Dorm Room Shenanigans

[Ari Gold]

This post is aimed at a few of our older Warrior Fanatics, but anyone should post if they have a great story:

What is the craziest, most ridiculous thing that you ever did or that ever happened to you while living in the dorms. There has to be dozens of stories about stuff that happens in McC every year, but someone has to have "that one story that tops everything else" and it's the reason why you're going to give your (future) kids a stern talking to before they go off to college themselves (or force them to commute if it was that bad).

[4everwarriors]

Can't vouch for the complete validity of this one, but heard it from several who claim they were there.
Seems that the 8th floor nerd at McCormick was getting on people's nerves all semester. Right before finals around 1973 or so, Maurice Lucas decided to take matters into his own hands. The nerd was rounded up and brought to Luke's room. The window screen was removed and Maurice grabbed that sucker by the ankles and held him upside down out of the 8th floor window. I guess if you had to be held out of the window, it would be comforting to know that Lucas was strong enough not to let go.

[Peoples_Republic_Warrior]

Last year, I went home for a concert one weekend, came back sunday evening. I went into the bathroom...one of the stall doors (which are pretty much bolted on to their fixtures) was torn off and snapped in half completely. I proceeded to walk out into the hallway and notice that half of the doors on our floor were covered in laundry detergent...I feel like that's one of the crazier times I experienced...

or maybe when somebody pooped in the common room...

or maybe when my friend ran around our floor naked...

or maybe when the maid refused to clean our bathroom because everyone would throw in the sinks/urinals, poop and never flush, and dump their empty beer cans in the tiny trash can in there, creating a mountain of empties, and expect this poor woman to clean it up...we went 2 weeks without a bathroom cleaning...

in conclusion, McCormick hall=insanity and the greatest times anyone's life

PRW

[tharocket]

McCormick Hall, room 734, a triple.

Up in the ceiling, there were a couple of bottles with notes on them, talking about old experiences in the room.

Me and my roommates created a "time capsule" full of cigarettes, notes, little liquor bottles, and some things I'd rather not mention in a public forum.

Anyway, there was some weed in there, because one of my roommates was a pretty big pothead.  Unfortunately, the room hall director got the suspicion he was dealing and called the cops.  The police came with a smelling dog, and the dog went right for his desk where they found about an ounce of some of the best gange you could smell.

The dog was also barking like crazy at the ceiling, and we didn't want the cops finding the time capsule because we had put some serious time into that.  The dog just kept barking like crazy, but the cops were pulling on its leash, trying to get it to shut up.  Eventually, they had to drag the dog out because they thought it had gone crazy, barking at the ceiling. 

[MUSig54]

My soph year at Schroeder, 2003-2004, one of my friends got a stripper and checked her into Schroeder. Desk person just let her in. That was an interesting night.

[texaswarrior74]

The Lucas story is half correct. I was at MU at the time. What actually happened was there was a guy who started what almost became an all out race riot in the McCormick cafeteria. It had started on the floors and  over time spread to other areas in the dorm culminating with the cafeteria incident. After several weeks of tension and small incidents, Lucas took matters into his own hands, literally.

I knew another guy from his hometown and high school (which was in a suburb of where I lived) who also lived in McCormick and regularly rode back and forth with me on breaks. I got the whole story as it was happening.

The guy was moved to the first floor of Schroeder in a single right by Father Naus's room for his safety for the rest of the semester.

The guy transfered to another school the next year; rumor had it that he was asked not to return.

[Hards Alumni]

convinced our RA in OD, my freshman year, to let us throw a party in our 'wing'.  Somehow he agreed and we all got bombed in the wing with his approval...

Sophomore year, In the newly rennovated "Straz" hall (it was East Hall when I was there) my friends down the hall were playing 'dorm room nerf basketball' and managed to hit a sprinkler head in their room on the 6th floor... causing it to gush water 4 inches deep in their room in approximately 30 seconds.  If anyone tells you that sprinklers aren't effective, they are full of sh it.  The kids on the floors below them were NOT pleased.  Ended up costing them over $5k each (4 of them) to get everything repaired, and took about a week for all the water to finally dry up.

[Brewtown Andy]

My soph year at Schroeder, 2003-2004, one of my friends got a stripper and checked her into Schroeder. Desk person just let her in. That was an interesting night.

As long as she had a photo ID and she wasn't wearing a nametag that says, "I'm a stripper," I can't possibly see how the desk person would have stopped her.

[MUeng]

freshmen year we found a keg in madison, brought it back, snuck it into mccormick in a large suitcase, and threw it out a 7th floor window.  we all watched from below, crazy.  it was funny watching dps, they were so confused.

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

Freshman year in O'Donnell, one of my buddies lived at the far NE corner of the 3rd Floor.  An alley between 18th and 19th ran along this part of the building.  So when we wanted to sneak beer in, we would load it in a backpack, drape an extension cord outside the building, tie it to the backpack, and pull it up thru his window (with screen removed).

Sophomore year, in Schroeder:

One of the guys on the floor decided to throw a party in his triple the weekend our RA was out of town.  After the duty RAs went to bed for the night, we decided to stack all our empty beer cans against the RA's door.  He came back early the next morning (like 8AM) to find his room inaccessable due to the wall of beer cans. 

Later on this year, during parents' weekend, one of my neighbors ripped pages out of his playboys and put them on the door of everyone in our wing. 

The night we beat Pittsburgh in 2003, my buddies on the 4th floor destroyed a futon into pieces celebrating in their hallway.  2 days later, we broke into a buddy's room on the 4th floor to watch the Kentucky game, drank down his fridge full of beer, and pulled the fire alarms after the game to help clear the building and get everyone outside to run to the lake. 

Non-dorm shenadigan, but we had chronic fire alarm issues during the winter of 2003.  So on a Thursday night at about 2:00, the alarm was pulled by a drunk coming back from Thirsty Thursday, so we had to leave the building.  Everyone headed over to Cudahy to stay warm.  Two of my neighbors went up to the 4th floor, picked up one of the giant potted plants, and threw it OVER THE EDGE into the atrium floor of Cudahy 5 stories below, covering the entire floor of Cudahy in dirt.  Thank God no one was down there at least.

[77ncaachamps]

The Lucas story is half correct. I was at MU at the time. What actually happened was there was a guy who started what almost became an all out race riot in the McCormick cafeteria. It had started on the floors and  over time spread to other areas in the dorm culminating with the cafeteria incident. After several weeks of tension and small incidents, Lucas took matters into his own hands, literally.

I knew another guy from his hometown and high school (which was in a suburb of where I lived) who also lived in McCormick and regularly rode back and forth with me on breaks. I got the whole story as it was happening.

The guy was moved to the first floor of Schroeder in a single right by Father Naus's room for his safety for the rest of the semester.

The guy transfered to another school the next year; rumor had it that he was asked not to return.

Did he end up at Notre Dame?


Sophomore year at Mashuda, some kids on the floor decided to rig a Roman candle with a time-delay fuse so when they lit it and it went down to the lobby, it'd go off.

It did.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

sitting in the mccormick hall cafeteria for lunch.  one of the giant fake plants that they had hanging from the ceiling suddenly falls.  we go grab it and take it up to our floor.  push aside the already cut screen and tie the giant plant to the support bar that ran outside the window.

the next morning, we are woken up by dps and the hall director demanding to know why the giant plant was hanging out the window.  the best part was that the plant had slid down the bar in the night and to get it down, they had to cut the screen in the floor below.  was pretty funny to see a giant plant hanging from mccormick.

then there was the night when we lived off campus when we had to call the fire department on ourselves.  that made the paper.   

[GOMU1104]

Beer pong can easily be set up in a Straz Quad...take the plywood under the matress and prop it up on some chairs.

We had a big beer pong event scheduled one night, and I was on my way to the room. I get a call telling me not to bother...party busted. Apparently the RA found out, and decided to pour all 48 cans of miller lite down the toilet....heartbreak.

Funny thing is, when the RA came into the room, one kid decided to hide in the shower as to aviod getting written up. He was able to hide in the shower the entire time the RA was dumping the beer down the toilet.



A prank that I have always been fond of...fill up a grabage can with water and lean it on its edge against the door. Knock on the door, and leave...person opens the door and the water pours out. They have no idea what hit em.


Want a free pizza from Papa Johns? Try the "Roomate Special"...two Large Pizzas for the price of 1. I dont know if the promotion actually exists, but it worked everytime, no coupon necissary.

[mu_hilltopper]

Dorm security must be incredibly variable.  We had a quad at West .. which shared a wall with the Hall Director, who lived there.  She found out about our first party, but told us .. just keep it under control, keep the noise down after midnight, and we'll be fine.  Had numerous parties with her tacit approval.

As for shenanigans..

One month, one of my roommates didn't pay the phone bill (most of which was his) and our phone was disconnected.  We'd noticed an access cover in our bathroom with 100s of phone wires going through the wall.  With some alligator clips and some patience finding wires that were paired, we eventually tapped into someone's phone and could dial out .. although we didn't know whose it was ..  turned out to be the campus ministry couple (husband and wife) who lived at West.    No good.  Picked some other wires, and used someone's phone for a week.  (And no, we didn't make long distance calls on their dime.)

On occasion, the other party would pick up during our call and we'd say "oh, gosh, the lines must be crossed again."

[BringInTheReaper]

I lived on the 9th floor of Schroeder 2 years ago, one night the majority of our floor decided to have a slip n, slide down the hallway.  So a few people went down to the desk and got a hundred or so garbage which we ductaped to the floor and then covered it with water and shampoo.  When the RAs came around about 15 minutes later, the floor above us complained about making too much noise and someone yelled at them, everyone was in the shower.  Eventually the RAs corraled a few people, and one of the guys, who was slightly intoxicated, started screaming you will never find out who did this.  As it ended up the head of residence life thought it was really funny, and no one actually got in trouble.  Supposedly that night is used as a training example for the new RAs on how to deal with extraordinary situations.

[Ari Gold]

On a slightly less interesting sidebar to this conversation. How many times have people broken the curfew rule with members of the opposite sex?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

On a slightly less interesting sidebar to this conversation. How many times have people broken the curfew rule with members of the opposite sex?

Never.

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

On a slightly less interesting sidebar to this conversation. How many times have people broken the curfew rule with members of the opposite sex?

How many times have YOU, Ari?   

[tower912]

Violating curfew with the opposite sex?   That's not all I was violating....  Lived in (Carpenter) Tower for two years.   Kept it relatively in house while I was there.      We cut a hole in the carpet by the elevator and had putting contests.   Lost a frisbee out the north window that ended up out on 43.    Porn nights when porn meant something.    Shaving gel on the ear parts of phones and then calling.    Roommates walking in during the violating.    Passing out on the john freshman year at the beer can.    Minor league stuff.

[StillWarriors]

My frosh year in McCormick there was this one couple that was always all over each other in the cafeteria. The guy was commonly referred to as Bon Jovi due to his long hair/rocker look. The girl was a pretty attractive blonde with big hair that was common at the time.

One night, Bon Jovi's roommate got sick of them going at it with him in there, which apparently happened all the time. The roommate complained, so Bon Jovi pulled his mattress and a blanket into the hallway and went back to work. Somebody told the RA who came over and told them they had to get out of the hallway. Bon Jovi asked why and the startled RA came up with, "um, fire hazard."

[chapman]

Fill two kiddie pools in the open area where all the showers are in Schroeder, turn every single shower on and have a pool party.  It'll also flood at least two floors below.

[gjreda]

McCormick 9th floor

One of my floormates dared the other (extremely inebriated) to take the communal vacuum and knock down the exit sign in our hallway.  He did.

A ping pong ball getting lit on fire and in turn setting my carpet on fire.

Going to a garage sale, buying little kids bikes, and riding them around the the floor.

Doors getting drunkenly peed on (including the RA's) was also a seemingly regular occurrence.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Fill two kiddie pools in the open area where all the showers are in Schroeder, turn every single shower on and have a pool party.  It'll also flood at least two floors below.

chapman, did you do that in 1997-98?  6th floor?

[🏀]

I had plenty of shenanigans throughout my time at Marquette. I always thought they were cheeky and fun, but the majority of people thought they were cruel and tragic.

[gjreda]

I had plenty of shenanigans throughout my time at Marquette. I always thought they were cheeky and fun, but the majority of people thought they were cruel and tragic.

Well then that makes them not really shenanigans at all... Evil shenanigans.