Interesting/scary facts of your sorority

[WhiteDaisy128]

Alright, I'll share the NCSU story.

A little background first:

Here at NCSU, we have railroad tracks that go through the middle of the campus. There are bridges and tunnels that let people get from one side of the campus to the other - so you don't have to actually cross the tracks.

The other background info that is important is we have a building on campus called the 1911 building. It was not built in 1911.

Alright, so here is the story of how the building became the 1911 building. In 1911, the building was a dormatory and housed many of the students at NCSU. Hazing was still in full swing involving fraternities and pledges. A popular act of hazing was tying pledges to one of the railroad tracks. Well, only one set of tracks was opperational at the time - so the brothers would tie the pledge to the non-opporational track....and they would hear a train comming and get scared (naturally)...well the train would pass on the track right beside them and then the brothers would all laugh and untie the poor pledge...WELL, in 1911, the brothers did this and the pledge died. Not from being hit by the train, but of a heart attack because he really though he was going to be hit. The dorm that the boy lived in was renamed the 1911 building shortly thereafter when hazing was outlawed for any and every reason here at NCSU.


Now, I don't know if this is 100% true, but that is the story that is passed around campus. I do know that the 1911 building was NOT built in 1911, so that is not the reason it is named as such...