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At best, stupid; at worst, insulting Last semester every member of the college community received from the Office of the President a memorandum announcing the name chosen for me new restaurant that accompanies our new Quality Inn. Supposedly it had taken months of brainstroming to come up with just me right name. The resuh--"Billy Mac's." "Billy Mac's?" They're kidding right? Wrong. The restaurant, in its food and atmosphere, is supposed to approach fine dining. auracung the upscale clientle of the Conference Center and diners looking for one of Carroll's better restaurants. We just can't help thinking mat with a name like "Billy Mac's" up in lights, the parking lot will be crowded with pickup trucks and drunken patrons, who are more accustomed to hurling bottles at performers thai. crouch behind chicken wire, than actually using knives and forks. The name, the image-it's all wrong. But it gets worse. "Billy Mac" was the nickname of Dr. William R. McDaniel, a beloved, almost heroic figure in the history of WMC. Dr. McDaniel's contributions, which range from serving as interim- president to founding the physical education department, are unequaled. He has been honored with a residence hall, a lounge, and a faculty residence. all of which bear his name. And now a restaurant What next? Roads? Parking lots? 4 years and a photo-finish Resrrocms? What an honor. What an insult. My college days at WMC will and stood around until someone end in approximately four got sick of looking at the came when Iwas working with a Joe new Times photographer, Hazardous exits Should the day arrive and I am strangely dressed kid in the comer I Kohl. We were sent to cover months, willing. Dean Palmer with the Ansel Adams pose. handed the hood and diploma of a was introduced to Gene Bracken, basketball games at WMC and South Carroll. Ten minutes with The four entrances to Western Maryland College off of fulf grown English major, I will the editor. Not five minutes later, the Terrors, twenty minutes in the Pennsylvania Avenue are places waiting for an accident to happen. be toying with two ideas. the news editor gave me two rolls car, another ten minutes with the Whenever someone is attempting to Ie