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September 26, 2006

Out Takes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Junior, Barron Hewetson

by Kyle Dunaway

KD: Tell me about the Sphinx Club? What made you want to get involved in it?

BH: I guess I am just really into Wabash culture. I like the idea that tradition never dies.

KD: Can you elaborate on the traditions of the Sphinx Club?

BH: More or less, we are a group that upholds the spirit and the traditions of Wabash - trying to bring the campus together in various social/community activities. One of the biggest things we try to do is eliminate the barriers between independents and fraternities for the betterment of campus environment.

KD: Of all the activities the Sphinx Club puts on, which would you say you enjoy the most?

BH: I would say the football/basketball games. We all just get together, run around, cheer, and make the Rhynies do “air raids.”

KD: What is up with the new mohawk hair-do?

BH: Why not?

KD: Did you have any specific inspiration that made you want to cut your hair?

BH: Not really. I needed a haircut, and my Mom kept bugging me about getting it cut, so I figured, why not?

KD: Does your Mom know you’re rockin’ a Mohawk?

BH: Nope, and she doesn’t need to.

KD: What has been the reaction from your peers?

BH: All the girls like it!

KD: Tell me about your infatuation with Avril Lavigne?

BH: She is the most gorgeous girl in the entire world and she is straight punk, which is pretty hot. I like her pink highlights too.

KD: Are you into her music at all, or is she just someone you admire?

BH: I have been to one of her concerts and was supposed to go to another one this past summer, but she had to cancel for some reason.

KD: What do you enjoy most in your free time?

BH: What free time? No, I really enjoy just sitting around the house and engaging in deep, sophisticated conversations/debates—some have lasted as long as ten hours until the sun rises.

KD: What are your topics of discussion typically?

BH: Anything from Zen Buddhism to the Wabash Commentary, Chapel talks, and any/all daily life issues.

KD: Where do you see life after Wabash?

BH: Law School, hoping to get my PhD in Psychology as well.

KD: Why the combination of the two?

BH: Well, psychology goes hand-in-hand with practicing law, and I might want to get into Defense Law. Researching repressed memory cases and eyewitness testimonies in my Psychology classes here at Wabash has really peaked my interests in the two fields.

KD: If you could summarize your experience at Wabash in one word, what would that be?

BH: Family.

September 19, 2006

Ranger Day

Congrats to Blaine Cooper-Surma and Jordon Blackwell for winning the Wabash Swimming Ranger Day! The day was full of competition, camaraderie, and encouragement. Mind, body and spirit were all tested... and everyone experienced victories along the way. Best of all the team learned to see adversity as a challenge, not as a threat… and that risk-taking was an essential part of victory.

Well Done Boys!

-Coach

Individual Event Champions

Pull Ups – Blackwell (20) and Cooper-Surma (20) for a total of 40 Pull Ups (New Record)

Swim (40M Above / 40M Below) Cooper-Surma to Blackwell in 43.67 (New Record)

Rope Climb Towne / Fozkos and Cooper-Surma / Blackwell – Both teams had each member reach the top (10 Meters)

3 Meter Dive Fozkos and Towne both did Back 1 and 1/2’s for a total of 15 Points

Canoe Race Kasey and White with a time of 3:21.50

Distance Throw – Fozkos and Towne (some ridiculous distance)

Accuracy Disc Toss Sanders and Carr – 12 Points

Obstacle Course O’Keefe and Hewetson – 2:23.36

Overall Champions

Blackwell and Cooper-Surma (102.5 Points)

- Runner Up: Towne and Fozkos (99.5 Points)

(Pictured Above - Cooper-Surma and Blackwell in their canoe, Nick Rockefeller doing Pull Ups)

Philip Towne focuses in on his target

John and Trayton relaxing before their canoe victory!

Matt Routh showing us his less than successful flying design

Tony Caldwell, Jordan Extine, and Kyle Weaver jumping the bulkhead

Rope Climb

Barron Hewetson rocking his new mohawk!

Cooper-Surma and Blackwell looking ridiculous.

September 12, 2006

Out Takes!

Senior Kyle Weaver

- Kyle Dunaway

KD: People refer to you as “The Beav.” Can you elaborate on this?

KW: I guess “The Beav” is just a shortened version of what they called me my freshman year during pledgeship.

KD: Is there a particular story behind it or anything you would like to explain further?

KW: We’ll just refer to it as a good story from my pledgeship.

KD: So, tell me more about these derbies you compete in.

KW: Well my Dad has announced them at the Jay County Fair since I was little, so he used to take me to them every year - which sparked my interest from there. This will be my fifth or sixth year competing.

KD: What exactly do you compete in?

KW: It is just a big mud hole - a track with a bunch of mud and water and twenty cars beating on each other until your car won’t function anymore. It’s great because you can’t hit a car anywhere else and get away with it. It is an adrenaline rush every time I get out there on the track.

KD: Have you ever sustained serious injury?

KW: No, but this past weekend was the first time I’ve gotten a concussion in one of them. I have pinched quite a few nerves in my neck before, and a couple buddies and I have managed to burn down an entire barn before, but that’s a crazy story.(Editor's Note: Actual Photo!* For more on Kyle's derby expliots, click here!)

KD: Wow!, can't wait to hear about that... but, fill me in on your summer experience in Nashville.

KW: I just wanted to get away from small town Indiana to see what else was out there and enjoy being young.

KD: Any crazy stories to tell about Nashville?

KW:Not really, but one day and I heard some strange noises coming from outside a house. Some guy snuck around the house and hid behind an old car that was surrounded by overgrown grass. Cops came and I tipped them off. Then I took off, and now my sister is left to deal with it.

KD: Sounds like you experiencing a live episode of Cops!

KD: Given the talent level of this team, what are you looking forward to most in your senior season?

KW: I’m looking for our relays to finally be where they should be at national meet. We finally are deep in talent in each of the individual strokes. I am also looking forward to the challenges these young guys will give me at practice each day.

KD: How do you feel your role as a senior will affect the young guys?

KW: My role as a senior is to be the guy that everyone else looks up to… but I have always been the guy who looked up to everyone else. I think I am just going to have to take a harder look at the decisions I make knowing these guys are looking up to me now.

*Actually, that's not an "actual photo", but it would be pretty cool if it was!

September 05, 2006

10 Reasons To...

Join the Wabash College Swimming and Diving Team

By Spolaria ‘08

 

10. Free trip to Florida! – Enjoy great tourist activities such as endless hours of shuffleboard, free food, and hours of pain and suffering in an outdoor pool.

 

9. Be a kid again! – Spend hours with some of the most intelligent men in the country acting like fools. Don’t believe me? Stop by practice between the hour and eight minute and hour and ten minute mark, and witness a spectacle like none other!

 

8. Dry Season! – What could possibly be better than living in the middle of a corn field without women and then not being able to drink for three months? A night of old Chuck Norris movies is far better than any alcohol!

 

7. Travel the world for free! – See exotic locals such as Canton, Ohio and parts of Kentucky you never knew existed at no cost to you!

 

6. Lady-less! – Seriously, lacking a girls’ team has its advantages. Never wait for someone to fix their hair again (except for Blackwell)! Kiss hours wasted sitting on a bus for people to get out of the shower after a meet good-bye (except for Blackwell…again).

 

5. Hugh-ge lessons – Gain valuable information about the Wabash life in days past from the yarns of our beloved volunteer coach. Offer only applies once; offer void after the tenth time you hear the same story in two years.

 

4. ROPE GAME!!! – Enough said.

 

3. Wally World – It’s simple substitution. Wally = Jack Bauer. Tiger = Terrorists. Jack Bauer > Terrorists…in fact…Jack Bauer > Anything so Wally > Anything.

       

2. Coach’s Company – Coach needs friends. Everyone else has grown weary of coach promising 20 minute meetings yet sitting in the meeting room for over an hour. Seriously, how many times do we need the color system explained? Applications are now being taken for crying shoulder, which coach definitely needs in light of the Red Sox collapse.

1. Hearing Impaired – It is physically impossible to hear the pessimistic remarks Ben Hewitt is hurling at us from Kenyon