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Chris Conery and Kristine Pinedo, Lifestyle Editors lifestyle@bullandbear.ca
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Management Carnival: Miami Vices One For the Books Dan Novick Staff Writer
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fter a long year of waiting, Management Carnival 2012 took place, in all its glory, from January 15-21. With an unprecedented turnout of around 1200 participants, this year was one for the history books. Flagship events included boat races, power hour, mountain run, Cancer Auction, beer Olympics, pub crawl, foam party, beach party, an all-nighter, and a pancake kegger. Venues included Gert’s, Foufounes Electriques, Le Marquis, BDP, Espace Griffintown, Phi Kappa Pi Fraternity house, Que Leu Leu, and Club Soda.
“Power hour, more like shower hour,” remarked British exchange student Ed Stapley, shocked by the “awesomeness” of his first ever Carnival. Management Carnival is the largest school-wide event outside of Frosh and plays a vital role in fostering school and faculty pride and spirit. Co-chaired by J.P. Briggs and Bamber Sunell, the theme of this year’s Carnival was ‘Miami Vice’ and Carnival Committee donned DEA-like uniforms for the week. Events were categorized on a four-tiered scale according to their “level of crime”: slap on the wrist, community service, misdemeanor, and felony. One of the highlights of the week was Cancer Auction, which raised around $20,000 for the
Canadian Cancer Society. In addition, around 1,000 articles of clothing and 1,500 cans of food were collected for charity. Sixteen teams competed through blood, sweat, and tears, with only one team emerging as Carnival Champions of 2012. Rolling In The Deepthroat, composed of mostly second and third years, emerged as Carnival Champions on a team that included many participants from last years’ Championship team. Chants ensued upon the announcement of the champions on the last night of Carnival. Celebrations continued as team members and captains drank out of the prized trophy at 4to7 on January 26. In addition to having their team name engraved in the tro-
phy and etched in Carnival history, Rolling In The Deepthroat won over the hearts and minds of Carnival Committee with their unrivaled Carnival spirit. It is a points game, and points are handed out based on team performance. Team spirit, participation and enthusiasm play a vital role in determining the outcome. Daniel Chaim, one of the winning captains, spoke to The Bull & Bear on what winning Carnival means to him. “Winning Carnival is an amazing feeling. [...] Together, along with my other captains, we put in many hours of hard work and dealt with a lot of stress and conflict to put together the best team that we could. As soon as Carnival started all our worries went away and we began having fun.”
Many non-Carnival goers were perplexed to see Carnival participants on campus during the day, adorned in their jumpsuits, dedicating most of the week to participate in what many describe as “the best week of the year.” They ask us, “what is Carnival?”, “shouldn’t you be in class?”. We try to muster a response, but it doesn’t work. They don’t get it. It’s one of those, “you had to be there” moment For many, including cochairs Briggs and Sunell, and MUS VP Engagement Marie Louise Schmidt, it was their last Carnival, as they are in their final year at McGill. Carnival Committee noted, “For those of you that will be carrying on the tradition, we hope that we’ve taught you well.”
Carnival Rankings 2012 Team Rankings
Individual Awards
1. Rolling in the Deep Throat 2. Doggy 3. Sodomigos 4. Old School 5. Loony Poons 6. Star Whores 7. Betches 8. Chickgargle 9. Winners 10. Shaving 11. Bukkake 12. Camo Toes 13. Rawshank 14. Mount My Python 15. #Occupy 16. Acockonlips Now
King of Carnival Tyler Hofmeister Queen of Carnival Catherine Brunelle MVPs 4th Year MVPs Steven Warsh and Courtney “Guvna” Davenport 3rd Year MVPs Steven “Sexel” Exel and Alyse Campbell
Rookies of the Year Jony Tabuteau and Jaylen Gadhia D’Urbano Award Connor Adams Lifetime Achievement Award Alex Duhault What’s your vice? #MiamiViceCarnival2012 3 hours ago
2nd Year MVPs Joe Feldman and Erin Sunell 1st Year MVPs Sean Finnell and Léa Cardineau
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