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

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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.

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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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AN OUTSIDE VIEW Sugar and spice and everything nice . . . that ' s what W M students are made of. At least the Williamsburg community seems to think so; when local residents and proprieters were asked to give their impressions of W M students, words such as nice, pleasant, and cheerful came up over and over again. i love themi couldn ' t make any criti- cism, commented Mrs. Axtell, owner of Baskin Robbins. She said that students comprise a large part of her business and that her student employees are her best team of workers in that they accept a lot of responsibility. Many other community members share Mrs. Axtell ' s positive view of the students here at W M. I think that they are just great, said Joanne Kennedy, reference as- sistant at the Williamsburg Public Library and mother of two W M alumni. The one ' s we get here are extremely nice. A lot of them come here because they are afraid of the college library. One MBA does all of his work here. She described W M stu- dents on the whole as being very polite, nice to work with, and appreciative. Chris Roundtree, an eighth grader em- ployed at The Toymaker of Williams- burg pointed out some additional benefits of associating with the students. One mem- ber of the W M football team lives with one of Roundtree ' s friends, and as Roun- tree put it, He ' s really nice. He coaches our basketball team and takes us to the weight room. W M students are not completely an- gelic, however; they do display a few com- mon flaws. Kennedy remembered that some time ago the public library had some difficulty in getting students to return books; a large number of students were taking books home and not bringing them back. Students now are no longer any worse than most people when it comes to returning books, but for a while they were Views of the Palace Gardens (right) and the front gate of the Governor ' s mansion (middle right) are exam pies of the beautiful scenery in Williamsburg. A large percentage of the people who live in the Burg either work at the college or in CW. They generally like the students. Why else would they live here? developing a bad reputation. W M are sometimes impatient custom- ers, according to Amy Stegall, a high school senior who works at Baskin Rob- bins. She felt that at times, the student customers could be very demanding and that they often talked down to her because she was a high school student. I like some of them, but others are extremely rude, she said. They like to come in at ten o ' clock, right before we close. About her coworkers, however, she was very posi- tive: I love them. Overall the flaws assigned to W M students by community members seem to be quite minor. Mary Edgerton, who works at the bookstore and lives directly across the street from Ludwell Apartments, said that she has experienced no problems with the students. The only thing that annoys me is the one-way street and all of the backing up that goes on as a result of it, she remarked. Edgerton formerly lived in a house on Jamestown Road, where she used to house W M students. Although she housed both men and women, she es- pecially enjoyed having male students be- cause they didn ' t get thousands of phone calls. Her concluding remark, in reference to the bookstore, aptly mirrored the positive attitude of the Williamsburg community toward its college students: Well I certain- ly wouldn ' t work there if I didn ' t like the students! Carolyn Bond Lifestyles