On the fifth day of Gheorghemas, Big Gheorghe gave to me
Four songs by "the Chairman of the Board" on his birthday
Three Beauties
A Bald Guy with Two Pupp-ies
Lots of happenings at the Alma Mater of a Nation this Gheorghemas, from things sporting to real estate to expanding the horizons and parameters of the youth, and we're here to bring cover them all.
Tribe men's hoops is off to its best start since 2009-10. Brian Earl's balanced squad (seven different players have topped the team in scoring in its ten games, while six have grabbed the most boards) won six in a row to get to 8-2, rising to a program all-time high of 51 in the NCAA's NET ratings before falling at George Washington in the last game before the break for exams. The Wrens take the court tomorrow at home against Radford in their last non-conference tilt, still a Quad I team.
We're pleased to see that all around good guy and longest-serving athletic director in W&M history Terry Driscoll is being inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame next April. Former CAA Commissioner Tom Yeager said this of Driscoll, “He was the moral compass of our conference — a quiet leader whose wisdom and perspective shaped college athletics for the better.” Our only regret is that he didn't stay in his job for a few more years and kept Tony Shaver in his.
In off-field, but different sort of field-related news, how'd you like to hear about a mutually beneficial land swap? According to W&M News, the school and the city have agreed to trade parcels near South College Woods. Sean Hughes, W&M's Chief Business Officer said, “It’s a pristine research site, and it’s important for us to protect the boundaries of this ecological preserve in South College Woods. The City of Williamsburg has been an excellent partner, and the university appreciates the City Council and the city manager’s willingness to work together with us on a solution The agreement is especially fitting as William & Mary approaches the culmination of its Year of the Environment celebration.”
We're working on swapping some blogspace for Unit M so we can have a retirement home for frat guys who need a little getaway space.
And finally, W&M is excellent in a lot of arenas. In addition to leading the internet in dipshittery, we're the number one public university in the nation for study abroad participation for the 12th time in the past 17 years. In 2023-24, 55% of W&M students studied abroad at some point in their academic career. Tribe members, nerdy, wordy and worldly.
It's lively here.
ReplyDeletealways is during hanukah
ReplyDeleteI'm picturing the lot of us in Unit M as a retirement home. Seems like a great idea.
ReplyDeletean increasing number of universities are repurposing dorms for senior living, trying to attract alums. i'm just being pragmatic.
ReplyDeleteI’m in for that! Maybe not the suite again.
ReplyDeleteYou've never lived in the suite with Marls and me. We could change your mind as long as Starner doesn't show up and take over the stereo.
ReplyDeleteI moved into Pi Lam room 109 in the suite in the last autumn of the 1980's. My freshman roommate and projected suite roommate Doug had flunked out of Tribeville, so I had a single. It was something special. If my suitemates had been Marls and Rootsy and not the uptight duo that it was, it would've been more harmonious.
ReplyDeleteI have fond memories of 94-95 in the suite.
ReplyDeleteThe old Fratplex is now called Green & Gold Village and is divided into three buildings; Griffin, Eagle, & Lion, which are used as freshman dorms. Unit M is part of Lion, which is apparently regarded as the worst on campus housing.
As long as we're commiserating about campus housing, dorm I lived in as a freshman at small school on Maryland's Eastern Shore in mid-'70s had group bathrooms on hallway and stalls had no doors. When you squatted on a commode, anyone who came in saw you. Magical.
ReplyDeleteThere was a bar in the East Village in NYC called 7B that I frequented in the early aughts. It was the bar where they filmed the Godfather Part II scene where Frankie Pentangeli met the Rosato brothers. The bathroom had no stall door.
ReplyDeleteI spent enough time in the place that I learned to use a copy of the NY Post to strategically keep some level of decorum.
My elementary school had no doors on the stalls so it was traumatizing when the custodian had to poop. I lived in the suite and it was less traumatizing.
ReplyDeleteI once made my suitemates (and Miguel) admire a deposit I left in the suite bathroom.
ReplyDeleteI remember Miguel being very reluctant to inspect, but he eventually relented and came away quite impressed.