SFS students, check your emails! The deans of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service have come out with another jam-packed and happening bulletin, full of exciting and relevant information to give our little lives meaning. The BSFS Globe, probably founded following World War I with the realization of the need for more repetitive and redundant correspondence in the field of Diplomacy, hits the inboxes of every undergraduate student in the SFS on the regular, blessing and perplexing us with the wondrous bureaucracy of this fine institution. 

 Now onto the highlights of this week’s Globe. 

In this issue, the deans announced the 2013 Portuguese Proficiency Exam Schedule. In case you missed it, exams are to be held in the first two weeks of April 2013 on the first floor of the Kober-Cogan Building (near Darnall hall, those with mold allergies please call ahead). The proficiency exams will last for approximately 20 minutes each and will ultimately determine your ability to have a career in foreign service or if you are stupid. Uau!

If you are not a Portuguese student, there is plenty of content for you, too. Before you finally remember to mark the Globe as spam, note that there are several different deans in charge of several different things! There are new classes, including INAF 400: List Every Country Alphabetically or You Will Not Leave my Classroom, taught by famed Maps professor Mark Giordano, and STIA 319: the International Science of Science in International Affairs. Check out the Spring 2017 study abroad fair, hosted by the Office of Global Education in the Car Barn. If you peek in the “Deans’ Highlight” tab, you’ll see a link to a 24hr live-stream of Dean Byman’s office in the ICC! Find supply curves demanding? This week, the school will be offering Econ tutoring, for once. The Globe also reminds readers that the SFS Academic Council remains the premier Academic Council in the SFS. 

Oh? This information isn’t helpful you say? You wish to unsubscribe??? I must remark, for your own good, that this bulletin comes straight from the student assistants assisting the administrative assistants assisting the academic deans assisting DEAN JOEL HELLMAN, former CHIEF INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMIST OF THE WORLD BANK. Have YOU been the Chief Institutional Economist of the World Bank? Hmm. I thought not. 

Last, but most certainly not least, my dearest neorealist, neoliberal, neo-etc. pals, I will note that the U.S. is still at the center of the Globe.