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rcr>iv.u/\i^i i^,zuUo WV OM VOLUME: CLXXXVTI IS THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH Sophomore Andrew Gotten promotes a new student organization aimed with the goal of uniting musicians in the Sewanee area. See Page 5 for more details. Office of Admission Preparing for Biggest Recruiting Weekend Of The Year By Acacia Mack, Leslie Matthews, Andrew Hill, Zach Gerth Next weekend, one hundred of the brightest applicants for admission to Sewanee, representing 32 states, will visit our campus to K interview for the institution's most prestigious financial aid package: the Benedict Scholarship. After pouring Adderall: The over applications and conducting a Invisible Drug series of interviews, the Office of Admission will offer five candidates By Lexi Vance, Anne Fisher who bubble to the top the Benedict Cole, Elise Benjamin, and Liz Scholarship, which provides the Childers student with free board and tuition The David Spaulding, a counselor Benedict Scholarship was Dr. incepted in 1991 in an effort to lure at Sewanee, reported that Photo by Tyler Cooney some of the country's top academic University Counseling Services talent from more prestigious authorized 3 1 students in the class of Universities. Dean Lesesne. 2010 for a prescription for Adderall. Firefighters Fire Back Sewanee's Dean of Admissions, In the fall of 2006, the acknowledges that the Admissions University's CORE Alcohol and By Sarah Pinson over the break in Wiggins Dormitory, between then and the day that the Office looks at a student's relative Drug Survey reported that of 12.2% from last issue's calling it a "safe and a responsible pipe burst is that the heat has been Arising academic success in their high-school Sewanee 's student body had used article on the Wiggins way of conserving energy and costs." set back to its normal temperature." environment and standardized test prescription amphetamines other than flooding over Christmas However, Andin Mullis, a senior Stuart Mackintosh, another scores when considering applicants prescribed within the last 30 days. This break, the student firefighters have member of the Fire Department, Senior on the department, adds that See RECRUIT Pg 4 means of the 1424 undergraduate banded together in outrage over some notes that the attic, where the pipe is that the vents, which were said to students, approximately 174 of what the University has said about located, is not, in fact, heated. He also have contributed to the colder attic have abused amphetamines. This the flooding. The firefighters want to reasons, "Common sense suggests temperatures, are located on the Sewanee Purchases discrepancy supports the increasing set the record straight, they tell the that the bursting of a pipe inside of a exact opposite end of the rather large Lost Cove prescription abuse among college Purple, and put any misinformation to building is the result of a lack of heat attic from the pipe that burst. "The campuses nationwide. rest regarding what really happened on inside of that building. The pipes run position in relation to the turbine "During its Monday meeting, Adderall is a stimulant prescribed January 3 and its aftermath. right above the ceiling, and so heat is irrelevant," Mackintosh says. the Board of Regents approved for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Mark Kelly, Executive Director of from the rooms is enough to keep The Wiggins residents were the signing of the deed to Disorder (ADHD). The drug affects Marketing and Communications for them from freezing. It has dropped notified of the flooding within 3,000 acres of Lost Cove and chemicals in the brain that contribute the University, defended the policy the well below freezing since we have twenty four hours. The cause of Champion Cove adjacent to hyperactivity and impulse control, school used of turning down the heat returned, and the only difference See FIREFIGHTERS Pg 2 to the Domain, and the resulting in greater concentration. document between Sewanee For this same reason, since its release and American Timberland was in 1996, Adderall has become the finalized today," according to a most abused prescription drug on Shake Day Alarms Administration, University press release. college campuses, according to recent See ADDERALL Pg 4 Task Force To Reevaluate Greek Life See Page 8 for More! By Alex Pappas Subscribe After every Shake Day, Dean Loyd sits down with the tEI)0 &etoanee to Deans on campus to discuss how the weekend went. In every year purple since she has served as Associate Editor-in-Chief Dean of Students for Campus Life, ®[)e £?>£toanee she walks into this meeting and tells Alex Pappas Deans that aside from minor JDurple! the Executive Editor problems. Shake Day went off better Meghan Plummer than the year before. According to Managing Editor For $25 each semester, six is- Dean Loyd, when she walked into sues of "The Sewanee Purple" her meeting this year after Shake Alex Harris will be mailed to your home or Day. "this was the first year when Section Editors other address. Keep up with this did not happen." some of the Greek leaders on campus, talk specifically about what caused Simmons FaJk news at Sewanee the After Shake Day, which occurred she believes that most students did not the organizations to be suspended from Becky McCann students' perspective while on January 27, 2008. three sororities feel that Shake Day was any different She did. however, say that while she Erin Rankin supporting one of the old- - PKE, TKP, and Theta Pi - had their than from years past. The problem does not think all the fraternities and est, continuously run campus pledgeships suspended indefinitely was that this year the activities of the sororities on campus violated Shake John Guin newspapers in the country. for major Shake Day violations. Greek organizations became more Day regulations, "some got caught, Philly Williams - Other organizations including transparent to the administrators, others didn't. It was not just one Madison Murray Please send your name, several fraternities on campus - were alarming them as they witnessed group." Photo Editor address, and a check or cited for minor violations. Also what Dean Loyd termed "degrading" Dean Loyd repeated several times Lexi Namer money-order to: resulting from the weekend was the actions to the new pledges. "It felt that the Shake Day she witnessed this creation of a task force by Dean different to me -just something that I year did not represent the Sewanee Copy Editor The Sewanee Purple Hartman chartered with the mission felt," Loyd stated. she knew "It definitely looks like Clark Welch reevaluating Greek life at Sewanee In an interview in her office, these new pledges were being 735 University Avenue of Business Manager Sewanee. TN 37383 - specifically Shake Day. Dean Loyd chose not to mention degraded." Arden Grady Dean Loyd said that after talking to by name any Greek organization or See SHAKE DAY Pg 2 THE STUDENT ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH CJje &etoanee purple Page 2 The Student Organ Of The THE PURPLE University Of The South Letter from the Editor Dear Esteemed Readers, our reporters put together a paper that is As a tour guide for the admissions not just merely an outlet for angry students etoanee office. I am often asked a certain question to complain (not that purple these stories are not by prospective students and their families pertinent to our publication), but rather about The Sewanee g>taff inters; Purple when I tell them a paper that educates, investigates, and I am involved with the paper. The question entertains. usually comes in the form of. "What in the We strive lo provide stories to our world do your reporters write about?" Phillip Powell Elise Benjamin readers in which we question the University I think it's a fair question to ask. To on something they did or something they Ben Miller Liz Childers the prospective student who asked the did not do. We strive to provide stories question, Jacob Moore Acacia Mack he probably dunks nothing that inform the community on the doings newsworthy could possibly happen Libba Coker Leslie Matthews on top of our students. We also strive to entertain of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. - whether by op-ed or by Snommis' Betsy Williamson Andrew Hill However, to the editor of the paper who puzzles. By doing all of this, we hope knows our bubble is Anne Marie Vaughn Zach Gerth far from being drama we are providing a great service to the free, the question allows me to Ceci Creagh Cohn Wilhelm contemplate community. deeper the question of the purpose of The Help us fulfill our goal of producing Charlotte Myers Dave Walker Purple. a first class paper. I'd love to hear your in the Lane Baldwin Andi Broom "What world do your reporters comments or even see an article written by write about?" Ethan Bucholz Nina McAllister you. What we tried have to do with this issue Your Editor, Sam Sheridan Jacob Moore (and hope to do with other issues) is have Alex Pappas Lexi Vance Matthew McGraw Anne Fisher Cole Albert Frye SHAKE DAY Continued From Pg 1 She described witnessing some organizations Hartman 's commonly used adage that "rules pouring liquids on their new - members both create genius" - referencing the idea that Greek alcohol and other substances. "We saw people organizations will be creative in having their on their knees. I'm not sure what they were own Shake festivities at night where alcohol doing." would be present. By suspending the pledgeships of the three ISC President, Senior Marion Mozley sororities, the organizations have not yet been expressed similar concerns. "We need to be FIREFIGHTERS Continued From Pg 1 able to conduct pledgeship.

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