Hall:LAN

This page is a document of the activities of various halls at Lancaster.

Swirly Man

At Lancaster in 1993, four guys who took Geology together and, like everyone else at CTY, had lots of in-jokes. They were all 15, and one running joke involved interesting ways to keep the younger CTYers on their hall in line. Swirlies became the preferred method. (Although none was ever actually administered, they were a helluva lot of fun to joke about). Basically, a swirly meant taking a punk by the collar and dunking his head in the toilet.
In the second week of the session, one of them made an impromptu costume for Swirly Man, Defender of the CTY Faith, and wrote a theme song for this new superhero that regaled his super powers and CTY traditions. Swirly Man soon had a sidekick named Toilet Boy; and two other superheros, Horny Man and Mental Man, were also soon born. Each had his own theme song. The four of them together made appearances at dances, activity periods, and other events; but their mortal identities were never known outside of their hall. The next year, the superheros reunited and made appearances all over campus. At the final dance, they were in high demand among the ladies. Their mortal identities might have slipped out that last night, but regardless, they made it into the CTY Hall of Fame.

Edit by Andrew Dodd - I believe Swirly Man was Dan Fingerman. I don't recall who the other superheroes were, it's been over a decade since that Geology class. Toilet Boy may or may not have been Brad Chain.

I believe the identities of the sidekicks may have changed during the ensuing years.

First Dietz

Dietz is a dorm in CTY Lancaster across Hartman Green. It has 3 floors and one lounge on the 2nd floor. The term "First Dietz" usually refers to a specific hall that lived there in Second Session of 2004, which was the last time Dietz has been used as a CTY dorm since. This hall is most famous for its choreography of the dance to "Tunak Tunak Tun" by Daler Mehndi, based off the artist's own dance rendition of his song.

Who's a Dietz?

First Dietz is one of those rare CTY groups, because it has a set population. They are:

• TJ Beasley
• Sam Belanger
• Christian "Christ" Burnette
• Tim Camp
• Kalman Chapman
• Jonathan Choi
• Johannes Haensch
• Samuel Himel
• Gokul Krish
• Kevin Lee
• James Leung
• Patrick Liu
• Jeffrey Sachs
• Rafi Shamim
• Allen Song
• Alfred Wang
• Adam Roush (RA)
• Matt Wyzykowski (RA)

Bob

First Dietz's mascot is Bob: The Unholy Umbrella of Antioch. Bob was stolen from 3rd Dietzer Sydney Barron. Bob was stolen because Jeff loved him so much. Not only was he a beautiful vivid shade of red, but when you pressed the button, it SHOT out really fast and opened in the blink of an eye. First Dietz opened and closed it over and over again (they were not worried, for inside was attached a LIFETIME WARRANTY!). However, all good things must come to an end, for eventually, it would not open so awesomely. However, First Dietz loved Bob, and Bob loved First Dietz. Then, horror of unspeakable horrors, Bob had gone missing. They searched far and wide, but nobody knew where it was. And thusly, First Dietz's motto was born:

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We Stole. We Broke. We Lost.

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However, the story does not end here. One day, Jeffrey was retrieving a pen from his roomate Gokul's desk. Inside, he was horrified to find, Gokul had hidden Bob. The motto was promptly changed to:

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We Stole. We Broke. We Lost. We Found in Gokul's Desk. We Beat Gokul With.

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Bob currently resides in the house of Jeffrey Sachs. But he's not exactly sure where...

Wanna Buy a Dietz?

"Wanna Buy a Dietz" is a popular refrain from 04.2, inspired by the game "Wanna buy a duck?"

Person 1: Wanna buy a Dietz?

Person 2: A what?

Person 1: A Dietz!

Person 2: Does it suck?

Person 1: Of course it sucks!

Person 2: Let me hear it suck.

Person 1: Tunak tunak tun, tunak tunak tun, tunak tunak tun, da da da!

The last line can also be replaced by such Dietzian laments as "I'm all the way across Hartman Green!", "Adam Roush is my RA!", or "Gokul is my roommate!"

Thormanism

Thormanism was created by the MIND class (mostly the girls) of LAN.05.1. The story goes like this:

Genesis

One day, while MIND 05.1 students Rachel Thorman and Megan were going on their bathroom break, lo and behold! An apple was perceived by Thorman, demonstrating her god-like powers. Megan, who was in her presence during this epiphany, was dubbed the Savior by her now almighty friend. All others knelt before Rachel Thorman and her 11 other hallmates were appointed apostles There actually was a 12th hallmate but let's not talk about her. Thus spawned Thormanism, with the famed "Thorman for God" duct tape propaganda on Election Day and more. Starr Chen was the last apostle left at the 06.1 Passionfruit and Eli was one of the last Thormanists there with her. As such, Thormanism died out for First Sessioners. The lack of Second Session influence is explained below.

Structure

At the end of Rachel Thorman's nomore year, her reign as god had consequently come to a close. Thus, to continue the tradition of Thormanism, she had to nominate one or more candidates to run for her position the following year. The Great Thorman nominated Kate Leonard, an apostle with a particular affinity for dressing up as a giant bee and passing out Thormanist scripture to the impressionable squirrels of CTY Lancaster. This began the election cycle, the idea being that each year a nomore would perform the duties outlined for the Thorman, and nominate candidates for the following year's election.

However, Kate went to band camp during First Session the following year, and upon her return to CTY during Second Session, she discovered that Thormanism had not carried over and had perhaps even died out for First Session believers. Thus, the torch of Thorman was not carried on, but was still held in spirit by all of the followers of olde.

In theory, the elected Thorman would appoint a cabinet of apostles, some for general spiritual leadership, and others with specific tasks, such as preservation of the Thormanist Fables.

Teachings

• One may carry only one apple at a time, in case it turns out to be the Sabbath.
• A pilgrimage to Yugoslanovacostan must be made at least once in a Thormanist's life.
• The free rape whistles from the women's center must be carried at all times, held as close to the heart (or groin) as possible.
• One must follow the teachings of the fables spoken by the apostle Mary/Allison.
• One must ask permission before calling another 'sexpot.'
• One may not touch virgins unless one is a unicorn.
• An annual spifflication ritual must be performed to demonstrate glory of one's elected deity.

Hymns

• CTY Canon
• "Build Me Up Buttercup" -- Busted (Sung regularly at services, which are held whenever Thormanists walk. Or have hall time. Or before lights out. Et cetera.)
• "Can't Buy Me Love" -- The Beatles
• "I Touch Myself" -- The Divinyls

Notes

Though the original members of Thormanism included several former Alcovians, the group was not intended to be any sort of Anti-Alcove. Rather, Thormanists wanted to offer a friendly alternative to traditionalist students, though this was not the primary goal of the religion.

The position of God or Thorman has nothing to do with any positions of Jesus.

Thormanism is not a cult.

Members

• Rachel Thorman (God)
• Megan (King of Kings/Castrated Savior)
• Mary/Allison Burris (Apostle)
• Helen Benkhe-Hanson (Apostle)
• Rebecca Schachter (Apostle)
• Lili Hsu (Apostle)
• Sally Yin (Apostle)
• Kate Leonard (Apostle and nominated candidate for God)
• Cindi Li (Apostle)
• Dana Zu (Apostle)
• Starr Chen (Apostle)
• Jasmine Leung (Apostle)
• Jess Cortese (Chaperone)
• Drew/Brian Grossman
• Eli[zabeth] Treptow
• Kevin Hillburn
• Grace Alloy-Relihan
• Zev Hurwich
• Lexxie/Alexa Kottmeyer
• Patrick Peixoto
• Michael-San
• That other kid in our class... Colin Doberman, I mean Doberstein.

If you are a member of Thormanism, add your name to the list. If you know someone who was a Thormanist, add his/her name, too. If you think Thormanism sounds really awesome and would like to be able to put something interesting next to other in the religion box on surveys, add your name to the list. We love everyone.

Bubble Stoners

The Bubble Stoners are a very specific group of CTYers (originally of LAN.06.2) whose meeting place was "under the tree," specifically, the one outside the Dining Hall and to the right. They were commonly seen playing frisbee, blowing bubbles, making sleeping chains, or playing the "naan game," which was invented by Josh Rathod and David Karp.

The Bubble Stoners first came about when (non-Bubble stoner) Amanda Ray was sent a care package from a Session 1 friend including several small, colorful jars of bubbles. Various hallmates (including Christine, Danica, Hye Soo, and Colleen) then proceeded to take these bubbles for Quad Time amusement. The future Bubble Stoners were so infatuated with the bubbles that they took the bottles and began to blow bubbles constantly (often on Sunday mornings when there was nothing else to do), and Christine Larson became the group's bubble provider, carefully rationing the use of Amanda's bubbles. (Characteristically for this group, Christine's birthday present at the end of the session included - among the crowns, bags of chips, and Greek pots - several bottles of bubbles.)

The Bubble Stoners had the very serious job of always providing the necessary amount of bubbles as appropriate for the occasion (e.g., Slideshow, Passionfruit).

Mostly consisting of nomores, the group also consisted of onemores, who would hopefully pass on the tradition of bubble stoning.

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Ruvenites

Ruvenites is the name for Rauch Second hall in CTY LAN.07.1. The name refers to Ruven Chu, the RA of said hall. The Ruvenites were in CODE A and CODE B. The Ruvenites might be best known for their Dr. Mario Dance created by Dan Salvato, but they also waged small scale wars with many other halls. This entry is a documentation of their exploits.

The Ruvenites

• Everett Maus
• David Fantarella
• Zev Hurwich
• Ian Loya
• Richard "Mongoose" Booth
• Dan Salvato
• Fred Westenberg
• Scott Dunaisky
• Scott "Skip" McClinton Jr.
• Elon Packin
• Andrew Gibiansky
• Daniel Schlessinger
• Paul Wolfteich
• Kevin Peng
• Alexander Ge
• Benjamin Zhu

Traditions

The Ruvenites started a few traditions at Lancaster session one in their awesome might.

That's Amore

After the second dance, Fred and Zev were sitting outside mulling over some things, and Zev noticed the full moon and was reminded of the Dean Martin song. He started singing and the whole hall joined in, despite the fact they knew only the first verse. It became tradition among them to sing it at nights, after dances, or at especially romantic situations. Later it was added to the Afterdance collaboratively.

DMD

DMD stands for Dr. Mario Dance, and it was invented by Dan Salvato. More information on this can be found in the Lancaster Hall of Fame.

The Battles

The Ruvenites had a few "wars" going on with various other halls.

The Ramenites

The hall next to the Ruvenites (Chris's hall, Mull 2nd) was rather fond of Ramen, and put up a sign in masking tape, declaring "Ramen is pure win." Seeing this, Kevin and Elon decided to change it a little to make it say "Ruven is pure win". In retaliation after the third dance, the Ramenites invaded Rauch 2nd shouting "Ramen rocks, Ruven sucks." The Ruvenites jumped into action, chanting "Ruven rocks, Ramen sucks" and pushing the Ramenites back into their hall. This happened several other times. Then, in the last week, the Ramenites wrote pro-Ramen and anti-Ruven slogans in front of Kaufman for the Ruvenites to see. The Ruvenites never retaliated; however, on the last day, the Ramenites declared that both Ramen and Ruven rocked, with Zev bearing witness.

Max's Hall

One lonely Sunday, after the Ruvenites finished watching Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip, Ruven had gotten water balloons (this may have been to make up for the lack of a "Ducktape Ruven to a pole and hit him with waterballons" activity). Regardless, the Ruvenites rushed to battle-readiness, quickly having balloons ready for war. By this point, the Ruvenites had no enemies, or anyone to play Art of War with. So, the Ruvenites attacked the nearest hall, which happened to be Schaeffer 1st, quickly and silently. The battle was quick, but well worth it. While Max's hall planned revenge (spending most of their breaks plotting pranks, but carrying through with none), many very smelly incidents in the hall were quickly blamed as sabotage...

Come next Hall Bondage, the Ruvenites were playing 3-way Art of War with Frank Wang's hall and another. After several games, the Ruvenites realized that Max's hall was coming nearer, and sneakily. After Ruven proposed an alliance to Frank, Frank accepted and laid out the battle plans. Trash cans were dumped, and filled with a few inches of water. Everyone who did not have a trash can found whatever they could to fill with water. Ruven and Frank led the way, getting hit with most of the ambush, while the rest of the combined halls completely won. While the Ruvenites went to the hall to prepare for Turkey Hill, Frank's hall went back for more water. Frank's hall stalled off the would-be-ambushers, and the Ruvenites marched off victoriously to Turkey Hill. That being said, the would-be ambushers threw sponges and balloons dishonorably at the unprotected and the then-peaceful Ruvenites.

Kunkel Two

Kunkel Two was a hall in 09.2 that (believe it or not) consisted of CTYers living in Kunkel Two of South Ben. These CTYers for the most part were squirrels and two-mores that took either Etymologies or Cryptology. What helped make Kunkel Two distinct were various things done by Charlie Jaeger, Kunkel Two's RA. For example, one of these things he did to make Kunkel Two different than most other halls was instead of calling "Hall meeting!" when it was that time of night, he would yell "Manly Men Assemble!" This is one of many things that I can't imagine has been done by any RA ever before.

The Kunkel Two Chant

What made Kunkel Two stand out the most was the very loud and obnoxious yet awesome Kunkel Two Chant. In the first week when everyone still ate with their halls, all of the Kunkel Twoers would meet in the middle of the quad at 8:40 after breakfast (right before it was time to take temperatures due to the swine flu outbreak). All those who forgot to gather would be reminded by a blaring shout of "Manly Men Assemble!" At this point, they would link arms into a huddle and as loudly as they could would chant:

"K is for the K in Kunkel Twwwoooo! U is for the U in Kunkel Twwooo!" They would spell out the entire name, including "Space is for the Space in Kunkel Twwwooo!" This chant was incredibly catchy, and despite the fact that it eventually ceased to be chanted every morning after breakfast, Kunkel Twoers often found that it was stuck in their head and wanted to yell it out to the world. Which they did, either alone or with other fellow Kunkel Twoers.

The Crusade through North and South Ben

One night in the middle of the Session, a few CTYers from both Kunkel and Klein Two were sitting in the lounge that was shared between the two halls, and they were becoming very annoyed by people from the floor above, who were making a lot of random noise on the balcony. Charlie happened to be walking by, and the students asked him to make them shut up. He happily obliged, and went up to yell at them for something stupid, and likely something they didn't do. Later in the session, they somehow found out about why they were actually yelled at that night, and one day on the last week, they got Kunkel Two back (how exactly they did so, I can't seem to remember).

Charlie decided that they couldn't have the last laugh, so on the last Wednesday he and the rest of Kunkel Two went up to the third floor after hall meeting to sing the Kunkel Two chant (with a few kids from Klein Two who either thought the Kunkel Two chant was awesome or just decided that they wanted to annoy these kids). After finishing the task, Charlie decided he wasn't quite contented, so Kunkel Two proceeded to sing the chant to every single hall in South Ben (the residents of Klein did not participate in this).

This should have been the end, but most of the Kunkel Twoers still were in the mood for annoying people and disrupting their preparation for lights-out, and so someone had the idea to go to North Ben as well. Charlie gave the idea some consideration for a moment, but agreed. A small group of Kunkel Twoers went to sing the chant to North Ben (unfortunately many members of Kunkel Two were unable to because they still had yet to prepare for lights-out). In North Ben, they were faced with much more opposition, most likely because it was even later and kids and RAs alike were even more cranky than usual. Many students had to avoid abduction, not to mention flying nerf gun darts which RAs were firing constantly. In the end, however, only one Kunkel Twoer failed to return to South Ben, and he was found eventually (although with a sign duct taped to him reading "Never Again, South Ben.") That night, Kunkel Two had successfully annoyed every male CTYer readying themselves for bed on campus.

One other notable Kunkel Two (and Klein Two) contribution was that they shattered the previous site record for Mattress Dominoes, which was somewhere in the 16-19 range, with a whopping 24 Mattress Dominoes.

10.2 Mühlenberg 2

Mühlenberg 2 (Muhlenberg 2 för thösë öf ÿöü thät ärën't ïn lövë wïth ümläüts) in 10.2 contained boys from THEO and TOPI.B, thus attracting quite a few "hardcore CTYers." During the third week, this hall pulled off quite a few pranks using the same 600 plastic cups and also threw dance parties in front of North Ben by playing music off of their balcony.

42 Bottles of Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade

So, on first Sunday, there was a gigantic thunderstorm/windstorm/water-funnel-cloud-thing, so all Turkey Hill trips were canceled. Most halls would go either Monday (the next day) or Tuesday (so their RAs could tell them their plan on Monday). However, Mühlenberg 2's RA, Blaise, had his day off on Monday. As a result, the trip had to be made on a Wednesday, and due to Blaise's patrol duties and the students' love of quad time, they went at breakfast.

The folks at Turkey Hill know that they have to stay insanely well-stocked with SKL due to the CTYers' love for it. As a result, after students had purchased their lovely breakfasts such as hot dogs and ice cream, they all went and got some SKL. A final count was done, and the hall had purchased 41 bottles, including one guy that got 20 (keeping many in a suitcase). Seeing this, the hall realized that they simply had to get one more, because then they would have 42 bottles. The hall hoped to buy either 42 gallons or 69 bottles in later trips, but this never happened.

The SKL lasted quite a while. Some bottles were sold for up to $8 (purchased at $1.79), and the suitcase of them was donated to the cast of Rocky Horror. At the end of session, some students had so much left that they gave away bottles to anyone that asked.

600 Plastic Cups

On one Turkey Hill Trip, Ryan bought 300 Kroger Plastic cups, claiming they were for sanitary drinking of Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade/Jeff-Sweat/Orgasm Juice. He then asked a friend on another hall to buy him another 300, so the hall ended up with 600 plastic cups, initially purchased for the prank described below, "The Great 599".

Constituents

Mühlenberg 2 consisted of these extraordinary individuals, for as a hall, various traditional Lancastrian traditions were held:

-Declan Kennedy-Passionfruit Emperor, Blammo God
-Lucian Wang
-Thomas Dorante
-Robert (Bobby) Pinter
-Blaise Gratton (RA)
-Ariel Rock
-Thomas Chen
-Hang-Hang Zhang
-Daniel Russotto
-Gidon Orelowitz
-Cameron Ewell
-Ryan Cebulko- Future Blammo God, King James (Brown) I
-Christopher Zhang
-Andy Shin
-Noah Kahrs
-Matt Kolosick- Future Jesus
-Tung-Shu Chu- Future Lorekeeper

The Great 599

See The write-up on the Memories Page

Door Triangles

The next day, the cups were stacked upon the wall of the bathroom. One member of the hall, Ryan, decided to put them in his closet for his own sinister purposes, and told the rest of the hall that the cups had been removed by cleaning staff. A few nights later, said member of the hall arranged with 3 other people to use them to build gigantic triangles (4-5 feet tall) in front of people's doors. These members of the hall got up at a ridiculous time yet again, and proceeded to build a 105-cup stack in front of Declan's and Lucian's door. Declan turned out to be in the bathroom at the time of this, but he was persuaded into sleeping over for the night (leaving Lucian to collapse the cups) and helping with yet more stacks. It also turned out that Matt, who had planned to help, fell asleep while setting his alarm, so he was of course awarded a 121-cup stack in front of his door. While preparing to prank their RA Blaise again, Matt opened his door and the stack collapsed. These pranksters then proceeded to prank their RA yet again and build a 111-cup stack in front of his door, hoping that he would be inside this time. Some of the remaining cups were used to build a 63-cup stack inside of a bathroom stall with a door that opened outward. The other stall had its lights turned on and door closed. The 200 or so remaining cups were kept for later usage.

When the hall returned from class the next day, the cups were gone. The hall found that their RA had collected all of the cups in the hallway, and upon learning of the stack in the bathroom, he collected those too and put them in a stash in his room.

Note: I was really sick that night, and when I woke up in the middle of the night, I needed to use the bathroom. I proceeded to open my door, causing a cascade of cups to land on the floor at my feet. For quite some time, I was completely convinced it was a fever-induced hallucination, until I remembered what kind of people I had as hallmates. --Lucian

Epilogue

On Friday morning (calendar Thursday, the second-to-last day), one student chose to use the few remaining extra cups to build a large full-sized pyramid on a table in the lounge. This was very well-received by the hall as a decoration. However, it had to be torn down prior to the dance, and as students were pondering what to do with the cups, RA Blaise came and took the stack from us. He now had all of the over 500 remaining cups.

The hall was now rather expectant of a prank on them, but this didn't happen, and the next morning, the cups were gone. When we asked what happened, it turned out that Blaise and other RAs including his co-RA Jeff decided to prank the other building's SRA. They found their way into the Thomas SRA's private bathroom, and filled these cups with water and placed them over the entire bathroom. It is unknown what happened to the cups after that incident.

One cup remained and was signed by most members of the hall, Blaise, and Jeff.

Dance Parties

The hall also threw a few dance parties on Third Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. They played music off of their balcony and in front of North Ben. Many people showed up, particularly on Sunday and Monday. Things played included things the hall liked as well as the year's dance-spread memes such as Always and Caramelldansen, which originated with members of the hall anyway. It is hoped that this tradition will be continued Third Sunday of 11.2 as well.