Tradition of Slippery Cups Continues at Termly “Cutter” Event

    At Bones Gate Fraternity’s termly “Cutter” party this weekend, many students found the cups that the drinks were served in to be predictably slippery. The cups were so slippery, in fact, that not a single student was able to hang onto their cup and drink the cutter. Every student who was served the drink inevitably dropped cutter.
    Francesca Jones ’13 had her first experience with the drink this past weekend. When she had previously expressed her interest in “drinking cutter,” her friends stopped her short and corrected her choice of vocabulary.
    “You don’t drink cutter,” they said. “You drop it. Nobody drinks cutter. You’ll sound really naïve if you ask to drink cutter. You have to say you want to drop cutter.”
    Jones was unsure of the connotations of the word until she experienced its manifestations firsthand.
    “As soon as I saw cutter, I realized that I couldn’t drink it. I had to drop it. The cups were so slippery! I didn’t even have a choice whether to drink it or drop it. I’m glad my friends warned me beforehand so I wouldn’t seem like an idiot and say that I was going to ‘drink’ some cutter.”
    Bones Gate House Manager Sebastian Edgerson ’10 expressed his dismay at the state of the house after every big weekend.
    “It’s fucking disgusting,” Edgerson said. “After so many people have dropped cutter all over the place, the house is a wreck. Cutter lying all over the place. I don’t know why people can’t just drink it normally and be civilized. Sometimes tradition is stupid.”
    The night following the cutter party, Bones Gate hosted its traditional “bomb tails” event.
    “Bomb tails are arguably even worse than cutter. There is cutter literally running down the stairs because people have dropped so much of it on the second and third floors and then KDE comes over and we literally explode shit for fun. Bomb tails? Seriously? Who thinks of these things? Definitely not a [House Manager] who has to deal with the double cutter/bomb tails cleanup at the end of a big weekend.”
    The exact origin of the tradition of dropping cutter has been lost, although the brotherhood continues the unknown tradition every big weekend. Some speculate that the tradition dates back to when Bones Gate President Arthur Hash ’60 dropped his first-ever cup of cutter, amazed at how strong it was. He was unable to keep a grip on any of his drinks for the rest of the night, leading to the tradition of dropping.
    Other followers of Bones Gate history believe that the tradition of dropping cutter is simply something stupid that got started a long time ago, and it would make much more sense to drink the cutter instead of dropping it. But this just makes too much sense. Ever since the tradition began, though, the social chairs of Bones Gate have spent days leading up to the event greasing up every single cup in the house, ensuring that no one is able to drink cutter.
    In our next issue, The Dunyun will examine other big weekend traditions that make very little sense, such as Convention. Why would a fraternity that prides itself on not having a pledge term invite other pledge-educated individuals to come to their house and vomit everywhere? Stay tuned to find out.