Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A Brief History of the Center in the Center



















Mt. SAC's Writing Center was not always located in the modern and very glassy (I'm thinking more along the lines of panopticon here) center of campus where it currently resides. Oh, no, we were previously tucked away in a brick back wing of 26D overlooking the staff parking lot. At least there were pine trees to brighten up an otherwise--as one of our tutors called it--"ghetto" existence. Since we were called the WRAC (Writing, Reading, and Assistance Center), people confused us with a medieval torture device and, needless to say, we did not get much business. Now, if people are British, as our hourly instructor Richard Myers points out, they confuse us with a water closet, but I digress.

The point is, we are now the Center in the center (of Mt. SAC). This is what we looked like then and now.

~Posted by Nicole Blean

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