OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_001.2.txt Washington and Lee is a peronalid place V v..-gig-‘ ; .‘~:x1:.'T‘r~'i, ‘ox’.-"=\_ T-*zL'i~f3't'5 - 1,9919 Men x 3 wrestling pins Pensacola in dual meet Q-3 U112 Einngrtum lfllii UME 93, NO. 16 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Classes iced LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA JANUARY 21, 1994 or two days By EMILY BAKER, YAI3Iz SEDGHI AND BUNNY WONG Of thePhi Staff Washington and Lee shut down Wednesday and Thursday for the first time in over 30 years as a result of bad weather. “We canceled because of a combination of concerns about safety and conserving as much energy as we can,” said Brian Shaw, Director of Communica- tions and Public Relations. Icy roads and walkways Tues- day made getting to classes diffi- cult. Wednesday, University Presidentlohn D. Wilson decided thatwasenoughtocancelclasses. “There’s ice on all the sec- ondary roads,” said Wilson. “Fac- ulty and students were having trouble getting in.” In addition todangeroustravel conditions, the university expe- rienced electrical problems. “We’re trying to minimize electricity usage,” said Shaw. Virginia Power asked all major - | customers to cut down on elec- tricity usage. Canceling classes conserved energy from both light- ing and heating. To minimize electricity usage, Evans Dining Hall operated only during day- light hours to conserve energy consumed by electric lighting. The dining hall used disposable dishes and utensils to reduce W€‘§l‘iYl8.:,. ' I‘ri§pi'te"oftheseefforts,W&L students and Lexington residents still experienced power outages. Virginia Power tried to keep out- ages down to 30 minute incre- ments, rotating the outages be- tween blocks of 10,000 people Photo by Ethan Krupp, The Ring-tum Phi . l‘he Colonnade looks like an icy ghost town with very few students, faculty or staff members venturing on to the Hill during the two day snow break. ' ower problems and frigid weather teamed up to give students their first snow days in about 30 years. But ice alone is not enough to close W&L for a third straight day. Light snow last night covered the ice and made walking and driving conditions even more treacherous than they had been in 1 few days. But Virginia Power said normal power use was again possible and classes resumed today. every two to three hours. Virginia Power takes several steps before resorting to power outages to conserve energy, said spokeswoman Karen Russell. First, the company reduces the customers’ voltage by three to five percent. The decrease is minimal enough that it “is not noticeable to customers,” said Russell. The company then appeals to the community as a whole to reduce its power consumption. After that, it asks specific public volunteers to cut consumption, as it did W&L. If this still does not reduce power usage ad- equately, the company then turns to the power outages. Virginia is using record- breaking amounts of power this winter, said Russell. “Although we have no num- bers yet,” said Russell, “the power consumed Saturday, January 15 broke all previous existing records.” The power situation is im- proving, said Russell. After ro- tating the power outages among blocks of 10,000 people every two hours, the company was able to reduce the blocks to 3,000 people every eight hours. Shaw said he did not know whether upcoming vacations would be affected by the two- day cancellation. The weather has also post- poned the Founders Day-ODK Convocation. The speakers had not made it into town before the university shut down. “We caught them all before they got on their planes,” said Shaw. “We haven’t rescheduled the convocation yet. We’re still trying to get back to those people.” Both the Leyburn Library and the law Library opened from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday. Leyburn had the same shortened hours Thursday, while the Law Library was shut down, accord- B See ICE, page 10 By MELIssA SAWYER Phi Staff Writer Last weekend was another of drunken brawls and ‘ate-night arrests for several Washington and Lee stu- cuts. Recording to a Sigma Nu brother, a conflict at the Sigma Nu fraternity house around 3 a.m. Sunday resulted in a broken window and the arrest of a junior Phi Delta Theta member. The Phi Delt had been asked to leave the i unior Sigma Nu member, who asked not to be identified, went outside the house and the two began to shove and _)unQh each other. Several members of the Phi Delt house tried to inter- ./ene. The Phi Delt house is currently on critical proba- tion due to an incident that occurred earlier in the year. The Phi Delt broke free from his brothers and punched .hrough the bedroom window of Sigma Nu house mother Sigma Nu house following a party. When he refused, a ~ Fights result I three arrests “I was awake and I looked out the window to see what was happening,” Coxey said. “Glass fell all over the chair where I sit. If I hadn’t been in bed I would have been in that chair.” Coxey said she decided not to intervene in the fight at first. After the window was broken, however, she called the Lexing- ton Police Department and W&L Security. , “I wanted to press charges, but the police and W&L Security just wouldn’t do anything,” Coxey said. Coxey said she had asked the police to serve a warrant to the Phi Delt offender. “Generally we let the property ownerdo that (press charges),” said Lexington Chief of Police Bruce M. Beard, Jr. Beard said in this case, police decided to let W&L Security handle the matter. “It involved university property,” Beard said. Coxey said she was not sure who would pay for the repair of the window. She said the Phi Delt came Wednesday to apologize to her and to patch up the window. b See FIGHTS, page 10 The two sides of the Honor System By MICHELLE BRIEN, THOMAS HESPOS AND FRANCESCA KEFALAS of the Phi Staff On May 1], 1992, Washington and Lee junior Cynthia Kowalyk saw what she thought was a breach of the Honor System in her French 213 class. Freshman Elizabeth McCord had just told Professor Russell Knudson she had completed a lab assignment. Her paper showed she had marked each segment complete. But Kowalyk and the rest of the class knew that the tape they had been assigned to listen to had seg- ments missing. McCord could not have done all the segments she said ON MY HONOR I HAVE NEITHER GIVEN NOR RECEIVED ANY UNACKNOWLEDGED AID... Beverly Coxey. File Art The FIJI owl. By MICHELLE BRIEN Phi News Editor It ain’t over ’til it’s over. Or at least not until President John Wilson reviews the appeal. Phi Gamma Delta fraternity’s sus- pension by the Student Affairs Com- mittee was effective immediately after SAC’s Monday decision and is set to last 18 months. But there is still a chance that Wilson will return the case to SAC for review, said Dean of Stu- dents David Howison. “An appeal is not a rehearing of the case,” said Howison. Howison said the fraternity must have grounds for an appeal. FIJI President Ralph “Moke” Wolfe said the fraternity plans to appeal on the grounds that the punishment was too harsh. FIJ I plans appeal to Wilson “We’re appealing because we think the punishment should fit the crime,” Wolfe said. “It was hazing, but it was minor. Given the severity of the lFC’s penalty, we thought suspension was too severe.” Interfraternity Council President Curt Smith would not say what the IFC’s punishment was, but said that it was “similar to that of SAC.” “The less we say the fairer it is to them,” said Smith. Wolfe also cited the danger to the fraternity’s existence at Washington and Lee if the sentence is upheld. “We won’t be able to rush until 1995,” Wolfe said. “Then we will only have 12 members if everyone stays. it’s too expensive to maintain a house with only 12 members paying dues.” D See FIJI, page 10 she had. Kowalyk was left with a couple of difficult questions: Did McCord’s actions constitute an Honor Viola- tion? Should she be reported to the Executive Committee? “I thought about it,” said Kowalyk. “I consulted with friends of mine. They said it was my responsibility to at least tell someone. So I did decide to do it.” “They said if there was no wrong- doing she would never even know of it being reported,” she said. One week later, McCord got a call from EC Secretary Caroline Wight. The EC asked McCord to come to a meeting that Thursday, and assigned her two law student advocates. “They told me, ‘Don’t worry, this is merely a fact-finding,” said McCord. “But that was it for me right there.” At the end of a four-hour closed hearing, McCord was found guilty of an Honor Violation and told to with- draw from the university. “I found out she was found guilty the next day when I saw her with her parents,” said Kowalyk. “I assumed she was saying good-bye.” But McCord opted to appeal the decision in an open trial. “My first reaction was that I was not strong enough to take it to an open hearing,” said McCord. “But I thought‘lcan’tjustletthisdie,know- ingthat I never intended to do wrong.’ Sol thought ifl walk away knowing that, I might as well fight it.” “A few days later, I was contacted about the open trial,” said Kowalyk. “They called me into look over my testimony, and asked if I remem- bered anything else. It happened quickly.There was an announcement the next day on the Contact board.” McCord was again found guilty in the open trial and was expelled from the university. McCord’s case illustrates that W&L’sHonorSystem—whatmany say is the university’s foundation —— is suffering some cracks. Some think she is the victim of an unfair system — particularly members of McCord’s family, who have strong ties to W&L. Others, including Kowalyk, say McCord’s case illustrates that the Honor System works. To them, pres- sures on the Honor System are the result of students who simply don’t take it seriously enough. As a result of the controversy surrounding McCord’sdismissal,the Executive Committee is reviewing the Honor System this year. The re- view is expected to focus on what some say are the system’s weak- nesses: O W&L has no clear definition of honor or breach of honor. OAccording to honor trial law advocates, W&L has the only judi- cial system in the country in which DSee EC, page 7 OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_002.2.txt BEYOND THE BLUE RIDGE The World Neo-Nazis convicted Two neo-Nazis were convicted of and sentenced for aggravated assault Tuesday. They attacked a United States Olympic luge team member after yelling racial slurs at his black teammate. The two “skinheads” are the first of seven defendants to be tried in the Oct. 29 incident. Relief plane shot A plane bringing food, medicine and other relief sup- plies to war-torn Sarajevo was shot at twice Thursday. The German plane was hit about two miles from the airport. No one was injured in the incident. It is not known who shot at the plane. The Nation Quake rocks California Aftershocks continue to rock the San Fernando Valley following Monday’s earthquake. The quake, which mea- sured 6.6 on the Richter scale, hit at 4:31 a.m. Pacific time. Reports count 44 people dead and 3,762 injured. The quake collapsed buildings, snapped freeways, damaged gas lines and disrupted utility service as far north as Canada. South- ern California has been declared a disaster area. Iran-Contra report impli- cates Reagan, Bush A seven—year investigation into the Iran-Contra scandal revealed that although former President Ronald Reagan may not have violated any law, he did make it simpler for others to conduct illegal activities. The two-volume report declared Reagan’s aides withheld information about the scandal. The report suggests the congressional commit- tees investigating the affair should have considered im- peaching Reagan. Reagan, former Attorney General Edwin Meese, former President Bush have denied the allega- tions. Faulkner to attend Citadel Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend day classes at the all-male Citadel military college in Charleston, S.C., Thursday. Chief Justice William Rhenquist lifted an order which prevented her from at- tending classes while her lawsuit is pending. The Citadel claims her presence will destroy the 151-year-old college’s military environment and educational mission. Inman gives up nomination Former CIA deputy director Bobby Inman withdrew as President Clinton’s nominee for defense secretary Tues- day. Inman chose to withdraw his name because of alleged attempts to distort his record, character and reputation. Senate hearings were set to begin next week. I Cold paralyzes nation Snow, sleet and freezing cold have ravaged the nation since last weekend. The cold snap has left 15 people dead nationwide and caused hundreds of highway accidents and power and water outages. Frigid conditions and snows are expected to continue through next weekend. Minne- sota and North Dakota are fighting temperatures of 32 degrees below zero and 92 degrees below zero without wind-chill. Temperatures in areas of New Hampshire have plummeted to 100 degrees below zero. The State Knick lawsuit rejected The civil rights lawsuit filed against Lexington and Police Chief Bruce Beard over a policeman’s fatal shoot- ing of his wife was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. Lisa Knick’s brother filed the suit on behalf of her estate and her two children. She was killed by her husband, former Lexington police officer Jerry Knick, at home while he was on duty Sept. 29, 1990. Knick was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Sports Gillooly arrested in Kerrigan case Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was ar- rested Thursday and charged with conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on Nancy Kerrigan. Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt, and alleged attacker Shane Minoaka Stant and Derrick Smith have already been charged in the case. Harding was questioned by the FBI and maintains her innocence, although an affidavit given by Eckardt has linked her to the alleged plot. Sorority Rush nets 108 Wome By RICHARD WEAVER Phi Staff Writer One hundred and eight women pledged a sorority last Friday after a week’s worth of Rush activities. Panhellenic Council President Laura Clark had mixed feelings about this year’s Rush. . After Preference Night Thursday, Jan. 13, the Panhellenic Council set a quota of 29 bids per sorority. The origi- nal quota was 28 bids per sorority, but the number was changed at the last minute to 29. Incoming Council Presi- dent Lise Brown said the number was increased so some women would not “fall through the cracks.” Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega, and Kappa Alpha Theta each received 29 pledges, while Pi Beta Phi received 22 .“We were all disappointed with Pi Phi not doing as well as they would ' have liked, but as a whole I feel every- one did a good job and there was a lot of cooperation among sororities,” said Clark. Pi Phi President Christine Grandinetti said the sorority’s relatively short time on campus (three years) may have had some effect on the pledge numbers. “We attribute the low number to concerns the freshmen may have had about Pi Phi’s newness,” Grandinetti said. “They may look and see that other The Rinr -tum Phi Janu sororities have been here longer and are more established.” Sororities that don’t meet the quota have two options: they can offer “snap bids” or they can go through continu- ous open bidding. Snap bids can be extended to anyone on that sorority’s bid list who did not accept a bid else- where. Continuous bidding is used to extend bids to women who were not originally on that sorority ’s bid list and who did not accept a bid elsewhere. Freshman Erin Dougheity would like to see a change in the structure of sorority Rush next year. “l wish it (sorority Rush) was more like the guy’s Rush, where you got several bids,” said Dougherty. ‘‘I didn’t like the sorority Pref Night, where you 21 " ranked your choices and then you. only one bid. With the current wa seems you either get all or nothin Brown is looking to the sor governing body as a way of bols' the current system. ’ “lthinkweshouldfocusonst n ening our Panhellenic system,” Br said. “We want to make it more leadership body for the sororitie Clark said no other national s ties are currently considering - zation of W&L, nor are any so being sought out. “Our top priorities are to work the problems with the sororities have now,” Clark said. “We w everyone getting full quota bef we expand.” Machines to sell stamps By EMILY BAKER Phi Staff Writer Soon Washington and Lee students will not have to hike to the Post Office for stamps. A stamp machine outside Fairfax Lounge in the University Center will sell a number of mailing prod- ucts, such as stamps, envelopes, and post cards. The machine has been there for about a month. Director of University Services Jim Johndrow said Buildings and Grounds has to install electricity before the machine can start vending. B&G however, has their hands full making pathways safe after the recent storm left inches of ice on the ground. “Our B&G people have to put electricity in,” said Johndrow. “As soon as they do, we’ll let the Post Office know.” Once electricity is installed, the Post Office will stock the machine. Johndrow warned against putting bills larger than $5 in the machine. “The machine will only make change for a $5 bill. People should make sure they put in nothing larger than a $5 bill, or they will not get the correct change,” he said. An additional machine was placed in the co—op but was later removed. “We originally wanted to put another machine in the bookstore/co-op area, but there wasn’t enough room,” said Johndrow. “The machine was bigger than we thought.” Students will have to make do with the lone ma- chine in the University Center, which, for many people, is still closer than the Post Office. Freshman to start program By MICHAEL HEWLETT Phi Staff Writer Freshman class president Alvin Townley is tired of seeing trash cans overflowing with newspapers and cans. That is why he wants to organize a recycling program for the freshman dorms and Gaines. He said recycling makes sense and all major uni- versities across the country have such programs. Virginia state colleges are required by law to have a recycling program. He said that the recycling program he envi- sions would require minimal effort from the student body. “I think everyone realizes the need to recycle,” said Townley. “lt wouldn’t require a great deal of effort from anybody.” Townley said he met with Dean of Students David Howison and Dean of Freshmen and Residence Life Dennis Manning. He said he felt encouraged by their enthusiasm and their willingness to help. ‘ Townley said the cost of the recycling program will be low, and there will be no outside organizations involved. Townley said he sees tremendous support from students for the recycling program. “They want something done, about it,” said Townley. Randolph Hare, assistant supervisor of Buildings and Grounds, said he met with Townley, Howison and Manning. He said they agreed that B&G does not have the resources to pick up containers in the dorms. Hare said B&G will provide recycling containers with the proper logo telling what goes in them. Townley said he has been working on the recy- cling program since October and predicts it will be ready in mid—February. “Recycling is not a liberal idea or a conservative idea,” said Townley. “lt’s just something that makes sense and requires no great effort to do.” By JAY WHITE Phi Staff Writer “The Dating Game” has touched down at Washington and Lee. Junior Chris Albert is the mastermind behind the produc- tion and said over 100 people signed up for the television event “The Dating Game” is to be a bi-monthly feature on Cable 2. It will be filmed alternating weeks and will air on Wednes- day, Thursday, and Friday. Albert and a production team consisting of juniors Stacy Bogert, Becky Crow, Trisha Coughlin, Pina Benincasa, and Cathy Gartin also produce W&L’s “Entertainment Spot- Game”. partment. Find your dream date on Cable 2 J light” every other week in the same time slot as “The Dating Albert, who is the host and producer of the Dating Game, raised money for the program by getting sponsors from local businesses and the W&L Din- ing Service. Albert is doingthe show as an independent study project for the Journalism De- This week’s show was taped Sunday and featured senior Doug Kaufman, sophomore Cole Constanzo, and sopho- more Shelby Lamar vying for a date with senior Heather Aussiker. The show was taped in front ofa live audience. “No laugh track was used. It was the real thing,” said Albert. Aussiker asked the bachelor a series ofquestions , includin how they would go about r‘ joying her if she were an i 4 cream sundae. Kaufman responded is there a cherry involved?” Aussiker chose Shelby Lamar as her date for a candlelit steak dinner on the balcony of the Dining Hall, complete with a waiter. - Albert said the show’s r- pose is to increase Cable 2’s viewership and to involve more of the W&L student body and the Lexington community. lf you would like to be a contestant on “The Dating Game” call Stacy Bogert at 4&2- 4149 or Chris Albert at 462- 4117. City has financial woes By ERIN LEONARD Phi Contributing Writer Lexington is known for its wealth, but beneath the facade of a quaint college town lies an economi- cally strapped city. Of Virginia’s 136 cities and counties, Lexington ranks 17th*on the fiscal stress index and 107th in . median household income, reports a recent study by the United States Census Bureau and the Virginia Commission on Local Government. “That’s why we’re always looing for some other revenue source,” said City Manager John Ellestad, whether it be a new business or personal property tax. Lexington is not in bad shape, he said, but it does have a very tight budget. The loss of one revenue source affects the city greatly. The fiscal stress index is determined by resi- dents’ incomes, the locality’s true real estate values, taxation and borrowing power. The more a locality lacks these things, the higher it ranks on the index. Lexington’s real estate values and borrowing power are healthy, but its residents’ incomes and ability to tax city property severely limit the city’s revenue thus heightening its fiscal stress. Virginia’s median household income is $33,328, according to 1990 data. The median income in Lexington is $21,361, and is $24,955 in Rockbridge County. While both are below the state average, Lexington’s was higher than the county‘s until re- cently. For years, the affluent lived within the city limits, while the poor lived in the county. As suburbs have sprouted beyond city parameters, Lexington has lost many middle- and upper-class families to the hilltops and has lost their tax dollars to the county. The city is further hampered by its inability to annex, or absorb, county property into the city limits. in 1985, the city forever waived its right to annex county land undera state agreement. At the time, said Ellestad, Lexington was looking to expand both north and south. The county was prepared to fight. in the face of a long, expensive annexation battle with no guarantees, the city en- tered into an agreement with the county. Lexington can not annex, and the county makes a financial payment to the city each year based on tax rates and the county’s tax revenue. The agreement does not generate as much in- come for Lexington as the fast-food restaurants; Wal-Mart and upper income families would if were they were inside city limits, but the yearly payment is crucial to Lexington’s budget. Last year’s $543,000 contribution comprised one-tenth of the general fun budget, said Ellestad. City Commissioner of Revenue Courtney Bak thinks this payment is fair. “Obviously all those things are on the pararflete» of Lexington, because Lexington is here,” she sai She and Ellestad both said the city deserves t compensation for the services it provides to t county. The revenue helps the city to maintain itsel » “We are always coincerned about the revenue i Lexington,” said Baker. “We are always watchf and very concerned that we able to maintafi o locality, the services we provide, and the good schoo "A- we have.” z The yearly county payment helps to offset th money Lexington loses with its inability totax Wash ington and Lee and Virginia Military Institute prop erty. Lexington is 2.5 square miles. Fifty-eight pe cent of city land is tax—exempt property. ad 4 percent of that land belogs to the two colleges. Th other nine percent belongs to the city, churches, o other tax—exempt organizations. From its 42 perce of taxable land, Lexington brings in approximate]. $1.6 million in revenue. Were the city able to doubl this amount with revenue from the school propertie said Ellestad, Lexington’s financial troubles woulr be over. ' W&L and VMI do make yearly grant paymentst the city, known as PILOT, or payment lieu of taxe » W&L contributed around $100,000 last year, sai UniversityTreasurer Lawrence Broomall.The scho » bases its grant on a flat amount of $40,000, th estimated property tax on its fraternity houses, an one-half the estimated property tax on faculty an staff housing. Broomall said if the university acquires any cit property in the future, the university will grant 10 percent of the property tax to the city each year. Ellestad said he hopes the schools won’t buy an more city property. “We don’t want them buying up more city gro erty because it takes it off the tax roles,” he said. The loss of a revenue source threatens Lexongton’. well-being. Meanwhile, the city is trying to make the most 0 the property it has The Lexington Downtown Devel opment Association, said Ellestad, is helping to at tract both local business patrons and tourists. . “We’re just trying to maximize the economi potential downtown,” he said. “LDDA is the ke_ component ofthat. Our philosophy is that business men know the best way to try to promote and expan business. We let them take the lead.” Sledding, anyone? A blanket of snow covers the lawn in front of Morris House, making students nostalgic for their Flexible Flyers. 1;...“ OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_003.2.txt Students show school spirit and inginuitg in personalized license plates around Campus ‘Bl 'ETlIAN ‘ll. ‘liilUl’l’ TIII TEATUKES ‘EDITOR Any possible way to display school spirit on your license plate is fair game at Washington and Lee University. Some V of the 600,000 vanity plates on the road in Virginia are here in Lexington, F "" ‘ , _._ Since personalized plateswere-~intr6'd1tced in Virginia in 198'} , many-"students have takenadvantage of‘the program for only $10 above the cost of're‘gistration. In addition to letters and numbers, people may select a dash, a space, or an ampersand, which is a very popular symbol on W&L plates. Some students choose a plate with the W&L crest instead of a seventh letter on their plates.. This option costs an additional $25 a year. Sean Garrity of the Public Information Office of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles said after “I000 of the crest plates are sold, fifteen dollars of the twenty-five will go to the school.” Garrity said the crest plates are available for most Virginia schools and some out-of-state schools if the demand is great enough. “There is one for Penn State,” said Garrity. Out—of-state schools do not receive any money from the cost of the plates. Of course, some people choose to simply use their vanity plates to express something personal about themselves , such as their intials, their name, or just some off—the-wall ironic comment about the conditions surrounding them. So, when you get you own car, go ahead and spend the extra few dollars and show your creative way of expressing Washington and Lee University in seven letters or less. All photos by Ethan H. Krupp .1; »1t;;!t")v‘J l«<';.' I OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_004.2.txt PAGE 4 The Cassatt String Quartet will perform during Sonoklect this year. This year Sonoklect is commemorating the 75th birthday of Leonard Berstein. It will also feature “Recitatives and Ariosos” by Henryk Gorecki. Several other guest performers will also play. One Acoustic Evening supports charities at Lenfest arday° From Staff Reports Local musicians will present a benefit concert called “One Acoustic Evening” on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 7:30 pm in Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts. Catholic Campus Ministry sponsors the event to raise money for the Rockbridge Area Relief Association and Total Action Against Poverty’s “Christmas in April” com- munity service project. Donations of $5, $3 for students, will be collected in the lobby and turned over to these W&LIF E By Hillary Olson Phi Assitant Features Editor The fourth annual Sonoklect festival of new music, a four-day event featuring prominent guest composers and artists, will be on campus January 26-29. The festival, organized by mu- sic professor Paul Brantley, Artistic Director of the program, includes the prominent Cassatt Quartet, considered one ofthe best string quar- tets in the world. This year’s performances commemorate the 75th birthday season of world-famous com- poser and conductor of Leonard Bernstein, composer of such works as “West Side Story,” who died in 1990. Brantley actually studied music with Bernstein, and he said that for him the com- memoration holds special mean- ing. Brantley has either direct or indirect relationships with all of this year’s artists and he said their “totality represents a spe- cial type of esprit” that is domi- nating contemporary music. Brantley said in the new music world “up is down and down is up” as different genres mix and experiment with each other. He said the result is a fun and eclectic, “more hip” style of music that he hopes to capture in this year’s Sonoklect. The festival will be different this year, said Brantley who replaces Dr. Margaret Bouwer as director, because it is geared more to the stu- dents than the community. The name “Sonoklect” was an invention of past director Brouwer, and combines the words “sonic” and “eclectic” to capture the spirit of the annual festival. The subtitle of this year’s tf Highlighting this year’s lineup is Vicki Pratt Keating from Charlottesville, winner of two Washington Area Mu- sic Awards for “Best Female Vocalist” and “Best Album” (Blue Apples). The guitarist/singer has been gaining recog- nition in the Washington Post and Austin Chronicle for her self-styled music and lyrics. She blends avant folk and pop original music in her England, Scotland and Ireland tour in April and May. Bill McCorkle, director of the Rockbridge Chorus and music minister for the Lexington Presbyterian Chorus, will perform on piano. positions on guitar. Brantley ’96 from Berwyn, PA will perform together original com- Associate Pastor of Lexington Presbyterian Church Lee Zehmer will sing original songs accompanied by his guitar. “Strumming Dick” Sessoms, who works in the Develop- ment Office, will sing songs he learned while traveling through Ireland and rural America. After a brief intermission, James and Carol Elizabeth Leva will sing Appalachian ballads with guitar and fiddle accompaniment. Leva served as music director of the Lime Kiln Theater, where the couple has performed. Both are Sonoklect plays Lenfest Theannual festival of musical boundaries returns concert, added by Brantley, is “Musical Mandalas.” A mandala, he said, is a Hindu word meaning “magic circle,” used in contem- porary language to signify the full and com- plete self. Brantley chose the title because he said it communicated the intensely personal and magical new expressive type of music that he hopes will permeate “Musical Mandalas.” The main attraction, the all-female Cassatt Quartet, which takes its name after the Ameri- can painter Mary Stevenson Cassatt, has rela- tionships with all three of this year’s guest composers, Tina Davidson, Eleanor Hovda and Andrew Waggoner. The first event, to be held on Wednesday, January 26 at 4 pm is an informal meeting at the Lenfest Center to greet the composers. The group will play a little musicas well, said Brantley. Brantley em- phasized the rare opportunity the community would have at this event to “ask the living and breath- ing composers what makes them tick.” Thursday, January 27 at 10 am is an open rehearsal with the guest composers and the Cassatt Quar- tet in DuPont Auditorium. Brantley said the rehearsal would give the public the chance to see the interaction between compos- ers and the performers of their music. He said, “Imagine having the chance to sit down with Bach or Beethoven and discuss their music with them.” He said the open rehearsal is a rare opportunity for both performer and composer. That night at 8 pm is the quartet’s concert featuring the music of Davidson, Hovda, Waggoner as well as Brantley in the Lenfest Center. On Friday, January 28 at 8 pm is another concert featuring the music of guest compos- Bill Schieken, law student from Richmond, will perforrri some original rock anthems, accompanied by fellow la ‘ students Eric “Tiny E” Reeves on piano, Mark Cath 0 guitar and Brad Rolston on cello. Leslie Tucker will sing with Jim Brown on guitar ant Lee Sauder on blues harp. The concert will conclude with the Greenhouse Defect a regional peppy band which performs swing, traditiona and “Dawg music.” Lew Prichard from Lewisburg wil perform on vocals and mandolin, Lee Sauder will pla\ harmonica, Dart Newhall will be on bass, and Burr DatQwil 9 The Ring-tum Phi, January 21,199 ers, this time performed by members cf th quartet with guest artists Deborah Chodacki o clarinet, Steven Heyman and Arlene Shrut o piano. Chodacki teaches at the Julian School 0 Music. Heyman is a highly acclaimed pianis who lives in Syrcause, NY. Shrut’s piano ac companiment was heard in Lenfest earlier thi year when she performed with Brantlfiy o cello at his recital in September. _ The final event will be Saturday, January 2 at 8 pm with a concert commemoratin Bernstein and featuring the “Recitatives an Ariosos” of Henryk Gorecki in the Lenfes Center for the Performing Arts. Right: Deborah Chodackion will play the clarinet with the Cassatt Quartet on Friday night at the Lenfest Center for the Perform- ing Arts. Left: Steve Heyman wi play the piano with the Cassatt Quartet on Friday ngh as part of Sonoklect at the Lenfest Center for the Perform- ing Arts . O organizations. Tom Mason, ’94, from Pittsburgh, PA, and Andy Rice, well—known in old-time music circles. accompany on guitar. Apartment for Rent 4 BR, 1 1/2 bath, washer & dryer, some utilities included. 2 1/2 miles west of town. Only $175 per bedroom. Kerr ’s Creek House For Rent Clean, 4 Bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, $800/mo. Available June 1st. 8 min from W&L ' l ’ C 463-5452 0 Call Tom 464-8628 mqulre fie‘ y S Omer ., if Varner & Pole Specializing in Unfurnished . Furniture &Shades ' 19 S. Randolph St. Lexin ton, VA 463-2742 ew Location! 1 994 Chi Omega pledge class RUISE-JOBS ,2: Students Needed! 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They aren’t trying to finish P.E. requirements —- they are going to work for Washington and Lee admissions. Julia Kozak, Associate Director of Adfiissions, calls the alumni, “a im- portant arm of the admissions office.” She says they usually have one or two graduating seniors as Admissions V Counselors. Currently Bill Avoli and Phil Spears, both ’93 graduates, work in admis- siorj Avoli applied for the job be- cause he had been a tour guide with the Student Recruitment Committee and had friends working in the office. ‘‘I was looking for something to do for a year or two before grad school,” he says. “I had a good experience here, and I like talking to the juniors and seniors in high school, letting them know about it and trying to get them interested in W&L.” Spears says he took the job because, “I love W&L and Lexington, I knew people in the office, that it would be a fun place to work, and exciting travel was involved.” He says his work in admissions is a stepping stone for later work in education. Admissions counselors spend the summer conducting interviews. In fall, they also travel on recruitment trips, visiting high schools and hosting eveningprogramswithregional alumni. Spears says the travel is his favorite part f the job. “I give it a thumbs up. The travel really was fantastic. There are a lot ofinteresting people out there, and they’re very generous and hospi- table.” In the winter, the admissions coun- selors read applicant’s files. “Reading a couple thousand applications is tough,” said Spears. “It’s really hard to "pick the top thirty percent.” “The best part about the job is that we’re involved in the process almost as much as anybody else,” said Avoli. “We’re thrown in pretty quickly with much responsibility.” “You kind ofwonder what your file and [recommendations] said, and how the school liked your application,” said Spears. Both he and Avoli said they have seen themselves in applicants. According to Kozak, the students they hire to usually stay about two years . Spears said, “There is a good chance I’ll be here another year unless an excellent job offer comes up.” But Rob Aliff, ’91, is in his third year working with admissions. He started working as an Admission Counselor, but is now Assistant Director of Ad- missions, in charge of the Honor Schol- arship and other special recruitment weekends. “I do enjoy working here very, very much,” he says. “I really enjoy meeting prospective students, introducing people to Washington and Lee. You can almost see it in their eyes when the realize what a special place it is. It would be difficult to be an admis- sions counselor at any other school I wouldn’t know so well.” Since he recently married, he may stay another year or so, or he may move on to graduate school. This year’s se- niors were freshman when he was a senior, and he notices that, “The longer I stay, the farther I get from student life — I’m almost more of a townie now.” But apparently these recent alumni succeed in their jobs. According to Kozak, “They are quite good. We get rave reviews from othercolleges about the effectiveness of our alumni.” I. .5 itBMlSSl’3.*iS artist The Gilliam House, home of the Admissions Office. about Washington and Lee and win FD tickets .“ ,“,’._‘ p ‘_ p ‘ at '5‘ 5'5 By Ethan H. Krupp Phi Features Editor Horse” Lee. The Dining Hall staff gave away a pair of Fancy Dress tickets for free this week. On Wednesday, January 19, Betsy Green, ’97, won a free pair of Fancy Dress tickets for being the student with the most correct answers in the Dining Hall Founders Day Trivia Contest. Green answered 17 of the 20 questions correctly. The questions, compiled by University His- torian and professor of history 1. Taylor Sand- ers, asked for obscure bits of information about Robert E. Lee and his family. Robert E. Lee married Mary Anna Randolph Custis. Lee’s was born in the Stratford House in Westmoreland County of Virginia. Lee’s father was nicknamed “White Horse” 1 he Lee House, built during Lee’s Presidency Harry Lee. Lee’s brother was of his life. Lucy Long was Lee’s second horse. His first was Traveller. The most famous biographer of Lee was Douglas Freemans who wrote a four volume history Confederate Army, but he never wore more than two stars, the rank of Major General. Stephen Vincent Benet was the first to call Lee’s son, George Washing- Mildred. West Point. size shoe. nicknamed “Black Lee died in 1870. Lee was second in his class at In modern shoe sizes, Lee would wear a 6.5 Two buildings were built durng Lee’s ten- ure. They were Lee Chapel, and the Lee House. Lee was the General of the Army for the ton Custis Lee, succeeded Lee as President of the Univesity. Lee attended church at Grace Episcopal Church opposite the University Center is today. The sculpter of the Recumbent Statue was Edward Valentine. Lee had four daughters. They were Mary, Agnes, Amy, and RE. Lee Lee “The Marble Man.” Professor Johnston was the pro- fessor hired by Lee to be first pro- fessor of history and English. 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OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_007.2.txt The Rinfitum Phi, January 21, 1994 .EC members stand by trial procedures 5 EC from page 1 the penalty for a guilty verdict in an Q open trial is stiffer than the penalty for a guilty verdict in a closed hearing. 0 Two members of the EC partici- pate in the investigation of a student and later sit as members of the jury. O The EC decides guilt by a two- thirds vote, while most other college . honor systems use a unanimous or 80 percent vote. 0 There is no specific intent re- quirement in defining an Honor Viola- tion. Others say a review of the Honor System should address more funda- . mental questions. Elizabeth McCord’s mother, Suzanne McCord, has been one of the most vocal critics of the Honor System in the year and a half since her daughter was dismissed. ‘‘I think an honor system is wonder- ful,” said Suzanne McCord. “But I feel 5 there are some double standards at W&L” While students who violate the Honor System on campus are dismissed from the university, dishonorable con- duct off campus is routinely winked at, she said. (See related story.) Worse, 0 students say, individual professors have an Honor Violation. “I think it needs to be made clear that there ’s an overriding presumption, and I think its stated pretty clearly in the White Book, that all work is con- sidered pledged” said EC President Robert Tompkins. “Frankly, I don’t buy Liz McCord’s argument at all. I think she said she did something that she hadn’t done.” Even professors admit to some fuzziness about the Honor System. Pro- fessor Russell Knudson, McCord’s French Professor, said the Honor Sys- tem is cut and dry, but the way it is administered hinges on human deci- sions. “It’s a sharp-edged code applied to human beings — we apply it to each and every one of our acts,” said Knudson. “But I have a feeling that the sharp edges are somewhat tempered by human beings. An individual may blur the sharp edge.” To Elizabeth McCord, there was no Honor Violation because she did not intend to mislead Knudson. She ac- knowledges she signed a pledge for work she had not completed, but she had an explanation. “It was an ungraded homework as- signment,” McCord said. “By signing the pledge I thought ‘I’m under the Honor System and l’ll go back and do ‘‘I didn’t doubt my integrity or hon- esty. It was W&L’s Honor System that was the problem -— not me.” Kowalyk saw the situation differ- ently. “To my recollection, the teacher asked her directly how she could have done [the exercises]. It seemed to him she wasn’t telling the truth,” Kowalyk said. “I am comforted by the fact that if I had been wrong or ifl am wrong there were points where other people could have stopped the process. I didn’t set out to convict her, I didn’t convict her, I didn’t convict her again.” “Like they said when we first got here— if you don’t cheat, you won’t be brought to trial.” ******* The 1988 Princeton Conference on Honor Systems provides a compara- tive analysis of honor systems at col- leges nationwide. Compared to honor systems at 38 other colleges, W&L’s Honor System is comparatively vague and provides little protection for the accused. Of the 38 colleges reviewed, only W&L and the military academies have honor systems that go beyond the class- room. Tompkins said although W&L’s Honor System extends into the social realm, academic Honor Violations and different standards for what constitutes it right after class. social Honor Violations are treated Students take honor p less seriosly off the Hill By MICHELLE BRIEN Phi News Editor . The White Book defines an Honor Violation as dis- honorable conduct. When it comes to honor trials, that usually means lying, cheating or stealing on campus. Although the Honor System remains sacred on the Hill, its critics wonder what happens when an Honor Violation occurs elsewhere. Take the case of Blake Comer. Comer, a W&L junior at the time, hit and killed freshman Mary Ashley Scarborough while driving drunk the night of March 16, 1989. Although several of his fraternity brothers knew Comer hit Scarborough, none of them reported the inci- dent to police or to the Executive Committee. Two years later, Marcus Miller, then a W&Ljunior, was charged with breaking into a W&L student’s apart- ment with intent to commit sexual assault. Miller, who eventually pleaded guilty to trespassing, was never re-. : ported to the‘ EC. ‘ Finally, after a woman complainedof -sexual harassment by Miller in 1992, the Student Con- duct Committee dismissed Miller from the university. Last winter, six Phi Delta Theta fraternity pledges chopped down a bamboo tree in a VMI professor’s back yard to use as a decoration for a party. The Phi Delt pledges were sentenced in Lexington City Court to community service work. But their actions went unpun- ished by the EC. No one ever reported their actions as Honor Violations. And the EC does not have the power to investigate unreported Honor Violations. “Things outside academic violations are a lot harder to pinpoint,” said 1992-93 Executive Committee Presi- dent Josh MacFarland. “We don’t go looking for things [to prosecute].” Then there’s the case of Elizabeth McCord. McCord acknowledged that she signed a pledge in a French course for work she didn’t do. But, she claims, she intended to do the work and never knowingly violated the Honor System. McCord, whose transgression occurred on the Hill, was expelled from the university. To Elizabeth’s mother, Suzanne McCord, this is a massive cleft in the Honor System. “The Honor System is very militaristic on the Hill and very permissive on the social scene,” Suzanne McCord said. “lfyou’re going to have this incredibly rigid Honor System, it has to be in all aspects of your college life.” Others say an Honor Violation is an Honor Violation, no matter where it occurs or how insignificant it seems. One of them is McCord’s accuser, Cindy Kowalyk, ’93 “Other people have said I acted incorrectly [when I turned Elizabeth McCord in],” Kowalyk said. “But I don’t feel that way. Sitting in class that day, it seemed a blatant offense. If enough people had felt as strongly that such a small offense shouldn’t be turned in, that it wasn’t in the spirit of the Honor System, Elizabeth wouldn’t have been convicted.” MacFarland agreed. “Everyone knows, or ought to know, the Honor Sys- tem encompasses all aspects of life at W&L,” he said. But MacFarland acknowledged that the EC usually doesn’t handle cases of socially dishonorable conduct. EC President Robert Tompkins agreed. “I guess in the academic setting, you tend to have rules that are more clear-cut, such as you are not allowed to copy another person’s exam,” Tompkins said. “There’s more sort of wiggle room for people in the social setting a lot of the time to say ‘Well, I didn’t understand what was going on...’ And that happens in academic things too, but you see it more in the social setting” “Also, people come up with what they think are things which might excuse their culpability, like being drunk or being under some social pressure to do something,” he said. MacFarland said conduct problems shouldn’t be un- der the Honor System. “You don’t want an absolutely perfect student body running around,” he said. “It’s college, and sometimes people screw up and get out of hand. I think [the EC] is hearing the right types of cases. 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Cancun. quite differently. “[Social Honor Violations] are tougher to pinpoint because I think people tend to be a little more cavalier with the system offthe Hill in the social context and in the fraternity context and that’s troubling,” he said. “It’s hard to tell how widespread that is because I think there’s sort of a general acceptance among a large portion of the student body that it’s okay to do certain things in a social setting that might otherwise present a problem with the [Honor System].” W&L’s Honor System defines an Honor Violation as anything the cur- rent student body deems dishonorable. Lying, cheating, and stealing are ex- amples of dishonorable conduct. The other schools limit their definition to academic dishonesty, such as cheating or plagiarism. “The system puts the principle above all else,” said Tompkins, “and that prin- ciple is to behave [like gentlemen]. I don’t think you’ll ever have a clear definition of what honor is or what it involves. It’s always going to be open to some interpretation. 1 think that lying, cheating and stealing are as ex- plicit as we need to be.” W&L also appears to be in the mi- nority as a single-sanction system. Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, The College of William and Mary, Gettysburg, Smith, Princeton University, The Air Force Academy, Duke and Haverford all have multi-sanction systems, with punishments ranging from letters of reprimand to failure in the course to dismissal from school. At W&L, a guilty verdict in a closed hearing results in the student’s forced withdrawal from the university, while a guilty verdict in an open trial results in dismissal. Tompkins said this is not much dif- ferent from our court system in the United States. “I think even in the criminal justice system, there’s an incentive given to defendants to plead guilty and if they don’t and in fact exercise their rights to trial, they get a stiffer sentence and I think that’s fairly commonplace,” he said. “I also think that the appellate process that we use is a completely new hearing-——you start from scratch with a new jury and you present the entire case. When you have an appeal in the criminal system, you don’t get that. You appeal a point of law or a particular aspect of the trial, but you don’t get to start from scratch.” The University_ of Virginia., the Virginia .Military.Institute, Princeton, Haverford, Gettysburg and W&M all require that 80 percent or more of the jury find the accused person guilty. Rice demandsaunanimous decision of guilt. W&L only requires that 67 per- cent of the jury find the defendant guilty. W&L has relatively few safeguards to ensure a fair trial. Rice University has an impartial student observer sit in on the trial to ensure fairness. At Haverford, the accused is allowed to remove three members of the jury. At UVa., Vanderbilt, Sewanee, Princeton, Smith,The AirForceAcademy,W&M, and VMI, the investigators of the charges cannot serve on the jury. But at W&L, two EC members take part in the investigation of the accused and later sit on the accused’s jury. ‘‘I think there is a tendency to take ‘investigator’ as synonymous with ‘prosecutor’,” said Tompkins. “A lot of times I think people confuse the roles of people in the EC process with Winter Merchandise on Sale appogomzoi Lexington Shop for Pappagallo Ladies’ Shoes, Clothing, and Accessories Hours: 10 — 5:30 Mon. — Sat. 23 N. Main St. roles of people in the judicial system. When we send out an investigative team, we ask them to look at all aspects of the case and they can do everything short of talking to the accused. So they’re not there to prove a crime. They’re there to gather as many facts as they can.” “And the purpose of a closed hear- ing as stated in the White Book... is to ascertain more facts if we feel that the only way to really understand the case is to talk to the accused person and tell them what we understand the facts to be and see what their response is,” he said. Also at U.Va, Vanderbilt, Sewanee, Princeton, Smith, The Air Force Acad- emy, W&M and VMI, the accused knows that an investigation is proceed- ing against him. At W&L, the student does not know an investigation has taken place until he is brought to closed trial. The inves- tigators do not hear the accused’s side of the story until the trial. Honor trial procedures at most other schools provide a support group for the accused, or at least allow them to seek advice and comfort. For example, at W&M the student is allowed to have the support of parents, teachers, and spiritual advisors. At UVa., the student is appointed both legal and emotional counsel. At Gettysburg, the accused I 7171 fllt ‘Union- Run and Restaurant Chef Stewart prepares daily culinary delights and accuser are allowed to seek the counsel of any student, faculty or staff member. But at W&L, the student must keep the case secret, speaking only to the EC and to appointed legal counsel. W&L even prohibits telling parents about honor trials. Elizabeth McCord maintains she never intended to commit an Honor Violation. Yet she was dismissed from the university. The Air Force Acad- emy, Rice, UVa., and VMI all require that the accused student must intend to commit an Honor Violation before he can be found guilty. , “I think that intent is an important part of the three things that are enumer- ated in the White Book—lying, cheat- ing and stealing,” said Tompkins. “I think there is an intent requirement tied up in the definition of all those terms and perhaps we should be more ex- plicit about that.” “But intent in and of itself is some- thing that you have to sort of under- stand from the circumstances because it’s hard to actually prove intent. And the way I’ve seen the system operate and the way honor has been interpreted by the committee, there’s always been a regard for the intent of the person. If 0 See EC page 10 Featuring Weekly Special Entrees: Beef Rouladen, Paella, and Homemade Tortellini. Six Room.lnn, includes two Jacuzzi suites, Full service Fine Dining Room filled with antiques. Full Bar Service Available. 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L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_008.2.txt PAGE 8 @112 ilting-tum {flirt The Student Voice of Washington and Lee Founded September 18, 1897 It’s your system “A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” —Edmund Burke Washington and Lee University is proud of its Honor System. If you ask W&L students what brought them to this small liberal arts school in southern Virginia, many ofthem will tell youthe Honor System played a role in their decision. These students live under the system every day. It governs their lives. But what governs the system? The White Book states that the Executive Committee enforces the notion of honorable conduct of W&L students. Since “honorable conduct” is a vague term, the White Book maintains “the system applies to any conduct considered dishonorable by the student generation involved.” “But wait,” you are probably saying to yourself. “When do I get my chance to let people know what I think is dishonorable?” The answer is: NOW. Ames Hutton, chairman of the White Book Review Committee, said at last week’s EC meeting he is desperately seeking student input for the WBRC’s suggestions for White Book revisions. Give him what he wants, because the WBRC’s March I deadline is drawing close. You may have to wait quite a while for another chance. Last spring term, Phi Executive Editor Francesca Kefalas and Phi News Editors Michelle Brien and Tom Hespos decided to do their own examina- tion of Honor System issues for their Public Affairs Reporting class. The article was undertaken because they felt the Honor System deserved the attention. The article uses the only open honor hearing that has occurred in the last four years as an example. The story was not written to retry the Elizabeth McCord case, or to judge McCord. The article was written to show how the Honor System works with real people. The article was written to provide students with information they never had before, because people were not willing to talk about the honor system in an open way. The article will bring up some issues that may get you thinking about what K A changes you would like to see in the Honor System. Or you may decide it doesn’t need to be changed. In any case, read the story. Let Ames (or any of the other WBRC members, for that matter) know what you want. After all, the Honor System will govern your life for the rest of your career at Washington and Lee. And if it has taught us anything, it will stay with us for the rest of our lives. you better wear a jhat an earmuffs, too VI The weather folks say it will be warming up this weekend. The high is expected to be in the 40s. Now, some of us might be tempted to break out the shorts and T-shirts. After all, 40 will feel a whole lot warmer than -20. We can’t help but believe the snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures will be back soon. Rumor has it the Farmers/tlmanac predicted this winter to be one of the coldest winters ever. We haven’t read the Farmers/llmanac , but so far it’s right on target. So, since a few of us are damn yankees and have grown up with the stuff, we decided we might impart some information about how to deal with the cold and especially the ice. First, we heard plenty of stories of people taking spills and how embar- rassed they were. Don’t be embarrassed.‘ The conditions onthis campus are treacherous and were f0_1‘, ‘W9 days b.efOl?€ thélfililléffiily ’closied.‘Buil'ding’S. and Grounds has not exactly been efficient in clearing paths. In fact, we’ve seen state road crews with higher efficiency. The university doesn’t want to ruin the bricks by throwing salt on them, which is understandable. But for those little gray stones to work at all, there should be more than a sprinkling of them. So don’t feel bad if you fell — a lot of people did. Since B&G hasn’t managed to get rid of the ice or to cover it up properly, students do have to walk on the ice. If something looks like water, don’t step on it. Chances are it is still ice and the slipperiest kind at that. Your best bet is to walk on the ice that is clumpy and partially broken. It will give you more traction. It will take you longer to get from place to place, but it’s worth it, considering the end result could be worse than a bruised ego if you do fall. The cold alone makes it dangerous outside. We’re sure you can all hear your mother’s voice saying ‘now, bundle up.’ But mom was right. Frostnip and frostbite are not pleasant. The best way to avoid them is to layer your clothing. It really does work. Also, keep your ears, hands, nose and especially your head covered. You may have noticed that it hurts to breathe when it gets cold. The best way to stop that is to cover your nose and mouth with a scarf when it’s cold. The scarfwill warm the aira little before it gets to your lungs, and it won’t hurt to breathe. Please be careful out there. Mother Nature can be really mean. lQuote of the week: “It’s a #@*! winter wonderland out there.” - a W&L student commenting on the tropical weather -.—u—-— (I112 ‘tiling-111111 Ifllti Executive Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Francesca Kefalas Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy Pavlovic News Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Brien, Thomas Hespos Editorial Page Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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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. Letters, Columns, and My Views do not reflect the opinions of The Ring-tum Phi Editorial Board. Advertising does not reflect the opinion of The Ring-rum 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 Telephone (703) 462-4060 Fax (703) 462-4059 OPINION The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1994 ‘ A WINK W 115 Dow 00 Atrl‘ T ME gt! )»/,t1,tN’ 35:40:67 New see»! NOTHIH‘ yer! AIDS activists misplace emphasis’ Just before leaving for Christmas break, W&L witnessed something now inevitable on college cam- puses. The candles of the AIDS vigil were burning brightly as I approached the library; and I asked a question that perhaps es- caped the planners and sup- porters of this event, no matter how well intentioned they are. What A C.F. KUCERA, ’97 good will this do? People are dying from AIDS-related illnesses ev- eryday, the activists are eager to tell you “we must do something;” who can argue against doing something? However, the something being done is to make the AIDS activist pleased with themselves; that some- thing doesn’t help a single AIDS victim. The candles are a nice gesture, and the red ribbons sure do stand - 35 out nicely on an outfit. Again, what do these efforts ~ ‘do? The answer: -nothing. If one is not wearing one of these neatly folded red ribbons, they are immediately labeled by some as ‘uncaring’ and ‘uncompassionate.’ These ribbons seem to scream out “Look at me, I care.” For ex- ample, one needs only to look at the entertainment industry; at any given Emmy Awards, or other such self-congratulatory programs, it is nearly impossible to see a celeb without one of these ribbons. They’re usually not even ribbons. They’rejewelry glittering in the footlights for all to see. How much do these pieces of feel-good jewelry cost, one wonders? Could that money not be spent to do some good for AIDS victims? these people light candles and wear rib- bons, have they forgot- ten about. cancer and heart disease? I ’m sure they haven’t, but the absence of a cancer rib- bon or heart disease rib- bon on their clothing surewouldn’tconvince me. The supporters of the vigil may think my comments unfair. As I heard one supporter, In fact, it is the AIDS victim that are being forgot- ten in this race to see who cares more. How much money was spent on planning and executing this candlelight vigil that could have gone to AIDS, cancer, and other re- search? Not a huge sum, but howeversmall, it certainly would have done more good than a group of people who now feel good about themselves, lighting candles and wearing ribbons. What is it exactly these people want? Currently we spend more on AIDS research than we do on a host of diseases and viruses which are responsible for yearly death rates for surpassing that of AIDS-related deaths. While The candles area nice gesture, and the red ribbons sure do stand out nicely on an outfit. Again, what do these efforts do? The wearing a red ribbon, say, “but AIDS doesn’t dis- criminate, anyone can get it.” Well, that’s true, any- one can get it. Some are less likely, however. One answer: nothing. shouldn’t panic if you’re not an intravenous drug user, or engaged in risky sexual habits. Take pre- cautions, but don’t panic. AIDS is not the bubonic plague. You’re not going to contract it sitting in. your armchair watching a Sunday afternoon foot- ball game. And, besides that point, did this person suggest that cancer and heart disease do discrimi- nate? I’m sure far more of us know someone who has been the victim of cancer, or heart disease than know someone dying from AIDS. I feel it necessary to cushion my blows, how-. ever. I do not mean to say AIDS is not a terrible disease, nor is it not responsible for the life of many who did little harm to others. All I ask is that people start being realistic about just how much of an epidemic this disease is. Certainly those at the forefront of AIDS activism want people to think of AIDS as the next Black Death. If people believe their calls of hysteria, it means more power and money. These people are not those running the candlelight vigil in front of the Leyburn Library, but they’re just as guilty of feeling good about themselves for wearing red ribbons and lighting candles but in many cases doing little else. If people continue to say “Look at me, I care because I’m wearing a rec’ ribbon; where’s your’s?” I may have to drag out my deficit reduction ribbon; it means I care. Peck report skirts the issues When I begin thinking about what I am going to write my column on, I tend to look for issues on campus first. If I am unable to find something inter- esting, I move on to national issues. For the past few months, I have been skipping an otherwise important issue department’s decision. However, rather than admitting to the possibility of a faulty decision and reevaluating, the department “dug in its heels” and placed the administration in an awkward posi- tion. Their only choice was to support an obviously flawed and potentially il- that has been legal deci- present on cam- sion, or to pus.Ihavecho— puglicly sen to ignore it em arrass in hopes that the PATRICK some of the administration most re- ofthisuniversity MCDERMOPF, s p e ct e d would correct , members what seems to ' of the fac- me to be a rather ulty by re- simple mistake. v c r s i n g As usual, I have their action been disappointed by our leadership, and now feel I must address the dis- missal of Professor Demaree Peck. I would like to preface this column by saying I do not know Professor Peck personally and I have not had a class with her. What I know of her work I have learned through various reports of her teaching style and through the reports in this newspaper. This was another reason for my hesi- tation in writing this column. How- ever, I feel Professor Peck’s position on campus has moved beyond the point ofbeing an issue solely for those who have a personal connection with her. Peck’s situation is forcing us to question the way in which our faculty governs itself as well as the qualities we as Washington and Lee students respect in our professors. As a spectator in this situation, it has occurred to me the English depart- ment, while being an impressive col- lection of scholars, is not a perfect body. They make mistakes just like the rest of us, and they have clearly made one in their decision not to re- new Professor Peck’s contract. That decision, when initially reported, was based on vague characterizations about Professor Peck’s scholarship and classroom effectiveness. Since that time, evidence has been presented by Professor Peck and by a large number of her students that seems to contra- dict the reasons for the English and reinstating Professor Peck. True to form, the administration fol- lowed “the boys” and has systemati- cally opposed all attempts at investiga- tion. The recent report filed by the President’s Advisory Committee would never have been written had Professor Peck not forced an appeal through the regulations of one of the University’s accrediting institutions. Ironically, now that the report has finally been written it does not do what it should have done. Rather than reporting their colleagues’ flawed decision and advising the presi- dent to overturn it, the report fails to address the real issue, and instead at- tempts in some way to make everybody happy. This is neither possible nor de- sired. What was desired was for the faculty to stand up against an injustice, to demand adetailed explanation. I guess that was too much to ask! I must admit I am personally grow- ing quite tired of writing letters and columns in support of the rights of fe- male professors to have a place on this campus. Last year I wrote a similar letter informing the university of the appalling treatment received by Profes- sor Valerie Hedquist, who left at the end 'of the year after being repeatedly ver- bally battered for her alternative view- points. Certain members of this com- munity become terribly upset when oth- ers express such views, especially — it seems — when the source is a woman. Why is that? Why is it that the men on this campus can basically say whatever they feel like, both in and outside the classroom. But when one of our few women professors says something or acts in away not in line with the general conservative views of the campus she is all but carried off‘? We have male professors on this campus who make clearly bigoted com- ments to their classes. We have others who openly discourage women from taking their classes and then blatantly lower the grades of those who dare to go against their wishes. We even have male professors who skirt the edges of sexual harassment with both their male and female students. All of this is com- mon knowledge to students, faculty, and administrators, and yet nothing is done to these fixtures of our campus. The minute a woman presents views that are considered alternative, how- everbenign they may be, she is marked. If she doesn’t have tenure when this takes place, chances are she never will. This is, I suspect, precisely what hap- pened within the inner-sanctum of the English department. “The boys” felt both in and out of the department, are clearly not pleased with these actions, but the faculty members seem to be very determined in their effort to clean up the department. How ironic this is —— It seems to me rather than strength- ening both the image and effectiveness‘ of the department, they are weakening it, more and more every day. They are confirming the suspicions of many their only desire is for a faculty made up of white, conservative, men. Finally, all ofthis stops at the desk of the president of the university, whd does not seem to have a very strong retention rate, given the fact that he has reportedly been trying to improve the diversity of our faculty. Normally, the excuse we hear for the low number of women and minorities is that they are hard to attract to a conservative cam‘ pus like ours. When they leave we hear that they didn’t feel they could get along with the students and their atti- tudes. Here we have a professor who is not only willingto stay,butwho clearly has the support of students. The decision that is left for Presi- threatened and dent Wilson invented rea- willnodoubt sonsforProfes- .....:__. _j...._ be difficult sor Peck’s dis- for him. He missal. As I We have male pr0fes- has to take a said,atra ic, if - side. He has not totallgi ac- Sors on tfus campus who to escape the cidental, hu- openly discourage quagmire o man mistake. The prob- lem is this par- women from taking their classes and then bla- n e u t ral i t y that seems to plague every ticular woman tantly lower the grades of action he did not go qui- those who dare to 0 takes and etly. She de- g once and for cided to fight and almost cer- against their wishes. allusehispo-. sition to do tainly caused those respon- A sible for the decision to become even more disturbed. Next, their own stu- dents began to turn against them. It seems the English department has built itself quite a reputation over the past year or two for not being very accept- ing of new professors who rival their own popularity. Last year they “fired” John Lynch and now they are desperate to remove Professor Peck. Students, what is right. lfhe doesn’t, he will have not only a guilty con- science, but more seriously, a possible sex equity investigation by the Justice Department and a lawsuit that has the! potential of taking a significant chunk out of the Capital Campaign. Either way, the president is faced with an unpleasant situation,only one ofwhich will allow him the confidence of hav- ing “done the right thing.” OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_009.2.txt The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1994 OPINION PAGE 9 Fraternities need to come together . Spos’ SPACE Tom Hespos “The search goes on. The more I look, my world keeps getting smaller.” — Van Halen, Mine All Mine. D These wise words echoed in my mind last weekend when I took a look at the general attitude of some of our fraternity men. Being of the mindset that the fraternity system should oper- ate as one cohesive unit until everyone on campus is drunk and/or having a 0 good time, Spos realized how far we were from this idealistic view. There have always been fraternity rivalries on this campus. Alumni come back to school on alumni and Home- coming Weekends and tell all of the old stories. You know, that one guy in Sigma ‘ Nu who shot flaming arrows at Phi Delt, the Phi Kappa Psi brothers of some years ago that used a giant sling- shot to shoot pool balls at rival frater- nities. The list goes on. Of course, alumni tend to exagger- ate quite a bit, as demonstrated by the ‘following statement, which was prob- ably never said by any alumnus, but is indicative ofthe kind of stuff you usu- ally hear: “Back when I was in school, we didn’t have any beer in fancy alumi- num cans. We just ran around with wooden kegs strapped to our backs and when we’d fall over, we couldn’t get back up again. And sometimes we’d drink Sterno until we couldn’t see any- more. And then we’d go light the (insert rival fraternity here) house on fire... (groans from surrounding undergrads)” This is not the mindset we should accept. Spos w i t n e s s e d several acts of random fra- ternity vio- lence this past weekend and later heard of two more in- cidents that prompted in- volvement on the part ofthe LexingtonPo- lice. Stuff like this leads to intense rivalry and the “I’m-not-going-to-let- you-into—our-party-next-weekend-if- you—don’t-let-me—into-your-party” frame of mind. Rather, we should all follow the example of Mr. Doug Kaufman. Last Saturday night, Mr. Kaufman waltzed right in the front door of my fraternity house with several of his friends and at best. It seems the general at- titude of fraternity males towards people in other houses has been militant, said, “Hey — I heard that there was a party here. What’s going on?” This is what Spos likes to see. Equally cool was the attitude of Mr. Joel Honts, who pulled me aside as my brothers and I were leaving the Sigma Nu house as their Saturday night party came to a close.‘ “It was nice to see you guys again,” he said. “Come back anytime.” This sharply contrasts with the atti- tude Spos usu- ally sees at par- ties around campus. An example fol- lows: Partygoer: Um, can I come in? D o 0 r - worker: How many brothers do you know? Partygoer: Uh, five or six. l’m friends with Joe Frat. Door-worker: Oh, really? Where does he live? What’s his shoe size? What’s the PIN number on his money card? Where does he shop for power tools? Partygoer: Um, nevermind. Door-worker: Thanks for playing. See where this leads? Equally an- noyingisthe followingsituation,which actually occurred last weekend. Door-worker: (to crowd of frater- nity guys) Uh, sorry guys. We’re not letting anyone else in. The party’s get- ting too crowded. (Lets an entire busload of road-school girls into the party approximately halfway through his statement). This school is too small for that kind of crap.Thisis not to suggest that every party should be open, but it seems the general attitude of fraternity males to- wards people in other houses has been militant, at best. What we really need is one huge party. Everyone is invited: the Alphas, the Betas, the Deltas, the Chi-O’s, the independents, the road-school girls, the Swedish Bikini Team, the Flat Earth Society and anyone else we can think of (even Richard Weaver). No fight- ing, no sneering, no bird-flipping, no malicious goring with pointy instru- ments and no spitting (with exceptions for chewing tobacco, which is encour- aged). The Princeton Review consistently ranks W&L’s Greek system among the top in the nation each year. Perhaps if we cooperate a little and keep the rivalries on the intramural sports fields, we can secure that number-one spot for next year. Hope to see you next weekend. ‘Preserve the speaking tradition MY VIEW - Kimberly A. Peterson students of W&L. When I went through the Honor System Orienta- tion, I distinctly recall one of the speakers mentioning the speaking tradition which existed on campus. He explained that this tradition creates a friendly atmo- Osphere that students at Washington and Lee want to maintain. This tradition sets Washington and Lee students apart from many other small colleges and universi- ties. Although all students do not know each other on a first-name basis, they wish to acknowledge the friendliness and respect which each student holds for another because of the mutual bonds shared by the General Lee took the time to learn the name of each student of Washington College. In everyday passing, Lee would greet every young man by his first name. He even knew where the student was from and how he was progressing in school. General Lee’s effort should convey a message to every student here — this campus will suffer greatly look away or stare blindly at your feet. Raise your head and greet that person with afriendly “hello” or “good afternoon.” Why do students appear embarrassed when pass- ing another student? I personally do not understand nation. this reaction. Why should one be embarrassed to say hello to a colleague? There is no logical expla- I encourage each student to strive to rejuvenate the speaking tradition at W&L and to pass it down if students abandon the speaking tradition at Wash- ington and Lee. Next time you pass someone on campus, don’t to the next generations. I believe General Lee would agree with me. Kimberly Peterson is a junior at Mary Baldwin LETTERS who is studyin g for the year at Washington and Lee. Support A counseling/support group for women students with eating and/or compulsive exercise problems will meet on Tuesday afternoons begin- ning January 25. Call the Counsel- ing Service at extension 8590 or the Health Center at ext. 8401 to sign up and receive additional information. Calyx Students who did not receive their Calyx in the matriculation line may pick up their copy in Carol Calkins office in Unversity Center from 9 a.m. to noon and I to 4 p.m. Short? If you are interested in joining a short person’s organization, please call Doug Kaufman for more infor- mation at 463-9364. Notes Put your organization’s news in front of 2,000+ readers —— put a general note in the folder outside the Phi office, room 208 ofthe Uni- versity Center. General Notes are due on Tuesdays at noon. Lacrosse Anyone interested in being a manager,statistician,orcomeraman for the men’s lacrosse team this season, please call head coach Jim Stagnitta at 463-8678. Tickets Anyone holding tickets for the cancelled brass concert this past weekend may return them or mail them to the Lenfest Center by Feb- ruary 4 for a full refund. IFC plans to follow up on FIJI judgment To the editor: Last Tuesday, the Interfraternity Council found Phi Gamma Delta guilty of hazing. Hazing is detrimental to the fraternity system and the university and will not be tolerated. _ The IFC understands that Phi Gamma Delta plans to appeal the pun- ishment set forth by the Student Affairs Committee. We intend to take an ac- tive role in the appellate process and hope to represent the best interests of the fraternity system and Washington and Lee. Considering the gravity of the haz- ing violation, as well as the complexity of the judicial process, the IFC antici- pates questions regarding both its deci- sions as well as the findings of the SAC. The IFC will be prepared to answer these questions as soon as ap- propriate. The Interfratemity Council Gaines Committee recommends lsororityadditions to the residence hall To the editor: This fall, a student committee has been discussing ways to create in Gaines Hall a vibrant residential com- munity for Washington and Lee stu- dents with a special emphasis on the needs and interests of women students. One important element of the review has been the status of sororities. Now in its sixth year, the sorority system at Washington and Lee has grown to include four national sorori- ties involving over 65 percent of all women at Washington and Lee. Eighty- five percent of the women in the Class of 1997 signed up for sorority Rush in January. Plans are being formulated for the addition of more sororities in the future to accommodate the large number of women who want a Greek experience. Within this context, the Gaines Committee has recommended the cre- ation of sorority meeting/office/lounge space in Gaines Hall. These lounges would be designed for each sorority (an additional lounge would be provided for Women’s Forum) and would pro- vide a location where each sorority could conduct meetings and Rush activities, host parents and guests, store materials, and have office accommodations. If approved for 1994, these lounges would replace the present arrangement where sororities use public spaces (Fairfax Lounge, TroubadourTheater, Commerce School) and would provide space for exclusive use for each soror- 1ty. We see this as a reasonable and effective step at this step at this stage in the evolution of sororities at Washing- ton and Lee. In the long run, the Panhellenic Council is considering University lodges for each sorority which would include meeting space, kitchen facili- ties and a guest suite. lnthe spring, the Panhellenic Coun- cil plans to survey all members of the sorority system to gain more specific information concerning housing and related sorority issues. We do not believe that the creation of the sorority lounges in Gaines Hall at this time would compromise the future residential needs of sorority women at Washington Hall. Sincerely, Laura E. Clark President of Panhellenic Council David L. Howison Dean of Students SDC asks for student volunteers for Winter Phonathon ‘To the editor: Beginning the night of January 26, the Stu- dent Development Committee will be conduct- ing the Annual Fund’s Winter Phonathon in the Military Science Building. The Phonathon will continue through the night of January 27 and the nights of January 30 through February 3. O SDC members and volunteers will be calling alumni and asking for donations. All students who participate in the Winter Phonathon will receive free food, a free T-shirt (For A Good Time Call 1-900-PHONATHON) and a free long distance phone call for their much-appreciated efforts. During the two weeks leading up to the Winter Phonathon, flyers will be posted listing phone numbers to call for information on how to volunteer, and a meeting will be held this week before the Phonathon to show volunteers how the Phonathon operates and to provide some useful tips on how to start a conversation, how to re- spond to the top ten reasons for not giving and how to handle different situations that might arise. The meeting for volunteers and the Winter Phonathon will take place in the Military Science Building which has conference rooms and work stations equipped with telephones. Last term, over 425 students participated in the Fall Phonathon, raising over $20,552 in pledges. The money raised went to the Annual Fund which helps to cover university expenses. I This money in turn keeps tuition costs down and serves as a “hidden scholarship” for all Washing- ton and Lee students. Without the work of the students who volunteer for the Phonathons and the hard work done by the members of the SDC, tuition costs would be comparable to those of more expensive universities. Consequently when one volunteers to help the Phonathon, one is in turn actually helping keep one’s own tuition costs down. For more information, interested stu- dents can call their class representatives at the following numbers: Freshmen — John Bator, 462-4565, Sophomores - Kristin Lawrence, 464-8794, Juniors — Lise Brown, 462-4478, and Seniors —— Joanna Love, 463-7476. Paul D. Saboe SDC Public Relations Director TALKBACK Interviews and Photos By Joe Framptom ever caught a Washin F’ As a security guard, What’s the funniest thing you’ve gto and Lee student doing.” 4 4 l A] Tkacik, Seven-month veteran — “I got a Call that there was a six-foot elf with pointy shoes, a pointy hat, and tights passed out in the Corral. Sure enough, there was a six-foot elf who was a fraternity pledge and soon two other elves came over to assist him in getting back into the fraternity.” Larry Stuart, Nine-year veteran — “These students were on the footbridge and they were urinating off of it.” Thomas “Bauer” Bane, 21-year veteran ti “Seven years ago l caught a football player} climbing around on the ledge above the secu-fl rity office trying to look in the window at this';i boy and girl in the dorm.” i' Fred Coffee, 18-year veteran ~— “A female taking a shower in the sauna.” Steve Tomlinson, 11-year veteran —— “Guys making out with their girlfriends in the fresh- man lot and soaping cars at Halloween.” OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_010.2.txt ll-T- HI I. ‘. I I I I I I .1 '1 I t PAGE 10 Wather, po themselves stuck somewhere else. it FIGHTS, from page 1 , According to police reports, a see- I ond fight occurred on Saturday night—— i‘: this one outside the Chi Psi fraternity i‘ house. Lexington police made two ar- rests. Junior Nicholas T. Kyriakidis and Sophomore Michael S. Carterwere arrested for public intoxication. Carter was also charged with resisting arrest. In an official statement, Chi Psi Secretary Phil McKoy said the inci- dent involved a verbal argument be- <1 tween two pledges inside the house. “It was not a fight,” he said. McKoy said several Chi Psis took Carter outside in order to send him home. “He took a chair off the porch and [I threw it on the lawn,” McKoy said. “The cops were driving by and they saw Mike trying to go back into the house from the bottom of the steps.” McKoy said a policeman ap- Students who were lucky enough to get their cars moving sometimes found Three students arrested proached the house without identify- ing himself and took Carter by the shoulder. “He (the policeman) put Mike on the floor inside the house and pepper- gassed him,” McKoy said. “It was only after he pepper—gassed [Carter] that he identified himself.” W&L Security and more police cars arrived, McKoy said, and Kyriakidis was arrested shortly afterward. McKoy said Kyriakidis was calm and not dis- orderly. He was arrested for being drunk in public. “He asked for a breathalizer or a drug test but they wouldn’t give him one,” McKoy said. Kyriakidis refused to comment. The police report contained no record of the alleged pepper-gassing or the police’s alleged refusal to give Kyriakidis a test for blood-alchohol level. FIJI plans appeal 6 FIJI, from page 1 Photo by Ethan Krupp. The Ring-mm Phi D ICE from page 1 ing to one student. “The whole place is closed.” conserve power. with more than the power. with water pipes around campus. to asses the damage.” Thursday, flooding rooms with water. water everywhere.” “There’s nobody here,” said the student. Administrative and academic computer sys- tems were shut down in an additional effort to But the cold weather has caused problems Shaw said there have been some problems “There were frozen water lines in the dining hall and some problems with the heatlines in Woods Creek, but they have been corrected” Shaw said. “For noe there are no ajor problems, but we have to wait until the weather inproves A pipe at the Pi Kappa Alpha house burst “We first noticed when a light fixture burst that was full of water,” said one brother. “There’s the pantry, water in the ducts, water in my apartment.” Buildings and Grounds said it is not sure exactly what the problem is, but has people working on it. “They told us they’ll work through the night and everything should be normal by tomor- row,” said Simmons. Superintendent of buildings and grounds JamesAr1hursaidB&Ghasbeentryingminmize any problems the cold weather and power short- ages might cause. “There is a crew of 50 people who are working very hard to remedy the situation,” Arthur said. Some students had problems negotiating campus on Monday and Tuesday. Senior Maurice Cole said he fell Tuesday afternoon in the Graham-Lees archway. “There was no gravel where I slipped.” Cole said. “I ended up bruising my ego and twisting . my wrist. I could sit, there was so much pain in my lower back. I had to take a pillow to work.” O The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1994 wer wreak havoc on campus life . does not use salt or sand on the ice. He said he called B&G last year to complain about thre ice and was told B&G did have salt but does not use it becasue it would damage the bricks. ‘‘It was frustrating to think the preservation of bricks was more important than that of hi’- man bones,” Cole said. “I thought about start- ing a petition this year, but I think Godheard my prayers and decided to cancel classes. However I don’t see why more isn’t being done to clean up the ice in these two days.” Sophmore Phaedrea Cianciulli said she was upset with the way the university dealt with th ice as well. “I fell down the stairs by the gym on Tues- day afternoon.” Cianciulli said. “They should have had gravel there by that time. Buildings and Grounds needs a more effective way of dealing with the ice then Ieeting itjust melat and refreeze.” 6 But not everyone thought the university needed to cancel classes. “I don’t think that classes should have been “Right now we just have heat, but no elec- tricity,” said House Mother Pauline Simmons. “There are five W&L people working on the pipe. There’s water in the party room, water in “I’m very glad that they canceled classes,” Colesaid. ”I thought that no one cared that people were falling.” Cole said he can not understand why B&G Wilson will review the appeal, which must be presented to him in writing by Jan. 27, 10 days after SAC’s original decision. He will then decide whether the “The president has wide jurisdiction appeal Wolfe said he hopes the presentation would be eliminated. who has done a study about what should contribute positively.” appeal should fare well with Wilson. ~o~¢~. appeal is valid. lfso, he will express his opinion and return the appeal to SAC. in how he chooses to respond,” said Howison. “Then SAC takes up the position he presents to us. ” “There is a precedent with [Delta Tau Delta],” Howison said. “They appealed and SAC modified its original position.” Delt was originally sentenced to five years suspension for destruction of its fraternity house, but the sentence was reduced to 18 months suspension after an FIJI made to SAC during the original hearing will act in their favor. Wolfe said that FIJI House Corporation President Ed Bishop worked with the house to revamp their pledge program so that hazing “Bishop’s plan is to get the nationals involved and have the alumns control the chapter,” said Wolfe. “We would come up with a pledge program with no hazing that would be a model for other fraternities.” Bishop said the plan would involve an examination ofthe problem. “I commissioned them to study the problem,” said Bishop. “There is no one be required for initiation into a Greek . letter society. Rationally, pledge training is really needed, but hazing doesn’t 3.» Wolfe said FIJI will file the appeal next week, and he said he believes their “There’s a pretty wide base ofsupport for us from our alumni and from alumni 1." of other houses,” Wolfe said. r it ,.I . I I. , I 4» :1 cu t‘l .,~_ .h. . ... ‘ill .r I I. Q’ Slippery When Icy Phot by Joe Frampton, The Ring-tu P . . hi A student holds on to the railng for dear life. Many Students were faced with the dilemma of whether to chance the stairs or try and walk up one of W&L’s many slopping surfaces. Last night’s snow will make walking around campus the worst it has been all week. The thin covering of snow will hide the ice, but will not be enough to provide more traction. Some of the snow and ice should melt this weekend when temperatures rise to the 40s. canceled,” said one sophmore. “The university could have operated sucessfully. Virginia Power just made everything to be a lot worse than it really was.” . EC considers intent IID EC, from page 7 somebody’s done something by mis- take, and they’ve truly done it by mis- take, they’ll find themselves being ac- quitted.” Rice and UVa. require guilt to be proved beyond reasonable doubt. W&L’s White Book does not specify any standards that must be met before guilt can be determined. Elizabeth McCord applied to Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, and the University of Texas after herdismissal from W&L. Wake Forest and Vanderbilt both have Honor Systems similar to W&L’s. Elizabeth enrolled at Vanderbilt af- ter leaving W&L, where the honor sys- tem is as strict as at W&L. It prohibits cheating, plagiarism, or otherwise fal- sifying academic work. But unlike W&L, at Vanderbilt failure to turn in a possible Honor Violation is a breach of the Honor Code. The investigators at Vanderbilt do not act as jury members in the hearing. Once an investigation beings, the ac- cused is told of the charges and given a copy of all available evidence in the case, a copy of the student handbook, and a copy of the list of advisors, and is informed of all developments in the » investigation. The investigators ask the accused to tell his or her side» of the story. The accused has at least 72 hours to prepare for the trial. At W&L, two members of the EC investigate the charges and later sit on thejury. The accused does not know an investigation has taken place until the EC is ready to hold a closed hearing, and does not see the evidence against him. Then the accused has only 48 hours after notification to prepare for the trial. Many at W&Lfeel the EC has made up its collective mind before the accused actually comes to trial. “That’s an offsided concern with that,” said Tompkins, “and I question the legitimacy of it and just in watching it in practice, I’ve noticed no differ- ence in the way the investigators treat the ease as opposed to other members of the committee, either in the hearing or in deliberations.” At Vanderbilt I2 members adjudi- cate the honor trial and 10 must give guilty votes to convict a student of an Honor Violation. Ifthe accused is found guilty, punishment ranges from failure in the class to expulsion. lilflll LIP SYNIIHI 3 P.M.! Just $3 at the door, its for charity and it’ll be fun. At the Pavilion. Elizabeth McCord ignored the se- crecy stipulation during her honor trial and told her parents. She says tlfit without their support she would not have survived the honor trial or had the strength to appeal the decision to an open trial. Suzanne McCord said her daughter began to doubt herself during the honor process. “Elizabeth is a strong individuaf,” Suzanne McCord said. “But the open trial is really damaging to your psyche. Many times she thought ‘maybe I am a bad person, maybe I did do something wrong, maybe I did have bad inten- tions.”’ - 1992-93 EC President Josh MacFarland, who had served on the EC for three years and was one of the prosecutors at McCord’s trial, stood firmly behind the system. “I really think it works the way it is. We’re obviously not out to get som‘e— ‘ one,” said MacFarland. “For the most part, we stay to being a fact-finding, not a prosecutorial, body. We’re just as screwed up as any court system in the country.” Charles McCord, Elizabeth’s father —— an alumnus and former EC member A — sees it differently. 0 “I don’t believe the EC really un- derstands the consequences of the pun- ishment they are inflicting onstudents when the infraction is as minor (as Elizabeth’s ) was; I know I didn’t until this event occurred,” he said. “There was even greater dismayat how students who stand up to the Honor System, because oftheir belief in their own innocence, are subjected to the worst kind of ostracism and are forced to pay the penalty of finding it almost impossible to gain admission to many other institutions.” . Elizabeth McCord said the experi- ence has changed her life forever. “I think of myself and everybody else with respect to the Honor System. It’s one of the reasons I went to W&L. I lived under an honor system at St. John’s (her high school),” McCord said. “But after the trial I realized I didn’t know as much about the Honor System as I thought. No one realizes the conse- quences of an honor trial — being kicked out. This has rerouted my entire life. The EC doesn’t realize the power I they have.” — “I don’t think I understood wflat I had so much respect for.” 3 9% 9. tr OCR::/Vol_093/WLURG39_RTP_19940121/WLURG39_RTP_19940121_011.2.txt 0 PAGE 11 The Ring-tum Phi, January 21, 1994 ‘ % SPORTS ' GENERALS BY THE NUMBERS Standings as of 01/20/94 Men’s Basketball Women’s Basketball O Leading SCOTCFS Leading Scorers Player Pts Ppg p]- p p Cam Dye’ 1;: 14-5 Vi‘i}gTrr1ia Yoerg 9t2S .;;';}.'£9‘ I ' 1: ‘f_T ~%-., -~' 3 4‘ .4 ‘ _. ” _ 1 Mat} NCWWY1 1 9-4 Sandra Holmes 85 8.5 Rspucip pmczs f "I.-.~ .».: '*“-‘ii-t’«if.+«.._j.. Chris Couzen 104 8-0 Karen Stutzmann 77 7.7 an ' ‘*3~"~- ‘*3? ' 1“ ‘ gm Ckogmtan (1)23 Sarah Aschenbach 7 7.0 ‘L . 1,; . ~~ .4“ ‘ ere ar er . ' ‘ U-S-D-A -' ’. ' Robert Miggins 98 7.5 ififiyvhgg/fleld BONELESS Mark Connelly 91 7-0 Mary Tankard 45 4.5 Stacy Williams 27 Allison Hull 32 . Leading Rebounders 0 Player Reb Avg Robert Miggins 82 6.3 Cam D er 63 5.3 Leading Rebounders Derek arter 62 5.2 S Mark Connelly 51 3.9 Player Reb Avg Chris Couzen 34 2,6 Sandra Holmes 63 6.3 ' Cl-,,C‘,:_er‘. Breast ‘ Jon Coffman 31 2.4 Virginia Yoerg 56 5.6 QW,._C...; » H Matt Newton 23 1.8 Tl‘:/ilnkzgrcild 38 2.3 . . —.. "’.f?".7CLl;'..--.n T9” ‘C 3' 33’ 1° - « -7"" ~**'~‘-”~ A “' ‘ ‘ Allison Hull 31 3.1 Karen Stutzmann 30 3.0 TYSON FRESH FRYER-GRADE ”A” Fm_t,,mwStandingS /s§31cyy3y)igiiiams 43 3.; . gayekr Carter ere . . Jon Coffman 25/31 .807 F'°°'“"°W S‘a"d"'8S i_|Mrr 2 wim Robert Miggins 32/45 .711 , ‘ ADD|'|'|oNA|_ Cl'lI'lS Couzen 32/46 .696 lgiggerwilliams ta ‘ PURCHASE Mark Connelly 25/40 .625 . 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MILK SOUP “:55. 0 1121114 "i'ii‘i'En 19 _wIi>£s COOKIES o 0 Ph , _ _ P!‘ E I‘ h Y /‘ E The mere act of walking around campus without falling was the)trciit:sEtt:lai'if}iuif.trays’-1,ih¥ a f - single game»,-not bad fora = . vguy“‘w1ios‘e points~per'-T5 * A game avera'ge:'_is 9.8.. A . .1 .i‘osephine"‘;Howi‘.far_‘.?‘." gotern A arrcAlry.etloo1; Alve- tlt_;iril<-—1lie_,.:l;eeps7f’liis’: curly ‘A 3” _,I..atoy‘a;. ‘ tcl.’l-arework,-' " ing en.o,riego£~those sports ;forecastingltotlines, where . A .A.. . _eAmA think I will call‘ it 1‘-900-” Wzhat...d0A _ S (1112 fling-mm ifllii PORTS BASKETBALL, INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD, SWIMMING AND WRESTLING This Week: MBB—Bridgewater 0 1/21 WBB—Meredith 0 1/2 1 Wrest—W&L invitational 01/22 Swim—at North Carolina 01/22 JANUARY 21, 1994 rt ake Ovvonents File photo Members of the Washington and Lee wrestling team execute drills in the A. E. Mathis Wrestling Room. Randolph-Macon b-ball squeaks past Generals By Ki-:iTH GRANT Phi Staff Writer With the Jan. 19 game at Emory and Henry postponed, the men’s basketball team has had their attention focused on the Jan. 21 meeting at the Warner Center with Bridgewater. When they last met nearly two months ago, the Eagles registered a 24-point home-court victory. The Generals, though, know they are a much- improved team since that loss. “We’ve definitely come a long way since the last [game against Bridgewater],” said sophomore Derek Carter. “Our confidence is much higher now, as well as our aggressiveness and intensity.” Washington and Lee is 5-8 overall and 3-5 in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. The Generals have lost three of their last four games, including the Jan. 15 69-65 home defeat to Randolph-Macon College. Yellow-Jacket guard Kurt Axe scored a game-high 29 points to help fight off a strong late rally by the Generals. Randolph-Macon led by as many as 18 in the second half, but the Generals managed to pull within two in the final minute and had a chance to tie the game. Senior Matt Newton, who connected on a career-high four three-point shots in the game, elected to try for the win and put up a three-pointer with 10 seconds left. He missed the shot and the Yellow-Jackets were able to grab the rebound and close out the contest with a pair of free-throws. Newton finished with 16 points, while sopho- more Cam Dyer added 17 to go with his eight rebounds. Dyer is now averaging a team-high 14.5 points-per-game. The 6’7” forward has been a large factor in the team’s turnaround from a 1-5 start. Dyer leads seven Generals who are averaging at least seven points-per-game. “Our offense has improved a lot,” said Carter, who has been shooting better than 65 percent from the field in the new year. “[Thursday] we watched the tape of the loss to Bridgewater. We have made a lot of improvements since then.” A number of players attribute some of the credit for the turnaround to head coach Verne Canfield and his staff. “Some credit definitely goes to the coaches,” said seniorco—captain Robert Miggins. “We change our offenses and defenses quite a bit to keep the other teams off guard.” Miggins, himself, deserves some credit forturn- ing up his own game. His scoring and rebounding statistics have steadily improved to up his averages to betterthan seven points and six rebounds. Miggins also moved into third place on the all—time W&L blocked shot list on Saturday with 49, three ahead of Chris Jacobs ’91. The track team high-jumper has blocked six shots in the last three games. Canfield believes Miggins has had some quick- ness the senior was not fully aware of. Miggins is now utilizing that quickness more to create his own scores. ‘‘I’m definitely trying to be more aggressive,” Miggins said. “I wasn’t looking to create by driving to the basket earlier [this season], but now I’m not passing up those opportunities.” Another player who has contributed strongly to the recent stretch of play that has seen the Generals win four of seven and play consistently well is freshman Chris Couzen. The graduate of Seton Hall Prep, a two-time New Jersey state basketball champion, is third on W&L in scoring at eight points-per-game and has been a key factor on offense and defense. “Chris has done a great job,” said Carter. “He is always hustling on the court.” Couzen has won overthe confidence of Canfield. The Generals run of improved play has coincided with Couzen’s insertion into the starting lineup. Versus R-MC, Canfield showed just how confident he is ofthe 6’1” freshman by matching him up against the YelIow-Jack- ets 6’6” Dan Prescott. Prescott was subsequently limited to well below his shooting and scoring av-‘ erages by Couzen. ' ,AIn spite of the cool he displays on the court, Couzen admits to some difficulties in adjusting to college ball. “The competition is much better. You have to be mentally prepared for every game,” he said. “There have been some ups and downs so far. I want to get my play on an even level.” /,3 Like/his ammates, Couzen believest eGen- erals are a much different team than the one that suf- fered a 74-50 loss to Bridgewatefi the last time they met. ‘ “If we can play the game we’re capable of playing,” said Couzen, “we can beat them.” File photo Senior Matt Newton is averaging 9.4 points-per-game for the Generals, the second-leading scorer. Women’s Basketball The women’s basketball team fell to the Mary Washington Eagles last Saturday, 71-29. The Lady Generals could not recover from a first half, 20-point, shooting spree by the Eagles. A Freshman Virginia Yoerg scored nine to lead the team, and four Generals led with five boards each. As of Thursday, Yoerg led the team in points with A A Compounding the defeat was the team’s loss 0f]Ul'llOr Sarah Aschenbach due to a shoulder injury. Aschenbach led the Generals in scoring in her only game this season (shejoined the team after Christmas Break). Washington and Lee’s record now stands at 5-5. The team’s next game comes tonight versus Meredith at Warner Center. By STEPHEN WILLIARD Phi Assistant Sports Editor On the strength of last weekend’s performance, the Washington and Lee wrestling teambecameoneofW&L’swin- ning squads with a 3-2 record. The Generals responded to the challengewith animpressiveper- formance in two dual meets. In the 28-22 win over Pensacola Christianjunior Eric Shirley and Cole Van Nice led the team with 6-0 and 11-1 wins, respectively. Against Davidson, Adam Williams notched eight takedowns to move his season total to 21. This total leads the team for the season. Cole Van Nice leads the team with nine wins on the year after registering two more wins in last weekend’s meet. ‘Both Eric Shirley and Rob DeClerk prophetically said that they expected the team to im- prove as the season wore on and predicted that the team would do well last weekend. According to g DeClerk, the team is fairly young and will improve as they gain experience. The inexperience was no- where in evidence last weekend as five Generals scored two wins, and against Davidson, Owen g Smith and Cole Van Nice both won by pin. The Generals will have a chance to continue their winning ways with the annual W&L invitational coming up this weekend. The Generals have won three straight dual meets this season. The team has put together an impressive start to the season, and hopes to continue their suc- cesses in front of the home crowd this weekend. The success of this year’s team is somewhat surprising since the‘ wrestlers have no seniors on the team and only a handful ofjun- iors. As DeCIerk said, the team is moving to overcome this. Steve turns from predictions, heads toward cheap shots AWAY GAMES BY STEPHEN WILLIARD OK, so Joe Montana is still the master of come-from-be- hind, playoff victories. The Houston Oilers rediscovered that fact last Sunday in a 28-20 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. At this point, considering my success rate with predicting the American Football Conference, I will hang it up and wish both KC and Buffalo the best (even though I cannot help but pull forthe Bills, I mean as I’ve said so many times before, they are such lovable losers). The National Football Con- ference has turned out exactly as expected with San Francisco and Dallas vying for the Con- ference Championship and a trip to Atlanta. Come on, did anyone really think the NFC Central would still have a team inthe runningatthispoint?The 49er’s put on a clinic against the New York Giants in their 44-3 rout. The question of the week is whetheror not the Steve Young, Jerry Rice led Niners can come up withthe sametype of performance two games in a row. . Dallas looked a little shaky in their win over Green Bay. The Cowboys face a tough chal- lenge against the Niners. Either way, the game should be memo- rable. Here is where I go out on a limb and stick to my guns. Dallas should be the NFC repre- sentative in the Georgia Dome. Once again, the week was a topsy-turvy one in college bas- ketball. Arkansas, Kentucky, Kansas, and North Carolina all suffered defeats. Right now the top two spots look to be UCLA and Duke come Monday, but after the way things have gone so far, one can really never be sure. Falling under the topic of “completely unrelated stuff,” I wouldjust like to complain about the radio stations here. In North Carolina, we at least pick up UNC and Wake Forest on the radio. On the other hand, when I was in the office writing this stupid col- umn, I was forced to listen to a VMI game (for those of you liv- ing in a hole far away from Phi Delt, VMI stands for Virginia Military Institute). I don’t want to knock VMI (chuckle), but they arejust not a powerhouse basketball team. However, for those of us seeking a higher level of competition, there are always those local high school games. Sort-of-pseudocommissioner Bud Selig has agreed to the pro- posed expanded playoff system in major league baseball. The system will be composed ofthree division champions andtwowild card teams. That means next year we might have the good fortune to see baseball’s equivalent of the NFC Norris division (for those of you not paying attention last week,that’sthepowerhouse 5 NFC Central division in foot- ball.). Oh, we can only dream. Parting Shots- Buffalo is a step away. my friends. I personally think Tonya P Harding had to have some- thing to do with it, Sarah, even if she is from Portland. The number one ranking seems to have the same af- fect on teams this year as the Sports Illustrated cover. As Q soon as a team is elevated to that lofty height, they crash and burn. On a happy note, spring training starts in about a month. Then baseball sea- son will have officially be- A gun. As ifthe talent pool is not dilutedenough,majorleague baseball is considering ex- panding again. Ifanyone still entertains ideas that expan- sion is a good thing, just repeat after me~Me.s, Pa- ' dres, Rockies. As the talent pool becomes more diluted, we’ll see more teams with 110 losses, and teams with 110 wins. To me, that re- moves a lot of the interest from the game. ‘ Anyway, that concludes my tirade for the week. Hopefully, next week, I’ll be in a better mood and actu- ally write something pleas- ant about someone. Nah, that wouldn’t be any fun. Swimmers drop two, fall to Catholic Univ. ' By STEPHEN WILLIARD Phi Assistant Sports Editor All good things must eventually come to an end. This apparently was also the case for the Washing- ton and Lee men’s and women’s swi teams this past weekend as the Generals suffered losses to Catholic. On the men’s side, the Generals were in the midst of a I6-meet win streak prior to Saturday‘s loss. Catholic was also the last team to defeat the Generals prior to the start of the win streak. The l17.5—86.5 score did leave some room for solid individual performances, though. Junior Tony Diederich won the 200-yard freestyle and sophomore David Stillman won the 50 yard freestyle. Stillman’s time in the 50-free was W&L’s top time in that event on the year. The Generals visit Chapel Hill this weekend to compete against Johns Hopkins and Emory. The W&L swimmers will try to begin a new streak at the Chapel Hill meet. The women narrowly missed victory, losing by the score of 106—99 to Catholic for their first loss of the season. Staci Bertelli and Rebekah Prince each contributed two wins forthe Generals. Against Buffalo State earlier, seven different swimmers won races in a 121-57 rout. Bertelli set W&L season bests in the 500-yard freestyle and the 200 -ard fly. The women had a home meet against Mary Baldwin canceled this week. Washington and Lee carries an 18-meet conference winning streak into their next conference meet. Like the men, the women will be traveling to the University of North Carolina this weekend. Following this weekend, I the Generals have two more home meets on the schedule, versus Franklin and Marshall and Hollins. Both squads are shooting for strong finishes this year. With the focus of both teams, and the stead’ improvement shown so far, the two teams can’! be far from their goal. Photo b Sarah Gilbert, The Fl/ng-rum Phi Junior Susan Fisher grins as she pre- pares to extend the Generals’ confer- ence streak in Saturday's meet.