==Attendees:Why the Gargoyle Society hosts this event==For the second year in a row, Gargoyle hosted an event to promote interaction between the CDE fellows and the rest of the Williams community (undergraduates, faculty and staff). We think that the school does not do enough to integrate the CDE fellows into the Williams community. Thus, we host this event to show the CDE fellows that the rest of the community is eager to meet them and include them in the activities and events hosted on this campus. Furthermore, we think the event helps the fellows make connections outside of the CDE and thus increases the likelihood that they will follow up on those connections and branch outside of the CDE building. We also think that this dinner greatly benefits undergraduates. We think that undergrads can learn a lot from the diverse group of people (and their diverse experiences) at the CDE.
100 total guests comprised ==The Event Format==Once we had all of:the sign ups, we created table assignments. Each table had a few CDE fellows, a few students and 1-3 faculty / staff members. The idea is for a table to be no more than one quarter CDE fellows. We will put enough CDE fellows at each table so that they know some people at their table. However, since the point of the event is to encourage interactions between the fellows and other members of the community, we made sure that there were no all fellows tables or all students tables. To encourage discussions, the format was a semi-formal sit down dinner.
24: CDE Fellows==Event Location== 17: Specially invited faculty and staff members 14: Gargoyles 45: It was hosted in Dodd Dining Hall. Dining Services closed the dining hall for the event. The first 45 students who respond 100 dinner guests were the only people using the dining hall on that night. Dining services added some nice touches to our all campus advertisementsthe dining hall so that the event is a little bit more formal than a regular dining hall meal.