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Toe Party? No, it's a TOW Party!
Where could everyone possibly be going at this time of night? The big first football game is tomorrow, shouldn't we all be turning in early to be ready for it?
	No one is listening to reason! Well, wherever the group is going they certianly are excited to be going there. In all seriousness, a whole bunch of Hillcrustaceans were going down to what is sure to become an annual event: the Tow Party.
What is a tow party, you may ask? Allow me to explain: Alumni desparately want to relive their college days. One way that the university lets them do this is by selling season tickets to football games. The Alumni are willing to pay outrageous sums for this privilege. Therefore, Tech tries to cater to their wishes.
	Hence the new stadium facade. Ooh, ahh.
But one of the other perks of paying them insane amounts of money is a close parking space. And so on the evening before each home football game, Parking Services comes out to take care of the cars that students carelessly left in the various restricted lots. At 10:00, you are supposed to have your car out. Parking services gives you a ticket and calls your contact number to give you one last chance to move your car. At 11:00pm sharp, the tow trucks arrive.
	What we do as a group is go down and watch the towing occur. It is a spectacle that has become known as the Tow Party. Man, we are such terrible people. We did get there a bit too early, so fortunately we had a gigantic frisbee to keep us busy.
Finally the tow trucks arrived. They were greeted by the assembled crowd of about 50 people with many cheers.
	People had their picture taken with the driver and a group of especially motivated people spelled out "EXXON," the name of the tow truck company ("Campus EXXON" was a bit too long).
[Insert Obligatory Picture of Me Here]
	A number of tow trucks eventually came and towed away all of the cars. Each one was greeted with football cheers adapted for the current situation. We even got a poor quality video.
Bears and Terrorists
This one day I got back from class and was told something awesome was going on downstairs. So I investigated, and this was what I found: Bears and Terrorists Playing Poker. From left: Alejandro Bear, Col. Luck (a spy in the terrorist network), an unidentified Al-Qaeda member, and Bear E. Cool.
	Unfortunately, the terrorists won. But they got their just desserts when the Bears took their sweet revenge. As Han Solo explained in Star Wars, "Droids don't rip your arms off when they lose."
Since he was now being hunted by various terrorist operatives, Bear E. Cool hid out in my room and played Zelda for a while. He is still in hiding.
Movie Action
	At the first surplus auction of the year, someone in the building bought an old projector. After spending about 45 minutes calibrating its many dials (when was the last time you fixed electronics with a screwdriver?), we were ready to go.
Ooh, ahh, the first season of the reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica. And somebody got up and left, as you can see from the hazy ghost-like image.
	I had a projector, too. But it won't really turn on for some reason. So I got a bunch of electrical/computer engineers to look at it. Their verdict: "Don't mess around with it too much, because some of those things in there could kill you."
So I proceeded to close it up very carefully. Too bad. There's another auction in late October, and I might try to get another one then.
	Not having access to a projector seldom stops us from having a good time. Here, we use stadium seating in the Conference Room to watch MacGyver. Picture courtesy of Caitlin.
It's too bad the duty aides are missing out on all of the movie action during the week. Like David Chocolate (name changed to protect his identity), here doing productive things in the RA office.

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