Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger will be installed as the College's chancellor during the annual Charter Day ceremony, which will be held Saturday, Feb. 10, 2001. The College's Board of Visitors elected Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of state, as the school's 22nd chancellor in May.

Kissinger will replace former Prime Minister of Great Britain Lady Margaret Thatcher, who served for seven years. She succeeded the late Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.

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The Pietasters took the campus by storm last Saturday when it played to an audience of more than 400 students to raise money for the American Cancer Society. The third annual concert included performances by three ska bands, the Pietasters, the Velveteens and Ashcan Betty. Each year the amount of money raised by the event has doubled, with this year's profits totaling more than $2,000.

"I think it touched a lot of people, just the way I wanted it to," concert organizer Joe McClanahan, a senior, said.

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Stress and exams are practically synonymous. However, the Student Assembly is actually working on a plan that would help to alleviate some of the agony attached to exams. SA members have been investigating the possibility of self-scheduled exams.

The plan could be relatively simple. Students would be able to schedule their exams in any of the time slots that presently exist in the exam schedule. They would formally register their choices with the school, and the professors would get a list telling them which students are taking the exam on which days. Proctors would then administer the tests in various rooms.

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Crunch time: two papers and 100 pages of reading with six more hours before class. It can be done. Just put on another pot of coffee, pop another caffeine pill and pull another all-nighter.

Making this a frequent habit can be harmful, though. According to sleep specialist Dr. Tom Bond, the director of the Sleep Disorders Center for Adults and Children in the Williamsburg Community Hospital, a continual lack of sleep can lead to anything from irritability and nausea to, in an extreme case, death.

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On Saturday night, the Chesapeake rooms opened their doors to a world where ska met reggae and fused into a nostalgic romp led by Pietasters frontman Steve Jackson and Velveteens leader Wilson Rickerson, all for the noble cause of fighting cancer. Jackson and Rickerson both returned to their Virginia roots to play the Third Annual Charity blowout, which benefited the American Cancer Society.

Though the turnout was not as large as one would hope for a campus starved for big-name bands, die-hard skankers and UCAB groupies alike were there in full-force and helped bring a little concert atmosphere to the usually sterile University Center rooms.

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The Green and Gold women's basketball team dropped a heartbreaker last Wednesday, falling to the University of North Carolina-Asheville 63-59. The Tribe led 28-26 at the half, but saw their lead slip away in the end.

The Bulldogs used clutch plays from sophomore center Tonisha Jackson to springboard the come-from-behind victory. After trailing during the majority of the first half, UNC-A went on a 10-4 run to take a six-point lead early in the second. W&M rallied back, cutting the lead to 60-57 and gaining possession of the ball with less than a minute left.

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