Alumni

[Huskyhoops25]

What dorm did you live in on campus and when? I was in the Jungle, New Haven before moving off campus to Coventry Lake 1981.

 

[husky99]

Started school in 93
lived in towers (beacher)
moved to a house in Chaplin
Moved to Buckley
then woodhavem apt
house in Willington

 

[ucjoet]

What dorm did you live in on campus and when? I was in the Jungle, New Haven before moving off campus to Coventry Lake 1981.

lived in batterson (frats) 79-80, house west Wilmington 81, carraige house 82. By chance did you know a guy named Mario from Bristol that lived in new haven( I think or it might have been Hartford )

 

[Huskybass]

83-84 Towers
84-86 The Jungle
86-87 Buckley
87-88 First semester: Sig Ep fraternity house
Second semester: Buckley as an RA

 

[Rocktheworld]

Fall 08 Colt third floor in Towers
Spring 09 Russel second floor NW
09-10 New London third floor North
10-11 NATHAN HALE INN, which was amazing
11-12 had my own place in Orchard Acres

 

[UConn Dan]

McMahon: fall 96- fall 97
Carriage house: spring 98- spring 99
Stamford branch: fall 99
Norwegian wood: spring 00 - fall 00

 

[CAHUSKY]

McMahon Hall, 4 North, room 427: 1991 & 1992

 

[Mattydog7]

What dorm did you live in on campus and when? I was in the Jungle, New Haven before moving off campus to Coventry Lake 1981.

Hartford Hall 1970-72 then Shakespeare House.

 

[MTHusky]

Windham 1965-66, Belden 66-67, Quarry Street, Willimantic 67-69, Carriage Dr Apts 69-70

 

[HuskyV]

85/86 Hilltop Ellsworth 9th - it was just Hale & Ellsworth up there back in the day
86-89 Delta Chi House (8 Gilbert Road) & worked in CrandallA kitchen for 3 years as well. Both torn down for the new South Campus dorms.

At what point were Frats & the Jungle's become North & Northwest? It would be one thing to lose the names due to large donations - but to lose history to the points on a compass is lame.

 

[Rocktheworld]

85/86 Hilltop Ellsworth 9th - it was just Hale & Ellsworth up there back in the day
86-89 Delta Chi House (8 Gilbert Road) & worked in CrandallA kitchen for 3 years as well. Both torn down for the new South Campus dorms.

At what point were Frats & the Jungle's become North & Northwest? It would be one thing to lose the names due to large donations - but to lose history to the points on a compass is lame.

Yeah I remember being told (08-12) they discourage the name "jungle" so as to somehow dissociate the crazy history from the dorm.

I remember hearing about how all the buildings were once connected and thinking how absolutely insane that would be today.

 

[UCONNRPh]

Jungle (Litchfield) then RA at Buckley followed by off campus---

 

[Robertelamin]

So the frats were next to North? I was the first class with with the new Northwest and it was all freshmen, there wasn't even grass on the quad yet. I guess it makes sense that it is not only freshmen anymore since it is one of the nicer dorms and that is unfair to everyone else. I lived in New London for a year and no one really called it the jungle, I guess the name just died off.

Northwest Batterson 2000-01
North New London 2001-2002
Carriage House 2002-2004

 

[Mots010]

2000 was the first year Frats moved to all freshman and became dry, along with the new cafeteria and renovated dorms. I think the name northwest was pinned at this time. In 2001, the jungle went dry, which changed the culture a bit. Most still referred to it as the jungle. I graduated in 2004, but I would think by 2005-2006 very few students were still around who recall the old atmosphere. Another important moment in time was the banning of kegs in carriage house starting in 2001.

 

[Matrim55]

McMahon '95-96
Buckley '96-97
Barbara Manor '97-99
Coventry Lake '99
Woodhaven '00
Walden '00-01

I definitely moved around too much, but had a hall of a lot of fun.

 

[CL82]

Wheeler B Frosh and Soph
Ellsworth 6 (Vern Giscombe was on the floor - nice guy)
Single Ellsworth 9 (next door to Chuck - you're now dead to me - Aleksinas)

 

[husky8273]

Lafayette (all male then) - Towers - Fall '76 - Spring '78
Walden - '79-'80
Carriage House - '80 - '81

 

[Huskyhoops25]

When I lived there, the Jungle was infested with roaches. On the weekend we would have a party, everyone would grab a shoe, turn off the lights, wait a couple of minutes turn on the lights and see how many roaches we could kill.

 

[mauconnfan]

'77 in Hollister B….out in '79……

Never went to school there though…….LOL

 

[dsturdy5]

Fall 97-spring 2000 2nd floor Morgan in Towers
Fall 2000-spring 01 1st floor (old RA room) in Morgan
Fall 01-spring 02 grad dorms, 3rd floor Preston

 

[PhilG]

66-68 Hartford Branch and lived at home
68-70 Storrs off campus at Coventry Lake

 

[Duncan Idaho]

West Campus, Troy House 1976-77

 

[amory]

Northwest in 05-06, then I got to Hilltop Apartments my sophomore year because a friend I had that was a senior pulled me in.

I think I might have been the only sophomore in the Apts.

I moved off campus into a $hitty house on north eagleville for my junior and senior years.

 

[husky8273]

Fall 97-spring 2000 2nd floor Morgan in Towers
Fall 2000-spring 01 1st floor (old RA room) in Morgan
Fall 01-spring 02 grad dorms, 3rd floor Preston

do they no longer have RAs in the small dorms? or do they live on the upper floors?

 

[dsturdy5]

do they no longer have RAs in the small dorms? or do they live on the upper floors?

They had an RA per floor. This was an old, single room on the first floor, just inside the door. Had a huge walk-in closet and a bathroom. The only downside, it was right next to the stairwell. Not fun being woken up 100x a night when I had to get up at 5:45 and drive to Glastonbury to student teach every morning.