Who else lived in the Nittany "dorms."

[Roar More]

I was there from Sep '67 thru Mar '68. Good times. Used a spoon to tunnel into the next room. I never had a roommate unless my girlfriend slept over. With an RA in another building, she had her choice of coming in through an end door or the window. For those who are not familiar, the Nittany buildings were temporary ROTC barracks built during WW II. They were one story with a central bathroom/shower room. There was one RA for every two buildings. The buildings themselves were often confused with the nearby chicken coops. They were located where the new apartments are near the indoor practice facility. We used Pollack dining hall.

 

[Nit777]

I was there from Sep '67 thru Mar '68. Good times. Used a spoon to tunnel into the next room. I never had a roommate unless my girlfriend slept over. With an RA in another building, she had her choice of coming in through an end door or the window. For those who are not familiar, the Nittany buildings were temporary ROTC barracks built during WW II. They were one story with a central bathroom/shower room. There was one RA for every two buildings. The buildings themselves were often confused with the nearby chicken coops. They were located where the new apartments are near the indoor practice facility. We used Pollack dining hall.

I delivered pizzas for Home Delivery from 68-70.

HATED going to Nittany Dorms.

Rat maze and all buildings looked alike.

Plus, no tips from students like you - LOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Phoenix lion]

I was there from Sep '67 thru Mar '68. Good times. Used a spoon to tunnel into the next room. I never had a roommate unless my girlfriend slept over. With an RA in another building, she had her choice of coming in through an end door or the window. For those who are not familiar, the Nittany buildings were temporary ROTC barracks built during WW II. They were one story with a central bathroom/shower room. There was one RA for every two buildings. The buildings themselves were often confused with the nearby chicken coops. They were located where the new apartments are near the indoor practice facility. We used Pollack dining hall.

Lived there in 1963. Actually had a fun time. Worked out with a wrestler. A long walk to Rec Hall.

 

[rudedude]

Nittany 28 77-79. Great parties, poultry facility right behind our building, Joepa walking right by our building for practice, turf bums every semester, and trimester to boot.

 

[Lion84]

Nittany 39. 80-84. They tore it down right after I moved out. Our “house” was 2 guys dorm and a girls one and the house RA was always in the girls dorm because they said girls fight more. Used to get Ice from the old ice rink for free every friday and drop a 1/4 keg in the shower. You could pretty much do anything you wanted there and even paint you room and furniture any color you wanted. Not a bad place to live and as mentioned all single rooms.

 

[danvillenit]

I didn’t but my brother did. Nittany 25 from 71-74

 

[Parkland Fan]

I didn’t but my brother did. Nittany 25 from 71-74

I lived in Nittany 21 for winter term 1968. No roommate. No RA in the building and I don't believe I ever saw him. Somebody did a nightly beer run to the Cave for cheap 16 Oz Schmidts. I would scoop up some snow in my waste can to keep it chilled. Next door neighbor kept his motorcycle in his room. The guy across the hall was Roger Williams, but I don't believe he's the guy who ran the Alumni Association. I moved into Porter Hall for spring term - can't remember why although it might have been the wake up call by the roosters.

 

[LionDeNittany]

I was there from Sep '67 thru Mar '68. Good times. Used a spoon to tunnel into the next room. I never had a roommate unless my girlfriend slept over. With an RA in another building, she had her choice of coming in through an end door or the window. For those who are not familiar, the Nittany buildings were temporary ROTC barracks built during WW II. They were one story with a central bathroom/shower room. There was one RA for every two buildings. The buildings themselves were often confused with the nearby chicken coops. They were located where the new apartments are near the indoor practice facility. We used Pollack dining hall.

I wasn't there when Nittany Dorms were built, but I was also there during the time they were built. 2001-2056

LdN

 

[olelion]

I was there from Sep '67 thru Mar '68. Good times. Used a spoon to tunnel into the next room. I never had a roommate unless my girlfriend slept over. With an RA in another building, she had her choice of coming in through an end door or the window. For those who are not familiar, the Nittany buildings were temporary ROTC barracks built during WW II. They were one story with a central bathroom/shower room. There was one RA for every two buildings. The buildings themselves were often confused with the nearby chicken coops. They were located where the new apartments are near the indoor practice facility. We used Pollack dining hall.

I was there from Sept 67 until June of 68. Came up for my sophomore year and was supposed to move into the fraternity as a plege. I pulled up to the fraternity and realized that I would probably flunk out. I went to the housing dept. and got a room in either 39 or 40

 

[Thus Spoke Mainer]

I seem to remember that the dorms rates a few hundred dollars less if you chose to live there.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Sept. 74 through March 76. I don't remember the # of the dorm, two different ones. The last one was against the football complex and we did see team members on occasion. Also adjacent to the ice rink. Good memories of the central open room where many a "Game of Life" tournaments occurred.

After a year in Beaver Hall, the sixth floor in 73 it was a step down but it was college, not a fashion-conscious decision. Memories! Many pickup football games behind the dorm and the ice rink.

I do remember my girl friend (now wife) visited me there and was shocked at how my dorm mates drooled over her on the way to my room. She was a bit sheltered. "She just commented that they were chicken coops or looked like that".

I now remember trying to adjust the heating units, old iron radiators that ended up putting the room at 100 degrees the 1st night and then 60 degrees the next until you could finally fine-tune the adjustment to a moderate level to exist. Plus the bunk beds, I had the bottom. Not very large either. Oh my younger days and the nostalgia. It's better now thinking back than it was at the time.

 

[CF LION]

Spent my Jr year there (81-82) in Nittany 36. The university had announced that they were going to demo them so they pretty much didn't care what we did to them. Everyone on my side of the building (there was a center lobby with a wing on each side) painted murals of band logos on the corridor wall. I was into The Doors then so this was my mural:

Across the hall from me was this one:

There was a guy named Denny in my building who was in his late 20's and in a local band. He had ties to some other bands as well, and we got this idea to have a band party in the lobby one Saturday night in the spring. I think we had three bands play, countless kegs were consumed as well as some other potions, tonics, etc. A campus police car sat on the street down the block and just monitored things to make sure there was no destruction or fights, of which there was none.

Talked to JoePa a few times as he walked down the street out front on his way to Holuba. He saw me throw a football once and said I had a good arm. I told him that I didn't think Blackledge had anything to worry about.

 

[denniskembala]

Shunk 73 & 74. There was some mental case who lived in Nittany named Bubbles or something.

 

[Metal Mike]

My brother lived in Nittany his freshman year (65 -66). I remember we dropped him off on the Sunday of the first week and I thought he was being punished for bad grades. He had bad grades/poor SATs and just got in by the skin of his teeth.

 

[GastonLion]

I lived in Nittany for the 1962-1963 school year (3 quarters). We were woken daily by the crowing of roosters but managed to have a lot of fun. I remember biking to the beer distributor whose name eludes me and bringing the beer back thru one of the dorm windows. I remember nothing but good times and lots of laughs while there.