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From: troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Stupid Cafeteria Stunts
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:06:02 GMT
	<1992Sep19.060313.29622@cs.tulane.edu> <37203@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
Organization: Right Coast HQ For Stupid Pub Tricks
In-reply-to: turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu's message of 28 Sep 92 14:23:57 GMT

>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Turner <turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu> writes:
	Carl> Tulane we have but one dining hall but it's name is so
	Carl> astoundingly
	Carl> appropriate, I dare any school out there to top it...

If this is the dining hall I was in (with only one there, I am
sure it was) I think the fact that it is CARPETED should say
much about the fact that it has such a weird name, it is the
only carpeted dining facility I have ever been in.

Rod
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From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL S. PRESTON, ESQ.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: class distinction
Date: 30 Sep 92 03:24:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

my guess as to the lack of class rivalries is probably due to the
activism of the 1960s. students as a whole started banding together
to protest the vietnam war, the establishment, and anyone over 30 :)
it's not completely gone though....my father went to a military college
in virginia in the early 1960s, and the upper classes were very repressive 
towards the "freshmen", who were actually called 'rats'.......hazing was 
common, but behind closed doors. since it was a military school, this 
type of activity could be considered necessary to build character and 
weed out the 'sick and the weak' if you will. from what i've heard, 
things in that particular institution haven't changed in the past thirty
years :)

mike
From: finifter@remus.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: permanent temporary buildings.
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:50:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL S. PRESTON, ESQ.) writes:

>on our south campus at ub, there are maybe half a dozen aluminum/cinderblock
>buildings that were built 20 or so years ago as temporary 'annexes' to the
>buildings they were built next to. hayes hall has three or four such annexes.
>anyway, these buildings were built around 1970 as temporary structures, and
>are still called temporary today. go figure. hell, they survived the blizzard
>of 77......that's about as permanent as you can get :)

>mike

On the Busch campus at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, there is a building
whose abbreviation is TCB.  It seems logical, since this building is now
known as the Taylor Road Classroom Building, but TCB originally stood for
Temporary Classroom Building.  Well, I guess if you can't change the building,
change the name. :)

Tracy Finifter
From: deglop@louie.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Stupid Cafeteria Stunts
Date: 4 Oct 1992 18:26:05 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, CWRU, Cleve. OH
NNTP-Posting-Host: louie.eeap.cwru.edu

In article <1992Oct1.205125.13356@bbxrbk> russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:

>Mr. Packer once guided a trip into the Rockies and got caught in a
>snow storm.  The storm was bad enough that he didn't return until the
>spring, and his clients didn't return at all.  When some folks
>returned to the campsite the bones of his clients were found, and
>interesting marks were found on then.  "Butchering" marks in the
>estimation of the discoverers.
>
>There was a trial, and at the trial Mr. Packer was (as I recall from
>my reading) guilty.  Part of the order seemed to indicate that the
>judge wasn't all that pissed about the fact of the cannibalism, but
>that Mr. Packer ate the only other democrats in the county (this part
>may well be UL).

Another source to hear a little more about this is Phil Ochs' song
"The Ballad of Alferd Packer".  He mentions the other five democrats
bit as a comment by the judge...

-- 
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            -- CWRU Biomedical Engineering - jrd5@po.cwru.edu --
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:20:44 -0400 
From: David O Hunt <bluelobster+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
 <1992Sep30.114038.59299@cc.usu.edu>
	<92274.154747HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>

U Mass:  Unichusetts of Mass Adversity (Alma Mater)

UCF (Univ. Central Florida):  U Can't Fail
note:  Most of the U of F campuses are UF<city-name>.  Yet there UCF
is...I wonder what's wrong with U.F.Orlando?  :P

David
bluelobster+@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: permanent temporary buildings.
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
	<genBn0200VokQfqFZJ@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:54:15 GMT

In article <genBn0200VokQfqFZJ@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jonathan R. Ferro" <jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

   Building 20 at MIT was built during WWII to house the MIT Radiation
   Laboratory (translation: top-secret RADAR research, the "radiation" was
   centimeter-band radio) and was slated to disappear when the lab did.  If
   they don't start demolition soon it'll be eligible for National Landmark
   status and they'll never get rid of it....

   You mean it hasn't been made a historical landmark yet?  Somebody
should get right to work on that!  (Half smiley, I would love to see
the 'tute set up a few labs in building 20 as a tourist attraction
--with forties and sixties era equipment--and give guided tours.  It
might help the public learn how science and engineering are really
done.  Of course TMRC--Tech Model Railroad Club--would be the
highlight of the tour.)

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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From: jgh1+@pitt.edu (John G Hardie)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:48:58 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <Een9tJ600VpO82UUcG@andrew.cmu.edu> jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joshua Eli Schachter) writes:
[...]
>"The Tower of Learning." The pitt students call it this I guess but our
>CMU official name is...
>
>"The Tower of Ignorance".... 

Well, I can't speak for the rest of them, but THIS Pitt student calls
it the Spire of Stupidity (mostly because that's where the
administration hangs out).

For what it's worth, that building is in desperate need of many
large and hideous gargoyles (no jokes about faculty now) to 
complete the image.  

Regards,
John


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: boenne@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert C. Boenne)
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 04:41:01 GMT

In article <darknite.718066652@camelot> darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III) writes:
#oNow that I think about it, Bradley University may have one of
#the most interestingly named buildings...
#
#Imagine if you will a "residence Hall" (Dorm, dammit!) named
#Wyckoff Hall.  Think many people refer to it as Wyckoff...?

Here at Purdue, one of the all female dorms is called Duhme (DO-me).  It's a
great conversation starter with the freshwomen (PC?) that live there.

	Robert


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and tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life
you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver
From: kristinat@cerritos.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions -- again
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:03:44 PST
Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA

I forgot one.  A USC grad acquaintance of mine referred to his alma
mater as the University of Stranded Caucasians.  

Little Pine Weasel
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)
Subject: Re: Naming Hallowed Institutions-to-be
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 06:02:44 GMT

In article <chil.718101811@sfu.ca> chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:
>c3zx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>>Today at Cornell we had the dedication of the Kroch Library, paid for
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Now there's a hallowed institution that doesn't need renaming! Its official
>name sounds just fine as it is.

	At UH Manoa, one of the Libraries is named Sinclair (after who, I
forget, but that's not important here.) One of the letters is missing
from the sign, transforming it into "Sin Lair"
	Nothing of great note happens in there though... except maybe
people who can't find the power switch in the library's computer lab. =^)

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From: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 05:50:21 GMT

In article <Oct.2.23.20.34.1992.9424@remus.rutgers.edu> zelek@remus.rutgers.edu (Grey Wolf) writes:
>   I've had to answer "How do I turn on the computer" only to have the 
>student return a minute later telling me it didn't work.  Turns out the monitor
>was still switched off.  We've also had to extract _three_ 3.5" floppies
>from _one_ Macintosh disk drive.  The student just thought the computer could
>automatically read any and all disks that were shoved into the drive slot.
>I'm simply impressed that someone couldn't figure out that the level of
>difficulty it surely must have reached to get all those disks into one little
>slot wasn't quite the proper thing to do.

	Gee, when they say Computer Jobs are big in the future, they
don't mean knowing data structures, and programming in a jillion languages,
they must mean: knowing where the power switch on, how to use a mouse,
knowing the difference between a 3.5" and 5.25", and knowing which key
is the "any" key. =^)

	Even I've had to answer a couple of "where's the power switch" and
"how do I eject the disk" questions.  And I don't work in the computer
labs (maybe I sould ask to be paid... =^)
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From: turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu (Carl Turner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Stupid Cafeteria Stunts
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:23:57 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida, Psychology Dept.

toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten) writes:

>	Couldn't resist adding to the 'Cafeteria Lore' discussion.  Here at
Tulane we have but one dining hall but it's name is so astoundingly 
appropriate, I dare any school out there to top it...

>	The name:    Bruff.   Yep, you heard right, Bruff.

I think the cafeteria at the University of Colorado could top it. I'm not
an alum or a student there, and it would be appropriate for CU student to
tell the story. If no one from CU posts, I'll go ahead and tell the tale.


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From: st910158@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:12:11 GMT
Reply-To: st910158@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

Hi. Here at Brandeis University in the booming metropolis of Waltham, the 
U.S. Defense department is paying for our latest building to be built. The 
big catch is that the building is going to be called the National Center for
Complex Systems. Now the acronym doesn't mean anything, but the long title
means that they're going to be studying the brain. Hmm...What would the 
Defense Dept. need with brain research. I'll tell you, that's one dept. that
I'm not volunteering in for any experiments. I wonder if Hussein's on this
net, I'm sure he's shaking in his boots! 
	Meanwhile, the middle of our campus looks like a sandbox. The 
administration decided to put it in the middle of the science quad instead of
behind it which would have made more sense because everybody driving onto
campus would've been able to see it. And, of course, that is their main 
objective: to get more visability. If it isn't then why did they open up this
new sports complex that was partially (if not fully) funded by the Boston
Celtics. The Celtics practice there. They also have started having 'huge'
concerts there. Morrisey and Steve Miller played this year. Bill Cosby 
cancelled out and apparently U2 stopped by last semester to watch the Celtics
practice.
	And they say their #1 priority is the students.
			HA!!!
			---Karin
From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Iowa State University Towers
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:04:12 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

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.

Here at the University of Georgia, we have our own "Knapp Tower"
that's been here too long, sways on the top floors and seems will
never be demolished. University President Charles Knapp, about
six foot five and a native of Ames, Iowa to boot (a relative fo the
other Knapp perhaps ?) , came here in 1988 and had since given U.Ga. a
new logo (which we paid gobs for, and a graphic design prof graded a
"C."), lots of new committees, a "free" election on whether on not to
have a new athletics center (Kids, you can have all of this for $33
more a quarter, and since it won't be up till 1994, *you* don't have
to pay.), a dummy student government (at least 90% Greek without
respect or power, but with my money.) and unlimited attention to
whomever has the cash.

Scott Wells
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
	<BvonoE.3EI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:28:13 GMT


In article <BvonoE.3EI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> boenne@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert C. Boenne) writes:

> Here at Purdue, one of the all female dorms is called Duhme (DO-me).  It's a
> great conversation starter with the freshwomen (PC?) that live there.
 
	Ummm, I think the Politcally Correct term is actually "First
Year Student" though if it were the above it would HAVE to be
"freshwomyn".

--
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(oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
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From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban,soc.college
Subject: Re: Class distinction in colleges
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:02:44 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

[stuff deleted]>
>The practice was alive and well at Penn State in 19960 when I was a
>freshman where dinks annd name tags and school songs were a part of
>the ceremonies (but hazing was forbidden), but there was no evidence
>of it a year later(fraternity rituals excepted), when I went to
>Berkeley as a sophmore.  At Penn State, attendance at football games,
>along with ROTC, was mandatory -- and frosh initiation was declared
>over at the first Penn State Touchdown.

Hazing is anything that sets "in" members apart from "out" members, whether
or not you agree with doing it.  It is a common misconception that hazing
involves physical or emotional torture.  Hazing is usually done because of 
vengance (they did it to me so I will do it to them sort-of-thing).  

I assume that you agree with mandatory attendance at the football games, which
depending on the punishment for not attending, can be seen as a form of kidnappi
ng or possibly extortion.  

I find it amusing that while actions described above are considered "normal"
but if done by a fraternity or sorority would be cosidered "hazing" (which it
is).  


Michael Bertrand
Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Kappa Chi chapter, 350.
cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca
From: schuyler@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Schuyler Stultz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Bar specials (new thread)
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:33:12 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Sep23.212812.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> kpm4@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
>
>Well, I was wondering....What have you found to be the *best* bar
>special?  When visiting Boston recently (and watching my money

In Blacksburg, Va The Balcony has dime beers from 4:00 til 4:30 on Fridays.
Then from 4:30 til 5:00 they're 25 (I think).  

The only problem is the beer  BEAST.  (Milwuakee's Best)

It's sponsored by one of the frats and is a dollar to get in.
Then your cup costs a quarter and the beer to fill it a dime.
However, most people usually save their cups from week to week and only
pay the dime for a refill.
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From: zelek@remus.rutgers.edu (Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:20:35 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University

finifter@remus.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter) writes:


>I do, however, feel it's a waste of my time when I have to teach Intoduction
>to Computers  people how to even use the computer when they should be learning
>that in class to begin with.  Some of the questions I have to answer really

  This right here is the #1 reason why computer consultants might come down a
little too hard on you.  This Intro class is populated by people who cut class,
take no notes, never crack open the book, and then rumble into the labs
expecting to just 'know how' to blow through their assignment.  Once they hit
a snag, rather than sit down and wonder how that happened and what they can
do to fix it, or even [*gasp*] open their book, they come over to us and ask
[and sometimes _tell_ us to do it for them.  No, not ask us to tell them how to
fix it.  That would require effort. :)

>boggle the mind such as (and mind you, our Intro to Computers class uses
>Macs): what's that little picture up there that looks like a disk?  Oh, it
>is MY disk?  Do I have to know that for the exam?  After four hours of
>answering things like that, tell me you wouldn't get just slightly frustrated.

   I've had to answer "How do I turn on the computer" only to have the 
student return a minute later telling me it didn't work.  Turns out the monitor
was still switched off.  We've also had to extract _three_ 3.5" floppies
from _one_ Macintosh disk drive.  The student just thought the computer could
automatically read any and all disks that were shoved into the drive slot.
I'm simply impressed that someone couldn't figure out that the level of
difficulty it surely must have reached to get all those disks into one little
slot wasn't quite the proper thing to do.
   There are more.  Many, many more.  Also, consider that we also have work
to do, and often aren't permitted to do our assignments at work, so we're
even more time-constrained than you.  Hey, operators and consultants are
people too. :)

"Can you tell me how you click and drag something to the trash can?"
Chris [zelek@aramis.rutgers.edu]
From: williamsk@gtephx.UUCP (Kevin W. Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Iowa State University Towers
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:56:46 GMT
Organization: gte

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?


Kevin Wayne Williams
     UUCP : ...!ames!ncar!noao!enuucp!gtephx!williamsk

               Remember : Brute force has an elegance all its own.
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From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:10:29 GMT

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? 

Also at BYU, many buildings are known by acronyms.  For example SWKT for
Spencer W. Kimble Tower.  The administration building is the ASB for
Abraham Smoot Building.  We prefered calling it the Smoot Office Building,
or SOB for short.

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From: polly@iastate.edu (Paula Puffer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: dorm traditions
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:24:19 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

In article <1992Sep28.163956.4259@news.iastate.edu> 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....
>
>Bob Gunzenhauser
>Ag Systems Technology
>Iowa State University
>bgunzy@iastate.edu
>
HMM Bob

you must live in the RCA.   We never did anything like that in the UDA
but then the time i spent in the dorms i lived on coed floors 8-).

as for dorm cafeteria names we had one in the UDA called the Dungeon 8-)
it was rather dark and dank hence the name 8-).  Although they did remodel
it, but it didn't help much. 

as for fun things to do i have several tales of pranks my friends and I
pulled.

the best one tho was finding the resonance frequency of the I beams 
in the dorm i first lived in.   my friend kirk had a decent stereo and 
well we had complaints from fourth floor about the sounds coming from the
walls.  But then we also tried flushing cannon fuse down the toilet 
as well.  

he he 
those were the days.   now i just have to be a somewhat responsible 
adult female

Paula 
polly@iastate.edu