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From: turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu (Carl Turner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Stupid Cafeteria Stunts
Date: 3 Oct 92 17:10:37 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida, Psychology Dept.


>I can't believe that no one has already answered this one.  The CU
>Boulder dining hall in the student building was names the "Alferd E. 
>Packer Memorial <mumble><mumble>".  Mr. Packer was an occasional
>hunting guide and gold prospector in southern Colorado in the late
>1800's.

>Mr. Packer once guided a trip into the Rockies and got caught in a
>snow storm.  The storm was bad enough that he didn't return until the
>spring, and his clients didn't return at all.  When some folks
>returned to the campsite the bones of his clients were found, and
>interesting marks were found on then.  "Butchering" marks in the
>estimation of the discoverers.

>There was a trial, and at the trial Mr. Packer was (as I recall from
>my reading) guilty.  Part of the order seemed to indicate that the
>judge wasn't all that pissed about the fact of the cannibalism, but
>that Mr. Packer ate the only other democrats in the county (this part
>may well be UL).

The judge at the trial was supposed to have said, "There were 7 democrats
in this county and you, you voracious son-of-a-bitch, ate 6 of them."
As it turns out, the quote was invented by a hotel owner who was trying
to get some publicity for his hotel. 

This story of Packer and his clients/dinners was repopularized last year
because the remains of the victims were exhumed and examined by the
country's leading forensic anthropologist, William Maples at the U. of
Florida. He confirmed the fact that the bones had been worked over by
sharp knives and such. Some job, huh?


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From: dbrod@eng.clemson.edu (Douglas Brod)
Subject: Re: Naming Hallowed Institutions-to-be
Reply-To: dbrod@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:32:33 GMT

In article 20814@news.Hawaii.Edu, gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu) writes:
>>>Today at Cornell we had the dedication of the Kroch Library, paid for
>>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Now there's a hallowed institution that doesn't need renaming! Its official
>>name sounds just fine as it is.
>
>	At UH Manoa, one of the Libraries is named Sinclair (after who, I
>forget, but that's not important here.) One of the letters is missing
>from the sign, transforming it into "Sin Lair"
>	Nothing of great note happens in there though... except maybe
>people who can't find the power switch in the library's computer lab. =^)
>

On Clemson University's campus there is a building called Earle Hall, the chemical
engineering building.  One year, the students changed the letters on the front to
read, "A REAL HELL" (since Chem E. is one of the hardest majors here).
  
Doug Brod
dbrod@eng.clemson.edu

Klaatu/Gort in 92!

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From: ctp1575@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christoph Purifoy)
Subject: Drink Specials
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:02:56 GMT

Here in College Station we have a place called Denim & Diamonds.  On
Tuesdays and Fridays they have any coin any drink.  It is cool as
hell.  Everyone just brings a roll of pennies and buys drinks for
each other.  "Hey, I'll get this round!"  Something you would never
hear any other night.  

It isnt the best quality drinks granted, but still cant beat it.  The
same nights they have 50 cent longnecks which isnt bad either considering
you get the beer you want. 

 

-- 
Todd Purifoy                                AGRICULTURE:  Never before
ctp1575@tamsun.tamu.edu                     have so few, fed so many, 
purifoy@ageco.tamu.edu                      for so little.
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: How to identify a senior
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:05:57 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Keith Lim (chil@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:

: Seniors no longer bother paying their tuition fees by the deadline.
: Seniors also know how to wheedle their way into courses that are "full",
: after the "last day for adding courses" has come and gone.

seniors are aware that most of what's printed in the catalog about
prereqs and advising can be fairly easily gotten around, and they know
their degree requirements almost by heart.

in fact, by the time you're a senior, you've figured out that most of
the rules are only there for people who believe them, and you've
decided to pretty much do what you want, so long as it fills some
degree requirement or another.

case in point: my degree requirements as listed in the catalog
mentioned only second semester spanish, not first (the assumption
being that you'd have to take first). i didn't have time; i just took
second and the degree-plan-check person gave in 'cause technically i'd
met the requirements in the catalog.
From: JJS158@psuvm.psu.edu (JJ Serowik)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re:Dorm traditions
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:49:40 GMT
Organization: Mythos/Xcalbrin Inc.
X-School: Penn State University

Originally from a branch campus of Penn State, we used to do the annual run
around the pond in bare feet in the middle of winter...not very unordinary
but fun nonetheless, our floor in the dorms used to get together just to annoy
our R.A.  We even attempted to tape him into his own room, but the damn door
opened the wrong way:):):)  How 'bout indorm sports like tennis(fun but
dangerous), golf(fun but expensive..damn windows anyway), Pellet gun shooting
(only fun for the one shooting:)), tackle football(fun but the walls hurt),
and catch the cat(fun for us but not for the dorm cat:))  We always had
fun playing pranks on the other floors like pouring water down our register
to get the room below us wet, getting the whole floor together at 4 in the
morning to run down the other halls yelling and screaming.  I hear that
here at University Park some frat actually run a guy up their flagpole
naked and leaving him there 'til the cops made them take him down(he
was a brother, I feel sorry for anyone else caught there).  Many stories,
admittedly not very unordinary for a college kid, but fun memories nonetheless.
                                                        Rob
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From: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:43:35 GMT

	Well, letsee... University of Hawaii, abbreviated comes out "UH..."

If you want to go a bit further:
	Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa:  uhm...
	Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo :  uhh...

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From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Re: Class distinction in colleges
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:34:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.210244.24349@cc.umontreal.ca> cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin) writes:
>
>I assume that you agree with mandatory attendance at the football games, which
>depending on the punishment for not attending, can be seen as a form of kidnappi
>ng or possibly extortion.  

Oh, yes. And so is mandatory attendence at lectures and labs.


-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!

       "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
        Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
        broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
        where it will end."
                               - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
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From: robw@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Robert Weaver)
Subject: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:03:46 GMT

Here at Florida Atlantic University, the FAU stands either for
Finished And Unemployed or
Faculty Against Understanding.
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From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 02:26:08 GMT

Simon Fraser University is sometimes known as
     Stupid F* University (bad)
     Some F* University!! (good)

Across town, SFU's rivals, the University of British Columbia are called
     U Big C*
or   U Blow Chunks!

...by SFU students, that is, and only during the Shrum Bowl (annual football
contest, only prize is bragging rights for that year.) I have no idea what
UBC students call their university.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
Hon Cog Sci; Min Psyc; Forum; Senate; CDSU; URC; ASC; FARSIDE; LEAD; CCCS
I officially represent each and every one of the above bodies--NOT!

"Perhaps you're just different. It's not a sin, you know--though you may
 have heard otherwise."                     --Tam Elbrun, ST:TNG "Tin Man"
From: kristinat@cerritos.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:47:18 GMT
Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA

My alma mater, Cal State Long Beach was known as Cal State Spruce Goose
because of its proximity to the hangar in which the plane was stored.
Now that it's being dismantled and shipped to Oregon, I suppose they'll
have to come up with something else.  

Another college I attended, Golden West College, was referred to as
either Golden Waste or UBL - University Behind Levitz because of it's
location:  behind the parking lot of a furniture store.

Neither of these institutions are exactly hallowed, but we like them.

Little Pine Weasel

"I've had more than enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards
and dumbbells, and you, you blithering hayseed, you chowderhead yokel, you've
had enough of ME?"  -- Albert Rosenfield
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From: templef@columbia.dsu.edu (Fred Temple)
Subject: Re: Class distinction in colleges
Organization: Dakota State University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:19:06 GMT

In article <1a0vo8INNg9i@agate.berkeley.edu> dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:
>From: dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher)
>Subject: Re: Class distinction in colleges
>Date: 26 Sep 1992 06:25:12 GMT

>In article <1992Sep26.031012.16572@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:

>>I'm wondering...this sort of distinction between academic classes at
>>American colleges no longer exists.  When did it die out?  What was
>>the social factor that caused it to disappear?  Certainly this sort
>>of thing isn't endemic to Columbia...

>My guess is post-WWII flooding of colleges and universities with former
>soldiers who now could afford college on their GI bills. The important thing
>about these persons is that they were older and had far more life-and-death
>experience than the previous average joe-college-student. So they were 
>in college not to mess around with petty rivalries, but with the goal of
>graduation and future work in mind.

>Additionally, whereas up to this point colleges and universities were mainly
>the realm of the upper class whites especially males, the returning soldiers
>were of all economic and cultural groups, and with their GI bills they were
>newly enabled to attend the college of their choice. So the beginnings of
>diversity caused the end of the camaraderie because all of these groups
>had such widely differing life experiences.

>Disclaimer: this is just an educated guess. What do you all think?


>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>s/ Daniel Bucher dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu  Cognitive Science, Class of '94(ish)
>                            G O   B E A R S
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------



>> I believe that what you have said is true.  There is another factor
>> similar to GI's coming to college, namely the fact that many
>> "non traditional" students are entering college.  A "non traditional"
>> student at the university I attend (Dakota State University) is defined
>> as a student who is 24 or older, married, or a single parent.
>> At DSU, nearly half the student population are "non traditional".
>> Usually, "non traditional" don't care about the petty rivalries
>> between the freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors - or grad students
>> for that matter.  We have our own lives and families outside of
>> the campus life.  Also, "non traditional" students come from all
>> backgrounds and socio-economic levels.
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From: pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: permanent temporary buildings.
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:48:21 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

In article <BvIAxr.Ht3@acsu.buffalo.edu> v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL S. PRESTON, ESQ.) writes:

>on our south campus at ub, there are maybe half a dozen aluminum/cinderblock
>buildings that were built 20 or so years ago as temporary 'annexes' to the
>buildings they were built next to. hayes hall has three or four such annexes.
>anyway, these buildings were built around 1970 as temporary structures, and
>are still called temporary today. go figure. hell, they survived the blizzard
>of 77......that's about as permanent as you can get :)
>
>mike

At RPI, 5 or 6 dorm buildings were built as temporary housing for freshmen 
while new, permanent dorms were built. Well, 25 years later, the 'New Freshman
Dorms' are upperclass housing and the 'temporary' dorms are being renovated.
The bookstore still has a postcard that calls the upperclass dorms 'New Fresh-
man Dorms'

Anthony
From: v062nm65@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (ARCHANGEL)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: permanent temporary buildings.
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:06:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <BvIAxr.Ht3@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL S. PRESTON, ESQ.) writes...
>on our south campus at ub, there are maybe half a dozen aluminum/cinderblock
>buildings that were built 20 or so years ago as temporary 'annexes' to the
>buildings they were built next to. hayes hall has three or four such annexes.
>anyway, these buildings were built around 1970 as temporary structures, and
>are still called temporary today. go figure. hell, they survived the blizzard
>of 77......that's about as permanent as you can get :)
> 
>mike

	They've also got more ivy covering them than the "permanent" permanent
buildings right next to them, which have been around for, oh, over one hundred
twenty five years.  They look very distinguished, sitting there, in the setting
sun, with the last solar rays just glancing off of the rusting sheetmetal and
corroded cinderblocks.  *Sigh*   Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about
it.
	Also, the main building at UB's Main Street Campus was, before it was
bought by the state - back in the 1800's, an insane asylum.  In the basement,
there's a locked door with a sign that says "morgue records" that hasn't been
opened (according to a professor) in over 60 years.  One of the doors is
actually unlocked, but something inside prevents it from being opened.  Hmmmm.
	Any buildings on campuses that have had less than "educational"
existences?  At the above mentioned building, supposedly a young woman was 
dropped off on the front steps. For some reason, she wouldn't stop crying and
refused to be moved.  She died an old woman.  Given the severity of Buffalo
winters, I imagine she died a very old woman who was missing a few things
(other than her mind) such as fingers, toes, maybe some ears or a leg or two...

Bring em on...



Chris
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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
Subject: Re: permanent temporary buildings.
Organization: Open Software Foundation
	<1992Oct4.155240.26572@news2.cis.umn.edu>
	<aelman.718227176@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:35:30

When I went to the University of Minnesota (main campus) in 1975-1979,
they had a WWII building named 'Temporary North of Mines'.  The Mines
building had long since disappeared....

--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
From: mba@controls.ccd.harris.com (Belinda Asbell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:10:46 GMT
Organization: Harris Controls
Originator: mba@sp1


In article <1992Sep30.153549.11396@news.unomaha.edu>, sdavis@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Davis) writes:
|> In an earlier post, G Fowler mentioned that two BYU cafeterias were
|> given more appropriate names by the student body -- the Cannon Center
|> was known as the Cancer Center, Morris Center as Morbid Center.
|> 
|> Here, UNO doesn't stand for University of Nebraska at Omaha, but rather
|> University of No Opportunity.
|> 
|> Any others? 

I've heard that the University of Maryland's Baltimore Campus (UMBC) is sometimes
referred to as "U Must Be Crazy".....

-- 
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From: sdavis@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Davis)
Subject: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:35:49 GMT

In an earlier post, G Fowler mentioned that two BYU cafeterias were
given more appropriate names by the student body -- the Cannon Center
was known as the Cancer Center, Morris Center as Morbid Center.

Here, UNO doesn't stand for University of Nebraska at Omaha, but rather
University of No Opportunity.

Any others? 
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From: judi@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Judi)
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:13:58 GMT

In <1992Sep30.114038.59299@cc.usu.edu> slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>> Any others? 

>     Here we have a collection of eight dorms called the Student
>Living Center.  They were originally built by the LDS Church for
>member students, and were later sold to USU.  Of course, everyone
>calls them the Morm Dorms now.

>     I did hear of an alternate name for them, dating from the time
>before University ownership.  Like many other Christian churches, the
>LDS does not believe in premarital sex.  So the Morm Dorms used to be
>called Virgin Village.  No longer applies universally, apparently, and
>there is some doubt if it applied then.

I attend Santa Clara University, otherwise known as Spoiled Children's U.
The acronym for the men's crew team is SCUM.  :)
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From: sasegb@toklas.unx.sas.com (Elizabeth Brownrigg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Class distinction in colleges
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:17:26 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasegb@toklas.unx.sas.com


In article <BvB2vn.2nL@news.larc.nasa.gov>, bogart@sabre.larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart) writes:

|>
|> When I was a grad student (in the early 70's)  freshment were still
|> required to cover their heads in public with stupid hats called
|> "dinks" if memory serves.  female students were not allowed to wear
|> pants, nor could they smoke in public.
|>
|> Ed "still reads the Flat Hat" Bogart
|>
|>

Not after the first nine months of the early 70's.  The hat 'n skirt
rule was no longer in effect by September of 1970.

Elizabeth "Not only did I smoke in public, I even rolled my own"
Brownrigg


P.S. - Anything good in this week's Flat Hat?
From: jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
Date: 3 Oct 92 07:41:49 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Did michaelb@cse.fau.edu really type:
}  Funny, I thought it was the President of UF that said in a newspaper column
}  that STUDENTS were the CLIENTS (ie customers) of the Universities.  :)
}  I guess that attitude has yet to filter down.

Isn't it amazing what politicians will say?

}  >You mean they aren't?  Seriously - most of the questions I heard as a
}  >lab ass was "How do I do..." instead of "This is how I tried to solve
}  >the homework - will you show me where I went wrong."  This is why most
}  >of us ex-lab asses know that students are the enemy.
}  >
}  Well, remember the old standby "RTFM". :)
}  
}  I get the same percentage of such questions.  Personally I prefer to deal
}  with the second case.  

Exactly.  I deal *only* with the second case and tell the former that
I won't help them till they try it.  Of course, that makes me look
like the bad guy.  Oh well!
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                   purchased by an equal amount of pain."
From: jdm1@vogon1.pasen.gov (Jonathan D McCown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:02:32 GMT
Organization: Vogon Poets Society


The trick with campus gestapo is to bring the "college advancement"
(fundraising and extortion) department into the loop.  Money is the
key, and writing a letter or two explaining why not one dime of your
post graduate earnings will be donated to the august institution is
a good start.  It gets better when parents or alums comment to the
fundraisers about the gratuitous ticketing.


-JDMC (I didn't want to give the place a dime anyhow, now I have a reason)

-- 
            J.D. McCown - Computer Services - Senate of Pennsylvania  
psuvax1!vogon1!jdm1                    "You don't want to get locked into   
jdm1@vogon1.pasen.gov                   'open systems'." -anonymous IBM Rep.    
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From: panetta@raven.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (James H. Panetta)
Subject: Re: Stupid Cafeteria Stunts
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:27:42 GMT

In article <92263.125824SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu> SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>         When I used to attend Drexel U., some friends and I happened to be
>eating breakfast, and I glanced at the ceiling in a dreamy, hung-over state,
>when what to my wondering eyes should appear was a bunch of things in the
>ceiling! Someone had broken off the ends of forks, bent the tines in all direct
>ions, and had thrown them up so that they stuck to the suspended styrofoam
>ceiling. The thing was, it wasn't just over our table, it was ALL over the
>cafeteria, and there must have been *thousands* of them! I had to assume it was
>definitely a group effort...and to also assume that my circa $15,000.00 tuition
>was helping to buy forks....  :-)
>
>
>Sean LeBlanc
>
>-I'll meet you in Poland, baby...  -Tackhead

Yeah! I remember doing that when I was there!  A group of us also had
a tomato ring on the wall from Sept through May!

-- 
Jim Panetta      Panetta@cithe503.caltech.edu  

I'm not for real...I'm for surreal.
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