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From: disaacs@thuma.carleton.ca (Dave Isaacs)
Subject: Re: weird professors
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:30:44 GMT

     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!

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From: michaelb@shark.cse.fau.edu (Michael Brown)
Subject: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:44:19 GMT

Well here at FAU we have lots of creatively named buildings.

There is the "General Classroom South" building, but no N, E, or W!

Our administration building is called ... "The Administration Building".

A new building containing science and engineering departments is  called...
the "Science and Engineering Building".

I think you get the idea.

They are probably waiting for someone with big bucks to donate to the
school so they can name it after them.


-- 
<<                                                               >>
<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<<                                                               >>
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From: st901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Scott Fybush)
Subject: re: creatively names buildings
Reply-To: st901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:55:57 GMT

More Brandeis naming fun:

The school is relatively young (1948), and for the first 30 years or so
of its existence, there were more rich old people dying off and leaving
$$$ to the school than there were buildings to be named for them.

Hence the student center, named as a whole the Usdan Student Center, has
four separate arms, each with its own lobby, each with its own individual
name.  The science center, whose corridors are all connected, bears a 
total of almost a dozen different names, including Edison-Lecks and
Gerstenzang.  Gerstenzang, incidentally, was the heir to the Q-tip fortune
(Really!) and the science library named after him is usually called
G-Zang.  (pronounced Gee-Zayng).  

Today donations have slacked off considerably, and the new residence
quad which opened about five years ago, while collectively known as
Ziv Quad, has buildings named "127," "128," "Mazer," and "130."  Most,
if not all, of Mazer's residents still call the building 129.

The one exception to this is the brand new athletic center, which
includes the Shapiro Gym, the Gosman Sports Center, the Joseph and
Clara Ford Sports and Convocation Center, the Red Auerbach Arena,
and a few other names which escape me.  They really put on the
fund-raising firepower for that one.

I have lived in Ziv 128 for two years.  I have often wondered how
much it would cost me to get the building named after me ;-)

Scott Fybush -- ST901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
From: cm0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig Arno Mrusek)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: CHINCHILLAS!!!
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:25:51 GMT
Organization: Senior, Art, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	Yep, a good friend of mine my freshman year had a chinchilla.  Everyone
agreed that it was definitely one of the most unusual pets they were
likely to encounter.  It was cute as hell,  and a real blast to play
with.

							-Craig
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From: cas8876@summa.tamu.edu (NAME = "")
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: RE: collegiate pets
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:02:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


     During my freshman year at Southwestern Univ. in Georgetwon, TX, I had a 
Black widow spider which I kept in a jar.  It survived on a diet of crickets 
which I dropped in the jar each week.  It was an incredible sight watching it
feed and then repair its web.  It lived for several months, but died during the
winter when there were no more crickets or moths around.  

Chad 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: peterd@polari.com
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix.  (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:17:03 GMT




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From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Subject: Re: Prof.'s accent blunders documented
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 05:20:33 GMT

This really isn't nice to laugh at such shortcomings, but I have
to admit, they're funny.  Let's see:

I want you keep this shit -> I want you to keep this sheet.
I'm going to give you a kiss -> I'm going to give you a quiz.

Then there are the Americans who should KNOW better but don't.  I
had a history teacher that would say things like ta-FET-ta instead
of tafetta.  Once I was listening to an oral report about motor
proteins and ran across the word "copellet" which means to form a
pellet at the bottom of a centrifugal tube.  The gerundial form
of this word is pronounced "co-PEL-le-ting."  Of course, this guy,
who hailed from New York said, "COP-pel-lay-ting."  The class
cracked up and I thought, These proteins are doing WHAT?!?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney)
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Reply-To: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:53:38 GMT

(Mike to Worf: "Flame shields up!")

Before the flames start coming fast and furious, I make a few points:

1) Listening to _cordless phones_ is not an invasion of privacy OR
illegal OR anything else beyond possibly rude and tact/tasteless.
I might point out that the courts have let stand drug, etc. convictions
based on conversations/deals neighbors hear on their cordless phones.
Cops also listen in if surveillance subjects have cordless phones.
HOWEVER, it IS illegal to mointor _cellular_ phones. This may seem
like a small distinction, but it is an important one.

2) Technically, I may possibly be in violation of the law by revealing
what I hear to others. However, there is a legal term here that I can't
remember that applies to laws that are never enforced- this is one of
'em. EX: Two weeks ago, there was a big police chase in Des Moines with
speeds topping 100 mph, cops wanting to run him off the road, etc. A
local TV station, WHO-13, ran a tape of the scanner traffic of the police-
you could hear the sirens, engines, the whole thing. Highly cool. They 
even had a picture of their scanner on the screen as they ran the tape. 
Also, cross-apply the point from #1 about court cases.

3) Label me a pervert if you wanna, but it was damn funny listening.
Beat the $2.95/min charge, and I don't have hair growing on the 
palms of my hands.

So are there any other good scanner stories out there? Let's hear them!

BTW, pleez direct any flames to me on email NOT here, I don't want this
to turn into the frat thing, and legal cites and text of fed. laws cited
above are available upon request. 

---------------------
Mike McNarney
twap8@isuvax.bitnet
Iowa State University, USENET censors
Ames, Iowa 50013-0007
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.privacy
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:50:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.164410.2253@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>In article <S8759859.92Apr16024306@titan.ucc.umass.edu>, s8759859@titan (Tig Stone) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr16.004644.26217@news.iastate.edu> twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney) writes:
>>   Alright, scanner owners! Here are the cordless phone freqencies:
>>[...]
>>Not that we'd violate peoples' privacy and various laws by listening
>>in on those frequencies or anything...
>
>Doesn't it seem a bit odd to you to claim something as private that you
>are broadcasting via the em-spectrum?

Yes, but there are two people that are in on the conversation, and only
one of them is broadcasting it.  Or does your scanner only pick up half
the conversation?
-- 
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: tgpt_ltd@jondalar.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:48:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)


	Our Transportation and Maintainance blgd. is called "612", after
it's street address.  I really don't think it has a name.

--
Thomas Guptill                   University of Rochester Class of 1995
CPU Box 277445                   U of R Transportation Services Division
Rochester, NY 14627-7445         Mail:  tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu   
(716) 274-3378                   Jess:  tgpt_ltd%uhura.cc.rochester.edu@husc3  
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From: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Greg Kemp)
Subject: New Concept in Building Names
Reply-To: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:52:50 GMT

All this talk about having a building named after you made me wonder:

	Does anyone out there still name buildings after people
	simply because the person was a wonderful human being?

We have such a building here at Rose: Moench Hall.  Prof. Herman Moench  
taught at Rose for sixty-some years.  In a fit of gratitude, they renamed  
the Main Building in his honor.

--
Greg Kemp
inmate, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, IN
Internet: kempga@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

PS: for a mere $70,000,000 it could be the Rose-Hulman-Kemp Institute of  
Technology.  I would probably change the name back to Rose Polytechnic  
Institute, though.
From: baker@ROBOCOP.NYU.EDU (Jonathan Baker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:30:28 GMT
Organization: Courant Institute, New York University

Someone wrote about the Classroom & Office Building at Penn State and
wanted to know about more uncreative building names.  Well, here at NYU
the main classroom & office building for the College of Arts & Sciences
is named...Main Building.
   When I was in college at Princeton, I saw various buildings with
functional names get renamed after alumni who gave large sums of money
after the buildings or complexes were built to have their names carved on.
For example, Princeton Inn College (a dorm & cafeteria complex which had
been the Princeton Inn (a hotel) until bought by the University) became
Forbes College.  The Molecular Biology building became the Laurence Rockefeller
Molecular Biology Laboratory.  Et cetera.
   One building nobody really wanted to attach their name to, so it retains
its original name, 15-20 years after it was built: the New South Administration
Building, commonly called New South.

                              Jon Baker '87
                              baker@robocop.nyu.edu
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Boldly Not Going Where No Man Has Not Gone Before
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:21:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr8.152157.6442
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University


 
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
the same function as fences, and are a whole lot more attractive.

* Physical Plant - this is what the maint. staff is called at Brandeis.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: plucky@ais.org (Chris Adamson)
Subject: Re: PUBLICATIONS
Organization: UMCC
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 13:52:53 GMT

In article <73929@netnews.upenn.edu> mkane@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Margaret Kane) writes:
>	The last happenned last year when the _DP_ made up a fake issue of _The
>Cornell Daily Sun_ drove all the way up to Ithaca, and distributed in teir
>dorms & buildings before the final football game of the year. Not only did we
>mock their school, (a common theme in all joke issues), but we also made fun
>of_The Sun_ which is a total rag. We aren't really worried about anyone doing
>the same thing to us, (Harvard did it to Yale a few years ago) because no one
>wants to go running around West Philadelphia at 6:00 in the morning.
>
	Nice work!  This sounds much like a prank pulled by the Stanford
Daily in 1982, after The Play (y'ever see that play on TV where the
band foolishly runs on field before the game's over, and a guy with
the ball weaves through them and scores a winning touchdown?  That's
it.).  The Daily got together a phantom issue of Cal's student paper,
"The Daily Californian", a bogus Sunday Extra edition that claimed that
the NCAA had awarded the game to Stanford.  Flipped out quite a few
of the Cal weenies.
	Then again, the Daily itself had been pranked by a bogus story
placed WITHIN their regular edition, which claimed that the entire
bowling team had been killed in a plane crash en route to South Bend,
Indiana.  The photo caption read: "Tragedy strikes.  No one spared.

>Margaret Kane Engineering '93
>City Editor
>"How do you cover the city? Like a blanket."
>
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From: ulysses@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Nebulous Enigma)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:39:54 GMT

In <92099.172500MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu> MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu (Matthew P. Nagler) writes:


> What other buildings
> are there out there that are as creatively named?

UCSB has an events center. It's called The Events Center, or ECen for short. :|
UCSB has a university center(i.e. student union) It's called the University
			Center, or UCen for short. :|
UCSB has a lot of buildings that used to be army barracks. They're named things
			like Bldg 459, Bldg 364, Bldg 424... :| 
UCSB has a library. It's called The Library. My friends and I get into the 
			UCSB spirit and call it the BookCen. :|
UCSB has three engineering buildings. They are called Engineering 1, 
			Engineering 2, and Engineering 3. I am not kidding. My
			friends and I get into the UCSB spirit and call them
			collectively the BombCen. :|

Believe me I could go on and on and on....  :P

--
-ulysses@mcl.univ.of.ca.for.spoiled.brats.edu 
The Man Facing Southeast


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From: darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III)
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: Bradley University
Date:  9 Apr 92 21:18:43 GMT

Richard W Kaszeta writes:

>You've been around the foreign teachers too long when you yourself
>start pronouncing vector as "wector."

Even worse:  I start to pick up the accents from people around me
after a while.  Consequently, in my electro magnetics class, I
have to fight not to say inTEEgral (complete with a half-rolling
'R').  I have to fight to keep the Indian accent (complete with a
good approximation of the vocal inflections) from my voice during
another class.

Never, ever, accidentally mimic a prof's accent in front of him.

--
John S. Novak, III				darknite@camelot.bradley.edu
"So this is the sword of immortality, huh?  What's it doing in a
crypt?"
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From: AUDMH@ASUACAD.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,soc.women
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:06:34 GMT
 <s0nuuINNd77@network.ucsd.edu><1992Apr12.122345.4988@ac.dal.ca> <1992Apr12.171608.1344<1992Apr15.091912.5062@ac.dal.ca>
Organization: Arizona State University

Okay, one more time:  TAKE THIS THREAD OUT OF ALT.FOLKLORE.COLLEGE!!!!!!
WE DON'T WANT IT HERE!!!!  IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HERE!!!  LEAVE!!! NOW!

Thank you.

David Hungerford AUDMH@ASUACAD.BITNET  Opinions?  Mine, all mine!!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
From: donald@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald A Bachman)
Subject: Re: MIT's "Infinite Corridor"
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:22:39 GMT

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.
-- 




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From: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Eureka!)
Subject: re: creatively named buildings
Reply-To: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 20:44:49 GMT

About the playing with a name like "Fybush"...has anyone from Brandeis
mentioned Gryzmysh yet?  No, it's not a dorm, but it's my favorite name on
this campus.  When I needed to go down there and someone told me the name 
my freshman year, I thought they were kidding. Little did I know that we
had many more "funny" names here....
--Erica
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,soc.women
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical jokes
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:22:28 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: soc.college,soc.women
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Taking this out of alt.folklore.college...

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
>>(in response to the argument that men are much more dangerous to women
>> than women to men):
>>>Wrong. Women may not have the upper body strength, but they can do plenty of
>>>damage to a man's life. Go watch Fatal Attraction if you don't believe me.
>>
>>Why is it that frat-boys complain about people (who don't even mention the
>>movie) using stereotypes from "Animal House," and then pose a bogus argument
>>like this?
>
>For someone who's planning to be a lawyer, you have a pretty poor grasp of
>what constitutes "bogus arguments" and "stereotypes".  

Not at all.  01sybok's use of "Fatal Attraction" to attack the notion that
women don't have a valid concern about male violence is as legitimate as
Senator Dan Quayle quoting from a Tom Clancy novel to demonstrate that
SDI is a good idea.

>If you'll think about what was written, instead of following your knee-jerk
>emotional reaction, you'll see the difference between what he said and what
>you thought he said.  
>People who use stereotypes{_ from Animal House are usually implying that all
>fraternities act in such a fashion.  Most fraternity men object to these
>accusations.

The only people I've ever seen using Animal House in a fraternity argument
are fraternity members accusing sensible people (some of whom haven't even
seen the movie) of getting their "stereotypes" from a movie.

Saying "fraternities have killed dozens of students" isn't a stereotype,
it's a factual statement.

>What Mike said about women was not that all of them are crazed, murderous,
>adultery-tempting spwan of hell.  He said that one such woman may, by chance
>exist.  (Probably your mother, Ted.  Someone must have beat the hell out of
>you as a kid.)  

Sorry, my mother integrated a North Carolina school where she was the only
teacher to refuse to use corporal punishment.  You'll have to try some other
ad hominem attack.
-- 
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
From: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Greg Kemp)
Subject: Re: Boldly Not Going Where No Man Has Not Gone Before
Reply-To: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:37:09 GMT

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  
creating new paths (including the legendary "Resist the Lure of the  
Hypotenuse" letter from the president) but with little success.