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☆ ☆ Caliet Periodicals Postage Paid Lexington, Va. 24450 VOLUME XCII iU/n inhtpenbentlp bp tahetsS fiime 1907 http://www.vmi.edu/cadet/ Friday, Jiiiiuary 29, 2()(»0 $ 1 . 0 0 Number 12 In This Issue Friday Sports on page.4 Runnin' Roos on a twelve game skid. Wrestlers prepare for Pitt and The Citadel Opinion on p a g e . Mess Hall and Admin Praised, Rats accused o f harrassing women Features on page 5 Rats raid the RDC, and other News Briefs. Next week's regimental training schedule Arts & Leisure Win Free Pizza Furlough Flicks Reviewed Skiing with Liam Humor Flip over and find out ' ■ ■ •It'sCadct-crific" ‘ .v« VMI Expects to Continue to Change in the ■New by Kendra Russell “ G e n iu s Cabet Managing Editor k„ows no fixed locality, and is as often bom under a cottage roof as the dome of a palace; and there are hundreds of young men whose minds thirst for an education which they have not the means o f obtaining.” So wrote J.T.L. Preston in an open letter to the local newspaper in 1835. Preston was promoting his idea to convert the old state arsenal into a state-supported military school. One hundred and sixty-five years later, the Virginia Military Institute faces a new millennium on the very site of the old arsenal. Yet in many ways, VMI has come quite a distance from its humble beginnings in the Spartan existence of twenty-five cadets from Virginia. As Director of the VMI Museum, Lt. Col. Keith Gibson, ’77, is in a unique position to comment on the challenges and changes which VMI has faced in its 160-year history. To many, VMI represents timeless tradition and an unwillingness to accept change, but as Gibson pointed out, one of VMI’s strongest traditions is progress. Gibson said, “The actual founding of VMI in 1839 was an experiment in education.” Besides offering a military lifestyle, VMI provided a college education for a segment of the population that was too often discouraged from pursuing higher education. The curriculum, too, was innovative— geared primarily towards engineering and the hard sciences in an age when a classical education still garnered far more prestige—and VMI was eventually one o f the first schools in the country to offer chemical engineering as a course of study. By 1857, VMI already enjoyed an excellent reputation even outside Virginia. Gibson related an anecdote about a young man from a prominent Delaware family who wished to attend VMI. Although Henry DuPont’s father had graduated from West Point with VMI’s first superintendent, Maj. Francis H. Smith, and maintained a close friendship. Smith had to refuse the young man’s application because VMI still restricted enrollment to residents of Virginia. Instead, DuPont attended and graduated in 1861 from his second choice: West Point. In 1864, during the Civil War, the order was handed down to a young Union officer to train his artillery on VMI and shell the cadet barracks. By chance, that officer was the same young man who had tried to enroll at VMI seven years earlier. DuPont protested the order on the grounds that a college was not an appropriate target. However, the Corps had already made its presence felt at New See Millenium* page 5 Tony Conway/The Cadet A Rat puts brass outside the room of David Stormont, who was one of two First Classmen that died last A Handicapped Corps? I I Rat Scott Brotherton, sitting at his desk, lives a normal cadet life with a hearing disability. Some question if VMI will be forced to admit cadets with more severely dehibilitating handicaps. by Tony Conway (toilet News Writer The Vuginia Military Institute’s Board of Visitors, admissions policy is still under question. Even though VMI no longer requires cadets to commission, the 160-year old school still requires them to meet the amied forces physical standards of the Reserve Officer TYaining Coips. With the decision to accept women, VMI also chose to maintain state iiinding. It is the same funding that also brings the Institute under the regulation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA, in afifecting public institutions, protects people in the same way they are protected fiom discrimination on the ba.sis of race, color, sex, national origin, and religion. Acconling to VMI’s Web page and school catalogue, the general admissions policy says, “The Institute seeks to a ^ t young men and women who aspire to both an academic degree and a militaiy commission as the hall-maiks of a complete VMI education.” It also points out that seeking a military commission is not mandatoiy at VMI. VMI’s admissions policy goes on to define the medical requirements for applicants. The admissions policy says, “Cadets must fully paiticipate in all required activities including the intense fourth-class year. Institute and ROTC physical fitness tests, and mandatoiy physical education and ROrC courses.” VMI, like the service academies, holds applicants to strict physical standards. Every service academy applicant must accept a commission - for this reason the academies require that applicants meet the entry requirements of the service in order to gain entry to the academy. Unlike the service academies, VMI does not require applicants to take up a commission upon graduating. The ADA says that no individual nmy be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, and advantages in any place of public accommodation. VMI's admissions policy and the ADA collide over the point of full use of tlie services and privileges of a public accommodation. Col. Michael Strickler, ‘71, Director of Public Relations, said, ‘To come to VMI, you have to pass the ROTC! physical; commissioning isn’t mandatoiy but you have to be able to peifoim cadet duties. A See ADA* page 5 2000 Loses Two BR's by Todd Kennedy ^ b e t Editor-in-Chief The Virginia Military Institute’s Class of 2000 lost two of its members to untimely deaths in the last two weeks when Michael E. Amann was killed in a car accident on Friday, Jan 14 and David Northwood Stormont V passed away after having waged what was, according to VMI’s Executive Officer Colonel Leroy Hammond, ’57, “a long and courageous fight with cancer.” Amann, a History major from Stafford, Virginia, died of head injuries sustained in an automobile accident on U.S. 17 near Chesapeake, Virginia, on his way home from Marine Corps reservists’ drill in Norfolk, where he had recently been promoted to corporal in the Amphibious Assault Battalion. Amann was a member of Foxtrot Company and of the lacrosse team. B.J. Arvin, ’00, remembered Amann as “one of the most dedicated members of F-Troop’s Rat Challenge cadre_he was so deeply dedicated to everything he did.” Liam Connor, ’00, said, “I think what people will miss most about Mike was his Kendliness and his ever-posi-tive outlook on life. Mike always seemed to find a way to overcome any obstacles life threw at him.” Amman's roomate, Chris Lowrance, '00. commented, "Mike was a very loyal friend that was always there when his friends needed hi. He looked after his friends and would never leave them behind." A military memorial service was held at Quantico Marine Base for Amann on Wednesday, Jan 19 with 30 cadets and VMI Superintendent Maj. Gen. Josiah Bunting III, ’.63, in attendance. Flags were flown at half-mast on VMI’s post, and a service was held at Jackson Memorial Hall on Monday, Jan 24. Stormont, who had been battling cancer for over a year, was a Business and Economics-major-from Duck, North Carolina. Stormont passed away Sunday morning, Jan 23, surrounded by his family. Keane Jones, ’00, said, “Dave accepted everything that was going on and he never complained. He accepted that this was what God had planned and was willing to go on to a better life if it was God’s plan. He was happy with life, content, and not scared.” Sam McClure, ’00, added, “He never complained about anything.” Stormont’s family intends to have his remains cremated and to hold a memorial service Saturday, Jan 29, in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Another service will be held at VMI Feb 3. On Tuesday, Jan 25, the entire Rat Mass placed their hat brass around Stormont's room in tribute to the first classman, and flags are currently being flown at half-mast at VMI through Saturday, Jan 29. The Class of2000 had previously lost a Brother Rat in May of 1997 when Matthew J. Ko wrach died of heart complications at his home in Northern Virginia. Amann is survived by his parents, Isabell and Duane Amann of Stafford, and Stormont is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David N. Stormont, IV, ’74, and a brother, Ryan. Search for Commandant Under Way by Angelica Martinez <tobet News Editor Virginia M il ita ry In s t i tu te Commandant o f Cadets Col. James N. Joyner, ’67, announced on Nov 18, 1999, that he will leave his p o sition as commandant at the end o f this academic year in order to r e turn to his former postion as the d ire c to r o f Cad e t A f fa irs . Col. Robert Green, ’67, will assume the positon of VMI Post Engineer. Sup e r in te n d e n t Ma j. Gen. J o s ia h Bunting III, ’63, is currently in the process o f heading up two committees that will select the new commandant of cadets. The Special Advisory Committee was tasked with developing a list of characteristics and expectations for an ideal commandant, standards which have been sent to newspapers and posted on the VMI Web page, and will be used as criteria to interview the applicants . The members of this committee include: Col. William Dabney, ’61; Jo se p h J. D uB o se , ’96; Col. L e ro y D. Hammond, ’57; Col. W. Gr ig g Mullen. Jr., ’76; Lt. Col. Holly J. Richardson; Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Tait, ’55; Donny T. White, ’65; Darryl Horne, ’81; Carter Melton, ’67; and Douglas T. Bates, ’01. Candidates are to apply no later than Feb 15, 2000, as a decision is expected to be announced by March 1. Amo n g th e c a n d id a te s is Deputy Commandant Col. Ronald Williams, ’64, who has a number o f supporters among the Corps o f Cadets. During a CTT meeting o f the en t ire Corp o f Cadets , F irs t Class President Keane Jones called on the Corps to sign a petition in s u p p o r t o f W i l l iam s fo r Commadant next year. Jones said that although his class wil not be a f f e c te d by the c h a n g e , c a d e t s should push for Williams to take over as he knows VMI and how the system works. The petitions were posted in Sally Port, they were put in individual cadet's rooms, and even e-mail went out in support of Williams. Six hundred and eighty-four cadets responded to Jones' call, and of those, 6 6 6 were in support o f Williams as commandant. This came at a time when nearly 500 members of the Corps had already left for Christmas furlough. "I was concerned about who they were going to bring in," Jones said. "I didn't want them to bring someone in who didn't know what was going on in the Corps." Jones turned the results of his survey in to the selection commitee in the form of a formal memorandum in support o f Williams. Jones thought o f the petition after talking to Williams. "[Williaiiis] told ine that he w o u ld be w i l l in g to fo rg o his planned retirement and remain on as long as the cadets wanted him." said Jones. "I w an te d someo n e who understood cadets," Jones continued. K. P. Scott, '01, said, "[William s ] is a s t r a ig h t sh o o te r . I would rather have him than someone else." A c c o rd in g to C o l . Hammond, it is a fallacy to assume that things will remain the same should Col.Williams be chosen as commandant "He will have to go from being the good guy to being the bad guy,” said Hammond. The actual search committee will review applications and interview the candidates.. They will then make their own reccomendations to Bqnting. The search committee includes: Brig. Gen. Alan Farrell, Brig. Gen. Michael Bozeman and Hammond. The members will each look over the applications individually and then choose five or six candidates to interview. Bunting's decision will be approved by the Board of Visitors, and the new commadant is slated to take over by July 1. 2000. THe new commandant will mark the fourth commandant in six years for VMI. Trebuchet Gets National Recognition by Devon Miller <tobet News Writer Mechanical Engineering Professor Col. Wayne Neel was a major player in NOVA’s recent attempt to learn about the predecessor to artillery, the trebuchet. PBS will air a show Feb 1 on the experiment, carried in Loch Ness, Scotland. Two different camps operating side by side used varying methods to construct two separate trebuchets. These catapults, powered by enormous counter-weights, were the cutting edge of technology 800 years ago and permanently changed the face of warfare. The trebuchets built during the program were used to hurl stone balls at a brick wall and were tested primarily for accuracy. Neel began ex p e r imen tin g with sm a ll- s c a le mo d e ls o f t reb u c h e ts th a t la u n ch e d foil wrapped packs o f butter and had worked with cadets and associate Lt. Col. Grigg Mullen, Jr., ’76, to build Neel's IVebuchet sitting on VMI a trebuchet in Lexington. The mach in e s he re c en tly worked with weighed in excess of twenty tons. On the Loch, Neel worked alongside other trebuchets enthusiasts including Hew Kennedy, who was in the practice of hurling pianos 's Parade Ground last summer and flaming gasoline drums with his home-built trebuchet. The opposing team constructed its trebuchet based on the ideas of Renaud Beffeeyte, who is c r e d ite d with being the w o r ld ’s only full-time trebuchet maker.
Object Description
Repository | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
Collection | VMI Cadet Newspaper |
Title | VMI Cadet. January 29, 2000 |
Issue Date | 2000-01-29 |
Volume/Number | Volume 92, number 12 |
Publisher | Virginia Military Institute |
Publication History | The Cadet (originally the Keydet), VMI's student newspaper, began weekly publication in the fall of 1907. Not published 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46 |
Frequency | Weekly during academic year, except during examinations and vacations |
Subject |
Virginia Military Institute -- Publications. Virginia Military Institute -- Cadet life. College student newspapers and periodicals -- Virginia -- Lexington. |
Digital Publisher | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
VMI Archives Records Group | Publications |
Rights | Materials in the VMI Archives Digital Collections are intended for educational and research use and may be used for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Military Institute Archives Digital Collections is required. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information. |
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☆ ☆ Caliet Periodicals
Postage Paid
Lexington, Va.
24450
VOLUME XCII
iU/n inhtpenbentlp bp tahetsS fiime 1907
http://www.vmi.edu/cadet/
Friday, Jiiiiuary 29, 2()(»0
$ 1 . 0 0
Number 12
In This Issue
Friday
Sports on page.4
Runnin' Roos on a twelve
game skid.
Wrestlers prepare for Pitt
and The Citadel
Opinion on p a g e .
Mess Hall and
Admin Praised,
Rats accused o f
harrassing women
Features on page 5
Rats raid the RDC, and
other News Briefs.
Next week's regimental
training schedule
Arts & Leisure
Win Free Pizza
Furlough Flicks Reviewed
Skiing with Liam
Humor
Flip over
and find out
' ■ ■
•It'sCadct-crific"
‘ .v«
VMI Expects to
Continue to
Change in the
■New
by Kendra Russell “ G e n iu s
Cabet Managing Editor k„ows no fixed
locality, and is as often bom under a cottage roof
as the dome of a palace; and there are hundreds of
young men whose minds thirst for an education
which they have not the means o f obtaining.”
So wrote J.T.L. Preston in an open letter to
the local newspaper in 1835. Preston was promoting
his idea to convert the old state arsenal into a
state-supported military school. One hundred and
sixty-five years later, the Virginia Military Institute
faces a new millennium on the very site of the
old arsenal. Yet in many ways, VMI has come quite
a distance from its humble beginnings in the Spartan
existence of twenty-five cadets from Virginia.
As Director of the VMI Museum, Lt. Col.
Keith Gibson, ’77, is in a unique position to comment
on the challenges and changes which VMI
has faced in its 160-year history. To many, VMI
represents timeless tradition and an unwillingness
to accept change, but as Gibson pointed out, one
of VMI’s strongest traditions is progress.
Gibson said, “The actual founding of VMI
in 1839 was an experiment in education.” Besides
offering a military lifestyle, VMI provided a college
education for a segment of the population that
was too often discouraged from pursuing higher
education. The curriculum, too, was innovative—
geared primarily towards engineering and the hard
sciences in an age when a classical education still
garnered far more prestige—and VMI was eventually
one o f the first schools in the country to offer
chemical engineering as a course of study.
By 1857, VMI already enjoyed an excellent reputation even outside Virginia.
Gibson related an anecdote about a young man from a prominent Delaware
family who wished to attend VMI. Although Henry DuPont’s father had
graduated from West Point with VMI’s first superintendent, Maj. Francis H. Smith,
and maintained a close friendship. Smith had to refuse the young man’s application
because VMI still restricted enrollment to residents of Virginia. Instead,
DuPont attended and graduated in 1861 from his second choice: West Point.
In 1864, during the Civil War, the order was handed down to a young Union
officer to train his artillery on VMI and shell the cadet barracks. By chance, that
officer was the same young man who had tried to enroll at VMI seven years
earlier. DuPont protested the order on the grounds that a college was not an
appropriate target. However, the Corps had already made its presence felt at New
See Millenium* page 5
Tony Conway/The Cadet
A Rat puts brass outside the room of David Stormont,
who was one of two First Classmen that died last
A Handicapped Corps?
I
I
Rat Scott Brotherton, sitting at his desk, lives a normal cadet life
with a hearing disability. Some question if VMI will be forced to
admit cadets with more severely dehibilitating handicaps.
by Tony Conway
(toilet News Writer
The Vuginia Military Institute’s
Board of Visitors, admissions policy is
still under question. Even though VMI
no longer requires cadets to commission,
the 160-year old school still requires
them to meet the amied forces
physical standards of the Reserve Officer
TYaining Coips.
With the decision to accept
women, VMI also chose to maintain
state iiinding. It is the same funding that
also brings the Institute under the regulation
of the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA). The ADA, in afifecting
public institutions, protects people in the
same way they are protected fiom discrimination
on the ba.sis of race, color,
sex, national origin, and religion.
Acconling to VMI’s Web page
and school catalogue, the general admissions
policy says, “The Institute
seeks to a ^ t young men and women
who aspire to both an academic degree
and a militaiy commission as the hall-maiks
of a complete VMI education.”
It also points out that seeking a military
commission is not mandatoiy at VMI.
VMI’s admissions policy goes
on to define the medical requirements
for applicants. The admissions policy says,
“Cadets must fully paiticipate in all required
activities including the intense fourth-class
year. Institute and ROTC physical fitness
tests, and mandatoiy physical education and
ROrC courses.”
VMI, like the service academies,
holds applicants to strict physical standards.
Every service academy applicant must accept
a commission - for this reason the academies
require that applicants meet the entry
requirements of the service in order to
gain entry to the academy. Unlike the service
academies, VMI does not require applicants
to take up a commission upon
graduating.
The ADA says that no individual
nmy be discriminated against on the basis
of disability in the full and equal enjoyment
of the goods, services, facilities, privileges,
and advantages in any place of public accommodation.
VMI's admissions policy and the
ADA collide over the point of full use of
tlie services and privileges of a public accommodation.
Col. Michael Strickler, ‘71, Director
of Public Relations, said, ‘To come to
VMI, you have to pass the ROTC! physical;
commissioning isn’t mandatoiy but you
have to be able to peifoim cadet duties. A
See ADA* page 5
2000 Loses Two BR's
by Todd Kennedy
^ b e t Editor-in-Chief
The Virginia Military Institute’s
Class of 2000 lost two of its members to
untimely deaths in the last two weeks
when Michael E. Amann was killed in a
car accident on Friday, Jan 14 and David
Northwood Stormont V passed away after
having waged what was, according
to VMI’s Executive Officer Colonel
Leroy Hammond, ’57, “a long and courageous
fight with cancer.”
Amann, a History major from
Stafford, Virginia, died of head injuries
sustained in an automobile accident on
U.S. 17 near Chesapeake, Virginia, on
his way home from Marine Corps reservists’
drill in Norfolk, where he had recently
been promoted to corporal in the
Amphibious Assault Battalion.
Amann was a member of Foxtrot
Company and of the lacrosse team.
B.J. Arvin, ’00, remembered
Amann as “one of the most dedicated
members of F-Troop’s Rat Challenge
cadre_he was so deeply dedicated to everything
he did.”
Liam Connor, ’00, said, “I think
what people will miss most about Mike
was his Kendliness and his ever-posi-tive
outlook on life. Mike always seemed
to find a way to overcome any obstacles
life threw at him.”
Amman's roomate, Chris
Lowrance, '00. commented, "Mike was
a very loyal friend that was always there
when his friends needed hi. He looked
after his friends and would never leave
them behind."
A military memorial service was
held at Quantico Marine Base for Amann
on Wednesday, Jan 19 with 30 cadets
and VMI Superintendent Maj. Gen.
Josiah Bunting III, ’.63, in attendance.
Flags were flown at half-mast on VMI’s
post, and a service was held at Jackson
Memorial Hall on Monday, Jan 24.
Stormont, who had been battling
cancer for over a year, was a Business
and Economics-major-from Duck,
North Carolina. Stormont passed away
Sunday morning, Jan 23, surrounded by
his family.
Keane Jones, ’00, said, “Dave
accepted everything that was going on
and he never complained. He accepted
that this was what God had planned and
was willing to go on to a better life if it
was God’s plan. He was happy with
life, content, and not scared.”
Sam McClure, ’00, added, “He
never complained about anything.”
Stormont’s family intends to
have his remains cremated and to hold
a memorial service Saturday, Jan 29, in
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Another
service will be held at VMI Feb 3.
On Tuesday, Jan 25, the entire
Rat Mass placed their hat brass around
Stormont's room in tribute to the first
classman, and flags are currently being
flown at half-mast at VMI through Saturday,
Jan 29.
The Class of2000 had previously
lost a Brother Rat in May of 1997 when
Matthew J. Ko wrach died of heart complications
at his home in Northern Virginia.
Amann is survived by his parents,
Isabell and Duane Amann of
Stafford, and Stormont is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David N.
Stormont, IV, ’74, and a brother, Ryan.
Search for Commandant Under Way
by Angelica Martinez
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