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From: HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Tuition Increases (WAS Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 4 Oct 92 15:25:27 GMT
 <1992Sep30.114038.59299@cc.usu.edu> <92274.154747HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
 <1adfg4INNepe@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <92278.045305MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <92278.045305MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>, Norman St. John Polevaulter
<MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>Also referred to as Pepsi State University (the powers that be recently
>signed an agreement with the Pepsi-Cola Megacorp that basically turns our
>souls over to them) or simply P$U (tuition increases -- you can set your
>watch by 'em!)
>

That's the truth.  Here at P$U, if the tuition goes up it *MUST* be August.
Not only that, if the administration can't come up with a high enough
tuition increase, they add mandatory fees.  Like the $35 / semester "computer
fee".  When I was at one of the satelite campuses, I requested a mainframe
account at the main campus because I had to pay the $35 bucks.  I was told
that I didn't need the account for any of my classes.  I asked what the
"fee" was for then, and they said if I didn't use the mainframe then I
could use the PC's in the other lab.  I said "But I use my OWN pc!" to
which they said "too bad."  I think that P$U also imposes a "copying fee"
to pay for the handouts that you get in class.  If that's so, then WHY
do I have to pay $15 for a book of photocopied pages in the bookstore?

Grrrrr.......

How is it where you're at?

*  Hans C. Masing        |  "When you go in for a job interview, I  *
*  HCM100@PSUVM.psu.edu  |   think a good thing to ask is if they   *
*  Penn State MIS Dept.  |   ever press charges." - Jack Handey     *
From: IO80034@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Lurking in the shadows.....)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:06:25 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

Hiya!
     Here at Umaine, it is almost impossible to park without getting
a ticket.  A case in point:
     Every year the National Guard flies a helicopter in and lands it
on the mall directly in front of good ol' Fogler Library.  Last year,
I walked down the library steps just in time to see one of the campus
police sticking a ticket underneath the 'copters windshield wiper.
Y'see, at UMaine, they don't like *anyone* parking on the grass....
                                           -- Lurker
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From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: permanent temporary buildings.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 09:00:28 GMT

SFU has a number of trailers which house various Science offices, the Math
& Stats Student Union common room, and the Peak (student newspaper). They've
all been there for years, there is no plant life growing under them, and a
rabbit lives under one of the trailers. The Peak's offices, in fact, of more
than one trailer; they are all nicely connected together, with steps and
handrails and everything. Extremely permanent; there's no indication that
any permanent-permanent buildings are going to be built for all the people
who now have to use the trailers for their offices.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
Hon Cog Sci; Min Psyc; Forum; Senate; CDSU; URC; ASC; FARSIDE; LEAD; CCCS
I officially represent each and every one of the above bodies--NOT!

"Perhaps you're just different. It's not a sin, you know--though you may
 have heard otherwise."                     --Tam Elbrun, ST:TNG "Tin Man"
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From: stevev@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Steve Verros)
Subject: Re: Iowa State University Towers
Organization: Honeywell, Air Transport Division; Phoenix, AZ
	<jeffries.718255022@pv7b87.vincent.iastate.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:31:26 GMT
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> ** jeffries@iastate.edu (Anthony G Jeffries) on Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:17:02 GMT
> ** in [Re: Iowa State University Towers] writes:

AGJ> In <91600@netnews.upenn.edu> jkuner@be.seas.upenn.edu (John A. E. Kuner) writes:

>In article <> williamsk@gtephx.UUCP (Kevin W. Williams) writes:
><>When I was a going to school at ISU, the Towers
><>(Wallace/Wilson/Knapp/Storms) were rumored to be
><>only temporary buildings that were supposed to have
><>been torn down in 1975. Is this story still going
><>around? Have they actually lived 17 years past their
><>reputed design life?
><>
AGJ> I heard this a couple of years ago as a freshman.  However, the last I 
AGJ> heard was that the Towers were being renovated.  They are, for all practical
AGJ> purposes, permanent.  I've never lived in them, but I understand that if you
AGJ> live on the upper floors, you can feel them sway quite a bit in a strong 
AGJ> wind.  (For those who don't know, the Towers are about twelve stories tall.)

I heard that they sway so much in strong winds that the water sloshes
out of the toilets.  I remember trying to organize a field trip to the
Towers during one perticuarly nasty storm to verify this rumor.  I
couldn't, however, get anyone to walk the 12? blocks with me in a
driving rain storm.

--
Steven J. Verros (who speaks for himself, not) Honeywell Inc.          
INet: stevev@hwcae.az.honeywell.com                              
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From: jac1@ra.msstate.edu (Jennifer Cox)
Subject: Re: dorm traditions
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:21:01 GMT

bgunzy@iastate.edu (Robert A Gunzenhauser) writes:

>Are there any good dorm floor traditions at other colleges/universities?  We
>have one we started about a year and a half ago.  During dead week, the week
>before finals, some unlucky Wolf House member is put in a chair, saran-wrapped
>or duct taped to it, have shampoo and shaving cream applied liberally over
>his body, and then carried to the female dorm next door, so he can ride the
>elevators.  I know, because it happened to me....

One of the freshman guys dorms here used to have the "Flagpole Flop" every
year to celebrate the birthday of the man for whom the dorm was named.
The guys would get throughly intoxicated and then strip and run to the
flag pole and back.
From: HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:47:47 GMT
 <1992Sep30.114038.59299@cc.usu.edu>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Sep30.153549.11396@news.unomaha.edu>,
sdavis@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Davis) writes:
>
> Any others?
>

PSU (Penn State) is often confused with Pretty Shitty University.

My favorite, however, is the Division of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)
which is aptly renamed (D)on't (U)nderstand (S)hit.

*  Hans C. Masing        |  "When you go in for a job interview, I  *
*  HCM100@PSUVM.psu.edu  |   think a good thing to ask is if they   *
*  Penn State MIS Dept.  |   ever press charges." - Jack Handey     *
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From: eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:20:45 GMT


    When I was at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) I had
book covers (printed by the humor magazine) for the

          Meaningless Infinitude of Terminology

    Looked so much like the ones sold at the Harvard Co-op that almost
no one noticed...

--

					Robert I. Eachus

with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
use  STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:56:37 EDT
From: K-JAMZ <KPW104@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: PSU Lab Ops

    Just to set the facts really straight... PSU Lab Ops do the best they can.
To justify what Doug has said...How much do you think one computer in one of
these labs costs?  I assure you if they lowered the fee then Psu would be
completely passed by in the field. Then some one would post and complain about
not having enough computers!  I bought my own computer with my own money form a
store not CAC and I pay $50 for my computer fees and I never used a computer
lab once. Do you see me complaining...No I am more than satisfied!
     As far as the lab ops being unfriendly....You be friendly when you have a
lab full and when one computer open up, someone skips past the line, sits there
and then comes up later asking for a startup disk!!! Actually expecting to be a
llowed to have the computer before 7 other people that had already waited an
hour. Then this person had the audacity to scream at the op blaming him!!!
Get a Life!! You people have no respect for authority and even if you have a
problem speak to the right people about THAT person! Don't slander the entire
group for the deeds of one! Think before you talk!!!!!!


                                                    -K-Jamz
----
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kpw104@psuvm
kpw104@psuvm.psu.edu
From: Bill.Mcdevitt@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bill Mcdevitt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Date: 1 Oct 92 09:27:40 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

hello, :) I work for a police Dept.  as the local midnight dispatcher, and
heck all this parking ticket stuff makes me laugh like hell, why you ask,
simply because it's all so true!!!

Here the coins as payment question came up one day, to which I quickly
shifted the problem to yee-old supervisor, who said "if it's money, we'll
take it"  I got stuck counting out $10 worth of pennies  :)!!!!   at least
it wasn't the $100  :)   I told the kid, if he hadn't tried it I WOULD
HAVE if I'd been in his shoes..:)!!! *tipped my hat off to him too * :)

oh, and this ticket blitzing right at 7:30, well, think of it this way,
it's one of the FEW ways they can show the bosses they're actually DOING
something!!  *trust me on this one*  
   Noteworthy here also is that if an administrator comes in here after
being on their lunch hour (usually more like 2hrs. ) they get PISSED big
time that how "DARE" A Student / visitor even THINK of using their space
for 15min.  so they squad to us, which means we HAVE to do something ....

Well, you get the idea here....  for every action, causes an equal and
opposite reaction,  oh, here, they've promissed to build a major!! parking
garage for the last 5 years,  amazing part is that everytime they're just
about to start it, something else gets in the way....and nomatter what it
is, it's ALWAYS means less spaces,  one day, they'll build it, but for
about 10 cars..

happy, happy,  joy, joy...
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From: dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban,soc.college
Subject: Re: Class distinction in colleges
Date: 26 Sep 1992 06:25:12 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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In article <1992Sep26.031012.16572@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:

>I'm wondering...this sort of distinction between academic classes at
>American colleges no longer exists.  When did it die out?  What was
>the social factor that caused it to disappear?  Certainly this sort
>of thing isn't endemic to Columbia...

My guess is post-WWII flooding of colleges and universities with former
soldiers who now could afford college on their GI bills. The important thing
about these persons is that they were older and had far more life-and-death
experience than the previous average joe-college-student. So they were 
in college not to mess around with petty rivalries, but with the goal of
graduation and future work in mind.

Additionally, whereas up to this point colleges and universities were mainly
the realm of the upper class whites especially males, the returning soldiers
were of all economic and cultural groups, and with their GI bills they were
newly enabled to attend the college of their choice. So the beginnings of
diversity caused the end of the camaraderie because all of these groups
had such widely differing life experiences.

Disclaimer: this is just an educated guess. What do you all think?


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From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Tuition Increases (WAS Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 4 Oct 92 17:55:02 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <92278.112527HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu> <HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <92278.045305MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>, Norman St. John Polevaulter
><MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>>
>>Also referred to as Pepsi State University (the powers that be recently
>>signed an agreement with the Pepsi-Cola Megacorp that basically turns our
>>souls over to them) or simply P$U (tuition increases -- you can set your
>>watch by 'em!)
>>
>
>That's the truth.  Here at P$U, if the tuition goes up it *MUST* be August.
>Not only that, if the administration can't come up with a high enough
>tuition increase, they add mandatory fees.  Like the $35 / semester "computer
>fee".  When I was at one of the satelite campuses, I requested a mainframe
>account at the main campus because I had to pay the $35 bucks.  I was told
>that I didn't need the account for any of my classes.  I asked what the
>"fee" was for then, and they said if I didn't use the mainframe then I
>could use the PC's in the other lab.  I said "But I use my OWN pc!" to
>which they said "too bad."  I think that P$U also imposes a "copying fee"
>to pay for the handouts that you get in class.  If that's so, then WHY
>do I have to pay $15 for a book of photocopied pages in the bookstore?
>
>What's it like where you're at?
>
Well here at FAU, they raised the Fall tuiton TWICE.  They raised it once
and printed that price in the course catalog, then raised it again about
a week later.   GRRR

As for copying, most of our graduate courses in the College of Engineering
(The CS department is part of this) are video taped for students who can't
come to the live classes.  For the video classes you sign up separately from
the live classes.  One semester our prof told the entire live class to
switch over to the video.  Why?  Cause the video classes was budgeted for
handouts and the live classes wasn't.  That way we wouldn't have to pay for
the handouts.

You figure it out.  
-- 
<<                                                               >>
<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                                        >>
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From: Bill.Mcdevitt@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bill Mcdevitt)
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:27:22 GMT

Shannon and Jen, a new twist, here, we tell the students that the tickets
go to scholarship funding.   This might be true but since *I* help send
the money up to the cashiers office, I can vuch for the fact it goes into
some general fund...  so  basically, NO ONE here knows WHAT the money goes
for :)  

happy, happy, joy, joy!!     Bill, the tired, midnight Dispatcher
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From: hakari@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Um-Ya-Ya-ing wit' the Ole Band)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:06:47 GMT
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN




The Rebel Contrabassoonist writes...


>The dorm t-shirt for one of the towers here at St. Olaf
>was kinda interesting a couple of years ago, too...
>
>On the front, there was a drawing of the tower, and the question:
>
>   What's guys on top of girls on top of guys on top of girls
>   on top of guys on top of girls on top of guys on top of girls
>   on top of guys on top of girls?
>
>The answer, on the back of the shirt:
>
>   That's what makes us MOHN!

 

As a Top Mohner last year, and in the "Middle of the Pile" this year, I can
vouch for Kurt 100%.  Last year, a boxer design that didn't pass - 

	On the front - "Make me..."
	Big letters  - "MOHN"
	 on the butt

10th floor did have the reputation in past years of being the slut floor...

--Andrea
  Mohn 91-92, 92-93, 93-94, 94-95......

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Andrea Hakari			   |_|
St. Olaf College		   | |				
Northfield, MN  55057		   |_|
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is my clarinet.			  <|_b
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and pet him and			   |o|                  count?
squeeze him and 		   |o|
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From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:32:05 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens


Leave it to the University of Georgia to have a building that neads to
be re-named. Not 200 yeards form my humble abode is a black, shiny
geodesic dome surrounded by pink granite. It's the Butts-Mehre
Building, pronounced exactly like -- you guessed it -- "butt smear."
(Why didn't anyone think to name it Mehre-Butts, or anything else ?)
It is incidentally, U.Ga.'s shrine to athletics, esp. football. It's
named after old coaches.


Georgia: Where people seriously wanted to draft long-time U.Ga.
football coach to run for Governor.

Georgia: Where the three religions are Baptist, Methodist and
Football. 

Bye y'all
Scott Wells
From: jonwllms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (John Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:21:50 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

sdavis@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Davis) writes:
: In an earlier post, G Fowler mentioned that two BYU cafeterias were
: given more appropriate names by the student body -- the Cannon Center
: was known as the Cancer Center, Morris Center as Morbid Center.
: 
: Here, UNO doesn't stand for University of Nebraska at Omaha, but rather
: University of No Opportunity.
: 
: Any others? 

Imagine my supprise at finding out that my previous College (Virginia
Intermont) was also a UNIX text editor....

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From: rod@smokestack.ncsu.edu (Roger Rod)
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Reply-To: rod@smokestack.ncsu.edu (Roger Rod)
Organization: North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:41:07 GMT


Kevin Furrow <KWF102@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
|>    I think Penn State takes the prize for parking tickets.

No, NC State HAS to be the worst in the free world.  For one thing,
parking permits are upwards of $150 for the year, and tickets are
usually $20.  Appeals are rarely, if ever, granted, which isn't too 
surprising, considering the DOT handles appeals for the tickets it 
gave out.  Tickets are issued starting right at 7:30 AM (I've had
two tickets, marked 7:31 AM and 7:33 AM), and continue to be 
issued right up until 5:00 PM.  Not that you're safe after 5:00 PM
or on the weekends--the DOT patrol continues ticketing cars in
"yellow" zones and in reserved spaces 24 hours a day.  One Friday
night, a group of friends lifted the back tire of another friend's 
car onto the curb as a prank.  The friend came out on Sunday morning
to find the car GONE.  The trusty DOT had ticketed the car, ordered it
towed, and the friend was forced to pay $50 towing, $10 for storage
($5/day), and a $15 ticket.  The DOT refused to grant the appeal,
and insisted that the friend had actually parked that way.  The DOT
here really SUCKS!!!

|>    My roommate once got a $10.00 parking ticket.  So, he went to a local bank,
|> got 1,000 pennies (all in those 50 cent rolls) and took the pennies to the
|> police station.  They took it, said thanks, that's all.  Maybe he should have
|> tried the $100 bill trick.

Our DOT has a clause which states that they can refuse to accept coins as
payment :(

--Roger R.
From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:11:57 GMT
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

In article <1992Oct3.015009.29433@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> michaelb@cse.fau.edu
(Michael Rogero Brown) writes:

>Funny, I thought it was the President of UF that said in a newspaper column
>that STUDENTS were the CLIENTS (ie customers) of the Universities.  :)
>I guess that attitude has yet to filter down.

Was that Sy Sperling?  He says he is not only the president, but a client of
Hair Club for Men.

                      Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
                 Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
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From: cougar@acm.rpi.edu (Erik Collin)
Subject: silly frosh and computers
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:24:49 GMT

The new workstations at RPI are somewhat slow, alright veeery sloww, when
it comes to getting someone all signed on and their window managers going.
It takes a few minutes for the system to process a login and while that's
happening the monitor screen just sits there doing lots of nothing.

Late one night I'm sitting in a lab when in walks a frosh.  He sits down
at a workstation and signs on.  Of course nothing happens.  After a minute
or so of pushing random keys and knocking the mouse around he moves to 
another terminal.  As he begins signing on there his first workstation
comes to life.

Repeat the above twice.

My twisted evil self was too tired to take advantage of the situation.  Maybe
when the next group of frosh arrive....
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