Student position
A student position is a role or title held by a CTYer during a CTY session. Positions are often held by nomores, and they are usually passed on to someone in the next generation at the end of each session. Most student positions are site-specific, and some are even session-specific—even those nominally shared between sites, such as the Passionfruit Emperor, tend to be interpreted differently by the different sites.
Positions are very diverse in nature, but most carry a roll or set of responsibilities for the holder, and a physical object (sometimes more than one) called a relic that represents the position. For example, the Jester has the responsibility of running Acting Improv every day, and carries the relics of his hat and coat. Positions are almost always handed down by their holder to a student returning the next year near the end of the session (usually during a Passionfruit speech), but there are exceptions, such as that of Emperor at Lancaster session 2.
There is a division between positions that carry responsibilities or rolls, simply called positions, and relics that have no associated roll (though they may be strongly symbolic), intuitively called passed-down items.
Positions are for the most part very loosely defined things, and how real they are is a function of how respected the position is by the student body. Students who hold the most respected positions are usually also the most respected members of the community, as they accord special status. The respect accorded to a position usually correlates with how old that position is. The Lancaster second session position of Duck, the most highly respected position, has been around since the early 90s.
There is no official process for the creation of new positions. Any student has the power to give a title and/or item to a willing recipient at Passionfruit or outside of it and declare that thing to be a position, regardless of others' approval. The test of whether that position becomes legitimate is whether it gains the respect of the students and stands the test of time. It is customary, however, to create a position only with the approval of currently respected position holders (the Trinity, for example).
Because of the ease of creating new positions, many new ones spring up each year, most of which eventually fail. There is a list of defunct positions (the ones the people bothered to document on RealCTY, anyway) included below.
Staff have influence over positions, despite being an entirely student-run tradition. On several occasions the administration has ordered the renaming of positions (for example, the re-naming of Satan to The Fiend), or forced some other change when it perceived that the activites of the position were CTY-I.
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Contents
Lancaster
Lancaster, being one of the most tradition heavy sites, has the most positions of any site.
Leader Positions
Several positions accorded the most respect are given a higher class than the rest, and are regarded as the student leaders.
Session 1
The Trinity refers to the three most important positions at session 1.
- Father
- Son
- Holy Ghost
The Jester, while not part of the Trinity, is regarded as a leader position as well.
Session 2
The Pentinity refers to the four (formerly five) most important positions at session 2.
Other Positions
All other positions and passed down items are listed here in order of age.
Session 1
- Lanyard Stack
- Coconuts
- Stripper
- Documentator
- Blammo God
- Jack Flash
- Quotebook
- The Friend
- Cloak
- Shots
- The Savage
Session 2
- Emperor
- Fruitopia Bottle
- Caution Tape Cape
- Lorekeeper
- Documentator
- Blammo God
- Head Monk
- SOY
- Duct Tape Dress
- Quotebook
- King James
- Kiwi Backpack
- The Rascal
- Fanhammer
- Shots
- The Dave
Dead Positions
No one lives forever.
