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On a lighter note…

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Those smart kids at Stanford are always up to something: A co-ed dorm has been renamed Serra Palin.

From the Stanford Daily:

The theme was conceived by the Serra residential staff during a weeklong retreat in Santa Cruz, Calif., earlier this month, as Palin’s popularity peaked in the wake of the Republican National Convention.

Images of salmon and snowmobiles adorn Serra’s walls, and fishing nets hang from the ceilings. The official dorm t-shirts have “Serra Palin” in the form of the McCain-Palin logo with “‘08-?” beneath, as well as

“Coolest Dorm, Hottest Students” across the chest. “DRILL BABY DRILL” is emblazoned on the back. 

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“We just don’t want anything to spin out of hand to the point where it is affecting our residents or they regret the choices we’ve made as staff,” said Leila Beach ‘09, Serra resident tutor.

“Serra has a reputation as maybe a kind of a quiet dorm, and we thought it would really be a fun way to get people kind of a little revved up,” she said. “I think we’ve been right.”

That made sense to Carl Kelm.

“Who’d want to live in a Joe Biden-themed dorm, right?”