Memories:CAR

1995.2

Gary's Hair

In CAR.2 '95 Gary- long time staff member, former CTYer, one of the founders of Passionfruit, and SRA for several years until his retirement in 97- had VERY long hair, we're talking past shoulder length here. Well, for before the talent show he shaved his head and guess what appeared on the talent show program cover? You guessed it, Gary's hair. Any CTYer who was there that year remember that incident, making it part of the CTY Hall of Fame.

1997.2

The Deaf Mexicans

On the first day of second session, a article appeared on the front page of the New York Times, detailing the discovery of a evil scheme, in which Deaf Mexicans were forced into slavery in the US. This in itself wouldn't have gained the attention of CTYers, if the New York Times hadn't displayed such a strange obsession with the story. For the rest of the week, front page headlines blared things like, "DEAF MEXICANS WRITE POSTCARDS!!" while on page 8, small countries were being over thrown. When they caught Versace's killer on page two, the Deaf Mexicans were eating waffles on page 1. This bizarre media event captured the minds of CTYers and inspired several wonderful discussion about the Deaf Mexicans, a song that was almost sung at the Talent Show, and an entry into the CTY hall of Fame.

Read about the bizarre Deaf Mexicans at www.nytimes.com. Simply search for "deaf mexicans", and their stories will pop up.

2005.1

Jeffy Ate Some Beans

At Carlisle 05.1 the girls of Sami's Hall were mercilessly tortured with the playing of "Beans" by Kurt Cobain over and over and over. Beans is a High pitched ramble authored by Kurt Cobain while on various recreational drugs. This was played in our lounge most of the session, as many as 10 times in one sitting. Jocelyn (a girl on the hall) spreaded the love by making all her non-CTYer friends download it on iTunes. Thus, the legacy of "Beans" lives on forever.

Infamous Chocolating

At Carlisle 05.1 students from Malcolm 3rd floor and Malcolm basement made Big Saturday truly a "Big" Saturday. The students formed alliances and banded together to exact revenge upon the most hated RA at the camp. Lynn, also known as "The Lanyard Nazi", was known for harrassing students about the finest of details, and enforcing made-up rules. On Big Saturday, Malcolm attacked relentlessly winning as many tickets as possible. The Jell-o toss was dominated by two Malcolm 3rd floor guys, Shwin and Yashi, who went back-to-back-to-back with the same cube of Jell-o. The Skittles race was dominated by Shady, from Malcolm basement, and Dave from Malcolm 3rd floor. Other Malcolm students went around gathering tickets and forming strong alliances. In the end, Malcolm thrashed all competition and collected the most tickets. The verdict was unanimous. Lynn was chosen to get chocolated. During this time however, Lynn, conveniently, was nowhere to be found. She had gone to escort students attending religious services. As Lynn was not there, Malcolm reluctantly chose 3rd floor's RA, Mike G. Just as Mike stepped into the kiddie pool to take his undeserved chocolating, cries of "We want Lynn!" began to arise from the group of Malcolm students. These cries became louder and louder, and soon enough, the entire campus began to partake in the deafening chant. At that very moment, Lynn showed up. and was given her campus-approved chocolating. With a new-found respect (most likely out of fear) for Malcolm, Lynn eased up on her Nazi-like ways.

However, after Lynn's dousing, it was found that the RA's had enough chocolate products left over to drench another victim. A quick voice poll (mostly between Ian, Reuben and Mike G.) wound up with Reuben in the kiddie pool. During the chocolating, he stood with his head bowed and fist raised, apparently imitating the infamous photo of the 1968 Olympics.

Edit: Lynn was my RA, Quad 8 forever, during that very same session. I just have to say it took two days to completely remove the chocolate from her clothing.

Edit: This even actually took place during First Friday, instead of Big Saturday. I was out of CTY during Big Saturday to watch a performance with my parents, and remember this happening during First Friday.

Edit: I love Lynn.

Edit: i had lynn that year, and this all went down on my 13th birthday.

Kings of Campus

At the end of Carlisle, session 1, 2005, an expedition of kids from Pete's hall (including Schuyler, Josh, Marshal, Ted, and Marshal's girl friend) went out to upper quad at 3AM in anticipation of passion fruit. There they sat, with blankets, books, and a 40oz bottle of soda (in a glass bottle, that appeared to be alcoholic). After a few RAs passed, Res. Dean Pete came out, looked at us, ask josh "what’s in that 40?", than preceded to tell us that we were going to get "raped" due to Carlilians propensity to commit violent crimes against each other. they returned to the hall, where they proceeded to hold a fully clothed morgy with the rest of the hall, who had been to wimpy to go out. For the rest of the day they were known as "kings of campus". the action even resulted in an interruption and stern warning at the end of the last dance session two, where Pete told the students that "anyone who goes out before 6AM will *never* return to CTY again, in any form".

In 2006, the RAs enforced a strict policy of not being able to leave your dorm before 7 a.m., or 6 on the last passionfruit, only if you were going to passionfruit (which is actually against the honor code, as it is discriminatory based on group affiliation)

Edit: Students are never allowed out of dorms before 7 a.m., the rare exceptions being for religious services, the morning runs (if they exist) or medical emergencies. Passionfruit is not a group, nor is it an affiliation. Everybody should experience Passionfruit.

2006.1

The Squirrel Theory

At Carlisle '06 session 1, there was a completely different theory by the exact same name as the squirrel theory made at Hamilton (Siena) nearly a decade before. In this theory, the abundant squirrels were actually RAs, spying on CTYers as to catch them doing anything against the rules. Squirrels would often catch kids making out or cussing. They could not fool certain enlightened CTYers, who would shoo the squirrels before doing anything illegal. The therory came into being after Lauren, more commonly known as Jesus, witnessed her friend Dina being hit with falling acorns during break one morning. After noticing a squirrel in the trees that they had been standing under, she assumed that it was her evil RA trying to keep Dina in line. Thus the squirrel theory was born.

Jesus would frequently scream at passing RAs "SQUIRREL!" then proceed to explain that if everyone didn't run away, they would pelt us with acorns. Particularly amusing during Big Saturday

Blue J's vs. Phoenixs

At Carlisle '06 session 1, a ledgendary rivalry arose between neighboring halls in Super Quad. One side, calling themselves the Blue J's because of a name coincidence, started a gang-like group, popular for it's hand signal. Once their neighbors learned of this, they decided to make their own group, the Phoenixs. Viewing this as an attack, the Blue J's became quite defensive commonly making raids on the Phoenix hall. One Phoenix described an instance where he was in the hall bathroom and a hallmate came in yelling "Blue J invasion! Everybody out! ATTACK!" A popular phrase amongst the J's and their friends was "You're either with the Blue J's, or against the Blue J's. And I hope to hell you're not against us." They even went so far as to call the girlfriends of the Blue J's "half-wings".

2006.2

Sesame Chicken

During CAR-2-06 , Zach's hall and Ryan had an ongoing joke about sesame chicken. It all started when Jerald L. saw an advertisement for a Chinese resaurant that had a low price on sesame chicken on one of the first few days. He then said "sesame chicken" in a Chinese accent. THis was assumed to be hilarious, and for the rest of the session, knowledge of this inside joke spread, and two students in particular, John I. and Ryan often spent the entire Meet Market talking of sesame chicken.

Edit: Jerald was at session one though...?

2007.1

The Splenda Fetish

During session one of 2007, a tightly knit group of friends (Mainly Ethics students, with a sprinkling of female Dissenters and one Existentialist) began to become obsessed with Splenda from the HUB. Dani would carry huge piles of Splenda packets back to the table and pour them all into her tea, prompting several card-swipers to voice concerns for her health. Morris, a friendly RA, liked to try to catch these students doing something CTY-I. He never really did, but his frequent trips over to the table made him a favorite of the Splenda eaters.

Splenda related activities began to include not only smuggling Splenda, but pouring it into beverages to make "liquid candy", eating it straight from the package, (once) snorting it, and hoarding it jealously, using it within the group as a bartering material similar to crack cocaine.

Several weekend afternoons were spent giggling in the grass while "high" on Splenda. The individuals involved now admit that this was probably some kind of placebo effect. Still, they were examined quite closely by passing RAs as possible druggies.

Hey Juliet

The basic story is that the 90's boy band pop song, Hey Juliet, by LMNT, which everyone loves, was finally given its fifteen minutes of fame. Ram, Steven, and Smiley dressed up as a 90's boy band, complete with rolled-up sleeves and a headband or two, and performed this song with the lyrics mostly memorized, dance and all, on the wall at the last poetry night as one of the acts. The idea came up when ram and i [erica] were on the phone on the last monday night, being stupid, and singing. the boys practiced daily in kline and just outside. videos of the performance will soon be on youtube and facebook.[This story has been edited by an eyewitness]

Edit: According to Rachel, Hey Juliet has become canon at CTY Carlisle, beginning with CAR.07.2. Edit: Apparantly, Hey Juliet had been a minor trend at other sites before this year, but thanks to Erica S. it caught on strong at Carlisle. The obsession with the song continued on into second session because of some of the double-sessioners (Rachel H., Amanda K., Remy A.) and the entire staff. The "Canon Crew" RAs were spoken to and agreed that the song was going to be placed on the Canon list as soon as possible.

2007.2

Musical Morning

It is well known at Carlisle that Sunday mornings are pretty relaxed. Students generally take time to sleep in, lounge around, do laundry, or in this case, play volleyball. The second Sunday of the second session, students Wendy Gu and Rachel Hull woke up early for Passionfruit. Afterwards, rather than go back to sleep they decided to have a laundry party. So the girls, accompanied by a dance mix CD, boom box, and plenty of dirty clothes, made their way to the bottom floor of Uber Quad. Since there aren't any campers who live on the bottom floor of Uber Quad, Wendy and Rachel had no bad feelings about facing the stereo out the open laundry room window, turning "hey Juliet" on repeat as loud as it would go, and going outside the window to play volleyball for an hour or so. Yes it was loud. It was only later, after the game and laundry was finished, that the two spotted a grumpy looking Bret Kramer exiting the bottom floor of the quad. Apparently the site director lives there, and was awoken to the loud renditions of the pop song.

The incident not only resulted in numerous and widespread recounts of the story, but it exposed the fact that Bret lives in the basement of an all-girls dorm (although every year at Carlisle there is an activity entitled "Oh the Places You Can't Go" that takes you, among other places, inside Bret's apartment) , earning this event a place in the hall of fame.

2008.2

RickRolled!

This could belong in either the Hall of Fame or the Hall of Shame, depending. During the third dance of the session, it was nearing 10:00, and Stairway to Heaven started playing. Yet it only played for a few seconds before....the entire camp was rickrolled! After the rickroll, the DJs did play Stairway to Heaven in its entirety.

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Bluejays vs. Phoenixes

Superquad was the spawning area for both the Bluejays gang and their eventual rivals, the Phoenixes. The adjoining nature of the halls made it easy to carry out "Bluejay/Phoenix runs," where the attacking hall would run up and down the defending hall shouting the name of their gang and making their hand symbol. By 2008.1, the violence had died down, however a rivalry between quads 4 and 5 remained on the second floor, having been started after a conflict involving the stealing of furniture from the shared lounge area. This conflict carried on throughout 08.1, and was characterized by each sides use of duct tape on the doors of the other. On the third floor, there was a giant glow-stick fight on the last night. Quad 4 managed to grab all the glowsticks, throwing them at Quad 5. Clay, an evil SRA who had been patrolling that night, came in and yelled at Quad 5 immediately after Quad 4 threw the glowsticks.

Hope for the Flowers

Hope for the Flowers is a book about caterpillars, with lots of nice pictures. But it is more than that. It's a sort of inspirational warm-fuzzy type thing too. Sarah T started the tradition of reading Hope For the Flowers aloud. The second Saturday of each session, CTYers gather under a tree at the upper quad in Carlisle and enjoy the peace and togetherness. Though many CTYers don't know about Hope for the Flowers, it is a wonderful tradition that deserve to grow into a passionfruit-like event. Thus, I'm adding it to the CTY Hall of Fame.

2012.1

Raf's Shoe

At Casino night 12.1, Exit's TA Max (who was unfairly attractive and overly flirtatious with most of the nevermore girls in his class) offered money to anyone who could bring him Ethics A's TA Raf's shoes. This quickly turned into Raf cowering on the floor, gripping his feet, and rocking back and forth while students surrounded him and harassed him in a fruitless effort to steal his shoes.

2013.2

SCHEME

During 13.2, Justin T. spread around the use of the word "scheme". "Scheme" was said when something was deemed notable enough to be called a scheme, or when there was a shady plan. This term was soon spread around campus and caused people to scream "scheme" for events not even deserving of the title of a scheme. The term "scheme team" was coined for people especially involved in scheme culture (i.e. screaming or saying scheme excessively). The CTYers of the original scheme team continued the legacy of scheme during 14.2.

Manny Quinn

During the beginning of second week the members of Adrian's hall banned together to order a mannequin from Amazon. This was information was not spread around extensively before the mannequin arrived. On the third Monday everything was normal when student left for study hall, but when they returned for Meet Market there was a mannequin in the end window of Uber Second. The mannequin was dubbed Manny Quinn (or Mann E. Quinn), and served to frighten and intimidate many the unwary pedestrian. At the end of session Manny was taken by Adrian back to his Maryland home. However, Adrian returned with Manny during 14.2.

2014.1

The Persecution of Shrek

Throughout the first session of CTY Carlisle, Brogres or "The Church Of Shrek" followers were mercilessly persecuted. The issue was brought to light by a massive gathering, which was more than a dozen people strong, near a Mod Sat soccer activity. The gathering labeled themselves "The Church Of Shrek" and appointed a priest to chant "Shrek is love, Shrek is life.", a quote from the popular 2014 YouTube video "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life", and the followers would respond with the same quote.

RAs and instructional staff to some varying degrees quickly were educated about the video and began giving out sanctions, usually five minutes off of Meet Market, life to anyone who made references to the Shrek video (e.g. "It's all ogre" or "Shrek is love, Shrek is life".) While certain staff members did persecute any remote references to Shrek, others simply persecuted references specifically pertaining to the "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" video, not to the movie.

The new policies against Shrek were deemed silly and oppressive by students and actually led more students to the "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" fandom. Other students challenged RAs by directly saying banned Shrek references and were persecuted sometimes. (Notably on the several occasions wherever the entirety of R.A. Robel's hall attempted to enrage R.A. Alex DeLuca by making multiple Shrek references during Robel's day off. Although Alex did not sanction anyone, the following day Robel sanctioned six out of the eight members of his hall, including 2015.1 emperor, Anshuman Sinha, for saying rather minor cursing such as "hell" or "damn" and also one camper for asking, "Can I be sanctioned for Shrek?")

One nevermore even slipped Shrek into his final passionfruit speech, saying "For me, CTY is ogre..." However, the RAs (and many campers) didn't pick up on it.

The Hannah Dance/The Michael

The Hannah Dance/The Michael was a dance move (indeed, a whole dance) that became popular in CAR 14.1 at the second dance. It was originally introduced to a group of girls in the HUB by RA Hannah. First noticed by others at the first dance, it was obscure and done occasionally by those in Hannah's hall and their close friends. However, at the second dance, it was done by Michael Kaufmann and immortalized. RA Jared allowed his hall to go into the dance first, giving them 3 minutes of dancing alone. Michael began dancing this dance, and never stopped. He stood on a staircase near the revolving chairs on the right and danced the Michael for the whole dance, including Stairway to Heaven and American Pie. The dance spread and soon multiple people joined him over the next two dances. It became widely known and was performed all over campus. There were even activities run by Hannah like Get Groovy, and taught more students how to do the dance. Many people know the dance as The Michael, but don't give credit to Hannah, enraging the girls of Hannah's hall and many RAs.

The dance move itself is simple: your arms swing to the left, around your body, and are pulled in on the right; ths is then repeated backwards. As you do this, your hips thrust side to side.

The Prank

On modsat, roundabout 2:00, this kid from Game Theory A got a brilliant idea - whenever people are trying to put their keys in to open the uber doors, let's press the handicapped button in the little alcove. They did this for about a half hour. Subsequently, someone got the bright idea to tell everyone "clap twice and uber will open!". They had done this for a bit until yours truly saw this, was convinced, and thought to himself "Why don't I just unlock my door, give my keys back, and just wear a lanyard around my belt?". Yours truly walked up to where the holy trinity (Adrian, Denno, and Diana) were sitting and proposed this brilliant idea. Diana questioned the truth of my statement, but I maintained it was true. Adrian walked over, tried it, and then got it to work. He then said that it was a huge security risk because anyone could go in. He called Lesa, she came over, and detected in 30 seconds the prank. Adrian walked over to the child, said "I WILL EXTERMINATE YOUR FAMILY" and then walked outside and shook his hand.

2014.2

The Cult of Alexander DeLuca

The cult of RA Alex DeLuca was started when Alex ran an activity reading HalfLife FullLife Consequences, a fanfiction about the video game HalfLife. After reading, Alex jokingly said, "We should start a cult now," but he was taken seriously by the campers attending the activity. During the next few days, whenever he walked by, campers began to say, "All hail!" every time they saw Alex. The following week, Alex ran an activity called "The Cult of John Freeman," during which he discussed sacrifices and other procedures for the cult to ensure that his cult wouldn't turn to the dark side. Allison Hsu was given the position of Cult Leader, and Diana Zlotea became the High Priestess. As High Priestess, Diana took the job of performing potato sacrifices in the HUB. During these sacrifices, a small portion of potatoes was used with a drop of Malt Vinegar. Diana gave an incantation, followed by stabbing the potato (to represent John and Gordon Freeman in the fanfiction). Each sacrifice was followed by a loud chanting of "All hail!" from the surrounding campers.

The personal bible of the cult was the trilogy of HALF LIFE: FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES, the beautiful vault of wisdom and deeper meaning that it was. Every meal, the leader of the cult would take the potato-based dish of the day, take a small portion, and drop a single drop of Balsamic Vinegar upon it. After reciting a short chant, a knife was slowly pushed through the portion, which would be thrown out at the end of the meal.

In the last few days, Alex's cult began to gain a large following, including most of the royalty and nevermores. During the last Passionfruit, the words "all hail!" were heard in many speeches, followed by a deafening reply of the same chant from the other campers. Although Alex may not be returning to CTY next year, the cult will live forever in our hearts.

EDIT (18-7-15): Alex has indeed returned to CAR and the cult lives on. Grant Central (a past member of the cult) had the fortune to be in Alex's hall, and he took over the duties of both Cult Leader and High Priest. All Hail.

Hamburger Pls/Dark Lord Chin Chin

The influence of youtuber Filthy Frank had infected the minds of a few immature teenage boys with the crazy antics of Pink Guy, Salamander Man, and the Dark Lord Chin Chin. This caused many of them to go around quoting Filthy Frank, crawling on all fours and screaming "HAMBURGER PLEAAAASE", or the ever popular "GIMME DA PUUSSY BAWS" and many other weird behaviors. The progenitors of the Filthy Frank Movement during 14.2 are most notably Aidan Y., Aidan L., and Grant Kim

My Immortal/Raving Revival

There is a tradition of reading "My Immortal", a fanfic of the Harry Potter series, in the downstairs couches of the HUB. The tradition was first started in 11.2, and has continued on ever since. It consists of really inappropriate and shabby writing, which makes it funny and beautiful. The rules are you have to read a paragraph of My Immortal, and if it has curse words in it you substitute them with the word "fruit". If you start laughing, you must stop reading and pass the binder off to the next person.

Recently, the raving community in Carlisle has experienced a resurgence in membership. There have been a number of people who have been activists in bringing back string-raving to Carlisle. In past years, Carlislians were only allowed to freehand, but now people are allowed to rave on Upper Quad during Meet Market. In 13.2 and 14.2, groups of ravers performed in the talent show by the names of Volxemort and the Death Deelers and Volxemort and the Death Deelers 2.0, respectively. These names were inspired by none other than the fanfic "My Immortal".

2015.2

Rameñata 2.0

In memory of the legendary 13.2 Rameñata, several campers coordinated a hoax involving piñatas and letters in said piñatas marked 1, 3, 7, and 'the last one'. These piñatas filled with flavor packets their misleading letters were placed around ATS before the second saturday dance in order to trick RAs into thinking that another incident with a ramen-filled piñata might occur. Furthermore, a camper placed a package of shrimp ramen on the drinks table during the dance. Thankfully, none of the students involved were penalized, and most of the RAs found it in good humor (although some threatened to destroy the piñatas brutally).

The Beautiful Grace of Mustafa

Some called him a madman. Some called him a prophet. Others quite simply referred to him as "that one kid who was kinda everywhere". Nonetheless, this site hopper that blessed CTY CAR with 2 years became a tradition within himself. Loved by many, despised by equally as many, everyone could agree however he became a part of CTY Carslile. I myself and many others agree that the session would not have been the same without him. With his ukulele ringing throughout the campus, or his freestyles at poetry night, he literally gave birth to a slew of traditions. From verbal accounts, his goal was to be a CTY "rebel" and create his own traditions. Oddly enough he became a main staple in a lot of them, and made the session one of the most enjoyable. It was hard to believe when describing to friends that someone so eccentric existed. It was really a "see to believe" with his crazy break dancing and raving at dances. From various sources I've heard he's either attending the Princeton campus, Saratoga, or not returning at all. Despite this, he will always have left a mark on Carslile.

Even though being mentioned in quite a few passion fruit speeches, he did not attend, claiming that "The easiest goodbye is one left unsaid", and promptly left camp without a trace.

2016.1

Joe's Bros

Also known as Joe Kelly's Air Band, Joe's Bros is a talented air band group from Joe Kelly's hall that first came together at Carlisle 16.1. The band formed during Hall Meeting the night before Talent Show Auditions to try and win Halls War points. Five members of Joe's Hall refused to do it, most notably Ethan. The nine who agreed met up in The Kline the next day for Activity Period 1 to work out the stage rehearsal. After at first choosing to do "Goofy Goober Rock" from Spongebob Squarepants the Movie, they instead chose Sweet Victory from the Spongebob episode Band Geeks. They made the auditions even Brandon was quoted saying "How did other acts with real talent not get in?".

At Talent Show all members agreed to dress as some form of rock. It ended as Ray dressing as Journey frontman Steve Perry, John George dressing as Glam Rock, Brandon as old rock, and Michael Medough as punk rock. The others did not dress up a certain rock genre. The group is best known for the big hit "Sweet Victory," which they performed at the Car 16.1 Talent Show, which ended with Triangle Player Richard coming out the last second when it was done, and asking "Are we done yet?"

Vocals: Ray Alvarez-Adorno

Air Keyboard: Eugene Choi

Triangle: Richard Shin

Recorder: John George

Air Guitar: Michael Medough, Nabi Muratbek, Elliott "Eugene" Strahan, Greg Harrison,

Air Drums: Brandon Brooks