Carlisle

Location

• Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Carlisle, Pennsylvania is a pleasant town about 20-30 mins. from Harrisburg. The site is notorious among its regulars for the town's phsycotic drivers.

Campus

The Campus of Dickinson College is a stately place dating from the 1700s with plenty of open space and trees. Facilities are pretty nice, with air conditioning in all rooms, and the HUB (the central meeting place) contains two stores: The Devil's Den convenience store and a bookshop.

Dorms

• Referred to as Quads 1-10, Super Quad, Uber Quad, and Malcolm (really far away and last used Session I of '06)
• Quad Six=Quad Sex
• Quads Four and Five= superquad (boys only as of '05 )
• Malcom (guys only) is know for its basement ("no one can hear you scream in Malcom basement"), which often floods and has mice. Not used for session II, 2006
• KW - Kisner-Woodward Building. (Kay-Dubbs) The guidance, nurse, and administrative offices are located here, but there are also four girls' halls. Most of the dorms in KW are singles.
• UBER QUAD! Bigger and better than super quad, a girls-only dorm, that is very similar to super quad, only with an additional, lingering, smell that cannot be identified (from the flooding of lower quad, session 1 -Schuyler (doubly-editted by Rachel) (edit: I was in Uber Quad session 1 and it smelled before the flooding - Susan (pink/blue hair)). It contains EDDIE, the janitor with a TV in his glorious janitor's office and posters of scantily clad women on his wall. He tends to walk down the hall way at 7 in the morning, right when everyone is showering. -It should also be noted that the lounge of SUPERQUAD (boys dorm) can see clear down the hallway of UBERQUAD (girls dorm). Awkward. The girls of Uber Quad have been asked not to interact with said boys... this was as result of some inappropriate interaction of the girls on the 3rd floor, session 1..... Bummer...

Outside of Campus

• Massey's, a great custard stand, is just down the block and some halls go there occasionally (usually during Meet-Market). Also after camp's over and CTYers haven't been picked up yet (and rarely before camp starts and before RAs start caring), they go here.
• Sometimes people order out, usually from Papa John's Pizza.

Former Off-Campus Offerings

• Four-Star Pizza, home of the cheapest pizza in Carlisle and the driver of the infamous pizza-car of death. Featuring the gigantic 'General' sheet pizza, capable of feeding four to six hungry guys after lights-out. A commonly held legend about Four-Star Pizza was that only returning students had the intestinal fortitude to withstand the pizza. Went out of business circa 2001. Exact date, anyone?
• Classic Rags, a downtown vintage clothing shop. Burned down circa 1999.
• White Mountain Creamery, while Massey's features great custard, the White Mountain had the best homemade ice cream in the area. Known for their eight-inch tall waffle cones and three scoops of icy goodness. Burned down circa 2000 exact date?, the space is currently occupied by Kimberly's Cafe.

Courses Offered

• American Studies: The 60's
• Ancient Greek
• Bio
• Cognitive Psych
• Chem
• Crafting the Essay
• Cryptology
• Dissent (new in 2006)
• Ethics
• Etymologies (not Entymologies)
• Existentialism
• Genetics
• Harlem Renaissance
• International Politics (INTERPOL)
• Intro to Biomedical Sciences (BIOMED)
• Intro to Lab Sciences
• Islam (new in 2006)
• Latin 1
• Math Logic
• Modern Euro
• Music Theory
• Philosophy of Mind
• Probability and Game Theory

- many others -

Traditions

• Meet Market, basically: social time after study hall.
• HUB potato obsessions (The Hub is infamous for serving at least one potato-based dish with EVERY meal)...for short time afterward EVERYONE goes through "fried potato product" withdrawal
• Betty Negley. "Hel-lo! (sometimes pronounced Heh-do) ::swipes card:: Thank-you!" ((what's especially funny is hearing her try to fit "good morning" into two syllables)). Betty gets extremely, mind-bendinly hulk angry when kids try to sneak out food for passion friut. A sight to behold. Betty's wrath can also be awakened when she sees people playing with their food (i.e. putting tea leaves in milk.)My hall in Session 1 '06 knows this firsthand. If you are nice enough, she might let you take a picture with her...
• Kill Murray/Save Murray - the only game in which you can use "Dick Cheney" and "Good thing his helmet runs on hamster-power" in the same sentence. Unfortunately, no more Cheney, as political humor has officially been banned :( Run by Matt and Drew.
• Most RAs being annoying at end of Meet-Market: At the end of every Meet-Market, the RA's are called to the alley. They put their hands on top of each other's, and then they break up shouting "Dorm Time!" telling CTYers to go back to their dorms.
• Starcrash, one of the best/worst movies from the "let's all try to be Star Wars! era" in film history. Shown once a session, it spawned such great lines as "Imperial Battle Ship: halt the flow of time!".
• RA Ian's activity involving his horrible medical history. Those easily nauseated beware.
• The Worst Activity Ever. Always done, sometimes these activities are horrible, others amazingly fun.

Special Days

• Passionfruit
• First Friday
• Big Saturday
• Poetry Night
• Drag Day
• Goth Day/ Emo Day
• End of the World Day [it should be pointed out that this is a Lancaster tradition transplanted to Carlisle, and really isn't regarded as an actual Carlisle practice, as of yet. Most people who do it are regarded distastefully, perhaps as traitors.]
• Dances in ATS
• Talent Show in ATS
• Free high-five Thursdays