Rina

A Rina (short for ballerina) is a dancer at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet whose summer session is held on the same campus in Carlisle and typically coincides with the first five weeks of CTY. Selected for their ability through a process of comparable rigor to the admissions process at CTY, the Rinas are also rumored to enjoy the perquisites of computer access in the HUB and superior housing facilities. Rinas have appeared at other sites as well.

A history of tension between the camps has in recent years caused the CTY administration to forbid interaction between CTY and CPYB students, a policy that has unfortunately generated further inter-camp misunderstandings, such as the rumor that circulated during 03.2 that the Rinas thought we were an adolescent drug rehabilitation center, which likely originated on Drag Day or a similar eccentric ritual.

Carlisle

There have been many instances after the interaction ban in which CTYers and Rinas have clashed, including a recent one at CAR.05.1 where ballerinas claimed to have scored higher on the SATs than CTYers did. Another exchange (involving napkins, Sharpies, and the windows between the couches and cafeteria in the hub) went as follows:

Rinas [to a group of couching CTY students exhibiting PDA]: EWW, we're trying to eat.

CTYers: EWW, we're trying to make out.

Rinas: NO PDA!

CTYers: I don't have a Palm Pilot.

etc.

During CAR.05.2, a small group of girls befriended a few Rinas and sat with them at meals (talking about the different programs, etc.) numerous times. The RAs noticed, but because it was purely friendly interaction, they let it go on. Eventually, these CTYers invented a Rina Appreciation Day on the day before the Rinas were leaving. This involved wearing soffes, tight tank tops that looked like leotards, and buns in their hair. To this day, at Carlisle, many CTYers choose to compliment at least one Rina a day and make friends with one Rino who compliments one's outfit.

One person has been both a Carlisle CTYer and a Rina and reported that the attendees of that camp were not particularly more conservative than CTYers are in general. Rinas think CTYers are overtly-smart-nerd-type people, or else some sort of delinquent (perhaps because of the Center for Troubled Youth acronym). Rinas are rumored to get better dorms, unlimited Internet/computers/TVs in their rooms, no real lights out time, no mandatory fun, only actual fun, and can go off campus whenever; however, this is probably an exaggeration. Many CTY traditions, especially Drag Day, are perceived as a bit weird. Did you know that lots of the Rinos are supposedly gay?

Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)

At Saratoga, there are not one, but two different camps of Rina's that share the campus. The NYSSSA Rinas with colored lanyards are nice (you can befriend them pretty easily), but ridhonkulously dumb. For instance:

"Wait.. I get it! CTY must stand for Ceriously Talented Youth!"

"Yeah!"

*10 minutes later*

"Actually, I think ceriously might be spelled with an 's'"

"Really?!"

or...

"Can you guys take, like...super smart home economics???"

"Uhm, yeahhh... sure!"

*GASPS* "No way!! Could you maybe BAKE me a little FONDUE?!?"

This may have been an attempt at a joke, as a fondu is a step in ballet. Or it may have been a Briansky Rina who didn't even understand ballet.

The (also?) colored lanyard Rinas are Briansky Rinas, and they are mean and anorexic. They are yelled at by their teachers to eat nothing and mock us because they are allowed to carry cellphones, use AIM and Internet, have air conditioning, etc. As of 2007, however, NYSSSA Rinas are at least allowed laptops/Internet, while Briansky Rinas are not and have no air conditioning.