Today at work they wanted me to write up a description of my old hall at Covenant, the Catacombs. Covenant is working on some marketing strategies and wants to perhaps put up something in the future pointing to the diversity of hall life at Covenant. Here's what I wrote. It may not seem like that big of a deal, but it actually took me a while to describe Catacombs in a way that wasn't going to be outright offsetting. Heres what I came up with.
Catacombs:
Story #1: Catacombs has a yearly tradition of competing in any and all Battleball (A.K.A. Dodgeball) competitions dressed in a wide range of colorful Battle-garb. Recognizable “characters” on the team might include a Star Wars Stormtrooper, an African tribesman, GI Joe, He-Man, Darth Maul, or a 13th century monk. One year Catacombs invited a hall of Baptist girls from the local rival college, Tennessee Temple University, to compete with them in Battleball. The girls played the guys to a Covenant spectator crowd of over 100 people.
Story #2: Catacombs has another yearly tradition of the spring “chapel performance.” Rather than attend chapel on a given Friday, Catacombs will use the chapel period to set up an elaborate spectator event on the chapel lawn for the Covenant college community to enjoy upon their exit from the chapel doors. Past performances have included a Britain vs. Canada cricket tournament, a Japanese bluegrass concert, a scene reenactment from the 1976 film “Carrie,” and a “Day at the Races” with toddler three-wheelers.
Story #3: Founders Skit night has nurtured another important annual tradition for Catacombs, the much-beloved “Catacombs Superhero Battle Skit.” Each year, the members of Catacombs have found creative ways to incorporate an intergalactic superhero battle into the context of a well-written, music-infused skit, often involving other unique elements such as choreographed dancing and elaborate stage designs. Past skits titles have included “Falwell vs. Potter,” “Thus Sprake Fernando,” “The Hip-Hop Princess,” and “Cocoon.”
Story #4: The Catacombs Folk Festival is perhaps the most significant annual tradition for the hall, since it by far has the most positive effect on the campus community as a whole. Each year, the Catacombs boys host an evening of music, shared creativity, and fellowship in an intimate, relaxed atmosphere open to all Covenant students. Students from all over campus come to share their musical and poetic talents, creating over the course of a long evening a tender and joyous community experience that is talked about and remembered for months afterwards.
Story #5: The Catacombs boys are no strangers to creative pranks, and they pride themselves on (usually) committing pranks for the sake of fun and creativity and not for the sake of harm and destructiveness to the campus community. From staging a Beach Boys slip-n-slide party in Carter Hall in the middle of the night and in the middle of winter to giving fashionable clothing to some occasional roadkill, Catacombs likes to mix it up and remain the campus’ most unpredictable hall.
Posted by todd at July 13, 2006 06:35 PM