What These Three Leaders Say About “Osmaru”?

Osmaru (Orientasi Mahasiswa Baru) can be simply defined as a welcoming event for new students, it happens annually in most departments in this university, including English Department. With different concept and committee, every new student has their own experience in the way they acknowledge the department. Here is the interview with three different leaders of the Osmaru committee held in three different years.

What was the theme? Why did you choose that?

Desi Nursita (The Head of Committee of Closer 2010)

We chose music as the concept of the Osmaru. It had been discussed and everyone agreed. Closer stands for Camaraderie League of Star Serenade, which means a community of friendship and serenade of the stars. Moreover, it has a purpose to introduce the new students to their upper class seniors and the department.

Galang Pradipta (The Head of the Committee of Coffee Bean 2011)

The theme is about film genre.

Ryan Erwanda (The Head of Committee of OffAir 2012)

It has a concept of TV Shows, with “broadcast yourself with ED” as a jargon.

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Linguistics Mainstream in UNS’ English Department

By Alifa Irlinda (ED’09)

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is one of the four mainstreams conducted by Sebelas Maret University’s English Department. Every year, it draws many English Department students interested in the study to deepen their Linguistics knowledge within classes.

Linguistic Levels

Linguistics can be divided into several sub-studies, i.e. language structure, language meaning, and language in context. The first category deals with the grammar of a language, meaning some sort of rules obeyed by the users of a language concluded in the study of morphology, syntax, phonology and systemic functional grammar. The second scoop of study deals with language meaning. It is concluded in the study of semantics and pragmatics. The third sub-study sees language as it is influenced by social, political, cultural, and historical matters. It is concluded in the study of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and discourse analysis.

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Opinion: About Literature Mainstream

by A. Qodir
English Literature 2008

I chose literature mainstream because it had been my interest since a long time. Literature is different than any other mainstreams in our department. We can play with words, explore our mind, and make some awesome arguments or opinions. There's the artistic value in literature, that's the plus point, because art is beautiful. Beautiful is judged by our own sense, everyone has different taste and perception. You can get it in literature mainstream, it's fun!

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Profile: Radyan Wresniwira Sandi

interviewed by: Agachi Satria

New Leader, New Hope, New Expectation, New Story

Radyan Wresniwira Sandi was inaugurated as Edcom President. He is a funny and friendly youngman. When we interviewed him, he looked so cheerful and full of spirit. As a new president, he has the charisma as a leader we can depend on.

Name :Radyan Wresniwira Sandi
Department : English Department 2009
Place & Date of Birth :Wonogiri, 13th August 1992
Family Status : 1st child out of 2 siblings
Hobby : Doing sports; futsal and basketball, playing video games, reading comic, learning interesting things.
Favorite Quotation : Give the best and get the best!

Would you mind explaining your impression as a president of EDCOM for the first time?
I felt so nervous because this is the first time I am chosen as a leader. I admit that I do not have any experience before. I was in doubt. Can I do the best for this organization? Can I hold the responsibility? These words were haunting me in my head all the time. But as time goes by, I'm trying my best to lead EDCOM. I always ask my senior when I am in doubt and I always strive to be a good leader. In the end, I enjoy my position right now, I have adapted to this circumstance and I will give my best efforts to EDCOM.

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Mainstream Dilemma

by Cahyo Adi Nugroho

If you can't convince them, confuse them. -Harry S. Truman-

The quote from the former president of United States of America should be suitable for the theme of Research and Development Division (RND)’s Seminar on Mainstream back then. The fact is, based on the results obtained by RND’s research and interview conducted by me after the seminar was held, there are two groups of students formed: a group that is more certain with their mainstream and the more confused one.

Every student must ever feel in doubt or dilemmatic on something, moreover in a thing so-called mainstream. “Pre-mainstream” students always have plenty of choices in their minds, sometimes with pressure. They tend to believe in the information regarding particular mainstream based on what upper-semester students say, and it then finally becomes such a paradigm of which they don’t even have any idea whether it is right or wrong.

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Pengerjaan Mading Baru (Part I)

Jum’at, 20 April 2012

Tepat satu hari sebelum Hari Kartini, aku dan beberapa teman presdiv kerja bakti membersihkan mading. Perlu kalian ketahui bahwa ini merupakan mading baru untuk Edcom, yang berhasil kami dapatkan setelah bernegosiasi dengan Pak Mahdi, Kasub. Bag Umum dan Perlengkapan FSSR . Proses pembersihan mading berlangsung mengesankan, dari relokasi beberapa pamflet yang masih menempel sampai pembersihan kaca.

Mereka bilang bahwa sebuah gambar bisa menceritakan seribu kata, makanya kami tidak lupa untuk menyempatkan diri mengambil beberapa gambar.

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