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From: s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: Cordless phones
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 07:43:06 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.004644.26217@news.iastate.edu> twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney) writes:

   Alright, scanner owners! Here are the cordless phone freqencies:

[...]

Not that we'd violate peoples' privacy and various laws by listening
in on those frequencies or anything...

--
T. Stone 
(s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
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From: gross@befvax.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical j
Reply-To: gross@befvax.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago, Dept of Molecular Genetics
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:51:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.000138.11026@husc3.harvard.edu>, koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis) writes:
>
>
>How about all the real life women who are beaten or killed (11 so
>far in Mass. this year) by boyfriends or husbands.  THose stats
>are not used to prove men fuck up women lives in general (though
>obviuosly they did here) but to show there is problem of violence
>against women.

I'll keep this short.  Domestic violence goes both ways.  People in
soc.men and soc.women discuss this and know stats.  Please follow
up this discussion to soc.men and/or soc.women.

Leon Gross
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
From: kyrie@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thomas S. Marlowe)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Creativly Named Buildings (Not!)
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:21:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Well, I remember at San Jose University, where they held the 
speech and debate high school nationals, two buildings that seemed
to stick in my mind:  Dudley Moorehead  (who the hell is this fellow?
When I first heard that I was to debate at Dudley Moorehead, I thought
it was a candid camera prank).

Another one was titled simply "classroom building".

I never did figure out if maybe that was the only building that held 
classses and the other 25 some odd buildings served an entirely 
different purpose.

Hmm
.

TSM
--
"He eats the droppings from his own table;
thus he manages to stuff himself fuller than the others for a little while,
but meanwhile he forgets how to eat from the table;
thus in time even the droppings cease to fall." - Franz Kafka
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 00:02:34 -0400 
From: Christopher Patrick Nelson <cn0m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Creative Building Names (NOT!)

Here at CMU we recently were rewarded with a pair of matching ugly
dorms.  One was originally called "Resnik" after the late Judith
Resnik.  The other never had a name, but some dubbed it "East Wing."
This all took place over the summer, and was never very official.

This would be an otherwise unexciting set of names, except that
someone apparently decided that the building with the prestigious (ha)
"Highlander Cafe" should be the one with the cool name, so that CMU
could advertise it in their literature.  So one day while no one was
looking, memos circulated to the effect that the "Resnik" building
was now the one on the east end, and the other was now called "West
Wing," since the rest of CMU's alumni were taking their time about
dying.

It caused all sorts of grief for those attempting to move in.  "Hmm,
my room number doesn't seem to exist in this building.  Now what?"
All the computers in the "West Wing" are still named after astronauts
and have the ".res" extension.  I've heard that even the building
managers were confused.

As if this wasn't enough, the people in housing apparently never
decided on an address for the building.  Some say it's 5115 Margaret
Morrison, others 5125.  And of course, is it Margaret Morrison _St._,
or "Ave." or what?  I guess there's not enough room on the sign to
say.

What do you think, is indecision a problem among the administration of
CMU?  I'd say yes, except that they always decide to raise tuition by
more than inflation every year.

<cpn
-- Fuzball Maniac
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.college,soc.women
From: wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Wasylik)
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical jokes
Organization: Ministry of Propaganda
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 07:11:02 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.171608.13444@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr12.122345.4988@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes
>(in response to the argument that men are much more dangerous to women
> than women to men):
>>Wrong. Women may not have the upper body strength, but they can do plenty of
>>damage to a man's life. Go watch Fatal Attraction if you don't believe me.
>
>Why is it that frat-boys complain about people (who don't even mention the
>movie) using stereotypes from "Animal House," and then pose a bogus argument
>like this?

For someone who's planning to be a lawyer, you have a pretty poor grasp of
what constitutes "bogus arguments" and "stereotypes".  

If you'll think about what was written, instead of following your knee-jerk
emotional reaction, you'll see the difference between what he said and what
you thought he said.  
People who use stereotypes{_ from Animal House are usually implying that all
fraternities act in such a fashion.  Most fraternity men object to these
accusations.

What Mike said about women was not that all of them are crazed, murderous,
adultery-tempting spwan of hell.  He said that one such woman may, by chance
exist.  (Probably your mother, Ted.  Someone must have beat the hell out of
you as a kid.)  

What Mike *really* said was that women are not powerless should they decide to
cause a man significant trauma.  A reasonable statement, even if couched in
slightly less-than-clear language, hmmm?

Mw


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From: thornton@sirius.tmc.edu (Katy Thornton `92)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: fraternities
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:14:03 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.

In article <+a4t9!m@rpi.edu> robinw2@vccsouth23.its.rpi.edu (William Saul Robinson) writes:
>01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>Well, I guess that the fraternity to which I belong that is co-ed nationally
>at over 300 campuses does not exist.  I do agree that most of the 
>antifraternity things that were posted were baseless, I can say that I belong 
>to Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-ed fraternity.
>
>						  Bill Robinson
>   						  robinw2@rpi.edu

So then the question remains, is there (should there be) a distinction
between social fraternities and service fraternities?  Because APO is
organized as a service fraternity.  I know that on my campus, APO is
not considered/treated as a "greek" organization (like the rest of the
fraternities and sororites are).

-- Katy
Member, APO, IK chapter.



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From: manley@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (HELD HOSTAGE -- YEAR ONE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:32:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: noose.1992Apr6.173255.16323
Organization: Down In The Depths On the 90th Floor, Ltd.

In article <43924@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:
>Local legend has it that the punishment is so swift and severe that you don't
>really know what hit you -- one day you go get your mail, and you find a 
>refund for your tuition.  Pretty harsh.
>

Tuition refunded?  At THIS university?  You must have been hit in the head too 
many times as a freshman.

Michael
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From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Naming Buildings
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:28:12 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <lis.702994064@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba) writes:
>michaelb@shark.cse.fau.edu (Michael Brown) writes:
>
>Well, don't keep us in suspense...  Can you give us some idea of the
>price range?  I'm not interested in donating to Furman, but who knows
>what I'd do to Brandeis if I came into some serious money...

Hmm...I wonder if U of R would be interested in a tgpt_ltd building.  After
all, I pay them enough!


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From: gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball")
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:43:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.44137
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Apr6.173255.16323@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> manley@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (HELD HOSTAGE -- YEAR ONE) writes:
>In article <43924@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:
>>Local legend has it that the punishment is so swift and severe that you don't
>>really know what hit you -- one day you go get your mail, and you find a 
>>refund for your tuition.  Pretty harsh.
>>
>
>Tuition refunded?  At THIS university?  You must have been hit in the head too 
>many times as a freshman.
>
>Michael
[sig deleted]

I know how it sounds.  Purdue wouldn't refund your money if you threatened to
nuke the damned place.  Notice how I divided the fact from the "legend".  But,
it was made very clear that campus spelunking will not be tolerated.

And anyway, what has getting hit on the head have to do with anything?  I don't
think that would have any effect on one's cognitive ability.  Just my opinion.

And anyway, what has getting hit on the head have to do with anything?  I don't
think that would have any effect on one's cognitive ability.  Just my opinion.

Oh my, did _I_ do that?
Geoff
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From: tonyamm@byron.u.washington.edu (Tonya May)
Subject: Re: Weird Profs
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:37:23 GMT

  During my freshman year here at the UW, I took Chem 101, from a very 
different prof.  The guy (I can't remember his name) rides his old three speed
to school every day.  That's not the funny part, though.  Imagine the mean
neighbor of Dorothy's in the Wizard of Oz riding her bike down the road to 
complain about Toto.  The prof wears a wide brimmed hat (cowboy style with the 
brim flattened out all around), and a long trench coat that flies out like a 
cape while he goes whizzing across campus on his three speed, hunched up around
the handle bars.  I can't help but laugh whenever I see him.
  In class his lectures were rarely to the students.  He seemed to fancy talking
to the door, the lecture stand, his hand (he kept rubbing his hand across his 
face while he was talking and would leave it across his mouth during some of hismore forgetful moments), and more often than not, the chalkboard.  Modern 
technology seems to confuse him (he is pretty old), as he showed the class one 
day.  He was trying to turn on the lights above the chalkboard via the control 
panel on the lecture stand, by randomly hitting buttons ("Does this work?" 
"Let's see, this one!").  One of the buttons controlled the screen which he hit
just before he found the correct one (only he didn't realize what he had done).
So, lights on, he walks back to the chalkboard to write, oblivious to the slowlydecending screen.  The class is snickering as the screen comes all the way down with the prof behind it, still writing on the board and talking to himself.  
Suddenly, he realizes that it's dark behind the screen and turns around to turn "those darn lights" back on, only to walk right into the screen.  The class 
started laughing really hard, while the prof just rubbed his forehead and 
started pushing buttons again trying to get the screen back up.  
  I've never had a prof quite like him since, but maybe I've been lucky.  :)

Tonya
 
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From: soc3@quads.uchicago.edu (paul  socolow)
Subject: Re: Creative building names
Reply-To: soc3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
    At the University of Chicago, when we had a real football program, 
    My roommates and I always thought that it should have simply been 
  
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:24:19 GMT
From: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Eureka!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: re: creatively names buildings
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:49:35 GMT
Reply-To: st890020@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

At Brandeis, our new gym is the Joseph and Clara Ford Sports and Convocation
Center, and the Gosman Complex.  (By the way, to the others from brandeis,
why does it have two names? Which is the correct one?) Anyway, instead of
calling it "The Plex" as someone suggested (was it Rick or Rod), for a while
we were calling it "The Gosman thingy".  I don't thinkit stuck--I think most
people just call it the gym.
Anyone from Brandeis is free to correct me if I'm wrong....
--Erica
From: uspam@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Tom Maynard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: a thought about "frats"
Date: 5 Apr 92 20:34:36 GMT

In <1992Apr4.201430.28997@wam.umd.edu> kcahr@next09wor.wam.umd.edu (The Durlan) writes:

>In article <S8759859.92Apr4135540@titan.ucc.umass.edu>  
>s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) writes:
>> Yeah, but my response to that is:
>> "I'll call a fraternity a 'frat' because my country IS a 'cunt':  It's
>>  run by a dick and he's fucking us all!"

>LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. PAL.

No.  Love it or vote the fuckers out of office.

It **is** a democracy in America, you know... Or at least it's supposed to be.


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From: michaelb@shark.cse.fau.edu (Michael Brown)
Subject: Re: Naming Buildings
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:02:17 GMT

Most of you know that most colleges name buildings after big donors.

Well, when I was at Furman University (SC) I came across a "price list".

This list told you for what amount what would be named for you.  It ran
the gamut from buildings to lecture rooms to classrooms.  i.e. to paid
x amount of money, they named something for you.  I suppose other colleges
do the same.

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<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
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From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Flame topics
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:40:52 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

I can't believe the ridiculous flamewars that are going on in this group.
Whether or not fraternity members are fetid degenerates is not really germane
to the topic of university anecdotes/folklore; and most of the flames seem to
be coming from a tiny minority of the subscribers.  Why don't they just e-mail
stuff to each other?  Do they actually believe they are going to enlighten or
convert the masses with such appallingly rancorous rhetoric?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: gross@befvax.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Fraternities
Reply-To: gross@befvax.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago, Dept of Molecular Genetics
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 22:33:30 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.171341.10969@husc3.harvard.edu>, koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis) writes:
>ANother example, a bunch of frat members at my undergrad college
>got in trouble b/c it was discovered that they would sit outside
>the frat houses and as women walked by would hold up signs to
>their frat buddies rating the passing by women on a scale of 1 to 10.
>
>My point is that frats often condone and accept and help condition
>behavior that often is considered offensive and sexist.

A friend of mine who went to Kansas University (KU) and was in a frat
told me of a party that the fraterinity sponosred, where they rented a
bus that went around campus and picked up each of the brother's dates. 
As the woman came towards the bus, the frat members yelled "Cunt!", "Bitch!", 
"Whore!", "Slut!" at the women.  (Actually I think it was "That's
John's slut!", or "Here's Mike's cunt!").

This was one of their traditions, and the guys all knew about it, and
still invited their girlfriends and others women then knew as dates.

But this kind of behavior isn't really suprising, given that the hazing
process essentially is a process of one group of people abusing another,
and both pretending that it's harmless and fun.  It's not surprising
that they treat female guests in abusive manners and think it's fun.
I mean, if the brothers consent to be abused, why not the female guests?

Also, it was well known that to become a 'little sister' of the frat one 
had to sleep with one of the brothers.  The women also had initiation, which
was essentially an abuse of power.  

Let me give you another example, from the same person.  
This guy, who at the time was very 'pro-Frat', and defended his brothers 
as the best friends he had in the world told me the following story:

	He was the only Jewish member of the fraternity.  The showers
were group showers (like in locker rooms).  Sometimes, when they were
taking showers, the other brothers would yell "Aushwitz", and fall
down and pretend to die.  They thought this was funny.

[Note, millions of Jews and others were killed in gas chambers at Aushwitz.
They were told by the Nazis that the gas chambers were showers, and that
that was why they were stripped and forced to go in there.  I apologize
to those who think I'm insulting their intelligence by explaining this.]

And these are his 'brothers.' I wonder how they would treat blacks, Arabs, 
Asians, gays, or any other minority.

No amount of voluntary community service can make up for the kinds of
behavior described above.  And this is not the actions of individuals,
but of the fraternity as a whole.

Leon Gross
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
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From: darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III)
Subject: Re: Prof.'s accent blunders documented
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:35:16 GMT

Jay Schwitzgebel <JGS109@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>Here at Penn State, some friends of mine in my thermodynamics course have
>been compiling a running list of our professors language blunders over the
>course of the semester.  Looking back at it now, I thought it might be worth
>sharing.

>vegetable oil ------------reservoir

Come again?

--
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"So this is the sword of immortality, huh?  What's it doing in a
crypt?"
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From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:22:36 GMT

While reading article <43924@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, I noticed that
gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") said the following:
 >In article <1992Apr4.185117.7255@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
 >>
 >>	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. 
 >
 >Yes.  That's what I hear about Purdue's steam tunnels.  One of the Deans of
 >Students told me that you can be charged with trespassing if you're caught.  
 >Local legend has it that the punishment is so swift and severe that you don't
 >really know what hit you -- one day you go get your mail, and you find a 
 >refund for your tuition.  Pretty harsh.

Cool!! Does this mean that if you're about to flunk out, you can just go roam
the steam tunnels and get your tuition back?  Sounds like a pretty good deal
to me :-)
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From: 00087452@ysub.ysu.edu (Chuck Slivkoff)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Sander Hall fun
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:30:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: ysub.92097.23302300087452
Organization: Youngstown State University

Though not getting a chance to participate myself,
the guys who found their way originally into the
building decided to have some fun.

Since the elevators were still working, the electric
was on in most of the building.  So, they decided to
turn on 'key' lights in certain rooms so as to make
a design on the side of the building.  The south
side of the building was frowning, while the north
side was smiling! (or vice versa, i can't remember)
It was a sight to see that the whole campus seemed to
notice.  They did this on the Sunday before Memorial
day 2 years ago, when they knew the police dept would
be bare-boned....I had hoped it would make the local
news, but I don't think it did....

I lasted for about a month before the power was cut.
They then started to finish taking the asbestos out
of the building so they could drop it.
From: umeitzen@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Steven Eitzen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Profs: THe good, the bad, the metaphysicallly disabled.....
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:26:54 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

In <1992Apr08.122016.73832@watson.ibm.com> cpalmer@swamp.watson.ibm.com (Charles C. Palmer) writes:

>One of my CompSci profs was from Germany, but maintained pretty good 
>English except when he became frustrated at the stupidity of his students.

I seem to have been cursed with profs who don't speak quite the best
english. Oh, their vocabulary is fine, just that you have to wade
through that accent...

My Stats prof this year has the worst accent I've ever had in a prof,
and could never maintain a constant pitch. His voice was constantly
going up and down. Drove the class crazy. The worst was when he tried
to show us how to use the mac...

Last year in Algebra, my prof tended to mispronounce words. For
example, she would always pronounce the word "Subtraction" as
"Substraction". 

You get used to it  after a while.

The Admiral
-- 
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Computer Science - University of Manitoba - Canada
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