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Gracies Dinnertime Theatre (GDT) was a publication written by a group of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) students that was in production from 1995 to 2005. In its 257 issues, it was notorious for its political incorrectness of 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. 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. Less controversial content included a weekly chess puzzle and frank sexual discussion. GDT's presence on the internet initially began as a text-only finger plan. 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. In time, the hosting of the web site migrated to servers owned by RIT Computer Science House. Its final resting place came to be on the (Hell's Kitchen ) server. GDT spawned five sister publications which all published under the combined title of ''Hell's Kitchen''. This was distributed for free on four universities in Rochester, NY and Rutgers University. 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. The lasting influence of GDT on the RIT community can be seen in the silver stainless steel piece named Unity, created by Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez and Leonard Urso〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://artoncampus.rit.edu/art/568/ )〕 and installed in the quad between the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, the College of Applied Science and Technology, and the College of Engineering.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Unity/@43.0851784,-77.6806033,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89d14c5f9113ea89:0x895c8e3cf72072de )〕 Erected in 2008, the sculpture is visually similar to the logo used by GDT from 2000 to 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hatsonmadmen.blogspot.com/2015/11/what-what-unity-sculpture-and-gdt.html )〕 ==Intentional misspellings in title== * "Gracies" would appear to be a possessive pronoun referring to RIT's (Grace Watson Dining Hall ) (colloquially "Gracie's"). Used without the apostrophe, "Gracies" may be read as plural, suggesting a multiverse of parallel dining halls. * "Dinnertime Theatre" may recall a formal Dinner theater production, or it may simply denote theatre that occurs coincidental to meal without the willing participation of the diners. Socialization based around the sharing of "food" (not only physical nutrition, but also information) was a recurring theme in GDT production culture. * "Theatre" uses the British English spelling; another frequently used affectation in GDT articles. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gracies Dinnertime Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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