ETHS, We Will Fight For You!
"Four Evanston Township High School students have been charged with misdemeanors after a student from New Trier Township High School was pulled from his car and beaten after a close basketball game between the schools." Yeah, the Harvard-Dartmouth squash heckling incident earlier this month? That can totally suck it. My garbage alma mater is here to bring it. We will pull you out of your car and put you in intensive care when we lose a sporting event. (via)
Those fucks from New Trier totally deserve it. Also? "Wildkit" is stupid, but nowhere near as stupid as "Trevian."
You know I am COMPELLED to agree with you. Except, ugh, screw them all.
SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!
(Any excuse.)
+ 85
My alma mater? This plaqce: http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9391/
Sorry to be a bummer. HA! LIES! I love being a bummer!
Team New Trier, obvs. When I saw Liz Phair last year she referred to Evanston simply as "the place you went to get your drugs."
(Although, Julia Allison also went to New Trier. So, yeah. Fuck them all.)
The partner went to New Trier in the 80s when it operated more or less like the school in Pump Up the Volume. He got expelled. A lot. And fag bashed repeatedly for wearing nail polish and eyeliner. BUT — ETHS totally went to NT to buy their coke. From the partner.
New Trier is TOTALLY where I went to get coke! That is so amazing when a cliche is ABSOLUTELY TRUE. (Though I didn't PAY for it, God. Well, not with money.)
Wow I overshared just now.
OH MY GOD NEVER STOP WITH THE OVERSHARING.
Also while we have you: I would still like to hear more about the being in jail and the wearing of big pants.
@Choire, +853; @Jolie, COSIGN.
I'll tell him you said hi, Choire!
You mean you guys had to GO places to score your drugs in High School?
*I paid for convenience by having to live amongst hippies.
I dated a guy in college who went to NT. He had an Audi with personalized plates. He was the first person I knew with A) an Audi and B) Vanity plates. Which I thought was cool at the time, but now realize, was just kind of douchey.
The kids from Evanston were always way more fun…and knew exactly where to buy hash in Europe AND Israel.
Also- Western Springs for weed (80's).
True fact: Approximately 70% of annoying upper-middle-class 20 and 30-somethings in the United States are from the north/northwest suburbs of Chicago.
My alma mater won the state in football this year. So you all can suck it. (And I asked my Mom for a new basketball for Christmas, and I'm totally getting it! Yay, Christianity!)
Alpha Wildkitties.
Before judging I need to know HOW close the basketball game was.
Choire! You went to Evanston?? Now you're even more cool.
Um, my alma mater used to beat New Trier all the time…in debate.
Those kids at NT couldn't debate their way out of a traffic ticket.
Hmm. Loyola Academy? Lake Forest!
No, some Ohio school no one ever heard of…
The entire North Shore south of North Chicago is a dilettante wasteland.
Whew. That was vitriolic. And I have no idea which direction I'm pointed now.
Strongly agree.
That video gave me cheerbumps.
My friend's husband won't let her drive past ETHS after dark. I think he's overreacting a bit, but evidently it's not as safe as it was when he attended?
Whatever. The New Trier kids can go cry in their Olympic sized swimming pool.
Let me rephrase that. He's not overreacting a bit. He's WAY overreacting.
Besides, if you absolutely had to live in the North Shore, I think Evanston is the way to go, right? I haven't heard a decent argument for, say, Kenilworth.
[earnest]See, that's the thing. I lived in Chicago for about 12 years, and the public schools there didn't have chalk, didn't have enough desks or classrooms, didn't have enough books. But you know, go a mile or two north of Howard, and those kids had swimming pools and TV stations. It made me want to put on a beret and march around redistributing the wealth at gun point. But pretty much anything does.[/earnest]
My first two years of school in Urbana, I lived in a house with four guys from New Trier – all their dads were dentists and lawyers and they all wore only tie-dye and followed The Dead during vacation (this was right before Jerry died). All I can really say about the whole experience is, "wow, was I stoned a lot!"
Oh, I think we were in Chambana during the same period and doing some similar things!
Why yes, I did go to ETHS. Yes, there were 800 students in my graduating class. No, it wasn't crowded — the school was built to hold 6,000 students.
I also have Choire's freshman year yearbook photo, but it looks unexcitingly like a 14-year-old Choire.