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From: k82x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Meng Che Hsieh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Building Names
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:52:06 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

On the subject of building names, the new library that's being built here will
be called Karl A. Kroch Library.
When some of me and some of my friends found out about this, we made quite a
few jokes about it. BTWwe pronounced it like "crotch."

One I remember quite distinctly is: "Is it well endowed?"
How about "When's the Kroch opened til?"

If any of you have any other jokes, I'd be interested in hearing them.

-Meng
<K82x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Unterhund)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:02:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1992Apr8.180247.54313
Organization: United Order of Non-joiners

In article <92099.172500MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu>, Matthew P. Nagler
<MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>      Ok, here is my effort at starting a thread. The latest building to be
>  added to the worderous establishment of learning known as the main campus
>  of Penn State (sarcasm? ME? B-) has been dubbed the Classroom and Office
>  Building, or as my friends have dubbed it the COB. What other buildings
>  are there out there that are as creatively named?

     Recently built here at lovely Utah State University in greater
metropolitan Logan . . . OK, so we were originally Utah State
Agricultural College and the building went up a few years ago. 
Anyway, it was originally named the Science, Engineering, and Energy
Research Building.

     It is currently called the Science and Engineering Research
Building, probably because too many people would ask, "Where's the
SEER Building?" and get the answer, "Between the Prophet and Revelator
Buildings."  At least, I hope so.  That's what I always answered.
-- 
Patrick S. Clark | "Yeah, even Santa Claus believes in you."
slb3y@cc.usu.edu |  _Can_You_Picture_That?_
slb3y@usu        |   Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem 
Disclaimer:  I'm a Masters candidate.  Only freshmen know everything.
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 16 Apr 1992 16:52:26 EDT
From: <ROWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Retraction of Rochester Insult...

Earlier this week, I stated in a post entitled
"ZBT Rebuttal: Rob Walters,"

<<as far as ...Rochester is concerned, I wipe my fat butt
<< with the whole city.

Three Rochester residents politely pointed out my overly
broad generalization. I now take that back, and limit my ass-wiping to
the Vice-President of the ZBT chapter of the University of Rochester.

I am sorry for any bad feelings, and thank you all for
being so kind.

Enjoy spring break, and stay safe.
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From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: creatively names buildings
Date: 11 Apr 92 02:58:01 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University

st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Eureka!) writes:

>At Brandeis, our new gym is the Joseph and Clara Ford Sports and Convocation
>Center, and the Gosman Complex.  (By the way, to the others from brandeis,
>why does it have two names? Which is the correct one?) Anyway, instead of
>calling it "The Plex" as someone suggested (was it Rick or Rod), for a while
>we were calling it "The Gosman thingy".  I don't thinkit stuck--I think most
>people just call it the gym.
>Anyone from Brandeis is free to correct me if I'm wrong....
>--Erica

You forgot to mention that Brandeis ALREADY has a Ford Hall (the CoSci
building)  Of course, the name for the old gym (Shapiro) waas also
duplicated elsewhere on campus.  Being a Jewish University means that
we also have a Golding, Goldman, Goldsmith and Goldfarb.  
A wonderful campus--where there NEVER is a straight line between any
two points (or at least, between two buildings)
-- 
--------------->Elisabeth Anne Riba * lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu<--------------
It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and
why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the
rules are--who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled... It rolled a six.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 16:12:13 MST
From: <AAFEG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Steam tunnels

I went to undergraduate school at good ole Virginia Tech.  While I was there in
the early eighties, a maintenance worker was doing something in the steam
tunnel when a large amount of steam was released over at the power plant.
Needless to say the result was not nice.

I had never heard the story about Miles stadium.  I did know that the stadium
had been there near Lee and Pritchard Halls.

Another interesting story about Virginia Tech is the Electrical Engineering
building which was only partially completed when I was in school there.  We
would often tell underclassmen that a professor wanted to see them on the
fourth floor of the building which did not exist.  However, since the plans
for the building included a few more floors, the stairways to the upper floors
existed and basically went right up into the ceiling.  It was quite amusing
to see the reactions of these people when they found a stairway leading to the
ceiling.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:1286 soc.college:1864
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 12:48:55 EDT
From: Jay Schwitzgebel <JGS109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Prof.'s accent blunders documented

Here at Penn State, some friends of mine in my thermodynamics course have
been compiling a running list of our professors language blunders over the
course of the semester.  Looking back at it now, I thought it might be worth
sharing.

pobram, pobwem -----------problem
paff ---------------------path
porcis -------------------process
hit ----------------------heat
jew ----------------------joule (for P.C. reasons, I'll avoid the def. of kJ)
ensowpee -----------------enthalpy
waypol -------------------vapor
pissed on ----------------piston
peepear ------------------prepare
delter -------------------delta
stamen -------------------statement
messimum -----------------maximum
vegetable oil ------------reservoir
pope ---------------------probe
powide -------------------provide
asseration ---------------acceleration
moycher ------------------moisture
bondalier ----------------boundary layer
sonit --------------------solid
commission ---------------convection
bawk ---------------------bulk
expoanshal ---------------exponential
fruss --------------------flux
tambitoor ----------------temperature

We enjoy a good laugh over it once every couple of weeks, so I hoped you
might enjoy it as well.

Jay (PSU)
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wednesday, 8 Apr 1992 14:55:58 EDT
From: Jeff Wolfe <JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Boldly Not Going Where No Man Has Not Gone Before
 <1992Apr7.173709.26992@cs.rose-hulman.edu>,<92098.152958JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu>
 <1992Apr8.152157.6442@news.cs.brandeis.edu>

In article <1992Apr8.152157.6442@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,
st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER) says:
>
>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

Ahh, yes, bushes.. but they cost MONEY to maintain.. you have to prune them
every few weeks during the summer....  Money is the key word here..
Cheaper is better!




  -- Jeff Wolfe * jtw106@psuvm.psu.edu * jefwolfe@endor.cs.psu.edu

 "May the forces of evil become lost on the way to your door."
                                                -Carlin
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: carter@spot.Colorado.EDU (Mike Carter)
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:40:43 GMT

tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:


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

Probably about as many as University of Colorado students call the newly 
renamed events center the Coors Events Center.  Most folks just refer to it
as the Foam Dome.

-- 
				- Mike
				  carter@spot.Colorado.EDU
From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Naming Buildings
Date: 11 Apr 92 12:07:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: chaos.lis.702994064
Distribution: na
Organization: Brandeis University

michaelb@shark.cse.fau.edu (Michael Brown) writes:

>Most of you know that most colleges name buildings after big donors.

>Well, when I was at Furman University (SC) I came across a "price list".

>This list told you for what amount what would be named for you.  It ran
>the gamut from buildings to lecture rooms to classrooms.  i.e. to paid
>x amount of money, they named something for you.  I suppose other colleges
>do the same.

Well, don't keep us in suspense...  Can you give us some idea of the
price range?  I'm not interested in donating to Furman, but who knows
what I'd do to Brandeis if I came into some serious money...

[Actually, I know what I'd probably do--add an SF wing to the library <grin>]
-- 
--------------->Elisabeth Anne Riba * lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu<--------------
It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and
why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the
rules are--who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled... It rolled a six.
From: kprashan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (hyderabadi)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:51:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.202909.1@stat.appstate.edu>, grs01153@stat.appstate.edu writes:
> Tell us about your profs..best, worst, weirdest.
> Shannon Frady


Classic High School tale: 

Our first class (9am) of the day was Chemistry, taught by the extremely
good looking Miss Sally Johnson. And the 3rd class of the day (11am)
was Math, taught by the extremely confused Mr Katti.

SO, Mr Katti pops into the class at 8:55am and tells a stunned class
"I'll be taking Sally at 9, she will take me at 11."



__________________________________________________________
| Prashanth                    |                         |
| U. of California @ San Diego | prash@bhaskara.ucsd.edu |
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: peterd@polari.com
Subject: The glories of Fraternal Organizations
Keywords: You got to be kidding
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix.  (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 06:45:10 GMT

The thing that always cracks me up is the repeated
mention of 'manditory study hours.'  Leiber Gott -
in my dorm we had 'manditory sudy breaks' in order to
check that everyone was still alive!

Of course this was the campus where a student ran as
a write in candidate for Student Pres on the  platform
"Kill the Greeks" and got 600 votes.

chus
pyotr
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 11:14:23 MST
From: <AUDMH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)

Classroom Office Building?  Yeah, we got one of those too here at ASU.
And because we are in Arizona, we have the obligatory Goldwater Building.
Only problem is, it's the new Engineering building.  Go figure.  Other
creatively named buildings include the Language and Literature Building,
the Social Sciences building, the Engineering Complex (A-G wings), and the
Physical Science complex (A-H wings).

David Hungerford AUDMH@ASUACAD.BITNET  My opinions are mine.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: tonyamm@byron.u.washington.edu (Tonya May)
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 14:07:32 GMT

 I don't see the relevance of debating the pros/cons of fraternities/sororities
in this newsgroup.  I think that any further discussion should either take 
place through e-mail between those interested, or see about getting a room 
devoted entirely to the debate of the "merits" of the Greek system.  I
personally have grown very tired of this topic of debate that has nothing 
to do with folklore.college.  If you disagree, please e-mail me so that we
can keep this newsgroup free to postings that are in agreement with the 
room's purpose.  

-Tonya May
 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
From: kendall@blackfin.rice.edu (Kendall Helmstetter Gelner)
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
	<1992Apr2.025257.28433@midway.uchicago.edu>
	<1992Apr3.184707.13622@panix.com>
	<1992Apr4.185117.7255@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 06:33:48 GMT

At Rice University, we have a small network of steam tunnels... supposedly
(I believe) we're supposed to get suspended if we get caught steam
tunneling, but I know a friend who was caught (just as he was leaving a
manhole) and was just given a warning.

They actually are rather unpleasent places, with way too much ambient
fiberglass lying around from the pipe insulation.  They lead to a lot of
matience places, almost all of the colleges (like dorms, kinda).  In fact,
they lead right to one of the colleges that used to be all-female - it's
rumored that the tunnels used to be used as late-night pathways. :-)

--
---> Kendall Gelner (kendall@rice.edu)
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Unterhund)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Steam tunnels
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:48:36 MDT
Summary: Not here
Keywords: lies lies lies
Organization: United Order of Non-joiners

     I just want to say that Utah State University does not have any
steam tunnels.  Also, I have never been in these nonexistent steam
tunnels, especially my sophomore year.

Patrick "Yeah, right" Clark
-- 
Patrick S. Clark            | "Got to pay your dues
Internet:  slb3y@cc.usu.edu |  If you want to sing the blues
Bitnet:    slb3y@usu        |  And you know it don't come easy."       
Disclaimer:  Ringo Starr's song.  I claim the unattributed stuff.  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical jokes
Reply-To: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM PSP Palo Alto, Ca.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 20:40:57 GMT

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) posts:

#Yep, I'm even unveiling the brand new Generic Frat-Boy Checklist to
#make sure you hit all of the cliches.
#
#+++++GENERIC FRAT-BOY CLICHE CHECKLIST, version 0.5, copyright 1992+++++
#			(selectively annotated)


Oh hell, Ted. Not here, too!



THIS POSTING DOES NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF MY EMPLOYERS.
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	"We're just a Bob Seger cover band."
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney)
Subject: Cordless phones
Reply-To: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:00:14 GMT

I don't know if there are enough scanner listeners out there to start
a thread, but this is still a great story. I own a police scanner and
live in a 10-story dorn housing about 400 people. There is an identical
dorm next door. Anyway, many students bring their own cordless phones
instead of using the university-provided phones. 
When I get tired of listening to the local campus cops (oops, I meant
Department of Public Safety), I tune in the cordless phone frequencies
that I have found to be in use by people in the next building. So I'm
sitting there one morning studying studying, and I hear a guy calling
a lady, and they seemed to be talking about prices or something. I figure
he is ordering a pizza. Then, the reception clears up and the lady on
the other end says, "Is there a specific girl you'd like to talk to?"

This perked my interest right away. He says yes, he'd like to talk to...
Pam. After a minute they are connected. Yep, he was calling phone sex.
They proceeded to get it on for the next 19 minutes, and for the
listening enjoyment of myself and about 15 other people on my floor, 
including the RA. I'll spare you the lurid details, but suffice to say
that it sounded authentic (!) and we'd bet he had a sticky mess to clean
up when he was done. 

The funny part was a week later when I was with a group of friends at a
an ISU varsity athletic event. The starters were being introduced, and
guess who was one of them? Yep. We thought about chanting 'Pam Pam' 
during the game, but did not want to discourage him from calling in the
future. ;-)

Although we probably would be labeled as being perverts, it was damn fine
and cheap entertainment. 

Anyone else out there hear interesting stuff on scanners/cordless phones?

--------------------------
Mike McNarney
twap8@isuvax.bitnet
Iowa State University, USENET censors
Ames, IA 50013-0007

		*Get a stadium named after you... call Sam Bernabe*
		*At 243-6111- no reasonable offer rejected!       *

BTW, I can post the cordless phone freqs for anyone that wants 'em...
Or give you the freq for our sticky friend if you live at ISU.
From: eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: those wacky chemicals
Date: 2 Apr 92 20:10:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: Dr_No.EACHUS.92Apr2151026
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.

In article <1992Apr2.014913.21018@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> bart@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bart Gold) writes:

       Can anyone tell me the name of the substance that is first made as a
   brown liquid, then, when poured on the floor, turns into an (mildly)
   explosive brown solid?

   Sounds like Nitrogen Tri-Iodide (NI3), all except for the "(mildly)
explosive" part.  When dry it is so unstable that it will occasionally
explode spontaneously at room temperature, and if oyu have seen it
made what you probably saw was less than a gram of solid (as a
suspension) in lots of water.  This stuff can be used for lots of
"practical jokes," but I strongly recommend the apprenticeship
approach--learn from someone who knows what he is doing.

    Two incidents come to mind--heard from different people at
different high schools years ago.  At one, several students got
together to make some NI3 and paint it on the floor after school as a
joke, however they left the "empty" 750 ml flask they mixed it in on the
window sill.  The morning sun came and baked the water out.
**BOOM!!**  went the window early the next morning...

     At another school--in another state--the chemistry teacher
decided to make NI3 and paint it on the floor as an April Fool's joke.
He however knew enough to carefully and thoroughly clean all his
apparatus.  However come Easter vacation/spring break and no one using
the sink for over a week, the residual NI3 in the sink trap settled
out, blew up, and scattered the lab bench all over the room.

      To sum up, Nitrogen TriIodide makes nitroglycerin look tame.
(Of course Xe03 -- Xenon TriOxide makes Nitrogen TriIodide look tame,
but that is another story.)

--

					Robert I. Eachus

with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
use  STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Wasylik)
Subject: Re: creatively names buildings
Organization: Ministry of Propaganda
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:33:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.155557.2694@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>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
       ^^^^^^

Fybush Hall?  If you want countless generations of college students playing
with a name like Fybush, then you've got too much money.  Give it to me
instead.

Or let's buy Ted an rational viewpoint...

 

-- 
Mw

[ Michael Wasylik                     ><    I'd rather be                  ]
[ wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu         ><    rich than stupid.              ]
From: ddm@unity.ncsu.edu (David Mann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:03:07 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University Computing Center

In article <1992Apr14.200014.23396@news.iastate.edu> twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>I don't know if there are enough scanner listeners out there to start

I used to have a scanner at school, too, and happened (by accident
really) on the cordless freqs.  Never heard anything that interesting
tho, all I picked up was "Hello, Dominoes...", "Where's the party...",
"Your seeing someone else aren't you!" type conversations...

-- 
Anytime something screeches across the room, and latches onto someone's
neck, and the guy screams, and tries to get it off, I have to laugh,
because what /is/ that thing?                   -- Deep Thought
David_Mann@ncsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: cpalmer@swamp.watson.ibm.com (Charles C. Palmer)
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 12:20:16 GMT
Reply-To: cpalmer@swamp.watson.ibm.com (Charles C. Palmer)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

One of my CompSci profs was from Germany, but maintained pretty good 
English except when he became frustrated at the stupidity of his students.
One evening, after he finally realized that only two of the 25 students
were answering the supposedly thought-provoking questions he posed during
his lecture, he became quite flustered and shouted :

     Don't answer if you already know!

So, of course, we were ALL silent then.

Charles C. Palmer ( cpalmer@cpalmer.watson.ibm.com )
Network Design Tools               Tie 863-7411      914/784-7411
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center   P.O.Box 704       Yorktown Heights,
NY  10598