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Students report small-town Lexington, Virginia, the nearest town to campus, is a little lean on college-friendly activities. Some go as far as to call it “rural,” but there is a downtown district providing some limited off-campus support for the Washington and Lee community. Students can count the number of bars in town on three fingers, and most of the restaurants, retail stores, and shops seem to shutter by early evening, with the exception of the Stop-In gas station, which serves hot dogs to the hungry 24/7. While the Lexington PD is there to step on too much student fun, Lexington residents are generally fairly friendly to the college crowd populating their town. But most students prefer the semi-isolation of W&L’s location, and a majority of parties take place in off-campus houses or open fields, away from the watchful eyes of school or police. Should they crave the city, Roanoke and Charlottesville are 45 minutes away and offer malls, airports, and bar scenes missing from little Lexington.

Washington and Lee’s primary campus, or “Front Campus,” is a row of red-brick colonial-style buildings with white fronts and pillars. The line of academic buildings is known as the Washington and Lee University Historic District and has been designated a national landmark. W&L’s compact campus doesn’t deviate much from the grassy acreage that Front Campus buildings line up along, with a group of administrative and residential buildings to the south and athletic fields and facilities in the northwest corner. Past the furthest fields are a grove of pine trees where students can hike, party, or just enjoy some nature. The small, self-contained nature of the campus—-combined with its manicured lawns, stately trees, and grand old buildings—-gives visitors the impression of being at a country club rather than on a college campus.

Freshman living is as basic as it gets. Located near the Front Campus row and built in the same red-brick colonial model, freshmen are divided up into small, spare single and double rooms from four first-year only halls: Baker, Davis, Gilliam, and Graham-Lees Hall. A lucky few score bigger rooms in Gaines Hall, but the apartment-style suites there are primarily reserved for upperclassmen. Older students also have the option to move into Woods Creek Apartments in a quiet central location, as well as any of the limited spaces in W&L’s International House, John Chavis House, Outing Club House, or Spanish House. After surviving the barracks-like accommodations of their first year, students have to live on-campus as sophomores but then are allowed to move to off-campus Lexington housing (popular for parties because of the distance from administrators) or a frat or sorority house.

While “Go Generals!” is a popular phrase on campus, students are generally more fair-weather than hell-or-high-water fans of W&L athletics. Approximately one-quarter of students compete in Division III play on one of 23 varsity teams, and the program enjoys overall success in the 13-team Old Dominion Athletic Conference, having claimed the top stop overall at least 12 times in the last 14 years. Men’s and women’s cross country, tennis, golf, swimming, lacrosse, and volleyball are usually top contenders in conference competition. Overall, students don’t get whipped up in the same kind of sporting frenzy associated with bigger schools, and games aren’t especially well-attended. Since W&L is a Division III school, it doesn’t offer athletic scholarships to attract big-name high school players. But the lack of rah-rah Generals spirit doesn’t seem to affect students’ desire to get out there and play for themselves—-75 percent of W&L students take part in club or intramural teams that range from fencing to rugby.