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Thursday, February 20, 1997 - Page 10 FEATURES Students venture to England and Scotland over Jan Term IIY JEN VICK After watching the royal guard outside Features Editor Buckingham Palace march to the ancient The poet Miller once exclaimed "When rhythms of bagpipes, S1. Paul's Cathedral you huff and puff/And finally save enough! was visited where the now defunct fairy tale Money up to take your familyl On a trip of Charles and Di all began. across the seal Let me tell you where to gol The evenings consisted of melodies and Go to England oh." melodramas. The group listened to the Lon- From Jan 10 1025 a group of 3 [ mem- don Philharmonic, featuring an 18-year-old bers of WMC's family traveled across the violin soloist, and watched the plot of Oscar sea to England and Scotland. The trip was a Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" unfoldon-stage. Jan Term study tour with Dr. Ray Stevens, A day in the bustling streets of London professor of English, and Dr.James Lightner, was swapped for a pilgrimage to the pasto- professor of mathematics, as knowledgeable ral town of Canterbury via train. The tower- and enthusiastic guides. With 23 years of ing ceiling of Canterbury Cathedral virtually traveling experience in the United Kingdom echoed the cries of agony ofThomas Beckett, and 12 of these together, Stevens and' murdered at the alter hundreds of years ago. Lightner guided students through a land rich Leaving London and heading northward in history and royal tradition. to York, a stop was made at Cambridge. The trip did not specifically emphasize WMC students mingled among students of literature, music, or science, but rather all of King's College, one of the 31 colleges of these were incorporated into the experience. Cambridge, as they rushed to class on bi- "It was a very good tour because it seemed the students were responding well cycles. .. . MIYLARRICK After a day and night ill York, a city no and were involved," said Stevens. "Seeing I?nger needing the prorecriorrof'fhefortress- --~I::1;fa~~~)s~~:~~:;~:::ee~~ ~1::d,~;t~~~I;;c~7:rI~~~~~::;~~o::::~g~I;~;i~;~~:ii~'Jan . studentslearn and enjoy is the secret of a like walls that surround it, the Jan ten~ group Term study. good trip. The two should go hand in hand." continued north with Scotland as their desti- With five days in London heading the nation. The group's luxury coach bus was of Glasgow, declared the European City of Shakespeare's birthplace and home. Not far agenda, the group from "Mary Land" was sidetracked though with a brief visit to Foun- Culture in 1990. An evening of entertain- from this was Anne Hathaway's childhood bombarded with accents, red double-decker rainsAbbey. The ruins of this monastery lay ment was provided with the play of home, the woman Shakespeare married buses, pubs and clubs, getting from here to within a beautiful green valley, now home to "Cinderella," performed in the U.K.'s tra- when he was 18. there on the underground, and the sights, flocks of doves nesting in and among its tran- dition of pantomime. The twist on this clas- Nearby Coventry Cathedral showed evi- sounds, and smells of England's capital city septs. The raw, damp cold that day made one sic fairy tale left some crying with laughter dence of the new and old intermingled. The of seven million. wonder how the monks managed a life-style and others in stunned confusion. new Coventry Cathedral was rebuilt in the Witnessing the influences of what is one that forbade more than a cloak and sandals Just becoming accustomed to the Scot- early.1960's,whilethe steeple and four walls of the world's lastsurviving monarchies, vis- for clothing. tish twist on the English accent, the group of the original stand beside it. Ravaged by its were made to Windsor Castle and Hamp- In Edinburgh,Scotland, EdinburghCastle was off and moving again, southward the bombs of World War II, the shell of the ton Court, both stomping grounds for the told the story of centuries of conflict between through England's Lake District. The sun old cathedral is all that remains. United Kingdom's royalty. At the Tower of the Brits and Scots, Mary Queen of Scots' shone brightly on this mountainous region Nearing the end of the trip, a day-and London, Queen Elizabeth II's crown, weigh- tragic life, and displayed the Stone of Scone consisting of about a dozen lakes. Several night was spent in Bath and brief visits to ing five pounds, glimmered with a wealth of and Scottish crown jewels. A free day was photo stops were made to carry home the Avebury and Stonehenge made. Bath is a gems, and the pomp and glory of her coro- given in Scotland for which some took ad- memories of the breathtaking scenery. A~n~d~rews,and~th::;.e.::;m;",;e~"m:::s~.. ~;.~.=...~~.~...._~....~.._~~... nation could only be imagined as the group vantage of the Highlands, the world famous Once again in the little town strolled~~r;;;;;~~~"II"'=~.~~S~tr. TOYOTA'S RE "... 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