University of Nottingham Pirate Soc

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Pirate Soc or officially "The Pirate Society", is the University of Nottingham's one-and-only society devoted to the pursuit of al things pirate, including swordfighting, armed robbery and pillaging, many of which have become unfashionable after the advent of high-tech firearms, the steam engine and human rights legislation. The Society is one of the University's most infamous, not only for its somewhat ridiculous subject matter, but also for its legendary socials, earning it a reputation for heavy drinking, broken furniture and being, well, piratey.

[edit] Origins

The Pirate Society was founded by Captain Baz Maguire, a third-year politics student with an unhealthy obsession with pirates. He saw that the Nottingham Students' Union was not only unrepresentative but also unresponsive to fellows such as he who wished to pursue the activities of buccanneers and other such men of the seas within the comfort of the student arena, and so took the matter into his own hands. Upon joining Nottingham University Karnival, a drinking society with a serious charity problem, he found his pirate ambitions too much for such a conservation group so decided to go it alone. Pirate Soc was speedily affiliated to the SU (with its founders priding themselves on the lack of effort that went into the application forms) and the stage was set for a future of swashbuckling and mast-rigging.

[edit] The Crew

Pirate Soc is also renown for enjoying Executive positions that no other society can even live up to. Rather than following the bog-standard President, VP, Welfare etc etc, Pirate Soc enjoys a much more diverse make up for "The Crew". Many of the roles mandated by the SU are still fulfilled yet by people with better, cooler and sexier names, such as Captain, First Mate, Bo'sun, Look-out, Cabin Boy and Powder Monkey! Captain Baz maintains that anyone who can think of a cool name for a role on a pirate galleon that he has not thought of can be on the Exec! His challenge still stands.

[edit] Captain

The most important position, and arguably the best, the Captain overseas (get it!) all aspects of the Ship, from beating the Cabin Boy to getting drunk a'topsles (whatever they are!). The Captain's Coat is ceremonially passed on to the next year's elected leader at the end of term, at a ritual known as a "Bar Crawl", which remains shroaded in mystery.

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