Marquette University to build $96 million dormitory, demolish McCormick

[Groin_pull]

The old BMU was described very well as " a Chevy showroom"  and now they plan to rid West Wisconisn of the Beercan?  Oh man, I can't take it.  All five of my dad's sons lived there as freshmen in the 1980s.
I do wonder about this over educated PC "architect".   "Such a center would be holistic, offering spiritual and mental guidance in addition to fitness options such as a gym." she said."   Yeah, get your yoga down, but actually learn about Ignatius of Loyola and Jacques Marquette and what it means to be Catholic today?

Huh?

[warriorchick]

Chick, how do you know what a porn 'stache looks like?

From the character on "Orange is the New Black".

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

[warriorchick]

If MU wants to hold a raffle with the winner getting to detonate this piece of crap, I would pay big bucks for tickets.

FYI - Freshman year sixth floor, 1981 McCormick Alumni

Most of my McCormick friends back in the day were on the 12th floor, which was a designated "study floor".  Most of them stayed there sophomore year as well.

Amount of shenanigans that went on:  Almost none.

[Dr. Blackheart]

I call first dibs on the ice cream machine!

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I call first dibs on the ice cream machine!

Sorry bro, that was my rivals screen name.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

I call first dibs on the ice cream machine!

Get in line for that one. I would use a meal swipe just for the ice cream. (we did have unlimited though)

[Dr. Blackheart]

Sorry bro, that was my rivals screen name.

I paid for that lapsed domain name.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Craigslist has the Round Mound going for $450 a night for Alumni weekend.  MU throwing in a glass brick from the Lanche.

[tweakers_suck]

#303

[BigSliceoGuilianos]

#1117, 1986-87.  Those were good times.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

928, 1996-97.

actually met the old lady there freshman year.  We were conducting "experiments" to see how many floors down you could hear a 25 lb dumbbell dropped from the top bunk (the answer was the 3rd floor).  FryboyChick lived in 828, and didn't find us very funny.

We also hung a giant floor pot, that fell from the ceiling in the dining room out the window, on the safety bar outside the window.  by the next morning, it had slid all the way down to the top of the window of the 8th floor.  Admin had to cut the screen out of the 8th floor window to get the thing down. 

[Dr. Blackheart]

Get in line for that one. I would use a meal swipe just for the ice cream. (we did have unlimited though)

That ice cream machine picked up more oversized packages than a fork lift during Christmas season at the Amazon Distribution Center on Rte. 142.

[WarriorFan]

Very sad.  McCormick has personality.  In fact, it has about 35,000 personalities - those of all of us who lived there over the years.  I'd hate for it to be replaced by another "cookie cutter" no-style concrete and glass structure.  Why can't it be renovated and modernized?

I'm very glad I took my kids there last summer - to show them where I lived in 86-87 - and I dislike the part of getting old where key parts of my personal history disappear from the landscape. 

Best McCormick memory?  Sealing the 3rd floor bathroom drains and doors, flooding it 4 feet deep, and making our own indoor swimming pool.  I think both RA's were gone that weekend...

[warriorchick]

Very sad.  McCormick has personality.  In fact, it has about 35,000 personalities - those of all of us who lived there over the years.  I'd hate for it to be replaced by another "cookie cutter" no-style concrete and glass structure.  Why can't it be renovated and modernized?

I'm very glad I took my kids there last summer - to show them where I lived in 86-87 - and I dislike the part of getting old where key parts of my personal history disappear from the landscape. 

Best McCormick memory?  Sealing the 3rd floor bathroom drains and doors, flooding it 4 feet deep, and making our own indoor swimming pool.  I think both RA's were gone that weekend...

I heard it can't be "renovated and modernized" because of the extensive water damage that took place on the third floor in 1986 or 1987....

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

You can't renovate it because there's only so much you can do with pie shaped rooms in a round building.

We had some fun, not indoor swimming pool fun but there were some good times. Stealing someone's clothes from the bathroom holding the door shut then throwing the clothes on a girls floor. Someone (still don't know who) made a penis mural that covered the entire door entirely out of post it notes. Sitting in folding chairs out in the hallway after hearing some "activities" behind closed doors, etc.

And we were a calm floor, you shoulda seen the 4th floor my freshman year. Most disgusting place I've ever seen.

[ChicosBailBonds]

1205

[NotBuzzWilliams]

You can't renovate it because there's only so much you can do with pie shaped rooms in a round building.

We had some fun, not indoor swimming pool fun but there were some good times. Stealing someone's clothes from the bathroom holding the door shut then throwing the clothes on a girls floor. Someone (still don't know who) made a penis mural that covered the entire door entirely out of post it notes. Sitting in folding chairs out in the hallway after hearing some "activities" behind closed doors, etc.

And we were a calm floor, you shoulda seen the 4th floor my freshman year. Most disgusting place I've ever seen.

I think you mean 3rd floor.  That's the one I was on (same year as you) and it was total chaos.  Broken windows, the hallway getting trashed every weekend, food/puke all over the bathroom, all of the signs getting torn down.  Whatever the janitor was getting paid was not nearly enough.  Lots of great memories though.  Schroeder the next year just wasn't the same.

[dgies9156]

Goodbye old beer can. Like a stale bottle of Pabst, you were an integral part of the college experience at Marquette. I'm sure that if your walls could talk, you'd be Marquette's Animal House.

My eyes first caught Ms. Dgies at McCormick. And, no, she didn't drink the punch at the party that night.

[🏀]

If I see one more former RA make some BS comment on social media like 'Want to demolish it? Remove the RAs for a weekend!' I'm going to lose it.

Are RAs at every school just as conceited, arrogant, bigheaded, immodest, know-it-all, overbearing, pompous, smug, stuck up, swollen-headed, and vainglorious as Marquette RAs were/are? At least from 04-08?

This excludes are particular radio producer that happened to be a RA.

[Coleman]

If I see one more former RA make some BS comment on social media like 'Want to demolish it? Remove the RAs for a weekend!' I'm going to lose it.

Are RAs at every school just as conceited, arrogant, bigheaded, immodest, know-it-all, overbearing, pompous, smug, stuck up, swollen-headed, and vainglorious as Marquette RAs were/are? At least from 04-08?

This excludes are particular radio producer that happened to be a RA.

720. 2004-2005

Our RA was awesome, super laid back...let us have the run of the place. Of course the stuck up hall director fired him by Christmas break. That woman was bent on ruining the college experience, and in return we generally made her life miserable. Who chooses to live in a college dorm once you are no longer in college?  Besides our floor's RA, your observation is spot on.

Too many good times in McCormick to list. And honestly most of them are just better left unsaid. I really will miss it. 16th and Wisconsin will never be the same.

[🏀]

720. 2004-2005

Our RA was awesome, super laid back...let us have the run of the place. Of course the stuck up hall director fired him by Christmas break. That woman was bent on ruining the college experience. Besides our floor's RA, your observation is spot on.

Too many good times in McCormick to list. And honestly most of them are just better left unsaid. I really will miss it. 16th and Wisconsin will never be the same.

Pretty sure I know who you are if your user name matches your real name.

[Coleman]

Pretty sure I know who you are if your user name matches your real name.

It doesn't. At all.

But I lived in McCormick the same year as you, so we probably do know eachother.

[🏀]

It doesn't. At all.

But I lived in McCormick the same year as you, so we probably do know eachother.

Didn't actually live in McCormick, but same time period. Just horrid RAs across the staff.

[real chili 83]

RA's.

Rocky was pretty damned good.

RIP

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I might have smoked more grass in my RA's room than any other room in Schroder except 2.