Alumni

[Fairfield_1st]

On that note, Jungle from 85-90. Fairfield first (obviously) and Middlesex. Funny enough, my old roomie is on here and we chose very similar names. I'm Fairfield_1st and he's Fairfield 1st. Definitely not planned or even remotely discussed.

 

[Tommyboy]

Grange (East Campus): my first semester in Fall 92.
Jungle 93-96 : Fairfield 3rd.

 

[Husky25]

Fall '95 - East Camps (Hicks Hall)
Spring '96 - Alumni (Watson)
Fall '96-Fall '97 - West (Hollister B)
Spring '98 - Knollwood Apartments
Fall '98- Spring '99 - Single in Ellsworth

 

[uconndennis]

Fall 93 - Fall 95 - Fairfield 3rd
Spring 95 - Grey House
Fall 96 - Fall 98 - Carriage House

 

[Husky25]

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.

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

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.

Frats and the Jungle were getting by on reputation by the late 90's. Reality did not live up to the stories of yesteryear even back then.

Still, even when "They" tried to discourage use the terms, "Frats" and "The Jungle" no one listened. The Administration always called them North and Northwest. Students still called them The Jungle and Frats.

So did every freshman have to live there or could they choose? I think it hurts the college experience if all the freshmen were forced to live in that environment. It's like forcing freshmen to where the beanie back in the day.

 

[Rocktheworld]

So did every freshman have to live there or could they choose? I think it hurts the college experience if all the freshmen were forced to live in that environment. It's like forcing freshmen to where the beanie back in the day.

No by the time I got to UConn, class size (4k+) was waaaay too big to fit everyone in Northwest/"Frats".

You had no choice. There was some specialized grouping for music/engineering/women in sciences/honors (Shippee) that you could say you'd prefer, but beyond that I remember meeting other freshmen in NW, North, Towers, East, West, Buckley, and Shippee. Most people I'd say were in NW or North.

 

[Husky25]

No by the time I got to UConn, class size (4k+) was waaaay too big to fit everyone in Northwest/"Frats".

You had no choice. There was some specialized grouping for music/engineering/women in sciences/honors (Shippee) that you could say you'd prefer, but beyond that I remember meeting other freshmen in NW, North, Towers, East, West, Buckley, and Shippee. Most people I'd say were in NW or North.

I'm not a fan of forcing all freshmen into one dorm.

 

[Drumguy]

'77 in Hollister B….out in '79……

Never went to school there though…….LOL

I think you would have had to be there then to get it. I was in Lafayette but spent most of my time in Alsop B, same reason!

 

[Drumguy]

'73 - '76 Lafayette
'76 - '77 Lancaster (west was so nice to live in having moved from towers)
Summer & Fall '77 Barbara Manor (3 mile commute without a car s-cked)
technically graduated '78 but really Dec. '77

 

[Drumguy]

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.

They had to put cement blocks in the doorways between the dorms as in the early 70's people would ride their motorcycles all the way through (by '73 the blocks were in place).

 

[DOZE860]

98-99 Branch campus Avery Point
99-00 Eddy first semester Belden 2nd
00-01 Belden.. good times
01-02 McMahon south

 

[CallMeBruce]

01-02, 02-03 I lived in Alsop in West. I used to bump into Emeka and Ben all the time because they lived in the next building over. Moved off campus after that. They year I spent at Willington Oaks was probably the greatest year of my life, aside from the bad grades.

 

[DALTX]

Sprague Hall in the late 80s. Cliffy and Phil were down the hall from me. Willington Oaks the last year.

 

[Mr. Hand]

Eddy Hall, 4th floor, next door to Kirk King and Ruslan Inyatkin (both really nice guys). Then Sprague, down the hall from Jake Voskuhl (big goofball).

 

[storrsroars]

Stowe A, fall 76
Crandall C 77-79

Had to get out of Stowe. The guys in Stowe C truly were Animal House. They used the corridor right outside my room for the funnelator they used to bomb anyone studying by Mirror Lake. They ripped out the pay phone so nobody could receive incoming calls. They had sewage leaks into the kitchen. And of course, once the administration decided to make Stowe co-ed, they hosted the infamous End of the World Party.

 

[Dabutlerdidit]

00-01 Northwest
01-02 McMahon (the one closer to Gampel)
02-03 Hilltop Apts
03-04 Renwood Apts (off campus)

-Had biology class with Caron my freshman year...he always came in late with his backpack on backwards (Ted Teagan was the professor and apparently the academic advisor for the team)
-threw Edmund Saunders an alley oop in a pick up game in Guyer gym my freshman year too (i think it was a bad pass, but he salvaged it)

thx for drumming up fond memories w this post

 

[UC313]

98-99 UConn Waterbury - The dub
2000 - Fairfield 3rd
2001 - Hunting Lodge until the fire burnt us out at end of 1st semester
2002- Carriage House - 2nd semester

 

[UConn98]

Not as many Easties as I thought would be here.
F94-S94-F95: Hicks 302
S96-F96-S97: Hicks 102
F98-S98: Sprague 250 single (which I heard was Donny Marshall's room a few years prior). Also Jake Voskuhl lived across the hall from me. His big Ford Bronco stuck out like a sore thumb in A lot behind Sprague (and near that white building (now demolished) whose purpose I never discovered. Anyone remember this? Students lived there, but for what purpose, I do not know).

 

[pepband99]

95-96 Goodyear (frats)
96-97 split between LXA house and my girlfriend at time's single in Brock
97-98 Brock in my own double
98-99 "new" South B (now Rosebrooks, I think) - I would relive that year over and over again. Awesome times with great roommates.

 

[CallMeBruce]

01-02/02-03, lived in Alsop (The International Dorm!) at West. Moved off-campus to a place on Gurleyville Road after that, followed by a move to Willington Oaks, which was awesome.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Anybody happen to live in Chandler (west) 4th floor and drew some demonic picture on the back of one of those hanging mirrors? Seems like something a BYer would do.

 

[Kembacity]

2000-2004 McMahon N, hopping from 4 to 5 to 7. Spent last semester in the Hilltop Apts, I want to say it was Ella Grasso bldg. if that was one of them

Justin Evanovich lived on our floor freshman year. Rode the elevator with Emeka once, saw him and Benny G in the building a few times since I think they lived in one of the West buildings

My freshman year there was a definite shortage of dorms, so they stuck people wherever a spot opened up, seemed like good luck to get tossed into McMahon. I remember a friend of mine was sent his room assignment like 2 days before move in, they stuck him in Towers

 

[Kembacity]

Anybody happen to live in Chandler (west) 4th floor and drew some demonic picture on the back of one of those hanging mirrors? Seems like something a BYer would do.

hahaha I agree with that thought. If anyone lived in a McMahon N room in like 2005 and found a prehistoric banana I can take the blame for that. moving out, my roommate and I found a banana under some piece of furniture that was basically a fossil at that point, duct taped it under a desk or dresser for shoots and goggles

 

[UConn77]

Crandall B 1973-76
Woodhaven Apartments 1977

 

[epark88]

Fall '86: Whitney Hall
Spring '87: Watson Hall
Fall '87 - Fall '88: McMahon South
Spring '89-Spring '90: Knollwood Apartments...

 

[Excalibur]

1995-96, 96-97 -- Jefferson Hall, Towers, 2nd Floor.
1997-98 -- Watson Hall, Alumni, 3rd Floor (down the hall from Rip, KFree, Souleymane and Khalid)
1998-99 -- 1909B Storrs Rd.

 

[UConn98]

1998-99 -- 1909B Storrs Rd.

I hear that place was party central.

 

[Excalibur]

I hear that place was party central.

I can't remember . . .

 

[JimHurley]

I lived in Alumni this past year. Beginning in fall, I will be living in the Garrigus suites.

 

[Steve85]

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.

Stowe B (old South campus) all 4 yrs ('81-'85) - had a great time! no basketball players any of my yrs but did have 2 soccer stars for one yr in Kieran Coffey and Eric Myren.

My freshman year we were named "party dorm of the year" by one of the frats (although I did little to help the effort...) The frat would have brothers visit parties all over campus every Thurs. night and assign a points system to pick a winner at year end. Back then the drinking age was 18 and kegs were free-flowing in what seemed like most every dorm lounge most Thurs. nights.