{"id":1148,"date":"2016-10-04T20:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:52:11","slug":"boc-minutes-91416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/2016\/10\/04\/boc-minutes-91416\/","title":{"rendered":"BOC Minutes 9\/14\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the BOC. I love you. You love me. We all love the BOC.<\/p>\n

Minutes<\/span> 9\/14<\/div>\n
A woody clearing betwixt the picturesque nineteenth century brick edifices of Bates College. A smattering of crunchy upperclassmen, along with small groups of nervous first-years, sit criss-cross-apple-sauce (apple-saucy-fact am I right?) in something that loosely resembles a circle.<\/div>\n
A rollerblading scrub enters left– SKRRRRRRRRR, BRRRRAHHHH<\/div>\n
More Bobcats enter left and right, hitting up that BOC life<\/div>\n
JKlein begins an impromptu game of duck duck goose (it\u2019s goose, shutup)<\/div>\n
President NATHAN D. PLOCK calls the meeting to order<\/div>\n
Directors introduce themselves–<\/div>\n
\u201cHey I\u2019m Nate and I\u2019m the president blah blah\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Noel and I like Katahdin\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Kurt and I run the snapchat\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m soccer and I run the e room with Miles (Kilometers)\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Audrey and \u2018ohhhhhh\u2019 I\u2019m a senior\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Emmet and I\u2019ll get wet with you\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Dan and I can go up things with my hands and stuff\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Paul and I\u2019m off the deep end\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Bruno and I\u2019m from Cali\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Josh and I am Kurt\u2019s apprentice\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Sam and I get pitted\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Eli and I get arguably more pitted\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not Tess but she\u2019s the treasurer\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Adair and I am a squid\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Sophia and I keep things fresh\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Emma and I ride bikes\u201d<\/div>\n
— Nate lets everybody know where the e room is. It\u2019s a great place (what a great place) \u00a0to get all the gear you need for your next adventure. It\u2019s in the depths of Chase Hall\u2019s buttcrack aka the loading dock aka the package center (RIP (Harambe)). If you rented gear for AESOP, go to the same place.<\/div>\n
— Meetings will take place outside for as long as possible. Why? Check the name of the club. When things get chilly we can either huddle like penguins for warmth (mmmm body heat. Flashbacks to AESOP? I hope not\u2026), or we can go to the meeting room. Meeting room is near the e room, in what could be considered Chase Hall\u2019s gooch. It\u2019s the far left door when facing the loading dock from Muskie.<\/div>\n
— All Bates students are considered active members of the club, but only \u2018Council Members\u2019 can vote on club business. To become a Council Member: Go to three meetings, go to a work trip (Rihanna will be there), and then tell a tale of any one of your dank adventures. If you do all that you get a rad patch as well as mad rep.<\/div>\n
— Soccer puts in a savagely shameless plug for volunteering at the e room. Get involved, people. Kilometers adds that this is a great way to work your way up the BOC\u2019s complex corporate hierarchy.<\/div>\n
A dead silence follows as the inexperienced administration has a catastrophic brain fart. Crickets do their thang. First years begin to leave. Kurt laughs about something he did on BDD snapchat. Things are getting tense.<\/div>\n
Paul the Deepest rips a fat stinker to break the silence. The poor first years to his right and left collapse from spontaneous asphyxiation, and Miles (Kilometers) gets to work. Ekey gives president Nate a mean backhand to wake him from his drooling stupor. The meeting resumes.<\/div>\n
— BOC meetings go as follows:<\/div>\n
– Announcements, Hell yes. (Eli has an announcement about surfing because he\u2019s a freaking degenerate) (Announcement two: Sugarloaf Mountain Bike Fest next weekend– it\u2019s sick) (Announcement three: don\u2019t steal the fucking climbing shoes from the climbing wall) (All of these announcements have me nostalgic for announce emails, RIP (Harambe))<\/div>\n
– Trips, Hell. Yes. (Soccer\u2019s going to Higgins) (Eli\u2019s going to Higgins) (Adair is going to the lean-to– send it) (Dan the Sendy is stripping the sending wall tomorrow—–WORK TRIIIIP) (Marshreddy is going for a bike ride tomorrow) (Rickerich the Tubular is going surfing mad early Friday morning) (Shred Barn–5:30–tomorrow–___SUNRISE PADDLE___) (Audrey is going on a run after the meeting, dude come onnnnnn)<\/div>\n
– This SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY (JK Saturday) is Clambake. It\u2019s a full-send adventure into lobster territory. Send it, shred it, love it, shine bright. Peeps are biking. It\u2019s a \u201cBeginner Friendly\u201d roadbike-required, 42 mile ride. Okay Maddy. Sure.<\/div>\n
– if \u2157 of your car is open you can get a BOC funded trip. Send an email and\/or talk about it at a meeting. \u00a0Do it.<\/div>\n
– GEAR. Finally\u2026 (Eli wants surfing stu— \u201cChill I got this\u201d -Bruno) (Dan wants $50 worth of climbing chalk) (I was supposed to send out emails? Nahhhhh) (Let\u2019s vote)<\/div>\n
–$800 for wetsuits APPROVED<\/div>\n
–Chalk already approved? waaaaat<\/div>\n
-STORIES. Shit yes.<\/div>\n
–Sarge fucking sent the Grand Teton. He\u2019s almost crushed by a microwave? \u00a0Two Microwaves? Three Microwaves? Four? He lived. His selfie taking partner really killed the vibe. Summited anyway. Savage.<\/div>\n
–Miles and Rosie decided to fuck their AESOP leadership trip over. It was not chill. Like nine miles not chill.<\/div>\n
–Paul the Deepest recounts the tale of the first (not) ascent of Mt. Bassie. The crux of his trip was pissing on his toothbrush. It was basically a 200% send.<\/div>\n
–Katie\u2019s yung camper (*rap air horn*) was shitty at shitting. Poops on her poop bag. Poops on Katie\u2019s poop bag. Pooping in bags? Overrated.<\/div>\n
— AUDREY GODDAMMIT ANNOUNCEMENTS are over. \u201cDo the outdoor nation thing\u201d \u201cOkay\u201d<\/div>\n
— \u201cI\u2019m Nate and I\u2019m the president and the meeting is over\u201d<\/div>\n
Miles manages to revive one of Paul\u2019s victims, but the other is in critical condition. He uses his pocket HAM radio to call in the CMMC chopper. It attempts a high-risk approach to the LZ. Kurt is performing snapchat shit. The chopper\u2019s rotor clips an ear of the bobcat-shaped library (it doesn\u2019t look like a bobcat). Kurt rouses the group into a BDD death chant as the chopper spins out of control, careening towards the ill-fated group.<\/div>\n
To be continued<\/div>\n


\nJames Pardo signing off<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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