October 30, 1986, Page 5 Bill Upsets Songwriters, Speaker Says
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
lames Madisjn University Thursday, October 30. 1986 Vol. 64 No. 18 N Writer pulls the graveyard shift By Pam Wiley photographer Kevin Ropp, I climbed out of the car on a side road next to the stone wall running around I had no idea being in a cemetery at night was Woodbine Cemetery. anything to be disturbed about. That place is so quiet and so dark at 2 a.m. that, from Until Tuesday morning. where I stood, rooted in the middle of the street, a That's when I got a call at 1 a.m. from the Breeze good seven feet from the wall, it was enough to office. Some people, who were sitting around typing up convince me I didn't need to get any closer. assignments due that day, had decided it would be nifty Maybe it was the way it would be perfectly quiet, and to decorate the front page for Halloween. then all of a sudden every leaf in the place would start And what good is a holiday-oriented page without a rattling in the wind and then stop all at once, like they holiday-oriented story? were watching an applause light. So I get this phone call asking me why I haven't been Maybe it was the way the headlights from cars on to the cemetery for a Halloween story. Market Street would sweep silently over the tops of the It sounded all right to me. I wasn't sleepy, and the taller grave markers and then disappear like thought of traipsing around in a graveyard in the wee something sneaking around out there. hours of the morning amused me. What the hell, this is Maybe it was the fact that I was inside a walled-in college. Get a photographer to go with me, buy my space with more than 11.000 dead people. breakfast afterwards, and you've got yourself a story. Forty-five minutes later, accompanied byv See HALLOWEEN page 2 '.' Foreign ' ways: service ■ Page 2, tho Breeze, Monday .October 27, 1986 Halloween ►(Continued from page 1) Sure, they're dead, and once you're dead, you're dead. But, at the time, that logic had escaped me. Maybe my logic was home in bed, where I wished the rest of me was. "Come on, you have to come into the cemetery," said Kevin, already over the wall and setting up his camera on a tripod to shoot a five fool cross-shaped monument the moonlight had turned a deathly white. After a few minutes, I climbed up onto the four- foot stone wall and sat there, eyeing all the shadows, ready to back off and run any minute. My legs were in the cemetery. That was good enough for a while. "I hate to tell you this, but I'm going to need your help," Kevin said. Alright, I thought to myself, you got yourself into this. Get in there. There's nothing in the place that's going to move except you, Kevin, the camera and all those freaky- looking trees. "Okay, I'm in," I said, taking the giant leap off the wall. "But just keep talking to me." As it turned out, Kevin didn't need to say anything besides when to set off the flash, because I kept up a constant babble to him, to myself and to the world in general to keep from freaking out. Woodbine was founded in 1850. Located a few blocks from downtown Harrisonburg on East Market Street between Ott and Reservoir Streets, it is the city's oldest cemetery. So there I was, in the middle of all these graves. There were a lot of generic-looking monuments with Staff photo by KEVIN ROPP just the people's names on them, but there were a fair thought I was kidding when I asked him if he wanted talked about the most terrifying moments of our number of stately looking spires like little to go to the cemetery around 6 p.m., and Charles Washington Monuments, some with carved drapes lives, and then the stars, which were incredibly Lundy, editorial editor, who seemed to be looking for visible. over their points. something to do besides work. Walking was a little difficult The grave stones Stephen speculated they would be even more so "if This time, instead of climbing the wall like high were easily visible because they were all grey or someone pulled the plug on Harrisonburg just now." school kids looking for a place to drink beer, we white. The ground, however, was a mystery. All After about IS minutes, I began to feel this was strolled leisurely through the front gate and down the those dips, mounds, bushes, headstones and low just like sitting on the Quad at night and talking — gravel road. After wandering around for about 20 fences were impossible to find without tripping over almost In fact, it was probably quieter, and not that minutes, we found ourselves approaching the gate. them. bad at all. Someone was coming in from the street. He saw us Kevin shot a roll of film, and we climbed back over Later, over two cheeseburgers and cherry pie at the about the same dme we saw him, and everyone froze. the wall and headed for HoJo's. But not until I had Burger King across the street, I reasoned, first, that I Then some guy on a bicycle flew by us. Charles said made sure the car doors were securely locked. The had sufficiendy conquered my fear of nocturnal visits hello, but the cyclist did not answer. whole ordeal had lasted 30 minutes at most. to cemeteries, and, therefore, would never need to go Stephen looked back after him, squinting, and As I smothered my phobia with a 3-D triple-decker back again. asked, "Did he have a head?" cheeseburger and fries, I realized I'd have to pull But who knows? We turned down another road, and, while discussing myself together and go back there. Barbara Walters the possibility of having met up with Ichabod Crane wouWve leaped right over that wall, I told myself. Note: I wouldn't advise anyone to try this little on a bicycle, stumbled upon — but not into — an Woodward and Bernstein wouldn't have gotten cold excursion because, for one reason or another, it's open grave. For about three seconds, the night before feet. probably illegal, and for another, local police will came back to me. My heart was in my mouth, and probably be keeping an eye on the place this So Tuesday, after several comments from people my feet were heading for the car. Halloween. And you never know what's going to be about where I was spending all my nights, I set out After inspecting the grave and opting not to climb wandering around then. for Woodbine again, this time in the company of into it, we moved into the middle of the rows of Front page design and layout by Steve Stephen Rountree, assistant features editor, who tombstones and sat down on the ground, where we Eaton and Ken Malczak. Treat yourself at Mr. Shoes toundtdi MM Kwa Scatter* Ti» *■ fntt ttom. atOMf lilfe ■ Managing «*or world It imUhud for 41 dm mi. ta^ JXSSftSS In the store Buttnau managar Ukhaal Scoflona gthtd h nua aaf kaaMk) •*<irargraarfi Discounted Friday and Saturday * - Immm Ma«na Naaaadtor Maria Oabom AMfcttrt nawa atttor MkaWaaon Great Savings on Famous Name Brands DaaignfUyouiadasr Kan afclriali Th. ararM a purJahad Menday and Thumday Faauraa adtor PamWaay momfciga and datrtxlad throu^ *■ XtJMU. AuManttoaturaaadlor Maing addraaa la TW ■mat, CoflTTVjnlcatfori Sporta editor Fvoo Waonbum Department. JMU, Karrieonburg. Va. 22*07. Ladies' Shoes and Boots Aeafctant apom adtor Sawny Dniartn For advardalng, caK SM-6M». For adlorlal offlcaa, Atalatart loom adtor ■MaaaAna* C**M»4127. Edkortaladaor Chartaalmtfy Commanla and complaints ahould ba drccled to woes for Guys too! Aetattant aOtorlal adasr Harry AJwood Kyra Scarton, adtor. PMo adtor MngLaong Wr» adtor MartnRorr+ia Producson managar Wana Banavtdaa ArMaan FapDel This is no ordinary store!" Aaaktant buahaaa managar Jackl Bryant iNeckmte Ada daatgn managar OragTuMar Da«*d\ 14 E. Water St. * j. Harrisonburg, Va 434-4466A A AAf The Breeze, Monday, October 27, 1986, page 3 East German outlines country's goals differences in programs are dealt with ownership, she said. tries to talk citizens into staying, By Mix Dapollto especially if they have small children. staff writer military means," she said. The social, political and ideological The ideology of East Germany differs system also underwent the same Fisher said. Peace and the growth of the socialist drastically with that of neighboring transition to a socialist-dominated "They [the government] will point out system are two of the main foriegn West Germany. But when dealing with strain. the problems of getting a job in West policy goals of the German Democratic the bordering company. Fisher said East Then West Germany began to Germany, when here a job is Republic [East Germany], said a Germans try to make use of their intentionally draw educated and guaranteed. It is also difficult to get diplomatic representative from that heritage together in a positive manner. productive doctors, chemists and adjusted to a whole new way of life," country Wednesday. "We have a special relationship with students out of the GDR, she said. she said. Marion Fisher, wife of second West Germany, seeing that we come "Our students are educated by the state In areas of East Germany where secretary of the GDR Hans Fisher, from a common culture," she said.