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APRIL 11, 1994VOLUMECLXXIII.NO. 10 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH SEWANEE, TN 37383-1000 Is Sewanee Becoming a Suitcase School? hy Kellcy Jay and Jamey Collins social scene is in a stage of transi-
tion —meaning that Sewanee se- Sewanee students used to be will have vastly different amused when friends at other memories of Sewanee weekends schools asked: "Do you stay at than present first-year students.
Sewanee on weekends"? Statistically, just since last se-
If you've been on campus the mester, the frequency of social
past lew weekends, chances are functions has decreased. Last se-
i< >w understand what prompts mester there were a total of 160
this question. It seems that an parties registered through the stu- increasing number of Sewanee dent activities office. According students are evacuating the Do- toLisaManely, Director of Student
main on weekends in search of Activities, there have been "a lot thrills and spills on other college fewer [registered parties!" com-
campuses in the Southeast. Some pared to this time last semester.
ie more popular destinations This is not soley due to the fact for Sewanee weekend refugees that common sources have been are Vanderbilt, Birmingham- abolished, but seems to reflect a Southern. Em id even general bewilderment as to how to Motlow State. Ing such a What do these schools offer social organ as were kegs.
along the lines of weekend en- What is to be done? linment that Sewanee does The office of Student Activities The Sewanee Fire Department setfire to a house on A laba n Or more important, what isuming part of the burde ofa training exercise. According to seniorfireman Ben McGowan, scene. does Sewanee need to do to keep reviving the Sewanee social exercise went "beautifully. " The house, nought by the Universityfor this our finest here? One of Lisa Mauley's main con- specific purpose, was reduced to rubble. Photo by Lyn Hutchinson.
1 Aseveryone knows, Sewanee s (continued on pag< Berkeley Philosopher John Searle and his Mr. Pugnacious Defense of Traditional Liberal Education
liberal agenda. by Kevin West against the contemporary do you understand that term to represent However, there's another Editor politicization of American uni- mean, and how does it meaning of the term, where it versities. According to Professor some kind ofdivergence from the underpins the traditional liberal curriculum? means something like the em- John Searle, Professor of Searle, this topic wide-spread and often Professor Searle: Multi- (continued on page 4) Philosphy at the University of currently discourse about multi- culturalism means different things California at Berkeley, delivered heated fact, there and the canon, to different people. In In I'll is Issue . . the 1994 Wood Memorial Lec- cultural studies and dead white males, is one meaning where it doesn't ture at Sewanee last week. Pro- minorities liberal Purple Picks so on. diverge from the traditional fessor Searle is a highly renowned and afternoon of his talk. Pro- conception of higher education at Page 2 figure in American academics, not The Spoils Searle found time to meet all, it's just an extension of it. In Spring Photo lissaj only for work in, his discipline, fessor The Sewanee Purple to dis- this way, it just means that it's a Pa»o I I but also for his wide-ranging in- with I'luksMM s |'|,l\ |ik- | lllllllll these issues. What follows is good idea to expand your under- terests and critiques of other aca- cuss 1 transcript of that meet- standing of your own civilization Page I demic disciplines. an edited by having a knowledge of how it M lv n| ilk" W . vk In ing- his talk, entitled "Is There a • ». West: Let's begin with compares to other civilizations. I! !' Crises in American Higher Edu- Kevin ythetom'lrnuiticukurafom*:' Wtwt>, That' s certainl y an old item on the 1 cation?", Professor Searle argued April 11. ivu NEWS pUpcoining^ntenia^ Week When There's Nothing To D Girl, Corona and tat To Do The Organization for Cross- Pauli's Domain Moosehead for just $1 to those the Cultural Understanding (OCCU) with ID. declares the week of Monday, Tom de Luca, n watching the April. Week." At 7:30. enjoy April 25 "International Iv. the hypnotist, will work wild OCCU Fashion Show The week will begin with an crowds, and S Wardrobe." held in the usually draws massive and provocative ex- "Global Luca interesting wii Conference Lounge. It'san no exception. The show hibit in the main lobby of DuPonl BC should be event you won't want to miss' thing to do thi Library: "Clothes from Around fun, and it's the only On Friday, April 29, a the World." night. Lower Cravens, 8:00. match will be held at the On Thursday, April 28, the cricket near Lake an- practice football field OCCU will sponsor the first String Quartet. An. next to the baseball 13 April. American nual OCCU International Beer Cheston, from 1:00 to 3:00. Series performance. Guerry Night in the Tiger Bay Pub, as field, quality Concert 3:30 to 7:00 there will part of "Work Your Way Around From ditorium, 8:00. reggae band in Guerry Garth. the World." Beer from around be a calendar for Inter- world will be served, includ- Mark your the April. Madrigal Dinner, part of th< Week! 14 ing Heineken, Guinness, St. national ; Shakespeare Festival, singers in period c Suitcase, continued perform while you eat. Tickets are $5 larger budget next year to be able cerns is about having taken away (with the t-shirts). Convocation Hall, 6:30. common sources from upper- to fund more activities "of this classmen who have had access to kind," says Ms. Manley. 15 April. Geoff Brown is a comedian. 1 them in the past. As a result, the As another example of what all, but the best thing about his Office of Student Activities might be done to improve Sewanee funny and sponsored two Senior Socials, student life, the recent Dave formance is that he's booked for Guerry kegs, food and musical Matthews Band concert was or- arth, where (unless the weather is 'Tour') . G uerry G entertainment were provided. Ms. chestrated through the coordinated
Manley says that at present, two el torts of the 1FC and the ISC. A 21 April. Koyanniquatsu A psychedelic Fan more of these are planned for the core committee composed of so- esque movie. Aptly for the Thur day future. cial chairpersons from various scheduled The Office of Student Activities Greek organizations, which would before Spring Party weekend, the audience may has scheduled two comedians and be charged with organizing such be more interesting than the film. SUT, 7:30. a hypnotist for the remainder of events in the future, has been pro-
this semester, and hopes to have a posed. SPRING PARTY WEEKEND IS APRIL 21-24. Make sure to hit the Delt House for the Elvis Party (w/ ADT) Friday night, the rescheduled 70s Party • 399-5774 ' . V V^ V 'V OPEN MothSK 11:30am-1 1:30pm (w/ PKE) Saturday night, or, for the select few* Grin cbc*s at 9pm their red-eye formal Saturday morning. One Sunday Brunch 10«nv2pm World is playing at the party in front of the Lodge on Saturday afternoon (Freedom of Expression is no longer). DO NOT MISS Hot Tuna, late Sat- or urday afternoon on the stage at Lake Cheston, Chickenwire, which will play that night in Guerry Garth from 9pm until they pass out. sr^s^y^^if^isa^A^•?*
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•-^xz^^c Connie Warner, owner 589-0012 Anril 11. 1994 The Sewanee Purple Page 3 NEWS The Search for a New Dean of Students Fuqua Pearigen, by Jennifer Eric Benjamin (Direc- ited and interviewed at Sewanee, be offered to the candidate, for tor of Minority Student Affairs), one is scheduled to interview this possible renewal at the end of now As most of Sewanee knows, Professors Perry and Bonds, and month, and the fourth should be those five years. Mary Susan Cushman, Dean of Stu- students Mary Carol Harris and able to visit by the end of the dents, will be retiring at the end of Cotton Bryan—then got down to term. After each person has been
this academic year. Current Asso- the task of reading the submitted interviewed, seen the campus, ciate Dean Robert W. Pearigen will applications. and talked to students and fac- N \ become the next Dean of Students. The original applicant pool, ulty, the advisory committee will Costa Rica The search for a new Associate consisting of seventy-five to have the task of deciding which
Dean commenced last fall when eighty applicants, was varied. candidate is best suited to the Intensive Spanish classes Dean Cushman first announced her Some applicants were academics, position. The committee's rec- 2-4 weeks including intention to step down. At that time, some administrators, and some ommendations will be submitted tours and stay an advisory committee, chaired by had backgrounds as academics to Dean Keele, who will then home Dean Keele, first asked for nomina- or administrators but are not submit his recommendation to starting at $360. Call for tions from faculty and placed an ad currently working in those fields. the Vice-Chancellor for final ap- summer enrollment
in the Chronicle of Higher Educa- As of this semester, the initial proval. tion to start the ball rolling. The pool has been narrowed down to While there is the possibility 1-800-383-7859 committee—composed of Dean four exceptional candidates. Of of an interim dean, it is more Keele, Dean Cushman, Dean these four, two have already vis- likely that a five-year term will
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than half of in English literature af- more the population Searle, continued universities. Universities do have anything namely the female 1914, on the theory that it's population, have powerment of ethnic minorities political consequences, and they ter focus. various aspects of their center of too early for us to get it in interests and women. On that meaning, it are occasionally at the history neglected You sound a little bit like Dr. and by traditional really is different from a tradi- politics, but their primary criteria academic disciplines, then by tional liberal education, because are not political. Johnson. all open up Is that right. Is that what he means, the discipline it's set in such a political agenda. In an article published in the or said? create a new discipline. I have It has to do with using academic Partisan Review, you map out the no measurement the problem with that. departments as, essentially, agen- positions of the "defenders" and Yeah, his of literature The problem is that cies or vehicles to power. the "challengers " of the tradi- greatness of a work of many of its these academic departments But historically hasn 7 the uni- tion. The defenders see a more or is that, a hundred years after were versity campus been an important less coherent literary tradition, publication, it's still fresh, it's not created for academic reasons locus for social and political for example, that goesfrom "the still relevant. or with an academic objective.
change? For example, the inte- great poets andplaywrights right I think that's a good test. But They were created as political ac-
gration ofOle Miss [was a mile- up to James Joyce and Ernest I don't know how we'll regard tion groups.
stone in the civil rights movement]. Hemingway. " (Searle: Right.) / those two authors or any others in Look at how academic depart-
In the present moment, the uni- ments are created. In Berkeley, the versity campus is a place where molecular biology department was
issues of gay rights are being created out of the virology lab
played out. What, then, is the [which] just got too big, there was
appropriate relationship between just too much going on there. So politics? academics and they created a new department of Well, occasionally universities molecular biology because the old are in the forefront of political departmental boundaries could not change, but it's rare. Most of the accommodate molecular biology. major political changes that oc- Now it didn't happen that way curred in the United States did not with women's studies. It's not that occur on university campuses. there was all of this bursting interest Think of the New Deal— it was that just didn't fit into the history not a change in educational Berkeley Professor John Searle addressing department. No—it was imposed theory —or of the second World his Sewanee audience in Convocation Hall. Photo by Lyn Hutchinson. from outside by a lot of women War. The idea that somehow the faculty members who felt that their university is the center of political take this to be more or less your a hundred years. I didn't mean to particular interests were being ne- action in the United States is not position. (Searle: Yeah.) say, though, [in the Partisan Re- glected by the regular university. an adequate or correct view. What about writers since Joyce view article] that there's a cutoff So, fine, that seems to me a perfectly However, there's no question and Hemingway—Morrison and point, beyond which Western lit- legitimate ground for creating a but that what happens on univer- Garcia Mdrquez, to name two erature stopped. I don't think that department. But, once created, it sity campuses does have political writers who have been distin- for a moment, of course. turns out that the mission was not consequences. In that sense, ev- guished by the Nobel prize. At About this whole multicultural entirely, and maybe even not pri- erything has a political dimen- what point or what by standard thing: I guess the question I have sion. The fallacy is marily, an intellectual mission. to infer from should we look at their work and is, don 7 in some way multicultural the fact that everything Now one of the basic assump- has a po- judge it against the supreme liter- studies, African-American litical stud- tions behind the that we con- dimension that, therefore, dry works in the tradition? way ies, gay studies, the women 's stud- assump- appropriate criteria are politi- It's always duct academic life is the hard to tell about ies— cal. tion that believe people who are alive when you don't have to you Do you have those departments in teach The San Francisco 49ers have are alive— a doctrine to teach it. I can how good they are— here? a political dimension, both in that Marx or Plato without because, most of the time, things Aquinas or No, but there's an they affect the economy of the that African- being a Catholic or a you like about them are things Marxist or a American literature city of San Francisco course being of and in that that resonate with your Platonist. But that's not true own sen- offered here the time that for the first time this working class people sibility. these departments. It's assumed semester. spend there -Don't those is time they don't So about those fields that the person teach gay studies two you men- enrich to scholarships in spend in union meetings and dem- tion: general by teach it's too early to tell whether should be gay, the person to providing the space, onstrations. But that doesn't mean for example, the they are addressing universal black studies should be black, hu- for Tom Morrison that the appropriate criterion to write Play- for man concerns or whether person to teach women's studies they are "S'^teVarkorfor judging the 49ers is political. You just Goldberg to Un- late twentieth century phe- should be a feminist woman. won't write books like understand the quarterback nomena. Perhaps Queering the reason this is why the R der the old view, there's no controversy, the change from really careful ™™™ce?lsn'tthatonevalue be English depart- that women's studies shouldn't of multicultural Montana to Young, if you think ments, like studies? male Oxford's, in my taught by an anti-feminist it's essentially objection political. childhood % to st at least, didn't multi- Now question. j" teach culturalism that' s out of the The situation is the same in living is not the authors. They didn't expansion teach of these (continued page 5) studies. If on it turns out that —
1994 The Sewanee Purple Page 5 NEWS Exhibition by Photographer Ruth Robertson
Elizabeth Bowie stationed in the Aleutians by during first person to stand at the foot of Explorers: An Oral History World War II, then serving a short the highest waterfall in the world Project, and the photographer work of photojournalist Ruth stint at the now defunct The New York and to accurately record its height Howard Goodman. Robertson's will be on view from Robertson Herald Tribune. of 3,212 feet. Robertson pub- archive, containing thousands of 5, 1994, until the end of She March decided to trek to Angel lished a story and photographs of prints, negatives, and artifacts, has
April at the University. "Ruth Falls after seeing it from air f the on her adventure in the November become part of the Harry Ransom Robertson: Photojournalist. The one of her jungle runs south of the 1949 issue of National Geo- Humanities Research Center's Angel Falls, Forgotten Exhibition, Orinoco River. At that time its graphic. photography collection at the 1949" Venezuela, will be on dis- height was unknown. "Someday The photographs in the exhibit University ofTexas at Austin. The
play in the Bairnwick Women's someone was going to go in and chronicle the Angel Falls expedi- Center is a primary source for the
Center Gallery. measure it, and I decided it might tion as well as Robertson's deal- study of the art and process of
Born in 1905, Robertson went as well be me," Robertson said of ings along the way with the photography from its earliest times
to Venezuela in 1946, after begin- her decision to reach the falls. Camarata, indigenous people of through the present day.
I ning her career at the Peoria Star, Robertson mounted an expedition the region. The exhibit is curated This exhibit is sponsored by the
I then moving on to Acme and took it to Angel Falls. On by Patricia Hubbard, independent Focus Photography Club. For Newspictures (later UPI), then May 12, 1949, she became the scholar and director ofWomen more information call Elizabeth serving as a war correspondent Bowie at 598-2351. Searle, continued — out of the question, in a university ing highly politicized, to embrace away from the real problems in you make on other people and I
like the one where I teach. most strongly multicultural stud- higher education, what infact are never worry about it.
// in the late Cumulatively, I'm not trying to be a pugna- strikes fflfatljiqt this is a pecu- ies]. I wonder: here those problems? liar corner that the academic left twentieth century, having seen the do they amount to a crisis ? cious gadfly, if that's what you just trying to state the has painted itself into these days. atrocities and barbarities of I hate the word crisis because mean, I'm truth. The truth is often quite Under '60's-style liberalism, we twentieth century life, if New it's overused. In my entire life- daily obvious, and when you state it understood that there was a com- Criticism-style, mandarin literary time you could pick up any about the cri- people just have fits. munity ofmankind that was some- studies doesn 'tseem too precious, newspaper and read how transcendent or available to toofragile, irrelevant. I wonder if ses we are now in. the main issue, the oil of us regardless of the acci- that's not why students of litera- I think that avenue most important issue, is always dental particulars of birth. It ture try to find some of study the same: money. It seems like seems to me that what the aca- political action through the literature. there is never enough money for demic left is doing these days is a and teaching of around with all that you want to do. denial of that [assumption]. That But then why mess involved But, given the shortage of is what disturbs me about the trend literature? Why not get litera- money, the thing that is most towards multicultural studies. in political action? Most in our written with a politi- striking to me is the decay That is absolutely right. The ture was not don't mind. T. S. Eliot sense of mission. We really idea is that the most important cal objective in trying to do in these political objec- know what we are thing in your life is what I would well, he had education. If of his poems are our undergraduate consider to be the accidental facts tives—but most mission, motivated; they we had a clear sense of about your life: namely, that you not politically to worry about political relevance. we wouldn't have -ame from a certain religious, have very little issues, we'd in them, then these multicultural -tonic, racial, cultural, gender If you are interested the history them. But if just laugh them out of >ackground. The whole point of you are interested in lack a sense, a priority, I books. But we the is your main university is enable you to politics to we are trying something else be- clear sense, of what >vercome the limitations of all would say do to achieve in undergraduate edu- ^at. And now we are told, no, sides literature. why isn't that cation. you'll The question is never overcome the limita- do- the an- As I was looking around, to everybody, and ions of all that. On the contrary, obvious ing research for this interview, I to suggest at lunch Book your toe swer I tried role of the university is pre- things said students from foundsome interesting cisely faculty and to enforce all of those prior [with graduation party de- about you. A composite descrip- philosophy and English Evictions. the something they hold a tion ofyou might read now. * * * * * partments] is because transforma- like: "a pugnacious gadfly in that political Call St. Mary's Retreat About lit- theory this question of why American academics. " Is that achieved through cul- erary ex- tion can be Center departments seem fair? education. hausted, why literary departments tural 598-5342. is a 1 don't know—could be. I think multicultural debate seem bored literature land If the with attention it's hard to judge the impression thai ing to Particularly prone to becom- Jate April 11.19Q4
Page 6 LETTERS on Code, based our principles. 0Ur conceptions of right and wrong,
Code our conception of justice. I fee Fake IDs and the Honor | certain that the Code and have fun. reflects the toour academic our friends Editor's note: Mr. Lettre. a se- should apply only opinion Iseetwosidestoth.s.ssuea prevailing of the student work. Others fed that the Code nior m the College, is a member it says that both. But 1 body when cheating or as to can empathize With Council. has such a broad application of the Honor is wrong. I idea to let this stealing do not feel our think it is a bad importance apply strictly to all facets of An issue of growing that it reflects ambiguous situation continue. certain a general And. as I see it now, is affecting Sewanee. The new lives here. are some people opinion of the student body con feel that fake Right now there alcohol policy is more restrictive some students may cerning the appropriateness or feel fake IDs are OK, and in- is not lying, while others, I who making it increasingly difficult ID use appropriateness of the use of others who feel that they are an tike for Sewanee students to have a am sure, feel that it is. all have Honor Code violation. Such con- IDs. We different opin- drink when they goout. Although Some probably feel that the this issue. fusion over the application of the ions on many students are of legal age, a Honor Code explicitly prohibits I not advocating here Honor Code is unnecessary and am either majority are not, and are having the use of fake IDs. Misrepresent- side of this issue. I do think that dangerous, as it tends to make the a to find new ways to acquire al- ing oneself to get alcohol, some weaker. What we solution is necessary to preserve cohol. One approach: the use of a would argue, is a form of lying Honor Code resolution of this prob- the integrity of our Honor System fake ID. and is an Honor Code offense. To need is a
is detaching the here at Sewanee, and I think the Fake IDs are being used at allow the use of fake IDs would be lem, whether it solution come from the Sewanee. Frequently. And while to undermine and weaken the use of fake IDs from the Code, or should reaffirming their place in the prevailing opinion of the student it solves one problem —being Code.
I not pretend to body the origin of all of the able to drink— it creates another: Others probably argue differ- Code. And would — how does the use of a fake ID ently. With the new approach to speak for the student body in Honor Code. We, as students, mesh with the Honor Code? alcohol control, some might feel saying what we all think that so- need to think about this issue some
The Honor Code is a strong that fake IDs are one of the only lution is. A move in either di- more, and make up our minds part of life at Sewanee. We all ways to be able to go out and rection, however, would remove about the Honor Code and the use make the pledge to its ideals, the drink. It seems silly to have the a confusing gray area, and allow of fake IDs. And then we need to basic principles not to lie, cheat, Code apply to something like this, for a much stronger Honor Code, ascertain the prevailing opinion or steal. But because we Sewanee some would argue, because and a more resolute student body. of the student body, perhaps students are intelligent free- drinking is something most of us The best thing about our Honor through a vote, in order to do what thinkers, these principles mean do. We don't cheat, we don't Code is that it originates from the we must to keep Sewanee' s Honor different things to each of us. steal, and respect the we Code. student body: it is student upheld System strong. Some feel that the Honor Code All we want to do is go out with and student enforced. It is our Marcel Lettre C'94 PRE Director Disassociates "Hear No Evil, See No Evil" Program from Drinking Once Again: a Bad Joke The University's rules on co-ed has often been heard to discourse One program that I administer nor promoted by this program. visitation are a joke, and a bad one on the evils of the law which was recently mentioned in an Because of the nature at that. Every age 21. of the ac- student knows it. made the legal drinking article, "Riding Shotgun with tivities, Every all Outing Program of- dorm staff member and head His arguments seem to be twolold: BACCHUS," by Stephen ferings are advertised resident are as drug knows it. Every admin- first, persons of college age Barden [The Sewanee Purple, and alcohol free. istrator involved about in student life capable of making decisions 28 March 1994]. I would like As far as the 1994 PRE goes, knows it. The second. rules are broken alcohol on their own ; and to take a moment to address a the staff and every participants are night in Sewanee, often with making laws which everyone reference made with respect to being informed that this the knowledge broken year's of University do knows will be frequently the 1993 Sewanee Outing Pro- event will be conducted staff. t< on a decreases the respect given PRE. I will not discount drug and alcohol free basis. The rampant actuall} violation is just other laws which might ilcohol consump- first few weeks of an incoming '- sann astheP«rp/c deserve adherence. The tion occurred by underage freshman's college career are ned a .for the rules logic the Urn ibers deserve to be applies to of the student body wonderful yet vulnerable time, broken. Theircontinuede during visitation rules. Foi that event. Mr. Barden and need to be presented to n them insult to Sewanee h attempting, students reasons, they should be I think, to make in a responsible and construc- and an ca- undeserved annoyance student mparative observation be- tive Are not Sewanee way. the dormitory staff. The decisions about tween two similar, but differ- lack of pable of making anyrealorconsistentenforcement appropriate • ent, circumstances. when visitation is Joel Welsh coupled with the rules' behind close I would like to make it obvious not what goes on Silliness, lessens the concern known, though, that underage Director, respect stu- dormitory doors the Sewanee Outittg dents have for the as no imption is not encouraged authority of only those students, as long Program rules at this place. one else's rights are tramps %S,^;Qiancdlor&ur.mniseJthimself |
111.1994, The Sewanee Purple Page 7 OPINION (Dp $thmnu Purpk Rumblings from the
Official Organ of the Students of the University the South The of Right: Relativism, established 1892 or Whatever
Sewanee Purple is owned and operated by the students flie of the by Eric Heil conclusion. Living without basic Juversity of the South. All editorial and financial matters are directed standards of right and wrong, the editor in consultation with the staff and under the authority I ran into Rob, an old friend from without "judgment," means living ted by the University Publications Board. high school, over spring break. without ideals, ethics, nsigncd editorials represent the opinion of the senior editorial or morals. editorials represent the views of the "How have you been?" I asked. one can trusted, ft. Signed writer and do not No be because editorial iessarily reflect the views of 77/e Purple. "I don'tknow, all right I guess," ethics are all personalized. All to the editor are welcomed and should be mailed Letters directly to Rob replied. We began talking motivation will come not from Purple, deposited in Vie Purple's drop box on the University corn- and it quickly became apparent dignity, responsibility, or justice, ier network, or sent via E-mail. that there were a lot of things he but from materialistic longings for fetters to the editor must be signed with the writer'sname, telephone ber,year of graduation or relationship to the University. Unsigned really didn't know, or care about. comfort and bodily security.
firs will not be considered. The Purple reserves the right to edit letters Eventually, I turned the conversa- Murder would no longer be con- language, length, or matters of excessively poor taste. The editor tion to public policy. "How do demned by God's law or even [serve as final judge of the appropriateness of any submission. you feel about these recent pro- social expediency, because God's Kevin West abortion victories in the courts," I judgment is voided and it would Editor wondered. be impossible to agree that social
Utron McCollough Assistant Editor "Oh, I don't know. Whatever," cohesi veness is the right course to
Jamey Collins News Editor said Rob. I probed further. pursue.
ric Foster News Editor "You don't care either way?" Surely my old high school
ly Covington Sports Editor "No, it' s just that people should friend had no such end in mind jndsey Delaplaine Layout Editor dc whatever they want," was when he professed his "anything ?astlen Tindall Advertising Manager Rob's answer. goes" philosophy. Hejust wanted 'hrisCudabac Business Manager "Like anarchy, you mean?" ordinary people to be left alone to what they think Hiss Masterson Circulation Manager "Ofcourse not, I just mean that and allowed do
is best. He may not have said it, Dr. John V. Reishman, Faculty Advisor people should not go around the judging other people all the time. but behind this desire was University of the South The things would One person's right is anotherone's idealistic notion that 735 University Avenue wrong. You know what I'm talk- not get out of hand, that some Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 fundamental law really would step (615)598-1204 ing about?" I in to govern things. But a quick I didn't. So I let it drop. But E-mail: purple@seraph 1 sewanee.edu this consideration of the depths to are available for am still wondering what ie Sewanee Purple is printed bi-weekly; subscriptions greed and lust have driven $12 per year. conversation reveals about trends which over time suggests that things in thought in our nation and the man are really not so simple. whydoesnttheadm.nis.ra- vacy ; The antidote for a dismal end ? Yes. Each student should ontothebandwagonofre | a(ivism> ,10n •able i» are to society and the descent into determine with whom . . which professes that all things Therefore, the Purple urge. •Nor how long wishes good nor bad. and that anarchy is clearly not a legislative she or he mime- neilher University administration and bureaucracy can- sit. as long as roommates or (here are no fundamental evils or one. Laws a com '" diate| t0 convene govern what men believe is » residents are not disturbed. y '"T basic goods, as these are only not ur ose In most for ,he P P ° The error in this right or wrong. Perhaps what is dormitories, moreover, '"T"* he relative terms. rules V ' S dorm - of needed is a reexamination of the debate is rather moot. Espe- thinking, beyond its negation rovldeain ^h,. . unlimlted - govern *»> in made P ™ theology and the fun- unspoken traditions which dorms with a high per- a ll Christian hts,0 va "e roommate'sng P" rules of law shared behavior and though, within so- *» April 11, 1994 Sewanee Purple Page 8 The SPORTS Tiger Basball Shapes Up in '94 the rotation. Juniors by Maxwell Hart Greene and shortstop Tony starters in Young have Richards, and two sophomores, Alex Brown and Russ Kempf and center also contributed to the starting The 1994 Sewanee Tiger Base- catcher Bart Restaurant Tigers staff, with Jeff Ridner, Ben Klein ball Team, reflecting back on last fielder Glenn Harris, the Steve Bruce providing season, has finally seen the end of have averaged six to seven runs and CASUAL DINING bullpen relief. the storm. After a disappointing per game. Kempf, in his first year ON THE March 25, the Tigers' season last year in which half of on the team, leads the club in As of 7-10 overall, and 5-4 MOUNTAIN their games were washed out by hitting while Greene, with his four record was • •• play Centre rain and snow, the Tigers are runs batted in in one game vs. in the SCAC. They Relax & Enjoy Dinner Rhodes, and Harris, with his home College for three games before poised and ready for a winning on our Veranda record and a trip to the Southern run and eight RBI's over the coming home to play conference Collegiate Athletic Conference weekend at Fisk, are competing opponents Fisk and Oglethorpe DINNER - for the in batted in. Jun- on the first two weekends in April, (SCAC) tournament in Atlanta in lead runs Thurs., Fri. & 8af. 5-10 pm late April. Thanks to a new atti- ior second baseman Alex Brown also for three games each. Each LUNCH & DINNER - tude towards playing baseball and continues to hit the ball hard as remaining conference game is Sunday 11:30-2pm & 5-9pm winning, this feat that would seem well, and the bats of freshmen crucial to the Tigers' chances at OPEN MIKE rather remarkable after last year' third baseman Matt Cooke, left the SCAC tournament. Thursday , April 6 1-17 performance has now be- fielder Richard Douglas and right With consistent defense, strong come the team's vision. fielder Pete Paulus, have greatly pitching efforts, and continued Pearl's will open for "These guys have stayed in ev- contributed to the Sewanee attack. run production, the Tigers will be dinner Wednesdays from 5-10pm ery game," remarks head coach The return of junior Drew a respected threat in the SCAC. beginning mid-April Robert Black. "If faced with de- Corbett from the disabled list has For the future, sophomores Kempf feat, they battle back. They want also given the team a new lift. and Harris as well as freshmen 598-9568 to win, and while they may not Since his return to the lineup over Bruce, Cooke, Douglas, Klein and Qewanee Hwy. brtwtn B tm fcMorrt—flU win every game, they're going to spring break, Corbett, the leadoff Paulus provide a strong base for — play to do so." As testament to hitter, has led the team in on base seasons to come. this, twice this season the Tigers percentage, scoring 15 runs in the As for this season, coach Black Market have been trailing seven Sewanee by seven or games since then. is optimistic. "We take one game more runs and rallied to either tie The Tigers' pitching rotation is at a time and try to focus on what HOURS the score or come within one run. anchored by the strong arms of we're doing. We've got solid Much of this new enthusiasm senior Charlie Johnson 8am 12am and junior pitching, good defense and our can be accredited to a new punch Ken Grimes. Both have pitched hitting is coming alive. If we in the Tigers' offense. Led by two very well this season and have continue to do what we have been seniors, first baseman Greg established themselves 598-5993 as the 1-2 doing, things will go our way." Driving towards a schools. Championship? from Division I and NAIA During the Delta State Tourna- by Tyler Vaughey golf match. In some respects, the Steve Schale. These players, in ment, which took place in Cleve- lack of support is due to the fact addition tojunior Josh Poole, have land, MS, the team recorded the For many of you who do not know, that the sport is played over eigh- flourished into capable competi- lowest two-day total that the school there really is a teen holes and thus, golf team at spectators are tors with a season of college ex- has ever produced. Sewanee. For those of you who forced to walk along with the perience under their belts. Josh Poole, who has often been were aware of the team's exist- players. However, no matter how Having completed his most of the compared to John Daly for ence only because it was notori- large or small the audience may season, the men's has team has dem- appearance and driving ability, ously bad, think again. The 1994 be, the 1994 team deserves credit onstrated vast ^ improvement from praised this young team for Sewanee men's golf team where credit is has due. previous years. For the first time dedication competitive spin' emerged and become a legitimate According to Sewanee' and s num- in recent memory, the team has Along he also attrib- program after putting through ber one player, Chris "Rain Doggy with talent, compiled an undefeated to years of mediocrity. Dog" Rainey record uted the team's improvement , much of the success (4-0) in dual match play. of the The most favorable weather conditions Who plays golf at Sewanee? 1994 campaign can be notable of these to victories the team Sadly, this may be a question that credited to the "fab four." was which have allowed The registered against rival Millsaps asked to the majority of the campus now golf team is almost entirely com- practice regularly. When College, e which finished in th asks itself. Several sports on the posed of sophomores, second predict the team's success including in the conference in 1993 Atlanta. mountain receive minimal sup- quartet members Rainey, In ad SCAC tournament held in Andrew dition, the team has also play 8 port, but very few people, prob- Israel, Thomas Daniel, played GA, Poole replied, "If we Roe Elam, well J in various break- ably as well tournaments that spring none, have ever witnessed a as Rhett Heyward and "KMcd well as we did over scholarship students (continued on page 9) 1994 April 11. The Sewanee Purple Page 9 SPORTS Equestrians End Another Successful Year by Debra Podurgiel while mounted). You have just April second at Regional Compe- Sally McClatchey placed third in drawn this horse's name from an tition. In order to qualify to show her flat class, while Erin Sellers When one rides in Intercollegiate envelope, and are informed that at the competition individual rid- placed second over fences. Horse Show Association (IHSA) someone else is currently "on ers must qualify out of their divi- Camille Thompson placed sixth competition she (in this case the course" with the same horse. You sion with points they win when- in her Walk-Trot class (K.K. was women outnumber the men by a turn to see this horse running fran- ever they place in the shows dur- unable to attend). landslide) often finds herself in tically at a fence, only to stop just ing the year. This year we had On top of these successes at for more than she expects. Just to before take-off. Needless to say eight people qualify at all differ- Regionals two of our riders re- for get you situated within the intri- the rider sails gracefully over the ent levels. Katherine Davis (one ceived end of the year awards Stephanie Bush cacies of our sport let's run fence and lands on the other side. of our most recent additions to the the whole region. grand title of Overall through the beginning of a typical You feel the once secure confi- team) qualified for both the Open won the High Point Rider IHSA class over fences. dence dwindle swiftly, and sud- on the Flat and Over Fences Combined she had more points You walk on foot around the denly find yourself hoping to get classes. K.K. Christie qualified (translation: from her Hunt Seat points and her eight fence course that you are over the fences with this rather for the Open on the Flat class. qualified for Open Stock Seat (Western) points than about to jump a horse around. smug looking animal under you. Stephanie Bush Novice over Fences, anyone else in the region). Most of the jumps are approxi- Any images of elegance retire to on the Flat, being our token Western rider, Katherine Davis was Reserve mately three feet high, a height the archives of your imagination. and, Rider the Open Stock Seat class. Sally High Point Hunt Seat which you have jumped often on I would venture into describing McClatchey qualified for the In- (translation: she obtained the your own horse. The fences are the excitement that follows this points termediate Flat class, and Erin second highest number of fairly basic: most of them are solid introduction to intercollegiate Sellers qualified for the Interme- in the region). gates, walls, and poles. You walk horse showing, but it is truly one for those riders diate over Fences class. Camille The next step out of the ring feeling fairly con- of those things that you must wit- for Zones will hopefully Despite Thompson, a sophomore who be- qualified fident that you will do well. ness to appreciate fully. so wish them luck team gan showing consistently with the be to Nationals, Things change drastically after the odd array of horses the for the this week as they train for their interesting team this year, qualified have taken your trip to the encounters, and the you competition at Zones. Also, please sometimes accom- Walk-Trot class. is at this point that judging which draw table. It to congratulate the rest of Keeping in mind that only the be sure shows, it is a truly ad- you remember that this course panies the each class the team on a successful year; activity. top three riders from to do with Ole' dicting collegiate has very little Zone competition these members are Lisa Akerman, The success that the team has qualify for More or Less Faithful back at the Burney, Catherine (where the top two qualify indi- Samnita over the years proves this fact, are now four hundred had Burr, Holly barn. You Nationals), the team Carruthers, Elizabeth no different. The vidually for home and are prepar- and this year was miles from well. Hadley, Caroline Hennesy, Mimi up third in did remarkably invariably Equestrian Team ended ing to ride a horse her Open McNamara, Bridgette Plowman, and had sev- Katherine Davis won "Daydreamer", the region this year named "Doubt" or third on the Tessa Sarrazin, Jason Seward, as Fences class, and was eral strong individual showings or worse yet, "Racer One" (please Open Riley Sims, Jordana Tonn, and flat. Stephanie Bush won the noth- well. note that these names have over fences, Brooke Westfall. individuals flat class, was second of Several of these to do with the basic concept class. ing on and third in her stock seat displayed their abilities again jumping over a fence, at least not Golf, continued then we should have a legitimate shot at winning. This is the best Syracuse University . Programs AbroadhrMll and most competitive team that I Division of International 119 Euclid Avenue have played on at Sewanee." 13244-4170 Syracuse, New York *< Although your attendance at 1.800-235-3472 the SCAC tournament is not ex- SYRACUSE ABROAD 5 pected, the golf team would ap- about! Something to write home preciate the "pat on the back" that Czech Republic. England. Australia. Belgium. it deserves. Hopefully, this article . Programs in Africa. and Spain Hungary. Israel. Italy. Poland, France. Germany. has lifted the members of the 1994 language not always necessary . Prior foreign team out of the depths of ano- . SU credit nymity and placed them on visible seminars . Field trips/traveling ground. In the past, this team has . Internships summer semester, a year, or a struggled to stay in the fairway, . Study for a placements apartment is not only . Home or limited yet the 1994 squad driving for the green, but also Applications still being accepte driving towards its first confer- ence championship. April 11, 1994 Purple Page 10 The Sewanee SPORTS Sewanee Women's TVackMhe Making of a Dynasty total record held by Junior Quisha and is a candidate for a post- by Robert Griffith women's team is made up of less pace given by the White, the Lady Tigers track team athletes as compared to last year's graduate scholarship outstanding scholar looks to be overcoming the odds The Sewanee women's track team team. With the loss of senior NCAA to becoming a legitimate con- athletes. In the last meet at Emory, and is is looking to do what the Duke contributor Stacy Juckett, Coach records in tender for that third champion- Blue Devils have only dreamed Cliff Afton has had to rely on the Skipper broke school ship. But as Coach Cliff Afton about and the Chicago Bulls have said, "It's going to take a lot of actually achieved: a "three-peat" hard work." as champion. The Lady Tigers It's clear from the amount of have set a precedent in the last two personal records set in the last years by reigning as the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference meet at Emory (seven in all) that champions and are looking to the women are still improving. continue their proud tradition as Afton credits the hard work of all they set their sights on the confer- the athletes who stayed with the ence meet at Oglethorpe during program for moving the team to the weekend of April 22 and 23. where it is now. Some women The conference meet should set have to compete in five or more the stage for a bitter rivalry be- events as opposed to three or four tween Rhodes and Sewanee who As women's track goes for a three-peal, two important team members are Quisha events last year. This is again due have split their two previous White and Kiisha Walker. Photo by Lyn Hutchinson. to the limited number of members meetings. Oglethrope and Centre efforts of seven new-comers, of the 1500 and the 800. She had on the team. But as their success will also be competing there. five are The whom freshmen. The previously set the record in the shows, it hasn't been an over- Lady Tigers are on pace for that continuing improvements of 800 the week before. whelming problem. The team is third championship and are even Daphne Skipper and her unprec- Sophomore Michelle Parks looking ahead to their next meet weeks ahead as compared to last edented accomplishments have broke the school record in the 400 and conference championships year's numbers. helped to balance out the voids in at Emory with a time of 61.07. beyond that. Good luck to the But the quest for glory might the roster. Skipperisonlyacouple With the incredible efforts set forth Lady Tigers in their quest for that not be as easy as all that. The of seconds off national qualifying the by women, including the point third title. Congratulates to the Hogs of Arkansas, who won their first National Collegiate Basketball Champi- onship! Forthoseofyouwhomissedthegam^itwaswellworththepriceofadmission rtw« a .i Hats off as well to the ever-competitive ^"^ Duke Blue Devils,who • competedI mta £Stheir third championship^ u in four years. What a great sport! game • Back in Sewanee, the men's indoor soccer team plaved in two inn™- *„. *"" reached the quarterfinals in the Tennessee TempleUrnamT^ ^ th ZTT 7T^ tournament held at UTC. They also play° ffs ta a took to the great outdoors an^d VanH *? W-ndb^tlJTCmSewaneeby.M IT m s 6 g ' and we lo in action next fall. °k forward to seeing you • 0n thegreens,theMen'S golfteamisonatearrightnow.Theyareundefe a tpH- * • , havingbeatenMillsaps321 m their three ^al matches, to 363, Knox College 326 to 345 andS™ If^ 1 meeting. Recently in the Delta State 5 * Ryder Cu format tournament they scored theX^™ ™ J " P the first day and a 317 on the " eight years sho second. Keep up the good work! ' °«ng 319 on • With spring so quickly approaching, take time to go outside and do sonwk- fimc - around or playing a little softball will do 8 th">wing a frisbee wonders for the brain , Intra™mUral s involved. Call Matt ' Ports or Chapman Kern for more information ** also a great way to get 1 Anrilll. 1994 The Sewanee Purple Page 1 SPORTS Spring is in the Air... * M men's Above: Will Merritt giving his body to the looking for lacrosse team. Top right: Kenneth Grimes helps the men's the strike. Bottom left: K.C. Home Bottom tennis team keep up a winning tradition. shot. Photos by right: Andrew Israel lines up for the Lyn Hutchinson. * April 11, 1994 Page 12 The Sewanee Purple LIVING ARTS The Long and Winding Road: A Sewanee Alum's Musical Quest with by Jonathan Meiburg community in that group," he said, baggyjeans, and red All-Stars into the Living Arts Editor "that I knew I wanted to be part HUSKER DU carved of." Among the musicians was soles. "Uh, hi," he said, cleared For most of us, the life waiting singer Gerard McHugh, who be- his throat, and launched immedi- outside the walls of Sewanee is friended Dave and provided him ately into his first song, "Watts' relatively predictable - a few years with the opportunity to play his First Kiss." His voice was raspy in graduate school, a comfortable first paid gig on March 5 of this and faltered occasionally, and his desk job, maybe ten years of in- year at Sylvia's Art of the Cen- percussive, choppy guitar style dentured slavery in medical or tury gallery and coffee shop near was a bit rickety. Bu\ several law school. ..in short, a vanilla Little Five Points - an event I songs later he found his style with existence that we like to pretend attended. a hilarious performance of "My we won't get involved in but Sylvia's Art of the Century Mom is a Spy," a whimsical tale probably will anyway. But that's Dave couldn't have chosen a of parental paranoia which in- not the case for Sewanee alum better place to launch his musical cluded the memorable line "She's Dave Dault (C '93), who has de- career. Sylvia's was a whimsi- so sure I'm a commie/that I'm Dave Dault playing one of his first cided to heed the advice of author cally decorated, cozy coffee house sure she's a Fed." Later he per- concerts at the Lambda Chi Alpha Joseph Campbell who said, "Fol- that was spattered with photogra- formed the fragile "Colin's Song" House in April of 1993. low your bliss." For Dave, that phy, comfortable couches, and a moving a cappella cover of as hell," he admitted, "and that bliss involves a guitar, a micro- Christmas lights, and gumball Todd Rundgren's "Honest Work." really shook me. But I'm still phone, and a roomful of listeners. machines. The relaxed, sleepy He also accompanied Mr. learning." I asked him about his "I've been writing songs since atmosphere was occasionally McHugh on banjo for several plans for the future, including I was a sophomore in high school, punctuated by the rumble of a songs - an amusing instrumental possible recordings and publicity. about seven years," he said in an MARTA bus on the street and the turn which found him a bit out of His answer was surprising. interview. "At first, it was just whirr of the coffee grinder in the his element. "As far as doing the demo tape something to do..." Inspired by a corner. About forty people were Dave's performance had its thing, trying to 'make it'. ..I'm not nestled into the nooks rough edges, but his songs were really interested "I love the feeling ofjust getting to in that," he said. and crannies of the honest and heartfelt and I found "I can play, being with see maybe getting together a bunch of folks, room. I took my seat myself singing along on more than with some friends and making a making people on an happy. I write songs oriental rug and one occasion. After a few hours tape, but I'm not concerned with because waited for the music I don't know how or why Sylvia's had acquired a kind of promoting myself. I just want to to start. soft magic, not to." with music seeping play." In the meantime, Dave is - Dave Dault Dave shared the into every corner, the smell of working as a personal attendant bill that night with coffee beans and wine in the air, for a disabled diverse range of artists including three other man and trying, performers. Mr. and warm lamplight reflecting off usually Willie Nelson, hard-core successfully, not to starve. punk, McHugh lovingly picked his sleepy, satisfied faces. Billy Dave He's thinking Bragg and Husker Du, Dave acoustic guitar while about graduate singing his couldn'thavepickedabetterplace embarked on the first school, maybe steps of his tuneful anthems reminiscent an eventual teach- of for his first performance. musical journey. ing position He formed a the Indigo Girls. Matthew at a high school. But Kahler Reality punk Bites his band in high school, which, played guitar music has become a driving and bongos with A few weeks in the manner later in Athens, of most high school astounding rhythmic force for him. "I love the feeling ability and Dave found himself bands, ultimately in a different of fell apart. In sang with a sweet, just getting to play, being with mellow James position—he college he played his set alone continued to write Taylor-ish voice. a bunch of folks, Beth Williams, in a noisy making people songs, performing club before the on- occasionally a singer happy. I and guitarist from write songs because I Phila- slaught of a for small groups. punk band and a ram- delphia, had a voice don't know how that ran the bunctious crowd or why not to." But after graduation, who weren't some gamut from I wish a husky murmur to a paying you luck, Dave. It's soul-searching, attention. "I was and encourage- clear, nervous going beautiful soprano" The four to be an uphill climb. ment from friends, he decided to of them took turns performing take h,s talents further and to push their songs, sometimes accompa Summer job: Adams in the d.rect.on of public perfor- nying Edgeworth Inn each other, often inviting mance. He began exploring the the audience to sing along or to Young man needed local mus.c scene in for- odd ink* u j Atlanta, and play on various percussion there encountered a group of mu- implements that were passed sicians who met in small coffee around. houses and clubs to play original KaM "Uh, hi." Mld-M»J hrc.ghAug,,,,. acoustic material. They attracted Dave was visibly nervous but a small, devoted, enthusiastic au- glowed when he took the floor for dience? ' "'There" was a" feefing of the first song, dressed in a T-shirt mm April 11. 1994 The Sewanee Purple Page 13 LIVING ARTS Sneak PreviewiBehind the Screen at the Sewanee Union Theater Molinaro theater by John is run and how movies are mester in advance, leaving a few When she is planning the chosen. The Office of Student spaces open at the end of the se- schedule, Ms. Manly tries to make There have been a number of Activities directs the theater, and mester for movies that are released sure that one of the two films questions recently about the it is funded out of the general midway through the semester. playing on the weekend is fam- Sewanee Union Theater, espe- University budget and with rev- At the end of each semester, ily—oriented; the other film is cially concerning the movies that enues from the box office. Ms. Ms. Manly and a group of about usually oriented towards the un- have played this semester. Talk- Manly hopes to see the venture ten students preview upcoming dergraduate community. This ing to Lisa Manly, Director of break even in the future by con- releases and try to plan which only occurs about three out of Student Activities, who also serves tinuing to bring in popular movies ones to bring here. The opinions four weekends, though, Ms. Manly there are as manager of the theater, I was which will attract sizable audi- of the staff, community, and stu- explained, because often pleasantly surprised to hear her ences. dents are considered, as are criti- so many movies that they want to plans for the theater's future. Sewanee reserves first run fea- cal reviews of the movies under bring that contain mature subject One of the larger undertakings tures for about six weeks after consideration. matter. she proposes is to renovate the their openings in fust-run cinemas, Katharine Scrantom Studios theater, including new bathrooms, which allows the SUT to get re- re-upholstered chairs, and a mu- cent films at a considerable dis- Sewanee, TN painted count. One reason that it has ral in the hallways to be SPRING by Emily Tapia, an art student taken so long for Oscar-nominated PORTRAITS here. Also, over the course of the movies to come here this year is for next few weeks, many critically that the larger theaters have the Graduation, Mother's Day, acclaimed movies and box office right to call them back if there is Father's Day be- hits will be playing. Shadowlands, renewed interest in the films Schindler's List, cause of their nominations. I was Short Cuts, 25% OFF for University of the big Tombstone, and Reality Bites will assured that almost all students late will be coming to all come to the Union Theater movies of the next couple of or black before the end of the semester. Sewanee over custom prints in color Who picks the flicks weeks. & white Scheduling Kathy 598-5680 While talking to Ms. Manly, I Call are ordered a se- discovered a lot about how the Most movies / The ^-the GKtss is QueeA k} ew cuott/^s/ SEEA) -yftgy pVUSf ftE / is changing essays. have 2 scored The October GMAT will + the old GMAT u*» cwnfc s^w to take Our m June is your tt>ste SEUc-ne/* foft E/«ayoA)e 5 j CMP* two wee in the next , i GMATrM AT start Kaplan classes for the June poseurs +JojunS,WMWijw» information, call call For more (or 4. moR£ • • • .,,-3.3- i^ooTkap^est ComE \>i6rr oun> SHop + &pu)SE KAPLAN LfiCfffBj) a>0VWTt>VM r»]0A>-5flr II- S 598 ~sa» 8 \ l . .iV. i " April 11, 1994 Sewanee Purple Page 14 The LIVING ARTS around the corner..••• Why Go to Pizza Hut? Papa Ron's is just to the meal. Overall the dining experience the an interesting addition by Seth A Eaker all, even I need a change from y good, but lacked the fimshmg desserts are limited, but was dining halls on a regufar basis. Their coffees tou es again reasonable. Their ™ - Editor's note: Mr. Eaker is the But I digress. The real issue is . other hand, are delightful The manager, Bruce Scott, is Student Director ofMarriott Food the quality, price, and variety of on the suggestions, and has quite varied. (I did think it a open to been services here at the University of the food now available at Papa and of pleased by the response of the Purple little odd to be enjoying a cup the South and has extensive expe- Ron ' s. The editor of the hotJava afterjalapefios, but maybe students and community. I would hence in both the kitchen and in and I arrived at Papa's at a rea- just me). say that the Papa Ron ' s experience r/if service end of the restaurant sonable time, about 7:00 p.m. It it is the plus side is that Papa is definitely worth a try, both to business. He also is part of the was crowded but not overly so. On should break up the monotony of dining Marriott catering team and is re- The decor was simple but tasteful: Ron's delivers, which hall eating, and to eat a few pep- sponsible for nearly all student reminiscent ofa50's diner. Their make finals week a bit more en- serve pers alongside a fine pizza. catering events. He will be trav- menu is limited perhaps petite durable. They do also — *** eling regularly to different res- might be a more tactful way of breakfast: again coffee and the Food Quality: continental fare of Food Variety:** taurants to bring us reviews of putting it —limited to pizza with a standard what's hot and what's not near choice of about 1 1 toppings. Prices danishes and muffins. Atmosphere:*** the Mountain. are certainly below Pizza Hut's The atmosphere is conducive Service:*** and the drive is not nearly as te- to large and small groups of Mr. Eaker awards from 0-5 Think diner. That's what I did dious. friends, but it is not apt for an stars in each category. when 1 first went into Papa Ron's Service was acceptable, but not intimate date by any stretch of the = Not worth the land it is on. (402 W. Main St., across from outstanding. It was clear that our imagination. 1 = Barely considerable. The Depot), the latest offering in waitress was "in the weeds," as Their one prime flaw is the 2 = Average. the booming metropolis that is we in the food business are wont truly limited menu. If you don't 3 = Above average. Monteagle. For my first review, I to say. like pizza, you are just out of luck. 4 = Worth an hour's drive with thought I would do a restaurant They do have outstanding the time I one By was done, I was yourformal date whom you don 't that not the everyone in Sewanee addition to every pizza, and that is craving some green leafy veggies, like just to go. community has accepted as a the side-dish of jalapefios that rather than hot coffee and a piece 5 = Why take a Sewanee An- staple of our culinary lives. After accompanies every pizza. It of was cheesecake. gel, you will never want to leave. "DOCere etDeleCtare" English Profs Take Up Horace's Injunction by Amy Covington nursery stories when you were On the recent vandalism in Walsh- "Some of the throwers-up put kids that's your problem." — Ellet: their lives together in the long As I was going through my notes Dr. John G rammer: "I can understand run." over spring perversions break in that frantic On feelings of inadequacy: of all kinds men The Ever-Quotable pursuit of a big fat "P" on comps, — who wear Dr. Rob- "By the time Mozart was my women's shoes, etc.— ert Benson: I came across some unusual, and except I might add extremely amusing, On Chaucer's "Miller's Tale": "It additions to my normal notes. ain't love, but it ain't bad." I've gotten in the habit in the last On skipping class the Friday of few years of writing down the party weekend: memorable things that my pro- "Some fun-loving n'er-do- fessors have uttered along the well has no class." way. For those of you that are On a liberal arts education: interested, here's the best of the "You've got to take all the best, and since my major is En- stuff you're not interested in so glish, my apologies to that de- you can be round." partment for revealing their sense On life in general: of humor. Camping English majors. "We've all Photo by Lyn Hutchinson. been little pa- Dr. Dale Richardson: gans." age,he'dbeendeadfortenyears." On English snobbery about the vandalism °n e "You're not entitled to an way Americans talk: ; Dr. Ted Stirling: %Only w opinion just because you're morbid young adoles- "As if they had beautiful On hh fnnAn**?* ac- certifiably cents read Poe." " types alive, and no, Louis cents—Good God!!!" of poet ^ Dr. William Cocke: L' Amour is not as good as On the decadence of today's "H^*S an other On Hamlet: "™ damn bird Shakespeare." youth: poem for , <..» , ,. you. Hamlet would have been "I'm an evangelist for paper 'Y'all didn't read enough a Dr. John V RpJcK marvelous candidate clips." .for Prozac." On party vv^S "It's hell to get old." .itAw/,1,-:: /J.*/ v.vwvj c^Ts, TTTfTJSrTTTn s.<> April 11. 1994 The Sewanee Purple Page 15 LIVING ARTS DIP-DIP-DIP-DIP, DIP-DIP-DIP-DIP, UM-UM-UM-UM- UM-UM, HAVE SOME FUN: THE GLORY OF DOO WOP THE DOO WOP BOX by-track commentary completes nonsense syllables sung by both Black female fans swooned over Rhino 71463 The Doo Wop Box. lead and harmony vocalists show lead vocalist Sonny Til the way more imagination; 33 of the white bobby-soxers had done over (4 CDs or cassettes) And what exactly is doo wop? much from few years before. by Gregory T. Clark The term, which refers to the most delightful of these— Frank Sinatra a also made a strings of nonsense syllables so "bom, bom, di-bi-di-bi-di-bah, ri- The Orioles' records bi-dah, ri-bi-dah, ri-bi-dah, ri-bi- big impression on the young Elvis for Jim Marrow often chanted by its practitioners, modeled his ballad- into only in the early dah, doo bop shoo bah, bom bom Presley, who Late last year the New York came use even music was dibi-dibi-dip" (The Five Discs' singing style on Til's and Times ran a story about a conven- 70s; in its own day the to "yip-yip- covered one of the Orioles' referred to first as rhythm and "Never Let You Go") tion of doo-wop aficionados in yip-yip-yip-yip* mum- singles, "Crying in the Chapel." and later as rock'n'roll. By yip-yip northern New Jersey. It soon be- blues Orioles' suave sound soon term "doo wop," en- mum-mum-mum mum-mum- The came clear that the writer enjoyed coining the (the Silhouettes' "Get spawned a legion of imitators who thusiasts of the genre sought to mum-mum" neither the genre nor the sight of a Job")— often also named themselves after highlight A black headlining group being are listed al- birds, the most gifted of which which its most cheered on by an audience phabeti- were Harlem's Ravens and distinctive white, all male, and all was all cally on Chicago's Flamingos, the latter fortysomething. The feature: its about page 74 of known as the "Sultans of Smooth." implicit and uninformed emphasis reporter' s the booklet In the summer of 1954, however, on close conclusion was that the singers included two upbeat New York doo-wop for a harmony were "Uncle Tomming" with The singles—the Crows' "Gee" and find "authen- singing. In storm- crowd which would Doo Wop the Chords' "Sh-Boom"— even contrast to hit tic" black music unsettling or Box. ed both the black and white the self- that the threatening. The first parades and served notice contained todawn. What the writer did not under- of the lat- rock'n'roll era was about and is vocal volume of The Doo stand, however, is that doo wop ter's four The second instrumen- "The Rock'n'Roll Ex- the musical mirror of an era— volumes, Wop Box, Sec- tal groups covers the two musi- from the years just after the "The Birth plosion," which years from October ond World War to the years just of Doo cally eventful flourished cov- 1955 to October of 1957. In after the Kennedy assassination— Wop," of 1963, par- coop- after the se- July of 1955, "respectable" in which an unprecedented ers doo-wop shaken their heads as Bill between blacks and whites ven years ents had eration The segrega- acts sang July Haley's "Rock Around led to the dismantling of from 1 in May passing exclu- of 1948 to Clock" reached number ; tion in the South and the What sively; the October of of 1956, Elvis Presley's topping of two Civil Rights Acts. was "Heartbreak was ap- backup 1955. In of the charts with that New Jersey audience oth- clear that gifted left to the 1930s Hotel" made it plauding, then, was notjust a ers. The and early rock'n'roll was, as Danny and the and genuinely black vocal group, was it in 1958, more con- genre 19 4 0s, Juniors would describe but also the sound of a also almost black vo- "here to stay." and optimistic time and structive groups also American entirely cal groups Black doo-wop place in the history of male: the had sought enjoyed their share of hits at this like the Mills Brothers race relations. on The Doo Wop lovingly only exceptions from the small time, among the most Rhino released to "cross over" Last December all-female Chantels Box are the the much remembered the buoyant "Why of that "race" record market to a 101 -track celebration with a lone fe- two quintets Fall in Love" by Har- Box. and white one by singing in a Do Fools entitled The Doo Wop and the larger sound vocalist, the Platters Frankie Lymon and the re- male polished but bland "pop" lem's of two years of highly The product and the intense "In the Skyliners. . July Teenagers com- manner. All that changed in and preparation, the are without search Doo-wop songs the Nite" by New Haven's the 1948, when a Baltimore five- Still of the ear with keys. Chord of pilation regales in major second volume exception the Orioles released Five Satins. The the best doo- piece named finest work of 88 of to be s.mple-C flush sequences tend bal- The Doo Wop Box is also 1948 to an unprecedentedly soulful of groups active from C/F/G are the most wop Am/F/G and to more obscure black doo-wop of the called "It's Too Soon with dnly two encountered arrange- lad 1963. Fortunately, frequently the ragged but muscular mastered Know." gems like are obviously melodies straight- 101 tracks ments-and was sim- "Please Don't Ask Me To Be toexcellcnt memorable. Although the record fromdiscs; very good and instantly Dubs and forward "cross over," it Lonely" by Harlem's apparently usea the ply too intense to source tapes were a few exceptions, With only the spirited "Baby Oh Baby" by A 76-page concern was a huge "race" hit and the for the remaining 99. are upbeat and lv rics successful. (continued on page 16) informative The chains of group became very booklet with several young romance. exhaustive tra< essays and an April 11, 1994 Page 16 The Sewanee Purple BACK PAGE joie de vivre amply demonstrates period, however. Two of the Top beloved Story" why the genre is so by 5 hits, the soulful "My True those who truly know and under- and the rollicking "Stay," were sung by black quintets, the former stand it. Randy and the Rainbows' by Brooklyn's Jive Five and the "Denise" was the last big doo- latter by Maurice Williams and reaching the Top Ten in the Zodiacs of Lancaster. South wop hit, i 'I I *>o V Three months Carolina. Of the racially mixed late AugUSl 22 November 1963. the groups, the most sui was later, on ii President Pitt- of the-lop remake of Rodgers' and Kennedy nailed the lid not only Hart's "Blue Moot hed on his coffin, but also on thos the nation's seemingly boundless number 1 in April ol 1961. Hon- orable mention in this category optimism and the musical form mustgoto Brooklyn's Five Dr which best reflected it. While doo whose dementedly fast and exu- wop's continuing influence is berant "Never Let You Go" should most evident in the work of the have been a hit in 1962. Beach Boys, it can also be de- The Bronx's all-white Regents tected in the recordings of British 1961 pT*ofe*mor 8&L ClctHUo* and (Dax made the Top 15 in June of beat groups like the Beatles and Signs of Spring: Sun, outdoor fiin, and smiling Sewanee ba with the stuttering "Barbara Ann"; Hollies: for irrefutable proof, the Beach Boys would reach compare "This Boy," the flipside Doo-Wop, continued for You." number 1 with it in February of of the Beatles' "I Want To Hold Brooklyn's Sfiells. Of the many obscure record- 1 966. Even better, though, are the Your Hand," with "Gee Whiz," It was also at this time that the ings included on volume 3, two of ineffable "Tonight I Fell in Love" an uncannily similar 1960 record- iirst racially mixed and all-while the best arc the A and B sides of a and "Denise," the former by ing by Los Angeles' Innocents doo w op acts appeared on the 1958 single by the Students, a Brooklyn's Tokens and the latter not included on The Doo Wop Box. i I he first racially mi black sextet from by Randy Youngstown, and the Rainbow In a now more cynical and ra- hit were Ohio Fronted by a 16-year-old Queens. cially polarized America, it is all Pittsburgh's Dell-Vikings, wh whose tremulous, keening v< Three doo-wop recordings too easy to write doo wop off as ne Go With Me" en- style ma m on le after the gi the naive product of the smugly ters p30inMi Ronnie Spec l or, they the 957; chose for end of 1963 i i kind of self-confident era which gave us the fi the topside "I'm So Young," a ime 4 ofThe Doo Wop the finned' adillac, the hulahoop, w ise, with the chiming "I Wonder plaintive ballad later covered by Box. Of the three, the be and the topiary poodle. However, Why" in June ol 1958, was the both the Ronettes and the Beach questionably "My Juanita" by such sal does in- Bronx's a great Dion and the Belmonts. Boys I he upbeat flip, "Everyday New York's Johnny Maestro justice not only to the music, but Volume twool TheDoo WopBox ol the Week." was lightly re- the Brooklyn Bridge. Originally alsoto the admirable sociopolitical also includes the superb but rarely worked h\ the Dovells to become cut by Maestro with the racially ideals it mirrored. heard Fortunately, the 'Tell Me Why" by Norman "The Bristol Stomp," a number 2 mixed Crests in 1 957, the version Fox music is fully vindicated by The and the Rob-Roys, a racially in October of I%1. presented here was recorded live Doo Wop Box, a collection mixed quintet from the Bronx, "The which Doo Wop Revival," the in 1987atNewYork'sRadioCity will bring immense and the smooth "Tonite, Tonite" last pleasure to volume of The Doo Wop Box, Music Hall. Sung half in acappella anyone by the Mello-Kings, an who loves the sound of all-white offers up the best of both the hits and half with orchestral accom- the five-piece from human voice raised joyfully in the New York and the misses released between paniment, the performance's sheer suburb of song. Mount Vernon which June of 1 959 and the end of 1 963. worked with a black musical DiarTor nnmmNc ar- While I cannot see why the era omnnwnxc ranger. Print Services office should be seen as one of "revival," located in Lower Carnegie "Doo Wop' s Golden Age," the inasmuch as doo wop had never Office hours: Monday - Friday third volume of The Doo Wop Box, gone away, it is clear that blacks 7:30 am - 4:30 pm covers the period from November were beginning to move away of to 1957 May of 1959. A dispro- from the genre at this time in favor mY 1 ™°f^ndvn inhne portionate number of classic doo- g of the newly emerging "soul" atJ^the library for that Que copier? wop recordings date from this era, sound. As a result, only ten of the among them the giddy "Get A 22 sides presented here are sung Job" by Philadelphia's Silhou- by black or racially mixed groups, ettes, the tightly harmonized while fully 12 are by white acts. the price ' is reduced to 5* f "Little Star" by each Chopk/ se r Staten Island's All ' from a Wlde three racial configurations selection of pacers- ! ? Elegants, and the Flamingos' 1 t0 match ' ut- produced great doo wop records Acomputer.S a^rT* ^^P" terly sublime "I Only Have Eyes ^uiing this four-and-a-half-year for students *° liable I^S^*™meI^«%Vriter *m ' copies are 10* each. |pP