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Location
Carlisle, Pennsylvania is a pleasant town about 20-30 mins. from Harrisburg. The site is notorious among its regulars for the town's automobile enthusiasts and psychotic drivers.
Campus
The Campus of Dickinson College is a stately place dating from the 1700s with plenty of open space and trees. Facilities are pretty nice, with air conditioning in all rooms. The HUB (the central meeting place) contains two stores: The Devil's Den convenience store and a campus bookshop that sells, among other things, books, CDs, art supplies, and souvenir beer steins.
Dorms
- Referred to as Quads 1-10, Super Quad, Uber Quad, and Malcolm.
- Quad Six = Quad Sex
- Quads Four and Five = Superquad (boys only as of '08) Since it has two adjoining halls connected by the lounge, the two quads are usually bitter rivals. it was the spawning area for both the Bluejays gang and their eventual rivals, the Phoenixs. The adjoining nature of the halls made it easy to carry out "Bluejay/Phoenix runs," where the attacking hall would run up and down the defending hall shouting the name of their gang and making their hand symbol. By 2008.1, the violence had died down, and was mostly restricted to the second floor of Superquad. On the third floor, there was a giant glow-stick fight on the last night. Quad 4 managed to grab all the glowsticks, throwing them at Quad 5. Clay, an evil SRA who had been patrolling that night, came in and yelled at Quad 5 immediately after Quad 4 threw the glowsticks.
- Quads Nine and Ten = Uber Quad
- Malcolm (guys only) is know for its basement ("no one can hear you scream in Malcolm basement"), which often floods and has mice. Not used for session II, 2006. Despite the humidity and necessity for industrial-strength dehumidifiers, Malcolm basement is actually the best floor to be on, since no one can catch you doing anything. There are no large lounges, only smaller ones between each pair of rooms. The unique layout of the dorm (with two hallways instead of one and the bathroom in the middle) as well as the unusually large number of trash cans makes it perfect for games of hallway frisbee or for chasing "counter-revolutionaries" up and down the halls during a communist revolution using a detergent-loaded watergun stolen from your RA (only if that RA is Ian and leaves his watergun out).
- KW - Kisner-Woodward Building. (Kay-Dubbs) The guidance, nurse, and administrative offices are located here, but there are also four residential halls. Most of the dorms in KW are singles.
- UBER QUAD Bigger and better than super quad, a girls-only dorm that is very similar to Super Quad, only with an additional, lingering, smell that cannot be identified. It contains EDDIE, the janitor with a TV in his glorious janitor's office and posters of scantily clad women on his wall. He tends to walk down the hall way at 7 in the morning, right when everyone is showering. -It should also be noted that the lounge of SUPERQUAD (boys dorm) can see clear down the hallway of UBERQUAD (girls dorm). Awkward (In 2008.1, an awesome guy named Will got caught miming a sex act with his shirt off by the Uber Quad RA, this resulted in a call to Dan, one of the best RA's at 2008.1). The girls of Uber Quad have been asked not to interact with said boys... this was as result of some inappropriate interaction of the girls on the 3rd floor, session 1..... Bummer...
- Quad 7= Atwater, changed to Sewerwater after it flooded Session One, 2006. Former home of the awesome RA Doug, and the infamous phrase "Don't Do Dougs".
Outside of Campus
- Massey's, a great custard stand, is just down the block and some halls go there occasionally (usually during Meet-Market). Also after camp's over and CTYers haven't been picked up yet (and rarely before camp starts and before RAs start caring), they go here.
- Sometimes people order out, usually from Papa John's Pizza.
- An obscure Chinese restaurant that has caused several bouts of food poisoning.
- Casa Mani (an Italian bistro) is farther from from campus than Massey's, but sells delicious gelato and desserts. At least one group of students has visited it, but it is still a relatively well-kept secret.
Former Off-Campus Offerings
- Four-Star Pizza, home of the cheapest pizza in Carlisle and the driver of the infamous pizza-car of death. Featuring the gigantic 'General' sheet pizza, capable of feeding four to six hungry guys after lights-out. A commonly held legend about Four-Star Pizza was that only returning students had the intestinal fortitude to withstand the pizza. Went out of business circa 2001.
- Classic Rags, a downtown vintage clothing shop. Burned down (arson?) circa 1999.
- White Mountain Creamery, while Massey's features great custard, the White Mountain had the best homemade ice cream in the area. Known for their eight-inch tall waffle cones and three scoops of icy goodness. Burned down circa 2000, the space is currently occupied by Kimberly's Cafe.
Traditions
- Meet Market, basically: social time after study hall.
- HUB potato obsessions (The Hub is infamous for serving at least one potato-based dish with EVERY meal)...for short time afterward EVERYONE goes through "fried potato product" withdrawal
- Signing yearbooks with "Have a Bocongalicious Summer!" during the last few days.
- Betty Negley. "Hel-lo! (sometimes pronounced Heh-do) ::swipes card:: Thank-you!" ((what's especially funny is hearing her try to fit "good morning" into two syllables)). Betty gets extremely, mind-bendinly hulk angry when kids try to sneak out beverages for passionfruit. A sight to behold. Betty's wrath can also be awakened when she sees people playing with their food (i.e. putting tea leaves in milk). If you are nice enough, she might let you take a picture with her... Other card readers include Doris Brion, Leona Teeter, and the creepy guy with the big ring.
- Kill Murray/Save Murray - the only game in which you can use "Dick Cheney" and "Good thing his helmet runs on hamster-power" in the same sentence. Unfortunately, no more Cheney, as political humor has officially been banned :( Run by Matt and Drew.
- Most RAs being annoying at end of Meet-Market: At the end of every Meet-Market, the RA's are called to the alley. They put their hands on top of each other's, and then they break up shouting "Dorm Time!" telling CTYers to go back to their dorms.
- Starcrash, one of the best/worst movies from the "let's all try to be Star Wars! era" in film history. Shown once a session, it spawned such great lines as "Imperial Battle Ship: halt the flow of time!".
- RA Ian's activity involving his horrible medical history. Those easily nauseated beware (its usually right before dinner...)
- The Worst Activity Ever (sometimes known as "Don't Pick This Activity!"). Always done, sometimes these activities are horrible, others amazingly fun.
Special Days
- Passionfruit
- First Friday
- Big Saturday
- Poetry Night
- Drag Day
- Goth Day/Emo Day
- End of the World Day [it should be pointed out that this is a Lancaster tradition transplanted to Carlisle, and really isn't regarded as an actual Carlisle practice, as of yet. Most people who do it are regarded distastefully, perhaps as traitors.]
- Dances in ATS
- Talent Show in ATS
- Free high-five Thursdays
