Hall:JHU

This page is a document of the activities of various halls at JHU.

The Chingus

The Chingus were a legendary hall in 15.2 with the RA Fred. "Chingu" is a word in Korean which directly translates to 'friend'. This hall coined the term "Chingu" and referred to everyone as a Chingu. The official song of the Chingus is "All the Girls Wanna Ride."

The Treehuggers

The Treehuggers were a group of squirrels at JHU 06.1. They were all in RA Willie's hall, on the 3rd floor of AMR I.

History of the Treehuggers

On the first day of Crafting the Essay, members of the B class were paired in partners to introduce themselves. Wendy and Paula were partners and engaged in a heated discussion about the environment and governmental faults. The "treehugger" roots were established.

One day, Christine Y. (see below) dubbed our hall the cerds (pronounced curds), or cool nerds. However, many people confused this with the Kurds, an ethnic group in the Middle East, and therefore, due to PC rules, our name was up for revision. So one hall meeting, we discussed new names. "The Treehuggers" won the vote. Thus, the Treehuggers were born.

The Treehugger Song

(sung to the tune of Spongebob Squarepants)

Who lives on the 3rd floor of AMR I?

(The Treehuggers!)

Who likes to dress crazy and have lots of fun?

(The Treehuggers!)

If hugging big trees is something you wish

(The Treehuggers!)

Then come walk with Willie 'cause we are so hip

(The Treehuggers!)

Members of the Treehuggers

• Christine Y: Short asian girl who loved to sing loudly, especially to Eminem.
• Connie L: Another asian girl who liked cheerleading.
• Daphne Y: Yet another asian girl who shared Christine and Wendy's love for ramen.
• Gabby C: Was obsessed with certain male celebrities (Zac Efron)
• Grace H: Lucky person who got a double room to herself (lol just had to say that)
• Lena B: Whimsical stalker who often visited the Wizard of Oz on JHU's ugly brick roads
• Paula M: Awesome gangsta who craved PotC last year.
• Rachel L: Liked Harry Potter and writing in a journal.
• Sandy W: Commuter, AMAZING at the violin, had a cool mp3 player.
• Sarah H: Known as Shiggins... nuff said.
• Wendy L: Another asian girl, ROCKS AT VIOLIN, is very cool, and has many cds.
• Whitney B: Late night graham cracker sticks and midnight snacks!

Things We Did

The Treehuggers dressed up like superheroes (or something like that) on the first Wednesday. Because underwear couldn't be exposed, we had to settle for shorts. Some people wore towel capes, while others just wore mismatching outfits. They marched to breakfast dressed accordingly, singing the theme song, attracting stares and puzzled looks from fellow CTYers.

During the first fire drill, the Treehugger Song was sung, attracting the attention of many CTYers.

At the last dance, the Treehuggers and another hall nominated certain people for the King/Queen and Prince/Princess, and it sort of worked.

The Treehuggers organized several "operations," namely operation DJ and operation PC. No more information shall be disclosed. :D

Ball Ball

The boys in the Genomics class along with their hallmates (Jesse's hall and Alex's hall) would play ball ball for hours. Ball ball consists of throwing a ball (made from t-shirts wrapped in rubberbands) at each others balls. Throughout the session the genomics girls were greatly amused/confused by this game and the genomics TA (Nick) was invited to join in (he declined). The credit for this bright idea rests with Jason. On the last day, the Genomics girls went up to the boys dorms and watched them play ball ball. Two of the girls tried to play, but as Alex pointed out, "ball ball just doesn't work with girls." There were a few times when parents walked in during a game, but I don't think they ever figured out what was going on.

Hot Ramen Cartel

During the first week of 10.1 a hall meeting of Co-RAs Antonia and DJ Trevor resulted in Antonio's hall saying Hot Ramen Cartel. During the meeting using microwaves and bringing ramen into the Dining Hall was brought up saying that those things were prohibited. Some of Antonio's hall admitted that they were doing that and that they would continue to do it so some campers said like a cartel and Antonio said Hot Ramen Cartel. This resulted in them saying it until lights out. Some campers continued to say it and one camper, Scott Eckhaus(known as Ryan) really wanted it to catch on but it never did. Most likely the cartel died with the end of 10.1

"The Hall"

During 10.1 the girls' hall for LAWP and PLME gained a reputation for being extremely loud and a little crazy, with a set group of friends. They were nicknamed "The Hall" by Gunna in the first week of the session and they referred to themselves as such for the rest of the session. "The Hall" eventually split into different cliques but the core group included Jessica Li, Phoebe Edalatpour, Tiffany Ahn, Lauren Aboodi, and Valerie Wilson. Other members of the group included Jack Clare and Trey Thorne, even though they were not technically members of The Hall. Other girls in The Hall were Emily Dickson, Divya Korada, Sally Jiao, Katie Tyler, Caroline Dreyfuss, Tina Herman, Anshula Gandhi, Katie, and Haena. The Hall was often reprimanded for such activities as tanning, not wearing shoes, pole dancing on the light poles, and general CTY-I behavior and dressing. They were also known to make large pity circles at dances during slow songs, lie on the ground during class breaks, and walk around yelling "FOREVER ALONE" at people. The Hall is also credited for coining "the Tribals" and "Addycakes" (RA Addison's nickname).

Dictator Erik's Hall

In the summer of JHU 10.2, the Lawpsters of Erik's hall decided to "sever personal ties" with their RA, Erik. Erik confiscated food, was a stickler for rules, and was just... A meaniehead. He got really po'ed at his boys on several accounts. One day, someone's Ipod was missing. And then about 150$ went missing as well. No quad time. Boohoo. Team Jacob's housekeeping and motorcycles will be remembered forever.

The Platypi Potatoes

Best. Hall. Ever. 'Nuff said. Platypi potatoes fall on pink firehydrants during the apocaplypse because zombies party happily!

The Playtpi Potatoes were the girls in Nia's hall on the second floor of Sylvester. On the first day, 2 girls (Grace and Emma) invented something called YOLO running which then spread to the rest of their hall and to the hall next door. Many of Nia's girls were also in Logic B (best class ever) and during the movie Rango, they kept pointing out all of the fallacies in the movie. Nia's girls were notoriously known for sneaking cookies out of the cafeteria every single lunch and dinner. They coined the cups in which they smuggled out cookies loki'd cups. Many of Nia's girls also created a stipulative definition of a word they found in their textbook. This was the word WITHA and witha was the act of pointing to someone without their knowledge. Nia's girls had countless memories including prost, WASHroom, apples to apples, wendy, vatican cameos, jay's hoodie sharing, intergalactic crime syndicate, 21 jump street, octopus flailing in a locked room. eating watermelon for Peter and Dora.

Sons of Daniel

In RA Daniel's hall. They renamed their RA Father Daniel and the TA Celeste, Sister Celeste. Mass was to be held First Sunday but was postponed due to expulsions in the hall and Second Sunday was postponed due to Priest - BLAMMO Joe feeling quite unwell.

Will's Hall

The hall of Will Merrill in 16.1, the Icelandic-speaking, Dota 2-playing, world's chillest RA. Also home to all the men of MACR-A. Where there's a Will there's a way, he's the best RA.

Jeff is Life

They say the chant of 'Jeff is Life' still ring in Jeff's hall to this day. Never forget the Jefemeister.