OCR::/Vol_099_100/WLURG39_RTP_19980309/WLURG39_RTP_19980309_001.2.txt class The Women’s lacrosse team Swensen debates the practicality of Hi l('3 starts off 20. Meanwhile the tl1e Swiss drug policy ourEditon'al 4 __ Find out l'lOW the m , _ , ' _| av _On womens tennis team doesn’t argues that the Honor System ca Km Gog Hgege Studem 0 drop a set While cruising to a sometimes helps those who exploit .. ‘( ; Spends his Week Q_ 20 ODAC record. it, t PAGE 3 (0 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 R ~ ‘ ‘ liplk Rate. A B ‘I III -111111 I Washington and Lee University Monday VOLUME 100, NUMBER 16 MARCH 9, 1998 t Eating disorders , lurk below surface BY WILL HARDIE NEWS EDITOR nly five students turned up to take part in the national eating disorders screening program on Wednesday Feb. 25. University Counsellor Anne McThenia believes that the poor re- sponse belies the true extent of the problem at Washington and Lee, and is disappointed that so few took ad- vantage of the opportunity. On Feb. l7, all Washington and Lee students had received an e-mail saying that screening tests would be available throughout the day on Feb. 25. The screening program, run by the non-profit National Mental Ill- ness Screening Project, aimed to raise awareness of eating disorders. None of the students who were screened were at risk. “For them it - served as an educational tool,” said McThenia. “They came because they had concerns and wanted to validate them.”’ According to the National Insti- tute of Mental Health, more than five million women in the United States suffer from eating disorders. Bulimia is the most common, afflicting be- tween 2 and 3 percent of young women. About 1 percent of young women are anorexic, and about 2 per- cent of the general population have binge eating disorder, which is un- usual as it affects men to the same degree as women. “We know there are a large num- ber of people with eating disorders,” said McThenia. “The question is how ‘i to reach them.” She believes that about 5 percent of college-age women have an eat- ing disorder. “Knowing that that five percent are out there makes us want to reach a wider audience,” she said. The university health services considered mandating at—risk stu- dents, such as athletes, or even all It freshmen, to be screened for eat- ing disorders. The idea had to be abandoned, because it was thought too intrusive. But Jan Hathom, women’s soccer and lacrosse coach, said she would support such a program. She has seen three cases of eating disorders among athletes in the last six years. “I recognize that it will feel rather intrusive to the ladies. They are not going to like it, but it’s not going to hurt either. It is the most likely way to deal with this issue.” 04 Because of the secretive nature of eating disorders it is diflicult to gauge the extent of the problem at W&L. But there are several reasons to be- lieve that the incidence here may be higher than the national average. Psychiatrists believe that eating disorders are associated with certain personality traits, such as perfection- ism‘and ambition, and with higher socio-economic class. “W&L draws people that fit the profile,” said McThenia. “And the pressures at this institution make them doubly vulnerable.” She said that danger factors at W&L include the high pressure to succeed, the high expectation to look a certain way, the the low level of intolerance of dif- ference. “People who are at W&L want to go into professions that seem to em- phasize appearance more than the wider field, I think irresponsibly,” she said. Another factor might be the rela- tively recent arrival of women as a group at W&L. “Those women who first came here knew that they were under great pressure to succeed aca- demically and socially,” said McThenia. That pressure might have been passed down through succes- sive generations of students. Dr, Jane Horton, Director of Health Services, agrees that this may be a factor. “They are very much visi- tors in a male social environment," she said. The building of sorority housing might shift the social balance in fa- vor of women. But, Horton said, “So- rority houses are by their nature not the sort of places where these big parties happen. The question is, can they create a different social environ- ment that is healthier?” Health Educator Jan Kaufman said her task is “getting people to accept their body images, to learn to feel comfortable with themselves.” McThenia said that the atmosphere at W&L does not help them to do that. “This would work better in this environment if it were tolerant of dif- ference of every kind,” she said. Kaufman has come across a vari- ety of disrupted eating patterns among women at W&L, including what she calls the “bagel diet,” whereby a student eats nothing but bagels, and the “popcom and diet soda” diet. Eating disorders are particularly difficult to treat at college age be- cause the attitudes that underlie them developed as early as fourth or fifth grade or in high school. “The difficulty is that it’s a whole societal problem,” said McThenia. According to a 1992 study, half of 9-year-olds and 80 percent of 10- year-olds have already dieted. 40 percent of American women are on a diet, though half of those are not overweight. Kaufman blamed the cultural and media emphasis on thin- ness, as well as “the belief that look- ing thin is a prerequisite for being (GD SEE FAnNG PAGE 2 Sophomore Riley Greeme dips his date, sophomore Susan Terzian. This is their first FD together, Greeme and Terzian have been dat- ing for three months. (Left) Sophomores Joe Hawkins and Ellen Klenk socialize in the gym lobby. They have been dating since high school, which was in India- FLYING FLAPPING AND DIPPING napolis, Ind. Klenk transferred from Dickinson to W&L this year. (Top Right) T.J. Griffin, '97, chats with a flapper on the dance floor. Griflin returned earlier this year to escort senior Mary New, the 1997 Home- coming Queen. (Bottom Right) FD Committee workers finished decorating the gym by 3 pm Friday. In years past, workers constructed until the start of the ball. As of Thursday night, the FD Committee reported that $60, 000 worth of tick- ets were sold. Most of the committee’s budget comes from ticket sales and a small portion comes from the playbill. D-Hall workers upsetat. FD cost ill?) Controversy arises over half price FD tickets BY SEAN MCMANUS TAFF WRITER Serving side dishes and swiping cards brought sonre Dining Hall workers more than a free meal. Student workers received half-priced Fancy Dress tickets, but not without some controversy. About I0 of the 28 D—Hall workers took advantage of a compromise reached between a disgruntled D-Hall worker and the FD Committee. Knowledge of the dis- count passed between workers through word of mouth. According to Carolyn Lee, FD Audi- - tor, it had been customary in years past for full—time, non-student Dining Hall staff members to give away their fiee FD tick- ets to students. This year the Committee decided to begin stamping faculty and staff tickets with the label “For faculty and staflf only.” This made the tickets non-t1ansfer- able, a decision which angered many D- Hall workers who had grown accustomed to going to FD for free. “We were losing thousands of dollars,” said Lee. She said the $25 tickets were for this year only. The workers received no discount on memorabilia. Since FD is frmded exclusively through ticket sales, Lee was looking for a “fair” way to tighten the budget without raising ticket prices or slashing the decorations budget. Last Monday, Omar Vannoy, student manager for the D—Hall, alerted the Ex- ecutive Committee to the D—Hall work- ers’ concems, accordingto Chris Baldwin, vice-president of the EC. He noted that given the context of fratemities at W&L, ‘Lord knows, Anything Goes’: Fancy Dress a crowd pleaser BY ANDREA EWING “people come to rely on certain things from year to year, and it’s hard when you take those things away.” Vannoy could not be reached for comment. Lee said a “certain D—Hall worker threatened to strike” if the workers didn’t ASSOCIATE EDITOR Anything Goes. Especially on Fancy Dress weekend. Friday night a majority of students at Washington and Lee, some faculty and staff celebrated the 91st Annual Fancy Dress Ball. The theme was the “Roaring Twenties: Flappers, Flight, and Jazz All Night.” The gym became the scene of gang- sters, fiappers and a speakeasy. Senior Bill Wamock summed the weekend up when he said,» “I had a hell ofa time.” The overwhelming reaction to the ball was one of awe and appreciation. Awe because of the decorations, and appreciation because there was not a rap band for the Thursday night concert. Junior Nathan Hager said, “Thank God for a rock band Thursday night.” From the standpoint of the Fancy Dress committee, the ball was different from the past two years. Junior Mary- *First woman elected to EC I BY KATHRYN MAYURNIK =—--—-———j- MANAGING EDITOR Fourteen years after the first women were permitted to attend Q Washington and Lee, Beth Formidoni, ’96, ’99 Law, was elected the first fe- male Executive Committee President. She received 524 votes to junior James HasIam’s 281. Formidoni doesn’t believe that gen- der elected her, but stated that it “was about time.” “I was really glad that gender didn’t impede my campaign in a any way,” she said. As a graduate and a second year law student, Formidoni has noticed some distinct changes at W&L. “Women are more accepted at ‘V W&L now,” she said. “This just doesn’t apply to my elec- tion, but to Amy Gorham’s election to Vice President two years ago. I don’t think that would’ve happened my freshmen year,” Formidoni said. Haslam posted signs around carn- pus plugging himself as the candidate “Continuing 250 years of tradition.” Haslam denies that the slogan had anything to do with gender. “I didn’t know how to interpret it,” Formidoni said. “I have to assume the best and assume that he meant it in an innocu- ous way.” Although some surveys say that leadership differences do exist be- tween men and women, Formidoni believes that this will not have any bearing on her office. “I think that gender may make a more pronounced difference in a dif- ferent context, like the President of the United States,” she said. “Women are usually less violent, and this would make a difference when going to war. Q9 SEEECPAGE2 NEW EXECUIVE Committee president Beth F ormidoni will be the first woman to hold that position. H0l.l.I3'l75R [‘]()l"EY/RING-IUM PHI Sommers Burger who was on the committee said the decorations were “sophisticated” and was quick to point out that many members of the Theatre Department helped to build the set—like decorations. “It looked pro- fessional. Not like a bunch of college—students with some paint brushes,” she said. Whether Greek or independent, students cel- ebrated Fancy Dress in their own ways. Burger, a Kappa Kappa Gamma, spent the week- end at various parties in Red Square.. “It was a lot offun since all my friends were there. Wejust hung out and had a good time and then went to Lee-Hi,” freshman Betty Alkire said. Fancy Dress tends to be W&L’s “80,000 dol- lar answer to the prom,” but this year was a memo- rable one. _ “They rolled out the red carpet for us,” Wamock said. “New Orleans has Mardi Gras. W&L has F.D.” receive free FD tickets. According to Baldwin, the workers felt the non-trans- ferable tickets were a surprise and there wasn’t time to save for the cost of FD. “... We reached a compromise in spite of the threat not because of it,” Lee said. According to Director of Dining Ser- vices, Gerald Darrell. “No one ever came to me about a strike,” Darrell said, “and even if one student chose to walk out, he’d be there by himself.” Students who can’t afford to attend FD can apply to be part of the committee or to be a contract worker. “We hope no one would be pre- vented to coming [to FD] for finan- cial reasons,” Lee said. Courtney Miller contributed to this article P ' '5 Msnaerisc Epirox’ rtislrdrorne every day at ‘ «half-Fit edwomen, militant A I 2. smaenaaa.2ige:‘memii¢ney’sw$ru;.,r1ieycan;-};ia;.Zi.i- someone like thatongc-SP , .” . . ‘ SomethinkitW8S'§‘bad‘ideato’givé'up‘onSpringer..: “I think that all Contact here,are,; I ,_ ,_ V , ‘ lovers: ‘Washington and A the shmce to hearthe king , of allof these valuefithe talk show host Jerry Springer. Contact came very close to booking him, but after they 2 discovered lira:-‘Springer would be, speaking for what Contact lfresiderrtiioshua Heslinga call “other motiva- tions,” they decided against it. ‘ l Contact had been speaking with Springer’s agent fora few months. They had the option of waiting for a few months or giving‘ up altogether. “ from his agent that Springer doesn’t speak to speak, but his price at $5,000, which is low forsomeone of his cali- ber. But that was obviously for other motivations.” Heslinga said that Contact looks for speakers who are interested in coming to W&L and interacting with the studmjtgi “Ifthey’rejust here to promote themselves, the “We were hoping to get him but “we also found out speaks to promote his show,” Heslirrga said. “He kept , out for promoting'thern‘selves or abook they’re writing,” ‘ said senior Fobi, an avid Springer /viewer’. “Con- V tact always bringgthesame types here. i There are‘1,000 Pat Buchanan clones here, so we really don’t need more peopletlikc you think because he’s so outrageous”, here, it would’ve been bigger than Jesus: Everyone loves Jerry.” Fobi believes Springer represents Americana. “Jerry is theAlexis 'de’IToqueville of the 20th Century. Like Toquevilledid-mthe 1800s, Jerry gives an accurate picture of America. ‘If you want to see what America looks like, watch Jerry.” Fobi,_cites his fiworite episide as the one titled, “Pm a High Class CalfGifl, but You’re Just a Cheap Ho.” “It’s right up thae with the last episode of M"A*S*H and the “who shot JR” episode of Dallas,” he said. Springer’s “Too Hot for TV” video has been a hot SEEJERRY PAGE 2 OCR::/Vol_099_100/WLURG39_RTP_19980309/WLURG39_RTP_19980309_002.2.txt /W/i FOL./0 379,765 /IR :3 :3 "Z-, / 99 7/ ’~i’ )4 V. /o 0 14 . I :7, ‘I settle those matters as well as to console. I don’t ‘KCEEC *1’ kn h dl’h d ‘t OW PW TO ea Wlt rape an acommi - tee don t know how to deal with it. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Fomiidoni was disappointed with the poor But obviously, this won’t be a situa- Voter turnout. tlon I Will have to deal With a5 EC “I am really surprised that voter turnout would President-” be so poor on such a small campus. Gossip gets Eollhldohl does hot pel5ohall}’ be’ around so fast, but the fact that an election is going lieve that rape should be considered on goes unnoticed)’ an EC matter and an honor Vlolatlon- How did Fomiidoni feel afier she heard the leg- “l think that it l5 a Very dlshonorable endaiy “leave now” speech her freshmen year? act! hllt lt l5 not an apptoptlate matter “I was scared,” she said. How does she feel < . for the EC to deal With” about delivering it in September? “I’m scared,” Need 21 DISC Jockey for your next party? 2 The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) and Duke Making rape a matter for the EC she said. “I don’twant to scare the freshmen, but '3‘ University are accepting applications for the Fall 1998 would not be fair to the victim, and I want them to really understand the honor sys- can the Mark Daughtrey DJ Service at E semester for a field-oriented, science based semester ‘ would decrease reports of rape on cam- rem, But I really don’t want to be just explaining it dable 3 abroad program in costa Rica. Students earn 16 credit pus, Forrnidoni said. “The Student and not be Serious about it I will definitely p,ae_ Serving Thel/VXL c<:rnn'ii.in“l’i_.; since|o8o vi.i‘l‘n ast, depen ca hours in tropical ecology , environmental science and policy, Faeulty Hearing Board is trained to me the Speech” semce a gem, sound sjsfemland an Ofgour favmfeparrg 1-mes E field research methods, and Spanish language and culture. a lqaomlg 3 bash at lhela5l ml“-‘Te? D3-7e"dl"l9 °" 3"3l3blll‘.-it Mail‘ 9"‘ g Credits may be transferred from Duke University } beal 90! Pall‘-‘L sehp’ and be readg To ljag Wlfiin a Coude of E -hands-on experiential learning - independent field hours of gour all 5 projects - _ - |—- cultural immersion - extended stays at remote field site The Mark Dall8ht1'eY Servlce Lexlngton ‘IL’ - home stays ° extensive travel to diverse ecosystems it I7 2 4 __6__ 3 - 9 3 3 53' For brochure and application materials, contact Fathers and older broth- V ers often trigger eating (C. N G disorders.” She said it has '‘ E1 a particularly strong im- CONTINUED FROM PAG pact when women feel NG‘ THAT WE CAN I asked out, and for success in jobs.” that men are. eValllatlhg THERE ARE A FEW SPECIAL Tl“ 3 ‘ She said many students have expe- them In the dining hall REALLYCOUNTON TOHELP USACCOMPLISH ALLTHAT rienced pressure from families and The ‘°"=‘%e’,“b“?"“a‘ Wl3NEEl)TODO. RELIABLE, DEPENDABLETHINGS LIKE 4 re boyfriends to lose weight eatlng bel‘‘”'.‘” '5 3" THETOYOTA COROLLA. OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS, E ”°."°“ .f°“°ws “P ‘° te" mes loweddto f°?,:”::ie,,’e:,h§ COROLLA HAS BECOME one or THE MOST TRUSTED V 7 ofeating disorders on a regular ba— more eep 3’ g _ e . ‘ THE WORLD AND NOW ITS MLNEW Wm! sis, and acknowledges that this may becomes, the more dlffl- ,3 ‘ CARS lN ' ‘ l be the tip ofthe iceberg cult it is to reverse, and MORE PASSENGER AND TRUNK ROOM, AN ALI.-NEW “Those are the ones who are the more Serlous the ' ALUMINUM ENGINETHATS ONLY MORE POWERFUL, I seeking help,” she said. “so much physical damage It IT'S MORE ECONOMlCAL...UP 'l‘O as MILES PER ’ of the disease is based 0“ denial °a“”5' The .°°"”' GALLON lllGli\\’AY. COROLLA is SAFER AND ‘" and se°ie°Y- EV“ Wile" We °°“' 9“‘°'“°.°‘°‘ °f l°a‘”“g eat" QUIETER,ANDBESTOFAl.L,lTSTARTS front someone we suspect has a lng dl5oldet5_ ““tteated ATAPRICELOWERTHAN LAST pmbiem’ She often w0n9t ae- are very serious.‘ they YEAR MORECAR LESS 1‘ knowledge it.” have among the highest . “If anything, it’s going to get death rate of any P5)" MONEY. WHAT A worse,” she said. “This is going to Chologloal dl5°rder- Be‘ REFRES H l NG continue to become more promi- tween 5 and 20 Percent CHANGE; ’ nent. Mothers who have grown up of Untreated ahotexlos 'l under thinness are teaching their die, from the damage daughters that behavior.” StarVatloll does to ‘hell Horton has seen a gradual in- bodies or by S1l.lelde- av crease in eating disorders at Horton adVlSeS all)/' * W&L, but said that this might rep- one seeking help for her- resent an increase in awareness. Self or for 3 friend to Vlslt . Though around 90 percent of the Counselling Center, the ' eating disorder sufferers are health edUCat1onCenter,a women Horton stressed the role peer Counsellor or a l-lEE of men in the problem. “We un— member, WhleheVer feels derplay the male role,” she said. more comfortable. All ii “Things they say affect women. services are confidential. - Todd parker March13, 1998 i..,.‘}'='.;‘.“.‘§.'i'.‘,’.'.."‘i’=‘I'.'.‘....» Get ready W&L, Todd Parker l is about to hit the stage! His e Yrggijgfitfim aVer:/ Comedic talents have been l ’a“”g‘°'Wi ~-WiiiiamRavdin,T|AA-CREFParticipant showcased on FoX’s“Married HIGH MARKS FROM » With Children” and MTV ’s &8fi1’,A1§g%lI)%I£S, _ “Singled Out.” He will be ° “Money Magazine, January 1993 . . ‘ N ;e take a lot of pride in gaining high marks operating expenses that are among the lowest in the E r a S O ‘ ‘ I from the major rating services. But the fact insurance and mutual fund industries." is, were equally proud ollthe ratings we get every With TIA/\-CREF.you’ll get the right choices- day from our participants. Because at TIA/\-CRlil’, and the dedication ——to help you achieve a lifetime 0 - )i th E ' V ' ensuring the financial futures ofthe education and offinancial goals. The leading experts agree. C C C research community is something that goes beyond So does Bill. stars and numbers. Find out how TIAA-CREF can helpyou build a \Ve became the world's largest retirement orgii- comfortable. financially secure tomorrow. h nization‘ by offering people a wide range ofsound Visit our Web site at wvvw.tiaa-crefiorg or call 5 investments, a commitment to superior service, and us at l 800 842-2776. III 1 Ensuring the future -. for those who shape it. Q i 5 ' .\UX|l(\': .\luniiiigsi.ir. lmz. l.iuii.u\ 31. I998 .\luriiiiig«r.ir i« .m ll\tlk'|\\'lI\lL'lIl wrxicc Ill.ll l.llL'\ IllllI\l.ll Illlltls .mr‘l \.iii.il\|c .|lIl|l|ll|C\ ‘I lie mp lIi“..ui't'iiiiti\ in .in lll\L'\Ill\\‘III c.iu~gi>r\- (L'\'L'I\k' iiw \r.ir~ and ilic |lC\[ 22 .-'-“.. ’ 9 :- rccciic rah .ll\ .\InrIIIIIg\t.li piU|VI‘l£‘l.lr\ X.II||Ig\ .-i-tit» L l]|l ' .u «ml pt-iilnni.iiitr .iiul .\u- \|Il‘]t’\'I ll aiigc cu-ix iimnrli. ’l hcr .irc r.iluil.irul fruni ll\\' .iu'uiixir’~ rhrcn .||||I it-int-.ir .I\L'r.|iLL' .iniiii.il mums III -tthriiri ii.“ llk'.\\\|l\ lull !l'lllIli\\\Illi J] 5 p . .l\ll|l\Illl£’ili\..lll\l.llI\hY.l«‘li|i |li.ll I\'ilk'\I\| ri' piililhliui l’.lIlIl_L'\. uliitli .llL' uciirliiul .i\m.i_ur-ml ll\ll\ll'L‘ .ii\r (IrlII.|l\tk' l‘\'lH\\ 90 L..I\ 1’ bill fL'l|Il’|l\. ‘inc ii\\‘t.\ll \l.lrr.1IIII_L'~ IL kllkkl Iil.Il3ii\L' .l|k' .\i..i.i..i,v.i...x id mi \k'.ll l.llII\g~ lril )‘\'lIU\l\\'|I\l|||_I.l l.iuu.ii\ RI. [998 liic ~ci\.ii.irr-iiiiipiilwlislicdiuiiiiigxiiirmtlini’rlicpciiml~.iir ciuir Stuck Antonin CRBF Global Equities Amum cur Equity Index Account our Gm-ch Account cur Bond Mum Auoum cur Soda! Choice An-oum ‘ .\ur Kiriiig xur RJ|||\§ \r.u l{.iiiiig \i.n lLiiii|g .\i.ir R.iiing, .\r.ir luring 3 X|IlIllK'lUll71ilIl\'\lIx hiiiiri .\'iiiI\l\'rui lIllL‘rI\.l!IuII.Il l'qilll\ .\'..mi».lr..i ihmh-ti.‘ mun .\'.i.iii~i-mi‘i>i..iim..- iqmh xuiuix-n-i’i‘nt-ii llk(illK‘.\uUlII\l» .\'uiiil\'rnl isiiiiimc iqmn . . E Period \u'-mun Kuui \u ‘ Tm “"131 ance Company recently commis- of freshmen believe that it is more political and social concerns in the with like-minded creative and idealis- ° 15 hours listeningto music sioned a survey of a cross-section rewarding to work for their success survey. Education topped the list tic people,” said Krane. “In return, - 1 1 hours using a computer e always remember those “firsts” throughout his- tory — the first to land on the moon or the first to fly an airplane.. W&L’s freshman class also has its claim to fame, as it will help to constitute the first college graduating class ofthe new millen- nium. They are the class of 2001, of 2,001 freshmen from 101 Ameri- can universities. The survey found that a majority of this new genera- tion has established specific goals for itself and that students are con- fident that they will be able to reach those goals. Freshman Wendy Case said, “I than to simply get a lucky break. David Krane, vice president of the survey company Louis Harris & Associates, said of the class of 2001, “They also recognize that achievement isn’t going to be handed to them on a silver platter ——- they will have to work hard and as 68 percent of freshmen say that education is the most important is- sue that needs to be addressed by the nation. The same holds true at W&L. “Our class is very determined, fo- cused, and goals-oriented. We are hoping, through education and hard they will be rewarded with a lifestyle that they grew up in.” The prospects for the class of 2001 are limitless. It is the responsibility of each individual member of the class to ensure that this new generation lives up to its potential. If the W&L freshman class is any indication, then ° 8 hours in front ofthe tube‘ ' 7 hours playing sports or exercising 4 ° 7 hours dating ' 6 hours surfing, the net or_E-mailing ° 3 hours reading for plea- in and it will be up to them to set the can definitely see this data refiected perhaps make sacrifices to achieve work, to better our lives,” said this should prove to be no problem. sure_ stage for succeeding generations. in the freshman class here at W&L. their goals.” Freshman Leadership Council mem- “We are a very well-rounded class “I don’t want our generation to Our grades have been so high, our Generation 2001 is also notavery ber Jeff Cook. “We definitely have with a lot of leadership, intelligence, How do you think "W&L haveapoor reputation,” W&L fresh- S.A.T. scores were excellent, and selfish group of young people, as our heads on straight, and we un- and motivation,” said Katie Baldwin, Students Compare? write V man Deena Johnson said. “It is our people seem to genuinely care about nine out of ten students say that derstand that education is the best Freshman Class Vice President. “Ibe— Us at phi@w|u.edu. The responsibility as both young people and the first class ofthe millennium to prove ourselves and our capabili- ties to the world.” their futures.” However, the class of 2001 is fully aware that the key to achieving suc- cess is hard work and determination. helping others is a higher priority than helping themselves. Over 65 percent of the college freshmen sur- veyed say that they hope to find bet to success in the future.” Students in the survey also cited crime and violence, the en- vironment, political leadership, lieve that we will live up to our poten- tial and even surpass it to raise the standard for the entire national class of 2001.” results of our informal study will be published next week. l Workbench provides links for Christian in community BY ERICA PROSSER (13 Dedicated students work long hours to help students, improve University Computing’s reputation. BY ERICA Pizossiziz STAFF Wanna om Weatherly was once a frustrated student. He knew a little about computers, but he sometimes had bigger computer problems that only an experienced person could solve. This is how Weatherly first en- countered the University Computing HelpDesk. “From my own experience with the HelpDesk as a client, [the HelpDesk attitude] made me, and possibly others, feel that the client’s problem is not nearly as important to the worker as it is to the student,” he said. His concerns about Washington and Lee comput- ing were shared bylifaculty and students all over cam- pus. All that has changed, though, and Weatherly knows it because he now works for the HelpDesk. “They take enonnous amounts of pride in their work,” he said. “It is this drive to solve problems and help that has made our senior employees so knowledgeable.” Now that he’s on the other side, Weatherly is becom- ing knowledgeable, too, and he helps with the best of them. But the attitudes of most students have not changed. What is the HelpDesk? Who works there? What does it do? And most importantly, is it to blame for the com- puter trouble that has students griping at 3 a.m.? According to the HelpDesk website, any student withr“a personable demeanor, some knowledge about computers, and an interest in learning more” can apply to work for the service. The HelpDesk stays open for set hours (9-5 Monday through Friday, 7-10 on Sun- day), and 22 students share those hours in shifis. Each student can work up to 10 hours each week, and most students work 8-10 hours. When one works for the HelpDesk, though, one becomes part of a power struc- ture of which few students are aware. The hierarchy is complicated enough to be mistaken for a that of a European royal family: The workers are broken up into four “teams,” and each team has a stu- dent “team leader.” The teams are Operating Systems (led by senior Doug Brown), Applications (led by sophomore Justin Wagoner), Labs (led by senior Josh Heslinga) and Hardware (led by junior Cliff Woolley). Over all the students sits a grown-up supervisor, Dirk van Assendelfi, who works in University Comput- ing and is known as the Student Computing Coordina- tor. The average student’s mind reels at the complexity, but HelpDesk employees take it in stride, concentrat- ing instead on getting the job done. “We provide help to anyone who contacts us (stu- dents, faculty, staff, etc.) on almost any computer-re- lated topic, free of charge,” said Heslinga. “As far as I know, there are no general kinds of problems that we can’t solve.” There are a few kinks in the system, though, since the big switch of the campus computer systems this year. For one thing, a few specific computer models simply will not support the Novell log-in software that runs in all the computer labs. But it is computers’ ten- dency to crash that causes most resentment. “Any time someone is working on a paper or some- thing at 12 midnight or 1 a.m. and Jefferson crashes, that person tends to be very disgruntled with University Com- puting,” said Woolley. “When the same happens to the same person more than once, that person starts to feel SrAFi-‘\WR1'i‘Hz Washington and Lee Christians have a web resource they may not know about. The Carpenter’s Workbench, a set of pages on the W&L web site, provides Christian resources for anyone through links, information and pages tailored to the W&L student 4 community. Junior John Wilbers started the pages when he was a freshman at W&L. ‘‘I wanted to increase communication _ between the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Inter Var- sity Christian Fellowship, and local churches,” hesaid, ‘There " 3 were very few W&L organizations with web pages then.” Though the W&L web site grew around it, the Carpenter’s Workbench, so named because Jesus (a car- penter) works through the groups on the page, remained a steadfast resource for Christian surfers. The site has had ll about 2,000 hits since it first went up, a number that sur- prised Wilbers. “it’s a much bigger turnout than I expected,” he said. He said that most of the page’s viewers are not current 4 W&L students. Rather, they are prospective students and their parents, Christian people who are curious about the religious life on campus. The prospectives and their fami- lies are always glad to see the pages, Wilbers said. “I get a lot of e-mail,” he said of the positive feedback ’4 he receives on the page. “I get a few every couple of weeks, but it adds up.” Freshman Lee Anne Applegate used the page as a re- source when she was considering attending W&L. The page gave her some idea of the Christian groups on cam- pus, and she was able to contact involved students di- rectly through the page. “It’s nice to have somewhere to find W&L students to get in contact with,” she said. “It made it much easier.” 4 Wilbers and a handful of others keep the page up and running with their programming skills. University Regis- trar Scott Dittman provides some guidance for the page. As site administrator as Wilbers is the one who answers J the mail and makes the big decisions. For now, his next V major project is the new Carpenter’s Workbench. The new page will feature the same resources as the old one, but it will do it with more style. A draft of the new page is already up, and curious people can view it from the old page. Wilbers predicts that the new page will be up by mid-March and ready to help Christian surfers everywhere. “I want to continually improve this page,” he said. Wilbers won’t be around forever, though, and after he graduates next year, someone else will have to be the ad- it ministrator. Wilbers hopes that a responsible freshman or sophomore will step in for thejob so that turnover is mini- mized. The page needs a trustworthy leader because its popularity continues to grow. With the plans for expansion and the existing popular- ity, the Carpenter’s Workbench is set to become a key-Chris- tian resource for surfers everywhere. But Wilbers never forgets the true meaning behind the page. ‘ The Carpenter’s Workbench can be found on the W&L ‘ website by looking under “Organizations” or by linking directly to lg)://www.wlu.edu/~workbnch. THE HELPDESK receives around 100 calls per week H011./.s'11;IeHoV15r/PHo7o EI)l'I()R When there’s somethin’ strange in the network neighborhood... Who ya gonna call? HelpDesk of students coming in, broken laptops cradled in their arms. A few minutes later, those same students would be smiling and thanking the staff for their help as they left. The creation of the Labs team (a new group this year) means that some members of the staff are respon- sible for running around to the campus labs and making sure the printer paper is stocked, the computers in gen- eral are working, and the users are happy. Overall, com- plaints about the campus computer service have dropped since the initial problems ofthe system switch at the beginning offall term. Do the employees like their jobs? Despite the fact that they, too, have overheard the muttered, negative comments about the HelpDesk, they generally enjoy what they do. ‘‘I’m pretty new to the HelpDesk,” said freshman Robert Marmorstein, “but it’s a wonderfiiljob and very challenging.” Heslinga has worked at the HelpDesk since the be- ginning offall term, and he said he has benefitted from the experience. “I think l’ve learned a lot about computers during my time on the staff,” he said. “Sometimes it’s frustrating when a particular problem more complex than it seems on the surface. It gets even better; maintaining the ten or fifteen servers around cam- pus is a 24-hour-a-day job, but employees do it for the sake of the 2,000 to 2,500 people who use the campus com- puters and services. What about individual computer problems that students may have? The HelpDesk works for them, too. Any mem- ber of the student body, faculty or staff can bring in a computer and have it examined. If the computer owner signs a waiver, the HelpDesk workers will do their best to fix the machine. Some things have changed about the service in the past year, though. “Our policy does now include ‘no house calls, said sophomore Steven Klotz. He addresses complaints about this change by saying that fewer house calls means a more efficient and helpful HelpDesk, which all mem- bers of the W&L community can appreciate. The HelpDesk is not re- sponsible for the error of the computer owners, either. “We may not be able to help students that do not follow the guidelines we provide,” Heslinga cautioned. Still, the staff does every- an Several members of the UC stafl myself included, are on call 24 hours a day in the event of a server crash to wake up, come in, and restore things as quickly as we can. - Clifi’Woolley 77 3 thing possible to perfonn a service to the computer-impaired. like UC and the HelpDesk aren’t doing their jobs.” Woolley acknowledged that nobody is perfect, and that mem- can’t be solved, but more often you get the satisfaction But crashes are something that can’t be predicted, bers of the HelpDesk have been wrong in the past, but that of helping someone successfully.” and Woolley said that the HelpDesk and University the service overall is a comprehensive and great one. So that is the University Computing HelpDesk: no Computing employees do everything they can to fix “We attempt to always have the phone answered when longer a ghostly entity lurking behind the computer i problems when they arise. the office is open, and there are always multiple people on failures on Campus, but a friendly and helpful staff of “Several members of the UC staff, myself included, are on call 24 hours a day in the event of a server crash _ I . to wake up, come in, and restore things as quickly as ‘ ' ' we can,” he said. “There’s an automated monitoring IN-I-ERVARSI-I-Y '3 one 0fW&L»s Ch”-S“-an gmupS_ The device that pages the staff within fifieen minutes of Workbench provides information on the group. Pm)‘/r) any server g°l"g d°wr_" , _ _ _ . CWRHW 0,, CHRIWNA JULIAN Thewhole production is beginning to look a little duty so that at least one person can be in the office all the time,” he said. is the HelpDesk doing itsjob? lt certainly seems to be. While it used to take employees two weeks to repair and return students’ computers, tum-around time is now a matter of days. lf_a visitor were to sit and observe the HelpDesk in action for an evening, he would see a handful students. Crashes will happen, but the HelpDesk will try to fix them. “The only sure-fire way to make sure that no coin- puter on this campus ever crashed would be to turn off the electricity on campus," said Klotz. “ln l‘CZllli}", we have University Computing and the University Computin’ HelpDesk.” ...,..2.¢..a;,c~....n-on»...-,.. “Y OCR::/Vol_099_100/WLURG39_RTP_19980309/WLURG39_RTP_19980309_004.2.txt AHEAD Tuesday Baseball — Lynchburg 3:00 p.m., Smith Field Men’s Tennis— at Roanoke, 3:00 p.m. at E. Mennonite, 3 :00 p.m. Wednesday Women’s Tennis - Sweet Briar 4:00 p.m., Lower Courts Thursday Women’s Lacrosse — at Hollins, 4:30 p.m. Women’s Tennis — Randolph-Macon 3:30 p.m., Lower Courts Ffiday Women’s Tennis — Kenyon 3:30 p.m., Lower Courts Saturday Women’s Lacrosse -— at Bridgewater, 1:00 p.m. Women’s Tennis ~ Colgate 3:00 p.m., Lower Courts Men’s Tennis — at Hampden-Syd., 1 1 :00 am. Baseball — Va. Wesleyan (DH) 1:00 p.m., Smith Field M & W Track — W&L Invitational, all day Sunday Men’s Lacrosse — Gettysburg 1:00 p.m., Wilson Field Women’s Lacrosse —— at Frank. & Marshall, noon Women’s Tennis — Va. Wesleyan (SS) 2:00 p.m., Lower Courts at E. Mennonite, 2:00 p.m. March 19-21 Men’s Swimming — at NCAA Div. III Championships ExBamvEE3rroR PAGE 4 RES u LTS Men’s Lacrosse (3-1) W , I Wed.: W&L 10 omen S ax Lynchbmg 6 I Sat.: Cortland'St. 12 2 "0 h I n d W&L ll 3 womenmosse young attack (2-0) ’ Wed.: Guilford 3 BY JASON ZACHER W&L 17 For the women’s lacrosse team, there is no place like home. Sat’: Denison 10 The team extended its home winning streak to nine games with a 14-10 win over Demson and 17-3 win over W&L 14 Guilford last week. The team was led by two players who were not even around when the streak began. Baseball Sophomore Katherine Riddle lit up the Denison de- M _ W V T h fense with five goals on Saturday, and Freshman Liz Borges On“ ' a‘ ec scored five goals and added an assist in her first intercol- W&L ppd. legiate game on Wednesday against Guilford. “Riddle and Borges are doing really well on attack,” Thm._: Bridgewater 5 senior captain Lorraine Taurassi said. “lt’s great to have W &L 2 fresh faces that can get the Job so early. “I don’t think I stood out,” Riddle said. “I didn’t do anything the rest of the team didn’t do.” Slmi Wash & Jeff Against Denison, the Generals scored first and jumped W&L (DH) ppd, out to a 3-1 lead. Denison kept the game close and only trailed 6-5 in the waning monents of the first half, but se- ’ _ nior Emily Gipson scored one of her three goals with only Men $1-enms (24) two seconds left in the half extend W&L’s lead to 7-5. _ . The beginning of the second half belonged to W&L. Wed" Gmlford 0 During the first 13 minutes, Denison was outscored 7-1 as W&L 7 the Generals put the game out of reach by building a 14-6 lead. Denison scored sporadically through the rest of the Women’s Tennis (2.2) second half, and closed the score to 14-10 by the end of the game. Wed.: R-MWC 0 “Overall, we played a really good game, even though W&L 9 we shut down a little at the end,” senior captain Lorraine Taurassi said. Leading the Generals were Riddle with five goals, W&L 9 G’ d T ' h d h 1 h d B Hollins 0 rpson an aurassi a t ree goa s eac an orgess, seniors Betsy Howe and Whitney Parker added one goal each. Sophomore goalkeeper Ginny Jemigan made 13 saves. On Wednesday, the Generals opened their season with an impressive 17-3 win over Guilford. Borgess scored five goals, all in the first half, as W&L opened a sports MARCH 9, 1998 JASON ZACHER / EXECUTIVE EDITOR GET OUT OF MY WAY. Senior Whitney Parker beats two Guilford players for the ball in the first half of W&L ’s 17-3 victory Wednesday. Senior Betsy Howe looks on after taking the draw. 12-0 lead by halftime. Ten different women scored for the Generals, and Riddle, Taurassi and Parker each added two goals. Howe, Gipson, juniors Lauren Francis and Cory Metee and freshmen Caroline Gee and Ellen Ritsch each added one goal. “We all have a lot to work on, but we have such a great team this year,” Riddle said. “We are definitely starting on the right foot.” “Things are coming together very smoothly,” Taurassi added. The women go on a three-game road trip this week, playing ODAC opponents Hollins on Thursday and Bridgewater on Saturday before heading to Franklin & Marshal on Saturday. BY BRENDAN HARRINGTON Sporas Warm They say that baseball is the game of inches, but the Washing- ton & Lee men’s lacrosse team might argue that statement after yesterday aftemoon’s heartbreaking 12-11 loss to Cortland State. The Generals suffered an early sea- son blow to their NCAA tournament hopes when a last—second shot, which would have tied the game for the Gen- erals, bounced off the crossbar. The game was played on the Uni- versity of Virginia’s artificial turf field in Charlottesville due to the poor conditions of a rain-soaked Wilson Field. The 17th ranked Red Drag- ons improved to 1-0 while the loss dropped ninth ranked W&L to 3-1. “It was obviously a tough loss,” said freshman Pope Hackney, who led the Generals with three goals. “We lost to a team that we thought we were better than.” Cortland State took control early on and extended their lead to 8-5 midway through the third quarter before the Generals came roaring back and scored three staight goals to tie the game 8-8 HELP WANTEDT Men/Women ear $375 weekly processing/ assembling Medical l.D. Cards at home. Immediate openings, your local area. Experience unnecessary, will train. Call Medicard 1-541 -38605290 Ext. going into the final quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Drag- ons scored three straight goals of their own after freshman Chris Dailey found the back of the net and ex- tendedthe Cortland_State lead to 1 1- 8 with 6:30 left in regulation. W&L freshman Pope Hackney cut the lead to 11-10, scoring two goals in less than a minute but Cortland State freshman Jim Cianfracca scored his fourth goal of the game to give the Dragons at 12-10 lead. W&L once again rallied and trimmed the lead back to one after freshman attacker Matt Dugan made it a 12-1 1 game. In the final minute of the game, W&L had two golden chances to send the game into over- time, but Cortland goalie George Breers came up with a huge save be- fore the Generals’ final shot hit the crossbar with one second to play. Breers came up big for the Dragon and had 16 saves as Cortland outshot the Generals 50-25. Men’s lax suffers early season loss at hands of Cortland St. Cianfraccapaced Cortland ‘four goals. Hiackneyihad three goals and classmate Dugan added two goals and two assists for the Gener- als. The Generals also had trouble taking advantage of extra-man oppurtunities — only going one for seven in those situations. “There’s a long way to go,” said Hackney. “ It will be interesting to see how we respond from this setback.” Senior captain Chip Thompson is disappointed with the team’s per- formance so far this season. “The team as a whole, during that game, and so far this season, is not displaying the level of intensity that we should,” he said. “We still have three quarters of a season left, and if we start displaying that intensity, we’ll put a good run on.” I DO NEXT? ATTENTION COLLEGE SENIORS: WHAT DO Be a live—in nanny for UVA professors’ family for one year, starting August 1. Regular weekday schedule, generous salary, paid vacations and holidays, health insurance, free room and board, own spacious living quarters (with bathroom and seperate entrance), all utilities, summer pool membership, privacy, respect. Non—smokers, good drivers, college graduates or students only. Call 804-924-7815 or e-mail aw2b@virginia.edu. nu--nu-u. GIFT SHOPPE 13 South Main St. (540)464-8888 Lexington, VA 24450 Chi Omega Kappa Delta Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Kappa Gamma Pi Beta Phi We Have the Handkerchiefs You Need for your Sorority Initiation Also See Our Large Selection of Miniature Boxes OCR::/Vol_099_100/WLURG39_RTP_19980309/WLURG39_RTP_19980309_005.2.txt Go to grad school and avoid the inevitabilit- 1 . . . W Ihave been told that there is life after college. l’m seen, most graduate schools won’t even consider me leges and universities, education is where I Wztlll. to be. not sure that I believe it but ‘ust in case I’m consid- unless I raise in GPA above a 4.66. a ly to nearly every academic institulioii this f~'.i(lC oftlic :1 9 SJ 3 y yr ering my options. In addition, some programs have special requirements. sun. Ifl am lucky, I will be accepted at one of I.li<:in. I will , What will I do the day after I graduate? The possi- Ifl want to study English, for example, I’ll have be able spend the rest of my life reaping the bcncl‘ii<. wt‘ Ii :.t:itii~. ; ‘i " bilities seem endless. Icould take the noble route and to recite “As I Lay Dying” backwards while arguing in nery and e—mail. 5 _ MAR. 9 join the Peace Corps for a year or two. I could take sign language that this is how Faulkner intended his book r Ifl decide instead that I would ratliei‘ciit<:i the worl:I‘or-tc ’ the European route and travel. I could take the “I’m to be read. Ifl want to study math, my chances ofbeing right after graduation, thereby skipping gizul srrliool flltv Not Leaving” route and apply for ajob in the Admis- accepted are better ifl prove at least 17 different theo- gether, I still have to worry about being ar;r.:cpt:.:z.l some ‘ sions Office. I could dojust about anything. rems in the next year and a half, and name them all after where. I will spend my senior year wearing tics ever} da; 1 I H S rk A , obscure mathematicians with long, Germanic names. Or in the off-chance that a recruiter will SlltlLiDI1l\ ‘~;~;w:a.*' ll’: ‘.4 S ) ed ROW at least the requirements seem that tough. the Co-op. I will miss class, parties, l)ll'll‘i'.lEI_\l~'. l.i»li‘~‘t’*"iI FANCY is/Less :.i’-tiered How CA/\l \/that Switzerland hands out free heroin to heroin addicts. Now, don’t go shouting thatfrom every roofiop, be- _ _ cause if President Clinton and Newt Gingrich get wind V - s for the Person to go oowh the four fhghts ofstahe of it, they’ll probably move to decertify Switzerland E /Q D - -I § A 7/] To O A K“ to fold it. as a cooperating country in the fight against drugs, (9 S S ,6 by £)(Pfi(/er r A [Us rig is _. .. : THI - In the past, many have blamed the 5o-ea11ed then ban. the import of Swiss chocolate and watches N 7 I N 0 _ er s rs s “townies” for some of the thefis. But there is no ‘° A{:r‘°"t°r:"rSner::r°“5?” “r‘(°“€:‘:sr():(::r‘:t;'rr"is“;}:‘tlS;‘:§)::‘ TOO - s I D R U N KQN V is * . wou ra e e 0 us ne 1 - ,_ . ,. ig I wayfshat allrsgf the trhfhfis foulhcfinbe c:mmm_edbt_)y ment in Switzerland. Why? Because it’s working. D PU N ' _ DA’ H i’ ' outsi ers. one o e res an orms 1S ig -m‘ To (/05E aw (s L) p it 4,1 ~.‘: enough that strange, un-student looking people ' ,1, 3 Bar Stool ‘TRYING A D i WA WA 1; V ,1. \ wt . . ;. i; . ’, ‘ti 2 -‘W X’ .- would not be noticed roarmng through the halls, ‘c Swensen ’98 CROW D, M T H’! NC: .s ‘r 7 ,r - - - ' "he ———————-———————- QM " I Soeif’ f’ _ < ,. »_,j gokinlgsetilelr hgads lln ro0n11§Wh.ere arty Otzlvlously Between 1994 and 1997, as reported in the Wash— Fe O L O 6; S E I7 S s . ,r on t ohg- eop e wou h°t1ce' car ‘access ington Post, the government of Switzerland identi- j Qgl S Q i R \\ LU H’ fit C’ * 3YStem was Put oh the door to the Gm-ham'Lee5 fled 1,146 heroin addicts for whom traditional meth- F 5 . ,5) « = --2 laundry room for this reason. No significant ods oftreatmenthad failed. Forthese addicts and these D _ . 47+ ( S Werif‘ V " ’ r numbci-of outsiders could possibly be riding in on addicts only, injections of pure heroin were provided Dr FFE N T A8 00 s s , 5 #0 LL V f). r - - three times a day at treatment centers around Switzer- ' .3’ [NY the coattails of students entering the dorms. And _ _ I S “@436 .. , . 4, 4- ,.i . . . land, along with counseling. (/L. r . s , T 7/! ti i , I once the Outslders are ruled out as S1gmficamsuS- The results were overwhelmingly positive. Before .. -. ’ , . . Peetss that old)’ 1eaVe5s Well» 1h51oe,F3- beginning the program, 59 percent of the addicts were N O D - . ‘ _ ' ’ 1 Ce ‘f The Honor. System is becoming a thief’s criminals of some sort. Since their heroin was now A» i i \ I r , ._ M; dream. Because such a big deal is made out of free, elim_ina_1ting th_€ {Iced t0 Pay high brlack-market 1’ “CL” A UN I ’ “*~~\(‘’4“0”' P the traditions people trust in it’ making it much prices, criminal activity among the addicts dropped TH 03 C \, st} to 10 percent. Also, many addicts found mainstream easier for the dishonorable on campus to operate J. ob s and homes Homelessness among the addicts .EDiiToK ~ . ;_ ti, ‘i .r=-rn§4(()5‘*406)2‘:<;>(2)5‘::)060 Looking for a hiking trail, the I enjoyed Mark Granger s break- “I was the firsr w&L Guy to rake a ..NO Commem 3”" ( ) brakes on my friend’s car went out ” dancing exhibition” ~ ~~ D / E~mail: phi@wlu.edu ' VMl girl. 1 — Warren Hedges ’00 —- Matt Klimas ‘O0 -“Drew Heron '98 iii, , . a- , in. OCR::/Vol_099_100/WLURG39_RTP_19980309/WLURG39_RTP_19980309_006.2.txt PAGE 6 Alex’s b to, S Auzx OlRlsll~:NsEN PHI MOVIE Ozrnc ell, folks, it’s about two weeks until the Os- Wcars (you can watch them on ABC March 23 — please, no wagering), and l’ll tell you the winners now: Best Supporting Actor will be Burt Reynolds for “Boogie Nights,” Supporting Actress will be Gloria Stuart for “Titanic,” Best Actor will be Robert Duvall for “The Apostle,” Actress will be Helen Hunt for “As Good As It Gets,” Best Director will be James Cameron for “Titanic,” Best Original Screenplay will be Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for “Good Will Hunting,” Best Adapted Screenplay will be Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson for “LA. Confidential,” and Best Pic- ture will be “Titanic.” I’m a 100 percent certain, too. This year’s handicapping was way too easy. Just because they’re going to win, ofcourse, doesn’t mean they deserve to. I have my own personal list of what was the best on screen this year, and it’s more than a little different. In the category of Best Supporting Actor, I chose Samuel L. Jackson for “Jackie Brown.” He has won several film festival awards for Best Actor for his role as gun—runner Ordell Robbie, but I think that,just as he really belonged in the Best Actor category for “Pulp Fiction,” he really belongs in the Best Supporting Ac- Colorlnade Club MARCH 9, 1998 JC and WOVSL flicks tor category for this one. Jackson’s portrayal of a man on the verge of scoring big or going bust, constantly checking out all the angles the best way he knows how, blows all of the Oscar nominees out of the water (ex- cept for Robert Forster, also from “Jackie Brown,” who really belongs in the Best Actor category). My run- ners-up are Robert De Niro for “Wag the Dog,” Robin Williams for “Good Will Hunting,” Kevin Spacey for “LA. Confidential,” and Matt Malloy for “In the Com- pany of Men.” For Best Supporting Actress, Gloria Stuart is the overwhelming sentimental favorite. A former silent- film star who makes a big impression in “Titanic,” she is unbeatable, but there were many more notable per- formances this year. My choice to win would be Alison Elliott, who plays a serenely doomed heiress in Iain Softley’s quite good “The Wings ofthe Dove.” Elliott, who happens to.1ook a lot like Jodie Foster’s little sis- ter, steals the show from putative star and undeserving Best Actress nominee Helena Bonham Carter, who couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag, but manages not to ruin the film. Other worthy performances, in order: Minnie Driver for “Good Will Hunting,” Heather Graham for “Boogie Nights,” Bridget Fonda for “Jackie Brown,” and Christina Ricci for “The Ice Storm.” Best Actor is atough call this year. There were more than a dozen great performances that I saw. None, however, topped Robert Duvall’s loud, raucous, con- tradictory Holiness preacher in his film “The Apostle.” This is the first time I have seen a reli- gious character who isn’t either an unbelievable saint or a blatant hypocrite. Sonny isn’t a perfect man, but he loves God and believes in God, and, for him, that’s everything. My runners-up are Sean Penn for his sweetly lost maniac in “She’s So Lovely,” Chris- topher Guest for “Waiting for Guffman,” Philip Baker Hall for “Hard Eight,” and Peter Fonda for “Ulee’s Gold.” Best Actress was a sparse category this year, almost as sparse as Best Actor was crowded. Four of the Oscar nominees are British, and so they won’t win over America’s s w e e t h e a rt, Helen Hunt. The Academy went out of its way to ignore some other great American performances, though. My pick for Best Actress is Pam Grier for “Jackie Brown.” She got a great part and showed she was worth it. Not only beautiful and hard-boiled, Grier can be tender, and vulnerable yet tough, and she has a charm and sense of timing that light up the screen. Her kiss with Robert Forster was a religious experience. Runners-up are Stacy Edwards as the deaf secretary in “In the Company of Men,” Robin Wright Penn for “She’s So Lovely,” Julie Christie for “Afterglow,” and Kim Basinger for “LA. Confiden- tial,” who was nominated in the Supporting Actress category but belongs here. I don’t like to separate Best Director, Picture, and Screenplay categories — I really don’t think they can be judged separately — so let’s go ahead and give them all to Quentin Tarantino and “Jackie Brown.” The director’s third film is a gem ofa caper with sex, drugs, soul music, and plenty of action and humor. An incredible cast and attention to detail make it worth watching more than twice. Robert Forster’s Oscar-nominated performance is the come- back of the year, if not the decade. The guy’s John Wayne. “Jackie Brown” was adapted from Elmore Leonard’s “Rum Punch,” so that leaves Best Origi- nal Screenplay unawarded. Woody Allen gets it for “Deconstructing Harry,_” a Bergman-esque romp through the travails of novelist Harry Block, which delivers deep, solid, prolonged laughs, plenty of wonderful eccentricity, and a cosmic message which isn’t new, but is as true as it ever was. Along with Bests come Worsts. My pick for $1337 Worst Supporting Actor is Matthew McConnaughey for his stunningly similar and dull work in “Contact” and “Amistad.” Sure, he looks like the love child of Paul Newman and Marlon Brando, but the promise he showed in “A Time to Kill” has gone largely un- fulfilled, at least so far. Worst Supporting Actress honors go to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for “Father’s Day.” I can’t figure out why she was there. Worst Actor this year is Nicholas Cage for “Con Air.” It was not a good movie and his corny hamming it up and lousy Southern accent were some reasons why. Worst Ac- Courtesy Miramax Films Pam Grier, Christensen ’s pick for Best Actress, stars as the title character in Quentin Tarantino ’s movie “Jackie Brown. " tress goes to Kate Winslet for “Titanic.” I kept hop- ing she would wake up, but she just sat there like a lump on the screen, with a sort of dewy incompre- hension on her face. Maybe it was the LSD some- body slipped into the catered food (this really hap- pened). Worst Director and Picture go to David Cronenberg and “Crash.” There were a few interest- ing things going on, but then there would be long, boring, depressing love scenes which Cronenberg complained critics didn’t recognize as actually con- stituting the plot and action. So maybe Ijust didn’t get it. But I think I did, and I think it bit. Other notable flops: “Dead Men Can’t Dance” (don’t ask why I watched that), “Con Air,” “Gentlemen Don’t Eat Poets” (a.k.a. “Grave Indiscretion”), and the abominable “One Eight Seven.” “Amistad” has to take a hit in this category, too. It’s the worst film to which, I gave a thumbs-up this year. For some rea- son, Steven Spielberg decided not to translate what the captive slaves, the heroes of the film, have to say at what seem like vital moments in the film. An otherwise quite passable film becomes an exercise in frustration as we understand less and less well the motivations and feelings ofthe main characters. It’s an inexplicable and unforgivable mistake in judg- ment on Spielberg’s part. The unfairly pummeled of I997: the actually quite good “The Devil’s Own,” “Air Force One,” “Abso- lute Power,” “Nothing to Lose,” “Speed 2: Cruise Con- trol,” “Fierce Creatures,” “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Air Bud,” “Picture Perfect” and “Steel.” Give ‘em a try sometime. I’m not saying they’re masterpieces, but they’re better than “Amistad.” See ya at the matinee. S€V€l'l MONDAY $ 8:00 p.m. Lecture: “German Ex- iles in Hollywood: Trouble in Paradise,” Wulf Koepke, Northen Auditorium. #14 TUES DAY #14 3:00 p.m. Baseball vs. Lynchburg, Smith Field. 1% 7:30 p.m. “Democracy and Environmental Problem Solving: The View From Quincy Library,” Mark Sagoff, Northen Auditorium. 1% Shepherd Poverty Lecture: “Racial Intergroup Disparity: Eco- nomic Theory and Social Evidence,” William Darity, C-School 327. ¢I¢ WEDNESDAY $14 4:00 p.m. Women’s Tennis vs. Sweet Briar, Varsity Courts.” #15 7:30 p.m. State of the Discipline Series: “Reading Pictures: Objects, Texts, and Academic Angst,” Professor George Bent, Northen Auditorium. it Staple Mixer at Phi Psi ¢I¢ THURSDAY $14 ALL DAY: Phi Beta Kappa Convocation — adjusted class schedule. #1: 12:15 p.m. “To Climb the Highest Mountain,” Hugh David Young, Lee Chapel. 3% 3:30 p.m. Women’s Tennis vs. Randolph Macon/ Ashland, Varsity Courts. =I¢ 4:00 p.m. Math Colloquium: “Mathematical Applications to Economic Theory,” John Turner ’95, Robinson Hall 6. 51¢ 8:00 p.m. Lenfest Series: Aquila (Birds) Lenfest Center. 34% FRIDAY at: 7-10 a.m. 25th Annual Institute on the Ethics of J ournal— ism. ¢I¢ ALL DAY: Cholesterol Screening, open to W&L community, University Center 108. ¢I¢ 3:30 p.m. Math Colloquium: “The Actu- arial Profession — Using Your Mathematical Ability in Your Career,” Stephen T. McElhaney ’67, Robinson Hall 6. 3&4? Women’s Tennis vs. Kenyon, Varsity Courts. 35¢ 4:30 p.m. “Journalism and the Egalitarian Soci- ety,” Maxwell King, C-School 327. #14 7:30 p.m. Film Society presents “Eve’s Bayou” at the Troubadour. #3? 8:00 FRIDAYS! pre- sents comedian Todd Parker at the GHQ. =>I¢ SATURDAY 31¢ ALL DAY: W&L Track Invita- tional :1: 12:00 p.m. Baseball vs’. Virginia Wesleyan, Smith Field. 5?: 3:00 p.m. Women’s Tennis vs. Colgate, Varsity Courts. 31 7:30 p.m. Film Society presents “Eve’s Bayou” by Kasi Lemmons, Troubadour Cinema. 91¢ 8:00 p.m. Lenfest Series: Julius Caesar. Lenfest Center. #1:: 2:00 a.m. “Rave” at SAE. =>I¢ By Hollister Hovey . azaeecvee A t7eo6ueM l JWT KAN Oi/I’ 013 Hawaii ‘4 Tlhz WlFE’9 NUT NEA?-U1 I71?-Ul\1lL El\l0U(’H T7791/fl?—E. LAN vlou 9?0rMe7. pi