re: Tiger Stadium Dorms

Lived in West Stadium dorms, 5th floor in the fall of 1980. That was a testament to my procrastination in submitting my housing application. No elevator. I was in the best shape of my life that semester, having to traverse 5 flights of stairs, typically at least twice a day.

The floor was separated into 3 wings, left, center right. one bathroom per wing. 5 or 6 bedrooms per wing, if I recall correctly. Bunk beds plus one cot (that was an addition due to a larger than expected student population) per room.

There were stadium showers in each wing , 2 shower heads in one large tiled area with 2 drains.

3 toilets separated from each other by a wall about chest high when sitting. Great for carrying on a conversation with the guy crapping next to you.

No AC, generally speaking, but it seem that you could mount a window unit if you provided it. That did require permission from the University, as I recall. Since the building was concrete, it would sweat in the summer. We used box fans, so it really wasn't terrible except at the very beginning of the fall semester.

Heating int he winter was via radiators, that worked exceptionally well.

We had a slightly older guy from Chicago living in our dorm, Paul Johnson was his name as I recall. He figured out that if we turned on all the hot water taps (showers and sinks), cranked up the radiators and occasionally poured little water on the radiator, we could turn the bathroom into a pretty spectacular sauna.

Lived in the Stadium fall of 79. Room was orange no AC and the plumbing pipes were exposed. When people flushed you could hear the water traveling through the pipes. My room was right above the student entrance. Hot but great for partying before the games. We damn near beat USC that year but fell short. The line for the student section got very rowdy. Still have the scare on my right hand. Geaux Tigers!!!!

I lived in all four sides of the stadium in the early 70's. Started on the West side, which had a certain feel of remoteness to it because you had to walk all around the stadium to get to class or to meals (served back then in the Johnston Hall basement cafeteria). Males only. Three of us in a room. No air conditioning, but I don't remember it getting oppressively hot in there, probably because of the thickness of the walls. Same for the North and East Stadium dorms.

The South Stadium dorm was MOVING ON UP, because it had air conditioning, a more soothing coral green color scheme, and only two flatbeds per room.

All the stadium rooms had communal bathrooms and showers, which weren't too bad because they were cleaned daily by some friendly janitors we all came to respect.

From within those dorm halls you could often taunt the visiting team arriving at the stadium for practice. If there were ever a way to sneak into the stadium for a football game I never found it.

You could get into the stadium from one of the West study rooms on the second floor. Before my stay (73-74) someone had chipped the mortar from the bars. You had to hang and drop. Tough climb back.

Was anyone else there for Black Sabbath over the PA?

Lived in North Stadium for one year and two years in South Stadium. In my section of North Stadium there was one telephone in the hallway for 18 rooms with two to three person per room. I had to cross thru an open stairwell to get to the shower room. At one time there was a "mad bomber" loose in North Stadium dorms. He liked setting off "cherry bombs" at random times. He would stick the fuse in a cigarette so the he would be long gone when it went off. In that all concrete structure, the sound was deafening.

West Stadium = Absolute Dump!

And I've been in there hours at a time moving file cabinets and other shite around in the middle of the summer. It wasn't that hot up there.

...Granted it was just 4 or 5 of us up there and not a couple hundred college aged males

Why is that article written in such a strange manner? "The University football team", lots of "University".

Fan4444. You played pick up football in the track stadium?? Me too. Basketball outside of the stadium too

No way. There was a very strong fence separating the dorm hallways and exits from the stadium, but it was not unusual on Saturday mornings for students to cut holes in the fence and sneak into the games. The university was constantly repairing them. Eventually much of the fence line was also covered with steel bars putting an end to the illegal entry.