Meredith Herald
Volume XVII, Issue 27
Educating Women to Excel
April 18, 2001
On the
inside:
Juniors prepare to hunt Crook
□ Meredith
prepares to
Race for the
Cure
Page 2
□ Senior art
show begins
Sunday—here’s
a preview of
what you’ll see
Page 4
□ Check out
the season’s lat
est music
releases
Page 8
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□ The annual
tradition kicks
off today
Leslie Maxwell
Editor In cKef
For their first three years at
Meredith, juniors look forward
to it. They watch the class
ahead of them search, and they
think, “Soon, we’ll be on the
same hunt.”
For the class of 2002, that
wait is over—the Crook Hunt
can begin.
And for the class of 2001.
the nexi week will be one of
hope—hope that the juniors do
not fmd the carefully hidden
Crook.
Senior Kate Breen said, “We
trust our executive board that
they've hidden the crook in an
appropriate place.”
The annual Crook Hunt,
which began at 8 a.m. today,
lasts through next Wednesday.
If the junior class has not found
the Crook by then, the senior
class will have successfully
hidden the Crook.
While finishing lunch in the
BeeHive, junior Christine Kel
ley, senior class president
elect, said, “I am confident (hat
we will find it.”
Each morning of the Hunt,
the senior class will provide,
according to the Student Hand
book, “enigmatic clues,” which
will be posted in Belk Dining
Hall.
Tonight, the junior class will
meet in first Heilman parlor for
a Crook Hunt launch party,
according to junior class Presi
dent Jessica Landon.
Amanda Knox and Ashley
Taylor, juniors, are making T-
shirts for any Junior who wants
one. The shirts will say “Got
CrookT’ and “What’s
crookin’?”
Landon said that the junior
class executive board divided
up the campus on a map. Then,
she said members of the junior
class assigned themselves
places to hunt according to (he
divisions on the map.
But when asked about a
strategy for hunting the Crook,
Knox said, “It’s top secret.”
Junior Keri Medlin said of
the Hunt, “I think it’s good that
[the Hum] is between the
juniors and seniors because
those years have the most com
petition.”
Not only will the junior class
have to find the Crook, but also
the class will have to work its
way around the "fake crooks”
that the senior class is allowed
to hide.
Landon said, “We really
want to fmd it, but we also
want to remember that it’s just
a game.”
“I'm looking forward to the
competitive festivities, and I
am confident that the class of
2001 will once again be victo
rious,” said Jenille Shelton, a
senior, about the events coming
this week.
Senior Susan Grotsky is also
excited aboul what the Hunt
represents at Meredith.
“I think that the Crook Huni
is not only a lot of fun but also
is a longstanding Meredith tra
dition that affords each class
the opportunity to show its
class spirit,” she said.
The Crook may be hidden
anywhere on campus, indoors
or outdoors, inside or outside
the driving loop.
If the junior class finds the
Crook, on this year’s Class
Day, the senior class carries the
Crook, bearing a black ribbon,
into the amphitheater.
If the junior class does not
fmd the Crook, on Class Day,
the Crook will bear rainbow
colors, the senior class' colors.
In the past, the Crook Hunt,
for many juniors and seniors,
has been a source of tension.
But Landon hopes that the
Crook Hunt won’t negatively
affect the strong relationship
that exists between the class of
2001 and the class of 2002. “I
don’t think it^will,” she said.
Junior Susannah Grant par
alleled Landon’s thoughts, say
ing, “I hope that there’s no ten
sion, that there’s just fun
times.”
No matter how the hunt
turns out, Breen echoed the
sentiments of many by noting.
“I’m excited about it.”
Seniors join ranks of alumnae
□ Ceremony
bittersweet for
many seniors
Betsy Rhame
staff Writer
Most Meredith students
know someone who is a
Meredith College alumna.
From mothers and grand
mothers to cousins and big sis
ters, current students are, in
some way, already connected
to the Alumnae Association.
But it is not until students
become last-semester seniors
that they really come to realize
that they, too, will be alumnae
some day. It is during that last
semester when they receive
official-looking invitations to
the Senior Induction Ceremo
ny, sponsored by the—gasp—
Meredith College Alumnae
Association.
Meredith seniors were one
step closer to graduation on
Wedne.sday, Apr. 11 when the
Alumnae Relations office for
mally inducted them in Mered
ith’s Alumnae Association.
Students were treated to
heavy hors d’oeuvres in the
Johnson Hall Rotunda before
the ceremony in Jones Chapel.
While they were in the rotunda,
many seniors discussed their
plans, or lack thereof, for after
graduation.
“The realization of gradua
tion set in.” remarked Lesley
Parr, one of the three Class Day
co-chairs.
Fellow senior Keri Bunon
agreed with Parr. “It really
made it real that we’ll be grad
uating in a few weeks,” Burton
said.
Once the group gathered in
ihe chapeJ. officers from the
Alumnae Association spoke,
including Wendy Holman of
the class of 1999.
The officers of the class of
2001 were presented, and the
seniors sang the Alma Mater.
Then senior class president
Meredith Bolton gave remarks,
followed by the keynote
address by Amber Burris
Sheely, ‘89, who showed the
seniors a slide show and told
stories of her years at Mered
ith.
Her underlying message was
that at some point, Meredith
alumnae will want to reconnect
with Meredith College.
But she stressed that alum
nae will have a chance to make
that reconnection through the
Alumnae Association. Sheely
stressed that alumnae can
remain a part of Meredith for
the rest of their lives.
“It was nice to know that
even though we re graduating
soon our connection to Mered
ith is always going to be con
stant,” said Hilary Allen. Class
Day co-chair with Parr and
Wallis Kirby.
Senior Megan Cassell
enjoyed Sheely’s talk. "1 Jiked
that she said that sisterhood
doesn’t end when you gradu
ate. I hadn’t thought about
that.”
Cassell, like many other
seniors, found the ceremony to
be an emotional time as she felt
tears welling in her eyes during
the ceremony.
What the seniors had really
been waiting for, however, was
the presentation of the contro
versial Class Doll. As class doll
co-chairs Anna Abernathy.
Marley Finch and Angela
Cummings unveiled the doll,
cameras from all over the
chapel flashed.
Burton said that the pre.sen-
tation of the doll was, for her.
the most memorable part of the
evening- ”She was really beau
tiful,” Burton said.
For the rest of the Meredith
community, the class doll will
be presented again at Class
Day on May 12. the day before
graduation, at 4 p.m.