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November 2022
In This Issue:
p. 3 - Remembering Grant Holly
p. 4 - Hobart Celebrates 200 Years With Bicentennial Gala
p. 5 - Provenzano Art Gallery Opens On Campus
p. 5 - Leading the Way
p. 6 - Cannabis and Fentanyl on Campus
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On the eighth of November 2022, the HWS campus learned of the deeply saddening passing of Professor of English Grant Holly. Professor Holly was an acclaimed screenwriter and academic, and a staple of the community as the longest serving faculty member. Professor Holly was truly beloved by many friends and students on campus, and his work impacted countless lives .
The staff at The Herald extend our condolences to the family of Professor Holly and all grieving during this difficult time. While it is impossible to truly capture a life within a page, we have selected these stories to try and honor the life and memory of an esteemed member of our community.
“Professor Holly was truly one of the greatest professors here. As a biochemistry major, I always felt a bit out of place in his classes, but he encouraged me to speak up and bring my different perceptive to the class. Professor Holly saw the best in every student and always wanted to connect with every student he encountered. Even after my classes with him, he continued to make an effort to stay in touch with me.
His joy for films and psychoanalysis was contagious and it was obvious that he loved what he did. What made Professor Holly unique was his quick-wit and out of pocket humor that was guaranteed to make you laugh. He always had a story or anecdote for every topic. Shockingly, I never heard him share the same story twice.
I loved walking past his office whenever I had the chance since I knew I’d see an inviting and happy smile when I would. Even a year after taking his screenwriting course, he still tried to convince me to work on my script because he believed I had the creativity and potential to take the script much further and deeper than I did. Thank you for all the encouragement you sent my way and for sharing your passions with all of us. Professor Holly, I am so thankful that our paths crossed, and you will be greatly missed.”
teamed up to play in a two-man, two-day golf tournament at Geneva Country Club. Grant was hot as a firecracker on the event’s first day, making amazing shot after amazing shot and leading our team to first place.
Unfortunately, we didn’t play well on the second day and finished far from first. No problem. Grant took the loss in good spirit and didn’t yell at me once. We reflected on the defeat for years.
I have been honored to work with Grant since 1999 when I first came to Geneva. From day one as a senior member of the faculty – he was unfailingly kind and generous to this inexperienced president.
Supportive and direct, he taught me a great deal about our faculty, Hobart and William Smith and the promise of this special place.
I was fortunate to travel with him to Los Angeles as he created a vibrant and essential program for our students and witnessed his engagement in the classroom.
And so it is a challenge to sum up this magnificent man. His boundless energy – for friendships and teaching. His keen and inquisitive mind – for ideas and concepts. His unfailing dedication to his students. His unflagging commitment to these Colleges and his colleagues. All this week, I have been thinking of Bob Dylan’s song “Forever Young” – because Grant Holly was forever young. Young in ideas. Young in approaches to different generations of students. Young with a wickedly funny sense of humor. And young in style.
The accolades for Grant Holly in this issue of the Herald are all true – and then some. I know this because Grant was my friend.
And a treasured friend he was. I regret that I didn’t get to spend more time with him, but cherish the time we had – dining out, playing golf, discussing children, politics, his work, the latest news.
I learned of his passing from a mutual friend who had spoken with Grant earlier on the day he died. This can’t be, I thought. But it was true. His passing is a heartbreaking loss for the HWS and Geneva communities – and beyond.
We were trying to set up an evening dinner with Grant and Suzie when people learned the shocking news.
At past get-togethers, Grant would always greet me with: “Carlos the Jackal.” According to Wikipedia, Carlos the Jackal is a Venezuelan convicted of terrorist crimes and currently serving a life sentence in France for murder. I think Grant just enjoyed giving mild-mannered me the name of Carlos, the Spanish equivalent of the name Charles.
Quite a few years ago, Grant and I
Grant gave me a great gift for my 70 th birthday five years ago: a collection of the top-shelf ingredients needed to make my own Manhattan cocktail.
I swear the precise preparation tasted better because it came from him.
Grant’s legendary sense of humor was both kind and razor sharp. He could switch from light-hearted banter to serious subjects in the blink of an eye, so you had to pay attention. He was a world-class storyteller.
I sat next to him at the celebration of the millennium in Geneva. My thought was: Grant is one in a million.
Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan could have been thinking about Grant when he wrote the song Forever Young.
Here is the first verse:
May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
May you stay forever young
Memorial shared by Kara Gilleland ‘23 Reflection from President Mark Gearan Excerpt taken from “Eulogy for Professor of English Grant Holly” Photo of the late Professor Holly, courtesy of HWS Colleges A moment of rememberance provided by Charlie Wilson Advisor to The Herald
By Paige Wilson ‘26 Staff Writer
As Hobart College celebrated 200 years of existence and excellence this past October, a gala was hosted here at the Colleges to celebrate the birthday. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni were invited to attend the gala and spend the weekend enjoying additional activities and events to celebrate the bicentennial.
The event consisted of performances by different groups of students around campus, the Hobart Chorale started the evening off by singing the Hip Hobart song, they were followed by a traditional African dance performance by the Dance Department accompanied by faculty and staff on drums. There were then a multitude of speakers ranging from students, alumni and faculty members, they recounted the history of Hobart College including some untold stories
The big announcement of the night given by Patricia Adams, daughter of Rev. Dr. Alger L. Adams ‘32, was the announcement of the schools decision to name the newly expanded Intercultural Center on campus after her father. Rev. Dr. Alger L. Adams was the first African American man to graduate from Hobart College, he earned his MBA then decided to enter the ministry and dedicate his time to his faith and the faith of others, eventually he was drawn to become a civil rights activist and purchased a newspaper company to help give African American communities a voice. His name will be remembered in the most fitting way possible by naming the Intercultural Affairs Center after him.
By far the best part of the night was when President Gearan took the stage with his infamous and recently reunited President’s Garage Band. The band composed of faculty and staff singing and playing some fan favorites like “Don’t Stop Believin’” and “Sweet Caroline” that had the students on their feet immediately and storming the stage. Gearans ability to tickle the keys blew us all away, and it was a great moment to just feel the unity and pride the students and alumni had in the school.
The school spared no expenses in the planning and coordination of the gala. They set up in the Bristol Field House, and while this concerned many about whether it would smell bad because it was in a gym, I can assure you no unpleasant odors were detected at the time of the event. The gala had guests enter the field house through a massive balloon arch that led to a purple carpet complete with places for guests to take pictures, be interviewed, and immerse themselves in visual display of the history and timeline of Hobart College. Going into the event, students had no expectations for what it would look like or how the school was going to be able to pull off such a grand formal event, but it seemed everybody was thoroughly impressed. The attention to detail in the decorations was spectacular, it truly looked and felt like a gala with everybody dressed up in their finest attire, not just another alumni event.
about the school. The speakers really highlighted just how much success the Colleges have had and how this school has grown so much since foundation, specifically emphasizing how what has already happened was only ‘just the beginning’ and how there will be more growth and excellence to come.
The evening concluded with food and dancing late into the night, students fully taking advantage of the charcuterie table by stealing whole loaves of bread, and alumni reliving their glory days on the dance floor as the band seemed to favor the throwback songs. The gala was a success in providing the perfect atmosphere for us all to celebrate 200 years of excellence and promise of 200 more years of hope and excitement for what’s to come.
Photo courtesy of HWS Communications
Photo courtesy of HWS Communications Patricia Adams is introduced on stage as she prepares to make the big announcement
Photo courtesy of HWS Communications
Art students on the HWS campus were given a reason to celebrate at the beginning of this school year when the Provenzano Student Gallery opened in the
their work; the Provenzano provides them with a unique opportunity to share it with the entire campus. The gallery was also created by a group of HWS students and professors, led by Professor Angelique Syzmanek; they cooperated to secure the space in Scandling and to raise enough
Scandling Center. But the Provenzano’s team hopes that it will be able to reach the larger student body as well. “The whole point of the Provenzano is to bring the arts campus to the main campus,” says Jimmy Cherry ‘26, co-director of the gallery (along with fellow senior Gretchen Warner). “We want to get more people who may not be art majors interacting with it.”
Before the Provenzano opened, there was already an art gallery on campus-the Davis-but as Cherry points out, “Realistically a lot of students don’t get the opportunity to go there often.” The Provenzano’s central location makes it much more convenient for students to visit. Additionally, the Davis mainly displays works by outside artists, while so far the Provenzano has only accepted art made by students. The gallery holds open calls after each exhibition’s theme is announced, and any student can submit their work for consideration. Many of these students are not actually art majors and don’t get many chances to display
student interest to get the gallery off the ground. It’s now run entirely by a group of students with no prior experience. Cherry admits that “we all completely jumped into this headfirst. Nobody’s done this before. We’ve all been kind of figuring this out as we go.” Despite their lack of experience, they’ve managed to run two exhibitions so far and are looking forward to the next semester.
The gallery’s first exhibition theme was “Hands of the Colleges.” It focused on human form and figure, and it also emphasized the fact that all the works were made by HWS students. The current exhibition is based on the theme of “Perception,” displaying the many different ways that our student artists see the world. This exhibition will last through the end of the semester. Both shows enjoyed success. If you are a student artist, consider submitting your work for display at the Provenzano. And if you’re not, stop by after lunch someday. There’s a fantastic artistic scene on this campus that’s worth exploring.
Studies report that above 77 percent of organizations report a lack of traditional leadership, and now more than ever, efforts are put forth to find specialized employees that exude qualities of ethical, inclusive, and value-based leaders. The Hobart & William Smith Centennial Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation is located at 603 South Main Street in Geneva, and serves as a campus hub for experiential learning for all students. This school year, the return of the Centennial Center (following the pandemic) is met with changes, such as re-introducing old programs, and introducing new programs. According to the Centennial Center website, these programs include HWS Leads, The Pitch, Summer Sandbox, IdeaLab, Student Launchpad, Cohen Fellowship, Centennial Scholars, National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, Idea Generator, Hackathon, Knowledge Series, Leadership Case Competition. I am an incoming Centennial Center Scholar, and I was pleasantly surprised to be given the offer to have a voice in the hiring process of new employees on my college campus. In the final week of October, the HWS community welcomed two potential candidates for the Director of the Centennial Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation position. During the interview process, the encouraged prompt was detailing how to set goals for the future of the Centennial Center, in addition to engaging reliable stockholders. Next year, it will be celebrating its 15th-year anniversary; the center is looking to make improvements when reaching the 20th anniversary. The search committee ultimately agreed that neither candidate was the right fit and decided on regrouping to search for a Director again in the Spring. Currently, Susan Pliner will serve as the Interim Director, with Kayla Eberhardt as the Associate Director of the Centennial Center, and Ed Bizari as Entrepreneurial Fellow for the Centennial Center. No matter the path the Centennial Center forges, a bright future is guaranteed due to the HWS community.
‘Perception’ Exhibit at the Provenzano Art Gallery, on display until the 8th of Dec. 2022On September 24th, the HWS Administration sent out a school wide email warning students that, “we have learned from health officials that fentanyl - a life threatening, synthetic opioid 50-100 times stronger than heroin - has been found locally, including in marijuana,” and referred students to the amnesty policy. The New York Department of Health (DOH) press release linked from this email described an increase in the number of overdoses from fentanyl in a variety of forms, which did not include marijuana. Upon being asked about the situation, Vice President for Campus Life Becca Barile said that the Colleges were “made aware of a local, specific incident.”
Due to the nature of this case, The Herald cannot independently verify anything that occurred. Fentanyl-laced cannabis has been a subject of national controversy, with very few cases definitively confirmed. Fentanyl is often found in the “heroin… cocaine, crystal methamphetamine and illicitly manufactured pills, including benzodiazepines and other psychostimulants like Molly and MDMA” listed by the DOH press release. But it is not typically found in marijuana. Fentanyl is unfortunately not a new problem for the Geneva area. Epidemiological data reported 11 overdose deaths in Ontario County from synthetic opioids in 2019.
Cannabis specifically is under confusing legal ground in New York State and on college campuses. The Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, passed in the spring of last year, legalized the possession and use of marijuana by adults in the state and set the stage for the growth of a New York cannabis industry. The first dispensary licenses were granted recently, but none of them will be in the Finger Lakes region despite numerous applications and an expected 9 slots for the first round of approvals due to the ruling of a federal court. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe granted a preliminary injunction against the state approving applications in several New York regions after a Michigan man sued, claiming that the state’s regulations unfairly discriminated against applicants from out of state. A public records request to the state office reviewing applications for any applications from the
Geneva area specifically has not been filled at press time. Regardless, the Colleges are bound by federal law to prohibit all federally illegal substances like marijuana.
Naloxone (sold under the name Narcan) is a drug which can reverse an opioid overdose, most often used in a nasal spray. As of August of this year, pharmacists in New York can offer Narcan without a prescription. When asked about whether Campus Safety officers were trained to use it, Barile said “Yes, Campus Safety, as well as most Community Assistants, are trained to use Narcan. Officers carry this on their person.”
Other safeguards, including test strips, provide a way for people to find out if drugs have been contaminated with fentanyl, which can allow them to take steps to reduce their risk of overdose. They have been endorsed by the CDC and the New York DOH.
“We always are looking into advancing our response methods, both with Campus Safety, Finger Lakes Ambulance, and our own HWS EMS. We are evaluating test strips and in the beginning stages to offer wider training outside of student leaders.” said Barile.
When asked if she believed the Colleges were doing enough to prevent drug overdoses on campus, Barile responded:
I think we need to remember that alcohol is also considered a drug and extensive alcohol consumption, too, can be deadly. The ways in which people consume alcohol and other drugs is constantly changing and evolving. We have proactive courses for entering first-year students and on-going education via activities and programs. Our campus response team, the ADAPT (Alcohol and Drugs Awareness, Prevention and Treatment) team, partners with FLACRA and local agencies as well for both proactive education and programs in response. Our policies are designed to reduce alcohol and other drug overdoses, such as limiting the amount, and type, of alcohol on-campus, and having a robust amnesty policy which has increased the number of calls to Campus Safety for alcohol and other drug responses since its inception. Social Host Training is also provided by a national TIPS trainer to be aware of symptoms and appropriate response for situations like this. We have our own EMS, carry Narcan, and continually train our first responders. We plan to enhance the first-year course offering and begin offering similar workshops to wider groups.
Opioid overdoses are a continuing public health problem. The policies and priorities of the Colleges and governments are key to the response.
More information on resources for community members and individuals who use drugs is available at: the National Harm Reduction Coalition (harmreduction.org); Trillium Health (trilliumhealth.org/)
and the New York HOPEline (Call 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY)
By Hrithik Biswas ‘23 Operations Manager
Junior Student-Trustee Samari Brown ’24 and Jesse Whelan-Small ’24 have quite a presence around the HWS campus. Jesse can be seen giving tours to prospective students, but while not on campus, he was in Washington D.C. as a Legislative Intern for Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr (NJ-10) this past summer. Samari’s talent in theater, self-expression, and innovative thinking is at the forefront of her personality. Samari conducted an internship with HWS Theatre and Historic Geneva Society, titled “From the Beyond: Staging Geneva’s Unheard Voices.” Her work in civic leadership ties into encouraging students to practice their voting rights through HWS Votes. Samari, as well as Kate Equinozzi ’23, have shepherded a recent milestone in HWS being recognized as a recipient of ALL IN-Campus Democracy Challenge’s most engaged campus for college student voting.
As Junior Student-Trustees, Samari and Jesse sit alongside the current Senior Student Trustees Irini Konstantinou ’23 and Zaheer Bowen ’23. “It is truly a privilege to know, work with, and learn from them; they teach me so much about this school and my peers,” Konstantinou ’23 said. “Jesse and Samari have had a unique start to Student Trustee life given their start as we began to move out of COVID, so I think because of that they’ve been outstanding in demonstrating students’ needs moving forward,” Bowen ’23 said. Samari and Jesse currently don’t have voting power on the Board of Trustees, but they have a voice at the table.
The Herald asked them how it felt to be Student Trustees. “My peers trusted me to be in this position to speak on their behalf on their concerns and issues of our campus,” Brown ’24 said. Within
her position as an impactful leader, she hopes to be the voice for those who may not be heard even though they might have a voice. Their role is to bridge the gap between the student community and the Board of Trustees and Administration.
With President Mark Gearan and his wife Mary Gearan back home here at HWS, Samari and Jesse are excited to get to work on developing a community following the pandemic. “Our campus is very sectioned, we call ourselves HWS community, but are we really? I want to make sure everybody feels included in the spaces,” Brown ’24 said.
Jesse hopes the campus is more accessible, “Whether that be activities, buildings, classrooms.” Adding, “that’s something that’s at the forefront of my mind right now. I’m working on that. So, all this to say, we are prepared to talk about these issues, acknowledge them, and share them with the board,” Whelan-Small said.
They hope to tackle food quality, accessibility, and insecurity on campus. Jesse elaborates, “not everyone can just order food and pay for that—so I see this as an issue for students who don’t have that luxury just to be able to get food when they want,” Whelan-Small ’24 said. “I think there is a kind of a real room for some new direction we could take on food.
Samari hails from Rochester, New York, with a double major in English and Sociology with a minor in Theatre. She is a Civic Leader for HWS Votes, and currently works as an Office Assistant at the William Smith Dean’s Office. Jesse is from Maplewood, New Jersey, majoring in Economics and International Relations. He served as class president for two years and was a research assistant in the Sociology Department. He is currently an active member of HWS Debate team, the Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and as a tour guide for Office of Admissions.
The Herald is looking forward to progress Samari, Jesse, and the Board of Trustees hoping to achieve.
It was recently announced by Vice President for Campus Life Dr. Becca Barile that following Thanksgiving break, November 28th, Saga will remain open until 9pm during weekdays and until 8pm on weekends.
These extended hours were much hoped for by many athletic teams on campus, as well as the greater HWS community. This new progress in campus life was much advocated by Senior Student-Trustees, Irini Konstantinou '23 and Zaheer Bowen '23 and Junior Student-Trustees, Samari Brown ’24 and Jesse Whelan-Small ’24.
With that direction, Saga hours have extended for dinner times by an hour to alleviate the pressure of student-athletes and busy students who find themselves rushing into Saga thirty minutes before closing to get their food—when often some menu options have already been cleaned up for the evening.
The reactions to the recent announcement were mostly positive, but still raised mixed feelings from the student body. They say progress is still required to achieve what students truly want.
Sadie Winton ’24 mentioned “It’s great to see the school taking feedback from students and beginning to make improvements in areas of concern. That being said, I think students were hoping for an extension of more than just one hour - however it is definitely a step in the right direction!”
As for further progress, Gabriela Nieves ’23 suggests, “I think that with good intentions, I appreciate the efforts of the student trustees and the faculty to make this happen. This is a great thing for busy students like me, but the real win would be getting rid of a company that does not treat its workers in equitable ways. I think in practice, this blinds the student body from the real issue which is getting rid of Sodexo.” The Herald has written numerous articles on Sodexo in the past, focusing on work life experiences of the employees, food quality, and analysis of unethical business practices.
Student-leaders of HWS are often applauded for their contribution in working towards progress in different spaces of college life and experience. But more work needs to be done to what truly matters and ways to improve the social climate—that is goal of our current Student-Trustees.
Design Editor
Hobart’s collegiate crest contains a single word: Disce. Latin for “learn.” Disce encapsulates the core value of any liberal arts college, an educational environment that serves as a marketplace for the free exchange of ideas and exposes students to a wide variety of viewpoints, ideologies, and disciplines. Free discussion is at the heart of learning. At colleges such as Hobart and William Smith, ideas should be debated, beliefs should be challenged, and individuals should be required to defend their views with facts. For only when an idea perseveres against skeptical inquiry and systematic academic criticism can it be truly justified. Ideas that do not triumph in the fray of robust debate, but rather cower away from all opposition, are inchoate and unreliable, amounting to little more than unexamined societal dogma. Although the mind that holds these untested ideas might be confident, even strident, in its dismissal of opposition, it is a shoddy shelter from which to sling arrows. Intellectual security should be gained through brave venture toward opposing ideas, not timid retreat from them.
I was thus disheartened by student responses to the opinion piece “Perspectives on Civil Discourse from Two Hobart Alumni” in The Herald’s last issue. In the piece, Hobart Alumni, Jim Anderton ’65 and Nick Hurd ’64, take no ideological stance on the efficacy of “Wokeness” and “Critical Race Theory,” but rather question whether these terms are “used to educate our students through open discussions or … employed to indoctrinate students to become polarized ideologues … not open to listening and free speech.”
Students jumped on the piece in social media forums, referring to it as “the ramblings of alums distanced from the Colleges by sixty years” and claiming that it expressed “dangerous and odious culture war sentiments.” Ironically, this student outcry, including claims that The Herald never should have allowed the piece to be published, reflected the precise worries expressed by Anderton and Hurd. The controversy continued in The Martini issue published on October 13, in which a note from its editor described The Herald’s decision to
publish the piece as “silly” and “reckless,” asserting that the piece discredited the terms at issue and implying that publishing the piece was a disservice to the community.
I found student response to the alumni letter shocking because not once did Anderton and Hurd directly attack Critical Race Theory or Wokeness, nor did they ever claim either ideology is bad or misguided. I can understand students taking issue with the proffered definitions or the opinion that these ideologies might in some way be indoctrinating students, but the proper response to intellectual disagreement on a college campus should be open debate, not censorship. Perceived definitional shortcomings should be countered with more precise terminology for the entire community to consider. This type of focused, rigorous, intellectual debate benefits not only those directly involved, but also, in the case of print journalism, the larger community of readers. Disce! Instead, when a whisper of dissent slipped into the campus’s ideological echo chamber, students reacted with rancor rather than reason, resorting to ad hominem attacks on the authors—ageist assaults dismissing the authors’ viewpoint outright based on their age—and cries for The Herald to censor opinion pieces based, ostensibly, on the quality of the opinions expressed. Not once did a student offer an alternative definition for the terms at issue or an explanation as to why the piece posed a danger to the community. No student responded to the story via the comment section below the piece on The Herald’s website or contacted Anderton or Hurd directly about their concerns. Responses were relegated to social media, where they often vaporized within 24 hours, which inhibits the thoughtful examination and reflection at the heart of learning. In fact, no student evidenced desire to engage in any intellectual debate—no student, that is, except me.
After reading the opinion piece, I did what Anderton and Hurd suggested—I listened. The week before Hobart’s bicentennial celebration, I emailed Anderton and Hurd, explaining the controversy their opinion piece had ignited, asking about their motivation for writing the piece, and seeking their response to recent student backlash. Anderton responded to me in 30 minutes, Hurd in 45.
From the student responses, one might expect Anderton and Hurd to be spiteful,
mindless old men, decades removed from the community. Nothing could be further from the truth. Anderton is a former member of the Board of Trustees and one of the Colleges’ most philanthropic alums, previously establishing scholarships and a symposium on international affairs. He even invited me to lunch, as he was traveling to campus for the Bicentennial Celebration and eager to connect and converse with current students. Hurd and his wife have also long supported the Colleges in various ways, especially through the expansion of the William Smith athletics department. Neither alum intended to attack Wokeness or Critical Race Theory, but rather to express concerns that a dominant political ideology might be forming on campus, one that silenced students and avoided true debate. Hurd remarked that the topic is being debated on the national level and directed me to opinions and letters published in the Wall Street Journal. He commented that he believes one of the Colleges’ strengths is teaching students how to think, not what to think. Based on conversations with some students, however, Anderton and Hurd were worried that, at their alma mater, the school they both care so much about, students were self-censoring, suppressing key aspects of their own identities out of fear of backlash, and that the ideological tolerance and debate, which was key to their formative years at the Colleges, might be dissipating.
The rash response of students only validates Anderton and Hurd’s concerns. Ironically, their concerns about censorship on campus were met with calls for censorship. After expressing fear that students are unable to express controversial viewpoints without being canceled, they were cancelled. Their concerns that aspects of political progressivism were creating ideologues incapable of engaging in debate were met with personal attacks devoid of true intellectual challenge. The worst part? Most of the student reaction was based upon misconceptions about the authors-who they are, what they believe, and why they wrote the piece--with no attempt to determine the real answers to these central questions before unleashing criticism. Does this fiasco demonstrate that, at Hobart and William Smith, Disce is dead? I hope not.
Since our last issue, a lot has happened on this campus and around the country. Our community is grieving the loss of two members, Professor Grant Holly and Paige Gibbons ’26. While I did not know either personally, the community’s response to their loss shows how great Paige and Professor Holly were and how much they will be missed. Nationally, the University of Idaho, the University of Virginia, and Colorado Springs are all grieving the loss of students, teammates, friends, and family. It has not been an easy semester, but times like this show how strong we are as individuals and as a community.
Bicentennial, the end of stellar sports seasons, and the addition of new majors are at their best and formed memories that will last a lifetime for some. While it is im-
has been alive in a way that is new for my time here.
In this edition of the Herald, we try to capture all the emotions on campus in the past months and more. We start with a memorial of Professor Grant Holly with words from students and our advisor, Charlie Wilson, who counted Grant as one of his best friends. We also cover the celebrations with articles about the Bicentennial and the new Provenzano Art Gallery, which gives students a space to highlight their art in the heart of campus. We also have an investigation into the claims that fentanyl is on campus, which aims to inform students of potential risks they may be facing.
like this make the Herald special, a diverse spread of stories that attempts to capture everything the students on this campus want or need to hear about.
As the semester and 2022 end, I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the Herald and made our 142nd year of publication possible. First, my editorial board, Hrithik Biswas, Caitlin Carr, Kyle Mast, and Jack Hanson, have all worked tirelessly for the Herald this semester, and without them, the Herald would not be contributors, you all ensure that the Herald remains a strong voice for the students. Lastly, our faculty advisor, Charlie Wilson, for all the time and advice he has given and a journalist thanks to him.
exams; I cannot wait to be back on campus with everyone next year.
Sincerely,
Paul Janes Editor-in-Chief
