New Jersey 2006

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Photos and Articles by Matt Lurrie

In the gymnasium of Centenary College, this sign hangs.  It is a very good thing that when the Hackettstown Fire Prevention Bureau inspected the gym for maximum occupancy, it was gender neutral.

When the title of the evening activity was told to campers, many thought it would be some sort of physical race-maybe a race in the new red wagons evening coordinators love to use so much.  Actually, the phrase drag race here does not apply to the form of auto racing in which cars or motorcycles attempt to complete a fairly short, straight and level course in the shortest amount of time, starting from a dead stop.  Here, the term drag is used more in the sense of dressing, because boys and girls were about to switch places in an all out gender battle.

Groups were mixed, so that there were both genders on each team.

The first challenge was a continuation of a rather new and popular phenomenon: Cross-dressing (Examples: 1, 2, 3, and 4).  These pictures need little explanation, but if you are wondering where Campus Kids finds the hideous clothing you are about to see, let me dispel the myth that it comes out of counselors' closets: we frequent a local thrift shop for many activities.

Next up, the girls had to shoot jump shots. 

All the while, the boys were getting their nails done.

Once again, as were the counselors.

And lastly, while the girls had a blue-juice chugging contest...

...boys were writing love poems.

The Groovy Babes and Chicks won with a score of 13.  But in the end, while there were boys dressed as girls, girls as boys, makeup on the faces and hands of boys, sweat coming from basketball playing girls, and the memory of sweet sweet love poems in the minds of everyone, was anyone really a loser?