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The concept of registering on-campus parties is nothing new at private universities, but these requirements are pretty insane.

by boc 4y ago

JumpCrisscross 4y ago
The policy looks like it's only for parties held by student organizations [1], not all parties held by its students, which makes the whole thing more silly than dystopian. [1] https://vaden.stanford.edu/student-party-policy-guidelines https://vaden.stanford.edu/student-party-policy-guidelines
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  I'm surprised they allow alcohol at student organization events, period. My boring public university no-one's heard of sure didn't, years back.
  - giraffe_lady 4y ago
    Look we are trying to have a moral panic about political correctness here get in the spirit please.
    - sideshowb 4y ago
      Spirit? That's a rule violation sorry
      - ben_w 4y ago
        I was raised Catholic[0], so I could argue that wine is a Holy Spirit. [0] technically
        yamtaddle 4y ago
        The blood of Christ, surely. I'm sure you've just committed some named, historical heresy. There's one for everything, it seems.
        ben_w 4y ago
        The original cover of The Hobbit has runes running along the outside; the runes read "The Hobbit or There and Back Again, being the record of a journey by Bilbo Baggins of Hobbiton compiled from his memoirs by JRR Tolkein and published by G?rge Allen and Unwin Ltd"[0]. I can read that because of my mum's books on doing fortune telling with Viking rune stones, which she kept near her statue of a Hindu god and some magic crystals. At this point, calling one of the sacraments by a silly name is the least of my problems if it turns out to all be real. [0] https://todayinbritishhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-hobbit-first-edition-dust-jacket-book-cover.jpg https://todayinbritishhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01...
        thaumasiotes 4y ago
        > published by G?rge Allen Obviously, it says George. (Knowing what an inscription means is actually an important real-world method of being able to read it!) The "Z" used by Tolkien there appears to be his own invention. The whole inscription is something of a mess; a few things are put into runes by sound, but mostly a fairly strict letter-to-letter transcription is used. This is especially bad in "published", which prints an "S" followed by an "H", reflecting nothing about the actual word. (The sound in question would, in a real Anglo-Saxon text, be represented sc, not sh; Tolkien in his other documents used a mirror-reversed S rune instead.)
        ben_w 4y ago
        It's also the only time he used that for "e" on that page, everywhere else on that page has "ᛖ" (ehwaz). Quite plausibly because, as you say, it's somewhat phonetic, given that's a silent "e". And yes, it is indeed a mess, the futhark I learned had only "ᚲ" for both "c" and "k", while that text has a different symbol for each in "back".
    - yamtaddle 4y ago
      God, now I'm thinking about how much better our fundraisers would have been if we could have sold drink tickets, for the organizations I was involved in. And how much more I'd have cared about fundraising if we could have diverted some of the proceeds to buy ourselves alcohol "for official functions", LOL.
  - filoleg 4y ago
    > I'm surprised they allow alcohol at student organization events, period According to the link above, "student organizations" also includes fraternities/sororities and athletic teams. Never heard of fraternities/sororities not being allowed to have alcohol at their parties before, outside of schools with a religious lean (e.g., BYU) or edge cases. I didn't go to college that long ago either, been barely 6 years since I graduated. The only relevant thing I remember we had was a "dry week", iirc during the first week of any given semester. During "dry week", fraternities/sororities weren't allowed to have alcohol at their events, period. Which made sense, because it was also the rush week, and the school didn't want fraternities/sororities to entice students with alcohol during their recruitment week.

The concept of registering on-campus parties is nothing new at private universities, but these requirements are pretty insane.

by boc 4y ago

The concept of registering on-campus parties is nothing new at private universities, but these requirements are pretty insane.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago

The policy looks like it's only for parties held by student organizations [1], not all parties held by its students, which makes the whole thing more silly than dystopian. [1] https://vaden.stanford.edu/student-party-policy-guidelines https://vaden.stanford.edu/student-party-policy-guidelines

yamtaddle 4y ago
I'm surprised they allow alcohol at student organization events, period. My boring public university no-one's heard of sure didn't, years back.
- giraffe_lady 4y ago
  Look we are trying to have a moral panic about political correctness here get in the spirit please.
  - sideshowb 4y ago
    Spirit? That's a rule violation sorry
    - ben_w 4y ago
      I was raised Catholic[0], so I could argue that wine is a Holy Spirit. [0] technically
      - yamtaddle 4y ago
        The blood of Christ, surely. I'm sure you've just committed some named, historical heresy. There's one for everything, it seems.
        ben_w 4y ago
        The original cover of The Hobbit has runes running along the outside; the runes read "The Hobbit or There and Back Again, being the record of a journey by Bilbo Baggins of Hobbiton compiled from his memoirs by JRR Tolkein and published by G?rge Allen and Unwin Ltd"[0]. I can read that because of my mum's books on doing fortune telling with Viking rune stones, which she kept near her statue of a Hindu god and some magic crystals. At this point, calling one of the sacraments by a silly name is the least of my problems if it turns out to all be real. [0] https://todayinbritishhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-hobbit-first-edition-dust-jacket-book-cover.jpg https://todayinbritishhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01...
        thaumasiotes 4y ago
        > published by G?rge Allen Obviously, it says George. (Knowing what an inscription means is actually an important real-world method of being able to read it!) The "Z" used by Tolkien there appears to be his own invention. The whole inscription is something of a mess; a few things are put into runes by sound, but mostly a fairly strict letter-to-letter transcription is used. This is especially bad in "published", which prints an "S" followed by an "H", reflecting nothing about the actual word. (The sound in question would, in a real Anglo-Saxon text, be represented sc, not sh; Tolkien in his other documents used a mirror-reversed S rune instead.)
        ben_w 4y ago
        It's also the only time he used that for "e" on that page, everywhere else on that page has "ᛖ" (ehwaz). Quite plausibly because, as you say, it's somewhat phonetic, given that's a silent "e". And yes, it is indeed a mess, the futhark I learned had only "ᚲ" for both "c" and "k", while that text has a different symbol for each in "back".
  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    God, now I'm thinking about how much better our fundraisers would have been if we could have sold drink tickets, for the organizations I was involved in. And how much more I'd have cared about fundraising if we could have diverted some of the proceeds to buy ourselves alcohol "for official functions", LOL.
- filoleg 4y ago
  > I'm surprised they allow alcohol at student organization events, period According to the link above, "student organizations" also includes fraternities/sororities and athletic teams. Never heard of fraternities/sororities not being allowed to have alcohol at their parties before, outside of schools with a religious lean (e.g., BYU) or edge cases. I didn't go to college that long ago either, been barely 6 years since I graduated. The only relevant thing I remember we had was a "dry week", iirc during the first week of any given semester. During "dry week", fraternities/sororities weren't allowed to have alcohol at their events, period. Which made sense, because it was also the rush week, and the school didn't want fraternities/sororities to entice students with alcohol during their recruitment week.