What is St. Pats like in the dorms? Is there a lot of involvment/participation regarding games, competitions, floats? Parties? I'd truly like to know.

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From what I've observed, people in the dorms aren't motivated enough to care about anything, including St. Pats. They administration tries to get students involved via RA's and hall government funding but it rarely has an effect.

I think 7N is getting into it, making a helluva big cudgel.

hopefully it's not anything like the one that was in the north lounge.

I don't think us "dormies" get involved in anything to the tremendous extent that fraternities do for several reasons.
A) We are much to large a body to have the bonding that is possible in fraternities so the competition level isn't quite as high
B) The diversity in the dorms is so large that separate programs never appeal to the whole body, so we're always divided in some way anyways

Personally I plan on going to every St. Pat event I can these coming weeks, and anyone that wants to accompany, it'll be a great time.

Just my $0.02

The biggest part of people not getting involved in St Pat's in the dorms is that people aren't generally aware of what is going on. In frats (what I assume anyway) is that St. Pat's is hyped from day one. If you asked most people in the dorms, St. Pats is about drinking, you wouldn't hear anything about the competition aspect. The dorms also don't have the sense of community that frats do. In the dorms its more like a group of guys who get together to eat and form Counter Strike clans. In the frats it seems like it is more of a 'let's be the best frat on campus' type of thing. Naturally this is a generalization, but I think it is mostly true.

Res Life tries very hard to keep the partying in the dorms to a minimum. However, the RAs this year seem to be only interested in doing as little work as possible. It will be interesting to see if anyone tries to pull anything.

You make some good points of why it is harder for non-Greeks to get involved in the St. Pat's celebration, but more importantly you show that it doesn't mean you CAN'T get involved. For everyone else out there, if you don't know what St. Pat's is about - make sure you find out before you graduate and miss out. Greeks don't want St. Pat's to be exclusive to fraternities and sororities - this is a celebration for the entire student body, the entire town, and anyone else crazy enough to try to party like we do. Here's to the 94th Best Ever St. Pat's!!

The more people, the bigger the party.

i dunno, you think fi you guys wantedt oyou could organize something... i can't believe the dorsm are doing a cudgel though... but as far aas parties go, i know aguy i went to high school with who i s asophomore (im a freshman) and when i was explaining to my friends about the awesome st pats party at sigma nu i went to, he said "i dont like to go out during st pats. i like to sit in my dorm and watch the drunk people"... now i dunno that just sounds anti social ... buuut thats not all the dorms. it would be neat to have more open parties druing st pats but because of guest lists and events that have heppend at certain houses itsjust not possible

English my friend, the language of the new millenium.... get a good grasp on it, and you might get out of here.

true

I believe my friend nsrbb5 was just slightly intoxicated when he wrote that, you dont have to get all bent out of shape.

and nearly a month later...

04-08-2002 3:41
Zantor
Sigma Nu

03-09-2002 22:44
Ryan
Thomas Jefferson Hall

...how about moving this topic to the archives?