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Herald By and for the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
GENEVA, NY
FRIDAY, Febuary 6, 2009
VOLUME CXXX ISSUE 20
Celebrating a Life Campus Mourns the Loss of Warren “Kim” Kimber ’11 By Belinda Littlefield ‘11 Managing Editor
As students entered Trinity Church on Wednesday, February 4, 2009, they were greeted by photographs of Kim playing the sport he loved. There were action shots of his time on the Hobart lacrosse team that depicted his enthusiasm and dedication to the sport. Students arriving on, or a little before 7:30 p.m.- the appointed time of the memorial service, were lucky to have a seat.
The fact that the church was filled to capacity attested to Kim’s popularity among faculty and students alike. It was noted by Nick Blumer, a lacrosse team member, “He’d walk in a room and just kind of light it up. I don’t know a single kid that didn’t like him. Everybody liked him- campus wide.” Warren Spering Kimber IV, known to his friends as Kim, graduated in 2007 from private Pingry School in New Jersey, where he earned twelve varsity letters during his four-year participation in the lacrosse, soccer, and basketball teams. As a senior at Pingry, Kim served as captain on all three teams. A gifted athlete, Kim played on the Hobart Lacrosse team as a midfielder. His love of Lacrosse is a legacy of his grandfather, Warren Kimber Jr., a 1997 inductee to the New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame, shares Kim’s love of lacrosse and a National Coordinator of Lacrosse Officials for the NCAA since 1992. Warren Kimber Jr. is, further, a Hobart alumnus of the class of 1956 as well as a member of the Board of Trustees. On Saturday, January 31st, 2009, both students and faculty of the Colleges were informed of Kim’s death. Chaplin Lesley Adams offered comfort to Kim’s friends as well as helping to plan Wednesday’s memorial service. In the course of the service, several people that were close to Kim stepped up to the podium to reflect on his life and his impact in theirs. Among them were Lacrosse teammates Ricky Evans ’09, Sam Orr ’09 and Michael O’Brien ’10 as well as Hobart Lacrosse Coach T.W. Johnson. Coach Johnson said of Kim that, on his first sight of Kim on the Lacrosse field, “Although his helmet kept me from seeing his face, I imagine he would have been smiling.” He further went on to describe Kim in terms of simplicity- he simply liked to compete and simply liked to play lacrosse. Several William Smith students from the sophomore class said that he had a “talent for coloring outside the lines.” Their testimonies ended with the hopeful message that his “life was not over, it had just changed.” Michael O’Brien said, “The term student athlete, Kim never really seemed to embody, but he knew it and we loved him for it.” Testimonies like these were prevalent throughout the memorial; however, a common theme emerged after the third person left the podium and the audience was left to ponder his words as Dean Eugen Baer stood to take his turn. Although the many people that provided different testimony in celebration of Kim’s life, they were in agreement about one simple fact: he was an individual
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and he would be missed. Michael O’Brien ended the testimonials by saying, “Goodbye to a man, a brother, a son, and a teammate.” Adding both a sense of solemnity and hope to the memorial service was teammate Patrick Evans’ recitation of Henry Scott Holland’s “Death is Nothing at All” in which Holland says:
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SAGA Size Me By Caley Goldblatt ’12 Herald Contributor
By Erin Meehan ’11 Herald Contributor It seems everyone recently is trying to do his or her part to save the environment. Whether it is driving a Hybrid vehicle, turning off electronics when they are not being used or in the case of Hobart and William Smith Colleges the latest craze is recycling. Students most likely noticed the abundance of recycle bins now located all throughout campus specifically in the dorms. This year HWS is participating in a national competition called RecycleMania,
h t t p : / / w w w. recyclemania. org/. The interesting
and thorough website gives great information about what the competition entails and who is participating. T h e overview states, “RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.” Schools do this over a ten-week program. HWS has already participated in the Fall ‘08 session. The results were less then thrilling. Throughout the ten weeks the colleges went from a 29% weekly recycling rate to a 17.9% weekly rate. This record makes little or no sense. Why would students, faculty and staff recycle more the
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first week back to school versus week 10? The reasons could be vast but on specifically seems to be laziness. Many times students disregard the amount waste they accumulate over a week and do not take the time to divide recyclable materials from regular trash. The competition is currently underway which means HWS students need to step-up to the challenge immediately if they want to be contenders. The category we are focusing on is waste prevention. This includes more than just recycling. This also means the school has taken the initiative in purchasing energy efficient equipment, using online tools instead of paper documents when possible and charging for printing to prohibit students from abusing paper. Ever y little bit helps when comes to saving the environment. It is important that as a youthful intelligent community we come together and try to better the world in which we live. Hopefully by making small changes today we will be able to alter the lives of everyone and everything around us, making the world a cleaner more beautiful place for our children and grandchildren.
Everyone seems to walk away from saga with that same feeling in their stomach. They are stuffed, but still hungry and definitely not satisfied. That salad, soup, yogurt, ice cream combination seems to just leave your stomach wanting more, not even realizing how much you ate until shamefully dropping off your tray and finding 5 bowls on it. Since everything is free (sort of) a why not attitude takes control. D e s s e r t b e c o m e s r o u t i n e and soda inevitable, but what does this mean for your health? Could saga itself prolong the freshman 15 into the sophomore 20, or junior 25? Just how many calories are in that brownie you grabbed for the road? Though Saga does list the calories for the entrées at the entry way, it s rare to see someone just eat one entre with no drink, dessert, or side dish. Strangely enough that one entre would have sufficed if you had gone to the Pub or Café. Saga has a mysterious quality to make you overeat and gorge on
unhealthy food. Luckily saga is willing to release its nutrition secrets online in the dining section of the HWS website. Here are a few sample menus to put the dangers of saga into perspective. Let’s explore a typical saga meal: burger, fries, coke, and a brownie. A single saga burger racks up at 370 calories, the fries at 180, coke Is 200, and the brownie is 220. That’s a grand total of 970 calories. I know I thought to be healthy a few times and get a turkey burger instead, but surprisingly they were 480 calories and had 32 grams of fat. Beware of the Veggie line as well, especially their deep-fried tofu dishes. When you hear the word tofu you either think healthy, yuck, or a combination of the two. Though you might think tofu is a safe option, the unnecessary frying done by the saga chefs adds tons of calories destroying any health benefits it might have provided. SAGA continued on Page 2
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