Feb 21 2007
Things to do to a campus tour (and guide)
It hasn’t been my intention to load these postings up with YouTube vids, and I swear to lay off a little in the future, but I just couldn’t pass up this one highlighting a prank at Dartmouth that had me giggling.
As an undergrad, I spent three summers on campus as a tour guide and every now and then had to explain away or divert attention from various scenes that one might not wish to highlight to prospective students - or, more accurately, said prospective students’ parents. Things like the rude saying that had been “painted” onto the roof of an old frat house using <i forget what, now - something like a varnish that wasn’t visible during good weather, but appeared clear as day when the roof got wet - like after a rainstorm>, or items one might wish wiseass coed friends wouldn’t hang in the shared lounge prior to a tour coming through just to see my reaction, or the results of an ongoing practical joke war, which left the “display bedroom” covered in toilet paper.
So, assuming that the tour guide in this vid wasn’t privy to the prank ahead of time, it’s pretty amusing to me to hear his attempt at addressing the spectacle: “I can say, for the most part…<snip of stuff i couldn’t make out>… uh, we party no harder, and no more than any other school…” Fantastic.
