‘Gate Proposes New Communities and Identities Class

HAMILTON, NY — Colgate’s required Communities and Identities Courses have offered students the opportunity to explore the traditions, history, and perspectives of global nationalities and ethnicities many incoming freshmen have never experienced, and will be unlikely experienced while attending a university whose racial demographic makes a loaf of Wonderbread seem diverse. However, upon realizing the incredibly unique biome Colgate presents, and the shock many first-year students experience upon enteringour hallowed, Key-stone stained grounds, (and that the strongest cultural whiplash most raiders can endure is a semester abroad in Manchester) the CORE Committee has decided to integrate a novel, applicable communities and identities option for the Fall 2019 semester: CORE’Gate. This class will allow students to study hands-on the new society they have entered, analysing texts and media from such integral sources such as Colgate Barstool and the Maroon News (Blotter only). This will be a unique experience compared to other similar courses, as numerous field trips and interactive experiences will be available for students to engage the fullest of the events and opportunities unique to Colgate’s campus, such as being the only five people at the Jug, trying to decide if Frank’s chicken is raw or not, and recognizing the kid in your Econ class as that dude you sloppily hooked up with at DU and then totally ghosted after he baby-burped Four Loko into your mouth.

For those of weaker stomach, in class assignments will also be encouraged to cement greater class unity and prepare freshman for the interactions on campus they will inevitably encounter, like how to react when a Beta screams the n-word while listening to Travis Scott at a party, or how to prevent your friends from jumping off of Curtis after course selection leaves them stuck in Oceanic Histories, the Challenges with the lowest RateMyProfessor score, and waitlisted for the eight class they actually need to take to complete their majors. One of the most exciting, if controversial aspects of the semester will be the culinary traditions investigation, where students will analyze the repercussions of shotgunning four KeyStones and how to properly grind Xanax into a soluble powder for frat punch. Finals will be forced to be taken hungover, and it is strongly recommended students taking this course invest in Pedialyte.

The Eviction Notice

Sigh. It’s that time of year again. The time where the semester is winding to a close, papers are due, and finals are looming ahead. So why not avoid all your responsibilities and get absolutely blasted on whatever you can get you hands on?

Materials:
-Peppermint Schnapps
-Hot Chocolate
-Everything else left in the fridge at the end of the semester

How to Play:
Close all the documents open on your computer, toss aside the textbooks and push your backpack to the side. Make a nice steaming mug of hot chocolate and liberally add peppermint schnapps. If the ratio is 2 parts schnapps to 1 part cocoa, you’re in good shape. Sip the chocolatey, minty concoction while you tear apart your room searching for other forms of booze. Everyone knows the drill — going home for a month means anyone could search through your fridge and belongings. Pull out the last beers from your fridge, the half handle stashed in your sock drawer and the suspiciously sticky white claw that’s been sitting on your desk for the past 6 weeks. Once you’re confident you found everything, make a nice pile in the center of the room. Invite some friends, or don’t, because the next part is simple: finish everything you have left, sleep to avoid your responsibilities, and hope you don’t sleep through your 9AM final.

Sex Position: The North Pole

Happy Holidays you Hamilton Hoes! This month’s sex position isn’t hot but it certainly will give you the seasonal warm and fuzzies. Three features are necessary to ensure your ideal polar exploration. First and foremost, find a consensual partner who shares a mutual love for flat, white, unforgiving bodies. Next, both of you will need to do extensive personscaping, as Brazillian waxes are necessary, remember: “there’s no foliage in the tundra!” It is barren, just like you’ll wish you’ll be if you forget protection, so lastly remember to wrap up those gifts! Then you’ll be ready to explore you and your partner’s most uninhabitable regions!

Amish Litter Than Any Fraternity Party at Colgate

HAMILTON, NY—As the first semester draws to a close at Colgate University, many students are beginning to grow tired of the typical Saturday night sweat-fest at DU or banal blackouts at the Jug. In response to growing frustrations at the seemingly routine drunken nights, the Rag sent an undercover team to a new party-hot spot: the amish community.

Upon arriving at the Amish compound, our team was pleasantly surprised to see thicc kegs with mysterious contents and the absence of the Colgate “X,” a favorite move of our beloved frat boys that stand guard at the door swagged out in their nike elites. As the night progressed, the compound members got progressively rowdier, chanting old german drinking songs and enthusiastically executing a bangin’ attempt at the Can Can.

The crowd’s sense of tradition as well as their famous moonshine recipe was a hit with the team, giving students a better blackout than the Jug ever has. “The energy was UNREAL. And those farm boys? God DAYUM. They have better arms than any DU football boy I’ve ever seen. I’d be a ho in their field any day,” gushed junior Ginny Tonic. The compound also excelled in their partying attire, with their whole crew smartly dressed in vintage suits and dresses with hipster-esque beards (a total catch). The attire brought an air of class and sophistication to the party while students shotgunned in the horse stalls, an atmosphere that is typically lacking in the frat basements choked with boys wearing identical Lebron James jerseys. “The dress code of the amish parties is baller. For once, I knew for a fact that I looked like the sluttiest girl at the rager. Big ego boost honestly,” senior Tiffany Hilton bragged.

As the night wore on, participants praised the unique music and the appearance of various horses wandering around the field in which the rager was hosted. “You have no idea how glad I am to not hear the same remix of Mo Bamba for the five hundredth time. This new acoustic cover is BANGIN! It’s so much easier to drop it low to,” junior James Smith said. His friend Tina Clark agreed, adding “This music? Lit. And who doesn’t want to play with a horse after downing a tub of moonshine? Lit. And the scenery? I feel so in touch with nature, more so than when I’m passed out in the village green post Jug night.” Our team left around 4am as the rooster began to crow, and were sent home in a VIP horse and buggy in true amish style . “The amish know where it’s at. 10/10 would recommend, they’re the littest frat in town,” said sophomore Dan Harvey before passing out on the steps of Andrews.

Amazon Selects Hamilton as Satellite HQ; Amish Outraged

HAMILTON, NY — Lines at P Chops became exponentially longer this week after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the e-commerce giant would be setting up shop in Hamilton, NY, for Colgate’s 5,000 Econ majors and 12 comp sci majors, prompting many Amish workers to go on strike.

“I don’t understand how people keep failing to realize that technology borne convenience will be our downfall,” exclaimed Abram Hershberger, a shelf-stocker who joined the strike. “Simplicity is the key to pure living!”

Upon hearing of the controversy that arose around his decision, Bezos commented, “While I hear the grievances of the Amish community surrounding Hamilton, from a purely strategic standpoint, Amazon cannot afford not to make this move. The amount of rich, white, prospective billionaires that can be found on Colgate’s campus can be rivaled only by resorts in Aruba during spring break!”

Bezos’s logic is admittedly quite sound; Colgate acts as home to approximately 4,700 economics majors, despite having a student body of only about 2,800. When asked for an explanation to this paradox, President Brian Casey replied, “Shit, I don’t know– I wasn’t an econ major.”

Amazon also recognized Colgate’s rapidly expanding computer science program as rationale for setting up headquarters in Hamilton; since last year, the number of compsci majors has boomed from 6 to 12, an astonishing 200% increase. Werner Vogels, Amazon’s chief technology officer, voiced his enthusiasm regarding the burgeoning interest in the tech field:

“I think it’s really great that they’re trying, look at the little fellas go!”

Time will tell whether the Amish residents of Hamilton choose to acquiesce to the will of the corporate juggernaut, or risk becoming the test subjects for Amazon’s newest prototype, the Amazon Echo Assault Drone (powered by Amazon AlexaTM), or, in Bezos’s words, “an example.”

The Herione Colgate Needs and Deserves

HAMILTON, NY — The hero stood for what is right and tried to save people. No, I am not talking about John Jug. Our savior rose from the cult (though not as cult-y this year) of Gate House. Rumors abound as to the identity of the hero. Most, however, agree that is actually a heroine. While the identity is currently unknown, the story of her heroism has spread through entirety of the campus.

“So, like, I was fucking there. I saw it all. She is such a badass. I mean, like, I wasn’t there there, but I live in Gate House. I mean, lived. Okay, man, it fucking counts. Anyway, I’ve heard the story like a shit ton of times so I know what happened. Okay, so like, the fire alarm starts going off at Gate House and everybody is, like, fucking panicking. But not her. No. You see, she was just getting back to her dorm from, like, class or some shit, when she realizes she’d forgotten her key. Before she’d left that morning, she’d set up a ‘pong table to hone her skills after class. And, like, she was going to play against herself. And, like, bitch cup was a goddamn cup full of vodka. This girl went hard. So, like, she realizes she doesn’t have her key and then remembers of the game she’d setup. She knows she can’t let goddamn campo see that shit. So, she gets this look and—holy shit man. She fucking bullrushes the door. Just like, lowers her shoulder and boom. She does this, like, seven times. Then she starts fucking punching the door. Like, jab, jab, jab, uppercut, body shot, jab, jab, until she makes a hole. Then she sticks her hand through it and opens her door. It was so badass,” Walton “Seventh Year” Logans, class of 2013, said.

As the story spreads through campus, the myth becomes grander and grander.

“I heard that this chick, like, fucking busted down her door with a high heel. She, like, put her hair in a ponytail, grabbed the high heel, and started wailing on that bigass door. It was so cute,” a sexist but well-meaning (I mean, kinda) admirer, Bradley “Rad Brad” Whiteashell, class of 2021, said.

Despite schoolwide clamoring for the heroine to be presented some plaque or commemoration, President Casey has so far refused.

“Guys, she broke down a door. While, yeah, it was badass, I just can’t give an award for that. I just can’t,” Casey said.

In spite of Casey’s failure to acknowledge just how badass the unknown heroine was, campo officers have offered her their unquantified respect.

Drinking Yourself a Sweater Doesn’t Work; Stop Trying to Make it Work

HAMILTON, NY — It’s that time of year again. Sources say that if you walk by the trees at night, you can hear the distant sounds of collegiate boys drunkenly screaming along to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas.” Yes, the joyous sounds of winter are in the air. For most, the winter in Hamilton is at best an expected inconvenience, and at worst a grueling six months of cloudy, snowy depression. For a select few freshman, however, this year is full of new experiences. We spoke with Caroline, class of 2022, who is originally from Los Angeles, CA.

When asked to comment on the weather she replied, “this is the first I’ve seen snow in my life. Like, I’ve watched “A Christmas Prince” on Netflix, which is how I assume the winter is going to be, so I’m definitely excited. It’s going to be so much fun!” Oh Caroline, you fool. Freshmen can be seen at any hour of the day “eating shit” on the icy hill walking from Frank to Curtis. California freshmen like Caroline have had their Canada Goose Arctic Expedition jackets out since fall break, thinking, “How much colder could it get?” The answer, Caroline, is much colder.

There have even been reports of students running out of class to play in the snow. We spoke with Kyle, another California freshmen. He shared with us that, “I was in Legacies on Friday, and I just like saw the snow, man. Like, from the sky. I was a little high, because, ya know, it’s Legacies. Anyway, that was the first time I’ve seen snow, like, ever, so I just said, I’m sorry professor, but I need to go play in the snow. She just looked at me blankly and I ran out. She really understood me.”

Kyle isn’t the only one enjoying the winter snow. Freshmen girls love the snow so much they continue to walk to local bar, The Jug, with no jacket for fear that it will disappear into the depths of the building which has been said to go straight into hell. All in all, the winter is bringing unrealistic and unwanted optimism from freshmen, but they will soon learn just what winter in Hamilton is like. It’s not all sleigh bells and “the alcohol is my coat.” That’s Tulane shit. Winter is coming.

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Breaking: John Jug Taken Into Custody

Hamilton, NY — Things have gone from bad to worse for local business owner John Jug after a late-night raid on his downtown bar led to allegations that he was serving alcohol to underage students. Despite numerous snapchat stories with captions like “Freshmen come blackout at the Jug tonight,” Mr. Jug maintained his innocence and accused the Hamilton Police Department of carrying out a witch hunt against him.

Friends, family, and customers became concerned for his welfare after he posted a series of Kanye-esque messages on social media. These fears proved well founded last Thursday. After Hamilton Police requested that he surrender himself for questioning, and after failing to appear at the agreed time, Mr. Jug was intercepted traveling south on state route 20B on his signature Jug Zamboni. He appeared to be in tears and ignored repeated requests to pull over while waving a Jug Dog at the pursuing officers and shouting “I’ll eat this thing, I swear I will. I know it’s over, but you won’t take Johnny Jug alive!”

New York State Police shut the highway down and formed an escort around the vehicle while police and local news helicopters followed the pursuit from the air. Colgate students followed the debacle on Snapchat where he posted stories like “No more Jug Blackouts #Slain.” Eventually, he was forced to surrender to police after his vehicle ran out of gas.

Inside the Townhouses’ Foot-in-Mouth Epidemic

Hamilton, NY — As the flu season once again descends upon the Colgate community, it brings with it this year a surprise – foot-and-mouth disease. For those readers who are uniformed, foot-in-mouth is a disease commonly caught by babies or toddlers who have not yet grown out of their oral fixation stage (is it really a stage though? the amount of juulers on campus say otherwise) and are too stupid to know not to put their foot in their mouth. 

Upon hearing an utterly bizarre rumor that foot-in-mouth was going around the Tohos, a team from the Rag was sent to investigate. An encounter with Caroline-Annemarie-Isabella Bennington outside of her place of residence raised our suspicions when she responded, “I don’t want to talk about it,” to our queries as to how any self-respecting college student could catch a baby-disease, and then stuffed what looked suspiciously like a wad of diapers into her open Coach bag before scurrying off. 

Believing we may have stumbled upon the reluctant mother of a love-child, our very own Hester Prynne (if you don’t understand that reference, it’s time to put down Fortnite and read for once) , who was keeping a small innocent child imprisoned (most likely in a basement cage) to hide her own indiscretions. The Rag team was able to (definitely not forcibly) gain entrance to a Toho and further our investigation. What we found inside was more horrifying than we could have ever anticipated.  

As we flung open the door, expecting to find an innocent, imprisoned child to heroically rescue, and then exploit through the publication of a gratuitously self-important article about our unfailing bravery, we were shocked by the sight that awaited out not-entirely-but-close-enough virgin eyes. There, in the middle of the common area, lying on his back with his toes in his mouth was a (surprisingly flexible) adult male, probably between the ages of 20 to 22, 5 feet 10 inches (no, not like that, perverts) and 185.2 pounds crawling around on the floor, wearing a diaper. Lying beside him was what looked to be a baby bottle. The substance contained within that bottle remains unknown, we suspect either a soy milk macchiato only one pump caramel please or Four Loko.

 Upon hearing the loud sound of the door slamming, the startled and diapered individual began to wail for “Mommy.” We made our escape just as “Mommy” stuck her hand down the front of the diaper of her “child.” The team here at the Rag would like to remind our readers that we are accepting of all races and sexual identities, but that we strongly discriminate against any fetishes that require one participant to pretend to be a child. We hope this reign of deviant behavior ends before the pandemic spreads throughout the campus. The Monthly Rag firmly denies that these last few sentences are an indulgent attempt at self-preservation.