Marquette building two new dorms; McCormick is a goner

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Any 919 residents?

[MU82]

McCormick was quite dumpy even when I was a freshman during the 1978-79 school year ... but I loved it anyway.

Great location, near the rec center, nightlife and all of my classrooms. Great memories of keggers, which back then the school encouraged.

And my best friends are still guys from freshman year.

I'll miss that effen Beer Can In The Sky!

[mu03eng]

Still don't understand why they had "wings" for each floor. Just make it one big circle of rooms and be done with it.

Got in a drunken argument with my roommate (high school friend and groomsmen in each others weddings), he chased me out of the room, down the hall and I "escaped" into the other wing. Came walking back to see my clothes flying out the door, followed by my mattress. He and I semi-wrestled each other for about 30 seconds before we started laughing......went out to grab my mattress and we found our buddy from down the hall passed out on it, at 11PM on a Friday night. Yanked the mattress out from under him which spun him into the wall, which gave him a bloody lip but didn't wake up for another hour.

That place was the best.

[naginiF]

I was on the 7th floor in 84-85.   It was borderline obsolete then.

6th floor 84-85.   i'd take out the word borderline - i can't imagine being a frosh in the last 15 years and staying there.

[muwarrior69]

They opened McCormick my Senior Year, fall '68. Wonder how Schroeder has survived all these years.

[Litehouse]

They opened McCormick my Senior Year, fall '68. Wonder how Schroeder has survived all these years.

Schroeder was completely renovated around 92/93.

[jsglow]

They opened McCormick my Senior Year, fall '68. Wonder how Schroeder has survived all these years.

Schroeder is actually a much better building, albeit much older.  McCormick was built somewhat 'on the cheap'.  In terms of actual age, it might have been the most recently built of all the dorms currently utilized.  Marquette is blessed that the general campus area contained numerous old prestigious hotels that were remodeled into dormitories long before most of us were born.  Those building were built to last.  I suspect many of you have never been inside McCabe, opened maybe 5-6 years ago after a major retrofit.  The construction is simply magnificent.  What true Milwaukee craftsmen were capable of 80-100 years ago is incredible.

[Coleman]

Still don't understand why they had "wings" for each floor. Just make it one big circle of rooms and be done with it.

Got in a drunken argument with my roommate (high school friend and groomsmen in each others weddings), he chased me out of the room, down the hall and I "escaped" into the other wing. Came walking back to see my clothes flying out the door, followed by my mattress. He and I semi-wrestled each other for about 30 seconds before we started laughing......went out to grab my mattress and we found our buddy from down the hall passed out on it, at 11PM on a Friday night. Yanked the mattress out from under him which spun him into the wall, which gave him a bloody lip but didn't wake up for another hour.

That place was the best.

One of my best buds brought a unicycle to MU and would ride around the floors of the beer can

We'd also try to see how far we could bend a frisbee around the hallway

[Skitch]

They opened McCormick my Senior Year, fall '68. Wonder how Schroeder has survived all these years.

I lived in Schroeder 93-94 and it was all newly renovated. Was actually really nice.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Hall sports were the best. We played bags in the hallway in front of the elevators, another game we played was as a group you had to juggle a soccer ball and if you were the person who missed it or shanked it 3 times, you had to bend over head to the wall and everybody else got a chance to kick the soccer ball at you.

Also, those walls were thin. Almost everyone on the wing knew when someone else had a lady over.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Still don't understand why they had "wings" for each floor. Just make it one big circle of rooms and be done with it.

Got in a drunken argument with my roommate (high school friend and groomsmen in each others weddings), he chased me out of the room, down the hall and I "escaped" into the other wing. Came walking back to see my clothes flying out the door, followed by my mattress. He and I semi-wrestled each other for about 30 seconds before we started laughing......went out to grab my mattress and we found our buddy from down the hall passed out on it, at 11PM on a Friday night. Yanked the mattress out from under him which spun him into the wall, which gave him a bloody lip but didn't wake up for another hour.

That place was the best.

McCormick was designed to be all singles with a matching tower in Shyatt Field #1 to be connected by bridges.  Still, today, it is MU's newest dorm, slowly sinking.

[MUEng92]

38 years after moving into McCormick, the only active friendships I still have with are from McCormick Hall.

Same here. Three of my best friends to this day all lived on the 10th floor of McCormick 1988-89.

[keefe]

The Ardmore building is private property.  And from what I hear, the apartments are still in pretty good shape.

I did some serious fornicatin' in that building...

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I did some serious fornicatin' in that building...

I saw Diane Wiest at the Yale Rep in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days over the weekend as she performed what is essentially a 1.5 actor show.  It's a very very odd show and it's called the women's Hamlet as she is basically "stuck in place in the ground" reciting her lines the entire time.  The actor who plays her husband has very few lines and is seen more than heard.  One of his few lines, he screams, "Fornication!" and then starts laughing.

[warriorchick]

I did some serious fornicatin' in that building...

I don't know who you guys were allegedly fornicating with, but the Marquette girls I knew did a lot less putting out then what you guys claim you were getting.

Did you have a few slutty girls that you passed around or something?

[StillAWarrior]

I don't know who you guys were allegedly fornicating with, but the Marquette girls I knew did a lot less putting out then what you guys claim you were getting.

Did you have a few slutty girls that you passed around or something?

There's a pretty significant assumption in that question, Chick.

[warriorchick]

There's a pretty significant assumption in that question, Chick.

Which is.....?

[StillAWarrior]

Which is.....?

You reduced the potential target pool by approximately 50%.

[warriorchick]

You reduced the potential target pool by approximately 50%.

True enough.  How close-minded of me.

[StillAWarrior]

True enough.  How close-minded of me.

I'm told that there is nothing a combat pilot likes more than a target-rich environment.

[keefe]

38 years after moving into McCormick, the only active friendships I still have with are from McCormick Hall.

So...what are we?? Chopped liver?

[keefe]

I'm told that there is nothing a combat pilot likes more than a target-rich environment.

Fighter Pilot Rules:

Three F Rule: If it floats, flies, or...fornicates it's cheaper to rent

The only three transmissions allowed from a Wingman:

1. "Bingo"
2. "Dash One you are on fire"
3. "I'll take the fat one"

Go ugly early - a kill's a kill

Always fly or fornicate inverted at least once on every mission

Keep your scan going - constantly

Speed is life

Fight like you fornicate