Respice et Prospice: A Collegiate University IOT

[Double A]

Robert I've done like half of the things I hadn't done

 

[NinjaCow64]

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Name: Sir Tim Berners-Lee College (Bedcaster has a tenuous connection to Sir Berners-Lee that the various computer focused colleges try and milk for all it is worth)

Head: Eugene Birmingham, he is a comparatively young College Head (early-thirties) who tries to be in contact with the students as much as possible. Is often seen at student organized events in an unofficial capacity. Student reactions to him range from "He's an alright guy" to "Oh no why is he HERE?!"

College Motto: Scientia Aevitati Novae (Knowledge for the New Era)
College Value: Eadem mutata resurgo
Bar Name: "The Quantum Bogosort" (a bar that has a large amount of arcade machines and various other video-game related equipment. It is also infamous for the "Bogosort Special", where the bartender pours and mixes random drinks until the desired drink is produced or the person who requested the special asks the bartender to stop. Usually the drinks produced by a Bogosort are sold to other patrons).

Genders: Mixed, with an unfortunate bias towards men. Eugene has tried to solve this problem, with mixed results.

Gowned: Non-Gowned Montly
Spending:

-Library
-Lecture Spaces
-Extra Accomidation
-State of the Art Computer Suite
-Architect's Touch (the architect has made the college imbedded with computers as much as possible and has taken obvious inspiration from Star Trek. While this is pretty cool, it is really annoying to maintain and some less used parts of the college are glitchy/broken).

Description: The College is primarily very nerdy Computer Science students, which reflects the culture of the University. Many of the students would be just as likely to be found in the computer lab having a LAN party than found on a Barcrawl. Due to the population this reflects with higher academic scores, poor sports performance and high electricity bills.

History: This College was founded by Eugene Birmingham in the year 2000. A recent PhD Graduate, he inherited a large amount of money from his Uncle and used it to found this College, where he hoped to foster a College that had a culture that would have been more appealing to him and his nerdy friends during their education than the "traditional" College life.

Layout: Maybe later.

 

[dragonprobably]

First post edited.

 

[filli_noctus]

Babbage College
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Head: Sir William Lovelace - Sir William was a pioneer in the use of computer modelling in the field of meteorology. He has strengthened Babbage College's reputation as a research led institution by expanding the postgraduate program but eliminating examined postgraduate courses.
College Motto: Futurum ex Praeterito Venit
College Value: Non nobis solum
Bar Name: The Colossus
Genders: Mixed
Gowned: Gowned weekly formals
Spending:

-Library
-Great Hall
-Lecture Spaces
-State of the Art Computer Suite
-Architects Touch​

Description: The college's philosophy of making progress whist remaining true to tradition can seen in all of its aspects, from the masterful architectural fusion of neoclassical and postmodern that makes up the campus to the incorporation of the most cutting edge technology into all aspects of study.

Because of its focus, the college does not offer a discrete computer science course, instead all students are expected to take modules in computer science, at a minimum they study basic programming principles while those students who focus more on the CS aspect will have a program of study resembling an advanced CS course with one or two modules from an unrelated subject.

In keeping with the college's dedication to tradition all first year students must take at least one module drawn from the Trivium (grammar, logic or rhetoric) and all second year students must take one drawn from the quadrivium (geometry, arithmetic, astronomy or music).

In accordance with its founder's wishes the college highly encourages the pursuit of sports but the lack of sufficient facilities to support them is considered a minor embarrassment that the budget never seems to be able to stretch far enough to rectify.

History: The founder of Babbage College, Major-General Walter Feversham, 6th Baron Feversham had served at GC&CS during World War II and was impressed by how the computer had served the Allied war effort. After the war he kept abreast of developments in the nascent field. Upon the development of the stored program computer he saw the benefits it could bring to many areas of knowledge. In the early 1950s he began plans for an institute of learning to harness the power of the computer, managing to garner donations from his friends in high society.

Using those donations and a sizeable portion of his personal fortune he began construction of the college in 1953. In 1955 the college officially opened and the remainder of the budget given to the university as an endowment. On the official opening Feversham unveiled a gift to the college, two IBM mainframes - one of which was to have a portion of its run-time reserved for teaching purposes.

Layout: PLACEHOLDER

Traditions and Hijinks:
Le Tournee de Pain - A tournament in the medieval sense where the participants are armed with bread. The morning is devoted to jousting which is similar to its medieval counterpart except the mounted knight is replaced by a student riding on the shoulders of another student and the lance is replaced by a fresh baguette (there are three schools as to which type of baguette is ideal, some argue that the length of that sold by Tesco provides the greatest advantage whilst others hold that the Tesco loaf is too flimsy and prefer the shorter but denser Waitrose variety; the third camp argues for the Sainsbury's baguette as the ideal balance between length and density, some claim Asda may provide a superior weapon but as no Babbage student would be seen dead in Asda the jury is still out). To avoid head injuries from falls the jousting takes place in a soft, mossy riverside green area near the campus.
The afternoon sees the melee which differs from its inspiration by being a free for all instead of an organised combat. All comers are invited to join in with whatever bread they can get their hands on (subject to certain rules on hardness of crust and freshness as using rolls or petits pains as missiles is permitted, sliced bread is allowed to be lightly toasted for that purpose).

'Tagging' - The act of covering another college's crest with that of Babbage. This is a competitive sport among Babbage undergraduates with many societies and faculties having groups dedicated to the act. Prestige is garnered for the prominence of the crest, quality of the cover (paper or vinyl banners are the most usual cover but more difficult to transport crests such as painted wood carvings and Lego creations have been used in the past to great acclaim) and length of time it takes the target college to remove the cover. Since the advent of the networked personal computer replacing the wallpaper of every PC in the target college has gone from being a great achievement to a standard rite of passage for those with an interest in tagging.
The only rule is that no damage must be caused to the target and in the event damage does occur the individual or society in question is expected to give a public apology and make restitution.

The Grand Tour - A crawl around the other college's student bars. In each bar every participant will challenge one of the native drinkers to some form of drinking contest (usually a shot race or pint downing but there is no set contest). On returning to the Colossus each participant still standing takes their turn (in order of victories achieved in the other bars) at a yard of ale. The first to complete the yard is declared the winner.

 

[Robert Can't]

Berners-Lee/Babbage College Rivalry go

 

[NinjaCow64]

Bernes-Lee/Babbage College Rivalry go

Bernes-Lee College Student: Bloody elitist wankers!

OOC: Robert, is there some yearly boating race that the Colleges take part in? Is it mandatory? Could I have some more information on that please?

 

[filli_noctus]

Bernes-Lee College Student: Bloody elitist wankers!

OOC: Robert, is there some yearly boating race that the Colleges take part in? Is it mandatory? Could I have some more information on that please?

Babbage College student: Is Eugene coming on your next bar crawl?

OOC: Two r's in Berners-Lee, NC.

 

[Robert Can't]

Bernes-Lee College Student: Bloody elitist wankers!

OOC: Robert, is there some yearly boating race that the Colleges take part in? Is it mandatory? Could I have some more information on that please?

There is the yearly Bedcaster Regatta which all colleges are invited to take part in. Its quite a big event.

Its organised by the University Rowing Club and each College team gets to compete.

Completely not based on the Durham Regatta.

 

[NinjaCow64]

Babbage College student: Is Eugene coming on your next bar crawl?

OOC: Two r's in Berners-Lee, NC.

Well yeah...well...well...you suck!

OOC: Thanks mate, missed that one.

 

[Robert Can't]

In celebration of the recent CUG rankings irl we shall celebrate the CUG ranking IC too.

Well done on Bedcaster being the 4th best University in the country. One day we will take down those filthy Londoners at Imperial and none will stop us from going on to challenge the Reputable Southern Institutions.

 

[dragonprobably]

Layout added.

 

[filli_noctus]

Added a Traditions section, because what self respecting college doesn't have a collection of bizarre traditions?

 

[Robert Can't]

there are three schools as to which type of baguette is ideal, some argue that the length of that sold by Tesco provides the greatest advantage whilst others hold that the Tesco loaf is too flimsy and prefer the shorter but denser Waitrose variety; the third camp argues for the Sainsbury's baguette as the ideal balance between length and density, some claim Asda may provide a superior weapon but as no Babbage student would be seen dead in Asda the jury is still out

Love the traditions!

Potential other competitor in the north is Booths, the northern equivalent of Waitrose.

 

[filli_noctus]

Crest added.

The bread thing is an expansion on an incident that my rocksoc decided to do one night, the campus birds were well fed the next day.

 

[Robert Can't]

Reus' crest is gone, AA and Sonereal need to do more stuff.

Anyone who wishes to add more to their sign up should do so now

 

[Sonereal]

>dropping

 

[Double A]

>copying sone

 

[W|M]

>being a hipster and staying in

 

[Civ'ed]

<using the wrong pointy arrow thing but staying in

 

[Omega124]

>Is in like Osama in Laden

*shot for terrible pun*