Adrian, (and/or Matt/Jared) you flatter me with the idea that any type of sex involving me is 4 hours long.

But that is not the purpose of this post. Kelsey reminded me of another x-rated story I had promised to drop off on this blog, but had, as of yet, not gotten around to. So this is it; as told to me by the President of Deep Springs, his wife, a Professor there, and the student "Cowboy" Ryan, the story of why Deep Springs and the Telluride Associations are estranged siblings.

It all began when the Telluride Ass. became co-ed many years ago. Suddenly the two institutions had a major difference, and it was a fundamentally ideological one. Whereas before this up to half of the Cornell house was certainly going to be Deep Springers, after this that number dropped to one or two Deep Springers per Branch at best. But for the next twenty years the problem did not grow because there were still so many deep springers that were members of the Telluride Assoc. But after 20 years of few to no Deep Springers continuing at Cornell or the then Berkeley house in 1990 there was an inner fight at the Telluride Association ending with them voting that all TASPs must be co-ed. This included the Tasp that had for decades been hosted at Deep Springs. But because Deep Springs didn't want a huge fight, and because tradition demanded it, and because deep springs was already considering going co-ed, and because it was essentially 26 boys voting on whether or not to host ten 17-yr-old girls over the summer, Deep Springs still held a Tasp in 1990. .......and it was fine. But in 1991 when they hosted a tasp there were "sexual relations between almost every boy on campus and every girl in Tasp." So no more Tasps at Deep Springs. That same year Deep Springs found out it would be going bankruptcy in 8 years if things didn't change. So they put off debating going co-ed, and they started a capitol donations campaign, that included some money from the Telluride Assoc. that for tax purposes was made as a loan and not a grant. But then a few years ago, now that Deep Springs is back on track, the Telluride Assoc. voted to recall the loan if Deep Springs doesn't go co-ed by 2010. Ironically, Deep Springs probably will go co-ed by then, but won't if they think they're being black mailed into it.

However, one of the reasons CBTA and MBTA houses are so cut-throat this year, is because lots of Deep Springers are going there now, in hopes to patch up relations in the future.

And i'm sure I got some of that story wrong, but that's essentially the version I heard. Except my version was told by rugged smelly Deep Springers with more hand gestures, and during the x rated parts, more sound effects.

posted by john owens-ream   [10:29 PM]

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