THE SEWANEE PURPLE The University of ihc Souih SewanccTN 37375 October 1. 1990 Winners Student Elections, Runoffs Produce Four and • enough, however, - - -- m - i MB I went smoothly were runoff elections for each position by Barbara Harris held Thursday. Candidates in the runoffs were Fifteen students ran for four Dobson andClinton Ausun for Fresh- positions in elections held ScpL 26 and Council Representative. Trey Dobson. man Honor 27. Students elected were and Bill Gucrry for Junior Honor Council Reprcscnta- Cogbum Freshman Walsh for Trustee. McClure and Kit Junior Trustee; Julie uve. Lee Cogbum, andTulcy Senior Discipline Committee. McGurc, Senior Discipline Committee James Hanc for Senior Honor Tulcy. Senior and Member, and Tiffany of the Council Rcpn scniauvc. Results Honor Council Representative. nighL election were posted Thursday Voting tables were set up in the MeClurc felt a need for a fe- Student Post Office and outside the din- male member on the Discipline Com- and in ing hall in the Bishops Common no women mittee. "Last year there were students Gailor Hall Wednesday, and a female on the committee, and 1 thought for their favorite candidates at com- voted perspective was important to the and lunch. Not all students, "Kit had breakfast mmcc." said McClure. adding. freshmen, knew who could especially Continued on page 2 and some criti- voterote forlor whatwnai puMuim*.positions, <*.« ~«~ - - Photo by Lyn nwcnwwn.Hutchinson. J,uacStudentsctudents wvote^ i„in the SPO. aspect of the elections. Voting . cized•izedihalthat ^ Shake Day Numbers Disappointing Kappa Alpha Order: Julian Hood. «-. -/ 4 1 \ - Adams.^,mc KempKrmn Baker. Robert Charles Johnson. Miles by Stacy Hillock James Howscr. culminated Thomas Fraternity Rush K.rkland. Joshua Lindscy. 22. when 88 Thompson Rankin. Childs ith Shake Day September Mayhank. bids from PatnckSncad.JohnWard.Jamcs Khees formally accepted Smith. The day was cwanee's 1 1 fraternities. Williams at the frater- Chi Alpha: (Associate rked by all-day parties Lambda yhouscsandprouddisplaysof jerseys Member) Col in McDamcl Baker. Phi Delta Theta: Bill the new pledges. Dixon, Stuart Hem- Many fraternity presidents, Sharpc Bclotc. Jim David Johnson. MaU Looncy. eluding Delta Kappa Epsilon's ingway. Ben Philip Sims. Greg Hill, felt Miller. Doug Rodman. russon and Sigma Nu's Andy West. Will number of pledges was Robert Thompson. Ned i relatively low lntcrfraicmity Cooper Woods attributed to the Weaver. gely Shawn Alvcs. policyrcquiring "all stu- Phi Gamma Delia: council's new Kcr- to all Jim Campbell. Dave in Rush... to go Jay Becker. dents participating Don McAuslan. Formal House stclicr. Marcel Lcltrc. fraternity houses" during neglected to do jimMoscley.RobStcinficld.FrcdStick Visits. Many rushees bids Stone not eligible for ncy. Ben this and thus were Spencer J Alpha Kpsilon: Brian rviu.-.. "• -— Sigma any fraternity. rvum . o ii from haccio. Bill KOCKCr. Stalls Eliot Perkins to par- RmceBruce Migivi b Paige Phillips. Kenneth Palmer. Picrson Talbcrt. men are expected AnHu 7«reick Paschall. More Skmna.WafcW3kcficld.AndyZur.ack Scott Childcrs. Tyler semester, Delta Kappa Kpsilon: Sigma Nu: Pal activities next Bnan ticipate in Rush Pi: Jason Beck. Randolph Harris Lowe. add on feU ThcU Brook FbusU Nowlin Griffin.Charlcs Hodgkins. fraternities plan to Hoffmas- Allrcd, when many ElfioU. Shay Moore. Ben Coleman. Lome DdtaTao DdU: BcnCobb.Craig Brad McLanc. John more pledges. Aaron McCo.fough. Jeff ^Jusu. King. Andrew McKcc. Will Montjoy. McGowan.Gcnc Moss. Kevin Wall. The new pledges are: Hciscr. Schmidt, Ted Smith. Derek Bing. Sieve Knapp. Val Zivan Alpha Tao Omega: Cfimon Ausun. Tim Matt Har- ^'Ch^i: Chris Turner Cornell. Trey Dobson. John Jemungs. Chris Jeff Eusion. Lansing Lewis, Broughioo. ris, James Jefferson, Sewanee Football- Gas Leaks-page 2 page? sssra^i^ Novelist Percy Claims Life of Cancer their education arid supervising writers such as exposing them to who fre- William Faulkner, by Ross Reynolds Greenville home. On May 10, 1990, quented the also died after adopted father novelist Walker Percy Walker's his summer with cancer. the boys to a long bout took "Walker Percy, who was homeofBrinkwood,inthe with Sewanee environs of Se- long associated intellectual Review,**- it wd the Sewanee wanee to ob- William Butler seems supererogatory Like leading that the serve—one of the Yeats, Percy feared postmodern revolving novelists of the present age was George Core, cannot hold. generation," said around a center that Sewanee Review, liberals, editor of the His stones tell of voice has been "An eloquent pseudo-negro photographers, and stilled." fire-watcning priests, born Walker Percy was Dante for athiesis who read Birming- on May 28, 1916, in midst of the structure. In the Alabama. He majored m ham. modern day whirlwind Percy University of Chemistry at the each the modem man; went on to placed North Carolina and faith ability to develop meat Columbia person's despite his despair Physi- in God University's College of prove to be the center In 1942, he would cians and Surgeons. hold the present age while do: that would contracted tuberculosis one thing 1 can "I shrug. There is only Bellevue into on its axis. doing autopsies in they suck themselves listenjp people, see how voice spoke with a years of convales- dark His Hospital. His along; a ways in their the wild, hand them last public Moun- soft resolve. In his cence in the Adirondack and for good and journey and be handed along, on the transformation appearance, Percy spoke tains began the remains to decide whether selfish reasons. It only modern of medicine to "incoherence" of the from the carrer pursued in a service station this vocation is best his Dr. Percy began a rigor- science, and he reminded prose. egoer or..." —TK M™" not setting up ous schedule of reading litera- audience, "I am works or as the ture and philosophy. The either as physician naked of Dostoyevski, and European small boy noticing the existentialists such as Camus, emperor. What I am doing is hand in 1794. Sui- Bertram by his own friend Gabriel Marcel, Jean Paul southern aristocrats. more like whispering to a cide also took the life of Walker Kierkegaard a Percy family well to fix Sartre, and Soren Wyatt-Brown, at a party that he'd do Percy's grandfather and father. to cope with described their legacy brought a means historian, his fly." His sense of humor father's death on replacement arrow in time." He After his depression, and a as a "family took the tones of moralism and Christmas Eve, 1929, Walker lost faith in science's attributes the consistent leader- out for his the presumption of authority the Percy's family moved to ability to remedy the ordinary ship, and prolific lives of of his writing, and turned it into Athens, Georgia where his misery of the human soul. Percy's to the family's "sense of the quiet poetry of prose. they motheT died in a car accident Dr. Percy's heritage its own past, a legend that Jay Tolson, who is years later. His father's traces back to Charles Percy, a might build up about themselves two writing a biography on Walker cousin, William Alexander British Naval Lieutenant who that helps them to identify the the funeral at St. generously adopted Percy, attended married into a family fortune goals of the group as a whole." Percy, then outside of younger Joseph's Abbey, upon his arrival in Mississippi Yet throughout the history of Walker and his two At that his Covington, Lousiana. in 18 76. Charles Percy claimed leadership and civic devotion, brothers, and raised them in time he released a comment to ties to the British Earls of the honorable Percy family home in Greenvilee, Missis- reporters that Percy's death Northumberland, and the re- heritage was accompanied by a sippi. "Uncle Will," author of made him feel "as if some of the nowned Harry Hotspur, and in legacy of depression. Lanterns on the Levee and ballast has gone out of the their tradition, his marriage Depression took the life renowned Sewanee alumnus, fathered generations of politi- of Charles Percy when he died carefully raised the Percy boys, world." cians, writers, civic leaders, and uciudciv i,^ — PAGE 3 THE SEWANhb PUKFLfc NEWS Task Force Reports Findings at Open Forum Professor Bran of (Status of Women) and by Michael Cass The Task Force, consisting and community service. (Intellectual and Social Life) News Editor nearly 60 students, faculty members and "The Task Force attempted to Potter Subcommittee on Community Serv- administrators appointed "to assess the consider all viewpoints" in researching and Davis reported of Steering ice member Professor B il I The Task Force on Undergradu- quality of life" at Sewanee by Dean the issues it addressed, said groups' research and findings the 1990s held an the College Brown Patterson in the fall Committee Chairman Professor Charles on their ate Life at Sewanee in floor to questions and report—the remarks to the before opening the open forum at the Women'sCenter Sept. of 1989, released its final Brockctt in his opening from the audience. culmination of eight months of research, audience of about 30 students and dor- comments 26 to offer an overview of its recommen- of the discussion from meetings, interviews, forums and sur- mitory matrons. "Each subcommittee Most dations for the improvement of the un- around three top- report features forum like this one, and that point on centered dergraduate experience here and allow veys—last May. The held an open and sororities, the poten- recommendations made by subcommit- four surveys were c irculatcd among pres- ics: fraternities students, faculty members and others an implementation of the recom- and social life, frater- and past students. There was also tial for opportunity to express their questions tees on intellectual ent mendations, and the perception that the and sororities, the status of women quite a diversity of opinion on the Task and concerns about these recommenda- nities Force is trying to tell students how Force itself.