It can be tough to understand the lingo at Colgate and the significance behind it all, so we decided to provide an extensive guide for first years to help with the confusion.
22 Utica St. Café: Establishment that consistently takes over half an hour to top lettuce with dressing.
Bacon: Delicious breakfast meat, also place to get 3 shots of vodka with cranberry juice for $4.
Bean Boots: Footwear of choice for winter months (i.e. the vast majority of the year).
Chapel House: Small, quiet space appropriately located across from the cemetery. It has been said that some people never leave, or visit. Also a study space that frequently serves fresh-baked cookies.
Chipwich: Cookie ice cream sandwich, campus favorite.
Donovan’s: On campus pub, which consistently aims to please yet leaves the student body underwhelmed.
“DT”: Abbreviation for downtown, refers to the deadly intersection of 5 streets.
Jug: Seemingly unintelligible space, ridden with inebriated students (young, lonely males in particular) who exhibit primal instincts devoid of morality or reason.
Link Staff: Group of hyperactive, overexcited individuals, often found throwing balls with questions on them at unsuspecting families and new students. Hated by everyone but Link Staff.
Maroon News: Shit and the blotter.
Monthly Rag: Most informative news source on campus
No. 10 Tavern: Nichol’s, freshman bar, family-friendly restaurant.
Persson Steps: University effort to keep the student body active.
Residential Life: Branch of administration, works to ensure that students are in no way satisfied with their living conditions for four long years.
Slices: Establishment frequented by students prior to arrival at the aforementioned Jug, also frequented after visiting the Jug, or both before and after.
Chartwells: Infamous food provider for Colgate; consumption of Chartwells provided food has often been associated with a variety of negative side effects that are often found on the label of a bottle of Pepto-Bismol.
Taylor Lake: Public swimming pool, recycling bin, co-ed urinal.
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