College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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Conservative, Creative, and Sometimes Tiring fcontinued from page 41 There was a lot we learned at ole' W and M, much knowledge that we gained, the education that we got: what Dryden meant in his Religio Loici: how to identify a benzene ring in a police lineup, fun and games with a rodent and a Skinner box, supply and de- mandg and all that we will for the rest of our days associate with those brick sidewalks that ran from building to building, lecture to lecture. Aside from all those facts that we regurgitated on tests and then stored in our vast memory banks of liberal arts knowledge, we learned to live. We learned to live with a roommate - Hinconsiderate creep. We probably learned how to study - you know what I mean, what you started doing freshman year after the first grade of your college career was a D- on a History 101 quiz. Many of us - curse you if you didnyt share this experience at least once - learned what it feels like to pull an F on a big mid-term lor worse, a classi. Sooner or later we learned how to read a bus schedule or make flight reservations. We figured out that George's and The Campus Restaurant were one and the same, that Steely Dan did not write a song about their days at William and Mary fthey never even saw the placel, and that it doesn't matter how well you did during the semester The foot. Place kicker Laszlo Mike-Mayer gets instruc- tions from a coach up in the box, Mike-Mayer had two brothers kicking for pro teams. - photo by Mark Beavers. Five minutes, Alex. Alex lden, who played Algernon Moncrief in the William and Mary Theatre production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, sits through his pre-performance makeup session. - photo by Mark Beavers. because your final grade depends entirely on the living hell known as the final examina- tion. We lost our acne, our childhood, and probably our virginity. We found some love, some laughter, and a slice of our lives. With A Twist So, with these thoughts in mind, let's get down to brass tacks and talk about this year at William and Mary. All this book is meant to do is to chronicle this year - not make it into a drama that it might not have been, To that end we won't talk about a theme Themes are too often cute Another word for cute is trite. Rather, let's just find a perspective from which to view the happen- ings of this year. Okay, then, everyone has heard talk of Hconservative William and Mary. Are we? Well, yes and no. The general attitude, lifestyle, and goals here are 4. 1 . ,. -4 J , 0 1? - ,. .... s,..4dr. . 6 X Int oduction i w rather conservative and traditional. We are of a generation whose values swung back towards the old hard work ethic of success. But, although the goals may be conser- vative, the means employed by those of us here at William and Mary aren't quite so. This is a college environment with 6,000 young minds, everyone of them turning over innovative, creative ideas en masse - in- novative, creative ways of reaching those traditional goals. You might say that William and Mary is conservative but with a twist. Well there's our angle so let's look at this year. - Rob Guillen

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