[AT] Old trains/now NC State foolishness

[charliehill]

I didn't comment on the water fights because I didn't participate and to be 
honest thought  they were pretty childish.  However, they were an every year 
thing on ... did they call it reading day?.... the day off prior to exams.
Basically every water faucet in every dorm room in Lee Bragaw and Sullivan 
dorms were open all day long.  Folks dropping water ballons off the 13 th 
floor of Sullivan.  I saw one hit a kid on the shoulder and knock him flat 
on the ground.  You couldn't get to or leave your dorm room without getting 
wet.

About the time I left State they made Lee dorm Co-Ed.  Meaning that they put 
girls on a couple of floors.  In 1969 there were roughly 15,000 on campus 
students and less than 1000 of them were female so the ladies were pretty 
well respected.  Someone in the student gov't figured that out and the 
decision was made to make Lee CoEd.  That pretty much ended the water wars 
for the immediate future.  I don't know what happened later in the early 
70's.

As for the Great panty raid (there were others but one huge one)  I didn't 
even know about it until it was over.
I was in the Cat's Eye (night club) down at 5 points listening to Billy 
Stewart sing the blues and opening some shim stock.  The basketball great 
Tommy Burleson was in there that night too. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxEcFWHfjYA

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains


>I don't remember any water fights.  I expect the NCSU gestapo would have
> shut that down quick.  The beach on the other hand---WOW.
>
> We had a suitemate, the semester before I moved into Lee, (we were on the
> 10th floor) that for some reason decided to haul a 100lb. suitcase weight
> off the front of a tractor up to his room, hoist it to his top bunk, and
> then push it off onto the floor.  They said it shook the whole building.
>
> Al
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 12/7/2009 11:33:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains
>>
>> Ah yes "The Beach" - there were annual water fights between Owen and
>> Tucker over the name - and even in my day the scenery on warm Friday
>> afternoons was nice - no doubt even better in your time.
>>
>> I remember one such water fight - was a fall semester after the first
>> chemistry test and we were trying to keep Metcalf locked up to stay out
>> of the battle - almost worked too.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>>
>>
>> Al Jones wrote:
>> > David, I never lost any R/C planes over there but I almost suffered a
>> > similar fate in that same general area one day.  Almost walked right
> into
>> > one of those big oak trees admiring the, shall we say, scenery at
> "Tucker
>> > Beach!"
>> >
>> > Al
>> >
>> >
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