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Herald By and for the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010

VOLUME CXXXI ISSUE 6

GENEVA, NY

Have You Checked Your ‘G.P.A.’ Lately? By Annie Mandart ‘14 Herald Contributor

Joseph Bisesto/Photographer

After the drop ceiling in Williams Hall 200 collapsed, the debris was removed from the classroom. The new ceiling is much higher.

Williams 200: The Beat Goes On By Joseph Bisesto ‘14 Herald Contributor

Annie Mandart/Photographer

After attending one of the G.P.A. sessions offered at the beginning of the academic year, HWS first-year students were given a G.P.A.–Approved sticker to place on their ID’s. If someone were to go around campus and ask a variety of students what “G.P.A” stands for, two distinct responses would be heard. For sophomores, juniors and seniors, G.P.A. stands for grade point average, something that most strive to keep up these days despite all of the pre-break jitters. If asked the same question to first-year students, an overwhelming number would eagerly respond, “Greek party awareness.” The newfound usage of the term G.P.A. has upperclassmen buzzing as they question each other to find out what it really means. At the beginning of the semester, there were

multiple Greek Party Awareness sessions held for first-year students interested in attending any of the future fraternity parties. This session wasn’t mandatory, unlike many other sessions for the first-years, yet it attracted approximately 400 eager, fresh new faces to the Albright Auditorium immediately following the 2014 Orientation. A.J. VanHeyst ’11, a Kappa Sigma Brother and IFC Vice-President, created the G.P.A. program and says he is more than satisfied with how it turned out. “It was my own idea, but it was inspired

The Music Department at Hobart and William Smith faced a huge obstacle in October. When the drop ceiling collapsed in the department’s main room, Williams 200, it left music professors and students at the colleges displaced. Some classes that were small enough found themselves in smaller practice rooms in the hallway of Williams Hall, while others were dispersed to other buildings, including Coxe. The collapse of the ceiling left many

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confused and asking questions, such as: How did this happen and why at a school such as HWS? Does the administration pay attention to the music department? Still many questions remain unanswered, but today Williams 200 is back up and running. “The drop ceiling has been removed completely and we’re going instead with the naturally high ceiling in the room,” says Music Department Chair Bob Cowles. “Due to this much higher ceiling, the room now has dramatically increased

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Audience Plays Part in ‘The Laramie Project’ By Karissa Seeberger ‘12 Campus Happenings Editor has been bringing out a variety of responses from the audience. Since the audience is virtually only a foot away from the actors of HWS and the Geneva Theatre Guild in the intimate Blackbox theater, their relationship is inevitably strengthened as they gasp, nudge, nod and speak out. The opening weekend performances brought in a mixed bag of HWS students and local residents, who have all been responding to the monologuerich performance based on a homophobia incited murder in small-town Wyoming. As Cassaundra Diaz, an actor playing the role of Romaine Photo courtesy of HWS Communications Patterson, explained using a Eric Hambury ‘13, playing Aaron Kriefels, rehearses his lines. pumpkin on the coffee table as Kriefels found Matthew Shepard beaten. a model to show how the line between stage and audience is The Laramie Project brings out as they are required to play multiple blurred, “We are basically storya variety of personas in the actors characters, but apparently it also

telling about a foot away from the audience and the monologues depend on the audience and the way they react.” Diaz also told how their performance builds off these responses, engaging the actor with the audience and vice versa. Eric Hambury, a Hobart student actor, supported the notion of varying audience engagement, “Some nights, the audience has been really silent and they just listen while others, they really react to everything we throw at them.” The Laramie Project clearly raises a wide range of timely issues regarding homophobia and hate crimes in general being that recent news has been saturated with such tragedies. One of the main reasons this play is so relevant is that Laramie and Geneva can be easily paralleled in that they are both LARAMIE continued on Page 2

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