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From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:08:35 GMT
Organization: Leapers For a Better Yesterday

MPN100@psuvm.psu.edu (Matthew P. Nagler) 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?

UT has at least its share.

The building housing the Liberal Arts Office is located on the West Mall, and
is therefore known as the West Mall Office Building.  Similarly, several years
ago UT built a new fine arts complex, complete with a magnificent new music
building.  As a result, the old Music Building (part of the "six-pack", for
those who know the UT campus) got renamed.  It's now the Old Music Building.

Lowest of the low, however, are the buildings listed in official campus
publications solely by address, sometimes with the name in parens after it.
An example: 2616 Wichita (Measurement and Evaluation Center), which is
where we poor benighted souls have to hike to attempt to extort credit for
CLEP exams and the like out of The University.

I'm not even going to comment on the fundamental incongruity of the Peter
Flawn Academic Center. (Wait...I think I just did. :) )

-- 
--Andrew Hackard                    Disclaimer: As usual, I wasn't consulted.
  andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu           

"The U.S. is the only highly industrialized nation that teaches eight years of 
 arithmetic, while others begin to lay the foundation for algebra and geometry 
 in primary grades."                              --Iris Carl, President, NCTM
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,alt.cult-movies
From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:27:36 GMT

While reading article <1992Apr4.185117.7255@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, I noticed that
tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) said the following:
 >
 >	Rumor has it that if you're caught in the steam tunnels at the
 >University of New Hampshire you are expelled immediately, no questions
 >asked.  Makes you kind of wonder if they're keeping that governor who we
 >have "fast day" for every year (the one who died anyway) preserved so they
 >can implant his brain in Judd Gregg or someting.  (For those of you who
 >don't know, fast day is some stupid holiday that we have every year where we
 >fast in the hopes that a Royal Governor from the 1600's will survive his
 >illness.  It's a New Hampshire thing you wouldn't understand.)

Just to add to the steam tunnel thread...

Yes, the University of Wisconsin - Madison has steam tunnels, too.  As a matter
of fact, in 1987, when the "Computer Science addition" building was being built
the entryways were conveniently left open for months at a time.

BTW, getting caught in the steam tunnels at UW won't necessarily get you tossed
on the spot but it will be VERY severely dealt with.  Rumor also had it that
there was a guy who lived in the tunnels that UW knew about but never did
anything about, since he would go around and leave a pile of burnt out light
bulbs at a certain location, new ones would be provided and then he would go
install them.  An UL, perhaps, but a surprisingly innocent one...
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Organization: putchar('I'); for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) putchar('E');
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:37:32 GMT

In article <darknite.702854323@camelot> darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III) writes:

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

Why not? Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

	-Kartik

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: still more practical jokes
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:11:25 GMT

want their darling girls to go to college unsupervised (I beleive the first
sororities were run by adult women)
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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:15:24 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Apr12.171240.13176@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> In article <1992Apr12.125345.4991@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>>That's very interesting. You took a logical, rational argument, and turned it 
>>into a personal attack. Kind of a cheap attack, don't you think? Not that I'm
>>upset, but you're taking what started out as a controlled, rational dialogue
>>and turning it into a series of cheap shots (I'm trying to keep any chear shots
>>out of this posting, but it's getting difficult, it's soooooooooooooo tempting.
>>Anyway, if you have a rational argument to make, make it. If not, flame me 
>>email. Keep the argument rational, or it's going to get boring.
> 
> Where was there a personal attack?  Is it my fault that he trotted out
> the same old tired arguments that have (1) already been refuted and (2)
> are completely self-contradictory?  It's obvious that you didn't even
> read the post.

Let's see. You apoint yourself judge, jury, and executioner of my argument, 
essentially (throught that silly checklist) reduce another person's point of 
view to a point of ridicule, then give the whole argument an arbitrary score.
hmm. No personal attack there. Really, Ted. I'm beginning to believe all 
those nasty things I'm hearing about you.

Mike (bored with rationality and tired of justifying his existenct to someone
who just learned to walk without dragging his knuckles)  
> --
From: wilsonscottr@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: RE: Creative Building Names (NOT!)
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:10:39 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

	Well, they built a new residence hall last year.  They spend a 
couple of millions of dollars and what do they name it?  "New Residence 
Hall".  Word around here has it that the administration is waiting for 
someone to donate half a million dollars to have their name put on it.
	The building leaks, wasn't finished until almost winter, and was 
poorly designed in the first place.  I wouldn't want MY name associated 
with it.  Obviously, neither does anyone else.  Maybe if someone important 
dies, they'll rename it in their memory.

Scott
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From: sacass@unix1.tcd.ie (stephen andrew cass)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: The good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:07:48 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <1992Apr9.005919.19786@cs.rose-hulman.edu> kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Greg Kemp) writes:

>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:

>I could go on and on for hours.

Please do! What are threads for?
steve

Stephen Cass sacass@unix1.tcd.ie stcass@maths.tcd.ie TRINITY COLLEGE
DUBLIN, IRELAND. Oh yeah, like a 1st year undergrad really represents the
official views and opinions of TCD.*******THIS SPACE FOR RENT**********
"Million to one chances occur nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchet
From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu (Aaron Dickey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: ZBT Registration Scandal at CUNY...
Date: 12 Apr 92 06:31:36 GMT
Organization: New York University

Ha ha ha! I was WAITING for somebody to bring this up.  God, I hope their
charter gets yanked!  I guess I should be nice and make it clear that the
downtown chapter of ZBT here at New York University seems to be a halfway
decent bunch of guys (my RA is ZBT).  But then, only 6% of NYU students
are in Greek organizations, so they couldn't cause trouble here if they
tried.  Except for Fiji (Phi Gamma Delta), anyway.  Our president is a
Fiji...scary concept.  Besides, even Zionist Bank & Trust couldn't afford 
to buy their grades here.

Anybody else have any info on secret frat/sorority rituals?  Might make
for some very funny/interesting threads.

PS- My apologies for the lack of literary quality in this post.  I've been
awake for 35 solid hours at this point.

-- 
Aaron Dickey                      Bitnet: axd7104@nyuacf
New York University             Internet: axd7104@ACFcluster.nyu.edu

Al Roker Is God.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: michaelb@shark.cse.fau.edu (Michael Brown)
Subject: Weird Profs
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:18:40 GMT

Well, someone asked about weird profs.  We have one here in our
CS department who is in a class by himself.  He's really brilliant
in his field, but he does some really strange things.  I first
had him in a undergrad `files' class.  One day he came in a little
late and started in to this story of how he was late because of some
traffic jam on the highway and that the police were arresting these
people who were crossing the median to avoid the jam.  After a few
minutes of this he stops and say "forget all that, that really didn't
happen, I was making it all up".  That just shocked up.

Another time someone asked him a question.  He thought and then gave 
an answer to it, then went back to lecturing.  About 15-20 minutes 
he suddenly starts an different explaination of the question he had
been asked.  By then we had forgetten the question and did not know
what he was doing.  He had to stop and say he was answering this person's
question from a few minutes ago.

Well that may give you sort of an idea of this prof.  Great guy but kinda
strange.  He always reminds me of William E Gaines the publisher of MAD
Magazine in appearance.


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<<                                                               >>
<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<<                                                               >>
From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:25:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine

In article <1992Apr13.204956.1479@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sas3h@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Sheryl Anne Smoot) writes:
>
>Just had to mention that I am glad to see that you called the bridge
>the Harvard (Smoot) Bridge.  My father was the Smoot that the bridge
>is unofficially named for and I am happy that other people remember it.

Neat!  I remember the first time I ever noticed the marks on the bridge
that ended with "353 smoots + 1 3/8 ear" or something like that.  Could
you tell the story for those who haven't heard of it?  I'd like to know
if it jives with the version I heard.

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
	That's one thing about going against the flow:  there's
	less traffic in that direction.
From: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Eureka!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: re: prof's accent blunders documented
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:33:17 GMT
Reply-To: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

One of my profs does not have a foriegn accent but is quite arrogant and 
makes tons of sweeping generealizations as she tries to teach us not to. 
Anyway, one day she's trying to say that everything we're thinking about a 
certain topic is a huge disillusion.  She says "We're all diluted ourselves"
whoops, I meant "diluting", not "diluted" anyway, she didn't even catch her
mistake or think anything when someone whispers rather loudly something to
the effect that we've been watered down.  I guess to her there is no 
difference between "delude" and "dilute".  It was kinda funny, but I guess
you had to be there. Oh well.

--Erica
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 11:50:37 MST
From: <AUDMH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Fraternities
 <lis.702961081@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <zkessin.702967154@chaos.cs.brandeis.
 <1992Apr11.223330.26302@midway.uchicago.edu>

maybe i'm alone in wanting this, but would it be possible to move this thread
entirely over to soc.college or whatever as it doesn't seem to me to have too
much to do with folklore anymore?  just a thought.

David hungerford  audmh@asuacad.bitnet  opinions?  Mine, all mine!!!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: peterd@polari.com
Subject: Weird Profs, mit accents yet
Summary: Mit hep like that, puleeze ...
Keywords: Bayerich Deutsch, Francophones, Oy Vey
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix.  (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:05:45 GMT

Fun with various accents tricks.

But firsst the background.  I lived in Bavaria for about
three years when I was a lad, and "polished" my textbook
German into something indecipherable by the addition of
a Bavarian/New Zealand accent.
	When I returned Stateside I decided to enter 
University and take German and get the easy A.  No such luck.
I could do German grammer in German, but not in English. (I
took Russian instead).  
	The next Year I was helping a French speaking friend
of mine with her German pronunciation (She had the 
disconcerting tendency to mispronnounce German with a French
accent instead of the traditional 'murican one.).  Well after
several weeks of this (She was doing quite nicely in my opinion)
Herr Professor, who hailed from up North near Acchen, inquired
if she might be getting some pronunciation help? When she 
said "mais oui", he told her to ask whomever to please stop it.

I thought this was funny then, I still think it funny.  But funny
is a Alabama Drawl in German.  Kiwi's in German are incomprehensible,
and Swizter Deutsch is a whole other animal. 

But those were the good old days.  Today I just get tired or
confused and mumble to myself in a hodgepodge of Russian
German Turkish and Castiallan.  Confuses the hell oout of the locals.

chus
Senor Pyotr Pasha

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From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical jokes
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:53:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: ac.1992Apr12.125345.4991
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Apr9.053853.16944@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> In article <1992Apr8.211204.4902@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes
>  [in response to an article by Sean Erwin about all-male organizations
>   in general]:
>>*Sigh*. Here we go again. O-kay, I'm going to say this one more time...
>>*are* you listening carefully?
> 
> 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)
> 
> 
That's very interesting. You took a logical, rational argument, and turned it 
into a personal attack. Kind of a cheap attack, don't you think? Not that I'm
upset, but you're taking what started out as a controlled, rational dialogue
and turning it into a series of cheap shots (I'm trying to keep any chear shots
out of this posting, but it's getting difficult, it's soooooooooooooo tempting.
Anyway, if you have a rational argument to make, make it. If not, flame me 
email. Keep the argument rational, or it's going to get boring.
Mike 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: mute@yoyodyne (Joshua Thompson Brandt)
Subject: Stuff in Steam Tunnels (Was: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!))
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:52:23 GMT


So, what sort of interesting things are down in the MIT tunnels? I
was lost in them one day a few months ago, while on a quest for the
WMBR, the MIT radio station (They told me to go into a certain building,
go down the stairs, and turn left... I got the wrong building. Heh.).
After wandering around for an hour or so, I finally managed to get 
to where I was going. I told the person why I was late, and he asked
me if I had discovered the "Tomb of the Unknown Tool." He never
explained, though, what this is...

Are there any other interesting sights buried deep within the bowels
of the MIT campus?

Josh Brandt



-- 
                             And there's nothing good on TV   Don't
                       Nothing but carrot sticks and celery   Panic
                                         - mute@wpi.wpi.edu   Joshua Brandt -
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From: FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Steam tunnels
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:40:54 GMT

Virginia Tech has steam tunnels.  Typical things.  Except that we have
one odd UL that people refuse to disbelieve.

See, once upon a time we had a stadium called Miles Stadium not all that
far from the center of campus.  It was demolished and replaced by Lane
Stadium, farther out.  The site of Miles Stadium is now a big grassy
field between several of the larger ten-story dorms and such.  The
idiots who prowl the tunnels swear that one of the tunnels leads to
the locker rooms of Miles Stadium... that the whole stadium was FILLED
IN and exists, intact, below the surface of this big field, known as
the Prairie.  And, according to the UL, if you keep looking long and
hard enough you will stumble into the locker rooms and thence to all
the other tunnels and bathrooms and such of the old stadium.  Now,
Buildings and Grounds swear that Miles Stadium was demolished.  People
remember it being demolished.  And in any case it wasn't sunk below
ground level.  Its playing field was approximately the same level as
the present-day Prairie.  BUT... the tunnel rats keep looking, just
knowing that if they look long enough they'll find those locker rooms!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Subject: Re: PUBLICATIONS
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 03:58:05 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@coke.eng.umd.edu


In article <73929@netnews.upenn.edu>, mkane@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Margaret Kane) writes:
>As the current City Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, I feel compelled to 
>a) thank Matt Rice for letting everyone know how cool we are. (we are.)
>b) let him and everyone else know that we not only fool the students, but we
>have been known to cause heart attacks in the president's office and send at
>least one editor of _The Philadelphia Inquirer_ screaming into the newsroom and
>c) fooled allthe stupid schmucks at Cornell. 
>	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 and 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.
>

   Actually, I was told that the Daily Sun staff went to Yale on
April Fool's Day and did a similar trick.

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From: trev@hubcap.clemson.edu (Trevor Bauknight)
Subject: Re: Midnight Scream and Rape UL
Keywords: CU administration are killjoys
Organization: Jes Grew Carriers -- Metaphysical Bunko Squad 
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:15:15 GMT

Dunno about the rape UL, but how widespread is the tradition of going
fool out the windows during exam week?  When I was a freshman here at
Clemson, I lived on campus in a huge dorm that snaked in various sections
around the hillside.  Sometimes during exam week, the sheer volume of
things being thrown out of the windows and the screaming was amazing.

It was a full semester before we got to experience "the riots" (as we
had heard them called, not knowing whether to believe it or not), but
sure enough, bottles and things began smashing all around one night,
and we put our books down to watch.  We even found an old television
once, smashed to pieces on the driveway below.
 
Trevor Bauknight         trev@hubcap.clemson.edu    ...gatech!hubcap!trev
 
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From: ulysses@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Nebulous Enigma)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Collegiate Pets
Date: 6 Apr 92 04:33:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcl.ulysses.702534804

In <1992Apr5.191256.1@stat.appstate.edu> grs01153@stat.appstate.edu writes:

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

I have a tarantula, which I don't think is unusual at all but considering some
of the reactions i've gotten from people who have just discovered it...

I used to have two but one ate the other :(

We also have a big mold growing under the sink. I think it may be a distant
relative to the 150-acre one in Michigan :) 
--
-ulysses@mcl.univ.of.ca.for.spoiled.brats.edu 
The Man Facing Southeast
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Reply-To: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 18:40:41 GMT


In article <1992Apr5.081315.4548@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v058ru6j@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Christophe M Johnson) writes:
|>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

There's a whole set on the Main St. campus.  Been in them a couple times.
You can see them in the winter, the tunnels are under the sidewalks that melt
the snow immediately.

There aren't any on the Amherst campus (it's electrically heated!)

-Mike
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