Walla Walla University - Mountain Ash Yearbook (College Place, WA)

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Sporting for Sanity By SHANE HINSHAW Photographs by COLLEGIAN, MARK EARL, MIA JONES, and RON WELLER Moumam Ash

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ries, with the dorm coming out ahead, much to the chagrine of the village paper bag poppers. But for many of us, the most active and tiring activity we would take part in all year long would be that long walk down the aisle for our diplomas. This author plans to camp half way. and climb the stairs only with the aid of oxy- gen and a Nepalese Sherpa. These. then were the events we loved. hated. walked miles for, and cruelly disregarded. We yelled, screamed, hissed and booed. and our moods changed with the wind. Each individual's list of highlights var- ies, and for many, the year's social success will be measured in quite different terms. The 1983-84 social planners were more than glad to leave their beds of spikes to make way for others foolishly taking their positions. But for the most part. they didn't fall. They just went unthanked, which is par for this course. anyway. Now. if only they could have offered our social pro- grams on video. What a year we could have had. The crew from the good ship Enterprise beamed down to compete in Family Feud rleftl. Despite a greateffort by game officials the game show parody did not land a TV contract, Miss Texas, Gloria Gilbert, lrightl entertained a small crowd of community Lyceum supporters one night in January. College Bowl lbelowi overcame clock and question difficulties to be the hit of the season.

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if it is not within the limits of propriety to say that WWC is a Hsports-oriented'i campus, then at least no one will disagree it we dilute the terminology a bit and say that we are at the very least Hrecreation-oriehted. You would think that college students at an expensive private school out in the sticks tyes, this means Walla Walla . . .iwouid have nothing better to do than study. Perhaps their rationale has something to do with the Health Message. Perhaps not. Some form of conscious diversion is necessary for the mental and social development of the being-human. Aside from the reading of Harlequin romances, this rejuvenating diversion most often takes the form of something called urecreation. Real Hrecreation does not include watching Sonics games or reruns of Portland Bigtime Wrestling on the big screen at the Sub shop while hefting serious mun- chies. Eating isnt a sport. Sure. i've seen some of the weightlifting that goes on in line at the cafe. but food just does not count. Weightlifting, that most personal of sports. was very definitely in evidence at WWC this year. as in much of the rest of the nation. Let it be Known that for once, we were as trendy as everyone else. That is to say that the weight room saw very heavy usage. And let it be Known that WWC women were not this year limiting their fitness programs to prancing rythymicaily about to the dulcet tones of Michael Jackson tunes tthough it is rumored that Mark Horsman and Gary Clehdenon were . . J. The weight I . Over 500 students jammed on the stopes otAhthoriy Lakes tfar lefti during winter Campus Day. The sun tanned the faces and iced the slopes, and everyone neglected their studies for a short day! The WWC unofficiai hockey team tabovei made us proud that we had Canadians at ourschooi, Flag footballseason tbelowi was a bi'tmore interesting this year With the addition of ti'eid goats.