Folks in Grant Hall will stop at
nothing to recruit good students, even if it means using a tour guide that is,
well, not human.
Kate Elliott, admissions
counselor, recently received a typical glowing letter from a prospective
student, which began: “I enjoyed the unique tour around campus last Thursday
with you and Sally.”
“For a second I thought, 'Who is
Sally?'” Elliott remembers thinking when she read the note. “I don't have a
tour guide named Sally.”
Then she remembered: Sally is a
golden retriever belonging to Dan Lundquist. The vice president for admissions calls
the practice of using canine tour guides “recruiting by all means necessary.”
Architect's rendering of renovated 450 Nott St., the former Ramada Inn
Members of the investment committee
of the Board of Trustees are making available to alumni a special bond offering
on the former Ramada Inn property that is being converted to student housing
for the fall of 2004.
The investment banker handling the
issue, G.K. Baum and Company, is making it available to alumni only through
Nov. 10.
The College has purchased the
former Ramada Inn at 450 Nott Street
in September to be renovated for student housing and has purchased two adjoining
parcels on which it plans to construct athletic fields for college and
community use. The College will spend $15 million on the project, bringing Union's
total investment in the neighborhood west of campus to $26 million.
In a scene from We Won't Pay! opening Tuesday at Yulman Theater, Michele Curiale, left, and Kelley Baynes.
The
Yulman Theater presents We Won't Pay! We
Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, directed by Prof. William Finlay, through Sunday, Nov. 9.
The
play runs through Saturday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m., with a closing show on Sunday, Nov. 9,
at 2
p.m.
Tickets
are $7 general admission, $5 for students, faculty and staff. For information,
call the box office at 388-6545.
Hunger
is a recurring theme in works by Fo, according Ron Jenkins, who translated the
play and wrote program notes on the web site for the American Repertory Theater.
“His characters are not just hungry for food. They are hungry for dignity,
hungry for justice, and hungry for love. The protagonists are driven by their
collective hungers to break free from the constraints in which their poverty
has confined them. Their initial challenge to the laws of the 'free market' propels
them into a comic defiance of the laws of human reproduction. Men get pregnant,
women give birth to cabbages, and amniotic fluid becomes the source of a
gourmet meal. The mechanisms of farce become metaphors for liberation.
Slapstick confusion begets new ways of understanding the world.”
Dan Lundquist, vice president for
admissions, has developed a “Dean's Promise” for those in the college search
that “guarantees [students] they will get into [their] best college.”
Among his bits of useful advice:
— Applicants should redefine
“best college” to “right college for me.”
— For most students there is not
one perfect college. Feel buoyed by the variety of options, rather than
oppressed by competition and process.
— Apply Early Decision only if it
is true love … not to “get it over with” or game the system.
— Students control two-thirds of
the process, by choosing where to apply and where to attend. Colleges only make
admission decisions.
— Don't forget the “heart
factor.” Consider the objective criteria — academics, size, location, and cost.
But your choice also needs to make you feel: “This is home.”
The College expects to welcome
more than 300 prospective students and their families at the annual Veteran's
Day Open House on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
As usual, admissions staffers at
Grant Hall are asking their campus colleagues to leave the good parking spots for
our guests and enjoy a short stroll to the office.
Faculty are invited to a luncheon
with the visitors and their families at noon
in Memorial Fieldhouse. To RSVP, call ext. 6590.
