Word: ceb
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...prepare to enter day four of spring reading period, you might have noticed that this year, with the cancellation of CEB Turf, all is quiet on the inter-house warfront...
Many of us really enjoyed CEB Turf. It was no work to them. And they killed it. CEB - you should be ashamed of yourselves. Please never call yourself ‘YOUR College Events Board’ ever again. You sure aren't MY College Events Board. MY College Events Board would never do something so cruel...
...those of you who were too absorbed in studying for finals to notice that your more valiant Housemates were fighting in a war, Turf was the online, campus-wide Risk tournament that was staged by the CEB for the past two years...
According to a CEB e-mail, the tournament was cut primarily due to lowered participation. There was also the issue of some Houses allowing a small group of people to control the armies of non-participating students. (That’s fair—we at FlyBy definitely recall relinquishing our fas emails last year in bewildered apathy and then promptly forgetting about the entire thing.) Plus, running Turf takes money and manpower to implement. Basically, it sounds like the CEB just got a little battle-weary...
...uncultured but humble) view, lyric-less selections are meant to be the stuff of symphonies, stoners, and stoners who occasionally listen to symphonies. This was Yardfest, not some crappy Woodstock do-over with a tire swing, bad corndogs, and a lot less acid. This was CEB-certified. This was supposed to be a sure bet. So FlyBy decided to check it out. And...well...it was pretty much what we expected. More after the jump...