Student Lore

Poems........

Moments

when sky fills my head:

bluer than thought

cleaner than number

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Moments

of sinking my teeth

into now like a hungry fox. . . .

Marge Piercy

getting dark

in the direction

the fox's tail disappears

Tadashi Kondo

the way a fox slips into one side

of your headlights and carrying his tail

(like a pen running our of ink) slips

out the other?

"Ars Poetica"

James Baker Hall

Student Memories......

Fox Day, an institution in itself at Rollins College, holds special meaning for all those involved, be it students, faculty, staff or alumni. Freshman every year hear the praises of its greatness, and anticipation of their first Fox Day grows throughout the year.

Older students who know what this great day represents begin to grow a little restless around the beginning of April. Frequent calls to Dunkin Doughnuts are placed to see if there has been an order for the presidents office at Rollins. Students who hear from the lifeguard at the pool who heard from facilities management who heard from someone in the President's office that tomorrow will be Fox Day which means that the exam, that was also tomorrow, will not be held, thanks to the ever timely fox. Students will instead go out to any of the local Rollins hangouts, and enjoy a night out. And to these students surprise, they will see most of the rest of their classmates with the same exam the next day out, also enjoying a night out. Only they have heard it is Fox Day through their hall director who heard from this guy who's fraternity brother tapped the phones in the President's office.

Fox Day is special for all. Whether it means a day off of work, a break from the pressures of working on that paper, a chance to relax, a chance to spend with friends, or a chance to get a great tan on a beautiful day with four or five hundred of your closest schoolmates doing all of those crazy and animalistic things that college kids are famous for.

Fox Day is a day which brings out the best in all. It is one of the many things which makes the Rollins community so wonderful, and makes all a part of is thankful that they are. It is a time when faculty, staff and students congregate on Mills lawn at 5:00 for a free barbecue and interact in a festive and fun setting. Fox Day, an invention of Hugh F. McKean, is a great day for all, and another small way in which such a great man contributed to the school he loved so much.