Ferrum College - Beacon Yearbook (Ferrum, VA)

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The professors are always around, and even if you don’t want to run into them, for one reason or an- other, you do. At Ferrum the students have the chance to get to know their professors and, more often than not, become friends. You’ll even run into them at the House or at other social events. It’s a good learning method, to have smaller classrooms, and compared to other schools that have a few hun- dred students in one class, learning comes easy at Ferrum because you are on a one-to-one learning basis. It is said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and there is no place that this has proven to be more true than at Ferrum. As long as old proverbs are being kicked around, how about this one: “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” Indeed, the cover of Fer- rum may look ordinary, even bleak at times, but beneath that cover lies page after page of a remark- able success story. Introduction 7

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Only by living in the community of Ferrum can one truly appreciate the festive atmosphere accompanying such a simple outing as a ride to the “Country Inn” at 3 A.M. to get breakfast during an all nighter, or taking your first road trip on Shooting Creek, Rt 850. Although one may be frowned upon, one just hasn’t lived until they’ve been involved in a food fight or an in- side-the dorm snowball fight, stereo wars, or a hall vs. hall water balloon batt le. And who can describe the look of joy in a young man’s eyes after he’s just caught a young lady’s undergar- ment in a midnight panty raid? Some of the best times you’ll have will be here at Ferrum. It is hard to judge Ferrum when you’ve only been here for a week. The teachers are always asking, “How do you spend your free time?” But the students spend the time just as their teachers did in college, years ago. It is hard to imagine that all because of a computer, you are living with peo- ple from all walks of life. The students on the halls stick together, and a bond forms between them. They become a close-knit family. Introduction 9