Originally Posted by
Hingeknocker
It was sophomore year at Duke, and we needed a beer pong table. The problem - our tiny dorm room didn't have a lot of room for storing such an important piece of furniture. The solution - we built a table with double hinges for easy folding and storage!
After three years of using that table, the night before we packed up and left campus for the last time as students, we knew it needed a proper send off. We disassembled it, and buried the first hinge in the ground outside of our apartment. We knew the second hinge needed an on-campus resting spot, so in the wee hours of the morning, we headed over to West Campus. One of our crew was an athlete at Duke, and he wondered if his Duke Card would swipe him into Cameron... It did!
We wandered around the empty gym, soaking in the memories of four years of basketball games, and then we knew what to do with the hinge. We went up into the last row of seats, and our tallest friend reached up and placed the hinge on top of one of the support beams, hidden from sight. We all touched the hinge one last time, and resolved that anytime one of us revisited Cameron, we'd try to find the hinge and knock it a couple of times against its resting place. Thus, the Hingeknockers.
Post-script: A few of us were back on campus for our 10 year reunion recently. As fate would have it, reunion registration was in Cameron; the halls were busy but the gym was empty, giving us the perfect chance to look for the hinge. We went to the section where we thought it was hidden, reached up...and there it was. Still there, all those years later. I like knowing there's a little piece of us still in Cameron, looking down on all the future generations of players and Crazies alike.