Mel Weyant

Mel is most assuredly a perfect combination of every staff member on East Campus 2010. Not only was she a TiPster in the 2005 llama posse, but she is Kathleen Mayer's right hand woman (and Kathleen is her left-hand man) and possess the bellowing voice of James Hicks (though James would like to argue that such an assertion is nothing short of pure fiction). She is awesomeness-incarnate and is the staff liaison for the annual flight of the llama. She often muses aloud about her 'coolness' in the eyes of TiPsters compared to Kathleen, but we all know there is no contest, and they tie, equally.

Another thing that sets Mel apart from the rest of the staff is her ability to have "ginger babies" as quoted from one Spencer Morris. She is a fiery red-head who had a TiP wiki page, but deleted it prior to coming back as a staff member because apparently she had done something so horrible she didn't want any TiPsters to know about it.

She is also famous for her devotion to and love of Hipster Tipsters, and runs Indie Dance Party at every term. She is THE founder of the Bad Poetry? Oh Noetry! notebook and reads it with Kathleen on TiP Llore night.

She was an RC in Alspaugh her first year on campus during the crisis of Swine flu AKA Swine '09, and returned as TA for Despots, Kings, and CEO's: The Empires Strike Back term 1 and Revolution and Terror term 2 (attempting to fill the shoes of Will Harris).

As one of the last remaining 'old' staff at East Term II 2011, tipsters were at some point divinely inspired to greet her with a passionate "HEY MEL!", normally at meals where she could be accosted by everybody. This would get on her nerves in due time, and requests for a new name to address her by would arise in the obscure "Hey Dex!" (short for Dexter, referencing the serial killer) that would be shouted by at least one nonconforming tipster. As perhaps a side effect of this constant recognition, Mel and the whole community of tipsters grew very close, and we llove her very much. <3