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October, 2009
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Local News: Kid Who Wont Leave Party “Down to Smoke Some Hookah”
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
SCRIBNER VILLAGE—Reports have surfaced that the kid sitting in the common room of your house—over an hour after the departure of the last group of guests—would not be opposed to idea of firing up your hookah and smoking from it.
“Is that a hookah?” the kid was heard saying. “I love hookah. Somebody should get that shit going.”
As of press time, the name of the kid has not been verified, although one of your housemates thinks he might be in one of her English classes and that his name might start with a P. Despite the many hints that have been dropped and the fact that he is the only person in the house who does not live there, the kid is showing no signs of being ready to leave.
“Wow, it’s getting late,” one of your housemates was heard saying, while stifling a very exaggerated yawn. “Almost time for bed.”
The kid was described as around 5’8” wearing a purple hoodie and displaying no inhibitions or visible signs of tiredness.
“This is a sick house,” the kid was heard saying. “Anybody down for a game of beer pong?”
New York Times Shows No Love
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Aren’t you glad you don’t got to MIT?
A New York Times article from early October observes that many colleges are beginning to embrace student blogs as a tool for communicating with prospective students. The article focuses mostly on college-authorized blogs, like this group of boring Skidmore-maintianed sites that people rarely check.
Unfortunately SkidmoreUnofficial and similar sites at Wesleyan and Vassar aren’t shown any love by Mr. fancy pants journalist Tamar Lewin.
Do any pre-frosh or perspective students check this site? Class of 2013 did you?
Student Art in the Library Opening Reception
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Wednesday night from 5-6pm in the Scribner Gallery on the Library’s second floor the Student Art in the Library exhibition will be having its opening reception. There will be fantastic student art work, home-baked foodstuffs and–tipster Jordan Klein assures us–this dude.
Dr. Nicole Donofrio On Rice Pathogens
Monday, October 19th, 2009The new SkidmoreUnofficial science corespondent Brit Berdy ’10 writes in to let us know about Wednesday’s lecture:
As part of the Distinguished Science Lecture Series, Dr. Nicole Donofrio will be giving a lecture entitled Know Your Enemy: A Better Understanding of Rice Diseases Brings Us Closer to a Cure. The lecture will take place at 5:30 pm this Wednesday, October 21, in Emmerson Auditorium. She will also be giving a lecture Thursday October 22 to the biology major’s senior capstone class.
Donofrio graduated from Skidmore with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1995, and went on to receive her doctorate from Cornell University in 2002. Donofrio is currently an assistant professor of plant and soil sciences at the University of Delaware. She will be speaking about her research, which is primarily concerned with the rice blast disease (a fungus).
Why is a disease that affects rice so interesting, why do we even care? Well, the rice blast disease is responsible for destroying huge amounts of rice each year- rice that could otherwise be used to feed 60 million people in need. In fact, this particular rice pathogen is so damn effective at destroying rice it was actually labeled as a potential biological weapon threat in 1999. Who knew rice could cause so many issues? Donofrio’s main objective from her research is to understand the rice blast fungus, hopefully allowing for logical decisions about future fungicide.
Grip You Like Advice: The Return of Dear Lucy
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Lucy Scribner, everyone’s favorite advice columnist, is back once again. Students with social quandaries should email their situations to DearLucy@SkidmoreUnofficial.com
You’ve got questions and she’s got answers. Pause for a moment as you’re bemoaning your awkward social interactions, directionless career path, or unrequited love for that girl who is always in your laundry room, and write in to Dear Lucy for some outside perspective.
For Lucy’s past advice check the archives.
Junior Class Can Drive
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
The Junior class is sponsoring a Can Drive starting this Monday in honor of National Make a Difference Day (yes that is a real thing).
Monday night in the Spa you can pick up a paper bag to fill with non-perishables, eat free pizza and hear the Sonneteers sing. Then this week you go grocery shopping and fill your brown bag with delicious foodstuffs. On Saturday October 24th you bring your bag back to Case Center and spend the rest of the weekend feeling good. Simple.
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Pavilion Corporation Vote
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
yo dudes, this is how you get to Fallstaff's
Returning students will remember that in 2008 the SGA held an emergency meeting to elect some students to the Board of Directors of the Pavilion Corporation, the governing body that runs Fallstaff’s.
Pavilion is a State-recognized not-for-profit established in 1985 to run Falstaff’s; every students is considered a member and in the past we have been responsible for electing members of the board. Unfortunately this whole set up was forgotten about until the winter of 2008 when the SEC, SGA and a few other concerned parties (Leadership Activities?) got to thinking about how to make Falstaff’s into a nicer venue and revived Pavilion.
In the Spring of 2008 an emergency meeting was held to create a new Board of Directors and in our infinite democratic wisdom we ended up electing a bunch of people who were graduating that Spring. Realizing that perhaps the current system isn’t the best the remaining members of the Board of Directors have, after numerous meetings and discussions over the last several years, voted to dissolve the corporation and turn control of the building over to the College.
This vote needs to be ratified by 2/3 of the student body. All of this information—and more—is in an email sent to every student, an email you must reply to in order to vote. If you do not reply to that email you will be marked down as an abstention.
If you have any sense, social responsibility, or free time you should open up your skidmore.edu Inbox, search for an email called “PAVILION CORP VOTE – RESPONSE NECESSARY” and make democracy happen or whatever.
Zankel Basically the Versailles of Music Centers
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
early digital sketches of the new recital hall from EwingCole
Zankel Music Center isn’t opening until January 2010 but on Friday some lucky students, parents, and other members of the community got the chance to tour $32.5 million building. Michel West, the Vice President of Finance and Administration, lead tours of the 55,000 square-foot building explaining that it will replace raggedy ol’ Filene as the home of Skidmore’s music programs, as well as play host to community events.
Although architecturally impressive from the outside— EwingCole Architects, the building’s designers, won a national award for Zankel’s design even before funds were secured for its construction—the real pomp and circumstance is on the inside where sound proofing and all that technical shit is taken to another level. The building has three wings, each laid on a separate foundation. Most anticipated is the 600-seat concert hall with a “flexible stage” to accommodate any kind of musical performance, from a single lecturer to a full orchestra. Framed by 750 tons of structural steel the building also contains practice rooms, classrooms, coatrooms, bathrooms, a recording studio, an acoustically “dead” drum room, circulation spaces and ominous sounding 600lb soundproof doors.
In anticipation of all this new stuff Skidmore named David Howson of Richmond, Va. the inaugural Arthur Zankel Director of Arts Administration. Hawson is charged with establishing a “new interdisciplinary program to prepare students for creative lives and management positions in the visual arts, music, dance, and theater.” Howson will also join the faculty when the building opens in January 2010.
For more information on Hawson click here
If you took the tour and want to share some photos we would like to hear from you.
Local News: Pot Smokers Successfully Evade Campus Police
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Three students smoking a marijuana cigarette outside of Bolton Hall last night may have saved themselves a lot of time, money, and trouble when they pulled off a slick maneuver to avoid a Campus Police Officer.
“We were smoking this fat joint and I looked over Erick’s shoulder and saw this guy kind of looking at us off in the distance,” said Freddy Arquette, one of the friends. “He was wearing a gray shirt and he was pretty overweight. I was like, ‘Is that Campo?’ and Erick was like, ‘I don’t know, maybe.’”
Witnesses then saw the tallest of the three friends throw the joint on the ground, stamp it out, and motion to the others to follow him down the walkway toward the science building.
“I’m not actually sure if the guy they saw was a Campus Security Officer,” said Steve Weidner, another of the friends. “When we were walking away I glanced over my shoulder a little bit and he didn’t really look like a Campo guy. He was wearing a backpack.”
Following the incident, the three students were spotting at late night in the Dining Hall, eating chicken patties.
