"The Lessons of Lindsay"

It's six o'clock in the evening and the models waiting in the ballroom of the Virginia Commonwealth University student commons are looking a little tired. They've been rehearsing the same 160 or so steps down the same runway for a while now, over and over, and the pain inflicted by high heels is starting to show. Downstairs, fellow students are lounging around or standing in line for the kind of fast food fare that makes just about any student union in the country indistinguishable from any other—Chik-Fil-A, pizza, Subway.