PDRHoya99
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Post by PDRHoya99 on Aug 30, 2007 0:38:41 GMT -5
Although the rest of the article is interesting enough, the most troubling element (and relevant to us) is the following: "This week, Georgetown University joined at least a dozen colleges in banning alcohol paraphernalia, specifically including beer-pong tables." 1) How does one ban a beer pong table exactly without also banning ping pong tables or plywood and sawhorses? 2) How will our graduates be properly prepared for the workplace where they'll undoubtedly be faced with alums of schools who have experience with the new high tech tables? It'll be like showing up at Wimbledon with a wooden racquet. 3) If we have an administrator with enough time on his or her hands to ban beer pong, I have just found at least one salary that could be better used towards an on campus arena.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Aug 30, 2007 7:42:34 GMT -5
This is a terrible move. Ed may be donating less because the University has lost its Catholic identity. I'm donating less because of this.
I'm just wondering how they are enforcing the rule - just taking people's table-tops?
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TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Aug 30, 2007 7:53:55 GMT -5
Current students can elaborate more, but what from I've heard from talking to them, the administration is cracking down hardcore on anything that could be considered "fun". DPS confiscating kegs, tackling people...apt. managers following people to parties and then breaking them up, etc.
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Post by JohnJacquesLayup on Aug 30, 2007 7:58:17 GMT -5
Unless GU bans leaving their folding tables on the lawn over night prior to or after an event, students will always have access to more "free" beer pong tables.
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H2Oya 05
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Aug 30, 2007 9:03:55 GMT -5
I'm hearing things are pretty miserable on campus. Apparently move in last week occurred after the new party registration deadline, so Metro and DOPS spent the entire night just driving around dc breaking everything up. I'm friends with a handful of seniors who have said that campus has ceased being fun.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2007 9:51:44 GMT -5
People really need to start differentiating between "beer pong" (played with paddles) and "Beirut" (in which ping pong balls are thrown into cups in a triangle formation). Am I the only one who gives a s--t about the rules?!?
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Post by williambraskyiii on Aug 30, 2007 10:03:54 GMT -5
Mark it a zero dude.
but yes, i too hate people who call beirut beer pong. beer pong is something those poindexters play at dartmouth...georgetown plays beirut.
and if i was still in school i would make it my personal mission to beat the living hell out of r.a.'s, apt mgrs, and their ilk, who actively followed normal kids to parties with the sole intention to break up said party. that is so absolutely ludicrous and reminds me of that no-fun loving donkey the former Dean Gonzalez (no relation to our esteemed ex-AG - please don't put me on The LIST!!!!)
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DrumsGoBang
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Post by DrumsGoBang on Aug 30, 2007 10:33:27 GMT -5
I once invented the greatest game ever!!!! Mystery drink pong!!! I think it may have killed some people.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Aug 30, 2007 10:33:30 GMT -5
yeah it's pretty ridiculous. You have to register any party from thursday night through the next wednesday by Thursday morning at 10am. In other words if you didn't register this mornign you can't have a party for a week. Ridiculous. Party's are limited to one keg. If you're party is borken up they'll take your keg. They've limitted the number of people who you're allowed to have in your apartment. 25 for most apartments, 35 for village A. You get an extra 50 people if you have a balcony or a back yard. I guess anything that's being used to play beirut on can be confiscated if you're foudn playing it. ( clearly a move created by flip cup fans). I was at a party last week that got broken up at like 1am by about 7 dops officers who burst in screaming at everyone. It was like a raid. It was crazy.
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Post by Boz on Aug 30, 2007 11:45:43 GMT -5
Ahh, quit yer whinin' and pull up a chair for a game of a$$hole. They can't confiscate cards, can they?
Goddamit, it was good enough for us in college and it's good enough for you.
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I don't know who they think they're kidding. All this does is inspire the boundless ingenuity of the college student to invent the next great drinking game. Ten years from now, Georgetown students will be playing [insert game here] and will be wondering "What the hell was beirut? That game was sooo splout."
("splout," of course, is the word students will be using 10 years from now to describe something lame/gay)
Seriously, though, sorry to hear about this new draconian campus. I blame it all on Martha Swanson. Evil, evil woman.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Aug 30, 2007 11:52:15 GMT -5
You don't need any apparati to play Questions. Or Zoom Schwarz. "You see, there's a ball . . . ."
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TC
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Post by TC on Aug 30, 2007 12:04:44 GMT -5
Tables, it's an invisible ball.
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Post by badgerhoya on Aug 30, 2007 12:10:40 GMT -5
Not just invisible, but metaphorical at that.
Dr. Galacawicz!
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Post by hoyaLS05 on Aug 30, 2007 12:36:18 GMT -5
Seriously, though, sorry to hear about this new draconian campus. I blame it all on Martha Swanson. Evil, evil woman. Ironically, Martha just retired. Check this out, though. It is a report recently issued by something called the Executive Faculty of the Main Campus that says, over the course of 20 pages, that students at Georgetown do not work hard enough, receive grades that are too high, and are involved in a social scene that is too alcohol-focused. They suggest the university takes steps to refocus student life (read: stop them from drinking). Perhaps most egregious part of the report though? They list Syracuse as a "peer institution." www9.georgetown.edu/executivefaculty/Documents/intell-life-report-overview.pdf
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Post by vcjack on Aug 30, 2007 12:37:24 GMT -5
There's a lot of outrage about this issue on campus, if things don't improve expect to hear a lot more about this
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Post by strummer8526 on Aug 30, 2007 12:44:32 GMT -5
To clear up one point: Martha Swanson was awesome. I could see her being a pain in the ass to certain people, but for anyone on her good side, she was hilarious. I blame everything bad on campus on Margie Bryant. THERE'S Satan for you.
You know that when Hoya basketball starts bringing a TON of positive attention and reasons for students to love Georgetown, this school would think of one big way to Edited it up completely.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Aug 30, 2007 12:46:04 GMT -5
Tables, it's an invisible ball. TC, I was actually referring to the Kurt M. Denk (S.J.) memorial ball analogy "you see, there's a ball." At least that's how the game rule was passed on to us, and how we've passed it on to others.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Aug 30, 2007 13:00:18 GMT -5
Check this out, though. It is a report recently issued by something called the Executive Faculty of the Main Campus that says, over the course of 20 pages, that students at Georgetown do not work hard enough, receive grades that are too high, and are involved in a social scene that is too alcohol-focused. I would like to respond to this travashamockery of a report but am too busy drinking and watching Flight of the Conchords on Youtube.
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Post by FewFAC on Aug 30, 2007 13:09:36 GMT -5
I couldn't believe such small potatoes enterprises took up so much of my time yesterday morning. "Yeah, we sold 100 tables last year, and are negotiating a deal to sell 1,000."
"We bought some balls, and resold them with our logo."
Someone should have been playing the game instead of writing about it.
Anyway, what I want to know is what penalties are going to be enacted if Campus Fuzz happens to run fast enough to catch me as I run off with my table-folded-into-a-briefcase.
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H2Oya 05
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Aug 30, 2007 13:17:05 GMT -5
I was told that three alcohol violations will lead to a semester suspension. (Not sure if that is hosting parties or just alcohol in general.)
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