Mary Markley, get your act together and do THIS
TennBlue posted this in another thread, and it really deserved more notice:
Mary Markley Dormitory
9:00 PM
November 17, 1977
TennBlue, post here, so everyone can upvote you again. This awesomeness deserves it, and it deserves to be seen by more people. Front Page this!
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:59 AM ^
They did this again in 4 years ago in 2007... But since the children's hospital is now facing Markley the staff wouldn't allow FUCK OSU. So they did OSU SUCKS instead. I have the picture on my computer at home and I'll post it later.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:00 AM ^
2nd Frost. We only had dorms on the north side of the hall because the south side was in the hill and had no windows (that side was used for storage). Not a bad hall except the windows opened out and when any of the people above barf or pour stuff out their windows, it would hit ours.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:02 AM ^
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:03 AM ^
absolutely awesome
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:06 AM ^
Markley decided to do this again in 2007...
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:12 AM ^
Should be shot.
But great addition!
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 AM ^
I don't remember the name of my hall. I was in the back, right side, 5th floor. Last room on the right (facing the courtyard, not the street), by the stairs and fire alarm.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:14 AM ^
It's sure strange seeing that in my own handwriting on the back of this photo envelope.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:22 PM ^
I was in 3437 Butler in '08-'09.
CRAZINESS.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:56 AM ^
That is where I'm living right now, 5 Van Tyne. I'm facing the courtyard as well, but I'm farther down towards the end. Still pretty neat that we have lived/are living in the same hall.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:09 PM ^
Van Tyne!! That's it... I lived there 94-95.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:51 PM ^
'92-'93
November 23rd, 2010 at 1:17 PM ^
5th Van Tyne. My good friends must have lived in your room, 5441. I was a bit further down the hall, 5432.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:10 AM ^
Married a woman from 3rd Frost, too!
Lived there 85-87.
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:53 PM ^
3rd Frost in 86-87! We were neighbors.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:15 AM ^
I hear that in Columbus they're now selling t-shirts that say "Mary Markley is a whore!"
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:35 AM ^
That was the year of "The Outbreak" of the stomach flu that got half the dorm quarantined. The Michigan Daily that year published an article awarding the "Worst Place to Live On Campus" to Mary Markley (construction of the new SoPH was the other reason). My room was almost directly behind the sign for the dorm (below that damn cement wall anyway), so I got a nice front page picture of my room featured with the article. I suppose that makes up for the inability to be part of such awesomeness.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:08 PM ^
When they had the food poisoning bad enough to make the local news; they had a python loose in the dorm for days; and we had our usual bevy of bats flying around the halls....it sounds like an easy year.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 AM ^
These are great pictures. Unfortunately, I have a hard time looking at the back side of that dorm without thinking of Courtney Cantor, who fell out of one of the rooms at the top of the "O" and died after landing on that loading dock. I was with my girlfriend that night in the room at the left-top of the "U". Woke up to police in the hall.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:53 AM ^
I'm living in 5th Van Tyne right now. When I saw this I instantly wanted to make it happen, but my roomate pointed out that everyone leaves for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I'll try my best to make something happen tonight, but I don't have much time for plannning/getting people to participate so no promises.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:13 PM ^
I'll be going on the graveyard walk tonight, so if you could do this from, say, 7 PM until 9 PM, that would be great for me to get some nice shots from the walk. Just sayin'. Also, it would be legendary given what you said about people leaving for vacation (although, a screwdriver, a credit card and some elbow grease might help you out with the already empty rooms....).
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:17 PM ^
Just go door to door right now (NOW!) telling appropriate people to please leave their lights on over break. Even make up some BS reason such as "safety" or "prevent thefts." Hopefully you don't run into any hippie tree huggers.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:22 PM ^
Ricky Stanzi might help our friend out with those hippie tree huggers he might run into.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:20 PM ^
I still have the email the Markley facilities manager sent our RA:
"We have had food thrown around and smashed on the walls for a few months. They have taken toothpaste and squeezed it into locks, which has ended up on the carpet. Now they have gone to the point of accessing the pipe chase and turning the water off to the toilets. They have removed all but one of the shower handles in the 5332 restroom. Also, the lounge has been trashed, they dumped spoiled milk on the furniture. The couch's may not be able to be cleaned so that the odor is eliminated. How should we approach this situation?"
November 23rd, 2010 at 1:19 PM ^
They made 5th and 6th Blagdon girls floors for the future. It was greatly appreciated by future generations.
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^
IN 1975 as well when I lived there. I didn't realize it was a multi-year tradition.
M-OSU is all about tradition, Therefore Markley MUST do this!!!! Keep the dream alive!
November 23rd, 2010 at 12:59 PM ^
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November 23rd, 2010 at 1:57 PM ^
saveferris (89-90)
bosch (92-93)
oriental andrew (94-95)
raptor (10-11)
tacopants
tacopants' friend (who lived in my old room!)
November 24th, 2010 at 7:44 AM ^
Man, I remember those days.....me and Tacopants cruising 6th Van Tyne for babes, partying til the wee hours of the morning. Memories.
November 23rd, 2010 at 2:14 PM ^
2001-2002. Indeed sneaking in beer was super easy. Did not have room for a keg, but definetly plenty of cases.
November 23rd, 2010 at 2:19 PM ^
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:52 PM ^
3rd Frost 1986-87!!
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:40 PM ^
And this made my Thanksgiving. Nice!