Memories:JHU

2006.1

Pirate Day

During JHU-1-06 the Genomics class dressed up for the first ever Pirate Day. Attire consisted of eyeliner beards and mustaches (or just eye liner for a more rugged look), eye patches, cardboard and duct taped swords, head bands, and striped, red, black, white, and/or torn clothing. Members consisted of full fledged pirates, firates (female pirates), wenches, and ienches (it wenches - no gender). Honorary titles consisted of Ienchmaster, captain, Dread Pirate Amandark and murse. The genomics class pirated Tracey's hall, parts of the biology class, a TA (Nick) and an instructor (Tom). Sword fights were common during pirate day and usually resulted in missing arms, legs, and fingers. Such duels often resembled parts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. During the meet and greet the pirates gave "pillage grams" which consisted of whacking CTYers with cardboard swords, declaring that their village had been pillaged, and giving them the opportuntity to direct the pirates to their next victims. Such victems were bubblicious, and Andy the RA who was pillaged by an umbrella-turned-sword. After receiving his pillagegram, Andy threated bodily harm on whoever was the leader of said pirate ship (known as the S.S. Eternally Damned). Said leader (Aman Daray) hid from Andy for the rest of the evening.

Siena Session 1 2006 also featured a pirate day, in the form of pirate versus ninja day, on the first friday of the session. This day featured many people dressed up in the all important character attire but not much actually competition between the two groups as the "vs" suggests.

-Edit: At Saratoga, 2006 S.2, Pirates vs. Ninja vs. Cavemen was a daily during the second week where everyone beat each other with paper swords and clubs on South Park Lawn. Then we attacked the Chillaxin' daily.

-Edit: Carlisle Session 2 had both Pirate and Ninja activities one day, at the end of which they fought each other

2008

Ninjas and Cavemen

There were a number of activities in both Sessions 1 and 2 which basically involved the same thing--running around and causing chaos. These would take the form of Ninja activities in which people would make newspaper swords, then go around to disrupt various activities, whack people with their swords, and sneak up on unsuspecting groups (e.g. CTYers returning from the Bookstore). The other variant was the Cavemen activity type--people would make newspaper clubs, and do the same thing that the ninjas did. Both variants would often seriously irk the victims, who would often fight back by taunting the cavemen/ninjas and destroying the paper swords/clubs. Both of these activities were started and led by RAs Albert Hsu and Shaun, who only stayed for Session 1. However, in Session 2, Albert Hsu made at least one surprise appearance to lead the Ninjas/Cavemen.

2008.2

Ultimate Tournament

The Genomics class was quite skilled, in general, at Ultimate Frisbee. The two co-instructors first held a mini-math with the Math Logic class and won, then decided to hold an all-site tournament organized by class. This tournament took place during two activity periods one day towards the latter half of the session. Matches were held throughout the Gentle Slope and surrounding areas. Ultimately, the Engineering class won, and the Genomics class got second place. However, before the tournament could finish, a thunderstorm arrived, and everyone except the Genomics class left before lightning actually appeared.