<p>“Why is it so important that Lloyd be the same house it was when you left?”</p>
<p>Oh frankly, I’m glad it’s not the same as when I left. Lloyd was far better my freshman and sophomore years, in my personal opinion. And some traditions are better left to the shifting sands of time, anyway.</p>
<p>This is not one of them.</p>
<p>Let’s step back from you and me a bit, alleya. The Ride is a LONG Caltech tradition and was even referenced during Harrison Schmitt ('57)'s stay on the Moon (they played the Ride to wake him up, he hummed back a couple of bars of the Funeral March to indicate some perhaps-mock displeasure and named a fellow Caltech grad as the guy who “must have picked the music”). If its significance has ebbed in Lloyd in the last 3 years, that’s extremely sad.</p>
<p>This is a pretty entertaining recording of The Ride being played on the Moon from the NASA website: <a href=“http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/A17A1365505.mp3[/url]”>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/A17A1365505.mp3</a> (the dialogue has delays because of the time for transmissions to get to the Moon and back).</p>
<p>Thankfully, lizzardfire seems to prefer my vision, so perhaps things are on the upswing again!</p>