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School Slang
  • ‘Fords: Used to refer to individual students, but mostly used as a sports team nickname. The official mascot is the Black Squirrel, however.
  • ‘Strar: The registrar.
  • The Bi-Co: Short for the Bi-College News, Haverford and Bryn Mawr’s main student newspaper.
  • The Blue Bus: Free bus that runs between Haverford and Bryn Mawr for students of both colleges.
  • The Code: The Honor Code.
  • Confrontation: The act of confronting a person for actions or words that make you uncomfortable. Disputes are designed to be resolved through confrontation.
  • Customs: The week-long orientation program for freshman, closely resembling summer camp.
  • DC: The Dining Center.
  • Founders Common: Large room on the first floor of Founders building which hosts dances, plays, and receptions.
  • Go: Student-run Web site (go.haverford.edu) with news, event information, useful links, and message boards.
  • Haverfest: Year-end Woodstock-esque party weekend full of food, liquor, and music.
  • HCO: Honor Code Orienteer who explains the Honor Code to Customs groups during freshman year.
  • KOP: King of Prussia, a nearby town with one of America’s largest malls. “I’m going to KOP” typically implies that one is going to the mall.
  • Kosh: Nickname for Koshland Integrated Natural Science Center.
  • The Mawr: Short for Bryn Mawr, Haverford’s sister school.
  • Mawrters: Nickname for Bryn Mawr students. Alternate spelling: Mawyrters.
  • Pastabilities: Each Friday at dinner, the DC offers a pasta bar where students select pastas and sauces of their liking.
  • Plenary: Campus-wide meeting held in the Field House twice a year where the student body approves, amends, or rejects the Alcohol Policy, the Honor Code, and/or the school constitution.
  • Purple Pimple: Gest Hall, an oddly-shaded academic building. “Pink Pimple” is also used.
  • Roach’s: Short for Roach and O’Brien, a neighborhood bar.
  • Swat: Short for Swarthmore College, arch-rival school.
  • The Swat Video: Soft pornography film shown to freshmen in the fall as a component of sexual education program. The film was made at Swarthmore.
  • Tunneling: Crawling through the underground maze of old tunnels. Some have been sealed off, others have not.
  • Wawa Run: Late-night trip to local convenience store.
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
  • Classes can be tough to get into.
  • Explore Philadelphia.
  • Figure out a good system of time management.
  • Know how to write a good essay.
  • Meet people quickly.
  • Parties are small but can be fun.
Tips to Succeed
  • Ask your fellow students for advice and guidance.
  • Be friendly.
  • Don’t worry about clothes—nobody is judging you.
  • Don’t worry about filling distribution requirements early.
  • Get very involved in at least one extracurricular activity.
  • Have some idea of what you want to major in.
  • Relax.
  • Take one easy class a semester.
  • Take three difficult classes a semester.
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This place is perfect. It's gorgeous, the people are all extremely smart and value academia (learning for the sake of learning) and quirky. We all recognize our faults and embrace it. It isn't out of the ordinary to see someone wearing something that would get the strangest look anywhere else and just thinking, "That person is so cool and confident for doing that." This place is like what you wish the world would be like. Students run everything. It's great.

Nov 16, 2011

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Traditions
  • Drag Ball: An infamous Haverford dance featuring guys dressed up as women and girls dressed up as either guys or sluts. Students who don’t care to dress as anything also show up normally, which is okay.
  • Haverfest: The aforementioned orgy of food, music, and liquor that occurs during the first weekend before finals week. Students drink during the day, lay out on Founders Green, and take in the sun. This is a lot of fun, until it ends and everyone has to take finals.
  • La Fiesta: Very popular dance held by the Latino organization on campus (ALAS). There is an excellent DJ and Founder’s Great Hall suddenly takes on a chic, new look.
  • Screw: Haverford hosts an annual “Screw Your Roommate” dance (Screw for short) at which students set their roommates or friends up with another person. Dates are arranged such that both parties are given half of a corny “skit” to perform at a large assembly where the blind dates meet each other.
Urban Legends
  • All freshmen are thrown in the duck pond.
  • Chevy Chase brought a cow up to the 4th floor of Barclay.
  • Haverford students are all extremely hardworking.
  • Nobody gets a job after graduation.
  • The endowment is invested entirely in Quaker-owned businesses.

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