Full Moon In The News

One of Stan­ford’s more unfor­tu­nate tra­di­tions, Full Moon on the Quad, made news late­ly. The San Jose Mer­cury News wrote an arti­cle Stan­ford Stu­dents Hos­pi­tal­ized After ‘Full Moon’ Par­ty.

lead para­graph: Four Stan­ford stu­dents were hos­pi­tal­ized with alco­hol poi­son­ing and three oth­ers were arrest­ed on alco­hol-relat­ed charges Thurs­day night dur­ing “Full Moon on the Quad” — a pop­u­lar annu­al tra­di­tion in which seniors kiss con­sent­ing fresh­men under the moon­light in what is billed as an alco­hol-free par­ty, Stan­ford said today.

Full Moon may be billed as an alco­hol-free par­ty, but that just means that many stu­dents get soused before show­ing up to tongue-wres­tle.

Also, I noticed the Mer­cury News did­n’t men­tion the ever-present nudi­ty (the oth­er moon on the quad that night)… sigh.

Accord­ing the Stan­ford Dai­ly, the uni­ver­si­ty is grow­ing con­cerned about Full Moon’s row­di­ness: Full Moon’s Future Cloudy: “I have seri­ous reser­va­tions about this event hap­pen­ing again,” said Assis­tant Dean and Direc­tor of Stu­dent Activ­i­ties Nan­ci Howe. “But it is too ear­ly to say what the future of Full Moon is.”

By the way, while look­ing for oth­er news sto­ries on Full Moon I ran across Naran­ja Dor­m’s gallery of Full Moon pho­tos.