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Jug - Detention
Some students of Catholic school may be familiar with the term "JUG", also known as "Justice Under God."
What does this sentence want to say? I am not a student of a Catholic school so I am not familiar with the term. What does it mean?
- "Justice Under God" is incorrect. "Jug" is specifically Jesuit, not generally Catholic, and it does not stand for "justice under God." It is derives from the Latin "jugum," meaning "burden" or "yoke," and referring to labor designed to elicit contemplation that brings the subject closer to God. Generations of students at Jesuit schools have paid for transgressions by spending afterschool hours in Jug, doing things like cleaning the campus, memorizing poetry or Biblical verses, or circling all the "i's" on several pages in the phone book. I myself had to learn the origin of the term "Jug" as part of a Jug assignment given by Fr. Ed McFadden, S.J., God bless his soul. This may just be personal opinion, but I think part of the power of Jug is in the name itself - not just the mystery of it, but also the brevity and punch of the word (i.e. saying "Go get a Jug" , or simply pointing at a student and saying "Jug!" has much more to it than a mealy-mouthed "go to the vice-prinicpal and get a detention"). The term really deserves an article of its own. See http://www.jesuitvocation.org/Jesuits/reflection_prior_gene.htm Freeheel 04:19, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Jug is also slang for prison, and seems to be related to jougs, an iron neck ring, or the old Scottish pillory, derived from Old French joug, a yoke, from the Latin jugum (as per Freeheel above). DuncanHill 11:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)