20-04-2003 01:21									#31
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quote: Originally posted by red_jon Why are lecture theatres almost always named after companies which have nation-wide boycotts?

I think it's a ploy by University admin to annoy the hard-left student groups that represent nobody and cause them so much irritation...

	20-04-2003 01:24									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Boddington's Gosh you can tell when you walk into a lecture room and there has been either a computer science or physics lecture...the room stinks awful. Anyone other uni guys noticed this?

Yep.

	20-04-2003 01:25									#33
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quote: Originally posted by *End Is Forever* I think it's a ploy by University admin to annoy the hard-left student groups that represent nobody and cause them so much irritation...

Money - that's it. The government doesn't fund them properly so they have to go begging.

	20-04-2003 01:26									#34
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quote: Originally posted by MRT144 one of my friends roommates is a compsci physics double major, and stinks to high heaven. his resident assistant actually demanded that he take a shower once a week. how foul is that?

****ing gross

	20-04-2003 01:33									#35
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Theres a guy on my floor at uni who stinks, but he's an engineering student.

	20-04-2003 02:19									#36
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physics for the most patr did not have any hgene issues

(only times people went showeless is when thety spent all night doing physics)

Comp-Sci on the other hadn seems to have some of those type of epople

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I personallyt can't get going in the morning without a shower (even though I am occasionaly accused of going without mostly because my hair is an uncombed mess)

if I miss a shower for whatever reason (usually having to do with being late), I always ahve to return home as soon as my schedule allows it in order to take a shower

it just feels wrong

Jon Miller

	20-04-2003 02:24									#38
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I don't shower. There are demons in the water.



Seriously though, In chemistry, sometime we have to stink. But not BO type of stench. Imagine a REALLY strong smell of Vinegar, for example.

	20-04-2003 02:43									#39
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I make sure I shower every day - even if it means I'm late (though I have awsome powers of flukiness - a short while back ay my friend Emma was surprised to find me going into the shower at 8:50 when we had a seminar at 9.00 - I managed to get there on time, having done my usual routine and walked to the other end of campus. She wasn't pleased )

	20-04-2003 02:56									#40
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quote: In addition to a Petro-Canada Lecture Theatre, ChevronTexaco Lecture Theatre, BP-Amoco Lecture Theatre...

Those are priceless!

You go to UofC, right?

I don't think UofA has any of those... Though I'm pretty sure there is a Telus building.

Doesn't have quite the same effect.

	20-04-2003 02:59									#41
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quote: Originally posted by cinch Those are priceless! You go to UofC, right?

Yep.

I forgot to mention the Shell Canada Theatre too, and that's the one I'm in most...

All of those named theatres were built in the late 70s though, during the hey-day of the oil boom.

All the new stuff are things like "ICT Lecture Theatre One". :/

There's also a huge Esso/Exxon Research Centre, but that's named that because it's an Esso/UofC joint venture thing. Not the same thing.

	20-04-2003 03:20									#42
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quote: There's also a huge Esso/Exxon Research Centre, but that's named that because it's an Esso/UofC joint venture thing. Not the same thing.

Yeah, I think that's what the Telus thing is, too.

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	20-04-2003 03:23									#43
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Our business school/faculty was renamed "Haskayne School of Business" after a very large private donation from one guy named Haskayne.

	20-04-2003 03:31									#44
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Hmmmm

that's what they say about CS and physics students in my school too. But they also expand it to gifted class.

Somehow it feels awkward to be a gifted student, studying CS and physics.... (as well as extra english translation).

But I'm actually one of the least funky / mingy in our class

	20-04-2003 03:35									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Asher LOL. We've got tons of those, we've got an Esso Lecture Theatre as well. In addition to a Petro-Canada Lecture Theatre, ChevronTexaco Lecture Theatre, BP-Amoco Lecture Theatre... The oil companies love my uni.

That's what happens when you go to a nouveau-riche university. All ours are named after wealthy citizen donors or famous faculty (Marshall McLuhan; Northrop Frye; etc.).

	20-04-2003 04:32									#46
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We have the Johnny Carson Theater here at UNL. Beat that.

	20-04-2003 05:18									#47
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rj, yeah the good old esso, had a friday afternoon concepts of law lecture there, luckily i didn't go very often.

the welsh names are a ****ing joke, it's not as if anyone actually speaks welsh. still, one the birds in our block still reckons the funniest thing ever was me and andy (a fellow cockney) trying to pronounce all the welsh names.

	20-04-2003 05:40									#48
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If you think corporate names on buildings/lecture rooms are examples of university pimping, stay away from business schools (although you probably would anyway). In North America, most of the top business schools are named after some large private donor, and the rooms often have corporate sponsorship. My school at U of T was the Rotman school (after a rediculously wealthy industrialist/entrepreneur/philanthropist), and I think every single room was named via corporate sponsorship (eg: CIBC room, CP room). The funny thing is, no one ever referred to the rooms by their corporate names, but rather simply by the room number. Talk about sponsorship going to waste!

	20-04-2003 06:26									#49
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Obviously none of you have been to the Ted Striker School of Gynecology at UV.

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	20-04-2003 07:04									#50
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Our lecture theatres displayed the height of imagination, being named Lecture Theatre 1, Lecture Theatre 2, Lecture Theatre 3... No sponsorship there.

	20-04-2003 07:16									#51
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No sponsorships here either, just [floor][wing] - [room], e.g. 15A-02.

	20-04-2003 07:20									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Zopperoni No sponsorships here either, just [floor][wing] - [room], e.g. 15A-02.

All the Sponserships have those names too, but there's large plaques outside with the name and logo as well.

	20-04-2003 18:39									#53
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My uni buildings are called stuff like Edward Lloyd, Hugh owen, Llandinam, Cledwyn...

	20-04-2003 18:43									#54
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quote: Originally posted by C0ckney rj, yeah the good old esso, had a friday afternoon concepts of law lecture there, luckily i didn't go very often.

ALL my lectures aside from 3 are in there this semester. I hate that room with a vengeance :

quote: the welsh names are a ****ing joke, it's not as if anyone actually speaks welsh. still, one the birds in our block still reckons the funniest thing ever was me and andy (a fellow cockney) trying to pronounce all the welsh names.

You can imagine the fun I'm going to have - I'm going to have my laptop (which is in Austria being repaired) sent directly to my uni.
I'm gonna have to tell an Austrian (who had difficulty spelling 'newton' - my laptop's old password) how to spell 'Neuadd Mary Williams'.

Such joy.

	20-04-2003 19:10									#55
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Oh yeah? Well I think you stink.

	21-04-2003 08:24									#56
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My friend is in IT, and he sometimes goes for a week or more without a shower. But he is a lazy-ass.
The people in my lectures generally didn't smell.

	21-04-2003 09:51									#57
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you got lectures this term rj? well, unlucky 'cos i'm finished for the year

	21-04-2003 09:53									#58
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oh yeah and imagine having to get them to spell hendrefoelan (or however the bloody place is spelt)

	21-04-2003 09:59									#59
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Obviously, my university needs lessons in corporate whoring. All UM does is sell names and phone numbers. And shill every Coke product ever made (exclusively, I might add. You can't buy non-coke brands on campus.)

	21-04-2003 18:24									#60
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Actually my private highschool relies on donations from lots of wealthy people (mostly jews) from around the world.

Several walls are just covered with plates.

There is no thing in the school that isn't donated by someone.

Infact, almost every second brick in the wall was donated by someone.