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The Campus Tour Guide Is Trying To Bone Your Sister Erica
Welcome to our campus. I’m going to walk backwards in flip flops and tell you all about it. My name’s Tyler, and I’d like to go around the group and find out everyone’s names. Let’s start with [you].
Thanks for coming, [your name] and [your parents’ names]. Now we’ll move on to the lovely lady next to you.
Erica. That’s the prettiest name I’ve ever heard. Wait, what’s that? You’re “just his sister”? Well…don’t think that makes you any less important.
In fact, I’d say you’re more important.
We’re already here at the science building, so let’s go into this lab. As you can see we’ve got the latest technology and great facilities. That’s why our pre-med program’s so great at getting people into med school so they can be rich doctors. Ha ha ha!
I know because I’ll soon be one of those rich doctors.
Now let’s go on across the Quad, where I’ll bring up the history of this area in a way that involves Native Americans, making me sound culturally aware. That brings us here, at the Student Union, home to a huge range of extracurriculars and activities. It even has an auditorium that seats three thousand people. I still can’t believe my band sold the place out.
Oh by the way, I play lead guitar in a band.
As we head out of the Student Union we come upon Remembrance Circle. This is a memorial to the time when, in a terrible tragedy, over a dozen of our University’s students were horribly…oh I’m sorry. I got choked up just then. No matter how many times I give this tour the tragedy chokes me up, because I’m so sensitive.
Of course I’m totally still available as a shoulder to cry on.
Now we’ll go uphill toward the gym. It’s got all kinds of equipment and great hours and the students get a lot of use out of it. Actually I’d be sweating right now if I wasn’t in that gym so often.
I’ve got crazy good endurance.
Now let’s go to that dorm all the way across campus. It’s got the dining hall you see here, where a lot of students get work-study jobs. Although those jobs don’t pay as well as being a tour guide does and I have plenty of money to buy drinks for girls.
Then let’s check out room #503. It’s not the dorm room I show every tour group or something. Because it’s my dorm room. Yeah, that super clean one with the bigger-than-usual bed. I’ll go on in and dim the lights down low and put on some unthreatening indie rock at a chill volume.
Oh and it’s kind of small so how about people from this tour group only come in one at a time.
[27 minutes pass]
Hey, sorry, just showing Erica the…anyone have any questions about anything?
We’ll finish up here in the library. Over 3 million books plus a wide array of electronic materials. And over there is the DVD collection, where you can check out the latest movies.
Wait, you all could check out an R-rated movie, right?
You could check out an R-rated movie, couldn’t you Erica?
But you could at least “check out an R-rated movie” without telling anyone you “checked it out”, right?
Hey great tour my name is [covers name tag] Deion. Bye! [runs out of library]
South Campus Sophomore Dates Their Way Into Watson Suite
Facing the worst housing luck of any SU student in recent memory, sophomore biology major Jessica Blanston upgraded her situation by dating her way into a Watson Hall suite. Blanston held the dead last spot in the spring housing lottery for the 2010-2011 academic year, and knew she was in dire straits. “They put me... MORE »
A Collegiate Dialogue
[The setting: the ground floor of Bird Library, Thursday night, 12:31AM.] ALEX SCHMIDT, GRADUATING SENIOR: (inner monologue) Despite being stuck in the library on this night because of my final exams, and despite feeling like it’s high time I graduated and went out into the world, perhaps I will deeply miss this place. For it... MORE »
Hey! It’s Me, Your Friend At A Warm-Weather School
Hey buddy! It’s been a while, right? Haven’t talked since high school. What you up to at Syracuse? Chillin’? Ha ha ha ha. I’m just playin’. Seriously, though, it must be dope up there in the snow. Wish you were here in [Florida/Texas/southern California] with me though, bro. We could do it up big-time. You... MORE »
Student-Led Expedition Discovers Ruins of Fabled “City of Syracuse”
Two Syracuse University students discovered a large complex of ruins yesterday which match descriptions of “Syracuse”, the thought-mythical Lost City of local legend. Louis Merton and Clark Winslow, two sophomore Anthropology majors living in Day Hall, were invited to a party at an apartment in the Castle Court area. En route, Merton and Winslow became... MORE »
Manhunt Continues For Mysterious Deviant Who Checked Out A Book At The Library
Today marks Day 5 of the Department of Public Safety’s ongoing search for the unidentified patron who checked out a book at E. S. Bird Library on Tuesday. According to the incident report, the patron chose a large, thick book from the shelves at approximately 3:30 PM. The patron then brought the book to the... MORE »
Daily Orange Inspires Newhouse Student To Become Crossword Puzzle Designer
Ryan Watkins was the only student in the food court working with a pad of graph paper and a Concise Oxford English Dictionary. He looked around him, shrugged, and kept writing individual letters on the paper. “Just the tools of the trade,” he said. Watkins, a sophomore Newspaper Journalism major, began making crosswords just a... MORE »