my impact on ASU in '99

chuckwhut

chuckwhut

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one day walking back to east hall from god knows where in boone, i found a tire laying on the side of the road. i decided to roll it home with me. i got back to the dorm and got some rope from my friend pete. we then climbed the tree in the courtyard of east hall and hung a tire swing.
it stayed there for a long time, and people swung on it, relaxed on it, told stories, wrote songs (you know how hippies like to chill out under trees).
anyway, one day ASU decided to take the swing down. in a quiet protest, we hung another tire swing, invited the chancellor down for a christening ceremony, snapped a few photos, somebody read an "ode to the tire swing", and we published the event in the campus paper.
i hear the swing is still there, and while visiting the website found this old picture of me (in a "bones" skateboarding hoodie, for all you old skate rats) pushing chancellor borkowski on the tire swing. i found it funny and wanted to share:
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it was still there last time i checked, wasnt it a BFG? cool idea, i took full advantage of it during my 2 semesters in East. i didnt even think about how it came to be. cool story. i think i might go take a swing on that bad boy when i go visit this summer.
a belated "thanks",
Geoff
 
Is East Hall still home of all the hippies? When I went there they had to spray the building for fleas (1996).
 
That's interesting....
When I wasi n East Hall (Home of the Hippies) in 95 and 96, there wa a tire swing there. We used to play on it all teh time. In fact I think we have an old photo of me covered after a ssshaving cream fight (yes, it's true) and teh swing is in teh background......

When I wass there, East was Hippie Haven b/c of the Watauga College residence program, drew in, a, er, certain crowd. Watauga has since moved, so I don't know if the residents have changed any....
 
East Hall was ranked in High Times for East Coast dorms in '92 or '93. For the next few years, reportedly, there was a "narc" assigned to each floor. Several large scale drug busts ensued. There were lots of late night drum circles convened to discuss who might be the "rat". For the record, I was neither the rat nor a drum circle participant. :flipoff2:
 
GSW said:
East Hall was ranked in High Times for East Coast dorms in '92 or '93. For the next few years, reportedly, there was a "narc" assigned to each floor. Several large scale drug busts ensued. There were lots of late night drum circles convened to discuss who might be the "rat". For the record, I was neither the rat nor a drum circle participant. :flipoff2:
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Yup, I remember one of the busts.
Actually, it was a friend of mine. Ironically I didn't really know here until 5 years later when we happened to run into each other and started talking baout App, then realized the connection and became buddies.
Basically there wa a narc living there as a student. The really sad thing is, what she got busted for/with was really pitiful, a very small drop in the bucket of pot around that place at the time.
 
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