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- Who is the president?
- What happened to Hank, and how is he immortalized among us?
- Who writes the Record's humor column?
- For what event was the Record published in color this year?
- What is the current exhibit in Sawyer Library?
You want to do the following on campus: where, or to whom, can you go? There may be more than one answer for each scenario; you only need to give one. If your answer isn't intuitively obvious, feel free to explain it.
- Build yourself a floor to ceiling bookshelf and rolling ladder:
- Deck yourself out for a Victorian costume ball:
- Pick and braid your own garlic:
- Find the best possible acoustics for your hammered dulcimer jam band:
- Hear Thai ballads and Kenyan drum circles performed in their original language:
- Sit by a wood fire (no, a legal one):
- Burn your entry mix to CD:
- Play kazoo and get P.E.credit for it:
- Read Tolkein's college publications:
- Wield staffs or swords of varying sizes (there are at least 3 answers to this):
- Get your agoraphobic room mate from A to B without prompting breakdown.
- Plan your incipient invasion of the colege by steam tunnel:
- Plan a multi-course dinner for six using either top Williams current dining hall cuisine, or take-out from Spring St. restaurants only. Feel free to make it a specialty or theme meal. (Sure, we'll stretch the definition of 'restaurant' to cover gummy frogs at Where'd You Get That if you like.) Identify sources for your ingredients if applicable.
- Where can you go in Williamstown to eat sushi?
- To eat anything after 1 a.m.?
- Design your ideal dorm room. It must comply with handbook regulations. Resources are limited to whatever you can find within driving reach of campus.
We all know this college offers introductory Persian, Extraterrestrial Life, China's Greatest Novel: The Story of the Stone, Foresnsic Chemistry, and of course Lying, Deceit and Manipulation in Political Campaigns. What departments do the following classes belong to?
- Exemplary Lives
- Vroom! A Nation on Wheels
- Stuff
- Violence Anthropology
- The Rhetoric of Cruelty
- Stupidity and Intelligence
- Suicides and Survivors
- The Golden Road to Samarkand
- Cyberscapes
- Witchcraft, Sorcery and Magic
- Monsters and Narratives
- Groups and Characters
- Growing up Under the Nazis: Remembering as Revision
When at Williams... who, or what, are the following?
- Cosmo
- Bullwinkle
- Sankofa
- CASO
- Rude Cider
- Labletalk
- Instant Revolution
- Prism
The Quote Board. No more than four real or fictional Williams contributed to each of the following. Name them:
- "I hear how the youthful harlot's curse blasts the newborn infant's ear... I am not a slut, though I thank the Gods I am foul. So much depends on what the definition of 'is' is."
- "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold-- not if we jam it. In my youth , I feared it would damage the brain, but now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, why I do it again and again!"
- "Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Name the William (or William derivative) associated with...
- Robin Hood
- The Rose Theatre
- Rhode Island Quakers
- Herman Melville
- The heretic Henry Le Mans
- TV evangelism
- Rossini
- God Bless the Child
- Vanity Fair
- The Conch
- The Paris Gun
- Tippicanoe and Tyler Too
- Harold I of England
- Queen Mary Stuart and the Declaration of Rights
- Susan Cooper
- The Great Treaty with the Lenne Lenapi (Delaware)
- The United States' first overseas posessions
- The Cherokee Nation, the Guiness world record for throwing three lariats at once, radio, and Vaudeville Stained Glass, wall paper and textile design, Victorian medievalist writing, and Socialism
Who are the following real or fictional Williams, and what are they known for?
- William Langland
- William Pitts
- William H. Bonney
- William Jay Smith
- William Billings
- William Ged
- Bill Baily
- Hosea Williams
- What does the name William mean?