The Virginia men’s soccer team rolls into the ACC tournament after a tough loss to Wake Forest at home but still hold high hopes of postseason glory.

“I just can’t wait to get back onto the field and get another ‘W’ and hopefully win the national championship,” senior goalie Ryan Burke said.

For one Virginia player in particular, however, this chance has been a long time coming.

Freshman defender Bakare Soumare has had a difficult road to this stage in his career. Soumare spent most of his youth in Paris, France before coming to America and turning heads with his tenacity on the pitch in high school.

Virginia coach George Gelnovatch saw that potential early on and offered Soumare a scholarship late in his junior year. He accepted, despite offers from other prestigious programs, but things quickly went awry.

“I had always been lucky with injuries and academics and all that,” Soumare said. “But all of a sudden, I broke my foot.”

The injury to his right foot required surgery and caused him to miss his senior year. Still, coming into his first year at Virginia, Soumare had high hopes.

“I had all these expectations of coming in and doing well and starting” for Virginia, Soumare said.

Those dreams were shattered quickly when he re-aggravated the injury over the summer. After another surgery and a stint in rehab, Soumare finally ran out to play at Klöckner Stadium against the Duke Blue Devils.

His debut was short; pain forced him to sit after just one minute.

The frustration was evident. Soumare could not seem to catch a break and often thought of giving up on college altogether.

“I really wanted to go home,” Soumare said. “I just didn’t want to be here anymore.”

After a third surgery, Soumare sat out an even longer time. In the rehabilitation process, Virginia assistant coach Chefik Simo served as a friend and mentor to a young and embittered Soumare.

Fortunately, over the offseason Soumare recovered — this time seemingly for good. Soumare stayed at Virginia and has played in every single game so far this season as part of one of the top defenses in the country.

Soumare has still experienced disappointment. The image most fans may remember of Soumare’s season so far this year was a misplayed cross inside the box against the American Eagles that he redirected past Burke for an own goal.

Last Friday against Wake Forest, the sloppy conditions led Soumare to lose his man and give Wake Forest a one-on-one which led to the game-winner for the Demon Deacons.

Still, such images do not do justice to the ability and intensity Soumare has displayed all season.

His size and strength are a decisive advantage against most forwards, as evidenced against Boston College when he and sophomore defender Matt Poole shut down one of the ACC’s top forwards in Charlie Davies.

Tomorrow, Soumare will get a chance to show just how crucial he is to this team’s success when the Cavaliers have a rematch against the Clemson Tigers in the first round of the ACC tournament.

Hopefully, his patience pays off.

After a mediocre first three seasons, seniors Kat Blair, Biffy Cornelison, Mia Link, Lindsay O’Bannon, Erin Hayes and Alyssa Curmaci may have thought that a winning record, a top-10 rank in the nation and a potential berth in the NCAA tournament would be somewhat unrealistic. However, after a productive off-season — initiated by the signing of new head coach Michele Madison — the team elders find themselves in a position that they had yet to experience in their careers.

Virginia has finished the regular season 12-6, achieving a 6-2 regional record, and a No. 10 national ranking. The Cavaliers have also put themselves in a good position to qualify for the NCAA tournament, something that this year’s seniors have yet to do in their career.

The seniors have “been here the longest and now we have a successful team,” Blair said. “We have the drive and will to succeed after having a couple of years where we weren’t doing so well.”

During their freshman, sophomore and junior years, the Cavaliers compiled a 28-31 record while going 0-13 in the ACC. Now, under the direction of a new coach, and with support from the freshman and sophomore class, this year’s seniors have taken the lead and turned what could have been considered a transition year into a success.

The process of adapting to a new system in their final year of play, however, has not come without difficulty.

“I think it was very difficult and challenging,” Madison said. “The demands that were put on them since day one were high and they’ve handled it well and tried to understand the direction of the program. They’ve jumped in with both feet.”

Madison will continue to rely on the play and leadership of Link and Blair as the team heads into the ACC Tournament. Both of these seniors have put up some of the most impressive career numbers, as well as receiving plenty of national attention.

“Mia [Link] and Kat [Blair] may have the opportunity to play after college,” Madison said. “But that’s something that we’ll have to evaluate after the season is over.”

Link, who has accumulated 75 career points, was named to the USA Developmental Squad in July. She was also a member of the USA Under-21 team that came in seventh place in the Junior World Cup and was a National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-American in 2004.

Blair, meanwhile, has played alongside of Link as the starting goaltender for the USA Under-21 team. She also played on the national team that won the silver medal in the Junior Pan-Am Games in 2005. Blair has also been named to the NFHCA National Academic Team for three straight seasons.

Perhaps sometimes overshadowed by Link, Blair and Cornelison are Hayes and O’Bannon. These two seniors have experienced arguably the most productive seasons of their careers. O’Bannon has been selected to play in the senior All-Star game.

Hayes, meanwhile, has been a utility player for the Cavaliers. She has recently been moved from back to forward. Despite the change in position, Hayes has made an immediate impact — scoring the game-tying goal in the overtime win over Stanford.

The most important accomplishment of this senior class has been the ability to gel with the new players — including freshmen Traci Ragukas and Fenna Breitbarth and sophomore Inge Kaars Sijpesteijn. While not the most tangible achievement, it certainly has been the willingness of the senior class to adapt to a new coaching style and play with new teammates that has allowed for their success.

“It’s been very natural,” Blair said. “We all get along. It’s great and it couldn’t be better to have a couple of foreign players on the team [Breitbarth and Sijpesteijn]. They bring a different perspective. I can’t say enough about my teammates.”

I had the lucky opportunity to speak with Athletics Director Craig Littlepage last week. As the big shot, head honcho of Virginia sports conversed with me for a few minutes and took a genuine interest in my life as a fourth-year College student, I began to appreciate just what a remarkable man Mr. Littlepage is and the remarkable success he has achieved.

An examination of Littlepage’s decisions since he was promoted to athletic director in August 2001 reveals that almost each of his moves has reaped huge dividends while transforming Cavalier programs from the ACC’s basement to top national contenders.

One of his first splashes was to tap Brian Boland to head the men’s tennis team. In just five seasons, Boland has revolutionized the squad from an ACC doormat to a No. 1 national ranking in 2006. He has led the team to two ACC titles, two NCAA Quarterfinal appearances and set the record for wins in a season. Suddenly top talents such as Somdev Devvarman and Treat Huey are lining up to hit backhands at the pristine Snyder Tennis Center.

Over on the diamond, Littlepage lured Brian O’Connor to take over the baseball program before the 2004 campaign. The former Fighting Irish assistant was the architect behind Notre Dame’s No. 1 recruiting class in 2001. At Virginia, O’Connor has already recorded two top-15 recruiting classes and back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances, including hosting the program’s first regional in ’04 — his rookie season as head coach. Don’t forget about the best record and winning percentage in the program’s history and attendance highs in ’04 and ’05 in what has been a transformed atmosphere at the immaculate Davenport Field.

In 2002, Littlepage selected Jan Mann to begin the first ever women’s golf program at Mr. Jefferson’s University. One of the top golf instructors in the country at UNC-Wilmington, Mann led the team to the NCAA Women’s Golf National Championships and 13th overall finish in just her second season at the helm. This past weekend the ninth-ranked women’s golf won their first-ever tournament title.

If the athletic director’s past success to find and lure the nation’s elite coaches to Virginia is any indication of the future, it will only be a few seasons before the wrestling and field hockey squads have similar transformations.

Sources said last April Littlepage helped to force out Lenny Bernstein, coach of the underachieving wrestling team. He then brought in the top assistant at Cornell and former Cavalier All-American, Steve Garland. Garland was part of Big Red squads that finished in the top 11 nationally for four straight seasons. And, as the recruiting coordinator in Ithaca, he brought in two top-five classes under 2005 National Coach of the Year Rob Koll.

Littlepage’s hire on the field hockey turf in January may have been even more impressive. The Director convinced Michele Madison to leave her head coach job at Michigan State and take over the program at Virginia. The 17-year head coach led the Spartans to their first ever NCAA Semifinal and a No. 1 national ranking two years ago. Madison directly cited Littlepage as one her reasons to leave East Lansing for Charlottesville. This year, Madison has led the squad to a No. 8 national ranking and their first conference win since 2001, when they upset No. 4 North Carolina at Chapel Hill in mid-September. (The Cavaliers were No. 10 in the country before falling to No. 4 Duke in the regular season finale Saturday.)

Optimism of Virginia athletics is sky-high with Littlepage in the driver’s seat. The Board of Visitors approved Littlepage’s initiative to fully fund all 25 Division I teams — allowing each squad to use its full allotment of scholarships in the 2004-2005 campaign. Last athletics season, Virginia won a national championship in men’s lacrosse and took home five ACC titles — men’s cross country, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, women’s rowing and men’s swimming and diving.

During Littlepage’s reign, construction was completed this summer on the 129.8 million-dollar, state-of-the-art John Paul Jones Arena. And Littlepage’s hire to man the sidelines of “the John,” Dave Leitao, has rejuvenated interest in the men’s basketball program.

(On a side note, I can’t get over the idea of opposing teams getting flushed at “the John.” As Kenny Bania would say, “It’s gold, Jerry, gold!”)

It is easy to overlook the job Littlepage has done in maintaining or upgrading nearly all of Virginia athletics to top national contenders in his five years as Athletics Director. The LaMott, Pa. native and 2006 Black Coaches Association’s “Athletics Administrator of the Year” is the main reason why Cavalier fans can head to almost any Virginia sporting event and see the top collegiate athletes excelling on behalf of their University.

And that is something that should not be taken for granted.

Much like the Rutgers BCS bandwagon, this picks column continues to roll on; another 4-1 set last weekend upped my record to 67 percent winners.

And let’s talk about Rutgers. As you know, there are three teams in the Big East that are undefeated. The Scarlet Knights are 8-0, West Virginia is 7-0 and Louisville is 7-0, as well.

If Rutgers wins out, they have a shot at the national title game, as they will be one of two undefeated schools from major conferences.

But that’s not as much fun to discuss –instead, what if each of three schools finishes 11-1 and 1-1 against each other? Can Rutgers make a BCS bowl under that scenario? Possibly; let’s discuss.

West Virginia and Louisville play this Thursday, while Rutgers has yet to face either team. Presently, Rutgers is ranked No. 12 in the BCS standings. WVU is No. 3 and Louisville is No. 5.

Let’s say West Virginia knocks off the Cardinals. When Rutgers faces Louisville next weekend, the Scarlet Knights also suffer their first loss.

Assuming all teams win the rest of their games, going into its final game of the season, Rutgers will be 10-1 and will be squaring off against an 11-0 West Virginia.

If the Scarlet Knights go into Morgantown and Ray Rice goes absolutely wild and runs up 200 yards and an easy win against the Mountaineers, then we could have ourselves a fun situation.

But here’s where the rankings come into play (and kill Rutgers). The Big East tiebreaker for the conference’s BCS berth is the final BCS regular season rankings.

It would be doubtful that Rutgers could still salvage a top ranking even with just one loss and a win over West Virginia. The likelihood of the Scarlet Knights leapfrogging both Louisville and the Mountaineers with one win in the final week of the season is not great. Believe me, I just spent the past hour trying to come up with scenarios where a one-loss Rutgers team could pass Louisville and WVU (including one in which those three are the only one-loss teams in the country thanks to a slew of upsets), but it doesn’t look like it will come to pass.

My advice to Rutgers is to go 12-0, huff and puff about still being left out of the national title game (maybe contact Tommy Tuberville about good strategies) and then nail down Greg Schiano before he bolts back to Miami.

Some quick picks:

Maryland +16 @ Clemson

Maryland is playing well enough to cover this spread, even on the road. Clemson is pretty much through the tough part of its schedule now, with three home games left on the slate. The Tigers will cruise to a 35-16 win.

Kentucky +7 vs. Georgia

From a betting perspective, Georgia is to the SEC what Michigan State is to the Big Ten. There is no reason why this disoriented Bulldawgs team should be giving seven points on the road against a feisty Wildcats team.

USC -28.5 @ Stanford

The Cardinal is back after another layoff. There’s really nothing left to say about the Cardinal, other than whether or not coach Walt Harris and his staff can survive an 0-12 season.

UTEP -8.5 vs. Rice

I refuse to believe that Rice can keep up with this team. It’s about time the Owls hit a second-half-of-the-season wall. UTEP wins 45-23.

Hawaii -28 @ Utah State

The nation’s most prolific scoring offense against a dreadful Aggies team. It’s too bad Timmy Chang can’t come back just to see how many yards he could throw up in Logan.

Last week: 4-1

Season 24-12-4

Student leaders gathered last night to discuss ways to increase diversity in historically white organizations at a forum sponsored by Student Council Diversity Initiatives.

The event centered around the efforts of four groups — Student Council, the Honor Committee, the University Judiciary Committee and The Cavalier Daily — to advance race and diversity-related issues within their organizations.

Leaders of organizations within the Minority Rights Coalition responded to the statements and questions of the group leaders and of audience members.

Student Council President Darius Nabors noted the importance of looking at diversity in two ways, both in representation of diverse backgrounds within an organization and in the actions an organization takes to respond to the issues of different underrepresented groups.

Nabors said that while he does not think there is a large problem with current participation in Council, he believes the organization can “do a better job of representing minority issues on Grounds and having continued involvement.”

Eli DeJarnette, UJC vice chair for trials, and Honor Chair Allison Tramba both noted their groups’ efforts to reach out to underrepresented student populations while recruiting support officers who could eventually become leaders in their organizations.

Tramba noted that Honor has revived the once-defunct Diversity Advisory Board this year in order to encourage discussion of issues that affect minority groups at the University.

DeJarnette noted that while UJC does not have a standing diversity committee, it created an ad-hoc committee last year to deal with hate crimes and also recently changed its constitution to allow the Committee to take bias incidents into account during the sanctioning process.

Cavalier Daily editor-in-chief Michael Slaven said there has been an effort in recent years to improve coverage of events sponsored by cultural organizations. The paper is also “trying out” a commission with the Black Student Alliance in order to increase dialogue between the two organizations.

Despite these recent efforts, leaders of minority organizations and the historically white groups agreed that more can be done.

Black Student Alliance President Tamara Dottin noted that minority students who join these historically white organizations often feel they are treated differently than others, noting that minority students are often encouraged to play visible roles in organizations in order to present an appearance of a diverse organization.

Slaven agreed with Dottin’s concern.

“Avoiding the issue of tokenism is an important thing,” he said. “When a person joins, we don’t want them to feel like they’ve joined as anything less than a full member.”

Audience members also contributed to the discussion on why minority students often do not feel welcome in certain organizations, specifically citing a lack of common social activities shared between the minority students and other group members.

Asian Student Union President Patrick Lee said he thinks it will take time to implement change. Lee added, however, that he is encouraged by recent progress.

“We’ve had more progress this year than in several years in recent memory,” Lee said.

Nabors noted his frustration with the process of enacting lasting change.

“You’re a leader for a year, involved for two, three or four years,” Nabors said. “That’s not generally time enough to entirely change the culture of an organization.”

Lee agreed with Nabors’ sentiment, noting that the University administrators and faculty could help solve the problem of short institutional memory.

“I think the University should step up to the plate,” Lee said. “We’re doing the best we can. We’re hitting brick walls. [The] retentive memory is in the faculty, is in the administration.”

Some student leaders noted that historically white organizations should work to make students feel welcome and encourage participation in multicultural groups’ activities.

Nabors said he thinks the historically white organizations and minority groups should work to “meet somewhere in the middle.”

University Chief Diversity Officer Bill Harvey asked the student leaders present whether their organizations can be as good as they would like unless they reflect the totality of the student body.

If the organizations do not reflect the population, Harvey said, leaders “have an obligation to figure out an approach to get more students into the organization [who] are being excluded for whatever reason.”

Harvey noted, however, that leaders must act for the correct reasons.

“It only works if you really believe that you improved the institution while also increasing the measure of diversity.”

With the senatorial midterm elections only a week away, Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Jim Webb and other candidates visited the University yesterday in order to rally support from students and the local community.

University Democrats President Katie Cristol introduced State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, the first speaker.

“I stand before you as the example that every vote counts,” Deeds said in reference to 2005 Virginia Attorney General race where he lost by 323 votes, the closest margin in Virginia history. “This is a purple state. This is not a Republican state.”

Deeds then introduced Democratic 5th District Congressional Candidate Al Weed, who spoke against the Bush administration and emphasized the importance to elect Democrats to the Congress.

“If we don’t have a Congress that defends our Constitution in the same way that it defends our country, then it’s time for change,” Weed said.

Weed then introduced former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga.

“I’m here to say to you that the eyes of the world are on this ticket,” Cleland said. “For the next week, people all over the world will be wondering where the citizens of Virginia stand.”

Cleland also spoke emphatically about the “obscenity” of the war in Iraq and his faith in Webb as a senator.

“You can depend on this man to live up to the hopes and dreams of the citizens of Virginia,” Cleland said.

Cleland then introduced Webb, who began his speech by thanking his supporters and addressing the recent character attacks from his opponent Sen. George Allen — most notably the attack on Webb’s 2001 novel “Lost Soldiers,” which includes descriptions of pedophilia and incest.

Webb defended his work by citing positive reviews of his novels from such publications as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.

“I say this to make a point,” Webb said. “The first point is that I’ve led a literary career, and I’m very proud. The second one is that I have lived in the real world and that I have reported on the real world.”

Webb also expressed his displeasure at the direction the campaign season has taken on, especially at the attacks and accusations the Allen campaign has made against Webb.

“The idea is to drive a wedge between the candidate and the voters, to try to say that the person is not like them, to try to say that person does not understand the issues, and to hit the emotional issues that will cause people to ignore other realities,” he said. “What we need to do is to ask Senator Allen to step forward and talk about his achievements.”

College Republicans Treasurer Michael Gannon also expressed his displeasure at the recent character attacks from both campaigns.

“It’s been unfortunate that [the campaign] has been distracted from the issues,” Gannon said. “However, we’re very optimistic and confident that Allen will be reelected a week from tomorrow.”

Second-year College Republican Gary Lawkowski also believes Allen will win the election, and attributes this to his success as Virginia governor.

“All politics is local … [and] Allen was a popular governor in Virginia,” Lawkowski said. “People will remember what he did for Virginia when he was governor and I think that plays into [the election] a lot.”

Former Ambassador William S. Luer, president of the United States Chapter of the United Nations Association, gave an address on the importance of the U.N. at the Miller Center of Public Affairs last night.

Luer said the U.N. serves an important purpose by creating a forum where the subtle nuances of international culture can come together.

“In the United Nations you have all these cultures talking to one another,” he said.

However, currently the U.N. has come under scrutiny and has fallen out of favor with the American public, he said.

“Often people yawn and say, ‘Ugh, he’s going to talk about the U.N.,’” Luer said. However, “America has to know about it … because there is simply no way the U.S. can solve the world’s problems alone.”

Luer said there are too many issues like global poverty and worldwide AIDS that affect every country – “global issues that have to be dealt with through the cooperation with others.”

Part of the reason the U.N. has become unpopular in the United States, Luer said, is because the priorities of the world don’t always coincide with those of the United States.

According to Luer, the U.N. placed development as the number-one issue.

Development “is the big issue, to say, ‘How are we going to save this planet?’” he said.

Immediately after the invasion of Iraq the esteem of the U.N. dropped in the eyes of many Americans, Luer said.

“Why? Because they didn’t support the U.S.,” Luer said.

Most of the world thought it did what it was supposed to do by refusing to support the invasion, he said.

“It tried to stop the world’s major power from doing something wrong,” Luer said.

Luer also said the U.N. has come under criticism for rampant corruption, particularly in the “Oil for Food” operation in Iraq.

In that situation, Luer said, 4,000 companies and seven or eight governments “in cahoots” with Saddam Hussein were responsible for 98 percent of the corruption.Despite the major graft the U.N. was able to provide much-needed food to Iraqis, limit Hussein’s importation of weapons and stop oil smugglers, he added.

Compared to the United States, the U.N. has been successful, Luer said.

“When you look at the amount of money that has been squandered by the U.S., you should ask yourself whether the U.N. should be hung out to dry,” he said.

Another misconception about the U.N. comes from all the attention given to the Security Council, whereas many other U.N. agencies are vital, Luer said.

Organizations like UNICEF and the World Health Organization provide infrastructure in dire circumstances, he said.

Immediately after the tsunami that rocked Southeast Asia the United States was ready to take the reins, but they were “wholly unequipped to coordinate the work,” Luer said.

Second-year College student Vadim Elenev said he agreed the U.N. does a lot of important humanitarian work but he felt that the Security Council was ineffective.

“It should stick to things that are possible to achieve, like UNICEF,” Elenev said, adding that he believed some of the goals are “idealistic, but unrealistic.”

The Security Council is unproductive because it hinders countries from looking out for themselves, Elenev said.

“Every country will act in its own interests, first and foremost,” he said.

Luer said peacekeeping is an important function of the U.N., adding that there are 100,000 U.N. troops in 16 countries keeping the peace where there are no U. S. troops.

“And keeping the peace is important to American interests,” Luer said.

Salvadoran Supreme Court Justice Mirna Perla spoke last night on human rights and domestic violence in post-war El Salvador in the auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The event was an International Guest Lecture, co-sponsored by the Women’s Center, Law School Human Rights Program and Latin American Studies Program.

During the speech, Perla addressed the audience in her Spanish dialect of Castellano, and was assisted by a translator from the University.

Perla was deeply involved with humanitarian and peace efforts during the El Salvador Civil War which plagued the nation from 1980 to 1992. She was the General Coordinator for the Commission for Human Rights in Central America for six years and focused on women’s rights, domestic and sexual violence, and disappearances of children in a war-stricken nation.

Perla’s husband, Herbert Anaya, was a central human rights activist and was assassinated within one year of his appointment as Commissioner for Human Rights in the 1980s.

Women’s Center Director Sharon Davie said Perla’s presence was “important in that she’s an extraordinary human being and represents a commitment to human rights that is active even through the most difficult times.”

In her presentation, Perla first reflected on the unstable state of El Salvador during the war by providing facts and figures that emphasized the systematic violation of human rights and killings of over 70,000 civilians in the nation. Perla then moved to the focus of her speech: highlighting the drastic increase in poverty, unemployment and various forms of violence as results of the socially and economically fragile post-war state of El Salvador.

However, Perla also provided a strategy for the substantial eradication of domestic violence from the social realm through such mechanisms as cooperative training, communal exchange of experiences and reaching out to students internationally.

“What is important for us is to talk to students from all over the world,” Perla said, “as it allows us to transmit a message on an international scale and helps to form a sense of social awareness and purpose in them from a young age so that they may show solidarity in support of women and other victims of violence.”

Politics Prof. Lawrie Balfour said the lecture was a “rare and remarkable opportunity for faculty and students to hear someone who not only knows about human rights in theory, but has been a prominent activist for such a long time.”

Balfour’s sentiment was echoed by Davie, who added that the lecture was essential in exemplifying “the University’s ever growing inclination towards providing an international education and global perspective on important issues, such as Justice Perla’s efforts, which happen to pertain to The Women’s Center and Law School Human Rights Program.”

The Cavalier Daily presents a list of frightening things on Grounds this Halloween:

Le Maison Mumps — Like the French House, but instead of everyone speaking French, everyone has the Mumps.

Brooks Hall –It looks like the Addams Family residence any day of the year, but especially when full of costumed, dancing anthropologists.

The cold study — Actually, paying students to get sick isn’t really that creepy.

Lyndon LaRouche — Is Lynn Cheney a modern-day Mephistopheles? She may or may not be British, but she’s certainly not as scary as the Larouchians on Grounds last week.

Eternal damnation –With another impromptu sermon on the South Lawn yesterday, students should be starting to wonder whether they really are going to hell, and whether it would really be that bad.

Standard Time — According to an e-mail from the Dean of Students office, earlier nightfall is better for crime. Someone should have reminded the criminals to wait until November to mug students.

Toilet seats in Clemons — Plague, pestilence and death.

Trick-or-treating on the Lawn — It’s time for the social norms people to put up posters to stop the screaming banshees demanding candy: “Honor means not wearing a costume.”

The Deconomist — One could journey to Tchad and back without finding a newspaper as eerily similar to the real Economist.

Ryan McElveen — A level-five white tiger with a fire-three spell.

Hereford College — At the fringes of civilization, Hereford’s prison-like construction would drive even the sanest students batty.

Brown College — A trip through the tunnels of Brown is way scarier than a trip through Brown’s annual haunted house, depending on your tolerance for indie electronica and hipster nudity.

First years –they look so young… were we ever that young? Aahhhhhhhhhh!

The Living Wage– The wage… It’s ALIVE!

The fifth floor of Newcomb Hall — A dusty mountain of yearbooks and bizarre costumes, the storage area on the fifth floor is an inferno waiting to happen. Good thing there’s all that asbestos.

The fourth floor of Newcomb Hall — Negative energy from honor trials creates a poltergeist. If a flying chair doesn’t hit you in the face, someone’s disgruntled parent probably will.

The Newcomb Hall catacombs — “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”