In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we at the Monthly Rag wanted to show our thanks to our loyal readership. We understand that pong isn’t an ideal family activity, and the break is a hard time away from binge drinking for the Colgate student body. That said, we present to you a Thanksgiving dinner drinking game that the whole* family can enjoy.

*maybe not young children

Players: 1+

Materials:

(1) Bottle of Champagne, something expensive
At least (4) bottles of your parents’ nicest red wine
Bourbon and eggnog
(1) rack of Keystone

Instructions:

1. Start dinner off with a champagne toast to your fraternity. Chug the whole glass and smash it at the end to establish dominance.
2. Drink a glass of red wine between each bite of vegetables to mask the taste.
3. After dinner, work on your holiday weight gain by drinking bourbon and eggnog until you feel sick. Don’t forget to Snap “reply chug” at this step.
4. As everyone is sitting down for the football game, yell about how Keystone Light is the only acceptable type of beer. Try to teach your grandmother how to shotgun. Get written out of the will.

Here at Colgate, the Administration is serious about preventing hazing by Greek Organizations. We at The Monthly Rag have created a game to help you replicate the thorough way that they look for, investigate, and punish serious offenders, such as the Men’s Crew Team.

Players: 1+
Materials: (1) Bottle of Everclear

Instructions:

Take a pull when you see:
(2) Phi Tau’s together
A Phi Delt missing from their bed
A DU pledge with a milk mustache
A Beta with a broken limb
A Tach guy wearing a coat and tie
A Broad Street house hanging an anti- hazing banner

For most of campus, the end of the year is a time to celebrate the freedom from the academic abyss—but for you seniors, it’s time for you to face the dreaded future. As you laugh-cry into your can of beer, question what your life will be like, and maybe start a few fights about torchlight, we at the Rag have provided you with the coping tools to make it through this long ass weekend.

Players: 10+

Materials: Handle of Nikolai, case of Keystone

Instructions:

Family Fun Hole: Welcome your parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, awkward cousins, tired grandparents, and distant family relations that you can’t remember how you’re related to into your humble dorm abode. Make this seem like a casual gathering, but for every awkward childhood story your parents bring up, take a shot without a chaser. Feel the burn of shame.

Farewell to the Homies Hole: It’s your last weekend with all your friends in the same place. Probably ever. But don’t let that get you down—instead have your friend lift you up, into a keg stand or onto a raised platform.

Campus Escapades Hole: It’s been four years—you may have made a couple of enemies at this point. So grab a couple of dozen eggs and paint the town in yolk. Push a campo car into Taylor lake, break into your professor’s office—the campus is your oyster. For every successful prank you pull, shotgun a beer.

If you’re blackout by the end of this game—then you don’t deserve to call yourself a Colgate graduate.

It’s that time of year where you can release that stress over your plummeting GPA and bleak plans for the summer, and take revenge on both friends and enemies alike with a few dozen delightful pranks. If you’re looking to step up your game and blood alcohol content this year, we at the Rag have some special ideas for you.

Players: 1+
Materials: Any and all dranks

Instructions:

-Cook the library staplers in jello shots.

-Surprise Edward Fortyhands an unsuspecting acquaintance on the quad—make sure to double up on the tape so they can’t escape.

-Fill up your roommate’s water bottle with vodka.

-Switch out the Coop drink machine for with a few specially spiced frat-punch recipes.

-Freeze mentos in ice cubes and offer to make your friend a nice, icy mixed drink.

-Take the classic doodle-on- drunk-friends-face-with-sharpie prank, but kick it up a notch and try it out on your professor.

*Disclaimer: The Monthly Rag encourages safe behavior when drinking. If not, you have no right to be upset when we laugh at you after reading the Blotter.

The long awaited, hallowed Colgate tradition of the year has finally arrived—Recyclemania! The popularity of this event has skyrocketed in the last few years, as CNN and Fox New’s wide coverage of the event last year has inspired thousands of similar campaigns in colleges across the country. As everyone’s absolute favorite time of the year, we at the Rag thought we would spice up your next eight weeks with some drinking games to get you in the recycling mood. So sit back, relax, and let this drinking game help you forget about Scott Pruitt!

Players: 1+ Materials: Vodka, keg

Instructions:

– Drink the weight of your Frank food waste in beer or vodka—challenge by choice!

– 90s power hour your way through a keg—beer cans are for devil worshipping climate deniers.

– Drain the mix of jungle juice, sweat, and beer off a frat basement for a freshly re- cycled jug of punch.

– Take a shot for every Green Ambassador that harasses you in the dining hall.

– Sabotage other residential halls! Steal their racks, chug the beers, and add those recycled cans to your victory pile.

Squash the competition. Claim your right- ful place on the Recyclemania throne. When you play a game of recycling you win or you die.

And make sure to have fun, kids!!!

*Disclaimer: The Monthly Rag encourages safe behavior when drinking. If not, you have no right to be upset when we laugh at you after reading the Blotter.

The wholesome celebration of Halloween weekend, the tender embrace of a reunited family—a sadistic administration that once again shoves these two events into the very same weekend. Hello folks, it’s that time of year again! A time to test our skills of pretending to be a responsible, functioning human being that drinks “only on occasion.” To our new freshmen: prepare yourself for failure.

Players: 2+

Materials: Pitcher of jungle juice, case of beer…a handle of vodka just to be safe

Instructions:

-Drink for every typo in a text you sent to your parents.

-If you can finish a coherent phone call with family members without causing suspicion, shotgun a beer.

-Take a shot for every parent at a party, clinging to their glory days.

-Finish three cups of jungle juice be- fore dinner with your parents. Live on the edge.

-Give up, they’ve known all along. Offer a round of family shots.

-Bring your parents to the Jug. Let them know their tuition is buying this part of the Colgate experience.

-Let your handle of vodka nurse you to sleep before the intervention your family’s planned for you in the A.M.

This event is in honor of President Casey’s inauguration on September 30th. As we look back on where Colgate has been and look forward to where it will go, we expect not to see a dry eye in such an emotionally burdened crowd. More im- portantly, the Monthly Rag would like to remind you that this event does not need to be dry either.

Players: 2,800+

Materials: Any drink, fervent Colgate spirit

Instructions:

-For Casey’s pro-Greek life stance, enjoy a shot of vodka for every active Greek organization on campus Bonus: Take a shot of Everclear for ev- ery underground society

-Finish a beer for every President who has been in office during your time at Colgate; no exceptions to this rule for professors

-Take a drink if you’ve met Brian Casey

-GTFO if you don’t like Casey better

-During inauguration, drink when Casey says “the Colgate community”

-Finish your drink if he mentions the “Colgate Hello”

-Drink deeply if this is the higlight of your Homecoming Weekend