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| − | One thing CTYers | + | 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 more well-known or widespread. These earn a place in the The CTY [[Hall of Fame]]. |
| − | 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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| + | If you wish to add info about famous [[staff]] members, name pages with the name the RA was most commonly known by. Famous students or things done by students should be placed in the Hall of Fame pages; most interesting things arise from individuals anyway. |
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| + | '''If you are adding something to a Hall of Fame, please do not do so unless it actually is memorable for years to come or had particular significance for your site. Anyone adding something that is pointless or is an inside joke, or who is just trying to look cool by becoming a legend, will have their entries deleted or, if stupid enough, moved to the [[Hall of Shame]].''' |
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| − | === Carmen the Frog ===
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| − | [[Image:judy.jpg|right|]]
| + | ==Sites== |
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| | + | The Halls of Fame are divided by site: |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:LAN|Lancaster Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:CAR|Carlisle Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:SAR|Saratoga Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:LOU|Siena Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:LOS|LMU Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:STM|St. Mary's Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:JHU|JHU Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:EST|Easton Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:BRI|Bristol Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:UCSC|Santa Cruz Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:SUN|Seattle Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:HKU|Hong Kong Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:SRF|San Rafael Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | * [[Hall of Fame:HAV|Haverford Hall of Fame]] |
| | + | '''NOTE: If your Hall of Fame entry has disappeared, it has probably been moved to [[Memories]]. If you are the author and you are wondering why, the likely reason is that people from your site/session agreed that the event or act was not quite as memorable as you may believe it to be. The distinction between HoF and Memories is admittedly a little hazy, but the criterion for deciding where a given entry ends up usually boils down to whether (1) it had lasting effect or (2) it was a large-scale and positive rules protest, change, or breakage; most HoF entries fall into one of these two groups. Many well-known events or stunts that were famous in a given session but not necessarily carried to later years can be found in the Memories pages. If your entry entirely, please contact an admin who will restore it to the proper Memories page, or feel free to put it up there yourself.''' |
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| − | of the most infamous displays of weirdness was put on by Judy at
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| − | CAR-1-96 and LAN-2-96. Through both sessions, Judy wore a stuffed green
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| − | frog named Carmen on her head. Carmen managed to hold her perch through
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| − | class, activities, hall meetings, meals, social time, and even dances.
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| − | During first session, Judy and her friend down the hall, Won, hooked
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| − | Carmen up with Won's stuff walrus John, making them "the cutest stuffed
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| − | animal couple in Carlisle." Second session, Carmen managed to become a
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| − | scapegoat for the Lancaster faculty, who unjustly blamed her for all
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| − | their problems. Wearing Carmen earned Judy the nickname "Frog girl" and
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| − | earned them both a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.
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| − | === Gary's Hair ===
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| − | CAR.2 '95 Gary- long time staff member, former CTYer, one of the
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| − | founders of Passionfruit, and SRA for several years until his
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| − | retirement in 97- had VERY long hair, we're talking past shoulder
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| − | length here. Well, for before the talent show he shaved his head and
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| − | guess what appeared on the talent show program cover? You guessed it,
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| − | Gary's hair. Any CTYer who was there that year remember that incident,
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| − | making it part of the CTY Hall of Fame
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| − | === Chuck ===
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| − | At
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| − | CAR-1-96, the RA's were soliciting pictures for the cover of the
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| − | yearbook. One memo threatened, "if you don't send us pictures, we will
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| − | be forced to put CHUCK on the cover of the yearbook." and supplied a
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| − | picture of Chuck. However, a large percentage of the CTY population
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| − | decided that they ''wanted'' Chuck on the cover. Despite much
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| − | campaigning, Chuck never made it onto the cover of the yearbook. He
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| − | did, however, appear on the talent show program, get his own (now
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| − | defunct) web page and earn a spot in the CTY Hall of Fame.
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| − | === Swirly Man ===
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| − | Lancaster in 1993, four guys who took geology together and (like
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| − | everyone else at CTY) had lots of in-jokes. They were all 15, and one
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| − | running joke involved interesting ways to keep the younger CTYers on
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| − | their hall in line. Swirlies became the preferred method. (Although
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| − | none was ever actually administered, they were a helluva lot of fun to
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| − | joke about). Basically, a swirly meant taking a punk by the collar and
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| − | dunking his head in the toilet. <br /> In the second week of the
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| − | session, one of them made an impromptu costume for Swirly Man, Defender
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| − | of the CTY Faith, and wrote a theme song for this new superhero that
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| − | regaled his super powers and CTY traditions. Swirly Man soon had a
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| − | sidekick named Toilet Boy; and two other superheros, Horny Man and
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| − | Mental Man, were also soon born. Each had his own theme song. The four
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| − | of them together made appearances at dances, activity periods, and
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| − | other events; but their mortal identities were never known outside of
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| − | their hall. The next year, the superheros reunited and made appearances
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| − | all over campus. At the final dance, they were in high demand among the
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| − | ladies. Their mortal identities might have slipped out that last night,
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| − | but regardless, they made it into the CTY Hall of Fame
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| − | 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.
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| − | I believe the identities of the sidekicks may have changed during the ensuing years.
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| − | === Pierre, the Melancholy Squirrel ===
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| − | Pierre
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| − | the Melancholy Squirrel, aka Tim Shumaker, has attended quite a few
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| − | sessions at Carlisle, from the years '95-'97. He is frequently seen at
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| − | discussion group, and in fact once led his own unofficial discussion
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| − | group, entitled "Pierre." One can spot Pierre by his half of a beard,
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| − | his infamous rants about Hobbes, Marx, and the Simpsons, and his
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| − | trademark "Buh?!?" Pierre was a frequent potraial in Improv sketches,
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| − | though Pierre himself rarely attended Improv, and was part of the acts
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| − | for both the first session and second session MC's in the '97 talent
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| − | shows. Because of all this, Pierre has become part of the CTY Hall of
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| − | Fame.
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| − | === The Chair Sculpture ===
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| − | In the
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| − | Writing 2A class room at SAR-2-95, there was an interesting artifact.
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| − | In the back of the room, there was a large, pyramid shaped sculpture
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| − | made entirely of chairs, the kind with desks attached. It appears the
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| − | creators, Ben and Bailey, thought that there were too many chairs in
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| − | the classroom, and got them out of the way by piling them precariously
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| − | on top of one another. Rumors of the sculpture spread and soon many
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| − | CTYers were making pilgrimages to see it. Though it was dismantled at
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| − | the end of the session, it earned a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.
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| − | === The Squirrel Theory ===
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| − | At
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| − | Clinton Session One of '97, an interesting theory circulated.
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| − | Basically, it stated that there is but a single squirrel. He is a
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| − | mystical five-dimensional beast, which means he can travel in the
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| − | regular 3, and also time and dimensions.
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| − | His dimension hopping abilities allow him to go into another dimension
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| − | and pull back a copy of himself from that dimension, which explains how
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| − | you could see more than one at once, or in different places, or how
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| − | they would look different, because in other dimensions, he would have
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| − | undergone different life's conditions, and that would have altered his
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| − | appearance. This theory, created by Dwight Bussman, was told throughout
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| − | the session, and remembered well by CTYers who were there, thus earning
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| − | it a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.
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| − | === Radio Invitation ===
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| − | Two students at Loyola Marymount had found out, through a teacher, of the
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| − | existence of Loyola Marymount campus radio. The radio broadcasts
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| − | throughout the campus (and outside some). On the second Friday of the
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| − | session, they managed to find where this radio station was, and
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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. ;-)
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| − | === The Gummie Bear House of Horrors ===
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| − | The
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| − | second floor Kimball hall at Saratoga 1996-1 saw an excellent example
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| − | of the weirdness that CTY can induce this session. Following a sunday
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| − | trip into Saratoga Springs,
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| − | construction was begun by students Daniel Terry (astronomy), Michael
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| − | Tolan
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| − | (Math), et al. on "The Gummi bear House of Horrors." This frightening
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| − | exhibit
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| − | took the remainder of the first session to complete, including around
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| − | 40
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| − | examples of mutilated sugar. Among these bears were "Ritualistic
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| − | Satanic
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| − | Sacrifice Bear" and "Jeffery Dahmer Bear" as well as a bear mashed into
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| − | the
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| − | carpet, and one nailed to the door (hammers are good things to have at
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| − | CTY).
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| − | Also adorning the room was a sign proudly proclaiming "Don't Feed the
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| − | === Offering to Hecate ===
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| − | At CAR Session
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| − | 1&2 '00, The Latin class started the 'Offerings to Hecate'. Hecate
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| − | was the Roman goddess of the crossroads, and traditionally when Romans
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| − | crossed major intersections, they left food on the road for her, so she
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| − | wouldn't come and take their souls. They started to drop food in the
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| − | crosswalks between the HUB and the academic quad... little things at
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| − | first, like crackers, but then it evolved into things like whole
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| − | toasted bagels with cream cheese, ice cream bars, whole sandwiches
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| − | (with lettuce and tomato, of course), and peeled bananas. It spread
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| − | through the campus, and soon many people who didn't know of Hecate were
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| − | making offerings to keep her from stealing their souls. It continued
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| − | into second session, until RAs, citing the mess and the waste of food,
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| − | === No Biting The Signs ===
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| − | At
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| − | Skidmore in 1997 the administration was making new rules left and
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| − | right. People were having new rules created for them such as "No
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| − | dancing in the rain," "Don't Make an Idiot of Yourself" and "No
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| − | stuffing bras" so Jeremiah and Tim decided they wanted a rule of their
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| − | own. The solution was to bite all those handy rule sheets and signs the
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| − | RAs posted around our dorm. Soon it caught on and several other
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| − | degenerates were chomping on the signs. Eventually the powers that be
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| − | got sick of it and decided that was enough. They called a meeting
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| − | before one of the dances and asked for the vandals to fess up, rather
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| − | than ruin a perfectly good dance for all the guys, they confessed and
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| − | claimed temporary insanity. Luckily, no one got in trouble. But out of
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| − | this event came a new rule, "No Biting the Signs," and a new entry in
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| − | === Terry Is God ===
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| − | In
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| − | 94 at Saratoga, an RA named Terry Olson became the God figure of a
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| − | small cult. This came about when Terry broke his leg while
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| − | demonstrating a dance for his RA group that he wanted them to perform
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| − | during the mandatory Lip Synch that year. Several members of his RA
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| − | group hailed him as a martyr and soon elevated him to a deity. To
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| − | spread their "religion," Terryism, they performed a skit at the Talent
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| − | Show, with an insert in the program about [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/6140/cty/terryisgod.html Terryism]
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| − | Also, later, they altered their CTY t-shirts to read "The Center for
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| − | Terryistic Youth." Easily one of the strangest things to happen at CTY,
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| − | it deserves a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.
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| − | === Hope for the Flowers ===
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| − | Hope for the Flowers
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| − | is a book about caterpillars, with lots of nice pictures. But it is
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| − | more than that. It's a sort of inspirational warm-fuzzy type thing too.
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| − | saraht started the tradition of reading Hope For the Flowers aloud. The
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| − | second Saturday of each session, CTYers gather under a tree at the
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| − | upper quad in Carlisle and enjoy the peace and togetherness. Though
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| − | many CTYers don't know about Hope for the Flowers, it is a wonderful
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| − | tradition that deserve to grow into a passionfruit-like event. Thus,
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| − | I'm adding it to the CTY Hall of Fame.
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| − | === The Things That Aren't Sexy Song ===
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| − | After receiving much peer pressure, I decided to include the [http://www.eviliza.org/cty/culture/canon/notsexy.html Things That Aren't Sexy Song]
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| − | in this hall, even though it also appears in the Sounds of CTY. After
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| − | being sung by the MCs at the 97-2 CAR talent show, it took the campus
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| − | by storm. Many CTYers had the tune stuck in their heads, and Jeffrey
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| − | Morrow, the songs author, was kept busy filling the demand for copies
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| − | of the lyrics. Things that weren't cool began being referred to as "not
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| − | sexy." Its impact on the culture of CTY led it to be included in the
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| − | === Ug ===
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| − | Ug.
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| − | First presented in a magnificent commercial preformed by Josh, Kevin,
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| − | Ben, Bailey, Nathanael, and Chip at SAR-2-95, Ug was carried over to
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| − | CAR-1-96 by Josh and Yours Truly. Ug is wonderful work of art, made
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| − | from a old bed spring. Yes, Ug truly deserves a place in the CTY hall
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| − | === "Free Lee-Kai" ===
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| − | In 2000 at
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| − | Saratoga, this kid Lee-Kai was caught in the girls' dorm. When he was
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| − | caught, he apparently pulled a condom out of his pocket and said, "At
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| − | least I was being safe!" The next day he was locked in an
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| − | administrative office and wasn't allowed to see or talk to anyone.
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| − | Everyone hung around the window of the office to see him, and he was
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| − | 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
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| − | over the walkways and even the side of the building under the office
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| − | 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
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| − | chanting and writing even more. The administration got pissed, but
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| − | some people got to say goodbye to Lee-Kai. The movement earned itself a spot in the CTY Hall of Fame.
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| − | 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.
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| − | Edit: Lee-Kai Wang returned as an RA in Lancaster '04. Wonder how he landed that job?
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| − | 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.
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| − | On
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| − | the first day of second session, a article appeared on the front page
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| − | of the New York Times, detailing the discovery of a evil scheme, in
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| − | which Deaf Mexicans were forced into slavery in the US. This in itself
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| − | wouldn't have gained the attention of CTYers, if the New York Times
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| − | hadn't displayed such a strange obsession with the story. For the rest
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| − | of the week, front page headlines blared things like, "DEAF MEXICANS
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| − | WRITE POSTCARDS!!" while on page 8, small countries were being over
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| − | thrown. When they caught Versache's killer on page two, the Deaf
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| − | Mexicans were eating waffles on page 1. This bizarre media event
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| − | captured the minds of CTYers and inspired several wonderful discussion
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| − | about the Deaf Mexicans, a song that was almost sung at the Talent
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| − | === Milo's Hat ===
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| − | CAR-1-96
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| − | CTYers may remember a mysterious figure roaming the campus in a cool
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| − | black hat. Well, the figure was probably Milo, and the hat was probably
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| − | Milo's infamous hat. Though Milo's Hat was worn sunrise to lights out
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| − | almost every day of the session, after CTY, Milo lost the hat in a bet,
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| − | giving the hat an opportunity to return in the care of Yours Truly at
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| − | The
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| − | === Rocky Horror Picture Show, CTY Style ===
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| − | The last dance of CAR97-1 and the second dance of CAR97-2 were attended by
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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).
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| − | At Carlisle 05.1 the girls of Sami's Hall were mercilessly tortured with the playing of "Beans" by Kurt Cobain over and
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| − | === Infamous Chocolating ===
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| − | 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.
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| − | Toward the end of Carlisle 05.1, CTYers awoke to find the Dickinson Campus blanketed with flyers entitled 95/2, a reference to Martin Luther's 95 theses posted on a church door in 1517. The number was divided by 2 so that the complaints would fit on one page. Thus, there were 47.5 theses. 95/2 was compiled mostly by George Hotz, a nevermore by the Carlisle definition. He used computer lab time to print out about 50 copies, all disguised with a report cover. The project was extremely successful and most of the campus had read the flyers before the RAs tore them down. CTY was split between those who wholeheartedly supported George's efforts and those who were disgusted by his disrespect, as evidenced in thesis 47.5, addressed to the RAs: TREAT US WITH RESPECT, WE PAY FOR YOU. The latter were further put off by the author's appallingly poor (especially for a CTYer) grammar and punctuation, as well as the redundant and juvenile content and phrasing of many of the theses, especially considering that it is our parents, not us, who pay for CTY.
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| − | A long time ago, in the archaic year of 2002, a girl by the name of Jessey 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, I 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. 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 into the campus without authorization. She 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.
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| − | === THEO. vs. ETYM ===
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| − | At [[Site:Lancaster|Lancaster]] 05.2, a war was waged between the Number Theory class and the Etymologies class. It started because the Number Theory class began chanting "PROOF PROOF PROOF, PROOOOOF!" during class. Etymlogies produced their own chant of "PARSE PARSE PARSE, ASSIMILATION!" (Pop Culture added their own chant, but that's irrelevant) Then one day, ETYM was outside, parsing words on the sidewalk with chalk. The next day, as they walked out for break, they found that Fermat had spraychalked terrible grafitti over their work. The grafitti read ''X<sup>n</sup>+Y<sup>n</sup>≠Z<sup>n</sup> if n>2. PROOF, PROOF, PROOF''. Etymologies was outraged. They drew proclamations of war all over the ground in front of Keiper. Number Theory was shocked to find out what had happened, but also had their own chalk. Numerous insults involving sets of Natural Numbers, and "q-ness" could be seen for several yards, and also the adding of an 'n' to Etymologies, thus creating 'Entymologies' (the study of bugs). But perhaps the biggest insult was the writing of "ETYM does not equal 42". Etymologies retaliated with more sidewalk chalk, and by taping Old English kennings to the door of the Number Theory classroom. More chant-offs ensued, but all was resolved come Valentine's Day, when the Number Theory class revealed that they were actually in love with the Etymologies class, and that their past actions were actually covering up that fact. Number Theory gave Etymologies a card which excalimed that they wanted to make little baby classes with them. And included a poem which read:
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| − | During a class at Carlisle, Session 2, 2005, (I'm not going to say which one), one specific TA showed up for class over an hour late, made innapropriate jokes as the teacher walked into the room, and offer to "ride" one of the students in the class. He deserves an anonymous place in the hall of fame.
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| − | 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 past, Res. Dean Pete came out, looked at us, ask josh "what’s in hat 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".
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| − | Starting in Carlisle 04, Holly Murray went on a rampant spree of un-intentinally injuring herself. It all started when her best friend and room mate Casey Yazejian dropped a couch on her toe while attempting to functuae the lounge of Quad 10. Holly was taken to the local hospital for an x-ray of her toe. This event was only matched when Holly inadvertantly stabbed herself in an eye with a mechanical pencil during her Philo of the Mind course. The lead was not actually in her eye until she refused the help of her friend and tried to remove it herself. This got the lead lodged into the corner of her eye and called for imediate attention. Holly was escorted by her amused TA Chris to KW. Upon arrival the medical staff observed the situation and attempted to figure out a way of un-lodging the lead. Once the lead was removed, Holly was brought back to the hospital for a look at her eye. There was no major damage but they referred her to a local specialist to check it out anyway. The specialist merely provided her with soothing eye-drops and marveled at the circumstances. Two days later Holly woke up with an interesting sore on the inside of her bottom lip, they had this checked out by the medical staff who decided to take her over to the on-campus doctor. The doctor asked what had happened to her toe and her eye. Holly happily recounted the story and went on to be told that the lip sore was caused by her braces and the doctor gave her some wax. But Holly had to go over to the specialist for a check-up so her day of meds was not quite over. Another two days later Holly woke up unable to swollow. She woke up her RA Martha and the RA below her Ramika, who brought her back to the medical staff who was amazed at the amount of injury one girl could sustain. Holly was once again taken to the Doctors office to be tested for mono. Once word of the popular Holly having mono, the majority of the campus was in an uproar due to the fact that if Holly tested positive than alot of people were basically screwed. Luckily the test just showed strept and Holly was only quarintined for 24 hours. The session was finished out with 1 more 2 visits to the hospital to check up on her toe and eye and another quick visit to the doctor for some more wax. For those of you keeping track at home this brings the number of visits to: Doctor:2 Hospital:2 Specialist:2
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| − | In Loudenville, NY session 2 the "Oh snap, its the Nelsons" from Joshua's hall played brilliant frisbee and their team went down in CTY Siena history. Led by their emotional leaders Victor and Nelson led the team to play great games of frisbee. Along with their emotional leaders outstanding play from the other players greatly propelled the team. Geoff standing at a tall, 5'10, led the team in his pulling distance and helped "Oh snap, its the Nelsons" get great field position. Not only did the Yankee fan pull but he also made great catches and made quick throws to people like Frankie. Frankie the fastest man at camp (either him or John from ACLU) ran a 40 in 4.18 seconds. Frankie was often nicknamed the Randy Moss of CTY minues the pot. He was great on defense and made several key plays in the win against Reggie's team. Frankie, Geoff, and Nelson specialized in their short laterals allowing them to score many touchdowns. Brett the rookie of the league only in 7th grade was a great boost for the team by his cherry-picking ability. Along with Brett, Sudi assisted in cherry-picking and played awesome defense and made many game changing plays. Mike was the Troy Brown of the team. Not only did he make steller plays on offense but he also made many momentum changing plays such as knocking down sure touchdown passes for other teams. The boys also had help from Danica and Whitney. Danica provided relief to our team playing and would have won the sixth man award if there was one. Whitney was the heart and soul of the team and was MVP of the team and showed her Tedy Bruschi like mentality. Not only did she play offense throwing for a few touchdown passes but also covered her man well. What made her MVP was when she absolutely hammered a guy 3 feet taller than her. Although "Oh snap, its the Nelsons" was not able to pull out the crown from winning the tournament, the team was a team that played with the most heart and courage.
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