U Chicago Stories

JBStillFlying
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 02:06:02 +0000

@exacademic - anyone who wants to look into the Ida Noyes story, the swim requirement, etc. is welcome to peruse the internet and get the facts but they’ll lose something in the process. The folklore helps define the university.

More stories - I’ll leave others to determine the veracity of any (or all):

1. There’s a big system of tunnels running underneath the Midway but they were closed off in the '70’s when a student was murdered in one of them.

2. There’s a certain park bench located somewhere in the quadrangles (can’t remember where) that you can only sit on if you are a virgin.

3. A parrot couple escaped out of a house near the university one day many, many years ago - and their descendants can still be seen in the trees around Hyde Park.

4. If your roommate dies in the middle of the quarter (esp. if it’s a suicide, so the story goes) you will get straight A’s that quarter because the Administration wants to keep morale up.