<p>Now wait a minute. This is sounding kind of spooky. I’m nowhere near the East River so if anybody mentions a ritual involving the shoes presently on my feet and that so called ritual includes cement- I sure hope somebody I haven’t ticked off lately (assuming there is anybody remaining in that category, other than JeepMom 
) will try and dissuade them.</p>
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<p>Thank you. I stand corrected. As we are on p. 11 of this thread, I’ve forgotten if anyone has proposed a charter, motto or crest. As President Curmudgeon’s portrait has already been prominently displayed on cc (otherwise known as :eek: – nice likeness, 'mudge!) could the remaining cc smilies be displayed in some creative fashion on a shield to form our crest?? Anyone out there with artisitc/graphics talents that might be willing to give it a try??</p>
<p>And if the sluggbugg hasn’t been selected yet as our mascot, I would like to propose Mr. Potatohead as an alternate (the runner up, should the sluggbugg be unable to fullfill its duties…)</p>
<p>Lastly, I would really, REALLY ask that even if you are not on the architectural design , site selection or budgetary committees, that you take a look at the <em>gently used</em> dormitory (residential college) that is currently for sale on ebay. (It is hysterical!! take a look before ebay takes the site down <a href=“http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5569529369[/url]”>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5569529369</a> Be sure to read the description)</p>
<p>Well, I see two problems. One, of course, is the price - already over a million dollars. Way outside our budget.</p>
<p>But even more important - NO SHIPPING! We’ll have to pay to get it to the Alabama Shore or wherever our campus is going to be. Prohibitive!</p>
<p>I vote no, whether or not I have a vote.</p>
<p>Great find jym,Those Rice folks are irreverent prank loving scoundrels. Many many years ago the Marching Owl Band (the MOB ) goosestepped in front of the Texas A+M Corps of Cadets folks at a football game, The Corps failed to see the humor in it. Of course, that WAS the humor in it. LOL.</p>
<p>Thanks, curmudgeon, but I can’t really take credit for the “find”. It’s on one of the Rice threads. So, once again, good ol’ CC provides us with information and entertainment.</p>
<p>My s’s roommate is in the MOB. I’ve heard a couple of good stories, but I like yours better. Say… is Confedentialia going to have a band? An athletics program? I wanna hire that Ski coach from Smith that Soozievt writes about. No matter if Confedentalia doesn’t have a ski team. He justs sounds like a great guy. One class act.</p>
<p>dadofsam-
NEWSSFLASH!! The previous sale of the Martel Dormitory on ebay was ended early because “the item was lost or broken.” Its been reposted, and is currently selling for ten cents!! Should we grab it?? I guess w’ll have to figure out the shipping later. Of course, given Curmudgeon’s Texas ties, maybe we could set up the college on Bush property in Houston. I would think they would appreciate all the fine statues we have been planning to erect. </p>
<p>BTW, I had a clever idea for what to put in 'mudges other hand in his statue, but, uh… I forgot it.</p>
<p>Jym626: we can only grab it for a low price if it has a low “buy it now” option. Otherwise, it’s up for bids. The last listing started at 99 cents or something and quickly rose to seven figures.</p>
<p>Besides, shipping is still an issue; would cost more than our current budget allows.
I still vote no, assuming that I have a vote.</p>
<p>dadofsam-
I am, sad to admit, all too familiar with the “buy it now” option on ebay :o . As virtually all of the previous bidders were current Rice students, I have it on pretty good authority that the price will either stay in our budget or, if it climbs too high, it’ll mysteriously break again and be back on the market for 10 cents. I suspect the sale will end this weekend, with the completion of “WillieWeek”. So, like the proverbial dream school college admission without enough financial aid, it is tempting but we must let it go… Besides, you seem to be the only one with a vote on this matter :)</p>
<p>It looks too, too–how shall I put it?-- too much of a dorm coop for the free spirits we hope to attract to Confidentalia College. We need alternative living arrangements. Besides, I just read that traditional wooden huts withstood the Indonesian earthquake better than brick houses. Rows of Southeast Asian longhouses have a certain appeal.</p>
<p>I favor Mongolian sheepherder yurts. We could advertise them as doubles and use them as quads. In that they have holes in the center of each roof for smoke exhaust, we could also claim that each dorm room has a working fireplace.</p>
<p>Plus you can move your yurt if the folks next door get too loud when you are trying to study.</p>
<p>So we’re going to have a TX cowboy in topsiders presiding over sheepherders’ yurts?</p>
<p>Besides, methinks this thread is inexorably going in the direction of bedding and lofting, Do they make X-long twin sheets for yurts? How about some cashmere comforters?</p>
<p>Sheets and comforters will be readily available in kit form - some assembly required. Either lofting or sleeping in shifts will probably be necessary in quads.</p>
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I see a theme developing. Let’s work with it people. See where it goes. I think this idea may have “legs”. It’s multi-cultural AND budget friendly. This is an idea sent up from accounting , which I assumed we didn’t have because we don’t actually have a budget as we don’t actually have any cash, they suggest a required “Freshman Experience” where the students as a team building and leadership exercize construct their own accomodations from a variety of pre-approved styles.</p>
<p>As of now we have yurt and traditional indonesian wooden huts on the approved list. There has been an application filed together by some potential transfers from _______ and _______ (please fill in highly rated LAC’s and Uni’s of your choice) for mini-bars. The drawings submitted suggest they require no other habitation-just the mini-bars themselves and what appears to be an open-air water-closet. </p>
<p>I have sua sponte denied the application requesting construction of a Rococo structure and a massive internal investigation has begun to ferret out who filed it.(O.K. Not real massive. I really just asked SBmom if she did it, and she said no but-it is in the budget that we don’t have as a line item and I will request approval of the board if we ever did have any cash.)</p>
<p>This is a no brainer. Hay bale construction… a nice cheap “green” alternative.</p>
<p>The proposal for the freshman requirement looks fine to me, and better than most team-building exercises I have seen or heard of (and certainly more useful than any of them, including one that I headed in a former existence). It has my vote, assuming that I have a vote. I also support your action on the Rococo structure.</p>
<p>I don’t think that a dwelling consisting only of a mini-bar and WC would be a good idea. Too much possible liability on our part, and we don’t have a student health service set up. </p>
<p>I didn’t know that we had an accounting department. Who has volunteered to take on that (normally thankless) task?</p>
<p>It is well known that I have no sense of humor, but it does occur to me, as I read this and all the proud announcements of admission, that colleges could probably make quite a lot of money by putting one or two admission slots on Ebay every year. Would people buy a slot at Harvard at birth? Could they be resold?</p>
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“And lo from the heavens an angel of accounting appeared as if summoned by our pitiful cries of poverty.” (The legend is taking shape.)</p>
<p>I’m generally in favor of dmd77’s inspired idea of just cutting to the chase, stripping away all the duplicity and just selling a few spots to rich folk on e-bay regardless of stats. It will immediately vault us into the ranks of elite colleges, has proven itself there over the years and it comes at such an opportune time. As my sainted granny used to say every Friday after bingo, “We is broke-d”.</p>
<p>I dunno, honorable Pres. Could we get much without being a USN&WR ranking? </p>
<p>Thinking out loud now, maybe if we set it sufficiently far into the future at a time that it will be almost impossible for anyone to get into any college, we might have an attractive package of a guaranteed spot (and by then we should have gotten a good ranking). After all, that’s how they sell wine futures.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t we have to reject a bunch of applicants first so we can get into the Most Selective category? Hmm, maybe we can announce a special no-fee, no-essay, no-form application due by 4/15 targeted at all those kids who just got admitted to their dream colleges. We could then reject 1600/4.9 GPA’s left and right and gain the desired rep for selectivity.</p>