Bryan,
one of Terrence's firefighting buddies, happens
to be a PSU Alum who resided in 15 and 47
Hamilton! Here, Terrence interviews him about
his Hamiltonian experience, as well as what
history there is behind 5
Hamilton.
Terrence:
What kind of history does that room
have?
Bryan:
They're called "dingles," as in
double-single.
Terrence:
Dingles, haha!
Bryan:
Oh a bunch of parties, chicks, drunken stoopers,
lots of items on campus reported as "stolen" ended
up there.
Bryan:
We broke into the attic of that building and took
furniture that was for the lounges...you couldn't
walk in the doors of our rooms without walking on
furniture.
Bryan:
My bottle collection is still in the attic window
of the building...it was still there last time I
visited PSU, you could see it from the little
parking lot where the dumpsters are between the
buildings.
Bryan:
When we came back from winter break freshman year,
there was a note on our door "put it back no
questions asked."
Bryan:
So we put the furniture back...but we befriended
the cleaning ladies and convinced them to leave the
attic hatch open...so we went back up about two
weeks later and reclaimed our recliners, coffee and
end tables.
Bryan:
Then the RA found out (he kicked ass, he would
drink with us)...he said either put the stuff back
or get some for me...so we got him a new chair and
coffee table.
Bryan:
Then one of my friends in 5 Hamilton didn't like
the big chair, so we threw it in the dumpster. Then
he went to the computer lab at about 4 o'clock in
the afternoon and lifted a roller chair...brought
it back to 5 in broad day light.
Bryan:
He took it with him when he moved out, and to our
apartment the next years.
Terrence:
You ended up rooming with the guys from
5?
Bryan:
With one of them. The other stayed there all 4
years, roomed the next three years with his friend
who had been stuck in no-mans-land North
Halls.
Bryan:
East is ghetto. The west is awesome.
Terrence:
East reminds me of low income housing, and then
west looks like dorms at Harvard should.
Bryan:
Exactly.
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