It was 7pm on a Wednesday night when he started crying. The man didn’t appear to be injured, but judging from the tears running down his face, he had just received devastating news.
“He couldn’t get into the Pit, and the guy was bawling his eyes out,” said Evan Westra of AMS Security. “That was the strangest thing I saw all night.”
The first Pit Night of the year saw students waiting upwards of three hours to enter the infamous campus bar. Pit Nights, when the Pit Pub transforms into UBC’s pseudo-club, have a become a rite of passage that new students often clamour to experience. There’s no cover or dress code, and the only requirement to get in is a student card.
Lineups to enter the Pit began as early as 5pm, and moved upstairs once the bar reached capacity. Students lined up for “Open Air Pit Night,” which was a beer garden in the SUB Party Room and adjacent patio. Once inside, they were given a numbered wristband and were told to wait until their number was called. Pit-goers waited in yet another line for beer and then herded downstairs.
Magnum Ferfpad, an exchange student from Norway, thought the beer garden experience was a great way to meet new people and actually converse. “We made a lot of friends, and for a visiting student, that’s really nice.” He may have waited for two hours upstairs, but thought it was worthwhile. “I really enjoyed the whole thing.”
Rachel Cederberg and Celina Santeilli-Giza, both second-year students, waited in line for three hours for their first Pit Night. The legends of students before them set the bar for what Santeilli-Giza wanted to experience.
“I’m expecting dance floor make-outs from most of my fine, young friends.”
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What kind of a man cries after being denied entry to the PIt?
WTF. This isn’t news. This is a situation, not a story. Jesus guys.
So don’t read it. Gives me something to talk about tomorrow to make others believe I am more interesting and well connected than I really am.
I am legitimately dismayed that there was not more information on said bawling man – tantalizing title that led to little hilarity! Why was he so distraught? Was he separated from the object of his affections? Could his attire have contributed to his denial of passage? SO MANY QUESTIONS
What a strangely sexist article/headline.
Had it been a woman, there would have been no question about not reporting a story about a woman’s alcohol-fuelled crying jag. But because it’s a man crying, there’s an undercurrent of humour that I find a little disconcerting.
We’ve all had drunken breakdowns, haven’t we? Most of us are lucky enough not to have it in the paper.
What surprised me was not the fact that it was a man, and not a woman, but the fact that this is a GROWN man, and adult, if you will, that broke down after being denied entry. It’s only sexist if you stare at it long enough. Ageist, maybe?
Nobody reads this stuff anyway, the Ubyssey is shit.
But apparently you do =)
pretty impressive jesus reads the ubyssey