If any building on Antioch College campus was yours to manage (or neglect), which building would it be and what would you do with it?
Jeanne Kay: I would transform Spalt into an internationally renowned medical center to study and extract the properties and virtues of toxic mold.
Tim Noble: Norment. I’d rebuild it. It was my favorite house.
Shea Witzo: I’m sure Toni and Tom’s Main Building pool party was a lot of fun. I’d probably do that with another building, like South. Wait…
Juliet Hansen: North. I’d turn it into an indoor rainforest, and live in it of course!
Lincoln Alpern: The Library. I’d produce a blockbuster horror movie filmed in the basement.
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16. February 2009 at 5:49 pm
Actually South has been a pool before! Back in the late sixties or early seventies a group of partying students blocked up a shower door on an upper floor creating a pool. This lasted for a little while until the water eventually broke through the makeshift barrier and rushed through to the floors below. The building sat unusable for many years as a result and was finally refurbished only to be flooded again by the idiots in charge. Perhaps South is cursed?
17. February 2009 at 5:52 pm
“Angry Alumni’s” story about the shower pool in South Hall is basically true. They folded towels into bricks to damn up the shower entrance, then shoved a couch in front of the dam to brace it. But it didn’t close the dorm – at least not for an extended period. It did a lot of minor damage (mostly to electrical fixtures on lower floors) and some students paid fines. J. D. Dawson told the story at a faculty talent night about 1963, and I know it happened before I arrived in 1961. South wasn’t mothballed until years later.