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From: reyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Buildings, buildings, and more buildings...
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:00:46 EDT
Distribution: usa,world
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1992Apr14.034149.28256@eng.umd.edu>,
clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes: 
> 
> In article <1992Apr9.220732.23268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron) writes:
>>     Since we're all taking about buildings here, I'll never pass
>>up an opportunity to poke fun at another Ivy League school...
>>
>>     On a trip to Cornell for a football game (we actually won
>>that game come to think of it) we passed a bunch of buildings
>>with a band of colored tiles around them.  My Cornell friend
>>promptly explained to me that each color represented a different
>>engineering department.  That's right, boys and girls, they
>>color-coded their buildings!
>>
> 
>    Columbia won????  Scholarships, I tell ya...
> 
>    Yeah, I heard about this color-coding thing.  Too bad I could never
> remember what colors those buildings were (Upson's yellow, I think).

Yes, it's true.  These are on the Engineering Quad: Hollister, 
Upson, and Phillips, though I can never remember which is what
color (and I have classes in all three).  These buildings are NOT
architectural marvels!  

>    Speaking of buildings with blah names, they have Academic One
> and the Theory Center.  Both are pretty new buildings.   They also
> have all these Class of some year dorms called U-Halls.

As someone else posted, Academic One is now Roberts Hall.  I remember
coming here as a pre-frosh and being told on the tour if we wanted
to donate money, we could have Academic One named after us. 

As for the Theory Center, well, it's The Theory Center, housing 
multi-million dollar supercomputers, and all kinds of workstations,
it's just not something to name after one person.

A little story about the U-Halls.  Before I came here, the U-Halls
(University Halls, they are actually shaped like T's) were pretty
run-down.  The furniture was old, etc.  Anyway, the university 
fiexed them up, replacing all the furniture, redoing the walls, and
all kinds of stuff (never saw the 'before' pictures).  So, they have
these really nice dorms called U-Halls, which everyone (supposedly)
had a very negative impression of.  So, to remove the stigma, they
changed the names!  There is Class of '17, '18, '22, '26, and '28, 
I think.  They never caught on, however; they're still called 
U-Hall 1, U-Hall 2, etc.


What about nicknames for buildings?  I know we have:
Legoland (Performing Arts Center) and
The Sewing Machine or The Coffee Pot (the Art Museum, I can't
remember who it's named after...  )
and probably more that I'm forgetting.

David S. Rowell
REYY@Vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:22:09 GMT

editer.

Yes, while the women can indead get off, and they choose not to. But this
is not an excuse: it fosters sexist attitudes - the women get used to being
treated with disrespect, and the Fratties get used to the idea that it is
"ok" to abuse women verbally.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: d098@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John Magnus Collins)
Subject: Re: Profs: The good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:26:29 GMT

Back in first year chemistry, we had a split term -- one taught by the
head of the chemistry department and to say he was boring was really
being nice (except that he sounded like a particular CBC announcer, but
that thrill died after a few minutes)  Then, half way through the term,
it was time to change professors.  Well to start off our complaining, we
had to walk to another building to go to this class (hey, it gets cold up
here in the winter...) seeing how his portion was in the chemistry
building.  Rumors circulating said that he wasn't 'allowed' into the
engineering building due to an incident years ago... Yeah, right...

Anyways, on the first day of class, this prof walks in wearing his
chemistry whites (whatever their called...) and a helmet.  This is a far
cry from his normal suit and tie (he's the dean of science)
He introduced himself and announced the beginning of a demonstration and
warned people in the front row that things may get loud...  He ended up
blowing up a baloon filled with hydrogen gas... it was neat! This fireball
could be seen for a very short time... not to mention the loud bang...

There were some wet people in the front rows...

Well this is not very exciting, most profs perform a few experiments during
the term to keep everyone interested... This guy blew things up every day!!
Needless to say, out of all of my first year engineering courses (usually    
about 100 - 250 people) this one had the highest attendence rate...


It hardly beats the snowball fight we had on the roof, but thats for
another day...

Evil Ed
From: ecr2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Corp. Reed)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Date: 6 Apr 92 00:43:15 GMT
Reply-To: ecr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: not with that duck, you don\'t

In article <1992Apr5.191256.1@stat.appstate.edu> grs01153@stat.appstate.edu writes:
>Here's a new question..(well, new to me..I have only recently begun reading
>this newsgroup and haven't seen anything about this...so...)
>
>What is the most unusual pet you have known of or kept in a college setting (ie
>dorm, apartment, office, steam tunnel, whatever...)???

Squirrel.

This guy trapped a young squirrel with peanut butter and some sedative, and
proceeded to keep it in his apartment for a year or so.

It was apparently fairly well trained.

-Creed.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: dhaug@willamette.edu (Dagny Haug)
Subject: Re: those wacky chemicals Picric Acid
Organization: Willamette University, Salem, OR
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:57:44 GMT

Picric acid? I'm a theatrical costumer, and we use some stuff called "Picrin"
(one of the main ingredients of which is Picric Acid) as a stain remover on
many fabrics. Scary stuff....you could remove a lot more than just stains with
that....

Dagny Haug
dhaug@willamette.edu
"Don't tell me about hazards in my workplace, I'd prefer not to know..."

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,soc.women
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical jokes
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 17:16:08 GMT

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?
-- 
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.
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,alt.cult-movies
Date: Mon,  6 Apr 1992 22:38:55 -0400 
From: Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku <jk73+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
	<1992Apr6.125655.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu>

at CMU, the same deal. if found in the steam tunnels, expulsion, fines,
blah, blah, blah. However,  they insisted on tell all the freshmen
entering the school that it was once a great CMU tradition to go across
the campus via tunnels but now it's illegal [+ more bureacratic bogus]
as if tempting students into the tunnels and their all expense paid
dean's vacation. [sick sense of humor they have in the administration]. 
but no one really gets kicked out of the school though.
From: v058ru6j@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Christophe M Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Steam Tunnels
Date: 5 Apr 92 08:15:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


OK,
   Everyone seems to have steam tunnels ont their campus, but does anyone
know if there are any on mine. Are there any UB alumni out there who would
care to let me know. This is really starting to bother me.

Thanks,
Chris


--------> If you cut here, you will probably ruin your monitor. <--------

v058ru6j@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu  | Disclaimer: If I knew what I was talking
            or                 |      about, would I still be in college?
    cmj@acsu.buffalo.edu       |
      and occasionally         |    Murphy was an optimist!
     Christopher Johnson       | WARNING: .SIG under construction
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: marshall@cs.iastate.edu (Bill Marshall)
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:53:32 GMT

Buena Vista College in northwest Iowa has a new dorm (yeah, I know...
residence hall, sorry) Its still called the New Residence Hall (NRH),
since no one has shown up with the $ and the president hasn't left
yet.

I think it should be the GNU Dorm, but not too many people up there
have heard of GNU.

Bill

--
		Bill Marshall  marshall@cs.iastate.edu
Iowa State University Computer Science Department System Support Group
(VMS guru now in Unix land; I know enough to REALLY confuse the VAX!)
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Unterhund)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: No-lecture class
Date: 17 Apr 92 11:04:09 MDT
Summary: Prof asks for questions, then leaves
Keywords: NO fraternities or scanners
Organization: United Order of Non-joiners

     Here's a change of pace from this group's usual fare:  actual
folklore.  This comes from Dr. Richard Krannich, the instructor for
Soc 617, Survey Research, which you have guessed is a class in which I
am enrolled this quarter.  Sadly, he prefaced this tale by remarking
that he doesn't know if it's true or urban folklore.

     A well-known/famous faculty member at a prestigious Eastern
university would come into class every day, stand behind the lectern,
and open his book.  He would then ask, "Any questions?"  No one would
raise their hands, so he would close his book and leave.

     After a few days, the students realized they weren't getting what
they paid for unless they asked questions.     
-- 
Patrick S. Clark            | "Sugar and spice and brains on ice."
Internet:  slb3y@cc.usu.edu |  --me a couple days after a rather
Bitnet:    slb3y@usu        |    nasty GURPS game.  
Disclaimer:  Not a general slur, just a one-datum observation.
From: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Prof's accents
Date: 16 Apr 92 01:01:07 GMT
Reply-To: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au

Hi there

I had a lecturer who pronounced "robot" as "rowboat".  Confusing!

Murray Chapman
muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au
From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Buildings, buildings, and more buildings...
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:41:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@coke.eng.umd.edu


In article <1992Apr9.220732.23268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron) writes:
>     Since we're all taking about buildings here, I'll never pass
>up an opportunity to poke fun at another Ivy League school...
>
>     On a trip to Cornell for a football game (we actually won
>that game come to think of it) we passed a bunch of buildings
>with a band of colored tiles around them.  My Cornell friend
>promptly explained to me that each color represented a different
>engineering department.  That's right, boys and girls, they
>color-coded their buildings!
>

   Columbia won????  Scholarships, I tell ya...

   Yeah, I heard about this color-coding thing.  Too bad I could never
remember what colors those buildings were (Upson's yellow, I think).

   Speaking of buildings with blah names, they have Academic One
and the Theory Center.  Both are pretty new buildings.   They also
have all these Class of some year dorms called U-Halls.

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From: KWF102@psuvm.psu.edu (Kevin Furrow)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:14:49 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Apr5.191256.1@stat.appstate.edu>, grs01153@stat.appstate.edu
says:

>Here's a new question..(well, new to me..I have only recently begun reading
>this newsgroup and haven't seen anything about this...so...)

>What is the most unusual pet you have known of or kept in a college setting
>(ie
>dorm, apartment, office, steam tunnel, whatever...)???

    A guy who used to live down the hall from me in the dorms here at Penn
State had a ferrett in his room.  Only one person on the entire floor knew
what it was.

Kevin Furrow (kwf102@psuvm.psu.edu)
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 12:30:20 EDT
From: Chuck Slivkoff <00087452@ysub.ysu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: RIP: Sander Hall
 <1992Apr7.160053.3458@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>

The tower was one of those relays for cellular telephones.
There were 4 dishes at about a 30-50 degere angle.

It didn't seem all that dangerous, except for the
height, that is!
____________________________________________________________
|O| Chuck Slivkoff    Youngstown State University        |O|
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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:42:32 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Apr13.000138.11026@husc3.harvard.edu>, koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis) writes:
> 
> A poster defended sexism found in fraternites as well women as
> sex objects problems exist in society so change it there.
> That is a big cop-out for looking at sexism in a frat or anyhwere
> else.  Just b/c something bad is also bad in society doestn defend
> it in a smaller segment of society.  Perhaps as people become
> individually aware they can spread the word to the rest of society.
> 

	Sigh. Lost my followup twice now. Anyway, I posted the original, and I
think you missed my points, so I'll make them again.

Sexism exist in all segments of society, and if you peg one segment, you run
the risk of letting the others go free.
	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.
> 
> And what was the rubbish about women fucking up men's lives and if
> we dont believe the poster we should see Fatal Attraction.
> Thats like saying all women want SM sex see 9 and a half weeks or
> all short british alcoholics are funny see Arthur.
> 

That isn't what I said. I said women *could* fuck up men's lives if they so 
chose. See Fatal Attraction for an example of how they could.

> How about all the real life women who are beaten or killed (11 so
> far in Mass. this year) by boyfriends or husbands.  THose stats
> are not used to prove men fuck up women lives in general (though
> obviuosly they did here) but to show there is problem of violence
> against women.

Precisely my first point. Violence against women is a crime perpetrated against
women everywhere. To say one group is more guilty is to let other segments go 
free, so to speak. You have to look at violence against women as a societal
pandemic, a plague that is everywhere, and attack it on *all* fronts. 
That said, you also have to balance people's rights. I believe my right to
freedom of association to outbalance a woman's right to be a member of my
private club. This is sexist, and I admit it. However, the exclusion of women
by fraternities does not limit life, liberty, or the pursuit of happimess,
in my opinion, nor does it deny them access to jobs, business opportunities
or anything they may want or need in life.
That said, I'm going to pray this post won't bounce
Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Timothy Olin Jarrett)
Subject: Re: Notable Quotables
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa 
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 00:13:39 GMT

One of my English professors, Michael Chase Levenson, noted in an otherwise
uneventful lecture on the topic of Alexander Pope that:

	"We're really not much of a species.  I don't think the sparrows
	will miss us much when we're gone."

Put a hell of a damper on my mood -- in an already-depressing January.  Still,
a good quotation if you ever need one.

(This is the same man who, on the first day of class, declared his eager
anticipation of the day that all undergrads would have voices reciting
Alexander Pope in their Walkmans (Walkmen?), and opened his entire lecture
by declaring how alienated he felt by the size of the class (abt. 300) -- "I
feel like I'm shouting into the crowd at the stadium.  I can't help but feel
alienated.  'This is not my beautiful house!'"

(What is it about modernist English professors that they always quote from
the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime"?)

--Tim Jarrett (toj8j@virginia.edu)


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: senglezo@csws13.ic.sunysb.edu (Sophocles B Englezos)
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 04:23:38 GMT

	In my many years at a local community college, Suffolk, 
( or Slo-F__K ), there were four buildings:

	Alpha
	Beta
	Gamma
	Delta ( Which was a trailer, WITH WHEELS!)

	They finally decided to build a new bldg, and of course
had to set up a committee to decide what to name it.  I finally 
graduated before the result was announced

		Soph

-- 
Signature!  I dont need no stinking signature!
From: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Greg Kemp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: The good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:59:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr9.005919.19786
Reply-To: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

The most, well, unusual prof I've had was Dangerous Doctor Dave Erwin for  
freshman chemistry.  He earned his nickname from Dangerous Doctor Dave's  
In-Class Demonstrations.  After the first few days I learned to sit in the  
back of the room.  I did not want to become another educational statistic.   
A few of the better examples:

* To prove that liquid nitrogen evaporates at very low temperatures, he  
poured it on his hand in small quantities.  The heat from his hand was  
sufficient to evaporate the frigid fluid before any of his skin cells  
could come to harm.  He then dumped the remainder on the floor to show us  
the interesting but useless ability of the liquid to pick up dirt and  
lint.

* Several times he nearly set the building on fire, including once during  
a demonstration with ammonium dichromate (orange, turns green when you  
burn it) which was done in the dark to help us see the reaction.

* An uncooperative Bunsen burner once refused to stay lit.  He turned off  
the gas, reassembled the burner the proper way, gave the gas spigot a  
healthy turn, and lit the burner.  An impressive five-foot-tall geyser of  
flame burst forth from the burner, complete with angry hiss.

I could go on and on for hours.

--
Greg Kemp
inmate, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, IN
Internet: kempga@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:06:19 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)


	OK.  How many of you UR students out there are ever going to call
"The Pit" by it's new name, "Pepsico Plaza"?



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From: jroyea@wpi.WPI.EDU (James E Royea)
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:11:05 GMT


Well, I don't have a scanner, but a friend of mine did.  He has graduated and
moved away, but I do remember one very interesting phone call we listened to.

To preface this I just want to make a comment about the neighborhoods here in
Worcester.  Right near the school, it isn't too bad, but if you get a couple of
blocks away, it gets nasty really quick.  Well, my friend lived right on the
edge of one of these not so nice neighborhoods.  

Anyway, I was over at his apartment and we were listening to the scanner.  We
were listening for a while until we picked up this girl.  She was calling a
friend and was just talking about her life.  Anyway, the discussion switched to
her boyfriend.  She was talking about a party he went to. 

I guess there were members from some of the local gangs there.  Anyway some of
the party goers were throwing up in the middle of the kitchen.  He tried to
throw them out, but they started beating up on him.  This is where he pulled
out a gun and shot four of them.  Our jaws collectively dropped when we heard
this. Not something you hear every day.  I guess no-one was killed.  She did
not say if the police showed up or not, but if they did, he was not arrested.

After listening to that, I never walked to his apartment again.  I always
drove.  I'm sure he could tell many more stories about this girl.  He said that
she would always call someone at 10:00 and talk.  I guess she talked about all
sorts of stuff.  Sex, drugs, whatever.

One other thing to try is to listen to cellular phones.  These run on higher
frequencies, so not all scanners get them.  Anyway, the calls around here were
pretty boring.  Mostly just business calls.  

That's all for now.  I'd love to hear other people's experiences with scanners.

	-Jamie              (jroyea@wpi.wpi.edu)


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jayu@elf.owlnet.rice.edu (Jaydip Tilak Vashi)
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:24:13 GMT



When I was in highschool (any Dunbar HSEP alums out there?) I had an Indian teacher for my sophomore chem class.  Mr. Shah probably had the thickest accent I've ever heard.  Well one day he was explaining how to do the day's experiment.  He was moving along without a problem until he said (you'll have to imagine the accent)

 "Then you must hit the beaker."

To which one of the students replied:

"But won't it break?"

Mr. Shah said simply:

"Not if you hit it gently!!"

The poor stunned student went back to his lab table and started to lightly tap his beaker with a stirring rod until I went up and explained to him that what Mr. Shah had said was "HEAT the beaker."



Jay Vashi

WE ARE RU?
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