I heard that Indiana University was rated the #1 party school by the Princeton Review this year...congratulations, guys! :p

lol I think I have heard that one.... but seriously, it's not what it used to be :p I know this one is tru tho... if u go to our site u will see that we are "TIME Magazine's College of the Year amoung Research Universities" wooohooo

I know Jared did go to IU, and I know IU was rated number one party school by Princeton Review. My girlfriend sent me a response that Pres. Brand sent to Princeton Review. He was pretty ticked. She works at the IU Foundation, and went to IU for 2 years, before transferring to IUPUI to finish her Social Work Degree. My sister also just graduated from IU.

:( yeah Brand has been pretty harsh on the whole greek system lately... We've had quite a few chapters getting into trouble year 2001-2002

miami university -

*melissa joan hart's sister attended miami and was a member of DG or something. (also melissa is supposedly a witch....get it:D )

*wilson hall used to be an insane asylum

*kiss under the upham arches at midnight and that's the person you will marry.

*the formal gardens are haunted by the spirit of the missing student from the 30's. (i think this is true...long story)

*First Run is one of Playboy's top 100 best bars. (it's even on the shirts. i'd like to know when)

*abercrombie came to recruit models from miami.

*sororities aren't allowed to have houses b/c of some alumnae who donated a ton of money on the grounds that no sorority would ever have a house.

i think that's about it.

shelley j
sigma k

alphaiota, is that Miami University in Florida or the one in Oxford, Ohio?

The only rumour i can remember is that Peter Jennings (who is a Canadian) falsely put down that he graduated from Carleton's Journalism school on the resume that he gave to ABC. i'm sure there's more, i just can't think of them.

Some about University of Iowa...

The one Valkyrie is talking about is in one of the dorms here (Currier) in 1913 when it was the all-womens dorm, there were three roommates on the fourth floor of the dorm that found out they'd all been dating the same man. The room now is a study room or lounge and people say that the lights flicker, but no one really knows the truth. Also in Currier hall there is supposed to be a half floor, like a set of five rooms that are under the stairway where there is no RA or something.

No windows in the English/Philosophy building open.

All dorms here are coed, and supposedly Burge dorm is supposed to be ranked by David Letterman or Playboy or something as the #1 party dorm in the nation. It's pretty crazy, but I'd say they all are.

If you notice the windows on some of the dorms (Burge, Stanley, Daum) swing open all the way out and the part that opens are two panes about two ft. tall by two ft. wide, but only up to the third floor, the rest of the way up they crank up and down and there are three panes about 6 in tall. by two foot wide. I think it is to prevent someone from jumping out of the windows above the third floor, since they are higher up, the fall would be more likely to kill.

Someone jumped out of the seventh floor lounge in one of the dorms (Stanley) and killed himself (true).

Valkyrie, What used to be the Sigma Kappa house is now the ZTA house. It has a weird kind of look to it, too, so maybe it used to be an old sanitarium... Here is a pic.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~zta/images/House/house.jpg

There also is a true story about a doctoral student, back in the early nineties, who was upset that he didn't win an award for his dissertation, so he went on a shooting spree and killed three professors, the vice president, and the student who got the award, and himself, he also wounded someone I think, too. I'm not sure if anything is "haunted" because of this, but I know it is creepy because I have classes in one of the buildings where it happened.

1. if you step on the great seal of ohio you won't graduate

2.every dorm on capmus but one is haunted, and Wilson hall is the most haunted because there are 5 cemetaries forming a pentagram with it in the direct center. (this one has even made it into the top 10 haunted placse in America)

3. We have an Old lunatic Asylum that the University has bought, and the rumor is that there are still torture devices and the chains that inmates were chained to the wall with are still there. however, i boubt that one because a lot of professors now have offices there and we have a lot of research going on there.

4. Matt lauer went to Ou but never graduated (true) and he is seen walking around campus about 4 tmies a year. I've never seen him, so I don't know whether that is true or not.

rumor at valdosta state: ted turner's son went to school there

rumor at indiana university-bloomington: we're the number one party school in the nation(i thought that belonged to FSU)

During 80's and 90's when our football team won two or three games (total, not per year), but everyone came to the game to see the band, and then left after halftime, the rumor was that any student who could prove he/she stayed for an entire game would get a full ride scholarship.

I stepped all over that seal (at the campus gate), and did, in fact graduate. But it took 25 years. I quit to take a job as a TV director, and finished later in the "Experiential Learning" program.

And, Matt Lauer did go to Ohio, and did graduate -- also in Experiential Learning. He also dropped out to take a TV reporting job in either Huntington or Charleston (can't remember which, but they are esentially the same market) and finally finished his degree and graduated in the late 90's. He was the commencement speaker. I have a videotape of part of his address where he says, "I am so proud to be a Bobcat." When the Ohio U. "Marching 110" marched in the Macy's Parade two years ago, he left the script and asked if he could "gush" about the band.

I have not met him, but we traded some e-mails about Ohio University when I worked for NBC.

Not only the dorms (especially Wilson Hall which has been featured on a cable network show about haunted buildings), but all of Athens County is supposed to be among the top ten most haunted places in the world.

The great rumor, that I can't substantiate is that Paul Neuman was a student, and was thrown out of school for rolling a beer keg down Jeff Hill which hit and trashed a dean's car.

There is NO truth to the rumor that I personally still hold the record for the most beer consumed and most classes cut by an undergraduate!

It is TRUE that I wouldn't have to edit so much if I'd simply learn to spell and type.

At Southern Illinois University:

* John Belushi bought his College shirt from Animal House at one of the stores in town

* Every fraternity claims that Jenny McCarthy partied at their house at one time

* One day it was so cold, everyone walked across campus lake to get to class until someone fell in

* If the Chancellor hits you with his car, you get free tuition

On this one, well, I'd advise you to drive up there at night, pretty creepy :) One of the hauntings there is about when a patient snuck into the attic in one of the main buildings and hung herself. They only found her when the blood dripped through the ceiling and someone finally noticed it. They say that to this day that no one can cover up the 'spot' on the ceiling..it keeps on appearing.. *plays spooky music*. Oh, if you check out the tombstones on the bottom of the hill, they have no names, just numbers. Heh.. :)

(now to my own school..)Rio Rumors:

1. In the early 90's Jay Leno had Rio Grande University as the #1 school in ugliest female students on his top ten list.
(After seeing some pics from that time..I believe it..ick..thankfully in the last few years there have been really nice freshman crops, in which I was a part of..lol )

2. In the basement of the freshmen boys dorm there is a blacklight painting of Britney Spears naked on the wall. (Oh wait..this is true..my bf did it..lol)

My school is pretty boring..so this is all I could dig up..I'm gonna do some more research.. :)

-Kayla

how do you bleed from hanging?