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[[Logic: Principles of Reasoning]], commonly shortened to Logic, is a Humanities course in the CTY program with no prerequisites. Its course code is LOGC, and it is offered at [[Baltimore]], [[Lancaster]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[Saratoga Springs]], and was also offered at [[Loudonville]].<br />
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==Course Description==<br />
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Logic: PoR, as opposed to [[Mathematical Logic]], is a humanities course, centering on logical reasoning applied to writing and arguments. The main activities of the class usually include reading and discussing philosophy, debating (sometimes against [[Philosophy of Mind]] classes), and writing argumentative essays, with the main emphasis on making arguments logical and strong. Students in this class are also introduced to formal logic, at a level roughly equivalent to a college freshman-level course.<br />
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==Class History==<br />
The CTY Logic course was designed and first taught by the great and honorable Jonathan Cohen in 1985 at Dickinson, and from 1986 to 1988 at Franklin and Marshall.<br />
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The Logic textbook generally remains the same through the years and is known to use odd analogies:<br />
* "After taking LSD, Alice said she saw a flying saucer land in the parking lot of her local mall. Since Alice has a history of telling the truth, we can conclude that an alien spacecraft really did land in the parking lot."<br />
* "If there is nothing to fear but fear itself, then women should not fear serial rapists."<br />
* "On the evening of the fourth, Mr. Wilson went out onto the veranda to watch the fireworks go up in his pajamas. We therefore conclude that he had a very exciting evening."<br />
* "I saw you at that party the other night. Everyone there was doing crack. So tell me, how long have you been dealing?"<br />
* "Native Americans are disappearing. Ralph is a Native American. Therefore, Ralph is disappearing."<br />
* "So, how long have you been beating your wife for?"<br />
* "After high schools introduced SAT prep, SAT scores declined 10%. Therefore, we should eliminate high schools."<br />
* "If I cannot be killed by infinite ninjas, then I am alive after infinite ninjas killed me"<br />
* "If I open the door and bash this poor little kid's head in accidentally, should I go to jail?"<br />
LOGC.B.LAN.07.2 says:<br />
* Intelligent design is a hamburger.<br />
* God doesn't have to exist to not play dice.<br />
* Kib's taters is holy.<br />
* We don't believe in evolution.<br />
* It's like finding ways to draw common sense.<br />
* It's a vicious lack of cycle.<br />
* Your mom's a fallacy!<br />
* Enough said about Professor Conway...<br />
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===LOGC.B.LAN.07.1===<br />
gossiped using formal logic while typing their dreaded opinion articles:<br />
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B ⊃ N/ B//N<br />
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F <3 L/L <3 E//F <3 E<br />
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(F <3 E) ⊃ (L ≡ JB)/F <3 E//L ≡ JB<br />
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[Note regarding validity of first statement: we proved that love is a transitive property (we being Emily, Larissa, and sort of Nixxi)]<br />
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===LOGC.B.LAN.08.01===<br />
Quotes the unimitatable TA Charles<br />
"LOOOGGIIC B!!!!!! LEEEEEEEEETT'S GOOOOOO"<br />
<br/>THE POWER THAT IS THE CLOCK, AND ITS LOVER, ERIK!<br />
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===LOGC.B.LAN.08.2===<br />
Continues to quote Charles:<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!" (say what?)<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!" (can't hear you!)<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!" (oh baby!)<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!"<br />
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===LOS=== <br />
The Logic Instructor, Brian Talbot, is famed for his Logic call, used at handoffs. It is often imitated, but never duplicated: "LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-(deep breath)-GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!" Every year, the Logic class also holds debates with the Ethics class. Ethics usually wins.<br />
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===JHU Sesh 1 '08===<br />
Logic A taught by Bill McGeehan is known for its suggestiveness : B horseshoe J, PMS, and all those perverted contraception in schools/eugenics debates. This class also had a really cool TA Kurt Pfund, whom we all called Mr Tumnus because of his uncanny resemblance to McAvoy <br />
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===LOU.08.1.LOGC===<br />
Taught by Jim Davis (no relation to the cartoonist) and TA'd by Dan — later the TA for SAR.09.1.LOGC —, featured such memorable moments as<br />
* Jim's divison of the class into the four Harry Potter houses.<br />
* a debate over evolution's status as a scientific theory where the jury determined that evolution was, in fact, not a scientific theory.<br />
* debates in groups with ETHC students first on capital punishment and then on human cloning (mostly uneventful), followed by a debate on the merits of pirates vs. ninjas.<br />
* among many others.<br />
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===SAR.09.01.LOGC.A===<br />
Jim Davis is the best logic teacher in the world. He is the same Jim Davis who put his class into Harry Potter houses and switched them periodically. Harry Potter houses are groups of 2-3 people that work together during logic problems, and earn points for their house.<br />
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===LAN.10.2.LOGC.C===<br />
This was taught by Dr. Bernardo "Scarface" Cantens and TA'd by Jacob "Hipster" Sparxx. Bern was a kind of awkward but a really fatherly guy so we all called him Dad starting the first day. He was new to CTY so we had to teach him about how the CTY classroom environment is different from his normal college classroom but he caught on quickly and was overall a fun/effective instructor. Sparxx, the TA, was basically the best TA ever. He always wore a straw hat he bought from some random woman in the mountains while hiking, jeans that were rolled up, and was basically the epitome of your typical hipster. Sparxx is known for being very profound for his age, sitting in strange positions, and being very good at yoga. As for the course, we learned a lot about evaluating arguments, differentiating between a valid and invalid argument, fallacies, different forms of logic, conditional and inductive proofs, and read from Hume the last week. The course material was overall very interesting and involved a LOT of philosophy. We also enjoyed listening to the words of the peculiar Gleb and watching Monty Python videos. <br />
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===JHU.10.1. LOGC.A===<br />
Taught by Bill McGeehan and TA Kurt Pfund, the class kept up the tradition of not just learning LOGIC, but SUGGESTIVE logic.<br />
"F, or G? ...Orgy!" -Alexandra E.<br />
"No, YOU'RE a fallacy!" -Ryder<br />
Aside from being perverted all the time, this class happened to be musically talented. Disney's "The Lion King" soundtrack was a favorite. They even wrote a song and performed a song dedicated to Logic A, entitled "Hey Logic A," which made Bill teary-eyed and received whoops and hollers from the audience on the last day.<br />
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===JHU.10.2.LOGC===<br />
Bill McGeehan taught this class, with TA Linda Kang (AKA Snuffy, because she has a stuffed Snuffy doll and a Snuffy T-shirt.) Once again extremely suggestive, this session brought us such jewels as...<br />
* "Slave workers are often not paid..." -S.Kim<br />
* "Don't climb the tree..." -K.Heinlein<br />
* "Is that Leo...?" *SLAPS* -B. Mahadev, during break demonstrating independent eye movement<br />
* "I will be a mother someday soon." -L<br />
"YOU'RE PREGNANT?!?" -T<br />
"What? No! AHHHH!" *blushes* -conversation between TA Linda and T.King<br />
* "Here, have a peach and taste the orgasm!" -B.M<br />
* "GOODNIIIIIGHT BANGKOK!!" -C.Zhu<br />
* "I'm the Spartacus of BLAMMO!" -D.Galvez<br />
* "Camastres, Cesare, Darii, Ferio...uh, Cthulu?" *gets hit w/ paper balls* -A.Palacios<br />
* "Are you calling me a MUTANT!?" -T.King<br />
* "SNUFFY!!" -Everyone, upon seeing Kinda every day<br />
* "Aw, C'MON!!! Do I really? ...Grrr... Fine." *gets on ground* "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!" -Linda<br />
* "Caleb, stop throwing your sperm at Bella please." -B.M<br />
* *slams fist on table* "That's a FALLACY!!" -D.Galvez<br />
* "That's committing the fallacy of bull****." -T.King<br />
* "Andrew, be quiet or we'll stuff you in a box and ship you to Bangkok." -B.M<br />
* "Oh BABY!" -C.Zhu<br />
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===LAN.11.2.LOGA===<br />
Jacob 'Sparky' Sparks was the instructor and Joe Pulka aka Broseph, aka Jolka was the TA. They were both pretty awesome and let us listen to daft punk music in class. Brian and Jaya invented the I Theory. Our class was mostly squirrels of the ages of 12-13, but that did not stop us from being awesome.<br />
As it often happens when you put insane people in the same class (we pretty much all should've belonged in separate wards in a mental asylum), inside jokes ensued. Such as...<br />
*"So meta-ethics is infibulation?" -Cherian<br />
*"INCONCEIVABLE." -Angie<br />
*"NO NO NO! TWO JALAPENOS, '''ONE''' STICK!" -Jessie<br />
*"That's what the demon wants you to think!"<br />
"Maybe you ''are'' the demon!" -Brian and Winston<br />
*Dictionary wars: Yiran, Winston, and a few special appearances by 'the brick.'<br />
*"SPLENDID!!!" -Abby<br />
*"My friend is offering ONE...sexy picture of her clutching Strawberry kiwi lemonade to her bosom in exchange for ONE...order of korean noodles!" -Jessie and Abby<br />
*"JOOOoOOOOOooOooooooOOOE!!" -Stephanie<br />
*"I had to urinate on it" -Jessie<br />
*"Clutch it! CLUTCH IT HARDER!" -Abby and Jessie<br />
*"More than half of the people on the family tree have love children, and most of those are incestuous!" -Abby<br />
*"Maybe your 'i' leaves your body and goes into the dream world at night!" *giggles all around the room* -Brian<br />
*"That's what the demon WANTS you to think." -Brian, again<br />
*"I really just wanna sit under this table right now..." -Sparky<br />
*"You are the bastard son of _____ himself!!" -Yiran, Stephanie, and Abby<br />
*"Where are my ko-re-an noodles!!" -Helen and Jessie<br />
*"She threatened to STAB ME WITH A KIVO KNIFE!!" -Abby<br />
*"Well, there's tater tots and chicken fingers and-" *guy in tight dress walks by* -Hema and Rebecca<br />
*"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey Rebecca!" -Cherian<br />
*"So, it's, like, your inner I-ness..." -Jaya/human Jukebox (and so the I Theory was born...)<br />
*All hail the halo of communism and the egg of democracy!<br />
*"Joe got some serious girl action last night!" *Joe turns red**Sparky diverts attention* -Winston<br />
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Et cetera. Basically, this class was the best thing ever.<br />
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===JHU.11.2.LOGC===<br />
Taught by the wonderfully politically incorrect Bill McGeehan and TA-ed by Meica Magnani. Her ever-present aviators were constant accessories in the classroom. This was the summer Kim Young-Chan, illegitimate son of Kim Jong-Il, entered our lives. See the Hall of Fame for more details about Young Chan the Hungriest Man. Also present in this class were The Triumvirate (Dixon, Muggo, & Mett), Arlex, Kevin the Sex Man, and a Swede, among others. Orgies were constantly present, as were discussions racism, pornography, prostitution, abortion, and anti-Semites. Best class ever. We went on to effectively rule the campus.<br />
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===LMU.11.2.LOGC===<br />
For around 9 years the Ethics class was undefeated. That is, until 11.2, when Logic finally came out victorious in one of the most surprising upsets LMU CTY has ever seen.<br />
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===SAR.12.1.LOGC (B)=== <br />
This was an AWESOME class. Since there were an unusually large number of logic students, the class was divided into two classes: 'Logic A' and 'Logic B'. Logic B had the older kids, which meant we only had ten students , with Jim Davis and TA Matt Lutz, who by general consensus of the class was pretty much the most awesome TA ever. Logic A being sadly lacking in imagination, they kept their boring name of 'Logic A'. Logic B, however, being incredibly cool and imaginative, decided to rename the class 'The Fighting Mongeese', in reference to the Futurama ep. "The Farnsworth Parabox". There was also a call and response for our class: Jim would shout "FIGHTING MONGEESE!" and we would shout "AWOOOGAH!" back (it was very important that we say it as loudly as possible). <br />
The Fighting Mongeese had many adventures: <br />
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The Logic Dance! (Wedge! Horseshoe! Dot! Etc!) <br />
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At the ending ceremony for the class, every Fighting Mongoose who was there went down to the stage wearing a fake beard, and performed the Logic Dance.<br />
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The Board of Many Socrates: Emily Cambias started this, when she drew 'Gothrates' on the board when the class was reading Plato on Goth Day. A few days later, 'Hawkrates' and 'Spockrates' were added. This started the snowball rolling, and after a few days there were many, many Socrateses. Some notable ones were 'Ewokrates', 'Hammockrates', 'Rockrates', and 'Sockrates'. The defining characteristic of all of these drawings was that the object in question sported a beard.<br />
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"YOU'RE WRONG BECAUSE YOU'RE UGLY." This is a totally legitimate argument.<br />
"YELL AT THEM UNTIL THEY CRY. THEN YOU WIN." This is a totally legitimate debate strategy.<br />
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It was discovered that Mr. Matt had a beautiful singing voice, and he was often called upon to demonstrate with such classics as "The Bad Horse Song." <br />
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"Do you remember what my name is?" "Uhhhhh. . . Ernesto?" (It was not)<br />
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Watching Twelve Angry Men and also watching Henry Fonda's dreamy, dreamy eyes. <br />
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===JHU.12.2.LOGC (B)===<br />
JHU's Session 2 Logic Class was taught by Beau Branson, with TA Quentin Fisher, also known as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived." Like SAR, JHU also had an unusually large amount of Logic students and as such was split into two classes, with B being the older students. Our class consisted of two Canadians, a South Korean, and a Spaniard, as well as an Arizona girl who owned no shorts. The students were: Ethan Mok, Anita Shieh, Richard Pei, Jaeyong Park, Grace Hua, Joe Shin, Kelvin Zhu, Emma Morgan, Daniel Matsumoto, Quinn Matos, Alexia Junker, Olivia Ireland, Dani Dafcik, and Katie Ippolito.<br />
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List of things:<br />
*No, no , NOOO. Of course he's not the boy's father. Look at the turn ups on his jeans!<br />
*"I have only written one sentence, this is a catastrophe!" "YOU'RE a catastrophe!"<br />
*444444444444444 과학을 빌어 먹을! 444444444444444444444<br />
*Witha<br />
*$2.50 , good deal!<br />
*....potato?<br />
*Katie's high-quality hugs<br />
*richard falling off a desk and faceplanting on the floor (twice)<br />
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===JHU.13.1.LOGC.B===<br />
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This class was taught by Dan and TA'd by Peter. Oddly enough, the boy/girl ratio was off so there were five girls and ten boys. This did not stop everyone from socializing and generally being goofy. There were two organized debates at the end of the session over recreational marijuana and capitalism/socialism.<br />
From the class:<br />
*Trees are bad!<br />
*Cannibalism!<br />
*(various marijuana jokes) <br />
-*There were plenty of alternative names used for marijuana, including but not limited to mujiwuji and mowwywowwy. Extra points for every word that wasn't "marijuana" were granted during the final debate, so serious (cough) research would be punctuated with random words like "mowwow".<br />
*One good memory was the complete and utter crushing of the Math Logic class in The Logic Game. The Logic Game was invented by Dan the Logic Teacher and the Math Logic teacher. It consists of lots of formal logic signs and resembles a board game, except all the markers are actually poker chips. The Logic class smashed the Math Logic class with a score of 58-27. The prize was two bags of Jolly Ranchers.<br />
*A game was invented during one of the class breaks- Tag Tog. It came into existence after some people were poking fun at a girl's (Reena's) British accent (falsely claiming that she pronounced "tag" as "tog"). The game was basically tag, but you could also "tog", which basically meant hitting people with a frisbee. This was probably the one and only time the entire class was up and running, as usually they spent their breaks doing separate things.<br />
* Once upon a boring evening session filled with proofs and refutations, someone (was it Josh?) was reading out bad pick up lines from his phone. Eventually the class went silent and he read out this gem:<br />
Are you a soldier?<br />
Because my privates salute to you.<br />
The entire class went even more silent, and then burst out into laughter.<br />
* Matt had an obsession with taking a banana out of the cafeteria and walking to class with it after lunch. Reena kept whacking it out of his hands and letting it fall to the floor, where it started to split. It then became mushy and gross and Dan (the teacher, not the kid) would force him to throw it out. One time before evening session, Matt threw it at Wyatt's head, where it began to split. Wyatt picked it up and threw it back, leaving a puke-like stain on Matt's shirt. Matt threw away the old banana and went to the bathroom before class to clean himself up. When he returned he had somehow acquired a second banana. It is still unknown where he got it.<br />
* The banana shenanigans ended with Matt collecting a banana from everyone in the class after lunch and then stuffing all the bananas in Wyatt's luggage.<br />
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===SAR.13.1.LOGC.A===<br />
This class was taught by John and TA'd by Evan.<br />
Logic A spent most of the 3 weeks checking the validity of arguments and then if they were valid, using natural deduction to prove them valid(check). There were 11 students in total, 4 boys and 7 girls. The class was divided into 2 groups of 4 and one group of 3. This was for the evening sessions where we solved Logic Puzzles for points. The group that consisted of Carlene, Urie, Anshul (the self-appointed Champion of Scarsdale), and Victor (the champion of Scarsdale according to everyone else) won and chose to watch Mean Girls (although Anshul did not agree). We ended up watching Sherlock Holmes though, much to the disappointment of the females and Victor. <br />
Some of the most memorable moments:<br />
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-The scavenger hunt where there were mixed teams with Logic A and B kids. The team of Emily, Victor, Rachel, Tedward and another person won first<br />
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-Carlene's many best friends<br />
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-Evan's sad list<br />
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-*Proving an argument on the board*<br />
Evan: Annette, what comes next?<br />
Annette: *thinks for a while* NEXT COMES THE D!<br />
Carlene, Alissa start cracking up<br />
Evan: Can you please say that in a non-perverted way?<br />
*Annette realizes what she said and starts laughing and falls out of her chair*<br />
John: Why don't you go outside and calm down, Annette. <br />
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- John writes argument on board:<br />
1. All cats are dogs<br />
2. All dogs are ugly<br />
c. All cats are ugly<br />
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- Anshul always put his used post its and looseleaf on the floor, and at the end of the session everyone BUT him cleaned up<br />
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Victor: ALL RACHELS ARE UGLY (Rachel is a cat in case you didn't know)<br />
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-Motis Penis (Ponens)....<br />
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- *Evan writes "All answers are random on the board" (Evan has really bad handwriting)<br />
Rachel: What's that word after are?<br />
Evan: It looks like condom doesn't it?<br />
Rachel: *nods*<br />
Evan: It's always you who comes up with this stuff isn't it?<br />
*whole class starts cracking up* <br />
*Emily's chair flips back and she gets thrown off of it*<br />
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- SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG <br />
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- Carlene's can of frosting that she ate with a spoon and Andrew's goldfish that everyone stole<br />
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- "What's green and fuzzy and would hurt if it fell from a tree?" A pool table!!!!! -Carlene<br />
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- Victor's amazing frisbee skills<br />
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- The lengthy debates we had at break about Homosexuality when Andrew started quoting the bible<br />
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<br/>sexual remarks<br />
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===SAR 14.2 LOGC.B===<br />
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Instructor: Andrew<br />
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TA: Emeka ("like the holy city mecca with 'uh' in front")<br />
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After realizing that many of the things that their instructor and TA were saying were hilarious not only in context, but even more hilarious out of context, two students began logging many quotes in what would become known as "the quote book". Both Andrew and Emeka were aware of this and had both been recorded as saying something to the effect of "that better not end up in the quote book". Sadly, many of the things that would have made excellent quotes, were very audio/visual things and thus could not be recorded. Below are a few gems of the recorded phrases:<br />
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"All zebras are jewish"<br />
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"God is like the ice berg shaped like Chuck Norris on the surface of Nepune."<br />
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"I am hypothetically a ''horrible'' person!"<br />
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You don't understand? Let me explain with Japanese!<br />
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Shut the door. FALSE!<br />
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"Thank you, milk, for bringing us justice"<br />
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"Popcorn? You wanna popcorn? You wanna popcorn? Well TOO BAD!"</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Hall_of_Fame:SAR&diff=31101Hall of Fame:SAR2014-07-31T04:09:27Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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<div>==1990s==<br />
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===Terry Is God===<br />
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{{hofbox|site=SAR|sessions=1994}}<br />
In 94 at Saratoga, an RA named Terry Olson became the God figure of a small cult. This came about when Terry broke his leg while demonstrating a dance for his RA group that he wanted them to perform during the mandatory Lip Synch that year. Several members of his RA group hailed him as a martyr and soon elevated him to a deity. To spread their "religion," Terryism, they performed a skit at the Talent Show, with an insert in the program about http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/6140/cty/terryisgod.html Terryism] Also, later, they altered their CTY t-shirts to read "The Center for Terryistic Youth." Easily one of the strangest things to happen at CTY, it deserves a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.<br />
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===The Chair Sculpture===<br />
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{{hofbox|site=SAR|sessions=1995.2}}<br />
In the Writing 2A class room at SAR-2-95, there was an interesting artifact. In the back of the room, there was a large, pyramid shaped sculpture made entirely of chairs, the kind with desks attached. It appears the creators, Ben and Bailey, thought that there were too many chairs in the classroom, and got them out of the way by piling them precariously on top of one another. Rumors of the sculpture spread and soon many CTYers were making pilgrimages to see it. Though it was dismantled at the end of the session, it earned a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.<br />
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===Ug===<br />
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{{hofbox|site=SAR|sessions=SAR.95.2, CAR.96.1}}<br />
Ug. First presented in a magnificent commercial preformed by Josh, Kevin, Ben, Bailey, Nathanael, and Chip at SAR-2-95, Ug was carried over to CAR-1-96 by Josh and Yours Truly. Ug is wonderful work of art, made from a old bed spring. Yes, Ug truly deserves a place in the CTY hall of fame.<br />
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===The Gummie Bear House of Horrors===<br />
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{{hofbox|site=SAR|sessions=1996.1}}<br />
The second floor Kimball hall at Saratoga 1996-1 saw an excellent example of the weirdness that CTY can induce this session. Following a sunday trip into Saratoga Springs, construction was begun by students Daniel Terry (astronomy), Michael Tolan (Math), et al. on "The Gummi bear House of Horrors." This frightening exhibit took the remainder of the first session to complete, including around 40 examples of mutilated sugar. Among these bears were "Ritualistic Satanic Sacrifice Bear" and "Jeffery Dahmer Bear" as well as a bear mashed into the carpet, and one nailed to the door (hammers are good things to have at CTY). Also adorning the room was a sign proudly proclaiming "Don't Feed the Rinas."<br />
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===No Biting The Signs===<br />
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{{hofbox|site=SAR|sessions=1997}}<br />
At Skidmore in 1997 the administration was making new rules left and right. People were having new rules created for them such as "No dancing in the rain," "Don't Make an Idiot of Yourself" and "No stuffing bras" so Jeremiah and Tim decided they wanted a rule of their own. The solution was to bite all those handy rule sheets and signs the RAs posted around our dorm. Soon it caught on and several other degenerates were chomping on the signs. Eventually the powers that be got sick of it and decided that was enough. They called a meeting before one of the dances and asked for the vandals to fess up, rather than ruin a perfectly good dance for all the guys, they confessed and claimed temporary insanity. Luckily, no one got in trouble. But out of this event came a new rule, "No Biting the Signs," and a new entry in the CTY Hall of Fame.<br />
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==2000s==<br />
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==="Free Lee-Kai"===<br />
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{{hofbox|site=SAR|sessions=2000-}}<br />
In 2000 at Saratoga, this kid Lee-Kai was caught in the girls' dorm. When he was caught, he apparently pulled a condom out of his pocket and said, "At least I was being safe!" The next day he was locked in an administrative office and wasn't allowed to see or talk to anyone. Everyone hung around the window of the office to see him, and he was passed food through the window. When his supporters were seen, the authorities moved him somewhere he couldn't be found. Almost immediately, people started chanting "FREE LEE-KAI!" Then, the sidewalk chalk came out. All over the walkways and even the side of the building under the office windows, everyone wrote "Free Lee-Kai" on the building walls. When the RAs dutifully washed it off, his supporters skipped dailys and stood outside the windows chanting and writing even more. The administration got pissed, but some people got to say goodbye to Lee-Kai. The movement earned itself a spot in the CTY Hall of Fame.<br />
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Edit: Though the Skidmore staff hate the chalk writing on the brick surfaces, as it is almost impossible to get off, some CTYers were still writing "Free Lee-Kai" on multiple buildings at least two years after the incident.<br />
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Edit: Lee-Kai Wang returned as an RA in Lancaster '02. Wonder how he landed that job?<br />
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I can't believe that some of the biggest legends not only happened during my time at CTY, but that they were two of my best friends! Aw man. Free Lee-kai.<br />
-Heidi Vanderlee, Saratoga '01 <br />
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Heidi, you are such a dork. Love, lk<br />
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Session 2, 2007 Lee Kai actually made a return to Skidmore. He met up with us on our way back from the second town trip and even stayed long enough to join in a quad-time game of fruit (he was "Tomato"). Needless to say, his presence left a great impression on all of the nevermores, nomores, and everyone else that took the initiative to introduce themselves to him. Lee-Kai is a true CTY-Skidmore legend.<br />
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Session 2, 2010 Marc's hall's nevermores (Jackson and Phil) tried to restart the Free Lee Kai chant. Succesfully spreading it across Wilmarth 3. Most CTYers on the floor wrote Free Lee Kai in their evaluations sheets for how to make the experience better and/or other comments.<br />
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Session 1, 2012 The Skidmore Eleven event happened. Because a few of them were out to go to the Girls Dorms, it was seen as a "Lee Kai x 11" resulting in Emperor James Gan planning to start a Free Lee Kai chant (see more under "Skidmore Eleven")<br />
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===Jon Good===<br />
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Jon Good was a nevermore at Saratoga in 2000, and during the second session, signed up for the Random Acts of Senseless Kindness weekly, and was given sidewalk chalk and told to write nice things. Jon found the busiest sidewalk intersection in the quad and wrote "Jon Good Loves You" in huge letters in the path. Within a week, "Jon Good Loves You" was written in chalk all over campus, sometimes by him, but more often by other CTYers. In his honor, his name became part of the American Pie chant; the line "And the three men I admired most/ the father, son, and the holy ghost," has acquired the callback "and Jon Good!" Jon is also alleged to have been the first to write "Free Lee-Kai" in chalk on buildings.<br />
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Also, because Jon was Jon, he wrote it in masking (or duct?) tape on his window. For some reason I feel like it was masking tape, but I think that's only because it was the same year Deke's Love Tape (ie the girlfriend of Jesse Cross-Knickerson of "all the girl and half the guys are in love with..." fame) was revived, so there was a lot of masking tape around. Also, on the post above, Heidi and LK, you are both such dorks. - Willa SAR 98.2-01.2<br />
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I was a first year during the famous Jon Good Loves You session, and returning as a TA five years later, was amazed to see people still writing it on construction paper and posting it around during RASK. Those who could not possibly have been at CTY during the time of Jon Good. A true legend. - Rachel SAR 00-03, TA 06<br />
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The phrase "Jon Good loves you, and your mom, twice" also developed that summer.<br />
Jon Good was also Scary Spice in a Spice Girls lip-sync (I think 98.2). His top was a bare-midriff tank top made of duct tape with a British flag in the center. Apparently current students doubt the existence of Jon Good. Also-Willa, you're also a dork, which is why we love you. -Farin SAR 97-00<br />
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At 12.2 and 13.2 respectively, two of Jon Good's first cousins have attended CTY, Emily Leibiger and Tom Possidente. Both are incredible people and it seems that Jon Good's wonderfulness lives on.<br />
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As of 13.2, at the end of the last dance, Nevermores gather in front of the entire camp and yell, "Good night, go home, nobody loves you except Jon Good!"<br />
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===Mulan Final Song===<br />
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After American Pie was played at the last dance of Skidmore 2005 and 2006 Session 1 everyone prepared to return to their dorms. However, right before announcements by the SRAs to instruct everyone to return back to their dorms RAs Lee (2005) and Jesse(2006) played the song "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from the movie Mulan upon the request of Edwin Ma (2005,2006) and Andrew Yu (2005). Due to the enormous enthusiasm and applause during and after the song it was decided that "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was to be made Canon and will be played every Skidmore session 1 after American Pie at the last dance.<br />
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A note from rmd: The Pop Culture Class of Skidmore Session 1 2006 found it extremely hilarious that this was played because we had watched Mulan to analyze and write an essay on. And, if anyone remembers, we did sometimes break out into singing "The Man Song," except all "you"s we changed to "Yoon" (mysterious as the dark side of the YOON) for our good friend, Michael Yoon (and any other CTYer with the last name Yoon). Some people in our class thought that this song was played especially for us, though I do remember Andrew Yu requesting it last year. And I agree, this must become a canon. <br />
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Note: It is also known that Edwin Ma had argued and fought for some time to get the staff to allow the Mulan song to be played after American Pie. Due to the fact that Skidmore 2006 had only 2 returning RAs no staff member remembered the playing of the Mulan song in 2005 and they did not believe that a song should be played after American Pie. However, after days of arguing with the staff on whether or not the song was to be played Edwin Ma finally brought it up to the dean of residential life Mike Chin who remembered the song being played last year. Edwin Ma brought the CD with him to the last dance and Mike Chin confronted the staff who refused to let the song play. The staff gave in and before announcements were made they played the song and it was decided that the song was to be made canon and played at the last dance after American Pie. Edwin's last wish was that when Edwin and Andrew return as RAs the tradition would still be upheld without the help of Edwin and Andrew themselves. <br />
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A similar argument happened Session 1, 2007 as again there were only two returning RA's and even fewer returning administration. After many nevermores brought up the subject with RA Jack (DJ and former Skidmore CTYer), Jack finally gave in and "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was played as the last song of the last dance.<br />
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Thanks to the efforts of the 2007 nevermores and returners, it has been solidified that "I'll Make a Man Out of You" will remain as a Skidmore Session 1 Tradition. My thanks to everyone who went in 2007 that let this tradition live on. -Edwin Ma<br />
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===Ceriously Talented Youth===<br />
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Skidmore hosts two ballet schools at the same time of CTY, and CTYers have a less than friendly relationship with these rinas and rinos. Although the exact circumstances are uncertain, one such rina, the famous Ashley Anne, was quoted as having asked RA Stefan "What does CTY even stand for? Ceriously [sic] Talented Youth?" which soon spread around the campus, causing hilarity to ensue among CTY students. Along with [[synergy]], it was used in context at any given chance. For sheer idiocy and perpetuation of the CTY-rina relationship, this deserves a spot in the hall of fame.<br />
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Note: As a result of the CTY-ers love of mocking the Rina's, Session 1 06 started Rina Day where everyone dressed up as Rina's.<br />
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===Pirate Day ===<br />
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There was a toned down version of a Pirate Day (see the [[Memories:JHU]]) in Skidmore Session 1 2006. This was started by a nevermore named Edwin Ma who wished to honor a close friend of his named Andrew Yu who was unable to return in 2006. This was created due to the fact that Ninja Day (Sucessfully done in 2005 started by Andrew and Edwin) was cancelled because SRA Felicia said that students were not allowed to cover their faces. Andrew Yu was recognizable in 2005 Session 1 due to the fact that he wore a bandanna on his head like a Pirate everyday, so in Skidmore alongside End of the World Day a large group of people wore either bandannas or a t-shirt around their heads pirate style for what Edwin called "Pirate/Andrew Yu Day". Coincidently due to the fact that so few people had bandannas,(around 6-7 people) many people had to use t-shirts which resulted in looking like people were wearing doo-rags. This caused many people to instead call this "Gangster Day" which oddly enough "gangster" was a very oftenly used term by Edwin and Andrew and that Edwin was called by people who didn't know him "That gangster Asian" although Edwin repeatedly said he'd rather not be called that.<br />
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===String Raving Ban===<br />
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Glowstringing was been banned in Skidmore 04.1 when an RA was hit with a glowstick, although the Emperor of 06.2 glowstringed anyway during the talent show and the last dance along with Edison Huff. Glowstringing was then reallowed since 07.1 at Skidmore likely due to new administration. (See "Glowsticking records" for more)<br />
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===LOUIS!===<br />
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In the Comp Sci class was a CTY-er known as "Louis". During a session of the "Penis game", Louis was mistakenly used by Bill Landis instead of penis. Thus, the Louis game was born, with people shouting "LOUIS" at random intervals. Then Lucas Lin had the idea to shout "LOUIS!" at midnight on the last Wednesday. Word was spread throughout Wilmarth and even Rounds, and at the stroke of midnight, Louis began. It started on the 2nd floor, but the resounding echo spread throughout all of Wilmarth and others follow. Even the people living in Howe and Rounds yelled "LOUIS!", as it could be heard from the Wilmarth dorm. Subsequently, Jack Reeves, the Comp Sci RA walked into the hall and yelled, "What the DICKENS do you think you're doing?" (Jack, being a model RA, was careful never to use profanity within earshot of campers). This final massive-scale Louis game caused the Louis game to be officially banned by the site director, Tim. (But it still goes on to this day)<br />
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Due to the movement of girls to Penfield Hall in 2012 the Louis Game has died out of Skidmore campus, at least for now. <br />
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But in 2013, the girls were moved back to Howe-Rounds and the royalty of 13.2 attempted to restart it by screaming LOUIS from the quad at midnight on the night of the game but only a few rooms in the girls' hall (Howe-Rounds) responded, one of which consisted of Anne Kramer, Sidney (Squid) Sponer, and Crystalina Guo. In the room directly above that one, Emma Nance and Cathy Nie ("LOUIS?! Get down from that tree!"), also participated. A number of rooms in the boys' halls could be heard.. Morgan Jackson's room and Serge Piskun's room were definitely heard, but it is widely debated whether Dheivanai "D." Moorthy and Emily Leibiger's room (hosting more than 10 people at the time) was louder. They apparently weren't audible on the quad. This could be because a number of the windows were stuck shut.<br />
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===Glowstringing Records===<br />
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At 08.2, for the first time in remembered history at CTY Saratoga, Nevermore Brian Smiley (as mentioned above) TRIPLE glowstringed with three glowsticks tied to each string(strang?) during Sandstorm at the last dance. This risky experiment turned out to be epic, and was continued at SAR.09.2.<br />
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The next year, in honor of Forevermore Brian Smiley, Forevermore Ilya Makovoz proceeded to beat Brian's previous record of three glowsticks tied to each string, instead opting for four. Even though many thought that the act would be impossible it turned out to be as epic, if not more so than that of Brian's the year before. Due to the large number of ravers two raving songs where played. Ilya raved to the first, Ravers Fantasy, and then switched with Dan B. who raved with the quadruple glowstrings for Sandstorm.<br />
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By the second week of 10.1, emperor Young and his roommate Freddy had already planned on smashing the raving record, but in the days leading up to the final dance there was much difficulty in procuring the ten glowsticks necessary for the feat. During this time it was brought to the ravers' attentions that having five 6" glowsticks on one string would be incredibly difficult to control as the angular velocity of the two closest glowsticks was insufficient to make them stable while raving. It was decided that the two closest glowsticks would be the small 3 or 4 inch types, which conveniently were the only ones left in the ravers' arsenal. And so the Quintuple Glowstring was forged, and was wielded by Adom Hartell during Raver's Fantasy in the Last Dance. The Quintuple Glowstring was subsequently hijacked by Patrick, who had enormous difficulty wielding the powerful item.<br />
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However, this record was broken during Raver's Fantasy, the first nevermore only rave of last dance of 11.1, where Owen Zach wielded six glowsticks each on ridiculously long shoelaces. After the Raver's Fantasy was over, Owen then traded these glowsticks off to Matt DeSantis who then proceded to do a meltdown with them, one of the most uncomfortable raving moves, combining fullbody crossers and behind the back fullbody crossers.<br />
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But, the all-time glowsticking record at Saratoga was broken by one-more James Gan with 9 glowsticks on each string at the last dance of Session 2, 2011. The strings were so long that when he started raving, the glowsticks at the end of each string popped upon contact with the ground, covering the gym floor in purple and red glow fluid. (Mine were actually the red ones. I don't know who the purples were --[[User:JGlovesyou|JGlovesyou]] 03:34, 18 January 2012 (PST))<br />
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In 2012.1, Emperor James once again used a ridiculous number of 6" glowsticks per string, (It was 10 on each. Most were ultras, and because they got tangled at the start they ended up being pretty dim by the time one-more Octavia Fitzmaurice managed to get them untangled.) This beat the last year's record by replacing the mini glowsticks with 6" ones, and adding an extra glowstick to each string. This time, he officially beats the record, as none of the glowsticks on either lace break. However, they got tangled later on and were thrown away in favor of his Sonik LEDz, which had already made an impression for being brighter than any ultras. <br />
At the same dance, Jeremy strung with DOUBLE orange ultras, and Khirstine (who is just over five feet tall) strung with SIX multi-color ultras. Both had Meltdown in their bag of tricks, and looked ready to pass out by the end of the third song.<br />
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In 2012.2, Nevermore Michael "Guillermo" Roosky somewhat beat James Gan's record with 9 6" glowsticks and 3 mini glowsticks on each string, totaling 12 glow sticks on each string. Guillermo's glowsticks were arranged into 3 bundles of each side: 7 sticks in the first bundle, 3 minis on the second, 2 regulars in the last. (It literally felt like swinging bricks on strings). This was not, however, 12 sticks long, so there was no problem with them hitting the floor. He then passed them off to Nevermore Jesse Zhan, who passed them to Nevermore Adam Gary. The glowsticks were also passed to Nevermore Kameron (Kami) Tinkham at some point during the night.<br />
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In 2013.1, nevermores Steven Jin and Sonya Wang had been discussing the notion of breaking the record for most of the session, but it had not been decided until two nights before the final dance. At the last dance, the raving record was smashed by nomore Brian Liu, with 15 glowsticks per string during Raver's Fantasy, totalling in 30 glowsticks. These were cracked during Raver's Fantasy, during some point Brian began performing meltdown before passing it on to Sonya Wang, who proceeded to three-beat for the next fifteen seconds, as she was unable to due anything else due to her lack of height.<br />
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In 2013.2, at the last dance, Nevermore Cathy Nie obliterated all previous records by raving with 2 CTY lanyards with 21 glowsticks (20 6" glowsticks and 1 Spectrum LED) on each, for a total of 42 glowsticks. Instead of bundling the glowsticks, she attached them to her lanyards in a linear fashion. In addition, Cathy raved in heels (ouch) and looked exhausted but happy by the end of the night. Throughout the dance, Cathy also gave away glowsticks to anyone who wanted to rave. Surprisingly, she was still able to perform three beat, two beat, windmill, buzzsaw, watermill, and corkscrew with 42 glowsticks and hopes to see someone break her record next year.<br />
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In 2014.1, in the final "true" rave song at the last dance, nevermore Gaynor Norcott shattered Cathy Nie's record with 52 glowsticks (26 per string: 23 6" glowsticks and 3 Ultras). Instead of bundling or tying the glowsticks, Gaynor chose to just string all the glowsticks on the end of the strings, resulting in glowing balls of light that some say resembled fire poi. He managed to do three-beat, helicopter, windmill, lockouts and something resembling leg and arm wraps before the song ended. They were then passed around to any ravers who asked, though some could not rave with them to do the fact they were possibly the heaviest thing ever to exist. At the end of the dance, Gaynor passed the monstrosities to Griffin Badalamente and challenged him and Ryan Guo to break his record at 15.1. <br />
(Note from Gaynor Norcott: Andrew Cheng gets the award for The Most Beautiful Raver, because his rainbow arches at that last dance were incredible.)<br />
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===Vermonster Records===<br />
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At the Saratoga CTY site, students go on a trip into the lovely town of Saratoga Springs every Sunday. One of the most popular places to go to is Ben & Jerry's, where one can partake in delicious ice cream and other good eats. One of the most daunting challenges at Ben & Jerry's is to eat a "Vermonster". The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermonster Vermonster] is 20 scoops of ice cream and other goodies (4 bananas, 4 ladles of hot fudge, 3 chocolate chip cookies, 1 chocolate fudge brownie, 10 scoops of walnuts, 2 scoops of toppings, and a huge amount of whipped cream), all contained within a bucket. It was a rare occasion to see one of these buckets donned upon the head of a nevermore, as the previous year there had only been two Vermonsters purchased. The nevermores (and those helping) this year smashed the record, with a grand total of NINE Vermonsters purchased and eaten. Two or three of these Vermonsters were not purchased on a town trip however, but that makes the feat all the more impressive. (Use your imagination to figure out how they were acquired) Every person that received a bucket was either a nevermore or a nomore, though one fake bucket ("Fucket") was bought by someone. However, this bucket was taken by Andy Bauer and labeled as fake with a sharpie in many places. <br />
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The nine never/nomores that received the buckets were (in alphabetical order):<br />
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* Chris Chen<br />
* Dave Clemens-Sewall<br />
* Andrew Cook<br />
* Bill Landis<br />
* Christine Maroti<br />
* Anna Olkovsky<br />
* Daniel Piao<br />
* Brian Smiley<br />
* Larry Zhu<br />
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Note that Larry Zhu was lactose intolerant and therefore could not consume dairy products. He still had a spoonful of Vermonster as a symbolic gesture.<br />
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A year later, the nevermores of 2009, with more than twice as many nevermores as the previous year, surpassed the previous record of 9 Vermonsters with a whopping 15 Vermonsters consumed! During the first town trip, a total of 5 Vermonsters were purchased. Due to weather, the second town trip was cancelled, but the Nevermores still managed to get their hands on 8 more Vermonsters. Finally, on the last day, a group of Nevermores visited Saratoga Springs and bought two more Vermonsters, putting the total at 15.<br />
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--Also, don't forget that Paul Grindle and TDL soloed their Vermonsters. (TDL had Nate help finish a very small amount, and he had to finish it overnight, but he did not go to bed until he finished. It also took Paul 18 hours and 35 minutes (spanning from 9:45 ish P.M. on Tuesday until 4:20 ish P.M. on Wednesday) to finish the slurry at the bottom and I'm fairly sure that he got food poisoning from it. He got pretty sick, although at least he wasn't quarantined.)<br />
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21 Vermonsters were consumed 2.SAR.2010. Phil soloed his, and Non-Nevemores did buy and help eat a few.<br />
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The Vermonster solo record was crushed 1.SAR.2011 by Will Kyle with a time of 15 hours 5 minutes. It should also be noted that Eric Dammerman, Owen Zach, and Matthew Westin also soloed Vermonsters alongside Will, and that Eric managed to finish his before Owen and Matthew, despite his weighing 100 pounds less than either of them, though he died for two days as a result. Danny McClanahan also soloed a Vermonster alongside Will Kyle in a race, although he took 5 more hours to complete his due to the presence of Reese's Pieces.<br />
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At 1.SAR.2012 a new Vermonster record was set by the core members of the [[Memories:SAR#Bluvuzelas|Bluvuzelas]] (a 1.SAR.2011 frisbee team and the winning 1.SAR.2012 soccer team). Ryan Simshauser, Kai Wang, Nick Patel, and Jeff Naftaly together ate an entire Vermonster in 10 minutes and 50 seconds. Though group records have never been officially set, the tenacity with which the four champions ate was legendary. They challenge any future group of four to beat their time.<br />
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At 2012.2 3 Vermonster Records were set: <br />
First: Adam Gary was the first and only to solo 2 vermonsters, one on each weekend.<br />
Second: 2012.2 had the most number of solos ever: 6 (David Bai, Adam Gary, Daniel "Ginger" Heins, Michael "Guillermo" Roosky, Adam Gary, Bryce McLaughlin)<br />
Third: The solo time for a Vermonster was topped three times: by Adam (on his second bucket), Ginger, and Guillermo, who all finished within 9 hours, and 15 minutes.<br />
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At 2013.2 Cathy Nie demolished all past records, soloing in 3 hours and 1 minute, while establishing the first girls' record. She, along with Rachel Pak (who finished her Vermonster in a long 50 hours and is said to have enjoyed it) were the first girls in Skidmore history to have soloed a Vermonster. Luke Stocker finished his in 1 hour and 12 minutes but couldn't consume the chocolate contents due to allergies, which means it didn't officially set a record. Neither Cathy nor Luke refroze their Vermonster sludge, and thus had to chug it warm. Max Dunsker also now holds the boys' record after beating Guillermo with a time of 8 hours and 17 minutes and 29 seconds, though it didn't compare to Cathy Nie's record shattering time.<br />
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===One Minute, Twelve Seconds===<br />
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During Session 2, 2009, two days before the end of the session, the inhabitants of Howe-Rounds awoke to find the words One Minute, Twelve Seconds on every bathroom mirror, and the number 1:12 on every door whiteboard. It appeared that someone had found the answer to the age-old question "How long would it take to get to the top of Jonsson Tower?" and this was confirmed when upon going outside, students noticed an enormous sign reading One minute, Twelve seconds hung from a large window at the top of Jonsson Tower. At first, the identity of the climbers of Jonsson Tower was a mystery, but by the end of the session, it had been revealed that Anca Dogaroiu, Monica Burnett, and Emily McInerney were responsible for sneaking out in the middle of the night, getting to the top and hanging the sign, with Dana Hogan acting as accomplice from her dorm room. While most of the RA's wished to keep the sign up out of respect for the then-anonymous prankers, it was soon removed by the administration. However, the very next day, Anca, Monica, and Emily somehow managed to get to the top again during breakfast, and had hung a new sign reading 1:12. This feat is already reaching legendary status, and certainly deserves a place on the Hall of Fame. <br />
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The next year, during Session 1, on the very last day at breakfast, a group of Nevermores was trying to figure out exactly when and how they were going to infiltrate Jonsson Tower and attempt to break the standing record from Session 2 of the previous year. On a whim, they decided that they might as well just do it right then and there, as Passionfruit was already over and the administration really had nothing left to threaten them with. However, when this group of Nevermores made their way over to Jonsson Tower, they realized that they had no way of entering the building. As they stood outside perplexed, Nevermore Avery Stonefish had the genius of idea of simply swiping his card. Surprisingly, this caused the door to unlock. Apparently, Howe-Rounds access cards work on Jonsson Tower. Thanks to Stonefish's genius, Emperor Young Guang was able to smash the previous record of 1:12 by making it to the top in 41.23 seconds.<br />
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On the last day of Session 1, 2011, Matthew De Santis and Alex Libby scaled the Jonsson Tower (including the penthouse) in 35.1 seconds, with Matt as the primary climber and Alex as the timer. Now should there ever be a zombie apocalypse, BP oil spill, or U.S. debt default we can all rest assured that these legends will survive.<br />
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On the last day of Session 2, 2012, after the closing ceremonies, a group of friends again decided to climb Jonsson Tower with all their time at CTY behind them. Adam Gary made it up in a record breaking 32.7 seconds, including the time where he stopped to rest before realizing he wasn't done. Jesse Zhan and David Bai tied together at 49.5 seconds. Miranda Hawkins made it up a short while later, but didn't have her exact time recorded. (Sorry Miranda, you were too slow!) The four played an impromptu match of pool, joined by fellow Nevermore Sam Breslow midway through.<br />
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The following year, in 2013, another group of nevermores and nomores including Morgan Jackson, Heila Precel, Crystalina Guo, Alyssa Rivera, Shannon Connelly, Cathy Nie, and Marlene Berke ran to the top of Jonsson Tower around 1:30pm on the last day of Session 2, where they celebrated by popping bubble wrap. Times varied, but every member made it in under 2 minutes, with Morgan, Crystalina, and Alyssa making 1:14.<br />
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Also in 2013 at the end of Session 2 nevermores KariLeigh Brinkley, Shadow Queen Maggie Shea, Emperors Dav Bya and Max Dunsker, and Empress Rachel Novick, ran up all 12 stories of the tower circa 3:00pm. All times were not recorded but Max was the first to the top with a finishing time 1:05.14<br />
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==2010s==<br />
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===Thank Dusty===<br />
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For the first time in Saratoga Springs history, the students defeated the staff in ultimate. DYNASTIC (Dusty, you now are second to incredible campers), captained by Peter Lobel and Matt Simon, secured a sound victory 10-2. Dusty had almost beaten the staff many years ago, but it took a whole team to really win it. <br />
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* Peter Lobel<br />
* Matt Simon<br />
* Andy Shen<br />
* Brandon Nguyen<br />
* Aaron Forrest<br />
* Kevin Chun<br />
* Samir Goel<br />
* Will Schiela<br />
* Muki Barkan<br />
* Peter Pak<br />
* Alex Libby<br />
* Mark Fishman<br />
* Chang Moon<br />
* Nathan Vogt<br />
* Leah Forrest<br />
* Rachel Zhu<br />
* Natalie Belkov<br />
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===Trifecta===<br />
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Coming off their dominating wins over the staff in frisbee and soccer (10-2, 3-0, respectively), the students aimed to complete the first ever sweep of the staff in all three sports. The students came out with a bang for the first half, aided by the fact that RA Kenny was hindered significantly by a leg injury. The staff rallied and came back to be down by four with thirty seconds left in the game. EE Instructor Kris made a three pointer, and the ball was turned over to RA Scott, who made an incredibly lucky shot off a blatant double-dribble with nine seconds left. The students lost by one, 38-37, with heavy screams of complaint of the no-call from the sidelines. Although some students accepted the defeat, it is common thought by the student body and some staff that the students completed the legendary Trifecta.<br />
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Those who played on all three teams include:<br />
*Peter Lobel<br />
*Aaron Forrest<br />
*Will Scheila<br />
*Mark Fishman<br />
*Kevin Chun<br />
*Matt Simon<br />
*Natalie Belkov<br />
*Peter Pak<br />
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===Screw Sleeves===<br />
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The team Screw Sleeves made history in 2011 by being the first team to beat the staff in Ultimate for Session 1. The game started out being dominated by the students who took the lead 7-1 at halftime. However, they began to falter and allowed the staff to make a comeback. This comeback was likely aided by the fact that the staff decided to extend the game for an additional 20 minutes. Then, with 10 seconds left, some controversy arose between the students and the staff over whether the score was really 10-9 students or a 9-9 tie. But, to the excitement of all those watching (except the staff), the students proceeded to finalize their victory by scoring again with a long pass from Jarrett to DeSantis, who then gave a short underhand toss to Owen to score as time ran out. SRA Phil then finalized the victory by announcing it at the dance later that night.<br />
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This is the team roster<br />
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ORIGINAL TEAM<br />
*Owen Zach<br />
*Jarrett Jacobson<br />
*Paul Marki<br />
*Will Kyle<br />
*Luke Comp<br />
*Matt DeSantis<br />
*Matt Westin<br />
*Eric Dammerman<br />
*Ryder Olle<br />
*Benji Attal<br />
*Andrew Mobus<br />
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ADDITIONS FOR THE STAFF GAME<br />
*Aaron Wan<br />
*Allen Chen<br />
*Alex Libby<br />
*John (Someone add his last name)<br />
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Special mention for the water boy<br />
*Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam STANsell<br />
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===The Skidmore Eleven===<br />
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As a result of the expulsion of the group [[Hall of Shame:SAR#Skidmore Eleven|Skidmore Eleven]] (consisting of the first group: Nick Richardson, Ryan Guo, James Yu, Marion Anderson, and one other person (he wishes for his name to not be mentioned), the second group: Sebastian Niculescu, Zoe Steinsnyder, Charlotte Rupp, Miriam Pierson, and Sawa Patch), the student body rose up in protest. Khristine Yu and Shoshi Finkle (both close friends of the Skidmore 11) started two petitions, one asking for the Eleven to say goodbye to their friends and the other asking for administration to allow for the return of the non-nevermores in future CTY sessions. While many people would like to think that people enthusiastically signed the petitions, they were shredded and thrown out in every garbage bin in order to hide the names of those who signed should the administration crack down. A two-more and nevermore did so, because many three-mores had signed the petitions, and there was no need for them to get in extra trouble.<br />
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Khirstine Yu, a nevermore, was escorted by RAs soon afterwards, and many people feared the worst. In truth, she had used the advantage of being in the main office to talk with the site director and counselor. Mostly, it was concerning the privileges of the Skidmore 11 to be able to say goodbye to their friends, although the talk took almost two hours (of Khirstine's class time) to sort out. It was eventually agreed that the students would be allowed to say goodbye to their friends during dinner and quad time, along with the last breakfast. This news was later announced by David (the site director) before the slideshow.<br />
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During lunch quad time, several of the Skidmore 11 (Ryan Guo, Nick Richardson, James Yu, Marion Anderson, and the one unmentioned) snuck into a room on Wilmarth 3 that faced the quad, around the time when CTYers were leaving the dining hall. This culminated into these above-mentioned students to begin shouting “I like you, I love you, I CTY you!”, thus spurring the student body into resistance. While the RAs would not allow anyone to get too close to Wilmarth, many people had grouped by the dining hall door where they could see the eleven and perform a three-finger salute (a tribute from the Hunger Games), started by two-more Gaynor Norcott. Emily Cambias talked to all the RAs who were blocking the way into the building and begged them to let the students out to talk to their friends, but was largely unsuccessful: the RAs who were sympathetic were quickly shut down by the administrative staff. By this point, they had been returned the use of their cell phones and were allowed to use their phones to talk with other people, provided that they did not spread rumours (while under the supervision of various RAs, the use of foreign languages proved to be quite useful in an exchange between Ryan Guo and Sonya Wang). Many conversations were held via cell phone right outside the dining hall, with Marion Anderson begging the students on the quad not to do anything stupid. Because of that, when the RAs ordered the students to go back to class, they did so, however reluctantly. While the glowstringers of the group (Ryan Guo, Nick Richardson, and the unmentioned) asked for the glowstringers to rave hard that night, Marion Anderson asked Liz Lvov, the empress of that year, to organize a protest during the dance, either during the glowstringing songs or American Pie. <br />
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Around this time, many protest efforts were planned (including a planned but not taken action of shouting [[Hall_of_Fame:SAR#Free_Lee-Kai|Free Lee-Kai!]] during the slideshow by Emperor James Gan), particularly concerning the dance. As a good part of the Skidmore Eleven were glowstringers, many people were planning to have everyone sit to protest during Sandstorm, typically the first glowstringing song of the dance. However, this was soon dispelled as it was discovered that Sandstorm was not going to be played at the dance. Instead, the glowstringers were asked to glowstring harder than they had before for the people absent. During the nevermore rave, Khirstine wielded six pairs of glowsticks on her laces, one glowstick for each member of the Skidmore 11, and then one more for the uncaught.<br />
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During Stairway to Heaven, an effort was made to connect to the students who could not attend by putting them on the phone. Another effort was made during American Pie, but that proved to be unsuccessful. <br />
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Due to some of the eleven being nevermores and nomores, several of their friends were asked to read out their speeches at Passionfruit the next day. While the non-nevermores could be given the chance to re-apply to CTY with a petition to Baltimore, all of the Skidmore 11 were given copies of the Nevermore pages, as a result of Zoe speaking to the DRL who then asked Emperor James Gan for books (which were delivered with personal notes).<br />
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During session two, a student fairly close to the 11 talked to the administration, and though they cannot guarantee it because all admissions go through Baltimore, a staff member believes that those of the 11 who are not Nevermores will be readmitted.<br />
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A message from Khirstine Yu: This is a warning to any future CTYers: What I and many, many other people have done during this incident is not anything special; it is not heroic, and it is not unique at all. It is only what I expect of both myself and of CTYers around me. It will also be what I expect of you.<br />
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In the future, there will be instances when the something as bizarre as the Skidmore 11 Incident comes up. When something does, do not be the bystander who waits for others to put forth their best. As a CTYer, be the first person be a part of the resistance. No, that does not mean that you can shout at the first administrator you see. And no, it does not mean you should break the nearest window in a rage.<br />
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When something like this happens...take a deep breath, and calculate the best course of action. Plan ahead, and follow your plan - if it means saving your friends and re-admitting them into the program - great. If you are only able to get them back their goodbye privileges, that is still great. <br />
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The worst thing that one can do in this situation is absolutely nothing.<br />
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-A message from a Forevermore: As much as I think these things, particularly what happened at Lancaster 13 both sessions, are sad, students should realize that doing things like that WILL result in punishment if caught. What the 11 did was not heroic-they broke the rules. It's in the rules that things like sneaking out at night aren't allowed. That said, I applaud the lengths that the Eleven's friends did to try and help them.<br />
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'''UPDATE:''' As of April 11th, 2013, many non-nevermores of the Skidmore Eleven have confirmed the acceptance of their petitions and their return to CTY 2013 and future sessions.<br />
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'''UPDATE:''' During site director David's opening-of-session talk, the Eleven were mentioned as one of the few times he has ever cried in the past few years. Similarly, towards the last few days of the session, CTYers were continually reminded by the RAs to not sneak out, as Mike Chin was present on campus. Some RAs explicitly referred to the Eleven, while others simply reminded CTYers that sneaking out was against the rules. A fourth dance (albeit being only forty-five minutes long), called Dave's Rave, was organized for SAR.12.2 and SAR.13.1, and was held after evening classes on the last Wednesday. It is widely suspected but not confirmed that 'Dave's Rave' was organized to 'exhaust' campers the night before the last night in order to prevent an incident like the Eleven from happening again. During this short dance, not all canon was played due to the lack of time. However, songs such as Bulletproof, Nightswimming, and Raver's Fantasy were played, ending with Tunak Tunak (due to it being David's favorite canon song).<br />
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===The Most Beautiful Girl===<br />
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In 2011, RA Jeremy and RA Peter decided to perform a song for all the beautiful girls in the audience for the Talent Show. That song, titled Most Beautiful Girl, by Flight of the Conchords, managed to make several girls break down into tears by the end of the song and had made even more girls screaming at the top of their lungs for RA Jeremy to have their children. The very next year, RA Jeremy decided to perform the song again, this time with the help of Emperor Alex Libby for both sessions. This magical performance can even be found on YouTube, thanks to one of their numerous fans in the audience. In 2013, neither RA Jeremy nor Alex Libby was present, however, Emperor Eric Chen decided to keep the tradition alive. He asked RA Geoff to be the peanut butter to his jelly, the pea to his pod, if you will. After a single practice sesh together with the help of Hannah He, they managed to pull it off flawlessly with a CTY-rendition on the lyrics. Thanks to RA Jeremy, this tradition will be passed on to each year's Emperor and an accompanying RA to be performed at the Talent Show.<br />
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In 2013.2, the last listed act of the talent show was shown as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room - RA Jeremy and Alex Libby", despite the fact that Jeremy wasn't RAing that year, and Libby was gone. This lead to significant confusion in the audience, and even the emcees weren't told what the act actually was - it turned out to be Site Director Dave, SRA Kenny, RA James, and RA John performing a CTY medley including Tunak Tunak Tun and an original CTY-inspired rap.<br />
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===Cathy Nie's TARDIS===<br />
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In 2013.2, someone -probably the Doctor- (Actually the incredible Cathy Nie) built a huge TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space time machine from the popular TV show Doctor Who) and put it on the quad for Nerd/Fandom Day. Made out of cardboard, it was painted incredibly accurately. On the interior, which was unpainted, there was a Sharpie and an instruction to write inspirational/loving/RASK-type things along the walls. It was previously unknown how the TARDIS was assembled so quickly and brought to the campus (It was the Doctor, wasn't it...), but according to RA Dan Bell, "It was NOT built after lights out and it was definitely NOT finished at 3:00am the night before," which gives us a pretty good idea how.<br />
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The day before Nerd Day, with permission from site director Dave and Skidmore College, Cathy was supplied with paint from the staff supply room and cleared to set up the TARDIS on the quad. She painted the TARDIS during quad times and hid it on the lawn behind Guidance Counselor Stefanie's office during the day. Later, she carried it up to her room to finish painting the details. Initially, Cathy had planned to keep the TARDIS a closed structure, as it was made out of cardboard boxes and any cutting would make it unstable, but Nevermore Marlene Berke suggested creating a door so people could walk inside, and her enthusiasm caused Cathy to reconsider. At around 1:00am, the exterior of the TARDIS was finished and Cathy cut the box to create a door. Due to a slight miscalculation, the entire TARDIS fell apart and the next 2 hours were spent painstakingly reinforcing the interior structure and the door. Finally, at 3:00am, the TARDIS was finished, and to make it something that truly embodied CTY, Cathy wrote her own inspirational message ("You are wonderful and no one can ever take that away") along the TARDIS wall, and included instructions to other CTYers to do the same. The entire process of constructing the TARDIS had taken a whopping 7 hours, half of which was spent working in the dark. <br />
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At around 7:30am on Nerd Day, Cathy and a helpful friend (Emma Nance?) carried the 6-foot tall TARDIS down 3 flights of stairs (and nearly tripped every step of the way). Since it was raining outside, she had to prop the TARDIS against the cafeteria exterior, in a sheltered area. Though few people were outside on the quad, many still came to see the TARDIS, take pictures with it, and write heartfelt messages inside. During class time, to prevent rain and Rinas alike from ruining the TARDIS, RAs thoughtfully brought it into the main office. After dinner, Cathy brought the TARDIS back outside. At the end of the day, the TARDIS was brought back to the main office for safekeeping. <br />
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Cathy had also planned to bring the TARDIS back outside for RASK day, but when she checked the main office, it was gone. No one knows where the TARDIS went or how a 6-foot tall box could disappear without anyone noticing, but it's assumed that the Doctor took his time machine back.<br />
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Nevertheless, the story of Cathy Nie and her TARDIS is truly a CTY legend that displays the unconditional love, support, and dedication among the CTY Saratoga Springs family.<br />
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★ A MESSAGE FROM THE DOCTOR: MY TARDIS AND I WILL RETURN AGAIN... BE PREPARED SAR, 14.2 ★<br />
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===Twerking===<br />
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On break, one day, the International Politics class started twerking (a dance move that consists of rocking the booty everywhere) - and nevermore Morgan Jackson was singled out as an excellent twerker, and a video was subsequently posted to The Facebook, and went viral over the next couple of days, with entire classes watching the video. Although RA James was vehemently opposed to twerking, meaning that it only could occur at brief intervals on the quad, twerking gained some notoriety at the dances - in the center of major circles, Morgan would run in for a few seconds, twerk, be greeted by wild cheers, and run out again. He was never caught, although the intensity of the twerking increased at every dance. Even if he had been caught, no RA could've ever stopped Morgan from rocking the booty everywhere. At the last dance, when they played Baby Got Back (C'mon, they were asking for it), he and onemore Ash/Aeslyn Vlahos twerked it all over the place. And finally, at the end, when "lost" lanyards were handed back, a number of CTYers started a chant asking Morgan to twerk- he duly complied, and thus twerked in front of the entire camp. Reportedly, RAs were not horrified, as expected, but had expressions of being impressed. After the end of the session, Morgan named Ash/Aeslyn next year's Spontaneous Twerker, although the title will only be passed on if there's someone of the right caliber.</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Saratoga_Springs&diff=31012Saratoga Springs2014-07-23T02:51:06Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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'''Saratoga Springs''' is the CTY site located on the Skidmore campus. The newly built dining hall probably has the best food of any site; the traditions, while fewer than other sites, are generally the most intense and carried more extremely. While Saratoga is the smallest mainland site, the student body is perhaps the closest knit. Saratoga is also the only site with full blown town trips.<br />
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[http://skidmore.edu Skidmore College], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_Springs Saratoga Springs, NY] <br />
Arguably one of the most vibrant and dynamic small cities in the USA, it is also not only the place where Don McLean wrote American Pie, but the place where he first performed it, in Cafe Lena, just a block from where the students take their weekly town trip.<br />
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==The Dorms==<br />
The dorms are very nice, with both Howe-Rounds (the mixed dorm) and Wilmarth (the boys' dorm) featuring window seats and suite styled dorms, with a shared bathroom (1 for every 3 rooms). All dorms also feature desk-dressers and closets with curtains to ensure privacy whilst changing.<br />
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===Howe-Rounds===<br />
Each year, [http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/howerounds.cfm Howe-Rounds] houses one floor (consisting of 2 halls) of boys, all the girls and RA. Each room is built for either one or two people. Many people complain that the mattresses feel like rocks and squeak too much, but they're seriously not that bad. Howe Rounds has 1 bathroom (2 sinks, 1 shower, 1 toilet) for four people. In each section in Howe Rounds, there is a bathroom, a double room, and two single rooms. Can become extremely cold as it, unlike Wilmarth, has perpetual air conditioning, so be sure to bring enough blankets or very warm pajamas. The floors lack the central lounge present in Wilmarth. The laundry room is also shared, but 2 days a week are designated for boys to do laundry and the remaining 5 reserved for the girls. On the first floor of Rounds, where the entrance is, there is an expensive vending machine. According to a squirrel girl's personal experience, it's really easy to get lost when visiting your friends who live on other floors. You get used to it, though. As of 2013.1, Howe-Rounds rooms have doors girls can swipe their cards to open instead of the old-fashioned metal keys used in 2011 that actually gave RAs a reason to tell girls not to swing their lanyards.<br />
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===Wilmarth===<br />
[http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/wilmarth.cfm Wilmarth] dorms are exclusively for boys. Wilmarth has 1 bathroom for every 6 people, which can lead to long wait times for showers. Features a central lounge area on every floor, where players of Egyptian rat screw, Mao, and chess congregate. Extremely hot all the time; bring a fan or suffer. The ground floor features a larger lounge with vending machines that occasionally either take your money and do nothing or gives you 2 bags of chips/soda bottles at once.<br />
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You may or may not find a hole in the wall of one of the rooms on the 3rd floor (The hole has been filled but you can still see the mark in Room 322). It was caused by a onemore boy named Jackson Hsu. He was practicing Martial Arts, didn't realize he was close to the wall, turned and punched, and thus created a hole in the wall. The RA's never seemed to find out and Jackson left safely. He got the nickname by his neighbors Jackie Chan from that day.<br />
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(Dood I took Phil advice and drew a black circle on the wall around 2 pm. -Jackson)<br />
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Wilmarth's rooms are notoriously small compared to those in Howe-Rounds. The size of a double in Wilmarth is said to be the size of a single in Howe-Rounds.<br />
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===McClellan===<br />
Due to renovations of Wilmarth in 2008, the boys were relocated to [http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/mcclellan.cfm McClellan]. This was not much improvement, as McClellan is identical to Wilmarth, but farther away. They did, however, have rooms that could be unlocked with the swipe of a card instead of a key, which is now also the case in Wilmarth. This card-key system was not always as helpful as it sounds, as some people took their cards off their lanyards and forgot them in their rooms, locking themselves out. McClellan is most notably home of the famous [http://www.realcty.org/mw/index.php?title=Hall_of_Shame:SAR#McClellan_3 "McClellan 3 incident"], in which 3rd floor citizens engaged in various antics while simultaneously trampling over any authority the RA's ever thought they had.<br />
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===Penfield===<br />
The 2012 site packet for Saratoga Springs lists Penfield Hall, rather than Howe-Rounds, as a residence hall along with Wilmarth. Penfield is located to the left of the Quad (as seen facing the dining hall), to the front-left of Wilmarth. Due to construction of the site, the girls this year were housed at Penfield. Essentially a carbon copy of Wilmarth, Penfield has no air-conditioning, causing many unprepared squirrel girls to suffer from the burning heat. It does have a central lounge present on each floor, though.<br />
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Here is Skidmore's page about Penfield: [http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/penfield.cfm]<br />
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==Academic Buildings==<br />
These building aren't much different from those on any campus; they have whiteboards, projectors, desks and are ''very well'' air conditioned. Bring and leave a jacket or blanket in class because like Howe-Rounds, the AC is almost always on. <br />
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==Places for Activities==<br />
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===The Duckpond===<br />
The duckpond and surrounding fields are one of the most important locations on campus. Most importantly, passionfruit is held at the duckpond. Water day is held here, as well as the horse race on Casino Night (formally). Daily/weekly activities that happen here include "Reading" by the Duckpond and Frolf.<br />
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===The Athletic Fields===<br />
Skidmore gives CTY access to two of their fields. The better of these is the football field surrounded by a track, where morning running and some daily/weekly activities occur. Unfortunately, a field hockey camp needs to use these fields at the same time (despite Skidmore having fields specifically designated for field hockey), resulting in greater use of the still very nice lower fields, which are built for soccer. CTYers also visit the lower fields to watch the sun rise before passionfruit. Because of the heavy rain during 13.1, the track became flooded so the Olympic Day relays and Ultimate Frisbee match took place on the lower fields.<br />
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==Town Trip Locations==<br />
At Saratoga, town trips take place on both Sunday afternoons, with the exception of Farmer's Market as of 2013.2, which takes place on Saturday mornings. Sunday are usually 6-8 routes, each containing 1-3 locations. Town trips can get cancelled on account of rain, but this doesn't happen often.<br />
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===Ben & Jerry's===<br />
Most sought after location among Nevermores/people who have been to Saratoga before, primarily because of the Vermonsters. Nevermores go for the buckets and most others go to help them/hang out with a generally more tradition-heavy crowd. A Vermonster is the epitome of commerially available ice cream: 20 scoops of ice cream, 8 scoops of toppings, a huge brownie, cookies, sliced bananas, ladles of hot fudge, and topped with a huge amount of whipped cream.<br />
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===Coldstone Creamery===<br />
In Saratoga Springs downtown, there is also a Coldstone Creamery in addition to Ben & Jerry's. Usually, both ice cream stores are not in one route, and one may have a route such as shopping, and then Coldstone Creamery.<br />
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===Borders===<br />
Borders is a bookstore. Many don't buy books, and just hang out in the cafe portion. It is suggested to make sure Borders is the first location on a route containing Ben & Jerry's, because people tend to be covered in chocolate and prone to vomiting after that ordeal.<br />
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Note: It is rumored that the Borders in Saratoga has been closed, and therefore not available for town trips in 2011.<br />
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It has since been closed.<br />
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===The Park===<br />
The park is across the street from Ben and Jerry's. It is convenient to have this be a last stop on a Vermonster route, because it allows many activities conducive to finishing/recovering from a Vermonster, such as sitting on a bench to finish off the bucket amid staring strangers, or lying in the shade to control post-Vermonster nausea. It also is a good place to hang out and/or throw a disc around. There is also a popular carousel in the middle of the park. Brave CTYers surviving the rough ride earn a sticker claiming "I rode the Congress Park Carousel," which is often displayed on the cardholder portion of the lanyard. (I still have mine somewhere, and can confirm that they are in fact awesome). Nevermore grass orgies are also a feature.<br />
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===Laser Tag===<br />
Laser tag is usually greeted with huge enthusiasm amongst CTYers who are at Skidmore for their first year, or don't follow traditions closely. However, many more veteran CTYers choose to save their money for Vermonsters, love tape, and other CVS staples. Laser tag takes place at Outer Zone and is alien themed. The location at first appears to be slightly sketchy, but they have state-of-the-art laser tag equipment. Town Trip A in 2012 included laser tag, CVS, and Ben and Jerry's.<br />
As of 13.1, however, Outer Zone has shut down.<br />
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===CVS===<br />
CVS allows CTYers to stock up/restock items that they may find beneficial, such as sharpies for signing things, drinks, condoms (generally as gifts), hairdye, make up for dances, snacks, etc. Because town trips can get cancelled, it is beneficial to try to stock up on things like sharpies on the first town trip in case the second one is cancelled (09.2, the second town trip was rained out, leaving a dearth of sharpies for signing, as the nevermores were planning on getting them on the second town trip).<br />
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===Lyrical Ballads===<br />
In 13.1, this bookstore was included in the town trip. It's really awesome, and way bigger on the inside than it looks from outside. It's really easy to get lost here, as the interior resembles a maze more than a store.<br />
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===Northshire Bookstore===<br />
In 14.1, this stop was added on the town trips. It is a beautiful bookstore that encourages local shopping with expensive but good items. There is even a cozy children's section on the second floor.<br />
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===All Day Shopping===<br />
All day shopping involves spending the entire town trip shopping.<br />
At 09.1, however, an incident involving a very expensive broken guitar along with improper behavior on an all day shopping trip resulted in the removal of this option for the second town trip. It was replaced by a more specified route involving popular stores such as GAP and Last Vestige.<br />
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===Farmer's Market===<br />
Added as a Saturday morning activity in 13.2, during this trip CTYers take the Skidmore shuttle to the Saratoga Farmer's Market, where they can buy everything from fresh produce and flowers to burritos and smoothies. In the third floor of Howe-Rounds, the girls pooled their snacks together in the common room to make a communal lunch.<br />
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=The Food=<br />
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Students eat in [http://cms.skidmore.edu/diningservice/halls.cfm Murray Dining Hall].<br />
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Pizza, pasta and salad are served every day along with many other food items, ranging from chicken parmesan to Chinese food, which are different at each meal. Cereal, pancakes, waffles, and sometimes French toast are served for breakfast. Coffee, flavored or unflavored water, milk, soymilk, powerade and many types of soda are available at every meal. The desserts, including chocolate cake and lemon mousse, change day to day, but soft serve is always available (although the machine sometimes runs out or breaks). The soft serve machine was missing during 13.1, despite promises it would soon return. Specially made Kosher and Vegetarian meals are also available.<br />
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In 2006, the dining hall underwent a major renovation. Students ate in Case Center, where students register on the first day. The waffle iron and soft-serve machine were chronically broken.<br />
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In 2007, the dining hall renovations were finally complete. Aikens was beautified, and there is now cheese on the ceiling.(Not literally) There are separate little booths, tables, a much coveted round table behind Emily's Garden, etc. The new plate cleaning system makes use of Tim Perry's so-called Alice in Wonderland holes which are about as non-Alice-in-Wonderland-esque as you can get. The quality of food had improved enormously, but the slight decrease in space caused the staff to set up a staggered breakfast system, where halls took turns having breakfast in certain time slots. This system was abolished in 2008, and now students can eat breakfast whenever they want. In 08.2, there was a staggered lunch system, where eating times were organized through classes; one or two classes would be in the cafeteria at the same time. The staggered lunches were organized in 30 minute periods. A staggered lunch system was used 2009 as well, with each class having an hour for lunch, but classes arriving and leaving at 15 minute intervals so that it was only full for a short period of time. The staggered lunch system currently divides the classes into first and second lunch, where first lunch arrives and leaves 15 minutes earlier than second lunch.<br />
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The setup is also conducive to breakfast of champions (lucky charms and soft serve), as the cereals and soft serve are available at every meal, although at breakfast, you can expect the soft serve machine to squirt out something more that's more liquid than soft serve. Fortunately, this is fine for breakfast of champions.<br />
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In 13.2, much to the delight of CTYers and even dining hall staff, the soft serve machine was repaired some time during the first two weeks. A huge line formed and by the end of that dinner, the soft serve machine had broken again. This led to Skidmore dining staff to assign one staff member the position of soft serve distributor/fixer, who gave out soft serve and fixed the machine immediately if it broke. A 10-second rule was also developed because anyone who held down the handle of the machine for longer than 10 seconds tended to break it. Only the vanilla soft serve was available and by the end of the session, Skidmore dining staff had just given up on it. By the last morning, only liquid vanilla came out of the machine. <br />
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Overall, the food at Skidmore's dining hall is delicious and there is a huge variety of food. Although if you are strictly kosher, the food is terrible.<br />
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=Traditions=<br />
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* [[Nevermore]] Steals - plates, salt/pepper shakers, or trays (new dining hall doesn't use trays, although it still has them. (Nate got a tray 09.1, years after the trays were put out of use) but most nevermores take the white plates instead, which leads to an acute shortage of white plates.)<br />
* Mandatory Fun<br />
* "In the case of (insert random event), how long does it take to get to the top of [http://www.skidmore.edu/map/jonsson.htm Jonsson Tower]?" "1 MINUTE 12 SECONDS!!!!"<br />
* Laser Tag (Defunct)<br />
* Nevermore Shirts (bring different types of sharpies; 2009's were black)<br />
* The Last Supper (Breakfast when something goes wrong)<br />
* Water Day<br />
* Casino Night/Lipsync "Contest"<br />
* Talent Show<br />
* Carnival<br />
* Olympics<br />
* Random Acts of Senseless Kindness (RASK)<br />
* Lanyard Swinging<br />
* Duct Tape<br />
* CTYI!<br />
* Monty Python<br />
* The Princess Bride<br />
* [[Ultimate Frisbee]]<br />
* Sunrise<br />
* [[Passionfruit]]<br />
* Illegal Sleepovers (ISOs)<br />
* [[Love Tape]]<br />
* [[Hall_of_Fame:SAR#Jon_Good|Jon Good]] loves you<br />
* Marriage Booth<br />
* [[Rina]]s and Rinos<br />
* "I like you, I love you, I CTY you"<br />
* "Good night, go home, nobody loves you except Jon Good!" (shouted by nevermores/nomores on the stage [or elevated area] during the last meat market or the last dance when it's time to go back to the dorms)<br />
* [[Hall_of_Fame:SAR#Free_Lee-Kai|Free Lee-Kai!]]<br />
* Stummy Lays (grass orgies, pregnancy circles)<br />
* [[Quad Time]] (sometimes/rarely referred to as Meet or Meat Market)<br />
* Glowsticking (raving)<br />
* Fu-- that Lancaster Sh-- in response to "Orgy" and other Lancaster American Pie traditions in American Pie (Skidmore veterans don't shout orgy, and are frustrated with the aggravating campers from Lancaster who disrespect our varying traditions.)<br />
* [[CTY Yearbooks|Nevermore Pages]]<br />
* Vermonsters from Ben & Jerry's<br />
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==Session 1 Only==<br />
* Dib Dib Dib (Defunct.)<br />
* [[Varsity Catch]] (you're the worst!!) (More or less defunct.)<br />
* Napkin Eating Contests (Defunct.)<br />
* Snap your fingers while walking across the quad and say to everyone you pass "There's gonna be a rumble tonight". (Defunct.) (Can we revive this?)<br />
* CTY-shaped grass orgy during the last quadtime<br />
* Clapping when someone breaks or drops a plate in the dining hall<br />
* Losing The Game<br />
* [[USER:AJhat]]'s Hat (The gray striped one, who has a page [http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Falmouth-ME/AJs-Hat/106147791251?ref=mf on Facebook ] ) (Defunct.)<br />
* [[Skidmore Twomore Duct Tape Cape|Duct Tape Triforce]]<br />
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==Session 2 Only==<br />
* DIPSHIT!<br />
* Fruit <br />
* Butt Wrestling during Passionfruit<br />
* The Chillin Tree (Defunct)<br />
* Louis Game <br />
* Clap Lines (session 2 - started in '08) on the walkways on the quad, nearly at the end of camp. Couples skip together, music is heard from within your soul, and all is well. It's usually when you realize that these are the best 3 weeks of your life. XD<br />
* Dark Side of Oz (Defunct)<br />
* Nevermore Tokens<br />
* Surrounding DJ's table at dances during Poker Face - a tribute to SAR Forevermore Lady Gaga :)<br />
* The Plates of Destiny (session 2, 2013) - originated by roommates Emily Liebiger and Dheivanai Moorthy on the third floor of Howe-Rounds. While their hall had already left for the Farmers' Market on the last Sunday of camp, they took paper plates and hung them from the ceiling- writing all sorts of scribing of camp traditions- "Live Love CTY!" & "I CTY YOU- SARATOGA 14.2" were some of the many. They wrote the stuff that they'd love and miss about each other, just in time before the feasting occurred.<br />
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==The Days==<br />
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*<s>Second Monday &ndash; Naughty Catholic School Girl Day</s> BANNED IN '10!! :'(<br />
Changed to Goth day (session 1 only), or a wildcard day (session 2)<br />
*Second Tuesday &ndash; [[Love Tape]] Day<br />
*Second Wednesday &ndash; Crossdressing Day/Gender Bender Day/Drag Day<br />
*Second Thursday &ndash; Wildcard day chosen by royalty (i.e. superhero day, favorite sports team day, etc.), formally Slap Your Own Ass Day<br />
*Second Friday &ndash; Also a wildcard day, formally Slap Someone Else's Ass Day<br />
*Third Monday (or Second Friday) &ndash; Pajama Day<br />
*July 1st (session 1)/August 1st (session 2) &ndash; Slap Your Own Ass Day (Appreciate Your Own Donkey Day)<br />
*July 2nd (session 1)/August 2nd (session 2) &ndash; Slap Someone Else's Ass Day (Appreciate Someone Else's Donkey Day)<br />
*Last Thursday &ndash; End of the World Day/Towel Day (Based on ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'')<br />
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Session 1 only:<br />
*Rina Day &ndash; Third Tuesday as of 09.1<br />
*Clash Day &ndash; Third Wednesday<br />
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==Squirrels==<br />
NOTE: This section, refers to small, furry animals of doom, not [[squirrel]]s.<br />
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The squirrels at Saratoga Springs tend to hang out on the Case patio, where they can often be seen dragging their twisted, wretched little bodies across the ground with their legs splayed out in a disturbing parody of an army crawl. They have been known to bite people going into the Green Mountain Coffee Shop. Yup, the squirrels. They're rabid and violent. They don't walk. They lie on their furry little stomachs and DRAG themselves around. They're known to lunge at visitors and steals and then EAT their cigs. They also jump out of trash cans at people. Don't feed, look at, attempt to chase them, or talk to them.<br />
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In 2008, a few of the squirrels had some disease involving missing fur and being even more psychotic than the normal squirrels. <br />
In 2009, there were practically no squirrels. They might have all died out.<br />
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[CHANGE]: In 2009 there were indeed squirrels. The biology teacher and a CTYer by the name of Max Lee were both attacked. Be careful they often pop out of trash cans. My Biology teacher threw an apple in there, and was startled by a squirrel that jumped out. Max Lee was unfortunate. He leaned over to spit out his gum, and a squirrel leaped onto his head. Max Lee was scared out of his wits.<br />
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[CHANGE]: In 2010 there were once again indeed squirrels. However they were no longer the vicious furry demons that attacked random passerby. It might've been mating season cause two squirrels were constantly "on top of each other while thrusting." In fact it was described as rape seeing as the squirrel on the bottom was constantly trying to get away. Quite weird. Jaeho Lee found it interesting to watch the squirrels chasing each other up trees, down trees, around trees, around "squirrels", etc.<br />
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[CHANGE]: In 2012, the little furry creatures of doom were known to hiss and urinate on those unfortunate enough to provoke the squirrel by shaking the tree it's on. Also, the squirrels were particularly stupid this year, as when a CTYer scared a squirrel in front of the Dining Hall the squirrel proceeded to run into a tiny bush near the Dining Hall door. Due to the bush's isolation from nearby trees and its tiny size, the squirrel became trapped in the bush.<br />
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[[Logic: Principles of Reasoning]], commonly shortened to Logic, is a Humanities course in the CTY program with no prerequisites. Its course code is LOGC, and it is offered at [[Baltimore]], [[Lancaster]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[Saratoga Springs]], and was also offered at [[Loudonville]].<br />
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==Course Description==<br />
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Logic: PoR, as opposed to [[Mathematical Logic]], is a humanities course, centering on logical reasoning applied to writing and arguments. The main activities of the class usually include reading and discussing philosophy, debating (sometimes against [[Philosophy of Mind]] classes), and writing argumentative essays, with the main emphasis on making arguments logical and strong. Students in this class are also introduced to formal logic, at a level roughly equivalent to a college freshman-level course.<br />
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==Class History==<br />
The CTY Logic course was designed and first taught by the great and honorable Jonathan Cohen in 1985 at Dickinson, and from 1986 to 1988 at Franklin and Marshall.<br />
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The Logic textbook generally remains the same through the years and is known to use odd analogies:<br />
* "After taking LSD, Alice said she saw a flying saucer land in the parking lot of her local mall. Since Alice has a history of telling the truth, we can conclude that an alien spacecraft really did land in the parking lot."<br />
* "If there is nothing to fear but fear itself, then women should not fear serial rapists."<br />
* "On the evening of the fourth, Mr. Wilson went out onto the veranda to watch the fireworks go up in his pajamas. We therefore conclude that he had a very exciting evening."<br />
* "I saw you at that party the other night. Everyone there was doing crack. So tell me, how long have you been dealing?"<br />
* "Native Americans are disappearing. Ralph is a Native American. Therefore, Ralph is disappearing."<br />
* "So, how long have you been beating your wife for?"<br />
* "After high schools introduced SAT prep, SAT scores declined 10%. Therefore, we should eliminate high schools."<br />
* "If I cannot be killed by infinite ninjas, then I am alive after infinite ninjas killed me"<br />
* "If I open the door and bash this poor little kid's head in accidentally, should I go to jail?"<br />
LOGC.B.LAN.07.2 says:<br />
* Intelligent design is a hamburger.<br />
* God doesn't have to exist to not play dice.<br />
* Kib's taters is holy.<br />
* We don't believe in evolution.<br />
* It's like finding ways to draw common sense.<br />
* It's a vicious lack of cycle.<br />
* Your mom's a fallacy!<br />
* Enough said about Professor Conway...<br />
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===LOGC.B.LAN.07.1===<br />
gossiped using formal logic while typing their dreaded opinion articles:<br />
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B ⊃ N/ B//N<br />
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F <3 L/L <3 E//F <3 E<br />
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(F <3 E) ⊃ (L ≡ JB)/F <3 E//L ≡ JB<br />
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[Note regarding validity of first statement: we proved that love is a transitive property (we being Emily, Larissa, and sort of Nixxi)]<br />
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===LOGC.B.LAN.08.01===<br />
Quotes the unimitatable TA Charles<br />
"LOOOGGIIC B!!!!!! LEEEEEEEEETT'S GOOOOOO"<br />
<br/>THE POWER THAT IS THE CLOCK, AND ITS LOVER, ERIK!<br />
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===LOGC.B.LAN.08.2===<br />
Continues to quote Charles:<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!" (say what?)<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!" (can't hear you!)<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!" (oh baby!)<br><br />
"Ain't no power like the power of logic, 'cause the power of logic don't stop!"<br />
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===LOS=== <br />
The Logic Instructor, Brian Talbot, is famed for his Logic call, used at handoffs. It is often imitated, but never duplicated: "LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-(deep breath)-GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!" Every year, the Logic class also holds debates with the Ethics class. Ethics usually wins.<br />
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===JHU Sesh 1 '08===<br />
Logic A taught by Bill McGeehan is known for its suggestiveness : B horseshoe J, PMS, and all those perverted contraception in schools/eugenics debates. This class also had a really cool TA Kurt Pfund, whom we all called Mr Tumnus because of his uncanny resemblance to McAvoy <br />
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===LOU.08.1.LOGC===<br />
Taught by Jim Davis (no relation to the cartoonist) and TA'd by Dan — later the TA for SAR.09.1.LOGC —, featured such memorable moments as<br />
* Jim's divison of the class into the four Harry Potter houses.<br />
* a debate over evolution's status as a scientific theory where the jury determined that evolution was, in fact, not a scientific theory.<br />
* debates in groups with ETHC students first on capital punishment and then on human cloning (mostly uneventful), followed by a debate on the merits of pirates vs. ninjas.<br />
* among many others.<br />
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===SAR.09.01.LOGC.A===<br />
Jim Davis is the best logic teacher in the world. He is the same Jim Davis who put his class into Harry Potter houses and switched them periodically. Harry Potter houses are groups of 2-3 people that work together during logic problems, and earn points for their house.<br />
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===LAN.10.2.LOGC.C===<br />
This was taught by Dr. Bernardo "Scarface" Cantens and TA'd by Jacob "Hipster" Sparxx. Bern was a kind of awkward but a really fatherly guy so we all called him Dad starting the first day. He was new to CTY so we had to teach him about how the CTY classroom environment is different from his normal college classroom but he caught on quickly and was overall a fun/effective instructor. Sparxx, the TA, was basically the best TA ever. He always wore a straw hat he bought from some random woman in the mountains while hiking, jeans that were rolled up, and was basically the epitome of your typical hipster. Sparxx is known for being very profound for his age, sitting in strange positions, and being very good at yoga. As for the course, we learned a lot about evaluating arguments, differentiating between a valid and invalid argument, fallacies, different forms of logic, conditional and inductive proofs, and read from Hume the last week. The course material was overall very interesting and involved a LOT of philosophy. We also enjoyed listening to the words of the peculiar Gleb and watching Monty Python videos. <br />
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===JHU.10.1. LOGC.A===<br />
Taught by Bill McGeehan and TA Kurt Pfund, the class kept up the tradition of not just learning LOGIC, but SUGGESTIVE logic.<br />
"F, or G? ...Orgy!" -Alexandra E.<br />
"No, YOU'RE a fallacy!" -Ryder<br />
Aside from being perverted all the time, this class happened to be musically talented. Disney's "The Lion King" soundtrack was a favorite. They even wrote a song and performed a song dedicated to Logic A, entitled "Hey Logic A," which made Bill teary-eyed and received whoops and hollers from the audience on the last day.<br />
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===JHU.10.2.LOGC===<br />
Bill McGeehan taught this class, with TA Linda Kang (AKA Snuffy, because she has a stuffed Snuffy doll and a Snuffy T-shirt.) Once again extremely suggestive, this session brought us such jewels as...<br />
* "Slave workers are often not paid..." -S.Kim<br />
* "Don't climb the tree..." -K.Heinlein<br />
* "Is that Leo...?" *SLAPS* -B. Mahadev, during break demonstrating independent eye movement<br />
* "I will be a mother someday soon." -L<br />
"YOU'RE PREGNANT?!?" -T<br />
"What? No! AHHHH!" *blushes* -conversation between TA Linda and T.King<br />
* "Here, have a peach and taste the orgasm!" -B.M<br />
* "GOODNIIIIIGHT BANGKOK!!" -C.Zhu<br />
* "I'm the Spartacus of BLAMMO!" -D.Galvez<br />
* "Camastres, Cesare, Darii, Ferio...uh, Cthulu?" *gets hit w/ paper balls* -A.Palacios<br />
* "Are you calling me a MUTANT!?" -T.King<br />
* "SNUFFY!!" -Everyone, upon seeing Kinda every day<br />
* "Aw, C'MON!!! Do I really? ...Grrr... Fine." *gets on ground* "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!" -Linda<br />
* "Caleb, stop throwing your sperm at Bella please." -B.M<br />
* *slams fist on table* "That's a FALLACY!!" -D.Galvez<br />
* "That's committing the fallacy of bull****." -T.King<br />
* "Andrew, be quiet or we'll stuff you in a box and ship you to Bangkok." -B.M<br />
* "Oh BABY!" -C.Zhu<br />
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===LAN.11.2.LOGA===<br />
Jacob 'Sparky' Sparks was the instructor and Joe Pulka aka Broseph, aka Jolka was the TA. They were both pretty awesome and let us listen to daft punk music in class. Brian and Jaya invented the I Theory. Our class was mostly squirrels of the ages of 12-13, but that did not stop us from being awesome.<br />
As it often happens when you put insane people in the same class (we pretty much all should've belonged in separate wards in a mental asylum), inside jokes ensued. Such as...<br />
*"So meta-ethics is infibulation?" -Cherian<br />
*"INCONCEIVABLE." -Angie<br />
*"NO NO NO! TWO JALAPENOS, '''ONE''' STICK!" -Jessie<br />
*"That's what the demon wants you to think!"<br />
"Maybe you ''are'' the demon!" -Brian and Winston<br />
*Dictionary wars: Yiran, Winston, and a few special appearances by 'the brick.'<br />
*"SPLENDID!!!" -Abby<br />
*"My friend is offering ONE...sexy picture of her clutching Strawberry kiwi lemonade to her bosom in exchange for ONE...order of korean noodles!" -Jessie and Abby<br />
*"JOOOoOOOOOooOooooooOOOE!!" -Stephanie<br />
*"I had to urinate on it" -Jessie<br />
*"Clutch it! CLUTCH IT HARDER!" -Abby and Jessie<br />
*"More than half of the people on the family tree have love children, and most of those are incestuous!" -Abby<br />
*"Maybe your 'i' leaves your body and goes into the dream world at night!" *giggles all around the room* -Brian<br />
*"That's what the demon WANTS you to think." -Brian, again<br />
*"I really just wanna sit under this table right now..." -Sparky<br />
*"You are the bastard son of _____ himself!!" -Yiran, Stephanie, and Abby<br />
*"Where are my ko-re-an noodles!!" -Helen and Jessie<br />
*"She threatened to STAB ME WITH A KIVO KNIFE!!" -Abby<br />
*"Well, there's tater tots and chicken fingers and-" *guy in tight dress walks by* -Hema and Rebecca<br />
*"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey Rebecca!" -Cherian<br />
*"So, it's, like, your inner I-ness..." -Jaya/human Jukebox (and so the I Theory was born...)<br />
*All hail the halo of communism and the egg of democracy!<br />
*"Joe got some serious girl action last night!" *Joe turns red**Sparky diverts attention* -Winston<br />
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Et cetera. Basically, this class was the best thing ever.<br />
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===JHU.11.2.LOGC===<br />
Taught by the wonderfully politically incorrect Bill McGeehan and TA-ed by Meica Magnani. Her ever-present aviators were constant accessories in the classroom. This was the summer Kim Young-Chan, illegitimate son of Kim Jong-Il, entered our lives. See the Hall of Fame for more details about Young Chan the Hungriest Man. Also present in this class were The Triumvirate (Dixon, Muggo, & Mett), Arlex, Kevin the Sex Man, and a Swede, among others. Orgies were constantly present, as were discussions racism, pornography, prostitution, abortion, and anti-Semites. Best class ever. We went on to effectively rule the campus.<br />
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===LMU.11.2.LOGC===<br />
For around 9 years the Ethics class was undefeated. That is, until 11.2, when Logic finally came out victorious in one of the most surprising upsets LMU CTY has ever seen.<br />
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===SAR.12.1.LOGC (B)=== <br />
This was an AWESOME class. Since there were an unusually large number of logic students, the class was divided into two classes: 'Logic A' and 'Logic B'. Logic B had the older kids, which meant we only had ten students , with Jim Davis and TA Matt Lutz, who by general consensus of the class was pretty much the most awesome TA ever. Logic A being sadly lacking in imagination, they kept their boring name of 'Logic A'. Logic B, however, being incredibly cool and imaginative, decided to rename the class 'The Fighting Mongeese', in reference to the Futurama ep. "The Farnsworth Parabox". There was also a call and response for our class: Jim would shout "FIGHTING MONGEESE!" and we would shout "AWOOOGAH!" back (it was very important that we say it as loudly as possible). <br />
The Fighting Mongeese had many adventures: <br />
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The Logic Dance! (Wedge! Horseshoe! Dot! Etc!) <br />
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At the ending ceremony for the class, every Fighting Mongoose who was there went down to the stage wearing a fake beard, and performed the Logic Dance.<br />
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The Board of Many Socrates: Emily Cambias started this, when she drew 'Gothrates' on the board when the class was reading Plato on Goth Day. A few days later, 'Hawkrates' and 'Spockrates' were added. This started the snowball rolling, and after a few days there were many, many Socrateses. Some notable ones were 'Ewokrates', 'Hammockrates', 'Rockrates', and 'Sockrates'. The defining characteristic of all of these drawings was that the object in question sported a beard.<br />
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"YOU'RE WRONG BECAUSE YOU'RE UGLY." This is a totally legitimate argument.<br />
"YELL AT THEM UNTIL THEY CRY. THEN YOU WIN." This is a totally legitimate debate strategy.<br />
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It was discovered that Mr. Matt had a beautiful singing voice, and he was often called upon to demonstrate with such classics as "The Bad Horse Song." <br />
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"Do you remember what my name is?" "Uhhhhh. . . Ernesto?" (It was not)<br />
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Watching Twelve Angry Men and also watching Henry Fonda's dreamy, dreamy eyes. <br />
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===JHU.12.2.LOGC (B)===<br />
JHU's Session 2 Logic Class was taught by Beau Branson, with TA Quentin Fisher, also known as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived." Like SAR, JHU also had an unusually large amount of Logic students and as such was split into two classes, with B being the older students. Our class consisted of two Canadians, a South Korean, and a Spaniard, as well as an Arizona girl who owned no shorts. The students were: Ethan Mok, Anita Shieh, Richard Pei, Jaeyong Park, Grace Hua, Joe Shin, Kelvin Zhu, Emma Morgan, Daniel Matsumoto, Quinn Matos, Alexia Junker, Olivia Ireland, Dani Dafcik, and Katie Ippolito.<br />
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List of things:<br />
*No, no , NOOO. Of course he's not the boy's father. Look at the turn ups on his jeans!<br />
*"I have only written one sentence, this is a catastrophe!" "YOU'RE a catastrophe!"<br />
*444444444444444 과학을 빌어 먹을! 444444444444444444444<br />
*Witha<br />
*$2.50 , good deal!<br />
*....potato?<br />
*Katie's high-quality hugs<br />
*richard falling off a desk and faceplanting on the floor (twice)<br />
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===JHU.13.1.LOGC.B===<br />
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This class was taught by Dan and TA'd by Peter. Oddly enough, the boy/girl ratio was off so there were five girls and ten boys. This did not stop everyone from socializing and generally being goofy. There were two organized debates at the end of the session over recreational marijuana and capitalism/socialism.<br />
From the class:<br />
*Trees are bad!<br />
*Cannibalism!<br />
*(various marijuana jokes) <br />
-*There were plenty of alternative names used for marijuana, including but not limited to mujiwuji and mowwywowwy. Extra points for every word that wasn't "marijuana" were granted during the final debate, so serious (cough) research would be punctuated with random words like "mowwow".<br />
*One good memory was the complete and utter crushing of the Math Logic class in The Logic Game. The Logic Game was invented by Dan the Logic Teacher and the Math Logic teacher. It consists of lots of formal logic signs and resembles a board game, except all the markers are actually poker chips. The Logic class smashed the Math Logic class with a score of 58-27. The prize was two bags of Jolly Ranchers.<br />
*A game was invented during one of the class breaks- Tag Tog. It came into existence after some people were poking fun at a girl's (Reena's) British accent (falsely claiming that she pronounced "tag" as "tog"). The game was basically tag, but you could also "tog", which basically meant hitting people with a frisbee. This was probably the one and only time the entire class was up and running, as usually they spent their breaks doing separate things.<br />
* Once upon a boring evening session filled with proofs and refutations, someone (was it Josh?) was reading out bad pick up lines from his phone. Eventually the class went silent and he read out this gem:<br />
Are you a soldier?<br />
Because my privates salute to you.<br />
The entire class went even more silent, and then burst out into laughter.<br />
* Matt had an obsession with taking a banana out of the cafeteria and walking to class with it after lunch. Reena kept whacking it out of his hands and letting it fall to the floor, where it started to split. It then became mushy and gross and Dan (the teacher, not the kid) would force him to throw it out. One time before evening session, Matt threw it at Wyatt's head, where it began to split. Wyatt picked it up and threw it back, leaving a puke-like stain on Matt's shirt. Matt threw away the old banana and went to the bathroom before class to clean himself up. When he returned he had somehow acquired a second banana. It is still unknown where he got it.<br />
* The banana shenanigans ended with Matt collecting a banana from everyone in the class after lunch and then stuffing all the bananas in Wyatt's luggage.<br />
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===SAR.13.1.LOGC.A===<br />
This class was taught by John and TA'd by Evan.<br />
Logic A spent most of the 3 weeks checking the validity of arguments and then if they were valid, using natural deduction to prove them valid(check). There were 11 students in total, 4 boys and 7 girls. The class was divided into 2 groups of 4 and one group of 3. This was for the evening sessions where we solved Logic Puzzles for points. The group that consisted of Carlene, Urie, Anshul (the self-appointed Champion of Scarsdale), and Victor (the champion of Scarsdale according to everyone else) won and chose to watch Mean Girls (although Anshul did not agree). We ended up watching Sherlock Holmes though, much to the disappointment of the females and Victor. <br />
Some of the most memorable moments:<br />
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-The scavenger hunt where there were mixed teams with Logic A and B kids. The team of Emily, Victor, Rachel, Tedward and another person won first<br />
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-Carlene's many best friends<br />
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-Evan's sad list<br />
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-*Proving an argument on the board*<br />
Evan: Annette, what comes next?<br />
Annette: *thinks for a while* NEXT COMES THE D!<br />
Carlene, Alissa start cracking up<br />
Evan: Can you please say that in a non-perverted way?<br />
*Annette realizes what she said and starts laughing and falls out of her chair*<br />
John: Why don't you go outside and calm down, Annette. <br />
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- John writes argument on board:<br />
1. All cats are dogs<br />
2. All dogs are ugly<br />
c. All cats are ugly<br />
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- Anshul always put his used post its and looseleaf on the floor, and at the end of the session everyone BUT him cleaned up<br />
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Victor: ALL RACHELS ARE UGLY (Rachel is a cat in case you didn't know)<br />
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-Motis Penis (Ponens)....<br />
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- *Evan writes "All answers are random on the board" (Evan has really bad handwriting)<br />
Rachel: What's that word after are?<br />
Evan: It looks like condom doesn't it?<br />
Rachel: *nods*<br />
Evan: It's always you who comes up with this stuff isn't it?<br />
*whole class starts cracking up* <br />
*Emily's chair flips back and she gets thrown off of it*<br />
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- SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG <br />
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- Carlene's can of frosting that she ate with a spoon and Andrew's goldfish that everyone stole<br />
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- "What's green and fuzzy and would hurt if it fell from a tree?" A pool table!!!!! -Carlene<br />
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- Victor's amazing frisbee skills<br />
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- The lengthy debates we had at break about Homosexuality when Andrew started quoting the bible<br />
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<br/>sexual remarks<br />
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==SAR 14.2 LOGC.B==<br />
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Instructor: Andrew Higgins<br />
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TA: Emeka ("like the holy city mecca with 'uh' in front")<br />
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"All zebras are jewish"<br />
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God is like the ice berg shaped like Chuck Norris on the surface of Nepune.<br />
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"I am hypothetically a ''horrible'' person!"<br />
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You don't understand? Let me explain with Japanese!<br />
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<div>== Emilia Nobrega ==<br />
<br />Emilia attended 5 CTY sessions: The Middle Ages at BabyCTY Mount Holyoke (10.2); Astronomy at RWU (11.2); and Electrical Engineering (12.1), Cryptology (13.2), and Logic B (14.2) at Skidmore. During her nevermore year, she was in charge of constructing the TARDIS for Fandom Day.</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Cryptology/plaintext&diff=29916Cryptology/plaintext2013-07-31T13:39:46Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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[[Cryptology/plaintext|Cryptology]] is CTY's newest math course. It offers an engaging curriculum, combining mathematical and historical background with hands-on cryptography and cryptanalysis. With over two thousand years of code-making and code-breaking to experience, the subject is anything but dull. As a result, Cryptology has spread like wildfire, to nearly every CTY site, but has it spread too fast for its own good?<br />
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Cryptology is a Math course in the CTY program with no prerequisites. Its course code is CODE, and it is offered at [[Carlisle]], [[Lancaster]], [[Skidmore]], and [[Los Angeles]].<br />
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==Course Description==<br />
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Cryptology (the subject) is the study of codes and ciphers: making them and breaking them. Cryptology offers an engaging curriculum, combining mathematical and historical background with hands-on cryptography and cryptanalysis, and looks at over two millenia of ciphers. The course begins with the distinction between codes and ciphers. Students learn the details of some of the most historically important ciphers, some dating back to Julius Caesar, others as cutting-edge as quantum computing. In order to fully understand these ciphers, and to learn to break them in particular, some mathematical background is needed. Students will accumulate an arsenal of techniques in probability, combinatorics, and number theory, to be properly armed against the onslaught of ciphers. In addition to going up against some of cryptography's greatest hits, students will also apply the principles of of cryptography to design their own codes and ciphers. In short, the "Black Chambers" of yore are conveniently brought to the CTY classroom.<br />
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One thing that sets Cryptology apart from other math courses at CTY is its interdisciplinary nature. Although the emphasis in the course is on mathematics, many cryptanalytic techniques bring linguistics into play as well. Furthermore, each cipher has its place in history: royals have been executed, treasures have remained hidden, and battles have been decided by the strength or weakness of a cipher. These features give Cryptology great crossover appeal, and make Cryptology an excellent choice for a student who has some interest in math, but is wary of taking courses involving more intensive mathematics.<br />
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==Class History==<br />
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The history of Cryptography (the course) is brief, but compelling. In 2000, Stefan Treatman, then a [[Calculus]] instructor at [[Lancaster]], was inspired by his work at the NSA, and filled out a proposal for a new course in cryptology. Normally, it takes two years or more for a course proposal to become a newly offered course, but the year-round staff at Baltimore was particularly interested in offering a new math course, and they were sufficiently impressed by Stefan's proposal that they set things up for Cryptology to be offered at Lancaster in 2001. In Session 1, two sections of Cryptology were offered: one was taught by Stefan, while "Sideshow" David Perry taught the other. Both men were working at the NSA during the rest of the year, so they were eminently suited to teach the (unclassified) details of codes, both historic and modern.<br />
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The first session of Cryptology was a great success. In fact, the course proved to be so popular, that when Sideshow had to teach [[Number Theory]] in Session 2, leaving but a single section of Cryptology, the administration considered hiring a second TA for Stefan, so he could teach a double-sized class. Stefan wound up teaching a regular class with a single TA that session, but things were looking bright for the future of the course. The next year, Cryptology was exported to other sites. Sideshow, who was a veteran instructor at Lancaster, was asked to teach Crypto in [[Carlisle]] for one sesison of 2002. The expansion continued, and now, Cryptology is offered at six of the eight [[sites]]. This makes Cryptology the most widely taught math course, equal in site coverage to [[Game Theory]], and more prevalent than [[Math Sequence]].<br />
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In 09.2 (Dan wonders, which site? - Daria answers, Carlisle) Cryptology A and [[Latin]] had an ongoing fight on the most creative way to call in the students. Latin's original call was "LATIN! Let's Go!" while Cryptology had none. The Crypto class then butchered the Latin language to create a binary call in Latin. In the last week of class Latin staged an elaborate call while Crypto did theirs and retreated inside the building. To this day Latin and Crypto students insist that their class won, while we all know who the real winners were. GO CRYPTO!<br />
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In 09.2 at Lancaster, a student from Cryptology A named Steven Kwon forgot the term for a known or suspected plaintext (a crib). He instead called it a "blum." His classmates found this quite amusing, and blum became a popular all-purpose word among CODE A-ers. Later on in the session, both CODE A and B classes took a field trip to the National Cryptologic Museum. In the museum there was a wall covered in plaques engraved with names, and one of the people honored on these plaques had the last name "Blum." Whoever you are, Mr. T. Blum, we CTY you.<br />
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In 10.1 at Lancaster, there was an especially friendly group of students in CODE C. These students decided to sing a song commonly sung about THEO's TA, Dimby, about their most magnificent and all-knowing TA, Zydney, whom they viewed with much respect. This led to many shouting matches between THEO and CODE C. This class was also responsible for setting the latest record for cracking the Enigma thanks to having a student from Germany. The CODE C students were often found quacking at prospective F&M students taking tours of the campus and at anyone else who they saw at any other point during the day. Such a trend was noted by a particularly lovelysquirrel in Logic who decided to make it publicly known on the sidewalk. "All things that quack are ducks. The CODE C students quack. The CODE C students are ducks. QED." We shall all be ducks.<br />
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In 12.1 at Lancaster, the CODE C students (taught by Chris and TA'd by Ross) took on the name "Decepticodes," which led to much ridicule from the other students (mostly people who had been in the class the year before). But we don't care because we sound like a bunch of evil robots and you don't.<br />
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In 12.2 at Lancaster, CODE B was taught by Sideshow and TA'd by Ross. Hilarity ensued.<br />
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==Instructors==<br />
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Although the math involved in Cryptology is, in general, not too complicated, the applications are rather specialized. Thus, Cryptography demands an instructor with some degree of specialization as well. While both of the instructors at Lancaster are experts in the field, other sites have not been so lucky. Since Cryptology has partially displaced Math Sequence at many sites, some sections outside Lancaster have had instructors with little experience outside the high school curriculum. In one unfortunate instance, one session in 2002 was so poorly taught that many parents asked for a tuition refund -- and got one. Other instructors contacted Stefan or Sideshow for guidance. Hopefully, as Cryptology grows older, its instructors will be more familiar with the material, but be careful for now. If you are planning to take Cryptology at a site other than Lancaster, you may want to ask others who took it at the same site about their instructor. If you are uncertain, I must stress that the curriculum is quite engaging, and just might make up for a mediocre instructor. At Los Angeles, the Cryptology course is home to the famed TA, Victor.<br />
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==The Turing Spatula==<br />
The Turing Spatula is an item at Lancaster Session 2 CODE B that is passed down annually. The spatula is a relatively new item, and has a quirky CTY history. In 2008, the Crypto TA Jake desperately wanted to play basement table tennis with his buddies, but couldn't find any paddles in rural Lancaster. After much rumination, he had the brilliant idea of buying spatulas from the salvation army to act in the place of rackets. The spatulas were a success, and the CTY TAs enjoyed themselves greatly. However, after the ping-pong craze ended, there was one lonely spatula left over. It sat in the crypto classroom for a week, and nobody knew what to do with it until the fateful final day. On the last full day of class, CODE B was taking their final, which is a day long code-breaking-scavenger-hunt extravaganza. At one station, the students decoded the message to read "alanturing." Alan Turing is the great cryptanalyst who cracked the Enigma, and had been a subject of discussion in Crypto class. However, for reasons unknown, four out of the five teams of students were not able to pronounce "alanturing" correctly. They pronounced it as aLANturing or Alan TOOOOring. To the shock of the teachers, only one team pronounced the name correctly. To commend this precision, Jake the TA named the leftover spatula "The Turing Spatula" and gave it to a member of that team. Her name was Veronica Stewart, who, in addition to knowing how to pronounce "alanturing," had been an excellent member of the class. However, Victoria was a nomore, and knew that if she took the spatula, it would never again return to CTY. She strongly believed that there would be other students in Cryptology in future years who would also be deserving of the spatula. So, in an incredible act of selflessness, she gave it to the onemore Michaela Shelton, who brought it back the following year and gave it to Tortoise (the teacher), who passed it down the following year.<br />
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The spatula is given to a Crypto student who is an enthusiastic and committed member of the class, can pronounce "alanturing," and who would appreciate it. The spatula is given to the new holder on the final CTY class on Friday. It is traditional for the previous holder to hug the unsuspecting future-holder that Friday morning before class and say "Enjoy the spatula" and walk away without explaining anything. This results in much confusion on the part of the soon-to-be holder. By this time, the previous holder had, of course, returned the spatula to Tortoise and inquired about the new holder. This is a very new tradition and we will see how long it lasts. <br />
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The holders of the spatula have been:<br />
*2008-09: Veronica Stewart/Michaela Shelton<br />
*2009-10: Ella Park-Chan<br />
*2010-11: Maria Shea<br />
*2011-12: Gia Rigoli<br />
*2012-13: Temitayo Wolff<br />
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[[Category:Courses]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=User:My.cat.norbert&diff=29152User:My.cat.norbert2012-11-21T14:30:39Z<p>My.cat.norbert: /* Emilia Nobrega */</p>
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<div>== Emilia Nobrega ==<br />
<br />Emilia has attended 3 CTY sessions so far: The Middle Ages at BabyCTY Mount Holyoke (10.2), Astronomy at RWU (11.2), and Electrical Engineering at Skidmore (12.1). Emilia's musical intrests include R.E.M., the Killers,They Might Be Giants, the Beatles, assorted disney songs, Corine Bailey Rae, classical music, Simon&Garfunkle, and Weezer. She is known to blast her various CDs of this music bright and early in the morning. She is a pretty easy-going person and loves sudoku and daydreaming.</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Saratoga_Springs&diff=27947Saratoga Springs2012-07-08T13:12:56Z<p>My.cat.norbert: /* Laser Tag */</p>
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'''Saratoga Springs''' is the CTY site located on the Skidmore campus. The newly built dining hall probably the best food of any site; the traditions, while fewer than other sites, are generally the most intense and carried more extremely and, while the smallest mainland site, the student body is perhaps the closest knit. Saratoga is also the only site with full blown town trips.<br />
=Location=<br />
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[http://skidmore.edu Skidmore College], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_Springs Saratoga Springs, NY] <br />
Arguably one of the most vibrant and dynamic small cities in the USA, it is also not only the place where Don McLean wrote American Pie, but the place where he first performed it, in Cafe Lena, just a block from where the students take their weekly town trip.<br />
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==The Dorms==<br />
The dorms are very nice, with both Howe-Rounds (the girls' dorm) and Wilmarth (the boys' dorm) featuring window seats and suite styled dorms, with a shared bathroom (1 for every 3 rooms). All dorms also feature desk-dressers and closets with curtains to ensure privacy whilst changing.<br />
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===Howe-Rounds===<br />
Each year, [http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/howerounds.cfm Howe-Rounds] houses one floor (consisting of 2 halls) of boys, all the girls and admin. Each room is built for either one or two people. Many people complain that the mattresses feel like rocks and squeak too much. Howe Rounds has 1 bathroom (2 sinks, 1 shower, 1 toilet) for four people. In each section in Howe Rounds, there is a bathroom, a double room, and two single rooms. Can become extremely cold as it, unlike Wilmarth, has air conditioning, so be sure to bring enough blankets or very warm pajamas. The laundry room is also shared, but 2 days a week are designated for boys to do laundry and the remaining 5 reserved for the girls. <br />
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===Wilmarth===<br />
[http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/wilmarth.cfm Wilmarth] dorms are exclusively for boys. Wilmarth has 1 bathroom for every 6 people, which can lead to long wait times for showers. Features a seating area on every floor, where players of egyptian rat screw, Mao, and chess congregate. Extremely hot all the time; bring a fan or suffer.<br />
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You may or may not find a hole in the wall of one of the rooms on the 3rd floor (The hole has been filled but you can still see the mark in Room 322). It was caused by a onemore boy named Jackson Hsu. He was practicing Martial Arts, didn't realize he was close to the wall, turned and punched, and thus created a hole in the wall. The RA's never seemed to find out and Jackson left safely. He got the nickname by his neighbors Jackie Chan from that day.<br />
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(Dood I took Phil advice and drew a black circle on the wall around 2 pm. -Jackson)<br />
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===McClellan===<br />
Due to renovations of Wilmarth in 2008, the boys were relocated to [http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/mcclellan.cfm McClellan]. This was not much improvement, as McClellan is identical to Wilmarth, but farther away. They did, however, have rooms that could be unlocked with the swipe of a card instead of a key, which is now also the case in Wilmarth. This card-key system was not always as helpful as it sounds, as some people took their cards off their lanyards and forgot them in their rooms, locking themselves out. McClellan is most notably home of the famous [http://www.realcty.org/mw/index.php?title=Hall_of_Shame:SAR#McClellan_3 "McClellan 3 incident"], in which 3rd floor citizens engaged in various antics while simultaneously trampling over any authority the RA's ever thought they had.<br />
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===Penfield===<br />
The 2012 site packet for Saratoga Springs lists Penfield Hall, rather than Howe-Rounds, as a residence hall along with Wilmarth. This may mean that Howe-Rounds is unavailable for some reason this year. Penfield is located to the left of the Quad (as seen facing the dining hall), to the front-left of Wilmarth. Any additional information known about the condition of the hall would be appreciated.<br />
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Here is Skidmore's page about Penfield: [http://cms.skidmore.edu/reslife/buildingprofile/penfield.cfm]<br />
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==Academic Buildings==<br />
These building aren't much different from those on any campus; they have whiteboards, projectors, desks and are very well air conditioned.<br />
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==Places for Activities==<br />
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===The Duckpond===<br />
The duckpond and surrounding fields are one of the most important locations on campus. Most importantly, passionfruit is held at the duckpond. Water day is held here, as well as the horse race on Casino Night. Daily/weekly activities that happen here include reading by the duckpond and frolf.<br />
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===The Athletic Fields===<br />
Skidmore gives CTY access to two of their fields. The better of these is the football field surrounded by a track, where morning running and some daily/weekly activities occur. Unfortunately, a field hockey camp needs to use these fields at the same time (despite Skidmore having fields specifically designated for field hockey), resulting in greater use of the still very nice lower fields, which are built for soccer. CTYers also visit the lower fields to watch the sun rise before passionfruit.<br />
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==Town Trip Locations==<br />
At Saratoga, we go on trips into town both Sunday afternoons. There are usually 6-8 routes, each containing 1-3 locations. Town trips can get cancelled on account of rain, but this doesn't happen often.<br />
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===Ben & Jerry's===<br />
Most sought after location among Nevermores/people who have been to Saratoga before, primarily because of the Vermonsters. Nevermores go for the buckets and most others go to help them/hang out with a generally more tradition-heavy crowd.<br />
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===Coldstone Creamery===<br />
In Saratoga Springs downtown, there is also a Coldstone Creamery in addition to Ben & Jerry's. Usually, both ice cream stores are not in one route, and one may have a route such as shopping, and then Coldstone Creamery.<br />
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===Borders===<br />
Borders is a bookstore. Many don't buy books, and just hang out in the cafe portion. It is suggested to make sure Borders is the first location on a route containing Ben & Jerry's, because people tend to be covered in chocolate and prone to vomiting after that ordeal.<br />
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Note: It is rumored that the Borders in Saratoga has been closed, and therefore not available for town trips in 2011.<br />
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It has since been closed.<br />
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===The Park===<br />
The park is across the street from Ben and Jerry's. It is convenient to have this be a last stop on a Vermonster route, because it allows many activities conducive to finishing/recovering from a Vermonster, such as sitting on a bench to finish off the bucket amid staring strangers, or lying in the shade to control post-Vermonster nausea. It also is a good place to hang out and/or throw a disc around. There is also a popular carousel in the middle of the park. Brave CTYers surviving the rough ride earn a sticker claiming "I rode the Congress Park Carousel," which is often displayed on the cardholder portion of the lanyard. (I still have mine somewhere, and can confirm that they are in fact awesome). Nevermore grass orgies are also a feature.<br />
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===Laser Tag===<br />
Laser tag is usually greeted with huge enthusiasm amongst CTYers who are at Skidmore for their first year, or don't follow traditions closely. However, many more veteran CTYers choose to save their money for Vermonsters, love tape, and other CVS staples. Laser tag takes place at Outer Zone and is alien themed. The location at first appears to be slightly sketchy, howerver they have state of the art laser tag equipment.Trip A in 2012 included laser tag, cvs, and Ben and Jerry's.<br />
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===CVS===<br />
CVS allows CTYers to stock up/restock items that they may find beneficial, such as sharpies for signing things, drinks, condoms (generally as gifts), hairdye,make up for dances, snacks etc. Because town trips can get cancelled, it is beneficial to try to stock up on things like sharpies in the first town trip in case the second one is cancelled (09.2, the second town trip was rained out, leaving a dearth of sharpies for signing, as the nevermores were planning on getting them on the second town trip).<br />
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===All Day Shopping===<br />
All day shopping involves spending the entire town trip shopping.<br />
At SAR.09.1, however, an incident involving a broken and very expensive guitar along with improper behavior on an all day shopping trip resulted in the removal of this option for the second town trip. It was replaced by a more specified route involving popular stores such as GAP and Last Vestige.<br />
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=The Food=<br />
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Students eat in [http://cms.skidmore.edu/diningservice/halls.cfm Murray Dining Hall].<br />
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Pizza, pasta and salad are served every day along with many other food items, ranging from chicken parmesan to Chinese food, which are different at each meal. Cereal, pancakes, waffles, and sometimes French toast are served for breakfast. Coffee, flavored or unflavored water, milk, soymilk, powerade and many types of soda are available at every meal. The desserts, including chocolate cake and lemon mousse, change day to day, but soft serve is always available (although the machine sometimes runs out or breaks). Specially made Kosher and Vegetarian meals are also available.<br />
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In 2006, the dining hall underwent a major renovation. Students ate in Case Center, where students register on the first day. The waffle iron and soft-serve machine were chronically broken.<br />
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In 2007, the dining hall renovations were finally complete. Aikens was beautified, and there is now cheese on the ceiling.(Not literally) There are separate little booths, tables, a much coveted round table behind Emily's Garden,etc. The new plate cleaning system makes use of Tim Perry's so-called Alice in Wonderland holes which are about as non-Alice-in-Wonderland-esque as you can get. The quality of food had improved enormously, but the slight decrease in space caused the staff to set up a staggered breakfast system, where halls took turns having breakfast in certain time slots. This system was abolished in 2008, and now students can eat breakfast whenever they want. In 08.2, there was a staggered lunch system, where eating times were organized through classes; one or two classes would be in the cafeteria at the same time. The staggered lunches were organized in 30 minute periods. A staggered lunch system was used 2009 as well, with each class having an hour for lunch, but classes arriving and leaving at 15 minute intervals so that it was only full for a short period of time.<br />
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The setup is also conducive to breakfast of champions (lucky charms and soft serve), as the cereals and soft serve are available at every meal, although at breakfast, you can expect the soft serve machine to squirt out something more that's more liquid than soft serve. Fortunately, this is fine for breakfast of champions.<br />
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The food at Skidmore's dining hall is delicious and there is a huge variety of food. Although if you are strictly kosher, the food is terrible.<br />
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=Traditions=<br />
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* [[Nevermore]] Steals - plates or trays (new dining hall doesn't use trays, although it still has them. (Nate got a tray 09.1, years after the trays were put out of use) but most nevermores take the white plates instead, which leads to an acute shortage of white plates.)<br />
* Mandatory Fun<br />
* "In the case of (insert random event), how long does it take to get to the top of [http://www.skidmore.edu/map/jonsson.htm Jonsson Tower]?" "1 MINUTE 12 SECONDS!!!!"<br />
* Laser Tag<br />
* Nevermore Shirts (bring different types of sharpies; 2009's were black)<br />
* The Last Supper (Breakfast when something goes wrong)<br />
* Water Day<br />
* Casino Night/Lipsync "Contest"<br />
* Talent Show<br />
* Carnival<br />
* Random Acts of Senseless Kindness (RASK)<br />
* Lanyard Swinging<br />
* Duct Tape<br />
* CTYI!<br />
* Monty Python<br />
* The Princess Bride<br />
* [[Ultimate Frisbee]]<br />
* Sunrise<br />
* [[Passionfruit]]<br />
* Illegal Sleepovers (ISOs)<br />
* [[Love Tape]]<br />
* [[Hall_of_Fame:SAR#Jon_Good|Jon Good]] loves you<br />
* Marriage Booth<br />
* [[Rina]]s and Rinos<br />
* "I like you, I love you, I CTY you"<br />
* "Good night, go home, nobody loves you except Jon Good!" (shouted by nevermores/nomores on the stage [or elevated area] during the last meat market when it's time to go in)<br />
* [[Hall_of_Fame:SAR#Free_Lee-Kai|Free Lee-Kai!]]<br />
* Stummy Lays (grass orgies, pregnancy circles)<br />
* [[Quad Time]] (sometimes referred to as Meet or Meat Market)<br />
* Glowsticking<br />
* Fu-- that Lancaster Sh-- in response to "Orgy" in American Pie (Older campers at Skidmore don't shout orgy, and are frustrated with the aggravating campers who do)<br />
* [[CTY Yearbooks|Nevermore Pages]]<br />
* Vermonsters from Ben & Jerry's<br />
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==Session 1 only==<br />
* Dib Dib Dib<br />
* [[Varsity Catch]] (you're the worst!!)<br />
* Napkin Eating Contests (no we don't actually eat the napkins)<br />
* Snap your fingers while walking across the quad and say to everyone you pass "There's gonna be a rumble tonight" (defunct?)<br />
* CTY-shaped grass orgy during the last quadtime<br />
* Clapping when someone breaks or drops a plate in the dining hall<br />
* [[USER:AJhat]]'s Hat (The gray striped one, who has a page on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Falmouth-ME/AJs-Hat/106147791251?ref=mf here] )<br />
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==Session 2 only==<br />
* DIPSHIT!<br />
* Fruit<br />
* <s>Star Tripping</s> This was banned in 2011, but the CTYers made up for it by walking in one huge circle around the entire quad singing several canon songs, including American Pie. It's all about the community; it matters little how we celebrate it so long as we do it together,<br />
* Butt Wrestling during Passionfruit<br />
* The Chillin Tree<br />
* Louis Game <br />
* Clap Lines (session 2 - started in '08)on the walkways on the quad<br />
* Dark Side of Oz<br />
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==The Days==<br />
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*<s>Second Monday &ndash; Naughty Catholic School Girl Day</s> BANNED IN '10!! :'(<br />
Changed to RASK day (Random Acts of Selfless Kindness)<br />
*Second Tuesday &ndash; [[Love Tape]] Day<br />
*Second Wednesday &ndash; Crossdressing Day/Gender Bender Day/Drag Day<br />
*Second Thursday &ndash; wildcard day chosen by royalty (i.e. superhero day, favorite sports team day, etc.)<br />
*Third Monday (or Second Friday) &ndash; Pajama Day<br />
*July 1st (session 1)/August 1st (session 2) &ndash; Slap Your Own Ass Day (Appreciate Your Own Donkey Day)<br />
*July 2nd (session 1)/August 2nd (session 2) &ndash; Slap Someone Else's Ass Day (Appreciate Someone Else's Donkey Day)<br />
*Last Thursday &ndash; End of the World Day/Towel Day (Based on ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'')<br />
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New additions (session 1 only) to "The Days" are:<br />
*Clash Day &ndash; Third Wednesday (Replaced Goth/Emo/Rina Day)<br />
*Rina Day &ndash; Third Tuesday as of 09.1<br />
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==Squirrels==<br />
NOTE: This section, refers to small, furry animals of doom, not [[squirrel]]s.<br />
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The squirrels at Saratoga Springs tend to hang out on the Case patio, where they can often be seen dragging their twisted, wretched little bodies across the ground with their legs splayed out in a disturbing parody of an army crawl. They have been known to bite people going into the Green Mountain Coffee Shop. Yup, the squirrels. They're rabid and violent. They don't walk. They lie on their furry little stomachs and DRAG themselves around. They're known to lunge at visitors and steals and then EAT their cigs. They also jump out of trash cans at people. Don't feed, look at, attempt to chase them, or talk to them.<br />
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In 2008, a few of the squirrels had some disease involving missing fur and being even more psychotic than the normal squirrels. <br />
In 2009, there were practically no squirrels. They might have all died out.<br />
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[CHANGE]: In 2009 there were indeed squirrels. The biology teacher and a CTYer by the name of Max Lee were both attacked. Be careful they often pop out of trash cans. My Biology teacher threw an apple in there, and was startled by a squirrel that jumped out. Max Lee was unfortunate. He leaned over to spit out his gum, and a squirrel leaped onto his head. Max Lee was scared out of his wits.<br />
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[CHANGE]: In 2010 there were once again indeed squirrels. However they were no longer the vicious furry demons that attacked random passerby. It might've been mating season cause two squirrels were constantly "on top of each other while thrusting." In fact it was described as rape seeing as the squirrel on the bottom was constantly trying to get away. Quite weird. Jaeho Lee found it interesting to watch the squirrels chasing each other up trees, down trees, around trees, around "squirrels", etc.<br />
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{{The Essential CTY}}</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Electrical_Engineering&diff=27946Electrical Engineering2012-07-08T03:13:00Z<p>My.cat.norbert: /* Class History */</p>
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[[Electrical Engineering]] is a Science course in the CTY program. It requires previous enrollment in Algebra I. Its course code is EENG, and it is offered at [[Carlisle]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[Saratoga Springs]], and was also offered at [[Loudonville]].<br />
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==Course Description==<br />
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Electrical Engineering offers an introduction into the field of electrical engineering. The course covers much of the electricity and magnetism that is offered in a standard AP Physics course, and it also covers the science of circuits and electronics. In addition to extensive lab work, the course teaches students to use various mathematical and scientific tools to aid them in their studies. Labs and projects done in class include leaning how to use a soldering iron, VCR cars (racing cars made entirely out of a broken VCR set plus a battery), bottle rockets, a lab on series and parallel resistors using Kirchoff's Laws and Ohm's Law, assembly of 555 timer based oscillators, a solar powered car controlled by an integrated circuit, and a light following robot that responds to contact with walls and barriers built around the LM386 operational amplifier.<br />
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==Class History==<br />
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LOU.08.2 This was the last time that Loudonville (Siena College) was open as a CTY location, the class was instructed by Kris Darlington, an AP Physics B teacher at a nearby military school and the TA was Glen Haber, a college level EE student.<br />
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SAR.12.1 This session's course was taught by Kris Darling ton and TA'd by Eric Hauenstein. This particular class broke the record for most girls in electrical engineering with a total of six (6) girls in the class. Some funny things that happened include:<br />
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"like a bus!"<br />
Using sausages to find a magnetic field<br />
"ask Siri"<br />
[[Category:Courses]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=42&diff=27926422012-07-01T02:47:14Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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<div>[[42]] is the '''Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'''.<br />
<br />
In fact, 42 is the answer to the question "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" as revealed in ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe''. This is flawed, however, because Arthur Dent, the man who reveals this question through an irregular set of Scrabble tiles (his feat is impossible with a standard set of Scrabble tiles, as the question he pulled out has 4 Ys), is not actually part of the natural matrix of the computer that is the Earth; rather, he is a descendant of the Golgafrinchans (as is every other human). It is worth noting that 6 times 9 does indeed equal 42, in base 13. However, this was not intended by Douglas Adams, who responded to an inquiry regarding the subject with the line "I may be a pretty sad case, but I don't write jokes in base 13."<br />
<br />
===42 Factoids===<br />
<br />
* Try Googling "answer to life, the universe, and everything"<br />
* Saying that something does not equal 42 is one of the gravest of insults.<br />
* 42 must never be divided by 0. (Just shows that the meaning of life is undefined.)<br />
* 42 is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zY_cM0_6vA|the the number of roads a man must walk down before you call him a man].<br />
* When light hits water at a 42 degree angle, a rainbow is created<br />
* If one were to be a [[Student Hierarchy#Seven-year satan|Seven-year satan]] and double session every year, they would be in CTY for a total of 42 weeks.<br />
* 42 is the number of gallons of oil in each barrel.<br />
* Elvis Presley, one of Americas most important cultural icons, died at the age of 42.<br />
* 42 is of great traditional importance to CTY; it is involved in things such as 42-second hugs, 42-person orgies, 42-player Blammo games, 42 [[recursion]]s, [[Hall:LAN#42_Bottles_of_Strawberry_Kiwi_Lemonade|buying 42 bottles of Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade]], [[Hall:LAN#Flogging|42 shots of cold water to the face]], etc.<br />
* 42 is equal to 1337% of π<br />
* 42 is equal to 6 times 9 in base 13 <br />
* Fastest way through the center of the Earth is 42 minutes. Hollow tube of free-fall acceleration coupled by an equal length of deceleration. <br />
* In NYC, the Grand Central Terminal, Times Square, New York Public Library and Chrysler Building are on 42nd street<br />
* Using the encoding A=1, B=2, C=3, etc., the sum of the codes of the letters in the words "BIG BANG" is 42 (From Wikipedia)<br />
*Given 27 same-size cubes whose nominal values progress from 1 to 27, a 3×3×3 magic cube can be constructed such that every row, column, and corridor, and every diagonal passing through the center, is composed of 3 cubes whose sum of values is 42.<br />
*The atomic number of molybdenum.<br />
*Facebook chat has a special emoticon that can be used on its chat feature. When a person types ":42:" on it, the number appears white in a red box. This is not possible with any other number.<br />
*In Japanese culture, the number 42 is considered unlucky because the numerals when pronounced separately — "shi ni" (four two) — sound like the phrase, "unto death".[12]<br />
*The Gutenberg Bible is also known as the "42-line Bible", as the book contained 42 lines per page.<br />
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations<br />
*The White Queen announces her age as "one hundred and one, five months and a day", which - if the best possible date is assumed for the action of Through the Looking-Glass - gives a total of 37,044 days. With the further (textually unconfirmed) assumption that both Queens were born on the same day their combined age becomes 74,088 days, which is 42 x 42 x 42. Some commentators have asserted that this is deliberate on Carroll's part.<br />
*"42" is an episode of Doctor Who, set in real time lasting approximately 42 minutes.<br />
*"Watson" the IBM supercomputer, has 42 "threads" in its avatar.<br />
*The number of kilometers in a marathon.<br />
*The number of laws of cricket<br />
*The number of spots (or pips, circular patches or pits) on a pair of standard six-sided dice<br />
*Fictional comic book superhero Miles Morales is bitten by a genetically altered spider with a red 42 marked on its abdomen. Morales later assumes the role of Spider-Man as a result of the bite and following the death of Peter Parker in the Ultimate Marvel universe from Marvel Comics. Morales also wins a coveted spot in a prestigious charter school after his number (42) is chosen during a lottery.<br />
* Given that it takes 3 minutes to make one cup noodle cup, if one were to make 14 cup noodles, it would take approximately 42 minutes to make all those cup noodles!<br />
:''See also: [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''<br />
<br />
{{The Essential CTY}}<br />
{{Things we like}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Traditions]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=42&diff=27925422012-07-01T02:45:39Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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<div>[[42]] is the '''Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'''.<br />
<br />
In fact, 42 is the answer to the question "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" as revealed in ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe''. This is flawed, however, because Arthur Dent, the man who reveals this question through an irregular set of Scrabble tiles (his feat is impossible with a standard set of Scrabble tiles, as the question he pulled out has 4 Ys), is not actually part of the natural matrix of the computer that is the Earth; rather, he is a descendant of the Golgafrinchans (as is every other human). It is worth noting that 6 times 9 does indeed equal 42, in base 13. However, this was not intended by Douglas Adams, who responded to an inquiry regarding the subject with the line "I may be a pretty sad case, but I don't write jokes in base 13."<br />
<br />
===42 Factoids===<br />
<br />
* Try Googling "answer to life, the universe, and everything"<br />
* Saying that something does not equal 42 is one of the gravest of insults.<br />
* 42 must never be divided by 0. (Just shows that the meaning of life is undefined.)<br />
* 42 is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zY_cM0_6vA|the the number of roads a man must walk down before you call him a man].<br />
* When light hits water at a 42 degree angle, a rainbow is created<br />
* If one were to be a [[Student Hierarchy#Seven-year satan|Seven-year satan]] and double session every year, they would be in CTY for a total of 42 weeks.<br />
* 42 is the number of gallons of oil in each barrel.<br />
* Elvis Presley, one of Americas most important cultural icons, died at the age of 42.<br />
* 42 is of great traditional importance to CTY; it is involved in things such as 42-second hugs, 42-person orgies, 42-player Blammo games, 42 [[recursion]]s, [[Hall:LAN#42_Bottles_of_Strawberry_Kiwi_Lemonade|buying 42 bottles of Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade]], [[Hall:LAN#Flogging|42 shots of cold water to the face]], etc.<br />
* 42 is equal to 1337% of π<br />
* 42 is equal to 6 times 9 in base 13 <br />
* Fastest way through the center of the Earth is 42 minutes. Hollow tube of free-fall acceleration coupled by an equal length of deceleration. <br />
* In NYC, the Grand Central Terminal, Times Square, New York Public Library and Chrysler Building are on 42nd street<br />
* Using the encoding A=1, B=2, C=3, etc., the sum of the codes of the letters in the words "BIG BANG" is 42 (From Wikipedia)<br />
*Given 27 same-size cubes whose nominal values progress from 1 to 27, a 3×3×3 magic cube can be constructed such that every row, column, and corridor, and every diagonal passing through the center, is composed of 3 cubes whose sum of values is 42.<br />
*The atomic number of molybdenum.<br />
*Facebook chat has a special emoticon that can be used on its chat feature. When a person types ":42:" on it, the number appears white in a red box. This is not possible with any other number.<br />
*In Japanese culture, the number 42 is considered unlucky because the numerals when pronounced separately — "shi ni" (four two) — sound like the phrase, "unto death".[12]<br />
*The Gutenberg Bible is also known as the "42-line Bible", as the book contained 42 lines per page.<br />
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations<br />
*The White Queen announces her age as "one hundred and one, five months and a day", which - if the best possible date is assumed for the action of Through the Looking-Glass - gives a total of 37,044 days. With the further (textually unconfirmed) assumption that both Queens were born on the same day their combined age becomes 74,088 days, which is 42 x 42 x 42. Some commentators have asserted that this is deliberate on Carroll's part.<br />
*"42" is an episode of Doctor Who, set in real time lasting approximately 42 minutes.<br />
*"Watson" the IBM supercomputer, has 42 "threads" in its avatar.<br />
*The number of kilometers in a marathon.<br />
*The number of laws of cricket<br />
*The number of spots (or pips, circular patches or pits) on a pair of standard six-sided dice<br />
*Fictional comic book superhero Miles Morales is bitten by a genetically altered spider with a red 42 marked on its abdomen. Morales later assumes the role of Spider-Man as a result of the bite and following the death of Peter Parker in the Ultimate Marvel universe from Marvel Comics. Morales also wins a coveted spot in a prestigious charter school after his number (42) is chosen during a lottery.<br />
* Given that it takes 3 minutes to make one cup noodle cup, if one were to make 14 cup noodles, it would take approximately 42 minutes.<br />
:''See also: [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''<br />
<br />
{{The Essential CTY}}<br />
{{Things we like}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Traditions]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Hall:SAR&diff=27924Hall:SAR2012-07-01T02:43:06Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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<div>This page is a document of the activities of various halls at Saratoga Springs.<br />
<br />
==Stefanism==<br />
<br />
===Origin===<br />
<br />
Once, many moons ago, at SAR.06.2, there was an RA named Stefan. And he was awesome.<br />
<br />
Many of the kids in Stefan's hall were in International Politics. In class, they watched the movie "Gandhi". They soon believed that Stefan was the reincarnation of Gandhi. (The original thought was that Stefan was the reincarnation of John Lennon, who was reincarnated from Gandhi, but due to conflicting birth and death dates, this could not be true. Pity.) The students believed that a religion should have been made around the G-man, but since society had missed the deadline, they decided to make a religion centered around the next best thing - Stefan.<br />
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*please do not confuse this Stefan with the new Stefan (Shtefawn) who has RAed in SAR.08 and SAR.09.<br />
<br />
So a daily was held where many a CTYer gathered and formed this revolutionary religion, and thus, '''Stefanism''' was born. We even have Commandments!!!<br />
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===Commandments of Stefanism===<br />
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* Non-violence<br />
* No discrimination to anything<br />
* Be respectful to yourself & all other people/beings<br />
* Be kitschy<br />
* Thursday is a day of rest/shananery<br />
* Use Ghandergy wisely ''(energy of Gandhi)''<br />
* Props to nature (props = give proper respect)<br />
* Shall not take off lanyard except when thou showerest or thou sleepest ''(the words of Stefan himself)''<br />
* Cleanliness is next to Stefanliness<br />
* Pray towards Seattle ''(Stefan's from Seattle.)''<br />
* Be forgiving to others and yourself<br />
* No punishment, only enlightenment<br />
* Live by your personal truths<br />
* Use "doot" when appropriate ''(I think it's kinda like w00t, except with a certain "d"-ness quality to it. I'm not entirely sure.)''<br />
* Do not use Stefanism for your own personal gains<br />
<br />
==The Spartans==<br />
<br />
'''S.P.A.R.T.A.N.S''' (Super Popular Angry Rambunctious Tree Adoring Noodle Slurpers) were an infamous band of CTYers that reigned Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, Second Session, Jae Vick's Hall, July-August 2007. Summer of '07, they all attended [[Crafting the Essay]] B. They were the creators of many inside jokes, such as "Chamber of Secrets" and the nefarious chant, "MY HEART BELONGS TO CTY, IT WILL NEVER DIE" that was often heard echoing around camp. The speakers were as follows, in order per word: Christina Helm, Amanda Ho, Jarry Lee, Monica Burnett, Anca Dogaroiu, Pushpa Neppala, Haydn Welch, Annie Field, Laura Tims. They conquered most of CTY through many bloodthirsty acts of war, like singing "Be A Man" nonstop, and repeatedly mispronouncing the word "ethereal." They enjoyed terrorizing the ducks by the duck pond, barking at Julio, being moose, making fun of the Jesus/Snape-look-a-like nevermore Aidan Bonner, studying graham crackers, and finding sexual innuendo in Harry Potter. Several of them had a certain affinity for [[duct tape]] (but then again, so did everyone else). They will be back (except for Jarry Lee, who is a nomore). Be prepared.<br />
<br />
==Mack Sauce==<br />
<br />
Mack Sauce was the name for a hall at SAR.09.2 RAed by Cameron Mack, who is generally agreed upon to be the chillest guy in the world. He's one hell of an ultimate player, he drank tea all the time, he once died his hair pink, he climbs trees, and he has the coolest hat which he got on his way back from nirvana. The hall was made of kids in International Politics and Fast-paced High School Chemistry. The kids in The Mack Daddy's hall were Nate Cawley (red shirt kid), Dan B., Luke Tiner, Henry Chuang, Matt Simon (Sexual Chocolate), Ilya Makavoz, Mike Rogers, David Cho, Eric Zhang, Peter Lobel, Jordan Marion, George Gelashvili, George Kaplan (a commuter), Raymond Mead (Sweet Baby Ray), Curtis Lin, Matt Shortell, and the mysterious Jeffrey He. Jeffrey never showed up to CTY, but Mack Sauce nonetheless signed him up for activities, much to the confusion on unknowing RAs who would call his name for a good while. The hall was pretty tight, and made awesome by the awesome RA. Cam would often play guitar for us after lights out, saying that the "power of his shredding would sooth us to sleep". This was very true, and worked very effectively. You could go to him whenever need be, whether it be to buy a disc or drink a cup of tea. The hall was also responsible for the Don't Piss off the Ghosts non-incident, that will become a real incident when we do it next year. In conclusion, MACK SAUCE!!!!!!!!!<br />
<br />
==Jordan Yeversky==<br />
<br />
Jordan Yeversky was a one-hit wonder RA who worked exclusively for SAR.10.1. An amiable and funny RA, Jordan quickly made friends with many of the campers as they discovered his easy-going nature. Even more, Jordan became known as the "hot RA" to many of the female campers, with some girls blindly signing up for his activities whether they were interested in the activity or not. Moreover, as a member of the SUNY Geneseo Ultimate Frisbee Team "Snail?", Jordan was the most talented ultimate player of the staff, a title which he proved true when he led the staff in the student-staff frisbee game to win 7-2. <br />
<br />
Being a new RA, Jordan was given a handful of squirrels in his hall. Many of them had never even lived on their own, and thus needed constant supervision. The firstyears consistently locked themselves out of their rooms, fought for the showers, and stole from one another. Jordan had to settle many silly disputes as they came along, but being a patient RA, he never got angry and always maintained a cool composure. Nevertheless, the situations became more and more extreme. One night during the third week, Chris, a member of his hall, decided to try and make some ramen by microwaving it ''without water'' and it soon caught on fire. Stupid, right? All of Wilmarth had to evacuate the dormitory as RA Jeremy (known affectionately to some as JerBear), contrary to common misconception, unplugged the already flaming microwave, and poured water on it to douse the fire, action that could very well have saved all of Wilmarth. After this incident, Chris became known as BRB - Burnt Ramen Boy. One would think that Chris would try to stay out of trouble. However, on the third Wednesday, Chris and a friend decided that it would be a good idea to bleach their hair. After having done so, Chris went to his daily that day: Capture the Flag. During the activity, Chris began to sweat, and in doing so, bleach seeped into his eyes and he was rushed to the emergency room for three hours. From there on, Chris became known as BRBB - Burnt Ramen Bleached Boy. It's amazing that Jordan didn't punch a hole in the wall by the end of the session. <br />
<br />
During the second week, Jordan along with student Avery Stonefish found a log one morning before class. Jordan picked up the log and carried it around with him wherever he went that week: on the quad, to the dining hall, to the dorm, etc. Curious, people began asking him what it was and why he had it. Jordan would simply reply, "it's a cool log." Agreeing that the log was in fact a cool find, Jordan held on to the log and kept it in his backpack. Now having signed it, Jordan has mailed the log to Avery as a memento of their unique but quite useless discovery. <br />
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On the second Wednesday, two days before the Student-Staff Frisbee Game, Jordan held Saratoga's first ever classroom session on Ultimate Frisbee Strategy as a daily activity. Having prepared well, Jordan handed out papers to each camper at the activity with Ultimate Frisbee vocabulary. Jordan successfully held a great classroom environment where he explained various offensive and defensive techniques, including vertical stack, horizontal stack, man-to-man defense, and zone defense. <br />
<br />
Having heard of CTY through fellow ultimate team member Cameron Mack, an RA from the previous year, Jordan sought the position of residential assistant. He was interviewed by Andrew Moss who gave him an extremely rare, white, misprint lanyard from 2007, although Jordan had no knowledge of its value. When student Yih-Jen Ku had requested Jordan's black lanyard during the first week, Jordan claimed he needed the black lanyard for the next session. However, he did offer the white lanyard to him. Due to ignorance of its value, Yih-Jen declined. Yih-Jen later mentioned in passing to fellow student Young Guang of the rare lanyard, and Young, emperor at the time and fully aware of its importance, quickly asked for it. Jordan felt that Young, a solid emperor and trustworthy camper, was indeed worthy of the prize, as Young was known to many RA's as the "21st RA" (there were only 20 RA's). Though he somewhat stupidly declined the white lanyard, Yih-Jen ended up as the winner of Jordan's one and only black lanyard, as Jordan no longer needed it for the second session. <br />
<br />
Unfortunately, due to an emergency, Jordan could not return to session two at Saratoga. He will be sorely missed by students and RA's alike.<br />
<br />
==Stefan Weijola==<br />
Stefan was a counselor at Saratoga well known for being the DJ at dances. On December 6, 2010, Stefan and the Yale Whiffenpoofs performed on NBC's ''The Sing Off'' premier. According to Stefan ''a cappella'' was invented by the Whiffenpoofs. This is now an undeniable fact.<br />
<br />
==Gina Iannitelli==<br />
Gina was a RA made of awesome at SAR.12.1. She was on Penfield 1 along with RA Tanasha. Being the only 2 RAs on the floor, they often held floor meetings together. She was pranked by a member of her hall, Emilia Nobrega, involving a squirrel named Ranavalona Curl and was scared to death by it (not literally).<br />
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[[Category:Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)|*]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Emperor&diff=27923Emperor2012-06-30T21:13:35Z<p>My.cat.norbert: /* Saratoga Springs */</p>
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<div>The [[Emperor]] is the only position that exists at more than one site. It is also among the oldest traditions. The Emperor (or Empress) is the person who traditionally presides over the [[Passionfruit]], and is usually quite knowledgeable about tradition.<br />
<br />
==Carlisle==<br />
<br />
At both sessions, the Emperor and Empress have traditional headgear that are passed down to succeeding royalty. First Session's Emperor and Empress have a crown and a tiara respectively. Second Session instead has two crowns handmade from colored duct tape for both the Emperor and the Empress.<br />
<br />
The role of the royalty at Carlisle is to act as sort of student administrators. For example, when there was a conflict about Goth Day, the Empress made the final verdict. Their main duty is to run every aspect of Passionfruit. It is traditional for the Emperor to make the first toast, and the Empress, the last. The Emperor and Empress are responsible for coming up with devirginizations/den00bifications to initiate those to those who are new to the site or were absent the year before.<br />
<br />
Quite some time ago, the Empress and Emperor were referred to as the "juice coordinators" who would traditionally purchase a large amount of Passionfruit juice for the whole circle. Then, people realized the ineffectiveness of this and started to bring their own juice, soda, water, etc., to Passionfruit. In addition, upon the departure of Gary Noritz, who facilitated finding and purchasing cases of passionfruit juice, the drink became difficult to obtain. However, for Passionfruit 10.1, Liam McNamara, the Jesus for the session, managed to acquire several containers of passionfruit juice. (Passionfruit juice is available at some farmer markets, as well as supermarkets such as Whole Foods).<br />
<br />
* '''2001'''<br />
*: First Session:<br />
*: Second Session: Owen Gentry and Pammy Woodward<br />
* '''2002'''<br />
*: First Session:<br />
*: Second Session: Lizzie Wade<br />
* '''2003'''<br />
*: First Session:<br />
*: Second Session: Laura and ???<br />
* '''2004'''<br />
*: First Session:<br />
*: Second Session: Annie and George<br />
* '''2005'''<br />
*: First Session: Franklyn and Nabil<br />
*: Second Session: Ben and Tini<br />
* '''2006'''<br />
*: First Session: Ali Greenberg and Matt Carroll<br />
*: Second Session: McKenzie Hull and Holly Murray<br />
* '''2007'''<br />
*: First Session: Kimmi Cheng and Clara Pelaez<br />
*: Second Session: Mike Schumacher and Jackie Mora<br />
* '''2008'''<br />
*: First Session: NEW: Ryan Heaney and Ross "Sarge" Slaughter<br />
*: Second Session: Allie Prescott and Rachel Hull<br />
*'''2009'''<br />
*: First Session: Alex "Jake" Jacobsen and [[user: Jkim1593| Jeanette Kim]]<br />
*: Second Session: [[user: Emperorjake| Jake Meyers]] and Eddie Cytryn<br />
*'''2010'''<br />
*: First Session: [[user:Rosalie| Rosalie Nathans]] and Albert Han<br />
*: Second Session: Patrick Kennedy and [[user: Maybemicaela| Micaela Rodríguez]]<br />
*'''2011'''<br />
*: First Session: Colin Mark and Evan Chernack<br />
*: Second Session: [[user: Julia.gureck| Julia Gureck]] and [[user: KilltheKingKirby| Jonathan Kirby]]<br />
*'''2012'''<br />
*: First Session: [[user:Melonchollie| Michelle Kim]] and [[user:Swine09survivor| Bobby Zipp]]<br />
*: Second Session: [[User:BradP27| Fish Stark]] and [[user:Thenonbritishbritshnationalist| Rebecca Trickey]]<br />
<br />
==Lancaster==<br />
<br />
The Emperor/Empress is the person who makes the first speech at [[Passionfruit]]. There can be more than one; for example, in 06.2 there were two, and at 05.2 there were four (two males and two females, in reference to ''The Chronicles of Narnia'').<br />
<br />
* '''1998'''<br />
*: First Session: ?<br />
*: Second Session: Jon Rin and ?<br />
* '''1999'''<br />
*: First Session: Michael Mishkin and ?<br />
*: Second Session: ?<br />
* '''2000'''<br />
*: First Session: Elspeth (Beth) Kursh and Tom Weingarten<br />
*: Second Session: Rose Ginsberg and Daniel Vitolo<br />
* '''2001'''<br />
*: First Session: Ken Levin and Chelsea Seachord<br />
*: Second Session: Kayla Armstrong and Deb Streusand<br />
* '''2002'''<br />
*: First Session: Maura Spiegelman and "The Original" Andy Bartholomew<br />
*: Second Session: Belle Saxton and Andy "UnAndy" Schlesinger<br />
* '''2003'''<br />
*: First Session: Natalie Bau and Tim Hwang<br />
*: Second Session: Maddie Morrison, Tom "Lord of Lemmings" Wilson, and Jai Dhyani <br />
* '''2004'''<br />
*: First Session: Liz and Dave<br />
*: Second Session:<br />
* '''2005'''<br />
*: First Session: Alyssa Gottschlich<br />
*: Second Session: Will Colmer, David "Pickle" Kotsonis , Marley Teter, Nikka Rosenstein<br />
* '''2006'''<br />
*: First Session: Alexa "Lexxie" Kottmeyer and Aliza Alperin-Sheriff<br />
*: Second Session: Alexander James Maestro Quinones Leroy Bangs a.k.a. QB, Colin Mahaffey<br />
* '''2007'''<br />
*: First Session: See below.<br />
*: Second Session: Alexa Fredston-Hermann and Julia "Juice" Revzin<br />
* '''2008'''<br />
*: First Session: See below. <br />
*: Second Session: Noelle Aly, Caroline, Maddy Jennewein, Julie Leghorn<br />
* '''2009'''<br />
*: First Session: See below.<br />
*: Second Session: [[User:Dtree1992|Daniel Tracht]], Lena Beckenstein, Bee Lockwood<br />
* '''2010'''<br />
*: First Session: See below.<br />
*: Second Session: [[User:D short|Declan Kennedy]]<br />
* '''2011'''<br />
*: First Session: See below.<br />
*: Second Session: Jess Weber<br />
===Trinity===<br />
<br />
:''Main article: [[Trinity (Session 1)]]<br />
<br />
In 07.1, the Emperor position of First Session was replaced with a new trio of positions called the Trinity, based on the Catholic Holy Trinity and in reference to the verse in Don McLean's "[[American Pie]]" which goes:<br />
<br />
:"And the three men I admire most<br />
:The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost<br />
:They caught the last train for the coast<br />
:The day the music died."<br />
<br />
The Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost now fill the roles of Emperors of Passionfruit and execute the Last Supper.<br />
<br />
==Saratoga Springs==<br />
<br />
These are the Emperors and Empresses listed by year of reign. Two Emperors and two Empresses are crowned each session just to make sure at least one comes back the following year. This tradition began in 2005 when Riley O'Neill was the only one to return of four royalty chosen. It was passed down to Session 2 when David "Bex" Becker and Lina Huo (First Session Royalty) attended the Second Session Passionfruit of 2006 and told Youngin Lim to pick four, just in case.<br />
<br />
* '''2005'''<br />
*: Session 1: Keane Tzong, Julia Wagner, Claire Kelley, Alex Micciche<br />
*: Session 2: Nick Fabiani, Stacy Toesland<br />
* '''2006'''<br />
*: Session 1: Riley O'Neill<br />
*: Session 2: Youngin Lim, Zemelia Miller<br />
* '''2007'''<br />
*: Session 1: David "Bex" Becker, Jay Margherio, Charlotte Coates, Lina Huo<br />
*: Session 2: Primary: Edison Huff, Stef Siller Secondary: Mike Feblowitz, Hilary (the lovely) Ludlow<br />
* '''2008'''<br />
*: Session 1: Gage Wright, Zach Gerstein, Neha Srivastava, Liv Stillman<br />
*:* Replaced by: Peter Yang, Jesse Muse, Aliya Dincer, Rachel Lin<br />
*: Session 2: Bill Landis, David Clemens-Sewall, Christine Maroti, Gaby Garbasz<br />
* '''2009'''<br />
*: Session 1: Will Pearl, Mark McGurrin, Sabrina Zeller, Laura Spake<br />
*: Session 2: Primary: Alex DeBerardinis and Sam Kwan, Secondary: Nick Kwan and Jennie Robbiano<br />
*'''2010'''<br />
*: Session 1: Young Guang, Max Hengeveld, Katrina Ungewitter, Ivy Shen<br />
*: Session 2: Primary: Aaron Forrest and Sophia Keskey, Secondary: Matt Simon and Sarah Woolf<br />
*'''2011'''<br />
*: Session 1: Aaron Wan, AJ Langevin, Emily Gartenberg, Gwen Luvara<br />
*: Session 2: Primary: Muki Barkan and Haizen Poole, Secondary: <s>Brandon Nguyen</s> Peter Pak and Camille Goering (Brandon missed the session due to scheduling conflicts, Peter took over from being third in line)<br />
*'''2012'''<br />
*: Session 1: Alex Libby, James Gan, Liz Lvov, Cathy Kuang could not attend due to a conflict with a math camp. Heather Shen took her place as empress. Both empresses were in the same hall as a result.<br />
*: Session 2: Primary: Alex Libby and Leah Forrest, Secondary: Daniel "Ginger" Heins and Paroma Mallick<br />
<br />
==Princeton==<br />
<br />
At Princeton, it was decided that the Passionfruit Emperor and Empress should come from different CTY sites to show the combining of sites within the Princeton site. Together, the sites create a happy family. The royal family of 2009 was...<br />
<br />
*'''2009'''<br />
*: Emperor: [[User:Julie | Julie]] of Lancaster and [[User:Rae Spasmodic | Rachel Hall]] of Carlisle<br />
*: Empress: Johnine Licht of Siena (she also attended Lancaster 08.1)<br />
<br />
==Johns Hopkins==<br />
Beginning in 10.2, The Emperor/Empress of JHU wears a "crown," which in reality is a comically large blue and yellow sparkly hat. At Passionfruit, the reigning Emperor/Empress crowns their successor by passing on said hat. The transition of BLAMMO divinity is also incorporated into Passionfruit, and involves the passing of the Most Epic Tome of BLAMMO to the next God/Goddess. <br />
<br />
*'''2009'''<br />
*: Session One: <br />
*: Session Two: Katelin Schutz, Kitty Bernardo (two Empresses, no Emperor)<br />
*'''2010'''<br />
*: Session One:<br />
*: Session Two: Trinity King<br />
*'''2011'''<br />
*: Session One:<br />
*: Session Two: Karl Heinlein<br />
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[[Category:Carlisle]]<br />
[[Category:Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)]]<br />
[[Category:Princeton]]<br />
[[Category:Lancaster Positions]]<br />
[[Category:Baltimore (JHU)]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Electrical_Engineering&diff=27922Electrical Engineering2012-06-30T21:08:29Z<p>My.cat.norbert: /* Class History */</p>
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<div>{{CTY Courses}}<br />
{{stub}}<br />
[[Electrical Engineering]] is a Science course in the CTY program. It requires previous enrollment in Algebra I. Its course code is EENG, and it is offered at [[Carlisle]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[Saratoga Springs]], and was also offered at [[Loudonville]].<br />
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==Course Description==<br />
<br />
Electrical Engineering offers an introduction into the field of electrical engineering. The course covers much of the electricity and magnetism that is offered in a standard AP Physics course, and it also covers the science of circuits and electronics. In addition to extensive lab work, the course teaches students to use various mathematical and scientific tools to aid them in their studies. Labs and projects done in class include leaning how to use a soldering iron, VCR cars (racing cars made entirely out of a broken VCR set plus a battery), bottle rockets, a lab on series and parallel resistors using Kirchoff's Laws and Ohm's Law, assembly of 555 timer based oscillators, a solar powered car controlled by an integrated circuit, and a light following robot that responds to contact with walls and barriers built around the LM386 operational amplifier.<br />
<br />
==Class History==<br />
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LOU.08.2 This was the last time that Loudonville (Siena College) was open as a CTY location, the class was instructed by Kris Darlington, an AP Physics B teacher at a nearby military school and the TA was Glen Haber, a college level EE student.<br />
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SAR.12.1 This session's course was taught by Kris Darling ton and TA'd by Eric Howenstein. Some funny things that happened include:<br />
"like a bus!"<br />
[[Category:Courses]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Afterdance&diff=27921Afterdance2012-06-30T20:59:25Z<p>My.cat.norbert: /* Session 1 */</p>
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<div>The [[Afterdance]] is a tradition mostly specific to Lancaster in the sense that only Lancaster has a true dance after its dances. However, many sites have developed after-dance traditions.<br />
<br />
==Lancaster==<br />
<br />
The Afterdance takes place, oddly enough, after the dance. All the students wishing to partake in the Afterdance (a significant, if variable, number) proceed to stand in a circle in the area of the Quad in front of [[Lancaster#Thomas|Thomas Hall]]. Once the group has fully arrived, prominent members of the CTY student community (generally [[Alcove|Alcovians]]) begin to lead the songs.<br />
<br />
===Both Sessions===<br />
<br />
====The Circle Song====<br />
<br />
One person begins, "Hey everybody, make a circle!". Everyone else then calls back "What's a circle?"<br />
<br />
If you're in College I, which is a humanities course, a circle is an "'''O.'''" (Ohhh...)<br />
<br />
If you're in College III, which is a math course, a circle is x<sup>2</sup> + y<sup>2</sup> = r<sup>2</sup>, where r<sup>2</sup> is usually, but not always: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, '''42''', etc! <br />
<br />
If you're in College II, which is a science course, a circle is "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" or "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE." <br />
* Explanation: while saying "eee," you must have one hand over your eyes and the other pointing as you spin around in a circle, thereby demonstrating the Doppler effect. Then you switch direction and hands on the next "eee."<br />
<br />
(Why?) BECAUSE THEY'RE DIFFERENT!!<br />
* Explanation: The angular momentum of the spinning person is, in fact, different depending on the direction.<br />
<br />
(PROTIP: If you're the person leading the song, and feel really excited, run around the entire circle while leading it, thus further illustrating what a circle truly is)<br />
<br />
====The Hokey Pokey====<br />
<br />
You put your [insert appendage here] in,<br /><br />
You put your [appendage] out,<br /><br />
You put your [appendage] in and you shake it all about, <br /><br />
You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself about (or "around")<br /><br />
: "Turn yourself about" clockwise while alternating poking your right and left pointer fingers in the air.<br />
That's what it's all a-bout!<br />
: Clap each syllable (six total). Lift your right leg and clap under your knee for the "a-" in about, but clap normally for "-bout."<br />
OINK OINK!<br />
: Pump your right fist in the air for each OINK.<br />
<br />
* Appendages, in order: right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot, fob (for the last dance this becomes "lanyard", "no fob", or "not-fob" because students have already turned in their fobs), skull, whole self. Skull and fob are sometimes transposed. In 09.1, putting one's "Cthulhu" in and "FTAGN FTAGN FTAGN"-ing were added after the last line to much hilarity. This continued in following years, even though the original performer, Arthur Schechter, nomored out in 09. The practice itself was the brainchild of James Buckland. In 11.1, [[User:knight7770|Alex Kohanski]], the Blammo god for the session and leader of the Hokey Pokey, added putting one's spoon in at the end of the chant.<br />
<br />
====Cows are Freaky====<br />
<br />
''First Session only (introduced by Maddie Stevens and [[User:WhatAboutTheSymptom|Faye Elgart]]):<br/>''<br />
''Cows are freaky when they look at you<br/>''<br />
''And they're freaky when they look at me, too<br/>''<br />
<br />
''So, if you see a cow and he looks you in the eye<br/>''<br />
''You say Gosh! Gee! Wow! I'm a lucky guy<br/>''<br />
<br />
Cows are freaky when they look at you<br /><br />
And they're freaky when they look at me, too<br /><br />
<br />
So if you meet a cow that's high on crack<br /><br />
Don't be a cowboy and try to ride its back<br /><br />
<br />
'Cause cows are freaky when they look at you<br /><br />
And they're freaky when they look at me, too!<br />
<br />
====Eyelashes====<br />
<br />
Once I met a guy<br /><br />
[And] He didn't have any eyelashes<br /><br />
So I went and asked him why<br /><br />
[And] He said he didn't know<br /><br />
So I went and asked his mom<br /><br />
[And] She hadn't noticed anyway<br /><br />
So I went and asked his dad<br /><br />
[And] He said he didn't know<br /><br />
So I went and asked his neighbors<br /><br />
[And] His neighbors said to [pump fists] "GO AWAY!"<br /><br />
So I went and asked his dog<br /><br />
But he wasn't very helpful [optional shrug]<br /><br />
So I went and asked his friends<br /><br />
[And] His friends said, "Who the hell are you talking about?"<br /><br />
So I went and asked his teacher<br /><br />
She said (it's because) he had too many tonguesszzzzzzzz.<br />
<br />
====In Heaven There Is No Beer (The Beer Song)====<br />
<br />
Hey Phil! Is there any beer in heaven?<br />
<br />
: Originally, this song began with one person asking another person, "Hey ______! Is there any beer in heaven?" to which everyone would then reply, "Let's find out!" However, after LAN.05.2, forevermore Pickle suggested on [http://www.livejournal.com/users/tsukemono5/64646.html LiveJournal] that the name be changed to Phil, in honor of [[Phil Gunn]], a student in 05.2 who died of heart problems shortly after session. Beginning in 06.2, the name was changed to Phil, and the audience reply was omitted. The song is sometimes referred to as "The Phil Song." This tribute is made during both sessions.<br />
<br />
In Heaven, there is no beer!<br /><br />
NO BEER<br /><br />
That's why we drink it here!<br /><br />
RIGHT HERE!<br /><br />
And when we're gone from here!<br /><br />
FROM HERE!<br /><br />
Our friends will drink our beer!<br /><br />
OUR BEER!<br />
<br />
Tra la la la la la!<br /><br />
LA LA! [clap on both]<br /><br />
Tra la la la la la!<br /><br />
LA LA! [clap on both]<br /><br />
Tra la la la la la!<br /><br />
LA LA! [clap on both]<br /><br />
Tra la la la la la!<br />
<br />
(Leader: FASTER!)<br />
<br />
The song is repeated a total of three times (after the second time, the leader says, "EVEN FASTER!" or "FASTER STILL!"). Sometimes, the final "la" is held out.<br />
<br />
====CTY, You Have a Nice Butt (CTY Chant)====<br />
<br />
: CTY, YOU HAVE A NICE BUTT!<br />
: CTY, WE LOVE YOU!<br />
: TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES, TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES,<br />
: CTY, WE LOVE YOU!<br />
<br />
The chant is shouted at the top of your lungs while <s>running</s> <s>jogging</s> skipping back to your dorms. Do not stop until you have reached your dorm, your room if you're really hardcore, or your bed if you're über-hardxcore. When dances are in the [[ASFC]] and students trek slowly over a long distance to get back to their dorms, this chant can go on for a long time indeed, to the chagrin of staff members and throats.<br />
<br />
During Session 1, the staff shouts "Go home, nobody loves you!" to the students. This does not occur immediately after the previous song. Rather, students start the chant while in the Afterdance circle, and a designated [[Other Lancaster Positions#Stripper|Stripper]] (a position during First Session) along with any who wish to accompany her (after the first full chant, which the Stipper does alone) strip in the middle of the circle. Before too much clothing is removed, the staff instigates the callback to send students home.<br />
<br />
At Second Session, students immediately break the circle when the chant starts. The staff callback occurs only at the end of American Pie during Second Session (whereas at First Session, the callback ends every Afterdance).<br />
<br />
An ongoing disagreement exists over the actual lyrics of the chant. While many recite the chant as given above, there is also a large group whose members say "CTY HAS A NICE BUTT" instead of "CTY, YOU HAVE A NICE BUTT" (all other lines are agreed upon). Both groups tend to insist that their version of the chant is rhythmically superior, whereas individuals who prefer the "you have" version will argue that the parallelism of their version, in which all four lines address "CTY" in the second person (rather than only the latter three), makes their version superior. The two Lancaster sessions also seem divided on this issue; Second Session seems to prefer the version given above, whereas First Session prefers the alternative.<br />
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However, as of 11.1 , this has been banned (due to an incident in 10.2 of actual removal of clothing), and a "CTY you have a nice brain" chant has been put in its place. A protest chant was announced at the Last Supper of 11.1, reading:<br />
<br />
:CTY, YOU HAVE A NICE BRAIN!<br />
:CTY, WE LOVE YOU<br />
:THESE WORDS ARE IMPOSED<br />
:THESE WORDS ARE IMPOSED<br />
:CTY, WE LOVE YOU<br />
<br />
Before then, the third and fourth lines had been changed to a variety of phrases, such as "Brenton's a bro" and "Jean-Jacques Rousseau."<br />
<br />
11.2 chose to use:<br />
:CTY, MY ONE TRUE LOVE!<br />
:CTY, WE LOVE YOU<br />
:THESE WORDS ARE IMPOSED<br />
:THESE WORDS ARE IMPOSED<br />
:CTY, WE LOVE YOU<br />
<br />
===Session 1===<br />
<br />
The order of Afterdance songs for Lancaster Session 1 usually goes:<br />
<br />
* Circle Song<br />
* In Heaven There Is No Beer<br />
* Eyelashes / Cows (order varies)<br />
* Tentacley Joy<br />
* Hokey Pokey<br />
* CTY, You Have a Nice Butt<br />
<br />
====That's Amore====<br />
<br />
This was a song added in 07.1 by the Runvenites because it was traditional for them to sing it after the the dances. It started after the second dance, when Zev Hurwich and Fred Westenberg (also known as Fred Jones, also known as Beadspreadfred) were sitting outside talking about relationships. Suddenly Zev noticed the full moon and burst out singing That's Amore by Dean Martin, and the entire hall joined him. The modified lyrics are as follows:<br />
<br />
(To initiate the song someone screams out "Hey ______! What's Amore?")<br />
<br />
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie,<br /><br />
That's Amore (repeated: That's Amore)<br /><br />
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine,<br /><br />
That's Amore (repeated: That's Amore)<br /><br />
Bells will ring-aling-aling, ting-a-ling-aling, ring-aling-aling and you'll say,<br /><br />
That's Amore (repeated: That's Amore)<br /><br />
When the stars make you drool like a pasta fazool,<br /><br />
That's Amore (repeated: That's Amore)<br />
<br />
"That's Amore" was performed at the first Afterdance of 08.1 and was then discontinued.<br />
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====Tentacley Joy====<br />
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Another song added to the Afterdance 07.1 by Zev Hurwich, Tentacley Joy was invented by Stephen Rosen during a game of Silent Football, but was popularized by both students. It is unique in that it is the only Afterdance song that requires two people to lead (because eight tentacles are needed).<br />
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(Waving the ''right'' arm and leg) These are the right tentacles,<br /><br />
(Waving the ''left'' arm and leg) And these are the left tentacles.<br /><br />
(Waving the ''left'' arm and leg) These are not the right tentacles,<br /><br />
(Waving the ''right'' arm and leg) And these are not the left tentacles.<br />
<br />
To recap:<br /><br />
(Waving the ''right'' arm and leg) These are the right tentacles,<br /><br />
(Waving the ''left'' arm and leg) And these are the left tentacles.<br /><br />
(Waving the ''left'' arm and leg) These are not the right tentacles,<br /><br />
(Waving the ''right'' arm and leg) And these are not the left tentacles.<br /><br />
(Jumping up and down waving all limbs) Tentacley joy!<br />
<br />
[http://hs.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1002115136849 Video of Zev and Steve demonstrating Tentacley Joy in the Alcove]<br />
<br />
===Session 2===<br />
<br />
The order of Afterdance songs for Session 2 usually goes:<br />
<br />
* Circle Song<br />
* Hokey Pokey<br />
* Cows <br />
* Playground in My Mind <br />
* C is for Cookie<br />
* In Heaven There is No Beer<br />
* Eyelashes<br />
* CTY, You Have a Nice Butt<br />
<br />
This order varies greatly from year to year, but the first and last songs always stay the same.<br />
<br />
====C is for Cookie====<br />
<br />
This song was added and led by [[User:Jeff Sachs|Jeff Sachs]] after hearing it on Sarah Danly's iPod for the second Afterdance of LAN.06.2. The intro (as the Cookie Monster does it) was added in 08.2 by Eli P but was not continued in 09.<br />
<br />
Now what starts with the letter "C?"<br /><br />
Cookie starts with "C."<br /><br />
Let's think of other things that start with "C."<br /><br />
Uh, who cares about other things?<br /><br />
<br />
"C" is for Cookie;<br /><br />
That's good enough for me.<br /><br />
"C" is for Cookie;<br /><br />
That's good enough for me.<br /><br />
"C" is for Cookie;<br /><br />
That's good enough for me.<br /><br />
(Ohh) Cookie, Cookie, Cookie starts with "C".<br />
<br />
If you take a bite out of a cookie, it looks like a C.<br /><br />
And if you take a bite out of a doughnut, it also looks like a C.<br /><br />
But it is not as good.<br /><br />
And sometimes the MOON looks like a C,<br /><br />
But you can't eat that!<br /><br />
<br />
"C" is for Cookie;<br /><br />
That's good enough for me.<br /><br />
"C" is for Cookie;<br /><br />
That's good enough for me.<br /><br />
"C" is for Cookie;<br /><br />
That's good enough for me.<br /><br />
(Ohh) Cookie, Cookie, Cookie starts with "C".<br />
<br />
This varies very slightly from the original Cookie Monster song.<br />
<br />
====Playground in My Mind (AKA Nickel)====<br />
<br />
On the last dance of 06.2, a round of the chorus to Clint Holmes' "Playground in My Mind" was led by Noelle. It did not continue in 07.2, but was revived in 08.2. The chorus goes as follows:<br />
<br />
My name is Michael<br /><br />
I've got a nickel<br /><br />
I've got a nickel, shiny and new<br /><br />
I'm gonna buy me<br /><br />
All sorts of candy<br /><br />
Thats what I'm gonna do!<br />
<br />
My girl is Cindy<br /><br />
When we get married<br /><br />
We're gonna have a baby or two.<br /><br />
We're gonna take them<br /><br />
To see their grandmas<br /><br />
That's what we're gonna do.<br />
<br />
===Staff Variants===<br />
<br />
In at least the last few years, increasing numbers of instructional and residential staff members have attended the Afterdance. Staff who watch the Afterdance at Lancaster often have to improvise new lyrics to some of the songs in order to preserve their closely-guarded '''moral authority'''. For example, some instructional staff members sing this version of the Beer Song:<br />
<br />
In Heaven, there is no milk!<br /><br />
That's why we just drink Silk<sup>TM</sup>!<br /><br />
And when we are gone from... hilk?<br /><br />
Our friends will be drinking all our milk!<br />
<br />
This alternative version started during Second Session of either 2004 or 2005. A new version of the third line might end up replacing the current version, but until then the staff members are focusing their efforts on thinking up a cleaned-up line 3 of the "Cows are Freaky" song.<br />
<br />
[[Adam Roush]] and other staff have also yelled an alternative version of the "CTY, You Have a Nice Butt!" chant:<br />
<br />
CTY YOU HAVE A NICE BRAIN!<br />
CTY WE RESPECT YOU!<br />
KEEP ON YOUR CLOTHES, KEEP ON YOUR CLOTHES,<br />
CTY WE RESPECT YOU!<br />
<br />
So far, no student has been heard shouting this version. This modification of the chant was probably popularized by Adam, but was proposed and chanted by a group of teaching assistants after one of the dances in the ASFC, when the students ended up chanting for a very long time due to the long lines to get over the bridge back to campus (and, in the process, disturbed some elderly people leaving a nearby restaurant). Other variants of the third line, such as "write me a poem" or "take out your books, who cares about looks" have also been proposed.<br />
<br />
==Carlisle==<br />
<br />
Sing the Star-Spangled Banner while walking back from a dance. [CAR.05, CAR.06.1]<br />
<br />
Also, the CTY Chant (see Lancaster) is somewhat common.<br />
<br />
In 11.2, the CTY Chant regained a certain level of popularity, due to the efforts of double-sessioning traditionalists, who shouted it after every dance immediately following the RAs shouting "go home!" and ending the Passionfruit chant. The lyrics of the ''original'' Lancaster chant were maintained.<br />
<br />
==Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)==<br />
<br />
===Session 1===<br />
<br />
'''"I'll Make a Man Out of You"''', from Mulan<br />
<br />
Everyone links shoulders and stands in a circle or line to sing Mulan's "I'll Make a Man Out of You." The last DJ of the dance should put the song on. During the chorus all the nevermores say, "Be a Man." This is only done at the last dance of the session.<br />
<br />
Let's get down to business - to defeat the Huns<br /><br />
Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?<br /><br />
You're the saddest bunch I've ever met<br /><br />
But you can bet before we're through<br /><br />
Mister, I'll make a man out of you<br />
<br />
Tranquil as a forest<br /><br />
But on fire within<br /><br />
Once you find your center<br /><br />
You are sure to win<br /><br />
You're a spineless, pale pathetic lot<br /><br />
And you haven't got a clue<br /><br />
Somehow I'll make a man out of you<br />
<br />
I'm never gonna catch my breath<br /><br />
Say goodbye to those who knew me<br /><br />
Boy, was I a fool in school for cutting gym<br /><br />
This guy's got 'em scared to death<br /><br />
Hope he doesn't see right through me<br /><br />
Now I really wish that I knew how to swim<br />
<br />
'''Chorus:'''<br />
Be a man [nevermores only]<br /><br />
We must be swift as the coursing river<br /><br />
Be a man [nevermores only]<br /><br />
With all the force of a great typhoon<br /><br />
Be a man [nevermores only]<br /><br />
With all the strength of a raging fire<br /><br />
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon<br />
<br />
Time is racing toward us till the Huns arrive<br /><br />
Heed my every order and you might survive<br /><br />
You're unsuited for the rage of war<br /><br />
So pack up, go home you're through<br /><br />
How could I make a man out of you?<br />
<br />
'''Chorus'''<br />
<br />
'''Chorus'''<br />
<br />
===Session 2===<br />
<br />
In 2006, Lancastrians brought the CTY Chant to Skidmore, but it was not continued in 2007.<br />
<br />
==Los Angeles (LMU)==<br />
<br />
At the LMU site, when a dance ends, one of the RAs will go up on stage and scream out, "Go home! Nobody loves you! NOBODY!!!" This RA, as per tradition, is usually one of the celebrated Boring brothers, or the legendary Tom Ryan. In recent years, since 2007, Christian Ragosta (C-Bad), has taken over the role of screamer, while the campers still occupy the position of screamee(s). More recently, however, instead of only one RA doing the screaming on some sort of elevated platform, several will from wherever they happen to be at the time. Students who are aware of the tradition often also join in and reply "WE LOVE YOU!". Note that this screaming does not occur simultaneously. In 2009.2, some students who wrote on their hands/had good memories/had nothing better to devote their brainspace to also began chanting the phrase in Irish. However, not many people noticed this, since such a small amount of people were screaming it, and since the Irish translation is so long that onlookers tend to lose interest after a few seconds and dismiss the screamer as a lunatic. ("Tar abhuaile nil gra eg aon dinne dhuit"? er... spelled, probably incorrectly, from memory, so...euhm.)<br />
<br />
The CTY Chant is also done by some Lancastrians, but is not a native tradition.<br />
<br />
==Loudonville (Siena)==<br />
<br />
After the dances at Siena, all who wish to participate gather and sing "Hallelujah", accompanied by one student on guitar. Although the location was once a lamppost in the middle of the academic quad, due to restrictions by the administration, it was moved to the terrace between Sarazen and Serra. The Afterdance was not a widespread tradition until it was popularized in 08.1 by the ever popular Greene twins. Although the Siena site has been closed, the tradition is set to continue at Skidmore/Saratoga Springs.<br />
<br />
I heard there was a secret chord<br /> <br />
That David played and it pleased the Lord<br /><br />
But you don't really care for music, do you?<br /><br />
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth,<br /> <br />
The minor fall, the major lift,<br /><br />
The baffled king composing Hallelujah<br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br /> <br />
Hallelujah<br /> <br />
Hallelujah<br /> <br />
Hallelu----jah <br />
<br />
Your faith was strong but you needed proof,<br /> <br />
You saw her bathing on the roof,<br /><br />
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you<br /><br />
She tied you to her kitchen chair,<br /><br />
She broke your throne and she cut your hair,<br /> <br />
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah <br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelu----jah <br />
<br />
Baby I've been here before,<br /> <br />
I know this room; I've walked this floor,<br /><br />
I used to live alone before I knew you<br /> <br />
I've seen your flag on the marble arch,<br /><br />
And love is not a victory march,<br /><br />
It's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah <br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelu----jah <br />
<br />
There was a time you let me know<br /><br />
Whats really going on below,<br /><br />
But now you never show it to me, do you?<br /><br />
Remember when I moved in you;<br /><br />
The holy ghost was moving too,<br /><br />
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah <br />
<br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelu----jah <br />
<br />
Maybe there's a God above,<br /><br />
But all I ever learned from love<br /><br />
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you<br /><br />
And its not a cry you can hear at night,<br /><br />
Its not somebody who's seen the light,<br /><br />
Its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah <br />
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Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelu--jah <br />
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Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelujah<br /><br />
Hallelu---u---jah <br />
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==Baltimore==<br />
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In the past Baltimore has had no Afterdance. After the first dance of 09.2, the administration agreed to allow it to happen, but due to a large number of people being unfamiliar with the tradition, it was poorly attended and organized. At 10.2 The numbers of people who went to the Afterdance grew to a grass orgy-sized circle.<br />
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At 10.1 a few people shouted the CTY Chant (see Lancaster). This was done by site-hoppers and will probably not be continued.<br />
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At 10.2 The Goddess of BLAMMO/Empress of Passionfruit named Trinity organized an Afterdance after each dance where most of the traditional songs (Tentacles, Circles, Cows are Freaky, Eyelashes, and the Hokey Pokey) were sung/danced to. Also, Trinity took the place of an RA who would scream "GO HOME!! NOBODY LOVES YOU!" "WE LOVE YOU CTY" at the Afterdances. At the second and last Afterdances, Trinity managed to obtain the coveted megaphone (see JHU Lexicon)<br />
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The student-ran Traditions Committee established by Trinity and friends in 10.2 dedicates itself to preserving traditions at JHU. In doing so, one of its functions is teaching JHU-CTYers the lyrics and dances to the Afterdance, as well as general advertisement (shouting "COME TO THE AFTERDANCE!!", etc.) Those who join the Traditions Committee have in the past been dismissed from the dance first (as opposed to leaving one hall at a time) so that they may run to the Gentle Slope to prepare/initiate the Afterdance. <br />
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During 11.2 Karl organized the Afterdance. His first attempt for the Afterdance was in vain because no one knew what it was. The first real afterdance was after the second dance. There was a small gathering and many people left. The third afterdance was a huge success. Word has spread of the Afterdance and CTYers chanted<br />
*The Hokey Pokey<br />
*Cows<br />
*Eye Lashes<br />
*Tentacles<br />
The Afterdance was concluded with Karl yelling Go Home nobody loves you.<br />
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{{The Essential CTY}}<br />
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[[Category:Traditions]]<br />
[[Category:Lancaster]]<br />
[[Category:Lancaster Traditions]]<br />
[[Category:Carlisle]]<br />
[[Category:Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)]]<br />
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<div>I am cool with a raise in security --[[User:Jeff Sachs|Jeff Sachs]] 20:34, 30 August 2006 (MST)<br />
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==Header suggestions==<br />
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(suggestions struck through have already been added to the header choices, or something very similar has)<br />
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From RealCTY, where its the End of the World as we Know it, yet I feel fine<br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where a shrug never follows a shrodem"</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane."</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where fun is sometimes mandatory."</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY: where pronouns are heinous."</s><br />
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"From RealCTY: where guys wear girls pants better than girls do."<br />
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:Actually, this is true in a lot of places... --[[User:Memoriesonfilm|Max W.]] 17:22, 4 September 2006 (MST)<br />
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::It is. A lot of guys are eerily hot as girls. And better looking as girls as some girls. It's kind of weird to have a guy look way better in your clothes than you do. -[[User:Starr|Starr]] <br />
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:::Scarily, this is true. A few guys at LAN.2.2010 looked better as girls than as guys. -[[Vienna]]<br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where the Imperial Battleship halts... The FLOW of TIME" - Reference to Carlisle's [[Starcrash]]</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where the Hoopy Froods roam."</s><br />
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"From RealCTY, where the Universe Ends."<br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, it's just a jump to the left."</s><br />
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<s>"Halt! This is RealCTY! We demand....A SHRUBBERY!"</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where there is no beer."</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, which has just lost the game."</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, not Constantinople"</s><br />
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"From RealCTY, where you swing your lanyard at your own risk."<br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where these are the right tentacles"</s><br />
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<s>"From RealCTY, where i'm coming out of my cage (and I've been doing just fine"</s><br />
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"From RealCTY, where even Frank Wang is [[Hall of Shame:LAN|vulnerable]]"<br />
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"From RealCTY, located in Transexual, Trannsylvania"<br />
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"From RealCTY, where you can be forever young."<br />
"From RealCTY, where potatoes are a staple"<br />
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"From RealCTY, where the wheel always...turns."<br />
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== Concerning the quality of realCTY articles ==<br />
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When I came here I expected Wikipedia like articles about CTY, not articles filled with what would be called test edits. I would like to propose that we keep all the fandom in the fourums and make this Wiki more serious. Thanks. [[User:Marlith|Marlith]] 20:57, 17 July 2007 (MST)<br />
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:Sure, it is fun, but if a person who wanted encyclopedia like info about CTY and came to this site wouldnt they be dissapointed?[[User:Marlith|Marlith]]<br />
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::Well, if someone did want good articles they would go to Wikipedia. [[User:Marlith|Marlith]] 21:07, 17 July 2007 (MST)<br />
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:::I also had a comment about the state of articles here. While perusing the wonders of the "random article" button, I came across quite a few class pages (actually most--or all--of them) that had comments that seemed perfectly suited to the talk page of the particular article, but not to its main text. I would happily undertake the task of moving these comments to talk pages and create more objective articles if it would be something useful to do. [[User:Kakofonous|Kakofonous]] 13:19, 23 December 2007 (PST)<br />
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::::Glad to help. [[User:Levi Backgammon|Levi Backgammon]] 10:23, 20 August 2009 (PDT)<br />
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How about making a separate section on class pages called "Student Comments"?<br />
[[User:FJØRKËN|FJØRKËN]]<br />
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By the way, Schrodem is spelled thusly.<br />
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== Format of Main Page ==<br />
The link for the list is defunct... Needs a fix.--[[User:My.cat.norbert|My.cat.norbert]] 09:04, 18 June 2012 (PDT)<br />
In the interest of clarity, usefulness to newcomers, and organization i suggest making a seperate news page for announcements and leaving the main page solely for welcome and navigation. --[[User:Izzlefree|Siri]]<br />
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PCTYD has been fixed, and now the notice saying that it's down is misleading. --[[User:Pink Lizzy|Lizzy]]<br />
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Yeah, what Lizzy said. -- Kimcheeeee/jackidy/allegra<br />
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Except now it's down again. =[ [[User:Clcrhiggaeeermo|Clcrhiggaeeermo]] 19:44, 20 February 2008 (PST)<br />
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What exactly happened to it? --[[User:LordZeebmork|LordZeebmork]] 15:24, 21 February 2008 (PST)<br />
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It's still down. Anyone know what's up? - [[User:Fred3426|Fred3426]] 17:48, 23 Feb. 2008 (EST)<br />
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Never mind, it's back. We hit some turbulence. [[User:Clcrhiggaeeermo|Clcrhiggaeeermo]] 18:36, 23 February 2008 (PST)<br />
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And now it's down again. - [[User:Fred3426|Jimmy]] 12:53, 13 Mar. 2008 (EST)<br />
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*Nevermind. - Same<br />
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It's down again. --[[User:Lietk12|Lietk12]] 15:13, 29 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
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Down again, or at least getting 403 forbidden when I try to go there. [[User:Twoshotted|Twoshotted]] 12:26, 2 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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It's down again again. I'm getting the same thing as ^.--[[User:kimcheeeee|Allegra]]<br />
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This is silly. PCTYDers will put the status of the forum right here:<BR><br />
--[[User:Pink Lizzy|Pink Lizzy]] 18:21, 30 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
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To an admin (that knows what he/she is doing with pages): If I (a.k.a. my dad) were to make a Python script to check the status of PCTYD, would it be possible to run the script on certain page? I don't know enough about MediaWiki. --[[User:Fafnirical|Fafnirical]] 20:26, 20 October 2008 (EDT)<br />
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===PCTYD is currently '''Moving to a New Host'''===<br />
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The hosting company is moving (physically) all of their servers and hosting accounts to a new location in Fremont, CA. So PCTYD is down until they finish moving, but they have assured me that they'll be done Very, Very Soon. Rawr. --[[User:Clcrhiggaeeermo|Clcrhiggaeeermo]] 17:57, 13 October 2008 (PDT) <br><br />
<s>As of now, PCTYD seems to be working fine.</s> -[[User:FJØRKËN|FJØRKËN]] 14:40, 14 October 2008 (PDT)<br><br />
False. That was probably your cache. --[[User:Clcrhiggaeeermo|Clcrhiggaeeermo]] 12:47, 15 October 2008 (PDT)<br><br />
Weird...it went from a 503, to working, then back to a 503 today. -[[User:FJØRKËN|FJØRKËN]] 15:24, 15 October 2008 (PDT)<br />
It's down, but it was working yesterday. So idk what's going on. -[[User:Kimcheeeee|Jallegra]]<br><br />
<s>It works now.</s> - [[User:Curtainlurker|Marnie]]<br />
It's back up for me. -[[User:FJØRKËN|FJØRKËN]]<br />
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PCTYD WORKS AGAIN SOMEONE FIX THE MAIN PAGE THANKS BYE<br />
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Internal server error? What? - [[User:Curtainlurker|Marnie]]<br />
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According to something I heard from Charlie a while ago, he wants to move to a different server, which is why PCTYD is down. So it is no longer "mostly harmless" and if this could be changed on the RealCTY mainpage, it would get the word out so people stop freaking.<br />
--[[User:Pink Lizzy|Pink Lizzy]] 15:14, 11 March 2010 (PST)<br />
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Well, the explanation is good, so I'm not freaking out quite as much as before. Any info on around when the server move will be completed (if thats something that can be predicted)? - [[User:Way2kewlio4u|Dan]]<br />
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I'd ask Charlie... --[[User:Pink Lizzy|Pink Lizzy]] 18:19, 14 March 2010 (PDT)<br />
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Hi. I don't know if this is the place to put this, But i really think that Baltimore should be moved above LOU, since it's LITERALLY a dead site and nobody goes there anymore. I feel that /at least/ the sites that are still running should be put above the dead ones. i mean, St. Mary's isn't above like, lancaster, or something, you know? Just a thought.--[[User:kimcheeeee|Allegra]]<br />
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This is true. Information about defunct sites stays online, but isn't updated and isn't part of the "site order." LOU has been removed from the list, and should be moved to the bottom of any articles with site-specific content. --[[User:Memoriesonfilm|Max W.]] 12:04, 20 July 2010 (PDT)<br />
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== On Wikipedia? ==<br />
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Just an idea that I had...I've noticed that quite a few of the users here are also on Wikipedia, and thought it might be a worthwhile project getting [[wikipedia:Center for Talented Youth|CTY]] to featured article status. Please add your ideas and responses below. [[User:Kakofonous|Kakofonous]] 12:31, 30 December 2007 (PST)<br />
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:Yeah that's a good idea, how? If it evolved editing the article, however, I don't know what we can add. In addition, I created some CTY User boxes for the wikipedia user pages. They are at this page --> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Userboxes/New_Userboxes/Archive_11#December_30_2] If you want to put these in you user page, just copy and paste the code into your user page.<br />
-[[User:Firefly1029|Firefly1029]] 20:29, 30 December 2007 (PST)<br />
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^^ They got archived, so I fixed the link. =D [[User:Clcrhiggaeeermo|Clcrhiggaeeermo]] 21:13, 1 March 2008 (PST)<br />
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Could start by editing language to a more encyclopedic style. [[User:Levi Backgammon|Levi Backgammon]] 10:25, 20 August 2009 (PDT)<br />
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== Countdown ==<br />
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It would be cool to have a countdown to the beginning of Sessions one and two on the front page.<br />
[[User:Firefly1029|Firefly1029]] 17:12, 16 June 2008 (PDT)<br />
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Max, it's postctydepression.com, not .org as it says in the email address you have posted. [[User:Clcrhiggaeeermo|Clcrhiggaeeermo]] 17:37, 9 August 2008 (PDT)<br />
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== Sandstorm ==<br />
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It would be nice if there was an article about the song Sandstorm in the music section...<br />
[[User:Astrostar2|Astrostar2]] 13:32, 26 August 2008 (PDT)<br />
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Then make one. =) That's why it's a wiki. -[[User:FJØRKËN|FJØRKËN]]<br />
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<s>How do you make a new page?</s> Never mind. Figured it out =)--[[User:The Minion Master|The Minion Master]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=42&diff=27827422012-06-18T15:56:45Z<p>My.cat.norbert: Added many more interesting facts pulled from Wikipedia</p>
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<div>[[42]] is the '''Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'''.<br />
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In fact, 42 is the answer to the question "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" as revealed in ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe''. This is flawed, however, because Arthur Dent, the man who reveals this question through an irregular set of Scrabble tiles (his feat is impossible with a standard set of Scrabble tiles, as the question he pulled out has 4 Ys), is not actually part of the natural matrix of the computer that is the Earth; rather, he is a descendant of the Golgafrinchans (as is every other human). It is worth noting that 6 times 9 does indeed equal 42, in base 13. However, this was not intended by Douglas Adams, who responded to an inquiry regarding the subject with the line "I may be a pretty sad case, but I don't write jokes in base 13."<br />
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===42 Factoids===<br />
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* Try Googling "answer to life, the universe, and everything"<br />
* Saying that something does not equal 42 is one of the gravest of insults.<br />
* 42 must never be divided by 0. (Just shows that the meaning of life is undefined.)<br />
* 42 is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zY_cM0_6vA|the the number of roads a man must walk down before you call him a man].<br />
* When light hits water at a 42 degree angle, a rainbow is created<br />
* If one were to be a [[Student Hierarchy#Seven-year satan|Seven-year satan]] and double session every year, they would be in CTY for a total of 42 weeks.<br />
* 42 is the number of gallons of oil in each barrel.<br />
* Elvis Presley, one of Americas most important cultural icons, died at the age of 42.<br />
* 42 is of great traditional importance to CTY; it is involved in things such as 42-second hugs, 42-person orgies, 42-player Blammo games, 42 [[recursion]]s, [[Hall:LAN#42_Bottles_of_Strawberry_Kiwi_Lemonade|buying 42 bottles of Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade]], [[Hall:LAN#Flogging|42 shots of cold water to the face]], etc.<br />
* 42 is equal to 1337% of π<br />
* 42 is equal to 6 times 9 in base 13 <br />
* Fastest way through the center of the Earth is 42 minutes. Hollow tube of free-fall acceleration coupled by an equal length of deceleration. <br />
* In NYC, the Grand Central Terminal, Times Square, New York Public Library and Chrysler Building are on 42nd street<br />
* Using the encoding A=1, B=2, C=3, etc., the sum of the codes of the letters in the words "BIG BANG" is 42 (From Wikipedia)<br />
*Given 27 same-size cubes whose nominal values progress from 1 to 27, a 3×3×3 magic cube can be constructed such that every row, column, and corridor, and every diagonal passing through the center, is composed of 3 cubes whose sum of values is 42.<br />
*The atomic number of molybdenum.<br />
*Facebook chat has a special emoticon that can be used on its chat feature. When a person types ":42:" on it, the number appears white in a red box. This is not possible with any other number.<br />
*In Japanese culture, the number 42 is considered unlucky because the numerals when pronounced separately — "shi ni" (four two) — sound like the phrase, "unto death".[12]<br />
*The Gutenberg Bible is also known as the "42-line Bible", as the book contained 42 lines per page.<br />
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations<br />
*The White Queen announces her age as "one hundred and one, five months and a day", which - if the best possible date is assumed for the action of Through the Looking-Glass - gives a total of 37,044 days. With the further (textually unconfirmed) assumption that both Queens were born on the same day their combined age becomes 74,088 days, which is 42 x 42 x 42. Some commentators have asserted that this is deliberate on Carroll's part.<br />
*"42" is an episode of Doctor Who, set in real time lasting approximately 42 minutes.<br />
*"Watson" the IBM supercomputer, has 42 "threads" in its avatar.<br />
*The number of kilometers in a marathon.<br />
*The number of laws of cricket<br />
*The number of spots (or pips, circular patches or pits) on a pair of standard six-sided dice<br />
*Fictional comic book superhero Miles Morales is bitten by a genetically altered spider with a red 42 marked on its abdomen. Morales later assumes the role of Spider-Man as a result of the bite and following the death of Peter Parker in the Ultimate Marvel universe from Marvel Comics. Morales also wins a coveted spot in a prestigious charter school after his number (42) is chosen during a lottery.<br />
:''See also: [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''<br />
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{{The Essential CTY}}<br />
{{Things we like}}<br />
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<div>== Emilia Nobrega ==<br />
<br />Emilia has attended 2 cty sessions so far: The Middle Ages at BabyCTY Mount Holyoke (10.2) and Astronomy at RWU (11.2). She is attending Skidmore (12.1) Electrical Engineering. Emilia adores Gold Bond and her musical intrests include R.E.M., the Killers,They Might Be Giants, the Beatles,Corine Bailey Rae, classical music, Simon&Garfunkle, and Weezer. She is known to blast her various CDs of this music bright and early in the morning. She is apretty easy-going person and loves sudoku and daydreaming.</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=My.cat.norbert&diff=27826My.cat.norbert2012-06-18T15:30:53Z<p>My.cat.norbert: moved My.cat.norbert to User:My.cat.norbert</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[User:My.cat.norbert]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=User:My.cat.norbert&diff=27823User:My.cat.norbert2012-06-18T15:29:56Z<p>My.cat.norbert: moved Emilia to My.cat.norbert: Page redundancy</p>
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<div>== Emilia Nobrega ==<br />
<br />Emilia has attended 2 cty sessions so far: The Middle Ages at BabyCTY Mount Holyoke (10.2) and Astronomy at RWU (11.2). She is attending Skidmore (12.1) Electrical Engineering. Emilia adores Gold Bond and her musical intrests include R.E.M., the Killers,They Might Be Giants, the Beatles,Corine Bailey Rae, classical music, Simon&Garfunkle, and Weezer. She is known to blast her various CDs of this music bright and early in the morning. She is apretty easy-going person and loves sudoku and daydreaming.</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Emilia&diff=27824Emilia2012-06-18T15:29:56Z<p>My.cat.norbert: moved Emilia to My.cat.norbert: Page redundancy</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[My.cat.norbert]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=What_to_bring&diff=27822What to bring2012-06-18T15:28:00Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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<div>A list of things that CTY Coordinators don't know you need.<br />
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===General===<br />
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The items here are generally universal; they may not apply to a site or two. Please do not repost this list for individual sites.<br />
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====Room Stuff====<br />
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* Flashlight - forbidden at some sites, although people bring them anyway<br />
* Scissors - for cutting holes in your jeans<br />
* Snacks (no peanut/peanut products at LAN or JHU!)<br />
** Ramen and other instant noodles<br />
***Plastic forks (unless you plan on robbing the dining hall) and a microwaveable bowl (Ramen containers are NOT microwaveable) <br />
* Vitamin water, energy drinks (now forbidden at CAR and LAN), other drinks<br />
** Share with your hallmates!<br />
* Poster(s)<br />
** And post-its telling people not to make out with it if it features a hot guy (such as Johnny Depp)<br />
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====Traditionish Stuff====<br />
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* [[Duct tape]]<br />
* Glowsticks - for [[raving]], learning to rave, and hitting oneself in the balls, if one has balls<br />
** Lanyard-type objects for stringraving (shoelaces are recommended)<br />
* Rubik's Cube<br />
* Clothes to lend for cross-dress days (guys: bring extra baseball caps because they are usually in short supply, girls: please give out the most scandalous bras you happen to own) <br />
* Old CTY lanyards<br />
* Black lanyard -- be careful of confiscation (white Lanyard if you were lucky enough to get one in 2007)<br />
* A copy of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' -- the veritable Bible<br />
* Fishnets<br />
* Masking tape for Love Tape Day<br />
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====Other Stuff====<br />
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* Camera(s)<br />
* Deck of cards and Poker chips - kind of forbidden at CAR, but nobody enforces it<br />
* iPod and speakers<br />
** A massive amount of batteries for any mp3 player(s)/CD player(s) you bring + chargers<br />
* Frisbees, balls, or minor sports equipment<br />
* Permanent marker (for t-shirt signing the last day)<br />
** Some silver permanent markers in case the CTY shirt is black<br />
* Water bottle<br />
* Extra batteries for your calculator<br />
* A hairbrush and plenty of hairties (for dances, especially)<br />
* Nail clipper<br />
* Bubble mix<br />
* Facial tissues<br />
* Tide-to-go<br />
* Umbrella<br />
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===Lancaster===<br />
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* Snacks cannot contain peanuts; they cannot even have been made in a factory that also processes peanuts or makes peanut products. RAs WILL confiscate contraband food.<br />
* Bathrobe and extra Towels for Thursdays<br />
* Halloween costume<br />
* Umbrella - but only if it pops out when you push the button (or if it's just awesome)<br />
* Ramen - BEWARE: Except for the Shrimp kind, Cup Noodles have peanuts!!!<br />
** Or Bowl Appetit or Simply Thai noodles or other instant foods<br />
** Other food is available at Turkey Hill<br />
* <s>Boxers</s> <s>Very short shorts for [[Bizarre Love Triangle|BLT]]</s> Taking pants off during BLT is now forbidden at Lancaster... but bring them anyway ;)<br />
* Fancier clothes for the dances<br />
* Clothes for [[Second Saturday]], as well as really gawdy and intense makeup.<br />
* Glowsticks/Shoelaces<br />
* Duct tape (colorful!) for duct tape love day (2nd session)<br />
* A Bag O' Quarters for the vending machines and washing machines<br />
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===Carlisle===<br />
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* Sidewalk chalk<br />
* Assorted clothing for various theme-days<br />
** Fishnets and copious amounts of eyeliner for girls ([[Goth Day]])<br />
** Clothes for the opposite sex to wear for [[Drag Day]] (clothes you don't mind getting ripped, stretched out, dirty, etc.)<br />
* Large beach towel for Passionfruit (Lower Quad is wet in the morning) and just for sitting on outside.<br />
* Nail polish remover - people will love you, especially guys at the Meet Market on Drag Day!<br />
* Raincoat(or umbrella - you will make MANY new friends) It rains ''all the time'' at Carlisle. Spontaneously. Hard.<br />
* Double-Kline gear, such as magazines, especially Cosmo, to read out loud; large quantities of shareable food, especially Nutella; assigned summer reading that never gets read in Kline; your guitar and amp if you're really hardcore.<br />
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===Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)===<br />
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* Masking tape/duct tape - for flat-ironing it into your hair<br />
* Insect Repellent<br />
* Fans - boys only, especially those in Wilmarth/McClellan<br />
** 17" box fans fit PERFECTLY in any window and are highly recommended<br />
* Extra towels/bathrobe<br />
* Old clothes<br />
* Hats<br />
* <s>Chalk</s> Now banned. Sob.<br />
* <s>Energy drinks -- Red Bull, No Fear, Monster, etc.</s> according to the 2012 site guide it is banned<br />
* <s>Catholic school girlish clothes, a.k.a. uniforms</s> replaced with Goth clothing (first session only)<br />
* Boots for the massive puddles found there<br />
* Ninja gear for Ninja/Caveman/Pirate attack days (?)<br />
* CD player - for playing CDs bought at Borders/Last Vestige/Divinyl during a town trip<br />
* Sweatshirt - for when the air conditioning in the classrooms is being abused<br />
* Expo Markers<br />
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===Loudonville (Siena)===<br />
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* Duct tape, strong string, and clothes hangers for Fairy Princess Day<br />
* Clothes for Naughty Catholic Schoolgirl Day<br />
* A backpack<br />
* SNACKS or change for vending machines<br />
* Fans - Ryan Hall, the boys' hall, is cramped and has no A/C<br />
** Girls should also bring fans and give them to the boys, some of whom are certain to have forgotten to bring one.<br />
* Alarm clock - you might have to wake up early for showers.<br />
* Long-sleeved tee and/or hoodie - the movie theater and the classrooms are usually extremely cold<br />
* An umbrella, raincoat, and rain boots<br />
* Lots and lots of clothes - there are few working laundry machines<br />
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===Los Angeles (LMU)===<br />
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* Bathing suits<br />
* Bathrobe - if you get caught in the shower during a fire drill<br />
* Black clothing and eyeliner, for Emo Day<br />
* Board shorts for Wet 'N Wild Day<br />
* Candy<br />
* Clothing of many different types, mostly dressy, for themed dances - girls<br />
* Comfortable shoes for dances - NO HEELS! They kill your feet.<br />
* Drag day outfit, or clothes to lend out on Drag Day.<br />
** Girls: baseball cap<br />
** Boys: Fake hair/ hair extensions<br />
* Fan (electric) - Huesman or Doheny are unbearably hot; Whelan & Rosecrans are better, and Desmond is by far the best (Desmond, however, is not perfect. Depending on the year, Desmond residents may need to use a fan every day or never.)<br />
* Flip flops that don't break easily<br />
* Hats<br />
* Laundry hamper/bag<br />
* Magazines<br />
* Peanuts - for the squirrels (both kinds)<br />
* Seasonings - if you want your food to taste like anything<br />
* Sidewalk chalk - they often run out in the activity<br />
* Some sort of casino outfit - dress/suit<br />
* Sunblock<br />
* Sunglasses<br />
* Masking and duct tape<br />
* Tennis racket/balls<br />
* Towels: Beach towel, hand towel, full-sized shower towel for Last Thursday<br />
* Wi-Fi Compatible Device<br />
** Network: Guest<br />
** Username: wguest<br />
** Password: !ggyL!0N<br />
* Your lovely self!<br />
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===Baltimore (JHU)===<br />
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* Two pairs of sneakers, or durable flip-flops -- in case [read: when] the rain soaks the Gentle Slope<br />
* Hand-held Fans -- Because we're hot.<br />
* Umbrella, poncho, or rain jacket -- there may [read: WILL] be thunderstorm(s) or heavy rains<br />
* Hoodie/Sweater -- for cold classrooms<br />
* Extra dressy clothes -- for girls, for guys, for dances.<br />
* Ridiculously flashy clothing -- For Casino Night, and possibly Cross-Dressing Day (depends on how you want to dress for that.)<br />
* Ghost Stories<br />
* Laundry basket/hamper/bag<br />
* Power strip/extension cord -- power outlets may be hard to find.<br />
* Laundry detergent, and roughly $10 worth of quarters -- for doing laundry (laundry machines take somewhere around $1.25 for the washer and dryer, however the extra-large machines take around $1.50-$1.75)<br />
* iPhone or iPod Touch -- JHU runs a guest wi-fi network<br />
* A non-trivial amount of spending money -- your RA group can visit many restaurants (including Chipotle, which is incredibly expensive), the local Barnes and Noble bookstore, a local movie theater, and the Inner Harbor stores over the weekends. You can also get Chinese take-out, which costs money. The Book Thing, however, takes no money (The Book Thing is a warehouse-sized store where you can get books of all genres for free. It's a bit of a walk, though.)<br />
* Musical instruments and/or piano sheet music -- you will be able to practice during some activity periods in JHU's music rooms<br />
* Something to do outside after lunch period -- this usually includes books, frisbees, or footballs, because you are not allowed back in the dorms between lunch and the afternoon class<br />
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===Easton===<br />
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* Clothes of every color for Swashbuckler (Colors/teams: red, black, white, blue, orange/yellow "Reese's", green)<br />
* At least 10 pairs of underwear in case you run short before Laundry Day<br />
* NOT a desk lamp - we don't even do homework in our dorms<br />
* Random looking clothes for the dances<br />
* Nice looking clothes for Casino Night & Semi Formal<br />
* Extra Money for:<br />
** WaWa<br />
* Tennis racket<br />
* Bug spray<br />
* Girls: Lots of hair products for dances<br />
* NOTE: There is no need to bring quarters for washing machines/ dryers. As of 2008, all washing machines/dryers are free.<br />
* Expo Markers to write on the white-board on your dorm door <br />
*Guys: Bring a lot of colgne and nice clothing for the dances. DONT MAKE OUT IN THE UPSTAIRS FARINON BATHROOM! <br />
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{{The Essential CTY}}<br />
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<div>== Emilia Nobrega ==<br />
<br />Emilia has attended 2 cty sessions so far: The Middle Ages at BabyCTY Mount Holyoke (10.2) and Astronomy at RWU (11.2). She is attending Skidmore (12.1) Electrical Engineering. Emilia adores Gold Bond and her musical intrests include R.E.M., the Killers,They Might Be Giants, the Beatles,Corine Bailey Rae, classical music, Simon&Garfunkle, and Weezer. She is known to blast her various CDs of this music bright and early in the morning. She is apretty easy-going person and loves sudoku and daydreaming.</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=User:My.cat.norbert&diff=26699User:My.cat.norbert2011-08-06T05:27:15Z<p>My.cat.norbert: Created page with "== Emilia Nobrega == <br />Emilia has attended 2 cty sessions so far: The Middle Ages at BabyCTY Mount Holyoke (10.2) and Astronomy at RWU (11.2). She hopes to attend Skidmore 12..."</p>
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<div>== Emilia Nobrega ==<br />
<br />Emilia has attended 2 cty sessions so far: The Middle Ages at BabyCTY Mount Holyoke (10.2) and Astronomy at RWU (11.2). She hopes to attend Skidmore 12.1 and Lancaster 12.2 next year. Emilia adores Gold Bond and her musical intrests include R.E.M., the Killers,They Might Be Giants, the Beatles,Corine Bailey Rae, classical, Simon&Garfunkle, and Weezer. She is known to blast her various CDs of this music bright and early in the morning. She is apretty easygoing person and loves sudoku and daydreaming. Her current favorite phrase is "legit".</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Hall_of_Fame:BRI&diff=26697Hall of Fame:BRI2011-08-06T05:13:59Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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<div>smurfs 11.2<br /><br />
smurf line 11.2<br /><br />
Stukustan "In Beards We Trust" 11.2<br /><br />
Ninja 11.2<br /><br />
BECKY!!!!! Velociraptors stonewall 3 11.2<br /><br />
"Don't touch Roger. He's Radioactive."~ Becky 11.2<br /></div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Canon&diff=26687Canon2011-08-06T03:13:48Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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<div>The [[Canon]] is a list of songs that are traditional and played at each dance (or every other dance). The list varies by site.<br />
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Sites not listed below may or may not have well-defined Canons. If you know yours, please add it! "[[American Pie]]," however is played last at every CTY dance at every site. The only exception involves a new tradition at Skidmore Session One in which "I'll Make a Man out of You" is played after American Pie at the last dance. Also, some newly established sites, particularly those outside of the United States, tend to fail to play the Canon.<br />
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==Lancaster==<br />
[[Image:Lobster.JPG|thumb|250px|right]]<br />
At [[Lancaster]], the Canon is divided into two sections: the "Upper Canon" or "High Holy Canon," which is played at every dance, and the "Lower Canon," half of which is played at each dance, although the Lower Canon is generally not played at the final dance, but is instead played during lunch and dinner, usually a 5/4 split the day of the final dance. Since Lancaster holds dances every Friday and Saturday, as well as the [[Thursday|final Thursday]] (known canonically as Friday, since Dances can't happen on Thursdays), this means that each Lower Canon song is heard once each weekend.<br />
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The playing of the Lower Canon at lunch began in 2004 at the suggestion of RA Jeremy Orosz, who thought this system would allow for a night dance that was not comprised completely of Canon so that less traditional students would have a wider selection of music. In 2006, half the Canon songs were moved to dinner because, due to the staggered lunch schedule, no student would be able to hear all Canon songs just at lunch.<br />
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The Upper Canon songs are generally played (nonconsecutively) in the reverse of the order shown here (i.e. "Bizarre Love Triangle" is first). The last four songs of the dance are (in order): "Stairway to Heaven," a non-Canon song, normally "Mr. Brightside," "Forever Young," and "American Pie."<br />
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===Upper Canon===<br />
<br />
* [[American Pie]] - Don McLean<br />
* [[Forever Young]] - Alphaville<br />
* [[Stairway to Heaven]] - Led Zeppelin<br />
* [[In Your Eyes]] - Peter Gabriel<br />
* [[Nightswimming]] - R.E.M.<br />
* [[Bizarre Love Triangle]] - New Order<br />
* [[Mr. Brightside]] - The Killers<br />
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===Lower Canon===<br />
* [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]] - They Might Be Giants<br />
* [[Blister in the Sun]] - Violent Femmes<br />
* [[Oh L'Amour]] - Erasure<br />
* [[Rock Lobster]] - The B-52's ''(Second Session only)''<br />
* [[Dr. Mario]] - Nintendo ''(First Session only)''<br />
* [[James Brown Is Dead]] - L.A. Style<br />
* [[Birdhouse in Your Soul]] - They Might Be Giants<br />
* [[It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]] - R.E.M.<br />
* [[Tunak Tunak Tun]] - Daler Mehndi<br />
* [[The Time Warp]] - ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''<br />
* [[Sweet Transvestite]] - ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' ''(follows The Time Warp, only on [[Cross-Dress Day|Second Saturday]])''<br />
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===History of the Canon===<br />
<br />
Supposedly, the modern Canon began the first year CTY started (at St. Mary's in 1980/1981, theoretically; however, this may actually mean the first year of Lancaster, 1982), when the staff, who enjoyed American Pie, decided to play it at a dance. The students enjoyed it and transferred it to the following session, after which it was played in the following years as well.<br />
<br />
There was a clear Canon at least as early as 1985 (note that Lancaster was opened in 1982), which included "Rock Lobster," "The Time Warp," "Shout" (Isley Brothers), "Louie Louie," "Good Lovin'" (Rascals), and -- of course -- "American Pie." By 1988, students expected others certain songs at every dance, too (i.e., "No One is to Blame," "Mony Mony" (Billy Idol), "Boys Don't Cry," "Forever Young," "Summer of '69," "Twist & Shout," "Bizarre Love Triangle"). Though the name of "Canon" had not yet been applied, by the mid-1980's these songs were already being played at virtually every dance.<br />
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In 1987 and 1988, a group of RAs mocked these songs, especially "American Pie." Their behavior reached its nadir when, in 88.2, they convinced the RA DJs ''not'' to play "American Pie" at all at one of the later dances. Scores of students refused to leave the dance area -- the end of quad in front of the [[Lancaster#Marshall/Buchanan|Marshall-Buchanan]] porch. A student housed in Dubbs turned his stereo speakers to point out his room's windows and played the song as loud as he could. As the students heard this, they moved under his window and sang loud enough to make up for the size of his speakers. In 93.1, the RA DJs again screwed things up by omitting some important songs at a dance on the first weekend. The following Monday, students circulated a petition demanding that the DJs play "Bizarre Love Triangle," "Rock Lobster," "It's the End of the World as We Know It," "Forever Young," and "American Pie" at every remaining dance, without fail. The word "Canon" was still not applied to this list.<br />
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Between 1994 and 1995, the [[Digiclan]] and [[LLRT]], after lengthy online discussions, finalized the Canon, cutting it down from a list of over 50 songs. By 1996, all of the fourteen modern Canon songs except for "Tunak Tunak Tun" and "Dr. Mario" had appeared.<br />
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Every few years, there is a vote at Lancaster to put more songs on the Canon. Recent votes (in 2000 and 2003) did not add any new songs, though the High/Low status of some songs slightly changed. A vote 05.2 decided to keep "James Brown Is Dead" as part of the canon and add Daler Mehndi's "Tunak Tunak Tun" to the Canon one year after kids from [[First Dietz]] hall made a CTY-Lancaster-specific dance (modeled after Daler Mehndi's music video).<br />
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In 08.1, "Rock Lobster" was voted out of the First Session Canon. The next night, "[[Dr. Mario]]" was voted into the Lower Canon by a 53% percent majority (the vote to include "Dr. Mario" only would have been conducted had "Rock Lobster" been removed first). "Dr. Mario" remained Lower Canon on a one-year trial basis due to the slim majority. At the last dance of 08.1, "Rock Lobster" was played one final time as part of the Canon, but this song was played during 09.1 and will most likely be played in the coming years. As for Session 2, "Rock Lobster" remains a part of the Canon while "Dr. Mario" is not considered to be. At the end of 09.1, "Dr. Mario" was voted and secured into Canon to be enjoyed by generations of CTYers to come. <br />
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====Protest Example (05.1)====<br />
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http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a134/ctylan20051/3f03c748.jpg<br />
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===Other Songs===<br />
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[[Glowsticking|Raving]] is very popular at Lancaster. Aside from "[[James Brown Is Dead]]," at least one techno/raving song is played at each dance, often Darude's "Sandstorm" or "Every Time We Touch." During 06.2, a new rule was instated at Lancaster that banned stringraving (and also lying on the ground after dark). This angered some students, especially since nobody was officially told that the PDA rule on hand-holding from the previous session had been lifted. Protests were planned; however, Rachel, then-Jesus, and Alexa, a onemore, worked with the site director to lift the ban. The string raving ban was changed to a restriction: that all raving be done on the hardtop. However, by the following year, the restriction had been lifted or ignored by administration.<br />
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Aside from the Canon, commonly played songs/dances include the [[CTY Shuffle]], the Numa Numa Song ("Dragosta Din Tei"), "Cotton-Eyed Joe," the "Cha-Cha Slide," the Pokemon Theme Song, "Sexyback" (usually directly following BLT and accompanied by an [optionally] pantsless macarena line) and "Sandstorm."<br />
<br />
The song "Mr. Brightside" by the Killers has, since 07.1, almost always been played between "Stairway to Heaven" and "Forever Young", especially in 07.1. Mr. Brightside typically involves a giant mob dancing up and down in the center.<br />
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Not completely related to Canon, but also very important, is the song "[[The End of the Tour]]" which is always the last song played at the [[Electric Tree]] after the [[Passionfruit]].<br />
<br />
Also, "[[Iris]]"!<br />
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During second session 2010 and first session 2011, the theme song for the video game "Robot Unicorn Attack" (Always by Erasure) was played at the last three dances, following an activity of the same name. During the song, students gallop in a circle with their index fingers to their foreheads to represent unicorn horns. However during the last dance at LAN 11.1 a few CTYers from [[Hall:LAN#The_Biological_Code|The Biological Code]] took up the role of "stars" and blocked the galloping unicorns thus crushing the dreams of those ignorant of Robot Unicorn Attack. A few dashes were admonished however.<br />
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As a result of a [[Hall:LAN#Dance_Parties|student-led effort]] in 10.2, Caramelldansen was played on the 3rd and last dances. During this song, students replicated the dance from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Zp4cW8w8A video] itself.<br />
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==Carlisle==<br />
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The Canon at Carlisle is over Three hours long, and therefore is never played in its entirety. The songs are arranged in order of holiness.<br />
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The full list is too long to place here. See [[Canon/CAR]].<br />
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==Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)==<br />
<br />
Saratoga Springs has 3 dances per session, one on each of the first two Fridays, then of course one on the last Thursday. High holy canon are played at every dance, the rest of the canon is played ''as much as possible.''<br />
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This list was primarily compiled by Jon Good ('97&ndash;'00), a cult figure among Skidmore CTY students.<br />
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===High Holy Canon===<br />
<br />
* [[Nightswimming]] - R.E.M.<br />
* [[Forever Young]] - Alphaville<br />
* [[Stairway to Heaven]] - Led Zeppelin<br />
* [[American Pie]] - Don McLean<br />
* I'll Make A Man Out Of You - Mulan (Session 1, last dance only)<br />
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===Canon===<br />
<br />
* Cotton-Eyed Joe - Rednex<br />
* Tunak Tunak Tun - Daler Mendhi<br />
* Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants<br />
* Sandstorm - Darude<br />
* It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.<br />
* Blister in the Sun - The Violent Femmes<br />
* Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show<br />
* Build Me Up, Buttercup - The Foundations<br />
* Buddy Holly - Weezer<br />
* American Music - The Violent Femmes<br />
* Let it Be - The Beatles<br />
* Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright<br />
* Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel<br />
* Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana<br />
* Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen<br />
* Love Shack - The B-52's<br />
* Pokémon Theme - Pokémon<br />
* Tong Hua - Guang Liang (Session 1)<br />
* Raver's Fantasy - Tune Up (Nevermore Rave during 3rd dance)<br />
* Dragostea Din Tei - Ozone<br />
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===Lower Canon===<br />
<br />
* My Sharona - The Knack<br />
* Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.<br />
* Everytime we Touch - Cascada<br />
* Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice<br />
* I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry<br />
* Tiny Dancer - Elton John<br />
* Get Low - Lil' Jon<br />
* Mr. Brightside - The Killers<br />
* Blame It On The Boogie - Jackson 5<br />
* Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-Lot<br />
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===Recent Additions===<br />
* 06.1: "I'll Make a Man Out of You." It is considered to be the only song that is High Holy Canon AND an Afterdance. This tradition applies to Session 1 only and only after the last dance. <br />
* 06.1: "Let it Be" However, instead of "Let it Be", "[[synergy|Synergy]]" is sung in honor of Bill. Session 2 also plays the song, but does not have the synergy tradition.<br />
* 08.1/2: Pokémon Theme - Pokémon<br />
* 08.1: Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners<br />
* 09.1: Tong Hua - Guang Liang (Michael Wong). This was the song sung by Peter Yang, the 2008 emperor, at the 08.1 talent show and is now played at the Session One dances in memory of him.<br />
* 09.1: I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry, Mr Brightside - The Killers, and Blame It On The Boogie - Jackson 5 have been added to the Lower Canon.<br />
* 10.1: Raver's Fantasy was added as a Nevemore-only Rave at the third dance.<br />
* 10.1: Some Canon was switched to Lower Canon and vice-versa. <br />
* 10.1: Tiny Dancer - Elton John has been added to the Lower Canon.<br />
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==Loudonville (Siena)== <br />
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Note: If someone could sort out the ones that aren't played second session, that'd be great.<br />
<br />
List compiled by RA Brendan (Loudonville 2006 Session 1 and 2)<br />
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As RAs, we got official CTY Canon CDs from ResLife to play at the dances. This is what was on them, for the curious (note that it's slightly different from the (I would assume) student-compiled list).<br />
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===Upper Canon (every dance)===<br />
<br />
Played at every dance/official real Canon:<br />
<br />
* Blister in the Sun - The Violent Femmes<br />
* Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen<br />
* Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants (banned 2005.1 because running around holding hands is too dangerous)<br />
* Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-lot<br />
* [[Smells Like Teen Spirit]] - Nirvana<br />
* Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants<br />
* Like A Prayer - Madonna<br />
* I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor<br />
* Love Shack - The B-52's<br />
* The Time Warp - ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''<br />
* Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison<br />
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In particular these last four played in this order as the last four songs:<br />
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* Nightswimming - R.E.M.<br />
* It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.<br />
* Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin<br />
* American Pie - Don McLean<br />
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===Lower Canon===<br />
<br />
(on a 2nd CD, RAs had the option of playing some or all of these songs, but they weren't required)<br />
<br />
* Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright<br />
* Sandstorm - Da Rude (de facto Canon)<br />
* Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners<br />
* Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone (de-facto Canon)<br />
* In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel<br />
* Sell Out - Reel Big Fish<br />
* Forever Young - Alphaville<br />
* Piano Man - Billy Joel<br />
* I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick<br />
* Cotton-Eyed Joe - Red-Nex<br />
* Heaven - DJ Sammy<br />
* It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls<br />
* Don't Stop Belivin' - Journey<br />
* Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel<br />
* Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations<br />
* Buddy Holly - Weezer<br />
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===Other===<br />
<br />
====Canon but not always played====<br />
<br />
* Wonderwall - Oasis<br />
* In My Life - The Beatles<br />
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====Traditions but not Canon====<br />
<br />
* The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe<br />
* Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul, and Mary<br />
* One More Chorus - Battlefield Band<br />
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====Other====<br />
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* Fight For Your Right - The Beastie Boys<br />
* Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch<br />
* I Touch Myself - Divynls (not played LOU 05.1)<br />
* Here's to the Night - Eve 6<br />
* I'm the Only Gay Eskimo - Corky and the Juice Pigs<br />
* Paradise City - Guns N' Roses<br />
* It's My Life - Jon Bon Jovi<br />
* Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) - Green Day<br />
* Cupid's Shuffle - Cupid<br />
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====Notes====<br />
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* "Buddy Holly" in LOU 05.1 was revived at the last dance, but was not very popular.<br />
* "Sandstorm" is, in the opinion of the Law and Politics B Session 2 2006, Fast-Paced High School Chemistry Session 1 2006, and Mathematical Logic Session 2 2006 classes, Canon.<br />
* "Baby Got Back" may not be true Canon. <br />
* Thank you to everyone continuing "One More Chorus." I was afraid it died after 2005.<br />
* Siena traditionally does not chant, "Die, Die, Die, Die! Live, Live, Live, Live..." during "American Pie" because of a student who committed suicide during session one year. At Session One, however, many students, perhaps from other sites, have adopted the chant as new tradition.<br />
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==Los Angeles (LMU)==<br />
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LOS Canon is becoming smaller and smaller every single year with the departure of veteran RA's, and the installment of RA's who don't give a crap about tradition. Interestingly, some of the Upper Canon songs at other sites are not played here.<br />
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===Upper Canon===<br />
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* [[American Pie]] - Don McLean<br />
* [[Stairway to Heaven]] - Led Zeppelin<br />
* [[It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]] - R.E.M.<br />
* Sandstorm - Darude<br />
* [[Forever Young]] – Alphaville<br />
* [[Nightswimming]] - R.E.M.<br />
* Don't Stop Believin' - Journey<br />
* Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver '''{second session}'''<br />
* Seasons of Love - Jonathan Larson, ''Rent'' '''{first session}'''<br />
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===Lower Canon===<br />
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* Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone<br />
* [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]] - They Might Be Giants<br />
* [[Time Warp]] - ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''<br />
* Cotton-Eyed Joe - Rednex<br />
* Everytime We Touch - Cascada<br />
* Cha Cha Slide (remix)- Casper<br />
* YMCA - The Village People<br />
* Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes<br />
* Thriller - Michael Jackson<br />
* Barbie Girl - Aqua<br />
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Note: Stacy's Mom is played often at the dances, and some consider it sub-canon, and others do not. <br />
Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot was formerly considered lower canon, but is reported to have been banned by the administration in 09.2 after parent complaint. It was not played in 2010.<br />
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===Recent Changes===<br />
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In recent years, CTYers at LOS have shifted emphasis from certain canon songs to others, mostly based on the RAs' reaction to the popularity of some rather than others. While the distinction between Upper and Lower canon is still very vague, many Lower canon songs have gained speed with the incoming squirrels' favor. <br />
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'''New "Upper Canon"'''--what this author defines to be the list of songs consistently played at every dance-- is approximately (in order of importance):<br />
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* American Pie - Don McLean<br />
* Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin<br />
* Seasons of Love (first session) or Leaving on a Jet Plane (second session)<br />
* Sandstorm- Darude<br />
* It's the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M.<br />
* Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne<br />
* Dragostea Din Tei- O-Zone<br />
* Everytime We Touch- Cascada<br />
* Time Warp- Cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show<br />
* Don't Stop Believin' - Journey<br />
* Barbie Girl- Aqua<br />
* Cha Cha Slide- Casper<br />
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'''New "Lower Canon"'''-- what this author defines to be the list of songs expected to be played at least once per session-- is approximately:<br />
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* Forever Young- Alphaville<br />
* Nightswimming- R.E.M.<br />
* Thriller- Michael Jackson<br />
* Blame it on the Boogie- Michael Jackson<br />
* Istanbul (not Constantinople)- They Might Be Giants<br />
* Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes<br />
* YMCA- Village People<br />
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==Baltimore==<br />
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Baltimore doesn't have a set, official Canon beyond Stairway to Heaven and American Pie. The following songs might not be Canon--there is no official, set-in-paper Canon (YET; see below.) The following is merely a list of songs played at most, if not all, dances.<br />
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* [[American Pie]] -- Don McLean<br />
* [[Stairway to Heaven]] -- Led Zepplin<br />
* Sandstorm -- Darude<br />
* Satisfaction -- Benny Benassi<br />
* Everytime We Touch -- Cascada<br />
* Don't Stop Believin' -- Journey<br />
* Hey There Delilah -- Plain White T's<br />
* Dragostea Din Tei -- O-Zone<br />
* Piano Man -- Billy Joel<br />
* Cotton-Eyed Joe --Rednex<br />
* Cha Cha Slide -- Casper<br />
* Cupid Shuffle -- Cupid<br />
* Waka Waka -- Shakira<br />
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N.B.-During 10.2, ''Tunak Tunak Tun'' and ''Istanbul (Not Constantinople)'' were played at all 3 dances. Canon status could soon be achieved.<br />
Also, during 10.2, Sandstorm, Satisfaction, Everytime We touch, The Cha Cha Slide, and Cotton Eyed Joe were played at all the dances. There is also a large group of students who are pushing for the theme song from the original ''Pokemon'' series, which was played at two of the dances in 09.2, and all 3 dances in 10.2, to become Canon. There is speculation that the student-ran Traditions Committee, formed in 10.2, will indeed be making a set Canon next year.<br />
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==Hawaii==<br />
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Hawaii doesn't really have a canon, but it does follow a few precedents from other sites. The last three songs at every dance are Forever Young, Stairway and American Pie. Other than those, I'm not sure if there even is a playlist.<br />
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==Easton==<br />
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===Upper Canon===<br />
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* Swing, Swing - All- American Rejects<br />
* All My Life - JoJo & K-Ci<br />
* American Pie - Don McClean<br />
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===Lower Canon===<br />
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* Every Time We Touch - CASCADA<br />
* The Cha-Cha Slide - Casper & The Live Platinum Band<br />
* Cotton-Eyed Joe - Rednex<br />
* Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's<br />
* Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone<br />
* Here In Your Arms - Hellogoodbye<br />
* Cupid Shuffle - Cupid<br />
* Don't Stop Believin' - Journey <br />
* Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations (Quasi-canon; was played at nearly every dance in '09, but has mysteriously disappeared)<br />
*Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne<br />
*Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana <br />
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The last two listed are always (usually) played at the second dance of session 2, which is traditionally a retro/decades/time warp dance. <br />
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It should also be noted that thanks to the departure of RA's who were present for the founding of CAA Easton, many of the lower canon songs (notably Dragostea Din Tei, Everytime We Touch, and especially Hey There Delilah) are rarely, if ever played. Sob. <br />
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==Bristol==<br />
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American Pie<br />
Stairway To Heaven<br />
Any random Go away find your RA song<br />
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[[Category:Music]]</div>My.cat.norberthttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=Hall_of_Fame:BRI&diff=26686Hall of Fame:BRI2011-08-06T03:09:17Z<p>My.cat.norbert: </p>
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