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Homecoming Weekend: Where Did You Live At UConn?

Jungle. Baldwin Hall. First 2 years, 1 1/2 on social probation. Had to leave or I'd be dead now. 2 years McMahon N. 1 yr social probation.
Loved all 4 yrs
 
ninety-nine said:
Another vote for Batterson, meandering with a red cup in my hand between friends' rooms in A, B and C most of the time, back in the late '80s.
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Early 80's for me, but same experience with red solo cups
 
ucjoet said:
Lived in Batterson B, then was a waiter there for 2 years as I lived in a house in West Willington for a year then Carraige House ( third set of buildings on right). Huskyhawk, which years where you at Batterson?
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I think it was 86-88. That was a good dorm.
 
Milo65 said:
Towers- Sherman House ‘87-‘91
Sherman Rules the Quad
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My freshman year at Lafayette, our Hall was painted with “Fourth Floor Sherman House”. Loads of guys who had been removed from Sherman the year before when the school broke it up and made it coed due to all the problems there. Quite an intro to colllege life for me. Very Animal House.
 
CL82 said:
Well, one time a guy from Stowe nailed one of our girls in the head with a snowball while she was walking back to the dorm. During our righteous retaliation we chased a bunch of Stowe guys (and I think it may have been "A") back into their lounge where they retreated behind couches as we continued the battle. They did end up a whole lot of snow in there.

Afterward we realized that the event had triggered a massive quadwide snowball fight. The crowd moved to West Campus. We washed over West like high tide during a hurricane and were in the middle of attacking McMahon (now joined by West) when all of sudden we saw a dark line at the horizon. It wasn't at the horizon it was ground level. It took us a few seconds to realize what it was and all at once people started screaming "North Campus." McMahon joined us as we raced to repel the barbarian hordes but ultimately we were overwhelmed.

When it was clear they'd won, someone screamed "Buckley" and we all raced there. On the way we passed a guy on a bike who, instead of sensibly walking his bike through the crowd, put his head down and tried to ride through the crowd as fast as he could. The rate he was pelted by snowballs was like machine gun fire. I actually felt a little bad for him.

Good times.
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I remember a snowball fight...war really, very much like that. Friend of mine had his eardrum broken. Several hundred people at least. Think it was 84-85.
 
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Class of ‘77 - Jefferson House, Towers Quad. One beautiful spring day the Jefferson guys rallied about 100 Towers residents. Armed with trash cans and buckets full of water, we marched down the hill, through the church lot and on to North Campus. There we attacked an unsuspecting student population. They quickly realized what was happening, and responded in kind. What a blast!
 
Snowball fights at UConn make perfect sense. Had one in the space between Belden and Watson sometime 78 - 82. It was later at night, hard to tell who the enemy was. Had a lovely bruise on my cheek for a few days. Lasting memory of Belden: the smell of old beer and the sticky carpet in the first floor lounge.

Not one Boneyarder said they lived in the library....
 
uconnkelly said:
Snowball fights at UConn make perfect sense. Had one in the space between Belden and Watson sometime 78 - 82. It was later at night, hard to tell who the enemy was. Had a lovely bruise on my cheek for a few days. Lasting memory of Belden: the smell of old beer and the sticky carpet in the first floor lounge.

Not one Boneyarder said they lived in the library....
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There was a library on campus? Where about was it? :D
 
HuskyHawk said:
My freshman year at Lafayette, our Hall was painted with “Fourth Floor Sherman House”. Loads of guys who had been removed from Sherman the year before when the school broke it up and made it coed due to all the problems there. Quite an intro to colllege life for me. Very Animal House.
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Yes, I know a lot of those guys and that vibe and mind set went on through the 80’s and into the early 90’s. There is a gravestone outside of the dorm that commemorates the breaking up of the dorm. My wife says to me that I can’t believe you went to college with so many characters, how did you ever get through? My response “barely”
 
Groton Long Point, Wright A #308, Walden Apartments #20A, '72-'76. There was an epic snowball fight one night during a snowstorm in '75 between Northwest Quad (The Frats) and the Jungle. There must have been over a hundred people on the ground. I was on the roof of Wright A with my roommate. We provided devastating covering fire with frozen snowballs (and some fruit, too, as I recall) launched from a giant slingshot we made from lengths of surgical tubing and a funnel.
 
New London Hall 4th Floor in the Jungle 1978-81. Connecticut Commons grad dorms 82-85.
 
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Freshman year-Windham-Jungle
Soph. Year-Tolland-Jungle
Next 2.5 years-Jefferson in Towers-in those years, Towers Rocked!
Next incarnation until graduating Willington Oaks
 
I needed 4.5 years to escape the jungle.
2 years in the Hurley Pit - '87-'88 and '88-'89.
2.5 years in the Windham Pit - '89-'90, '90-'91, fall of '91.
Both rooms looking out on the Jungle beach.
WAY too much fun, hence the extra semester...
 
Russell C in Frats, mid 90s. Spent four years there. I also ended up needing to do an additional semester as a commuter as a result.
 
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AreBee1969 said:
I needed 4.5 years to escape the jungle.
2 years in the Hurley Pit - '87-'88 and '88-'89.
2.5 years in the Windham Pit - '89-'90, '90-'91, fall of '91.
Both rooms looking out on the Jungle beach.
WAY too much fun, hence the extra semester...
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So you were there when the Pacman machine became bonfire kindling and some couches too
 
Morgan in Towers 90-91
Crawford D in old South 91-92
Hartford in The Jungle 92-94
Brock in Alumni 94-95
 
husky8273 said:
Lafayette '76-'78 (SODBBS), year off, Walden '79-80, Carriage House '80-81 - waiter at Lafayette both off campus years. Small dorms/kitchens allowed a bonding that is lost with the centralized cafeterias.
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Probably not the same kind of bonding as the naked dinners at IDC but I'll take your word for it.
 
Wow! 52-3 years ago. Troy House. Best place on earth. Bill Horsman ran the Horse Bar. Came in with a trunkful of cases of beer every weekend. Case at the time was prolly $6-7 max. Sold beers for $.75. The whole campus passed thru the HB every weekend. Put himself thru school on the profit. Usurious
 
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Am I the only one that was an RA?

My years were 1975-1979. The flannel wearing last of the Vietnam generation were still around when I arrived; and stories of demonstrations. Frampton Comes Alive played loud begat Hustle lessons in the dorm basements when the decade ended.

Kingston House first two years. With the Incomparable irrepressible Ugly Man

Stowe B - with the chaos that made the decision to break up the All Male nature obvious to all. And no ... Stowe A Stowe B Stowe C Stowe D did not get along.

The End of the World party was notable for making The NY Times. And the weird thing was the Connecticut motorcycle Gangs showed up. Free Kegs? Girls? They came from hours away. That was me coming back to attend/witness.

Then ... RA. Brock Third Floor. What do you do with a star Baseball pitcher throwing a keg out of the windows.
 
Wheeler A in South Campus. I agree with CL82. 2 floors girls and 1 floor guys. We had our own chef who would make breakfast to order and then family style dinner in the evening.
 
Knollwood Apts (Birth - 3 yrs old: father getting his PhD)
Jungle - New London 2nd floor (‘81-‘82)
McMahon - 3 North (‘82-‘83 when floor was all female, ‘83-‘84 when floor was coed by room)
Shippee - 5th floor (RA ‘84-‘85)
 
Stowe C.

It was nice.

We had a dumpster fire to celebrate the end of the year and then we all lived somewhere else the next year...
 
Buckley then Frats. Was a dorm steward my senior year. Best job I ever had. Imagine having keys to the kitchen in college.........
 
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