HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Hmmm.
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:50:36 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <Oct.7.02.17.18.1992.23414@pilot.njin.net> mancuso@pilot.njin.net (Tina Mancuso) writes:

>                            reminded me of some of the things our
>computer center employees do to fellow employees who are dumb enough
>to leave themselves logged in in a public place.                      

I used to have a REXX exec which you could put in somebody's filestore so 
that it got executed instead of COPYFILE.  If a file being copied wasn't
binary, there was a 1% chance of a single randomly chosen character 
being changed to some other character selected at random from the collating 
sequence.  For people who don't tidy up their minidisks much, it could be 
an almost invisible virus, the changes being so rare that they'd think they 
just mis-edited.  Luckily, after we got this exec working, we realised it 
would be extremely reprehensible to use it on anybody.  So we stuck to 
things like hitting CONTROL + S while people's backs were turned, etc.



              Have another day    [Armageddon, the musical] 
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033
From: jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Tuition Increases (WAS Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:24:18 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Did DCM115@psuvm.psu.edu really type:
}  
}      My only reason in posting to the net was to set the facts straight to the
}  entire net....  I think that the net deserves to know the truth, instead of
}  someone's misinformed ideas.....

I doubt that the net really *gives* a _fuck_.

I'm more concerned as to why here at UF we get charged an "A&S" fee
for such things as the student union, even if we don't use the union
and don't agree in state-supported entertainment.
-- 
    _   Who:    John 'Vlad' Adams 
 _ //   Where:  jma@cis.ufl.edu -or- jadams@coral.senod.uwf.edu
 \X/    Why:    "Every moment of pleasure in life has to be
                   purchased by an equal amount of pain."
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From: disaacs@aaron.carleton.ca (Dave Isaacs)
Subject: Re: Ground floors? (was Re: New logos )
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:29:31 GMT

In <1992Oct8.072540.11646@netcom.com> kevin@netcom.com (Kevin Fong) writes:

>dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:

>>Another Curious Fact(tm) about the U of A is that for many of the buildings,
>>the ground-level floor is number 2.  This includes the library...

>>It turns out that the real explanation is that, for reasons known only to
>>itself, TPTB decided that all floors were to be numbered starting with 1
>>at the lowest floor.  This means that the ground floor is always numbered
>>one more than the number of basement floors.

>The most confusing building(s) I've seen at UCLA are the three connected
>engineering buildings. They are built into the side of a hill, so you can
>enter, from ground level, at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors. In
>fact, the main entrance is to the 5th floor.

>There is a set of steam tunnels around campus that, in most buildings,
>runs at or below the basement level. In the engineering building, you
>exit the tunnel, climb *down* a ladder, and find yourself on the second
>floor.

The engineering building at here at Carleton is was built on perfectly
level ground, though that's sometimes hard to believe.  The original
building is built in 4 separate blocks.  2 of the block are 3 stories high,
and one of them is 4 stories, and the remaining is 3 stories plus a little 
penthouse type room.  The floors were numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 from the ground
level up.
  Some years ago they built an extension to the engineering building, by adding
a floor on top of the architecture building next door.  This new floor was
called the 5th floor of the engineering building and connected with the 3rd 
floor of the engineering building with a skywalk.  
Just last year another completely new block was added on to the original
4 blocks.  This building had 3 floors plus a basement and was numbered 1, 2,
3, 4 from the basement up.
  When a was said and done, you could start from the 4th floor of the 
engineering buiding and walk to the 5th floor, by way of the 3rd floor, without
ever encountering any stairs!

EPILOGUE:
   In September a new numbering system was devised so that the floors in the 
original block were numbered the same of the newest block.  That is 1, 2, 3,
and 4 from the basement up.  Of course most of the original blocks don't
have a basement.  The 5th floor located on top of the architecture building
is still there, so now you cas only cross from the 4th floor to the 5th floor
without any stairs.-- 
__________________________________________________________________________
 ____  ____  __  David Paul Isaacs ________________________________________
 _____ _____ __  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ________
 _____ ____  __  Carleton University ________________________________________
 ____  __    __  Ottawa, Ontario ___________________________________________
_________________disaacs@ccs.carleton.ca __________________________________
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From: oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: how to identify a (usenet) freshman
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
	<Sep.16.20.00.02.1992.15657@remus.rutgers.edu>
	<1992Sep17.180105.14940@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
	<zlsiida.193@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <SVERKERW.92Oct13235319@meryl.csd.uu.se>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:24:56 GMT


They have incrediby obnioxiously long signature files that they put on
every post.
--
Tig Stone 
(oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: how to identify a freshman
Organization: Penguins of Destiny
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:59:06 GMT
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In article <1992Oct16.142322.12478@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kjc7435@ultb.isc.rit.edu
(K.J. Cater) writes:
>Here at RIT we had a "fake" fire alarm drill a few weeks ago that
>definitely sorted out the freshmen from the rest of us.

Funny--here at Columbia, we seem to have a fake fire drill every 10-20
minutes (especially in Carman, the all-freshperson dorm).  I was in bed, nude,
when the most recent one struck; I calmly got dressed, put on my shoes, and
walked slowly downstairs with the rest of the mob.

As far as I can tell, this year isn't as bad as past years.

Seth L. Blumberg          | "Once again, fear and superstition triumphed over
slb22@cunixb.columbia.edu |    science and technology."
On CI$: 76460,1666        |        -- Anton Braun Quist, quoting Ed Whitaker
   > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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From: oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: Class Rings
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:08:15 GMT

At my old school, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, there IS a little
folklore associated with the rings.  One of the things the school is
(in)famous for is the "Tute Screw".  I don't know all of what it can
encompass, but its name is very descriptive.  Anyhow, rumour has it
that all the rings (up to a certain year) have a screw hidden
SOMEWHERE on them.  Sort of like the old "find the monkey" pictures
you find in coloring books, huh?
--
Tig Stone 
(oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:48:54 EDT
From: Brent J. Markley <BM9028A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: desperate search in Walla Walla

I don't know if this is the correct group to post in, but I am desperately
searching for a long lost friend named Laura Johnson.  I know that she now goes
to school in Walla Walla, Washington at Whitman College.  If anyone reads this
from there, and knows her, or of her, snatch her and bring her to a lab to
e-mail me immediately.
      Thanks,
      Brent
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From: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Subject: Re: New logos (was Re: Iowa State University Towers)
Organization: Columbia University
Reply-To: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:32:22 GMT
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In article <1992Oct11.055453.28619@news.columbia.edu> jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:
>
>  At least you can reasonably expect to enter on 1 or 2...off the top
>of my head, I can think of buildings here at Columbia for which campus
>level is 2, 3, 4, or 5...I can't think of a 6, anywhere, though.

Well, you could say that SIA (School of International Affairs) has campus
level at 4 & 6...both floors have the star by the elevator button...:-)

>  Also, the building I'm currently living in seems to have a floor
>missing...the floors are numbered 1, MZ, 4.

My theory is, they took it out and put it in Carman, which goes 1, MZ, 2, 3,
etc...

Tori

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From: mcnair@slab.unt.edu (SEAN MCNAIR)
Subject: U.N.H. FUN
Organization: School of Library & Info Sci, UNT
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:43:30 GMT

     I have attended SUNY - Buffalo, Colby-Sawyer College, the University of 
New Hampshire, the University of Maine, Farmington, the University of Maine, 
Oxford University, and now I am at the Univsersity of North Texas. I've been 
going to school for almost ten years now. So, I know a lot about college. 
Let me tell you a little story about U.N.H. 
    While I was at U.N.H., I used to hang out in the Paradise lounge at Nick'
s with the football players. As a result, I was trying to gain as much 
weight as possible so I could weigh in with the big boys. I got up to 260, 
and as I am already big (6'4") I was, at that time, a really big boy, easily 
one of the biggest on campus. The way I gained the weight was to eat four to 
five really HUGE meals each day in the cafe. Then I would come home for a 
little snack at Newmarket House of Pizza, a loaded LARGE pie, and a six pack 
of Molson Golden. I used to snort through about a quarter ounce every day so 
that I was High constantly, and I tripped frequently on LSD and mushrooms, 
which added to my hunger. I also took tranquilizers which as a side effect 
where an appetite stimulant so I could get fatter sooner.
     Anyway, one night at the cafeteria I had eaten three large meals in one 
sitting, and I had to catch the bus back to Newmarket. (I had it timed so 
that I ate my meals in FIFTEEN minutes.) I discovered that I had to shit (I 
had the runs.) I went to the bathroom, and a friend of mine, a Baptist, 
halted me at the door of the stall and implored me to come to church the 
follwing Sunday. Meanwhile, I was almost ready to shit my pants. He 
continued, and I noticed I had to puke. Chunks started to fill my mouth, and 
puke filled up my cheeks. I turned around, whipped of my pants, and puked 
and shit all over myself, and the floor, walls, and toilet of the stall. 
When I turned, the little sinner was gone.

                       Sean Jeffers Mc Nair
From: philliph@velveeta.mfg.hou.compaq.com (Phillip Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Iowa State University Towers
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:54:25 GMT
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation

In article <STEVEV.92Oct6123126@detroit.cfsat.Honeywell.COM> stevev@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Steve Verros) writes:
>
>I heard that they sway so much in strong winds that the water sloshes
>out of the toilets.  I remember trying to organize a field trip to the
>Towers during one perticuarly nasty storm to verify this rumor.  I
>couldn't, however, get anyone to walk the 12? blocks with me in a
>driving rain storm.
>
>--
>Steven J. Verros (who speaks for himself, not) Honeywell Inc.          

As a former resident of 10th floor Wallace in the Towers, I can assure you 
that the water does not slosh out of the toilets or urinals in any sort of 
storm.  It does move around quite a bit, though.  The effect was particularly
nauseating after a long night at People's Bar & Grill for "$3 quarts of mixed 
drinks" night.

Phil Hutchinson 
(The standard I-speak-for-myself-not-my-employer disclaimer goes here)
From: jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: New logos (was Re: Iowa State University Towers)
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:26:05 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Did jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu really type:
}  
}    The library is also interesting--it has two *completely
}  inconsistent* floor-numbering schemes, depending on whether you're in
}  the stacks or not (the stacks have lower ceilings than the rest of the
}  library, so you go from the second floor outside the stacks to the
}  sixth inside).  Really confuses people new to the library, who wander
}  around saying "we came in on the second floor...I know we did."

UF has this too - except someone was wise enough to letter the stacks
instead of number them.
-- 
    _   Who:    John 'Vlad' Adams 
 _ //   Where:  jma@cis.ufl.edu -or- jadams@coral.senod.uwf.edu
 \X/    Why:    "Every moment of pleasure in life has to be
                   purchased by an equal amount of pain."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: jeffries@iastate.edu (Anthony G Jeffries)
Subject: Re: Iowa State University Towers
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:23:26 GMT

In <10OCT199215360482@zeus.tamu.edu> enw2049@zeus.tamu.edu (WALKE, ERIK N) writes:

>In article <1992Oct1.155646.1743@gtephx.UUCP>, williamsk@gtephx.UUCP
>(Kevin W. Williams) writes...

>>When I was a going to school at ISU, the Towers (Wallace/Wilson/Knapp/Storms)
>>were rumored to be only temporary buildings that were supposed to have
>>been torn down in 1975. Is this story still going around? Have they actually
>>lived 17 years past their reputed design life?
>> 
>       Dunno about the Towers, but they have finally torn down the (in)
>       famous old Pammel Court apartments.  These were quickly, cheaply

Actually, a few of these are still up.  They'll all be gone RSN, however.


-- 
Anthony Glen Jeffries N0NRO  ><>   Amazing Grace, How Sweet The Sound!   ><>
Journalism and Mass Communication student  Iowa State University  Ames, IA
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to 
save the world through Him." John 3:17 (NIV)
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From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: New logos (was Re: Iowa State University Towers)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:18:33 GMT

oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) writes:

>	But isn't EVERY school's library "slowly sinking into the ground"?

SFU's library supposedly has a huge geological fault running right under it
(another such fault runs under the President's house, so the story goes),
and when the Big One hits Vancouver, the library will crack right in half
and collapse into the big crevasse that will open up under it...

...especially since the structure has been weakened with the weight of all
the books....

-- 
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!

Elaan: "That ancient Earth custom called spanking...what is it?"
Kirk : "Well, er...er...we'll talk about that later!"
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From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Subject: Re: Class Rings
Reply-To: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 06:26:15 GMT

In article <92282.125901ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>Any class ring folklore?

Folklore?  Hm....

I'm curious:  Which way do people tend to *wear* their rings?

Many years ago, a friend of mine told me that you're "supposed" (whatever
that means) to wear your class ring with the crest facing you while you're
an undergraduate (as if to indicate that you're still within the university),
and to wear it with the crest facing away from you once the degree is
conferred (thus 'showing the world' that you've graduated).

I don't know the origin of this one, but that's how I did it.  I even turned
it around right as my degree was conferred...


--
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
From: ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Class Rings
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:59:01 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University

Any class ring folklore?
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From: kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Grand Designs (was Re: permanent temporary buildings.)
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 01:47:05 GMT


|> Any other overblown college plans from the past?
 
 RPI had its own set of over-ambitious plans, called "Rensselaer 2000", 
which never even came close to seeing the light of day in full form, but 
which became the basis of a particularly devious prank played by myself
and Kibo (yes, Kibo was an RPI student once). 
 
 Kibo got his hands on some copies of the R2K plans which showed, among
other things, a second copy of the Burdett Avenue Residence Hall (which
was originally going to be named Burdett Avenue Residence Facility, but 
that's another story) on the site of what are now RPI student apartments.
He convinced this one particularly gullible (but very vocal) student that
these plans represented actual future endeavors, and that RPI was going
to knock down the currently existing apartments and kick out the people
living there while it was building BARH II. 
 
 Our victim was somewhat skeptical, but on the verge of believing it - 
this took place just after the Quad renovations, so RPI kicking students
out of campus housing to make room for construction was not unheard of.
But he'd been taken in by Kibo a few times before, so he wasn't buying it
just yet. Then I stepped in, and asked him, "Say, have you heard about
the plans for BARH II? I heard they're going to knock down some of the 
apartment houses or something." 
 
 That pushed our poor victim over the line. He'd heard it from two 
DIFFERENT people, so it MUST be true! And the administration was denying
everything, so it had to be an evil secret conspiracy that they were 
going to spring on the students when they least suspected it! (This, too,
was less incredible than it might seem. It was less than a year after 
RPI President Dan Berg said, on the record, that "students are transients
who have no input". If you're getting the idea that RPI is not the most
student-friendly place in the world, give yourself the kewpie doll.)
So what did our hero do? He created a discussion in Forum (the local
cut-rate version of Usenet - this was before the days of workstations at
RPI) to alert the whole campus about "The Tute's Secret Housing Plans 
for the 90's!!!" Presto, instant laughingstock.
 
 Kristopher Martin Nasadowski may claim I am making this up, but he's 
just a figment of my imagination anyhow. 
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From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: how to identify a freshman
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:51:18 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <zlsiida.193@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>, zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
> In article <1992Sep17.180105.14940@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> h2m@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (JA) writes:
> 
>>In article <Sep.16.20.00.02.1992.15657@remus.rutgers.edu>,
>>zelek@remus.rutgers.edu (Grey Wolf) writes: 
>>> GRS00041@APPSTATE.EDU (Shannon G. Frady) writes:
>>> 
>>>  [  freshman is sexist  ] 
>>> now they're called 'first-year students.'  As with all PC titles, it's
>>> completely bland, generic, and leaves a stale taste in your mouth after
>>> you say it.
> 
>>I prefer the terms: freshling or freshoid
> 
> In UK they've always (well for a long time anyway) been called just:
> freshers

Hence the catchphrase we used to have around Edinburgh U. in the mid-80's
(before we parted company) "Feel a little fresher". This was actually used
on the official Freshers' week advisors T-shirts.

>   Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033  
-- 
 Angus M. Marshall, MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT,amarshal@uk.ac.dund.mcs, (+44 382) 308600
".. and in the grove, by gate and hill, midst  merry  throng  and  market
clatter -  stood  the  Hall  of  the Mountain Grill, where table strain'd
'neath loaded platter " (from the legend of Beenzon Toste - Hawkwind)      
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From: enw2049@zeus.tamu.edu (WALKE, ERIK N)
Subject: Re: Iowa State University Towers
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:36:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.155646.1743@gtephx.UUCP>, williamsk@gtephx.UUCP
(Kevin W. Williams) writes...

>When I was a going to school at ISU, the Towers (Wallace/Wilson/Knapp/Storms)
>were rumored to be only temporary buildings that were supposed to have
>been torn down in 1975. Is this story still going around? Have they actually
>lived 17 years past their reputed design life?
> 
       Dunno about the Towers, but they have finally torn down the (in)
       famous old Pammel Court apartments.  These were quickly, cheaply
       built barracks-style buildings put up on the ISU campus during
       WWII to house military trainees, etc.  There designed for at most
       a few years of service, and they were still being used for 
       housing in 1988-_40 years_ (give or take) after they were 
       supposed to be razed.  I personally know one guy whose 
       grandfather and uncle both lived in Pammel Court before he did.  
       That's three generations in temporary structures-pretty 
       efficient!  Even the cockroaches were complaining by the end. . .

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