subversive acts

[exOBCstudent]

(05-21-2012 09:20 PM)redbeardiam Wrote:  Accumulating enough reps to be kicked out by October, but being really polite and soft-spoken in the Dean's office and evading all consequences.

Using ropes to climb over the roof of the administrative building and drop into the square in the middle to break into the building and do... well, nothing really. We just did it because we could.

Taking my ex-girlfriend's car to go 'study' off campus with buddies, deciding to stay the night. The security guard noticing that her car was missing, going to her dorm and asking about her/waking her up, setting a search of my dorm in motion... which I didn't find out a out until the next day when I showed up to change for class. Another trip to the Dean of Men's office.

Sneaking off campus at 2 in the morning to hit Dunkin Donuts, buy cheap cigars at the 24-hour Walmart and find an out of the way place to hang out and smoke.

Sneaking onto the roof of the dorm and smoking similar cigars, occasionally ducking down and shutting up to avoid the attention of the aforementioned security guard. (Now that I think about it, he totally knew we were there.)

I didn't drink til I went to Liberty.

That's funny because I often checked the roof (it was flat with high outer walls which hide people easily) of the dorm when I was on campus security too! There just so happened to be an old tv tower antennae right beside the building which made it too easy to climb right up there.

The biggest things I did (since I had full campus access as security) were tap into the phone line tower (directly) to get dial up internet while on duty (hey I HAD to check my email ), play Doom on my laptop in the guard shack while having my homework pulled up in the background as a cover, and sit in IHOP for free wifi (internet was TOTALLY outlawed at OBC).

Yeah as stupid as these sound now, they were grounds for dismissal at FU.

[C_Fresh]

I mostly flew under the radar at school and kept out of trouble (aside from my campusing over helping a student leave) but there were a number of things I did and never got caught.

College prez was going off on a chapel rant about men wearing jewelry and talking about neck"laces". He looked right at me while he was saying it. Unbeknownst to him, I was wearing one under my shirt that I'd made out of a pen chain and an engraved luggage tag. I wish I'd thought to ask him what he thought about shoe"laces".

I was building 'security' my junior and senior years which gave me a certain amount of liberty to do stuff. Our room was separate from the rest of the dorms and was behind the kitchen. I had great roommates those two years (two-man 'responsibility'). "A" had a DVD player in his laptop which we used to wach movies. Over Christmas break we and a female student watched one of the LotR movies in the teacher's lounge. She fell asleep on his shoulder. When "G" and I had the job, he had a computer and Neverwinter Nights. Many a late night was spent playing that game. Probably grounds for immediate expulsion.

Speaking of roofs. I got on the girls dorm a couple of times for leaving windows open in rooms that faced the roof. I noted that it was pretty easy to climb a brick wall to the top of a lower roof overhang and then onto the roof next to their windows. I tested it to make sure by climing to the overhang which was the (not very) hard part.

One of my jobs was making sure the building was locked up properly at night. Worst offender was the college prez who would sometimes forget to lock his door to the outside. This would have let anyone get into the building and the office group was right next to the stairs to the girls dorm which was at the opposite end of our 'L' shaped building from security's room.

[elfdream]

Once a group of us went to the store and ended up spending most of the day at a park in Greenville. We didn't do anything except enjoy the day. At first I was afraid that we might be spotted and turned in but quckly got past that. Looking back I think that well have been the beginning of the end for me.

[C_Fresh]

Oh, I almost forgot! A few of us guys would take trips to the local park on warm days to 'read our Bibles'. That was code for going swimming. We would go back up the trails and made a swimming hole in the creek. It was pretty cool. We stacked rocks across the water in a nice curving design with a chute opening to let out the water. I should dig out the pictures of it. Had one as my computer wallpaper for quite some time.

[notdrinkingthekoolaid]

(05-22-2012 07:16 AM)tiarali Wrote:  *sigh* going to a public university means I totally miss out on having any good stories to tell you all!

I don't think you were missing much. All of us that went to Fundy U had such odd college experiences. People who have no concept of fundyland look at me like I have 2 heads when I try to describe my college experience.

[exOBCstudent]

I remember the rules at the dining hall required all males to be wearing a tie to be served and had to have coat jackets to seat the females first. I had to go to work right after lunch so I was in my work clothes (which didn't include a tie) and the lunch ladies refused to serve me! I went to Goodwill and bought the cheapest, lousiest clip-on tie they had and carried it in my pocket in the lunch line. When they gave me hell, I pulled it out with a smirk and slowly clipped it on to my t-shirt and said "There! Doesn't that make you SO happy?". They always grudgingly served me right before work after that.

The stupid things fundies made us do just to get some food.

[LMcC]

Things I did that only people here will understand:

I started wearing pants or capris rolled up under my skirts the whole day when I was leaving for cuts. At first it was just wearing them on the way to the airport so I could just take off the skirt once I was on the plane, but I got bolder with time...

I wore a lovely floral "blouse" and long green skirt to Commencement my junior year. Afterwards, mom and I loaded the car to go home, I slipped out of the skirt to reveal that the "blouse" was actually a jumpsuit with shorts. The skirt went back over my lap until we got past the gate, then I threw my skirt at the back window.

My mother's associate pastor is a Hyles boy and one of my former classmates/tormentors. I waved an interlinear Bible in his face one day, and he was so surprised that a woman would have such a thing that he didn't even realize that the English part was NKJV.

[co_heir]

This isn't exactly getting around the rules, it's more just breaking them:
My freshman year, a couple of friends and I were up late and decided to streak through the second floor lounge. We ended up getting suspended for three days at the end of spring break (didn't bother me a whole lot because it just extended the vacation). At the beginning of the next year, a bunch of us went out to a camp where they held the freshman orientation. As the kids were settling down for the night, one of my friends played Taps on his trumpet. Well, the last note of Taps is the first note of another song, which he immediately moved into. Needless to say, the students were no longer settled in for the night.

On the way home, we stopped at Dunkin' Doughnuts for a while. Because we got back way after hours, we parked off campus and snuck on. Unfortunately, someone saw us and reported it, so we got in a bit of trouble over that. The Dean of Students wanted to kick us out, but he was overruled.

[JimE]

100 demerits/semester was expulsion. I always tried to get 90+.

[exOBCstudent]

(05-22-2012 11:46 AM)JimE Wrote:  100 demerits/semester was expulsion. I always tried to get 90+.

We had to pay $ for our demerits so it wasn't something that you could really afford to get.