Newspapers / Meredith College Student Newspaper / April 19, 2000, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Meredith College Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Meredith Herald April 19, 2000 2 Campus News For third year, juniors find hidden crook Freshmen bid Bon Voyage to year Ai.rxia Andrews staff VVnler Trac'y Sumner Staff Wnler The week of Apri I 10 was an eventfdJ one for ihc class of 2(K11. The week began with a fire in Heilman dorm ihal forced a floor of Junior .sludenls to relt^Jie elsewhere on cam pus. Then, on Wednesday. Apr 12, the Crook Hunt, one of Meredith's oldest and most freasured traditions, began. The hunt, which has iK'curred annually since 1929, is an elaborate hidc-and-scck involving Meredith's junior and senior classes. The tradi tion originated in I9)6 when Meredith instructors presented the senior class with a crx)k. Every year the senior class hides the crook somewhere on Meredith’s campus, and the junior class has a week to search for it, beginning Wednesday at 8 a.tn. and con cluding with the start of the Senior Picnic the following Wednesday, This year, the five members of the senior class executive board, including President Erin Grant, ventured out late Tues day night to hide the crook. Wednesday morning ai 8 a.m., juniors found the first clue awaiting them in the din ing hail. "Wc were so cxcited to hide the crook this year," said Grant. “We all really enjoyed the Crook Hunt.” While the senior class was busy hiding the crook, the Juniors were preparing for the search at (heir final class meet ing of the year on Tuesday night. Class president Meredith Bolton said they had a “pre- Crook Hunt” pep rally, went over rules and discussed hunt techniques. They even desig nated Iheir own Crook Com mand Center in the iTcshman Center on first floor Vann. The Command Center had huge maps of campus divided into sections. Bolton said that the class members rotated sec tions every day, making sure that each part of catnpus was thoroughly searched. The Juniors had found little more than a lot of fake crooks in their hunt until Friday’s clue, which included the phra.se “are you having fun yet'.'" That phrase made junior Betsy Mor gan notice that '‘yet" rhymed wiih net and concluded that the crook tnight be hidden near the tennis courts or soccer Held. i-'riday afternoon, juniors scoured the area surrounding the tennis courts and soccer field. At .^;45 p.m.. Junior Lori Neff dug up (he er(X)k behind one of the soccer goals. “My hand was shaking. 1 screamed for Krystal (Tyndall] and wc Just started running," she explained. Tyndall was searching nearby when Neff found the cmok. Neff said, “I kissed the crook and we ran all over campus screaming. It was very excit ing. The best part was that it was the best way to end our week, and it was a good way to pull our class together again after the fire.” Tyndall and Neff took the crook to Junior class Vice Pres ident Elizabeth Warren, who then delivered it to senior class Vice President Emily Korman. After the Croolc Hunt. Bolton said, “I think our class did a great Job working togeth er and exchanging ideas. We communicated well in dis cussing different ideas about how to look for the cnwk. We arc all very excited and very proud of everyone’s hard work. This is a great way to end the year" The rules of the Crook Hunt •state that at least an inch of the stick must be visible from its hiding place and that the crook cannot be hidden in unreach able places like trees. The crook may not be under lock and key, nor may it be inside a building. After the thrill of their past year, from winning the Spirit Stick at Cornhuskin' to win ning the Up Sync competition at last week’s Stunt, the fre.sh- men have much to celebrate. And celebrate they did at their Fire and Water Dinner on Tues day, Apr. 18 at 7 p.m. Belk Dining Hall became a .sea-side harbor with the llieme Bon Voyage, which coinplemented thecla.ss of 2IX).l’s Cornhuskin' theme. Sailing into New Har bors. Freshmen had time to retlcct on the memories of (he past Excitement was high in the Gaddy-Hamrick An Building on Sunday, Apr. 16, as nine senior artists put on the second Senior Art Exhibition this year. The art show is put on every year by art professor Lisa Pearce’s class because it is a requirement to graduate. The nine senior artists, Deborah Ashley, Ashlynn Browning, Lori Jones, Laura Totten, Erika Baker, Christie Evans, Heidi Bettis, Peggy Clover and Linda M. Larson, all chose their favorite pieces from the portfo lios they have compiled over the past four years at Meredith. The students brought togeth er an assortriient of art work, ranging from professional- looking graphic designs to abstract oil paintings. Each exhibit, and sometimes each piece, included a statement de.scribing the artist's style and why she feels it is important to create her art work. Each artist was also present to answer any questions the onlookers had. Browning, senior artist and winner of the Outstanding Art Student award at Academic Awards Day last Monday, said her intentiin in painting is “to make commentary on the world around me. namely the things that I see wrong wiib our modern siKiety, and I hojx' to show that human emotion will always prevail in the end." One ofBrowning’s paintings of oil and collage, entitled “Walking through a crowd,” is year with their friends and the evening’s activities. The newly inaugurated president of Meredith College, Dr Maureen Hartford, spoke to the class. Entertainment was provided by the acapella group Grains of Time fron\ N.C. Slate. In addi tion. pictures donated by mem bers of the freshmen class enabled them to have a slide show of memories of their freshman year. The class was also surprised by a serenade by their big sister class of 2(K)I. At the Fire and Water Din ner. which is one of the more recent traditions on campus, the freshmen rid themselves of a powerful representation of how she views the diverse faces in a crowd. “This piece was in.spired by the experience of observing people pass and being struck by certain faces. Brief eye contact, fleeting ges tures and facial expressions are captured in their momentary action. Each face also repre sents a distinct psychological state and (he idea of maintain ing individuality among a crowd." Ashley paints in order to show the observer an aestheti cally pleasing piece of art. Ash ley says, ‘The work I create is about color, light, feelings and beauty. Using color and light to evoke an atmosphere or mood has become central to my work, and it is important to me to pnxluce art that is visu ally pleas ing." Bettis had another reason for creating her art work. She creates to express her under- standing of the myster ies of the world around her A number bad memories and cherish the good ones. Each student writes a bad memory on a scrap of paper, which she will burn. Similarly, she writes a goixl memory on a piece of paper This memory, however, is placed in a plastic egg and thrown into the courtyard foun tain, symbolizing the way that good memories will keep them afloat throughout their time at Meredith. Freshman Barbara Holling- shed said, “I am glad that my list of good men>ories was longer than my list of bad ones. I think my friends are what 1 owe my gratitude lo." of her pieccs arc portraits that help her display her inner feel ings towards the way sees her self interacting with (he outside world. Bettis says, “My work is about the mystery of life—its complexities and paradoxes and our attempts to understand it. Our understanding of the world is not conjplete without a realization of both beauty and the grote.sque, life and death, good and evil. Through my art, J seek to express these para doxes and their effects on us.” These three women and their six other peers have their art- WOTk on display in the Gaddy- Hamrick Art Building until Sunday, May 7. Ashlynn Browning’s painting “Walking through a crowd” is on display. Pm01 0 AV JeNNV A( TICR Final senior art show of year Jenny Altiek Stafl Writer
Meredith College Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 19, 2000, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75