Slope Day - tix for alumni

[Will]

[Q]MattShaf Wrote:

 I still have my '93 "Don't be a Dope on the Slope T-Shirt...Slope Day '93. Keep it Safe. Keep it Fun. Stay in Control". One of the first attempts at sober monitoring. Unfortunately, I was quite drunk while performing that duty.  

[/q]

Please please please tell me you have a picture of yourself in that shirt lying passed out on top of a pile of beer cans on the slope...;-)

[gobigred24]

So as an Alumnus planning on returning, this concerned me.  While they will be checking ID's, its is ~98% likely they will not swipe them, meaning as long as you don't look to old they should work.

RatushnyFan, email me and I will put you in touch with someone who can help you out.

mbcohen@mail.med.upenn.edu

[jy3]

just curious...what are they charging you for? is it for the blow up slides and what not? interesting...

[oceanst41]

My guess is that is to cover the cost of the concerts, since beer is something you must also pay an arm and a leg for :-(

Alas, I have only seen pictures and heard stories of these alleged "fun" slope days. But they have accomplished their goal and gotten rid of binge drinking on the slope, it's just moved to collegetown and the dorms ::rolleyes::

[jaybert]

beer/wine are actually really cheap at slope day.  its $1/cup for either if its like last year

[oceanst41]

Drinks are indeed $1 - I could have sworn it was priced more like a ballpark, but no argument here

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 Yeah, Slope Day kinda sucks now in comparison to what it once was.  I believe 2001 was the last really good Slope Day (combination of administrative circumstances and good weather).[/q]
Yeah, 2001 was the last real good slope day. 2002 had ugly weather, and 2003 is when they ruined it (and had ugly weather as well), if I remember correctly.

[KeithK]

The money may go toward paying for concerts.  But I suspect it's also meant to keep some people away.  Charge admission and some people won't want to come.

[JordanCS]

Glad I was there under the wire....having graduated in 2001, I never got to see this horrible incarnation.  Of course, my first slope day was the first that they wired off the top of the hill and I think they started banning glass either that year or the next.  

[Pace]

I never made it to my freshman Slope Day. I was way too drunk and barely conscious, having consumed the better part of a bottle of Grey Goose and gone to not one, but two minority parties the night before.

[CU at Stanford]

I recall my "Slope Day" as "Springfest," which tells you what decade I came from  ::nut::

My freshman year (1984): The Ramones in Barton Hall (bad weather)
My sophomore year (1985): Lousy weather, and I don't recall if there was a band
My junior year (1986): I think this was the year when Day Hall unilaterally relocated "Springfest" to North Campus (Helen Newman field).  Weather was not great, and I think we all went to get the free food and brought it back to the Libe Slope.  Kind of an unofficial beginning of the "uncontrolled era."
My senior year (1987): Glorious weather.  Robert Cray (who?) played the blues in front of the War Memorial.  The following week he was on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine.

Ah, those were the days...B-]

[RatushnyFan]

Thanks to Scersk and gobigred24 for responding to the question at hand with helpful information.

And thanks to Beeeej for hanging around on the fringes, pulling out the Strunk & White/Elements of Style crap.  I'm sure that wasxmonkey could use a guy with your skills in his high profile buy-side asset management job.  While he's making millions, he could probably throw a few scraps your way to make sure that his grammar and spelling are TOP NOTCH!!  Keep up the good work. ::nut::

[CUlater 89]

[Q]CU at Stanford Wrote:

 I recall my "Slope Day" as "Springfest," which tells you what decade I came from  

My freshman year (1984): The Ramons in Barton Hall (bad weather)
My sophomore year (1985): Lousy weather, and I don't recall if there was a band
My junior year (1986): I think this was the year when Day Hall unilaterally relocated "Springfest" to North Campus (Helen Newman field).  Weather was not great, and I think we all went to get the free food and brought it back to the Libe Slope.  Kind of an unofficial beginning of the "uncontrolled era."
My senior year (1987): Glorious weather.  Robert Cray (who?) played the blues in front of the War Memorial.  The following week he was on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine.

Ah, those were the days... [/q]

And in '86, they had the Del Fuegos playing on North (led by Dan Zanes, who, in one of those circle-of-life things for me, is now an incredibly popular children's "rock-n-roll" singer in my area).

For those who don't know, the name "Slope Day" is derived from the grass-roots movement, "Take Back the Slope Day".

[aznxjz]

Snoop Dogg is the featured act on Slope Day.  Not sure if you old timer Alumni would enjoy that type of music..
snooooooooooooooop

[RatushnyFan]

Hey, I watch Snoop Dogg's show on MTV.  I'm down with the shizzle.  That time he rolled up the catnip and smoked it and blew it in the cats faces at the pet store was classic.