Talk:Memories:LAN

In response to the 400 Babies thing the three second hug rule has been around since forever.

Towards the beginning of 2009.1, though, the RAs were ordered to enforce rules such as that hug rule much more strictly than in previous years (not including 2006). -Dan Salvato

Baby oil? I'm looking at you Alex Natale... - Zoe

Outright Person Deletion

Alright, I understand the motivation behind not acknowledging Dharun in a positive light (for those of you who don't know, he is attached to the highly publicized suicide on the Rutgers campus). What he did was horrible and as someone who both went to Lancaster and lives relatively close to Rutgers, I'm disgusted by the fact that he is/was a member of both communities. I understand why his userpage was deleted. I don't understand, however, why he must be removed from the list of former CTYers, or why his exploits at CTY need to be wiped from the collective knowledge. I'll admit, I'm am slightly uncomfortable with knowing that he was, very much so, a part of the CTY community, I am utterly shocked that after being a member of such an accepting and tolerant community he went off to do what he did. It is, in many ways, disgraceful. But, as someone who understands history, I don't think we should whitewash our history. Dharun is a prime example of how even CTYers are fallible. Mistakes and misdeeds of his in the present are not reflective of what he did in the past - in fact, what he did in the past appears to have positively affected several people's CTY experiences. Removing every mention of those things makes it almost as though they never happened, which neglects the memories of those who weren't Dharun. I therefore ask that at least some small mention of 'Dharun' remains, if just for the sake of those who aren't him. We can look at this as an example - CTY has seen its George Hotzs, but it has also seen its Dharun Ravis. --Thenonbritishbritshnationalist