Haverford

History

The Haverford site is located at Haverford College in Haverford, PA. It opened in 2013, and serves between 230 and 250 students. After the Moravian Site closed in Bethlehem, PA the younger students were integrated into Easton and it seems many of the older students who went to Bethlehem or Easton wound up at Haverford. Many of the Haverford staff also came from the Easton site. The campus is also an arboretum, and as such has a ridiculous amount of trees (DON'T TOUCH THE TREES!). Due to its tender age, it is lacking in traditions, with the exception of American Pie, Forever Young, and Stairway to heaven being played at every dance. As a new site, there were a few more restrictions or stricter regulations associated with the first year, including earlier lights out (10:30pm) on the final night and no going off campus.

Places

• Dorms:
  • Barclay Hall: Oldest dorms on campus; for males. First session, 3 of the 4 floors were used. Second session, only 2 floors were used, with 2 RAs per floor. Some of the rooms are suite style and some are singles. There are 3 bathrooms per floor. No elevator. There is a laundry room in the basement. It was rumored that the upper floors were haunted. Only dorm with vending machines. The soda always ran out and the only things left in the snack one were peanut based stuff. An old dorm, but great sense of community.
  • Jones Hall: Older dorms for females. All four floors were used, both sessions. The floors consist of four separate suites, each with four rooms and one lounge. There is one RA per floor and one bathroom. One awful, smelly dumbwaiter. One laundry room of questionable effectiveness in the basement. Each room comes equipped with one crappy air conditioner with no visible temperature control that had an approximate 12.5% chance of leaking, creating a huge puddle on the carpet and making the entire suite smell like pond water for the rest of the session. The window blinds will randomly go up in the middle of the night. The screens of windows are also disgusting but Sleepovers allowed in the common rooms of each suite.
  • Kim Hall: Brand new dorm for males and females first session but then only males second session. All rooms are singles and sleepovers were not allowed because of potential fire code violations. There are four bathrooms on each floor and two laundry rooms. There are also two lounges and a study area each with big flat screen TVs that are not allowed to be used. Also for some reason there are no indoor stairs leading up to the second floor. There are 3 RA halls per floor.
  • Tritton Hall: Brand new dorm for males and females first session but then only females second session. Exactly the same layout as Kim.

• Other Buildings:
  • Stokes: Building where a handful of classes are held. More notable is the auditorium where movies are played during dances or movie night. Occassionaly used by RAs for karoake.
  • KINSC: Composed of several different buildings, KINSC is the main building for classrooms
  • Dining Hall: Self explanatory
  • The Coop: The source for somewhat more edible food on campus. Generally only accessible to students on weekends. Particularly notable is the F'real milkshake machine.
  • Whitehead Bookstore: Typical college bookstore with food and college apparel. Only visits are on weekends
  • Gardener Gym: Building with the basketball courts where activities and sometime weekend events take place (Mystery night, color wars, etc)
  • Founders Hall: The building with the ballroom that was location of the dances. Some spaces in it were also used by the Krinsky camps, and Krinsky campers would frequently try to sneak in to dances or take pictures of the dance. The bathroom is downstairs in a very shady place.

• Open Areas:
  • Barclay Field: Large field adjacent to the duck pond and barclay hall where various activities took place
  • Founder's Green: Large field with paths directly in front of Founder's. This is where many outdoor activities took place as well as free time at night or after meals. Also used for the Passionfruit.

Notable Occurrences

• 13.1:
  • Students from another camp kept trying to crash the CTY dances before they were yelled at by the RAs
  • Kim hall became a humid swamp after people left their windows open over night
  • A giant branch almost fell on some campers until RA Jeeves superman'd their lives
  • Some girl had her bed taken apart in Jones

• 13.2:
  • A soccer ball was kicked and hit a sprinkler in Barclay hall during the last week causing the entire building to flood. The fire alarm went off more than twenty times throughout the night and people were forced to sleep in Founder's!!! Easily, the most notable occurrence at Hav. CTY 2013!
  • Unlike first session, there was no Casino night because people kept stealing money during first sessions casino night.It was replaced with Quiz Bowl.
  • Ice cream in the dining hall was taken away the third week
  • The game "The Slender Man" was played at night in the dorms, leaving some campers too scared to go to sleep
  • By the second weekend most of the camp (including staff members) were playing Pokemon through emulators
  • After Mystery night, Jones 2 had a giant after party consisting of cleaning tables and floors with mashmellows stuck to them, playing and singing to "Skyfall" on the piano, and dancing to High School Musical.
  • Jones hall fire alarm was triggered from the outside at the end of the second week.
  • Last night of camp a bunch of guys from Barclay were caught eating RA food. The RAs on the floor got really mad and threatened to send us home early if we left our rooms again. By morning a couple of people had peed in coke bottles because they were too afraid to leave their rooms and use the bathroom

Activities

• Haverford Specific
  • Is It A Cat?
    
  • Wurst Activity Ever
    
  • Soooooooooooooooooccer! (now w/ more Borja)
    
  • Arboretum Tour: An activity only possible at Haverford. Created by Jeeves, but actually led by a member of the arboretum staff. If you like trees, it's awesome. If you don't like trees, it's still awesome.
    
  • Hunger Games
    
  • Punny Jokes: An activity where students create puns. By your man, Jeeves.
  • Jellies Jellies
  • Bollywood

• Weekend Activities
  • Dance
    • Themes
      • Zombie Prom
      • Neon Party
      • Bad Hair Dance (Hair styling table; Photo Booth)
      • Capitol Ball (Hunger Games: RAs and SRAs/DRL were separated into pairs as Tributes from each district; Marriage booth)
  • Casino Night: Took place Saturday night only first session
  • Field Day: Took place first Saturday afternoon
  • Quiz Bowl: Took place first Saturday night
  • Movie Night: Took place first Sunday afternoon
  • Color Wars: Took place second Saturday afternoon
  • Mystery Night: Took place second Saturday night
  • Talent Show: Took place second Sunday afternoon

Tips/Advice

• NEVER swing your lanyard or nick will hunt you down
• Also always remember your lanyard. If you live in Jones or Barclay you will lock yourself out of your room. If you live in Kim or Tritton the dining hall is a hike so if you forget your lanyard no one will be happy.
• Never kick a soccer ball or throw a Frisbee inside unless you want to lose all your sleep.
• Don't sign up for ghostly encounters. just don't.
• Try not to be in the shower when the fire alarm goes off
• Don't sit on the grass too often... there are hundreds of bugs EVERYWHERE
• During Jones sleepovers, pushing the couches together, it makes a REALLY comfortable bed.

• Food
  • Bring plenty of snacks and money to buy snacks because the food has a reputation of being disgusting and literally sickening
  • The spinach and carrots are heavenly when fresh.
  • Like most sites, peanut based foods are rare in the dining hall
  • Dining hall is composed of six main food areas (main dishes, pizza/nacho/taco/etc bar, salad/sandwich bar, desserts, and ice cream/cereal nook)
  • Clean up all tables or ice cream will be taken away
  • Cut open your chicken or meat before you bite it because most times it will be extremely undercooked
  • If you go to The Coop and try to get a F'real, the milkshake will melt if you leave it out of the freezer for too long and it will jam the machine.
  • Don't bring your food outside of the cafeteria, or else squirrels will attack you...

• Dorms
  • If you live in Kim or Tritton, don't open your windows. The building has some sort of green design and uses temperature and humidity sensors to monitor and control the internal temperature. If the windows are open, it will make the computer running the air conditioning freak out and do weird things, like raise the temperature of the building by 10 or 15 degrees.
  • Jones is the worst forever. Jones girls, however, are bonded for life because of their shared Jones experience.

• Don't talk to strangers, especially kids at the other camps

Staff

• 13
  • Ravi: known for being the frisbee guy and having an angelic singing voice
  • Nick: known for his beard and being a power lifter. Also known for having an eagle eye for lanyard violations. Also made announcement during meals to clean up but most of the time no one did
  • Borja: known for soooooooooooooooooooooooooccer!
  • Jeeves?: Ask Jeeves
  • Marshall: dyed his hair purple the second week and then again the third week. Also taught a bunch of people different dance moves and organized a routine for Lady Gagas song Judas during the second dance
  • Sonny: known for his short short short short american flag shorts.
  • Laurel: known for running the weirdest yet the most fun activities. Such as: Jellies jellies, is it a cat?, league of legends...

• Rumors
  • RA Borja and Nuria were dating.
  • RA Borja and Alex were dating.
  • RA Borja and Jeeves were dating.
  • RA Laurel and Jeeves were dating.