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Herald By and for the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
VOLUME CXXXI ISSUE 8
GENEVA, NY
‘The View’ Lending A Downtown is Murky Helping Hand New Bar is Unlikely to Open for Halloween Bash
By Rory Sasson ’10 Herald Contributor
By Rebecca Dennee ’10 Campus Happenings Editor
Rebecca Dennee/Photographer
“The View” is a little bit unclear right now for Darryl Sims and building owner John Cecere of the former Holiday bar in downtown Geneva. Sims, who previously operated Heavy’s bar on Seneca Street downtown, wants to open a bar named The View in the Exchange Street building that used to house the Holiday, according to a column Tuesday in the Finger Lakes Times by Chief Photographer Spencer Tulis. The name is from the view from the back of the bar.
While the prospect of a new bar for students is a positive development for Geneva’s downtown, it does not appear that the opening will be anytime soon. The city of Geneva wants repairs made to the Holiday building’s south wall and rear deck before the new business can occupy the site, and Cecere and Sims don’t see eye to eye with the city on these repairs. According to Cecere, damage to the Holiday building happened when the DOWNTOWN continued on Page 2
Several students from Hobart and William Smith Colleges volunteered their time to the Zonta Club of Geneva when it hosted a breakfast Oct. 24 at the Presbyterian Church on Wa s h i n g t o n Street. F r o m 8 to 11 that morning, HWS students helped clean dishes and serve food and beverages to local residents who attended the event. After the breakfast finished, several students helped clean up the church’s dining room, where the event took place. Overall, about 12 students from HWS volunteered to help out with the breakfast. The breakfast cost $5 per person, with all the proceeds
being used to provide college scholarships for women in the Finger Lakes region. Since the breakfast was geared towards a charitable cause, the Zonta Club of Geneva was looking to get a large number of Geneva residents in attendance so more money could be raised. The organization HAND continued on Page 4
The Ballet Jörgen’s HWS Professor Works With ‘Election’ Director Anastasia By Neala Havener ’12 Herald Contributor
By Kelsey Lee ’12 and Melissa Warner ’12 Herald Contributors The Canadian ballet company Ballet Jörgen put on a performance of Anastasia at the Smith Opera House on Oct. 24. The plot of this ballet focuses on the life story of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. The ballet began with scenes from Anastasia’s childhood before World War I, then continued during the war when she worked as a nurse to help wounded R u s s i a n soldiers, and finally on the over throw of her father and Imperial Russia by the Bolshevik Revolution and her family’s execution. H o w e v e r, aspects of the ballet’s plot were historically
inaccurate, or at least fictionalized. In real life, Anastasia had three older sisters, Olga, Tatiana, and Maria. She also had one younger brother, Alexei, who was next in line for the throne before the revolution and his death. In the ballet, the only sibling included was one older sister, Tatiana. Also, the love story between Anastasia and the kitchen boy, Dmitry, that the ballet was centered on, was an embellishment of her life story. There is no record of Anastasia having any kind of affair with a kitchen boy. T h e l a r g e s t difference between BALLET continued on Page 2
Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ Media Club presented an Oct. 21 screening of the movie Election, which was released in 1999. Media and Society professor Liz Lyon introduced the movie and answered questions afterward about her involvement with the film. In her introduction, Lyon explained her role in influencing the director Alexander Payne to make the novel Election, written by Tom Perotta, into a film. According to Lyon, after adopting the sassy novel about a high school student government into a screenplay, Payne went to the limit negotiating with Bona Fide productions, MTV productions, and Paramount Productions to ensure that the actors featured in the film captured the spirit of
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Perotta’s writing. Lyon said that finding Election was like finding find a diamond in the rough. While working for Payne from 1994 to 1999, she said she read about 10 to 15 scripts a week. When answering questions, DIRECTOR continued on Page 2
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‘M is c hief Night’
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B r ea k the Siege of Gaza
Halse y ’ s R e ope ns
L a n d o f the R ising Sun
Dave Bi nde r’ s ‘ 1 9 6 9 ’
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