re: Tell me interesting stories/facts about your SEC campus.

Students at Arkansas pay $0.00 a year into the athletic budget.

We don't have an athletic fee like most schools.

Alabama is home to what is possibly the 2nd most secretive and influential campus secret society in the nation behind Yale's Skull and Bones. "The Machine" has dominated campus politics and chosen the SGA President almost every year since 1914. In 1992, former Alabama Governor Bob Riley's daughter was burglarized and assaulted for daring to run against the Machine candidate after she was not chosen by the Machine to be the next President.

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fourth numeral, which on the clock is displayed as ‘IIII’. This, of course, deviates from the fairly standard subtraction notation of the Roman numerals, which denotes four as ‘IV’. This oddity is actually fairly commonplace, though—at least among clocks

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It is actually done for balance on the clockface. Since there are 12 numbers, by using IIII instead of IV, you end up with four numbers that utilize Is, four numbers that utilize Vs (V, VI, VII, VIII), and four numbers that utilize Xs (IX, X, XI, XII).

That was off topic, so back to on topic things...

When Auburn was renovating Samford Hall in the 1990s, it was discovered that a colony of endangered brown bats had set up housekeeping in the small bell tower. The University had to build a replica of the tower on another part of campus (I think out near the vet school) and moved the bats there to comply with the endangered species act.

Legend holds that if/when a virgin graduates from the University of Florida, a brick will fall out of the clock tower.

The University Chapel at Auburn is said to be haunted bythe ghost of a Confederate soldier who died there while the building was used as a hospital.

The night before Auburn plays Georgia Tech in Auburn, the students hold the "Wreck Tech Pajama Parade." This commemorates the actions of Auburn students who many many years ago, when Tech was coming to play Auburn, went to the railroad tracks late at night and spread axle grease on the tracks. The train from Atlanta hit the grease and, able to use friction on the rails to stop, slid through Auburn and had to continue to Loachapoka, the next town down the line. The Tech football team had to walk back to Auburn and were so tired from the walk, were defeated handily.

Question for the aggies: If a current member of our armed forces happened to walk on the grass at the Memorial Student Center, would you yell at him/her?

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There are meth labs in all the buildings at Mizzou. It's not a really a university at all, just a massive distributing operation.

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I have heard this as well - I got a contact high just driving through campus in a thunderstorm a few years back.

Century Tree at A&M...

Century Tree

My Freshmen year, got so wasted coming back from Northgate that I climbed into the tree and passed out across a couple branches. Special memories.

LSU's Journalism building is one of the oldest building. It was actually moved brick by brick from its old spot.

There's a sweet single bathroom with just a toilet and no sink hidden around some false looking walls in the depths of Haley Center on Auburn's campus that I used several times when nature was really calling.

Also, one of my teachers at AU, Ric Smith, who's the PA announcer at Jordan Hare, told me that AU had a room dedicated to housing bootleg materials made with the Auburn logo before they were incinerated. It was during the whole Cam thing where people were making Scam Newton shirts and using the Auburn logo illegally, and he said that the school had people go around and snatch up a bunch of the items and bring them back to Auburn to be destroyed. No idea if he was just screwing with me. I'm probably just dumb.

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in the depths of Haley Center

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WRONG! Kyle Field holds that honor.

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Bat guano city!