NYU Dorm as Huge Connect Four Board

If we didn't read it in the Washington Square News, we would have guessed that either Dennis Crowley or Charlie Todd was behind this. But it looks like NYU RAs were the ones who created a Connect Four board out of Weinstein Hall's windows so students could play from the outside. It was part of an effort to bring the dorm community together (Floor Wars), even if it made some students cranky.

“It was definitely not good that they came and woke me up just to hang up things in my window,” CAS freshman Michael Bliss said of the RAs preparation for the event.

The windows in between represented the empty spaces the competitors chose where to place their “pieces” — or in this case, large sheets of red or black paper. Via cell phone, the two players chose where they wanted their pieces to fall by contacting RAs on each floor who then taped the appropriate team’s square on whoever’s window it happened to be.

“In terms of doing a good job, this is the kind of stuff we should be doing more of — using our buildings in creative ways,” Weinstein’s Community Development Educator Ryan Sylvester said. “Plus, it would be cool to say we had the largest game of Connect Four ever.”

Stern freshman Tommy Wong faced off against CAS freshman Catherine Kelso (students played Connect Four with boring actual Connect Four products during elimination rounds) in the Weinstein challenge, with Wong winning three games. We wonder if they consulted the so-called "perfect play" to force a win. Now, students at Brooklyn College and Pace University should face off with each other with an East River game of Battleship and Columbia should turn the quad into a game of Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

Be sure to check out PacManhattan and the Improv Everywhere folks dancing in Union Square.

Photograph from the Washington Square News

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By Jen Chung in News on October 16, 2006 11:51 AM

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the usual

i wish people would shut the fuck up with that "tuition dollars hard at work" line. YOU AREN'T WITTY.

K

These are peanuts compared to pranks at MIT.

e.v.s.

where are the pictures of CF in the windows? all there is is the picture of the actual connect 4? how can this be, with everyone armed with a camera/phone/mediathingy at every possible second of every day? where are the photos??

Sara

NYU tuition dollars, hard at work.

kz

Wow so pointless it hurts.

eoije

Damn straight. As a neutral party between the Jocks and Nerds, I say balance must be maintained - for the good of everyone.

Wasn't New York City at one time the center of what was cool and hip? Now if you'll excuse me, my kickball team needs me.

Kojak

My question is where are the jocks to keep these god damn nerds in line?

Without a decent amount of jocks to keep the nerds in order, shit like this Connect 4 bullshit will continue to happen. We need balance.

Jeebus

I'm not above college pranks (As I was once a prankster myself), but Connect Four???

"let's see what you pissants have to say when some of these nerds are making twice your salary and sleeping with the girl who won't even look your way."

I'd still make fun of them regardless. As for the girl who wouldn’t look my way, I can live with that as well since gingergirls aren’t really my type.

Jen

I was an RA in college, and the Residence Life directors always wanted us to do corny shit. I just wanted the private bathroom.

mihow

Yeah, let's see what you pissants have to say when some of these nerds are making twice your salary and sleeping with the girl who won't even look your way.

Seriously, lighten up. There's plenty of time to grow up and become grumpy chumps who slam people on the Internet. This hurt no one, no one at all. Light the fuck up already.

me

#1, #2, and #3:

i'm sure all the things you did in college were nothing short of brilliant.

gee, i wish i could sit in my pajamas all day and mock people... what a life.

Late to bed, late to rise

Wow. If some ridiculous nerd had woken me up early to play Connect 4 in my window at college, I probably would have told him to go fuck himself and slammed the door in his face. Not cool.