In the interest of all those who actually read this, since it has been approximately 2 and half months since the last edition and there has been an insane amount of cool stuff happening on the floor (and, surprisingly enough, elsewhere in RVD) that the only thing to be mentioned that took place before Christmas is perhaps the quote of the year, when Ryan, in reference to Matt and Amanda "sleeping" downstairs by the TV said, and I quote, "Don't they know where their beds are?"  You obviously had to be there to enjoy the full, robust, and true hilarity of the situation, but what truely topped it off was how genuinely confused he looked while asking the obvious. Kudos.

Although it's been up and running since shortly after the last newsletter, the 2VD website has never had it's formal introduction.  Yes folks, www.geocities.com/secondvandellen is currently not only the hottest site on the web right now, but also the only Mario Party 5 site with a fan club.  Special thanks go to Chad for the time and effort into developing a surperior site, and at the same time not being insanely defficient in the brain department by paying a few years worth of floor funds for its own domain (like our pals over on 1st werp).  Kudos.

True story:  Matt and Amanda borrowed Smalls' car to go "pick up a movie" and got stopped by the fuzz.  When asked whom the car belonged to, Matt, upon realizing that he had forgotten Smalls' real name since no one has called Smalls anything but Smalls since like the second day of class, paused to reflect.  Fortunately, Amanda remembered that his name was Jeff (which may or may not have had something to do with a little "interest" (nowhatImsayn?) at the beggining of the year) and bailed him out.  However, the cop became slightly suspicious when upon further reflection, neither of them could come up with his last name.  This has yet to be confirmed by reliable sources, but apparently the cop let them go after they said they were terrorists from Canada.  Kudos.

Apparently, 2VD made quite the showing at the open-mic night in the lobby last night.  However, the quality of the showing was not available at press time, since the cheif editor was unable to attend.  But since this newsletter is not shy about being biased, we'll say they kicked everyone's butts and just leave it at that.  Kudos.

The race to a million points in the Mario Party 5 decathalon has finally ended.  Mike VanderKooi was the first to hit the mark with an astounding average of close to 7400 points.  No one else has yet to reach the mark since we all realize that we're quite inferior to the "decath-wrath" of Michael VanderKooi, and have given up hope of ever being as dominating.  Kudos.

Anyone with halfway decent eyesight can now be visually stimulated with the beauty of the 2VD floor touques (beanies, winter hats, etc. etc.).  Yes folks, David Samuel Geldersma hooked us up with some sweet lookin' winter headwear.  Smalls did the design.  Although we have already entertained requests by non-floor members (with a laugh mind you), the touques are not available to non 2VDers except the lovely ladies of 2nd Rooks who made an advance purchase of the 2VD floorwear for $35 at the service auction (the kids really scored on that one).

2VD is pleased to announce the formation of a power suite.  With one toe "over the line" the suite of Mike, Dave, Ryan, and Smalls, and a few other "permanent residents" has been succesful in the entertainment AND academic departments.  Rumor has it that being academically successful was only part of the bribing process, but the members of the power suite had no comment at press time.  Kudos.

On Feb 14. 100% of the men of 2VD had something to celebrate.  At press time, 50% said they celebrated St. Valentine's Day, 10% said they celebrated single awareness day, 40% had no comment (plus a dirty look), 100% celebrated no class for 2 days, and an astounding 0% didn't celebrate for a minute after Dan and Mark spilled old milk in their room.  100% of the floor reaked for three days.  Kudos.

A very short, but suprisingly informational floor meeting was held last night in the coffee kitchen.  Such things as money, girls, sports, video games, food, and other representatives of the finer things in life were discussed.  A new bible study is going to be formed to incorporate buffness with bibleness.  After a reasonable time spent in the Word, we will proceed to take off our shirts, compare chests, maybe even grunt a little, and then do as many push-ups as possible.  The way we see it, the most powerful human being (Jesus), paired up with the most powerful male horomone (testosterone), could ignite quite the bible study.  This new concept in spiritual "fitness" will take place on Wednesdays at 11:17pm.  All are welcome.  Of course the Thursday night bible study on 2VD will remain strongly intact.  For those of you who don't know, it takes place with dinner and then a rounding up of the guys around 6pm and lasts until 7.  All are also welcome.  Kudos.

Another recent development on the community side of things will be the all new "Sunday Showdown."  Sundays after openhouse ends (that's 11pm for all of you who pretend not to know) there will be a member of 2VD in the spotlight.  For the kick-off night, Terry will be giving the long, boring version of his life story.  Pizza will be present for the showdown.  Please sign-up on the pizza sheet on Terry's door before Sunday at 10:30pm with how many slices you plan on consuming while listening to the long, boring version of Terry's life story (and for subsequent weeks, the long, boring version of other people's life stories).  Bring the appropriate ($1 per slice) funds to pay for your nourishment or suffer the appropriate consequences... like, uh, maybe pain.  Kudos.

Word on the street is that Zoerman is currently working on his third roommate of the year.  Tim recently moved in and has already, much to the dismay of Mike, broken a couple of Mario Party 5 records.  You can see that this is the dominant reason for why he fits in well with the floor... being a nice guy is the second biggest reason... and whether dating Drea has anything to do with it or not was not available at press time.  Zoerman, this one's a keeper.  Kudos.

And that's all for this week.  We here at 2VD promote dorm unity and community and we hope that you have enjoyed learning more about our floor.  We hope after a few buffness/bibleness sessions to be the most ripped floor on campus.  Whether we are already or not was not available at press time.  

Kudos,

2VD