Frank Wang

Frank Wang is a a former CTYer who returned to the program as an RA at St. Mary's in both sessions of 2005. The following year, after St. Mary's was phased out, he came to Lancaster as an RA for 2006-2007. From 2008 on, he became a Lancaster SRA. He is known for being strict, confiscating black lanyards, and for not being entirely honest with the student body.

Frank is a good singer and yells a lot. People find him either angry or loud, usually in association with his zeal for not swinging lanyards. In that regard he is very single minded.

However, he became a mild CTY cult figure from 2006 on, spawning many "Frank Wang jokes" such as "Frank Wang only swung his lanyard once. The world didn't need another Grand Canyon." He was often referenced in Acting Improv. In reality, however he did swing his lanyard after the formation of the Grand Canyon. The majority of other Frank Wang jokes stem from his many similarities to Chuck Norris.

If you ever feel the need to scare the hell out of your friends while they're making out, simply utter the two words: "Hey Frank." This was attempted once in a lounge and three couples were petrified mid-makeout. It was followed with much screaming from the heyfranker.

Anecdotes

After the first sleepover of Lancaster 06.1, Frank banned sleepovers for the rest of the session because one the the people sleeping over "felt uncomfortable." Many people who slept over were interrogated in Frank's room to figure out what was going on. After the first sleepover, Frank punished everyone involved with the sleepover except five students: Jacob Portes, Chris McCarthy, Dylan Freehauf, Ryan Gossiaux, and Eron Brown. Curiously enough, Jacob's roommate, Jeremy, was punished the most out of anyone involved with the sleepover. For the rest of the session, he had Lights Out immediately after hall meeting each night.

Frank also confiscated many items after this sleepover. He took Max's baseball bat, Ben's lacrosse stick and TJ's tennis racket. After a trip to Turkey Hill, Max Blitzer found that he had stupidly not read the label on his bag of Pixy Stix. Frank laughed at him and confiscated the Pixy Stix because they were packaged in the same factory as a peanut product (peanut products are banned at the LAN site). Frank was later seen bragging to another RA about it. Then, instead of returning them to Max at the end of the session, he ate them.

Frank also ran a system in which he would raise a finger each time he was annoyed with the students. If he reached 3 fingers, everyone would have Lights Out early for the rest of the session. In 06.1, Frank got to 2.5 fingers, and according to some sources, he never got to two fingers during the Second Session. This proved an effective means of making his students behave because, prior to this, they would always misbehave during hall meetings. He was a "Princeton Gangsta" who would always be strict with his residents, who were not allowed to use the microwave without RA supervision.

During LAN.06.1, one student had duct taped (in good CTY fashion) her bra back together after in the last week her last clean one broke. During the last dance of the session with the ridiculous "No going into the rooms" rules, the duct tape broke. She freaked out, and she and her friend decided to go to her room in Thomas so she could borrow one from her friend (all of hers were packed and dirty). In the lobby of Thomas, the two girls encountered Frank Wang. He demanded to know why they needed to go upstairs, and her friend said "she has had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction." Frank didn't believe us - he thought they wanted to check their hair, or something else that was ridiculous. Eventually the girl said "Frank, my bra split in half, can I please go upstairs so as to get one that is still in one piece?" Frank turned bright red, and the look on his face was one that no one else has ever witnessed.

Frank Wang's status as a latter-day Chuck Norris began towards the end of 06.1 in Ancient Greek 1 when, during a trivia game, one team couldn't think of an answer for one of the questions. Instead, they just said the answer was Frank Wang. Jocelyn, in a fit of creativity, started writing some Chuck Norris-style facts about Frank Wang, and thus the phenomenon was born.

During Christmas at LAN.07.1, instead of making Christmas ornaments out of construction paper, one hall decided to make a 3D penis that was to be placed on their RA's door. On the way to the taping, Frank Wang walked into the hall. He caught them and started to lecture the entire hall, plus one person from another hall. At first, he lectured jokingly by saying, "Come on! I expected more from you guys. Couldn't you have made it pop up after you slid it under his door so when he opens it hes like 'woah!' But sticking it on his door? Don't you think at least one other RA would have seen it?" He then got more serious. The hall did take his advice afterwards, though, through the form of Valentine's cards.

After attending the activity "The Art of Courting and Wooing" (LAN 07.2), many people could be heard attempting to use the pickup line, "Have you seen my Frank? Have you seen my Wang?"

Assorted Factoids

Frank Wang's Facebook fanclub can be seen here.

Frank's AIM screenname is rumored to be piratejokester, though he rarely signs on to it. Any CTYer who attempts to IM Frank Wang will most likely experience Frank denying that he is indeed Frank Wang.

Frank Wang now has his own entry in the Nomore-Nomicon. Apparently, he is an alien.

Frank Wang also banned pelvic thrusting on his hall during 06.2.

Frank Wang voted for Dermot.

Frank Wang also Followed the Hager.

Frank Wang was one of the first two RA's to be taught the Dr. Mario Dance by Dan Salvato (the first group to learn it in 2007.1 was Dan's RA Ruven Chu and the rest of his hall, the Ruvenites).