I wonder if this would be a good place to collect the legends about NCF that we all have in our back pockets? Or, perhaps it would soil the romance of hearing /n/ different versions of the story over fermented sugar in Palm Court? Anyway, in the spirit of being cagey, I'll begin with this query.
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Re: Legends.
Sun, October 23, 2005 - 12:52 PMI was a New College legend. I once consumed 25 hits of LSD!!! Contrary to what you might think, I had a small convo, somebody drove me to get a pizza, I ate the whole thing, and then I went to sleep. I'm sure I have forgotten some of the details, but it wasn't the mind-blower you might have thought. 3-8 hits seems to be the optimal range.
BTW, you denigrated and qualifier-ed yourself as you were making your request; ipso facto, you must be a New College alum. -
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Sun, October 23, 2005 - 1:14 PMWhat is more important than our legends and tales at New College is what we have done since then. I went from an infamous and dubious distinction as New College "acid king" to radio legend today (well, maybe I'm exagerrating a little; but I never fault anyone for having big dreams).
I know what it means to be stuck in a slump (and a slum) - but I also know what it means to Dare To Be. If you are having a downer of a day, don't worry - if you pick yourself up, the sun will shine again. Never, never criticize yourself for trying to improve your personal situation.
As much fun as New College was, and as much as I get nostalgic feelings for the place; nothing beats the high you get when you take control of your adult life, and strive to shape your own destiny.
Dare to Dream, Dare to Be!
Life Is Stranger Than A Trip!
Some Cookies Have No Fortune!
Now for some shameless self-promotion:
For anyone in the Orlando area, I am now the official voice of Brevard County on WPGS 840AM and I voice all of the "Civil Rights Legends" PSA's. Help me give the conservatives a hard time at www.talkstarradio.com, where I produce/co-host The Jim Greenfield Show.
Help me in my efforts to knock Clear Channel out the box.
Also, for anyone who remembers Mr. Wizard as a kid, he is our special guest next Sunday on the show "Galaxy of Science" with David E. Jones.
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Fri, January 20, 2006 - 6:15 AMWhat about the one where a student went a little nutty and deduced that Ham Center was a stronghold of some kind of space colony. My memory of the legend is that he proceeded to fashion a space vessel out of the furniture he could find lying around, perhaps as a way of escaping an impending siege. According to the story, he was found the next morning hiding under a pile of furniture, babbling to himself.
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Fri, January 20, 2006 - 9:20 PMAron Edidin has never done acid. Reliably true.
Amphetamines, yes. Acid, no. -
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Sun, January 22, 2006 - 7:02 PMSo he didn't confuse a hapless student for a grapefruit and run over him in a citrus-hallucination-induced panic? Cuz, that's what I heard. -
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Mon, January 23, 2006 - 11:45 PMNo, he did hit a student who was riding her bike; I think it was at night and she didn't have reflectors or something. She wasn't hurt. He felt very bad about it and offered to give her ISP credit, I heard, but that might also not be true. (That he offered to give her ISP credit, not that he felt bad about it.)
At home, his car is always parked under a grapefruit tree, and is covered with grapefruit as a result. One student commented that maybe he thought the cyclist was a grapefruit, and the legend was born.
I have NO IDEA where the broccoli one comes from.
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Thu, January 26, 2006 - 12:09 AM"So he didn't confuse a hapless student for a grapefruit and run over him in a citrus-hallucination-induced panic? Cuz, that's what I heard."
That one's TRUE! The student's name was Todd Kellstein, a white dude with the longest dreds you've ever seen. It was just before I got there. I've never seen a grapefruit with dreds before, but that's what Aron supposedly saw . . .
Does he still play a mean game of ping-pong? -
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Sun, January 29, 2006 - 5:20 PMHe still beats all comers at ping-pong, yes. I still maintain that even though he hit the student it wasn't because he thought he was a grapefruit.
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Sun, January 29, 2006 - 9:38 AMI never went exploring, or spluking, them, but I heard many tales of the tunnels under the Pei dorms. The story was that they where popular in the early days of the school, but the administration locked them down for safety reasons, and impossed harsh punishments for being caught down there. I always wondered what, if anything, was down there. -
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Sun, January 29, 2006 - 5:22 PMSure, they lock them, but I never heard of these "harsh punishments" of which you speak. It was far more likely to be a harsh "You dumbass, there's asbestos and shit down there; stay out! And stop tripping in sewers! It's ALWAYS bad!"
I've seen photos-- There's grafitti and "offerings" by Novo Collegians of the past, and that's about all. And maybe asbestos and shit.
Oh, and zombies, but if you hit them in the head with your maglight they aren't much of a threat.
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Mon, January 30, 2006 - 1:10 PMThe one tunnel I was in contained nothing but trash and candles left by students. They weren't as glamorous as "underground tunnels" would lead one to think. Merely boxy concrete with low ceilings (4 feet or so) and lots of chalk drawings on the walls -- all of them recent. Also, I don't recall that it went under Pei, but rather under the ground between the structures. But yes, they were typically kept locked. I didn't know anyone who was caught in them to know what sort of punishment was doled out -- but guessing from the generally lax standards of discipline, I would imagine it was a slap on the wrist,
I think my favorite New College legend involved the supposedly haunted Old Caples building with the phantom pianist. -
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Wed, February 1, 2006 - 8:53 PMUnfortunately you couldn't stand up in them, and therefore not much fun... Remember when Pei had fountains? -
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Wed, February 1, 2006 - 10:30 PMI'm so depressed that the phallic circle was destroyed... thus loosing indescribably hideous horrors from the elder chaos before the birth of the world upon us all, or something, probably.
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Sat, February 4, 2006 - 11:55 AM"Unfortunately you couldn't stand up in them, and therefore not much fun."
hmmm, sid, i always thought the fact you couldn't stand up made it more fun, since then they seemed like ten times longer that way, waddling like a retarded duck the whole time. or on a skateboard lying down, with friends...
though they certainly pale in comparison with those caltech tunnels...
"Remember when Pei had fountains?"
remember when we would fill our asses up from those and see how long we could hold it? yeah, that's fuzzy for me too...
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