On Campus - by Henry Chan on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:40 - 3 Comments - 34 views
If you’re wondering how to start off the much needed three-day weekend (or four, for those lucky bastards who have no Friday classes), here’s an alternative to the clubs, bars, and parties: the NYU All-University Games. Consider it NYU’s version of the Olympics, our school’s annual misguided attempt at fostering a sense of community among the many different schools, and even alumni. As if there wasn’t a sense of community already.
This year’s All-U Games will be held at Coles Sports Center, and events run the gamut from normal boring stuff like basketball to the hair-raising adrenaline rush of foosball and rock-paper-scissors. The highlight of the event? Sumo wrestling. That’s right—fat suits.
Each school will bring a mascot to the event. Stern, which has had a strong showing in past games, will have a pink slip as its mascot. Alas, one can only hope. But seriously, lame jokes aside, Gallatin promises to bring the year’s most original mascot: the imaginary friend. It goes right along with their imaginary majors/concentrations/whatever-the-fuck-they-call-them.
So if you feel like participating, just show up. Apparently there’s a formal process to choosing a team, but no one really follows it. The games start at 6 p.m. and should last the rest of the night. And then you can go get wasted/high like everybody else.
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@Brad: While I do agree that “our school’s annual misguided attempt at fostering a sense of community among the many different schools” isn’t the friendliest or most productive of lines, it seems to me that you conflated the entire post with that one part of a sentence. Read on and you’ll find amusing info about the games (foosball? sumo wrestling? awesome) and, more importantly still, it’s promotion that more than 2,000 unique readers have already seen today.
Also, where is exactly is your interview misconstrued if you weren’t quoted?
I saw the poster while waiting for the elevator in Silver (BTW, in America we spell it ’til’ not ’till’), and i was like, “F that S.” But now I might actually go simply because the event has been reduced to ‘Competitive Foosball.’ Thanks H Chan
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NYULocal can do better than this. Henry interviewed me last night, and unless he pulled from other sources, I believe he misconstrued every bit of information I gave him.
The entire article, despite being a plug for people to attend All-U Games, emphasizes the event as “our school’s annual misguided attempt at fostering a sense of community.” None of what I talked about with Henry last night suggested that the event is misguided at all.
It is one of the largest events based on attendance that the school holds annually, pulling students from all the colleges, and notably, alums as well. Everyone who attends has a great time, and for once, you can get a sense of not only community, but genuine school spirit through whatever college you’re affiliated with.
The tone and perspective of this article is exactly what I hate about certain blogs, and similarly, a climate among NYU students as well. If the only way you know how to write is through misconstrued, condescending criticism then get off the beat. I like NYULocal and what it’s been doing for media on our campus, but it’s posts like these that make me content with print.
I’m glad All-U Games and other campus events are getting promotional coverage, but the only good thing about this post is that I wasn’t quoted.