July 2, 2010

Today was a sad day for the LTC REU students because we were given some tragic news.

Last week we found out that the annual keg run was canceled because someone in the Stony Brook administration was putting pressure on the department. The keg run, which is an aspect ofe "weekly keg", is (as far as I understand it) a race aroudn campus that involves beer. The weekly keg is a gathering of the physics department on every friday in the summer to relax, drink a keg of beer, eat some chips, and finish off the week on a good note. The LTC students have been attending the keg for the past three weeks religiously.

But the story goes that late into the keg last week someone called the police, who came around and checked i.d.'s and proclaimed a keg on campus illegal. So, the weekly keg thus died. Apparantly, though, cans and bottles are NOT illegal vessels for alcohol, so the department has applied for a licence for those, which they are not expecting to receive for three more weeks, which is a significant percentage of the REU program. Needless to say, everyone is heartbroken.

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