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Show IH 1:3 I CHOICE for the finer touch. They fashioned windows, turrets and faces, making the structure look like a cross between a Bavarian castle and the huge masks on Easter Island. merchant sold orlumber for half price, ganizers so the entire project cost only $500. Although there was no A local prearranged work schedule, the castle was completed by the end of the second day. The event attracted about 1,000 people over the two days, not counting those who came to dig. Still, Stanford students will have to set their goals much higher to match the Guinness world record for tallest sand castle: a 52.81-fostructure weighing more than 48,000 tons, built in Florida in 1986. fellow employees. Beyond the pail: Builders Digging for Sand Scholars later embarrassment. Students also must wade through their share of electronic "junk mail." Broadcast messages can be sent to each extension announcing everything from course changes to campus parties. A "chain message" multiplied until some students were hearing the same words six times a day for weeks. The perpetrators were soon threatened by peers and eventually apologized not by phone, but in the school paper. 200-plu- s members of the Stanford community, from students to faculty and their children, who in March simply borrowed 75 tons of sand from a local contractor and sculpted a huge sand castle on campus. In what turned out to be a two-da- y beach bash of sorts, molded sand into a towthey structure. Buildering ers formed a multitiered foundation by stomping sand into square wooden frames as Top 40 tunes blared into the night. The next morning, armed with palette knives, spatulas and "just about anything that's flat and metal," 18-fo- ot according to organizer Wade McNary, a Stanford resident assistant, sculptors moved in 16 NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS Dwight Garner in Middlebury imbibers at Rice parties had out: their drinking companions just may agents. Since late January, the university has employed a squad of student monitors to patrol the campus party circuit, checking to see whether alcohol rules are being obeyed. Student reaction has been mixed. Some see the secret squad as a method to ensure responsible drinking, but others wonder about entrapment. "I don't think it's my place to spy on what my peers do at parties," says sophomore Anne Chang. Campus regulations require student groups to register in advance those parties be undercover where alcohol is served and to sign a liability form taking re- - Middlebury Gets Messaged a typical beach This wasn't For one thing, there In a beach the nearest shoreline was miles away. But that didn't stop Underage There's even a new drinking game built around PhoneMail losers must not only drink but record a message, often much to their ot KYM BOYMAN Booze Busters on Rice Patrol days, students at no doubt rushed to their mailboxes to see what the postman brought. Today they rush hourly to their phones to hear what the school's new computerized telephone-answerin- g service have for them. may waiting As part of an elaborate $2 million phone system installed last summer, college officials included a feature called PhoneMail. The service allows anyone with a campus phone to send, receive, forward and save phone messages. Middle-bur- y has rapidly become obsessed with its new toy. Sophomore Kirsten Keppel checks her messages every 45 minutes: "I don't know how I'd survive without it." The system has spawned imaginative uses. Working students looking for substitutes may send a generic message to low-tec- h ILLUSTRATION Catch-21- : BY JOSEPH CIARDIELLO Secret agents track underage drinkers in Houston MAY 1988 |
