU!
DON’T
DISS CCSU!
DON’T
DISS CCSU!
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Author's Note:
I should make clear that I'm very aware of what Ben Franklin wrote in his Autobiography about the great effect the Great Awakening preacher George Whitefield had on his audiences and how much he hurt himself by publishing his sermons:
I am of opinion if he had never written any thing, he would have
left behind him a much more numerous and important sect,
and his reputation might in that case have been still growing,
even after his death, as there being nothing of his writing
on which to found a censure and give him a lower character,
his proselytes would be left at liberty to feign for him as
great a variety of excellence as their enthusiastic admiration
might wish him to have possessed.
