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

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With a Twis Conservative, Creative, and Sometimes A Little Bitching to Get Started There are a lot of things about life at William and Mary that tire me. l'm tired of evenings land afternoonsl in a corner of Swem with an overloaded bookbag, a headache, and a chair worn to fit every con- tour of my body, l'm tiredof typing papers, I'm tired of proofing papers lmore so than with typing, which explains the pencilled-in corrections that look like they were done' five minutes before class beganlg I'm tired of borderline grades that always seem to end up on the lower end of the markg l'm tired of the Board of Visitorsg l'm even more tired of the Spinazzolo Brothers land I only had one class displaced by the asbestos removal in Morton and Millingtonlg I'm tired of waiting on linesg l'm tired of out-of-staters who rag on Virginia, l'm tired of in-staters who rag on Virginia, l'm tired of people who go run- ning - I'm not impressed, laundry ex- asperates meg and I wish Ma Bell would also advertise how much it really costs to reach and touch someone. Most of all, though, l'm ' 1 ji - 7 .ef 1-,gf X- ,'. -QA.. .bi -', 'Q ' , , , C 'i -,, A. ,c-px.- 2 J. 5,.7,.,,FA-gw.X?- , ' a Cv?-.,1.T':1 'J ' . 1 4 53.52 .ri-f'l-:5.,,f..,,...- . ., . 'Y nw. - -- -f mv-sk r-.sat Q...-1 . .sq ,ggvli ..,lg.,,,., , raids- . , s, . ,.,,ggf,SQ,. W- s -.--Y'-fa. '--- -' - - 5 va Typical WSLMI, Two of the most well-known and com- mon sights in Williamsburg Y the Wren Building and rairi - photo by Mark Beavers. + lntroduction tired of having to moan and bitch everytime the subject of classes and workloads gets brought up - the point to which all conver- sations eventually lead. So now that I've got- ten in the mandatory complaints lso you can remember everything about your college daysl we can get on to saying the sort of things about W8:M that we say when we're not suffering the pressure, anxiety, and tem- porary insanity that academia inflicts upon us. Things About College William and Mary. The College oi. In Virginia. 1693, Chartered. Old. Respected. tcontinued on page 6l A little mud treatment. After completing her official Derby Day events, freshman Chi-O pledge Hunter Milligan gets an extra toss in the mud from her guest from JMU, Mike Stockhausen. - photo by Mark Beavers. Too beautiful for words. John Talberth, a junior from Vienna, Virginia, puckers up and lets it wail during the halftime show at the William and Mary versus Miami of Ohio football game. - photo by Mark Beavers. The Royal visit lfacing pagel. Heir to the British students about life in the U S lright insetl Lyle L throne Prince Charles made a May 1981 visit to the gets interviewed by the press after Prince Charles College to be honored with a royal fellowshipg Cleft insetl ped to talk to her about her French studies Prince Charles pauses to chat with typical yank by Barry Long

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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