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CAMPUS LIFE - now and then

Mc said

8) Dear Moderators and alumni:

Anyway we could refresh this post for new and potential students? It might be a way to better explain what life is like when you are an Owl, and a way to explain our school's history.

Thanks,
McOwl (nee' Proudowl)

I "stickied" this topic…great suggestion!
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I was there from 95-99.

I moved into the notorious algonquin for my freshman year. I remember the painted sidewalks from the sports teams, clubs, frats, & sororities. The trailer convenient store in the middle of the dorms, ran by Sonny. The landscaping was minimal and I remember the parking lots had tie downs from the old airport runways, always thought it was nice to tie my car down during a storm. Hockey in the parking lots. My entire dorm was put up in a hotel for like 3 months due to asbestos.

Sophomore year I moved into the new student apartments, which were nice because they were new, but horribly built, support columns everywhere to keep the walkways up. I worked at the 5th Ave Shops Publix.

Saw the black eyed peas for the yearly halloween bash before they became big. Violent Femmes concert at the student center, everything got tore up.

My senior year I moved off campus to Deerfield.

Soon after that I know they put in all the palm trees, way more new buildings, major transformation.


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NCowl said

I was there from 95-99.

I moved into the notorious algonquin for my freshman year. I remember the painted sidewalks from the sports teams, clubs, frats, & sororities. The trailer convenient store in the middle of the dorms, ran by Sonny. The landscaping was minimal and I remember the parking lots had tie downs from the old airport runways, always thought it was nice to tie my car down during a storm. Hockey in the parking lots. My entire dorm was put up in a hotel for like 3 months due to asbestos.

Sophomore year I moved into the new student apartments, which were nice because they were new, but horribly built, support columns everywhere to keep the walkways up. I worked at the 5th Ave Shops Publix.

Saw the black eyed peas for the yearly halloween bash before they became big. Violent Femmes concert at the student center, everything got tore up.

My senior year I moved off campus to Deerfield.

Soon after that I know they put in all the palm trees, way more new buildings, major transformation.



Wow this doesnt even seem like the FAU I goto
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NCowl said

I was there from 95-99.

I moved into the notorious algonquin for my freshman year. I remember the painted sidewalks from the sports teams, clubs, frats, & sororities.

Saw the black eyed peas for the yearly halloween bash before they became big. Violent Femmes concert at the student center, everything got tore up.



I do miss the blocks, as a fraternity guy back then, it was always one of our favorite times of the year, the weekend that everyone got together and painted their block.

Also, that Freakers Ball (with the Black Eyed Peas) was really good, oddly enough, I STILL talk about the guy that won the costume contest that year (scientist/radioactive spill drum/guy?) , still the best halloween costume I've ever seen.
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Rick said

Does anyone remember the Sammy's "secret bus parties" organized by Kurt Federow and his bunch?

Where they would take you on the bus, for a modest fee, to an undisclosed location (with the windows blacked out by garbage bags even sometimes) and a myriad of under age drinkers would guzzle tons of cheap keg beer?  Usually Natural Lite, or Busch?

i believe one of them actually was at Spanish River Beach, and that went bust early…


it was kind of silly to make it a secret…once you took a ride on the bus, you knew where it was and could call people and tell them…lol

I went to these in High School.  I remember one of them being at what appeared to be an abandoned train station.  Quite a good night.
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In a post several years ago (much higher on this thread), I mentioned an old single-family home across Glades Road from one of the south entrances to a much-smaller FAU. It was in a thicket, pretty much hidden from passing traffic on Glades. Access was via an unpaved road carved out of the thick bushes, etc. When I posted that, I could not remember the name of the house. Subsequently some friends who were at FAU about the same time as me (1967-1969) came up with it: The Catalyst. It was home to poetry readings, pro civil rights material, anti Vietnam war material and some music accompanied by acoustical guitar. The Catalyst was very much a product of the times, and it became a welcome respite for the handful of FAU students who had time for any kind of activist thought (as opposed to those who spent so much time commuting or working to support themselves). It was on FAU property, which was legally dry at the time. So the main drink at The Catalyst was what passed for decaf in those days: Sanka. Sanka, for the uninitiated, generally was of the instant coffee variety (rather than brewed) and was strong enough to float a horseshoe, if not dissolve it. (I shudder to think about what it did to our stomachs.) In those years, Boca was very conservative so this was about the only place in town to hear an alternative view. We always figured about a quarter of those in attendance were undercover cops or gumshoes of some sort -- all looking for subversives, I suppose. But I never did get around to filing Freedom of Information demands for any material about me, and I never heard of anyone else doing it.
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