What was/is the name of your college dorm?

[Arugula Latte]

Mine was "Ida Sproul" (UC Berkeley). It had beautiful view of both the campus and San Francisco and the Bay and the sun setting over the Pacific.

We had a neighboring dorm called Norton. Of course there were plenty of "Norton -- Bend Over!" tauntings (Eddie Murphy doing Jackie Gleason on the Honeymooners) -- very popular in the early/mid-80s.

[CubsFan1982]

1. No dorms here.

Being a community college, of course, but when I was in Boston last year for the DNC and College Democrats convention, we stayed at the appropriately named Sleeper Hall at Boston University. Or maybe not so appropriately named, not much sleeping was being done while we were there! :P

[Bertha Venation]

2. Hotchkiss Hall at L.A. Baptist College.

Lower Rear (wing). Room 133 most of my time there.

[WindRavenX]

3. this year- Roncalli

:shrug:

Last year, Loyola.

[madison2000]

4. OK, you asked for it: Taj Mahal

Also known as "Taj" My Hall
It was a co-ed dorm and the boys chose the name because it(Taj Mahal)is the worlds largest erection by a man for a woman.

[Left Is Write]

5. Hallett Hall.

http://student.cord.edu/dept/reslife/facilities/hallett/index.shtml

[MASSAFRA]

6. I spent most of my college years in

Gordon Hall at Indiana University of PA. room 310
My Criminology adviser had a office on the second floor.
Lab experiments were conducted in the basement.

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. When I was at Vanderbilt in Nashville, I lived next door

to a dorm named "Confederate". If I'm not mistaken, the building was donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

[guitar man]

8. Bennet Hall

Oklahoma State University.

[bobbieinok]

9. Jones College at Rice

[NoPasaran]

10. Hammerschlag House

Carnegie-Mellon University

[TheMightyFavog]

11. Knutzen Hall

aka K-nutz, refeering to the amount of partying and herb smoking that goes on there. Friday and Saturday nights can be a fucking zoo sometimes.

However, we have a Roach Hall and Hyer (pronounced higher) Hall that are right next to each other here, too.

[Arugula Latte]

13. That's priceless.

They need to build a Doobie and a Bong Hall, too.

[TheMightyFavog]

34. Wouldn't be surprised if there is a Bong hall at UW Superior

Named After WWII Fighter Ace, Richard Bong, who was from the area.

But it will only be a matter of time until a hall there is named after their most famous alum:

[Branjor]

12. Alumni Hall

Valparaiso University.

[Hand]

14. Sproul Hall is famous!

Back in the early 60s, it was the locus if the New Left/Free Speech Movement that was the granddaddy of all that followed!

:toast:

BTW, my freshman dorm was called Norton Hall, although we never caught on to the "Norton--Bend Over" patois. (This was at Kenyon College in Ohio).

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

17. Well, actually

Yes, the administration building at Berkeley is Sproul Hall, and that's what you're thinking of. This was just a dorm (famous for water fights and strewn beer cans and some idiot pushing a frig off a high floor when I was there). :hi:

[cally]

26. One of the volunteers on the Kerry campaign

was an ass't administrotor at Sproul Hall when I was there. I mentioned I probably blocked his office a few times duting sit-ins. He just laughed. It's amazing, that 20 plus years later we're working together when then we were on opposite sides.

I lived most of my time at Rochdale. We pronounced it Roachdale for the insects and the drugs.

[Hand]

46. Ah...

Well, that piqued my curiosity, so I Googled Ida Sproul. I gather that she was the wife of Robert Sproul, a long-time chancellor, and her main activity was improving student housing. Her reward for these good works was apparently having Animal House named after her... I assume that the admin building was named after Robert Sproul.

As to Robert Sproul: "Sproul was apparently a character, well known for his booming voice. President Wheeler once asked his secretary what all the noise was, and was told that Mr. Sproul was talking to Sacramento. "Why doesn't he use the telephone?" Wheeler asked."

:hi:

[xmas74]

15. MacDonald Hall

The only girls dorm on campus (at the time).

[yellowdogintexas]

16. Pauline Peeples Hall.

I think Pauline Peeples was a benefactor to the college, but to put women in a dorm named "Pauline" in ANY part of Kentucky in the 1960's was perhaps one of the biggest cases of foot in mouth disease EVER.

Quiz: who can tell me why this would be true?

bonus if you know which town is most famously associated with the name Pauline

[yellowdogintexas]

28. quiz answer re: Pauline's: it was a whorehouse in Bowling Green KY

and back in the day it was legendary.

So my dumb little Methodist college names a women's dorm for a lady named Pauline Peeples. It was supposed to be called 'Peeples Hall' but
........

The dorm was immediately dubbed "Pauline's" and that was that. Current generations have no idea who Pauline of Bowling Green was, but Kentucky folks from the 50's and 60's do!!!!!

Pauline Tate, of whorehouse fame was actually quite an interesting woman; she wrote an autobiography (illustrated) and was on several interview shows. She looked like your normal average grandmother.

[Kire]

35. Is she related to Nia Peeples?

or Paulina Porizkova?

[eridani]

18. Neighboring school had a Fanny Lay Poole Quadrangle

Apparently a major donor, but they couldn't name individual residence halls after her, because that would have been Fanny Hall, Lay Hall or Poole Hall.

[Arugula Latte]

23. That's so funny.

They should have built the three-building complex and let the chips fall where they may!

[yellowdogintexas]

32. really, after all, we had a dorm named after a madam

[Kire]

19. Tyson Hall

like Mike Tyson, or Tyson Chicken

[Lone Pawn]

20. Thompson House, Pierce Hall, University of Chicago.

[fluffernutter]

21. Foss Hall.

[northzax]

50. Foodman?

followed by Robins and Piper.

Looks a little like this:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

22. Home

I lived at home when I went to university on scholarship-only way I could afford to go. I lived within walking distance of campus, so I didn't have a car, either. Not great for social life, but a cheap solution.

[jmowreader]

24. Student Barracks, Goodfellow AFB

The Intelligence Training Battalion had three barracks buildings: Company A (which was the 98Cs (SIGINT Analyst) there for AIT and the 98Ks (non-Morse interceptor) there for the Enciphered Signals Analysis course), Company B (which was the 98Gs (voice interceptor) there for AIT), and Student Barracks, which is where all of the people who were there for retraining, like I was, lived.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Stone Hall. We were called the "stoners"

[ldf]

27. Murphree G

university of florida
gainesville, fl

[datasuspect]

29. La Casa del Whackos

[HEyHEY]

30. Chugga chugga vomit

[jmm]

31. JFK

Good dorm named after a great president.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

33. Greshan Hall (freshman year) then lived in Powhatan Village Apts.

[nutsnberries]

36. was that at UMass?

if so... man, i've got some memories... :)

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

44. No, Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.

[jmm]

60. Yup

Freshman year I was in Moore but I spent my last three years in JFK.

[Yavin4]

37. Letts Hall The American University

ugh.

[sleepyhead]

38. Upper Wallace House, Woodward Court, University of Chicago

The entire dorm has since been torn down and replaced by (I think) part of the business school.

[Forever Free]

39. Francisco Torres, North Tower, University of California, Santa Barbara

HOLLA!

[JVS]

40. Tower C, of the Litchfield towers, nicknamed Comet back in the day

Towers A and B were nicknamed Ajax and Babo because of their cylindrical shape

[loudestchick]

41. Gillete Hall--@ Mizzou

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. Private dorm at California State University at San Jose,

Catholic Women's Center...I was there in the early 60's. We had a real chapel in the building, and when JFK was shot, they held a requiem mass that was standing room only...I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show when they first came to our lucky shores; again, standing room only...

40 years later, and the memories are still crystal clear and poignant...

[likesmountains 52]

43. Farrand Hall..University of Colorado 1970 n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Riverfront Square and later, Hastings Hall

[sniffa]

47. baker haLL - in "centraL" of umass/amherst

home of the ravers and the good drugs. :smoke:

i did spend my first semester in hamLin - the onLy aLL maLe dorm on campus.

[flvegan]

48. Zeta. University of South Florida.

It was horrid. Everything was fireproof, though. I mean, even the carpet wouldn't burn.

[Richardo]

49. We had a Sproul Hall at UCLA, too

But I lived in Hedrick, at the top of the hill. Great platform for launching rotten fruit from surgical tubing slingshots at the frat houses. :thumbsup:

[Arugula Latte]

72. Hedrick sounds familiar.

We made a couple "road trips" down I-5 to UCLA and maybe that's where my friend lived.

[Richardo]

73. Hedrick, Sproul and Reiber were the three dorms while I was there...

Now they have private dorms, co-ops, etc. Lucky newbies!

[Arkana]

51. I'm living in Dore Hall, Providence College...but I'll be leaving

because they're turning it from coed to all women. Stupid 50s era President.

[Magrittes Pipe]

52. Blaisdell Hall, Beloit College.

Same room all four years.

[sundog]

53. Chandler Hall

James Madison University, VA (my first 2 years)... then I got an apartment

[kittycat1164]

54. Waterson Towers

Illinois State

[grace0418]

55. PAR- Pennsylvania Ave Residences

Really exciting huh? University of Illinois left no stone unturned in the search for the perfect names for the dorms. Across the street from PAR was Florida Ave Residences, which was actually appropriate because our dorms were so damn FAR from the campus buildings. And at the time, the campus didn't have much in the way of bus service.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

57. I was a PAR person also!

Maybe we were neighbors.

I heard an unfounded rumor that the adjacent dorms were originally going to be called Florida Avenue Residence Towers -- so the acronym would match the aroma of the South Farms in springtime...

[grace0418]

68. Maybe! I was in Babcock, third floor.

I lived there 88/89 and 89/90. I met my husband at PAR. He was on Carr 3.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

69. I was in Blaisdell, ground floor in '94-'95

My brother was Carr 3 for 91/92 and 92/93, I think.

Carr 3 was a pretty fun place to hang out...

[grace0418]

75. I think my friend Matt was an RA on Carr 3 in 91/92

or maybe it was Saunders. It was in PAR somewhere. Carr 3 was insane! I was there one night with my then-boyfriend-now-husband when the lights went out and ALL HELL broke loose on the floor. People were pouring shampoo on the floor and skating on it, a fistfight broke out, food was everywhere, and this was all in the dark. Ahhhh, good times.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

76. That sounds like the Carr 3 that I remember!

I remember when I used to visit there (when I was in high school) everyone would steal some fruit from the cafeteria, and we'd all get drunk and play bocce fruit in the halls!

Good times, indeed...(btw, apples don't roll so well...)

[grace0418]

79. LOL but dorm keys make excellent

hockey pucks! They slid really far down the halls.

[Tafiti]

56. Mine was called Bishop Roberts. n/t

[tjwmason]

58. David Russell Hall

I've got no idea after whom it was named, presumably some luminary from the University's 600 year history.

It was several separate blocks, each split into landings of 4 bedrooms. I was told (though I do not vouch for the veracity of this) that the architect spent most of his career designing Swedish mental asyla.

It is now being demolished to be replaced with self-catered appartments (to be honest, it was frequently self-catered before due to the standard of the food).

[Worst Username Ever]

59. Pioneer Hall

[WoodrowFan]

61. Crowe hall

after a college founder.

[WeRQ4U]

62. West Hall at the University of North Dakota

GO SIOUX!!

[Ellen Forradalom]

63. A.L.E.J.T.

Association pour le Logement des Etudiants et Jeunes Travailleurs.

[kick-ass-bob]

64. East Hall. buncha pot smokin hippies.

GOD IT WAS GREAT!!!

:7

[Bunny]

65. Turnbull Hall.

[LiberallyInclined]

66. Bromley Hall in Champaign...aka "kike's peak"

it was a private off-campus dorm- a high-rise that stood out in an area of two-three story buildings, many of them frat and sorority houses. It also had a very high number of north-shore jewish students as residents-
hence the "kike's peak" reference that was well-known on campus, and used regularly, even by the jewish residents- the name was sarcastic, and not used as a slur.

[fudge stripe cookays]

67. Bruce Hall- UNT, Denton

Famed for its artists, musicians, and other bohemian types. There are music practice rooms in the bowels of the building with soundproofing, since the music buildings are right next door.

We had some fascinating Lounge Lizards there as well. One guy wore kilts and combat boots and rarely bathed. One did interesting art projects in the Lobby.

One did performance/display art in the long entrance hallway (she made tape outlines of bodies and the title "Dead Week" with it during Dead Week), another guy juggled Jell-O in the cafeteria and another made his biscuits talk.

I miss that place.

I lived in Maple the first year or so, but it wasn't HALF as much fun.

FSC

[Fenris]

70. The Tower

Like the Tower of London, but less fun.

[Beware the Beast Man]

71. Amabel. I. Ralston Hall

The "I" was missing from the sign, so I thought her name was pronounced "a-MAH-bay" for a number of years.

[warrens]

74. Colt House at UConn

I loved that place. We had our own chef, so we actually managed to have edible food.

[SmileyBoy]

77. Thompson Hall

One of four high rises in the high rise portion of the dorms on campus.

[5thGenDemocrat]

78. Robinson Hall

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI. Room 321. 1981-82.
John
Shared it with two accounting majors -- one of whom is a bank branch manager here in Saginaw today.

[SCDem]

80. Sims

at USC (not that USC the other or original USC!)

[MrsMatt]

81. Gay Hall

Specifically the Clayton A. Gay Hall
at the University of Minnesota-Morris

http://www.morris.umn.edu/services/reslife/housing/gay/Gay%20shtmls/index.shtml

There were two wings - Gay I and Gay II

My freshman advisor's first name was Jay, so our intermural softball team was named "Jay's Gays"

[Undercover Owl]

82. that's funnier than mine.

Mine was Montgomery Hall, at Portland State University.