Giles

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A dorm on Duke East, Giles has not used by TIPsters during most of the past several years (excluding 2006, since Bassett was closed for renovation), ever since the scattering into other campuses. Other TIP programs, such as TIP Leadership or great debates, use the dorm. It is faithfully home to the G-Spot, a really cool foosball table in the common room (if you get the chance to go in there), and a couple TAs.

Oooh and it's also fun....because every Buffy fan knows that Giles is Rupert Giles, the coolest watcher ever! (sorry wes)

Giles was first opened to TIPsters in the summer of 1998. Term I triumphantly welcomed the dorm to TIP use by winning Quadfest. Giles residents used purple to signify their royalty and dominance over other dorms, and even went so far as to kidnap a fellow camper named Gilles, naturally using him as their mascot for the term.

Giles is currently (2006) used for second year dorms and two mixed dorms of second and third years because Bassett is being renovated. Despite the third years' obvious seniority, they were stuck on the third floor of the worst dorm in all of East, with some little tiny second years due to the overflowing-ness of Pegram (because there were fourth years in Pegram. Why can't we just be separated by year?) Even more sadly, the super rad foosball table is falling apart. You can however play Wultimate foosball, using the handle that fell off as the ball. It is far more Wultimate and so much better. (Noting that Christine and Sally ferciously beat Alina and John Michael in the championship at Term 2 2006.)

Edit by Karen: Actually, Giles was used as a dorm at least once in my TIP career, and my fourth year was '97. But I don't remember which year, although I'm pretty sure I was in it. Hm, if I did live there it would have to be '95, my second year, because I was in Bassett my 3rd year and Brown my 4th. And I was at Davidson my 1st. So that narrows it down.

The second floor hallway of Giles dorm was a hangout for two different groups Term 2 2006.

The first group of people, also known as "The G-String", were made up of members of Calla, Karla, Jordan, and sometimes Andrew's rags and hung out in the duct taped area dividing the girls' and guys' sides, which was in the middle of the second floor. They would have incredibly crunk music wars, play cards, gather around Jordan during the nightly story time, play never have i ever and talk about things such as: edible body paint, sexy clowns, how everything is kinky, Mary's six track mind *4 of which lead to sex, drugs and alcohol* , and amazing pick up lines (i.e. do you like fireworks? and if you were a pirate, would you have your parrot on this shoulder, or this one?). Like 3rd floor, we also liked to play obnoxiously loud music, but more of the Vanessa Carlton/Britney Spears variety. People in the middle-hallway group included: Mary M., Shannon, Kris, John Michael, Alegro, Canice, Darrell, Morgan, Katie, Hannah, Sally, Christine, Erica and others.

The second group of people hung out on Andrew's hall. They were edgier, older, and more Xtreme, coming from faraway places (like...uh...the third floor of Giles). They engaged in games of truth or dare, candy fights (which ended with serious injuries to someone's face by a Twix bar, see Candy Wars), science experiments (which is why the spot on the carpet turned from dark blue to light blue, see The Carpet Spot), and more. Their music was from a different era and of a different quality; more often "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Living on a Prayer," and "Eye of the Tiger," blasted from speakers borrowed from Mitch, though "Every Time We Touch" was a classic from the Writing for the Stage members of the group (which, incidentally, got stuck in everybody's heads and resulted in random singing around campus). People from the group included: Alethia, Brian, Alyssa, Cailey, Rashmi, Maxine, Corwin, Zach, Grace, Soorya, Rhett, Katie, and Joseph (and Sarah from time to time). They lived to annoy Andrew and Swedish-Fish-Robert and Zach's Whore Fan was always plugged into Soorya's room, keeping them cool in the sweltering dorm.

EDIT: It is interesting to note that, during the (I believe) second week of Term II, the third floor girls were banned specifically from walking around in their bras and panties, due to an extremely whorish second year. Also, there we multiple sightings of one occupant of the end room on Rebekah's Hall in a towel, and only a towel [Edit by Spencer: Not that you'd ever see that anywhere else...*Alspaugh*], in various places in the dorm, excluding the first floor.