Memories:SAR

2005.1

The Hott Wall

In 2005.1, the hott wall 1 was created by two girls Audrey Kohler and Rachel Dentinger in their room, as a bonding experience after buying corny magazines in CVS during first town trip.

In 2006.1, they were conveniently roommates again, by coincidence, and they decided to create the hott wall 2.

In 2007.1, the girls were not roommates, so they decided to bring the hott wall 3 in the hallway. Their superawesome RA Erika AKA E did not exactly get permission from evil Tim, but she looked the other way when her entire hall and then some of Jae's girls came to build it. Pictures got put into the slide show and the Howe girls were all quiteeee familiar with it. 2008.1, Hott Wall 4 was constructed in Shira's hall, and the idea to start it was mostly Miryam Coppersmith's. It was quite large and epic, but a certain hall that shall not be named started their own, much smaller hott wall, and actually stole a few pictures from the original wall. These pictures were eventually returned. Unfortunately, the Hott Wall was not as well publicised as its predecessor. 2009.1: Shall the Hott Wall continue? 2009.1 Shira's Hall also made an epic hot wall, using magazines brought by hall members and tacky purchased magazines from CVS like Tiger Beat and J-14. This Hot Wall was filled with pictures and posters of hot guys such as Taylor Lautner and Lucas Till. 2010.1 Sadly, the members of Shira's Hall failed her and had a terrible Hott Wall compared to last year. There were pictures of Sue Sylvester from Glee and cats.

I think the Hott Wall is an awesome tradition and it will be kept alive, if I can help it. For nevermores, the hot doesn't end at CTY. My sister's college dorm has a kick-ass hot wall, so I encourage you to spread the Hot! Respect the wall, love the wall- Miryam

2007.2

KRYP's story

During the talent show KRYP (spelt with a backwards r) a.k.a. Dave, along with some other Nevermores, were presenting the acts. For one act, KRYP was alloted some "creative liberty" so he decided to tell a story. He told a (mostly true) tale about waking up one morning and finding a "crap the size of Danny Devito", which clogged the toilet and caused a pretty big dilemma for Wilmarth hall . This hysterical anecdote went on for about 15 minutes until one of the fed-up RAs turned off Dave's mic from the control booth. But this didn't faze Dave. He just put that one down and picked up the other one. A nevermore named Edison, a fellow MC, came onstage and mimed blowdarting him, telling him to get off. In response, KRYP asked the audience if they wanted him to keep going. The cheers drove Edison offstage. He kept on going until an R.A. came onstage and forcibly told him to get off. Despite the other nevermore's "shame", (Kryp went so overtime that they weren't able to perform any other funny introductions) KRYP's story is sure to be remembered for years to come. Although Tim ( a.k.a Mr. Rogers), the site director, had a complete meltdown because of the massive overuse of the word "crap" and a subtle sexual reference, he never actually put a punishment for KRYP into effect. Alas, for the enraptured Cty-ers, they never did find out how the story ended.... KRYP: Feel free to post a continuation anytime now.

2008.2

Hot Wall

Shira, an RA on Howe 2 decided that she would label a section of the wall on her hall "the Hot Wall." It was meant for people to post pictures of attractive celebrities, things they liked, etc. As a result of this, three girls from Kate's hall (also on Howe 2) decided to steal Mike Armstrong's (interpol TA)photo off of the staff wall, because everyone knows he's the hottest. The photo was placed on the hot wall after being written on by the three girls. After a day or two, his photo was replaced on the staff wall and immediately stolen by another of the three girls. The photo was once again replaced, only to be stolen again. DRL Chris Hazard called both Shira's and Kate's halls down to the main office and gave them a stern talking to about the inappropriate things written on the first photo and the final photo of Mike Armstrong was never replaced. During 2nd session 2009, the office staff decided it was in their best interest not to post a photo of Mike Armstrong on the staff wall.

Triple Glowstringing

For the first time in CTY history, Nevermore Brian Smiley (as mentioned above) TRIPLE glowstringed with three glowsticks tied to each string(strang?) during Sandstorm at the last dance. This risky experiment turned out to be epic, and is expected to WAS continued at SAR.09.2, even though Brian Smiley is a Forevermore. His brother Eric is a Onemore, although he may not attend this year.

2009.1

Pickle Surprise

Around the middle of the first session, during dinnertime, an epic discovery was made. Lying in the middle of a table in the dining hall was what looked like a piece of human excrement. Upon further investigation, the conclusion was made that it was actually a well-constructed copy made from brownies that were served at the dining hall. Realizing this, the students that discovered the surprise brought it back to the table where they were eating to discuss what to do with it. While at the table, the brownie was christened "pickle surprise". Near the end of dinnertime, it had also been decided what was to be done with it. One student took the "pickle surprise" and put it into his pocket. Then, he went to his night session of class. However, before going into the classroom, the student snuck into the girls' bathroom, which was conveniently located in front of his classroom, and deposited the surprise into the sink. He then went back to class as usual. At about 8:50, the instructor told the class to go to the bathroom and wash their hands. When the two girls in the class walked into the bathroom, one immediately walked out, shaking her head, but not saying anything. The other girl walked in and started spazzing out about it. She was, as she put it, "scarred for life". Both girls had not realized that the "pickle surprise" was just a very good copy of the real thing. The instructor became involved, and the "pickle surprise" was removed from the sink. The identities of the plotters were not made known to the instructor. However, after the night session, the whole class knew who had done it. Long live the legendary TY, sadly a nevermore.

The author of this section claims only half involvement in the plot, although it was he who came up with the idea of putting the "pickle surprise" into the girls' bathroom sink.

2009.2

Town Trip is a privilege that God took away from us

The second town trip of the session got canceled due to rain. Many Nevermores (and a few others) were driven to tears and all were very angered, since that was the trip on which they were planning to break the Vermonster record. In place of the town trip, campers were given other options (i.e. watching Night at the Museum, playing board games, or chilling out in their respective halls). This tragedy was made up for in the third week when all of the Nevermores were taken to a secret place and given all the Vermonsters that were necessary to break the record during quad time.

Quadruple Glowstringing

In honor of Forevermore Brian Smiley, Forevermore Ilya Makovoz proceeded to beat Brian's previous record of three glowsticks tied to each string, instead opting for four. Even though many thought that the act would be impossible it turned out to be as epic, if not more so than that of Brian's the year before. Due to the large number of ravers two raving songs where played. Ilya raved to the first, Ravers Fantasy, and then switched with Dan Bateyko who raved with the quadruple glowstrings for Sandstorm.

Physics class

SAR.09.2 will never forget that "Physics is the place where... FUN DIES" (Pfl), and where "Dancing Queen" by ABBA is the boys' favorite song and could often be heard playing in their hall (except for one or two dissenters who claimed that "I'm On a Boat" is better). The instructor was William Kallfelz and the class was TA'd by Irene Ning, both of whom were loved very much by the class.

While Will was known for losing his Expo markers, assummed to have been appearing in a parallel universe, Irene was known for stealing gummy erasers from various students and banning XKCD, while laughing at the jokes herself (and posting an XKCD comic on the door to the room). At the end of the session, the class gave Will, Irene, and Alex Lee (the boys' RA) gifts. Will got new Expo markers, Irene was rewarded a gummy eraser, and Alex got a very tight shirt that read "Skidmore Mom", before his hall all signed it. He wore it to the last dance.

During one particular class, students were instructed to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean" and point out physical impossibilities in the plotline (such as the part where the heroes walk on the seabed inside of an overturned boat so that there is oxygen for them to breathe).

"Let's kill some fun, Excel is sick. I wanna store my data on your memory stick." An attempt was made to "sing" this at the closing ceremony, but it failed. To understand this better, See: recursion.

Bearmom

In the beginning of the session, onemore Shannon K. introduced the character of Bearmom to her Philosophy class. Bearmom has simultaneously most of the characteristics of a mother and those of a bear. Bearmom is portrayed by retracting the elbows, bending one's fingers to look like claws, and alternately moving one's forearms up and down while talking how one would imagine a bear might. Some of Bearmom's favorite phrases are: "I MADE YOU A DIXIE PLATE FOR DINNER," "I TRIED TO MAKE YOU DINNER BUT I CAN'T WORK THE OVEN," "DON'T DO YOUR HAIR LIKE THAT, IT GIVES YOU BOYFACE," "I WISH YOU WOULD TELL ME ABOUT YOUR HOBBIES; I NEVER KNOW WHAT TO GET YOU FOR CHRISTMAS," "I JUST WANT TO BE HIP!", "DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM YOUR FRIEND WITH THE NOSE RING" and "I AM DISAPPOINT." This also spread to other classes and halls, mostly to Rounds 3; Interpol and Logic B.

2010.1

BP

"In the event of a BP oil spill, (drowned by applause and cheering) how long does it take to get to the top of Jonsson Tower?"- Young Guang

"Well I can tell you that if it does get up here, you're gonna need Noah's Ark"- security guy

The Gens Game

Introduced to Saratoga by emperor Maxwell Thomas Hengeveld. The objective of the game is to make a person flinch by saying "gens" and making a movement towards the target's crotch. Minus one point if you gens swipe, where you actually hit the other person's genitals. Also if you say "don't" while making a gun motion at the same time a person gens you, it's considered a point for yourself. Keep in mind, you must always be honest about when you've been gensed, man up, and take on to the crotch. Also, when gensing girls, you may also say "vagines". We strongly encourage the gensing of T.A.'s, R.A's, and any random kid you like or dislike. One of the most coveted moments is a genocide, where someone gets 4 or more people to flinch in a row. This has only been achieved 3 times, once by Max himself during a half naked half hour where he waited at the end of the hall for them to come by and gensed all of them. Reuben Matthews managed the same feat at the same time on the same people. However those two were not as legitimate as the one performed by emperor Young Guang, who while on the way to the slideshow, managed to gens 6 people, all of whom were aware of the game.

Shaggy Parties

Mr. Boombastic

It Wasn't Me

Hot Shot (add more)

Before and after every dance, it happened, and it was beautiful.

Nuclear Barrel Roll

On July 7th, Harry Brennan blasted "Do A Barrel Roll" through the vents on Wilmarth Two, and successfully barrel rolled Wilmarth floors three and one for twenty minutes. After that, he blasted "The Count Song: Censored" through the vents, not once, but FIVE times.

Wavin' Flag

On the second night of the Marc-Dave Prank War, the gentlemen on the first floor tore off their shirts and ran around Wilmarth singing Wavin' Flag while twirling their shirts above their heads.

The Bleached Wall

During one fine evening emperor-to-be Aaron Wan was tapping his pen on the wall of his hall on the 2nd floor, when it spontaneously exploded. The spot became saturated with blue ink in at least two locations near the normal papers hung up in a hall. In a hurry, he and some hallmates tried to remove the mess with soap, water, and white-out, but eventually resorted to covering up the marks with two hastily-made posters proclaiming "Dave Grimes is awesome". The next morning, two hallmates tried to sneak into the bookstore for more white-out, only to find that the store was closed at almost all free times. Out of frustration, they headed to the Atrium store, where one spotted bleach available for purchase. That night, at 4:00AM, the hallmates removed most of the ink using the surprisingly effective bleach. However, the white-out prevented one face of the wall from being cleaned by the bleach. The group of 5 went into a frenzy to remove the white-out, using some odd combination of fork/knife scraping, bug spray, nail polish remover, and rubbing alcohol. To everyone's surprise, the results of were spectacular; there is now absolutely no trace of the explosion. So the next time you accidentally blow up a pen, try bleach. If you somehow blemish a wall with white-out, use bug spray, nail polish remover, and rubbing alcohol.

TiK ToK

At the very last dance of the session, the song TiK ToK by Ke$ha started to play when all of a sudden, the bass line mysteriously cut out. It seemed that the DJ had really blown the speakers up that night... for a moment, the entire camp looked around in confusion, and it seemed that the dance would end with disappointment. But due to the fact that this song had been played at each of the other two dances, everyone knew the words. The entire camp started belting the lyrics at the top of their lungs to compensate for the lack of speaker music, keeping the dance going until the speakers were fixed again. This potential crisis situation was averted by the combined effort of all the CTY-ers' beautiful singing voices.

Young and Orren

During the course of the session it was revealed to International Politics that their TA Orren was a former emperor from Skidmore 2004 Session 2. It also became known that he knew how to rave freehand. So he was armed with two glowsticks and during Sandstorm of the final dance, he and emperor Young had an exchange of freehand combos, surrounded by the legion of glowstringers.

Someone please check this for accuracy. From all reports from ctyers in 04, there was not royalty.

Chen

Chen was a famous nomore who honored the camp with his presence during Session 1 2010. He was constantly seen with his flute case, offering musical and logistical assistance to anyone who seemed to be in need of it. He made his debut during Session 1 2009 when he played The Pink Panther theme song for the Talent Show, with Adom and Jeshipio running around pretending to be detectives. During the Talent Show weekly Chen unleashed the full fury of his musical talent, being present in multiple acts. His most memorable act was "Istanbul" on the flute, which he transcribed himself in less than two hours. His other act was "Kids" by MGMT, which he played on keyboard with George on guitar and Zoe singing. Chen's awesome presence was further augmented by MCs Avery and Max consistently making up stories about Chen, making him responsible for many great deeds both musical and improbable. Below are samples of his numerous feats:

• Mortal humans fear Chuck Norris, and Chuck Norris fears Chen.
• Mortal humans worship gods, and those gods worship Chen.
• Chen wrote every single song in the Talent Show (except for "I'll Make a Man Out of You", which was written by MuShu)
• Chen wrote "Istanbul" specifically for the Talent Show, while writing "Kids" at the exact same time, while giving back massages with all of hands and feet so he had to write with a pen in his mouth. (This was all in response to an alien abduction.)
• He actually had one free (left) foot, and he wrote "Sweet is a Melody" with that foot.

Chen was a part of David Short's hall, also know by some as "the best hall ever", mostly due to Chen's presence in it. This hall was responsible for Half-Naked Half-Hour(spending the last half hour before lights out without a shirt on), and they could sometimes be heard chanting "Who you gonna call?" "Dave's Hall!", most notably when they were walking to the dances, but it also happened in other occasions, such as after the Talent Show. Other members of the hall who were generally considered to contribute to its awesomeness (just not as significantly as Chen) were Conner "Red Balls" Davis and Mauricio "Harmonica Man" Mangel.

The Prank Wars

The Prank Wars were a series of pranks between Marc's hall of 3rd floor Wilmarth and was located on the far side of Wilmarth and David Grimes was located on the 2nd floor in the same location directly below Marc's hall.

The Beginning, July 11th

It all began on July 11th, when Marc's hall of Wilmarth 3 started clapping for him non-stop in thanks for the weekend (it said to thank your RAs in the hall meeting sheet). Marc then got the spontaneous idea of doing this to David Grimes, so he led his hall below to the 2nd floor and interrupted his hall meeting. Grimes then chased the Nevermores of Marc's hall (Will, Freddy, and Young) from his hall with a bottle of shaving cream. He then ordered his hall to duct tape low on the fire exit, to bar (and hopefully trip) any other people from Marc's hall from entering. Communication lines between some members of Marc's and Grimes' hall and members of Marc's hall sent an unsuspecting Michael Song down to his hall. Unfortunately Michael saw the trap and hurdled over it, and just ended up running half naked with soap on his face screaming all throughout Wilmarth 2.

Day Two, July 12th

In retaliation to the above, David Grimes' hall duct taped the doors, hallways, shower heads, and shower door magnets of Marc's Hall while everyone was at dinner. David Grimes's name was plastered in love tape across the top of Marc's announcement wall. Along with this they wrote on everyone's white boards, not just Marc's hall, but people from Jeremy's and Jordan's hall.

Day Three, July 13th

On this particular day there happened to be a thunderstorm outside, so there was no quad time, instead everyone was inside leading up to the most epic day in Wilmarth's history. Marc had managed to get his hands on portable iPod speakers for this occasion. Originally there was only 1 prank planned to take place this day, but because of the extra 45 minutes that would normally be quad time, other new ideas were implemented.

To start the sequence of the pranks Marc's hall along with other belligerents from those caught in the crossfire of David Grimes' retaliation "prank" went down to David Grimes' hall with Stacey's Mom blasting on Marc's acquired speakers and everyone chanting along. They managed to chase David Grimes up to the third floor and then back down to the second. David Grimes later came up to the third floor with emperor Max armed with detergent as his bodyguard for peace negotiations, but the third floor waited in ambush. As soon as they had David surrounded they started to play I Want it That Way with altered lyrics:

"Tell me why ain't nothing but a David Grimes Tell me why ain't nothing but a David Grimes Tell me why I never wanna hear you say David Grimes is really awesome"

While the whole floor was serenading him, Marc and a certain other individual went down to David Grimes's room. At first Max tried to stop Marc, but was stopped by fellow emperor Young. Here is where the main part of the prank is: Marc went down and "spooned" David Grimes's room. Now some might wonder what "spooning" is. Well, Marc went out and bought a bunch of plastic spoons and while his hall/floor preoccupied David Grimes, Marc just dumped spoons EVERYWHERE in David Grimes' room and put it in everything, such as his socks, his detergent, his shampoo, his laundry, his bags, and much more. To this day, David Grimes is finding plastic spoons in his possessions.

His hall's immediate retaliation was to put shampoo in Marc's hair when he went down to settle it one on one with David Grimes. They also tried to dump foam peanuts onto him as well, but Marc's being crafty as he is, managed to avoid most of the peanuts.

After having showered Marc led his hall down to David Grimes' hall for a peace offering, all the while he had some song about being friends? (if anyone knows the name of the song he was playing, that'd be great) In response to the peace offering David Grimes asked his hall, and they all said no. At this point David Grimes told his hall do whatever necessary to get even. This started with Yih-Jen, Aaron, and Don going up to put Vaseline on the doors, but they were caught in the act by Young, who then escorted them back downstairs. As he took his leave Todd poured a bottle of water on him on the stairs. Young was then really pissed and threatened to take away nevermore books from David Grimes' hall, which would have been an unthinkable thing to do, but it effectively ended the participation of all of the nevermores (which was more than half the hall).

The Final Morning, July 14th

The final strike was performed by David Grimes's hall of numerous nevermores, including emperor Maxwell Hengeveld and emperor-to-be Aaron Wan. At 2:30AM, Aaron, Allen, Neil, and Don snuck up to Marc's door on the 3rd floor and duct taped it firmly attached to one of the the bathroom doors so that Marc was trapped inside his room. Behind the other door to the bathroom, they hid a bottle of horrid-smelling detergent, bleach, bug spray, and nail polish remover, uncapped, to spill all over the bathroom floor in Marc's suite as soon as someone opened the door. As they were putting finishing touches (writing forms of DAVID GRIMES on flyers and signs throughout the hall, vandalizing signs on doors, etc) Marc woke up from the racket outside. When he tried to open the door, though, he found it impossible to get out. He had to call one of the members of his hall to cut him out of the duct tape trap when they woke up at 6:30. This was the last act of the prank war mainly because Marc took the prank far too seriously, threatening to have SRA's take away (last) quad time from the whole hall. Thankfully the perpetrators came forward and that never happened. Fortunately for those who took the blame (first three mentioned above), their sole punishment was the loss of final quad time (sad, but they were onemores) with DRL Mike giving them a list of "What ifs" (all mostly created by Marc [not confirmed]). The graffiti (made in Sharpie) was left up, untouched for the remainder of the session.

Quintuple Glowstringing

By the second week emperor Young and his roommate Freddy had already planned on smashing the raving record, but in the days leading up to the final dance there was much difficulty in procuring the ten glowsticks necessary for the feat. During this time it was brought to the ravers' attentions that having five 6" glowsticks on one string would be incredibly difficult to control as the velocity of the two closest glowsticks was insufficient to make them stable while raving. It was decided that the two closest glowsticks would be the small 3 or 4 inch types, which were the only ones left in the ravers' arsenal. And so the Quintuple Glowstring was born, and was wielded by Adom Hartell during Raver's Fantasy in the Last Dance. The Quintuple Glowstring was subsequently hijacked by Patrick, who had enormous difficulty wielding the powerful item.

Sam Stansell

During the first session of CTY SAR 2010, the name of this prepubescent boy could be heard frequently shouted in a fake southern accent. The story behind this was in 2009 Maxwell Thomas Hengeveld, who became emperor for 2010, was tragically roommates with this boy and was quoted having said (in 2010) "My roommate was Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam STANsel". From here on out, his name would be said whenever he was in eye or earshot of Skylar Carfi (who was the one who started the trend in 2010), or anyone else within Maxwell Thomas Hengeveld's group of friends and spread to the rest of the campus. The a in Sam was stretched outrageously, and the word "Stansell" was pronounced with an aura of exaggerated satisfaction. His name could be heard everywhere, from the quad, to class breaks, and even the nevermore circle. During the slideshow at the end of the year, when there was a picture of only him, more than three quarters of the whole campus yelled out his name.

2010.2

Security Guard Caught

On the last night of CTY, porn was found on a computer in Howe-Rounds. RA's immediately sought out to find the student that was responsible for this. Eventually, they found that it was actually a security guard. This was also the reason why SRA Phil had to leave Wilmarth 2, which allowed the record 27 students to continue their ISO in 210.

Raving on the second to last night

On the second to last night, none of the RAs seemed to be around, so all of Howe 1 were involved in ISOs. The most notable result of this was when Peter and Will, having an ISO in a room facing the grass behind Howe-Rounds, popped out their screen and began raving shirtless to the girls, who were watching and signaling them from their windows. In the process of raving Peter broke one of his glowsticks, so when he returned to his dorm and continued raving, glow in the dark liquid was splattered all over the ceiling, floor, and walls. Those in an ISO across the hall (including Peter's roommate) came over to see, and a frisbee was then covered in glowstick stuff as well. Some then crossed the quad to Wilmarth, while the rest continued to not sleep.

The Ramonster

On the last night, almost all of the guys in Howe 1 came over to Daniel & Peters room for the start of the night. 9 packets of ramen were made and put into Will's vermonster bucket. It was then passed around the circle, with a dedication made after each hit. Our RA, Dave, came in early in the night and told us we were being way to obvious, but we convinced him to take a spoonful of ramen as well. Eventually Will finished off the ramen and everyone split off between two rooms for the rest of the night.