The Chronicle of Higher Education

Voluntary Complications

Colleges can use all the help they can get, but volunteers need supervision

In a student production of Dracula at Texas A&M University some years ago, the final scene was exceptionally dramatic. One actor stabbed another, who was playing the vampire, in the chest with a real knife. A volunteer director from the community, who was assisting...

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