Last Call for E-AIR Limerick Contest Submissions!
Marne Einarson (mke3@cornell.edu)

This is a reminder to submit your entries for the 2010 e-AIR Limerick Contest. Just think: by offering an IR-related limerick, you can provide your colleagues some welcome respite from the interminably grim news cycle, trying fiscal times in postsecondary education, and, for those of us in the northern hemisphere, the cold, gray days of winter. So take a moment to pen a limerick and send it to Marne Einarson (mke3@cornell.edu) by February 26th.

Entries will be judged by our esteemed panel of Michelle Appel, Jennifer Brown and Alan Sturtz. We will publish the winning limericks in the March newsletter.

To help get your creative juices flowing, here are a few more samples from last year’s contest:

From John Nugent at Connecticut College:

I arrived at my desk full of cheer,
When a data request did appear:
“Just need one stat … or two …
Oh … for all our peers, too …
And perhaps going back 15 years.”

And from Amanda Udis-Kessler at The Colorado College:

IR is a much-needed thing.
Our talents help data take wing.
But we’re not quite as smashing
When endowments go crashing:
We can’t turn information to bling!