Volume CXIX, Number 1, September 21, 2001
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A & E, page 3 pages 4 and 5 Get your own Taste of Thai Welcome to all new students Lawrence clubs introduce themselves T h e L a w r e n t ia n Vol. CXIX, No. 1 LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1884 F riday, Se p t . 21 Welcome, new students! Welcome, new students! Now, in your college experience. Look at if this isn't the millionth time the groups listed in this issue and you've heard that in the past few consider which ones might enrich days, you must have been hiding in your Lawrence career. Explore your brand new dorm closet with your new environment beyond this your pole lamp and your poster ofissue of the paper and your dorm John Belushi in a "College" sweat room—you might be pleasantly shirt. surprised. You might be won- By this time your dering, what you are are probably wonder being welcomed into? G L d X X ing just what the An/mi experience thatumi can cun , , -« Lawrentians welcome shape the rest of your L O ri3 .1 . 8Pec*®caWy means? life...and a whole lot of Well, the Lawrentian is hard work. You are-------------------------------- the voicevoice of the being welcomed into living condi Lawrence community. We are here tions unlike any you've ever expe to inform and to provide a forum rienced before (unless you've been for your opinions—and we wel living in a perpetual summer camp come all opinions. We encourage since 1983): a four year odyssey you to actively participate in the into the pros and cons of communal paper, as well as in the community living that is unlikely to be repeat that shapes the news we print. ed at any other time in your life. Oh, and one more piece of And most importantly, you are advice: before you attend the vari being welcomed into a challenge, ety of campus activities open to you or being challenged to welcome the as a Lawrentian, and highlighted changes that will soon present in this issue, from convocations to themselves in classes, environ athletics to off-campus study pro ment, and peers. grams, you need to do one thing. This special first week will give Go to the annual campus poster you some sense of what is to come, sale and follow in the footsteps of and if the past 18 or 19 years have fifty of your new best friends taught you anything you'll savor it, (whom you undoubtedly met at because time is fleeting, and your Playfair) in purchasing that poster next four years at Lawrence are of John Belushi. Come on, treat going to fly. yourself. After all, it is the first day The Lawrentian would like to of the rest of your fife. welcome you to participate actively Students will find residence life to be more fun than frightening Tall and proud, the symbol of a Lawrence education main restshall, atop the oldest building on campus. b y Amy F a r r a r Each of the seven residence You wake up at 6:30 a.m. to halls at Lawrence has a dis the pounding rhythms of tinctive "personality" to accom Vandalism, theft at Q ueen’s "We Will Rock You." pany its unique location and Conservatory events initiate new "Did I leave that stereo alarm appearance. New Science and Plantz Hall, for example, students into Lawrence music scene on again?" you wonder as you Youngchild halls mush a pillow over your ears. being right on College Avenue, Then you remember, "I don’t is an active, noisy place. One of p.m., the conservatory will by Devin Burke the larger dorms, Plantz has b y have a stereo alarm." The Features E d itor present the first recital of the Jessie Augustyn sound is coming from the next big windows, new furniture, year. The concert features out ------------------------ O p/E d E d ito r and nightly trips to the gas sta This week, many of those room. standing conservatory stu On July 27, sometime Life in a residence hall tion. students who are new to cam dents such as Tim Schmidt, The substance-free hall on pus have only a glimmer of an between the hours of 3:30 a.m. takes some getting used to, who sang the lead role in last and 6:00 a.m., Youngchild Hall even for students from large campus is Kohler Hall, which idea of what’s in store for year’s Lawrence production of sits right next to Downer them. If they are conservatory and New Science Hall were families or busy households. Puccini’s "Gianni Schicci." broken into and vandalized. Sharing a bathroom with Commons. Each room in students, they are coming On the more inclusive side, Kohler has its own sink, and expecting to be virtually Appleton police have appre dozens of other people, getting the New Student Week Choir hended two suspects who, locked out of your room in yourthe floorplan boasts no parallel immersed in music. If they are is an ensemble that is open to walls. not conservatory students, though refusing to plead guilty bathrobe, and having few anyone, whether or not you to these crimes, have admitted places to be alone are some of Trever Hall is set at the they will soon realize how have any prior musical experi edge of campus in a residential prominent a part music has at guilt. the challenges. But by putting ence. Led by Lawrence Concert The suspects, one juvenile up with these trials, you get in neighborhood. "The thing I Lawrence. Choir director Richard Bjella, liked about Trever is that when Two events during New and one adult male, were return the chance to live down this special choir performs apprehended by Appleton the hall from, next door to, and you go home after classes, youStudent Week provide fresh each year. Bjella and the don’t feel like you’re at school men with a chance to jump into police while committing anoth in the same room as some of opportunity to perform in a er act of vandalism, according your best friends. anymore," says Kelly Jones, a the musical side of Lawrence choir often draw singers and sophomore who spent her life. The first, an evening to Lawrence's Risk Insurance You can alm ost always find non-singers, freshrqen and Manager Cindy Yanke. something to do during a study freshman year at Trever. recital of outstanding conser upperclassmen alike. Trever is known as "the best vatory students, is a new event Damage to Youngchild and break. Laundry, kitchen, and These two events will make Science Hall was extensive. computer facilities are avail off-campus housing on camthis year. The second, the New it clear how easy it is to partic pus." Student Week Choir, remains a Messages were spraypainted able 24 hours a day, and often, ipate in music at Lawrence. on the walls, floors, and coun so are other people. Though at Right in the middle of cam hallmark of New Student Soon, Harper Hall will house pus is Ormsby Hall, a smoke- | Week. Hundreds of freshmen tertops; liquid adhesive was first you may feel uncomfort recitals, the newly-remodeled poured onto the walls; and the able living in close quarters free dorm built in 1889, com have passed through its ranks Chapel stage will present con plete with high ceilings, hard and found themselves standing security alarms and wiring with people you don’t know, certs, the Coffeehouse season were damaged. Also, electronic you will soon discover that wood floors, and radiators. together in front of their peers will begin again, the bands Ormbsy is loved for its classic on the Chapel stage at the equipment from the music cen dorm life can be safe, comfort will play on, and music will fill ter, including a camcorder, able, and exciting in ways that appearance and beautiful Matriculation Convocation. the campus for another year. no other living situation can. continued on page 8 On Thursday, Sept. 20, at 8 continued on page 6 2 T h e Lawrentian Friday, September 2 1 , 2 0 0 1 ‘Attendance at starred events is required of *1:00—5:00 p.m. Individual Appointments all new students. with Faculty Advisors as scheduled New Student Week 1:00—5KK) p.m. Advising Appointments for FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2001 Five Year, Double Degree Students. Consult your New Student Packet for the time and location of 7:30—10:00 a.m. Breakfast, Downer 2 0 0 1 your appointment. Commons 1:00 5:00 p.m. Conservatory Auditions for all choral ensembles; for specific audi 8:00 a.m.—5KM) p.m Conservatory Orientation Help Desk Open, Shattuck Hall tion times, sign-up at Music-Drama Center, Room 144 lobby. General Conservatory information, sign-ups for Basic Keyboard Skills, sight 6:30—7:30 p.m. New Student Chorus Rehearsal, Miller rehearsal hall, Shattuck singing, and ensemble auditions, placement test information, etc. Hall of Music, open to all interested new students. 8:00—9:30 a.m. Music Theory Placement Examination, Harper Hall, Music Drama *7:30 p.m. Community Forum “Journey to a Hate Free Millennium”, Stansbury Center. Theatre, Music-Drama Center. • ; . 8:00 a.m.—1:00 p.m. Placement Examinations, fourth floor lobby of Briggs Hall 9:00 p.m. Diversity Center and International House Reception. Diversity Center, 9:00—10:15 a.m.. Advanced Theory Placement Examination, Music-Drama room International House. 254. 11:00 a.m.—noon Student Employment Meeting, Youngchild Hall Auditorium, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2001 Rpom 121.