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Periodicals Postage Paid Lexington, Va. C a b e t 24450 3^m inhtptnittntip bp taltttsS iSinte 1907 http://www.vmi.edu/cadet/ $ 1 . 0 0 VOLUME X€II Friday, April 28, 2()()0 Nunibcr 23 In This Issue Men's Track and Field Wins SoCon Championship by Liam Connor in the 400m intermediate hurdles with an impressive time of 0:52.55. Cabet Sports Editor Friday Smith won the 10.000m run in Domination. That was what 32:11.14. occurred last weekend when the VMI However, the sensation of the Men’s Indoor Track and Field team meet was sophomore Marcus traveled to Boone, NC to compete in Lynch’s remarkable performance in S p o r t s on page 4 the Southern Conference Champion five different events. Lynch won ships. VMI walked away from the individual titles in the 100m dash in meet with its 14"’ Southern Confer a time of 0:10.65 and the 200m dash ence title, nine individual champions, in a time of 0:21.32. He earned two and twenty-seven All-Southern Con second-place finishes in the long ference performers. The complete jump and the 4x400m relay race. domination by the VMI men helped Lynch also contributed, towards them post 217 points, while the near bringing home a title in the 4x100m est competitor earned 182. relay. The remarkable performance Leading the VMI men in the Lynch put forth earned him the 2000 SC Championship competition were Southern Conference “Most Out seniors John Chisholm. Nate Haley, standing” Award. Lynch’s three Gallienne breaks school and Joe Smith. Chisholm added yet first-place finishes and two second another title to his impressive resume place finishes earned the team 32 record with 11 goals in 1 game with a first-place finish in the ham valuable points, the highest indi mer throw, achieving a distance of vidual point total of the meet. 185’2”. Chisholm blew the field Also contributing to the men’s away with his strength and technique. championship for the Keydets were No other competitor came within 25 Kevin Solomon, Quez Smith, and feet of Chisholm’s first-place toss. Jeff McKelvin. All three men won Chisholm, who also placed their individual events. Solomon second in the shot put, said, “It was won the long jump with a distance good to win the hammer. I threw my of 25’00 _”, while Smith brought personal best and all my throws were home a title in the triple jump with Keydets wait to see if they on target. As far as the shot put, I a leap of 47’ 1”. McKelvin rounded make SoCon Tournament was leading the event up to the last out the first-place finishers for VMI throw, but it was good to take sec with a victory in the 110m high ond in an event which I don’t con hurdles in a time of 0:14.48. Marcus Lynch, '02, captures Southern Conference Championship "Most Outstanding" Award. The centrate on.” Several other Keydets also O p i n i o n on page 2 Haley contributed to the team VMI Men's Track and Field Team shut down the nearest competition by 35 points. title by claiming a first-place finish See Track • page 4 Corps morale in the dumps and Band's Brodie Bonds with Brits Wargames at "The Point" dating in the Corps by Kendra Russell cals as regular faculty positions do. were very positive about the idea. by Sean Griffis painted blanket to provide the land Plans were set in motion, and ^ litt Editor-in-Chief Brodie decided he would have to make Cabtt Features Writer scape. VMI’s game board is fash akin to incest his own arrangements if he were go Brodie and family left the United Sates ioned after the Corps’ own New Mar Virginia Military Institute Regi ing to get a break from VMI. As far in mid-December. They stopped off Two weeks ago, the Virginia ket Battlefield. Designed as a role mental Band Director Col. John back as the tenure of Col. Keith first in Austria for the Christmas holi Military Institute Military History club playing game it is played somewhat page. Brodie returned to the United States Dickson, ’76, as commandant. Brodie days. staying with the brother of traveled to the United States Military like “Axis and Allies.” with strategy Features early this week aftet spending nearly had asked Dickson if he would have a Brodie’s wife, Laura. Then, after a Academy in West Point, New York. and tactical cunning as the competi four and a half months at a military problem with an exchange of some sort quick sojourn in London, it was off to The club made the trip for the annual tors’ weaponry. Competing at the high school in Dover. England. as long as Brodie was able to obtain Dover for the start of the term on Jan “Point Conference,” a weekend of Conference were many clubs from Brodie and his family traveled to En someone qualified to direct the VMI 3. board games simulating battle strategy military prep schools, regional high gland as part of an exchange program band. Brodie was not quite prepared scenarios. This marks the club’s first schools and the Military Academy’s with the Duke of York’s Royal Mili The idea of an exchange was for the differences between VMI and trip to the Conference, as this is the fu^t own team. Almost every club brought tary School (DYRMS) in Dover. nothing more than that, however, until DYRMS when he arrived. The role of year the Institute has had a Military a customized board. Styles of games Brodie assumed the duties of conduct a Scottish general visited VMI during the band director in a European mili History Club. ranged from fantasy type science fic ing the 85-member band, while his the *98-’99 school year and suggested tary band is quite different from that Dr. James Birdseye heads the tion scenarios to medieval combat. counterpart at DYRMS. Warrant Of that Brodie look at DYRMS as a pos of an American band director. In the club. Along with Dr. Doug Hannon, For anyone interested, the ficer Peter Kane, filled in at VMI. sible exchange partner. When Brodie VMI band, for example, while the band he accompanied five cadets to the com Military History Club offers an av Brodie had been on the look traveled to Paris with the VMI B^ass director is responsible for training the petition. The seven-man team loaded enue to explore the past. When asked Alumni Weekend coming up out for such a change of pace for sev Quintet during last year’s Spring band and mentoring band members, it its custom game table and piled into a about the club, Curtis Nieboer said, eral years. The position of band di Break, he took the opportunity to visit is the drum major who leads the band van for the eight-hour trip to West “It’s a great group; we had a magnifi- and other news briefs. rector is and administrative one. and DYRMS and speak with Kane and the Point. The board is made of stacked therefore does not provide for sabbati school’s headmaster, both of whom See Brodie • page 5 styrofoam to produce elevation and a See Games • page 5 Jovner a Jack-of-A ll-Trades by Todd Kennedy of military science at VMI starting in 1989. After retiring <^bet News Writer from the Army, Joyner accepted the position of Director Next week's Regimental of Cadet Affairs at VMI where he served until his appoint training schedule Colonel James N. Joyner, ’67, announced his res ment as acting commandant in September of 1997, after ignation from the post of Commandant last semester, and the forced resignation of Lt. Col. Keith A. Dickson, ’76. will be stepping down at the end of May after three land Joyner’s position was made permanent the following year. A rts & Leisure mark years at the helm of the Virginia Military Institute’s Superintendent Maj. Gen. Josiah Bunting III, ’63, Corps of Cadets. Joyner, who took over the post of Com said, “[Joyner] has prepared for and admirably met this mandant a month before the first women matriculated at [assimilation] and other challenges during his tenure. He VMI, is now set to leave the Institute at the same time has served his alma mater diligently, honorably, and suc Win Free Pizza that the last all-male class graduates. cessfully.” Joyner commented, “I have been honored to serve Besides assimilation. Joyner’s tenure was marked with and for the premiere military college at a time of its by heart by-pass surgery in the Fall of 1998 and a con history where the Corps of Cadets has made history, and frontation with the Class of 2000 in November of 1999, I think that we have showed the world what the VMI spirit, when the First Class locked Joyner outside of barracks as well as the VMI grit, really is.” and conducted an unauthorized sweat party with the then Joyner received a commission in the United States Rat Mass of 2000+3. Army after graduating from VMI in 1967, and went on to Col. James Joyner, *67, finishes up an eventful tenure as serve 27 years in the Army, including a stint as professor See Joyner • page 5 commandant before moving on to director of Cadet Affairs. 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