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[[Category:Tradition]] ==Introduction==During 2008-2009, the College began phasing out trays in the dining halls in an effort to reduce waste of food and energy. Williams has been completely trayless since fall 2009 except in [[Whitman's Marketplace|Whitman's]]. Nevertheless, trays and their carvings were once an important part of campus life. Carvings generally fall into <s>three</s> <s>four</s> a bunch of categories: Wilbur trays, "Tray of" trays, tray puns, Cult of Tom trays, trays with pictures, and...other trays.

(An unlikely but intriguing possible source for For a complete history of the great resentment towards Wilbur may be the late 19th century serialized novel "Wilbur of Williams"trays, see '''[[note: title may need correctingWilbur] which can be found in the Williams Archives. It is, naturally, a romance. Jealousy, perhaps?)   I don]''t know where the story above came from but this is the true story. Once upon a time, there was a Williams student who was named Wilbur, and he sucked. To spread the word about how much Wilbur sucked, his friends took the time during meals to carve reminders for other Williams students on Greylock and later Mission trays. They later became creative outlets for people give other examples of how much Wilbur sucked. Wilbur graduated years ago, but was succeeded by another Wilbur (his brother) who sucked even more. This Wilbur's friends brought the Wilbur Sucks message into the digital age and started the Wilbur Sucks facebook.com group. Everyone is encouraged to join and will receive a Wilbur Sucks nickname upon entry.   

The Cult Other incarnations of Tom story orginated in 2000 when Tom Fleming ('00) and Jeff Grant ('00) were talking to each other and realized that people would wear pretty much any free T-shirt. Thus, Tom decided he could start his own cult merely by printing up shirts that said "Cult of Tom" and distributing them. The only rule for the Cult of Tom was that you must wear the T-shirt.  Then, Tom asked everybody with the shirt to wear it and come to his thesis defense to ask questions (perhaps silly questions or pre-arranged really intelligent ones). It was afterwards that "Cult of Tom" began being scratched onto Driscoll trays. This is where the story diverges. Some say that Tom Stackpole ('01) got jealous and scratched out the orignal Tom and put his own name in. Others say that a friend of Tom's started the corrections, and thereby created a new Cult of Tom (Stackpole). At any rate, the original Cult of Tom supporters were angry, and scratched out the new Tom and replaced it with the old Tom. As a result, the system of odd-even number of Toms was created. An odd number of Toms meant Tom Fleming, and even numbers were Tom Stackpole. theme:

Source: members * Cult of Thomas Edison* Cult of class Strom* Cult of 2000, 2001 -- many Sarah's Tomb (Driscoll; handwriting analysis implies a vandalization of whom still have original earlier Cult of Tom shirts.tray)* Cult of (Greylock; maybe they got interrupted?)

Other incarnations of the Tom theme: *Cult of Thomas Edison*Cult of Strom*Cult of Sarah's Tomb (Driscoll; probably a vandalization of earlier Cult ult of Tom tray)om

*Some nonsense with a guy in a boat and an angel thing (Driscoll)*A pretty well-done and detailed sketch of some dude's face, similar in style, as [[Daniel Klein '06|Dan]] skillfully put it, to the drawings of Egon Schiele; further analysis has revealed it to be the work of [[Rachel S. Selinsky '06]] (Driscoll)

*<math>e^({\pi)(i) }+ 1 = 0 </math> (Driscoll)* Mea mecum ludit virginitas (Driscoll; this tray presumably commemorates the Concert Choir's 2004 performance of Orff's ''Carmina Burana'')* Chuck Chuck / buh-Chuck / etc. / Fuck / etc. / Chuck! (Greylock)* Monkeypo (Driscoll)* GRUNDEL (Greylock; this tray suggests that the kind of person who wants to carve "Grundle" into a dining hall tray is also the kind of person who is too dumb to spell "Grundle" correctly.)

* Et tu, Brutray? Then fall, Caesar salad.