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

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hat to do while skipping classes? That is not a tough question to answer especially during the ■ring semester. The Sunken Gardens. Matoaka and Barksdale field provide attracting distrac SKIPPING CLASSES Except for reasonable cause, students are expected to be present at all regularly scheduled class meeting, or at least that ' s what It says on page 8 of our student hand- books. Will those guilty of violating this rule please stand? Oh, by the way, is any- one left sitting? Should we, the student body, conclude we are all deliquents? Are we guilty of breaking a time honored rule of protocol? After all we are the second oldest institute of higher learning in these fair Gnited States. If we skip classes, is there anyone else that doesn ' t? Why do we skip? Why is the earth round? Who am I? — continued xK ite 1 J g?L ' J 1 ■ - , - , ff .iP Jft-V ' - ' . ' v Sfc m r Sfi. . V ' .

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W M got As in academic, but only mediocre ratings for quality of life and social life. As Rich Ohnmacht hits the books, one wonders if the reason for this rating is the amount of work at the College of Knowledge. Letters to Flat Hat Leitef 10 the editor of Rat Hat Apathy (as close as we can tell) Percentage change m ' apathy ' since 1980-81 using all available indicators The attendance at blood drives has dropped remarkably since 1980. This is just one of the indicators pointing towards an increase in apathy. Peggy Stephenson is not one of the many apathetic souls on campus. Lifestyles

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One day. with nothing else to do. (actually it was April Fool ' s) Pat Schembri, and Tom Kennedy removed the furniture from friends ' family room and deposited it out front. An exact replica, the day was perfect for such activities not classes. The canoes at Lake Matoka provide past time enjoyment. A pretty standard list of reasons has developed from this mysterious question. A student poll ranked them roughly in this order: I needed the sleep. I was out late last night. I was busy studying until 5:30 am. I needed to do other work. The class is boring. I wanted to go home early. It ' s a pass fail class. What class? I only go for tests. In other words we are addicted to skip- ping. Many times, skipping classes is a neces- sity. The work here at the College of Knowledge can get a bit suffocating every so often. All the professors seem to be under a common delusion; theirs is the only class you have. So they just pile on the work. comments Lawrence I ' Anson. 1 don ' t skip classes for fun. but more out of necessity. Sometimes I am up all night and I cannot get up for an early morning class, explains Tom Kennedy. We all skip classes, or, as some may say, all real college students skip classes. That ' s great! We just found out that we are real college students! All this time i guess we were imposters. We really are getting recognition as a school. Seri- ously though, students here at W 6 M do skip their fair share of classes. The reasons we do it are as varied as the reasons we came to this school. A lot of people skip classes just to survive. Most of the time you are up until all hours of the morning and if you have an 8 or 9 o ' clock, it would be useless to go to it and fall asleep, remarked Kathleen Durkin. Whether we skip classes because it is raining or be- cause we were out at Pauls the night be- fore, it is here to stay. While skipping classes has not reached epidemic propor- tions yet, it is as much a part of going to school here as the Wren building and brick walkways. ' I just have better things to do, explains Tim Hudenburg.