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SoCalCoug · 07-02-2006, 03:03 PM

I was in Q Hall my freshman year - which was a significant year in the history of Deseret Towers.

First of all, it was the year of the pillow fight riot - I was actually invited to the pillow fight at Helaman Halls by some friends - before it turned into the march to DT, chanting "DT Sucks!" which resulted in the powers-that-be chaining all the doors shut so we couldn't get out.

It was also the year that the Morris Center burned down. In fact, my cousin's roommate, who was out at about 3 in the morning with her boyfriend, was the one who reported the fire to the police. It smelled like burnt wood the rest of the year.

Archaea · 07-02-2006, 03:54 PM

The Morris Center burned down? When?

Was somebody protesting the horrid culinary concoctions prepared there. Oh, to think how many taste buds were tortured there.

SoCalCoug · 07-02-2006, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

The Morris Center burned down? When?

'86 - '87. They rebuilt it, but we had to eat at the Cannon Center for a time. Then in only one side of the Morris Center. And it smelled like a campfire the whole year.

UtahDan · 07-02-2006, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

I was in Q Hall my freshman year.

Wow, those ancient dorms.

Me too.

il Padrino Ute · 07-02-2006, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

I was in Q Hall my freshman year - which was a significant year in the history of Deseret Towers.

First of all, it was the year of the pillow fight riot - I was actually invited to the pillow fight at Helaman Halls by some friends - before it turned into the march to DT, chanting "DT Sucks!" which resulted in the powers-that-be chaining all the doors shut so we couldn't get out.

It was also the year that the Morris Center burned down. In fact, my cousin's roommate, who was out at about 3 in the morning with her boyfriend, was the one who reported the fire to the police. It smelled like burnt wood the rest of the year.

Pillow fights? Boy, did I miss out on all kinds of college life fun by not going to BYU, eh?

Archaea · 07-02-2006, 10:15 PM

Hey, they were coed pillow fights.

il Padrino Ute · 07-02-2006, 10:31 PM

So, you're saying that I could have hit a girl and gotten away with it? That changes everything.

SoCalCoug · 07-02-2006, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Pillow fights? Boy, did I miss out on all kinds of college life fun by not going to BYU, eh?

Only at BYU would a big pillow fight be characterized as a "riot" by the national media. And yes, it did make the national news wires.

il Padrino Ute · 07-02-2006, 11:21 PM

What year did this happen?

07-02-2006, 03:03 PM	#11
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I was in Q Hall my freshman year - which was a significant year in the history of Deseret Towers. First of all, it was the year of the pillow fight riot - I was actually invited to the pillow fight at Helaman Halls by some friends - before it turned into the march to DT, chanting "DT Sucks!" which resulted in the powers-that-be chaining all the doors shut so we couldn't get out. It was also the year that the Morris Center burned down. In fact, my cousin's roommate, who was out at about 3 in the morning with her boyfriend, was the one who reported the fire to the police. It smelled like burnt wood the rest of the year. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

07-02-2006, 03:54 PM	#12
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	The Morris Center burned down? When? Was somebody protesting the horrid culinary concoctions prepared there. Oh, to think how many taste buds were tortured there. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

07-02-2006, 10:15 PM	#16
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	Hey, they were coed pillow fights. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

07-02-2006, 10:31 PM	#17
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	So, you're saying that I could have hit a girl and gotten away with it? That changes everything. __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

07-02-2006, 11:21 PM	#19
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	What year did this happen? __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.