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Herald By and for the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
VOLUME CXXXI ISSUE 4
Taiko Drumming Bridges the Gap
‘Molodets,’ Professor Galloway By Jennifer Hollander ’10 Advertising Editor
By Caitlin Lugar ’10 Herald Contributor
Kevin Colton/Photographer
Japanese Taiko drummers, Masanori Seto and Ryuji Tomono, showcase their talents using a variety of drums on the patio behind Scandling prior to their Smith performance
Taiko drums roll in a rhythm like waves in the sea. The audience is taken to the distant shores of Japan through the crash and roll of percussions. The Sen and Hibiki Troupe Taiko performance was one that very few would forget. Friday’s performance at the Smith Opera House astonished the audience with the troupe’s passionate drumming and
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sheer talent. These performers showed discipline that even samurai would admire! The troupe played several traditional and original pieces that hold true to the long history and style of Taiko. This long-standing tradition is also the troupe’s means to a greater cause:
An associate professor of the Russian Studies Department, Professor David Galloway has received a generous federal grant that will be used to further Russian studies here at the Colleges. The nearly half a million dollar grant will be used to fund and develop new software that will enhance a student’s ability to learn the Russian language. The current software known as Molodets (pronounced: Mala-dyets), which means “good job” in Russian, has been in use for a few years. This new Russian Verbal Laboratory (RVL) program will focus more on verbal actions and adverbs. A i m e d primarily at upperclass Russian students, it will complement the David Galloway/Photographer existing Molodets program, which focuses on nouns and adjectives for the six declensions (nominative, dative, genitive, accusative, prepositional, and instrumental). The program shows an avatar and the Russian studies student will have to interact with the avatar in order to properly understand the verb or adverb. It is believed that a pictorial or simulated action of complicated verbs and their tenses will allow students to grasp the language better.
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New Women’s Resource Center Opens
Students SERVE Geneva Community
By Morgan Williamson ’12 Herald Contributors
By Gabrielle Perez ’11 Herald Contributor
When you first walk into the basement of Miller House you must first take a look around the room. Where there was once clutter and disorganization, there
summer to organize this space so it could be what it now is. Emily Ross first came up with the idea to bring back and restore the Women’s Resource center of old when she went and t a l k e d with the Colleges staff about how only students living in M i l l e r H o u s e could have a c c e s s to this space. She thought it was silly to have a Morgan Williamson/Photographer r e s o u r c e Left to Right: Jodi Kreines ’11, Dean Cerri Banks, Emily center that Ross ’12, Becky Perkins ’11, and Morgan Hopkins ’10 only certain is now order and a sense of calm students could get to. about the room. Where before you So, she worked through May couldn’t find room to sit, there are and all the way into the summer several seats and couches to sit on with those in the Dean’s Office, the and study or just hang out with a orientation co-coordinators and couple of friends. members of Women’s Collective to This is all thanks to Emily organize when it should be opened Ross ’12 and members of Women’s RESOURCE continued on Page 2 Collective who have worked all
What do you think of when you think of community service? Some may think it’s a waste of time, it doesn’t benefit you, there is no point to it; the list goes on and on. I know these things because I thought the same thing too. What I didn’t realize is that community service is an opportunity that is both beneficial to both you and the recipient because it gives you an opportunity to learn more about y o u r community, and allows you to connect with people you would have never thought of talking to. I experienced this last semester (Spring ’09) in my Economics of Caring by doing my service learning at the Community Lunch Program. Many people know that there is a “soup kitchen” in the
Geneva community, but everyone doesn’t understand the stats behind the program. The Community Lunch Program serves about 19,000 meals to residents in Geneva. That is a fairly large number considering Geneva has only 13,000 residents in the community. This is where Project SERVE was born. We hope to work with the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning and organizations a r o u n d Geneva to help create awareness and help students b e c o m e engaged in service learning. M a n y students are unaware of the resources available to them through connecting with the community around them and SERVE is here to SERVE continued on Page 2
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