2008 Woodie Awards
"Yougottawanna"
Katelyn Henry
Issue date: 10/31/04 Section: Letter From the Editor
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It's probably all you've heard on the radio, read in the papers (including this one), and watched on TV: the Boston Red Sox are in the World Series. For the first time in all of our memories-we were, at the oldest, only 3 or 4 back in 1986-the boys of Fenway are in the midst of their attempt to make, or better yet, break, history.
Campus completely transformed in the process. Tests were failed, papers unwritten, and grades lowered, as each Sox game was placed on top of all to-do lists. Dark under eye circles grew larger each morning as extra innings and post game interviews played later into each night. "The Nation" and "Faith" took on entirely new meaning at a Catholic college during an election year. Hundreds of students-arguably more than at any other single event this year-stormed the football field chanting a unified "Yankees suck" after winning Game 7, followed by a march straight to President Plough's door.
I'll never forget where I was watching that final Sox-Yankees game or feeling the Red Sox high everyone on campus seems to share. Will you?
There are the times that 10...20...30...umpteen years into the future you'll stop and say, "I remember when the Sox came back from three games to shock world by beating the Yankees and going to the 2004 World Series." (Actually, I hope it will be something more like, "I remember exactly where I was when the Sox won the World Series for the first time since 1918!")
Oddly enough, it's the same feeling-although to an opposite extreme-many in the Class of 2005 probably can associate with the first two weeks spent at Assumption. The events of September 11th, 2001 completely transformed The United States as I, a freshman, sat alone on the floor of Worcester Hall room 11, eyes glued to ABC news and ears connected to the phone line linking me home. Still unsure of our roommates, our classmates, and our surroundings in general, everyone came together -both on campus and throughout the nation-to watch history unfold as we mourned, healed, and learned.
Campus completely transformed in the process. Tests were failed, papers unwritten, and grades lowered, as each Sox game was placed on top of all to-do lists. Dark under eye circles grew larger each morning as extra innings and post game interviews played later into each night. "The Nation" and "Faith" took on entirely new meaning at a Catholic college during an election year. Hundreds of students-arguably more than at any other single event this year-stormed the football field chanting a unified "Yankees suck" after winning Game 7, followed by a march straight to President Plough's door.
I'll never forget where I was watching that final Sox-Yankees game or feeling the Red Sox high everyone on campus seems to share. Will you?
There are the times that 10...20...30...umpteen years into the future you'll stop and say, "I remember when the Sox came back from three games to shock world by beating the Yankees and going to the 2004 World Series." (Actually, I hope it will be something more like, "I remember exactly where I was when the Sox won the World Series for the first time since 1918!")
Oddly enough, it's the same feeling-although to an opposite extreme-many in the Class of 2005 probably can associate with the first two weeks spent at Assumption. The events of September 11th, 2001 completely transformed The United States as I, a freshman, sat alone on the floor of Worcester Hall room 11, eyes glued to ABC news and ears connected to the phone line linking me home. Still unsure of our roommates, our classmates, and our surroundings in general, everyone came together -both on campus and throughout the nation-to watch history unfold as we mourned, healed, and learned.