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Trainspotting
Thursday, Nov, 7
19:30pm Trainspotting
Friday, Nov. 8
19:30pm Trainspotting
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| screening of Trainspotting
| will be shown in its place.
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Thursday • November 7,1
Centerpole, students ready for stac
By Erica Roy
The Battalion
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Centerpole will be raised today at 4:03
p.m. after a week of activities have prepared
it for stack.
Sophomores were at Bonfire site Monday
and Tuesday night for Pisshead Wrap. Stu
dents representing Corp of Cadet outfits and
residence halls lined up for their chance to
wrap a cable around centerpole to stabilize it.
James LaMarr, a junior redpot and a con
struction science major, said the activity is vi
tal in preparing centerpole for erection, but
also makes for a good time with friends.
“It’s just a good-bull thing,” LaMarr said.
“Everybody just has fun.”
The process of wrapping centerpole begins
with a cable being secured to it. Sophomores
chosen from the crowd run one-by-one toward
the pole with the cable, wrap it around the pole
and then return, running, in the direction they
came from. When the cable loses its slack, it
snaps, pulling the student to the ground.
The cable is then hooked to a tractor and
pulled tight around centerpole.
Scott Hall, a senior redpot and poultry sci
ence major, said the origin of Pisshead Wrap is
unknown but probably arose out of necessity.
Fish Wrap, held Wednesday night, involves
wrapping old ropes around centerpole before
it is raised. Fish Wrap is performed by the out
fit that “gets” centerpole.
"It’s (Fish Wrap) a privilege for the Corps out
fit that gets centerpole,” LaMarr said.
A different Corps outfit or residence hall is
awarded centerpole each year. The redpots
choose the outfit or dorm based on the work
they do to prepare for Bonfire.
“The outfit or dorm that puts out the most
gets centerpole ... at cut, everywhere, all aspects
of Bonfire.”
Outfit K-l earned centerpole this year be
cause they were the “ones who worked for Bon
fire the most,” LaMarr said.
In addition to being able to carry out Fish
Wrap, K-l will fly their outfit flag on top of cen
terpole until Bonfire burns.
Centerpole arrives in two 60-foot sections
which are joined by a 10-foot notch on one
end of each section. The two ends are insert
ed like a puzzle piece to form the pole that
will support stack.
Dave Saiter, a junior centerpole pot and con
struction science major, said a 10-foot hole
must be drilled into the ground before center-
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pole can be raised. A crane provided byj^
land Crane and Rigging will lift centerpole,
“A crane comes in ... and lifts the
up,” Saiter said. “The junior redpots
in the hole. Then, you have to makesm
perfectly straight.”
Surveying equipment will be used to
mine if centerpole is straight. The tag
ropes which will lift logs off the ground on
stack, will then be tied. ( i _
Finally, the senior redpots will erectthtOXU0011
logs of the first stack. Stack begins today.
when Bonfire is worked on 24 hours adai
gins Nov. 14. 11
“Everybody works around the clock
Bonfire ready to burn,” LaMarr said.
The four perimeter poles around Bi
each h.ive two ropes attached to them tl
tied to centerpole to stabilize it.
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Corps outfits, which are chosen based ^
work toward the completion of Bonfire.
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