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

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Sonnehburg was stronger than ever this year. After the I'nl'tt'et tip-off tabovet Wtage totalty dominated the first game! Dorm stomped Wtage m the second game by an emberrasstng 30-pothtmergin. The final was ctose es coutd be untl't Dorm squeeked by to win the series. Foreman dominated the women's series, tbelowt and eastty won the first two games.

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mmsx room at the gym was so often crowded with svelte, but sweaty bodies iLift that sucker! You can do it - one- more-time - come onii that many women were prompted to ask the dormitory administration for a private workout room of their own. tlf they could see the condition of the weightroom in the basement of Sittner, and actually smell the place, they wouldnt be pressing so hard for equalityJ It is indeed tempting to speculate on the intrigue involved in a sport that is, frankly, as boring as weight- lifting. tAiso Known as Hworking outt' by the upper classesj It's not fun, a commonality shared with jog- ging and sumo wrestling, so it must do something else for the participant. Tell me when you discover what. Does it make you feel good? I suppose owning a tight. non-wimpy body could conceiveabiy do that for you. but then, I'll never Know. This year's bountiful snowfall and opened up myriad recreational opportunities. WWCites engaged in many daring winter pursuits from cross-country skiing on the Veteran's golf course downtown to wild Sabbath afternoon downhill careens at Toilgate on hijacked cafeteria trays. The annual Snow-day outing to An- thony Lakes was an experience that left many people crying. Crying. because they'd forgotten to bring along Welghtiifimg ilefti became shiek for women at WWC this year. The ten-speed rabovei is faithfui, cheap transportation. You don't need gas, tune-up's, or insurance to peddie your way to happiness. short pants and tee-shirts. The snow might have been better, but who's going to complain on a day that will tan you through your Gore-tex? You've never seen so much leaping and various and sundry cavorting. Some people actually went to Tri-Cities or, shudder, studied instead. Sacrilege. SKi-trips to Bogus, Bachelor and Whistler also left people dazed. Frisbee, that most international of sports. spent most of the Walla Walla winter in hibernation, but at the first sign of good weather, flew across campus almost as fast as the rash of green-budded trees and short pants. Time to break out the finger bandages and Knee pads. What better herald of springtime than a small plastic disc emblazoned HHerfys Six Pound Beef Sandwich crashing through your window? Springtime opened up many variations on the Hchase theme. Picture a park setting: tpreferabiy Rooks, Whitman or Pioneert. Add the following action and intrigue: Guy Chasing girl, Girl chasing guy, guy and girtchasing ducks, College Place Police chasing guy and girl, etc. stir well and bake at 80 degrees on a Sabbath afternoon. Sunbathing, once a popular springtime spectator sport here, will go otherwise unmentioned. Engineer- ing studies continue on the reflective properties of skin never before exposed to sunlight and on the practicality of an invisible ultralight glider that could carry 300 passengers; HBreaKing Away lives on. Bicycling at WWC has never been more healthy. Bicyclists either. Never have there been more disgustingly weII-deveioped thighs in wt JQSW

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evidence. Never have there been more mega-buck im- ported tehspeeds chained to the ceilings of dorm- rooms across campus. In addition, WWC has to be the most unicycie-conscious campus in the entire North- west. Don't ask me what that means. Don't ask me to ride a unicycle down steps either. Custom-painted rebuiit hot rod bikes older than the Ad building have been issuing in a seemingly endless stream from a small house off-Campus. You'll have to admit that there is something vaguely disturbing about being passed while doing 70 mph on the Milton- Freewater Highway by a wiId-eyed guy on a bicycle with eye-biinding pink handiebargrips. Equaiiy spacey giant Knobby-tired Baja bikes, with the unique ability to ride over any obstacle from curbs and trash dumpsters to sequioas and steers in the road, made an especially impressive comebackidebut this year. Where do bicy- clists buy those funny little shoes and stretchy shorts, anyway? Bicycle gangs roamed the wheaty hills surrounding Walla Walla restlessiy until many timid car owners were afraid to hit the roads on Sabbath for fear of two-wheeled terrorism. Even the ducks at Whitman Mission began to head for cover at the first sound of a ten-speed derailleur. For every fuiiy-outfitted, Univega-ed or NishiKi-ed bicycle jock and there are hundreds, i assure youi WWC sports at least four non-thoroughbred bikers having every bit as much fun in bermudas and ripped sweatshirts on wobbiy-wheeled Western Auto Coas- ters. Bikes be not proud. Bicycling is a non-seasonal sport at WWC. Neither rain, haii, sleet, snow nor dead of night deterred these wheelers from their assumed rounds. When the snows came during this longest of winters, bicyclists just switched to studded tires and kept pedaliing through the drifts. Well, maybe not studded tires, but the side- walk in front of the cafeteria never lacked a crowded jumble of bikes. Whatever happened to skateboards anyway? Have there always been this many motorcycles? Seems like there were more of the two-wheeied crit- ters - big and little - than i can remember in my six years here. A person can't look out a dorm window without seeing some easy rider cruising by on hog, moped or dirter. There's a bunch of new ones, too. Must have something to do with either speed, sex- appeai or springtime. Autosports, which this year must include raiiies on the sidewalk in front of the cafeteria, and the Interna- tional Volvo Noise Championship, came back with re- newed vigor. Several serious attempts were made on the Seattie-to-Coliege Place, College Piace-to-South Fork and Gorge-dash-to Portland speed records. iSeat- tie to CF. stands unofficially at 3:28:42J Picnics, once an Olympic event, still serve to Keep many entertained, relaxed and fit. Though not neces 74 sariiy in that order. Here at WWC, picnics that started out innocently enough, often evolved into all Kinds of recreational pursuits. The intramural program at WWC took a quantum leap forward with the arrival of Coach Windemuth. Never in recent memory has there been such an at- mosphere of good sportsmanship and Christian camaraderie on the sports field, court or diamond. At the sametime, the opportunity fora much more intense play was also introduced. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes gave men and, assumediy, womem in- terested in both competition and witnessing a Chance to share their experience through sports and interac- tion ta word left behind by Dr. MaxweID. First on the intramural list was FIag-Footbail. Flag, once the bastion of theology majors isorry Alden and Chuck. . . i has grown at WWC to the point thata co-ed league was once again contemplated. What would Paul say? Following basketball season, the men's dorm re- gained its lost pride - and the Sonnenberg trophy from the village in this year's matchup. But, not until the third game. and only narrowly at that. iAfter a second game that was admittedly a biowoutJ Women's Sonnenberg action was anything but. Unless you were a referee, i suppose. Suffice it to say that the skill of the victors made a third game unnecessary. And a second one arguably so. Basketball. played for a seemingly interminable length oftime. was followed by volleyball, in a variety of forms, and eventually, by softball. tOr, for the real bad- dies, hardbaliJ Mounzain Ash