OCR::/Vol_103/WLURG39_RTP_20000515/WLURG39_RTP_20000515_001.2.txt W‘ V WASHINC-TC]l\l 3: L. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIvERsrrY’s WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IAMIES3 L‘-’_’.r\./I as ;i- ‘N L.%:.‘«"”~‘A:??‘«‘ 1: :)wVt!R:s:”W: LEXi?\i(’$ YEN. Vfi "=‘¢‘5-‘I77 MA?’ ‘I 8 2000 I U112 ifting-tum {flirt VOLUME 103, No. 4 LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA 24450 MONDAY, MAY 15, 2000 Buffalo Creek ‘set to rock _L A. Zollman’s again Music festival returns to W&L for year number nine By Michael Crittenden W&LIFE EDITOR Washington and Lee students need to grab their tents and wash their best tie-dye in preparation for the Buffalo Creek Music Festival. “I am psyched,” said junior Mary Jessica Jones. “Vir- ‘ ginia Coalition and The Disco Biscuits are two of my fa- vorite bands.” The annual festival, held out at Zollman’s Pavillion, returns to Lexington this weekend for another event that Q has become a defining tradition of Spring Term. The festival, also famous for bringing a little sense of “hippieness” to Lexington, is organized by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity. Though it was origi- nally a Student Activities Board event, the SAB no longer takes the role now filled by SAE. “The Student Activities Board is contributing money, but that’s the only role we’ve taken,” said SAB represen- tative Lauren Ivanick. This year’s band lineup is very impressive accord- ’ ing to event coordinator John Hope, a senior SAE. On Friday May 19th, Washington and Lee favorites Baaba Seth and The Disco Biscuits will kick offthe weekend. Baaba Seth will start around 8 p.m., and The Disco Bis- cuits will follow around 10. Baaba Seth plays a brand of tropical funk described as “awesome” by fans, while The Disco Biscuits are more of a “jam-band” according to sophomore fan Kyle Hankey. He became a fan after the band played what Hankey described as about-a four-hour jam session at last year’s show. “I saw them for the first time last year at Buffalo Creek,” Hankey Said. “They played a really good show — I hope they’ll be able to do it again.” Saturday wiil featurean extended line-up starting at I p.m. with Boogie Solution, and local favorite Virginia Coa- lition will follow at 3: 15. Smokin’ Grass will play at 5 :30p.m., then Hipbone at 8, and finally the Lake Trout band will finish off the weekend with their performance beginning at 10:30 p.m. “I love them because they are hot and it’s just re- ally fun music,” said one junior girl about Virginia Coa- lition. “They play something and you like it automati- cally.” The weekend is famous for the hordes of students and locals who make a pilgrimage to Zollman’s Pavillion, most camping out for the weekend in tents, in their SUVS and on the ground under the stars. Students often bring a number of lawn chairs, chaise lounges and the infa- mous Crazy-Creek chairs. Students never know what to expect at the event. Freshman Katie Anlyan said that she is ready to expe- rience her first Buffalo Creek. “I hear it’s a blast,” she said. “Zollman’s is a great place for a party, and there’s always something interesting that happens there.” The most famous of the weekend traditions is the annual burning of the couches on Saturday night. Se- niors and other students bring their old couches to be sacrificed to the flames in a gigantic bonfire. Student reaction to the band list and to the upcoming weekend in general has been quite positive, and students seem to be looking forward to the weekend. “It is always such a great time; a chance for us (stu- dents) to shed our proper facades and go out and spend a weekend in the mud. . . listening to some good bands,” said one junior male. “And listening to a band while sitting in the creek drinking "a beer sure as hell beats a sweaty frat basement.” Second annual Nabors Service Day a Success Students come together to serve the community in classmate’s honor By Alexis Yee-Garcia NEWS EDITOR Almost 200 volunteers came out to help in over 15 different projects for the service day Saturday in memory of Jonathan Nabors. Nabors and his younger sister, Leah, died in a car crash on I-81 last year when Nabors was returning to W&L after winter break. “Jonathan was such a caring person, it seemed like a service day would be an appropriate way to remember him,” said sophomore Stacy McLoughlin of her class- mate. McLoughlin coordinated Saturday’s events and helped the Freshman Leadership Council organize the freshman service day last year. “It was great to see so many more people this year,” Mike Reynold, Nabors’ former roommate, said. Jonathan’s parents, Eddie and Doris Nabors, also came out to welcome volunteers and remember Jonathan’s time at W&L. They have also made a com- mitment to come out for any other service days in the future. “We knew at the time of the accident that something good had to come of it,” said Eddie Nabors. “And he was in heaven here. Before he’d even been accepted he was wearing his W&L tie.” This year’s service day was in part the result of grow- ing interest in the Nabors Service League and the Nabors Network, two groups formed to promote com- munity service and interaction among service organiza- tions. “I think it’s a wonderful thing,” said freshman Becky Johns, co-coordinator of the special projectsportion of the Nabors Service League. “The Nabors Service League has really helped us get organized and get together with other service organizations.” Students received a commemorative T-shirt in ex- change for a suggested donation of $12 to $15. Doria- tions for the T-shirts combined with money raised at the service day car wash amounted to over $1,200 and "will be donated in Jonathan’s nameitoa charity of his parents choice. Volunteers provided community service in everything from painting local residents’ houses to putting on a carnival for community Little Buddies, faculty children, and other kids on the University Front Lawn. Sophomore Quincy Springs gave up part of his af- photo by Lisa Lin/Asst. Photo Editor HELPING OUT. Freshman Emma Thomas helps restore the Yellow Brick Road playground. photo by Emily Bames/Ex utive- itor FUN AND GAMES ON THE FRONT LAWN. Junior Lauren LaFauci gives a carnival attendee another chance at winning a goldfish at the Kids’ Carnival during Nabors Service Day temoon to run around and get pelted with water balloons as part of the carnival. “I feel like a kid again,” Springs said. The Kid Carnival was sponsored by ODK and several ODK member:-. came out to help arrange the festivities. Like Springs, senior ODK members Kelly Stewart and Jill Kosch got to relive their youth, painting flowers, rainbows and stars on both the little kids and themselves. “I guess I can sort of speak for ODK as a whole and I think our purpose was two fold: to get us together in a fun activity where we could make a difference,” Stewart said. The ODK sponsored Kids’ Carnival was a perfect example of what McLoughlin hopes the Nabors Net- work will be able to achieve in the future; integrating independent volunteers from the Service League with sponsoring organizations. Interested organizations can become part of the Nabors Network by contacting McLoughlin and sponsoring projects. Individual stu- dents can get involved with the Service League by fill- ing out volunteer information forms available in the University Center or visiting the webpage at http:// volunteer.wlu.edu/nabors.css. Memories of a close friend Nabors’ high school classmate shares fond memories S I remember bringing in the new year of 1999 with him and a group of fiiends on some middle-of-nowhere farm. I remember driving home late that night on the interstate, passing his car at a high enough speed so as to get his attention, and exhanging goodbye waves. Most of all, I remember thinking that it would be the last time I’d see him for a while, since he was driving to Vir- ginia for his second semester at Wash- ington and Lee in a couple of days. Little did I know. If you are from Virginia, chances are you know about the massive ice storm that hit that area during the first few days of 1999, and maybe you know about the 20-something car wreck that resulted from the icy roads there; it was a pretty big story. Jonathan was somewhere in that awful pileup with his younger sister and his parents. Only the parents survived. It’s enough to make you wonder what kind of God would wire workings of the world so that a guy could die at such a young age without ever cloud- ing a moment of his life with the slight- est trace of pessimism, without ever having wasted an ounce of what gifts he had received. But I stop wondering when 1 real- ize that Jonathan wouldn’t have won- dered for a second. Instead, I just watch the Crimson Tide on TV and chuckle at the times he’d tell me of his aspiration to be- come one of the old men at U of 4 A games who arrive in RVs filled with rolls of toilet paper and boxes of Tide on sticks (Roll Tide. Get it?). I shared 13 years’ worth of timeless experiences with Jonathan Nabors. But amazingly, whenever I find myselfthinking about him —— everyday, in other words —— the same frozen-in-time image of him pops up in my mind every time. It'is of him waving goodbye as I passed him on the way home on New Year’s, flash- ing me his trademaark disarming smile that could have made any- one forget about the world’s grave injustices. — Courtesy of Taylor Upchurch, Washington University student newspaper Students, faculty end year on unifying note By Mike Agnello STAFF WRITER Students and faculty are inviting the entire W&L community’s participation in activities to further promote cam- pus unity. Several students not affiliated with a specific organization have arranged a “Unity Dinner,” to be held May 16 from 5:30-6:30 pm on the Front Lawn. Junior Anne Hazlett, one of the main organizers of the event, said she hopes the event will be well-attended. “We’re just trying to end the year on a positive note after all the nega- tive events of this year,” Hazlett said. “I think it’s great that students from all cross-sections of the student body can have an event to bring the entire student body together,” newly-elected MSA President Justin Arnold said about the planned dinner. Faculty are also making the effort to involve the entire W&L community in its new committee for inclusivity. In its March 6th meeting, the fac- ulty created the Faculty Task Force on Inclusiveness, naming professors Suzanne Keen and Robert McAhren as co-chairs. According to the committee’s report, their goal is “to provide an immediate response to the sexist, racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic incidents of this school year.” Keen described the report as “ex- traordinarily preliminary” and says that the proposals outlined by the committee are only recommendations. The committee is currently request- ing the help of all students, faculty, and staff fiom both the law school and the college to help outline specific plans for their future actions. “We hope to come up with more substantive proposals, and welcome any by students,” Keen said. “If they just have a small idea, that would be great.” Keen says she is encouraged by both the faculty and students’ efforts, and is passionate about achieving di- versrty. “I have loved everything about W&L since I came here. . . it pains me that this experience that is so wonder- ful for me leaves others behind,” she said. Keen said that the dinner and fixture efforts by students to promote unity on campus are necessary to make the W&L experience more enjoyable for everyone. “We’ re very happy that those kinds of things are happening,” she said. Dinner organizer Thomas Field said that the event will be a success if it al- lows students of different backgrounds to come together as a group and relate on an individual basis. “I’ve found that most people at W&L have their heart in the right place. . . an event like this helps actions be more in line with values and beliefs,” Field said. @112 ilting-tum ilfllri May 15,2000 OPINION: “The Stepfather of Ecstasy”: not a trip worth taking W&LIFE: SPORTS: Women’s tennis and Men’s lacrosse teams advance in NCAA tournaments PAGE 2 SAB Spring fling is a Success AGE 3 PAGE 4 photcfiiifimy Friedel/l’lrto Editor RACE YA. Two students climb the rock wall last Thursday at SAB’s Spring Fling. OCR::/Vol_103/WLURG39_RTP_20000515/WLURG39_RTP_20000515_002.2.txt PAGE 2 @112 itting-tum ifllii PINION MAY 15, 2000 The hallucinogenic trip Thursday, May 11: On Monday afternoon, I first glimpsed the fliers proclaiming “KNOWLEDGE —— Sasha Shulgin at Washington and Lee.” The first thought that struck me: “Who the heck is Sasha Shulgin?” Upon fur- ther examination, I discovered that said Dr. Shulgin is also sometimes known as “The Stepfather of Ecstasy,” whose job description is “psychadelic chemist and author.” Oh dear Lord, this sounded good. A flood of questions poured into my brain. First, why was he invited to speak at W&L? What enlightenment could he bring to the W&L community? Most importantly, would there be any free samples offered? I scribbled the needed info into my notebook — 4:30p.m., the Dell, and vowed not to let this opportimity slip into the obscure haze of apathy into which all my other plans to attend lectures had wan- dered. The awaited day finally arrived, and I planted myself on a conveniently provided chair in the Dell. Standing on the stage was a short pudgy little man who (not so) coin- cidentally reminded me of Jerry Garcia. Or your typical mad scientist, take your pick. The lecture commenced. The wild-haired Doc spoke and gestured as if he were on crack-rock, or maybe his work with psychadelics had al- tered his biological chemistry so that everything he does is three times faster than the average human being. If you didn’t already know all of the obscure nuances of psychadelics, you probably would have been much like me: Lost. DMDA? DMDT? I think those are both names of drugs he made, but don’t quote me on that, I’m prob- ably wrong. I caught maybe one word in five, and under- stood maybe three complete ideas in the whole thing: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A lie cannot be believed or aiding and abetting Dear Editor, . Thomas Carlyle, the great Victorian thinker, historian, and prose prophet propounded many a silly idea and ad- vocated many a lost cause in his years of preaching to his fellow Englishman, but perhaps his central message was this apparently oh-so-obvious but, nonetheless, slippery little item, namely, my title - “A Lie Cannot Be Believed.” Carlyle inveighed against numerous examples of society accepting lies and living in terms of them — and raged against that practice, proclaiming that ultimately such negligence would lead to disaster. It is surprising but true that we can come to live within a lie much more easily than we might imagine; we can func- tion happily in our willful ignorance because it is so tempt- ing and so easy to avoid an obvious yet uncomfortable truth. It is so pleasurable to have our cake and eat it too. Carlyle’s assumption of the prophetic stance of denounc- ing such behavior proved a dangerous one for him, and no 2 doubt will prove even more dangerous for me "- who pos- sess none of his brilliance and can write with nothing of his fire. Even so I will assume such a position for just this once - I will, for the fun of it, speak with anger and de- nounce evil - and in this case the particular evil, the lie of which I speak, is Spring Term. Spring Term is a lie. It is simply not the case that the average or typical or representative Spring Term course is the equivalent of the average Fall of Winter course. Fur- thermore, you the students do not want them to be. It is thus a dishonorable, self—serving lie for Washington and Lee officially to grant equivalent credit for courses taken in the Spring Term. In doing so the administration and faculty aid and abet the students in their vain desire to “work hard and play hard.” The Spring Term is thus the E112 itting-tum ifllii Executive Editors Stephanie Bianco Emily Barnes Alexis Yee-Garcia Tara Ann Friedel Mike Crittenden Tiffany Friedcl Lisa Lin , Neal Willetts News Editor Opinions Editor W&Life Editor Photo Editor Assistant Photo_ Editor Layout Editor The Ring-tum Phi is published Mondays during the undergraduate school year at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. Funding for The Ring-tum Phi comes primarily from advertising and subscription revenues. The Washington and Lee Publications Board elects the Executive Editor, ‘but The Ring-tum Phi is otherwise independent. The Ring-tum Phi welcomes all responsible submissions and letters. All submissions must be in the Phi office, room 208 of the University Center, by noon on Friday to appear in that week’s edition. The Ring- tum Phi reserves the right to edit submissions for content and length. Letters and columns do not reflect the opinion of The Ring-tum Phi Editorial Board. Advertising does not reflect the opinions of The Ring-tum Phi or its staff. This newspaper observes current court definitions of libel and obscenity. The Ring-tum Phi 208 University Center Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 Telephone: (540) 462-4060 Advertising Office: (540) 462-4049 Fax: (540) 462-4059 E-mail: phi@wIu.edu http://wIu.edu/-phi Annual subsription rate: 830 1) Dr. Shulgin played with natural chemicals like mesca- line, which is found in a drug commonly known as peyote. Afier manipulating incomprehensible things like benzene rings in his laboratory of happiness, he tested them. On himself. Not a bad profession, if you ask me. 2) Sometimes you can be messed up on some chemical, and not know you’re messed up. However, I think we all went through those Prevention and Life Management courses in high school where they tell us, “Even if you ., ‘ think you are fine after downing a = couple beers, don’t drive, you are a bunch of adult-type people who one day decided, “What the heck, let’s try this experimental drug and see what happens.” Sure, okay. One of the men walked into a door trying to hook up with a sexy lady who wasn’t really there, and then proceeded to drive home and listen to non-existent songs by his favorite band on a radio which wasn’t turned on. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? 3) The third point, which I’m not really even sure was actually a point, involved some kind of people he called “shamanotaxonomists” who listen to plants which tell them what happens to people if they are consumed. Riiiiight. . . Since Dr. Shulgin had a problem coordinating and express- ing his own thoughts, I must sadly admit that I can impart no particular wisdom from the psychadelic experience. How- ever, I feel that I can recommend with some certainty that if you are good at chemistry, and like taking drugs, then maybe you should look into becoming a psychadelic chemist and author. Personally, I left the lecture very unfulfilled in my quest for “KNOWLEDGE.” Only one out of my three ques- tions was truly answered. No free samples, darn it all. apotheosis of this the greatest of all lies at Washington and Lee: the fitting but grotesque institutional legitimiza- tion of a false belief: our unique idol and one which must be broken. Down with it! It is, of course, foolish to imagine that students will cease to do too much, will cease their efforts to combine in their years at W&L the maximum amount of academic work and social pleasure, and will, in so doing, drive themselves too hard, drink too much, become overwhelmed by the courses, etcetera. But it is not foolish to argue that Spring Term, the supreme institutional instantiation of this lie, a lie that for a time dupes students into believing they can do it all, a lie that succeeds by regularly giving them far more credit than is their proper due, should be done away with - loudly and forever and with great rejoicing. Student sometimes seem shocked that anyone would seek to do away with Spring Term, but you all know what a lie it is. Now let me offer just one example of a better way for W&L still to be W&L without the dishonor of this lie. One possible solution - Imagine all the people Thus the question becomes - what is the best way to deal with the W&L tradition of “work hard and play hard?” How can the W&L calendar honor both the school’s aca- demic seriousness and its social traditions? I have no de- sire to eliminate the “play hard” or to touch the Fraternities and Sororities. Indeed I prefer a system in which the stu- dents are in charge of their own social life and only indi- rectly beholden to deans and administrators. Nonetheless, I strenuously oppose pandering to stu- dents’ desire to play hard and get credit for an education by giving them lots of credit for little work. The Spring Tenn solution is just such an unacceptable lie. It should be abolished. A . Moreover, the Winter Term with its beginning burdened by Rush; its conclusion plagued by Fancy Dress, and the regular bale of hay, known as Mock Con, that breaks the poor camel’s back - is severely compromised in its aca- demic seriousness - an academic watering-down that once ;again is aided and abetted by the institution. Now I was an undergraduate at a very similar college up ‘North. At Amherst there were two fourteen-week temis ‘with a short interterrn in January: officially we had a 4-0-4 system: the zero referring to the January term when the students could be on campus, could take various informal courses but for no credit, and could socialize without anxi- ety. Furthermore, I attended graduate school at Yale Uni- versity which had the wonderful practice of a two-week break in the middle of its fourteen-week Winter/ Spring Term. Let us imagine combining these for Washington and Lee: two fourteen-week terms, a short January intertenn, and a two-week Spring vacation. Rush would take place during the January interterin and would not be imposed on the beginning of an academic semester; Fancy Dress would take place at the end of the two-week Spring vacation and would not be imposed on the working term. The students not really okay, we promise.” This ' point involved an amusing story of ; OH WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP rT’s BEEN. Students listen intently as Sasha Shulgin shares his photo by Lisa Lin/Assistant'Photo Editor experiences and knowledge of psychadelic drugs in the Dell last Thursday. would have a longer Christmas break; they could Rush before they got back to work; they would have an ample Spring vacation in which to travel, relax, and have their Fancy Dress. Thus there would be an elimination of the intolerable impositions on the Winter term and the priceless gain of four solid weeks ofreal academic time. Against this gain would be the loss of six weeks of a lie - a pleasant lie that allows greater diversity in course offerings, but a down- right lie in its pretension that a typical course in those six weeks is equivalent in work to a typical course in the twelve- week terms. There it is - you can work hard and play hard, but W&L would no longer so egregiously aid and abet you in your -lie. Rush and Fancy Dress would be pushed into your extended break time, no more institutional sanctioning of big-ticket distractions from the academic work. When the dust settled, we would have a solid four weeks of real academic time to replace six weeks of lying self-deception. Well. . . I’ll Doff the Carlylean robes, and let you return to your studying. Sincerely, Edward Adams Associate Professor of English RCHS student responds to prom opinion piece Dear Editor, My name is Tania Jacobson and I am a senior at Rockbridge County High School. I am writing to you be- cause I not only read the article that Nathan Urguhart wrote, but I went to prom with him. When I first heard rurriors of what was written I was indeed angry, however, after I read and reread the article on my own, I found that most of what the RCHS students are up in arms over was all uncalled for. I have known Nathan ever since he was a freshman, and, for a bit of insight on his character, whenever Nathan speaks to you he does so with courtesy and flattery. How- ever, what sets him apart from a lot of other people is that he isn’t putting on a big show, he really means what he says. I read the article, and I can’t say that I am offended. He used sarcasm and even made good points about our school. Where he pointed out something sketchy about the high school, he compared it to something at W&L which was at least equally sketchy. I know that there were plenty of people wishing to voice their concerns on his article, but I also know that a lot of them haven’t even read the story. From what I have seen at the school and heard, there is a lot of word-of-mouth ver- sions of the piece. I also am sure that there are many stu- dents who are out to take a jab at W&L when they can, as A’ many think W&L are out of control snobs. I happen to know that Nathan wouldn’t intentionally print anything that might offend someone, although his article apparently has. If a person is predetermined to find something insult- * ing they can do it. What I don’t understand about RCHS is why they are so worried as to what a small college newspaper has to say in an opinion article. I hope that all of this is put to rest before anyone gets their feelings hurt too much. ,3 Sincerely, Tania Jacobson RCHS Class of 2000 Linux protects against viruses , Dear Editor, The article on the Love Letter virus published last week contained several minor errors. The most grievous of these is the statement that the only users on campus safe against this virus are Macintosh users. This statement is absurd. 3 Almost as many users on campus employ the Linux oper- ating system as the Macintosh operating system; These users have far better protection against viruses than Macintosh users. As an example, I point to the computer science department’s file and e-mail server. While most of the carn- pus suffered from University Computing’s panicked e-mail blackout (for almost an entire day), computer science stu- dents could still access their e-mail accounts on the A department’s Linux server. Linux has a growing presence on this campus and while it has not been embraced by University Computing, its obvi- ous advantages over UC’s current Netware and Microsofi servers have led some departments, faculty, and students to I'- move important network services from LEE, CUSTIS, and the Groupwise servers to Unix machines. The Geology and Phys- ics departments also use Unix/Linux servers. Linux usage by students is also increasing as the oper- ating system becomes easier to set up, configure and un- derstand. - Students who use Windows would not be affected by LoveLetter if they avoid using Microsoft Outlook and ac- cessing files corrupted by the virus. , In short, readers of the Phi should be aware that there are many alternatives to the Macintosh which will help them avoid contamination from LoveLetter and protect their valuable MP3s and J PGs. Readers interested in protecting their machines should examine the web for information on P the measures they can take to enhance the security of their machines. A great starting website is www.linux.org. Sincerely, Robert Marmorstein ’0l TALKback: What are you doing afterSpring Term? “Going toBeimuda, then I’m working in DC- two months of nothing and only one of a jo .” -Stephanie Sweet ‘02 “Life after graduation is still a mystery.” -Steven Straub ‘00 “I’m heading out West with the roomies for a great adventure.” -Sharmon Bell ‘00 “I’m living in DC, somewhere. Getting a job, somehow.” —Jordan Ginsberg ‘01 F OCR::/Vol_103/WLURG39_RTP_20000515/WLURG39_RTP_20000515_003.2.txt MAY 15, 2000 PAGE3 Spring fling: W&L’s field day Last Thursday, the W&L community was invited to take a day and enjoy the sun with Spring Fling. Spring Fling is sponsored by the Student Activities Board (SAB) and is an annual event. This year, it was held on the’ grassy knoll between the gym and the faculty parking lot. At 4 p.m., Poston Brown took the stage to start off the day. They were later followed by the Zen Tricksters. Stu- dents and faculty took advantage of this field day reminis- cent of grade school. Students scaled the rock wall, fac- ulty raced for the first down on the inflatable football field, kids did jumps and flips down the mammoth size slide, and mixed pairs went against each other in the supersized box- “The Servant” comesto Lenfest " comedic improvisation and engaging _ By Kris Pollina STA FF WRITER This weekend, the Washington and Lee Theatre Department will be per- forming “”The Servant of Two Mas- ters,” an adaptation of an Italian play. Written by Carlo Goldoni, the play has been adapted by Broadway playwright Tom Ziegler, with the assistance of di- §_ rector Tom Evans. The perfonnance relies heavily on ' the audience. Goldoni’s characters have been moved to a more familiar location ' ing ring. Spring Fling was a day of fun and relaxation, a perfect event for Spring Term. PLAYING WITH OVERSIZED TOYS. Senior Brannon Cook fights for a first down on the inflatable football field (above right). Two students take jabs and punches at one another in the boxing ring (right). Wanna write for the Phi? Today 4:30 PM - Visiting Poet. Piotr Sommer, poet and translator, Warsaw. Northen Auditorium. (sponsored by the University Lecture Series, in conjunction with the departments of Sociology and English) 7:30 PM - Abortion Debate. David Nova, president and CEO of Plarmed Parenthood of the Blue Ridge vs. F ionna Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Virginia Society of Human Life. Lee Chapel. Tuesday 8:00 PM - Senior Composition Recital. Joshua Harvey ’00. Johnson Theatre, Lenfest Center. 8:00 PM - Lecture “Japanese Memories of War, Defeat and Occupation,” Japan historian John Dower, M.I.T. Northen Auditorium. Book signing to follow. Wednesday 6:00 PM - Senior Night. Remarks by Lamar J .R. Cecil Jr., retiring professor of history. Lee Chapel. 7:00 PM - Spring 2000 Politics Filmfest. “King of Hearts” (1966), directed by Philippe de Broca. In French with English subtitles. Room 221, Williams School. Thursday 5:30 PM - Gallery Reception. Senior Art Thesis presenta tion by Caroline Cobb ’00. duPont Gallery. 7:00 PM - Spring 2000 Politics Fihnfest. “Fail-Safe” (1964), directed by Sidney Lumet. In English. Room 221, Williams School. Friday 4:30 PM - Medical Ethics Institute Lecture. “Moral and Social Consequences of the Genetic Revolution,” David Magnus, Ph.D., Center for Bioethics, Uni Call us x4060 U‘? Educational Centers ASSISTANT DIRECTOR currently opcrar across the coun , education tcchn sessions to build, enviromcnt that SCORE.’ Dire SCORE.’ Cent: ' 0 Receive trai “i www.score]obs.com . nc OI’ !!’l0l‘¢ photos by Tiffany Fn'edel/ Photo Editor in this particular adaptation: Buena Vista. The characters include Pantalone, the uptight merchant; Smeraldina, the boisterous maid; Dr. Lombardi, the hu- morous scholar; and the “servant of two masters”- Truffaldino. Truffaldino arrives in Venice one day, servant of the first master, Signor Rasponi, who is actually his own sis- ter Beatrice in disguise. For ambiguous, yet irrelevant rea- sons, Beatrice comes from Milan to find her lover Florindo. Her disguise interrupts the previously planned wed- ding of Clarice and Silvio because Clarice had been promised to Beatrice’s brother—— who they all think she is. They all had assumed he had died in a duel. F lorindo arrives in Venice soon after in search of his Beatrice. Confusing, yes. It gets worse: Truffaldino becomes the servant of Master #2: Florindo. But for the entire play Truffaldino somehow manages to keep Beatrice and Florindo from en- countering each other. To further en- rich the play, the delightful servant confuses their mail, mixes up their be- longings, and convinces both of his masters that the other is dead. By the end of the play, he employs both of his masters to help him win the heart of Clarice’s maid Smeraldina. Ziegler and Evans plan to follow the tradition of commedia, depending greatly on the enthusiasm of the ac- tors and actresses. Anne Hazlett, a junior at W&L, plays Beatrice, and feels the play will be huge success, by virtue of it’s comedic value and the cast’s long hours of rehearsal. “We practiced every weekday since the be- ginning of the term for three hours a IT’s ALL AN ACT. Beatrice (Anne Hazlett) and Florindo (Francis U McWilliams) read Epistles of Love. night. I think that it’s a really funny play that incorporates a lot of W&L and Lexington life. I think the audience will find a lot of humor in it.” The play also stars Brian Prisco as Truffaldino and Francis McWilliams as the other servant. This directing team will be joined by Vanessa Chen (’0l) as assistant direc- tor, William “Skip” Epperson (’ 83) as set director, Pete Duvall (00) as lighting designer, Brooke deRosa (’0 l ) as musi- cal advisor, and Tom Anderson as tech- nical director. The perfonnances will be May 19, May 20, and May 22 at 8pm. and a 2pm performance on May 2 I . —Additional information courtesv of Lenfest Press Release rr-5 rum: wmrm. ear-Lane ff. versity of Pennsylvania. Room A114, Science Center. 6:00 PM — Talk by Artist. John C. Winfrey. Room 221, Will iams School. (Ills exhibit, “Interpretations of Nature: Landscapes from the Mountains to the Low Country,” opens in the Williams School on May 12.) 8:00 PM - Theatre Series. “The Servant of Two Masters” by Carlo Goldoni. Adapted by Tom Zeigler and guest directed by Tom Evans. Keller Theatre, Lenfest Center. For reservations call 463-8000. 8:00 PM - Buffalo Creek Music Festival Kickoff. Baaba Seth. Zollman’s. ’ 10:00 PM - Buffalo Creek Music Festival. The Disco Bis cuits. Zollman’s. Saturday 1:00 PM - Buffalo Creek Music Festival. Boogie Solution. Zollman’s. 3:15 PM - Buffalo Creek Music Festival. Virginia Coalition. Zollman’s. 5:30 PM - Buffalo Creek Music Festival. Smokin’ Grass. Zollman’s. 8:00 PM - Buffalo Creek Music Festival.Hipbone. Zollman’s. 8:00 PM - Theatre Series “The Servant of Two Masters” by Carlo Goldoni. Adapted by Tom Zeigler and guest directed by Tom Evans. Keller Theatre, Lenfest Center. For reservations call 463-8000. 10:30 PM - Buffalo Creek Music Festival Finale. Lake Trout. Zollman’s. 7 Sunday 2:00 PM - Theatre Series. “The Servant of Two Masters” by Carlo Goldoni. Adapted by Tom Zeigler and guest directed by Tom Evans. Keller Theatre, Lenfest Center. For reservations call 463-8000. ‘3 WiWl.5Tllé9lTll.llllVBf89.BOlTl ano-are-are Students create “Catastrophe!” If you are in the mood for wild comedy, dances and music all in one — look out for “Catastrophe!” — a series of one act French plays coming to the Lenfest Center. “Ca- tastrophe!” captures the energy, curiousity and passion of the French Avant—garde theater. Several Washington and Lee students, directed by Professor Domnica Radulescu, have devoted their spring term to mastering eight fast-paced one-act plays from the Theater of the Absurd, a high point in the history of French theater. Scenes range from lovers quarrels to a picnic in the middle of a battle- field. “I think that there is something in Catastrophe for everyone to laugh about,” says senior Cavelle Johnston. Presented in French with En- glish Translations, the series will features playwritghts Arrabal, Beckett, Ionesco, and Tardieu. The three day series begins on May 24th thru May 26th in the Johnson Theater at the Lenfest Center. Ad- ' mission is free to all. — Courtesy Cavelle Johnston photo courtesy of Cavelle Johnston “PIQUE NIQUE EN CAMPAGNE.” Students from Professor Radulescu’s class rehearse one of the eight one-acts in “Catastrophe!” s PBY ‘ ‘J’ CARLO GIOLDONI DIRECTED BY "TONI EVANS A NE\V ADAPTATION BY T054 ZIEGILER OCR::/Vol_103/WLURG39_RTP_20000515/WLURG39_RTP_20000515_004.2.txt PAGE 4 E1112 iliing-tum ifllii MAY 15, 2000 Men’s lacrosse wins 12-10 to advance GETTYSBURG, Pa. —- Senior attackman Colin Dougherty (I imonium, Md./Loyola) netted two goals and dished out four assists as fourth-ranked Washington and Lee used a 4-0 burst in the fourth period to break an 8-all tie and defeat Gettysburg 12-10 in the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals at Musselman Stadium in Gettysburg, Pa. With the win, the Generals advance to face top-ranked Salisbury State in the national semifinals next weekend. The Sea Gulls avenged their only loss of the 2000 regular—season with a 21-9 romp over Washington (Md.) on Sunday. In a game that was tied at the end of each of the first three periods, the Gen- erals advanced to the semis with a 4-0 run over a span of seven minutes and 42 seconds in the fourth quarter. Dougherty fed junior attackman Tom Burke (Moorestown, NJ./Moorestown) with 12:28 left in the game to put the Generals ahead to stay at 9-8. Junior attackman Matt Dugan (Rockaway, NJ./Mtn. Lakes) then scored twice in a span of 44 seconds to push the lead to 1 1-8 and help Washington and Lee (16-1) to its school-record 16th victory while avenging its only loss of the 2000 carn- paign. Gettysburg downed W&L 6-4 on March 12th in Lexington. Follow- ing Dugan’s pair of goals, freshman attacker Will Sharp (Kensington, Md./ St. Albans) finalized the W&L scor- ing with an EMO goal, increasing the W&L advantage to 12-8 with 4:46 to play. The Bullets (14,-2) responded with an unassisted goal from Tommy Pearce with 4: 10 to play, but the Gen- erals clamped down on defense and held Gettysburg off the scoreboard until a goal by Ross Garretson with only :10 seconds remaining. W&L junior goalie Wes Hays (Towson, Md./Loyola) made 12 saves on the afternoon while Andrew Bar- ter came up with eight stops for Gettysburg. The Generals were led in scoring by Dougherty with a team-high six points. Both Dugan and senior attackman Chris Brown (Towsoii, Md./Towson) chipped in with three goals and an assist. The Bullets, who saw their season end in the Quarterfinals for the third consecutive season, were led by Pete Milliman with two goals and two assists, while Garretson tallied three goals. Both the date and time of W&L’s contest against Salisbury State will be announced later this week. --Courtesy of Sports information , position she played as a freshman to anchor this year’s defensive unit, which allowed opponents an average of only 7.69 goals per game. Her exploits this season helped earn her first-team All-ODAC honors. Riddle makes North-South All-Star Baltimore, Md. -- A first-team All-ODAC selection, SPOR photo by Tiffany Friedel/Photo Editor ON TO THE SEMIS. Sophomore midfielder John Moore defends the General’s lead against Kenyon on Wednesday, which took W&L to the Gettysburg quarterfinals after a 22-4 win. Antrim, Brown named to All-Star Game Lexington, Va. -- Washington and Lee senior men’s lacrosse players Charlie Antrim (Richmond, Va./St. Christophers) and Chris Brown (Towson, Md./ Towsoii) have been selected to participate in the North-South All-Star game held June 10 at the Uni- Women’s tennis prevails A Team advances to in Minnesota By Neal Willetts LA YOUT & DESIGN EDITOR Washington and Lee’s women’s tennis team gets to take an all-expense paid trip to Minnesota for the NCAA College in St. Peter, Minnesota. W&L increased its record to 18-3 in Sunday’s match against Rhodes. This is the fifth consecutive appear- ance of the women’s team in the na- tional quarterfinals. In doubles, Rhodes was crushed by the infallible pairs of Erin Eggers Melissa Hatley, and Laura Bruno and Sallie Gray Strang. In singles, the strongest games were played by Laura Bruno, Brandi Jane Wedgeworth, and Melissa Hatley, each defeating theiri opponent in two consecutive matches. son in a General’s uniform amassing 44 goals and 20 assists for 64 points. He ranks fifth in W&L history,, in career goals (1 13) and 14th in career scoring (145). Like Antrim, Brown is a two time First-Team All- ODAC slection who earned preseason Third Team All-America honors from Faceoff ‘O0 Men’s College ‘i F quarterfinals at Gustavus Adolphus # and Erika Proko, Brook Hartzell and 5‘, NCAA quarterfinals _ _ ‘ . senior Katherine Riddle has been selected to partici- Versity of Delaware. Lacrosse Magazine. * Charl,ottesville,’Va. -- 'lwo members of Washington pate inthe1wLCA Division [11North/south women’s Antrim, a defenseman, has helped spearhead a Washington and Lee (15-1) was ranked fourth in and Lee s women s lacrosse team have been honored Lacrosse A11-star Game on June 10 in Baltimore, MD_ W&L defensive unit that has allowed an average of the final USILA Division III lacrosse poll and played at by being llamed 10 the 3011111 Atlafltle l_{egl0Y}211 A1l- Riddle will take partin the Division III portion ofthe Just 5.25 goals per game, the second best GAA in Gettysburg Collegeinthe quarterfinals ofthe NCAA Divi- American team. Sophomore defender Eloise Priest (Al- 2000 STX Lacrosse Festival, an a11-day event on June Division III. He is a two—time First Team All-ODAC sion III Tournament yesterday afternoon at3:00 pm. ‘ ;>1- Z ".5 YOUR WORLD_ EXPLORE ”_ Z wear their badges are the elite among all soldiers. B p . 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