Each week, The Cavalier Daily asks a student 25 questions and allows him or her to eliminate five of them. This week's interviewee is Dane Wisher, a fourth-year English major from "Exit 98 off the Garden State Parkway" Wall, NJ.
Q: Do you use spray-on or stick deodorant?
A: Stick definitely. The spray just gets everywhere and stinks, and I'm not an Axe man.
Q: What will you be least thankful for over Thanksgiving break?
A: That my brother is over in Afghanistan. He's in the 82nd Airborne -- been there since the spring.
Q: How will the University react to Sunday's open honor trial?
A: Some feigned attention, then casual indifference.
Q: Last time you panicked about something?
A: About my thesis on, this morning. It's on Lord Rochester -- a poet from the English Restoration.
Q: Favorite person to see at Thanksgiving?
A: Probably my dog -- she's a Boxer named Bella.
Q: Favorite thing to have for lunch?
A: I'll have to go with Qdoba -- a little chicken queso with black beans and hot salsa.
Q: On a scale of 1-10, how ready are you for the end of the semester?
A: I think about a three. I just have a lot of papers due and don't have a job.
Q: What are the problems with the Echols program?
A: I think it creates a University class structure. Others may be just as intelligent, if not more so, but have to deal with difficult registration and requirements. The playing field should be level.
Q: What book should everyone read before graduating from college?
A: "Class," by Paul Fussell. It's about American social hierarchy -- a little outdated but good.
Q: If you only had one CD, what would it be?
A: I'd have to say Jethro Tull, "Aqualung." It's got everything: heavy guitar, good folk music. It's deep, philosophical and anti-establishment, so it's got Indie cred.
Q: Did you get a flu shot?
A: No -- because you kind of get the flu when you get it. I'll take my chances.
Q: I give you a chainsaw. What do you do?
A: I think I'd go take down New Cabell Hall by myself.
Q: Finish the sentence: Oh no, my pants are on fire and _________.
A: It's kerosene day at the Laundromat.
Q: If you could go back to any day this semester, what would it be?
A: Probably the first weekend after classes started. Good parties, no worries.
Q: Last time you spaced out?
A: Just now.
Q: With your best friend, would you prefer to eat a four-course meal at a fancy restaurant or have fried chicken and beer?
A: Are there cocktails at the fancy restaurant? If so, then yes.
Q: On a scale of 1-10, how dumb is Kansas?
A: Well if 10 is the dumbest, I'll go with 12. They're reducing the level of political rhetoric in this country to the third grade.
Q: What program at U.Va. desperately needs funding?
A: Football -- no I'm joking. I think I'll be biased and say English. But any of the undergraduate Arts & Sciences programs need it.
Q: Least awkward way to end an awkward conversation?
A: [To say] "Yeah I gotta meet my adviser ... so ..."
Q: Nickname you had as a kid that you wish your friends still used?
A: I don't think any of them were good.
The Verdict: Here's a vote to make Dane's new nickname "[Not] Axeman." But then let's all go over to New Cabell and take it down as a community.
-- Compiled by A-J Aronstein
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