Competition: An Alma Mater for the SA

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An Alma Mater for the SA

One of the most important traditions for many colleges and universities is that of the alma mater, or school song. Harvard's, for instance, sounds appropriately august. Yale's sounds like... well, exactly what you'd expect it to. My personal favorite, though I recognize I'm biased, is that of the University of Texas where I graduated from.

As was recently pointed out by Saitou, the Shadow Academy lacks a school song... and I'd like to fix that. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to come up with the lyrics (no music necessary) to the SA's school song. It should be at least three to four stanzas long, with longer submissions definitely encouraged. Entries will be graded primary on their humor and relation to the subject matter.

Submissions can be either made directly into the text submission box or uploaded in Word or PDF; please, no GoogleDoc links.

Competition Information
Organized by
Adept Farrin Xies Tarentae, Marcus Kiriyu
Running time
2017-03-06 until 2017-03-27 (22 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Poetry
Awards
First Level Crescents
Participants
13 subscribers, of which 5 have participated.
Results
1st place
Proconsul Diyrian "Diy" Grivna
Member
Proconsul Diyrian "Diy" Grivna
Textual submission

(If this ends up being chosen, the 'Brotherhood colors' can be swapped out for the official ones and if we don't have official colors for the Brotherhood or Academy, maybe that can be the next 'fixing' comp XD. Hope you enjoy.)

"Raise your weapons and salute!
This hour we are called upon,
By the Force, military, or steel.
To turn the gears of history."

"We write our names in this Academy,
Sign our lives to serve
With knowledge and ability
Our Brotherhood deserves."

"Seven clans we may be,
But Shadow born to the core.
The Academy our Forge
To arm ourselves with the Black and gold!"
*fist thump to chest*

"Today we arm ourselves (Rise!)
With the Black and Gold! (Salute!)
Brotherhood! (Ra! *stomp*)
Clan! (Ra! *stomp*)
Academy! (Ra! *stomp*)
We are Shadows! Ra!"

*Brotherhood Salute*
- *Cheers*

Placement
1st place
2nd place
Alara Deathbane
Member
Alara Deathbane
Textual submission

Jedi, Sith, and Grey we three
Attend your halls for master study
You lead us on with strength and pride
You teach us with wisdom to be our guide

Shadow Academy halls a-plenty
Courses far as the eyes can see
Your professors change often but
The classes we’re taught in stand for all eternity

No matter the struggle, no matter the fight
We are taught to give it all of our might
The knowledge you give makes it worth all our plight
To reach our degree’s heights

Shadow Academy halls a-plenty
Courses far as the eyes can see
Your professors change often but
The classes we’re taught in stand for all eternity

You give us reason to spend our day
Focusing hard on our skill
And though this knowledge we learn may not work
IRL , it works here still

Shadow Academy, coding a-plenty
Markdown, wiki, information galore
No matter the weather we’ll be here together
In your halls forevermore.

(I'd sing this but idk if I can send mp3's through this upload system. Email me at amberraemarie@gmail.com if you'd like me to send you a clip.)

Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Braecen Kaeth
Member
Braecen Kaeth
Submission
Braecen Kaeth opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
3rd place
Obsidian
Member
Obsidian
File submission
The_DJB_Alma_Mater.docx
Placement
No placement
Vosiri Lightscrest
Member
Vosiri Lightscrest
File submission
Vosiri4993.docx
Textual submission

Shadow Academy
You honor us
today

Your toilets over flowing
Your food tastes like poodoo

We learned so much in your halls
So much we’ll never use

Shadow Academy
we’ll be glad
When we leave you

*Note: To get the full effect I have included this wonderful song performed by the majestic vocals of yours truly. :)
To hear the song head to https://youtu.be/62sgMcySYps

Placement
No placement