Tag: traditions

  • 2015 Lloyd Christmas Tree Prank

    2015 Lloyd Christmas Tree Prank

    This year’s pranking of the Lloyd Christmas tree saw a large present placed below it. Inside the present on the lower roof was the Lloyd gong. A fake gong (read: a cardboard circle) was wrapped and placed on the stolen frame in front of the tree.   When Lloyd refused to recover their gong from…

  • Power Tool Pumpkin Carving

    Power Tool Pumpkin Carving

      To celebrate Halloween, we always carve pumpkins in the courtyard. Not satisfied with just “normal” pumpkin carving, we also raid the tool room for power tools to simplify (or occasionally, complicate) the pumpkin carving. It’s a nice way to relax before the looming midterms, and pretty fun.  

  • 2014 Lloyd Christmas Tree Prank

      The Lloyd Christmas tree went up as usual, and it got pranked – as usual. The frosh class built a replica of the Lloyd gong, and set up a string of net lights down Millikan. It was rigged such that when the gong was hit, the lights would light up to reflect how hard…

  • Oh Christmas Tree

    Oh Christmas Tree

      In December, Blacker Hovse gets a Christmas tree for the lounge. It’s hung upside down and decorated with a wide variety of items (usually found lying around in the lounge). Yes, the ladder is hanging from the tree in this picture. No, Andrew is not hanging from the tree in this picture.   Last…

  • What you missed at PFW

    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…

  • A Frosh’s account of Hell Ride (and “oh look, we’re posting again”)

    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…