FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[finsleft]

Wait, they moved Seidenbush to Flynntown? Good grief. The damn place was condemned a few years ago and students are still living in there.

Yup! Before they turned Flynntown into a suburb, those were the only apartments on campus. Between the Art building and the Butcher shop overlooking the lake. It was a great place to live: location, private parking, view, kitchen and 2 refrigerators.

[johnnie_esq]

I remember the old Flynntown houses where Seidenbusch and Vincent are now.  THAT was a condemned place-- actual rats had better quarters there than students.  They burned the last one down after my frosh year thinking it would be great practice for the firemonks to get some live work about keeping big flames under control.

Problem was, the 80-plus years of alcohol seeped into the walls of the place made it go up like a match-- the firemonks didn't even get a chance to turn their hoses on once they lit it before it had already burned to the ground.  They were all left looking around like, "what do we do now?"

[Retired Old Rat]

Senior year we had a "garbage can" halloween party in Flynntown 9.  A bunch of guys camed dressed as KKK members.  Sometime late in the party I am walkingfrom the kitchen, in the back (where the garbage can was), to the front.  I see all these flames.  I thought the porch was on fire.  Then I realize the KKK was burning a cross in the front yard.

Fr. Rene, who attended the party, was NOT amused.  Even more so when he found
out these were guys who were on his floor as freshmen.

p.s.  At that time Campus Security or Life Safety or whatever they call it consisted of Br. Willy walking around at night with a flashlight.  I don' t think he ever made it as far as Flynntown.  Come to think of it, the also had students with flashlights.  One of my classmates got busted for stealing stuff while he was on patrol.

[Retired Old Rat]

Esq, that sounds like Flynntown 9.  We had a lot left over after the garbage can party broke up.

Never had rats but we had a lot of mice.  Really puts a dent in your appetite when you wake up with a hangover, go for something bland like breakfast cereal and a mouse jumps off the shelf, leaving plenty of evidence behind.

[finsleft]

p.s.  At that time Campus Security or Life Safety or whatever they call it consisted of Br. Willy walking around at night with a flashlight.  I don' t think he ever made it as far as Flynntown.  Come to think of it, the also had students with flashlights.  One of my classmates got busted for stealing stuff while he was on patrol.

We did have Pete Cheeley, who was Campus Security, but he had it worked out to pretty much a 9 to 5 deal, plus football and basketball games. After that, it was Br. Willy, Night Watchman. He would typically lurk around outside waiting for us to return from town because we'd always invite him in for a little brandy.

[holbi1]

The mice thing brings back a flood of memories from the late '60's
where EVERYTHING was in a state of flux.

We were on first floor Mary and had bookshelves made of cement blocks and planks stolen from the new construction of the dorms on the "tundra" (everyone had such furniture.....they could have built a whole dorm from what was stolen that year.)

Anyway, mice were rampant and we managed to trap one in a cement block. The only way we could dispatch it was to light a match and then spray "Right Guard" into the hole. It was a virtual mini-flame thrower
but worked perfectly and fried that little sucker to a crisp.

Don't know if that should be done anymore but it sure did the job back then..............my girl friend was appalled!

[Retired Old Rat]

Don't know if that should be done anymore but it sure did the job back then..............my girl friend was appalled!

They allowed girls in the SJU dorms at that time?   

[holbi1]

Retiredoldrat,

It was a test of your "manhood" to sneak them in.

Why do you think all of the seniors wanted rooms close to the door on 1st floor Mary??

[finsleft]

How about any Ole posters out there. Don't you guys have any old stories about mice, rats, beer, girls or...a football team?

With that segue....

SJU   27
Umyayas  6

Bet a Hamm's on it.

[Touchdown Tommy]

That looks like a very conservative estimate fins.  I see a more Bethel-esque performance from the Oles on Saturday.  Wide eyed and scared to death.  Johnnies romp a domp the Monkey Stomp 38-0.

[Mr.Shoes]

I'm thinking of SJU-Auggie Tech from fall '99. Both teams were 5-0 (4-0?) and we'd heard a lot about Augsburg coming in to give us a rude surprise. They went home on the wrong end of a 55-0 kicking.

However, the Oles are certainly better than Auggie Tech was that year...

SJU 44, STO 10

[frankrickard]

I just cracked open a tasty grolsch amber ale so as to get ready for work tonight.

All these stories are good, but I think we should get a new one from this Saturday to tell the grandkids.  I'm thinking Hamm's, kool-aid, burgers, an RV, stipper pole, hookers from Atlanta, Bus Driver taking a hang your balls shot to the balls and a SJU Land of Sky Blue Waters Monkey Stomp 42-12.

[Longtooth]

Now I am pretty sure that someone is going to say "they aren't in the league anymore",  but I thought this would be the best place to ask anyway......What is the situation with the Macalester Coach, resigning?  OAS I could use some insight.  Is it true that they want back into the league, and who will they look for to fill the job, internal.  Any thoughts?

[repete]

Holbi, ROR --

Mice made it all the way up to the 4th floor of Tommie in the early '70s.

As for females in the dorms, one of my fondest memories was flipping a coin with my roomie to see who got to ``use the room'' after one olf those old formal (suits!) dances. I won but roomie was not to be denied. We were on the top floor of Patrick and he paid the floor nerd a 12-pack to wire the elevator so it would stay only on our floor. Turned it right into his little love nest.

He (they) got out the next morning, just a couple of guys with toolboxes started going floor to floor with a monk.

This has huge blackmail potential given the ex-roomie's current position . . .

Then there was the streaker that turned a cormer at CSB and ran smack, i.e., nose-to-nose, with Sister Mary Mark.

[Freebird]

That looks like a very conservative estimate fins.  I see a more Bethel-esque performance from the Oles on Saturday.  Wide eyed and scared to death.  Johnnies romp a domp the Monkey Stomp 38-0.

So when was the last time you actually watched a SJU or a MIAC football game in general?