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Road Trips Are Weekend Outlet

By FRED HEBLICH

The coat and tie is gone; the
gentleman's club is dead; traditions
are disappearing every day. But one
time-honored, practice at the
University is alive and well and will
probably continue and we evolve
to a higher state of biological
development.

Until that time students
undoubtedly will go Down the
Road on weekends, weeknights,
reading days or just whenever the
spirit moves them.

The more perceptive among the
entering first-yearmen soon will
discover that there are not many
women on the Grounds. Even the
small steps towards coeducation
made by the University in recent
years have not been enough
to balance the one-sided male to
female ratio. So the student must
go to the mountain, under it, over
it, or however he can get there to
visit neighboring girls' schools.

More Dope

As recently as three years ago,
students going down the road were
equipped with the latest Eljo's
threads and the ever-handy pocket
flasks of bourbon. W the tire
has changed to blue jeans
shirts and while the
refreshment is of
Albemarle Green
some Boone's Farm wine the of
road tripping has changed little in
spirit or objective.

North, south, east, and west, all
roads from Hookville will be
jammed Friday and Saturday nights
with road-tripping students, some
driving with their c of Bud
others th
hastily-
their
First-
Crozet at
thum
and watch their egos get
damaged—all part of the tradition.

The fall mixer season will begin
soon; although many students
decide their is no future in mixers
after staggering through their first
one, past experience has shown that
Wahoo first-yearmen are very hard
to discourage.

Mary Baldwin College in
Staunton usually has been the first
school to sponsor a mixer in the
new academic year. It also is the
closest girl' school—only 35 miles
distant—and has been made closer

by the recent opening of the
Waynesboro-Staunton extension of
Rte. 64 West.

If you are going to Baldwin and
change your mind on the way, you
can turn north on Rte. 81 outside
Staunton and continue another 30
miles to Madison College in
Harrisonburg. Madison, a state
school, produces mostly liberal arts
majors and teachers, with a heavy
stress on liberal. Madison also can
be reached by driving north on Rte.
29 and west on Rte. 33 at
Ruckersville.

Rte. 29 North also in the first
leg of the trip to our sister school,
Mary Washington, some 70 miles
away in Fredericksburg. You take
Rte. 3 east to Mary Washington,
which began admitting boys when
the University opened its doors to
females. The trip to Fredricksburg
is often hazardous; police traps are
frequent and it is a four brew roll at
least.

Farmville, which can be reached
by turning south on Rte. 15 from
Rte. 250 East at Zions Crossroads,
features Longwood College, but
little else. If you get lost on the
way just ask any truck driver.

Dogwoods And Pinkertons

Thanks to the states
road-building program, Rte. 29
South is one of the most pleasant
roads to travel. About 60 miles
down you will find Sweetbriar
College, guarded by groves of
dogwoods and Pinkertons, in lovely
Sweetbriar, Va.

About five miles further on Rte.
29 is Randolph Macon Women's
College, in Lynchburg. Randy-Mack
has an excellent academic
reputation, for what thats worth,
and some of the most liberal dating
hours in the state.

For the very ambitions, Hollins
College in Roanoke boasts a lovely
campus and a sometimes lovely
student body. A six-pack roll, it is
115 miles away and can be reached
via Rtes. 64 and 81.

As not to ignore the first year
women, those who don't see
anything they like in Charlottesville
can choose from the students at
Washington and Lee, VMI, and VPI.

Probably the easiest and safest
way to meet these gentlemen is to
follow your male cohorts to the
mixers at the various schools, where
there usually are three times too
many boys for the female .