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Goodbye, UGLY - terry - 11-15-2012

The University decided not to renovate Meyer Library. It looks like UGLY, which opened in 1966, most likely is headed down the path to demolition. . . .

<a href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/11/14/meyer-demolition-plans-move-forward/">Meyer demolition plans move forward, pending approval</a>

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - Leftcoast - 11-15-2012

The aptly named UGLY (Meyer Undergraduate Library) may be missed but it's contribution to campus architecture will not be.  It was surely one of the least graceful and least well balanced structures on a very beautiful campus.

Manzanita, Meyer, the trailers behind Roble, Roble itself and the old cracked cement floor to the quad were high on my list of things to be improved from my undergraduate days.  Now what about Stern and Wilbur?

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - CowboyIndian - 11-15-2012

You mean...no more of THIS during Big Game week? Oh, nooooooooo...
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Re: Goodbye, UGLY - Robbie - 11-15-2012

(11-15-2012, 12:37 PM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:You mean...no more of THIS during Big Game week? Oh, nooooooooo...
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Is that drum major Jim Kohn? If so, this would be 1983, and I know which person is me. (Can't see the face, but I can tell from the instrument.)

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - yvonne - 11-15-2012

Weird. That did not show up in Safari.

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - CowboyIndian - 11-15-2012

No...that would be circa 1967-69. Did the Dollies continue sporting feathers...in an uncharacteristic spit-in-the-face-of-the-administration gesture...into the 80s?

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - 76lsjumb - 11-15-2012

(11-15-2012, 01:48 PM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:No...that would be circa 1967-69. Did the Dollies continue sporting feathers...in an uncharacteristic spit-in-the-face-of-the-administration gesture...into the 80s?

I tend to agree that this is of earlier vintage.  Hair styles are definitely late 60's, early 70's.  The bells of the toobs are pristine.  The Dollie feathers have been noted.  Is the drum major Geordie Lawry?

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - CowboyIndian - 11-15-2012

(11-15-2012, 01:56 PM)76lsjumb link Wrote:  The bells of the toobs are pristine.

I'm glad you don't have Spooner-itis

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - Leftcoast - 11-15-2012

Re: Trailers behind Roble Gym

During my stay on campus there was a large, undeveloped space between Roble Gym and Campus Drive.  Now that area is all beautiful new buildings funded by Gates or Allen but in my day it was filled with trailers used as graduate student office space for the computer science department among others.  I spend a summer internship in one trailer developing coursework for an Accounting class and also a took a computer based class on Boolean Logic in the trailers.  If you knew your way around you could skirt directly from the old firehouse to campus drive and the Stanford shopping center by weaving through the backroads, parking lots and trailer access.

Anyone else remember them?

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - Nan3cy - 11-15-2012

(11-15-2012, 04:44 PM)garvin link Wrote:Still, it was a good landmark during the first few weeks of freshman year, and I saw enough weird Dead Week stunts and pranks on my visits there to make it memorable. I'll miss it. And it's weird to think of a building regarded as pretty new when I arrived on campus in 1971 being old enough to face demolition.

I think it was the first Dead Week after UGLY opened when in the middle of the evening, some guy came to the bottom of the main stairwell and shouted (something like) "All right all you rich people, I want to see you all down here for calesthenics in 10 minutes." A reference to Jason Robard's character in "A Thousand Clowns," a movie that if you haven't seen it, you definitely should.

That was one of my three favorite lines in the movie. The others were Robards explaining why he decided to quit his job writing for a kids' TV show, which was when his usual bartender asked if he wanted his usual martini, and he said "Gosh and gollies, you betcha!" And his reply to a social worker who tells him he has to return to reality, and he says, absolutely deadpan, "I'll only go as a tourist."

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - CowboyIndian - 11-15-2012

(11-15-2012, 04:44 PM)garvin link Wrote:I think my first exposure to Lysander Spooner and Herbert Spencer was also there. So long, UGLY.

Two Spooners in the same thread!?! What about William Archibald Spooner?

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - CowboyIndian - 11-15-2012

"A Thousand Clowns" isn't quite as totemic today...after the late 60s and all, but it was a great movie...and play. My favorite line...or one of them..(and I still use it today) when Jason Robards is having lunch with - his agent? - a prospective employer? ...anyway, the restaurant is really dark, with candles on the table. Robards says to the waiter, "I'll have a hamburger and a flashlight."

Re: Trailers behind Roble Gym - Cadet84 - 11-15-2012

I remember the trailers.  They surrounded a big lawn that was site of a large party with live bands and kegs every year: "Splendor in the Grass" if I remember correctly.  This was back in the early '80s...
We did have a lot of parties back then  8)

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - dabigv13 - 11-15-2012

Splendor in the Grass was still going in the early 2000s...don't recall any trailers though.

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - TreeWeird - 11-15-2012

Whatever it's faults, I loved Meyer's atrium, the site of many spontaneous late night Dead Week study breaks during when students would suddenly rush to the atrium, throw paper airplanes and whatnot, do some primal screaming, and then slowly drift back to the carrels.

I lived in a Manzanita trailer senior year also. 

Can't say I regret the school doing away with either Meyer or Manzanita, but fond memories endure.

The first pot bust... - CowboyIndian - 11-15-2012

on the Stanford campus was UGLI-related and, of course, it involved  a roommate of mine. He had rented a carrel and was storing his herb there. Unfortunately, said herb had made part of its trek across the border under a load of fruit, which made it quite fragrant and not in a good way. It was also producing flies. The ever-vigilant UGLI librarians used their passkey and opened the carrel. Santa Clara County sheriffs were called, our amigo got arrested and we all ran home to fire up the vacuum cleaners.

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - 76lsjumb - 11-15-2012

(11-15-2012, 06:37 PM)Nan3cy link Wrote:[quote author=garvin link=topic=6883.msg52205#msg52205 date=1353023092]
Still, it was a good landmark during the first few weeks of freshman year, and I saw enough weird Dead Week stunts and pranks on my visits there to make it memorable. I'll miss it. And it's weird to think of a building regarded as pretty new when I arrived on campus in 1971 being old enough to face demolition.

I think it was the first Dead Week after UGLY opened when in the middle of the evening, some guy came to the bottom of the main stairwell and shouted (something like) "All right all you rich people, I want to see you all down here for calesthenics in 10 minutes." A reference to Jason Robard's character in "A Thousand Clowns," a movie that if you haven't seen it, you definitely should.

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Great movie and great line, indeed!  But, I thought it was "volleyball"...at least that's what I've always said.  I'll have to look it up, I guess.

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - dabigv13 - 11-16-2012

Meyer. It was never referred to as UGLY. It was also never used; I could count on one hand the number of times I went in, and that was usually to use the bathroom or something.

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - washingtonismoney - 11-16-2012

Certainly was out in my day.

I used Meyer to get my printing done, mostly. I was always surprised at the number of people studying there.

Re: Goodbye, UGLY - 3card - 11-16-2012

Meyer (early 1990's).  Very close but not heavily used that I can recall.