Penn State Fanifesto

by brubby on Dec 2, 2009 12:11 PM EST

Its a slow week at work...

With all the stuff going on lately - ticket changes, Bowden leaving/Paterno legacy, BB trending etc - I've been wondering what exactly I expect from my beloved university and what they should expect from me. Maybe something like a two way mission statement that doesn't come out all PC & douchebaggy. Success with honor, but more specific and defined.

Here's what I've come up with so far -

Penn State should expect me to:

Support the academic, arts and athletic programs with investments of both time and money
Actively demonstrate university pride while being a good ambassador
Critically evaluate university actions to maintain and advance high standards

I should expect Penn State to:

Provide the tools and opportunities for every student to excel in their chosen endeavors from football to physics
Insist on high ethical standards for staff and students
React swiftly and fairly to correct outliers in performance and perception throughout the university community

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brubby = Aristotle of BSD

by speedomike on Dec 2, 2009 12:20 PM EST reply actions

either that,

or he got caught doing something naughty in the dorms has to write one of those 3 or 5-page reflection papers (depending on what you did) on what the university expects from you and how you can conduct yourself better as a member of PSU community.

i know about these anecdotally, of course.

We are gonna shock them with 5,000 mega watts of raw ROO POWER.

by psuwxman on Dec 2, 2009 12:29 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Wow - do I know you??

My roommate and next door neighbor got nailed Freshman year in Sproul for noise and not only did we have to “think about the damage we caused”, we had to put on a half hour skit/information event for the rest of the two floor RA division detailing the evils of late hour noisy gatherings.

At least they didn’t catch our party with the microfridge full of beer & Boones Farm Wine!

Still searching for posters from 1986

by brubby on Dec 2, 2009 1:47 PM EST up reply actions

Me and a few friends

got caught freshman year launching koapectate filled balloons with a 3 man winger through some girls open dorm window.

Man, when that balloon hit the screen and erupted kaopectate thoroughly coating her room we just howled. I can still hear her screaming, “you f-ing bastards what did you f-ing shoot into my room?”.

It was worth the 6 month probation.

One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's

by rahpsu92 on Dec 2, 2009 3:20 PM EST up reply actions

Nice

And this might be a record for furthest distance traveled in a threadjacking. Start with a high-minded effort at a Fanifesto and fly all the way down to the launching kaopectate bombs.

"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69

by jtothep on Dec 3, 2009 8:44 AM EST up reply actions

SPROUL

503 08-09 represent

NittanyWhiteOut.com. Arguably the second best Penn State blog I know of.

by PSUdevon on Dec 2, 2009 4:41 PM EST up reply actions

haha nah, my transgression was in irvin hall

in west halls.

i lived in a triple in the basement. my sophomore year, we decided it would be a good idea to invite the whole dorm over and get like 7 handles of liquor and set up a makeshift bar.

and it WAS a good idea until the coordinator noticed someone coming out the basement quad door with a red solo cup and acting suspicious, who promptly notified our RA’s, who were actually being really cool about it and looking the other way.

we had packed about 35 people in our dorm room, but at the time only 9 other people were actually IN my room, so my roommates and i got “hosting a party with alcohol” or something, and everyone else got underages (not official ones, just the university sanctioned underages). that was my 3 pager.

my 5 pager was for (allegedly) throwing marshmallows at a police officer at the PSU-UM game in 2007 and getting arrested. i was totally sober, and i’d like to know how they picked my face out of a whole crowd who was doing the same thing (throwing mallows on the field).

but man, that skit sucks. that probably took way more time to plan than my papers took to write lol.

We are gonna shock them with 5,000 mega watts of raw ROO POWER.

by psuwxman on Dec 3, 2009 8:13 AM EST up reply actions

Sweet

And no Madeira showing? None of the attendees were football players I guess?

by jtothep on Dec 3, 2009 8:43 AM EST up reply actions

Sproul 808 91-93

Yeah the skit sucked. We had to meet with the coordinator 3 or 4 times and put it on in the two floor study lounge. Almost everyone on both floors, plus our friends from other places who snuck in came out to mock us.

All of that for a couple guitars and some ladies on a school night?

Still searching for posters from 1986

by brubby on Dec 3, 2009 9:33 AM EST up reply actions

Ehhhh....

It’s nice, don’t get me wrong, but ultimately it would only hold value to those who care enough to value it.

by Tailgate Shogun on Dec 2, 2009 12:41 PM EST reply actions

Exactly...

that’s what I’m talking about… Obviously if you’re here and lurking you have some affinity to Penn State (or you’re just a dirty Pitt Patriot seeing what goes on at the grown up table). We are the people who care enough to think about some of the bigger issues.

Should it be win at all costs? What do we want our national perception to be and how can we as fans/alumni/donors etc affect that perception?

But don’t get me wrong – I really come here for the dream of high school girls wrapped in bacon involved in some sort of zug related debauchery

Still searching for posters from 1986

by brubby on Dec 2, 2009 1:51 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs