Pegram
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Pegram is a dorm at Duke East that is generally used when Bassett, Alspaugh, or Brown is closed for renovation. Its inhabitants are called Pegramites, and it is located between Baldwin Auditorium and Alspaugh. Originally it housed first years, however the transfer of all first years to Davidson led to its current role. Traditionally, Pegram held the youngest TIPsters on East Campus, but over the recent years Pegram has come into its role as go-to dorm in lieu of closed dorms.
In 2003, Pegram was closed for construction, and so second years were housed in Alspaugh.
In Term I 2006, Pegram was inhabited by third years (with some random 2nd years on the 3rd and 2nd floors). Pegram continued its Quadfest winning streak, upsetting the 4th years in Alspaugh.
One Very Cool Group of 3rd years/4th years ate Pineapple Pizza on the Pegram bench at midnight on the last night of East II 2003. Pegram is obviously good for alliterations.
Rumor has it that room 202 on the second floor is haunted. In Term II 2006 the girls that shared the room, Cally! and Alyssa, reported several supernatural events.
1) The smoke detector briefly sounding off for no apparant reason on several occasions [generally in the middle of the night, or right after lights out] despite the fact that it did not need new batteries.
2) The very locked door opening on its own late at night and early in the morning.
3) Various items disappearing, then reappearing, in mysteriously obvious places, days later.
It was boring, but fit more people. Pegram also had the most boring common rooms during Term II 2005, but occasionally two 4th year boys would come in and have impromptu jam sessions on the piano with guitar and sometimes harmonica accompniment.
I would like to point out that in 2005, there were "too many fouth years" to fit them all in Bassett and two fourth year RAG groups- one of boys and one of girls- was forced to reside with the third year Pegramites. A rebellion almost started on account of this, including but not limited to a plot to steal the Llama and barracade it in the fourth year room till we were allowed to reside in our true fourth year home.
In 2007, Pegram was not being used by TIP.
In 2008 Pegram was a mostly 3rd year dorm sprinkled with a couple second years and a 4th year. They almost won Quadfest, if it hadnt had been rigged, and had 2 second floor mens dorm that was accused of smoking. The Pegram Common room was by far the coolest place to hang out during the sparse free time TIPsters are given. During term one, this room witnessed the creation of the epic sport of Nut Ball by Calvin (AKA Sugar Nips), who was also the reigning champion of the sport. It was not uncommon to find more then one layer of people per couch, and relationtips abounded.
[edit] We got smokes
A play on the East Term 1 2007 now infamous "Alspavgh Knife incident," this page was created to remember the cigarette smoking/ questioning extravaganza that took place at East Term 1 2008 on Pegram second floor (Brown dorm was under construction, leading the TiP faculty to put the 3rd years in Pegram instead of Brown.)
In the first week of the term, a smell reminiscent of incendiary devices wafted from second floor Pegram. Over the next few days, countless interrogations took place, including a night where all 16 members of Blake's G.O.A.T. rag were questioned at once in Kelly the new OSC's office. Because they could find no evidence of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or any of the other illicit materials that were rumored to be prevalent on Pegram, no one was kicked out, put on lockdown, or had any sort of punishment placed upon them. (Though the only evidence of anything was the circumstantial evidence of cigarette smokes.) While "Alspavgh: We got knives!" is a much better cheer, the Pegram-Smokes debacle is a treasured memory that will not fade from the minds of East Term 1 Pegram 2008 inhabitants. It was Kelly the OSC's initiation into the TiP community.
Blake's Term 2 GOAT RAG of 12 did not get into any situations that would illicit the use of any punishment.
It was awesome.
edit: It was weed, not cigarettes
edit 2.0: Rumor states that it was both.
Pegram!wegotsmokes! 01:28, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bench
- In 2004, the Pegram beach was a redition of Van Gogh's Starry Night.
- In 2005, the bench was rebuilt, and simply stained red-brown.
- In 2006, the Pegram bench had undergone a paint job. In addition to the boring stained red-brown color, a pirate's skull and crossbones had been painted on it along with the phrases "Surrender the Booty" and "We're the Shi
pT" - In 2007, the bench was black with little blotches of multi-colored paint all over it (very druggy, resulting in the nickname "The Shroom Bench")
- In 2008, the Pegram bench again became a rendition of Van Gogh's Starry Night. Can you say, back to start?
- The Bench was used by Chris Squitieri and Ralf Popescu as a place for "High Thoughts". Despite the name(And the two individuals involved) no weed was involved. The two individuals made observations about social patterns of groups of people walking along the quad. The two individuals were having "hippy" thoughts and many people thought they were high while making these observations. One included naming the "bitch" or "outsider" of the group when 2+ people would walk on the quad. These observations were more often then not very accurate.
Pegram!wegotsmokes! 01:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
