[AT] Old trains/now NC State foolishness

[David Bruce]

Charlie,
I also thought they were childish.  In my day and on central campus the 
water fights always came after the chemistry tests.  They were in the 
evening (on Thursday at that) and comprised all sections of Chem 101 - 
so starting about dark one would see the "lemmings" headed toward most 
every auditorium or large lecture hall on campus.  After the test was 
over there was the great water fight and some sort of attempt at a panty 
raid.  It wan't unusual for a few days afterward to have water balloons 
coming from the upper floors of the tri-towers (the other two were 
female and the middle one was co-ed). 

David
NW NC

charliehill wrote:
> 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
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