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From: jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
Subject: Re: Buildings, buildings, and more buildings...
Reply-To: jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 20:07:13 GMT


Case Western Reserve has its share of odd building names, some with
their own unique charm...

Thwing Center, the student union, which closes at 6 pm Friday evening.
  (Pronounced Twing, to the eternal confusion of visitors and new freshman)

White Hall, the only red brick building in a row of about four white ones.

A dorm named Tippit, and one named Taplin, on opposite ends of campus.

A Clark Hall (classrooms) and a Clarke Tower (graduate highrise dorm).

An auditorium named Strosacker, with the obvious transposition of 
syllables.

And last but not last, Mather House, Mather gym, and Mather Memorial, all
in the same little area, known as the Mather Quad.  It's what's left of
Flora Stone Mather college, one of about five CWRU has absorbed over the
years.  

-- 

           Jacob DeGlopper, EMT-A, Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad
            -- CWRU Biomedical Engineering - jrd5@po.cwru.edu -- 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: sas3h@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Sheryl Anne Smoot)
Subject: Re: Smoot
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:10:21 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.084346.27747@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> 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.
> 

I was under the impression that the Lambda Chi pledges still paint the
marks twice a year.

> So, are you short, also? :)

What do you mean short?  I guess you think that they should have redone the
marks with my brother when he was at MIT (he is about 6 feet or so).
Actually, I believe I am a bit shorter than my dad, making me about
5'5" to 5'6".  

> -- 
> 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.

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##  sas3h@Virginia.EDU     #    Charlottesville, VA             ##
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Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 23:10:11 EDT
From: Chuck Slivkoff <00087452@ysub.ysu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Distribution: na
 <1992Apr4.185117.7255@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
 <1992Apr4.233431.2582@panix.com> <31361@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>

While going to the University of Cincinnati, I was fortunate enough
to explore the steam tunnels to a slight extent.  I have several
friends who explored the tunnels extensively and have been luckly
enough not to get caught.  One night in particular, a couple of
guys were leaving the tunnels by way of a door located on the
bottom level of one of the parking decks.  The door was behind
a couple of large steam pipes which were exposed.  Nothing else
was behind the pipes.  Well, that night, there just happened to
be a couple of university cops sitting in their patrol cars
eating donuts & drinking coffee!  Well, since there was no
where to go, the guys were dragged down to the station and
questioned.  Nothing really became of the incident because
luckly enough, they haden't taken any souveniers (sp.) that
night.

Check out my next post for more adventure at UC!
From: st902708@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Flinx, hunter for hire)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: those wacky chemicals
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:59:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr7.165952.24361
Reply-To: st902708@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University


	XeO3  Xenon Trioxide???



	I don't wanna know how the hell you pull that one off....

	I wonder what XeF6 (xenon hexafluoride) does, though...


A warning to all of you would-be chemists:

	Most of us who are posting these recipes have seen these demonstrations
actually performed and have experience in putting these things together,
SAFELY.  Most times we have also done the work under controlled laboratory
conditions.  Thus, it has been fun and safe.  

	I do not wish to hear of any damn fool blowing his head off because of
a recipe I provided him with.  Or worse yet, somebody else's.

	Please, do be careful.  And do make sure to find out from a certifiable
source before you begin anything.

--Brian
From: ericd@concour.cs.concordia.ca (DELORME eric p)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:53:54 GMT
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

--
emroLeD cirE
ac.aidrocnoc.sc.ruocnoc@dcire
From: jk73+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Odd-looking things on campus
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:14:17 GMT
	<1992Apr1.170834.54092@cc.usu.edu>
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

recently, some art student's here made some bizzard animal shaped things
from scrap metal and placed them around the capus.   During a snow
storm, some one built a snow fort around the object with signs and
posted signs that said 'petting zoo: don't feed the animals." 

when the snow melted, the things were gone and another sign was posted
that said 'the animals have escaped!'
it was quite amusing.
From: st891831@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (BANE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Zany Bagel Tasters
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:31:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr13.183125.4827
Reply-To: st891831@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University


	If you think there's a problem with fraternities at other schools...

	Well, you're probably right.


	But at Brandeis, it seems to be the sworn and solemn duty of every
non-frat-member to oppose the frats as if they were the Neo-Nazi party. The
frats are un-sanctioned, but still exist. Any club that's found to be 
affiliated with a frat is dechartered. Seems normal enough though.

	The fun part is that the student Senate recently chartered the Zany
Bagel Tasters, which claims to be a club that exists for the sole purpose
of acquiring bagels to sell on campus. In other words, the anti-frat Senate
CHARTERED *Z*B*T*!!
	A friend of mine is a ZBT member. He tells me that the Senate didn't
even realize what they'd done until it was too late. A couple of the Senators
have said various other things, inclining me to believe that they still have
not gotten their alibis straight for where their brains were at the time.

	My only question now is:

		Are they zany tasters of bagels, or do they taste zany bagels?



				-Bane the Mighty
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: rcte4@jetson.uh.edu (Carpenter, Scot M.)
Subject: Re: weird professors
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 06:15:00 GMT

In article <disaacs.702919844@cunews>, disaacs@thuma.carleton.ca (Dave Isaacs) writes...
>     Here at Carleton there is a lecture theature known as the "egg", due to
>it's shape.  It seats maybe 400 people, and has a terraced ceiling.  One day
>during a class something in the building broke.  There started a drip, drip,
>drip of water,  then a fairly steady stream of water, out of the ceiling.  
>This all of a sudden turned into a thin sheet of water that spanned most of 
>the width of the theater, cutting the prof off from the rest of the class
>Most professors would call it day at this point, but not this guy.  He kept
>on lecturing right through the waterfall!
> 
      News story in campus paper (Daily Cougar) from last semester concerned
a Sociology prof who continued to lecture after one of the students lost
consciousness and fell on the floor.  Two other students began administering
CPR to the strickend student on the classroom floor.
      Prof. said afterward something to effect of "I didn't know what else
to do...." 


|	 Visualize a Piece 		|	My Inner Child		|
|	   of the Action		|	     was a 		|
|					|	  miscarriage		|
|	Scot Carpenter RCTE4@Jetson.uh.edu  Ma Bell lies.....		|
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: ray@nmsb.larc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: Buildings, buildings, and more buildings...
Originator: hazari@dagger.larc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:42:29 GMT

When I was going to Pitt the Registrar used to be in Mervis Hall.  Later,
Pitt built a new School of Business and called that building Mervis Hall
and renamed the other building Thackery Hall.  Didn't make much sense.

I may have the names reversed, it's been a while.

Later!
Ray Balister
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad)
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical jokes
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Organization: League For Fighting Chartered Accountancy
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:03:12 GMT

01sybok@ac.dal.ca wrote on 12 Apr 92 15:23:45 GMT:
>you, I'd get new friends. The "vagina with teeth"has been seen on ancient 
>sculpture, I once read in a magazine ( Esquire, last fall, the Wild Men and
>Wimps one).It's hardly new, nor is it unique to fraternities.

I have to agree with this argument.  We have such a sculpture here at
Princeton, right by the registrar's office.  In addition, we have a
"flying fuck" sculpture, the presence of which affirms the value of
many common frat activities, I'm sure.

Sorry to disturb the flames in alt.folklore.college by injecting some
unwarranted college folklore...  ;-)

-- 
Paul Falstad, pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu | 10 PRINT "PRINCETON CS"
[Your blood pressure just went up.]          | 20 GOTO 10
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From: mullignj@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:56:55 GMT
Organization: New York University

In article <1992Apr4.233431.2582@panix.com>, fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
> In <1992Apr4.185117.7255@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
> 
> Same thing at Stony Brook where I went to school.  That only made it more
> enticing. 
> 
> It's also complete bullshit.  Public Safety "officers" are bozos and if you
> play stupid enough they will just show you out.  My friends got caught
> because they walked RIGHT PAST the place where the tunnels border on the
> Public Safety office in the Admin building (the place where everyone knows
> NOT to go).  They just said "Where's the lecture center"  and were told
> "you have to go above ground for that"
> 
> If I were I ever caught, it was my plan to say "Where the fuck am I?  I
> just walked through an open door in the basement and suddenly I was here
> and started looking around."

Yeah, I've been through most of the Stony Brook Steam tunnels too, one night
a group of us went through and we anded up in a tunnel without any light.
We made our way down, feeling the walls, moving slowly, when the lead man 
came to a short railing.  He put his leg over it and there was not place to
put his foot down!  Fortunately he was holding on the the person behind him
because when we went back later with flashlights we found a rather nasty
drop on the other side of the railing.  ALSO in the Steam tunnels at Stony
Brook, the medical center keeps its storage units for cadavers.  You can't
miss them.  Tall tubular things.
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:15:27 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: soc.college
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Follow-ups out of alt.folklore.college

In article <1992Apr15.104232.5072@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>My right to freedom of association is guaranteed by both the Canadian and 
>American Constitutions. I can associate with whom I please when I am living 
>my private life. Neither you nor anyone else can dictate with whom I spend
>time. *That* was my point.

The United States Supreme Court has held that fraternity membership is
not protected by the Constitution should a college choose to regulate it.
You have freedom of association to choose to go to a college that doesn't
have the sense to abolish fraternities.
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
From: Benjamin.A.Murphy@dartmouth.edu (Benjamin A. Murphy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: a thought about "frats"
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:37:53 GMT
 <1992Apr6.104205.11529@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Apr6.104205.11529@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
reyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

> 
> I've heard this a lot before (I think Dartmouth fraternities are
> big on this saying), but I never really understood it.  My name
> is David, should I be offended if someone calls me Dave?

That is not a Dartmouth fraternity saying. We call 'em "frats" just
like everyone else. We just do more drinking, that's what Dartmouth is
big on.
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: fraternities
Date: 11 Apr 92 16:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: soc.college
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1322@hydra.bucknell.edu> thornton@sirius.tmc.edu (Katy Thornton `92) writes:
>So then the question remains, is there (should there be) a distinction
>between social fraternities and service fraternities?  Because APO is
>organized as a service fraternity.  I know that on my campus, APO is
>not considered/treated as a "greek" organization (like the rest of the
>fraternities and sororites are).

Yes, there should.  The latter doesn't have the problems that the former does.
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Stuff in Steam Tunnels (Was: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!))
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:23:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine

In article <1992Apr15.235223.19579@wpi.WPI.EDU> mute@yoyodyne (Joshua Thompson Brandt) writes:
>
>So, what sort of interesting things are down in the MIT tunnels? I
>was lost in them one day a few months ago, while on a quest for the
>WMBR, the MIT radio station ...

Last I saw, it was in the same building as the old Gym.  The unicycle
club used to meet there in the winters.  BTW, it used to be named WTBS
but Ted Turner bought the call letters from them.

>to where I was going. I told the person why I was late, and he asked
>me if I had discovered the "Tomb of the Unknown Tool." He never
>explained, though, what this is...

I've seen it.  Kind of neat.  Go back and look for it.  Why play adventure
when you can have the real thing?

>Are there any other interesting sights buried deep within the bowels
>of the MIT campus?

Lots.  It was my favorite way to spend a Sunday afternoon.  Nothing in
the world like popping back up to the surface and saying "How the hell did
I get *here*?"  There used to be an underground tunnel that connected two
of the newer buildings that had completely white featureless walls.  It was
collecting small orderly graffitti.  When I was there, the walls were about
1/6 covered.  I wonder if it's still there.

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
	That's one thing about going against the flow:  there's
	less traffic in that direction.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: sbarber@panix.com (Steve Barber)
Subject: Re: MIT and Smoots
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:43:21 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Apr16.094314.9573@news.iastate.edu> twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney) writes:
>From what I saw there, MIT has to have more practical jokes per capita
>than any campus in America. For God's sake, they have t-shirts for the
>more memorable ones on sale! Yeah, I bought one.... ;-)

There is a book as well, published by the MIT Museum.  It's by Brian M.
Liebowitz and is called _The Journal of the Institute for Hacks Tomfoolery
and Pranks at MIT_.

Having participated in my share of 'Tute hacks, I have to say all this
commercialization is getting out of hand.  It's time to Hack the
Commercializers!

-- 
Steve Barber                                             sbarber@panix.com
"The direct deed is the most meaningful reflection." - Bill Evans
The above is not a legal advice. It is, at best, a discussion of
generalities. Consult your attorney before acting in a specific situation.
From: ewf2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Eric "JUICE" Fritzius)
Subject: Re: Weird Profs
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:32:33 GMT



A friend of mine, an archeology major, works at the local
archeology/anthropology department.  Earlier this week
he told me that one of his co-workers at the COBB, (the 
archeology building,) was coming in to work late one
evening and was surprised to see one of the Anthro profs
stalking through the halls.  The man was carrying a 
spear gun and muttering, "Someone's down here."  The 
prof then stalked off to guard the anthro-library.

Yesterday I noticed that several of the glass, grid windows
on the bottom floor were broken.  Four of them looked 
as though they had been shot through.  Dunno if it's 
related.   Probably not.

JSA

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From: mayor@ic9.umeeng (Cam "You didn't see me!" Mayor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: steam tunnel cops
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:36:52 GMT
Reply-To: mayor@ic9.umeeng
Organization: Sun Microsystems


  Those guys were too porked up on doughnuts to be able to catch
anyone.  My friends and I more than once were running backwards
from the cops, waving at them, while they were chugging along at
their maximum pace.  Sometimes we'd stop and let them catch up a
bit, because it was no fun if they stopped chasing you.
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From: streeter@cs.unca.edu (Tom Streeter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:29:04 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville

In article <1992Apr13.071102.535@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Wasylik) writes:
>In article <1992Apr12.171608.13444@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Apr12.122345.4988@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes


Can we take all this fraternity dicussion and move it to someplace
appropriate........like alt.flamefest.infantile? 

Ted, don't join a frat.  The rest of you.....go do whatever.

Unless someone has something Churchill (or maybe Disraeli) said on the
topic, it doesn't belong in alt.folklore.college......

Have a nice day.


-- 
Tom Streeter                                |   streeter@cs.unca.edu
Dept. of Mass Communication                 |   704-251-6227
University of North Carolina at Asheville   |   Opinions expressed here are
Asheville, NC 28804                         |   mine alone.
From: jhelbaum@rise.Princeton.EDU (Jason Elbaum)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:25:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

Princeton's cleverly-named Computer Sciences Building opened Fall 1989.
It's a postmodern-style building, with generic brick sides and
nondescript arches and pillars.  The undergrads promptly christened it
"Foo Hall."

ObFolklore:  Near the top of the building on one side is a pattern of
inset bricks.  They represent the ASCII code for "P=NP?".

-- 
Jason Elbaum                               jhelbaum@phoenix.princeton.edu
From: jac1@ra.msstate.edu (Jennifer Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Prof.'s accent blunders documented
Date: 14 Apr 92 13:36:46 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University


You should try hanging out at a southern university sometime.  The school
here has quite a few foriegn teachers and they have a terrible time
understanding the "Southern Drawl."  Many of them are very intelligent, but
I can barely understand some New Yorkers let alone someone that really doesn't
speak the language.

Jennifer

(Don't flame for the New Yorkers comment.  I am a southern girl with the drawl
from hell and I will just charm you with it)
From: st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Elisha Fara Landman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:17:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr14.011754.8521
Reply-To: st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

Hey Ted, I have heard so much about you, here at Brandeis - I'm a 
first year - It was cool to see your posts!!!!

				-- Elisha
				   st911117@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college