Staff:SAR
This page is a record of well-known, beloved, and/or despised Saratogan staff and the many stories collected about them.
Residential Staff
Flava Flav
Flava Flav is one of the most beloved of the RAs at Saratoga Springs, especially during SAR.06.2. His real name is Zachary Heath, and he is coincidentally also a singer like the complimentary pop icon for which he is nicknamed.
No one is quite sure how the name originated. However, Zachary's RA group quickly realized that with a few adjustments (clock, bullhorn hat, darker skin, and grill,) he does actually look like Flava Flav. The rapscallion group of name-changers then began to blurt out "Flava Flav" every time they saw him for the next couple of days, and after about a week, the entire campus was chanting his name, even in the stands during the CTY Talent Show.
He is well known for, among other things:
- "Thanks, you're wonderful!"
- Singing performance at talent show
- White hair (happened after losing a bet)
- Straight hair (happened after the white hair went away)
This is a picture of him
Note: Flava Flav is unrelated to Lancaster's Flava Flav (Dan Estrada), affectionately nicknamed by a group of students in 07.2.
Stefan
Stefan is one of the coolest RAs to have ever come to Skidmore. His first year was in 2008 and his last session ever (as of now) was session 1 2010. He was a huge soccer fan, he DJ'd the dances, he did talent show, and he just didn't give a flying fuck. He first made the history books by the "Strawberry Shortcake Plot" during session 2 of 2008. Though he developed a following after his sketch at the whole campus meeting on the first day session 1 2009, saying "I'm Shtefawn" in the most bizarre accent while wearing antlers. Stefan is also constantly singing some random song, so if you ever run into him do not be surprised if he's serenading you.
He was also very famous for being very injury prone. During his very first full day of CTY with students, Stefan was playing soccer as part of the weekly and fell into a hole on the lower fields and sprained his ankle. The next year during another game of soccer, Stefan managed to break his nose on Patrick, who possibly was the smallest kid on campus and also a beast at soccer. The year after, which was Stefan's last session, Stefan somehow avoided becoming injured, though he did manage to injure SRA Phil during a practice session for soccer. From what was told to certain students, there was a 50/50 ball and Stefan got to it and kicked it straight into the side of Phil's head. This later led to Phil getting an ear infection. Phil we commend you for taking the fall for one of your workers.
His patrols were also some of the most hilarious of all time. Ranging from his PDA patrol pranks, to his last night antics, which including finding Sam Stansell out on the quad, letting a guy into Howe/Rounds and busting a certain sleepover (room 217, Wilmarth 2, S1,SAR,'10, with 8 people in the room, and ten eventually--it's a single) and he found a can of cashews. He then disappeared from the crowd of RA's he arrived with. We literally have no idea where he went. if you have no idea why this is so funny, you probably never will.
Speaking of Sam Stansell, during the human chess game at Carnival, when the group yelled out Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam STANsell, he burst out into one of his trademark laughs in front of the whole campus. Later Stefan asked one of the members of the group why they kept on saying his name. They simply responded because he's annoying, to which Stefan replied "Say no more"
RA Matt
He's kind of short, kind of tall. Brownish-blondish-redish hair. Kind of fat, kind of skinny. Kind of active, kind of lazy. Kind of everywhere, kind of nowhere. Just awesomely average.
Alex Hart and Shira Hecht
Together, they are an awesome team. Hilarious in many a fashion and winners at leading activities, Alex and Shira make a dynamic duo. Session 1, 2010, they hosted dance parties in the Rounds 3 lounge whenever Quad Time was canceled. Add more antics.
Caroline Cusick
Caroline is a short half-asian RA who is bubbly and energetic all the time. She is an epic dancer and knows the lyrics to pretty much any pop song that Stefan could play. She was also voted as the unanimous crush of David Grimes Hall Sarartoga Session 1.
One of the more hilarious incidents involving Caroline was when she had the brilliant idea of putting blue cellophane on the lamp of CTYers Joanna's and Natalie's room and have a dance party. This later led to the light breaking and having to call Kenny over to fix it in exchange for fruit-roll-ups.
Also on the nevermore route Joanna and Natalie stole her phone and made her dance for it to the tune of Tik Tok, this attracted many Saratogans to stop and look, even holding up traffic which just goes to show how good her dancing prowess is. RA David Grimes also joined in and made $2.07 with his dancing.
On the last night, Caroline was on the last Wilmarth shift, and it was around 4 AM when boys started to leave their rooms in preparation for Passionfruit. According to her, this was not supposed to be happening, but as soon as someone offered ramen to her, she immediately forgot what she was doing, and went on a mad search for a fork. She later sat down in the Wilmarth 2 lounge to eat her ramen, while many a boy walked by wondering why she was there, sitting in an opposite-sex dorm, eating ramen. While eating and relaxing in Wilmarth, she decided to start a walkie-talkie sing-along, with 6 or so RAs trading off lines of "Break Your Heart," causing everyone in the Wilmarth 2 lounge at the time to sing along. During this strange occurrence, one CTYer, Peter Lu, when coming face to face with Caroline, very confusedly remarked "You're a girl" then kept on walking with Reuben Mathew.
Jordan Yeversky
Jordan Yeversky was a one-hit wonder RA who worked exclusively for SAR.10.1. An amiable and funny RA, Jordan quickly made friends with many of the campers as they discovered his easy-going nature. Even more, Jordan became known as the "hot RA" to many of the female campers, with some girls blindly signing up for his activities whether they were interested in the activity or not. Moreover, as a member of the SUNY Geneseo Ultimate Frisbee Team "Snail?", Jordan was the most talented ultimate player of the staff, a title which he proved true when he led the staff in the student-staff frisbee game to win 7-2.
Being a new RA, Jordan was given a handful of squirrels in his hall. Many of them had never even lived on their own, and thus needed constant supervision. The firstyears consistently locked themselves out of their rooms, fought for the showers, and stole from one another. Jordan had to settle many silly disputes as they came along, but being a patient RA, he never got angry and always maintained a cool composure. Nevertheless, the situations became more and more extreme. One night during the third week, Chris, a member of his hall, decided to try and make some ramen by microwaving it without water and it soon caught on fire. Stupid, right? All of Wilmarth had to evacuate the dormitory as RA Jeremy (known affectionately to some as JerBear), contrary to common misconception, unplugged the already flaming microwave, and poured water on it to douse the fire, action that could very well have saved all of Wilmarth. After this incident, Chris became known as BRB - Burnt Ramen Boy. One would think that Chris would try to stay out of trouble. However, on the third Wednesday, Chris and a friend decided that it would be a good idea to bleach their hair. After having done so, Chris went to his daily that day: Capture the Flag. During the activity, Chris began to sweat, and in doing so, bleach seeped into his eyes and he was rushed to the emergency room for three hours. From there on, Chris became known as BRBB - Burnt Ramen Bleached Boy. It's amazing that Jordan didn't punch a hole in the wall by the end of the session.
During the second week, Jordan along with student Avery Stonefish found a log one morning before class. Jordan picked up the log and carried it around with him wherever he went that week: on the quad, to the dining hall, to the dorm, etc. Curious, people began asking him what it was and why he had it. Jordan would simply reply, "it's a cool log." Agreeing that the log was in fact a cool find, Jordan held on to the log and kept it in his backpack. Now having signed it, Jordan has mailed the log to Avery as a memento of their unique but quite useless discovery.
On the second Wednesday, two days before the Student-Staff Frisbee Game, Jordan held Saratoga's first ever classroom session on Ultimate Frisbee Strategy as a daily activity. Having prepared well, Jordan handed out papers to each camper at the activity with Ultimate Frisbee vocabulary. Jordan successfully held a great classroom environment where he explained various offensive and defensive techniques, including vertical stack, horizontal stack, man-to-man defense, and zone defense.
Having heard of CTY through fellow ultimate team member Cameron Mack, an RA from the previous year, Jordan sought the position of residential assistant. He was interviewed by Andrew Moss who gave him an extremely rare, white, misprint lanyard from 2007, although Jordan had no knowledge of its value. When student Yih-Jen Ku had requested Jordan's black lanyard during the first week, Jordan claimed he needed the black lanyard for the next session. However, he did offer the white lanyard to him. Due to ignorance of its value, Yih-Jen declined. Yih-Jen later mentioned in passing to fellow student Young Guang of the rare lanyard, and Young, emperor at the time and fully aware of its importance, quickly asked for it. Jordan felt that Young, a solid emperor and trustworthy camper, was indeed worthy of the prize, as Young was known to many RA's as the "21st RA" (there were only 20 RA's). Though he somewhat stupidly declined the white lanyard, Yih-Jen ended up as the winner of Jordan's one and only black lanyard, as Jordan no longer needed it for the second session.
Unfortunately, due to an emergency, Jordan could not return to session two at Saratoga. He will be sorely missed by students and RA's alike.
Site Admin
Marty and Chris Hazzard
Marty was the Site Director in 2008 for Saratoga Springs and Chris Hazzard was the Dean of Residential Life. Both of them were all around great guys who partially got the idea that CTY was a place to be happy, not to be burdened by rules and unjust punishment. Their administration was a breath of fresh air for Saratoga after the evil rule of Tim in 2007. Unfortunately, they did not return for 2009.
Chris was known to often play guitar for kids when a lesser DRL would have been yelling.
Campus Staff
Chef Guy
Chef Guy Joey Cavalier works in the Dining Hall at Skidmore College in Emily's Garden, a salad bar. He often interacts with the CTYers sitting at the circle, or "captain's table"; posting signs, banning rulebreakers from the table, and offering melon (to the delight of many). He also hosts his own YouTube series, under the name chefdad2000, which can be found here.
This may be the same chef that reported a few students to the Baltimore rep for having a "salt war" before the last dance in 09.1, nearly losing them the dance (they were freed from prison half an hour into the dance).
He also happens to be related to someone in the band Cobra Starship, unless he was totally screwing with us.
