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3mTHE STUPFNTOP?^^ MT^Z^ APRIL 2007 ^^MLQRG^OT^:^SiRSnYOT^ESOm Change in McClurg ~* The Iraq War Rages Since Last Issue's Closer to the Mounted Article in The Purple Than Students May Know Ashley Gallman John McGregor Like most college campuses, In the time following the most were her own children. But Sewanee if you sits outside Ms. recent is a place far removed from Jeannie's apartment issue of The Purple, several don't live in St. Luke's, you might the not where she reads war in Iraq. Not just geographically, Cody's messages. new events have occurred regarding know that Ms. Jeannie Robinson's but own Inside the also in terms of the effects newly renovated dorm, Ms. the article that investigated the of the son is in Iraq. Army quality Captain Cody Jeannie of war. Life on the Mountain has gone carries a piece of the war with Aramark as the University's food on Robinson, a husband and father of two her every day, much the same although she it service provider. as always these past four children, * "* ***does withWith As a result, further has been in Iraq on his second TvZZ? " years, $ Z?* and for most people in ° **"* inquiry was made into the status Sewanee, tour since about the ** of the beginX^"iiifig oTtneor tne l^T,arc able the war has become much to noticeT*a worried mother's dining hall and additional comments the same as have background noise, a constant yet wholly been received regarding the forgettable changes, news headline. There is no both positive and negative, at McClurg. draft, no administration buildings have been shut down, and even discussion On April 13th, the day the about the war among students is largely new issue was released, a new health limited inspector to the kind of cursory "for or accompanied by the district against" opinions that one would expect health inspector Eric Coffey held from news pundits and not Sewanee an unannounced visit to McClurg. students. The stress of long periods According to several employees, Keith of Davis separation and the traumatic effects was not present in the dining hall of a constant and sustained melee that day, so the visit was completely of bombings and ambushes have been unexpected. After his visit, Coffey born almost exclusively by a small gave the dining hall a health rating of fraction of America's population, the a 76 out of a possible 100, a significant all volunteer reduction military and their families, from McClurg 's consistent not to score mention the people of Iraq. Just of 93. Coffey explained that as with he much of the rest of the country, made the visit because he and his for Sewanee the war has remained a associate were in the area for an event distant distraction, as familiar as if it and because it is his policy to investigate were happening decades ago. Or so facilities that have recently received it would seem. For some community complaints. Aramark was then given members and students, the war holds a the standard ten days to improve on degree of personal pain and familiarity academic year. any violations, and when retested, He has been stationed the uneasiness. I visited Ms. Jeannie a few that often goes unnoticed by the in Baghdad facility received a 92, which, as well as Kirkuk, and Ms. unlike the weeks ago, and she was eager to show community at large. Students 76 score, was enlarged of St. Jeannie has been able to hear from and circled in me pictures that Cody had recently Luke's dorm have been privileged the frame at the entrance to him mainly via e-mail. The pictures to McClurg. sent. She fired off questions about have a matron who regularly treats he sends are Several employees a universe removed from the suggested that pictures and I could recognize them to snacks that this and parties, as if they idyllic and lush Manigault Park, sudden change in score was due to which See SEWANEE IN IRAQ, p. 2 the change in inspector. One employee commented, 'This inspection was Dean Katie Steele to Leave Sewanee After Five Years actually a surprise. The rumor has Thomas Ewers been going around that Keith [Davis] was getting warned by the last This is the last semester for Assistant Steele had not completed her graduate After observing inspector." Coffey, however, how well it works, the suggested Dean of Students, Katie Steele. She program, Sewanee overlooked her. tradition that the change had remained. Dean Steele also nothing to with will be leaving after a five year career Michelle Thompson stumbled across helped develop conspiracy or poor the ResLife survey that sanitation. Rather, at Sewanee. Some of you might know her resume in the conference book and students take every he commented, "That year. This helps the facility is so large her through applying for a Residential met with her before her year was up. administration that a lot understand what needs of little things can add up." He Life position or working in one of the Impressed with Dean Steele's resume to be done in the dorms, that otherwise explained that it is difficult to maintain many different positions that ResLife and interview, Mrs. Thompson brought could go unnoticed. Through a large dining area such the as McClurg offers. Others might know her through Miss Steele to Sewanee to meet the surveys, the administration and that despite has decided the size of its facility, one of the many write-ups that she Dean of Students (Dean of Students, at to air-condition all common rooms in Aramark does "an excellent job." For receives each semester from ResLife the time) Dean Pearigen, now a Vice every dorm for next year. Other dorms concerned students, he recommended staff or maybe just through room draw. President of the college. Dean Steele will receive new furniture through reviewing the this complete score sheet If you do not know her, had she knows never heard of Sewanee, and had survey. online at tn.state.gegov.com/tennessee/ you through your housing applications not considered working in the South. and suggested that after reviewing the as an incoming freshman that Nicky After spending some time on campus, Katie Steele was also a sponsor of form, students may determine the that there Hamilton and Katie pour over every she fell in love with the school because Women's Center, helping organize was "really not and one thing that lead to a summer trying to get a roommate for of the pride displayed by the students develop the program. lower score." Dean Steele has you. and faculty. been "impressed how well Another the Women's change has been noted Katie Steele graduated from Colgate Center program has developed," during by employees in the management's in 1999 and received her Masters in While Dean Steele was here, she her tenure here. Dean Steele also deals treatment of certain staff members education from Harvard in 2002. Before helped institute the First Year Program. with housing students and the one following the last issue of The Purple. completing her graduate degree, Dean Dean Steele says, "I wanted to maintain thing she would have liked to do better One worker explained this shift as a Steele created a profile and sent in her the traditions here at Sewanee, was "push for further evaluation of "head hunt," explaining that managers resume to an online conference that especially in Residential Life."The idea space for students." Housing students are on the search for the "disgruntled" tries to match up potential employers of students from all four years living in in rooms that became doubles or triples with applicants. But See MCCLURG CHANGES, pJ3 because Dean the same dorm was intriguing to her. See KATIE STEELE, p. 3 ! .

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SEWANEEPURPLE.COM OPENS: SEWANEE IN IRAQ Students Abroad & Alums Now Have Access [continued from the Front Page]

she was eager for any information she more so than the average student body. could get about her son. "What's that But is there an absence of dialogue, written on his helmet?" she asked as or even a complete lack of awareness she pointed at the computer screen, and about the war in Iraq among students before I realized what I was saying I on the Mountain? Last year I went to blurted out, "oh, that's his blood type". the Sewanee Peace coalition's panel I immediately regretted it. Ms. Jeanie discussion on Iraq marking the three occupies a state of mind that few on year anniversary of the invasion. I the Mountain understand, and even thought the discussion was extremely those of us who have seen war do not thoughtful and much better than the know the kind of anxiety that sits in the average news broadcast, but to my stomachs of our families. utter shock there were virtually no The anxiety and uncertainty of students present. I have always found having a family member in Iraq or Sewanee to be a place where students deployed elsewhere overseas has been actively discuss academics outside experienced over the past few years the classroom, and I have had many by more than one Sewanee student. informed and passionate discussions Recent graduates Laura Johnston and about any variety of topics while Michelle Brasse (C of '06) have shared shouting over loud music in between the experience of having a brother gulps of PBR. So then, with soldiers deployed to Iraq. Laura's brother, and Marines who are 18,19, or 20 Marine Sergeant David Johnston has years old being killed and maimed completed two tours, and participated everyday, it would seem natural that in the November 2004 A screen shot of SewaneePurple.com. The new website allows visitors to buy assault on the the war would receive more attention subcriptions, view city of Fallujah, past Purple issues, and submit article ideas. the largest combat among Sewanee students of the same operation of the war since the invasion. age. The Sewanee Purple is proud edition. Michelle's brother, Army Lt. Matthew to Until talking with Ms. Jeannie and announce the opening of The website has also been designed Brasse is currently in Iraq on his SewaneePurple.com Emily, it had never occurred to me so readers can subscribe and have the first tour. There are undoubtedly The new how removed Sewanee is from the online home of the Sewanee Purple sent home yearly! other students who have had family war. I had forgotten how alienated I Sewanee Purple was created for several Other uses of SewaneePurple.com or someone they know deployed in purposes: All issues felt coming back to the Mountain just of the Purple will include submitting article ideas and support of the Iraq mission, but perhaps a few now be posted the weeks after my last convoy to on site so students contacting the Purple staff. only one Sewanee student has had a abroad and alumni can Bagdad. All I could think about in keep in touch View the website today at husband deployed overseas. Senior with Iraq was Sewanee, but when I came Sewanee life by reading the online http://www.sewaneepurple.com Emily Clark's husband is currently back, it was a different place. But aboard one of only two aircraft KATIE STEELE carriers two years of school while back on in the Persian Gulf, the USS Dwight reserve status has made me forget [continued from the D. Eisenhower. While her Front Page] husband how far away Sewanee is from Iraq, Robert is not on the ground in Iraq, even though I can never totally forget. that should not be and putting students through her time here. Dean Steele the constant separation from him and Every so often something triggers my in the Sewanee Inn was one regret she also added that the student leaders in uncertainty about the volatile situation mind and I feel the war tugging at my had. ResLife, Head Staff, Proctors in the Persian and APs Gulf gives Emily an memory. A unit designation scrawled While Dean Steele has been have been the most help. understanding of Sewanee the term "long on the bathroom wall at Shenanigan's here for only five years, she said that is one of only a few Universities that distance relationship" that is quite just like it would be on a port-a-potty she "has been impressed with how have students involved with unique among students. ResLife When asked if wall in Camp Ramadi, or a chance community service has grown over daily action. But with all this she felt it it was difficult being in Sewanee with encounter with a Marine in Dupont the years;" through outreach trips was time to move on. She feels social a husband in the Navy half way around library who caused me to burst out and community development. Dean opportunities available for staff the the world, Emily admitted on that at times with raucous laughter after the two of Steele explained that she really liked mountain are limited, and a move to a she has felt as though exists she apart us recollected clandestine attempts to how faculty and academic fields have larger city will be better for from the other her. Dean students, without anyone secure liquor from Iraqi truck drivers helped develop outreach trips abroad Steele says, "Right now I have who can empathize no job with her situation ("Dude, what the hell are doing up for students. and am moving into and as "the married unknown area." chick at Sewanee," as here?"). Talking with Ms. Jeannie Dean Steele loves the close While the job hunt might be difficult, she has jokingly referred to herself. and Emily certainly reminded me that knit community and the wonderful we hope that it will go smoothly Most people and turn to friends for comfort the long reaching effects of the war staff she has been working with. She we wish her luck in moving on and when separated from a loved one, but are right under all of our noses. All especially thanks Dean Hartman, hope that one day she might return to Emily's situation has an aspect that we need to do is look hard enough to Nicky Hamilton, and the students the mountain to continue perhaps your work no other Sewanee student can recognize them, and we don't have and Professors who have helped her here. understand, and not just because she is to look as far as we thought. If we married. truly can consider ourselves educated It would easy enough to say that and informed individuals, or simply both Ms. Jeannie and Emily Clark are decent citizens, we owe it to mothers currently experiencing something that like Ms. Jeannie to make Qtlje ourselves &etoanee purple most Sewanee students would have more aware of what is going on trouble understanding emotionally. outside the bubble. Alex Pappas, Editor-in-Chief But is it simply because few Ashley Gallman, Co-ExecoUve Editor people Jacob Moore, Co-Executive Editor on the Mountain have family affected John McGregor (C'07) will return to Clay Stewart, Layout Editor by the war? I asked both Ms. Jeannie Iraq upon leaving Sewanee this Spring Kalttin Slavish, Layout Editor and Emily if they thought Sewanee Meghan Ptummer, Staff Writeri Section Editor students were in touch with the war or Becky McCana. Staff WriteriSection Editor LOG ON TO... with what so Erin Rankin, Staff WriteriSection Editor many people their own Simmons Falk, Puzzle Editor age are experiencing. Neither hesitated Cory Wood worth, Sports Section Editor to answer that in all things filtered out Marion Mozley, Business Editor www.sewaneepurple.com or lost in the haze of frat parties and Mary Grace Hlnkle, Business Editor small private school gossip that Virginia Cralghill, Faculty Advisor we call the Sewanee bubble, Iraq was the first FOR RESULTS TO 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383 casualty. As an institution of higher spurple ® sewanee.edu learning, the University of the South THIS WEEK'S prides itself on being connected with CAMPUS ELECTIONS and aware of the larger world, much Page 3 Letters to the Editor www.thelemonfair.com " To Sewanee Purple: /^-**v£'*

I read the article: "Do Sewanee Students Know The Hand That Feeds Them?" Sometimes I wonder if our staff knows the hand that feeds them. On behalf of myself, I find the article to be ok. To me it stated some of the truth. Yes I feel that Aramark talks a good game, but are they walking it? My opinion? No. Yes, I'm upset about the insurance. Yes, I felt that after the contract was renewed, that's when things started changing for the staff. I know for a fact that I went without insurance last summer because I could not afford it. But I made it through last summer on faith. Compared to what I have to pay some are paying more. With me, I'm on the single medical plan. Also I feel that we can do more for our employees when they have a serious illness. There's no excuse. Yes the chemicals that we use 3t^» make some sick. We are not trying to get out of doing our work. The chemicals are very strong. I feel if <& we have to work in it, the company ought to supply us with proper gear. Yes I thank God and the students for the raise we got. But it should not have had to go down that way. Aramark is a billion dollar cooperation and they should have done right by their employees in the beginning. I know I will get a lot of feedback for writing opinion. my But I would rather be like Christ at the end of "the Le/*\0Aj the day than be like Judas. peroRAre Brenda (GAL.4:28) VouP. Email all letters to the editor to: [email protected] CASTUE. \

Moving Forward and Looking Back: A Tribute to the Class of 2007 Erin Rankin

Imagine standing at the doorway Mountain. Even those of us who are seniors planning to take up all kinds dearly, but I certainly feel like its of a jet with a parachute strapped to not yet graduating can appreciate the of careers and vocations after they my time to graduate." Class of 2007 your back and as stare you at the world feelings of the senior class, as we all graduate. According to the Career your time has indeed come, you have below trying to decide where you want prepare ourselves to leave Sewanee for Services survey, the Class of 07 will be accomplished truly great things in to land and whether or not to jump, the long months of summer vacation. holding positions such first as: mate on your years at Sewanee, you have made then someone suddenly pushes you It is admittedly strange and challenging a ship, host at Disney World, roadie on it through many exams, comps, and out. are You no longer in the safety of to be away from people we a major music tour, who are Naval Intelligence competitions. You have experienced an airplane full of people you know, all so used to living, eating, partying, officer. Landscape Analyst, Member of everything The Mountain has thrown but instead you are tumbling through studying, traveling, and just generally a Theatre Company, and even positions your way, and come out on top. But space toward the real world below, being with. We often take for granted at the Pentagon working for the U.S. the most valuable thing we can salute with only a parachute as your aid. For the presence of friends, acquaintances, Government. The '07 seniors also have you seniors for, is being the people you Sewanee students in the graduating and mentors, who play such persistent managed to spread the Sewanee legacy have worked so hard to become. In the class of 2007, the feeling is all too roles in our lives. For seniors for all across the globe, with students and taking words of Edmund Hillary, "It is not the familiar. With just a couple weeks left all of us here teaching on the mountain, these jobs in places like France and mountain we conquer, but ourselves." in their Sewanee careers seniors have last couple weeks at Sewanee are a South America. A handful of seniors So enjoy the right you have earned confessed to experiencing quite a range chance to reflect on how people here have even opted to travel with the to graduate, and take what you have of emotions as they prepare themselves have affected us Peace after and what we all mean Corps they leave Sewanee. gained from your time at Sewanee to to face a momentous change in their to each other. It all sounds a bit sappy Life is moving quickly for the class of use as your parachute when you make lives. Some seniors say that at this point but goodbyes like the ones our outgoing 2007, but a lot of the seniors are still the jump. You have earned the respect in the game they just feel exhausted, seniors face are rarely unemotional. It trying to feel things out and figure out and admiration of those of us who over it, and ready to graduate, where is important for seniors to keep in mind exactly what they want to do with their still have years at Sewanee remaining. as others are really excited about the that, as Robert Southey once said, "No lives. In the meantime the entire senior Your presence on the mountain will opportunities lay ahead for them. distance of place or lapse of time can class will at the very least be sharing be greatly missed, but know that However, not even the most seemingly lessen the friendship of those who are the benefits of the Sewanee Experience according to faculty, peers, and the stoic members of the senior class are thoroughly persuaded of each other's with those outside the Bubble, which Sewanee community, your time here entirely free from apprehension about worth." in itself is a noble task. has not gone unappreciated. As you leaving The Mountain and facing life Members of the class of '07 face Asking a Sewanee senior how stand in between past, present, and the out in the "real world." different degrees of goodbyes as they they feel about graduating is a loaded decisions of your future, remember

Perhaps the heaviest weight on prepare to finalize their time at the question, and while many say they "What lies behind us and what lies the minds of the soon-to-be alumni is University of the South. Some seniors don't want to leave The Mountain before us are tiny matters compared to

the burden of having to say goodbye. plan to walk at graduation and without yet, the general candid consensus is what lies within us" (Emerson). Best

Obviously the people one meets at coming back. They are closing this in keeping with Senior Valerie Moye's of luck to you all! Sewanee are not the kind of people that chapter of their lives with a sense of statement that "I will miss Sewanee

can simply be walked away from and total finality. But, for others Sewanee forgotten. Everyone in this community will continue to hold an active place in impacts one another's lives, and after their lives for years to come, especially 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. [email protected] being touched by that impact for four on weekends like homecoming when Tuesday - Saturday full years, graduating seniors are faced many graduating seniors say they plan (931)924-0141 with the immense challenge of leaving it to return to the Mountain. The '07

all behind. Senior Mike Rast confirmed seniors are taking their lives in all kinds this presence of early nostalgia, saying of different directions. A good number that "As for leaving Sewanee, I'm of students are going to continue their definitely ready to be out of school, studies at grad school, and for them. HaHefojah Poffery but I will miss everybody here. I've Sewanee proves to be another stepping Owner / Artist, Shawnee Gibson always said what makes Sewanee a stone in academia. But there are also

great place is the people that decide to seniors who feel that they have filled

be involved here and that's what I'll their quota of years spent sitting in Monday Main Street miss." From peers, to professors and classrooms, and thus intend to take on by Appointment 1202 West faculty members, students in the class an array of jobs and internships after (931)247-2896 Monteagle, TN 37356 of '07 have formed four years worth they graduate. Don't ever let it be said of relationships with people on The that Sewanee isn't dynamic. We have Page 4

University Appoints Gatta Dean of College

Re-printed Sewanee.com from department head. He has also taught

The University of the South has at the University of Missouri and in appointed John Gatta to become dean South Africa. of the college at the conclusion of His research interests include Dean Rita Kipp's service this summer. American literature and intellectual and gifts Provost Linda Lankewicz and Vice history, environmental studies, and a paint your own pottery place and other art Chancellor Joel Cunningham made the adventures announcement on April 18. glass fusing, mosaics and plush critters to stuff

"Provost Lankewicz and I are you design it! make it! paint it! we fire it! grateful to all who have given us ready for you to pick up in a counsel about the position of dean of week the College of Arts and Sciences," said Cunningham in his announcement to Hours: Winter the community. "We have benefited Wednesday - Thursday from many calls, notes, and messages, and many thoughtful discussions 10:00 - 6:00 with faculty and staff members, and Friday I am pleased to be able to report the 11:00-9:00 appointment of a person for whom we have found broad support." Saturday Professor Gatta is the associate dean Noon - 5:00 of the college for faculty affairs. Since Sunday, Monday or Tuesday by appointment joining the University in 2004, he has also served as visiting professor and the interplay between religion and

Brown Foundation Fellow teaching literary imagination. He is a beloved English, humanities, and non- teacher and has published more than

departmental courses. fifty academic articles and three well- Gatta graduated maxima cum regarded books, two of which have laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the garnered awards. call now for birthdays, meetings, sorority University of Notre Dame and then "The regents, the provost, and I fraternity and team-building events earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University. very much appreciate Professor Gatta 's He has been a Woodrow Wilson willingness to serve the University of 931-598-5006 Fellow and a Fulbright professor in the South as dean and look forward to 90 Reeds Lane Senegal. Beginning in 1974, was he working with him in this new way," Sewanee, TN 37375 a faculty member at the University said Cunningham. "I hope you will of Connecticut, where he served find an opportunity to welcome and as professor of English, director of congratulate him on his appointment." English graduate studies, and English

Kurt Vonnegut: Announcements in Brief: A Great American Voice Passes On Teacher Named

Jennifer Baxter StajfReport

America mourns the loss of into a depression that is visible in Haskell Named Teacher of the Sewanee Trustee Will Speak to one of its most significant literary Vonnegut's novels. Year Polk Family voices. After eighty-four years of Vonnegut's imagination The Society of Sewanee Scholars magnificent writing we must say throughout his novels evokes alternate is pleased to announce that Professor John F. Evans, Trustee of The goodbye to the beloved Kurt Vonnegut universes. Vonnegut created religions, David who Haskell has been elected Teacher University of the South, will deliver passed away on April 1 1 , 2007 in races, and characters that provided of the Year for 2007. an address during the Polk Family New York City. Vonnegut, who was his novels with an energetic and witty Several nominators cited Haskell's Reunion at Rippavilla Plantation in first published in 1952, wrote fourteen tone while simultaneously making a ability to engage students in and Spring Hill, Tennessee, on Friday, novels including books such as Cat's statement. Writing Slaughterhouse outside of the classroom and laboratory May 25, 2007. The evening's topic Cradle, and Slaughterhouse Five, Five, Vonnegut related the events and the example that he and his family will be "St. John's Episcopal Church arguably one of the top twenty novels that happened while he witnessed the set by organically producing much of and the Leonidas Polk Pilgrimage." published in the English language. firebombing of Dresden, Germany. the food they eat. Professor Haskell The Polk Family Reunion is hosted Vonnegut's literary voice is one that Vonnegut was taken hostage in Germany delighted the society last evening with by the James K. Polk Ancestral Home spoke to millions of people especially after wandering for days on enemy lines. an after dinner talk in which everyone in Columbia, Tennessee. For more the youth of America whom Vonnegut Imprisoned just outside of Dresden present learned to identify by sight and information, contact (931)388-2354. felt were often left out when discussing Vonnegut witnessed the bombings that sound six Sewanee birds. important societal issues. killed thousands of civilians. With the

Born in 1922, Vonnegut grew release of "Slaughterhouse Five" in up in Indianapolis. Indiana. He began 1969 Vonnegut reached out to many his writing career at Shortridge High young readers struggling with the School, writing for a paper called "the confusion of the Vietnam War. Daily Echo." He then attended the Vonnegut expressed passion

University of Tennessee and went on for the excitement of life. He stated, to Cornell University where he wrote "I want to stay as close to the edge as n/^cm/e ^Jr/t/t tor the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut I can without going over. Out on the struggled with depression and lived a edge you see all kinds of things you Jim Harmon, Proprietor life that was not lacking <>i hardship. see from the center." Although 204 West Main Street With the Great Depression the Vonnegut's views ol humanity were P.O. Box 39 negui fan ealth diminished. real potential Monteagle, TN 37356 The hardship ol the depr in humanity. Vonnegui s novels att

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lis Of Kurt's family members led Vonnegut Page 5 The Second Annual Tournament of the game into a shorter time-span on Kickball for Cancer will be held at the Friday instead of trying to go a full Sewanee Softball fields on Friday April 24 hours - a task that hardworking 27, 2007. We are proud to announce KICKBALL American college Cancer students would find it hard to fulfill. that the fundraising effort last year Society F#R Secondly, we are looking raised CANCER to seek out over 13,000 dollars, and this further community involvement coming spring we are looking forward from the surrounding to another 2007 townspeople. It campus wide cooperative would be wonderful to have Sewanee effort with even more widespread Elementary children playing in the participation and a larger spirit of afternoon and get the college to play outreach to help the American Cancer in the evening and nighttime. Society. With all this we hope that everyone starts to think In spring of 2006 the Kickball Today! Ud the coming week and look to for Cancer team formed a concept to their friends and their neighbors to form base a fundraiser around a kickball teams. Also, we are proud to work with tournament that Sewanee students Sewanee Softball Field Coca-Cola (R) to provide Free IV could and later did enjoy. The word Ade(R) tor out participant will out about the event through word be signs and flyers going up around of mouth and many e-mails. Then campus as we draw closei to the event. people were able to go to the website out letters to the people who pledged sandwich and a cold, reenergizing These will provide further information - www.kickballforcancer.org - where money for the event; these letters told drink. Overall the event went very well about the event and direct people to the there is general information about the of the event's success and told them the and gave the American Cancer Society website (www.kickballforcancei event, information about sponsorship, address of ACS where they could send a donation of over 13,000 dollars; u where they can build their teams and and electronic forms were people could their pledge. also gave us some interesting ideas for direct donors to make their pledge pledge to donate money as well as sign This year people will also have the this coming spring. Donors will be encourage to sponsor up teams. The wonderful part about option of doing this online through the This year The University of the their players right up to the even and these electronic pledge forms is that ACS website. During the event the South Outreach Program has adopted even after with our commitment web- they merely include people's name, students came from all over campus to Kickball for Cancer as its official form. We are looking forward to address, phone number, who they are play kickball for an hour against their campus-wide fundraiser. Our goals this having another successful year as a pledging for, and how much they are opponents, and through sponsorship year are to raise over 30,000 dollars and campus and a community in aiding an willing to pledge for the event. Then with Subway and Redbull they could to have more widespread participation. important fundraising cause. after the event the kickball-team sent relax after their game with a fresh First, we are looking to restructure A Look Back on Derby Days Thomas Ewers

This year was the first annual impressed by the amount of students and seemed to run smoothly, IFC/ISC received $250 to Best Buy or Target Mountain Derby Days, in which many that showed up to support them and executive committee explained that and one violation removed or banked. people on the campus participated. The the events. other The Field Day events the planning was extensive and very Overall, IFC/ISC felt that idea stemmed from Dean Loyd looking were also popular among students. involved. Explanation of events and Derby Days was a success. Sweezey at larger campuses and their social Although students looked forward to Derby Days in general was not provided said, "Part of the success was due to events and thought it would be a good the point system that allowed all Greek idea for Sewanee. The idea was pitched organizations to have a fair chance at to IFC/ISC executive committee and winning." There were a few things was soon put into the planning stages. that IFC/ISC said they would look at The executive committee thought that possibly changing for the future, such this would be a segue good to Spring as offering more individual pi Party. The goals were to promote tin contests so non-Greeks would healthy competition among Greek also want to participate. With many organizations highlight and the positives fratern ies mis

of Greek Life. They hoped that it would timing of so:, promote communication and

imunity between Greeks ami non- All!

ks faculty, and the community. students said that Pat Morrell, IFC Convener stated, "We

[IFC/ISC] believe we succeeded in ks. it was planned b> Greek: these goals." healthy Greek competition, but nexi

Derby Days seemed to go year if other organizations wanted to smoothly, except maybe for the weather, compete, there could be a possibility ol

which was a bit extreme for the time allowing them to compete.

th of year, snow on April 15 . Also the Other organizations have beginning of Derby Days began on a already begun asking to help participate Gamma andPST WIN Mountain Derby Days 2007! Congratulations! weekend when a few fraternities had in Derby Days next year. IFC/ISC

away formals, which meant an equal the eating contest, but afterwards their to the general student population until executive committee wanted to "Thank number of girls were gone as well. But excitement was replaced with sick about a week before Derby Days started, Dean Loyd, Eric Benjamin, Nicky despite this, participation was still high stomachs. leading many people to wonder what Hamilton, Jamie Campbell, Barbara

at many events. The speaker, Bernie IFC/ISC was also supported they were signing up for. Elizabeth Banks, Janie Collins, IFC/ISC and the McGrenahan was very impressed with by SPECE, Students for Positive Sweezey, ISC Vice President of Rush students that participated." The winners the attendance he received, over one Extra-Curricular Engagement. SPECE and Pat Morrell both said, "This was of Derby Days were Gamma Sigma Phi

third of Greeks showed up to hear his supported and helped plan many of the the first year and planning took longer and Phi Sigma Theta, who will have to comedy routine on his experiences with events. Derby Days also coincided then we expected, but we hope that defend their title next year. alcohol. World Cup soccer was also a with Alcohol-Awareness Week, which next year students will know what to success, fielding 16 teams representing contributed to the sober theme of Derby expect." After seeing the success of various countries. The teams were not Days. A goal for Derby Days was to events, IFC/ISC believes that more only supported by Greeks, but many provide fun without alcohol so that all people will want to participate. The

non-Greek players as well. students would feel comfortable. Derby prizes were generous; both first place Penny Wars raised $775 for Days included a few multicultural Fraternities and Sororities received,

Housing Sewanee. which is quite a bit events, which were included in orders $750 gift certificate to Best Buy or considering it was raised with only loose to boost diversity awareness, build Target and two violations removed or change. The DUI simulator seemed community, and address issues and banked. Second place received to have a line for most of the day. ems on campus. to Best Buy or Target and Derby Days panelists were continually While the events were fun removed or banked, and third place Page 6

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover: A short piece on Humphrey's Hall

George Twitty

As described on Sewanee's website. spot at every turn. And then there's Humphreys Hall's decor features a the hallway, as I like to call it. next to lively Southwestern color scheme Courts, which requires never ending with mission style furnishings. The gear shifting, similar to an Austin glamorous rooms include meticulously Powers experience. Even worse are the painted off-white walls and dark toned people that grab that special spot and carpets. This fully air-conditioned make it a point not to move, so they facility has thermostatic controls in each can brag when they see their car from room and is fully networked for high- their dorm window. Perhaps the dorm's speed internet access. In Humphreys' inadequate availability of parking living room, which includes leather is one reason why many students couches that reside by a fireplace where continue to spend hundreds of dollars many familiar, blank-faced students, all on parking tickets. Then again there we had such nice facilities; with the This explanation seemed to make sense equipped with matching laptops, can be are the lucky ones without the cars, beauty, comes the beast. considering I was here two weeks early found relaxing and studying. But who who live oblivious to the rest of our Room and board at the University reporting for football practice. I was would have thought that with custom fears. As much as I love being a part of of the South costs each student $8,160 told to let the hot water run for a while, built wardrobes and modern amenities, KO's parking community or admiring a year to live in the dorms. This cost is and it should go away. That was in one has to be Austin Powers to back the landscape from the Russian House universal for all dorms around campus. early September, about 7 months ago. out of its T-Bone shaped parking lot, to Humphreys, I prefer to park within Room selections are done by seniority Last week, PPS decided to have a look while at the same time being subjected the timezone of where I sleep. each year, allowing the seniors a at the pipes and did a few test runs to to coffee- colored faucet water. After spending what feels like an chance to finally pick a room of their see what was wrong. This morning, Tired and weak after a rough day at eternity squeezing into a parking spot choice and preference. This past year, April 18, my once-a-week mustache football practice in early September, nearest to Courts, one may want a tall the newly renovated St. Luke's Hall began to show, and I decided I might I drove to Humphrey's hoping for a glass of ice water. I can still recall and Humphrey's Hall were some of the as well shave for the senior picture. As prime parking spot right up front that how parched my mouth was from first dorms to be filled. Privileged to I rinsed out my razor and lathered my would spare me a reasonably short, but that particularly long day of football have a low room draw many seniors, face with the coffee water, I glanced painful walk. Again, to my dismay, I practice in early September. After like myself, picked the newest and at the neutral off white walls, the the made "loop." I thought to myself, finishing the remaining last drops of most modern residence halls, equipped custom built wardrobes and enclosed "Why I do even hope or bother my Dasani™ water, I decided to make with air-conditioning, carpet, wireless blinds in the dual pane windows and anymore?" For the 118 students that a protein shake for a little pick-me internet, the whole shebang. Who commended myself for choosing one live in Humphrey's, they may only up. I poured the dusty powder into would have thought parking and clean of the newest dorms on campus. For legally park in 73 parking spots, not my GNC mixer cup; then, I turned on water would have been an issue. I when I am thirsty at night, at least I including handicap, service, or the its essential partner from the sink. As was first told the brown water of will have the "blend of a Southwestern head resident spots. The layout is like I watched the dark brown water pour Humphrey's Hall was simply rust in the color scheme" to comfort me. a big T-bone steak, creating a blind from the sink, I finally realized why pipes from lack of use over the summer. Just the Other Week Molly Speasmaker

Have you ever wondered what apparently considered "cool" all over Clark Menge what advice he had for dorm all four years, says, "Don't ever the secret is to surviving four years at campus. So, stay tough freshman boys. freshmen, he confidently responded, buy laundry detergent. You can always Sewanee? Well, just the other week, on Web feels your pain. "Don't do what Stuart Hartley did." find someone else's to use." Attention a random school night, I found myself Sewanee 's campus is located Unfortunately this advice is hard to live all Hodgson residents: Hide your sitting around a table at Shenanigans on top of a 10,000 acre plateau and by because many of us do not know laundry detergent because now you with a group of seniors joking about offers a lot to do outdoors. Several exactly what Stuart did his freshman know where its been disappearing to. what we would have done differently if seniors said they regret not taking more year, but the best advice I can give, Brita Shaw had some advice for all we could go back to freshman year. We advantage of the outdoors that Sewanee is just not to do what you think Stuart you ladies out there. "Juggle multiple all sat there reminiscing four years back has to offer. Nature-loving senior Anne Hartley would do. boys while you can. It makes things to when were these we young, innocent Wright Newman recommends you "go Several people gave advice fun," she claims. If you want to know teenagers stepping foot on this large to Buggy Top, Foster Falls, Theologs about how to make the best of your more, just ask her. She is willing to campus with no idea about what was to Pool, and every look out at least once." academic experience at Sewanee. Jaime give out "how to" tips. come. Some of us laughed, others were So take Anne Wright's advice and Steele recommends "taking a Gerry Senior Katie Tennille has learned ashamed, and a few claimed to not embrace the outdoors "cause that's Smith class before you graduate." after four years at Sewanee that "the remember it at all. While it appeared about all we got here," she adds. Someone else recommends taking a weirder the people you surround to be a group consensus that freshman Sitting around our table at Goldberg class. As senior Kenneth yourself with are the more normal you year was quite a blast, everyone seemed Shenanigans, we laugh at all the funny, Crockett approached our table, I asked will look and feel." Katie wasn't always to have a few things they would have embarrassing, and often stupid things him what advice he would like to give socially comfortable when she went done differently. I instantly grabbed a we did freshman year. You no longer to freshman, looking back on his own out at night, but she has now learned pen and napkin off the table and began have your parents constantly telling actions four years ago. He chuckled, the secret to making herself feel at ease jotting down each person's advice. So you what to do. You're finally free to turned around, and then walked away. when in a social environment. I hope freshman, listen up! do whatever you want, which may not After composing himself, he returned her friends, the people she "surrounds Unfortunately, a lot of the always be a good thing for everybody. to give his advice: "Get good grades." herself with," don't take her advice too quotes I obtained cannot be printed in I turn to the person next to me, who Multiple seniors emphasized how personally. this article due to their inappropriate ironically happens to be Stuart Hartley, important it is to get a good advisor. Hopefully, this compilation of content, but what I could publish and ask him what advice he has for Senior Natalie Baxter, who went on seniors' advice to freshmen will help should be very helpful to you. We can't freshmen. He immediately replies, the Western Geology trip last year, them to not look back in four years, turn back time and change what we did, "Drink for two," as he raises his mug strongly encourages anyone that can, when they're where we stand today and but we give can you our suggestions and takes a large sip of his beer. Senior to take Geology. She describes the wish they had done things differently. on how to make the best of your four Hunter Houston chimes in, "Try Western trip as "life-changing." If you Cherish your time here because years at Sewanee. It was surprising everything once!" Interpret that how would rather spend your time doing graduation creeps up on you fast. 1 how much advice seniors had for you may. However, fellow classmate something not educational, Douglass believe senior John Moll may have put freshmen looking back on their time and good friend. Emerson Brown Flowers suggests "going to shows." it best when he said. "Freshman, strap here. Web Barr wanted every freshman claims "I've never known Hunter to try However, he warns all freshman that in for the ride of your life." to boy know that "the older you get, the anything just once." "no one likes a prep-school hippie." cooler people think you are." He too Later in the evening, Stuart Other advice I received focused was the scrawny little freshman boy changed his advice to: "Don't do what on everything from dorm life to Greek that everyone picked on, but he stayed I did." Apparently, others agree with life to how not to be awkward. Senior strong for three years, and now he is this advice. When I asked rising s< Drew Thomasson, who has lived in a Glass Recycling at Sewanee, Worn Out Iradition? No Longer Available Adrian Ash

My first visit to Sewanee was in Emorie Broemel the fall of 2003. The leaves had just begun to turn red and gold, while the air was so crisp and chilled it almost As many students and Sewanee community members hurt have unhappily noticed to breathe. The gothic stones of All Saints stood as if they were waiting for glass recycling is no longer available me, on campus or in the dorms. However,' and the mossy smell reminded me of summers in the most of them do not seem Appalachian Mountains to know the exact reason for this and several Yep. different This was where I wanted to spend my college explanations have years. The image that stuck begun to circulate. So why is Physical Plant Services (PPS) out the most, however, was the tradition of the gownsmen. Now maybe it no longer offering this service on campus, was and what were the real problems with just the Harry Potter craze, or the trip I took to Oxford the a few summers ago, but former program which lead them to stop it? something about wearing a gown to class was and is extremely appealing to me. Previously, students were able to drop their clean and empty glass bottles It's something unique to the Sewanee experience that proves that you have into special bins provided for what them in their dorms. The student it volunteers from takes to be here. I loved it. the Waste Not program were then responsible for emptying those bins every two I arrived freshman year and expected everyone to be scurrying around weeks (although this apparently was not always happening on schedule) and campus with heaps of papers and volumes of books wearing those impressive taking the glass to the PPS site on campus. Sewanee residents were going to the gowns. But the longer I'm here, the more I'm beginning to realize that not everyone same campus drop off area to deposit their unwanted glass. As the is bins filled, PPS as proud of their gowns as I wish I could be. In fact, the most common use for would drive the glass from Sewanee to a recycling facility in Chattanooga. gowns I have noticed is to hold them over your head as an umbrella, or to claim Although PPS originally intended the glass recycling program to be that you have one when a teacher is nearing the 10 minute tardy mark for lecture strictly for students and not Sewanee residents, PPS accepted the extra community and your classmates are eagerly asking glass anyway. However, if this extra glass lead to an unmanageable buildup. This anyone is a gownsman so that class can buildup meant that extra trips to Chattanooga were necessary, something that PPS dismissed. Gowns appear to be in style staff or equipment was not necessarily prepared to handle. Additionally, the glass only when room draw numbers are posted brought to the Sewanee site was not always clean or separate from other trash, a and the few days before vacation when necessary condition for any recycling program. skipping class becomes a luxury for those According to PPS, there were several problems with the program as it few. Granted, I do know students who was functioning at the time, chiefly that it had grown to proportions far beyond wear theirs regularly, and I what was salute them, originally intended. In an effort to ascertain why PPS was no longer but I also know gownsmen who don't offering the service, The Purple contacted PPS as well as Dr. Sid Brown who runs even have their own gown. This puzzles the Environmental Resident program. me. The following is an excerpt from an email from PPS Director, Marvin Why no gowns? Heaven Pate, addressing concerns and clarifying the principle reasons PPS was forced to forbid someone actually knows that abandon the program: you study! It's okay, I promise, we're in "The Orange Grove Recycling college at a very fine liberal arts school Center is the place we have taking been and it's what you're supposed to be glass. The last two times there we have doing! Maybe you don't want to rub your had to drive and walk on glass in order academic achievements in the faces of to unload. Last time we got a flat tire. other non-gownsmen. Sewanee students, You need to know that the I have noticed, are a very driven group backlog of glass there is only a part of of individuals. Dangling your gown in the reason we are closing our staging front of our faces is not going to make us area - the last straw. Glass recycling, crawl under a rock, whimpering that the

when it was started up a couple of mean, smart kid made fun of us. No! If years ago was intended to be a limited anything it should motivate you to show effort to support student glass recycling that pompous ass you're just as smart, from dorms. Our PPS mission does not and much cooler, then he. Gown doesn't

include driving glass to Chattanooga, match your outfit? Please, it's black, and but I was willing to do it occasionally black goes with anything. Too hot? Don't

because the students were willing to do wear anything under it! Have no arms or

all the collection and glass washing in shoulders to hold it up? Ok. You win.

a well-controlled fashion. Somehow For a long time I have felt

people (other than students) began that it takes a special kind of student to assuming (and the word apparently come to Sewanee. One who can survive spread like wildfire) that you could take four years of almost total isolation from your glass to the canopied area at PPS. This was never intended, though we have the "civilized world" of cars, cell phones,

tolerated it. It has now grown and gotten out-of-hand and beyond our ability to and other urban delights. One who likes support. Problems include: the volume of glass grew significantly and thus the z to be outside exlporing more than inside * number of trips; the condition of glass often does not meet the standards required and knows that it's really the people you of the students; other dumping occurs that is not glass; glass comes in from as far * hang out with on Saturday night that make as Monteagle; the Chattanooga recycling center is overloaded, at least recently. A Gownsman Sporting the weekend so enjoyable and not the His Gown Due to these unintended consequences, we are stopping the process, particular party you go to.. .sometimes. moving the staging area, and will discuss with the students in the fall." We ramble through caves, climb any rock Obviously, PPS was voluntarily going beyond the original parameters face we can find, and can drink any state school kid under the table. We are

set for the program, which is certainly commendable, but it became impossible generally outgoing, brave, and always up for an adventure, yet we are afraid to to maintain. Dr. Sid Brown said of the decision, "PPS had to decide what was wear a gown to class. the best way they could use their resources—best in terms of financial as well as Originally, all Sewanee students wore gowns following the tradition borrowed from our English sisters, ethical. . . And it meant that they put a lot more energy into trying to save energy Cambridge and Oxford. But, in 1 873, Chaplain in buildings and such rather than put increasing energy and time and resources William Porcher Dubose founded the Order of the Gownsmen and since, the

into glass recycling. Glass recycling is important and good, no one at PPS argues gown has since stood as a symbol of academic distinction and leadership within against that. But they have to prioritize, so they did." As Dr. Brown also pointed the community. Today, being a gownsmen has become more of a privilege for out, PPS has made other important environmental efforts, such as setting specific skipping class (oh, the irony!) and better housing than the honor and achievement goals for reducing our total on-campus energy use— the first official attempt of its it used to be. kind ever made. I am on a mission to bring this Sewanee tradition out from the back of

Additionally, everyone is still free to take glass to be recycled using the closet. Although I am not yet a gownsman, I plan to wear mine regularly, and I their own time and energy. After all, saving the planet is not always convenient dare you to tell me I won't. My gown will mean I have survived the freshmen or easy. Some Sewanee students and residents have begun taking their glass to year from hell, gone through rush, suffered through living in Gorgas, defeated Chattanooga on their own. One freshman at the college, Jack Wyrick, has been the sophomore slump, been a varsity athlete, and somehow managed to find time periodically taking glass with her when she goes down the mountain and plans to to study. Most of the time. So ask yourself, what does your gown mean to you? make these limited efforts more widespread next semester. Are you better at managing money then your parents? Can you find mistakes in

Although there is currently no drop off site on the mountain for glass. Pate programs on the Discovery channel? Do you have a political course of action that and PPS plan to readdress the issue with Waste Not in the fall. In the meantime, would scare the bowties off those conservative congressmen? Can you pound a it's up to Sewanee residents and students to recycle their glass independently. case of beer and still ace that midterm? More power to ya, dust off that gown and

wear it for a change. You've earned it. Page 8

One Baby Blue Whale Per Day Adrian Ash

Out of sight, out of mind are the general feelings of many when dealing Only heavy appliances such as stoves, washers, dryers and refrigerators get the with solid waste and trash. throw it in You the can, the dump truck comes and specific metal classification. The Marion County Landfill sees about 40,000- whisks the garbage away to a magical place never to be seen again. But where 50,000 tons of garbage a year, the majority of which is from households and our exactly is this magical place? Is our trash really gone forever? As a community University. Dump truck after dump truck files in and travels the windy road down that values environmental stewardship, Sewanee should be aware of exactly to the active garbage cell where the trash is to be compacted then covered with where our trash is going and what happens to it there. answers lie The a few miles clay. Envision a giant layer cake. Colossal mechanic monstrosities pummel the down the road in Jasper, TN. trash until it is satisfactorily flat. I wondered exactly what I was walking on while Sewanee produces roughly 6.6 tons of trash every day; that's more snapping a few pictures of the giant machines, and the springiness of the ground than the mass a of baby Blue Whale. This calculation also includes trash from made me wonder if I might just be sucked down. the surrounding community, but nearly half of that weight is our own student- Our trash has been coming all the way to Marion County since 1984 produced garbage. So where does our baby Blue Whale go everyday? First, a when the Franklin County Landfill, located near the airport, closed due to being contractor must pick up the trash and be paid for his kindly services. full. Then, in The Marion County Landfill is projected to reach maximum capacity in Sewanee 's case, the baby Blue Whale travels down the mountain to the Marion about 25-30 years, assuming that the rate of disposal does not drastically increase. County Landfill where it is weighed and for, paid again, to be placed in the dump. With increasing student and community populations, alternative solutions must The tipping fee to place our waste in Marion County is $31.20 per ton. So last be sought. So what comes after Marion County? There are always Grundy and year when Sewanee produced 1,728 tons of trash it cost the university $53,913.60. Sequatchie County's landfills. But with every step we take further from Sewanee, This however does not include the cost of the environmental damage we cause our garbage is causing more and more environmental damage and costing the by disposing of our waste this way. Such damages include the destruction of University more and more money. natural habitats, loss of biodiversity, and toxic leaks into groundwater supplies. Waste Away is still a viable option, as explored in the last issue. A plant Though officials work to solve these problems, they cannot be avoided and are that takes all types of waste and turns it into soil enhancers and produces no still dangerous not only to the environment but also human health. environmentally damaging waste in the process seems almost too good to be true. On an investigative trip landfill to the earlier this semester I had no idea The question remains if this fledgling company could handle dealing with our what I would discover, except for maybe a pretty harsh stench. Much to my baby Blue Whale a day; and the increase of the tipping fee to $38 per ton would surprise, and delight, my nostrils were not too offended and I proceeded to poke certainly raise a few eyebrows. With that increase of $7 comes the knowledge that around, explore and ask questions for an afternoon. "Everything goes into the we have invested in the future and hope for a cleaner Earth. The environmental landfill except for tires and metal," explained Mark Lancewicz, director of the repercussions of placing our garbage in a landfill, especially one so far away from landfill. The 2-story pile of abandoned car tires next to the entrance confirmed the garbage's source, is enough to call for reform. this, and one would be shocked to know that electronics do not count as metal.

New Proctors on the Prowl Becky McCann

With a few exceptions, everyone made it, virtually unscathed, through great impression and are gladly accepted. To give you a head start for next room draw this week and has a new residence for next year. You have a semester, here is a list of the 2007-2008 Proctors: room, neighbors, a "really sweet" decorating plan for your new lodgings (which will undoubtedly go horribly awry and ultimately go the way of the Benedict dinosaurs Cannon Cleveland and the passing hello), and now all you have to do is ensure that T~\ 77 e un er Andrew Gould Alysia you can run rampant and free Belle from worry in your new dwelling by getting . J Amanda Yacko Bradley J. Waffa Mary Conkling on the good side of your future dorm stafT. Remember, early bribes make a

Courts Elliot Gorgas Mountain Breeze lee Cream Cafe Allan Long Joel Blackstock Carolina Armstrong Becky McCann Rex Davis Fran Crane UttSSoMittllftNBMHvy Brad Wills S*Kft*,TN 37375 931-5985000 Hodgson Hoffman Humphrey's Corey Barnes Chassidy Cooper Cliff Crutcher Nikki Holder Emily Petro Rachel Watson

Hunter Johnson McCrady Hirtd^ipptd GtuMMt l<* Cream Kara Holcomb Catherine Outten Sarah Henderson Shakfti* timdMi, SedM Jacob Roquette Betitna Splits, Waffle Conn Phillips Ouintard St. Luke's Smoothies, Froitn Coffa* Katie Goijkovich Chris Clinkscales Kris Harmon Lo Difiore • alto • Elizabeth West

•§*!•'• Boat Cotftoo Cappuclno • Eiprtato Trezevant Tuckaway Wiggins • • plus Jack Cobb Brendan Monks Kate Hall argaata Joey Steuer John Gahan

• Panlni • HotDoga - Chill Dogs • Chill • Head Proctors Head Assistant Proctors And Our Famous Chicago Dogs Tsveti Apostolova Thomas Ewers Andrew Easton Kate Reed tea; Although next year's Assistant Proctors have been selected already, Opon • Noon Hit 10pm Tuotdoy thru Sunday they will not be assigned dorms until the Sewanee class of 201 1 has been assigned rooms (in late July). We hope you're looking forward to getting to know your future Proctors and neighbors in August! —

Page 9 Extreme Makeover: Constitutional Edition Wilson Finch

Apathy and discord, with a dash of because the SA has rarely had enough obsolete flavoring; these are the must approve any amendments. main candidates The membership is created. The tradition to fulfill these roles, making ingredients of our current Student current document might as well have these spots of giving comped seniors their gowns obsolete. Also for this Government. It is been carved in hard to believe that stone on Mount Sinai is included. reason, the officers of the S such A are given because they dissimilar elements could combine are almost impossible to Several the power to appoint sections of the constitution members-at-large change. to form our student political structure, The new system allows for concern to help fill less regular matters, or vacancies and keep the SA's but then again, this is two methods of amendment. Sewanee where The first what we like to call numbers up. Procedures are the "Crises created for is the the bazaar and the traditional will traditional referendum, but with appointing the S Extraordinaire." Two presidential A Treasurer, removing a lower often prance lovingly across the Quad participation requirement. The SA officers, and resignations in four years, outbursts at filling vacancies. second hand-in-hand. Yet, these traits method of amendment is the so- have Overall, a meetings, complaints about leadership, much more agile and free SA only lead to the called doppelstag or "double decline and fall of the meeting." and many other troubling events have will emerge from its currently bloated Student Government. The SA and/or OG must It is pointless form. approve shaped much of the new Constitution. the amendments and ineffective in the minds of many at two consecutive The new document The OG is finally creates a permanent made autonomous meetings. students, but this does not The amendment process have to be so. in Committee on Grievances to provide this document. It no longer advises This semester also has a more equitable has seen sizeable efforts sharing of a proper venue for concerns and the SA on legislative matters but towards changing the amendment power between the the operation of the OG screaming matches. In addition, a simply "represents the opinions of and SA. Overall, this Student Government. The Order of document will process for the reprimand or removal gownsmen." Also, the OG has ended of its prove to be more helpful Gownsmen and the Student Assembly and effective officers is added to vassalization of The Purple provide the OG with (meaning than the Florida retiree have worked to design new governing we like to call the tools necessary for a that the OG will no longer good scolding appoint the our Constitution. practices that will better of its suit the student Editor and leaders. The new document that the paper will no longer The new body, mainly by changing the Student OG Constitution has contains a means of be supply the with filling vacancies OG knights). been created Government Constitution and because we have no OG and of dealing with creating Yet, even some resignations for of the more obscure Constitution. a new OG Constitution. No, it is not true that we those oh-so-smooth elements of transfers of power. the Student Government have reformed The new Student Government the Order of Gownsmen This means no more power vacuums have been touched by the reform angel. into the First Empire of the Constitution is a joint effort Gownsmen. and strife for the OG. of the OG The monumental The Constitution and foreboding Instead, we have andSAtoupdatethecurrentConstitution attempted to make this also includes much Student Executive of the same and Student Life ancient of 1987. The organization more functional amendment current practices of the Committees process as found in the have had their obsolete and effective. Student Government hardly reflect the new Student Government Constitution members removed and replaced by Most of the document system laid out in the older document. puts in so that any necessary changes can be more relevant leaders on campus, such writing the regular practices of the The old Constitution is simply too old made with ease. as the President of the Gay-Straight OG; however, the past several years to keep around anymore. It is about It is the hope that this Constitution Alliance and the Head RCCs (both of have shown an increasing need time that we took the old, flee-ridden for will allow the Order to anticipate which have been hoisted to the Student guidance and structure. For '87 Constitution out to example, and deal with the many conflicts and the shed and put Life Committee). issues concerning membership were it down. It needs eternal peace, and the problems that have arisen in the past Finally, the constitutional amendment clarified. The new Constitution changes seen in the new Constitution states and hampered the organization. A new process is entirely overhauled. This that the OG has the power to remove reflect the gravity of this situation. era of is dawning for the Order. change arose from the fact that it is its own members (a power that the Beginning with the SA, the nearly impossible to make amendments Order has always had but has not new proposal cuts elected dorm under the current system. As it always known about). Also, a process representatives in half and eliminates stands, one-half of the student body by which a student may deny his or her all class representatives. This is done New Plan to Streamline Curriculum: Cut Down on Sarcasm JeffPosson

Over the last several months Aristophanes, Mark Twain, Horace, Faulkner, The Bronte Sisters, Moliere, by these restrictions, two departments the school's administration has been Geoffrey Chaucer, Homer, Luigi Henry David Thoreau, Victor Hugo, that have expressed extreme irritation searching for new ways to improve the Lord Byron, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. are the departments of Biology and academic setting at Sewanee, while at the Lawrence, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Anthropology. One official responded. same time cutting budget expenditures Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne, "Listen I know the people in the within the various departments. Last Karl Kraus, C.S. Lewis, the Marquis anthropology and biology departments week, the administration revealed de Sade, Vladimir Nabokov, Oscar are upset, and believe me, I love its bold new plan to streamline the Wilde, Abraham Lincoln, Tennessee Charles Darwin's little satires about Sewanee curriculum, a plan that Williams, Samuel Beckett, Washington humans developing from apes as much allows for the tightening of academic Irving, Christopher Marlowe, Winston as the next guy, but we have a duty to standards, while at the same time Churchill, Eudora Welty, Thorton the students to teach them important preserving all the various departments Wilder, Jean-Paul Sartre, William material that they can use in the outside of Sewanee. This new plan calls for Butler Yeats, Andrew Lytle, Wallace world, and we don't have time for tall the removal of only one item from the Stevens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, tales, especially in the sciences." Sewanee curriculum: sarcasm. Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Bishop, It remains to be seen if this In the words of a high ranking Marcus Tullius Cicero, Boccacio, new policy will usher in a new era official, "While I understand that Bertolt Brecht, Erasmus of Rotterdam, of academic excellence at Sewanee. sarcasm can be fun to read and talk William Shakespeare, and Voltaire. Personally, this reporter is really about, the administration does not While many of the language looking forward to it. No seriously, I feel it is completely necessary in the departments have been slightly put off mean it, it'll be just great. educational atmosphere of the modern university." Abe Lincoln- too sarcastic?

As a result of this policy, the university is taking steps to remove Pirandello, Alexander Pope, Thomas any authors whose works, as the More, Petrarch, Juvenal, Tony Hecht, administration puts it, "contain, or have Philip Larkin, Daniel Defoe, John the potential to contain sarcasm in any Dryden, Ambrose Bierce, Niccold BICYCLES Featuring new Mountain. Road, .Cross. Cruiser & Children's Bicycles by form." Machiavelli, William Gibson, Thomas Trek • Garry Fisher ^Goihago • Lltesg^d* Moots * ffaro After a week of investigation, Jefferson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Emily OXTER 75 BIKES ON THEFLOOR! the administration has begun creating Dickenson, Franz Grillparzer, George Accessories by: Pearl Izumi Clothing • Dragon Optical '•'-Bell Heimeis • Continental Giro Helmets • Yakima Car Rack Systirily • Rudy Project Eyewear a list of writers, thinkers and speakers Bernard Shaw, Angela Carter, Michel NorthwaVe Shoes • LouTs Garneau whose works will Bring this, ad in for be removed from de Montaigne, The Apostle Paul, S% discount on Tunc-ups! FULL SERVICE. REPAIR & LAYAWAY the curriculum. This list includes (but Thomas Carlyle, Harold Pinter, Feodor 1 1 1 2nd Ave. NW. Winchester is not limited to): Jonathan Swift, Dostoyevsky, Van Mona Duyn, William 967-7020 .. oodysblcycles.com

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William Blackerby Wins National Greek Meet Pequod Translation Prize Morgan Taylor

"We're gonna blowthemouttathewater tonight, right guys?" Wilson said, swooping his Reprintedfrom www.sewanee.edu hand across his chest and sticking it in midair offstage, silly with excitement with a sparkle of mischief in his smile. Roger, continuing to break down his drum set replies, "we don't have an ego or anything, Wilson". William Thiele Blackerby of No, you don't have an ego and you are fabulous. Pequod only has a few Birmingham, Ala., a sophomore major in more gigs in them and the fans are stretching their life more than the band knows. the department of classical languages at Did they not hear the murmur of the crowd after the booming performance on the University of the South won a national Saturday night? Pequod satisfies Sewanee more than mom's southern home classical languages translation prize for cookin'. his translation of Koine Greek. If Jack only knew, poor Jack, always shooting for the moon. Wilson spied Blackerby won second place in the over my shoulder and pointed toward my notebook on Saturday, and said with 2007 Eta Sigma Phi Maurine Dallas a chuckle "ha-yeah". The scribble read, "Jack runs the show". Grey sips a Bud Watkins Sight Translation Contests. This 20oz. while he takes advice from Jack gracefully. Grey smiles. They are always contest, now in its 57th year, offers seven smiling at practice-but Roger. When Roger lets loose on his drums he is so tight, different examinations in classical Latin upright, intense. I never know what Roger is thinking but a dimple forms in his and Greek translation and composition. chiseled cheek telling me he thinks deep. Wilson balances out the seriousness, he The 2007 winners were announced at has a Mohawk. Even so, it sits nicely on his head, harmless comb-over, while he the annual meeting of Eta Sigma Phi, the mock plays the harmonica on his tippy-toes. So dreamy. classics honors society that administers So get outta bed, time to party because its one more Saturday night and the examinations. you can't miss this loveable foursome and their Sewanee tunes. Blackerby's Greek professor this year, Donald Huber, congratulated him Take my word for it, you don't want to miss this. saying that "based upon Blackerby's previous performance and our excellent I need to sit in on more practices and bring my notebook to some performances program, this doesn't surprise me at all." and do some interviewing. I would also love to get some help on the direction/ Blackerby's achievement adds to a mounting national record of excellence angle of the article. I want the reader to be friends with Pequod after they read the among Sewanee classics students. The most recent national award winner from article and I want them to love them, I want it to be intimate and at the end use Sewanee before Blackerby was Andrew Gregg, C'05, who received an award in the voice circus of a sideshow and announce them to the reader, maybe. I need the Maurine Dallas Watkins Advanced Latin Translation contest in 2005. advice. Eta Sigma Phi had its beginning in 1914 when a group of students in the Profile of department of Greek at the University of Chicago organized an undergraduate A Monica C. Lewis: Sewanee's classical club to which honor students in Greek and Latin were elected to Brown Foundation CFD Fellow membership. The organization later united with a similar group at Northwestern University and became Eta Sigma Phi. In 1924 the society became national, and BoydStith chapters were organized at leading colleges and universities. Those of us who are lucky enough to have had Prof. Lewis realize that The goals of the society are "to develop and promote interest in classical she brings her very own style to the classroom. Every class begins with a warm, study among the students of colleges and universities; to promote closer fraternal welcoming smile and a gentle "Hello" uttered in a soft demeanor that makes even relationship among students who are interested in classical study, including the most timid student feel comfortable. The comfort level Lewis invokes during inter-campus relationship; to engage generally in an effort to stimulate interest class is what makes her teaching style so special. Students are able to establish a in classical study, and in the history, art, and literature of ancient Greece and close, personal relationship with Lewis in and out of class. Before we delve into Rome." the literature at hand, there's always a few minutes dedicated to the latest gossip Student prizes range from $25.00 to $75.00. and happenings around campus. Conversation, without a doubt, is always on order. Any outsiders should be forewarned though. Once you get Prof. Lewis started, it's off to the races. This author cannot even describe how Prof. Lewis

Student Designer Wins Award for Antigone can take a seemingly inane topic and skillfully relate it to the British wartime Costume literature. It's one of those experiences that falls under the "you had to be there" Designs clause.

Reprintedfrom www.sewanee.edu Lewis' Studies in Fiction Course is one of those academic gems that allows students to freely interpret the texts and any other relevant fields of academia. Though we all appreciate those quirky Brits' novels, one of the most important J. Theresa Bush, C'08, received the third place award in the undergraduate skills Lewis teaches the class is the art of intelligent, informed conversation. costume design competition held at the 57th annual Southeastern Theatre In the future, should any of my classmates forget Ford Madox Ford or Evelyn Conference in March. Bush is from Winchester, Tenn. Waugh, I'm positive they will remember the confident atmosphere Prof. Lewis Bush presented her costume design (complete with the production bible, created in her classroom. As such, this informal profile resembles the relaxed conversation makeup designs, production photos and an actual hat) for Theatre Sewanee 's Lewis' students have come to expect and appreciate. recently produced Antigone. In our conversation, we started out by discussing Lewis' extensive Seventy-two students from the region competed in graduate and undergraduate educational background. After moving to Columbia, MO, Lewis attended costume, scenic, and lighting design, technology and crafts. The requirements for Hickman High school. She is quick to point out that Hickman High's mascot the costume design competition required research materials, six color costume is the Kewpie, described by Lewis as "some sort of cherubic troll." After being renderings with swatches, and suggested elements included a design statement, forced to deal with this diabolical mascot for a few years, Lewis matriculated at preliminary sketches, detail drawings, a costume plot, and photographs. Washington University in St. Louis. It is here that she continued to develop her Professional designers are invited from regional, Broadway, and international love of the novel eventually graduating with a degree in Comparative Literature. theatrical venues to adjudicate. David Mikelson, a distinguished costume designer, After graduation, Lewis went straight to Harvard to work on her PhD in English. adjudicated the student costume design. His career spans years working in New When asked about the differences between undergrad English and her studies at York, and on the West Coast. Harvard, Lewis claims that, "Being a Comparative Lit. Major in college allowed Bush began research and design in the fall for Antigone. Her concept of for a lot more leeway. At Harvard, I narrowed my field of study to British "timeless east meets west," reflected a Middle Eastern aesthetic. Renderings literature." were created with pencil, watercolor, and various resist-techniques for added Once Lewis finished with her two-year course load at Harvard, she texture on watercolor paper. These renderings came to life for the production in spent three years teaching as a fellow at Harvard and another year at Stonehill the Proctor Hill Theatre earlier this spring. College in Easton, MA. Her move to Sewanee came when she received the The costumes were built in the Sewanee costume shop under the direction of Brown Foundation Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Fellowship, which, visiting lecturer, Iisha Lemming Paschall. As the costume designer, Bush spent she notes, was brought to Sewanee by Dean Kipp from Kenyon College. Once many hours researching and formulating her designs, as well as making decisions I bring up Sewanee, it's as if Prof. Lewis knows exactly where I'm going with about fabric and trim, attending fittings and coordinating costume pieces for the the conversation. We both admit that it's inevitable tradition comes into the militia parts. She also taught the actors how to apply their creative makeup (based conversation. on her designs and research). When asked about tradition at Sewanee, Lewis jumps the gun and answers

Bush's award included a cash prize, mention in the next SETC publication, before I can finish. "Yes, I really do appreciate the tradition here, though this is a third place ribbon and certificate. Her costume design professor, Jennifer admittedly related to my Anglophile tastes. The architecture is wonderful and I Matthews, was also able to attend the awards ceremony on March 9. really appreciate the honor code." When pushed to answer some tougher questions Bush has a summer job as a stitcher for Stages in St. Louis, Missouri, and hopes regarding Sewanee's traditions, Lewis calmly pauses while raising her hand to to go to graduate school after a gaining a year or two of professional experience. her chin. I ask her whether or not she thinks there are any inherent problems with tradition at Sewanee. See PROF. LEWIS, pg. 16 h 1

Page 1 Tragedy Strikes Virginia Tech, Affects the Nation Becky McCann

It goes without saying that news National sympathy and from the outside support to people at Virginia world tends to seep tor Tech empathized University for Virginia Tech instantly answers. Why weren't into the ensued as with the victims Sewanee bubble at a snail's and felt the severe and students America followed the and faculty made aware of the gruesome event terrifying pace. So, when nearly all effect of the tragedy. of Sewanee *s which Carson first two killings until continued to worsen. Many two hours later? campus fervently exchanged Dougherty, a sophomore from northern up-to- watched in Why weren't classes cancelled shock and terror as the death that date information Virginia, recalls the immediate 9 about a shooting toll impact morning Why grew in the already overwhelming didn't the University taking of hearing the news place almost 500 miles away of the shooting: implement a state of fear and confusion. lock-down sooner? What ,h Hearts "The worst part on Monday 16 , was not knowing. everyone knew went out to could have been done to prevent students and faculty alike this something horrifying Things are different here, cut and monumental as pictures off from catastrophe? The authorities of injured persons being originally was occurring. the real world ... and Monday Many students were earned out I fell believed the dormitory murders of the academic building were hard. As I glued to their computer screens, was walking out of the domestic stalling began to surface. Perhaps and had no reason to suspect one of the door, to at any available television, start an uncharacteristically or making most horrifying any further carnage would occur. aspects of the massacre busy impatient phone day, my phone rang. A friend had calls in an attempt to was the When it became apparent that silent and calmly steadfast events called to tell me stay up to date on the tragedy what had happened. had taken a rapidly manner in which the turn for the worst, a school- gunman was I could unfolding only stay on the phone long on the Virginia Tech campus reported wide lock down was put into to have proceeded as he entered action enough to understand there in Blacksburg, Virginia. What started had been a and all classes were classrooms without warning and cancelled. The began mass shooting at as a double homicide Virginia Tech. I told University in one of the shooting. In the midst eventually cancelled classes ofthe increasingly myself over and school's dormitories over that although for the at 7:15 am soon worsening news of remainder of the week and later happenings on I know became the more than 50 people at tech, largest shooting massacre the Virginia Tech campus decided to allow students to drop a throughout there are 30,000 to take place at any students, and it is class school in America's the day, numerous without penalty or accept their Sewanee students unlikely that history as Virginia someone I know will have current Tech student Cho became progressively grade in classes without having more distressed been hurt. Seung-hui My mind had been unable to the proceeded to kill 30 more and take their final exams. Still, much concerned. After all, several of our imagine the hatred that caused people (including 26 students this, the like the Columbine shooting and 4 University's students hail in 1999, from Virginia gruesome act, the professors) fear and the suffering this in Norris Hall (a classroom and surrounding horrific episode has led to larger areas, and even that one boy building) and caused. I had been unable arguments leave almost as many more have family concerning gun control laws members, friends, to fathom the people injured tragedy." and school before taking his own or friends safety measures. of friends in that general In the immediate wake of this life. region. Even those without direct ties disaster, many began looking to the The Tombstone: A Miscellany of History and Anecdotes Morgan Taylor down." in the U.S. Army in World War You surely pass the Sewanee II turned his back away from the game). Korea, parachuted out of a Cemetery plane when According to on the way to class, Maria Galliard Cortes his headstone, "He was another plane flew too close, Stirling's, resulting known for or lunch , but how many have 1920-2099 his gentleness, loyalty, in his death. She died in actually paid a 1983 and humility, and Christian visit to our deceased? A She laid the tombstone and charity. He has previously ordered her tombstone with walk through the cemetery left his mark upon us all." can be an placed the strange inscription on both her the above inscription in the University exhilarating historical journey. Waring own and her husband's stone. She still Cemetery. McCrady stated, "The Frances Moseley cemetery has a lives in a North Carolina nursing home sort of caste system." Lutan At the top of the and plans to live until 2099 according Gaston Swindell Bruton PH.D., hill lie the high-class whites, Oct. 15, 1895-Feb. 13, 1959 bishops to the dates on their headstone. Her LL.D. and university-related "Miss Fannie 's" maiden name. people, and daughter, Betty, sculpted the tiger in Nov. 22, 1922-Sept. 18, 1968 Rutledge, linked her to then the hill slopes down bearing the the Fowler Center. a famous Gaston, Ester's husband, lived southern plantation poor whites leading eventually to family owning the a simple life and was often seen driving approximately blacks. According to James Gipson, Bishop Quintard one third of Tennessee a rusty, moss-covered 1948 Chrysler farmland at the time. She earned in 1924 poor whites were no longer Second Bishop of TN the around the Sewanee campus. Bruton buried name because her family members in the Sewanee Cemetery but Dec. 22, 1824-Feb. 15, 1898 was the University Provost for several were slaves to the Rutledge were relocated to the Eastern Star Some would family. refer to Bishop years and kept the University running Cemetery down the street. Before the Quintard as the second founder of the under his tight-fisted methods during "Uncle" 1970's integration, there Rufus Mosely was a woven- University. After the first bishop, Polk, hard times. Two years before his death, 1858-1936 wire fence erected between the races, died in the civil war, it was Quintard 's he was diagnosed with colon cancer. "Uncle Ruf ' owned a decent protecting whites from the grave- job to raise the endowment needed Ester surprised him with a new white chunk of Sewanee land and in order digging hogs. The following anecdotes for the University before its ten year Cadillac that he drove until his death. to feed are a guide his hogs, he drove around to your walk through the charter ran out. His mission led him to campus piling garbage into his truck. cemetery to create a vision of Sewanee Oxford, England. Eventually he earned Joseph Lawrence Parsons, Jr. Eventually he lost his land life in the same sequence because he as the "caste the money, erected the school, and 1932-1971 was unable to pay taxes. At an upper- system". eight students were enrolled in the nick In place of a headstone class funeral a deaf, old Kirby-Smith of time to save the University. lie a bench representing health in woman reportedly requested that when Edmund kirby-Smi t association with his health profession. she died she should be thrown on top b. St Augustine, FLA May 16, 1824 Benjamin Law ton Wiggins Parsons replaced Kirby-Smith as the Died March of "Uncle Ruf's" slop wagon with one 28, 1893 1861-1909 doctor of Emerald-Hodgson Hospital. petunia. General C.S. A. Feb 1864 Clara Quintard anticipated a wedding For sport, Parsons would participate in Prof. University of the South 1875- proposal from Benjamin and carved the horse jumping shows. Once at a North 1893 Because Emerald-Hodgson, word "yes" into a stone at what is now Carolina show, he fell and his horse now Hodgson Memorial dormitory, was the Day was originally known Clara's point. When Benjamin crushed him. Instead of being treated only hospital between Chattanooga celebrated in Sewanee on the birthday proposed she pointed to the rock and there, he insisted on being taken to and Tennessee, a entire section of of Kirby-Smith. He was the last they were later married. Emerald-Hodgson and did not make it the Sewanee Cemetery is sprinkled surviving man who was a full General back to Sewanee alive. with unmarked tombstones. They are in the Civil War as well as a professor Ester Newberry Bruton probably attributed to the unknowns of mathematics at Sewanee. 1903-196- 197- 198- (as inscribed Willie "Six" Sims who would crawl out of the woods to her headstone) on Dec. 6 1886-Jan 12. 1950 Edmund die in the hospital. A walk through the Kirby-Smith III "Where does a man's life begin and "For forty years beloved by the cemetery will not only give you some Col U.S. Army does it at the beginning, when end? Not Sewanee men as their athletic trainer." fresh air, but also a sense of Sewanee 1916-1994 not at the end." Willie Six was the beloved history. "non carborundum illigetimi" Miss Bruton survived her athletic trainer at Sewanee and bore Perhaps the most peculiar husband's death to colon cancer and the number six on his jersey (hence the inscription in the cemetery, her infant's sudden death with her written only nickname). He claimed that he never in "bastardized" Latin Gaston S. Bruton Jr.. and translates, son, She claimed once saw Sewanee score (probably "Don't let the bastards wear insanity after Gaston, who was a you Major because when this did occur he . . j Page 12

Sophomore Chanter Starts a Chanting Phenomenon Wilson Bonner

it very To make clear, I don't in the first place? Does the fascination "It's her!" someone screamed as all other students have come to me giving doesn't like chanting. with trust anyone who Barbara Banks lie in the distance chanting turned to a cheer of success. me some of their favorite chants or - Chanting is a safe, substance free, we place between I wasn't sure us? She gave a pseudo-speech and we sang chanting stories. Via Fortier is one of and clean activity that any age can but something deep down inside kept her a song to the tune of "Barbara Ann" chanting's greatest fans and supporters. participate in and help bind together a telling me it would be groundbreaking. and everyone dispersed. "The Barbara She recalled one day after we shared community. I've always preached this a rousing "A-T-C" chant, "Chanting but finally I've been able to convince has defined who I am in this chapter students - other Sewanee to join me in of my life. Once after a good night of my favorite activity. It took a lot of m chanting, I went home and Katie Tenille hard work and different chants many (class of '07) and I chanted everything lor other students to join in but I we said and saw until 5 in the morning. attribute one chanl to this turnaround. When you come across a good chanl,

until this point, I had been chanting Up you feel it. You like how it sounds complex, easily misunderstood words and everything about it. It's hard to or names that typically didn't in a stop sometimes when you know it's so meter or tempo that is easily repeated. right." Francis Lynch, class of '09, sat On one beautiful Saturday afternoon, me down and expressed his feelings - the perfect chant hit me "Barbara about chanting. "I express myself Banks". It has three syllables, a name through thought-provoking chants. everyone vaguely knows, it had Many people may ask, 'Francis, what is beautiful alliteration, and it caught that chant supposed to mean?.' but they

like wildfire. after I on Immediately obviously don't see the big picture. It's started, people around me looked at the tyranny of the masses that brings me like I was crazy but soon joined in This picture was posted on the Facebook group to recruit chanters for the Barbara meaning to meaningless chants. It isn't themselves, as if they felt compelled to Banks event. Banks is secondfrom the left. always about the story; sometimes it's attribute their voices and pounding fists about the storyteller. Many phenomena to the most perfect chant ever created. bring people together in a community The moment seemed like it lasted I gave a date, created a Facebook event, Banks rally put a face to a name," said including government, sporting events, forever - it must have spread sixty deep and crossed my fingers that everyone Via Fortier, class of '07, "we finally got parades, Facebook groups, potlucks, and inspired many more. would show up. to respond to her to tell her how much and Boy Scout meetings, but to me the this, After many students The hour came for everyone I we appreciate what she does in the form most important and most effective is a started "Barbara Banks" chants all had reminded and invited to show up of a good ole chant!" I received at least good chant." over campus from Pequod shows in front of the BC. The chanters began five emails from students in reaction If all of Sewanee could just to "Pirates" sailing in the middle of trickling in around 12:15 PM and the to the Barbara Banks rally. Philly experience a large crowd chanting Lake Trez. It became more than what last few arrived just before we started. Williams, class of '09, wrote, "That together then the community would

I had dreamed of and hoped for and The air was filled with excitement, was one of the greatest experiences be a better place. Perhaps one day all I knew I could take advantage of this anxiety, suspicion, and anticipation. of my college career—thank you." of Sewanee could thank Aramark for fascination not only with chanting but Signs with Barbara Banks' name were Annie Soutter, class of '07, wrote, what they do by gathering outside specifically with "Barbara Banks." being held up and about fifty people "That Barbara Banks event today was of McClurg and chanting "AR-A-

don't I take all of this Why "Barbara including Nicole Lloyd and Jania incredible. Please keep me posted for MARK." Maybe I could thank the Banks" spirit and take it to the actual Collins were ready to show Barbara Carol Doty/ Virginia Cunningham staff of the Purple for letting me write woman behind the emails? It gave me Banks how Sewanee students can rallies." See what I've been trying this article by chanting, "PUR-PLE." shivers imagining this perfect chant chant. I counted to three and began. The to say to you people! Chanting is the Whatever the chant, whatever the cause, meeting its inspiration. Would people chant rapidly picked up volume and greatest and most community driven chanting lifts spirits. The next time you show up or would I ruin the spontaneity after 6 or 7 repetitions the door opened activity since yard sales! see me walking around campus, chant and randomness that drives the chant up to reveal a surprised Barbara Banks. Since that ephemeral chant. something and I'll be happy to join in!

A Look at Sewanee's Facebook Profiles-

Political Views Top Music Top Interests

1 Jack Johnson 44% Conservative 1. Music 2. Coldplay facebook 15% Liberal 2. Reading 3. 13% Moderate The Beatles 3. Traveling 4. 13% Very Conservative Bob Dylan 4. Hiking 5. Statistics Of Sewanee Students 4% Very Liberal Led Zeppelin 5. Running 6. 4% Other Radiohead 6. Writing

3% Libertarian 7. Pink Floyd 7. Soccer Compiledfrom facebook.com 8. The 2% Apathetic Band 8. Cooking 9. Grateful 2% None Listed Dead 9. Movies 10. Photography Top Books Relationship Status Top TV Top Movies 1 Harry Potter 1. Family Guy 1. Fight Club 2. The Great Gatsby 37% None Listed 2. Grey's Anatomy 2. Boondock Saints 3. Catcher In The Rye 22% Single 3. The Office 3. Wedding Crashers 4. To Kill A Mockingbird 21% In a Relationship 4. Lost 4. Pulp Fiction 5. Pride And Prejudice 10% Married 5. House 5. Garden State 6. 1984 5% Engaged 6. Entourage 6. Gladiator 7. Angels And Demons 3% It's Complicated 7. Arrested Development 7. Anchorman 8. Lord Of The Rings 2% In an Open Relationship 8.24 8. Love Actually 9. Jane Eyre 9. Friends 9. Braveheart 10. Brave New World 10. Seinfeld 10. Old School Page 13 Diary of a Bacchus Driver Sewanee's Meghan Plummer PEN Tutoring Program Emorie Broemel "Do you really like driving BACCHUS?" representation of Sewanee weekend The Sewanee PEN Foundation When the wildlife was definitely program first began not a current (Partners I doubt there has ever been in Education in 2000, there a student. He had Network) were only six tutors. probably graduated tutoring Sewanee weekend night in program has added At that time, existence class of '49, more tutors all six students tutored and I watched where this as he this, question has not been making this semester's the science at Decherd posed hobbled hunch-backed largest Elementary. As the to the down the street group poor soul behind the wheel of of tutors since its inception. Since program has expanded the past DKE, a case of and the number Milwaukee's Best the fi fteen-passenger van, which iscomplete fall of 2000, the PEN program has of available tutors dangling from a no doubt increased, the PEN with a rheumatism- matched drunk-person-beacon (i.e., Sewanee tutors with students Foundation was the ridden hand. Perhaps able to bring Sewanee there are some throughout yellow flashing light) on the roof Franklin County in need tutors to middle and Sewanee traditions of and high schools in that never die. extra blaring music that never quite help. Through grant funding from Franklin County. succeeds For as Currently, there are many memorable the in drowning out the PEN Foundation, the student thirty three slurred speech of experiences tutors PEN tutors in six area as BACCHUS provides, most earn an hourly wage for schools; BACCHUS riders. On occasion, there their work in Clark Memorial, Decherd, are many events that go unnoticed the schools, many of the occupants will sing along and are reimbursed for Rock Creek, Cowan, behind the driver, South Middle events that are their to the radio or iPod hookup travel expenses as well. Sewanee School, and Franklin (favorites possibly invisible even County High with the aid tutors work include Disney ballads. "Titanic", with local students for one School. and of the smudged rearview Blind mirror. And hour one or two Melon's "No Rain"), running times per week, either At Franklin County High the words "give during class time or after School, together gleefully until they BACCHUS a call school. Sewanee tutors focus solely on Eight stumble out of the van at You may years later, the number math, working with their respective not remember, but it's of students there after students and destinations, never the schools participating in the school. At the forgetting to thank responsible thing to do" middle and elementary the program has increased schools, BACCHUS driver for the ride. significantly. tutors come during the regular The PEN Foundation is school day Driving BACCHUS is a local as well as afterwards to help what perhaps this is for the best, as the van education foundation the driver makes it. that seeks to with all subjects and Those with no is rumored to homework too. have hosted its share of tolerance improve the quality offamily, Sewanee for (sometimes extremely) make-out economic, tutors work with the students sessions. and community intoxicated life in Franklin County. one-on-one and in persons, radio walkie- Another groups of up to four popular way to share The Sewanee talkies that behave tutoring program is one students. as if they are in the the love on BACCHUS (besides of their many successful Bermuda triangle when taken in endeavors and This program is truly a the bursting out with a drunken, "I love is also one vicinity of Gorgas, or of their largest efforts to community service for those undecided riders you!") is local to keep the driver company improve that stick around education in Franklin County. students who have fallen for most of the five- by sitting behind or shotgun. Not only is he or she PEN allocates need hour shift should not drive approximately $9,000 additional assistance they are not BACCHUS. concerned with the riders' wellbeing annually to A sense of the Sewanee program. able to receive from their humor and a substantial (why else classroom would the driver choose to With store more Sewanee students wanting teachers. Although of patience are required, but even be PEN tutors do subjected to five hours of playing to become tutors this not if one lacks the latter, year, there was work with special needs students no worries: a taxi driver to drunken students waving a question shift or two of whether the Foundation specifically, Daniel says she will exercise every ounce their believes arms frantically as they chase the would be able to meet the some of the of forbearance one increased students who participate in possesses. Take for van down University Avenue?), but funding needs. example, the night However, PEN was able the program may indeed have learning a group of about a also the driver knows to which parties to dozen come up with the additional money, difficulties, so any individual students in Humphreys wanted a most attention people are going. Sometimes the allowing the program to continue they get is helpful. ride and proceeded to take turns calling to Tutors also work hosts of these said parties commission grow. with students BACCHUS every 30 seconds as they prepare for the (to the BACCHUS to advertise for them, Nancy Daniel, TCAPs, horror of the dispatcher) who coordinates Tennessee's standardized until everyone though advertisement is hardly Sewanee's testing. had had a chance Education Program, to make the call or necessary on weekends like Spring currently administers the BACCHUS van the tutoring The teachers and principals arrived, whichever Party. On other weekends, a good program. However, any who oversee happened first. student is the tutors in the schools number of BACCHUS riders are welcome to join the program and does "are grateful for help and always ask A BACCHUS shift, especially sober students that just don't feel like not have to be associated with the the tutors to come back," says Ms. one on Spring Party Weekend, can walking, but last weekend, even the Education department. Ms. Daniel, Daniel. In fact, many of the often be compared to a who tutors do drive-through Friday afternoon shift saw nothing is running the program go back to tutor zoo with the most for her second for several semesters. common creatures but decidedly drunken students. As year, is responsible even though including for recruiting this is not required. Daniel female specimens in pastel intoxicated as they may have been, it new tutors each semester and placing will be sending out a notice or eyelet dresses and males to the donning is commendable that they were still them at participating schools. Daniel College shortly, encouraging students everything from class dress to kilts sensible enough to call for a ride. places the tutors according to their to become a part of this program. paired with some form of sports If you are ever in need of a preferences for which grade levels and Official applications for next semester jersey. Everyone capable of walking, ride, somewhere to meet someone new, subjects they would like to work with. will go out when students return in fall sometimes those who are not, has some or a place to sober up, give BACCHUS Ms Daniel also says she almost never 2007. If you are interested in becoming form of alcohol permanently attached a call. You may not remember, but it's turns interested students away from as a PEN tutor, contact Nancy Daniel to their hand. at My personal favorite the responsible thing to do. tutors and those who apply demonstrate [email protected]. "a real desire to help." Subscribe to CHANGE IN MCCLURG [continued from the Front Page]

with negative information. etoanee purple! Other Grease Cutter didn't help." They workers expressed fear for their jobs believe this change is a step toward a if they provided the newspaper For $25 each semester, six issues of "The Sewanee Purple" with safer work environment, and they hope positive or negative comments. They (including back that it signals an entire reevaluation of issues) will be mailed to your home or pointed out that a certain group of McClurg's sanitation procedures and other address. staff members Keep up with news at Sewanee from the have been marked as employee treatment. informers and consequently ostracized Although students' perspective while supporting one of the oldest, informal and anonymous by co-workers and mistreated by response continuously to the article was vast. The run campus newspapers in the nation. management. Regarding this change. Purple only received one written The Purple would like to definitively response. This letter to the editor state that negative information from ived by Please send your name, address, an employee, but no staff members regarding Aramark has iinents u ived and a check or not been received money-order to: fr< cific gement. employee or group of emp Em

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Spring Party Weekend Police Blotter Jacob Moore

Spring Party Weekend went off Hodgeson residents remain mysterious without much of a hitch. Debaucheries as they seem to have taken an were had, joy was rampant, and only "everything must go" approach to one student had to spend the night some of the dorm furniture. Police

in the Franklin County jail. "For a were baffled as to why the students Sewanee weekend, that's pretty good," would hurl commons room furnishings the Chief smiled as we tallied up the off the dorm's balcony, but experts damage. Most students seem to have theorize that this may have been a avoided legal conflict, and the six or drunken attempt at spring cleaning, or An unidentified man was seen streaking from Shenanigans in broad daylight on Sundax seven arrests for disorderly conduct or perhaps an activity brought on by the one has come forward to identify the mused, "I they drunk driving didn't involve anyone overwhelming desire to see a couch guess weren't looking superhuman villain that accomplished at his face." from the University. What the police soaring through the air. this, but if anyone has any information Aside from the did notice, however, was a new trend Vandalism was low this few minor and regarding the incident, the police would mysterious infractions, the in dorm climbing. Apparently, the weekend, but bizarre. An outside light campus appreciate it, as would the owner of the enjoyed a fun safe time-honored tradition of fraternities near the Woods Lab construction site and Spring Party car. Weekend. Chief Parrott climbing to the roofs of their houses was destroyed by an errant bocci ball, was happy that Towards the end of the students "trusted and yelling to passersby has spread hurled by unknown hands. The Chief our judgment" when weekend, the police received a call they had to the residential buildings. Two male can't imagine why a bocci-ist would too much to drink and were from a community woman complaining cooperative students, attempting to play a prank show such disrespect to scientific when the police offered of a young man jay-walking. Perhaps them a ride on a friend in Cleveland Hall at 2:30 progress, but the abuse of campus home. The Chief had a jay-walking is not a proper verb, as the theory in the morning, were denied traditional lights didn't end with the bocci ball concerning the mildness of the young man seemed to be running from students: with all ingress by the AP on duty. Undaunted, incident. Someone outside the Fowler the non-stop partying, Shenanigans to the Sewanee Market. people they attempted to ninja their way into Center managed to knock over one of most were simply too worn out Despite the fact that it was around to cause much trouble. the the second-story room. They would the decorative black lamp posts. This is By end of 3:30 pm on Sunday afternoon in broad the have been completely successful had certainly a feat of destructive power on weekend, "Everyone seemed too daylight, the woman couldn't accurately tired to put police not come by to foil their escape. its own, but the post was dropped onto much effort into breaking give a description, and nobody else the law," The young mens' intentions were not a student's car, causing what Chief he explained, "except perhaps present at the scene could identify the for specified and were at best "sketchy". Parrott estimates to be over a thousand that guy running naked. He seemed young man. Perhaps this was because to have life left in The intentions of some dollars worth of damage. So far, no some him." he was running buck naked. The Chief New Coach, New Season Tiger of the Week: Mary Katherine Stone George Twitty

Cory Woodworth "I want players that excel coach. With the introduction of new all around, not just on the playing coaches and a new system, one would The Tiger chosen as exhibiting field," stated Robert Black, the newly expect more of the freshmen to play excellence on the playing field (court) appointed Head Football Coach for However, Coach Black has a different for the week of April 8-14 is women's the Sewanee Tigers. Coach Black perspective towards next tennis player Mary Katherine Stone. year. "We is no stranger to Sewanee athletics. will rely on the kids we have. This is Stone is a junior Psychology major Lettering in both varsity football and the seniors' last chance win from Nashville. She attended Harpeth to and there '86-' baseball from 89, he was named are no rebuilding steps being taken. We Hall and is the daughter of Mary and Sewanee's Athlete of the Year his will John Stone. play and expect to win." senior year. Coach Black has already made Stone is undefeated in doubles As a former player, he knows the a huge impact on his players. All- and only has one singles loss this season. value of giving close personal attention Star/Frat Star, Bruce Bentley, said that This past week, she went 3-0 in singles to his players while maintaining a high Coach Black it and 3-0 in doubles, including the clutch means business when expectation of commitment. Coach comes to Spring win to put Sewanee ahead of Emory, practice. He added. Black set the tone early by asking "Hypothetically, last I could who was ranked first in the region and year his players to follow three simple have an second in the nation. She pulled out dropped e-mail stating that rules: "Don't embarrass yourself, I wasn't two tie-breakers to win the match for going to be at Friday spring don't embarrass your team, and don't practice Sewanee after handily defeating the because I wanted to leave for embarrass the University." He wants the weekend Eagles' #3 team in doubles. Stone was knowing that there would to inculcate the same valuable lessons be no serious this down 5-2 in the second set, and rallied repercussions, but that his coaches did so in him: "I first year is a different story. to come back and win that second set. Now, you need learned to take a handoff on Sewanee's damn The match lasted in excess of two and a good excuse to miss a workout Athletic Department Employees, who practice field when I was probably and I think half hours. Mary Katherine went on to that's a good thing." Coach exemplifies what Sewanee Athletics 9 years old from legendary Coach Black believes win four more matches last weekend, as in letting the students is about. This includes outstanding Shirley." As a player of Sewanee, Sewanee shut out Mississippi College he make their own choices. He relates athletic performance and Piedmont and the belief "learned many things about leadership practice to class. "If you miss class that "athletes are further expected to and playing for the love Coach Conchie Shackelford of the game, you will have to make up the work. represent the University and the ideal balancing the heavy load of adds, "Mary Katherine always plays academics Same goes for practice. If we miss civilized of behavior". along the way." He certainly has faith practice will with heart and passion. She is the soul we have to make it up. (From the in of our team." Sewanee Athletic his players and in his university. The players will make good choices Philosophy). But, Sewanee is gradually raising because be The Tiger of the Week is ultimately they want to academic standards, which an athlete, chosen by a group of could successful on Saturdays. When our perhaps hinder recruiting future classes. entire team buys in, they will begin Coach Black thinks otherwise— "If a to care more than one of a kind, handcrafted, something special about other people kid is admitted to Sewanee, they must themselves. When selfless decisions have some leadership qualities or they become consistent with the team, the wouldn't be- here. Recruiting leaders is team will become theirs; and we will 111111^1111 exciting to me because I'm guaranteed have a chance to win a championship to be surrounded with great people." I hope that time is sooner than later." Along with upcoming freshman, our If the players can identify with school is bringing new coaches; Carter Coach Black's positive, innovative Cardwell, Offensive Line coach; attitude, then Yes. the art of jewelry there will be victory. Adam Caine, Defensive Coordinator/ this is Coach Blacks true home, and representing regional, national & international artists DefensiveBackscoach; Paul Knapstein, we are more than happy to have him Located at Sewanee Station next to Shenanigans • 598-0037 Defensive Line coach; and finally. back. Indeed, he has taken too long ot OPfA/Wed-Sat 11-6; Sun 124; Mon & Tue by appointment Tony Coode, Assistant Linebackers a vacation. 1

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Sewanee STANDing for Justice Diana Patterson

On this Monday night at the bustling month), He looks at me apologetically. in Blackman, they hosted it in various the past week, Helen Dauer, visionary Bishop's Common, I perch tentatively "We're kind of disorganized." But rooms in Carnegie. One frosty evening, behind the quilt, and her patient on the edge of one of the couches, clearly, Sewanee STAND, despite approximately two dozen students companions talked about STAND, summoned to write an article about their overbooked leaders' modest ducked in the doorway and scurried up Invisible Children, and proudly Sewanee STAND (A Student Anti- concessions about disorganization, the stairs to huddle in a cold classroom. displayed the masterpiece. Genocide Coalition), "It's really a new student is getting something right. And that They leaned forward, eyes transfixed neat," says Allison, "because organization you can already boasting a big something which motivates these busy on the projector, only tearing them donate online and presence immediately see on campus. The question students to give their time and energy from the heart-wrenching spectacle your money transferred". everyone asks: "Where's Allison?" To is gaining momentum on our campus. to look at the STAND leadership who As the sign-making extravaganza my right, frazzled freshman Paul Dixon Although the Sewanee chapter of rose to answer questions at the film's in the Bishop's Common nears its inquires about one of the Kendrick STAND earned its charter only three conclusion; almost unanimously "What conclusion, students linger. Like twins who, along with a handful of months prior to this resdess gathering can I do?" was on every student's lips. the STAND leadership, they've got other dedicated students, holds this at the B.C. front desk, this determined Their answer came not in words but busy schedules, too. "I have to study burgeoning organization together. A group has coordinated and continues in deeds. As part of the "School's for for a math exam" says Dan group McCoy of enthusiastic sign makers, to coordinate many significant events. School's program, Sewanee hopes to regrettably. His own organization. recycled cardboard in tote, file past "We're focusing on Invisible Children raise $10,000.00 for Lacor Secondary Hikers With A Cause, plans to hike looking inquisitively at Paul wringing this semester," says Paul, "as part of School th in Uganda. With the help of the Perimeter Trail Sunday April 15 his hands. They anxiously exchange STAND'S three primary objectives: almost 40 other American schools, to support Invisible Children. Perhaps information, and problems arise. 'to increase consciousness, nationally the effort has raised enough money participating students will arrive early Guerry Garth will not be available for and abroad, about presendy occurring to provide Lacor with access to clean Sunday morning exhausted from the the fast approaching benefit concert genocides, to take nonpartisan political water and a water tank. "We are previous day - the peace rally, the for Invisible Children. Seeking a action for a swift and sustainable working towards the construction of a Invisible Children benefit concert and venue, Paul sends Jack Wyrick over to solution to the crisis, and to coordinate pit latrine, providing teacher resources, screening, and various conferences and Stirling's. national and international efforts to teacher training and salary, laboratory speakers - but the 22 miles hike cannot "What kind of music do they play?" achieve to two goals above'". For supplies, teacher housing, classroom dull their enthusiasm. Neither can another students asks. Two sign makers an entire week in January, Sewanee refurbishing, computers, and internet the everyday trials of being Sewanee approach hesitantly. STAND hosted a nightly Blackman access," say STAND members. "We students deter Sewanee STAND, which "It's a jam-rock band", Jack replies auditorium screening of the film need your involvement to make this a remains at the B.C. until their work is as she heads towards Stirling's. The "Invisible Children", a poignant reality." And to make this a reality, finished. "Do we have sleeping places sign makers come nearer, demanding documentary exposing the conscription over twenty Sewanee students over the for the bands? Can we pay for their details. of children in rebel militias in civil- past few months have labored together dinner?" Paul asks. A passing student "We'll just have to leave it blank war ravaged Uganda. Even providing to create a beautiful quilt which will leaving another meeting overhears until we find out," Paul says a babysitter for the screenings, th while then be raffled off during the April 14 their conversation. checking emails. and now STAND encourages the screening. Enter the drawing by "When is that Invisible Children "The Nim-Nims...?" I venture, "entire community to get involved" in donating a suggested $2 and by filling thing?" she asks. Several eager noting the stressed, scrawling hand awareness events. out an entry slip on Wednesday April students simultaneously jump to covering the scrap of paper Paul has Taking inspiration from three young th 11 from 1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. at the answer her. With the exemplary placed on my keyboard. Americans who traveled to Africa in SPO or by contacting Helen Dauer passion and guidance of Sewanee "Yeah, I don't even know these search of an adventure and found a [email protected] or Allison STAND, Sewanee students will make people," Paul admits (indicating the compelling story, Sewanee STAND Kendrick [email protected] to a difference in Uganda and in whatever Chattanooga four-man ensemble invites the community to share in that fill out a slip another time. As hungry future projects STAND adopts. which will play at Rootsfest 2007 this story. Before STAND screened the film students milled about McClurg during 5 1

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and job success with countercultural leanings 4 "Tender " (1983 Robert Duvall 17 Lincoln player Purple Puzzles in film of 1939 film) 19 Sufficient, in old verse Edited Falk 5 Man with a mansion & magazine By: Simmons 20 Giant snake 6 Popular mp3 player 21 Reliever's stat 7 Good class start time PRESIDENTIAL PORTRATYAL 22 Dwell 8 Wordy British ref. work Edited by: G E Simmons Falk 23 Brightly colored butterfly 9 Code-breaking org. 1 2 3 4 • 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 26 James Jones 10 Witchcraft fetishes 28 "Copy me" 1 Roosevelt player in film of 14 C- 2001 3 1 They get you moving 12 Instrumental duck in "Peter and 1 34 Dickens's Heep 17 18 t the Wolf' 36 East Berlin was its cap. I 13 Plants 37 "Exodus" 20 hero 18 Oz's green Jedi Grand Master 38 Reagan in r player film of 1982 21 Warren of Cooperstown 22 25 40 Stable diet? 24 Loathsome "Attack!" 41 in dog lingo 25 Mufasa's cry 26 P 29 30 42 Bye-bye in Bordeaux } 27 Ida of '30s-70s Hollywood 43 "Mr. Roboto" band 31 32 33 35 36 29 June 6, 1944 44 "Rest spell!" i f a 30 African antelope __ 46 Stitched 37 39 40 31 Boundless 1 49 See -Across 32 Diva's ditty 41 51 Practical, as a plan f" 43 33 Jefferson player in film of 1995 1 55 Schemes 35Hwy. 44 45 47 48 57 Great spot to speed 38 Interest figures j 59 Bestselling Xbox game 39 Date of March madness? 49 " 52 53 54 60 Grant player in film of 1999 43 Harass like a hound 62 Galileo's sci. 55 56 57: 58 45 Pooh's pessimistic pal W 63 Lacking skill 47 Decathlon units 59 60 61 64 Straight arrow 48;) 65 What "you" used to be 50 Clancy creation 62 63 64 66 Double agents 52 Potato capital 11" 67 Julia's "Ocean's role 53 Actresses Turner and Kennear 65 66 67 54 Perfect places i 1 DOWN Hot, hip-hop-style 55 1 Franz who composed "The Merry 10 Spanish eyes 56 LaRue of low budget oaters ACROSS Widow" 14 Marine eagle 58 Main part? 1 With 49-Across, Qui-Gon Jinn 2 "Me, Myself & " 1 Fencing 60 Actress Basinger portrayer swords 3 Kournikova, et al. 16 One who combines affluence 61 U2 producer Brian 5 More than flirt with Prof. Lewis 8 5 [continued from Page 10] acclimating myself to the superficiality of the dress code, I really don't have any 9 i other issues. I was used to t-shirts and jeans in college. I had to buy a whole new s wardrobe. .at . Anne Taylor Loft in Chattanooga." Besides the wardrobe debacle, u 9 5 7 2 6 Lewis admits that many of Sewanee's issues with tradition are no different than the rest of society's. She claims that, although this is a pretty idyllic place to go D a 9 6 1 2 to school, Sewanee still isn't immune from a few "issms" that pervade society, O r i namely class-ism and racism. We delved into this subject some more when Lewis 9 3 8 mentioned the book Ely; An Autobiography. The book chronicles the life of Ely K Green, a black boy who grew in 1 2 4 8 9 up Sewanee in the early 1900s. It is here where U Lewis admits that if she could change one thing, she would make Ely required ** 1 7 reading for all incoming freshman. She raises a good point. I think incoming 8 3 2 freshman could learn more from a book like Ely than my class did from reading Jared Diamond's Collapse. 3 6

My last question involved Prof. Lewis' future. She plans to get married 1 9 this June in Boston and move to Washington D.C. with her husband to teach at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. Asked about the transition from teaching CRYPTOGRAM on the college level to the high school one, Lewis mentions that the only thing she is worried about is the structured lifestyle. Finally, I was curious to know what it would take to get her to stay at Sewanee. Interestingly enough, Lewis admits SASXQ JZYOC LSFCU JOK JZCBXSBK MI that she considered it for some time earlier in the year. Had she been offered a job with more security than the one-year adjunct position the school gave her, KSPOXORS PSMPTS TFAFCU ZCBSX JFK we could still have had the chance to enjoy her company on the mountain. To all of her students, Prof. Lewis' eventual departure is a shame. Sewanee really should wise up and do everything in their power to hold on to great teachers KVFC. RJS ROTSCR MI O HXFRSX FK JFK like Lewis. In the end though, all of Lewis' students are lucky to have had an inspiring learning experience. Let's just hope the school continues to draw the kind of talent that makes Prof. Lewis so special. OLFTFRQ RM UFAS RJSY RJSFX KSPOXORS journalists wanton fA~ •-»«* ~rear! COYSK, FBSCRFRFSK, PSXKMCOTFRFSK OCB University of the South Library Received on: 05-02-07 JOAS RJSY XSTORS RM MRJSX Sewanee Purple Apr 2007 DJOXODRSXK TFAFCU HFRJ JFY

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