OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_001.2.txt 5, C P 3*-I4 .7'[£9{£ COMES THE 13211272 flluthor Elntertains with Stories of (I/I/eC[£[i11fl5 gone fllwry V t,';~é’\F’T;$i'TY LIBRARY WAgHHlElGTiOl‘li§l LEE umvettsm ;ggt%RV2\' , Generals Stumble Basketball Team Frustrated by Two ODAC Losses IE VOLUME 92, NO.15 he ‘tiling-tum ljfllti WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA Hail to the Chief Photo by Mallory Meyers, The Ring-tum Phi education. Cadets at the Virginia Military In stitute stand at attention Wednesday in honor of the in usually sends a drill team to presidential inaugarations, but their application to participate this year was denied. On Tuesday, VMI J lawyers filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in a fin auguration of President Bill Clinton. VMI al attempt to continue the institute’s tradition of single-sex I .Will addresses Convocation i A ,1 Author asks America to rethink education; ODK l Photo by Mallory Meyers, The Fling-tum Phi .WilI mixes humor into his serious message on Convocation Day. City organizes I -film premiere By MOLLY APTER Phi Contributing Writer It's not Hollywood, but if all goes as planned, Lexington will have its own authentic movie premiere for “Sommersby.” A group of planners includ- ing Lexington Downtown De- velopment Association Director ' Diane Herrick and LDDA Presi- dent Caner Lowry are trying to organize a local premiere of “Sommersby,” parts of which were shot in Lexington last June. The only hitch, plarmers say, is that they don’t know on what ‘ night the premiere will be. “Everything’s not really set,” Lowry said. “We’d like to have two showings [of the movie] the nightbefore it opensnationwide.” Rightnow, the movie is sched- uled to open in Lexington on 9 Feb. 5, the same date it will open across the country, Lowry said, but the committee has asked the movie’s distributor for permis- sion to show the movie on Feb. 4. ButLowrysaid, “We willhave a showing Friday as apremiere if we can’t do it Thursday.” “A limited number of tickets will be set aside for dignitaries,” Lowry said. “The rest will be available to the public on a first- come basis.” Herrick said tickets will cost a $15 to $20. Herrick said tickets will in- clude a $5 voucher good at LDDA-member restaurants the night of the premiere. Herrick said the committee is trying to involve most of the city in the festivities by asking down- town stores to stay open late th night of the premiere. — Herrick said the premiere, whichever night it is, will in- clude search lights and carriage rides from the Lexington Car- riage Company for local resi- dents who were extras in the film. “We tentatively have permis- sion to close down Nelson Street from Main to Jefferson” streets in front of the State Theatre, Herrick said. City Council will consider the measure tonight. Profits from the premiere will go toward furthering the preser- vation of the downtown area which brought “Sommersby” to Lexington in the first place, Herrick said ~ “Lexington was chosen be- cause very little had to be done to transform it into a town of the 1800s,” Herrick said. Lexington’s utility wires were buried underground in the 1970s. The production crew still had to remove the short light poles which line the streets. The crew also covered the streets with dirt and built false store fronts. The movie, which stars Rich- ard Gere and Jodie Foster, was filmed mostly in Bath County. By RICHARD WEAVER to channel their leadership abilities into improving America’s education system. “We have at- tempted in the last 40 years to measure the cali- ber of education not by measur- ing cognitive outputs...but in- stead by financial outputs: future sal- ary, how big is the school, how many books in the library...It’s very clear that something needs to be done about the philosophy of education,” Will said. The leadership honor society in- C] For excerpts from WlIl’s Convocation address, see page 2. the community. nitlates 27 ducted 27 students and four honorary initiates in front of a capacity crowd Ph‘ Smff Wm" in Lee Chapel. The ceremony coin- cided with the l23rd celebration of Columnist George Will told Omi- Founder’s Day, the birthday of Gen. cron Delta Kappa initiates Tuesday Robert E. Lee. Following Will's speech, ODK President Jay Darden addressed the crowd about the nature of leadership. “It was Woodrow Wil- son who said, ‘The true leader is one who is quick to know and to do the things that the hour needs. ’ Real leadership is rooted in action and in the example that we set for others," Darden said. ODK, which was founded at W&L in 1914, recognizes leadership and service experience in the campus and JANUARY 21, 1993 Record 22 I depledge By LEIGH ALLEN and FAITH TRUMAN of The Ring-tum Phi Staff Just two weeks into formal pledgeship, more than 22 men have depledged frater- nities, seven more than in all of the 1991- 1992 year. Some fraternity members and univer- sity officials say the increase is the result of freshmen who are committing more time to academics and questioning the value of Washington and Lee's fraternity system. “W&L has risen to an academic level that brings people in who are not pre- pared for the fraternity system,” said one freshman who depledged a fraternity be- cause he said it was too singular. Associate Dean of Students for Greek Affairs Leroy C. “Buddy” Atkins said he believes academics played a role in the increase. . “Every year we’re dealing with stu- dents who are a little more serious about their work,” Atkins said. “Even in the semester when they were only supposed to be social members, they were prob- ably spending a lot of time with [pledge responsibi1ities].” As of Monday, Atkins said 22 fresh- men depledgedwithout rejoining another house. Several more have depledged one house and joined another, and two fresh- man pledges transferred from W&L. The Interfratemity Council discussed the depledgings in a closed meeting on Jan. 12. One freshman who depledged said being in a fraternity damaged his rela- tionship with other students. He said he came to W&L thinking students had a mutual respect for each other and found fraternities created unnecessary rivalries. Another freshman who depledged thinks money is pan of the problem with the fraternity system. “The whole pledgeship thing is a joke and a waste of time. When you consider how much it costs, it’s just not worth it," he said. Dean of Students David Howison said fraternities should considerlowering their fees to allow more students to join. Howison also said fraternities should eliminate hazing to keep members. “I think fraternities with no-hazing policies will have a definite advantage over other houses inthe future,” Howison said. “The actual line-ups weren’t so bad,” said one freshman who depledged. “It was getting called at two o’clock in the morning to run errands that bothered me.” Atkins said he hopes fraternities re- duce the number of hours pledges spend doing what he says are meaningless tasks and errands. “The hours they spend doing things likepicking uplaundry and gettingnachos is ridiculous,” Atkins said. “’Ihat’s a waste of time.” Many pledges agree. “They say they do what they do to the pledge class to bring us closer together,” one former pledge said. “But running stupid errands doesn ’t create friendships.” But one pledge educator said that what some people consider meaningless er- rands actually build character and disci- pline. “You have to keep the pledges busy. They have to feel like they have worked hard and contributed something to the fraternity before they can join,” he said. One freshman who depledged said he chose the wrong house because Rush was too early in the year. “I had no clue what the house was really like when I pledged,” he said. “It ended up not being the right house for me.” IFC President Sam Rock said last week that moving fraternity Rush later in fall term, a proposal IFC is considering in its reevaluation of Rush, might reduce the number of dissatisfied freshmen. Atkins said he believes the depledgings are a bad sign for the fraternity system because lost pledges means lost revenue. “This is a marketing problem,” Atkins said. “Apparently we have a consumer who is not very happy with the product.” Atkins said the university has an inter- est in keeping fraternities’ numbers high because it relies on the Greek tax to help pay for Fraternity Renaissance. But one pledge educator said many freshmen pledge a fraternity even though they do not belong in one because frater- nities are popular at W&L. “There are people out there who 1 don’t understand the fraternity system,” he said. “They come to this school and pledge because everyone else is pledging. Those who depledge realize that they don’t want to be involved in the fraternity system.” Senior Copy Editor Nikki Magaziner Contributed to this story. THE WILSON DECADE Reflecting on 10 years at W&L Ten years ago this week, John Delane Wilson took the oath of office to become the 21st president of Washington and Lee University. Since then, many things have hap- pened that have changed the face of W&Lforever. Coeducation. Gaines Hall. Fraternity Renaissance. The Lenfest Center. The Watson Gallery. But ask Wilson about his accomplishments of the past decade and what does he think of first? By GREGORY PA1'rERsoN Phi News Editor Dumpster fences. “I remember, this is true, building those little wooden facilities around the dumpster behind the Bookstore,” Wilson said in an interview last week. “I used to come out of the back gate [of Lee House], and there were naked dumpsters there. And that’s where two—thirds of the students walk. So I said to Jim Arthur, the superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, one day, ‘Do you suppose we could build a little picket fence around the dumpster?’ “And every time I walk down that alley I take some satisfaction in that.” . El See WILSON,” page 5 Rush prompts concern By NIKKI MAGAZINER Phi Senior Copy Editor Sorority Rush is over, but questions linger as to how it was conducted and why more women did not pledge. “There were concerns ex- pressed to Panhellenic [Council] about how different groups were interpreting Rush rules,” Panhel President Carrie Eubanks said. AfterPreference Ni ghtThurs— day, quota was set at 27 women for each sorority. Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi Omega each snagged 27, while Pi Beta Phi got 24. But Eubanks said more girls didn’t receive bids this year than in previous years. Eubanks said there is no clear reason why so many women fell through the system, especially since the addition of Pi Phi. Pi Phi National Consultant Lauren Gross said W&L’s 4- year-old sorority system still has some growing to do. “There’s a lot of potential here,”Gross said. Some freshman women say they are disillusioned with Rush. “It seemed to me like all the same girls got asked back every- where,” one freshman said. “I felt like the whole thing was just too competitive.” OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_002.2.txt PAGE 2 Glitz Itiing-tum lfilti Founded September 18, 1897 Familiar face, new perspective In two and a half years as a Washington and Lee student, Gregory Patterson, Phi news editor, had never had aone-on- one conversation with University President John Wilson. Last week, Patterson went to Wilson’s office to interview him for the Phi story that begins on today‘s page one: “The Wilson Decade.” Patterson questioned Wilson on the brightest and darkest moments of his career -- from the 1983 transition to coeducation, to the 1990 bottle-throwing incident and con- sequent roasting by students. The John Wilson that comes to life in Patterson’s story doesn’t always fit with the image of the president widely held by the current student generation. In subtle contrast to his elegant Washington Hall office with its cleanly polished, antique furniture, Patterson found Wilson with a loosened collar and without a jacket for their afternoon interview. Wilson ’s presentation was symbolic of what Patterson describes as the surprising ease with which the president talked about the last 10 years. In reflecting on the interview, Patterson notes that Wilson almost never uses abbreviations in his speech. He does not say, “W&L” or“SCC,” for example, but always, “Washing- ton and Lee” or “Student Conduct Committee.” This ten- dency indicates the deliberateness and precision with which Wilson speaks, Patterson speculates, carefully choosing his words. Patterson says his research on Wilson and the interview both gave an impression of the president as a true man of letters, a staunch and vocal ‘advocate of liberal arts educa- tion. “We are born in a sliver of time and place and culture,” Wilson told The Ring-tum Phi in 1982 in what Patterson cites as his favorite Wilson quote, “And all that we know of ourselves and our world if we lived only that life would be very, very parochial, indeed.” But Patterson says what surprises him most about Wilson is his humanity. “He realizes he has flaws as a president,” Patterson says, “and he regrets it.” Wilson’s recollections of the bott]e;tl}roglting girtcgident bring out his human side in Pattersonfs story.p'Wils9n,to1ld Patterfisoni that ' *suspending the ‘°stude’nts ‘involved’ in the incident might not have been the right thing to do, and he acknowledged that his actions might have been influenced by emotions. Fraternity Renaissance is, after all, his baby. “When those things happened to his project,” Patterson says, “he was hurt by it. He took it personally and reacted to it like it was an attack against him.” Patterson says that his interview with Wilson might have given his story a sympathetic bias, but he maintains that the story presents a view of the president that students might find enriching. ' “Anytime I spend with someone, I tend to come away [with the feeling that] I understand him a little more,” Patterson says. “But hell, I got achance to talk to Wilson one on one, which is something not many students get to do.... My article might be the only way they can get that same feeling.” I — CL, RP Glitz Ifltng-tum lflltt Executive Editors . . . . . . . . . .Cathryn Lopiccolo, Richard Peltz News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gregory Patterson Editorial Page Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Hal Waller The Ring-tum Phi is published Thursdays during the under- graduate school year at Washington and Lee University, Lexing- ton, Virginia. Funding for The Ring-tum Phi comes primarily from advertising and subscription revenues. The Washington and Lee Publications Board elects the executive editors and business manager, but The Ring-tum Phi is otherwise independent. Letters and other submissions must be in the Phi office, room 208 of the University Center, by noon on Tuesday to appear in that week’s edition. Advertising does not reflect the opinion of The Ring-tum Phi or its staff. This newspaper observes current court definitions of libel and obscenity. The Ring-tum Phi Post Office Box 899 Lexington, Virginia 24450 OPINION ‘,’ 5: ll M. L 0 The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1993 W’?-5)’ MIL GLtr~%'t‘o:I, 171$‘ Ir‘/\0G«vt:,.a.'i‘l0N’S . /“3'°°" T° 356113 . True leadership skills elude many. President Wilson said I was not deterred from the inaugural festivities. I am in flight. In Washington, Bill Clinton is on the verge of learning what Adlai Stevenson knew. He said, “America is a great and wonderful country, where any young person can grow up to be president, and that’s just the risk you have to take.” I don’t think that there is, in American history, anything comparable to the mood swing in this country between the bombing of Baghdad and 15 months later the burning of Los Angeles. ...Wi1dly overdone in my judgment, [was the jubilation over] Desert Storm, [though] a war worth fighting. Still, the United States and 26 allies defeated a country with the gross national product of Kentucky. percent are Hispanic. Eighty-five percent of students come from families with no father. The school is rim by heroic teachers doing their very best, but they say that one of the conditions of teaching is that they never assign homework — ever — because, they say, almost all of their students go home after school to be parents to their siblings. We are evolving today in America as a civiliza- tion where the cities are not primarily important as centers of culture or commercial vitality, but impor- tant primarily as burdens. We are experiencing some- thing today without precedent in American history: broad-scale urban regression in the midst of general prosperity. We live in the only country in NATO in ...Equally irrational was the b which children go to overwhelming despair sleepatnightinparts aboutthequality of Ameri- of large cities hear- can life after the riots in GEORGE WILL ing gunfire. We 1-05 An8°1eS- Washin ton Post Writers Grou knowwhattheprolr This was the context in g p lem is -— it is patho- which the country began to logical behavior. decide whether to give the Republican party four more years. Only four times in American history has one party controlled the White House for more than 12 years; it is a very long time in our politics. And so we were prepared to give the outsider the benefit of the doubt. Mr. Bush campaigned on doubt. He said, essentially, that Bill Clinton was Henry of Navarre. You might recall from your history classes that Henry of Navarre was the king of France who periodically converted to Catholicism. He was fond of saying, on one famous occasion, the words that are a motto of all politicians, “Paris is well worth a Mass.” The question was, was Bill Clinton what he said he was, or was he feigning a new faith until he got to power? We'll have to find that out. What we do know is, the political market has worked in the United States,‘ in that the ‘ Detno_cratic' party ‘ has I " . chang‘ed,’or' tried to change, in its perception of itself. In 1988-, a’ very wise Democrat, before a single delegate was chosen, looking at the way they’d been losing elections for generations, including in the South and the West, said that the Democratic nonri- nee ought to be part Horace Greeley and part U.S. Grant: someone who could go west and capture the South. So they nominated the governor of Massa- r-hnsettg This year they learned the law of holes. The law of holes is, when you're in a hole, quit digging.... [Now Clinton clearly wants] to rekindle the ex- citement such as it was in the Kennedy years. What he will discover, I’m afraid, is that the most profound change in the 32 years since John Kennedy was president, is the radical decline in the prestige of government itself. This was reflected, I believe, in the 1992 elections, by the fact that 14 states, given the chance to vote on term limitations, all voted for those limitations. In 13 of those 14 states, term limitations did almost as well as Bill Clinton did. In 14 states, term limitations got more votes than Ross Perot got in 50 states. There is a general sense that the political class in the United States is today so gripped by careerism, so bent on prolonging its professional life in higher office, that it cannot take into account the difficult decisions in the public interest. Ihappen to believe that’s correct, But what the American people are saying is that they have a very skeptical view of the utility of government itself, partly because of the composi- tion of government, but most of all because of the composition of our problems. Let me give three examples education, our cities and the conduct of life in Washington, D.C. With regard to education, I think many Ameri- cans believe, frankly, that we are today graduating the first generation of Americans, from high school, less well-educated than the generation that came before. Everyone in this room knows it is perfectly possible to graduate from an American high school and be functionally illiterate, unable to read, let alone write. The reasons for this are complicated; they begin with the obvious fact that we have the shortest school year and the shortest school day in the industrial world. It was formulated for the needs of a ranching and farming nation in the late 19th century, when children were needed on the farms in the late spring and early fall. That is of limited relevance in south-central Los Angeles. It also is the case that we have attempted in the last 40 years, encouraged by public education lobby, to measure the caliber of education not by measuring cognitive outputs (measured by national tests of the sort we do not have and other nations do), but by measuring instead financial inputs: teacher salaries how big is the school, how many books in the library. The problem is, we do not have national testing, but the market tests sooner or later. And so when the New York Telephone Company gives an entry-level ap- titude test to 1 17,000 young people and 1 15,000 fail —— when Motorola gives an entry-level aptitude test designed to measure fifth-grade math and seventh- grade English skills, and 80 percent fail — the market is giving a test. It's very clear that something needs to be done about the philosophy of education. Perhaps choice for schools; there are an array of ideas, and the country is insisting that we try them. The most thoughtful Americans understand the prob- lems with our schools, and they are joined with the problems with our cities through one great fact, and that is the distress of many American families. I was recently at a school in Chicago. In the school, 85 percent of the students are black, 15 We talk about budget cuts. It costs $5,000 a day for a neo-natal group to take care of a crack baby. It costs $60,000 a year in the last year of life in a hospital for an AIDS patient. Now, as the American peoplelook at these problems, they look to Washing- ton, and they don’t like what they see. They see a government that 30 years ago really believed that it had so mastered the management of the modern economy that growth could be studied in a business cycle, and the great problem for our time would be the equitable allocation of constant surplus revenues for pressing needs. That was 30 years ago, when we announced a “great" society — “good” wouldn’t suffice — great. Well, times have changed. We have not just a United States, but an entire part of the world that we’ve been carrying since the end of World War II, gradually, almost absentmind- edly, translating the idea of civil rights into a doctrine of economic entitlements, and making enormous problems to ourselves as a matter of right: huge calls for the future productivity of the country as a right. They’re neglecting one great fact and that is the demographic fact of societies such as ours: the popu- lation ages. I was on the road this morning and I didn’t get to see the “Today” show, so I don’t know if Willard did his number, because Willard usually comes out with a picture of someone 100 years old. Do you know that in seven years, at the end of the century, the percentage of Americans 65 or older, nation- wide, will be what it is in Florida, the retirement state, today? I don’t know how many of you recently turned 50. I did. And it’s bad enough to have the derision of your children, but you begin to receive in your mail, unbidden, a magazine called [Modem] Maturity, full of lively and sinewy older people bursting with health. It comes from the American Association of Retired Persons, which enrolls you in a huge lobby, and it takes a Supreme Court injunc- tion to get off the list. The largest organization in the United States is the Catholic Church, and the second largest is the AARP. This is true power, but getting back to Willard Scott: he holds up a picture and says, “This is a picture of ‘Elsa Mae Fudge’ and Elsa Mae is 100 years old.” And as you look at her face on the screen, she looks every day of it.... [A]tthe beginning of the 1980s there were 18,000 Americans 100 years old or older, and that number doubled in the 1980s. Demographers predict that by the year 2000, there will be 1 million Americans 100 years old or older. You could make a city — a very quiet city, a city without sexually transmitted diseases. ...Less than 15 percent of our gross national product goes to health care. We don’t realize that a lot of our health care is optional. We tend in this country to be transfixed by the polio paradigm: Because technological silver bullets slayed this dis- ease, we tend to think that those things are the best medical technologies. We then tend to equate health with the application of medicine, which results in a disease-oriented, hospital-centered, high-tech medi- cine that is too expensive, whereas, in fact, if we lived as sensiblyas trout or beaver, we wouldn’thave these problems. We are the only animal that drinks too much, eats improperly, doesn’texercise and doesn’t use seatbelts. If we just did those things we would cut our medical bill by 50 percent. These are the problems that the country faces. Thirty percent of all Medicare dollars are spent on people in their last year of life. The ethical problems implicit in rationing medicine are extraordinary. All the while that the government is gripped with these problems, all of America must look around and say that a welfare state, which was supposed to be ameliorative, may have adverse consequences. If someone had told us 40 years ago that the elaboration of the welfare state would coincide with an epidemic of sexually contracted diseases, an epidemic of teen- age pregnancy, 1.5 million abortions a year, a perma- nent underclass in our cities -— that’s what a welfare state was meant to cure, and it hasn't worked out, and now the American people are wondering what in fact is in store for them and the great American promise. The great American promise was that we are a nation of individual rights, individuals striving to individual happiness as decided by individuals. In- creasingly in the United States, that promise is being replaced by a doctrine of group rights. ...[But] the great romance is gone; I would say that it peaked in the 1960s and it’s gone, Ithink, for good, particularly the romance of the central government. It fell victim to the Great Society promises, which are very fairly « perceived as promising much more than they do. The euphoria and prestige of the government began to evaporate quickly with Vietnam and Watergate. People began to question the motives of governmefit, and the whole movement gathered steam in Califor- nia in 1978 when an initiative passed with severe limitations on taxes, Proposition 13. Three years later, a serious tax cut swept through both houses of Congress, powered by both parties: a general sense that the Leviathan must be slowed down. I think there is today a growing gap between the politics and the culture of the city in which I live. I heard a speaker say, “All change in America begins in the ballot box.” Every page in American history, it seems to me, refutes that. And that sense that politics is at the center of American life is very distorted and very distracted. I tend to think that change in America begins what the working blacksmith invents a “self—scouring” steel plow... that defeated wooden plows, and you can read this blacksmith’s name today in yellow and green paint on big machines: John Deere. Change in America begins when someone such as Eli Whitney serves as a tutor on a southern plantation, helping to . A teach people to separate cotton fibers from cotton seeds.... Change in America begins when Henry Ford in a Detroit garage has an idea for a vehicle to travel long distances, made with mass production. Change in America begins when two brothers in a bicycle shop tinker with a contraption that will one day change how America experiences its vast distances. Change in America begins when a man named Jo Wesley Hyatt wins $10,000 for inventing billiard balls not made of ivory, develops a new way of making something called celluloid for experiences for which Hollywood was created. In 1954, a middle-aged, traveling salesman who sells six-spindled electric mixers caleed multi-mix- ers, pauses in the parking lot of the McDonald bro — ers restaurant in San Bemadino, Calif., and says, “These people are using eight mixers at the same time. what do they know?” Ray Kroc invented not only a great corporation. but also a whole industry. Change in America is not just material change; it’s not just words. Change begins with a church in Massachusetts that has a religious revival that prom- ises to become the Great Awakening. Change 191 America begins when Harriet Beecher Stowe writes a novel, or 100 years later when another writer, Harper Lee writes aTo Kill A Mockingbird. Change begins when Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle or Lincoln Steffens writes The Shame of the Cities. Change in America begins when Mark Twain begins a distinctly American style of literature. ‘ No good society is set by politics. Anybody should know this. In fact, the health of America depends on a growing impatience, which I feel is wholesome, good news. The growing impatience with the slip- shod and second rate is coming....I came across an advertisement with the top 10 cars ranked in terms of / new car satisfaction. They circled Buick in red. Buick was fifth. You see, the other nine were seven Japanese and two German cars. It was unspoken that American cars were not expected to be as good as the foreigners. In my column I presented this issue, and received a letter from Buick saying that I had been terribly unfair — they were nearly fourth. I wrote back to say that I had never heard of basketball fans cheering ,“We’re number four!” I don’t want to live in a country like that. I think that it is in the governments closest to home that the good government decisions are made, that-it ‘ is the mediating institutions of life — schools, churches, fraternal organizations ——_that make life better. The idea of looking for salvation in a capitd city dominated by a very peculiar class, on the fringe of a very large continent, makes no sense. What America depends upon, and what institutions like Washington and Lee deal with, is the salvation of one person at a time by the transition to high standards. The greatest baseball story, which is even better because it is true, is based on the greatest right-hand‘. hitter in baseball, Roger Homsby. [There] was a rookie pitcher on the mound who threw three pitches which he thought were strikes and the umpire said, ”Ball 1.... Ball 2.... Ball 3.” The pitcher shouted to the umpire, “Hey, those were strikes!” And the umpire took off his mask and said, “No young man, when you throw a strike, Mr. Homsby will let you know.” secret of America is for all of us to become a Roger Homsby for our community, a standard by which a good performance is judged. I want to thank you for allowing me to come to this beautiful campus tovshare all of this with you. I may have said some things you didn’t agree with. I cer- tainly hope not. I'll just tell you to take it in the spirit of American politics. American politicians are fon of a story in which two clergyrnen meet on the street. One of them is Methodist and one is Irish Catholic. The Irishman says, “Can’t we be friends; after all we worship the same God?” The Methodist man said, “I know we worship the same God: you in your way and I in His.” I think on this Inauguration Day, in the words of a great Virginian, we’re all Republicans,‘ I we’re all Democrats, we’re all in the same party, wishing the new administration well, knowing, as we’re mature people, not to expect too much. The previous column was a transcript of portions of George Will’sFounder’ s Day Convocation speech and was reprinted with permission. Chris Matthews will retun next week. 0 OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_003.2.txt The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1993 OPINION Knocks and pings shake up Spos’ car SPOS’ SPACE - g.4~,,, By Tom Hespos ‘Over the past few years, I have developed this twisted love/hate rela- tionship with my car. When I made the transition from boy to man by passing my road test and getting a full-fledged driver’s license, my father presented me with his ancient Volkswagen Beetle. D!d was convinced that this car would make me the most popular guy in my -V high school. And why shouldn’t it? 1. Everyone else was driving either a Mustang or a Carnaro or something else that could exceed the speed of , sound (usually in first gear, I might acfl). But Spos was going to be differ- ' ent. He would cruise around in a 1971 yellow bug with a convertible top and would be completely incapable of fend- ing off the gorgeous women, even if he enlisted the aid of an Uzi. . Dad was really proud of this car. He , bmght it new and drove it only on .A V special occasions, waiting for the day when his son would earn his driver’s license and drive it down to the beach, as he so often liked to do. Dad made sure that he kept it in good condition by occasionally reminding my sister not tofiean her bicycle up against it or jump ‘ up and down on the convertible top as if it were a trampoline. By the time I got around to passing « my road test and actually driving the 4 car, it had just a few minor dents, and the roof was only partially caved in. As a matter of fact, I remember one windy day, while driving myself and my friend Craig to school, the entire roof ripped loose from the rest of the car and nearly ’ 1 caused the deaths of about 10 of my schoolmates, who were piled into the Camarobehind us. As I watched the pieces of roof fly off and situate them- selves about the highway, I said a re- ‘ ally bad word that starts with “s” and ends with “hit.” I believe I said that exact same word last Friday night, when during a solo road trip over the mountain to Sweet Briar, my little punch buggy decided to make a nasty noise and sputter to a stop. Of course, with Murphy's Law still governing the greater part of the universe, this problem occurred on the strip of Route 60 that is mostly inhab- ited by deer and people named Jim Bob who are unaware that the Civil War has ended. After screaming the aforemen- tioned S-word at the top of my lungs, I decided to engage in a well-known male ritual which Spos will describe as “opening the engine compartment and staring at the motor as if I could possi- bly fix the problem out here in the middle of nowhere without tools.” At this moment, Spos simply prayed for the problem to be something minor that didn't require a wrench to fix. God saw fit to grant His mercy and Spos was able to make an adjustment that would allow him to restart the car and continue in his quest to get to Sweet Briar before his cute girlfriend reported him missing to the State Police. Dur- ing the rest of the voyage over the mountain, Spos had to stop about eight times to make further adjustments to the engine using the “percussive main- tenance method” which involved kick- ing the car and swearing loudly at no one in particular. In the meantime, the deer and other furry woodland crea- tures were probably convening deep in the heart of the woods, trying to figure LETTERS -. W&L should nurture city out the meanings of the random swear words that spewed forth from my mouth. At 10 minutes past seven o’ clock, I greeted my girlfriend,Jennifer at the door of Carson Dormitory with grease- covered hands and a frustrated look on my face. “I might have to stop a few times on the way back over the mountain to fix my car,” I warned. “It’s been acting up lately.” Looking back, I commend Jennifer for her patience and understanding of the whole situation. I think that we must have stopped 185,000 times on the way back to W&L. Using ad- vanced, college-honed math skills, Spos estimates that approximately l,067,43 2 swear words escaped his lips that frigid night. And that’s not all. Coming down the side of the moun- tain, where the angle of descent of the road allows one to coast into Buena Vista at approximately the speed of light, the car began to make noises. Not stop-the-car-because-the-motor- needs-an-adjustrnent noises, but rather start-praying-because-the-front-end-is- about-to-explode type noises. Spos quickly remedied this by turning up the radio to a level that tends to promote permanent hearing loss. Still, Jennifer could hear the front end noises under the 140-decibel screech of Eddie Van Halen’s guitar. She then decided to contribute to the already scary situa- tion by assuming a crash position not unlike those demonstrated to airline passengers by stewardesses. “I wouldn ’t worry about that noise,” I said as Eddie soloed through “Why Can ’tThis Be Love.” “It doesn’tsound life-threatening.” Jennifer gave me a frightened look like the one a chipmunk gives you before you flatten it with your car. Needless to say, this boosted Spos’ confidence tenfold. As we sputtered into town on a wing and aprayer, I wondered if anyone in or near Lexington was capable of work- ing on a Beetle. I could almost visual- ize Jim Bob the mechanic expressing confusion when he discovers that, as is the case with most German cars, the engine is located in the rear of the car. This thought was cut short as we pulled into my driveway and Jennifer let out a squeal of delight, obviously prompted by the notion that we had made it back to Lexington alive and in one piece. Gathering Jennifer’sbelongings and walking up the front walk to my house, I glanced back at the car and saw that one of the front wheels looked to be preparing to separate itself from the rest of the car. “Eureka,” I thought to myself. “I do believe that I have dis- covered the source of those front end noises.” I said a silent prayer to God, thanking Him for His use of divine intervention in saving our butts. Later, as I thumbed through the latest issue of Road and Track maga- zine, looking for a good buy on a new car, I thought to myself that there was no way I would everbe able to separate myself from my yellow Beetle. Admittedly, it is a piece of automo- tive crap, but nothing could ever dupli- cate the feeling I used to get when I would cruise to the beach, Van Halen wailing through the speakers and the wind tossing my hair about. Occasion- ally, a girl would even turn her head as I went by. Political vandals act To the Editor: As an outside observer (county resident) of ' thdcontinuing car-tax saga, it was interesting to hear the war cries from The Ring-turn Phi [Nov. ' 19]. I'm sure that as a youth in their situation (though without the BMW), I would have been 1' just as fired up at the seeming arbitrariness and double taxation, etc. However (and perhaps it is my “Boomer”-ness), I was struck with the powntial for channeling that zeal in a direction more relevant to the challenges their generation . faces in making our society work for everyone. Lexington and W&L go, well, you know, ,. way back. Each of them nurtures and enhances . each other in all of the obvious ways_(services', faculty kids schools, etc.) and inimany ways” thg are probably as complex and symbiotic as natural ecology. And Idare say, for many of the residents, students, alumni and faculty there is a deep bond of love for this community (one which some Ring-tum Phi editors may some- ‘ day even come to enjoy.) Lexington is not a huge, wasteful, money-hungry bureaucracy, b actually just one of the rare beautiful little towns trying to get by in a situation of limited and diminishing resources and bleak economic projections. It is the hope of many that it does ' survive and even prosper. It is my understanding that colleges in other communities (including the Harvard of the 0 North) have had to, either amicably or not, come up with new revenue relationships which meet their modern situations. Apparently, W&L and the city have some agreement of that sort. But is it actually adequate, considering their holdings, etc.? Perhaps the budding politicians, economists, lawyers and planners in the student body could make a project of taking Lexington under their wing, as if they were going to live here, research the situation and make recom- mendations. Perhaps the relative strength of W&L’s en- dowment relative to its size in the city and the city’ s limitations would indicate a greater con- lti.buti0I.1;L€>r.perhap.s,th<:students would 60 9 up with’ an ‘even more creative solution. n‘ either case, maybe they could eliminate their car-tax in the process. This situation may be somewhat complex and suggesting help from the students may be idealistic. However, solving the Lexington- W&L revenue dilemma, in its relatively small and contained world, would be minor (and perhaps a good learning tool) for these students compared to the problems they will inherit. Seeing this problem from both sides would be a good first step in realizing that, in the end, we are all in “this” together. Greg Sandage To the Editor: I realize that the Inaugural Ball has created some hysteria among the nation’s liberal populace, but if the recent actions of this faction’s branch at Washington & Lee is any indication of future behavior, then the nation is in deep trouble. Iarn speaking of the blatant disregard for the College Republicans and for their desire to voice their own opinions. They have attempted to post signs around campus in order to inform the college community of club meetings and discussions, but these signs have been repeatedly torn down and destroyed without provocation. I find it amusing. that the left wing, the “tolerant” and the “open minded”, do not have enough faith in their own political beliefs to respect those of others. I find it disturbing that these people . chastise the conseryatives-for,nai;rowrmindetibehavior when '~ I .th,ey‘rr1_trs; resgrtto, JuveniI¢,ta9iis$.lilss;.tat}.d§ili§:i}.in.9;d§,r.to ensure that their message is heard. In my.op1m0n,- it rsrthrs type of activity which destroys the very heart of an interactive‘ society. The increasingly liberal administration, with notable exceptions, has refused to recognize the defamation of one of the university’s most historic and powerful organizations. They have ignored the words of the College Republicans who favor idea exchanges and actual brain activity instead of the wallet activity of the more liberal clubs. It is time for the liberals to come down to earth. I realize that Bill Clinton's rise to the Oval Office is exciting but I predict that this enthusiasm will disap- pear in about 100 days and the nation will again look to the right for guidance. Sincerely, Paul E. Wright, ’95 Press Secretary and Spokesman, College Republicans Dean of Students reports increase in student arrests Ttfthe Editor: For the past two years, in an effort to pincreaseeawareness of student disci- plinary issues and promote more re- sponsible behavior in our community, I have published the student arrest ords for alcohol—related incidents in re 4 th ity of Lexington. Alcohol-related arrests of Washington and Lee stu- dents (DUI, possession under age, drunkenness, noise and litter) declined from a high of 100 in Fall Term 1988, to 74 in Fall Term 1989, to 45 in Fall Term 1990, to a low of 35 in Fall Term 1991. For Fall Term 1992 just concluded, 45 Washington and Lee students were arrested for alcohol-related incidents. The overall increase was a direct result of more noise complaints (14) and ar- rests for public drunkeness (11) than last fall. I hope that this increase to 45, although still significantly lower than the figures a few years ago, does not indicate a trend in the wrong direction. Remember, student conduct in Lex- ington is a measure not only of indi- vidual standards but-is also a reflection of the standards of Washington and Lee University. David L.,Howison Dean of Students Recruitment The Admisions Office needs freshman males to help with re- cmiting weekends. Please contact Nancy Hickarn at 463-8710 for de- tails. Club LAX There will be a Club Lacrosse meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Newcomb Hall to discuss the up- coming season. Ariel The absolute last deadline for Ariel submissions is Feb. 1 by 5 p.m. Turn in photographs, artwork, poetry and prose to Carol Calkins. Questions? Call Brian Carpenter at 463-1001. Big 4 Elections Petitions for the positions of Ex- ecutive Committee president, vice president and secretary and Student Conduct Committee chairman are due Feb. 1. Petitions can be picked up at Carol Calkins’ office. Pre-Law The W&L Pre-Law Society will meet in room 221 of the Commerce School tonight at 7 p.m. with mem- bers of Phi Alpha Delta legal frater- nity. Activities for the remainder of the academic year will be discussed. For further infomiation contact Prof. John in room 12513 of the Com- , merce School. Superdance Registration packets for Superdance are available in front of Carol Calkins’ office. Sign up to be a dancer and support MDA. ‘““=Ra uetbalr er-.5/:‘B ruxnlgl I;‘(.'\-‘) 5: ru_4\'.'r.:.;rL\|'- ‘ Anyone interested in laying In-, 3927‘ before Jan. ‘25 for dates and information. The club needs people of all skill levels. AIDS Education The AIDS Education Project will host Dr. Merv Silverrnan ’60, presi- dent of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Chapel for a lecture entitled, “AIDS: A Global Over- view.” All are welcome. Writing Center The Writing Center is now open Sunday through Thursday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Payne 2B. Stu- dents who want help with writing projects of any kind are encouraged to sign up or to stop by for an indi- vidual conference with a writing tutor. ‘.1 j tra‘rnural'Rat;iretballsho' dc'a11464-"“ Wcounsellng Calyx You can still sign up for Calyx senior pictures. Schedule sheets are located outside Carol Calkins’ of- fice. Sign up early to avoid a late fee. Amnesty Amnesty International presents two showings of “Missing” Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Trou- badour Theatre. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. Alumni Job Members of the Class of '93 who wish to be considered for W&L's Alumni Staff Associate position in 1993-94 should apply by March 1. Graduating seniors should submit a letter of application and resume to Director of Alumni Programs James D. Farrar, Jr. in the Alumni office. The position will become available on July 1. A personal interview for each applicant will be required. Lost Gold cuff-link with round face. If found, please call Carlin at 464- 3758. Grief Support The Counseling Service will be- gin a Grief Support group on Mon- day at 3 p.m. Eight sessions will be held and will cover such topics as the manifestation of grief, remem- bering, accepting and expressing feelings, role changes, stress and coping, anniversaries and memori- alizing. If you are dealing with a loss of a close friend or relative, please join us. Call ext. 8590 for more information. -run-'1_.-‘ ‘-'.'i. r turr- "rl}I‘§1\A’ A counseling/support group for women with eating and/or compul- sive exercise problems will meet on Tuesday afternoons beginning Jan. 26. Call the Counseling Service at ext. 8590 or the Health Center at ext. 8401 to sign up and. receive additional information. Republicans The College Republicans will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The de- bate topic will be “Foreign Trade” and contemplation on Bill Clinton. Help Wanted The Phi is looking for a humor columnist. Ifyou think you can make the campus laugh, submit a sample of your writing to room 208 in the University, Center. For more infor- mation call Fran at 463-8581. General Notes are compiled by Matt Haar P 5. 4 Interviews and Photos by Darran Winslow ,6- ‘ Sean Gatewood, ’93, Bel Air, Md. « — “Moonboots and parachute pants.” Alison Cowand, ’94, Norfolk, Va. Dan Morgenstern, ’95, Atlanta, — “Wonder Woman Underoos.” Ga. — “Leisure suits." TALKBACK Susan Wootton, ’93, Marietta, Ga. — “Feathered hair.” pus, what would it be? Frost Bush, ’95, Savannah, Ga. —— John Kleckly, ’94, Columbia, S.C. “Tennis socks with balls on the back.” — “Members Only jackets." If you could bring back anyfashion trendto the Washington and Lee cam OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_004.2.txt Alumnus to speak on AIDS By KRISTA TAURINS Phi Contributing Writer The head of the largest AIDS re- search foundation in the world will speak on the global impact of AIDS tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Chapel. Dr. Mervyn Silverman, a 1960 W&L graduate, is president of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Junior Patrick McDermott, founder of the Washington and Lee AIDS Edu- cation Project, said Silverman is known worldwide for his work. “He’s traveled all around the world,” McDermott said. “It’s incredible. He went to Spain with Elizabeth Taylor and was given a Spanish peace prize by the prince of Spain.” McDermott said Silverman has done AIDS-related research in Argentina, India, Switzerland, China, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt and Indonesia. “And that’s just recently, so he has a pretty good idea of the global prob- lem,” McDermott said After graduating from W&L, Silverman went to Tulane Medical School and then the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1977 to 1985, Silverman was director of the San Fran- cisco Department of Health and helped create a program to fight the AIDS epidemic in that city. He last visited W&L in 1988 when he attended an AIDS conference here. Silverman has served as the medi- cal director for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and as director of the Food and Drug Administration Office of Con- sumer Affairs. In 1986, Silverman joined the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Actress Elizabeth Tay- lor is the foundation’s founding na- tional chairman. There will be a public reception in Morris House following Silverrnan’s speech. His lecture is sponsored by the W&L AIDS Education Project, the Univer- sity Lectures Committee, the biology department and the public policy pro- gram. The speech is open to the public. NEWS Photo by Malloryeyers, T'he ing—t Phi 3 New fraternity houses for Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon in Davidson Park are due to be finished in late summer, officials said. Construction moves along By KRISTA TAuR1Ns Phi Contributing Writer Schematic plans for the new science building should be completed by late March, says Capital Planning Director Frank Parsons. “The architects are making period visits to the campus, meeting with the heads of the science departments," said Parsons. “Things are proceeding at normal progress.” Payette Associates, Inc., an architectural firm from Bos- ton that specializes in science and health care facilities, is designing the new building. Their idea is to construct a building between Parmly and Howe halls, creating one large science complex. When the building between Howe and Parmly is com- plete, Parsons said, it will house the chemistry and geology departments, as well as a science library. “That will free up Howe Hall for renovation," Parsons said. “When it is renovated, then biology and physics ldepartmentslwillmove over from Parmly Hall.'I'hen Parmly Hall will be renovated, with special accommodations made for psychology and computer science.” Tucker Hall, without the psychology department, will . have more space for language facilities, and Robinson Hall, once computer science moves out, will have more space for mathematics. While Parsons says that the science center is the highest priority project going on, plans for a new student center have not been completely forgotten. “The student center project for the time being is in suspension. We will be making some space changes as soon as the Sigma Chi fraternity house is available,” Parsons said. Those changes will most likely entail a shift of adminis- trative offices from the University Center to the old Sigma Chi house, Parsons said. He said the move would allow more room for student activities and enable the school to wait on construction of a new student center. The new Sigma Chi house, as well as a house for Sigma Phi Epsilon, are currently under construction in Davidson Park. Parsons said both buildings are on schedule. “We are anticipating that Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon will move into their houses in late summer,” Par- sons said. The on—campus construction of the Watson Gallery, however, is not on schedule. Construction fell behind by three weeks. Thomas Litzenburg, director of the Reeves Center, said the delay is due to the complex design of the building. “It fell behind because of the intricacy of the forms that they had to build for the foundation walls,” Litzenburg said. “That’s the principal reason.” Rather than being completed in February as originally scheduled, Litzenburg expects the gallery to be completed by mid-April. Litzenburg said, however, that the gallery will not open until late summer, allowing him to examine the artwork before it is displayed. “We need a couple of months to inventory to install the Watson collection," he said. F M Lee Fiatgliugh Lee M.MiIey ii'1"i”riim1nl5 lilllllllll 4 East Washington Street Lexington, VA 24450 (703) 464-6464 WL Art I Q , 1870 Washington College Diploma signed “RE. Lee” Signatures: Edward Valentine W&L Copperplate re-strike. hand-colored W&L and R.E.Lee limited edition art Sculptures by Ron Tunison George and Mary Washington pieces R.E. 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Under current White Book proce- dures, the accused and his advocate are told the identity of the EC’s witnesses, but are not allowed to contact any wit- nesses before the hearing. Advocate Mark Cathey said an ex- change of information before the trial could save the EC the trouble of a trial. “I’ve done eight trials,” Cathey said. “I think there were a couple of in- stances where if you had heard [my information] you wouldn't have brought the case to trial.” Senior EC Rep. Susan Moseley said she was concerned that an exchange of information before the accused was officially charged would become an attempt to get the case dropped before it came to trial, instead of an attempt to find the truth. Moseley said an accused person might be able to prepare and rehearse their responses if they knew the evi- dence against them. t_ “A lot of [finding out the truth] is 1’ watching how people react,” Moseley said. . Third-year law Rep. Jay Sterne said V he hoped the EC would consider the issues brought up by the advocates and V other students, but said the EC should not create procedural advantages for either side. “We have to remember this is no an adversarial process until it come to open trial,” Sterne said. The advocates said EC members who work on an investigation should not be allowed to vote in the trial. " “If you can be a body without bias, why not strive for it,” advocate Chris Schinstock said. 9 ‘ EC Presidentlosh MacFarland said , he does not want the investigators to ' appear like prosecutors. He said the 4 purpose of a closed hearing is to find out the truth, not to convict a person of an honor violation. In other action, the EC voted un£ti- mously to use the term advocate con- - sistently throughout the White Book. Before the change, the terms advisor and advocate were used interchange- ably. Schinstock said he would like to see many people comment on the Hofior System, including people outside of the Washington and Lee community, .v r ‘F “If we truly believe in our Honor , System we should open it up to the public and let the scrutinize it,” Schinstock said. “Maybe they will learn from it.” Q tudent ctivities presents Movie Night firm the Tkoooaooor sFeatur1'ng SNEAKERS Thursday, January 28th 8:00 p.m. Saturday, January 30th 3:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. “ “ “ “ “ “ " “ “ " “ “ " “ “ 3 3 3 $€$$$‘~?$$$$$'é:éT:?* (0) (0) » SPRING BREAK ’93- . ééééggéeaégeegéaaéaaaa222:2 if * CASH & GO FREE The (15) <1» (1 3) <1» <1» <1v <1» <1» (0) <1» <1» <1» <1» (0) <1» <1» , <1» <1» <1» oard (0) <1» j (0) ' <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» <1» (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) ‘ OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_005.2.txt The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1993 8 WILSON, from page 1 “In General Lee’ .r College, Ollinger Crenshaw wrote the history of Wash- ington and Lee into the 1930s,” W&L Capital Planning Coordinator Frank sons said. “I think when the next historian decides to pick it up, they will A dumpsterfence isnot one of them. “Coeducation and Fraternity Re- naissance are the two things that will be distinctive about his administration and will persevere," Parsons said. Coeducation Between the time he was chosen to be W&L’s next president in August come to the Con- 1982 and the time he took clusion that office in January 1983, John Wilson Wilsonmade weeklytrips was an out- from Blacksburg, where Standing preSi- he wasprovostatvirginia tginl.” Polytechnic Institute, to I P a r s o n s Lexington to get to know knows W&L the W&L faculty in one- presidents. He on-one interviews. graduated in , “I usually ended with 1954 under F r a n c i s P e n d l e to n Gaines and re- turned to work the question, ‘What one thing could we do to make it a stronger and better place?’ Coeducation was overwhelmingly men- for Gaines three tioned by the faculty as a months later. jlecision whose time had He was as- come,”Wilson said. “SoI sistant to the was very, very curious esident for about that.” ed Cole, Wil- Once he became presi- liam Pusey and dent, Wilson said, he held R o b e r t dinners for 20-25 seniors Huntley. Wil- at a time. When he asked son appointed the question of admitting Parsons to his women, none of the men current job of had much to say. Qpital planning coordinator. And the man who has worked for a quarter of the presidents in W&L his- tory has nothing but praise for Wilson. “It is a challenging job and a diffi- cult job, being as how you have so much to be responsible for and have to I: so many different things to so many different people,” Parsons said. “But he is outstanding at it." But Wilson is not without his de- tractors. “Many assume that I must either hate Dr, Wilson or, at the very least, jarbor yenomous distaste for the man. This is not true,” said former W&L Spectator editor Cameron Humphries, whose articles were often critical of Wilson. “It must be acknowledged that un- der Wilson’s presidency Washington md Lee again enjoys a stature and reputation unknown for nearly a de- cade,” Humphries said. “My criticism _ of the president does not concern what he has done, but how he has done..it.” . In the list of changes W&L has undergone in the past decade, two stick ut as the ones Wilson is destined to be remembered for. “But there was a curious thing hap- pening. They would say very little [at dinner] and then see me the next day and say, ‘Here’s what I really meant to tell you last night,’ ” Wilson recalled. “It was like an act of disloyalty to be critical of the Washington and Lee that they had enjoyed for four years.” Once he became convinced that coeducation was the right thing for W&L, Wilson asked the Board of Trust- ees to consider the option. In July 1984, the board decided to admit women to W&L, a decision, former Spectator editor Humphries says,in which Wilson ignored the poular will of the alumni. “Alumni as a whole were ignored during the coeducation decision,” Humphries said. “I do not believe the survey taken of alumni in 1984 — which found them opposed to coedu- cation by more than 2-to-1 — was ever published.” Wilson remembers the survey. “That was an interesting question- naire because many of [the alumni] thoughtitwasaba1lot.,”Wilson laughs. “But one of the things we learned was that 80 percent of the alumni said that NEWS Wilson reflects on 10 years in office if was going to cost the university aca- demic quality to remain all-male, they would rather it change.” Wilson said coeducation is such a part of life at W&L now he does not think of it often. ‘‘If you stop to think what human activity is least aided by the separation of human beings it is education,” Wilson said. “There is no earthly rea- son for separating men and women when it comes to the study of literature, mathematics, philosophy or any other intellectual activity.” Rector of the Board of Trustees Steven Miles recalls Wilson coming in “as coeducation was being enacted” and doing a “masterful job of orches- trating the transition to it.” Miles indi- cated that co- week,” Wilson said. “That showed me a Washington and Lee that was totally unattractive.” Parsons said the deplorable state of the fraternity system ate away at Wil- son. , “He said we could not turn away from the responsibility he felt we had to improve the fraternities,” Parsons said. “And he anguished over how to do it.” In 1988, Parsons said, Wilson came up with the solution. “He came up with aplan that would commit the university's resources to rescuing the fraternity system,” Par- sons said. It was a plan, Miles said, that Wil- son had a hard time selling to the trust- ees. education was ‘‘It was controversial,but something that he felt a statement needed happened under to be made about the exist- Wilson, but not ence of fraternities at Wash- because of him. ington and Lee,” Miles said. But if coedu- So the university e_m— cation was an barked on the $12 million ideawhosetime Renaissance program, un- had ‘come, Fra- der which the university as- temity Renais- sumed the titles to the fra- sance was an temity houses and reno- idea John Wil- vatedthern atuniversity ex- son brought pense, with some houses with him. costing more than $1 mil- _ lion. The university than Fratern|tY leased the houses back to Renais- the fraternities. n “What happened with sa Ce FratemityRenaissance was «When I that it went beyond the sur- came, Sigma face and gave [fratemity Nu was boarded a new attitude, up' It had been So in the spring of 1991, fired purposely. h thr f . Arson in other w eri ee ratemity mem- words,” Wil- bers threw bottles through i.*:,‘=..“;:',:*:,:’i.“:.‘?:*:.f.::*:r'“.::i l , 'd. . . . ’ gxggui Silas neither the fraternities of the ‘.§Li‘lé‘8f..ii‘.?..§L‘;‘i?2IiCi‘v’§li §2fu3;ead::2da_ son suspended the students. mm of the fra_ The action brought Wil- temity systemy son criticism from all sides, culminating in a forum in The houses . . . noton1yhadSe_ Lee Chapel in which Wil- rious plumbing and electrical prob- lems and health violations, Wilson said, but fraternities seemed to bring out the worst in the W&L “gentleman,” a sen- timent he shared with the faculty. “There was a restlessness on the part of the faculty that an institution that prided itself on high standards could turn itself into a different kind of institution on various nights of the SPECIAL SKI PROGRAM ANNOUNCED son tried to explain his deci- sion, but would not reverse it. Wilson said that looking back, “I did what I thought was right. And it was probably a mistake.” Wilson says part of the blame lies with the SCC, which he says was dys- functional because the Executive Com- mittee president was considering re- moving the SCC chairman, who had just had a second con- viction for driving un- der the in- fluence. B u 1 Miles be- lieves Wil- son may have re- acted the way he did because the pre s i dent took the in- cident per- sonally. “He had stuck his neck out on Fratemity Renaissance and got the board to spend $12 million, and then this happens,” Miles said. “He had put so much in the program, and it hurt him.” In that respect, Miles, who disagreed with Wilson’s action, says he can for- give it. “It should have never gotten to his office, but it did and I fully understand why he did it,” Miles said. “If that’ s the worst thing he’s done, I’ll take it." Fading into the Sunset Among the list of things Wilson sees in W&L’s future — building a new science center, improving the ath- letic facilities, creating a better student center — there is one which he says he must complete before he can retire: increasing W&L’ s endowment through the current capital campaign. “The capital campaign is very im- portant to increase our faculty support and student financial aid,” Wilson said. “If I can accomplish that, I’ll be very happy to fade into the sunset.” “I think when John leaves, which I hope won’t be soon, but I realistically think will be in the next four or five years, he can look back on a successful career,” Miles said. ButHumphries believes Wilson’s lack of contact with the students has tar- nished’ his accomplish- merits. “The net effect of Wilson’s administration has been to alienate the presidency from the stu- dent body," Humphries said. “In his moments of more honest introspection, he knows this to be true.” Wilson acknowledges this aspectof his presidency. “I realize I'm not a terribly popiilar president.” He sighs. “And I regret that.” Wilson said his hectic travel sched- ule contributes to the perception that he ' is out of touch with the student body, but he also contends that he is a shy person. “I spend too many hours up here and not enough out there,” Wilson said in his Washington Hall office. “But I am not very good at going to the Co-op and sitting down with a bunch of stu- dents at a table uninvited. “The thing is, I really participate in the lives of students by watching them perform in the public arena, like the sports field, like the gymnasium, or the theater, or the concert hall. “I should probably teach. This is the first place I've never taught,” Wilson said. “But it’s very difficult to teach well when your travel schedule is such that you’ve got to be out of town a fair arnount....If you're looking for sugges- tions for my successor, that would be one.” When the next president of Wash- ington and Lee Uni- versity does take office,JohnDelane Wilson will most likely go down in history as the man who revitalized the university through coeducation and re- newed the fratemi- ties through Re- naissance. And what does he think of that? “I’ll take the dumpsters.” Altiitt - Eriiiiiia FOR Needed W & L STUDENTS & FACULTY . f 102 W. Washington St. We are pleased to announce the establishment of a special W&L Ski osalesmgn S ' ' Program which is being made available by the Winterplace Ski Resort. 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For latest snow conditions, call snow phone 1-800- , 258-3 127. Anticipated conditions on Saturday, January 23rd are - I 7 traiLs open A , with all chairlifts operating. OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_006.2.txt FEATURES The Ring-tum Phl, January 21, 1993 Author specializes in weddings from hell By JEANNE BRIGGS Phi Staff Writer At a wedding in an old historic Episcopal church, the organist hit the keys to play the recessional, and the entire rank of pipes fell off, hitting the groom on the head and knocking him imconscious. ' This is a favorite anecdote of Margaret Bigger, the author of There’ s No Such Thing as a Perfect Wedding. Bigger has collected over 200 true anecdotes in the book, and she is working on a sequel that will contain almost three times as many stories. Bi gger said she heard many of the stories from ministers when she worked as a committee chairman of a presbytery. “I would go to lunch breaks at regional meetings and hear these guys telling hysterical stories,” she said. Bigger initially wrote the stories for publication in the Presbyterian Survey,adenominationalmagazirie,afterprom- ising anonymity to the brides and ministers involved. She collected stories for several years. “No matter where I went, I found that if I told a good story I’d get three or four back,” she said. Bigger saw the potential for a book, and began breaking the stories up into categories. Since the publication of her first humor book, she has appeared on the Sally Jessy Raphael show, the Vicki Lawrence show, and the Geraldo Rivera show. “Apparently I have found a topic that people love to talk about and laugh about,” she said. She hopes to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show to talk about horrendous wedding pranks. She said that so far, West Virginia and Georgia hold the record for the dirtiest pranks. Several W&L students are nervous about their upcoming weddings. Senior Lee Rorrer has been engaged for about three months. Her fiance graduated from W&L four years ago. “I foimd out yesterday that my aunt, who is a bridesmaid, is pregnant,” she said. “She’ll be six months pregnant for the wedding, and I hope she doesn’t look like a big grape.” Evans Edwards, also a W&L senior, has been engaged to his fiancee since last year’s Fancy Dress. They went to high school together and she went to James Madison University. Edwards said his greatest wedding fear would be “if my fiancee didn't show up, or somebody was unruly at the wedding and turned it into a disaster.” There’ s No Such Thing as a Perfect Wedding contains no direct advice, but Bigger said that people read it and learn whatnot to do. She recommends it to friends of the bride who want to lighten the mood, and also to brides to give to their mothers, who she says often take the wedding too seriously and expect everything to be perfect. She said that one young man wanted to give his girlfriend the book along with an engagement ring, to keep the mood light. Biggerwillbeat W&L onJan. 25-26 to promote her book and will deliver a speech, “How to Promote Non-Fiction as a Freelancer,” Jan. 26 at 1 pm. “What I’ve learned works,” she said. “If you don't promote [your work], it isn't going to sell. People have to know it exists and have a reason to buy it.“ Bigger will also be at the University Bookstore Jan. 26 from noon to 2 pm. to sign copies of her book, and to gather more stories. “If people at W&L want to tell me about weddings they've attended where a disaster occurred, or an off-the- wall-prank was played, or someone said something funny, I want to hear about those for my sequel or maybe even for the nextTV show Ido,"Bigger said. “Every timeIthinkI’ve heard it all, I hear another one.” Illustration by Tim Rickard. There's No Such fling As a Perfect Wedding Chinese New Year celebrates the Year of the Cook? By MAi'r Du.uim Phi Contributing Writer About one fifth of the world'spopulation willbereveling in a tremendous New Year celebration starting Saturday, as this week marks the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Cock. “It’s the day for families to come together. It is much like your Christmas, but without religious meaning,” said Hsiu- Ying Wu, a Chinese teaching assistant spending her second year at Washington and Lee University. “It is the biggest ~ festival of the year.” The Chinese New Year is celebrated during a different Western week each year, because China’s limar calendar has a different number of days than the Western calendar. “Our calendar is based on the moon, but yours is based on the stm,” Hsiu-Ying Wu said The festival usually falls in January or February. One of the most significant aspects of the New Year Festi- val is that each year is repre- sented by a different animal. The animals represent a fable of the Chinese old world, when Buddha called together all animals to guard and pro- tect the new year. Only 12 answered his call, and each one characterizes ev- ery 12th year. Thecock represents con- Food is an integral part fidence arid determinism. of the New Year festival. Because China has pro- ‘,__', Seeds and rice products gressed intoanemployment- I symbolize the rebirthandthe based society since the in- N; 1,9 ( new life that the upcoming ception of New Year festi- COCK—Feb. 17 OX—Feb. 3 197310 9 lg spring will afford. » vals, some customs have 1969 to Feb, 5 Jan_ 221974-sread- ’}._3_'!g3», . “We have many foods,” b¢€111110d1fi°d- 1970—Determined, fast, methodical Hsiu-Ying Wu said. “ 'ce “I11 1116 0111 111110 P001119 pride, alert, confident, abrasive, unimaginative, dependable, loyal, 081168 are 11105! im 1- 51311911 10 P199319 10011 101 aggressive, rude," affectionate, possessive, logical, honest. we 315° “V5 01311838. 31111 1116 New Y681 0116 111011111 111 resolute, punctillious. uriromantic. 1-he)’ 1113311 80°11 111919" advance,” Hsiu-Ying Wu Hsiu-Ying Wu said par- - said. “Wecarinot dothatnow N BOAR —Jan. 27 1971 toFeb. 14 1972 because the lifestyle is dif- — Unpretentious, jolly, caring, indus- money-filled envelope after ferent. We cannot close trious,tnisting, naive,hard-—working, E5 ‘\‘l the dimer. schools and shopsforawhole hospitable. *~..;4. Once the children mafry, month.” TIGER * ,* theystartgivingmoneyback 5li11.111€1'€1S3101°fP1'°P3' Jam 23 ‘§,/,(<9\'$fi," totheparentsonNew Year’s ration. Men get haircuts; - 1974‘°F°b- m, Eve. women go to beauty shops_ 26 1971. - RAT — Feb. l5 1972 to Feb. 2 10 1975. — ' . . Children slay up until wl-he pfices are two to Loyal, honest, like- 19_73—Charrnmg, adaptable, cre- Leadership,brave,rash,im- mldnlglll, symbolically three times more than um, able, trusted, conservative, ativ_e, ambitious, opporturust, gre- V petuous, warm,.smcere, ag- wishing lllell. pawns 3 lohg mal, but people sllll do it,» sympathetic, tolerant, active ganous, erratic, gossip. gressive, authoritarian. llfe_ ' 0 she said. 1°1‘ab1°- The New Year festivities Although the Chinese culminate on the first full New Year has become more moon of the lunar calendar. materialistic as the years go on, the traditions that make the commemoration significant will never change. “We’re waiting for spring, a new hope,” Hsiu-Ying Wu said. The festival is a time of togetherness, great hope and ‘Z718 Sisters of CH1’ Omega C ongratufate and '1/I/efcome Qfieir 1993 T[ec{qe Cfass Sarah Rose Brombacher Kristen Elmas Cavros Helen Smith Chandler Kristina Lou Charney Marie Fox Jessica Lee Graft Jennifer Ellery Greene Jennifer Dawn Greeley Caroline Haynes Guerin Laura Elaine Howell Kara Michele Kimzey Mary Lynn Huger King ‘ Robin L. King a Rebecca Towning Kramer Kelly .' E. A =._::: .'... .x. . ..-.. v....,'..‘¢’r.. .»...; 3, 7.: z -I ‘ E 3.: ,4 -»i 3 I *3 -I Justine Joy LaMont Kristen Lynne Lawrence Kambra Bovard McConnel Meagan Christine Miller Jennifer Robison Suzanne McKay Sharp Jill Michelle Sheets Mary Reed Stapleton 1 Shelley Ann Sunderman Vanessa Dianne Vettier Madeline Tapley White Shannon Meta Wiegmann Katherine Tucker Wood . ---.. v...-p..«v— ——... - --~»ac'-‘-‘——-rs--a.«.;..'..s-.».:.’..2....’.';.'.e.4“ .:_"ua'as_..-.._ - . great dinners for families. “If someone cannot come [to the New Year’s Eve din- ner], we set his place and place a cloth over his chair to represent him,” she said.“A fish is at the table, and it represents luck, so we must not eat it that night.” On that night, the streets in the cities of China become 1 dense with people relishing the activities. While a long, colorful dragon made of bamboo frame dances through the streets in the armual dragon darte, firecrackers light up the sky in celebration of the new year. 1993 Tlergge C[a.s5 Sally Ball Brigitte Barland Ashley Bell Stephanie Boden Aloise Bozell Meredith Brown Stephanie Corbin Chrissy Donnelly Shannon Foster Kim Freeman Jennifer Galardi Cinnie Lo 0 Chrissie Hart Samantha Hollomon Kippie Killebrew Karen Kwitervich Lisa Murp y Julie Ann Olejniczak Meredith Winn Hilary Rhodes . Mims Rowe Jenny Floyster Julie Sauers Lisa Smith Stephanie Tomasso Courtne Tucker Peyton urner an ents give their children a i OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_007.2.txt . 1 Gone are the days of freshman bean- The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1993 Faculty alums recall By Joyce BAUTISTA Phi Features Editor ies and six-day work weeks. . qFraternities have noticeably changed since the years faculty alumni spent as students. “The fraternities of today are more conscious of the number of legal and behavioral dangers,” University Sec- retary Farris Hotchkiss, ’58, said. .However, Professor of Politics I Lewis John recalls the more restrictive , social scene. “No women were allowed above , the first floor of fraternity houses,” John, ’58, said. Associate Dean of Students Leroy “lfiiddy” Atkins, ’68, also remembers the constraining social atmosphere. “There were six days of classes so parties were only on Saturday nights,” -r .- Atkins, a member of Sigma Alpha Ep- silon, said. Parties were not open as they are . today- “Women students didn’t show up 1 without a date,” Atkins said. is He said parties would begin at 8 p.m. and end about midnight. f “Women had to be back on their respective campus or approved hous- . in ,” Atkins said. "John, a member of the now-defunct :- Delta Upsilon Washington and Lee chapter, agrees. ‘ “There were always couples at par- ties rather than a great influx of people,” John said. ‘‘I went on a lot of blind » d s.” » ohn said men’s Rush was shorter 8 when he was a W&L student. “Rush was finished by the first week I of classes,” he said. I Before the construction of Evans ‘ Dining Hall, freshmen depended on thsir fraternity for meals, John said. But, in the years when Professor of ' Romance Languages Laurent Boetsch, » ’69, was a W&L student, the university as a whole changed dramatically. “The war, the draft, the Civil Rights Movement,” Boetsch said, “made it :1.-‘ almost impossible to not get involved wflh something outside of Lexington.” frat life selor. LEWIS GEORGE JOHN, ’58 — Delta Upsilon Secretary and Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa, Interfratemity Council President, Phi Eta Sigma Secretary and President, Student Library Commit- tee Chairman, Cold Check Committee, Student Service Society, Band, Glee Club, Scabbard and Blade, Dorm Counselor and Freshman Camp Coun- A look back at some faculty alumni FARRIS PIERSON HOTCHKISS, ’58 — Calyx Editor, The Ring-tum Phi Editorial Advisor, Fancy Dress Vice President, Finals President, Student Service Society President, Publications Board, Phi Eta Sigma, Dorm Counselor, Washington Literary Society and President’s Advisory Council. LEROY COLE ATKINS II, ’68 - Sigma Alpha Epsilon Secretary, Mongolian Minks, Student Service Society, Varsity Club Treasurer, Dorm Counselor, Football, Lacrosse and SWMSFC. Boetsch, formerly of Sigma Phi Epsilon, de-activated after returning from his junior year abroad. “Fraternity life didn’t interest me anymore,” he said. “It [fraternity life] paled by comparison to real life.” Boetsch believes that those years of change were excellent for W&L. “My senior year, W&L was at its best as a liberal arts institution,” he said. “I think because we were more The zeta-at. Chapter or Kappa Kappa Gamma Wishes to Congratulate the Following 1993 Pledges: Betsy Blunt Melissa Byrd Meg Carrere Amy Carrington Dominique Chappelear Caroline Connolly Catherine Constantino Dana Cornell Margaret Cox Kimberly Davis Kylie Edwards Susan Foote Laura Forster Kristin Frels Liza Gallardo Tara Hadfield Margaret Hawn Catherine Hess Meg Kinder Ashley Matthews Sara McGinty Alison Oneacre Rebekah Prince Josephine Schaeffer Elizabeth Schoellkopf Ashley Short Stacy Williams skeptical.” John said the percentage of students in the late 1960s and early 1970s that were in fraternities dropped from 85- 90 percent to 50 percent. “There was a general lack of respect and a do-your-own—thing mentality,” John said. “However, fraternities are becoming more like they used to be.” Hotchkiss, a member of Beta Theta Pi, agrees. Hellzapoppin' for war relief 50 years ago in the Phi — An all—soldier revue of dramatic and variety skits in the “Hellzapoppin” style was presented by student officers of the Army School for Special Service, with proceeds going to the United Nations War Relief fund. “Beginning in 1966, fraternities took a turn for the worse in terms of behav- ior and physical deterioration,” he said. Hotchkiss said the trend turned with thebeginningofFratemityRenaissance in 1988. “In the past two years the fratemi- 5 years ago in the Phi — Delta Tau Delta had a year of social probation suspended after only five months. The year of probation was imposed after an incoming freshman was seriously injured following a Delt Summer Rush party in July 1987. ties have reverted back to the state they were in back then,” he said. But some traditions are noticeably absent. Boetsch said freshmen were no longer required to wear beanies in 1965 . “In the years that I was a student, the tradition of wearing a coat and tie to class faded,” Boetsch said. He said his only regret about his Colonnade Crossword ACROSS 1 Food fish 5 Cousin to a vise 4 5 10 Attractive one 14 Numerical prefix 15 Lodge 7 19 Greek experience was losing touchwith Slgiggrliize those who weren’t in the same frater- 13 Make expiafion nity, 19 Renown “If we weren’t in the same frater- §g§ff(§'i:foanF1’acy nity,wenever saw each other,”Boetsch 24 Eye pm said. 25 City in India Atkins recalls the lasting friend- 32 %‘;‘n;EbgA ships and the good times experienced 32 Sound of in the fraternity. contentment He remembers one Saturday night Serf? ht H when Ben E. King perfomed atan SAE 36 D'eck"f,5emSe °' Pan)“ _ 37 Tavern “Entertainment was much less ex- 38 Family member. - n ' u or s on pensive then, he”said. We probably 39 Supermaws paid only $1,500. L055 Hotchkiss said one of the most memorable parties was the night Beta 41 Harbor towns 43 Radical group @1993 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 01/21/93 _ , 44 Goblets‘ All Rights Reserved reenacted Charles Lindbergh’s flight couectively over the Atlantic. 46 Troubles 9 Promises La K, _ “We went to enonnous lengths to 48 lncllnatlon 10 Let the air out Of 5‘ wee 3 answers- 49 Ice cream holder 11 Spoken have big theme parties,” he said. . . 50 8 all blossom Hotchkiss said one Beta brother m 53 Shakes from 12 Peru’s capital 13 Certain look actually flewinto Lexingtondressed as fear, 21 Work_ Unit Lindbergh 57 Dpalal -— 23 Mine 5 output ,, 58 Live up to 25 Open-eyed . The h0U§€ Was SUPPOSCQ1 [0 b6 so Dies — 26 Old gold coin Paris,” he said. “Later that night we 61 or the ear 27 Dunne or Castle had a sort of diplomatic ball.” 52 Rem°‘'°v ‘“ 3 28 5'9"?‘ "gm . way 29 Publish John remembers some of his memo— 53 weary 30 Catches rable college moments in relation to 64 Fountain or 31 Rushof air one of the four major dances sponsored $6898? 32 guddlfis by the university‘ giohngii wound 43 Hfince “Backthenwehad Openin s Fanc g ' g . ”g 1 _ Y 41 Big cat Dress, Springs and Finals, he said. D.OWN 42 Cleaned “They were all big formals.” ; glgrftffrg jg ’T‘i‘[‘1’;b“‘e5 -_He Said W&L allfacted blgmame 3 Let it stand! 47 Connecting artists such as Louis Armstrong and 4 More dirty word _ C B ' 5 Ancient vehicle 49 Made a 52 Leave 55 — avls Oiim asl-6' ' , 6 Water lily selection unmentioned 56 Prophet _One d‘ff°"’“°_e between nlday S 7 On the summit 50 Failure 53 Difficulty 59 man —- parties and the parties back then, John a People 51 Not punctual 54 Writer Ambler mouse?" said, “is that [today] they’re1ouder.” congratulations Pi Beta Phi Pledges! ! Julie Ayers Catherine Cardullo Jenna Cowles Colleen Dunlevy Megan Fernstrom Ainsley Fisher Beth Formidoni Heather Hall Emily Hazlett Elizabeth Hottle Catherine Lawrence Margaret Lunger Joanna Lyman Julie Powell Meg Randol Kim Schooley Francis Smith Anna Starling Kim Stoner Katie Tollison Martha Warthen Ellen Wasilausky Courtney Wetzel Lois Wootton OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_008.2.txt The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1993 Happy Birthday, St. Bob! Photos by Mallory Meyers,‘ The rng- um hr‘ The W&L Dining Service celebrated Founders’ Day Tuesday with a Robert E. Lee birthday dinner in Evans Dining Hall. The menu included Custis-Lee peanut soup, honey glazed baked ham, southern fried chicken and Stratford Hall potato salad. Above, dancers perform the Virginia Reel, a square dance from Lee’s time. At right, Lee’s likeness presides over the festivities. The bust was sculpted from lard and salt. Students say King’s dream must live on‘ By MICHAEL Hawrrzrr Phi Contributing Writer Martin Luther King’s dream must be kepg in. mind if it is to come true, senior Rita Poindexter says. On the holiday commemorating the civil rights leader's birthday, the Minority Student Associa- tion president said that, though the racial equality King advocated has been written into law, the spirit of King's vision must be kept in mind.‘ “The things that Dr. King stood for and worked for, such as equality of opportunity, peace and brotherhood,” Poindexter said, “are elements of which everyone needs to continually be aware and , work toward.” As for King’s dream, Poindexter said it has 4 three different phases. . “The first phase of the ‘dream has already been ' accomplished which was the legal recognition of , civil rights for minorities,” she said. “The second phase of the dream is the enforcement of the first phase through things such as governmental pro- grams that encourage and reward racial diversity.” Poindexter said the third phase is “fire 4 individual’s realization of the dream.” SeniorNicky Mayfreld says the effects of King’s stand on racial injustice and his willingness to .t advocate change extended beyond his lifetime. “I’m a direct recipient of those changes,” Mayfield said. 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We Giadiy Accept tederal rood blamps. conferen D STRUGGLE, from page 10 Division III play and the Generals have played them tough twice, but they've lost twice. The latest coming in Emory, 79-68. The Generals jumpedout to anearly lead and had the home team on their collective heels. But you don’t get into the top ten by rolling over, and the Wasps didn't. They trailed by eleven a few min- utes before the half. They clawed their way back to knot the game at 33 just before the end of the first. E&H then jumped all over the Gen- erals a few minutes into the second. A 10-nothing run put the Wasps up for good, 45-35. After that they coasted to the 11-point victory. Mi ggins led the Generals again with 13 points. The loss dropped W&L to 4-10, 2- 7 in the ODAC. Prior to the E&H game, the Generals resided in seventh place in the ODAC, the top eight teams make the post-season tournament. That's why the home stretch for the Generals is so important, eight of their final 10 games are against ODAC foes, five are on the road. The toughest part will come at the very end of the season. Just before the ODAC Tournament is scheduled to start quarterfinal play, the Generals must go on the road for five straight games. They begin their trek at Lynchburg on Feb. 10, three days later they’re at Roaonke, then at Queen’s (NC) on Feb. 15. The Generals conclude the 1992-93 regular season at Eastern Mennonite on Feb. 17 and at Randolph- Macon on Feb. 20. It’s very reminiscent of last year when the Generals needed wins at the end of the season to make the touma- ment. This year could have the same situations. The Generals willprobablybefight- ing for a spot with teams such as East- ern Mennonite and Randolph-Macon, so those road games could be the most important part of the season. Wrestling By MARK SAPPENFIBLD -- 1 Phi Staff Writer The Washington and Lee wrestling team left last weekend’s Johns Hopkins Invitational with a 1-2 record and a hollow feeling abouttheirperformance. The win over Haverford, 34-16, and the loss to Lebanon Valley, 38-6, were both convincing. But the loss to Johns Hopkins, 30-19, revealed the still-vul- nerable top end of the Generals’ lad- der. Head coach Gary Franke said the team was in a position to win the meet against Johns Hopkins, but they could notcome up with the wins atthe heavier weight classes. “All we needed was one good show- ing from 167 to heavyweight, and we would have been in a position to win the match;” Franke said, “but they swept us, and we didn’t have a big enough lead to hold on”. The Generals got off to a quick start against Hopkins. Freshmen Rob Sands, Photo by Jameson Leonardi, The Ring-tum Phi Miggins finishes off a W&L fastbreak against the Yellow Jackets. Miggins has provided most ofthe offensive punch forthe Generals this season. It will take a concerted team effort by the Generals to turn this season around In time for the ODAC Tournament. hosts Invitational cim Futch and Owen Smith all wonat their respective weight classes. Sophomores Eric Shirley and Adam Williams also contributed with wins in their matches. It was at the 167-pound weight class where the tide began to turn. Sophomore Lea Abercrombie lost at 167,and then fellow classmate Kevin Batteh lost his match at 177-pounds. From there, junior Matt McCollum lost at 190-pounds, and the Generals were forced to forfeit the heavyweight divi- sion, giving Hopkins its 30-19 win. W&L had to give up 24 points to Hopkins during the final four matches. The Generals did rebound for the end the day meet against Haverford. Franke took the liberty of changing the W&L line-up throughout the Haverford match. He moved Batteh down to the 167-pound weight class, and Abercrombie to 177. Sophomore Bo King saw his first action this year at 190-pounds, and he beat his Haverford opponent in a great match for the Gen- erals. McCollum had to take a forfeit at the‘ heavyweight class. Sands, Shirley, and Futch contin- ued their domination in the middle weight classes with wins at 126, 134, and 150-pounds, respectively. Shirley finished the tournament at 3-0, and upped his season mark to 6-5. Abercrombie won his match at 177- pounds to finish 1-2 on the day. The Generals get the week to prac- tioe before they host their annual W&L Wrestling Tournament this Saturday. The Generals must prepare for Davidson, LaSa1le, Longwood, Mes- siah, Newport News Apprentice, Vir- ginia Military Institute and Washing- ton and Jefferson. The Generals will have a new body to throw into the mix this weekend. Freshman Colin Looney will see his first action, probably at 190-pounds. The Generals have already faced two of the teams competing in ‘the Invitational. W&L lost to Newport News 52-6 and beat Davidson 33-18. COUNSELORS: Camp Wayne, co-ed chi1dren’s camp, Northeastern Pennsylvania. June 22 - August 20, 1993. Positions include: Tennis, Golf, Swim (W.S.I. preferred), Waterski, Sailing, Basketball, Volleyball, Softball, Soccer, Gymnastics, Aerobics, Drama, Nature/Carnping, Guitar, Batik, Dance/Cheerleading, Sculpture, Ceramics, Painting, Silkscrecn, Photography, Self-Defense. Other positions available. On campus interviews Thursday, February 4, 1993. For more Information, call 516-889-3217 or write 12 Allevard St., Lido Beach, NY 11561. Include your school phone number. s‘? W51» '7 :9» ° \l /of PE0?\5'Q Students Agginst Multiple §9_le;o_s_i§ &_£_L?_£1Q2R0 k ri A_r2g._e_e_R Ii f Lip Sync Friday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. $4 per person SI tickets for door prize drawings One door prize is d Willson-Walker dinner 17 Acts As of Wednesday OCR::/Vol_092/WLURG39_RTP_19930121/WLURG39_RTP_19930121_010.2.txt This Week: . Bba1l- B’water 1/22 7:30;at H-SC 1/27 Swim- Johns Hopkins, Emory, Swarthmore (M&W) 1/23 All Day Wrestle— W&L Invit. 1/23 9:30 am Last Week: Bba11— E&H 79,W&L 68 (4-10) MSwim- W&L 111,G’town 94 (6-0) WSwim- G’town 112,W&L 88 (6-1) Wrestle— W&L 34,Haverford 16 (2-3) (lite Eating-tum ifllfi SPORTS PAGE 10 BASKETBALL, INDOOR TRACK, SWIMMING, WRESTLING Men’s swimming remains I perfect;women lose first By KEITH GRANT Phi Staff Writer After convincing victo- ries in each of their first six meets, the Washington and Lee men’s swimming team is more than halfway to a perfect season. Saturday, the Generals traveled to Washington, DC. for apre-inaugural vic- tory over President Bil-l Clinton’s alma mater, the Georgetown Hoyas. Six Generals combined to temper the Hoyas’ smug- ness of having the 42nd President of the United States. W&L won seven events in the meet to pro- duce a 111-94 conquest. Saturday’s win came just two days after the Generals romped all over visiting Buffalo State, 125-80. W&L lost only one of the 1 1 events during the meet. That single loss was in the 200 medley- relay. Sophomore John Rowe was a double winner against Buffalo State. He claimed the top spots in the 100- breaststroke and the 400-in- dividual relay. Rowe’s time in both events were season- best times, 1:04.64 for the 100-breast and 4:26.47 for the 400—IM. The only other double winner for W&L against Buffalo State was freshman Frank Braden. Braden with season-best times 'in the l,000—freestyle, 10:17.22, and the 100-butterfly, 56.75. The two wins improved the men’s record to 6-0 on the season, 3-0 since the team returned from the holi- day break. The W&L women’s team also kept their perfect sea- son intact with their win againstanovermatched Buf- falo State team, 118-74. FI’OIT| Press Releases Indoor track kicked off its 1993 season at the Lynchburg Invitational last weekend. The men were led by their group of sprinters. Hayne Hodges, John Robinson and Chris Kane all reached the semifinals of the 55-meter dash. Hodges and Robinson teamed with David Phillips and Dax Mahoney to win the 4x100 relay race. Mahoney also took sec- ond in the 440-yard dash, while Grant Cowell was sec- ond in the 6()0—yard run. The women were paced by sophomore standout Sarah Gilbert in all the jump- ing events. SPORTS NOTEBOOK However, the women would receive their first blemish against a much larger Georgetown team. The Hoyas outnumbered the Generals by a 3-to-1 margin and won only five of the meet’s eleven races. But it was enough to end the Generals unbeaten streak, 112-88. Freshman standout, Rebekah Prince, said it was simply a matter of numbers. “We’ve been outnum- bered all year long,” Prince said. “It’s just hard to keep winning with just eight swimmers. “We all swam well, but we were just outnumbered,” Prince added. “We’ve all handled it well.” Prince continued her phe- nomenal freshman season by claiming first in three races against the Hoyas. She touched the wall first in the 200—butterfiy, the 200-back- stroke and the 200—breast- stroke. Prince made W&L his- tory during the Georgetown race with a school record in the 200-backstroke with a time of 2:13.83. Sophomore Brandi Henderson had another strong performance with wins in the 200 and 500- freestyles, and L1 second- place finish in the 100- freestyle. Senior Claire Dudley showed she was not washed up in her final season as she contributed a win in the 1,0()0-freestyle and seconds in the 50 and 200-freestyles. The teams have a bit of a lay—off and then return to action this Saturday in an all-day event at W&L’s Cy Twombly Pool. The Gener- als welcomeJohns Hopkins, Emory and Swarthmore to Warner Center for the four- way competition. The men and women will send full teams to the Marriott Invitational at Vir- ginia Tech this weekend. After that, the men will compete in the VMI Relays and the women will head back to Virginia Tech for the ' Pepsi Invitational. The two teams will not compete together until W&L serves as the host school for the Old Dominion Athletic Conference indoor champi- onships on Feb. 27. The women’s trial bas- ketball team went 2-1 in its first three games since the holiday break. The team beat Sweet Briar 55-34, they lost to Meredith 71-41 and beat Mary Baldwin 77-43. Photo by Mallory Meyers, The R/ng-tum Phi ‘Super’ Human Former Pittsburgh Steelers’ great Rocky Bleier spoke to a crowd in Lee Chapel Wednesday night about his experiences in Vietnam and professional football. Bleier received a serious leg injury in Vietnam after a grenade exploded three feet from him. He rehabilitated the leg and went on to play on all four Steeler teams that won the Super Bowl. He told the audience that the will and belief that something can be accomplished is the key to all success. 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