Campus Rumors
 

Does your campus have any weird (untrue) rumors floating around it?

At UCSB...
*Brittany Spears was a student
*Students consume 1% of all the Nations alcohol
*Isla Vista is the most densely populated area West of the Mississippi
*Playboy named the Francisco Torres Dorm 'Easiest place to find Sex on a college campus'


you get the idea...

There is a mural of pegasus on one of the buildings. The rumor was that pegasus would fly when a virgin graduated. :rolleyes: A lot of schools have similar rumors. ;)

At our school, there has been a rumor that the guy who was in charge of building our belltower was suicidal. I think that only came up though because when you look at our belltower at night, on the corners, it looks like someone hanging themselves... kinda creepy :p

It's a rumor that Girls Gone Wild has taped at a SAE/Sigma Chi party, but it's never been confirmed nor denied At San Diego State University.

There are a couple silly "rumors" at the College of Charleston:
1) Theo from "Road Rules" goes here. But this one is actually true. I saw him one night when he was working the door at one of the local bars. Only the people who have yet to see him on campus think this rumor is a lie.

2) College Lodge, one of the co-ed dorms on campus and by far the wildest, was listed back in the day among the top 10 party dorms in the nation by Playboy. (i still don't know is this is true or not)

3) Lots of haunted house stories. But many of the houses that students live in around the city are over 200 years old, so there might be some substance to that rumor. I totally believe that my sorority house is haunted!

There was a rumor floating around that Jennifer Love Hewitt was going to go to Lehigh (not my school, but close enough). Supposedly she changed her mind right before classes started...riiiight.

I thought he went to LSU. People from there have all saw him there plus it was known that he went there when he was on road rules.....unless he recently transfered.

the lyric is she STOOD alone..not studied alone :)

The rumors at JMU were that Britney Spears was thinking about gong there. I'm not a student there, but this was during my senior year when everyone applied there:rolleyes:

Britney Spears isn't going to college. Let's just be lucky she finished high school (albeit private tutors).

We heard the Britney one here too and so did my sister who went to another school:rolleyes:

By the way......
Did anyone ever hear of a rumor that during Halloween there would be a massacre at a dorm that was in the shape of an H by someone dressed up as little bo peep. Everyone swore that a psychic revealed this on Oprah! I lived in an H shaped dorm at the time and I freaked out LOL. Anyway, it was just a rumor, there was no such thing said on Oprah. I heard that this was rumor was widespread.

UCF also had a rumor that Britney would be attending school here. There was another rumor last fall that Christina Aguilera was attending UCF and that she would be rushing. I'm still waiting to see her on the PNM list. :)
There was also a rumor that Playboy voted UCF as having the best looking girls on campus.

Kansas had the one about Britney Spears too. I also heard one about Taran Noah Smith (youngest kid from Home Improvement) applying here.

Supposedly, within a few years there will be a route that transfers NUCLEAR WASTE right next to our campus. Nice! :rolleyes:

There are lots of rumors floating around William & Mary....

*That we have the 2nd highest campus suicide rate in the country (People are morbidly proud of it, and it's just not true!)

*Jackie Chan's son is a student at W&M (actually true, so I guess it's not a rumor)

*Jon Stewart is an alum (true) but is rumored to have hated his time here and won't come back as a commencement speaker or anything. (There's also some debate about whether he was a Sig Chi or a PiKA)

*A student committeed suicide in our english building and now haunts the 3rd floor, which is why no classes are held there (as an english major, I love this one...)

*Steely Dan wrote "My Old School" about W&M and how he got kicked out for smoking pot-- this one came up because there's a line in the song that says "William and Mary won't do, now" but I've never seen anything that says he ever attended!


I'm sure there are more that are slipping my mind.... this stuff is so funny!

*C*

I am pretty sure that Britney Spears actually did register at Arizona State... however, she withdrew.

We have the usual:

1. There is a huge concrete sculpture of a guy holding a book on the side of the library and he's supposed to turn a page everytime a virgin graduates (hasn't moved yet..)

2. The clocktower will turn from red to white when a virgin graduates, and lo and behold, it is still red.

I know there are more, but I can't think of them right now

Yeah...Theo from Road Rules did attend LSU. He hit on my sister and I in the Rec one day. He also used to write for our paper. All I have to say is that the collective IQ of the students at the College of Charleston musta dropped a few points when he was let in. That boy is some kinda stupid.

Yeah...we had the Britney rumor too. I'm like DeltaSigStan...she's lucky to have gotten outta high school. Her cousin Laura Lynne does attend LSU though and she's one of our Golden Girls. I guess the biggest Britney rumor we have is that she's been seen out partying at all of the college bars here. Never saw her out so I dont know if it's true or not.

Anyone who says:

"I am a really big Elvis fan and I think the real reason why we did the whole Elvis thing is because, you know, he's from Vegas."

"I love seeing all my Mexican fans from the north,"

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada".


Is NOT going to college.

I think the Britney rumor must be on every campus, cause it was on ours too.

Shaq's sister goes to FAMU (not my campus, but same town) and he comes to town periodicaly (this is true)

Everyone has the virgin rumor too. I forget exactly what it is for my school, but I have heard one.

One of our big things is that the sorority dorm on campus (Roberta Hall) is haunted by Roberta. There was a gas explosion there sometime in the 50's and a girl named Roberta died during it or from complications after it. Don't know for sure. Actually, some people say that the dorm is haunted by the girls that lived in it that didn't have the dorm named after them. :rolleyes: Oh well, we'll see if I believe the story after living there next year. Can't really think of anything else off the top of my head. Maybe Tom could help if he reads this (by the way Tom was Roberta the all-girls dorm you scaled?) ;) :D :p

About the Britney thing, from what I know she got her high school diploma through high school correspondence courses from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A lot of famous people who don't attend normal high school use the UNL program. I'm not 100% for sure about this, but remember reading something about it in the Lincoln paper a year or two ago.

If Britney is coming anywhere, she's gonna come to LSU. She was "ours" first, dammit :)

I'm 99% sure that she DOES come to BR to go out. Laura Lynne lives in the same apartment complex my boyfriend does, and several of his neighbors, on several different occasions recall seeing her show up.

I don't know why Theo left LSU. Maybe because everyone hated his columns in the Reveille. Yeah, just because you were on Road Rules doesn't mean that we CARE that anyone stole your Tony Chachere's when you had a party.

Here's one good one, that's not true:
Van Morrison wrote the song "Brown Eyed Girl" about LSU. "Making love in the green grass, behind the stadium" = the Indian Mounds by Tiger Stadium. Not true though :(

Rumors about A&M
 

I thought the following were rumors, till i had to take an Alcohol Awareness class and discovered they were true

*The Dixie Chicken, a bar across from campus, has more alcohol consumed per square foot, than any building in the world, except some pub in Ireland.

*The amount of beer consumed in College Station each year is greater than the amount of water used.

*The Kroger <a supermarket> on SW Parkway in CS sells more alcohol than all the Krogers in Houston, combined.

Man, that makes me proud. Also there used to be a rumor that the kid who played Zack Morris came to A&M, but i'm pretty sure that's not true.

Kitso
KS 361

Jon Stewart was a Pike.

hehe, I almost forgot about Lafayette's "virgin rumor." Ours is that if a virgin walks past one of the statues of the Marquis de Lafayette (there are at least 3 of them on campus), he will whistle at her.

I remember reading somewhere that Donald Fagen (the lead singer of Steely Dan) went to Bard College, which has been called "the William and Mary of the North." There is a mention of "never going back to Annandale" in the song, and Bard is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The song is about him getting kicked out of school for smoking pot though.

Re: Campus Rumors
 

We had both of those...

But my favorite:

That 75% of the Freshman that live in Manzanita Hall come out with an STD.

I lived there, and I came out clean, so did everyone on my floor.

:rolleyes:

Actually, my daughter and her friends DID see her (Brittany) out. It was an off night-if that even exists in Baton Rouge!
I believe it was at Reggies??? (There is another bar that it could have been where the guys have to be 21 and up. I get the names mixed up.)
Her account-
Yes, a few of the young men were drooling, but for the most part, she said the girls "acted" like they ignored her and the guys left her alone.

She said she is such a tiny thing that she wasn't noticed until someone pointed her out and then of course it spread. No one attempted to get a conversation going, but lots of people passed by her vacinity to get a closer look. She said it was funny watching the GIRLS checking her out and acting all cool, much more than the guys did!

We don't have a virgin rumor or a Britney rumor... but we had a rumor related to a particular building on campus. This building has lots of offices and labs, and graduate students frequently work there into the wee hours of the morning. The rumor is that, barring a power outage, if all the lights in this building are ever off at the same time, the world will end.

When i was taking campus tours before my senior year of HS the tour guide at Nebraska told us that their chemistry building is built in such a way that should an explosion ever occur, the building will implode on itself to prevent the chemicals from escaping.

There was also one there about a haunted bell tower or something.

how bout it? any Cornhuskers out there able to verify these?

Kitso
KS 361

In reference to the Theo from Road Rules questions... he did go to LSU for his gundergraduate degree. He is a complete idiot. he used to write this entertainment column for the school paper, but it stunk. I saw him at the rec center nearly every day though, and he was sure hot.

Another LSU rumor: They named a cement square in front of the law school George because a law student killed himself there once. He flunked all of his law finals. So now, it's rumored that if you step on George, you'll fail all of your next round of tests. It's funny though. Fraternities paint the square with their letters and docrazy stuff to it.

Actually the rumor is that if law students step on George, they'll flunk out. Considering LSU Law had an attrition rate of 35% at one point, it was pretty scary.

Tomorrow is my first day there! I didn't take any chances and step on him while I was in UG. And since all the classes are in the new building in back, I've got no reason to go near him now :)

Georgetown Rumors, Truths, and Superstitions
 

1) If you step on the Seal (a mosaic of the school seal on the ground), you won't graduate on time. It's actually more of a respect thing.

2) Famous people's children that have or did go to GU recently: Avery Brooks (Captain Benjamin Cisco from Star Trek), Diana Ross, Kurt Russell, Susan Lucci, Donald Trump.

3) Georgetown DOES have a series of tunnels beneath the school, but I don't think it's true that one leads all the way to the Capitol building.

4) The main building of the campus does have an inaccessible fifth floor that the school swears is for storage now, but used to be offices, and before then was dorm space. There is a lot of speculation as to what it is now. . .I think they even say someone died up there. . .

Re: Georgetown Rumors, Truths, and Superstitions
 

Wow, very interesting!

Have you ever went into any of the tunnels?

If I went to GT I probably would've tried to access that fifth floor just out of curiousity.

1. Parking passes may be less expensive next year.

2. You will fall in love with the person you kiss on the wooden bridge at the top of the hill.

3. Free tuition if you're hit by a car on a crosswalk.

Re: Re: Georgetown Rumors, Truths, and Superstitions
 

Naw, I was too scared. :(

But a lot of APO Brothers make it a point to check them out on a regular basis.

Fun Thread!
 

Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin...

Was supposed to have been Chelsea Clinton's second-choice college.

Has several buildings that are sliding down the bluff into the Fox River...oh wait, that one's true.

Has a president with 4 titanium joints

Has trees planted along the bottom of Union Hill not for aesthetic purposes but to keep students from falling into the Fox River when they sled down the hill on cafeteria trays in January. The part about the cafeteria trays is true, half the fun is sneaking them out of the dining hall.

LU doesn't have a virgin rumor, but the University of Illinois does. There's a statue of a woman standing in front of a chair with her arms outstretched. If a virgin ever graduates, the statue will sit down.

LSU has the legend that you will marry the person that you kiss on the steps of the clock tower as the clock strikes midnight. In fact, campus programming has staged an event where they get couples to kiss on the steps at midnight, to try and get a group together that's large enough to break the world's record for the most people kissing.

My boy and I were there - and the way things are going it looks like the legend is true! :D

More Northwest Missouri State stuff...
 

Your posts reminded me of some more...

*If you step on the university seal underneath the bell tower you'll either not graduate or never have sex again...don't know which one it is for sure but both would suck

*If you are hit by a car in a crosswalk, you get free tuition

*There are more squirrels roaming campus than students at any given time. Also, there is supposedly an albino squirrel running around campus too.

*Northwest also has some sort of kissing bridge tradition. Don't know what it is though.

*We actually do have a university president. Even though no one has ever seen him before, I hear he does exist. :p ;)


AggieSigmaNu361-
I remember hearing something like that when I toured at UNL too. Who knows though...I was near the back of my tour group of about 20 :rolleyes: so I didn't hear half of the tour.