2008 Woodie Awards
Mourning the loss of the quad
By Donald Beaver
Issue date: 4/7/08 Section: Op-Ed
Okay, okay, okay! I will admit it! I MISS THE QUAD!!!!! No, not the newspaper, the Residential Quad! No, seriously. I know that West Chester University is planning to make new dorm buildings, and the world knows we need them, but they could have warned us. I mean, come on! We left in December anxious to return to see the quad, to play in the quad and to be in the quad; and now it is all fenced off!
I was shocked. I was baffled. No wait, I was sha-ffled! I mean, I did not know why the quad was gone. Someone told me that the plan was to build these residence halls to replace old ones like Wayne Hall. And let me just say something for those of you who do not realize the repulsive condition that Wayne Hall is in. Wayne Hall has creaky windows that whistle when the wind is over five mph. And the windows do not just whistle, they whistle old 80's songs, including Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and Guns N Roses' "Sweet Child 'O Mine." The window in the fourth floor computer lab whistles more modern day music, and thus has become the outcast of all Wayne Hall windows. It is a shame!
Getting back to the point, do you remember spring semesters in the quad? Remember the different groups? Come on, people, I know you remember the tanners! If it were at least 50 degrees outside and at least one ray of sunshine, you would see girls in bikinis laid out on towels in the grass. I never understood how much of a tan you could get in 50-degree weather, though. I tell you, they were the epitome of making lemonade out of lemons. The Tanners practically had their own beach in the quad. They probably called it Quad-wood, or maybe At-quad-ic City. Oh no, I think it was called Quad-cean City, West Chester. Regardless of the name, I know the tanners are missing the quad. I feel for you tanners!
More frequently than you would see the tanners, you would see basketball players on the courts. I know you remember! You would always find someone out on the court. I heard from someone that the basketball players had their own pact. I think it went like this: "Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor dark of night will keep us from our appointed free-throws, jump-shots, lay-ups, and three-pointers."
I was shocked. I was baffled. No wait, I was sha-ffled! I mean, I did not know why the quad was gone. Someone told me that the plan was to build these residence halls to replace old ones like Wayne Hall. And let me just say something for those of you who do not realize the repulsive condition that Wayne Hall is in. Wayne Hall has creaky windows that whistle when the wind is over five mph. And the windows do not just whistle, they whistle old 80's songs, including Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and Guns N Roses' "Sweet Child 'O Mine." The window in the fourth floor computer lab whistles more modern day music, and thus has become the outcast of all Wayne Hall windows. It is a shame!
Getting back to the point, do you remember spring semesters in the quad? Remember the different groups? Come on, people, I know you remember the tanners! If it were at least 50 degrees outside and at least one ray of sunshine, you would see girls in bikinis laid out on towels in the grass. I never understood how much of a tan you could get in 50-degree weather, though. I tell you, they were the epitome of making lemonade out of lemons. The Tanners practically had their own beach in the quad. They probably called it Quad-wood, or maybe At-quad-ic City. Oh no, I think it was called Quad-cean City, West Chester. Regardless of the name, I know the tanners are missing the quad. I feel for you tanners!
More frequently than you would see the tanners, you would see basketball players on the courts. I know you remember! You would always find someone out on the court. I heard from someone that the basketball players had their own pact. I think it went like this: "Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor dark of night will keep us from our appointed free-throws, jump-shots, lay-ups, and three-pointers."
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