Hallowgreens: When should it be ???

Recently some people have been tryna decide when Hallowgreens should be.  This is a difficult event/party to plan.  Even though ResLife/SMCM dictates when Hallowgreens is, every year people try to establish the date of the event via facebook events. 

People just don't understand that it literally gets decided during the summer by ResLife.  Any RA can confirm this.  When you get your RA duty schedule, it shows when Hallowgreens is.  ResLife, Public Safety, etc. all select this date so that they can plan accordingly to have enough staff on hand to handle the shitshow.

But people still don't understand this.

"DJ" Darren Leu in his prime

ANYWAYS this year, according to what I saw on facebook, someone made the event for October 27th.  This is the date the school chose for the event, and the date that makes the most sense.  Since it's in October.  Some people, like "DJ" Darren Leu believed that that it should be on November 3rd.

From my understanding, the logic was this.  Some 100~ students who compete in Fall Division III (the last division) sports have to play sports on Sunday October 28th.  So, they cannot get blackout drunk at Hallowgreens because it would impede their performance the next day.

1.  Hallowgreens is still legitimately fun and much more memorable completely sober
2.  Having played on a 'club sports' team (SMUT) we played every game hungover.  And we even won a trophy.

The point is, trying to change the date because a small minority cannot 'participate' is dumb.  It is as dumb as Paul Prazinski (I do not know how to spell that Pollack name) in 2010 (maybe 2009???) trying to push back the date of Hallowgreens because he and his 'bio' class would miss it due to a field trip.  Everyone told him that he was being stupid, and the date remained the same.

All in all, this resulted in a bunch of dumbasses (read: kids that are kinda clever and make me laugh a lot) making a new Hallowgreens event.  On December 29th.   https://www.facebook.com/events/157002124439597/

This sort of controversy will occur again in another two years.  One of the biggest issues at SMCM is the lack of 'institutional memory'.  It is the issue of 'remembering' what happened in past years.  Past efforts, past initiatives, past downfalls.  It happens at any college, and is incredibly hard to combat.  But it is something that both students and faculty/staff/administrators need to be mindful of.  The issue of the 'real date' of Hallowgreens are just minor example of the larger issue of a lack of institutional memory at St. Mary's.

Public Safety Bros to Become Legit Officers

Some "Newspaper" recently wrote an "article" (I think they are like blog posts???) about the Public Safety bros becoming Gen-Yoo-Ine policemens.  Seems to be a result of Zylak (new head of public safety and former St. Mary's County Sheriff and Bayless talking.  This means PS will have all the powers of real police to detain people etc.

Not sure that this will have a huge effect.  Kinda feel like offenses like underage drinking and drug possession will still have people sent to JBoard rather than jail.  Biggest change would probably be arresting/harsher punishments for Townies who are obnoxious on big nights like Hallowgreens.

Photo blatantly stolen from a newspaper that literally costs thousand of dollars a year to run

SMCM Student Bill Sokolove comments that

"Usually, things like this come out in all-student emails, and I'm wondering why that didn't happen, why we had to find out from an inside story in The Point News. The vagary is sketchy, and so is the policy. We need a dialogue between students and the admin."

Which is a fair point.  Feel like this is going to raise a lot of PANIC and there could have been some actual discussion with students regarding this since it is a fairly important thing and affects a lot of students. 

One positive is that they still won't have guns.  Some of yall may remember a certain potential Student Trustee who liked the idea of arming PS.  Still not really sure why but w/e. 

Just kinda feel like it would be cool if they told us why make this change.  There is obviously a reason, and not explaining that makes people feel like children or something.  Zylak mentions that students should be arrested if they put their hands on a PS officer, do yall agree?  What else is in that 1% of cases that should lead to arrest in Zylak and Bayless's opinion?

Dudes Dressed up as Frisbees

Woah check out these dudes in costumes that are actually FRISBEES circa 1981.  Pretty cool costume and they looked good as well.  I'm not really sure what the event was, or where this took place, but it looks like one dude has a microphone, so maybe this was during Orientation?

Boy Scouts

Met some Boy Scouts in my house on Hallowgreens, proceeded to flash them my Eagle Scout card, they seemed impressed.

Urgo Pumpkin

I think everyone's seen it, but this is so glorious

Hallowgreens Proof Your House!

Fellow Greens Residents!!  Good chance a lot of people will be checking out your house, so take time to get it ready.

• Clean up!  No one likes messy houses
• Remove breakables/valuables!  No one likes stuff getting broken/taken
• Get a mop!  Probably gonna end up with a muddy floor, which leads to
• Remove rugs/place more rugs!  Rugs will get muddy, but maybe better than floor getting muddy??
• Buy alcohol (for distribution to older people!)
• I think my house is doing that thing where you get a 30pack and a handle and country time lemonade mix and THROW IT ALL TOGETHER and it somehow doesn't taste horrible.
• I wanted to mix Rikki and food coloring but everyone else thought that this was a horrible horrible idea
• They are probably correct
• Buy candy (for distribution to young people!)
• REESES CUPS
• Decorate!  Kinda want to put gravestones on the portico
• Kinda thinking of locking back door + doors to rooms
• Clean up the outside the next day!

Wonder who invented Hallowgreens...someone provide details

Ahh memories.  I remember my first Hallowgreens.  Here is a cool video from 2006 Hallowgreens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L3hMJKLP18 which has a Pyramid, which I think was also made in 2007?  I'm pretty sure I saw one during my first Hallowgreens.  I dressed up as The Dude from Lebowski.  I think it was one of my first times on the Greens, and I was overwhelmed, it was just absurd and great.  Miss being a clueless first year sometimes.

Costumes

What are yall thinking about being for Hallowgreens?

I was thinking of being a Western Villain/trainrobber (via curly diabolical mustache).

Gonna have

• Top hat
• Fancy Dress attire
• Cigars
• Bag with money sign on it
• Rope (for tying biddies to train tracks!)
• Monocle (if I can figure out how to smelt sand into glass)
• A GUN

Should be a fun costume I think.  Thoughts?  What are yall gonna be?

Hallowgreens

In case people didn't figure it out, Paul P was tryna make Hallowgreens Friday because his class has a field trip Saturday night.  Obv that didn't go over well with everyone else.  Pretty sure ResLife/School planned for it to be Saturday from the beginning, like they usually do.

Anyways, summary is that it's Saturday like always.  See yall then.

Rikaloff Costume

So, I was googlin Rikaloff as I do every month or so, and I came across this. It's really small/low quality, but it's two girls dressed as Baltimore's finest brews; Rikaloff and Boh. Glorious. I want to see someone dress up as Rikaloff next Hallowgreens.

What do yall think. Is dressing up as alcohol

• funny
• ironic
• douchey
• lame (unless if you are Chris Rodkey dressing up as a jello shot)
• brotastic
• a good way to get laid

Sprinklers

I'm sure a lot of people heard about this or even witnessed the Sprinklers going off on the Greens the morning after Hallowgreens, but here is a picture!

This shit is ridiculous.

Image belongs to Julie Gunther

Hallowgreens

Is awesome