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What you missed at PFW
What you missed at PFW was, of course, Blacker Deconstruction. At Deconstruction, all gather in the courtyard, Feast on Liquid Nitrogen ice cream, And destroy pianos. There are two pianos, one for the Moles, and one for the Prefrosh. Deconstruction is a contest between the two groups to see who can destroy their piano…
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Frosh Project
Every year when there’s not a big Interhovse, the frosh get together and build something, with help and advice from the upperclassmen. The idea behind this is so that the frosh can learn how to use power tools and construct things, and also so that they can have fun and bond as a class. Last…
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The travel journal of the Lowenbrau Lion, part 2.
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How to Build Your Interhovse
As you may or may not know, Little Interhouse is an party that each house builds and puts on once a year. Blacker’s Interhovse is always third term, and the hovse gets together to build something we deem awesome every time. This year’s theme was How to Train Your Dragon. We built our dance platform…
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Another Courtyard Inventory
3 years after the last inventory; let’s see what’s changed. 1 bored frosh with a laptop 1 bored senior with a camera 1 Blacker House Ct. street sign, hanging from the north gate 8 wooden pallets n pieces of wood scavenged from other pallets Bored frosh is not bored enough to count all this. 1…
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The travel journal of the Lowenbrau lion, part 1.
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Continuing the tradition of welcoming a new RA in style.
We had heard that Lucas, the new Blacker RA, was moving in on Friday, and many conversations were held on the topic of pranking him. The ultimate decision was made to remove the door inside the Womb RA apartment that led to the bedroom and bathroom and replace it with a wall. A…
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A Frosh’s account of Hell Ride (and “oh look, we’re posting again”)
There’s no better way to bring back this blog then to talk about Hell Ride. Okay, there’s probably a lot of better ways. But this is the one you get. What is Hell Ride, you ask? As explained in an earlier post, “This annual tradition, peculiar to Blacker Hovse, is probably the most…
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A Strange Occurrence
Any chance you were at Convocation today? It’s always good to see our friend the Lowenbrau lion 😉
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Welcoming a new RA…
As of this summer, we have a new RA named Adam. He is a pretty awesome guy, and he’ll be covering both Blacker and Ricketts. We have a history of welcoming our incoming RAs in interesting ways. We do small scale pranks often, but it’s particularly special when we get to use them to introduce…