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Snood: The craze is spreading
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Dave Dobson, geology profes
sor, shows off Snood, hisnow
famous creation.
Angela Rioux
STAFF WRITER
The Arizona Republic, The
Albany Democrat Herald, The
Hartford Courant, and The
Washington Post. These are
just a few of the newspapers
around the U.S. that have
printed articles about Guilford
Calling all student leaders
Devender Sellars and
Natalie Hodge
STAFF WRITERS
"Our community, our nation,
and our world is hungry for a new
type of leadership, an inclusive yet
challenging way of reaching in
wardly to better understand what
is happening holistically," said
Santes Beatty, director of African
American Affairs.
Beatty and Dawn Watkins,
associate dean of student life, of
fer "Leadership From Theory to
Practice," an independent study
course this fall semester 2001.
"This is a project-based intern
ship that incorporates leadership
theory with application for student
leaders at Guilford College," states
the syllabus.
"The experience is designed
to introduce students to funda
mental theories of leadership and
assist them in exploring and devel
oping their personal leadership
styles."
On the idea for the class,
Watkins said, "One of the things
that happens ... is that leaders tend
to work in silence. This class will
not only look at leaders and the
theories behind leadership but will
allow student leaders to work to
gether who typically hadn't be
fore."., y
Beatty further said, "The class
geology professor Dave Dobson
and his addictive computer
game Snood.
In only the past few months
Dobson has been talking with
many other newspapers and the
popularity of Snood has only ex
panded.
In January, the Greensboro
News & Record printed an ar
ticle and sent it to the Associ
ated Press, as most papers do.
Then the Philadelphia Inquirer
distributed their own article
saying that Snood has really
caught on. Since it was printed,
there have been articles coming
out all over the country con
cerning the Snood craze.
"It was a big surprise to
me," said Dobson. " The Phila
delphia Inquirer put it out on
the AP, some [newspapers]
printed the Inquirer's article,
while others did more of a lo
cal article concerning Snood."
Since those articles have been
LEAH KEFALOS
will embody not just a better un
derstanding of leadership styles
but also cultural styles which we
hope will broaden our conscious
ness of how to work more effec
tively within organizations and in
stitutions."
"The leadership class will cer
tainly put a new spin on how stu
dents view leadership at Guilford,"
said Natalie Hodge, student
leader in the Office of African
American Affairs. "I hope people
will take full advantage of this op
portunity to challenge traditional
ideas about what it means to be a
leader."
"We are both really excited to
have the opportunity to work with
student leaders in a different way,"
said Watkins. If interested in the
class, contact Santes Beatty at 316-
2466 or Dawn Watkins at 316-2114.
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News
written, the downloads, as
well as registrations of Snood,
have increased.
Dobson said despite
Snood's popularity, there has
not been an increase in the
number of people
registering the
game. He said out
of about one mil
lion people who
have downloaded
his game, less than
one percent actu-
ally register for it.
However, there is at least
one Guilford College student
who has registered Snood. Jun
ior Alex Hutton explained why:
"Because I was just sick of see
ing those messages."
The messages of which she
speaks include such poems as
"Roses are red, Violets are blue,
Register now and to Snood be
true," which appear many times
if the game is not registered.
Week At Guilford
Friday. March 30
1 p.m. Serendipity - Cook out In front of Founders
2:30 p.m. Serendipity - Games -Founders lawn
5 p.m. Serendipity - Live music -Founders patio
8 p.m. Serendipity - Drag Show -Bryan-Auditorium
10 p.m. Serendipity - Bryan Quad Dance -Bryan Quad
Midnight Serendipity - Bonfire - Lake
Saturday. March 31
1 v; 1 p.m. 7 p.m. Serendipity - Carnival events - Football field
2 p.m. Men's Lacrosse v. Virginia Wesleyan
2:30 p.m. Serendipity - Live music
8:00 p.m. Serendipity - Live music - Football field
10:00 p.m. Serendipity - Apartments party
11 p.m. Serendipity - Women's rugby
Sunday. April 1
April 1 through 8 National Student Employment Week
7 p.m. WQFS Meeting - Commons
8 p.m. Union's Laundry Night (J Suds +Duds
Monday. April 2
7:30 p.m. Guilfordian Meeting - Commons
Tuesday. April 3rd
3 p.m. Baseball v. Methodist
3 p.m. Women's Tennis v. Lynchburg
Wednesday. April 4
Last Day to Drop Fast lYack II Class w/o Grade
3p.m. Community Senate Meeting - Boren
3 p.m. Student Employees Reception
3 p.m. Men's Lacrosse vs. Lynchburg
Thursday. April 5
Registration for Fall 2001
Career Development Center's Alumni at Work program
10 p.m. - 1 a.m. Union sponsors 1/2 Off Pool® Breaktime w /
Guilford I.D.
Friday. AiorP 6
8 p m. Ansjels in America Part II -Sternberger
Auditorium
March 30, 2001
The craze is so big that
two University of Texas stu
dents created their own
website (http://
ilovesnood.iwarp.com) which
has songs devoted to the game,
I got to playing it so
much that I had to
stop. - Brandee
Adams, sophomore
Snood in their own school pa
pers!
Given Snood's power, it
seems that there are those
who need to back off from it.
Some have discovered that the
neverending battle with Dave
Dobson's creatures can be ad
dictive, resulting in a need to
kick the habit. "I got to play
ing it so much that I had to
stop," said sophomore
Brandee Adams.
such as
"Twinkle
Twinkle Little
Snood." Many
colleges, such as
Dartmouth,
have published
articles about