Well, tonight will see the annu\u00adal prac\u00adtice of a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly dev\u00adil\u00adish Stan\u00adford tra\u00addi\u00adtion: Full Moon on the Quad.<\/p>\n
In most of our minds, the only cul\u00adtur\u00adal ref\u00ader\u00adence we have to full moons involves lycan\u00adthropy<\/a> (that\u2019s a 50 cent word refer\u00adring to were\u00adwolves).<\/p>\n At Stan\u00adford, Full Moon means some\u00adthing com\u00adplete\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent (and I\u2019m not sure the metaphor of man turn\u00ading into beast is entire\u00adly inap\u00adpro\u00adpri\u00adate).<\/p>\n For Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents, Full Moon on the Quad is a major cul\u00adtur\u00adal ini\u00adti\u00ada\u00adtion: fresh\u00admen head to the quad and get roy\u00adal\u00adly smooched (kissed with\u00adin an inch of their lives) by seniors. As you might imag\u00adine, the evening has more than a hint of debauch\u00adery about it.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s an excerpt from the Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly: In the\u00ado\u00adry the very idea of it is quite roman\u00adtic \u2014 lovers kiss\u00ading under the gen\u00adtle moon\u00adlight amidst a sea of end\u00adless stars, a beau\u00adti\u00adful church hangs as a back\u00addrop, and all around you frol\u00adick\u00ading naked peo\u00adple dance drunk\u00aden\u00adly to tech\u00adno music. Well, on sec\u00adond thought, Full Moon on the Quad is devoid of all romance.<\/i> (full arti\u00adcle<\/a>)<\/p>\n FMOTQ is a true Stan\u00adford tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u2026 and one more evi\u00addence that Stan\u00adford needs Jesus!<\/p>\n There are lots of web links relat\u00aded to this fes\u00adti\u00adval, includ\u00ading a poem<\/a>, tame pho\u00adto gal\u00adleries (here\u2019s one<\/a> and here\u2019s anoth\u00ader<\/a>), and a mild\u00adly humor\u00adous essay enti\u00adtled Got Mono?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In which Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents dis\u00adplay that wis\u00addom and intel\u00adli\u00adgence are not syn\u00adony\u00admous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}