![]() ![]() ![]() For that reason GDT would publish at least once a week during the RIT academic year during the time period he and Kelly Gunter were co-editors. ![]() Sean Hammond considered missing publication deadlines as unprofessional, and was especially displeased when The Reporter would miss theirs. Inspired by the use of footnotes by Terry Pratchett and the scholarly practice of footnotes in the humanities as opposed to STEM's use of end notes, the style of GDT would become deeply connected with the use, and intentional abuse, of footnotes. Later editors moved away from the "main article" concept and embraced more of a weekly column and submitted content format. "Imagine a poetry slam, spelling bee, intellectual salon, left-wing political rally and mad scientist's convention competing for space in the confines of a dorm room (with the energy of a Klingon Bat'leth tournament) and you come close to the atmosphere of these weekly gatherings" To quote one of the early regular writers for GDT: The general idea behind main articles was that one person would contribute a draft that the other members would add content to until everyone was satisfied with the result. No author credit was attributed to these articles because they were group efforts. Kelly Gunter, Sean Hammond, and Mark Trzepla collaborated on the first page articles which they would simple refer to as "main articles". The footnote about "recycled materials" is a reference to the article being based on the original text rejected by The Reporterīy the end of Spring 1995, GDT had discovered that paper has two sides and began publishing a single sheet, front and back, and laid the groundwork for an overall feel and style guide that persisted from 1995 to 2000. Photograph of the original, first issue of Gracies Dinnertime Theatre, with the illustrations drawn directly as marginalia. The insertion of illustrations directly onto the article page persisted for most of 1995, after which illustration scanning and digital insertion of material was used. The first issue was published on one side of an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper with an intentionally wide right margin to allow for marginalia illustrations. In early 1995, Kelly Gunter, Sean Hammond, and Mark Trzepla reworked the original piece and decided to publish it independently. The original article was submitted and rejected in late 1994. GDT was originally conceived as an unnamed weekly column for The Reporter. Under this combined title, GDT received notable attention from the Independent Press Association, Rochester's daily newspaper The Democrat and Chronicle, and had a few articles reproduced via UWIRE. This was distributed for free on four universities in Rochester, NY and Rutgers University. GDT spawned five sister publications which all published under the combined title of Hell's Kitchen. Its final resting place came to be on the Hell's Kitchen server. In time, the hosting of the web site migrated to servers owned by RIT Computer Science House. By the fall of 1995, GDT had a web site hosted by one of its creators, making it one of the first student satire publications to have a web presence. ![]() GDT 's presence on the internet initially began as a text-only finger plan. Less controversial content included a weekly chess puzzle and frank sexual discussion. Perhaps GDT 's greatest single contribution was the article "The Politics of High Tech Damnation," which examined the close, covert links between the CIA and RIT in the early and mid 1990s. Published from 1995 to 2005, its 257 issues were notorious for political incorrectness regarding topics such as race relations, bizarre end-time prophecies, baseless conspiracy theories, provocation of the established student magazine, Reporter, the Clinton and Bush administrations and in particular, RIT President Al Simone. Gracies Dinnertime Theatre ( GDT) was a student run, but not college endorsed, publication founded by a group of three students from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Weekly during the Rochester Institute of Technology school year.
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