Hall of Fame

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One thing CTYers are known for is their general weirdness. I personally know CTYers who have spent whole days wearing signs with strange messages on them, and whole classes who have had pillow fights on stage at closing ceremonies. However, these acts weren't well known or significant. There are some acts of weirdness that are much better known or wide spread. These earn a place in the The CTY Hall of Fame.

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Saratoga

The Chair Sculpture

In the Writing 2A class room at SAR-2-95, there was an interesting artifact. In the back of the room, there was a large, pyramid shaped sculpture made entirely of chairs, the kind with desks attached. It appears the creators, Ben and Bailey, thought that there were too many chairs in the classroom, and got them out of the way by piling them precariously on top of one another. Rumors of the sculpture spread and soon many CTYers were making pilgrimages to see it. Though it was dismantled at the end of the session, it earned a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.

The Gummie Bear House of Horrors

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The second floor Kimball hall at Saratoga 1996-1 saw an excellent example of the weirdness that CTY can induce this session. Following a sunday trip into Saratoga Springs, construction was begun by students Daniel Terry (astronomy), Michael Tolan (Math), et al. on "The Gummi bear House of Horrors." This frightening exhibit took the remainder of the first session to complete, including around 40 examples of mutilated sugar. Among these bears were "Ritualistic Satanic Sacrifice Bear" and "Jeffery Dahmer Bear" as well as a bear mashed into the carpet, and one nailed to the door (hammers are good things to have at CTY). Also adorning the room was a sign proudly proclaiming "Don't Feed the Rinas."

No Biting The Signs

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At Skidmore in 1997 the administration was making new rules left and right. People were having new rules created for them such as "No dancing in the rain," "Don't Make an Idiot of Yourself" and "No stuffing bras" so Jeremiah and Tim decided they wanted a rule of their own. The solution was to bite all those handy rule sheets and signs the RAs posted around our dorm. Soon it caught on and several other degenerates were chomping on the signs. Eventually the powers that be got sick of it and decided that was enough. They called a meeting before one of the dances and asked for the vandals to fess up, rather than ruin a perfectly good dance for all the guys, they confessed and claimed temporary insanity. Luckily, no one got in trouble. But out of this event came a new rule, "No Biting the Signs," and a new entry in the CTY Hall of Fame.

Terry Is God

In 94 at Saratoga, an RA named Terry Olson became the God figure of a small cult. This came about when Terry broke his leg while demonstrating a dance for his RA group that he wanted them to perform during the mandatory Lip Synch that year. Several members of his RA group hailed him as a martyr and soon elevated him to a deity. To spread their "religion," Terryism, they performed a skit at the Talent Show, with an insert in the program about http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/6140/cty/terryisgod.html Terryism] Also, later, they altered their CTY t-shirts to read "The Center for Terryistic Youth." Easily one of the strangest things to happen at CTY, it deserves a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.

Ug

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Ug. First presented in a magnificent commercial preformed by Josh, Kevin, Ben, Bailey, Nathanael, and Chip at SAR-2-95, Ug was carried over to CAR-1-96 by Josh and Yours Truly. Ug is wonderful work of art, made from a old bed spring. Yes, Ug truly deserves a place in the CTY hall of fame.

"Free Lee-Kai"

In 2000 at Saratoga, this kid Lee-Kai was caught in the girls' dorm. When he was caught, he apparently pulled a condom out of his pocket and said, "At least I was being safe!" The next day he was locked in an administrative office and wasn't allowed to see or talk to anyone. Everyone hung around the window of the office to see him, and he was passed food through the window. When his supporters were seen, the authorities moved him somewhere he couldn't be found. Almost immediately, people started chanting "FREE LEE-KAI!" Then, the sidewalk chalk came out. All over the walkways and even the side of the building under the office windows, everyone wrote "Free Lee-Kai" on the building walls. When the RAs dutifully washed it off, his supporters skipped dailys and stood outside the windows chanting and writing even more. The administration got pissed, but some people got to say goodbye to Lee-Kai. The movement earned itself a spot in the CTY Hall of Fame.

Edit: Though the Skidmore staff hate the chalk writing on the brick surfaces, as it is almost impossible to get off, some CTYers were still writing "Free Lee-Kai" on multiple buildings at least two years after the incident.

Edit: Lee-Kai Wang returned as an RA in Lancaster '04. Wonder how he landed that job?

I can't believe that some of the biggest legends not only happened during my time at CTY, but that they were two of my best friends! Aw man. Free Lee-kai. -Heidi Vanderlee, Saratoga '01

Jon Good

Jon Good was a nevermore at Saratoga in 2000, and during the second session, signed up for the Random Acts of Senseless Kindness weekly, and was given sidewalk chalk and told to write nice things. Jon found the bussiest sidewalk intersection in the quad and wrote "Jon Good Loves You" in huge letters in the path. Within a week, "Jon Good Loves You" was written in chalk all over campus, sometimes by him, but more often by other CTYers. In his honor, his name became part of the American Pie chant; the line "And the three men I admired most/ the father, son, and the holy ghost," has acquired the callback "and Jon Good!" Jon is also alleged to have been the first to write "Free Lee-Kai" in chalk on buildings.

Mulan Final Song

After American Pie was played at the last dance of Skidmore 2005 and 2006 Session 1 everyone prepared to return to their dorms. However, right before announcements by the SRAs to instruct everyone to return back to their dorms RAs Lee (2005) and Jesse(2006) played the song "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from the movie Mulan upon the request of Edwin Ma (2005,2006) and Andrew Yu (2005). Due to the enormous enthusiasm and applause during and after the song it was decided that "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was to be made Canon and will be played every Skidmore session 1 after American Pie at the last dance.

A note from rmd: The Pop Culture Class of Skidmore Session 1 2006 found it extremely hilarious that this was played because we had watched Mulan to analyze and write an essay on. And, if anyone remembers, we did sometimes break out into singing "The Man Song," except all "you"s we changed to "Yoon" (mysterious as the dark side of the YOON) for our good friend, Michael Yoon (and any other CTYer with the last name Yoon). Some people in our class thought that this song was played especially for us, though I do remember Andrew Yu requesting it last year. And I agree, this must become a canon.

Note: It is also known that Edwin Ma had argued and fought for some time to get the staff to allow the Mulan song to be played after American Pie. Due to the fact that Skidmore 2006 had only 2 returning RAs no staff member remembered the playing of the Mulan song in 2005 and they did not believe that a song should be played after American Pie. However, after days of arguing with the staff on whether or not the song was to be played Edwin Ma finally brought it up to the dean of residential life Mike Chin who remembered the song being played last year. Edwin Ma brought the CD with him to the last dance and Mike Chin confronted the staff who refused to let the song play. The staff gave in and before announcements were made they played the song and it was decided that the song was to be made canon and played at the last dance after American Pie. Edwin's last wish was that when Edwin and Andrew return as RAs the tradition would still be upheld without the help of Edwin and Andrew themselves. The 2007 Passion Fruit emperor Jay Margherio said that he will do his best to fulfill Edwin's wish.

-EDIT After a long discussion it was decided that I'll Make a Man Out of You would be upgraded from Canon to High Holy Canon alongside American Pie, Stairway to Heaven and Forever Young, although it will still only be played at the last dance. It is unknown at the moment whether or not this will be a Session 1 tradition or if it will apply to Session 2 as well.

EDIT: It seems as though this will only apply to session 1, as I recently attended session 2 and had never heard about the Mulan song until now.

UPDATE: Due to the fact that Mulan was not played during Session 2 Skidmore 2006, it has been concluded that it will be a SESSION 1 TRADITION ONLY. Many of the returners from 2006 session 1 had requested that Mulan was to be played and it has been rumored that Edwin Ma actually called the CTY office during the last week and requested the SRAs to play Mulan. (This is not confirmed)

Clinton

The Squirrel Theory

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At Clinton Session One of '97, an interesting theory circulated. Basically, it stated that there is but a single squirrel. He is a mystical five-dimensional beast, which means he can travel in the regular 3, and also time and dimensions. His dimension hopping abilities allow him to go into another dimension and pull back a copy of himself from that dimension, which explains how you could see more than one at once, or in different places, or how they would look different, because in other dimensions, he would have undergone different life's conditions, and that would have altered his appearance. This theory, created by Dwight Bussman, was told throughout the session, and remembered well by CTYers who were there, thus earning it a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.

(edit) Coincidentally, at Carlisle '06 session 1, there was a completely different theory by the exact same name. 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.

==Loyola Marymount

Radio Invitation

Two students at Loyola Marymount had found out, through a teacher, of the existence of Loyola Marymount campus radio. The radio broadcasts throughout the campus (and outside some). On the second Friday of the session, they managed to find where this radio station was, and actually got into the studio, bringing a thrid student along with them. Eventually, the DJ was convinced to give the "genius kids" (as she called them) airtime. After giving their remarks on how much fun the session was ("we call it 'Center for Tortured Youth') and on the "anal" CTY administration, they got a brilliant idea and announced that a big party with lots of booze was happening that evening where the CTY dance was going to take place, inviting anyone who wished to come. To their surprise that night, several people showed up but were turned back by the puzzled RAs "guarding" the dance. The sheer intuitiveness of the stunt earned it a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.

Afterword: Although the two students who had the original idea for this were Nevermores, the third wasn't and made a point of secretly bringing at least one person up to see the radio station the next two years. If you are at CTY LMU and want to see the radio station, take the elevator in the building that houses the cafeteria up to the top floor. Turn left onto the hallway and go down it until you reach a door on the left with lots of cool stickers on it. Go through the door and walk around; you can see a really nice view of the campus through the window, plus, a lot of the DJ's are really cool to talk to and have great taste in music. ;-)

Siena

The Protest

During the second dance at Loudonville 2004 Session 1, American Pie was cut short twice. As this wasn't the first time during that dance a canon song had been cut short (End of the World), the CTYers all over the dance floor began sitting down in protest, following the example of Tim Mullen and shouted and the RA's running the sound equipment. Soon, the site director came in and yelled at everyone to be quiet, which they did, although they still refused to stand. The RA in charge then played Time Warp, resulting in everyone returning to their feet to dance and lights out being pushed back about 10 minutes due to the lengthened dance. After Time Warp, they played American Pie for a third and, finally, successful time.

Mike Gonan later reported that it was a software glitch in "Windows Media Player," even though the DJ used iTunes. Even after the fact had been proven otherwise, he absolutely insisted.

EDIT: The way I remember it was that yes, End of the World was previously cut short but then Stairway was cut short and American Pie started to be played, and everyone sat down in protest but eventually got up because it was American Pie then Cindy Ragland the site director agreed to play Stairway again and extend lights out.

The "Soccer" Game From Hell

At the first session at Siena College 2005, there was a deadly "Soccer" game. At one field at sienna there were people who played serious soccer. At the main field there were people who didnt always play soccer, but whatever they played, they just joked around, but it was fun. One day, the serious soccer players challanged the non-serious ones. Early in the game, one of the non-serious players kicked the ball into one of the serious player's shins, it bounced off and back into the non-serious player's foot and flew into the serious player's face. It broke his glasses and sent glass into his forehead. He got sent to the Hospital but the game went on. THe serious players were discourage because, often, when one of the non-serious players took a shot at goal, and missed, many of the other players like Kuni, Max, John, Tom, or Will, went around the whole field shouting GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAL. In the last ten minutes before it was time to go, a serious player, Jen, had the ball. She was bringing it up toward the non-serious player's goal when a large, tall, non-serious player named Isaiah clotheslined her. She immeadiately fell to the ground and didn't get up. She was sent to the hospital and later we learned that she had a concussion. The ironic thing about this game was that after this game, we were banned from playing......football.

Dan the Man Lives On

During LOU-1-05, Dan "the Man" started wearing his sunglasses 24-7, inside and outside, class times, meal times, showers, to bed, everywhere. They became a mark of his coolness and general kickassitude, never leaving his face to the point that he got a glasses tan, even though he didn't need to wear glasses. Being a nevermore in 06, at the end of his Passionfruit speech, Dan the Man passed on his sunglasses, along with the title of "the Man", to Dan, Alice's little brother. Dan the [Previous/Original/Ex/etc.] Man wears sunglasses no more, instead being marked by his mandolin, copious body hair and sexy beard.

Fight Club

During LOU-1-06, Dan the [Original] Man brought his copy of Fight Club to let a friend borrow. The book ended up circulating through five or six different people. At the same time, Dan the Man and Jon Webster began an actual fight club, jumping on each other at random points in time and wrestling until one of them was subdued or an RA broke them up. Several of these fights were videotaped for later distribution, because ironically, the first rule of fight club is that you do not talk about fight club.

Bristol

RainbowGhettoFabulous Day

Throughout 2003 and 2004, session 2, at the CTY site in Bristol, RI (at Roger Williams University) a phenomenal holiday entitled RainbowGhettoFabulous Day has taken place. This holiday was first created by Ally. Methods for celebration include mostly wearing extremely colorful clothing, possibly including coloring your hair with rainbow markers, along with occasionally shouting "I love you!" to another random CTY-er (or non-CTY-er, if you really want to confuse people), giving hugs, wishing people a Happy RainbowGhettoFabulous Day and smiling. Its purpose is to spread joy and love to everyone (has nothing to do with gay pride). Eventually, the holiday became such a large part of this site, this session that at the end, when the RAs performed their goodbye performance of "You know you've been at CTY Bristol too long when...," two of the RAs, Jill and Brandon, finished the sentence with "you understand--and celebrate--RainbowGhettoFabulous Day." They were, of course, decked out in colorful clothing, necklaces etc. The holiday now occurs whenever Ally and her friends decide that they need one.

Edit:
Hello, My name is Ally and I am the founder of rainbowghettofabulous day. Rainbowghettofabulous day was created when in 2001, I witnessed a rainbow. That session was the session of wannabe gangsters, so it was appropriate to yell "hollER" to everyone you met. When I witnessed the rainbow I had achieved an enlightment: Rainbowghettofabulous. This holiday is intended to spread love happiness and joy.Feel it! and don't forget to rock some rainbow toe socks<3

edit: the whole bristol site is full of wannabe gangsters. its sortof a thing theyve got going there.

LMU

The Borings

Current CTY LMU students and alumni know the three Boring brothers as virtually inseparable from the CTY identity. Chris, Jesse, and Jason Boring are the most respected and legendary RAs to have been employed at the site, and are known for running the best activities, many of which are long-running. Examples include Sparkleball and More Active Than Sleep But You Probably Won't Break a Sweat. Along with their "adopted brothers and sisters, RAs Tom Ryan, Jake Benninger, Jess "Stumpy" Bonnlander, Nate "Hairy" Stern, and Mary Rieg, the Borings have dominated the site since 2001 and remain a student favorite. Famous Boring moments include Jesse's bedtime song written for his hall in 2003 ("Sleepytime in Jesse's Hall"), the painful waxing of Jason's leg in 2005, and Mary accepting an annual challenge to eat a snail, slug, or worm.

Another interesting moment: Jesse Boring and his hall participated in the talent show, and as part of the act Jesse ripped off his CTY shirt in truly macho style, then one of Jesse's hall poured cereal and milk into the hollow between Jesse's ribs and ate it. As any LMU student knows, most of the female population of CTY LMU is in love with the Boring brothers. A girl from Latin class, Jen, was in the hospital, so Mary Rieg's hall (the Latin girls) serenaded Jesse's hall with songs like Tearing Up My Heart by NSync in exchange for the shirt Jesse had ripped off as a get well present for Jen. Later Jesse sprayed the shirt with his cologne as a bonus. Strips were torn from the shirt and every girl from Latin Session 2 2004 has a piece of Jesse Boring's shirt with his cologne (Curve for Men, if you want to know) on it. Jesse was unable to attend CTY 2005, but Tom ran an activity, "Jesse Boring Worshipping", in order to generate interest for Jesse's surprise visit. In Jesse and Jason's free time, they operate www.wwzmd.com.

Note: In 2006, Sessions 1 & 2, only Jason was an RA. Jesse and Chris couldn't do it.

Free Jessey

A long time ago, in the archaic year of 2002, a girl by the name of Jessey (last name to be kept secret...) went to CTY LMU as a Nevermore. She invaded the radio station, started her own cactus-worshiping cult, and arranged things so that a fake plastic tree was stolen from the LMU cafeteria and delivered to a friend's residence hall. Only a few years after her departure, tales began to circulate that she herself had walked into the dorm and that the RA was so impressed, he didn't bust her. Whether or not this is true, one cannot say, but it appears to be more of an urban legend than anything. In a previous year she was reprimanded by the administration for being the "ringleader" of her class when they switched all the room numbers in their classroom building upside down. Although clearly the leader of some kind, her Law and Politics In U.S. History class refused to give up the culprits and all served disciplinary time together "rearranging furniture" (yea, that's how creative the admin was...) And so it came to pass that the day following the LMU Radio Invasion, the Eternal Jessy was apprehended for smuggling an old CTY friend (part of Go Team Motley Crew) into the campus without authorization (in fact, that friend made it a majority of the day without incident mostly because she was given an entra lanyard to wear...). Jessey was taken to the LMU office for disciplinary measures undecided at the time. However, durring the talent show, a chant of "FREE JESSEY!" was started which spread throughout the whole camp. Everyone wanted to know if she was OK, if she'd have to leave. The administration finally relented and let her stay at camp, but under intense scrutiny. Apparently, two RA's were posted outside her window for the entire durration of the night of the last dance. Jessey has inspired many imitators who wish to take after her tradition (as has her friend Ryan Trask, the self-described "most eligible batchelor on campus," but that's neither here nor there). However, none have gotten close to the original.

Oh yea, and Jessey gave birth to a ball in the cafeteria one day.

edit: Jessey (a close personal friend of mine) got a job as a PA at a day campus, and hopes to RA at LMU eventually

edit: This is Tom Ryan (one of the Boring RA's, 01-05 and hopefully 2nd session this year.). Allow me to set the record straight and confirm the rumors.I was on duty eating during dinner. I noticed her standing next to a pillar with a fake plastic tree with christmas lights on it. I saw one look at her eyes and know that look all to well coming from myself- she wanted to lift it. I approached her and said "What are you doing?", she said just looking at the plant. I looked at her and said, "Don't lie to me, I'm not a fool. Were you trying to steal it.". She looked down a little ashamed and I said "Awesome, don't get caught. I'll run distraction." A high five and before the end of dinner she placed it into Chris (Robbie) Borings ROOM, not a student. And I made sure I was one of the two on duty her last evening so no one busted her balls for no reason, jesus, its her last night as a nevermore. And she DID smuggle someone on campus. I "accidently" left an extra lanyard and lost key for lunch/dinner. Of course I'm going to deny all of this. She WAS a PA at a day site last year near LMU. Hopefully she'll be here this year. What I will say is I fought hard and loudly for her to stay and help coordinate the protest.

Other

The Deaf Mexicans

WHAT SITE, WHAT YEAR?

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On the first day of second session, a article appeared on the front page of the New York Times, detailing the discovery of a evil scheme, in which Deaf Mexicans were forced into slavery in the US. This in itself wouldn't have gained the attention of CTYers, if the New York Times hadn't displayed such a strange obsession with the story. For the rest of the week, front page headlines blared things like, "DEAF MEXICANS WRITE POSTCARDS!!" while on page 8, small countries were being over thrown. When they caught Versache's killer on page two, the Deaf Mexicans were eating waffles on page 1. This bizarre media event captured the minds of CTYers and inspired several wonderful discussion about the Deaf Mexicans, a song that was almost sung at the Talent Show, and an entry into the CTY hall of Fame.

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.

-Edit: There was also a more toned down version of a Pirate Day in Skidmore Session 1 2006. This was started by a nevermore named Edwin Ma who wished to honor a close friend of his named Andrew Yu who was unable to return in 2006. This was created due to the fact that Ninja Day (Sucessfully done in 2005 started by Andrew and Edwin) was cancelled because SRA Felicia said that students were not allowed to cover their faces. Andrew Yu was recognizable in 2005 Session 1 due to the fact that he wore a bandanna on his head like a Pirate everyday, so in Skidmore alongside End of the World Day a large group of people wore either badannas or a t-shirt around their heads pirate style for what Edwin called "Pirate/Andrew Yu Day". Coincidently due to the fact that so few people had bandannas,(around 6-7 people) many people had to use t-shirts which resulted in looking like people were wearing doo-rags. This caused many people to instead call this "Gangster Day" which oddly enough "gangster" was a very oftenly used term by Edwin and Andrew and that Edwin was called by people who didn't know him "That gangster Asian" although Edwin repeatedly said he'd rather not be called that.

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.

• we should so make that happen for next year Skidmore Sesh. 1

-Edit: At Saratoga, 2006 S.2, Pirates vs. Ninja vs. Cavemen was a daily during the second week.

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