2008 Woodie Awards
Just a thought, on life, from the porch swing
Davis Clement
Issue date: 3/1/02 Section: Campus Life
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I am never at a loss of pleasures to revel in at Hendrix. Everyday I step on campus, little bits of joy await me. I leave campus everyday with a story to write home about. I don't write home of course, so I usually just tell someone I see that night.
I'm torn everyday between the traditional "God, I can't wait to get out of here!" of many seniors in college, and the more nostalgic "Look at what I'm having to leave behind" that I hear more and more people saying these days.
I have surrendered to the notion that much of this comes about because I have moved off campus. For me, campus is a place I go everyday, not just where I live.
Believe it or not, I also think there's a gossip filter along Washington, Tyler, Spruce and Harkrider. I tend to hear only the choicest bits of news, with all the small stuff filtered out. This is nice mostly.
Imagine my surprise, as someone who wasn't there, to learn that some hall councils will be visiting J-Board for a Friday night party. To my further dismay, I learned that it was their fellow students who wrote them up. I hold, of course, to whatever of the latest conspiracy theories that "someone else" had something to with it behind the scenes. Apparently Mr. Bush must have determined Martin Hall to be a point on his Axis of Evil, so appropriate measures were taken. (I say this because I am confident there was no one within our own midst trying to single-handedly topple the institution of college partying.) So hands off, W.
I remember the days, however, when an incident like that would have prompted a small crowd of angry students at a Senate meeting. No one came, either because we're just apathetic or because we realize that a weekend release is important enough to us that ResLife crackdowns won't stop them, just move them off campus instead.
Campus social life is definitely an issue this year, though. It's a positive sign that the College has undertaken meetings with students and staff to set down guidelines for events, although the sudden introduction of "Fire Codes" is timely and conspicuous. One can almost hear the heavy-ankled approach of a former dean.
I'm torn everyday between the traditional "God, I can't wait to get out of here!" of many seniors in college, and the more nostalgic "Look at what I'm having to leave behind" that I hear more and more people saying these days.
I have surrendered to the notion that much of this comes about because I have moved off campus. For me, campus is a place I go everyday, not just where I live.
Believe it or not, I also think there's a gossip filter along Washington, Tyler, Spruce and Harkrider. I tend to hear only the choicest bits of news, with all the small stuff filtered out. This is nice mostly.
Imagine my surprise, as someone who wasn't there, to learn that some hall councils will be visiting J-Board for a Friday night party. To my further dismay, I learned that it was their fellow students who wrote them up. I hold, of course, to whatever of the latest conspiracy theories that "someone else" had something to with it behind the scenes. Apparently Mr. Bush must have determined Martin Hall to be a point on his Axis of Evil, so appropriate measures were taken. (I say this because I am confident there was no one within our own midst trying to single-handedly topple the institution of college partying.) So hands off, W.
I remember the days, however, when an incident like that would have prompted a small crowd of angry students at a Senate meeting. No one came, either because we're just apathetic or because we realize that a weekend release is important enough to us that ResLife crackdowns won't stop them, just move them off campus instead.
Campus social life is definitely an issue this year, though. It's a positive sign that the College has undertaken meetings with students and staff to set down guidelines for events, although the sudden introduction of "Fire Codes" is timely and conspicuous. One can almost hear the heavy-ankled approach of a former dean.
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