Hall of Shame

Welcome to the CTY Hall of Shame. The object of this page is to lambast stupidity related to CTY, meaning stupid actions, traditions, customs, and other shameful items. Acts of infamously stupid weirdness belong here, where they will receive the...um...commendation/attention they...um...deserve.

Lancaster 2004 Security Guard Incident

At Lancaster 2004 Session 1, a male Franklin and Marshall security guard handcuffed a male CTYer and gave the key to two female CTYers nearby, instructing them to "help him out" while he watched. The incident could have been just the joke of a bored campus staff worker, or it could have been a totally creepy sketchy act of pedophilia. Although it will never be known for sure, the RAs asked the girls for their side of the story and a hall meeting announcement was made for CTYers to "avoid talking to any Franklin and Marshall staff".

Siena CTY gets negative article in college paper

During Session 1 of 2004, the Siena student newspaper came out with an especially vicious editorial lambasting CTY students. A CTYer enrolled in the Astronomy course wrote a letter of rebuttal to the newspaper and circulated it, collecting over 50 signatures. It was presented to the site director, who said that he would look over it and submit it to the paper if he deemed it appropriate. As the paper isn't available online, the letter's fate remains unknown.

Phantom Duker at Siena

During Session 2 of 2005, turd was found in the showers of Ryan Hall(males). The incident was purported to have been committed by the Phantom Duker. To this day the identity of this shady fellow has never been uncovered but a certain uncertainty hung over Malcolm's hall (the nearest to the bathroom) for the rest of the session as to whether they would encounter the duker at night.

Cross-Dressing Deemed Offensive

At JHU 2006 Session 1 and 2, cross dressing day was cancelled by the administration because it was alledgedly "offensive" to "real cross-dressers" and homosexuals. A few CTYers attempted to cross dress, but were sent back into their dorms during breakfast to change. Despite the ethics class' attempt to reschedule crossdressing day on a later date through a petition and the administration's supposed consent, no cross dressing day ever took place. This has been called a CTY SIN.

"Stairway to Heaven" cut short scandal

Another editor of this page, me, heard my hallmate from Lancaster '05, Henry, that "Stairway to Heaven" got cut off sometime in the past two or three years at Lancaster. Then everybody protested during "American Pie."

There have been rumors that a sit-down occured at the end of the dance. More rumors say that the sit-down actually worked and the RAs did play "Stairway to Heaven" due to the fact that nobody would leave the dance.

This definitely did happen at Siena, session 1, 2004 (second dance). The last minute or so of "Stairway to Heaven" was cut off because it was nearing 10:30 and American Pie hadn't started yet. So a group thought to be lead by Steph and Tim sat down in the middle of the dance floor, breaking all sorts of fire codes. American Pie played through, and by the end almost the entire group of students attending the dance were seated on the floor. The admin then re-played Stairway, and we got an extra 10 minutes of dancing out of the deal.

At LAN.00.1, Stairway was cancelled at TWO dances, once for "bad behavior" ie running too fast during End of the World, etc. and once because of time constraints. LAN.00.1 became notorious for the frequent cancellations of various canon songs.

"Get Low" cut short scandal

At Dickinson, Session 1, 2005, at the first dance, the RAs began to play Get Low. Only the first few seconds were heard, and then, as everybody was ready to sing along, they cut it. Uproar was everywhere. This happened also with other 'controversial' songs throughout later dances, including such songs as Electric Six's Gay Bar and System of a Down's B.Y.O.B. What now?

However, at Dickinson, Session 2, 2005, they did play the full rendition of Gay Bar at almost every dance.

This occured again at Dickinson Session 1, 2006. At the last dance, RAs made a rule that if there were any sit-down protests, the dance would end. However, at the last dance, they didn't stop songs anyway.

"The Peeing Bandit"

At Skidmore College, Session 1, 2005, there was a bandit on the loose. During the last week, a boy decided to pee all over the bathroom wall. The next day, all the guys were called to a meeting, at which the RAs proceeded to threaten the guys with horrible things if no one confessed. Shortly after the meeting, the bandit struck again, and two more bathrooms were destroyed. The RAs brutally took away quad time for all the guys. The girls were in an uproar, and rumors started to circulate that the last dance was at stake. That night, the bandit struck for the last time, but was not caught. After intensive interrogations, the RAs gave up. All privileges were re-instated, but we never found out who the peeing bandit was. It might remain a CTY mystery forever.

Prank Calls

At JHU Session 1 2005 there was this doofus who was prank calling Clark 2nd floor AMR 1 dorm at 2 am.......pretending to be the pizza guy, insurance company, et cetera. Two roommates pretended to be KGB operatives to the prank callers and the calls ended.

Dances at Carlisle 06.1

It was decided by the administration of Carlisle that Forever Young by Alphaville was no longer Holy Canon and should only be played before stairway to heaven at the last dance. The student body complained, but it was not played until the last dance, as they had said. Is it up to the administration to decide on the students traditions? The answer is yes. Without the administration, there is no CTY, and without CTY there are no traditions. RA Carlin would like to point out that: "as much as we'd all like to believe, CTY is not a democracy. It is a fascist state. Deal with it. Your parents didn't pay $3000 dollars to let you run around wild. You can do that for free at home." Also, During most dances there were lots of technical dificulties, spaces of time when no song was played and songs cut short. During the last dance, we were told that there was to be absolutly no grinding or suggestive dancing "because we have 12 year olds here" and that any suggestive dancing would result in the people dancing being sent to time out(penalty box), the further into the dance, the more time. It is unkown as to whether or not this policy was carried out, as I have not heard or seen anyone getting in trouble for grinding.

Additionally, the RA's decided that should ORGY be yelled after the traditional DieLiveSexMore chant, they would stop the song(though people wrote ORGY on their arms). Soe CTYers even wrote ORGY and other phrases, such as quotes from the booke 1984 on their shirts, notably from Zach's hall. On Zach's hall, John I., Mark P., Nathan P., and Gosha K. participated. After various plots by students to get around this threat, the RA's issued a flyer stating that words that sounded like sexual words, such as "orange" were forbidden, too. However, many of the guys who wanted to protest chose a word that sounded nothing like Orgy: BLUEJAYS!!

The "penalty box" was all but forgotten until the third dance of session 2 at Carlisle. At both the third and fourth dances, however, several RAs used it as punishment for both grinding and making out, often without issuing any warnings before removing kids from the dance. There was even an instance in which two people* were threatened with the penalty box during the beginning of Forever Young at the final dance for making out, but they were luckily able to persuade the misguided RA to give them a second chance.

edit----- I know of at least 4 people who got sent to the "penalty box." molly, david, julia, and maggie(who ran away and dint get caught)

Any sort of sit down protesting was also outlawed by the admin.(due 2 sit down protest @ dance #2(or 3?))

---*Porter and Corby

Dance Warning at Carlisle Session 2.06

In order to prevent the type of dancing exhibited by Carlislians at session one, such as Julia V., Maggie Z., Suhayl C., Ram N., John K., Elliott R., Tina G., Kara D., Olivia R., Ali G., Lauren M., Eve R., Traci D., Courtney K., and others, the staff of second session issued the following warning to campers before the first dance:

"Absolutley no: -Grinding -Dancing in way that mimics sexual acts -Dancing in a manner that would induce an ORGASM."

So how was this written before the end of the second session? -> Kids from first session are in touch with kids who are currently at second session.

Pop Your Collar Day Skidmore

It was already decided by the majority of the nevermores of 2006, the former emperor of 2006, and all 4 new emperors and empresses of 2007 that Pop Your Collar Day will not be continued.

• Thank god!

Die, Die, Die

At each dance at Loudonville 2006 Session 1, the newbies insisted on singing, "Die, die, die..." during American Pie. The time-honored tradition at Siena College has been not to do so - it's one of the unique points of the campus culture. However, due to nevermore and nomore turnover and a suddenly influx of second-year students who had not gone to Loudonville before, this tradition was overturned. At the last dance, RA Brendan O. made an announcement that "this Die Die Die stuff is offensive, so don't do it", but the crowd at large persisted anyhow. It appears that this Siena tradition has been lost.

RA Brendan here - 2nd session kids have little to no interest in doing "Die die die". We haven't had to make announcements or anything like that.

2nd session kid here - actually, trust me , we really do, but they actually told us the whole story this time so :( no die die die for us

Cross-Dressing Day Cancelled at HPU Second Session

The site director called a meeting, at which he discouraged all kids from participating in cross-dressing day. The RAs told all of their halls that they supported his opinion, and that cross-dressing would only be permitted during activities and other non-class time events. However, the activites scheduled for the day, capture the flag and dodgeball, were site wide, so it became impractical for anyone to switch clothes and still hope to be able to actively participate in the activities (think: guys in skirts running amock). It seems as if cross-dressing day should have just been officially cancelled.

Edit: Several students from Mokihana and Kukui went right ahead and cross-dressed, and were not stopped and told to change. They include: Jergen, Will R., Will B., Andy R., Amanda F., Claudia V., Laurie S., Laila B., Maggie P., and others.

Edit: You forgot to name the Life Cycle B kids like: Kevin G., Tyler S., Garrett R., Vince whatever, Maggie Z., Ashley, Chanel, Ellen, and yours truly, Ryan M. And Tom, the RA for Mokihana, said it was ok to cross dress just as long as you didn't draw attention to yourself in a childish way. I heard Whitney, Kukui RA, said that the girls were allowed to as long as it was ok with their teacher.

THE GREASY PALM BOY

At Carlisle .06 Session 2, there was a terror know as the GREASY PALM BOY. He had this weird thing about feeling people's backs. Basically everyone at camp hated this fiend and ran away from him. He also had thing about this weird wave in which he put his middle and ring finger down and up continuosly without moving his other fingers. But people, HELP ME, i can't describe this monster enough, well, he was so bad, even our kind hearted, good-natured, RAs HATED him! He had a tendancy to stalk, talk to, and generally annoy everyone on campus. He was like the worst little brother you could ever imagine x10.

-LordShafer Car .06 S.2

Just so you get an idea of how wierd this kid was, My RA told me the staffdecided they wanted to come up with activities that would get them fired. Their best idea was one where they would spend half there time "observing" this freak, Max, and the other half doing the same with this fat korean kid in my hall everyone called Ham. The name they came up with for this activity fit perfectly, they wanted to call it Nature Watch.

Oh yes the korean kid..... an odd guy. He would just stand there watching at dances. My class had an activity in his hall lounge and he came in and just kinda watched us then tried to participate and we were kinda like.... what? It was odd.

SARATOGA SUPERSTARS GAME CANCELLED (SAR 06)

- NOTE: The shame is NOT the team, but the SHAME of the game being cancelled. The Pretentious Inuits(Saratoga Session 2, '06), captained and assembled by James B, were an all star soccer team. They were more than qualified to beat the staff for what would have the ONLY Skidmore 'o6(both Session I and II) student win. Inspired and brought together by RA Meng's (pronounced Mung) quest for decency, PI, as some called them, were ready for a win. But when the nurse declared playing soccer in 98* too dangerous, the student-staff game was off. Inuit's Roster: Nevermores: Mike S., Bonny G., Anthony, Veda ---> The Rest: Aseem M., Sam S., 'Pip', James B., Wande O., Eric C., Ian ?, Jane C., Gaby G., Brian M., and Jarett. GO INUITS 2007!!!!!!!!!

The Superquad Bathroom Scandal

At Carlisle '06 Session 2, floor 2 of Quad 4 a.k.a. Superquad went wild when an unknown CTYer, presumably of mellow quad, left the hall's inhabitants with a gift. A trail of feces on the floor of the bathroom and a bit on the walls. It is speculated that there was an emergency case in which it could not be held because of the trail leading to a stall, however, that may not be the case...

Lancaster Hand-holding

At Lancaster Session 1 '06, there was a horrible new PDA rule instated where no one was allowed to hold hands. This was immediately followed by several other strict rules, such as no linking arms. Soon, you could get in trouble for just a hug. After a 42-person grass orgy occured, grass orgies were banned. Everyone was miserable. It escalated to the point where people were bursting into tears and going to the counselors to complain. Many people complained of feeling that they weren't allowed to be affectionate towards friends. Students were getting yelled at for minor transgressions such as hugging, touching each other's hair and, in one case, sitting too close. Through the efforts of Molly Brean, Aliza Alperin-Sheriff and Dana Reback, the administration saw the error of their ways and the new PDA rules were repealed. There was much rejoicing and blatant hand-holding all over the quad.

Near Ramen Fire

At Skidmore '06 session 2, a Crafting the Essay A student - Brandon Kim, caused two fire alarms to ring. On the night of the first saturday, Putting on the Ritz Casino Night, we, the boys of Rounds 3, were leaving. He was leaning against the wall. He slid down, hitting the fire alarm. Next, on the second tuesday, he was to lazy to go to breakfast, and thus proceeded to make ramen that he bought on a sunday town trip. He left for a minute, and (nobody is actually sure) he apparantly microwaved it on high, without much water. This resulted in the entire room filling with smoke, sending the fire trucks in and destroying the microwave (the cord was cut by the fire department. Until the end of CTY this year, he was known by people he had never met before as 'Ramen Man' and 'kid who burned ramen'. There have been fires at Skidmore, but RAMEN???? There have been instances where someone may have overheated popcorn and caused the firemen to arrive but for someone to get the firemen there twice in one session deserves to be in the hall of shame.