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re: Tell me interesting stories/facts about your SEC campus.
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:06 pm to MaroonNation
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:06 pm to MaroonNation
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Supposedly Scott Field is built on top of Indian mounds.
This explains a lot about Miss State football.
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Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:06 pm to GCTiger11
Farley Hall, the School of Journalism, on Ole Miss' campus was used as a morgue for soldiers during the Civil War. It was down in the basement.
Also there is the confederate cemetery mass grave behind the Tad Pad.
Also there is the confederate cemetery mass grave behind the Tad Pad.
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:07 pm to ibldprplgld
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The basement of Gorgas Library is a scary place as well....
i tried to convince my ex gf to have sex down there so many times but it never worked for me
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:08 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
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41st president George H.W. Bush has an apartment at his library that he stays in while in town for various speaking or sporting events. There's also a pond behind it that he fishes in from time to time. Further back in the woods is the site at which he'll eventually be buried.
A&M has woods? Or is that A&M talk for weeds?
Bush's library looks a lot better than Clinton's doublewide trailer library in Arkansas.
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:10 pm to NBamaAlum
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The little roundhouse next to Gorgas library was one of a handful of structures on the UA campus that survived the little spat between the States. The story goes that two UA students, who were cadets, tricked some Union soldiers into approaching there with the promise of whiskey. They were shot, and their ghost can be seen looking for the promised whiskey...
The yellowhammer reference is a nod to the Confederate soldiers who embellished their uniforms with feathers from the Yellowhammer. I am sure you know this, but this info is for all of those people who get to hear us yell it.
This post was edited on 4/18/12 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:10 pm to NBamaAlum
I think it was Sherman who ordered that LSU not be burned down during the civil war. This was however when LSU was still located in the metropolis of Pineville
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:12 pm to Elleshoe
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I think it was Sherman who ordered that LSU not be burned down during the civil war. This was however when LSU was still located in the metropolis of Pineville
He gave the cannons that were fired at Fort Sumpter to LSU and they are outside of the military sciences building.
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:15 pm to RebelNutt48
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Also there is the confederate cemetery mass grave behind the Tad Pad.
For some reason, between all the confederate stuff at OM and the Indian Mounds MSU was built on... I feel like this is why we both typically suck at football. Some curse we need to figure out how to break
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:15 pm to Rig
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The Physiology building is supposedly haunted by Jack The Ripper at night.
Traveled from England and found his way to Auburn University, eh ?
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:16 pm to wdeinttown
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Here's an interesting fact about the SEC I heard the other day. Only 30 U.S. universities are designated land, sea, and space grant institutions, and with the addition of TAMU, the SEC now has three, the other two being Auburn and LSU.
Florida is a land, sea and space grant university as well.
UF supposedly has the world's largest bat house which can house as many as 200,000 bats that had previously found home in The Swamp and other facilities. Every night people line the fence and watch as they fly right over your head. A second identical home was built adjacent to accommodate more bats.
This post was edited on 4/18/12 at 10:23 pm
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:31 pm to Goingfullgump
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The basement of Gorgas Library is a scary place as well....
The whole building creeps me out. The floors are almost unnavigable with the numbering system and if you get lost down in the crypt with those low-glow light bulbs you're fricked. I only had to go down there once but I stayed by the exit.
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:52 pm to attheua
Don't walk under the Arch before you graduate and Crow's been drilling glory holes in the journalism building. Does that count?
Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:58 pm to gatorhata9
If you step on the Universiry Seal outside of Langdon Hall, you won't graduate, you'll never get married, you'll break the foot, ect. I've heard so many different scenarios I don't know what to say anymore
This post was edited on 4/18/12 at 11:01 pm
Posted on 4/18/12 at 11:53 pm to Duckman13
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General Sherman was oneof the first professors at lsu
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you supposedly can't find his name anywhere on any building
I've heard that a small monument is on the main campus, but that is well hidden.
Posted on 4/19/12 at 12:34 am to TulsaTimeTiger
Any UT fans bring up the catacombs under Neyland Stadium? I heard the Department of Anthropology is located under the stadium.
Posted on 4/19/12 at 1:16 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Might want to get rid of that gif
Got it, thanks for the tip.
Posted on 4/19/12 at 1:19 am to RebelNutt48
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Farley Hall, the School of Journalism, on Ole Miss' campus was used as a morgue for soldiers during the Civil War. It was down in the basement.
Also there is the confederate cemetery mass grave behind the Tad Pad.
Actually, that particular building was torn down. Farley was build on the lot in which that building was located.
Posted on 4/19/12 at 1:30 am to AnimalA10
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Is that a tradition at OM? I'm a big Faulkner fan, and that sounds like a fun thing to do.
I have done it, most of my friends have as well. FYI, Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak, located just off south Lamar and the square, is now a museum that houses all of his old stuff and is taken care of by the university. If you come for the football game, I would suggest visiting.
One of the coolest items is Faulkner's last bottle of Jack, which has about 3-4 shots left in it. People offer unreal amounts of money for it, but the curator has no intentions of giving it up. I think that's part of where the shots on his grave tradition comes from.
Posted on 4/19/12 at 1:46 am to RebelExpress38
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The President’s Mansion is one of the few buildings that survived the burning of the Alabama campus in 1865 because of Mrs. Louisa Frances Garland, wife of the 3rd University president Landon C. Garland. Upon learning that the campus was burning, she left Bryce Hospital where everyone had taken shelter and raced back to the mansion to defend her property. Her strength of will and presence of mind stopped the Federal Army from destroying the mansion and the young union soldiers even worked to put out the fire they had already started at the place.
Posted on 4/19/12 at 1:52 am to Monticello
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Discipline and student behavior was a major issue at the university almost from the day it opened. Early presidents attempted to enforce strict rules regarding conduct.[3] Students were prohibited from drinking, swearing, making unauthorized visits off-campus, or playing musical instruments outside of a one-hour time frame. Yet riots and gunfights were not an uncommon occurrence. To combat the severe discipline problem, president Landon Garland lobbied and received approval from the legislature in 1860 to transform the university into a military school.[6] As such, many of the cadets who graduated from the school went on to serve as officers in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. As a consequence of that role, Union troops burned down the campus on April 4, 1865, which was unrelated to Sherman's March to the Sea several months earlier and farther east, in Georgia. Only four buildings survived the burning: the President's Mansion (1841), Gorgas House (1829), Little Round House (1860), and Old Observatory (1844).[5]
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