Penn State myth or fact...

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill went on their first date in State College. A BJC staff member loaned them his jeep. A few years ago, Faith Hill bought the guy’s jeep for Tim as an anniversary gift.

Please to enlighten the ignorant…

There is also one that the obolosk (sp?, aka the tall pointy thing near Old Main that has a piece of rock from all of the PA counties) can detect people who lie about their virginity. If you walk by it and it falls, you are one who “likes to give it away” frequently

Yianni fingerbanged a girl backstage at BJC after his performance.

the rumor is that it was a Superfund-eligible site, so they just greened it over.

Back when President Dwight Eisenhower was in office, his brother was President at Penn State. At this time, there was only 1 zip code. However, that all changed during the holidays when for the last time, President Eisenhower (of penn state) recieved his mother’s christmas cookies late, and stale. So he asked his brother, the President of the United States(who recieved his cookies on time), to fix that. So Dwight issued the change, making State College and University Park 2 different zip codes. The following year, both Eisenhower’s recieved their cookies on time.

I always heard there was an underground tunnel that ran through the heart of campus from somewhere around Whitmore labs to Pond or Burrows building. It would have been nice on really cold or rainy days, but I could never find it.

I once heard that Bill Clinton visited the old creamery one time and committed both cardinal sins associated with the Creamery- don’t go in the out door; and don’t order two different scoops on a cone. Story goes that the kid working at the time was so confused whether or not he/she should serve him that he/she asked the manager for advice.

Myth: There are no sorority houses at Penn State because of an old Pennsylvania law that defined a dwelling that housed a certain number of unrelated women as a brothel.

Fact: Sorority houses did exist on the University Park campus, and there is no such state law nor any University prohibition against sorority houses per se. The first sorority house on campus was Stone House (a former faculty residence), which in 1928 became home to a womens social club, Nita-Nee, which became Kappa Alpha Theta in 1930 and occupied the house until 1949. Other sororities also had campus houses but, like KAT, moved out of these aging structures soon after World War II and into newly available suites in residence halls. The sororities rented the suites from the University as they continue to do today. The advantages of residence hall suites and the high cost of private housing in the post-war era discouraged off-campus sorority houses, although the borough of State College, in its zoning laws, makes no distinction between sorority and fraternity houses.

http://www.psu.edu/ur/about/myths.html

The Bell in old main is a recording. Back in the day when the original bell was placed in the tower, people would removed the center piece\stick during cold weather. When it was known was the Farmers High School, that bell was the sign for the change of class. At one point, that crucial piece of the bell was never returned. Years later during the demolition of an old apartment building, the missing bell piece was found inside the wall. Further research indicated that only faculty lived in thats building.

Moral of the story: Even faculty didnt want to do to class.

Coach Paterno passed in 1996 and he has actually been converted to a very convincing robot by the South Korean government to continue coaching PSU and to keep tabs on the US government from a close, but not too close position.

I heard that people who are working late in Pattee Library sometimes get bored and … you know…

went to PSU and got a C in their ice cream class…

is this actually true???