Question for ye olde tyme folks....

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Back in 2006, we were talking about the fact that Marquette closed due to the mass amounts of snow that fell.

Many of you remembered that Marquette closed due to cold weather, I was wondering what the actual temp and/or wind chill was...

Hoping for a day-off tomorrow.

[77ncaachamps]

Back in 1993, MU was closed due to -50 degrees (with temps at -20).

Damn knocked out OD's boiler...had to bundle up in sweaters and two comforters. Could see our breath in the room. And MU banned the use of space heaters (which were used anyways).

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We're looking at -12 degrees with -30 degree wind chills.

[spiral97]

that's nothing... if MU closes then I'll be disappointed.. they were close to not closing back in 93..

[Eye]

I definitely know the oddest weather I ever experienced at MU; walking to a spring final in a blizzard in May of 1990. I coached a baseball practice back in my hometown in Western Wisconsin later that afternoon.

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Well, it didn't happen, but it sure sounds like a lot of cars in the parking lot below me aren't getting up in this weather.

[ecompt]

when I got off the plane in MKE on Jan. 15, 1972, the ground tempertature was 22 below, with wind chills of 70 below. Ridiculously cold.

[MUMac]

December of 1977, I believe, MU closed due to cold as well.

[Tommy Brice for Coach]

This is definitely the coldest it has ever been in my 19 years of living.

Marquette should move its entire campus to Florida or Arizona or Hawaii.

[Nukem2]

Back in the Ice Ages of the 1960's, we gutted out far worse winters every year.  Never had any classes cancelled.  You modern day guys & gals are sissies and wimps!!     (Heee...heee...)

[DoubleMU0609]

Back in my day we walked 15 miles to school uphill both ways in the blowing 3 feet of snow...

[tower912]

When it didn't get above 5 below all weekend with windchills in the -50 range, real men headed to the bars.   Nuthin but pansies today.

[Pago Warrior]

Jan '94 first day back from winter break it was -35 which 'normally' in MKE is not all that bad, but it was made all the worse for me considering I had just returned from the islands where it was mid 80s; that's a +110 degree differential!!!

[muwarrior87]

other than noses freezing before reaching class today, it wasn't so bad, take out the wind and it wasn't that bad of a day. can't wait for the balmy temps of 18 above to come friday 

[mu_hilltopper]

Slightly OT, but I just saw that the Kosciuszko Park Boxing Club was closed today and tomorrow due to the cold.

What kind of BOXING CLUB is that?  The kitten / candy-ass sissy boxing club?  You'd think they'd go out and box in the open air without gloves.

Maybe I'm mis-reading boxing club, and it's some sort of gift-wrapping box club.

[MilTown]

Nothing wakes you up like a walk down Wisconsin avenue in the heart of winter. I found that it was a good hangover cure too.

I have always thought that MU should have made use of a skywalk system around the heart of campus. With the proximity of the buildings it would be easy to link everything up. There obviously would be some issues involved, but the functionality would be amazing. It also may be a waste because there are relatively few days where it is too cold to walk outside. I just thought it would be cool to have it. You could basically link Campus town, McCormick, and Schroeder to the Union, and then link the Union to the Library and then the school buildings to the library.

My other bright idea was to have walkways over wisconsin avenue in 3 spots. One at Cudahy, one at the library and one at 16th. They would be slowly rising arches that would allow students walking, biking or skating or whatever to safely cross Wisconsin.

Ok, enough of my MU master plan! Bring on Rutgers!

[spiral97]

there have been rumors of an underground tunnel system that links many if not all of the buildings together... supposedly they are all locked up now but the jesuits still use them to get around.  I was wandering around in the engineering annex at like 2am (was doing senior design work in a room allocated for us there) and ended up in the basement of Humphrey hall... saw the bakery (with dough being mixed and ovens running but NO people - talk about creepy) and then the locked doors of the morgue, etc. (double creepy).  Also came across the entrance to a long double wide hallway with an accordion style grate in front of it chained up with a padlock on it.  It just disappeared into the dark so no idea how far it went but it was in the direction of the alumni building.

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Sprial.... all I got is no way. I need to wander around Haggerty more.

[spiral97]

not haggarty.. the engineering annex.... that's the building on the west side of 17th street between wisconsin and wells - across from the parking structure and attached to humphrey hall.

[bma725]

there have been rumors of an underground tunnel system that links many if not all of the buildings together... supposedly they are all locked up now but the jesuits still use them to get around.  I was wandering around in the engineering annex at like 2am (was doing senior design work in a room allocated for us there) and ended up in the basement of Humphrey hall... saw the bakery (with dough being mixed and ovens running but NO people - talk about creepy) and then the locked doors of the morgue, etc. (double creepy).  Also came across the entrance to a long double wide hallway with an accordion style grate in front of it chained up with a padlock on it.  It just disappeared into the dark so no idea how far it went but it was in the direction of the alumni building.

The tunnel system is not a rumor at all, when my parents were graduate students back in the 1950s, they used them all the time and continued to use it after they became professors at MU in the 1960s.  There's even pictures of some of the tunnels in the Jesuit archives. 

Some of the tunnels have been filled up due to construction.  I know there was one that went to Coughline from the old Brooks Union, and from Coughlin towards Wisconsin(that was closed when they built Cudahy hall).

That said, what you were in isn't part of that system.  Its part of the sub-basement that remains from when Humphrey was still a hospital and isn't connected to the other stuff. 

[MUEng92]

I could just be making this up.  A few years back on the predecessor bulletin board, did someone post a link to a website about haunted buildings that included something about Humphrey Hall?  The morgue referenced either jogged my memory about a web page or maybe a nightmare I had.

[Pakuni]

I have always thought that MU should have made use of a skywalk system around the heart of campus. With the proximity of the buildings it would be easy to link everything up. There obviously would be some issues involved, but the functionality would be amazing. It also may be a waste because there are relatively few days where it is too cold to walk outside. I just thought it would be cool to have it. You could basically link Campus town, McCormick, and Schroeder to the Union, and then link the Union to the Library and then the school buildings to the library.

One word: Monorail. Hook Father Wild up with Lyle Lanley and MU students will be set for years to come.

[SoCalEagle]

I seem to remember that thread.  It had something to do with places in MKE that are haunted and somebody posted that Humphrey Hall used to be a morgue.  I think there were a few post about apparitions and stuff like that.  Kinda spooky.

[maxpower773]

I have always thought that MU should have made use of a skywalk system around the heart of campus. With the proximity of the buildings it would be easy to link everything up. There obviously would be some issues involved, but the functionality would be amazing. It also may be a waste because there are relatively few days where it is too cold to walk outside. I just thought it would be cool to have it. You could basically link Campus town, McCormick, and Schroeder to the Union, and then link the Union to the Library and then the school buildings to the library.

One word: Monorail. Hook Father Wild up with Lyle Lanley and MU students will be set for years to come.

Maybe I'm a bit biased because of my screen name...but I agree with Pakuni...we need a monorail lol

[bma725]

I seem to remember that thread.  It had something to do with places in MKE that are haunted and somebody posted that Humphrey Hall used to be a morgue.  I think there were a few post about apparitions and stuff like that.  Kinda spooky.

Its not that Humphrey used to be a morgue, thats not true. But Humphrey was Children's hospital, and the hospital itself had a morgue in it.  All hospitals do.  The structure for the morgue is still there, though not easily accessible.