Back about the emergency call boxes at the girls dorms...

We also used to interrupt couples as they were sharing a goodnight kiss. We'd give them scores or comment that "we sure do see you here a lot, not the girl, just the guy."

Lived in DG from '78-'82. Thank goodness there were no cell phone cameras back then. These incidents come to mind.

• Freshman year, the spirit banner ropes were tied off to our radiator pipes each week on the 4th floor. Got used to waking up to flames every week when Crocker or Moore burned it up. Kept a knife by the bed to cut the rope with. No big deal back then. these days someone would go to jail.
• Went to bed every night, my freshman year, expecting something to explode in the quad. anyone who lived in the northside dorms from 78-80 know what I am talking about. Trash cans exploded on regular basis.
• Some dorm dumped barrel of pig s**t on fist floor at entrance to dorm by study center. Took several days for university to clean it up. They replaced the carpet. A few weeks later someone dumped barrels of old grease from chicken place on new carpet. We lived with grease spot on that carpet for next 3 years.
• Unnamed friends of mine stole a John Deere loader from construction site and parked it one night in middle of quad. Campus police never figured it out since there was no key in the loader..
• Sophomore or Junior year, the janitor (Ernestine) for the dorm got sick for a few weeks. No one cleaned the halls or bathrooms for almost a month. A black mold grew on the walls of the shower. These days the epa would be investigating. DG was disgusting enough during normal times, but not cleaning it for a few weeks was not good.
• 5th year corp guys moved into DG one year across hall. Had a neighbor that was a real jerk and always complaining about noise etc. These guys filled trashcan of water with bic pen in the bottom and flooded the jerks room silently during the night and took the trash can away. The jerks never figured out where the water came from in their room.
• Anyone remember the epic food fight between the dorms in '78 @ Sbisa?

Has Schumacher trash chute fire been mentioned yet?

Class of 98. If that and the username don't do enough, then I can't help you.

This is terrible to say, but it's been 20 years and I don't remember my line. I barely remember the other line names. There was an old man pot, a grode pot I think (that might have been me)...I just don't remember. I was Bonfire 95.

Our first old man got pulled up to Red and replaced. I made the mistake of living off campus for a year with a couple of them and I had to move on from keggers and tomfoolery. They weren't ready to yet and I didn't handle it well. Made for a less than congenial parting of ways, and I regret that a bit. Life lessons learned and applied.

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Class of 98. If that and the username don't do enough, then I can't help you.

This is terrible to say, but it's been 20 years and I don't remember my line. I barely remember the other line names. There was an old man pot, a grode pot I think (that might have been me)...I just don't remember. I was Bonfire 95.

Our first old man got pulled up to Red and replaced. I made the mistake of living off campus for a year with a couple of them and I had to move on from keggers and tomfoolery. They weren't ready to yet and I didn't handle it well. Made for a less than congenial parting of ways, and I regret that a bit. Life lessons learned and applied.

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I was referring to the fact that you addressed yourself as "we".

I seriously don't remember what line I was. How terrible is that? It was literally over 20 years ago.

I was a year younger that I should have been to be a sophomore in college and barely survived academically the year I was bonfire crew chief. I probably have a terrible reputation (if I have one at all) among the bonfire alumnus. I kind of checked out of the scene after Junior year and went on with adulting. Some good memories, some not good and mostly was just ready to turn the page. Wish I could do college again for many reasons, but I know some things I'd do differently.

Ah, nostalgia.

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Schumacher launching watermelons from the roof of their dorm from a fairly big catapult into the windows of the Flying Tomato.

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A Flying Tomato reference!!!!

When I lived in Crocker, we used a water balloon launcher to shoot balloons into open windows in Moore. We experimented quite a bit on the "fluid" medium filling the balloon. Ketchup, mayo, pimento cheese, etc.

And one time, we filled the Hazers room with newspaper up to the top (some guys had been saving copies of the Batt all year long in anticipation of this one.). They were not amused arriving home at 2AM to find this so they threw it all in the hallway and out the door while cussing us loudly.

An hour later we all got woken up because some ****er set the paper on fire.

And then there was the common, but still fun, prank of filling a record jacket with baby powder, sliding the open end under someone's door and then jumping on the jacket. A white Christmas comets...

Peeing in Crocker and Moore fresh air intake vents on the end of the building.

Shooting water balloons and potatoes through the open windows of Walton

Moses Hall 4th floor 88 and 89. Had the corner room facing DG and Keithly Beach. 88 was I believe the last year of DG as a guys dorm because they were crazy. I was living in the Dorm for the Flood mentioned earlier but was not a direct participant.

That was a Wierd time for the dorms because they were remodeling Moore and Crocker (I was actually in Moore for the great ice storm as they were remodeling Moses). Because of the remodel one floor had Moore guys and another had Crocker guys so only 2 floors of Moses.

Saw a ton of crazy things but the best was the Girls UnRun by DG the first year it was all girls. The girls were, all freshman, were taking heat from everyone in north side because DG was so redassed. They got together and several hundred freshman girls stripped to their underwear and ran through every boys dorm on North Side. They got in trouble and had to do rape counseling as a dorm but they had been accepted.

http://www.break.com/video/funny-ballon-prank-angry-ra-142913


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Lol anyone know what year that happened? Or what dorm that was?

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The girls were, all freshman, were taking heat from everyone in north side because DG was so BIGassed.

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This tape made the rounds on here within the last year or so. Funny stuff.

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https://soundcloud.com/count-counterpoint/tamu-sims-prank-calls/s-5zT2X

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Really? Can anyone resurrect it for me? I've mentioned it to my kids and would subsequently search the house for an hour or so for the missing cassette, but I always came up empty.

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https://soundcloud.com/count-counterpoint/tamu-sims-prank-calls/s-5zT2X

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Thx!

Penny locking was always fun.

If you're not familiar, you'd lean against the door and stick pennies tightly between the door and the frame. Once they're in tight enough you can't turn the door knob since the catch is jammed up on the frame. Well usually one good kick would cause the pennies to fall out since the door frames were wooden.

That was until they finished swapping them all out for steel door frames following the Dorm 9 fire. At that point you could use a hammer to flex the gap open... and whoever was in that room wasn't getting out.

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Penny locking was always fun.

If you're not familiar, you'd lean against the door and stick pennies tightly between the door and the frame. Once they're in tight enough you can't turn the door knob since the catch is jammed up on the frame. Well usually one good kick would cause the pennies to fall out since the door frames were wooden.

That was until they finished swapping them all out for steel door frames following the Dorm 9 fire. At that point you could use a hammer to flex the gap open... and whoever was in that room wasn't getting out.

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While the possibility exists that I participated in something like this, I never worried about them doing it to me...first floor has its perks...

The other method of penny locking involved taking apart the door knob and inserting a penny into the mechanism that transferred the twist of the knob to the gear that opened the door. Much more effective.

• Friends of mine in a northside dorm used to use a water balloon launcher to launch fruit across northgate and try to knock the plants off the porch of Fitzwillies. Actually mildly successful at times
• Also witnessed the "judging of women" with numbers on paper plates outside of Walton
• As a sophomore, I may or may not have taken an axe handle from one corps dorm and put it inside of another corps dorm and watched the CTs go berserk
• As a RA junior year, definitely used a master key to get into a room and jello random items of a student that annoyed me
• Also as an RA, I used a master key to disassemble all the furniture in a room, placing it in random places around the building with a "treasure map" left in the middle of the floor of the now mostly empty room
• Last semester as an RA, I got a beeg from one of the female residents after consoling her when she found out her bf was cheating on her. Not a hijijink, but it was awesome. If you Rule 1 me, you'll have to ask her exbf for the picture, but beware, my johnson is also in half the picture

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Penny locking was always fun.

If you're not familiar, you'd lean against the door and stick pennies tightly between the door and the frame. Once they're in tight enough you can't turn the door knob since the catch is jammed up on the frame. Well usually one good kick would cause the pennies to fall out since the door frames were wooden.

That was until they finished swapping them all out for steel door frames following the Dorm 9 fire. At that point you could use a hammer to flex the gap open... and whoever was in that room wasn't getting out.

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• Friends of mine in a northside dorm used to use a water balloon launcher to launch fruit across northgate and try to knock the plants off the porch of Fitzwillies. Actually mildly successful at times
• Also witnessed the "judging of women" with numbers on paper plates outside of Walton
• As a sophomore, I may or may not have taken an axe handle from one corps dorm and put it inside of another corps dorm and watched the CTs go berserk
• As a RA junior year, definitely used a master key to get into a room and jello random items of a student that annoyed me
• Also as an RA, I used a master key to disassemble all the furniture in a room, placing it in random places around the building with a "treasure map" left in the middle of the floor of the now mostly empty room
• Last semester as an RA, I got a beeg from one of the female residents after consoling her when she found out her bf was cheating on her. Not a hijijink, but it was awesome. If you Rule 1 me, you'll have to ask her exbf for the picture, but beware, my johnson is also in half the picture

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• Friends of mine in a northside dorm used to use a water balloon launcher to launch fruit across northgate and try to knock the plants off the porch of Fitzwillies. Actually mildly successful at times
• Also witnessed the "judging of women" with numbers on paper plates outside of Walton
• As a sophomore, I may or may not have taken an axe handle from one corps dorm and put it inside of another corps dorm and watched the CTs go berserk
• As a RA junior year, definitely used a master key to get into a room and jello random items of a student that annoyed me
• Also as an RA, I used a master key to disassemble all the furniture in a room, placing it in random places around the building with a "treasure map" left in the middle of the floor of the now mostly empty room
• Last semester as an RA, I got a beeg from one of the female residents after consoling her when she found out her bf was cheating on her. Not a hijijink, but it was awesome. If you Rule 1 me, you'll have to ask her exbf for the picture, but beware, my johnson is also in half the picture

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Lived in Walton.

-We also put roadkill in the FHK kitchen/laundromat.
-Had a sling king for shooting water balloons and such. We were firing upon Crocker when one of the idiots opened his window to yell at us. We'd made a special balloon full of piss and we hit him dead on.
-Viking Dorm Dinner at Duncan
-NorthSide got real boring after the tore down Crocker, McInnis and Moore

My Dad lived there in the 70's. Said they used to rope hippies and camel jocks off of their bikes when they went by.

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• Friends of mine in a northside dorm used to use a water balloon launcher to launch fruit across northgate and try to knock the plants off the porch of Fitzwillies. Actually mildly successful at times
• Also witnessed the "judging of women" with numbers on paper plates outside of Walton
• As a sophomore, I may or may not have taken an axe handle from one corps dorm and put it inside of another corps dorm and watched the CTs go berserk
• As a RA junior year, definitely used a master key to get into a room and jello random items of a student that annoyed me
• Also as an RA, I used a master key to disassemble all the furniture in a room, placing it in random places around the building with a "treasure map" left in the middle of the floor of the now mostly empty room
• Last semester as an RA, I got a beeg from one of the female residents after consoling her when she found out her bf was cheating on her. Not a hijijink, but it was awesome. If you Rule 1 me, you'll have to ask her exbf for the picture, but beware, my johnson is also in half the picture

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no. If an RA had used their key to break into my dorm room and vandalize my personal property, I would have called the cops, and done everything in my power to make sure you were fired at the very least, if not kicked out of school.

Sound's like you're the type of person who would call the cops on April fools day when you ate the laxative brownies....i also bet you got a lot of swirlies as a kid.

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Lived in Walton.

-We also put roadkill in the FHK kitchen/laundromat.
-Had a sling king for shooting water balloons and such. We were firing upon Crocker when one of the idiots opened his window to yell at us. We'd made a special balloon full of piss and we hit him dead on.
-Viking Dorm Dinner at Duncan
-NorthSide got real boring after the tore down Crocker, McInnis and Moore

My Dad lived there in the 70's. Said they used to rope hippies and camel jocks off of their bikes when they went by.

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I remember Walton being annoying AF and full of idiots. I remember walking by Walton in the middle of the afternoon after a class. I heard porno sounds coming from somewhere. Some Walton resident had a porno playing on a TV outside the dorm.

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I know viking dorm dinner at Duncan is still a thing, I didn't make it last year but I heard the commadant came out and told them to stop, and tried to kick them out (I think it was Walton FHK and some others) but the Duncan staff didn't care enough to kick them out.

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The commandant has no say over anything there except how his cadets behave.

I know, thats why he couldn't kick them out. He was still pretty pissed. Some touring high schoolers with the corps saw it going on and thought it was a corps tradition and tried following along and the corps got mad at them.

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Lived in Walton.

-We also put roadkill in the FHK kitchen/laundromat.
-Had a sling king for shooting water balloons and such. We were firing upon Crocker when one of the idiots opened his window to yell at us. We'd made a special balloon full of piss and we hit him dead on.
-Viking Dorm Dinner at Duncan
-NorthSide got real boring after the tore down Crocker, McInnis and Moore

My Dad lived there in the 70's. Said they used to rope hippies and camel jocks off of their bikes when they went by.

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I remember Walton being annoying AF and full of idiots. I remember walking by Walton in the middle of the afternoon after a class. I heard porno sounds coming from somewhere. Some Walton resident had a porno playing on a TV outside the dorm.

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I lived in Walton a couple of semesters, mid/late 80s. We threw frisbees before dinner @ Sbisa and had watermelon slices outside the dorm occasionally, late afternoon. Not idiots back then.

That sounds like Walton most of the time now, occasionally they do some stupid ***** I feel like this thread just has the dumbest things of all time from the dorms. Also now Walton just yells "do a trick" at bikers/skateboarders occasionally.

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I know viking dorm dinner at Duncan is still a thing, I didn't make it last year but I heard the commadant came out and told them to stop, and tried to kick them out (I think it was Walton FHK and some others) but the Duncan staff didn't care enough to kick them out.

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One time at Sbisa, mid 80s, for some reason a bunch of tu cheerleaders (dudes and chicks) came in to have lunch, I guess.

Almost immediately, the "signal" for a yell went out (banging on the table with utensils). One guy jumped up on a table and did the BTHO signal...

So, then all of us in Sbisa proceeded to "welcome" the sip cheerleaders with a BTHotu yell.

Their faces were priceless....

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Moses Hall 4th floor 88 and 89. Had the corner room facing DG and Keithly Beach. 88 was I believe the last year of DG as a guys dorm because they were crazy. I was living in the Dorm for the Flood mentioned earlier but was not a direct participant.

That was a Wierd time for the dorms because they were remodeling Moore and Crocker (I was actually in Moore for the great ice storm as they were remodeling Moses). Because of the remodel one floor had Moore guys and another had Crocker guys so only 2 floors of Moses.

Saw a ton of crazy things but the best was the Girls UnRun by DG the first year it was all girls. The girls were, all freshman, were taking heat from everyone in north side because DG was so redassed. They got together and several hundred freshman girls stripped to their underwear and ran through every boys dorm on North Side. They got in trouble and had to do rape counseling as a dorm but they had been accepted.

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I remember that, and epic it was indeed.

I also remember the mudball games in the quad after big/long rains, and rotating around the different dorms to shower off, tracking mud into the dorm down the hall to the showers, and pretty much clogging the showers with mud.