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Sordid history of University dormitories
By GARY EOl TS
Assistant feature editor
So you thought your idea of a parity raid was original Sorrv-
panties and lustful undergraduates have been around for a while.
Along with the other guys on your hall, you keep the keg people
in business and consider yourselves bigger hell-raisers than the
motorcycle riding Angels
Sorry again.
A few years ago. housing officials discovered a still that was
being used to make moonshine inside a dorm. As for hell raisers,
opposing groups of sophomores and freshmen years before
almost destroyed a dorm in a fight over a picture of a movie
star.
THE PICTURE was of Myrna Loy the year was 1926 and as
Dean William Tate, Dean of Men Emeritus, put it, “the
sophomores just about tore up Candler Hall, the freshmen dorm
at that time The sophomores had stolen the picture from a
theatre in town and put it on the side of New College. The
freshmen got it, ‘ and war broke out,” Tate said.
“ You couldn’t be seen with a
drink in your hand”
—Storey
Among other misadventures, students of that day used to take
great enjoyment in sneaking into town, greasing the streetcar
tracks and then watching and laughing as the trolley tried in vain
to climb the hills.
Tate came to the University in 1920 when there were only three
dorms on campus. Old College, New College, and Candler Hall.
“Kent was $4 a month and there was no hot water after 5:00,” he
said.
He may have missed out on the water but he didn’t miss out on
the mischief “There’s a legend around that I got drunk and rode
a horse up and down the steps of Soule Hall, the first girls’
dorm.” Tate said Claiming no truth to the rumor, Tate did say
someone took a horse up the steps and he and the janitors had to
blindfold the horse to get it down—one step at a time.
He wasn't so lucky with the cow that was discovered on the
third floor of Candler one day. Absolutely refusing to go back
down the steps, the cow had to be hoisted out the third floor
window.
AS FOR panty raids, ‘ that’s all in the past,” Tate said a bit
sheepishly.
And the women can’t be counted out of the picture either. Nelle
Scholtz. former Director of Women’s Housing,tells of apanty raid
in which the women really aggravated the situation.
‘We called an immediate house meeting, but the girls came
downstairs dressed skimpily and gave the guys a great view as
they passed by the windows.”
Years ago. no liquor was allowed in the rooms and the women
had to have chaperones. “But most managed to get around that
by finding a chaperone who liked to drink,” Scholz said.
Through the years, the number of dorms and dorm residents
has grown by leaps and bounds to include well over 6000
occupants today The very image of campus housing has changed
because of the closing of old dorms and the appearance of
high-rise and married housing facilities.
MILLEDGE WAS the first to be completed in a series of
construction projects that would reach into the 60s Milledge was
competed in 1921 followed by Mary Lyndon and Clarke Howell in
1937 and Rutherford in 1938. The University had its first athletic
dorm with the completion of Payne in 1939.
With the decide of the 40s, a new breed of students came to
campus, Worln War II veterans. One particular veteran returned
and was hirer as director of men’s housing. John Storey is sti!
with the housing department 31 years later He’s seen it all
“When I came back after World War II, we were housing
students in such odd places as the top floor of Memorial and the
top and ground floor of the building behind Ag Extension on
Lumpkin Street,” Storey said. Three buildings just west of
Tucker Hall were also used to house students
“We also had a hall out at Memorial Park about two miles
from campus.” The roads weren’t paved and students sometimes
had a hard time getting to campus, “But they loved it,’’ he said.
“At that time, we had freshmen chapel once a week with
attendance required. The alcohol rule was strictly enforced. You
couldn’t be seen with a drink in your hand,” Storey said.
ONCE STOREY detected the distinct smell of home brew
drifting out of a dorm But he did not catch the culprits. “They
saw me coming and took the still down the back fire escape,” he
said. . A ,
“The Dean of Men’s office acted with parental guidance I went
to the stockade many times and bailed guys out. We also had
house mothers who sewed buttons and provided shoulders to cry
on.”
But progress marches on.
Married housing came to campus in 1947 in the form of trailers
that occupied the site of what is now the Georgia Center Reed
and Myers appeared in 1953 with Morris following in 1957.
Reed was built on the same site where once stood Lucas Hall,
an old house that served also as a residence hall. Myers
contributed to history by housing the first black female to
graduate from the University Morris has continued to house law
and graduate students, as it did at the outset.
THE HILL Community dorms were completed and occupied in
1961 Originally designed to be two multi-storied, high-rise
buildings, the community was built as six dorms, Hill, Church,
Boggs. Mell. Lipscomb, and Tucker.
Tucker has since been converted to office space as have other
dorms such as Joe Brown and Clarke Howell
Indirectly, student housing funds have helped to build
instructional facilities down through the years with dorms being
converted into offices and classrooms.
With the 60s came the realization of high-rise dorm facilities on
campus But the new facilities weren't enough to take care of the
increasing numbers.
When Creswell opened in 1963 there were women living in
studies. That year, the campus housing situation for men was
deemed “critical”.
In 1964, $7 million was approved foi the construction of two
multi-storied dorms for men and women The layout for the dorm
that was destined to become Brumby was stated as containing
“luxuries unheard of on the University campus such as a rotunda,
coed studies, and air conditioning.”
Russell was touted as being “a dream come true". Among other
things, "it will have corridor speakers over which music can be
played. Russell will be the beginning of an eloquent, unique,
educational living experience."
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