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From: HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Symbols
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:44:02 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Sep14.204720.28274@news.iastate.edu>, polly@iastate.edu () says:
>
>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

Whadaya mean nuthin?  You're still at Iowa State, aren't you?  :-)

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
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From: dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop--Acceleration of G, minus wind resistance
Date: 13 Sep 1992 23:05:23 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: ocf.berkeley.edu

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?

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From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: How to identify a freshman
Date: 16 Sep 92 00:37:44 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens


In article <1992Sep15.232610.25109@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:

[stuff about freshmen deleted]

7. They buy all the required texts.

8. Then they read them.

9. They try to eat a bagel (this is local) like a doughnut

10. They own clean backpacks.

11. They leave campus *every* weekend

12. They think they can change things. Ha, kid. Welcome to Athens.

13. They bark at movies. (local again, let me explain. The campus theater has aleader with the school's mascot, the Bulldawg, barking
ala the MGM Lion, but without the sound, which the audience fills in.
Highbrow movies, from my experience, has no barking.)


Scott Wells
wells@athna.cs.uga.edu

Ain't been a freshman five years running.
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From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:59:50 GMT

jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:

>  My neighbor at UND (North Dakota) fell out of his second story window
>while adjusting his tv antennae.  His intoxicated roomies (who were keeping
>him from falling )decided that it would be funny if they let go of his 
>feet.  He was fine...

>  I was also there the night a FRESHMAN climbed out his 4th floor window
>to go back to a frat party.  His buddies had blocked him in, cause he
>was obnoxiously drunk.  The wing I lived on was directly opposite his 
>window, and several of my friends saw him plunge.  He fell into some
>bushes and bounced, but was fine.  LOTS of people lost it when they
>saw him fall, though. 

>Jared "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH...THUD" Dahl
>-- 
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>| Jared Dahl             | "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, | 
>| Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
>| IBM - Rochester, MN    |              -- STYX,  "Mr. Roboto"      |
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>Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.

Legend has it that when Jim McMahon was a quarterback at BYU, he once swung
himself from the balcony of a high-rise hotel room to the lower balcony where
Dan Plater was.  He did this to circumvent curfew during a road trip to Hawaii.
From: Leon.Trotsky@f99.n121.z1.FidoNet.Org (Leon Trotsky)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: graduating virgins l
Date: 6 Sep 92 14:57:00 GMT


        At the UW-Madison, a statue of Abe Lincoln (seated) resides atop
Bascom Hill.  Legend has it that he stands up whenever a virgin walks
by...


... Line noise provided by Wisconsin Bell.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10

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From: jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:09:32 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Sep12.210707.25004@news.columbia.edu> kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron) writes:


>	I don't mean to be a spoilsport by injecting a dose of
>reality, but it's quite possible to survive a seven-story drop.

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?

--
John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com
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From: florek@seas.gwu.edu (David W. Florek)
Subject: Re: Symbols
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:16:07 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

See?  It's true!  If you hadn't walked over it, something would have happened
to you by now.  It's your own fault nothing's happened.

:]

If GWU wanted to be associated with any of my views, they would have told me.
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From: lindss@vccsouth29.its.rpi.edu (Steven Anthony Lindsey)
Subject: Re: Dont walk on me?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:45:46 GMT

<WJS112@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>    Thought you might like the following little tale I was told. I visited
>Longwood College in VA. and they have these frat.(etc.) clubs design, if you
>will, on the sidewalks.  After I walked on one, I was told not to, because
>if you walk on these paintings on the sidewalk, you will have a blue baby.
>What this means, i do not know, and neither do the people who told me this.
>All I know is that they avoided the paintings like the plauge.  Kinda makes
>me glad to go to P.S.U.
>                       fuzzy.
As I recall, a blue baby is a baby in which the lining of the heart separating
the ventricals is not completely formed, so blood also flows backward through
the heart.  This decreases the effective circulation of blood through the
body, so the blood/baby is blue-ish from the lack of oxygen.
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Subject: Re: symbols
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:50:53 Y
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS
Summary: beaten up?

David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

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

Was this because any senior catching them would beat them to death?



dogbowl at The Dawghaus BBS  ( +64 6 357-9245 )


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From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:52:46 GMT

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".

>     Has anybody else had run-in's with these weirdo's from
>another dimension, or is the University of North Dakota got
>the monopoly on them?

>Jared "The only way I ever got an A" Dahl
>-- 
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>| Jared Dahl             | "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, | 
>| Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
>| IBM - Rochester, MN    |              -- STYX,  "Mr. Roboto"      |
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.

There was a professor who taught a FORTRAN class at BYU (he might still be
there).  His name was Dr. Todd.  He had a different colored pair of slacks
for every day of the week.  What was really wierd is he had matching jogging
shoes to go with them.  I never had a class from him though so I don't know
if his personality was equally strange or not.
From: klcox@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Kris L. Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Suicide 4.0?
Summary: True at Ohio Northern University
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:19:52 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


  I hate to spoil the fun for people who love to say, "Oh, that's a UL, it's
not _true_," but I have to.  At Ohio Northern University, in Ada, OH, where
I did my undergrad work, we also had the UL that if your roommate commits
suicide, you get an automatic 4.0 GPA for the quarter.  Being the kind of 
person I was, I asked Dr. Jack Corle, the then-Dean of Students, if that
was true or merely a rumor.  He assured me that it was, indeed, true.
  I can't speak for any other school, but, at ONU, in 1985-86, it was the 
truth.  At ONU, we also had the corollary UL that if your roommate died by
a method other than suicide (or, one would assume, your murder of him/her),
you got at least a 3.0 GPA for the quarter.  I never bothered to substantiate
this UL, because I needed at least a 3.0 to keep my scholarships, so my 
grades were that high, anyway.  This one had no possible benefit to me.


-- 
Kris L. Cox        GE Aircraft Engines Information Systems Management Program
Sunergoi Theou Esman                         GE doesn't even KNOW what I say,
My boss is a Jewish carpenter.                          let alone ENDORSE it.
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From: mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker)
Subject: Re: Symbols
Organization: Iowa State University of Censorship and Repression
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:22:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.103633.2649@news.iastate.edu> dmatt@iastate.edu (Daniel I Matt) writes:
>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.
>

For everyone else's information: The zodiac is made out of brass and
is inlayed into the marble floor.  It was designed with the brass
sticking about 0.5 cm out of the marble, for the idea was that
students would wear it even with the floor over a couple of years.  It
is still sticking out of the floor today.

Walking over it is considerably more fun than not, if walking over
zodiacs can be considered fun at all.

One ISU legend that speaks rather poorly about ISU is the campanile.
The legend says ( to my knowledge ) that if a couple kisses for the
entire twelve strokes at midnight under the campanile and one of them
is a virgin, then a brick will fall off the campanile.

	The campanile is now off limits till Nov. 93 while an
	engineering firm repairs the damge.  ;-)

Mark D. Smucker  ----  mds@iastate.edu






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From: eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:39:51 GMT


    I think the record fall survived without a paracute is between
25,000 and 30,000 feet. (No one was cheching the altimeter carefully.)
The tail gunners on certain American bombers (B-25's?) in WWII could
not fit in the (ball) turret wearing a parachute, so they stowed the
'chute near the door.  A plane was hit over Germany and burst into
flames, and the tail gunner had no recouse but to open the turret door
and jump.  (The turret had a door which could be aligned with the
doorway in the plane, but would open in any position.) He landed in
deep snow and broke both legs, but nothing more serious.  He survived
the war, spending most of it in a German POW camp.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
use  STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...
From: ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: symbols
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:10:02 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <BuJsGH.Ln4@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL
S. PRESTON, ESQ.) says:
>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.............

     We had a seal and legend like that at my old high school, although the
only bad luck I ever actually witnessed was that if an underclassman walked
over it in the presence of a senior he usually got beat up.

brett
From: kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:07:07 GMT
Reply-To: kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron)
Organization: Columbia University


	I don't mean to be a spoilsport by injecting a dose of
reality, but it's quite possible to survive a seven-story drop.
Typically, lots of bones are broken, but its not necessarily
fatal.  Nine or ten stories, however, usually does the trick...

Ken



Kenneth R. Aron                 NYS EMT-Defibrillation            | |  / /
kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu      Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance | |/ / 
                                Columbia University, NYC          | |\ \
"EMTs do it with patience"                                        | |  \ \
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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: How to identify a freshman
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:26:10 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

1.  Crisp brand new sneakers(WHITE)

2.  High school lettermans jacket

3.  Campus map in hand, stupid look on face

4.  When asked how many credits they have (implying current semester load)
    they answer '0!'

5.  Fresh haircut

6.  At UND, our cafeteria used to have those funky cereal dispensers
    where you pull the handle and the cereal comes out the bottom.  I
    never had more fun than sitting at breakfast watching freshman 
    try to figure out the dispenser and dump cereal all over the floor
    in the process.

Anyone..... Anyone.....

-- 
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| Jared Dahl             | "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, | 
| Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
| IBM - Rochester, MN    |              -- STYX,  "Mr. Roboto"      |
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Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.
From: h2m@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (JA)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:01:47 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1992Sep4.174950.2230@octel.com>,
dunker@octel.com (Mike Dunker) writes: 
> In article <186v71INN1bu@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>>It has been a very persistent rumor at U.C. Berkeley, that about 10 years
>>(20?) ago, a frosh boy fell off a 7th-floor porch on Unit II's Ehrman
>>Hall.  He fell onto the roof of a VW buggy in a TOTALLY intoxicated state,
>>so that all his muscles were relaxed, so he walked away from the fall with
>>only a few bruises.
>>
> This actually happened.  It happened during the '85-'86 school year.  I
> believe he was on the drug Ecstasy and fell (jumped?) out the window. 
> I also heard
> that his injuries were very minor (a broken rib or something).  I am also
> pretty sure he did NOT walk away though...

When people jump/fall off of things here at Cornell, it's mostly the bridges 
over the (rather deep:  150') gorges.  Most people don't survive.  In fact the 
first survivor was last year.  (I think he's walking again by now).  There was 
also the story of the girl who was peeing off one of the bridges, fell and 
landed on a racoon.  She was OK, the racoon broke a leg.  At least that's how 
it was reported by the papers etc... It didn't really happen that way.  

These guys were lucky.  Apparently some body fell off of a ten foot high wall 
onto concrete and didn't make it. 

As far as falling seven stories and walking away.... I've seen it done.  There 
is a show in the genre of Rescue 911 called Emergency:On Scene.   Actual live 
footage:  ambulance is called to the scene of a psych patient.  When they get 
up to the sixth story, the guys girlfriend is there saying he jumped off the 
roof.  so they look over the edge and there he is lying on the pavement.  
Problem is, by the time they hustled back down stairs, he was gone and they 
had to chace him half a block and tackle him....... WOW I said.  What wonders 
illegal drugs can do!!!!

anyway.... back to the machine compnent design homework.....
later
justin

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From: jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Looking good with mouses
Keywords: Unknown
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:15:12 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.


 nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:
 >  What I want to know is; is there any cool movement (or as such) that
 >professionals do seperate the novices from the pro's when using mouses?.

Sure!  We don't use mice.  ;)
-- 
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From: c3q@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Date: 6 Sep 92 18:58:31 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

In HS I had a chem teacher who taught for fun- he was independntly wealthy.  As
such, he didn't care about anything.  He gve women extra credit for short skirt
and tight sweaters.  He outlawed calcultors during tests, then gave questions
with five or six numerals beyond the decimal.  If you looked like you were
trying to be discrete about using a calculator he didn't hassle you; if you
were obvious you were nailed.  One guy cut a hole in his book for his
calculator and ended up with bonus points.  We were allowed to use the end
pages of our text books (included some charts, as I recall), but not the book
itself.  Everyone peeled back the end pages and took notes underneath for use
during tests.  He pretended to not notice.


During homeroom I started calling him names in a low voice: "you're a penis,
ben...you're a penis."  He didn't know what to do, so he pretended to not hear
me.  Every day I said it a little louder, and he pretended to not notice. 
Finally one of his "pet students" tried it right after me in a voice much
softer thn I had used nd got a detention.

Lots of other weird stuff...

We had to write final reports on every single element.  I wrote one about 40
pages long (double or tripple spaced with wide margins) and included several
new elements, many named after teachers t the school, including himself.  I got
an A (thickest report), and there was a small red checkmark in the lower right
hand corner of half the pages.  apparently he had flipped through with his left
hand and made checks with his right.


The kicker is, this was a real strict Catholic school.  How he got away with it
I'll never know.

-Travis
From: tzech@castle.ed.ac.uk (S Berbeco)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Strangest Professors
Date: 7 Sep 92 18:50:16 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth Hanschka) writes:
>In a previous article, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) says:

>>     I had a friend who took a test in his philosophy and had
>>studied very hard for it for about a week.  [etc.]
>
>I don't believe it, almost.  You have actually seen the famed Stairwell
>Grading Method in use. [etc.]

Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania is perhaps the single most selective 
institution of higher learning.  Rumor persists, and is perpetuated by
occasional eye-witness accounts, that the admissions committee uses the 
Stairwell Method to decide which of the 3000 summa cum laude applicants 
will get into the 300 available spaces.

--> tzech@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk
From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: 7th floor drop
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:22:32 GMT
Reply-To: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Sep04.130449.9178@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
>
>  I was also there the night a FRESHMAN climbed out his 4th floor window
>to go back to a frat party.  His buddies had blocked him in, cause he
>was obnoxiously drunk.  The wing I lived on was directly opposite his 
>window, and several of my friends saw him plunge.  He fell into some
>bushes and bounced, but was fine.  LOTS of people lost it when they
>saw him fall, though. 

When I was a freshman at Columbia in 1988, a guy on my floor fell/jumped out
of the fourteenth floor of John Jay Hall and did _not_ survive.  His roommate
was away that weekend, but from the configuration of the furniture, it was
clear that he didn't just haphazardly fall out.


--
Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ.     "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings 
gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu       to be seriously considered as a means of 
N2GPZ in ham radio circles        communication. The device is inherently of
72355,1226 on CI$                 no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877
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