Memories:CAR

1995.2

Gary's Hair

In CAR.2 '95 Gary- long time staff member, former CTYer, one of the founders of Passionfruit, and SRA for several years until his retirement in 97- had VERY long hair, we're talking past shoulder length here. Well, for before the talent show he shaved his head and guess what appeared on the talent show program cover? You guessed it, Gary's hair. Any CTYer who was there that year remember that incident, making it part of the CTY Hall of Fame.

1995-1997

Pierre, the Melancholy Squirrel

Pierre the Melancholy Squirrel, aka Tim Shumaker, has attended quite a few sessions at Carlisle, from the years '95-'97. He is frequently seen at discussion group, and in fact once led his own unofficial discussion group, entitled "Pierre." One can spot Pierre by his half of a beard, his infamous rants about Hobbes, Marx, and the Simpsons, and his trademark "Buh?!?" Pierre was a frequent potraial in Improv sketches, though Pierre himself rarely attended Improv, and was part of the acts for both the first session and second session MC's in the '97 talent shows. Students also started a fortune-cookie game that consisted of adding "In Pierre's pants" to the end of fortunes. Because of all this, Pierre has become part of the CTY Hall of Fame.

1996

Carmen the Frog

One of the most infamous displays of weirdness was put on by Judy at CAR-1-96 and LAN-2-96. Through both sessions, Judy wore a stuffed green frog named Carmen on her head. Carmen managed to hold her perch through class, activities, hall meetings, meals, social time, and even dances. During first session, Judy and her friend down the hall, Won, hooked Carmen up with Won's stuff walrus John, making them "the cutest stuffed animal couple in Carlisle." Second session, Carmen managed to become a scapegoat for the Lancaster faculty, who unjustly blamed her for all their problems. (Note: This is not true. We thought there was really something mentally wrong with her that made her engage in such attention-seeking behavior. It really made you wonder why she would wear a stuffed frog on her head not just once, but every day she was there. We blamed our problems on the administration and the huge amounts of Yeungling Lager we consumed.) Wearing Carmen earned Judy the nickname "Frog girl" and earned them both a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.

2005.1

Jeffy Ate Some Beans

At Carlisle 05.1 the girls of Sami's Hall were mercilessly tortured with the playing of "Beans" by Kurt Cobain over and over and over. Beans is a High pitched ramble authored by Kurt Cobain while on various recreational drugs. This was played in our lounge most of the session, as many as 10 times in one sitting. Jocelyn (a girl on the hall) spreaded the love by making all her non-CTYer friends download it on iTunes. Thus, the legacy of "Beans" lives on forever.

Infamous Chocolating

At Carlisle 05.1 students from Malcolm 3rd floor and Malcolm basement made Big Saturday truly a "Big" Saturday. The students formed alliances and banded together to exact revenge upon the most hated RA at the camp. Lynn, also known as "The Lanyard Nazi", was known for harrassing students about the finest of details, and enforcing made-up rules. On Big Saturday, Malcolm attacked relentlessly winning as many tickets as possible. The Jell-o toss was dominated by two Malcolm 3rd floor guys, Shwin and Yashi, who went back-to-back-to-back with the same cube of Jell-o. The Skittles race was dominated by Shady, from Malcolm basement, and Dave from Malcolm 3rd floor. Other Malcolm students went around gathering tickets and forming strong alliances. In the end, Malcolm thrashed all competition and collected the most tickets. The verdict was unanimous. Lynn was chosen to get chocolated. During this time however, Lynn, conveniently, was nowhere to be found. She had gone to escort students attending religious services. As Lynn was not there, Malcolm reluctantly chose 3rd floor's RA, Mike G. Just as Mike stepped into the kiddie pool to take his undeserved chocolating, cries of "We want Lynn!" began to arise from the group of Malcolm students. These cries became louder and louder, and soon enough, the entire campus began to partake in the deafening chant. At that very moment, Lynn showed up. and was given her campus-approved chocolating. With a new-found respect (most likely out of fear) for Malcolm, Lynn eased up on her Nazi-like ways.

However, after Lynn's dousing, it was found that the RA's had enough chocolate products left over to drench another victim. A quick voice poll (mostly between Ian, Reuben and Mike G.) wound up with Reuben in the kiddie pool. During the chocolating, he stood with his head bowed and fist raised, apparently imitating the infamous photo of the 1968 Olympics.

Edit: Lynn was my RA, Quad 8 forever, during that very same session. I just have to say it took two days to completely remove the chocolate from her clothing.

Edit: This even actually took place during First Friday, instead of Big Saturday. I was out of CTY during Big Saturday to watch a performance with my parents, and remember this happening during First Friday.

Edit: I love Lynn.

Edit: i had lynn that year, and this all went down on my 13th birthday.

Kings of Campus

At the end of Carlisle, session 1, 2005, an expedition of kids from Pete's hall (including Schuyler, Josh, Marshal, Ted, and Marshal's girl friend) went out to upper quad at 3AM in anticipation of passion fruit. There they sat, with blankets, books, and a 40oz bottle of soda (in a glass bottle, that appeared to be alcoholic). After a few RAs passed, Res. Dean Pete came out, looked at us, ask josh "what’s in that 40?", than preceded to tell us that we were going to get "raped" due to Carlilians propensity to commit violent crimes against each other. they returned to the hall, where they proceeded to hold a fully clothed morgy with the rest of the hall, who had been to wimpy to go out. For the rest of the day they were known as "kings of campus". the action even resulted in an interruption and stern warning at the end of the last dance session two, where Pete told the students that "anyone who goes out before 6AM will *never* return to CTY again, in any form".

In 2006, the RAs enforced a strict policy of not being able to leave your dorm before 7 a.m., or 6 on the last passionfruit, only if you were going to passionfruit (which is actually against the honor code, as it is discriminatory based on group affiliation)

Edit: Students are never allowed out of dorms before 7 a.m., the rare exceptions being for religious services, the morning runs (if they exist) or medical emergencies. Passionfruit is not a group, nor is it an affiliation. Everybody should experience Passionfruit.

2006.1

The Squirrel Theory

At Carlisle '06 session 1, there was a completely different theory by the exact same name as the squirrel theory made at Hamilton (Siena) nearly a decade before. In this theory, the abundant squirrels were actually RAs, spying on CTYers as to catch them doing anything against the rules. Squirrels would often catch kids making out or cussing. They could not fool certain enlightened CTYers, who would shoo the squirrels before doing anything illegal. The therory came into being after Lauren, more commonly known as Jesus, witnessed her friend Dina being hit with falling acorns during break one morning. After noticing a squirrel in the trees that they had been standing under, she assumed that it was her evil RA trying to keep Dina in line. Thus the squirrel theory was born.

Jesus would frequently scream at passing RAs "SQUIRREL!" then proceed to explain that if everyone didn't run away, they would pelt us with acorns. Particularly amusing during Big Saturday

Blue J's vs. Phoenixs

At Carlisle '06 session 1, a ledgendary rivalry arose between neighboring halls in Super Quad. One side, calling themselves the Blue J's because of a name coincidence, started a gang-like group, popular for it's hand signal. Once their neighbors learned of this, they decided to make their own group, the Phoenixs. Viewing this as an attack, the Blue J's became quite defensive commonly making raids on the Phoenix hall. One Phoenix described an instance where he was in the hall bathroom and a hallmate came in yelling "Blue J invasion! Everybody out! ATTACK!" A popular phrase amongst the J's and their friends was "You're either with the Blue J's, or against the Blue J's. And I hope to hell you're not against us." They even went so far as to call the girlfriends of the Blue J's "half-wings".

2006.2

Sesame Chicken

During CAR-2-06 , Zach's hall and Ryan had an ongoing joke about sesame chicken. It all started when Jerald L. saw an advertisement for a Chinese resaurant that had a low price on sesame chicken on one of the first few days. He then said "sesame chicken" in a Chinese accent. THis was assumed to be hilarious, and for the rest of the session, knowledge of this inside joke spread, and two students in particular, John I. and Ryan often spent the entire Meet Market talking of sesame chicken.

Edit: Jerald was at session one though...?

2007

Bye Bye Bye

At the end of the talent show in both sessions of 2007, five RAs (including Brendan, Jamie, Clay, Ryan, and Scott) dressed up and performed the song "Bye Bye Bye" by NSync; they called themselves "ReSync". Many people recorded it, and its currently on YouTube, so I think this should also be part of the Hall of Fame.

Despite some rumors that this song was again performed at CAR 08.1, it was not. Thriller - Michael Jackson was performed instead.

2007.1

The Splenda Fetish

During session one of 2007, a tightly knit group of friends (Mainly Ethics students, with a sprinkling of female Dissenters and one Existentialist) began to become obsessed with Splenda from the HUB. Dani would carry huge piles of Splenda packets back to the table and pour them all into her tea, prompting several card-swipers to voice concerns for her health. Morris, a friendly RA, liked to try to catch these students doing something CTY-I. He never really did, but his frequent trips over to the table made him a favorite of the Splenda eaters.

Splenda related activities began to include not only smuggling Splenda, but pouring it into beverages to make "liquid candy", eating it straight from the package, (once) snorting it, and hoarding it jealously, using it within the group as a bartering material similar to crack cocaine.

Several weekend afternoons were spent giggling in the grass while "high" on Splenda. The individuals involved now admit that this was probably some kind of placebo effect. Still, they were examined quite closely by passing RAs as possible druggies.

Hey Juliet

The basic story is that the 90's boy band pop song, Hey Juliet, by LMNT, which everyone loves, was finally given its fifteen minutes of fame. Ram, Steven, and Smiley dressed up as a 90's boy band, complete with rolled-up sleeves and a headband or two, and performed this song with the lyrics mostly memorized, dance and all, on the wall at the last poetry night as one of the acts. The idea came up when ram and i [erica] were on the phone on the last monday night, being stupid, and singing. the boys practiced daily in kline and just outside. videos of the performance will soon be on youtube and facebook.[This story has been edited by an eyewitness]

Edit: According to Rachel, Hey Juliet has become canon at CTY Carlisle, beginning with CAR.2.07. Edit: Apparantly, Hey Juliet had been a minor trend at other sites before this year, but thanks to Erica S. it caught on strong at Carlisle. The obsession with the song continued on into second session because of some of the double-sessioners (Rachel H., Amanda K., Remy A.) and the entire staff. The "Canon Crew" RAs were spoken to and agreed that the song was going to be placed on the Canon list as soon as possible.

2007.2

Musical Morning

It is well known at Carlisle that Sunday mornings are pretty relaxed. Students generally take time to sleep in, lounge around, do laundry, or in this case, play volleyball. The second Sunday of the second session, students Wendy Gu and Rachel Hull woke up early for Passionfruit. Afterwards, rather than go back to sleep they decided to have a laundry party. So the girls, accompanied by a dance mix CD, boom box, and plenty of dirty clothes, made their way to the bottom floor of Uber Quad. Since there aren't any campers who live on the bottom floor of Uber Quad, Wendy and Rachel had no bad feelings about facing the stereo out the open laundry room window, turning "hey Juliet" on repeat as loud as it would go, and going outside the window to play volleyball for an hour or so. Yes it was loud. It was only later, after the game and laundry was finished, that the two spotted a grumpy looking Bret Kramer exiting the bottom floor of the quad. Apparently the site director lives there, and was awoken to the loud renditions of the pop song.

The incident not only resulted in numerous and widespread recounts of the story, but it exposed the fact that Bret lives in the basement of an all-girls dorm (although every year at Carlisle there is an activity entitled "Oh the Places You Can't Go" that takes you, among other places, inside Bret's apartment) , earning this event a place in the hall of fame.

2008.2

RickRolled!

This could belong in either the Hall of Fame or the Hall of Shame, depending. During the third dance of the session, it was nearing 10:00, and Stairway to Heaven started playing. Yet it only played for a few seconds before....the entire camp was rickrolled! After the rickroll, the DJs did play Stairway to Heaven in its entirety.

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Hope for the Flowers

Hope for the Flowers is a book about caterpillars, with lots of nice pictures. But it is more than that. It's a sort of inspirational warm-fuzzy type thing too. Sarah T started the tradition of reading Hope For the Flowers aloud. The second Saturday of each session, CTYers gather under a tree at the upper quad in Carlisle and enjoy the peace and togetherness. Though many CTYers don't know about Hope for the Flowers, it is a wonderful tradition that deserve to grow into a passionfruit-like event. Thus, I'm adding it to the CTY Hall of Fame.