Hall of Fame:LAN

1990.2 -- Boycott Oxygen Day

At Lancaster 90.2, Crash Matuzek realized that oxygen played a key role in many destructive processes, such as rust and burning. Furthermore, she discovered that the element was a waste product of the first inhabitants of earth. To make a statement, Crash and her friend Robyn declared August 1st Boycott Oxygen Day. Propaganda was created, chiefly in the form of signs, saying things like "Every day, billions of people breathe oxygen. Every day, hundreds of thousand of people die. Think about it." and signed "AP Chem Students for an Anaerobic Tomorrow." There was no big celebration, but picketing and signs were there. Since then, the day has lived on with the O₂ (the molecule of oxygen) in a circle with a line through it painted on the backs of CTY shirts. The holiday was still confirmed to be around for at least five years after Crash was gone, making it a part of the CTY Hall of Fame.

1991.2 -- The Duck

Starting in 1991 and continuing since then, a small fuzzy duck has been passed from one CTYer to another at Lancaster. Originally purchased for 13 dollars for a talent show act, the original owner felt silly for spending 13 dollars for a duck he was only going to use once. So, one day, in Thomas 1, he passed the duck to someone else. The next year, they passed it to a new person. And so on, through the years, to the present day. The bizarreness and long-life of this ritual surely earns it a place in the CTY Hall of fame.

See also: Duck

1993 -- 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.

1994 -- The DigiClan

The DigiClan started in 1994 at Lancaster, with a group of students taking digi. Through the years, the DigiClan has grown and expanded. It runs a mailing list, a webpage, and holds many reunions. Soon after its creation, it merged with the Land of the Large Round Tables, and since then, it has been adding members, some CTYers, some not. A perfect example of CTY friendships overcoming distance and time, the DigiClan deserves a place in the CTY Hall of Fame.

See also: Digiclan, Alcove

1996.2 -- Carmen the Frog

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

2004.1 -- The Most Adoptions Ever

Zev Hurwich currently holds the unchallenged record for being adopted 42 times in his squirrel year. The idea for this started due to his seeming dual adoption, first bu Alexia Simmonard, and then by Jeremy Berkowitz. Zev and Jeremy discussed the possibility of being adopted more than once which led to the idea of being adopted 42 times. Zev and Jeremy, in the last week of 04.1, ran around the campus asking people to adopt Zev. The entire Alcove of 04.1 ended up adopting him, plus other random people around the site, leading to a final tally of 42 adoptions.

2004.2 -- First Dietz

First Dietz of 04.2 is most famous for choreographing the Lancaster specific dance to Tunak Tunak Tun by Daler Mehndi. It all started on the first weekend, when the bored First Dietzers decided to make a fun dance everyone would love. They showed it to everyone later that afternoon, during the weekend activity "A day at the Mall". One year later, at LAN 05.2, 3 First Dietzers tried hard and succeeded in getting Tunak Tunak Tun onto the Lower Canon. Because of their accomplishment, we welcome First Dietz to the Hall of Fame.

2005.1-2006.2 -- Follow the Hager

A semi-tradition shrouded in mystery no longer! Follow the Hager was indeed started in 2005.1 by his hall during one of the dances. Brian Hager's hall was not very fond of the official dances, so they had their own "anti-socials" instead, where they'd use Jeremy Cockerham's speakers to blast their own music. Hager was not fond of this, so he took away the power cord for the speakers and made his hall attend the dance. However, they were morally opposed to this and started following him around at the dance and annoying him to give back the cord. Hager told them they wouldn't win unless maybe they got 50 or so people to follow him around. So led by John Russel, Jeremy Cockerham, and El Supremo, Hager's hall recruited about half the campus to follow Hager. During this time they chanted things like "Hager" and "Imhotep, Imhotep" (a reference to The Mummy staring Brendan Frasier) this lasted for a while until a cannon song was played and everyone went to go do that. However following Hager was continued second session and brought on as an activity in 2006. Unfortunately, Hager did not return in 2007, and Follow Frank was instead an activity.

2005.2, 2006.2, 2007.2 -- THEO vs. ETYM

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At 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!" 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 Xⁿ+Yⁿ≠Zⁿ 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 exclaimed that they wanted to make little baby classes with them. And included a poem which read:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
You guys are as golden
as (1+√(5))/2

This infamous display of weirdness soon got attention from people all around campus, thus earning it a spot in the hall of fame.

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The fight continued into 06, when on the second Friday of Second Session, ETYM locked THEO in their own room via means of a massive rope (consisting of almost 600 yards of dental floss) and a few knots around the doorknob. As of 3:00 pm on the last day, there was still a ring of floss rope around the door.-Jeremy Cockerham (AKA DickinChickin) By the courtesy of the Etymologies class: PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE *PROOF* PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE PARSE!!!!!

I'll parse you!

Among the mischief Number Theory pulled off during second session 06 was to sneak into the Etymologies classroom and write "proof" all over the board. Later in the session, they silly-stringed the Etymologies classroom but were forced to clean it up themselves.

Along with locking THEO in their own classroom, Etymologies, on the last class session, snuck into the THEO room before they arrived and proceeded to hold class in their room. When the number theorists arrived, they were mightily confused.

To signify, on the last day, that the Etymologists were the clear winners of the 06.2 war, Etymologies made Theo walk under a jump rope, admitting their defeat. Only Joe knows what exactly this means.

After becoming increasingly annoyed at Number Theory's chanting (06.02), Math Logic decided to join the fun. In addition to chanting "Proof" loudly, the REAS class had the bright idea to chant "We'll get you while you're sleeping!" The war was later carried outside, with several proofs and paradoxes scribbled in chalk. Interestingly, our Instructor and TA seemed to take the matter more seriously than we did, plotting ways to trick the Number Theory kids into thinking their class was in the library.... (The TA in question would like to point out that she doesn't remember plotting any ways to trick Number Theory kids into thinking their class was in the library. Sounds like an ETYM thing to do. However, we did cooperate with Etymologies, coordinating a time at which both classes would bang on the wall they shared with Number Theory (as both ETYM and REAS were neighbors with THEO)).

Note: In 2007 (only during session 2, the most first session 07 did with other classes was chant the Hymn of the Arval Bretheren to classes-that-weren't-crypto), THEO and ETYM kids shared a hall in Dubbs 2. Although it at first appeared a potentially bad situation, the two classes were in different buildings, and no battles were waged between the classes. And although Crafting the Essay classes on that floor tried to wage war with THEO by yelling CRAFT CRAFT CRAFT, sending an incomprehensible letter, and responding to THEO's Fermat graffiti with some small marks of their own, they failed miserably. Which also brings up more mischief conducted between THEO and ETYM in 2007, most noticeably our own version of tag. In this game (only played in a couple brief spurts, and only between Dubbs 2 members) , players could only tag members of the opposite class. A THEO student tagging an ETYM student would say "Proof, no parsebacks". The tagged student would then have to find a different member of the THEO class to tag and say "Parse, no proofbacks". The novelty wore off rather quickly, and the game is unlikely to continue.

Note: This particular rivalry often extended beyond the two classes. In 06. Crafting the Essay B was right in the middle of their war, and participated whenever allowed.

2006.1 -- The Forty Two Person Grass Orgy

In Lancaster 06.1 during the first week of CTY when hand holding was still considered quite promiscuous Teh Corner decided to start a grass orgy. They had already been reprimanded for similar conduct but they hoped that they could get away with it. Then realizing that the more people who joined the orgy the less likely they were to get into trouble so members of Teh Corner kept inviting random people to join the orgy. When the orgy had past around 23 people the idea came into the minds of those present to achieve a forty two person grass orgy. Within a few minutes they had achieved the ultimate grass orgy and not a single one got yelled at by any member of staff.

2006.2 -- The Legend of The Ivan

For those of you who don't know (i.e. those of you who weren't in Archaeology or Advanced Chem 06.2), this is the legend of The Ivan, collaborate on by Lena and AmanDaray (Amanda Ray).

It unfolds thusly: Soon after arrival at CTY, Amandar and Lena conversed and became friends. Of the myriad unusual and nerdy things discussed, the subject soon veered towards sex, drugs, communists and other such risque business (as CTY conversations have a knack for doing). Amandar brought forth the idea of locating an individual on campus to stalk for the remainder of the session, an idea that was met with enthusiasm from the not yet "attached-at-the-hip-and-left-knee-to-Kib" [The origin of this quotation remains uncertain] Lena. Walking past the arches, Lena spotted a more than adequate stalkee and rushed to inform Amandar of the charming new development.

The two giddily overeager students and some friends they told about the stalkee stared at, "casually" walked by, and giggled uncontrollably at and around him for excessive amounts of time. He was of slim build, dark hair, and pasty complexion. On some occasions, he wore grey Asics of the same style as Lena's. He was often seen carrying an "indie" messenger bag and reading books while eating meals instead of socializing, like an "emo" student would. He often appeared very pensive and existential (if it is possible for one to look existential). He had a Russian look about him, and was soon dubbed a communist. At breakfast, Lena once remarked that he looked as if he should be at a coffee shop or vintage record store "like, in Belgium or somewhere!" which prompted the notion that he was a stereotypical Kerouac-esque beat traveler, and all of his books were written by Nietzsche, Camus, Ginsberg, and Palahniuk. Upon writing a report on fourteenth-century Russia in class, Lena researched Ivan the Terrible and immediately decided that the stalkee's name must be Ivan, Nikolai, or Sven or "something swanky like that." Ivan was preferred by Amandar and the matter was settled.

At first, since he was too old to be a camper, and looked too mystical and worldly to be a TA or teacher (and obviously wasn't an RA), Amandar was misled to believe that he was a random F&M college student crashing CTY meals for unknown, mysterious reasons. Soon thereafter, one of the CTYers involved in the stalkage discovered that he did, in fact, have a black lanyard. This prompted Amandar to drag a whining Lena to the bulletin board outside the Nurse's office in Thomas where the pictures of RAs and TAs were posted. To both girls' dismay, the elusive stalkee's picture was ripped from the board, probably by a first session CTYer. They did, however, discover his real name, Nicolas (surprisingly close to Nikolai!), and that he TAed MIND B.

By the third week, Ivan probably was well aware that he was being stalked, especially since an involved CTYer, Kristin, decided to approach him and strike up a conversation which promptly failed. Lena had kind of forgotten about him by this point, but Amandar was still recruiting stalkers to join the rapidly growing cult of Ivanites. She hopes Ivan will return next year so the tradition can be passed on, but they probably freaked him out too much, in addition to everyone in MIND B. Apparently, no one in MIND B had caught on that their TA was being stalked by everyone in ARCH, CHEM, and a few random people from paleo and other classes.

Here is a strategically taken picture of Ivan and Amandar's shoulder by another A-Chem student:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/fefifofelen/cty/2lan06/5da2re2.jpg

Jeff Sachs says:

 As a member of Mind B. I am completely shocked that people were stalking Nicolas "Fries"
 Friesner. Although I did read some interesting Dr. Uffy, Fries, Lectern, fanfics...

Laney Newhouse says:

 DO NOT LISTEN TO JEFF SACHS. THAT IS A LIE. THERE WAS NO FANFICTION WRITTEN ABOUT DR. UFFIE, FRIES   
 OR THE LECTERN, AND CERTAINLY NOT ABOUT THE THREE OF THEM ENGAGING IN ILLICIT ACTIVITIES TOGETHER. 
 However, I, too, am very much amused by the stalkage of our beloved TA, and would like to note that 
 a lot of members of our class stalked him as well, as they found him quite attractive and soulful.

Amanda Ray says:

 'Twas the great Amandar herself who discovered the black lanyard, silly Lena.

2006.2 -- Sexapussy (The Sexapus)

During Second Saturday of 2006.02, Crafting the Essay 3C student Ashok was getting bored as the day was dragging on to around 4:00, the end of the activities. Hallmate Greg Lawrence IV had had some twisty balloons mailed to him, and Ashok had collected 2 balloons so far that Greg had left lying around, presumed to be broken. Upon returning to his room, Ashok suddenly had an idea: he would make a balloon octopus! Quickly, Ashok scoured the hall for 2 more balloons. Alas, he only found one more, but not to be deterred, he used the 3 balloons he had to make a six-armed octopus. And thus Sexapussy, The Sexapus, was born.

Ashok took the Sexapus to the 3rd Dubbs lounge, which was at the top floor of South Ben and very hot. As the people in the lounge started playing with Sexapussy, a few were interested in how slowly it fell. Noticing that there were several fans cooling the room, Ashok and RA Adam Roush set up 3 fans pointing upwards and dropped Sexapussy into the current. For the next half-hour or so, Sexapussy would float to the top of the room, then flip and fall, then flip and spin around several times while catching the air currents and floating upwards again. In summary, it would float, flip, and spin without touching the ground for several minutes at a time, and it looked really cool. Word of the Sexapus got around quickly, and many people came up to 3rd Dubbs to see the balloon creature. Unfortunately, someone jostled one of the fans before a good video could be taken, and it couldn't be put quite in the same position so that the Sexapus would float as long again. Later, Adam and some others tied inflated plastic bags onto 3 of Sexapussy's 6 arms, which made it float much slower and longer.

Sexapussy suffered the same unfortunate fate that all balloons must, unfortunately, but plans for a bigger setup are under way.

P.S. we all secretly (or not so secretly) want to have the sexapussy's babies. its true. ~Yulia speaking for all of CTY who witnessed the glory that was Sexapussy.

Years later, a live "hexapus" was found in a British aquatic zoo.

2006.2 -- Waffle House

On the last day of CTY, two CTY'ers, Harrison and Jordan, thought it would be a good idea to go to the waffle House on Harrison's last day at CTY. The plan was to sneak out and have Andrew, another boy in their hall, prop the door open. They made it past Turkey Hill and into the Waffle House, where they had a lovely breakfast. On their way back, they were stopped by the Lancaster police for being out past curfew. After trying unsuccessfully to pass themselves off as townies, they were carted back to F&M, where it was discovered that Andrew had indeed not propped the door open. While the administration couldn't do much to Harrison, as he was a nomore and it was the last day of the session, Jordan was not allowed to come back for his nomore year.

2007.1 -- Dr. Mario Dance

In 2006.1 Dan Salvato made up a dance to the Dr. Mario theme song (the Fever theme, as composed in Super Smash Bros. Melee). He taught it to his hall and seven of them, including himself, performed it at the final dance. The dance was then forgotten about until 2007.1, when Dan resurfaced it by teaching the dance to his entire hall as well as his RA, Ruven Chu, and to Frank Wang. These 18 people performed it at the dance on the Second Saturday. He then taught it to those involved in the Talent Show, and the dance was added to the end of the show where all Talent Show participants ran up onto the stage and performed it in front of the entire campus. At of the end of 2007.1, over fifty people had already learned the dance and there has been talk of adding the Dr. Mario song to the Canon. A vote on whether or not to add the Dr. Mario song to the Lower Canon is expected in 2008.1, which, if it happens, will mark the first canon vote to occur session one since before 2004. There is a video of the dance performed by Ruven's hall, with Dan in the front, here. A video of Dan doing the dance alone can be found here. The dance was taught session two by Frank Wang at quad time. DMD was played like a lower canon song during second session, however the dance was apparently taught with some mistakes.

2007.2 -- All-Site Photo Consent Form

In 2007, the entire CTY program adopted a rule that made photography and videography of any sort illegal without consent of all those photographed. For reasons beyond his knowledge, Max Wang was alone taken aside during a period of Acting Improv and informed of this rule. He was brought to Thomas and was told by staff and the site director to erase all of his video memory. Max was told that he could continue photographing and taping AI so long as he had consent, but not anything of a greater scale. After ascertaining that nobody at AI was opposed to any kind of image recording device, Max tore some pages out of his RealCTY binder and began a consent form (simply out of being anti-authoritarian; not holding anything against the Lancaster staff members in particular). By the same time the next day, the consent form had a total of 440 signatures (out of the no more than 459 students besides himself at camp). Max was then given permission to record at his will in accord with normal, state/federal laws (although everybody else could do this anyway...)

Unfortunately, Max currently still requires parental consent to post pictures and will be attempting to attain it shortly. If he gets a reasonably decent number of people, he will simply blot out those who do not consent. Maybe this should go into the Hall of Shame, too...