HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Survey Ranking College Men and Women
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:50:31 GMT

exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) writes:

>Interesting twist:  After attending the University of North Texas for
>two years I discovered that it had a reputation in the southern half
>of the state for having 10 female students for every male.  In reality
>it is either 1-1 or pretty darn close.

Buffalo State College reportedly had "two girls for every boy", a perception  
brought about because the school was a "normal school" or teacher's college  
until the early 1960s, and because dorm residents are 70% female.  It's  
actually something like 1.1-1 female/male.  

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From: mcline@terapin.com (Matthew Cline)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Floor tag (was Re: graduating virgins legend)
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:05:55 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <1992Sep4.110807.20599@cco.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu
(Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:
>
>>Sick, wasn't it?  Diabetics, please inject now.
>                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Huh?

It's another way of saying "Sickenningly (sp?) sweet, isn't it?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: hustler@milton.u.washington.edu (Donald Heisler)
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Organization: U of Washington
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:30:02 GMT

In article <ericw.716052734@hobbes>, ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa) writes:

My wife (an English Major) had a strange experience with a professor.  This
professor loved his pipe.  When she came to class he would be standing out in
the hall smoking it up until class started, then douse it out.  Well, one day 
he came to class, threw his jacket on a chair, and began his lecture.  Not five
minutes into the class, his jacket starts smoking and bursts into flames.
A timid student in the front raised her hand and said "prof.. your jacket is
on fire"

He returned "sure enough"

He then through it on the floor, stomped on it, and threw it in the trash and
continued the lecture as if nothing had happened.

don
hustler@milton.u.washington.edu
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From: paladin@rajeesh.WPI.EDU (Vaughn Gross)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving,alt.suicide.holiday
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop--Acceleration of G, minus wind resistance
Date: 14 Sep 1992 12:22:53 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: rajeesh.wpi.edu

In article <190l08INNdsa@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@penny.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:
>In article <190hfjINNt5d@agate.berkeley.edu> dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:
>>I suppose it would matter how much area your particular body exposes to 
>>be resisted. So let's say, for the size and density of the average human 
>>body.

of course surface area is important... the more area you present the more drag
one has..  as shown by megazone's equation... which is mostly correct..  8)

>Velocity(t)=velocity(initial)+acceleration(9.8m/sec^2)*time(in seconds)-
>  (Cd(coeff. of drag)*surface area*density air*vel.^2)/(2*grav. const. 9.8))
>
>Basically your velocity at time t equals your intial velocity plus your accel.
>of 9.8m/s^2 times time - minus the air resistance. (This is all assuming that
>positive is in the down direction)
>
>Air resistance equals your coefficient of drag times your surface area times
>the denstiy of air times your velocity SQUARED, all divided by twice the local
>gravitational constant which is 9.8m/s^2 on earth.
>
>So, a jumper can assume an intitial velocity of 0. Someone want to look up the
>rest of the numbers and figure it out?
>
>(I hope that is all right, I hate differential equations....)

not that difficult to do really... I could do this and i have failed Classical
Mechanics twice...   8)  (tho i managed to pull a B in quantum.. kinda makes me
wonder..)

bacically all one would have to do is figure the velocity to go splat nicely...
8)
and then determine the time it takes to achieve this velocity...
then integrate the problem to determine distance as a function of time...
the distance given for the time to acheive the proper velocity is the height
one should jump from...

and just to be sure... a bit more wouldn't hurt too much...    8)


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human is the foulest name i can ever call a person......
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From: megazone@penny.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving,alt.suicide.holiday
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop--Acceleration of G, minus wind resistance
Date: 14 Sep 1992 00:05:28 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
NNTP-Posting-Host: penny.wpi.edu

In article <190hfjINNt5d@agate.berkeley.edu> dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:
>I suppose it would matter how much area your particular body exposes to 
>be resisted. So let's say, for the size and density of the average human 
>body.

Velocity(t)=velocity(initial)+acceleration(9.8m/sec^2)*time(in seconds)-
  (Cd(coeff. of drag)*surface area*density air*vel.^2)/(2*grav. const. 9.8))

Basically your velocity at time t equals your intial velocity plus your accel.
of 9.8m/s^2 times time - minus the air resistance. (This is all assuming that
positive is in the down direction)

Air resistance equals your coefficient of drag times your surface area times
the denstiy of air times your velocity SQUARED, all divided by twice the local
gravitational constant which is 9.8m/s^2 on earth.

So, a jumper can assume an intitial velocity of 0. Someone want to look up the
rest of the numbers and figure it out?

(I hope that is all right, I hate differential equations....)

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:42:46 EDT
From: <HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop

Along this same thread.

Being a student at Penn State, we were amused by the policy that states
that if your roomate commits suicide, you will automatically receive a 4.0
GPA for the semester.

Being the sick little monkeys that we are, we thought that we should cram
eight of us into a house and have a "Lottery" every semester.  We'd draw
straws or some such method, and the guy who got the short one would off
himself.  The rest of us would get 4.0's.  After the regular eight semesters,
one of us
would ultimately win the lottery and come out of school with a perfect GPA.

I guess that we never followed through, because I've ony managed a 3.7 GPA.

The best laid plans of mice and men...  8-}

Hans C. Masing | HCM100@PSUVM.psu.edu  | Penn State University MIS Dept |

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
"God is crying."  And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
tell him is "Probably because of something you did."  - Jack Handey
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:2186 rec.skydiving:2239
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 08:44:43 EDT
From: <HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
 <1992Sep11.184251.23771@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
 <92255.130139ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
 <1992Sep12.210707.25004@news.columbia.edu> <1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com>

In article <1992Sep13.050932.13547@panix.com>, jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson)
says:
>
>All this falling stuff has got me wondering: what's the best
>way to fall (w/o a parachute, to all you people reading this
>from rec.skydiving) in order to minimize damage?
>

There is a recommended 5-point method for landing without a parachute.
Supposedly, it's a sideways kind of reclining position, where the maximum
amount of your body contacts the groud at the same time.  I have read accounts
of skydivers who have survived landing like this.

My question is:  How do you practice?


Hans C. Masing | HCM100@PSUVM.psu.edu  | Penn State University MIS Dept |

"What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, that in scratching the poor
itch of your opinion make yourselves scabs?" - Will Shakespeare
From: gsb2q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Scott Briercheck)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: RE: Symbols (UVA secret societies)
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:05:57 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department

Here at UVA there are a number of secret societies (alumni
fundraising-kind-of-things) which you have to be invited to join
(read: have $$) .  There is the IMP, the Z, and the 7-Society 
(and I think one or two others).  They all raise money for the 
university, and they paint their symbols all over the place
(buildings, sidewalks, marble statues). The tradition is that you are 
not supposed to walk over any of the symbols, but everyone seems to 
ignore it today.  Hope this solves some of the mystery.
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From: tjreynol@zephyr.cair.du.edu (The Jumpin Dude)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Symbols
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:00:30 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: University of Denver

In article <1992Sep14.204720.28274@news.iastate.edu> polly@iastate.edu () writes:
>We have a legend here at Iowa State about the Zodiac Symbol in the 
>Memorial Union.  BAsically if you walk over it, you'll experience bad 
>luck.  I've been over it couple times and nothing has ever happened to me

i don't know about walking over Zodiac Symbols (well, i walk over one 
all the time,...) but i know from watching cartoons that walking between
any kind of cymbals invites disaster. 

>Paula 
>polly@iastate.edu

note the Followup: field
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
From: dmatt@iastate.edu (Daniel I Matt)
Subject: Re: Symbols
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:36:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.204720.28274@news.iastate.edu> polly@iastate.edu () writes:
>We have a legend here at Iowa State about the Zodiac Symbol in the 
>Memorial Union.  BAsically if you walk over it, you'll experience bad 
>luck.  I've been over it couple times and nothing has ever happened to me

   Actually, the legend is that if you walk over the Zodiac, you'll flunk your
next test.


Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:06:19 -0400 
From: David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: symbols

At my high school it was said that any student not a senior who went on
"senior steps" wouldn't graduate.

David
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov>
Subject: Re: Suicide 4.0? and Elevator Surfing
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:33:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.163636.10274@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Jane.R.Deering@dartmouth.edu (Jane R. Deering) writes:

>I grew up in Amherst, MA, and one of the most popular 'sports' around
>UMass is (was?) 'Elevator Surfing'.  One of the residence halls is
>quite tall, over 20 stories, I believe, and every now and then people
>would climb into the elevator shaft and leap from elevator to elevator
>as they zoomed up and down.   There was something of a scandal,
>however, when a drunk student died while 'surfing'.  Anyone else heard
>of this at their schools?

Heard of it?  I used to do it.....but we had only one elevator, so we rode the
top of the car and/or the counterweight.  The car top had a control panel on it
that would override the controls inside the car.  You could make the elevator
do anything you wanted.  It was fun to run it from above without the knowledge
of the people inside.  Had our own special elevator door key which we would use
to get in/out of the shaft on the floor above the car.

                      Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
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From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL S. PRESTON, ESQ.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: symbols
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:02:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

while visiting the university of virginia, i noticed many buildings
with non-fraternity-affiliated greek letters painted near them.
i was told that these were symbols of "secret societies" at
uva, and that the symbols were painted by the societies as their 
way of approval of the buildings' construction. perhaps someone
from uva can elaborate if any read this group........

also, here at the university of buffalo, in our new student union
there is a giant seal of the school on the floor. over the summer
the rumor began that it was 'bad luck' to walk on it.......i've 
seen results of this, such as one student who had very bad luck at
registration the day after walking on the seal, and another who dropped
a soda bottle moments after crosing it. funny thing is, there is a smaller
version of the seal in another building on our other campus that has no
such legend connected with it.............

mike 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: beowulf@wam.umd.edu (amealuh)
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Summary: heh heh
Organization: Hoo Hoo Hoo
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:12:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep04.131142.10277@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>
>     I had a friend who took a test in his philosophy and had
>studied very hard for it for about a week.  It was very difficult 
>and no one finished early.  As everyone was leaving, they observed
>the professor walk toward the steps and toss all the tests into the
>air.  He then pointed at the tests that landed on the top step and 
>proclaimed loudly "These are the A's".
>

well, i had a teacher in high school who, in addition to closely resembling
a walrus (paunch, whiskers, the works), was also rumoured to do things like
that. we never proved that one, but there was a similarly persistent rumour
that he graded simply on length. this legend had been going on for years... 
a friend of mine, two years ahead of me, went so far as to write a paper that,
2/3 of the way through, read, 

	"If you read this far, check this spot ______" 

when he got it back, the spot was checked. 

however, i remained skeptical, so i ran various tests by writing papers of 
varying lengths, and while the length still seemed to indicate a higher grade,
i still couldn't decide if he actually read them or not. so i took the plunge.

our final exam consisted of a 250 question multiple guess, and two essays. i 
wrote one that was three pages long, and one that was only a page and a half. 
the one-and-a-half earned a B-, while the three pager got me an A. but here's 
the clincher -

	i had randomly inserted the word "rutabaga" 28 times
	into the paper that got the higher grade.

he was one of my favorite teachers, too - sometimes he'd ramble aimlessly
and then insert random comments that seemingly had nothing to do with the
lecture. one student was sitting around, not paying attention, and the
teacher pointed at him said, "If you don't know where you are, you're lost!"

my favorite is still the time he had a particularly long ramble that he
ended by bellowing,

	"I AM THE WALRUS. CU-CU-GA-CHU!"

beowulf

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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop--Acceleration of G, minus wind resistance
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:13:18 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

In article <190hfjINNt5d@agate.berkeley.edu> dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:
>Here's a problem for anyone who's interested.
>
>How many stories high would one have to fall from before it didn't matter
>if you fell from any greater height? In other words, when to the Acceleration
>of Gravity and the wind resistance at a particular speed balance each other
>out?
>
>I suppose it would matter how much area your particular body exposes to 
>be resisted. So let's say, for the size and density of the average human 
>body.
>
>Any takers?

Sure....

It is well accepted within the sport that terminal velocity is achieved
around 12 seconds of freefall.

12 seconds, starting with 0 downward velocity, covers about 1300'.

How many feet per stories? say between 12 and 13. (12.5)

so after covering 104 stories, your velocity is the same (not taking into
account a more dense atmosphere as you go down.)

Now, how many stories before reaching certain death? I'd say about 10.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Suicide Grading (was: Re: 7th floor drop)
From: jddavenport@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:47:56 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

	My personal experience with suicide grading came in my first year 
here at Miami University (the one in *OHIO*) when a bunch of us asked our
head resident if we had a policy granting a 4.0 to any roommate of a suicide
victim (which is a really bizarre term for it, if you ask me).  He replied
that we had no such policy, but extreme hardship, which such a happenstance 
might fall under, might garner at 3.5.  Someone in the back of the group asked 
what would happened if the roommate were a victim of "involuntary suicide"
(a knife to the back, etc...:)  The rsponse was quick:

		"3.0, with time served."
From: tsmith@skat.usc.edu (Nep Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Floor tag (was Re: graduating virgins legend)
Date: 4 Sep 1992 14:36:56 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

In article <1992Sep4.110807.20599@cco.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:
>
>>Sick, wasn't it?  Diabetics, please inject now.
>                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Huh?

I interpreted this as a testament to how sickeningly sweet this couple
was.  They seem like the type who would also have pet names for each
other like "My snuggle-wuggle Bunny" or "Pookins, my widdle biddle
love-pillow" I can only assume that diabetics would have a sudden need
for insulin when confronted by sappy behavior of this magnitude.

Nep

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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: Suicide Grading (was: Re: 7th floor drop)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 16:56:06 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <1992Sep6.154756.12599@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, jddavenport@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
|> 	My personal experience with suicide grading came in my first year 
|> here at Miami University (the one in *OHIO*) when a bunch of us asked our
|> head resident if we had a policy granting a 4.0 to any roommate of a suicide
|> victim (which is a really bizarre term for it, if you ask me).  He replied
|> that we had no such policy, but extreme hardship, which such a happenstance 
|> might fall under, might garner at 3.5.  Someone in the back of the group {stuff deleted}

I witnessed a version of the Suicide/4.0 legend.  A guy who lived
in our dorm died in a traffic accident over Christmas break and 
the Dean of students suggested to his roommate that he take the
semester off.  If he chose that, his tuition was refunded and his
grades for that semester would not be recorded, and he would be 
allowed to register early the next semester.


Jared "I need a break, heeere roomie roomie roomie" Dahl
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From: rjc@onion.princeton.edu (Raymond Chen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:44:56 GMT
Organization: Princeton University

In article <1992Sep9.191406.26037@samba.oit.unc.edu> Hall.Moore@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore) writes:
>[counterexample deleted]
>He survived without any permanant damage, but definitey disproved the `if you
>are relaxed, you'll be all right' myth.

The myth is perpetuated by people relating stories about how the theory
works.  Nobody tells stories about how somebody fell to his death
because people who fall three stories to the ground are *expected* to
be seriously injured, so it's no big surprise when they *are*.

For example, back in '89, one of the students here got drunk and fell
off the roof of one of the dorms.  He died.

ObFolklore:  Students who exit the campus through the main gate will be
struck by lightning.  Only alumni may exit though those gates without
sustaining serious injury.

This myth is well-respected, seeing as you never see any students
exiting through the main gate.  Partly because the main gate leads
nowhere interesting...

ObFolklore 2:  For each graduating virgin, a brick falls from the
facade of the Graduate Tower.  The tower stands today.  Go figure.
From: ST201585@brownvm.brown.edu (Brendan Crill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: symbols
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:41:46 EDT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

Here at Brown, there is a seal on some stairs on one of the campuses, which
is also said to bring trouble to people walking across it.  I've heard two
different things about it, actually.  One legend is that if you step on the
seal, you'll never get married.  Another states that walking across the same
seal causes you never to graduate.  Well, I'm sure I've stepped on it once
or twice, so we'll see which one is true....

Brendan