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Pave The Quad & other WFU mysteries

wakephan09 said:
It is common knowledge, I think, that the XXIIIs operate with the explicit support of Student Government and the Administration.
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I was at a SG exec for two years and let me tell you that SG had nothing to do with XXIIIs. We would talk about if we got invited to the dinner and such - but none of us ran anything. We were the ones 'trying' to get in.
 
All of these are rip offs of Freemasonry in one respect or another anyways... most frats and secret societies are, actually.

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So the administration, in an effort to create tradition, creates a secret society that rewards those who serve WFU. In an effort to be picked for the secret society, more people try to serve WFU. Then they graduate and wear their secret society medals to graduation. Do I have that right?
 
ITK said:
So the administration, in an effort to create tradition, creates a secret society that rewards those who serve WFU. In an effort to be picked for the secret society, more people try to serve WFU. Then they graduate and wear their secret society medals to graduation. Do I have that right?
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I'm not sure that it's created by the administration or that many people even know enough about it to try to get in to. Yes to serving WFU and medals at graduation, though.
 
awakeandready said:
I'm not sure that it's created by the administration or that many people even know enough about it to try to get in to. Yes to serving WFU and medals at graduation, though.
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Freshman year they dropped those white papers with the symbol all throughout Wait Chapel during the Welcome to Wake convocation. They also always have the flag up for one of the football games (Homecoming?).

I think most of the younger kids know about it, though they may not know that it has anything to do with service or the people are chosen by the administration.

And from my year, I only believe one kid wore his medal during graduation.
 
AnonymousDeac said:
Freshman year they dropped those white papers with the symbol all throughout Wait Chapel during the Welcome to Wake convocation. They also always have the flag up for one of the football games (Homecoming?).

I think most of the younger kids know about it, though they may not know that it has anything to do with service or the people are chosen by the administration.

And from my year, I only believe one kid wore his medal during graduation.
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They dropped those during orientation for class of 2008 too. Kid next to me wore his medal and I saw several people with them.
 
AnonymousDeac said:
Freshman year they dropped those white papers with the symbol all throughout Wait Chapel during the Welcome to Wake convocation. They also always have the flag up for one of the football games (Homecoming?).

I think most of the younger kids know about it, though they may not know that it has anything to do with service or the people are chosen by the administration.

And from my year, I only believe one kid wore his medal during graduation.
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Hm, anyone from 2009 remember if they dropped stuff on ours? One year they did a lot of "mysterious" signage around campus for Seize the Quad (I think).

And yes, I think it is Homecoming.

That's what I meant - people know about it but don't really know wtf it does.
 
bojanglefunk said:
They dropped those during orientation for class of 2008 too. Kid next to me wore his medal and I saw several people with them.
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Yeah, I posted a couple pictures earlier in the thread of people with theirs on. The board member I referenced as well wore his during graduation. Think that tradition though might be optional and less popular than before.
 
wolfdeac said:
All of these are rip offs of Freemasonry in one respect or another anyways... most frats and secret societies are, actually.

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Well in that case, Freemasonry is a 'rip off' of medieval trade guilds, which ripped off mendicant religious orders, which began as earlier Catholic fraternal orders, which were based on pre-Christian pagan orders in Greece and Rome.

It is hardly an original idea.
 
i know at least 3 from my grad. class (2008) who wore them... it's interesting, while I fully expected some of the people I know that were in it to have been in it, I am intrigued by the membership of others.
Argh I wish I knew more about it; like, really really wish I knew more about it.
 
I was class of 2006 and didn't hear any of this stuff about it until years later on the boards. Seems silly that they wouldn't include people due to the logistics of a cryptic note.

If I was still in school I would for sure prank people with a comparable note and instructions though.
 
buckets said:
I was class of 2006 and didn't hear any of this stuff about it until years later on the boards. Seems silly that they wouldn't include people due to the logistics of a cryptic note.

If I was still in school I would for sure prank people with a comparable note and instructions though.
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I'd be doing it to so many people. Having them do something crazy at 2am on the Quad. Film them all and make it into a pretty legit video.

Current students. Step up.
 
wakephan09 said:
RJR Key Club.
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A looooooooooong time ago, I was the president of my high school Key Club. We would have conventions for all the NC key clubs and the RJRHS kids that attended those conventions were frighteningly serious about key club.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
A looooooooooong time ago, I was the president of my high school Key Club. We would have conventions for all the NC key clubs and the RJRHS kids that attended those conventions were frighteningly serious about key club.
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Our rival club (Civitans) put on a talent show every year, and many of the skits were making fun of the RJR key club. One of the most memorable had the RJR key club initiates in black robes chanting and ramming eachother in the ass with golden keys. High comedy at its best. Brasky will remember.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Civitans was banned from Tabor shortly thereafter for hazing IIRC
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Nope, it was my junior year. Part hazing, part attempted embezzlement/blackmail, part too many keg parties, part too many offended people, and mostly tattle-tale prom-queen's mom.
 
Phan... No. Freemasons trace significant changes in their history to those medieval trade guilds, but has its roots in ancient/biblical times.
 
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