Resurrection of Boalt's Legendary Gun Club?
Last week, cryptic posters started showing up around the law school that featured a black and white photo of John Y*o, with a caption underneath that reads: “I’m sorry, for everything.” At first glance, they were easy to dismiss as yet another attempt to get a rise out of Boalt’s most notorious professor.
That was, until this morning – when a keg mysteriously appeared in the student center, plastered with the very same posters. The keg (seemingly of Bud Light) looked like it had been there overnight, much to the consternation of M*ndi and L*sa.
The cups sat beside a photo of Earl Warren...
Who was perhaps the most illustrious (and only known) member of the original Gun Club, a secret society founded at Boalt in the early 1900s composed of "[m]en" who "lived for the drink and died by the gun." Time Magazine reported that Warren and his friends in the Club would gather on Thursday nights at Pop Kessler’s Rathskeller in Oakland for evenings of beer drinking and poetry reading.
While there is little if any additional information about the Gun Club’s current activities or members (secret societies are, well, secret) there are signs that it is still alive and going strong. As recently as 2005, students at Boalt found clues in the form of poetry promising that somewhere in the school was a hidden pint of liquor in a hollowed-out “tome”.
With the library about to move underground, are the Y*o posters and keg another invitation to find the legendary liquor-tome?? Do they mark the beginning of a new quest? Or have the anti-Y*o protestors finally learned that they can shape public opinion at Boalt with beer…?
In any case, rumor has it M*ndy gave the keg to the construction workers. With any luck, they’ll get wasted and build a few secret passageways for generations of Gun Club members to come.
posted by L'Alex at 12:35 PM
26 Comments:
Did Mindi really give the beer to the construction workers?? That thing was full!
How do we know that Yoo wasn't actually apologizing?
For those that care, rankings have been leaked: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49285543@N07/4518895878/
2 things:
1. We need more pictures of M*ndi on N&B
2. The Gun Club was certainly around for the last four years. I don't know who the members in my class were, but I know two of the four in the year ahead of me.
I'd love to see what the posters looked like.
And L'Alex...you know a suspicious amount of information about this supposedly secret society.
seriously? drunk construction workers are preferable to drunk students?
Did the construction workers somehow get an alcohol permit? Just curious to know which faculty member is sponsoring their kegger... Or are the construction workers allowed to drink beer on campus because they are adults and law students are f**king children (no chomo)?
4:31--JY sponsored the kegger. Didn't you read the OP?
It wasn't there all night. The ice was fresh and hardly melted at 7:45...
Lol Carbolic I WISH I was a member of a secret society. Truth is, I gathered all the info for this post while trying to solve the mystery myself. Alas, the best lead I got was by Googling "I'm sorry, for everything" and finding a poet named Duke Nguyen. One of the library catalogue's Y*o books was published by Duke University Press, but it's been checked out until June. That's where my short-lived career as a sleuth expired. :(
I thought N&B was a secret society. Although admittedly the worst kept secret society.
Haha, all I can say is, apology accepted.
Also, a tipster sent mesome pics of the John Y*o posters from last week, but I have been swamped at work and never got a chance to post about them. L'alex, I will send them to you in case you want to update this. I think they're pretty funny and prob worth sharing for those who haven't seen them.
The shirt here: http://boaltalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/construction-update.html, was supposedly a Gun Club prank too.
Also, speaking of that post, can someone take another shot of the courtyard for those of us who haven't seen it lately?
what do you think of the comma? on first read, it's unnecessary. but i like it on second read.
It seems like a natural place to pause, so given that it is meant to be a quote, I approve of the comma.
Although I think "I'm sorry. For everything." might have been even funnier.
From ATL's coverage, quote from Y*o:
"While we are teaching our students the finer points of law, we have clearly failed to teach some of them how to throw a party. Spoilt beer and posters with professors’ photos — especially mine — do not a throwdown make."
Yoo's definition of "throwdown" seems about as solid as his definition of torture. What's not to love about free beer?
for 9:13: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/building/constructionPhotos.html
The first shot in this sequence is from about a month ago. Since then, the basic structure of the cafe and classrooms has gone up as has the walkway connecting the glass patio with the roof of the new construction.
Oh I forgot -- here's the webcam: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/building/cam.html
FWIW, 90 minutes of sleuthing led me to this book:
http://lawcat.berkeley.edu/search?/Xt:%28miranda%29&Da=1995&Db=2007&SORT=D/Xt:%28miranda%29&Da=1995&Db=2007&SORT=D&SUBKEY=t%3A%28miranda%29/1%2C5%2C5%2CB/frameset&FF=Xt:%28miranda%29&Da=1995&Db=2007&SORT=D&4%2C4%2C
The "sleuth" above is so far off it's not even funny.
No one is live blogging this?
http://judiciary.senate.gov/webcast/livewebcastbasic.cfm
Liu's doing quite well. never distances himself from his writings but puts a nice gloss on them. he just said that a just objectively, neutrally applies the existing law! sounded like John Roberts talking about calling balls and strikes. i can't imagine that the Republicans are winning any of those exchanges.
@8:43, our very own Jonathan Singer liveblogged it over at confirmgoodwinliu.com (I think). We reserve our liveblogging for serious stuff like Bakesales and trivia competitions.
You all have everything wrong about Gun Club. Look for Betsy.
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