OT - How different is campus since you were there?
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The Rec Center pool is the old Brundage Pool, home of the swim teams before they built Woff-Zackin natatorium and dropped men's swimming. They are renovating the new pool now (its attached to Gample) and the women's team is using the Rec Center pool for practice
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It's owned by the Stearns family. Something like 9th or 10th generation in town. All the Mountain Dairy milk you see around is from them. I took my family down this weekend.
It's phenomenal and so far a wayyyyy shorter line than you'll get at the Dairy Bar during the school year. However, you don't get the chance of seeing recruits and judging them based on their order.
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My older sister (8 years older) was on campus in the mid 80s to early 90s. I vaguely remember her taking forever to graduate. She enjoyed her time on campus I think. The big change during her time was Gampel. I was there mid-late 90s. Campus looked pretty similar at that point. I think the South Campus doors were locked in my first year or second year. Then the buildings torn down in my last year. But no new South Campus buildings during my time. I think they were built the year after I left. My older brother (1 year older) had a stretch in the Navy and ended up on campus after me. He was early 2000s. In his time everything looked totally different. New south campus was complete and had been for a few years. The center of campus seemed completely new. So my memories of visiting my sister in the 80s and my time in the 90s, campus felt the same. Shortly after in the 2000s when I visited my brother it seemed like a new place. I haven't been back since about 2003-2004... I think. I have no idea what it looks like now.
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Oh... I forgot. I drove zamboni at the old outdoor hockey arena for 1 year. Fun campus job. That's gone. I would play hockey late at night after the place closed. With fellow employees and some non-employee friends. On a cold night the combination of the cold air and a nice resurfacing machine made for really great ice. Super fast. Played a lot more hockey later while in North Dakota. But the ice at that outdoor rink is still the best I've ever played on.
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Nice memory. Our dorm had an intramural team and I skated on that ice. Great ice but the rink was very cold for spectators sipping on their brandy.
I had an ice skating class two days a week as part of PE requirements at 8AM. I never missed that class unlike all my others. Probably due to the cute French instructor and my desire to improve my skating. BTW, I was the only one with hockey skates.
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How did everyone else skate without skates? In socks? 😀
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Figure skates. I had more trouble with the toe loops and spins.
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I was in Troy 302 in 90-94 then stone house
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I was an Area Coordinaror for West Campus back in 1980. I always wondered why such a central location has not been rennovated given all of the other upgrades on campus. Hopefully it's on the shortlist for a major refurbishment or demolition.