re: All you guys cutting down Tiger Stadium dorms--

We called them 'the ghetto' when I was there in the 80's. We used to go from my dorm room to my buddies who lived there it was like going from Suburbia to the hood.

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Now you probably can't buy books for that.

PROBABLY cant?!?!?!?!?! Where have you been hiding yourself. Any University, you can easily pay 400-500 a semester on books, just for undergrad. Law/Med/Vet schools most likely run you 1000.

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Sorry, I didn't want to rub it in. I've been out of school a few years and the most I remember paying for books for a semester was about $50. Usually found used ones at Co-op Bookstore on Chimes.

1971 - best friend and I shared the top floor west end room of Graham Hall....cement was still drying on PMAC and the aura of Pistol Pete was still in the air although he'd left the year before for the pros....

Memorable events: endless poker/booray games, lots of pot smoking, double-clutch mooning of my mom and dad on our 1st day at the dorm from the top stairwell, new 12-speed bike stolen from a small tree below the dorm within 1st week (thief dug up the tree!); lots of sweet honeys walking to/fro to the tennis courts and PMAC center....

great times!!

I lived there in the summer of '67 (freshman year), moved to the Pentagon after that. The Stadium dorm rooms stunk, were noisy, had no privacy, I had to walk over to the Johnson-Hatcher-Hodges bldgs for meals, and I LOVED every minute of it. Best parties on the planet at the time!

little "foggy" on most of it, except when the party first started

Awwww HELL YEAH!!! I lived in South Stadium in '86 and '87. LSU was the first school I ever attended that had air conditioning, but NOT in the stadium dorms. And me being from north-eastern Kentucky. . . GEEZ it got HOT in that place.

Then there was the shock of the restrooms on the second floor. Okay, open community shower. I could deal with that. Sort of like the locker room back at high school. Toilets sitting wide open without even a partition between them (much less doors) was a bit disconcerting, and the impetus for moving downstairs to the first floor midway through my first semester.

But MAN! Those were great times! Met the guys that would remain my closest friends throughout my college years. And every time I see a photo of the south facade of the stadium I check out the second window to the left of the entrance to see that the panes to my window haven't been knocked out yet.

And yes, even in the late eighties, beer and mixed drinks could be purchased at the Union to help you relax while you were bowling or shooting billiards.

Furniture in the rooms. . . Hmmmmm. I seem to recall a desk bolted to a cinder-block wall with bookshelves bolted to the wall above it. A plywood frame bed with a plastic-covered jail house mattress thrown on top of a horizontal piece of plywood didn't afford much comfort. Particularly at the beginning of the fall semester when it was hot as hell. I learned how to sleep on top of the sheets that first semester. It was November, and the weekend of the Tulane game before it was cool enough to actually Residential Housing had turned on the radiators for heat and there was no way to turn them off since all the knobs on the shut-off valves had long since been removed from the rooms.

But, there was no front desk, thus no "signing in" required for any guests of the opposite sex. The R.A.s were all pretty laid back and let things run their course without intervening like they would in other dorms.

In the mid-to-late-80's Randy Robichaux, the housing coordinater for west campus, had an apartment set up on the first floor of West Stadium with a friggin' SWIMMING POOL set up in it!

And every day, I woke up in the morning and looked back at MY dormitory on the way to my first class and thought to myself, "My GOD! Thank you, Lord! I AM HERE AT LSU at this very moment living a life-long dream!" And, I must admit, just thinking about that memory and that feeling brings back a prideful tear and chokes me up just a bit these twenty-some-odd years later.

Yeah, "The Rock" ruled.

I lived in "The Rock" from 79-82. 3rd floor North Stadium right above the old Football office. Hot in the summer - yep. Cold in the winter - yep (bastards at the physical plant wouldn't turn on the steam for the radiators until you were frozen solid!). 4 guys to a room my first semester. Then I moved over one hall and stayed in the room with a friend who was the RA for that hall. Major perk - RA's had a phone in their room. Everybody else got to use the 1 phone in the hall. Game day was a blast. No way you could stay in the room during a game. Student ID got you into every home game. I worked at the snack bar in West stadium by the Laundromat for extra money. It was uncomfortable but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Football team wasn't that great but I made every home game and stayed until the end. Old habits are hard to break I guess. I was at the MSU game until the clock read zero this weekend. (This drives my wife crazy) I only get to make one or two games a year so I value every minute I spend there. Will be at the UGA game this year and maybe Ole Miss.

TAF would like to renovate the whole facade of the stadium to bring it up to date with the new upper deck look.

East Stadium '89-'90!

Aside from the amenities it was the best place I ever lived. Hearing Mike Roar on a weeknight doing homework...Using "gameday dorm passes" as party invites. Kegs in the bathroom. We had our own phones but I will say that finals for spring semester sucked because workers would bang the dried concrete out of the wheelbarrow at like 7:00am in the stadium. That shite eccohed like hell.

My dorm was third floor over the visitor entrance. I would often hear the visitors bus pull up for the walk through and then, of course, tiger baitin' on gameday from there was priceless.