College Days

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:45 pm

Me and some friends in my dorm room, Arizona/Sonora (Arizona tower) room 624, spring semester 1988.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:48 pm

Emmanuel Lewis does not appear anywhere in that picture. Although he is small, so maybe I just missed him...

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:50 pm

Chicat wrote:Emmanuel Lewis does not appear anywhere in that picture. Although he is small, so maybe I just missed him...

I'm making the "cheeseburger" gesture, so you can see my hands and one eye, which was my usual gesture when things reached that point at 2 AM.

Anyway, I'd love to see any old Arizona pics anybody has from the college days. Unfortunately, I only have three. Before digital cameras, this stuff got lost with all my moves. Schnebly sent me this one recently.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:52 pm

Longhorned wrote:

Me and some friends in my dorm room, Arizona/Sonora (Arizona tower) room 624, spring semester 1988.

Nice to see that the room was kept unimproved through my 1994-95 stay...

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:54 pm

You lived in 624????

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:55 pm

Longhorned wrote:You lived in 624????

Actually no...but the room looked exactly the same. I think I was on the 4th floor? Maybe 3rd? The malted barley and bong resin are affecting that memory....

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:56 pm

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:57 pm

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:20 pm

Summer of '93... right after freshman year. Road trip from Tucson to Vegas to see the Dead.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:22 pm

Alieberman wrote:Summer of '93... right after freshman year. Road trip from Tucson to Vegas to see the Dead.

People like Chicat make fun of me for this, but back in those days, a road trip to see the Dead was a necessary part of college, and a source of fond feelings if foggy memories. In spring of '92, we made a road trip to see the Dead in Oakland.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:27 pm

I'm pretty sure I had a lot of fun on that trip.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:39 pm

I have a picture somewhere of my best friend and I (to this day ) in Yuma hall the first night I ever got drunk in 2004. He puked about 5.3 seconds after the picture was taken.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:49 pm

This is probably my favorite photo from college. This is my wife on drugs.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:56 pm

Alieberman wrote:Summer of '93... right after freshman year. Road trip from Tucson to Vegas to see the Dead.

Of course Bill Walton would be proud!!

Reydituto · Post by **Reydituto** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 8:10 pm

Alieberman wrote:Summer of '93... right after freshman year. Road trip from Tucson to Vegas to see the Dead.

I can smell that picture from here ...

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 8:32 pm

Reydituto wrote:
Alieberman wrote:Summer of '93... right after freshman year. Road trip from Tucson to Vegas to see the Dead.

I can smell that picture from here ...

B.O.?

Weed?

Both?

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:43 pm

Early '90s.

My photos from the U are far too upstanding and unrecognizable to be shown here. Check the yearbooks and look for the thin guy with the cleft palate looking angry.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:17 am

Gotta mention one of my favorite college memories, from May of 1997...underaged and drunk on Bourbon Street and I stumble out of Pat O'briens...and I see Jessie Evans and his wife. (He was our assistant coach at the time in case you didn't know).

I run up to him, and point at him and say "You're Jessie Evans"

He looks shocked... "Uh...yeah...."

I hug him and say "Bear Down" into his ear before running off...

Thinking back, I believe he was interviewing for a job that he took soon thereafter.

BearDown89 · Post by **BearDown89** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:02 am

Alieberman wrote:Summer of '93... right after freshman year. Road trip from Tucson to Vegas to see the Dead.

Saw the Dead on that tour in Eugene at Autzen. I was in law school up the road by then. The only time I ever saw them. My oldest daughter was 6 months old on my back in one of those baby backpacks, and she ends up graduating from Oregon 21 years later.

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:40 pm

Olsondogg wrote:Gotta mention one of my favorite college memories, from May of 1997...underaged and drunk on Bourbon Street and I stumble out of Pat O'briens...and I see Jessie Evans and his wife. (He was our assistant coach at the time in case you didn't know).

I run up to him, and point at him and say "You're Jessie Evans"

He looks shocked... "Uh...yeah...."

I hug him and say "Bear Down" into his ear before running off...

Thinking back, I believe he was interviewing for a job that he took soon thereafter.

You were probably that guy who turned over one of the 4th Ave. newsstands the night we won it all.

Worked with Jessie's daughter Jayda on a couple of assignments. No nicer writer I've ever met.

Reydituto · Post by **Reydituto** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:18 pm

Olsondogg wrote:
Reydituto wrote:
Alieberman wrote:Summer of '93... right after freshman year. Road trip from Tucson to Vegas to see the Dead.

I can smell that picture from here ...

B.O.?

Weed?

Both?

Dank weed smoke, unwashed musky BO, feet, barnyard, hemp rope, hints of sandalwood and patchouli, cheese sandos and the faint whiff of desperation ...

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:21 pm

Doesn't anybody have any college pics? Are they in a box somewhere waiting to be digitized?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:29 pm

Longhorned wrote:Doesn't anybody have any college pics? Are they in a box somewhere waiting to be digitized?

I went looking and can't find squat. Of course I went to college for the education so.................

Post by **UAdevil** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:32 pm

My crappy band during grad school. I'm the bass player.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:27 am

UAdevil wrote:My crappy band during grad school. I'm the bass player.

That's awesome. Where were you playing in that?

BearDown89 · Post by **BearDown89** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:30 am

Longhorned wrote:Doesn't anybody have any college pics? Are they in a box somewhere waiting to be digitized?

Somewhere maybe in a box of meager keepsakes with my name on it in the garage. I'd be surprised . . .

Post by **UAdevil** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:51 am

Longhorned wrote:
That's awesome. Where were you playing in that?

This was like our 2nd or 3rd gig ever and the 1st time playing this particular songs. This is one of the few songs I wrote in the band, the guitarist/vocalist was the primary songwriter.

We were playing in a now defunct venue on Grand Ave. in Phoenix called the Paper Heart Art Gallery. I'm stage right (left) on bass. I'm now more of a keyboard player in my current band.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:59 am

catgrad97 wrote:
Olsondogg wrote:Gotta mention one of my favorite college memories, from May of 1997...underaged and drunk on Bourbon Street and I stumble out of Pat O'briens...and I see Jessie Evans and his wife. (He was our assistant coach at the time in case you didn't know).

I run up to him, and point at him and say "You're Jessie Evans"

He looks shocked... "Uh...yeah...."

I hug him and say "Bear Down" into his ear before running off...

Thinking back, I believe he was interviewing for a job that he took soon thereafter.
You were probably that guy who turned over one of the 4th Ave. newsstands the night we won it all.

Worked with Jessie's daughter Jayda on a couple of assignments. No nicer writer I've ever met.

No, I was there though...had a buddy who was a bartender at "Geronimo's" (remember that place?) and got us underager's free drinks during the game. With about 15 seconds left in OT we ran from there, the corner of Euclid and Uni, all the way to 4th avenue....as people from all directions started pouring into the streets.

I do remember the turned over car, my buddy picking up a flare and burning his hand...a dude in our Apartment with a gas mask on...a bowling ball rolling towards the riot police....and then no school the next day.

Post by **UAdevil** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:08 pm

I was on a youth basketball team with Jesse's son

Bruins01 · Post by **Bruins01** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:56 pm

Are we sharing college stories about meeting assistant basketball coaches in random places? When I was at UCLA a bunch of us scraped together enough cash to rent a house on the beach for a week. One night we were all on the porch drinking when a guy skates by us on the boardwalk right in front of the house, sees us all wearing UCLA sweatshirts, and screeches to a stop. Turns out it was Kerry Keating, and he stayed to hang out with us and talk basketball for at least an hour. This was in the middle of the run of Final Fours, and getting to talk to somebody with such deep knowledge of the players, the system, and basketball in general was pretty great.

"Cool story, bro"

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:08 pm

Bruins01 wrote:Are we sharing college stories about meeting assistant basketball coaches in random places? When I was at UCLA a bunch of us scraped together enough cash to rent a house on the beach for a week. One night we were all on the porch drinking when a guy skates by us on the boardwalk right in front of the house, sees us all wearing UCLA sweatshirts, and screeches to a stop. Turns out it was Kerry Keating, and he stayed to hang out with us and talk basketball for at least an hour. This was in the middle of the run of Final Fours, and getting to talk to somebody with such deep knowledge of the players, the system, and basketball in general was pretty great.

"Cool story, bro"

That's pretty great in every way, except for the part about an empty-handed coach on skates mooching beers from college students. Seriously, though, he sounds like a great guy.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:43 pm

Olsondogg wrote:had a buddy who was a bartender at "Geronimo's" (remember that place?)

Me too. Jefe. Made a mean free Study Break.

All of my college pics are outdoors. Coming from the Northeast I spent as much time in the desert as possible. I think this was Gates Pass.

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:51 pm

I kept meaning to go to Geronimos on study nights but could never get past Two Pesos.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:45 am

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:34 am

Katzenfreund wrote:My gf waited tables at Geronimoz for a while. One day, two guys skipped out on a bill after handing her a stolen credit card. I think it was 30 bucks and she lost her tips for that day, paying for it. She quit a few days later.

Stealing from your drinks server is like stealing from your mother.

mytwocents · Post by **mytwocents** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:59 pm

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Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:14 pm

Hahaha, holy shit. I haven't seen that picture in 15+ years.

Damn I miss college. And sake bombs at Sakura.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:46 pm

So what dorm did everyone live in? Sd86 and I rocked Yuma hall room 108

Manzi mo
coconino
gila
Yuma
Maricopa(well was/is a girls only)
Babcock
hopi
la paz
apache Santa Cruz
Graham greenlee
yavapai
cochise
kaibab huachuca
Az so
Coronado
stadium(Navajo/pinal)

Coop Cat · Post by **Coop Cat** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:49 pm

Coronado, 3rd floor, 343 I am thinking for some reason but that number could be wrong.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:49 pm

ASUHATER! wrote: stadium(Navajo/pinal)

You forgot Sierra, formerly East Stadium (now closed.)

Freshman year, Sierra.

Sophomore - Senior years: Mohave 4-West Room 417

Manzi-Mo was the only coed dorm, and really, only the lobby and the roof were coed. Manzanita - girls, Mohave - guys.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:53 pm

Kaibab Huachuca

Man it was totally a dump but...

It was coed with 1 wing men's, 1 wing women's and a central corridor that was mixed. I lived in the central corridor and it led to several interesting evenings!

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:56 pm

For three years, I lived in the dorm the Adams Atoms threw the nerds out of.

Final year I moved up the street to the honors dorm you see just to the right of Herring Hall on evening games.

If you went to the U, you know that the first one used to be all-male and the second has a waiting list.

You didn't have to walk far for anything, but privacy was more or less nonexistent.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:58 pm

I lived in Haystack apartments on east Speedway.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:05 pm

Freshman year I lived in La Paz the first year it was open. I had a balcony with a view of the stadium looking down at a courtyard with newly planted palm trees that are now probably huge. Since I lived on a co-ed floor we had 4 toilet stalls for 6 guys. By far the best place to take a dump on campus.

Moved off campus the next year and never came back.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:08 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote: stadium(Navajo/pinal)
You forgot Sierra, formerly East Stadium (now closed.)

Freshman year, Sierra.

Sophomore - Senior years: Mohave 4-West Room 417

Manzi-Mo was the only coed dorm, and really, only the lobby and the roof were coed. Manzanita - girls, Mohave - guys.

Crazy. Even when I was a freshman in 2004 there were only 3 dorms that weren't coed. Coconino and Maricopa were girls and cochise was guys only. Maricopa is the only non coed dorm at the UA now.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:10 pm

catgrad97 wrote:For three years, I lived in the dorm the Adams Atoms threw the nerds out of.

Final year I moved up the street to the honors dorm you see just to the right of Herring Hall on evening games.

If you went to the U, you know that the first one used to be all-male and the second has a waiting list.

You didn't have to walk far for anything, but privacy was more or less nonexistent.

Cochise and yavapai

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:11 pm

And it's strange that people lived in dorms for up to 3-4 years. Even 10 years ago it was almost unheard of for anyone to stay in a dorm past freshman year. Only weirdos didn't live off campus after being a freshman.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:12 pm

Things have totally flipped from when I was at UofA. It was much more expensive to live in an apartment than in a dorm.
My dorm most years was around $600 - $800 a year.

From what I see now, the dorms are much more expensive. Between $7000 - $9000, and that's only for 9 months.
(like $800 - $1000 a month, and that doesn't include a meal plan).

I think you can get a room in a house or share an apartment for probably half that. If either of my kids end up at UofA that's probably the route we will take.

Are people taking huge loans out, or are they all rich kids?

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:17 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:Things have totally flipped from when I was at UofA. It was much more expensive to live in an apartment than in a dorm.
My dorm most years was around $600 - $800 a year.

From what I see now, the dorms are much more expensive. Between $7000 - $9000, and that's only for 9 months.
(like $800 - $1000 a month, and that doesn't include a meal plan).

I think you can get a room in a house or share an apartment for probably half that. If either of my kids end up at UofA that's probably the route we will take.

Are people taking huge loans out, or are they all rich kids?

I have a ton of loans. And yeah living off campus is way cheaper now. Like you said it's about $900 a month for a dorm and you can find a good house or apartment off campus for like $700.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:18 pm

Which dorm was known as "7 floors of whores" again?

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