OCR::/Vol_115/WLURG39_RTP_20120116/WLURG39_RTP_20120116_001.2.txt I 2» Trying to remember Saturdayhighti?, opinions / page: I Welcome back..the Outing Club way Students participate in various outdoor activities to celebrate another term or to get away from formal recruitment stress. ARTS&LlFE/page3 MONDAY, JANUARY 16; 2011 WASHINGTON min LEE Uwwcasmr IT IHE SIHDEHTS RID 1597 Q TI-IE RING-TUM PHI. FDITHE SIUDEIIIS SIIIEE gvoLuMEcx.NuMBER1s Occupy W&L: Fighting debt Members of the so-called“0ccupy” generation finds creative ways to combat lingering student loan debt By Mickey Gorman STA F F WRITE R Far from Zuccotti Park, in the back of Washington and Lee’s performing arts center, Tony Lawrence is fighting back against the one percent in his own way. The scene shop in W&L’s Lenfest Center for the Arts is in, shambles. The destruction is the result of countless hours of carefully disassembling the scenery from recent plays. Lawrence, the theater’s technical director, is re- sponsible for building and taking down’ the set from each play. For the sake of cost efficiency he must deconstruct the scenery down to the last two-by-four so the materials canbe reused. . But after everyone else has left the shop, Lawrence pushes all unfinished projects and debris to the side and begins work on his second job. In an effort to pay off his student loans, the theater’s technical director uses his.skill as a carpenter to craft fra- ternity paddles with the W&L trident to sell to students in Greek organizations. The 29-year-old Lawrence finds him- self in what some people are now calling the Occupy generation. Like many of his peers, Lawrence is trying to make ends meet while dealing with the weight of student loans on his shoulders — $70,000 in loans, that is. Despite reports in June from Colleg- eGrad.com that hiring for entry leveljobs increased 22 percent from last year, the Occupy Movement spread like wildfire to college campuses. Students express concern about rising tuition costs, stu- dent loan debt, and weak job prospects. Students at schools like Harvard Univer- sity and University of California, Berke- ley, have tied these problems directly to the Occupy Wall Street movement. However, more relief seems to be on the horizon. Interest rates are dropping to eye-opening lows. Students may see rates as low as 3.4 percent, Liz Weston reported on MSN Money. “I am going to refinance my loans be- cause interest rates are crazy [low] these days,” Lawrence said. This has been part of Lawrence’s pro- active approach to overcoming the “one percent”: trying to save a buck and make a buck wherever possible. As far as the rest of the occupiers, Lawrence tries to -be sympathetic. “I understand their plight,” he said, “but you can’t expect to get a job if you went to college for something useless... like underwater basket weaving.” In its newest survey CollegeGrad. com, which bills itself “The #1 Entry Level Job Site,”, reported that the col- lege majors drawing the most entry level job offers were business administration, engineering, and marketing. Lawrence majored in theater and went to graduate school to receive a degree in theater with an emphasis on technical direction. With such a specific skill set acquired through his unique education path, Law- rence says that he has never worried about job security. ' “People are always going to want stuff,” Lawrence said. _ His newest example of “stuff” to make and ‘sell are customized, hand crafted fraternity paddles. He has not determined a price for each paddle yet, but is convinced he can beat the “inflat- ed” prices of the W&L bookstore. The bookstore, a popular outlet for fraternity paddles, sells paddles for $15 in the win- ter term. Lawrence plans to go door to door at fraternity houses giving his best sales pitch. Every paddle is one step closer to having his loans repaid. “It is nothing to retire on, but any- thing to help lighten the load of all that debt,” Lawrence said. ITS responds to student needs New smart phone access maybe added after summer improvements to wireless networks and the stable By Neil Haggerty STAFF WRITER Information Technology Services is using the results of a May 2011 survey to improve technology at Washington and Lee. According to the 444 survey respons- es to the ITS survey, the main issues that students at W&L felt needed to be ad- dressed were “wireless network capac- ity, wireless network coverage, and reli- able and available University network.” In response to these complaints ITS informed students that they added wire- less coverage to the archaeology labora- tory, the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house Normal class times Bzlwam-8:55am B:Ullam- ltlzflliiam 8:35am-lG:DDam 9:05am» Iilztiiiam 10:10am-I I-.[i5am ll]:1(Iam- I 1:35am 10: I(1am- I2: Iflpm 11:15am-l2:’1Dpm I l:5(Iam-1:15pm 12:20pm-1:15pm 12:20pn1-2:20pm 1:25pm-2:20pm 1:25pm-2:50pm 1:25pm-4:3|flpm '2:30prri«3:25pm 2:30pm-4:.3Dpm 3:fl0pm-4:2':3pm 3:35pm-4:3‘D'p~m -1:40pm-Szfilfipin and Hill House during the summer. Ser-H vice was also enhanced in the Intema- tional House and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. During Thanksgiving break, ITS made more improvements. The “entire wireless system” received an upgrade, according to a recent e-mail sent to all students. That upgrade, ITS reported, has helped ease “continuity in service when students are moving between buildings.” The stable wireless desktop that many professors on campus have stu- ' dents utilize for their classes has also Adjusted Class Schedule [Ugr] Founders’ Day Convocation - Thursday. January 19. 2012 Convocation herald II:4«5am-1:00pm Adiusted Class Time 8:EiL1:i rn—8:45am Itflilarrr-9:~ilJan1 8:35am-9:25am tizsfiqini-9:4Dain 9;5Elam~1D:.35am 9:-tfiarni-10:35am 9:50am-1l:3tl:im V 1D:45am-11:30am . 10:45am-11:35am l:1Dpm—1:55pm t:l0pm-2:5l]pm 2:05pm-2:50pm 2:05pm-2:55pm 2:05pm-4:30pm 3:D0pm—3:45prn 3:0l)pm»-Mflpixi 3:05pm-3:55pm 3:55pm-4:4£Ip:n 4:50pm-5:35pm Laboratories and Studio classes Elzflliam-‘I 2:1[Ipm 8:35am—l I:-mam 1:25pm—4:3C|-pm 1:25pm-5:35pm 8:(l[i:irn—11:3t]an1 ~B:35am-I 1:30am ?.:{l5pm-4:30pm 2:05pm-5:35pm been upgraded, according to the ITS report. This includes the automatic con- nection of network computers to printer, new software, and training at the Smart Zone for students who wish to learn how to access local storage. “The stable has been a huge blessing. I no longer have to run around campus to a desktop computer to access docu- merits,” senior Ben Ersing said. Another improvement that ITS made in the classroom is the implementation of Tegrity, a service that allows protes- sors to record their classes. According to the ITS response to students, “The tool is now available in about 25 percent of undergraduate class- rooms, but many faculty members have not embraced the tool.” Some students, like Ersing, wish that program was utilized more. “I would love to be able to listen to recordings of classes,” Ersing said, cit- ing the difficulty of taking notes in cer- tain classes that move at a very fast pace. He said has not seen Tegrity used in any ofhis classes in the Williams School. Future improvements are also com- ing. 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Some urgent phone calls were made dur- ing the first week in January but luckily I arrived in Virginia just in time to start the semester, which as you all know, co- incides with sorority and fraternity rush. I have to say that I grossly underes- timated how overwhelmed I would feel ByFranOsca1h’I CDLUHHIST by my sorority’s recruitment efforts. The exuberance of the singing, dancing and cheering that defines rush week could not have clashed more awkwardly with the tranquility of my extra-curricular- free study abroad experience. Needless to say,Il spent the last week dazed and confused in some form of reverse culture shock that has only just begun to wear off. Throughout my week of re-integra- tion I began to notice the stark gender divide that exists within our community. I think that before my sojourn on the Eu- ropean continent I had become de-sensi- tized to the issues of gender relations on W&L’s campus. I wasn’t disturbed by the fact that my only interactions with males occurred in the classroom or on Wind- fall. Of course I realized that our school exhibits peculiar dealings between males and females, but I had become so inte- grated into the W&L social network that I wasn’t bothered by such apparent mu- tual objectification of the sexes. Nevertheless, after returning to school, I am thoroughly perturbed by the nature of gender relations at W&L. I realize that my previous statement may appear a bit dramatic and is likely large- ly influenced by re-entering our school By the end of the week the entire student body is grouchy, fatigued, behind on homework and desperate to drink. Satur- day night eventually rolls around and the males and females of Washington and Needless to say vomit, Health Center trips, the oc- casional ER bound collegiate, Plan B popping and moral hangovers define Tear Night and certainly account for an eventful start to the semester during a particularly divided week. That said, the stressful schedule of rush is cer- tainly not conducive to a gender healthy start to the semester. Freshman women stress about placement, division of friend groups and outfit choices, while boys are invited to sumptuous dinners, receive their bids (usually mid-week) and are re- warded with copious amounts of alcohol. Lee stagger onto Windfall and reconnect while (sometimes anonymously) locking lips and jamming to Ike and Tina. We all know that the Dance Floor Makeout is the hallmark of Tear Night. Needless to say vomit, Health Center trips, the occasional ER bound colle- giate, Plan B popping and moral hang- overs define Tear Night and certainly account for an eventful start to the se- mester. As Sunday evening approaches the student body at long last crawls out of bed, sidles into the library and delib- erately avoids eye contact thus perpetu- ating a negative environment of gender relations on our campus. My goal with this column is to ex- plore fraternity and sorority centric atmosphere of W&L and the ways in which it specifically perpetuates issues of gender relations within the univer- sity. I am by no means pretending that I have not at many points enabled this particular gender divide. However, af- ter leaving for a semester I believe I am able to somewhat objectively critique the gender dynamic on our campus. Galva- nized and somewhat shocked by what I observed last night, I hope to bring a fresh and fighting perspective to the con- tinuous problem of mutual objectifica- tion between the sexes. From free beer to slavery: four stages of brotherhood Opinions Editor Campbell Burr describes how the Greek system controls the attitudes and actions . . W At a school I with the highest percentage of students who go Greek, it is no surprise that rush and pledgeship affect the mind- sets and attitudes of the students, especially the boys. After a lot of observation 3‘, Campbell gun. and analysis, OPINIONS Eniron 1 have broken freshman year into four phases based on the way boys behave. This piece is not only meant to inform you of the ways in which college boys change overtime, but also to let you know how you should expect to interact with the boys in each stage. So without further ado, I present “The Four Stages of the Freshman Boy.” Stage 1: Wow, Hot Girls and Free Beer Stage 1 consists of the first two weeks of school, when freshman boys are invit- ed to all parties, surrounded by cute girls, and given as much free alcohol as they want. They have just been dropped off at school and had their rooms decorated by their mommies, who sent them with ex- tra blankets, in case they get cold, and a nightlight, in case they need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. For some, this may be their first time away from their moms, and for others, their first experience with alcohol, and boy do they think drinking is cool. Soon the picture of John holding his baby cousin will be replaced by a poster of two girls making out (yes, they do sell this in the school store). If you walk through D-hall, you may overhear some boys spitting the Alco- holEdu terms they’ve been aching to use all summer. “Dang it dude, I engaged in some high-risk drinking last night and casually browned out. Calculated that I had 6 ounces of tequila in an hour. If that isn’t binge drinking than I don’t know what is.” These boys will make trip after trip to refill their cups with blue Pow- erade in D-hall, just to show their class- mates that they go hard. This is also the period when the health center has more overnight visitors CATHERINE TINNEY TRAVIS WAKEMAN thanGaines (maybe iifnsiisicinaiiaiiilifiuliitslfi not saying TH * PHI much...).A E NO-51‘ UM . visit to me health cen- terisapoint MANAGING EDITOR DIANDRA SPICAK ofpride for NEWS EDITOR ELEANOR KENNEDY these boys, OPINIONS EDITOR CAMPBELL BuRR rather than ARTS&L|FE EDITOR PAIGE GANCE something sPoRTs EDITOR LEIGH DANNHOUSER that m_ COPY EDITOR NEIL HAGGERTY bmasses STAFF WRITERS BELLA ZUROSKI tIIem‘B°yS BRIDGET ROONEY V‘‘’“’_ a" FRANCESCA WILSON °Ve”“gh! MICKEY GORMAN Stay at the health center as the equivalent of a stay at an upperclassman girl’s off-campus house, and they will exaggerate their BAC the same way they will exaggerate whatever happened at that girl’s house. in sorority informal rush. Every freshman boy gets a little bit cocky as this stage progresses, but I guess anyone would if a group of up- perclassmen were worshipping him and Boys view an overnight stay at the health center as the equivalent of a stay at an upperclassman girl is ofl—campus house, and they will exaggerate their BAC the same way they will exaggerate whatever happened at that girl 3 house As much as we like to laugh at these boys, we can’t. Whether you went through this stage in 8th grade, llth grade, or the first week of college, you went through this stage. Independence is cool and so is free alcohol—some just enjoy it later than others. Stage 2: “Time isn’t wasted when you’re getting wasted” Stage 2 consists of the rest of first se- mester, when boys are trying to win the respect of upperclassmen boys. They’lI talk to them about sports, and the num- ber of girls they’ve hooked up with at school. All I can say is remember the Rule of Three. In this stage, boys are invited on rush trips. These may consist of getting bel- ligerently drunk, getting on a bus, going to an Italian restaurant, passing out in a restaurant booth, getting back on the bus, throwing up, and passing Out again. Strippers may also appear at events, making some boys feel more guilt than excitement over what they are witness- ing. Fraternity informal rush consists of anything that would be strictly forbidden attending to his every need. The boys en- joy “playing pong” after class on Fridays and going back to fraternity houses to hang out “late night.” They are also in- vited to fraternity formals, always bring- ing hot dates to impress the brothers. Tear Night is their final night of free- dom and last chance to do outrageous stuff to impress Older brothers and get out of some pledgeship duties. If a fresh- man boy says something along the lines of, “I like kinda saw her bra,” he may be granted an ‘extra hour of freedom that week. Stage 3: Eight Weeks of Slavery The morning after Tear Night begins the longest eight weeks of a freshman boy’s year. They must attend to their re- sponsibilities in school, as well as their big brothers’ every need. Pledgeship is also a weird period for freshman girls. D-hall clears out, the first and second floors of Graham-Lees feel vacant, and whenever you see a male classmate, he looks tired and a little bit miserable. You know it’s bad when your male classmates have been wearing the The most “tear”rific night of the of first yearmales same shirt for a week and look like they have lost twenty pounds because they “can’t find time to eat.” Wish I had that scheduling problem. Besides offering re- assuring smiles and occasional laundry service, there is little girls can do. Even though pledgeship seems mis- erable, it accomplishes what it is meant to accomplish. Pledge brothers become absurdly close, closer than they could become singing songs and baking cook- ies together. By the end of pledgeship, they are so in love with each other that some boys contemplate why they needed girls around in the first place. Stage 4: The Ego Boost The same poor souls who wore dirty clothes for eight weeks, failed tests, and were deprived of sleep and food have made a comeback. If you thought your male classmates were cocky before pledgeship, wait until you see them af- ter. They are enjoying the hugest ego boost of their lives, and have become a different breed than the shy little fresh- men their mommies dropped off at the beginning of the year. Topics of conversation with this new breed: how awesome they are; how they cannot wait to get their hands on the in- coming group of “biddies” in the fall; how nothing could compare to what they have been through. They have been through a lot and deserve our respect, but beware that they may be a bit big- headed. Freshman year is fi.1ll of changes for boys. SO ifyou see a first year who is un- shaven and appears a bit stressed, don’t feel too son'y for him. In eight weeks, he’ll be going 70 mph down Washington Street, blasting Widespread Panic and thinking he’s the man. year DESIGN EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGERS JULIANNA sATTERLY MATT GossET'T DAVE WILSON DILLON MYERS KANE THOMAS BRYAN SIMPSON DISTRIBUTION STAFF MISSION STATEMENT: It is the mission of THE RING-TUM PHI to accurately, truthfully, and thoroughly report news affecting the Washington and Lee community for students, faculty, parents and alumni. Our goal is to look deeper into news affecting campus life and hold leaders accountable. Through our reporting, we aspire to spark discussions that lead to discovering information that prompts change. THE RING—TUM PHI is published Mondays during the undergraduate school year. THE RING—TUM PHI is a member of The Media Board, which can be reached at medlaboard@wlu.edu, but is otherwise independent.THE RING-TUM PHI welcomes all letters. We reserve the right to edit submissions for content and length. Letters and advertising do not necessarily reflect the opinion of THE RING-TUM PHI staff. This newspaper observes current court definitions of libel and obscenity. THE RING-TUM PHI UNIVERSITY COMMONS ROOM. 341 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LEXINGTONJVIRGINIA 24450 TELEPHONE: (540) 458-4060 ' FAX: (540) 458-4059 EMAIL: PH|@WLU.EDU SUBSCRIPTION RATE $45 Rooney and Zuroski describe Tear Night, an annual holiday at W&L By “Bella Zumslii and Bridget Rooney C D L U M N15 TS Congratulations — if you’re reading this, you survived Tear Night 2012! (Hopefully you didn’t end up in the health center/ hospital, but if you did — there’s always next year!) The following is a (hypo- thetical) walkthrough of a typical tear night: If you’re a girl, you start out with a nice car- bo-loaded dinner at the sorority house to prepare yourself for the night (the chefs know what’s up). Next, you head to an off- campus house for some nice pledge class... bond- ing. After a few hours of dancing to “Rack City” over and over (and over), you find yourself being herded by your sober sis- ters into the sorority ve- hicles (typically SUV’s covered in Greek letters and exclamation points — saooooo cute and spir- ited!) to a fraternity house to officially begin Tear Night festivities. There, you might find yourself in a number of situa- tions, including bonding with your new sisters on the dance floor (oh-em- gee! I I I) or “bonding” with new fraternity pledges on the dance floor. From there, anything goes. From around 10-12, activities may include romping around from fratemity house to fra- ternity house until those Greek letter-clad SUV’s come back to herd you to the midnight breakfast (There’s bacon! Presi- dent Ruscio will be there! You’ll love it I swear). Naturally, you hear the word “bacon” and run to the car. At the midnight breakfast, you will find yourself entranced by the buffet of eggs, bacon, bis- cuits, etc. However, you may be among the few who approach President Ruscio angrily complain- ing about the lack of pan- cakes (common miscon- ception about the name of the event — it’s Midnight Breakfast, not Pancake Breakfast, people). After the breakfast, you have it dead set in your mind that you are making it to Windfall this year. But when you get there, the band is already on its last song (but hey, you made it!). So you round up your freshmen and bring them back to the house to introduce them to thejnirvana of Frank Parsons Way — the snack table. You might walk around the halls singing “Rack City” to yourself for a while more (you just can’t escape that song), then hash out the night and retreat into snuggle mode, curling up on afuton to fall into a sweet Tear Night slumber. The next morning, you wake up and run around the house (still in your Tear Night ensemble), rounding everyone up and hashing out the night in or- der to find out who scored the best DF M . Hypotheti- cally, you get a freshman to swipe you into D-Hall for brunch (it’s no lon- ger a rush violation!) and watch the poor freshman boys march off to the first day of a fabulous 8 weeks. Although it’s sad that the night that deserves to be recognized as a nation- al holiday is over, we’ll always have the memories (at least some of us will). Only 365 days until the next Tear Night! I / /. / I 5» ‘A OCR::/Vol_115/WLURG39_RTP_20120116/WLURG39_RTP_20120116_003.2.txt C) 3 - THE RING-TUM PHI- MONDAY, JANUARY 16,2011 ' a rts&|ife Outing Club Welcomes students back Students snow-tube, hike, zipline and ice skate to celebrate the beginning of a new term and to escape the stress of rush By Travis Wakeman STA F F w RITE R Non-Greek students and those need- ing to escape the stress of rush week could zip-line, hike under a full moon, and go snow tubing and ice-skating as part of the Outing Club’s “Welcome Back Week.” Starting with a full-moon hike on Tuesday, a rollout rappel on Friday and snow tubing and ice skating over the weekend, the Outing Club offered ample opportunities to release the stress that many Greek students feel this time of year. To independent students, the activi- ties offered a chance to get off campus while their Greek friends were busy. James McCullum said after the Wednesday hike, “When I left for this at 8:30 tonight my entire dorm was empty, no one was there, there were no students because I assume they were all pledg- ing and its a little disheartening to be the only one there, so getting out and being with other students and friends is amaz- ing.” ' While the main attendees were inde- pendent upperclassmen and freshmen, James Dick, the Outing Club Director, said, “I really would like to tap into the juniors and seniors who have had as much Natty-light as they can handle in the same basement, with the same DJ, with the same friends, the same collared shirts, how much can you do that before your bored out of your mind?” A number of “Greek students who have tired with the same old-same old” were in attendance at events through the week, taking advantage of the time to unplug and get away from it all. At Wintergreen Resort, students zipped down the equivalent of a l0-story building at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour, covering the distance of 3 football fields in a matter of seconds. ‘The Outing Club’s “Winter Welcome Week” activities have been a regular of- fering for the past nine years with some years featuring more caving or winter sports depending on weather and student preferences. One of the toughest parts of making Outing Club activities successful is get- ting the word out. Students who partici- pate often in events fonn a solid nucleus of “networkers” who get other students involved by word of mouth. This year, the weekend snow tubing trip was particularly popular and a great bargain with an Outing Club fee of 10 dollars for tickets usually worth 30 dol- lars. Even though the snow has been sparse, the slopes at Wintergreen were covered with a thick layer of man-made snow. For those who prefer to climb, the rollout rappel allowed students to scale a 40-foot tree before dropping from a plat- form and swinging like a pendulum. An extensive belaying system ensured com- plete safety for the climbers and those waiting their turn below. For a less physically demanding ex- perience, aspiring astronomers and hik- ing enthusiasts enjoyed an easy ‘hike to the summit of Cole Mountain for Stargazing. A clear night sky offered a beautiful view of the moon and with a telescope, students could view Jupiter and three of its moons. Just fewer than 20 students braved the crisp night air and were rewarded with hot chocolate and apple cider. Future events to look forward to include the Everglades Kayak trip over February Break (only a few seats still available) ’ and possible ski/snowboard- ing day trips to local resorts. Disc-Golf and Geocaching are available daily and can be inquired about at outing@wlu. edu. Trips are formed largely based on student interest. The Outing Club challenges stu- dents to do something completely dif- ferent and unique on at least one of the nights normally devoted to partying. “Its the same Pole house, its the same beer, its the same- mostly- the same people,” said Dick. “Come do one new thing: rappel off of Chambers Ridge, learn how to fly-fish with me, do an o1'ienteer- ing course, do a geo- cache, come caving.” WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY CAREER SERVICES AND STUDENT AFFAIRS CORDIALLY INVITE STUDENTS TO AN ‘ETIQUETTE DINNER AND RECEPTION Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:30 — 8:00 p.m. Sheridan Livery 35 North Main Street Lexington, Virginia Regimer in person in Career Sermice: January 16:}:-20:}: $15 fee includes dinner and instructional Space is limited. Register early. Careerservices Like politics? Check this out! WHAT College Dems host And Schmookler WHEN Tuesday, 7 p.m. WHERE Stackhouse Andy S_chmool