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L e x in g t o n , V ir g in ia 24450 M onday, M ay 8 ,2 0 0 0 V o l u m e 103, No. 3 Garage opens Alumni Weekend brings W&L’s greatest unofflcally fans back 4 Despite incomplete wheelchair lift, garage opens to traffic for more By Sarah Schmidt ex-students experienced the ______STAFF WRITER______W&L of the new millennium Just in time for Alumni Weekend traffic, Lexington’s By Mike Crittenden first parking garage had its long-awaited opening Thurs- FEATURES EDITOR - 4 day. The parking spaces are now available to students, fac­ Alumni Weekend at Washington and Lee, a chance ulty, other staff members, and visitors. for undergrads and alums to get together for the ulti­ The official opening of the garage will not occur until mate party, hit this weekend and was marked by a new the completion of the wheelchair lift by the foobridge, which parking garage, a great concert and the invasion of all ' is scheduled for May 15. those who once ruled the campus. Handicapped parking spaces were added to the front Alumni Weekend, the annual three-day celebration of the Security Office in order to accommodate campus of the college years of yore, saw the traditional seer­ need until the wheelchair lift is finished. sucker suits, crazy cocktail parties and nostagia that * The completion date of the garage was originally sched­ has become the hallmark of Alumni Weekend. uled to be in February, but has been pushed back a few Festivities began on Thursday evening with the tra­

times. ditional Opening Assembly in the Lee Chapel. Thurs­ photo by Emily Barnes/Executive Editor The garage will provide the parking spaces necessary day night also saw the first of many “Welcoming Recep­ A campus invasion of alumni swept over the front lawn Saturday as part of annual festivities. for what will be a high-traffic area in the near future. tions” held at the Alumni House featuring plenty of re­ 4 The garage will compensate for the parking spaces that uniting among old friends and their acquaintances. will be lost with the construction of a proposed Stu­ Friday began with President Elrod’s annual talents. Following the evening’s dedication of the bridge dent Center, which will be located in place of the park­ President’s Address, also in Lee Chapel. Later that night, connecting the sorority houses to the new parking garage, ing lot between Doremus gymnasium and Graham-Lees the younger alumns headed up to the Pavillion for the some tore up the Warner Center floor at the Reunion Dance. j Dormitories. The parking garage will also provide park­ .moe and Leftover Salmon concert. Many skipped the dance to participate in the traditional ing facilities for the new sorority houses when they are After Saturday’s dinner on the front lawn, the a W&L Saturday night, proving that some things never completed. » cappella concert featured Washington and Lee’s music change: dancing to the music in any fraternity basement. Apart from future plans for the garage’s use, students The weekend are already seeing the positive impact despite the long offered many M wait. activités for “My car is already there,” senior Sula Jacobs said. “It everyone to will be much more convenient and help with the enjoy, from [traflfic]congestion.” ' Students felt that the parking garage may relieve some the class of rs of the ticketing problems on campus. “I think there won’t ‘50 to ‘95, be as many tickets, but people will still be fighting for including spots outside of D-hall and the dorms,” sophomore Sean Friday’s .moe Rump said. and Leftover A Reflecting the sentiment of many students, Rump noted Salmon the annoyance of the delays, “It could have been more concert (left), helpful earlier.” Rump, a resident of Woods Creek apart­ and the ments, pointed to the opening of Denny Circle road as the Renunion most convenient aspect of the garage completion. “The 'K opening of the street was great. I wanted to drive through Dance on it a couple of times.” Saturday(right). photo by David Hanson/Staff Writer photo by Emily Barnes/ Executive Editor Commuting students stand to benefit the most from the opening of the parking garage. “It will be great. There is nowhere to park right now and it’s really tough when ^Love Letter” e-mail virus infects campus you have a three hour class and there is only two hour parking,” said Ted Adams. to develop a program to eliminate the virus from W&L e-mail. Starting Friday, NAL ran a Love Letter virus detection The additional spaces should relieve much of the com­ By Alexis Yee-Garcia “We wrote a script that would run on everyone’s com­ program every hour as a precaution. The program that petition for parking spots and the number of parking vio- N e w s E ditor puter that would delete the actual virus and the affected Woolley and Hitlin developed earmarks incoming e-mail lations. “I’ll save lots of money because I’ll be paying for W&L computing shut down all campus e-mail systems files,” said Hitlin. with specific subject headings. Woolley explained that com­ fewer tickets,” Adams said. on Thursday to prevent the spread of the Love Letter com­ Around 9:00p.m. Thursday night they were able to run puter services staff can then check to make sure the e- puter virus. the program to begin removing the virus. Woolley said mails are not infected before they are sent to the individual The Love Letter virus affected computer systems na­ they were not able to implement the program sooner be­ mailboxes. tionwide on Thursday and Friday last week, prompting cause of problems with backing up Groupwise fries. “That way if other versions of the virus come out, we law enforcement officials to get involved on Friday. Ac­ “Deleting files on Groupwise is not exactly safe,” said can stop thefti before they go to the mail boxes,” explained cording to the New York Times, investigators have traced Woolley. “Just in case it messes up you have to back up Woolley. the virus to the Philippines so far and are continuing to files before deleting and you have to shut down Other versions of the virus have already been discov­ look for the virus’s author. [Groupwise] to get a good back up.” ered, including one with an attachment that is supposed to The virus was a “worm virus,” meaning it did not rely While Groupwise and Pegasus were offline, about 6,000 be a joke instead of a love letter. on the computer user to send a file to other users in order incoming e-mails were stored on the Liberty server. Com­ The only computer systems that will not be affected by to spread. The Love Letter virus and other “worm” viruses puter services released the stored e-mail Friday morning the virus are Macintosh or Apple systems. Hitlin ex­ spread through e-mail by automatically sending a mes­ when they turned the main servers back on. The gateway plained that he tried several times to run the virus on sage to users in computer address books of infected sys­ between the campus network and the internet was also re­ the Computer Services’ iMac but there were too many tems. The e-mail message read “kindly check the attached opened Friday morning around 11:00a.m. features that were specifically designed for Windows LOVELETTER coming from me” and the virus was acti­ As a precaution, a new program called Novell Applica­ systems. Unfortunately, there are fewer than 100 iMacs vated once the attachment was opened. The virus deleted tion Launcher (NAL) will open when people log on to die on campus. multimedia files, especially .JPG or .JPEG files and .MP3s. campus network. Students and faculty who discover missing files are Cliff Woolley and Charlie Hitlin of W&L computer ser­ “[NAL] allows us to push a program out to the network. advised to call the computer help desk at x4357. vices shut down W&L e-mail around 2:30 p.m. on Thurs­ If we want to force you to run something, we can do it with “Luckily we can recover most of what was lost,” said photo by Tiffany Friedel/Photo Editor day and worked all day and night with other staff members the Novell Application Launcher,” Woolley said. Hitlin. “But don’t call us for .MP3s.”

Pat Robertson returns to W&L for his 50th Wc\t Hing-tum JU?t Robertson also said the American operations. says, finding an entry-level job and ByMikeAgnello government spends less than one per­ “I was really impressed with how getting married will help reduce die risk May 8, 2000 S taff W riter cent of its annual budget on interna­ much he does to fight international of falling below the poverty line, he poverty,” freshman Mary Carol Mazza said. Sophomore Quincy Springs dis­ tional aid, which is “ridiculous” con­ O p in io n : Nationally syndicated televangelist sidering our wealth. In this spirit, he said. agrees, saying that die low-skilled jobs and W&L alumnus Pat Robertson favors increased American aid to de­ Robertson also talked about the Robertson is talking about are in in­ Making money the spoke to Professor Harlan Beckley’s veloping countries, a belief not shared widespread poverty in the United creasingly short supply in our boom­ poverty class on Wednesday. by many other political conservatives. States, but was quick to downplay its ing economy. American way,.. suing Page 2 “The principal cause of poverty is “America is the stingiest country significance when compared with de­ “Basically, getting a job is not as false ideology, either economic or spiri­ in the world,” he said. veloping countries. He cited an in­ easy as it sounds,” he says. Springs tual,” he said. Many in the audience were sur­ stance in which an American family also said that the welfare system, Robertson emphasized the increas­ prised that Robertson, one of the lead­ considered impoverished by govern­ which in some states pays recipients ingly desperate situation of impover­ ing conservatives in die country, es­ ment standards owned a cable televi­ more than if they were working, does W&L ife: ished third world countries and the poused such compassionate views. sion and a VCR. Mazza said she did not provide the proper incentives to Two W&L seniors start American responsibility to help these “It was interesting to find out that not think that example was illustrative. get a job. people. He favors capitalist economic many of his views were considerably “I’m sure there are many cases like Robertson also says that educa­ their own business Page 3 systems and cites the United States further to die left than I would have that, but I don’t think they’re the ma­ tion, the best way to prevent poverty, as the ultimate example of free maikets otherwise thought,” Professor jority either,” she said. is inadequate in die United States. bringing prosperity to its citizens. Beckley said. On domestic poverty, Robertson “There’s hardly a school system in Robertson criticized die International Robertson also practices what he sounded much more like a political America that hasn’t failed it’s children S ports: Monetary Fund for its excessive re­ preaches. He founded Operation conservative, Beckley said. Robertson in terms of reading and writing... the quirements for giving out loans, be­ Blessing to help provide food and advocated better education and the level of literacy is appalling,” he said. 1 Spring term style sports pAGE 4 cause these policies force third world medical care to poor people in impov­ preservation of die traditional family Robertson also said that United governments to decrease social erished countries. In two weeks, the as the most important factors in avoid­ spending. organization performed22,000medical ing poverty. After high school, he S e e R o b e r t so n - page 3 Page 2 -*— ^ 1 M ay 8 ,2 0 0 0 Fast money — the true American way Bored with spring term already? States Courts have decided that How about suing someone? Gates has too much money and now There are a million and one lawsuits he has to pay. in the news right now. Microsoft was Same deal goes for MP3 .com and just broken up, MP3 .com and Napster Napster. These two sites provided are being sued by the Recording In­ (albeit illegal) copies of songs to the dustry Association of America, and general public for free. Yes, it’s copy­ those are only a few examples of right infringement. But no one has what’s going on. actually been able to prove that these I am tired of reading about lawsuits services actually take away from buy­ and hearing about who’s suing whom. ing CDs. I would much rather know that there is I will often buy a CD after I’ve a war in a third-world country that will listened to clips of it on the computer ultimately raise (either in MP3 or imported prod­ ______RealAudio for­ uct prices or mat). Because how the gov­ Goffee Talk these people ernment is find­ Heather McDonald “01 were able to ing ways to

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tion caused by chlorine, sun light, salt water and laundry * By Emily Barnes detergents. Leffler pointed out that this protection is sig­ E xecutive E ditor nificantly better than the protection provided by typical summer tee-shirt Upon graduation, two seniors will launch a company “Most people think that a tee-shirt provides adequate ■ devoted to keeping their customers in the shade. protection,” Leffler said. “In reality, according to the Ameri­ Senior Business Administration Majors Stephanie can Academy of Dermatology, a light colored cotton tee- Leffler and Ryan Noble are set to graduate and take on shirt only provides an SPF of 7.” their business full-time. The company, the Sun Safe Leffler turned down a job at public relations firm m Shop, will sell swimwear and accessories that have an Burson-Marsteller in order to take on the business with Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of 50+ to protect skin from Noble. the damaging effects of the sun. “I think that running my own business is the best The company will market its products through baby’s way to learn,” she said. “I will gain more experience in this and children’s stores and through their web site, endeavor than I would by working in a low-level position A www.sunsafeshop.com. The web site provides extensive in a giant firm.” information about the dangers associated with sun expo­ Leffler and Noble will share the business with Rosslyn sure in addition to providing sun protective solutions. Cox, a senior at Adelaide University in South Australia. The Sun Safe Shop will offer 65 products ranging Cox has experience in the industry through working for the ■from swimwear and sunglasses to polo tops and hats. Anti-Cancer Foundation of South Australia. She has wit­ Although some sun-.protective items will be available nessed the success of sun-safe clothing in Australia. Cox for adults, the company will primarily focus on provid­ will move to the United States this summer. ing products for babies and children. The three hired Storebusters.com, a company owned The idea for the company was bom when Noble stud- by W&L graduates Gaelan Brown, Kelly Dyer, and Sean * ied abroad in Australia during last year’s winter and spring Cannon, to design and promote the SunSafeShop’s web terms. site. “Sun Protective clothing and swimwear is a relatively Leffler and Noble have received help and advice new concept in the United States,” Noble said. “When I from Professors Dennis Garvis and Kimberly Cass.( studied abroad in Australia, I learned about the popular Noble created the company’s business plan during A product and was surprised that it was not widely avaliable an independent study with Garvis. Cass is currently in the United States.” assisting Leffler and Noble in creating an internet “Skin Cancer is a significant problem in the U.S,” said marketing plan. Leffler. “One in two Americans who live to age 65 will Noble and Leffler will offer internships for stu­ a contract skin cancer; 1.2 million new cases will be diag­ dents interested in marketing and public relations. They nosed this year.” will hold an information session for students interested The Sun Safe Shop will offer swimwear made by Aus­ in full-time employment and internships Monday, May tralian manufacturer SolarSuit. The Sun Safe Shop is 8 at 7 p.m. in University Center Room 114. SolarSuit’s exclusive U.S. distributor. SolarSuit’s Chloresist -Additional information from a press release from Sun A material provides an SPF of 50+ while resisting deteriora- Safe Shop courtesy o f Stephanie Leffler and Ryan Noble Earth to Andy performs at W&L By Kris Pollina Murphy, immersed in their own punk band, decided to join S taff Writer Chris Reardon and Tony Lopacinski, who were already playing in an indie band. Though both pairs found common ground in their mu­ Stephanie Leffler and Ryan Noble are ready to run their new online company, the Sun Safe Shop, * On Saturday, May 13, Earth to Andy, a major label re- sical taste, their real nexus resided in their desire for a after they graduate. As this model proves, the company’s product is safe and stylish too. ording artist, will be performing at the Sigma Nu frater- change. In addition to the skills of their production manag­ ity. Earth to Andy has been described as “Soundgarden ers Nick Launay (Semisonic, Silverchair, Talking Heads), ith the Beatles singing,” a blend of hard and modem and Chris Loyd-Alge (Everclear, Fastball, Hole, Green Day), * ock. The band consists of front man “Andy,” (he just Earth to Andy also can brag of their guest appearance by Most W&L students kxve oes by Andy), Kevin Murphy on the drums, bassist Chris Stone Temple Pilot’s Robert DeLeo on their CD. eardon, and Tony Lopacinski playing guitar. From toursites that range from Texas to Tennessee to The band has produced their first CD “Chronicle New Hampshire, Earth to Andy will be making their Wash­ ings,” and the single “Still After You” is already being ington and Lee debut in less than a week. The band has * layed on more than 74 radio stations across the country, toured witfWimmie’s Chicken Shade and Canada’s Joy Drop. heir influences stem from Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Stone The Sigma Nu fraternity booked them via an alum who emple Pilots, and Chris Cornell, combining mellow rock worked for the Phillip Morris Agency, Earth to Andy’s unes with complex lyrics and guitar riffs. representing agents. Matt Herman, a junior Sigma Nu, •,j The buzz about die band that’s intense music has swept claims, “Earth to Andy’s music definitely could appeal to he Eastern Seaboard began about 2 years ago in most of the student body here. I’m hoping for a big turn­ '2 a /? g l harlottesville and Washington, D.C. Andy and Kevin out this weekend.”

R o b e r tso n cont. ------% United States prisons do not do enough to educate husband walks out,” he said. heir prisoners. Freshman Sara Rafferty said she agrees with Robertson. i “The rate of criminal recidivism is incredible because “Families are the central unit of love and support in j ur prisons don’t prepare inmates for life on the outside,” society. . . staying together is paramount,” she said. * e said, pointing to a prison reading program he super- Roberston graduated magna cum laude from W&L in ises as a model for others. 1950, and is in Lexington for his fiftieth reunion. He says Robertson also says that the high number of divorces that he is enthusiastic about W&L having a poverty class. i| s die primary cause of the declining role of the family, “When I was here, we were quite frankly more con- jf hich in turn causes poverty. He favors the abolition of cemed with partying than helping the poor, so I’m glad *. o-fault divorce, in which a person may dissolve the mar- things have changed in fifty years,” he said. iage without proving adultery or abuse by their spouse. Mazza said that even though very few people at the talk • “Somebody in the seventies once said that ‘any woman agreed with all of Robertson’s ideas, most were highly im- jj ho votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for pressed. hanksgiving,’ [and they were right], because it’s not final “I think everyone left impressed with him as a speaker,” nd leaves a woman and her family in poverty while the she said.

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BE ALL YOU CAN BE.* page 4 MAY 8,2000 Generals gear up for playoffs Riddle heads list of all-stars By Mike Holmes an otherwise amazing season. defenseman Charlie Antrim, andjunior Senior Generals attacker The 26 returning members from the defenseman Pete Iwancio were all Katherine Riddle was named to the S taff Writer______1999 team remember the high expecta­ named first team All-ODAC, while se­ All-ODAC women’s lacrosse first tions they had going into the tourna­ nior attackman Colin Dougherty, junior team in an announcement by the Old The Generals, now ranked fourth ment, and have not forgotten die sea­ midfielder Bemie Norton, and junior Dominion Athletic Conference Friday. in the country, are busy preparing to son ending upset they suffered. goalie Wes Hays were second team. Riddle, a four-year starter play­ improve on their record season. Coach Stagnitta remembers last The balance of the team’s offense ing in every game of her W&L la­ Their only loss was to third ranked year’s loss as a ‘Teaming experience” and defense has helped the Generals crosse career, ranks fourth on Gettysburg earlier this season. Since and says “the whole year we’ve pre­ to a scoring margin of 15 goals per W&L’s career-scoring list of all time then, the Generals have won 11 in a row, pared differently [for the tournament].” game. Consistent play on both ends with 100 goals and 41assists. She received a bid to the NCAA tournament, This year the team has had shorter, will be a deciding factor on how far led her team this year with 29 goals won their second straight ODAC cham­ more focussed practices, and each week the team will advance this year. and 13 assists. pionship, and tied the 1974 record of 14 the team continues to improve. “If we play like we’re capable of After earning a second-team spot regular season wins. Stagnitta, ODAC coach of the year, cred­ playing, the rest will take care of it­ last year, Riddle was excited to re­ The Generals are poised for excel­ its his team’s “talent, leadership, experi­ self” said coach Stagnitta about this ceive this year’s award to top off her lence in the tournament ahead. But ence, and ability to stay focussed on year’s tournament, career in the sport she said helped then again, so was last year’s team. what they set out to accomplish” for The Generals, who earned home to define her college experience. The 1999 lacrosse team had only their success they have had so far this field advantage for die first game, will “When I think about my experi­ one close early season loss, went on year. Talent is an understatement face Kenyon (13-1) Wednesday after­ ences here at W&L on the whole, to win 12 in a row, the ODAC crown, Eight Generals were named first or noon. Kenyon, who is out of die Mid­ lacrosse is probably the most valu­ and were a favorite heading into second team All-Conference last west, is currently ranked twelfth in able thing that I’ve done,” Riddle postseason. The Generals were busy week, in addition to Stagnitta’s rec­ Division m, losing only to Denison. said. “It’s taught me a lot about preparing to roll on through the tour­ ognition as coach of the year. If the Generals can get by Kenyon, myself and my own personal goals, nament before their season came to a Junior attackman Matt Dugan, se­ they will have the opportunity for re­ my own personal drive and ambi­ stunning halt.The Generals were nior attackman Chris Brown, junior venge against Gettysburg in the sec­ tion; that’s where I’ve learned about handed an upset that overshadowed midfielder Pope Hackney, senior ond round. who I am, on the field.” As team captain, Riddle attributes Hanson, a freshman second- (10) and RBI’s (27), while ranking the honor to the Generals’ success­ baseman for the Generals, finished the second on the team in both batting ful teamwork this season, and their Baseball season with a .328 batting average and average (.350) and hits (43). Over the ability to step up to the challenge af­ team-highs in both home-runs (5) and course of the regular-season, ter losing several of last year’s start­ Salem, VA— The Old Dominion stolen-bases (10). Hanson was also Littlehale hit at a torrid .404 clip ing players. Athletic Conference released its one of W&L’s top pitchers this past against ODAC competition. “I don’t feel like anyone this year season. For the year, he accumulated Washington and Lee finished its’ could have done it by themselves at all. postseason baseball honors last photo courtesy of Katherine Riddle. Thursday. Washington and Lee a record of 7-3 on the mound, boast­ year with a record of 20-15 overall. We definitely were a team this year,” was honored with the placement ing a team-best ERA of 3.63. The Generals finished the regular she said. “I’m really lucky to have Eloise Priest, who was also named to the The Generals finished their sear of Michael Hanson (Atlanta, Ga./ Littlehale was the starting leftfielder season at 9-7 in the ODAC, good ended my season like this. I’ll remem­ first team. Freshman attacker Leslie son with an overall 8-5. Pace) and Bobby Littlehale (Villa for the Generals throughout most of enough for the fourth seed in last ber this year for a long, long time.” Bogart, sophomore midfielder Courtenay -Courtesy o f Sports Information Park, Ill./Willowbrook) on the sec­ die 2000 campaign. As a freshman this weekend’s ODAC Tournament. Other honored team members Fisher, and junior attacker Ellen Ritsch with additional reporting by ond team. season, Littlehale led W&L in doubles -courtesy Sports Information included sophomore defender earned a place on the second team. Emily Barnes Spring term sports: An adventurer’s guide to outdoor activities way, specifically the Bluff Mountain bass fishing. By David Hanson section that begins a few miles south Schuyler Marshall took advantage S taff W riter of the Parkway bridge where Route of the James River for canoeing and 60 crosses above Buena Vista. This fishing. He said of a recent trip, “the Two things change in spring at hike is another steady climb, but only fishing was good, one rapid was big, W&L: the weather gets nice (unless takes about an hour and offers grand and the water was cold.” you enjoy 43 degrees and drizzling) views of the valley. Mt. Pleasant hik­ Apother less known qctiyity avail­ and students have much more free ing area, the St. Mary’s wilderness able nearby is rock climbing. The most time. These changes translate into the area, and Goshen all have plentiful accessible climbs are in Goshen, to­ opportunity to try new activities in the trails as well and are within a 40 ward the end, just downstream from outdoors. Why wouldn’t you spend minute drive. the swinging bridge. These are mainly the afternoon of a sunny day hiking, For the bikers in the crowd, the top-rope climbs of around 40 feet, but canoeing, rope swinging, biking, roads out route 60 toward House there are numerous challenging climbing, or launching mayonnaise- Mountain all seem to connect some­ routes. For those without equipment, filled balloons at coeds in the quads? how and make for a good ride. There you can always find one of the nu­ Sega or TBS’s “Silvester Stallone is actually a biking trail on the cam­ merous rock outcrops around campus Week” may keep some from getting pus that begins behind the athletic or in Goshen in order to practice your outside, but for those interested in fields and ends up down by the cliffs bouldering. finding out what’s out there, here’s a along die Maury River. A little fur­ Finally, after you are hot as Hades little something. ther away are the ATV trails along from hiking, biking, boating, and First, take the basics - hiking. The Route 52 on the way to Lynchburg. climbing all in the same day, you need only equipment necessary are shoes For those who have a canoe hang­ to find a swimming hole or rope swing. and water. There are trails through­ ing up in their dorm room just waiting We have all heard of Goshen with its out this area. Of course, there is House to hear about places to use it, there is water for swimming and its rocks for Mountain, an uphill climb on a log­ the Maury, specifically Goshen for sitting. But if you want to swim in ging road that takes about 45 minutes whitewater and the kayakers. Woods your birthday suit you may heed more Row, r o w , r o w y o u r b o a t. Michael Hanson and Schuyler Marshall enjoy the Spring term weather A to reach the saddle of the mountains. Creek is not a suitable option for ca­ privacy. Panther Falls is a great spot by canoeing down the Maury River. Then pick a mountain - Little or Big - noeing. However, the James River is in the Blue Ridge Mountains past and hike on another 30 minutes or so not too far away and swallows up the Buena Vista where you can jump off a all along the Pedlar River. For rope tom”). the equipment necessary to do the for views of Lexington and the whole Maury near Glasgow. This river is big rock and play around in a few swings you will have to consult the Of course, a great source for much activities other than “skinny dippin’”, * valley. Other hikes include numerous much larger than the Maury River and natural pools. There are other places specific homeowners who live near more information is the Outing Club check out the Outing Club and see trails that bisect the Blue Ridge Park­ supposedly offers great small mouth to get wet throughout this same area, them (“Riverhouse,” “Beans Bot­ and its home page. For those lacking what they can do to help.

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