"We didn't start the fire..."

For those of you humming the song I apologize, but I couldn't help it!!! So the story behind the title. For 3 years my favorite Welcome Week memory (which will stay a mystery but I will tell you it involved a boy and a phone number, and now my scrapbook) has gone unchallenged. Unchallenged until last night. I stayed at the school to watch the transfer movie, National Treasure. Everyone else on steering committee went to The Incredibles at the Paramount. I was fine with it, no big deal- start the movie by pushing play-turn it off by pushing stop-simple enough. Well, while we were waiting for it to get dark, we were in the amphitheater, I realized that the lights were on. I called some people and they said just to cover them up with something, so I did the only thing that came to mind, I put boxes over the 5 big lights that shine on the Tower of Light.

This worked fine for, oh about 25-30 minutes. About that time one of the girls said "I smell smoke." Sure enough we start to pull the boxes off the lights and clouds of smoke rise filling the air with that really good bon-fire small. In another circumstance I would have invited this smell to accompany my graham cracker, chocolate and marshmellow, but last night the smell was a fright. After pulling off the first box I flipped it over just in time to see the flames begin to form on the box. Yes it was on fire. I thought..."Hum..if this one is on fire, the other 4 are probably close to it." I was right. We pulled off all the boxes and stomped out small fires on them all.

We moved the movie location to the Living Room in the Campus Center-got kicked out and ended up in the Club house of UP. While everyone (all 20) went to UP one of the guys and myself locked up the sound equippment. I had to go get the tub outside and when I walked out one of the boxes had reignited and was producing a flame too big for me to stomp out. Luckily Will Morris was walking by and took care of it for me. I wish I had a picture of the box to show you.

For those of you who know my history with burning things down I am proud to report that the Tower of Light, The Amphitheater and The Bible Building are still standing. Laugh it up out there. It's funny! We got a kick out of it! Nothin' like a fire to challenge the reigning Welcome Week memory-though I don't know it successfully beat it, it is definintly tied.