.........what outfit they're in anymore? Is this true? Anyone know what the logic is behind ending such a very harmless and very old practice?
quote:So asking what outfit you're in is still on on inside the Quad? When you say no Corps "games" on football weekends, that includes basic courtesies like saying "howdy" and whipping out? Wow.
Zips aren't allowed to ask fish what outfit they are in outside of the Quad. That was a rule even when my sister was a fish in the Corps in 2006. Outfit hump its are still done and some outfits choose to do them outside their dorm every morning when they get back from chow - my outfit was doing that all the way through my Zip year in 2013.
The marathon whip outs to UCs are still used by fish to annoy them, it was seen as Good Bull, especially if a UC of your outfit told you all to go whip out to a friend of theirs and boot their time. We were always happy to oblige.
And, yes, there are no Corps games on football weekends, generally. When parents are around, fish are encouraged to relax a bit after the step off / march in activities and fanfare are over.
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So asking what outfit you're in is still on on inside the Quad? When you say no Corps "games" on football weekends, that includes basic courtesies like saying "howdy" and whipping out? Wow.
quote:I think the problem is more so that upperclassmen don't enforce expectations from fish. I remember when I was a zip walking behind two pissheads, one that new me, the other didn't. They both heard me, and looked back to see who I was, then just kept chatting. So I told the pisshead that didn't know me to peak his cover. He said something about ranger challenge heads don't need to, and just kept walking. So I asked him my name and he finally realized he needed to whip out. At which point I gave him a little talking to about tradition and respect. I don't think anything has become official policy as much as unofficial. And most upperclassmen either don't care or don't want to seen as the uncool/mean UC.
I guess I'm just surprised it's apparently become official policy that fish can essentially ignore UC on game days. It strikes me as overboard, particularly after watching unaccompanied fish do exactly that last season.
quote:He said his fish year was 1973, so I'm guessing 55 is his birth year. And he's class of 77 like me.
Are you FTAB class of '55?