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Thank you, LOS.16.2

It’s been another successful run of CTY’s Gummy Bear Society, marked by several occasions that deserve remarking upon:

The brand of gummy bears used was changed from Haribo to Black Forest. Is the shift permanent or temporary? No one knows yet

This was the first year in which the team included no original members of the GBS

Taped onto the front door of Whelan were the words “I like you I love you I CTY you” from bottom to top, in Post-Its accompanied each by a single gummy bear

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We’re getting nearer to CTY 2016!

I say we, but some of us, including the particular individual currently bringing this blog back to your dash, won’t be joining you this year.

Just wishing you a happy day and a happy life from all of us at the Gummy Bear Society. It’s April! We’re almost out of the dark!

—a friendly forevermore gummy bear sneak

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Tips: Restocking

Trips to Ralph’s over the weekend are a good way to restock if you didn’t bring enough materials at the beginning of the session. If you can’t go, pay someone else to buy things for you.

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I once tried to feed a gummy bear an apple. It didn’t bear fruit.

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Tips: Safety

Don’t do anything that could be interpreted as or could possibly be harmful to others. This includes (and these are things we’ve considered in the past) the cups-filling-the-hallway-floor prank, the filling-the-hallway-with-inflated-garbage-bags prank, and anything that could be a fire hazard. Really. Don’t get in trouble for trying to be funny.

(Also, both of the above mentioned ideas were abandoned in part because they required far too much preparation and we are lazy, lazy people)

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Tips: Preparation

Preparation takes a lot longer than you might think. Plan days in advance, if possible, and get all the details down before you go out (often, if many of your members are sleeping over together in the same room, a good time to do this is right there in the room before you leave to get to work). Bathrooms are also a good place to brief team members. Generally you will have a leader, but as our Constitution states, anyone can initiate commands. We work too quickly to spend time deliberating about decisions.

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Tips: About secrecy

You owe nothing to the Gummy Bear Society. Don’t make sacrifices for the sake of secrecy. If you’re being questioned by an RA with a serious face (not that we think they care about gummy bear antics enough to want to interrogate students), tell the truth.

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Tips: Sleep

Particularly on nights when you have class, don’t stay up to prank the dorm unless you’ve got a really good system and plan down already. Don’t sacrifice your CTY academic experience for the sake of pranking. That said, weeknights can be more unpredictable and surprising if you manage to get something done, and RAs aren’t on as high alert.

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Tips: Bathrooms

If you need to retreat to a bathroom (and usually this is where you will retreat, even if you hear someone coming toward the bathroom who might see you), go into the stalls. Try not to have the stalls more than halfway filled because it is the middle of the night and coincidences like six people choosing to answer the call of nature at one in the morning are not too likely. If you have a large group, some people can go into the shower stalls, but be careful not to be visible (if you can see them, they can see you) because lurking in the shower at night is supremely awkward.

For those inside the bathroom stalls, actually go to the bathroom if you can. When done, take your time, but if there’s still someone you don’t know (or an RA) in the bathroom with you, leave the stall and wash your hands, then proceed to a hall that the unknown person did NOT come out of, or stand in a spot outside the bathroom that cannot be seen by someone coming out of the bathroom.

Additionally, besides going into a bathroom stall or a shower stall, you can be washing your hands as the unknown person enters, and then leave, or you can just walk straight out the opposite door.

More to follow on bathrooms. There’s a lot to say about bathrooms.

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Tips: Stairs

Yes, the stairs are how you get from floor to floor, but there’s no need for anyone (RAs or students) to know what floor you’re from, or that you’re from another floor at all. We’re fairly sure that you’re not supposed to be going from floor to floor in the middle of the night anyway. So if you think someone’s going to see you, do NOT run for the stairs. Bathrooms are generally safe enough (more to come on this subject).

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Tips: Unknown persons

CTY students that you don’t know, or RAs, will be referred to in this post as unknown persons. You want to have someone always keeping an ear out for talking, and for doors opening and closing. If an unknown person is moving around on your floor, try to let your other team members know if possible, and proceed to the bathroom or stairwell if the way is clear. Unknown persons are generally just going to the bathroom, though sometimes they are RAs coming out to see what a noise in the hallway was, which means that you’re not being quiet enough.

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Tips: Walking

Walk, don’t run. Running makes you look shady and/or in trouble, both of which are attention-grabbers. If you don’t have any materials on you (e.g. obtrusive gummy bear bags, tape rolls, spools of string), try to look tired as you walk to the bathroom (it’s the middle of the night) regardless of if there are any RAs around.

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The Gummy Bear Societal Constitution (Articles 4-6)

Article 4 — Use good judgment. No rules are set in stone. Instinct (but never panic) is a useful tool to use for making split-second decisions. (This should have been Article 1, really)

Article 5 — The student bathroom on the floor that the group is working on is the first safe zone. Bathrooms are the first and last place to be entered when working on a (non-home) dorm floor, and are to be used with good judgment.

5a. When working in a hallway (e.g. taping gummy bears to dorm room doors), if an RA comes out, turn around, walk to the bathroom, and don’t look back unless the RA expressly asks a question. If a student comes out, see Article 4.

Article 6— No shoes. If absolutely necessary, shoes will be left in the home floor’s bathroom, out of sight if possible.

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I ate the left half of a gummy bear. It’s all right now.

Maybe it should become a football player, so it can get its halfback.

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This is a robbery: gummy all your money.

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The Gummy Bear Societal Constitution (Articles 1-3)

Article 1 (above all)— While working, all active members of the GBS will stick together.

Article 2— No member of the GBS will disclose another member’s identity without permission, even to other GBS members.

Article 3— The GBS is a functioning socialist dictatorship while working; every member is equal and every member is a dictator: split-second commands such as retreats, silences, hides, abortions, etc. are to be obeyed immediately, without question, regardless of who gives them.

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I like talking to raspberry gummy bears best, because they’re well-red.

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