Bristol

Bristol is a CAA site, located at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Student Lifestyle

While considered to be one of the stricter sites in the program, it is still enjoyable for the students. RAs patrol around the buildings after lights out - the rules are enforced strictly at this site. Closing the blinds and plugging in the door with a towel allowed one room in 08.2 in Stonewall II to keep desk lamps on, however. The cafeteria's food quality if good, although the variety is low. The mac and cheese is to be avoided, as is the pizza unless you want to spend half of your meal time wiping grease off it. However, "home-made" mac & cheese is good, which is adding the cheese sauce from the grill to the macaroni from la cucina. Bristol is an athletic site and sports are an important part of activities and general site fun. It barely ever rains in Bristol, and the sun is always out, making it a pleasant 80 degrees most of the time. Sleepovers are held Friday nights after the dances and Saturday nights as well. In 11.2, most of the guy halls were permitted to have sleepovers every night as long as the RA was not able to hear them and their lights were out. This caused many problems with staying awake in most of their classes.

Traditions

• During Session 1, Students go to the July 4th parade and Carnival in Bristol because Bristol held the first July 4th Celebration in the United States. This tradition, for no apparent reason, was not upheld in 2008 as well as 2010 and students in session 1 2012 where not taken because of a big chance that it would rain; it never did. In 2013 session 1, there was a petition going on, majority of the site signed it, and Tracy(or another nevermore) did the letter. During the hall meeting we received the response of the Site Director. There wasnt too many staff to take care of many CTYers. At night we skipped night class and saw a movie on the grass. Lots of couples had the time to make out, but RAs would walk around and cockblock witha flashlight on. Fireworks were being shooted on the other side of the bridge.
• The Game, as at most sites, is prevalent at Bristol.
• Frisbee was extremely popular amongst students and staff during session 1 of 2011.
• Soccer Four-Square became crazy in session 2 2011
• The carnival/fair, "Colomban Fathers."
• Castles (It was the best when there's Jay Ben in charge :D)
• 12.2 was an incredible year! everyday illegal sleepovers in stonewall 3! It was something special than other years, everybody knew EVERYBODY! they were all so friendly, and the food was the best! I recomend the grill cheese and pizza, they are not greasy. Take lots of selfies with eveybody!
• 13.1 was waaaaaaay different than other years, stonewall 1&2 were girls and stonewall 3&4 were guys dorms. The food was cold majority of the time, we couldn't take out food, everybody had there little groups. Lots of CAAmpers would sneak out spoons and forks for the cup soups or noodles at night. Tom wasnt there anymore, and Molly took over, she was new so it was none traditional. After activities instead of going back to our dorms to change(like previous years)the RAs would take us directly to dinner! There was no Casino Prep. , 2 dances were made in the Bio center infront of the main quad. Not a good place to dance, but has a beautiful scenery.

The Yachtsman

The Yachtsman is an urban legend used by the RAs to explain and enforce Bristol's strict rules. The story goes something like this...

In the summer of 2003, CTYers at Bristol were allowed to take kayaks out into the water near RWU. CTY was always very careful about which students they would allow on the outings. For one thing, you had to be able to swim and your parents had to sign a release. However, one student, whose name has been lost through retellings, managed to bypass this rule. The waters in the bay were a little rough that day, so the chaperon called the students over to finish for the day. Most of them did without a fuss, but the one boy who didn't have a release refused. Eventually, he fell out of his kayak and (seeing that the boy wasn't swimming) the professor jumped in after him. The professor managed to get the boy back in his kayak, but hit his own head in the effort. The professor passed out in the water and was announced dead at a all site meeting later that day. For the next few days, life at CTY went on as planned. Students went to class, meals and activities just like they always had and eventually talk of the professor's death faded. However, this didn't last long. The same male student who weaseled his way onto the outing went missing a few days later. The site tried to pass it off as an expulsion for breaking such an important rule and again, life went on at CTY Bristol. Rumors began to crop up all over the place until the entire site was dominated by one story: The drowned professor had left a warning that he would be handling misbehaving students in his own manor, and he was the sole reason for the boy's disappearance.

Places

• Stonewall Terrace I-IV: The 4 Residential Halls
  • Each building holds a couple of kitchenettes, which are generally unsupervised. While students are not permitted to use the cooking equipment, nobody's there to stop you if you do.
  • kitchen was removed before 13.1 and replaced with useless shelves!
  • Stonewall I is is home to the CTY offices, including the nurse.
  • All Stonewall buildings are constantly lacking paper towels in the bathroom.
  • Don't be surprised to find mold in Stonewall Terrace. Being that close to the ocean, it's everywhere. In 08.1, two girl's halls on the first floor had to move up two floors to get away from it.
• Recreation Center (AKA The Field House): Home to the gym and the swimming pool.
  • Most Assemblies (i.e. talent show, opening ceremony) and dances occur in the gym.
• The Commons: Home to the Dining hall and bookstore.
• The Quad: The Quad has an actual name, but nobody refers to it as anything but The Quad, so knowing it is completely useless. The Quad is home to social time, meals on the Fourth of July when the Commons is closed, and many activities. The Quad used to have a lovely ocean view, but the addition of a new research facility has almost completely blocked it.
• The Frog Pond: Many classes choose to take their breaks, or even have their classes, here. It is approx. half way between Stonewall Terrace and the Commons. All students pass the pond a minimum of six times a day, but students are all but forbidden to go near it unless brought there specifically by a staff member. Frog watching, an activity that pops up now and then takes place here.
  • During 12.2 Plasma swam in the Frog Pond!
• CAS is where the humanities, writing, and math classes are held. The only science class held here is Whales.
• The School of Engineering is where some of the classes are held including Engineering and Astronomy.
• Marine and Natural Science (most commonly abbreviated as MNS) is where most of the science classes are held including Biotech, Zoology, Chemistry, and Anatomy.

Activities

• Weekly
  • Ultimate Frisbee - a very popular activity at Bristol
  • Cloud Watching - the most popular activity at Bristol since it does not involve any physical or mental activity or participation. It is like another social time in which most people play cards, talk, or play Four Square
  • Soccer Four Square- created by RA Joe in 11.1
  • Swimming - in the Rec Center but in 11.1 and 11.2 it was changed to a daily
  • Boot camp- extreme work out
• Daily
  • Castles - writing poems, playing Monkey-in-the-middle, and getting rolled up a hill
  • The Worst Activity Ever - not much is known about this activity.
  • Not Swinging Your Lanyard - anything but swinging your lanyard
  • Braveheart - invading other activities
  • Espionage - spying on other activities, which basically lets you join them
  • Zumba - actual Zumba dances with the RAs
  • Absolutely Nothing - Literally, one is forbidden to do anything.

Notable Occurrences

• 10.2:
  • Unknown to most of the campers, Four kids in Jay Ben's hall counterfeited CAAsino Night money in order to win. They counterfeited $1200 worth of CAAsino Night money and ended up with $1600 in total. By being the hall with the most money, they won an extra sleepover.
  • After the Casino night, two RA got nickname due to noodle fight: Jessica "Mount Crushmore" and Matt "Manderson"
  • Mucha Ropa is a tradition first started by CTYers in 10.2 who were in Nick and Joe T.'s hall. Mucha Ropa means "Many Clothes" or "Too many clothes" in Spanish. By saying this, you are technically instructing people to take off their clothes becuase they have too many. It was also known as Nick and Joe T.'s hall call. It quickly spread through the campus as even girls and RA's were saying it.
    • Pronounced: "Mucha Rooooooooopa" and repeat
  • Jay Ben was known as "the Squirrel"
  • This site is mostly invaded by Arizonians from San Luis, AZ(border town)every year, both sessions, there most be at least one CTYer from AZ. They are the most noticeable CAAmpers in the site because they are loud and so happy, they are very social, and they know how to dance!(**13.1 during social time, they were teaching how to dance "Banda, and Merengue" lots of people joined, others just saw and cheered) Very social, but majority of the time they WILL be speaking in Spanish due to there background and language spoke at home.
  • Los Angeles also sends lots of CTYers to RI!they are the craziest, the best most sociable people ever! so easy to talk to and they are hilarious!
• 13.1
  • CAMERON the RA was the beeeeest!
• 13.2:
  • A shower in Stonewall 2 turned purple when a camper died her hair. The normal white color of the shower was never restored.
  • When a ratchet baby seagull fell off of The Commons, everyone wanted to see the little baby gray fluff ball until RA Myles got dive bombed by the baby seagulls fellow bird friends. No one was allowed to go near the bird after that.
• 14.2
  • soccer foursquare got so popular that at one point during quad time there was no regular foursquare game going on