My roomate from University got me on facebook - post some memories.

[HEyHEY]

God damn, I love that guy. I've not spoken to him much in the last few years. He was one of four of us.His name awas Axel and he came from the Ivory Coast. The guy was one of the most genuine people I've ever met in my life, and a total piece of eye-candy for the girls too. I remember once my other room-mate, Stephan, walked into his room without knocking and I just heard him break out laughing.... I went to see what the commotion was and there was Axel, wearing nothing but a pair of breifs and black leather gloves dancing around, without shame, to "that's the breaks" by Kurtis Blow. The ensuing laugh riot will forever be etched in my brain.

I fucking miss all those dudes.

Post some university memories.

[rockymountaindem]

1. University memories?

Well, I guess one of my best university memories would have to be the day of my last exam. I finished my economic history exam at noon, then walked back over to my residence where there was a bit of a block party happening in the quad. People were shooting off fireworks, drinking in public, the whole nine yards. The RAs and administrators didn't seem to care at all. Later some friends of mine and I walked over to a Blue Jays game, then we returned after nightfall and commenced to partying in the quad until all hours of the night.

Later some freshmen in our group returned from a visit to Trinity College and reported that they had, um... wet down the precious sundial in their quad and got into a colorful verbal dispute with some Trin dudes. Right before those dudes fell asleep under a tree, they told us soon-to-be-grads how sad they were that we would be leaving. That was real nice. Made me feel like my buddies and I were leaving a bit of a legacy.

[HEyHEY]

2. Stuck up trinity bastards!

[rockymountaindem]

4. Those people apparently had some killer parties

We kept it more mellow and were left to our own devices. Oh well. When they came 'round in first year to do their stupid chants about how much better Trinity is, the Saint Michael's boys (myself not included) ambushed them with oranges and milk jugs. har har har.

[HEyHEY]

7. Isn't it refered to as "Country club U"

[rockymountaindem]

9. I've only heard of it as "the Yale of Canada"

Having visited Yale and walked by Trinity all the time I think there is some architectural similarity. I can't speak to anything else other than that Trin people always had a little air of pretension.

[HEyHEY]

10. Pf, by who? trin students?

[rockymountaindem]

12. Yeah, mostly n/t

[malta blue]

3. My girls and I went to this 70s party

I am the one on the left in the one-piece dress that looked like a three piece suit :puke:

Three of us are still good friends, 20+ years later!

I can't tell you much about the party, I frankly don't remember :smoke:

[TZ]

5. Okay. I was a real bookworm...

Didn't party much and lived in an all female dorm referred to around the campus as "The Nunnery". However, I did enjoy living there because once a month a whole group of guys from the all male dorm next door (usally between 15-30) would streak around the quad..AND they would stop right in front of our door and do nekkid jumping jacks..:9
The song they played as they streaked was "The William Tell Overture" I CANNOT hear that song without thinking about the Chestertown Streakers..:)

[Arugula Latte]

6. Looking out 5th fl. dorm laundry room watching the fog rolling under the Golden Gate Bridge @ sunset

* Walking on a very trashed campus after an anti-apartheid riot (Berkeley in the mid-80s).

* Strolling up "Cardiac Hill" on my way to class while the Campanile (bell tower) chimed, cup of coffee in my hand, not a care in the world.

* Sitting in the sun with a latte and a madeleine at the outdoor cafe at the top of Bankcroft Way near the top of campus, overhearing conversations in French and Italian.

* Reading in my favorite grassy secluded spot after hopping across Strawberry Creek on campus.

* 3 am dorm chats in the lounge (it was a real lounge, too, not a virtual lounge like this one :) )

* Lots of drunken fun in Berkeley and San Francisco. Lots and lots.

* Riding behind my boyfriend on the back of a scooter up into the Berkeley Hills, with the smell of eucalyptus and the Bay spread out below.

I could to on and on...

[bigwillq]

8. Doing shots of Tanqueray

being carried across campus by my two buddies, puking in the elevator and passing out on the floor in my friend's room. Good times! :)

[leftyclimber]

11. Telling a professor off for telling sexist jokes in class

He went way over the edge. I was harassed for the whole rest of the quarter by the right-wing "newspaper" staffers who were in the class with me

Sitting in the art museum, reading and watching the koi

Singing in the Collegium Musicum (early music ensemble)

Getting up, going fencing, going home, taking a shower, going to ballet class, going home, taking a shower, going to classes, squeaking in some homework, going home to get my gym bag, going to the gym to lift, going home, taking a shower, getting my fencing bag, going to fencing, going fencing, going home, taking a shower, going to bed. Lather, rinse, repeat. Literally.

Sitting up until 2 in the morning with my roommate talking about religion

My weird neighbor whose apartment was about 3 feet deep in loose paper and had tons of mildew on the windows

The neighbors downstairs who like to smoke really bad pot and play the bongo drums in the wee hours of the morning

Running into a friend from junior high in the dorm cafeteria

Eugene Celebration

Zeus and Frog (Oregon alumni know who I'm talking about)

Seeing Curtis Salgado and the Stilettos for free one spring

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies

Seeing Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians for three bucks (funniest encore ever)

Seeing Bill Clinton speak twice; once at the EMU (student union) and once at Mac Court (also the Crazy 8's last show)

Watching our defensive line sack Ty Detmer three times on national television

Hearing students say, "Oh, look, a protest -- let's go!" without checking to see who was protesting about what

The white guy who decided to express solidarity with the LA African-American community after the Rodney King verdict by going down to the Federal courthouse and kicking in some windows. Caught on security camera. IIRC he claimed to be unfairly arrested even though they had him on tape and there were a bunch of witnesses

The annual Renaming of Buildings ritual, ensuring that you could never find any of your classes.