Oktober ou may look
all the plans be executed. Geist '92 can be
think someone on
commended
at the
made
credible job of planning
bad typo, but at Longwood you are allowed to
and coordinating. As usual, Oktoberfest was a funfilled, exciting weekend, the only thing missing was an annual sleazy fra-
spell October, "Oktobei^.
All
Longwood
students,
present and Alumnus, knew this year that with October came the tradi-
OKTOBERFEST. Geist member and President Betsy Gee commented about how much tion of
and
his wife,
Marty enjoyed the Oktoberfest booths on Stubbs
Lawn.
Matthew Sweet
visited
our campus for a concert.
At approximately 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 4,
1992, in the parking lot
in
front of Subway, a
Longwood student was grazed by a bullet after fighting with a townie. The wound required minor medical attention and stiches. A lesson was learned by all after this incident. On Saturday, October 10, 1993 Longwood's newest residence
no
was the location of the campus' third fire in hall
recent history.
The cause
of the fire
was reported
for their in-
a
the Virginian staff
Dr. Dorrill
and see
headline and
she enjoyed being behind the scenes of Oktoberfest
ternity party in Frazer,
but Oktoberfest was bet-
without it. Other hapenings with Longwood during this month, a student was grazed by a bullet, ARC was flooded by a fire, and
ter
to
have started in a trash can. There was minor damaged reported only to the affected room. Students' main concern was the length of time it took for the fire department to arrive on the scene. Student Chris Eley was quoted in the October 12th edition
The Rotunda as saying, "We sat outside for twenty minutes before we of
even realized that there was a real fire and it took at least half an hour for the fire trucks to
up."
show
Dominos donated Geist
Faculty Spirit Leaders, Mrs. Palmer,
Mike Whitford,
Dr.
members
led off the Oktoberfest parade, signifying the begining of the
festivities.
Gussett, and Dr. Haga, enjoyed walking in the parade.
ten large pizzas to the clean up crew and the pizza man
showed up before the fire department. Every campus opens students eyes and minds to the importance of fire safety. Thursday, Octofire
ber 29 marked the perfor-
mance
of
Matthew Sweet
in
Lancer Hall. Many students counted down the days to the arrival of this
coming musical
star.
up and At the
time, his video "Girlfriend"
could be viewed often on MTV. One student was quoted as saying, "I cannot be-
someone who is on MTV is coming to Longwood, in the middle of no where." It was truly a concert that should not have been missed. — Julie Michelle Wiley lieve that
actually