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Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 21:40:34 EDT
From: <ROWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: ZBT rebuttal: Rob Walters

An individual from the University of Rochester has a problem with the last part
of my previous post, concerning a widely publicized scandal involving his Frat.
Since he is a member of the same organization, I feel it is not his place to
complain. My only reply to his follow-up is to say that I am glad that I did
not bond myself in "brotherhood" to the people who disgraced CUNY by selling
grade changes (not to mention pay a lot of money for the priviledge).

Sure, my little comment at the end was poorly written. My excuse is that I was
delerious from typing in the two newspaper articles. Yeah, I'm opinionated.
The fellow from Brandeis seems to be up against a more rowdy bunch than the
Hunter boyz; but the Zeebs at my school are known to pick on poor little
schlubs who have nobody to stick up for them -- just like they did to me
several years ago (and I never forgot). Shall I go on about alleged gang-rapes
in the dorms? BTW, the other privy info from my previous post comes from
several good friends who were chapter presidents in upstate New York.

The ZBT alumni I associate with don't really care that much about the scandal.
They don't take fraternity very seriously because they know it for what it
really is -- a business and a crock of SH*T.

As far as the University of Rochester is concerned, I wipe my fat butt
with the whole city. You call ME ignorant? I don't live in Rochester!

That's all, folks!

Peace.
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 15:29:58 EDT
From: Jeff Wolfe <JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Boldly Not Going Where No Man Has Not Gone Before
 <1992Apr7.173709.26992@cs.rose-hulman.edu>

In article <1992Apr7.173709.26992@cs.rose-hulman.edu>,
kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Greg Kemp) says:
>
>I wish they had done this on our campus.  None of our sidewalks follow
>natural pathways.  The deans have tried repeatedly to keep students from

I think Penn State tried this at some time. (Occasionally our student
newspaper has letters in it from people who complain about students who
don't use the sidewalks.) Now, however, the OPP* seems to have a new system.
They put posts & chains along sidewlaks in strategic places. The wooden posts
and chains seem to blend in pretty well with the campus decor.(or, at least as
well as posts and chains can blend in..) The placement of the posts forces you
to follow the sidewalk, and keeps people off the grass..
The other thing OPP* does, is watch where the grass gets worn down, and either
puts up a post and chain, or paves over the path, making it 'official'.

*OPP is Office of the Physical Plant. anybody else have wacky names for the
maint. staff?



  -- Jeff Wolfe * jtw106@psuvm.psu.edu * jefwolfe@endor.cs.psu.edu

 "May the forces of evil become lost on the way to your door."
                                                -Carlin
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From: osicoop@bwdls138.bnr.ca (Ashley Buratynski)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Weird Profs
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:24:18 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa


Back in Waterloo, we had an old guy teaching a calculus class. He was two years beyond retirement
and was only sticking around to see a couple of his grad students through, and was teaching the
class because the math dept was short staffed that term. 

I was a little late for class one day, and stopped by the bathroom once in the building. Someone
else walks in and occupies the urinal next to me. My peripherial vision tells me I know this person,
but I don't bother looking right at him...he finishes up, and leaves. I end up following the prof
of the class I'm supposed to be attending back to a very stunned bunch of engineers. All he said 
was:"I had four cups of coffee this morning" and left. He was gone for a little over five minutes,
and people were getting confused...

Another prof, Prof Louks was incredibly loud. He taught his class on the bottom floor of the 
lecture hall where the computer room is situated. All other rooms with facing doors would shut them
when he was lecturing, and you could actually go to the computer, play games and still hear the 
lecture quite clearly. That is, until they banned all games from the LAN, but that's another story..

Ashley Buratynski
EE University of Waterloo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: pratta@marcus.not.a.center (Anthony Edward Prattico)
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:42:12 GMT


   In article <92099.172500MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu>, Matthew P. Nagler
   <MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
   >      Ok, here is my effort at starting a thread. The latest building to be
   >  added to the worderous establishment of learning known as the main campus
   >  of Penn State (sarcasm? ME? B-) has been dubbed the Classroom and Office
   >  Building, or as my friends have dubbed it the COB. What other buildings
   >  are there out there that are as creatively named?

    Here at RPI we have the Modern Classroom Facility, or something like that,
   which has been renamed by the school as the Darren Communications Center.
   This building contains the largest and, you guessed it, most modern lecture
   halls on campus. And there is the Materials Research Center, and to twist
   the thread a bit, the George M. Low Center for Industrial Innovation, which
   is actually a building name, as well as the name of a department, all of
   which is actually a part of the school of engineering.

   And just because I'm bored, here is a list of our centers:

        Voorhees Computing Center
        Material Reasearch Center
        Darren Communications Center
        Science Center
        Center for Industrial Innovation
        Visitors Information Center
        Chapel and Cultural Center
        Alumni Sports and Recreation Center
    
     and centers which are not buildings:

        The Learning Center
        The Writing Center
        Career Development Center
        Counseling Center
        Center for Student Leadership Development
        Center for Advanced Technology in Automation and Robotics
        Center for Composite Materials and Structures
        Rensselaer Design Research Center
        Center for Integrated Electronics
        Center for Intelligent Robotics and Space Systems Exploration
        Center for Manufacturing Productivity and Technology Transfer
        Northeast Manufacturing Technology Center
        Scientific Computation Research Center
        Center for Architectural Research
        Lighting Research Center
        Center for Biophysics/Biochemistry
          
I've named as many Centers as I can come up with, though I may have left out
10 or 20. And I thought center was an engineering term, as in center of mass
and things like that. Silly me.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: ranger@plague.ugcs.caltech.edu (Ben Smith)
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:12:45 GMT

There are steam tunnels at Caltech.  I've been in them dozens of times.  If you
are a Caltech studen, here is no penalty for being caught down there.  In fact
I can think of only one time when someone I know got caught, and that was 
because they asked for it.  All security did was give a severe tongue lashing.
If the person caught is not from Caltech, then security will press tresspassing
charges.  As to whether students are allowed in the tunnels, the Dean of 
Undergraduate Sudents specifically refused to comment.
  The tunnels are neat and actually have some ineresting graffiti.  All the
pipes are covered wih asbestos.  It is a nice way to get around campus when
it is raining.
 
      Ben Smith
      ranger@ugcs.caltech.edu
      "Have South--Will travel"

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: robinw2@vccsouth23.its.rpi.edu (William Saul Robinson)
Subject: Re: fraternities
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 07:12:04 GMT

01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:

>In article <1992Apr3.015939.9975@news.iastate.edu>, mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker) writes:
>> In article <1992Apr1.204828.4724@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>>> [previous junk deleted]

>> 	If you were in tune with your own greek system you would know
>> that some frats and sororities have removed the all male/female rules
>> and that they have had limited cases of women joining frats.

>Not on my campus, nor on any other I have heard of, nor has it been mentioned in
>any Greek publication I have ever heard of.

Well, I guess that the fraternity to which I belong that is co-ed nationally
at over 300 campuses does not exist.  I do agree that most of the 
antifraternity things that were posted were baseless, I can say that I belong 
to Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-ed fraternity.

                                                  >>>-HOOD->
						  Bill Robinson
   						  robinw2@rpi.edu
From: uspam@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Tom Maynard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: collegiate pets
Date: 11 Apr 92 04:02:07 GMT


During my sophomore year, I had a pet plaria.  It split apart, and I had
two for a while.  It wasn't too exciting, and it didn't try to run away.

It died when the petri dish got overrun with a really disgusting fungus.

--Tom Maynard (uspam@mcl.ucsb.edu)
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Smoot
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:43:46 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Apr13.204956.1479@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sas3h@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Sheryl Anne Smoot) writes:
>>      :
>>     | | < Harvard (Smoot) Bridge
>>     | |   ~ ~ Charles River ~ ~
>
>Just had to mention that I am glad to see that you called the bridge
>the Harvard (Smoot) Bridge.  My father was the Smoot that the bridge
>is unofficially named for and I am happy that other people remember it.

The Smoot marks are still painted on the bridge.  I believe that the state
or municipal government is in charge of making sure the paint stays fresh.

So, are you short, also? :)
-- 
Ted Frank          + "Question whether attorney's filing claim for 'stud fee'
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  as countersuit to paternity action was improperly
U o' C Law Skool   +  motivated required remand."  Headnote 9, Committee on
Chi, IL 60637      +  Legal Ethics of WVa State Bar v Douglas, 370 SE2d 325.
From: 00087452@ysub.ysu.edu (Chuck Slivkoff)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: RIP: Sander Hall
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:19:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: ysub.92097.23190900087452
Organization: Youngstown State University

Sander Hall was once the highest building in Cincinnati.
It WAS a dorm on the UC campus with 25 floors of rooms,
but, after a fire about 7-8 years ago, it was found not
to be up to fire codes.  The building was closed & doomed to
destruction.  The demolition took place this past June.  It
made the local news here in Youngstown too because it was the
tallest buildings of its type to be imploded. (there was a
cafeteria attached to the bottom 2 floors & it was left
intact!

A couple of guys during my freshman year found a way into the
building first via the steam tunnels & later by a door on the
ground level.  Well, luckly enough the elevators were still
working.  (UC was doing earthquake testing with the building...
the hydraulic pump on the top floor was huge!)  Since one of the
guys knew the dispatcher in the police station, they propped
open one of the doors leading to the roof & took off like hell.
A couple of hours later, they went to BS with the dispatcher.
Unlike the postings on the doors, no alarms went off.
That night was the first of several journeys to the roof of
Sander Hall.

I went up a few times my self.  I even climbed up the
microwave tower on the top of the building.  Wow, what
a view.  It was really breathtaking... 25 stories in the
open air, away from the city below......
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: Boldly Not Going Where No Man Has Not Gone Before
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
	<1992Apr7.173709.26992@cs.rose-hulman.edu>,<92098.152958JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu>
	<1992Apr8.152157.6442@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
	<92099.145558JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:01:19 GMT

In article <92099.145558JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu> JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Wolfe) writes:


>In article <1992Apr8.152157.6442@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,
>st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER) says:
>>
>>Instead of using fences to keep people from cutting across the grass,
>>it would be better if Physical plant* were to plant bushes - they perform
>
>Ahh, yes, bushes.. but they cost MONEY to maintain.. you have to prune them
>every few weeks during the summer....  Money is the key word here..
>Cheaper is better!
>
>  -- Jeff Wolfe * jtw106@psuvm.psu.edu * jefwolfe@endor.cs.psu.edu
>
> "May the forces of evil become lost on the way to your door."
>						   -Carlin
>

Last year when I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, they had
the '86 field with signs up that told you not to cross across it, etc.
An uproar ensumed when they put up BOTH bushes and a fence around the
field.  I knew people who would hop the fence, cross the field, and
hop the fence on the other side just out of spite.  And the bushes
were pretty dinky too...

--
T. Stone 
(s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
From: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Greg Kemp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:17:13 GMT
Reply-To: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

In article <1992Apr16.154218.4196@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu  
(Jacob DeGlopper) writes:
> 
> In a previous article, s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) says:
> 
> >Not that we'd violate peoples' privacy and various laws by listening
> >in on those frequencies or anything...
> 
> No, you wouldn't.  The ECPA of 1986 specifically exempts cordless phones
> from any restrictions on being monitored.  If you want to protect your
> privacy, don't broadcast your conversations over the air.

Also, there's the FCC Act of 1926 (I think...I'm not sure of the year).   
In the United States, anything you can pull in with your radio receiver is  
yours to listen to.  It may be immoral, but it isn't illegal.  

--
Greg Kemp ("Mr. Distortion")		| "What would happen in a
kempga@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu		| normal person's brain, then?   
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	| It would explode." - MFM
Terre Haute, IN				| 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Stupid professor tricks (was Re: Weird Profs)
Organization: Why?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:57:04 GMT

One time in Astronomy 100 at the Univ. of Maryland, Professor Westerhout
(retired?) was giving a demonstration on the relative distances between
planets by placing different sized objects around the room. Actually, it
was in one of the large lecture halls in the Physics Bldg. So, he's holding
a grapefruit representing Uranus (if my memory is correct) and starts to 
walk toward one of the exits. You can guess what happens next. He goes
out the exit which locks behind him and continues to lecture, talking
into his wireless mike. A moment later, you can hear him trying to open
the door, but can't. Someone gets up and opens the door for him, but
he isn't there. A few minutes later, he reappears at the top of the
lecture hall and walks back down to the front. He then starts his
lecture again like nothing ever happened. Then he takes an orange and
a pea for Neptune and Pluto, opens the previously mentioned exit, tosses
them outside and says "You get the idea." Then the whole class just
fell apart laughing.

-Steve-

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: tmm@sdd.hp.com (Tim McDonough)
Subject: Re: MIT's "Infinite Corridor"
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 21:17:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.212239.14221@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> donald@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald A Bachman) writes:
>kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>
>>[]
>>	BIFF sez, HEY D00DZ I WENT D0WN MIT"S ENDLES C0RID0R 2DAY & IT
>>ENDED S0 I WANT MY M0NEY BACK WAAAH !!!!!!11
>
>>	I saw the silly ol' quarter-mile thing today.  A friend at MIT
>>told me he's been told it's the longest *straight* corridor in the
>>world.  Somehow, I doubt this.  Anyone got facts?  Anyone got a
>>definition of "straight"?  Anyone got a longer corridor I should visit
>>wearing Rollerblades?
>
>>								-- K.
>
>	I am certain the the straight corridor in Bldg 3001 (the mile long 
>building at Tinker AFB, OK) second floor is longer (and by no means the
>longest in the world). Though it has been some time since I walked either.
>Of course, getting access to the thing will be the hard part.

I'm also quite sure the long corridor in the IBM Rochester Plant is longer than
a quarter mile.  It goes all the way from the Lab through Manufacturing, and
then out to the wherehouses.  Of course the part I liked best about it was the
anemometer (sp) [You know, the thing that measures wind speed].  I'm sure some
days there was a 10 mph draft in there!

                                      -Tim
-- 
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16399 W. Bernardo Drive                                1350 N. Esc. Blvd. #40
San Diego, CA 92127            tmm@sdd.hp.com          Escondido, CA 92026-2520
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From: KWF102@psuvm.psu.edu (Kevin Furrow)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:25:31 GMT
 <1992Apr08.122016.73832@watson.ibm.com>
 <1992Apr8.192654.3865@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: Penn State University


   I guess every department of every university has somebody who can't
speak English very well, but the CmpSc department here at PSU has one
professor who really takes the prize.  Hardly anyone can understand the
guy; I never did get used to it (heck, I didn't go to half the classes
because I couldn't understand the guy).  He says "character" the way most
people say "cocktail", when he says "detrmine the paraMETERS" he means
"determine the parameters" (he accents the meters part instead of the para
part).  His prononciation of asynchronous is something that has to be heard
to be believed.  Of the sixty or so people in his class at the end, only
10 or 11 would bother showing up.


Kevin Furrow (kwf102@psuvm.psu.edu)
From: greg@ngo.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:42:28 GMT
Reply-To: ...@cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!aspencer.austin.ibm.com!aspencer
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division

A friend of mine last year had a 3 foot python in his dorm room.
I kept it over spring break...pretty cool for a week at least.

--Gregg--

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From: mayor@ic9.umeeng (Cam "You didn't see me!" Mayor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: more steam tunnels
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:34:26 GMT
Reply-To: mayor@ic9.umeeng
Organization: Sun Microsystems


  Many years back a friend and myself discovered the steam tunnels.
(at the university of manitoba)
We explored them much, and then one day went in and mapped all the
distances and angles, etc.  I knew them like the back of my hand 
and went in them many many times for fun, for warmth, for mischief.
One fine day about two years ago, my friend and I were down there 
and we thought "hey...I don't remember all these support posts
being here last week".  The next day we saw the article in the
school newspaper about how the steam tunnels were in danger of 
collapsing and the measures that had been taken to help slow the
imminent collapse.  I haven't been in them since.  Previous to
that, I had seen many spots where they *had* caved in, but I never
really thought much of it.
  Now they have just finished construction on new tunnels...and I'm
really itchin' to get in there.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: livant@cs.uri.edu
Subject: Re: Notable Quotables
Organization: University of Rhode Island, Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:08:23 GMT

For those of you who are into computers enough to appreciate it...

I was in a comparative programming languages class, and the teacher was giving
us a short lecture on how to write objects in C++.  She was using a buffer 
(abbreviated as Buf) as and example of an object and the buffer had private 
and public functions. Among the private functions (a function that the rest of
the program couldn't get at) were front and rear.  One of the students raised 
his hand to clarify the point that :

"You have to be in the Buf to get access to the rear"?  

The laughter died down after about five minutes.