OCR::/Vol_102/WLURG39_RTP_19990510/WLURG39_RTP_19990510_001.2.txt VOLUME 102, NO. 3 Freshmen serve in N abors’ Freshman Leadership Council organizes day of community service to honor Jonathan Nabors By Max Smith STAFF WRITER Community service and a brief ceremony marked the passage of the first annual Jonathan Nabors Memo- rial Day. The Freshman Leadership Coun- cil sponsored theday of service in memory of Nabors, a freshman at Washington and Lee University who was killed in a Jan. 3 car accident re- turning to school following Christ- mas break. Most who participated gained a feeling of satisfaction from doing so, and felt that the message of the day was a worthy one. “It was definitely a success and we hope to make it an annual event,” freshman Stacy McLoughlin said. McLoughlin estimated that more than 100 freshman participated in the various activities that made up the service day. , Following brunch in the BDG Quad, the day kicked offwith a cer- emony honoring Nabors. Freshman class president Grant Dickson wel- comed the group and introduced the speakers; Dean Mark Dalhouse and . Nabors’ roommate Mike Reynold. The class also presented Mrs. Nabors, Jonathan’s mother, with flowers and a tree honoring Nabors was planted in front of Baker dorm. Nabors’ mother, father, and aunt at- tended the ceremony. They said they plan to return for every future ser- vice day. Following the ceremony, volun- teers left for various community ser- vice activities. Students helped out at the Food Pantry for Rockbridge Area Relief Association, Yellowbrick Road Daycare Center, and Boxerwood Gardens. Others helped at a Big Buddy/Little Buddy field day, featuring events including soccer and slip n’ slide. 9 Freshman Will Atkinson traveled with a group to Glasgow to help an elderly woman clean up her “unruly” shrubs. Afterwards, they talked with the woman for an hour on topics ranging from the weather to the time she and her husband cleared the trees off their plot to build the house. “You could tell we brightened up her day,” Atkinson said. “She en- joyed the company.” Freshman Matthew Marks be- lieves Jonathan would have been pleased with the turnout and overall success ofthe day. Marks spent Fri- day night with Nabors’ family. “.lonathan’s family was impressed and really appreciated the gesture,” Marks said. “Mr. Nabors said he’d bring gloves and work clothes for next year’s service day.” WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIvERsITY’s WEEKLY NEWSPAPER LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA 24450 Ultra ilttng-tum {flirt Sophomores Allison Bruneau (left) and Virginia Brumby, Photo by Emily Bames/ Photo Editor Senior David Sugerman shows his form at the Habitat for Humanity Bowl-a-thon at Lex Lanes. Chief Justice Rehnquist to speak By Dan Grattan NEWS EDITOR More than 100 prospective lawyers will venture out from the confines of the W&L community this Sunday with a send-off from the top judicial figure in the land. I,.The Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. ‘ Supreme Court will deliver the address at the Washington and Lee University School of Law commencement this Sunday at 2:30 on the lawn in front of the Lee House. Before presiding over the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Rehnquist served as an as- sociate justice ofthe Supreme Court for 14 years, from 1972-1986. He was named chief justice in 1986 under ad- ministration of former President Ronald Reagan. He was appointed by President Nixon as assistant attorney general, office of legal counsel, in 1969. This marks Rehnquist’s second offi- cial visit to the W&L law school in re- cent years. He delivered the keynote ad- dress at the dedication of the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives in the spring of I 992. The commencement ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the lawn in front of Lee House. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held in the Warner Center. MONDAY, MAY 10, 1999 memory photo by Emily Bames/Photo Editor and freshman Richard Bendall share a watery bonding moment with 5- year-old Walter Styles during an outing for community Big Buddys. This was one of the activities for “Serving in Memory,” sponsored by the Freshman Leadership Council. Buffalo Creek Music By Dan Grattan NEWS EDITOR Fear not spring term junkies, the annual Buffalo Creek Music Festival is coming this weekend to Zollman’s Pavilion, and it is going to be great as usual. 1 “Buffalo Creek is going to be run exactly as it always has been,” Di- rector of Student Activities Owen Barker said. “It won’t be run like this year’s Halloween party at Zo1lman’s, and it’s going to be a blast.” There will be three stages for bands this year, two outside and one inside the pavilion. According to Chris Noland, who is the main orga- nizer ofthe event, there will be one difference in the format this year. “We are only going to have one band on Friday night this year,” Noland said. “There is a reasonably small group of people who generally make it out for the first night, and they are usually busy setting up their fires and camps.” According to Barker, this year’s event should prove to be another great one, and only improved be- Generals lax earn NCAA first round bye By Ryan Gielen STA FF WRITER The road to Byrd Stadium, the site of the NCAA Finals is set, and this year it goes right through Lexington. Last night the Generals were re- 7 , warded a first round bye in the up- coming NCAA Tournament thanks to a regular season record of 13-1 Overall and 6-0 in conference. They‘ share the extra week of rest and prac- » tice with Gettysburg, Washington College, and Salisbury State, who also received first round byes. 5,‘ The Generals first game of the Toumament will be the quarterfinals on May 16th here in Lexington against the winner of Denison vs. Ohio-Wesleyan. Wesleyan, remem- ber, is the team responsible for A knocking the Generals out of the playoffs in the quarterfinals last sea- son. The Battling Bishops came to Lexington last year and dominated W&L, 17-8. Denison may be the favorite in the first round contest, however, as they defeated OWU earlier this year, 14-9. Also, the Big Red may be looking for some revenge of their own against the Generals. W&L beat Denison in the first round of the NCAA’s last year, 16-13 on Wilson Field. Ifthe Generals were to win their opener and advance to the Semifi- nals on May 23rd, chances are they will face either Salisbury State or Hampden Sydney for rights to ad- vance to the finals. Salisbury State is an athletic team who scores a lot of goals and may ' match up well with W&L. Last week, Salisbury beat Washington College, who is the only team that the Generals have lost to all season. On the other hand, the Generals had a hard-won battle against Hampden Sydney just three weeks ago, emerging victorious 9-6. Hampden-Sydney is a possible sec- ond round opponent for the Generals, as well. On the other side of the bracket, #5 Nazareth will have quite a difficult time getting to the championship game for the fourth consecutive time, as they will have to defeat 1 1-2 R.l.T. and top ranked Gettysburg just to get to the semi—finals, where they would face another tough opponent. Look for Middlebury (who is 6-1 against top 20 opponents) or Wash- ington College to upset the top half of the bracket and challenge the Gen- erals for the championship. Fans? Rouun QuAn1znrIMALs s:uIrIuAn.u r.n4._ MAY I2 MAV I5 MAV 22 MA: 30 '6 1' IBURG (I3-2) 'NA:AR£7N , (I I-2) _:B—'£a__ (I I-2) -uéfiunasrgn ‘ ( I-2) on 0:474 ‘ (IO~2) ' II: unv H24) j:---—.. - 1 (14-1) vn ac (1l-4) 'H:=:v§\'g (IO~3) ‘WAIM Q ‘ (I3-ll onto n§=ktlA=‘ (I2-3) ‘OINIION lIl~2) ‘NONI YIAII cause of the funding provided by Washington and Lee University through the SAB. Barker says that the SAB money helps tremendously in bringing more quality acts to the festival. “The bit of money that the school provided will just make the show that much better,” said Barker. So get your tents and lawn chairs ready for another two days of love and music in Lexington, because the bands this year are going to be fan- tastic. Many of the better bands to play at W&L in recent years will be found at Buffalo Creek this year, along with a few new additions that will add depth to the great lineup that Noland has put together. Bands like Agents M4 Fest to rock Zollman’s of Good Roots and Zen Tricksters willjoin with the Ominous Sea Pods, Zion Wave and Disco Biscuts on Saturday. W&L student band Barclay Honeywood will kickoff the long list of acts on Saturday. One of the best parts of spring term is going to happen again this year, but according to Noland, it will take the continued support of the Greek system and the W& L student body to keep going strong in future years. “The festival is funded through fraternity and sorority donations. as well as t-shirt sales,” Noland said. “We got twelve fraternities and one sorority to give money this year, and i hope that will keep going strong in the future.” Friday, May 14 10 p.m. Saturday, May 15 12 - 1:30 1:30 - 3:00 3:00 - 5:00 5:00 - 6:00 6:00 - 7:30 7:30 — 8:30 8:30 - 10 10:30 - ? 1999 Buffalo Creek schedule Emma Gibbs Band Barclay Honeywood Humunculous Zen Tricksters Zion Wave, set 1 Agents of Good Roots Zion Wave, set 2 Ominous Sea Pods Disco Biscuits May 10, 1999 OPINION: W&L1FE: SPORTS: @112 filing-tum ifihi Nudity, response from C0 Prof. Ray phases retirement Profiles and more lax PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 OCR::/Vol_102/WLURG39_RTP_19990510/WLURG39_RTP_19990510_002.2.txt rt ’/ MAY iii 1999 @112 ifling-tum lfllii OPINION PAGE 2 ZSTAFF Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? lEDlITORIAl[., Now for an unwanted rant on an oft-discussed topic - procrastination. The act of delaying any necessary action or task is looked upon in academic and business circles as a nega- tive thing. We here at the Phi, however, feel that procras- tination may be one of the greatest classes offered at any college. During a lengthy session of procrastination, a student may learn more in their wanderings than they would in a classroom setting. So in order to facilitate your next session of putting things off, we would like to offer this list ofthings avail- able to every student that can help you waste a whole bunch oftime, and perhaps learn a lot as well. You can: clean your room, check e-mail, look on the web (check out www.procrastinators.com, it’s not done yet but someone will get to it sometime soon), floss, bal- ance your checkbook, talk to an elderly person (they have better stories than anyone else), do dishes, go to Wal- Mart (why not?), develop a sudden and overwhelming interest in the appearance of your toenails, drink a 40, fall asleep outside (only applicable during spring term), moni- tor the progress of your favorite stocks on the CNBC NYSE ticker (can be done while drinking a40), watch the remains of four acres of pine forest burn in a controlled fire, watch the Colonnade Cam for an hour or two, write to the Kevin McManemin fan club, sing with Radio-man, play nasty pranks at lunch time involving a piece of chalk and tires of cars parked along Washington Street, grab a hammer and help out Habitat for Humanity’s latest project, learn to fly fish, analyze the lyrics to a song by the New Kids on the Block or the plot line of a Brian Bosworth film, call a relative that you have not talked to in quite some time, or walk around and single-handedly reinstitute the speaking tradition. Ifprocrastination did not exist, many things would be different in all of our lives. First, this editorial might have been funny. But also, we would not have gained much of the valuable, if not useless information that we currently possess. So keep putting everything off as long as pos- sible, it may turn out to be the best thing you haven’t done all day. ote of the Week: “He slimed me.” — Anonymous sophomore girl making an observation at Sigma Nu’s ‘Shipwrecked’ Party. )2 They say that children need role models. I’m not ex- actly certain who “they” is; I’m pretty sure it’s the same omniscient “they” that say broccoli is good for you, don’t swim for an hour after eating and never put salt in your eyes. I have the sneaking suspi- cion that “they” is the guy from that ridiculous “wear sunscreen” song. But that’s neither here nor there. (Actually, it’s definitely there, but that’s neither here nor there either). The point is that kids need role models, and in our unheroic age role models are about as hard to come by as well-spoken Jerry Springer guests. In their infinite wisdom, “they” say parents should be children’s best role models. But in an age when divorce is more common than fights on the Springer show, (sorry for all the Springer gags, they were having a clearance sale down at the comedy warehouse) the only contact most kids have with their parents is through a monthly child support check. And in an age when skipping child support is as popular as lesbian stripper love triangles on Springer (sorry), even that’s kind of iffy. Back in the day kids didn’t need to look up to their parents. Kids had real heroes like John F. Kennedy, Mickey - »~\§ . Spring term much ado about nothin’ } I’m Not British Kevin Mdvlanemin ’00 Mantle and the Babe to idolize. Today we’ve got Teddy Kennedy, Albert Belle and the entire NBA. Of course, this disillusionment isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It turns out Mantle and Ruth were both drunks, and when JFK wasn’t cheating on his wife he was secretly starting a war in Vietnam. Anytime you elevate someone to hero status, you can be sure they’ll only disappoint. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? He’s in the bathroom popping pills as his wife Marilyn Monroe is out i"‘**ing the president. No, our children don’t need heroes. What they need are some good enemies. Think about it. Nations work best when they’re fight- ing against somebody else. A people are never more uni- fied than when they’re marching off to war. If we want our children to learn to work hard and work together, don’t give them some hollow role models to blindly follow like a flock of sheep. Pick some other country or minority group, spread the happy little seeds of hate and watch the miracle of human nature take over. You know, the other day I was talking about this with my Russian mail—order bride Svetlana. I don’t speak Rus- sian and neither of us speak particularly good English, but we agreed on one thing: our nations were a lot hap- pier when they had each other to hate. “Svetlana, dear,” I said, “When I was a kid we were always afraid you Krazy Kommies were going to nuke us.” “Green card come today,” she responded. “I leaving you now.” “And it turns out most of your nukes were just hol- lowed out shells, but we still spent hundreds of billions of dollars that we could have used to solve all our social problems trying to compete with your empty shell produc- ‘- tion, only to scrap most of our nukes in a bunch of worth- less treaties in the eighties anyway. Boy, it sure is funny how things work out sometimes, eh, darling? Darling?” I don’t know where Svetlana went, probably to the store, but when she gets back I think we’ll talk about raising our children (we’ve already decided on names: Yuri and Samantha). When the kids are old enough I’m going to teach them about the godless Chinese who are" responsible for all the problems of the world. Then I’ll watch them shake themselves from the apathetic slumber so many kids go through life with, and smile with pride as my children attack the world with the energy of an en- raged lesbian on Jerry Springer (sorry, but at those prices I couldn’t afford not to buy the Springer gags). \ ’.‘+/KT? My wife/I’ W/LL /