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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:13 pm
by Bergermeister
Ha! Actually, I was down there several years ago. I got a tour from Bob Brandenberger. I think the tour lasted less than 1 minute. What can you say, it's a basement.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:14 pm
by CalallenStang
Bergermeister wrote:Ha! Actually, I was down there several years ago. I got a tour from Bob Brandenberger. I think the tour lasted less than 1 minute. What can you say, it's a basement.
I don't think a tour of the band hall could last longer than, oh, 15 seconds or so.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:26 pm
by EastStang
There were also some interesting forgettable presidents of SMU.

Hardin who apparently wanted to stop paying players.
Zumberge who let it occur.
And of course everyone's favorite whipping boy, Ken Pye for reasons well documented on this Board.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:27 pm
by couch 'em
CalallenStang wrote: I don't think a tour of the band hall could last longer than, oh, 15 seconds or so.
Depends on if you are looking for Mithrandir's secret history written in invisible ink or not.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:32 pm
by CalallenStang
couch 'em wrote:
CalallenStang wrote: I don't think a tour of the band hall could last longer than, oh, 15 seconds or so.
Depends on if you are looking for Mithrandir's secret history written in invisible ink or not.
:lol: Yes, that could take a while to find... :lol:

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:42 pm
by Samurai Stang
CalallenStang wrote:
couch 'em wrote:
CalallenStang wrote: I don't think a tour of the band hall could last longer than, oh, 15 seconds or so.
Depends on if you are looking for Mithrandir's secret history written in invisible ink or not.
:lol: Yes, that could take a while to find... :lol:
Perhaps that is why Mithrandir has left us, as he is still on said journey.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:54 pm
by smu diamond m
Samurai Stang wrote:
CalallenStang wrote:
couch 'em wrote: Depends on if you are looking for Mithrandir's secret history written in invisible ink or not.
:lol: Yes, that could take a while to find... :lol:
Perhaps that is why Mithrandir has left us, as he is still on said journey.
She, actually...


Yeah, a tour of the band hall is rather anticlimactic. You can help change that though:
http://www.diamondmclub.net

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:01 pm
by couch 'em
I always found all the random junk on the walls and in the back very interesting. Strange drawings and quotes, signs from various locations including Tokyo, the gate to ownby, etc.

Then again I always find history interesting.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:11 pm
by smu diamond m
couch 'em wrote:I always found all the random junk on the walls and in the back very interesting. Strange drawings and quotes, signs from various locations including Tokyo, the gate to ownby, etc.

Then again I always find history interesting.
Yeah, there is a bunch of crazy stuff back there. Bodies of disobedient freshmen...


I'm kidding. Really.

Re: Gerald Turner

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:43 pm
by couch 'em
friarwolf wrote:Greatest SMU President of all Time???? Talk amongst yourselves.............
Shall we readdress?

Re: Gerald Turner

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:13 pm
by Samurai Stang
couch 'em wrote:
friarwolf wrote:Greatest SMU President of all Time???? Talk amongst yourselves.............
Shall we readdress?
I stand by my previous disdain.

Re: Gerald Turner

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:05 am
by NavyCrimson
Well said, Samurai. I love your posts.

As for Turner being a great fundraiser. Yes - no doubt. But then again, college presidents in general today are 95% fundraisers & number two gladhanders.

Re: Gerald Turner

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:27 am
by Mestengo
Never trust a guy in a suit at a tailgate :mrgreen:

Re: Gerald Turner

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:36 pm
by giacfsp
It is not Turner's job to govern on admissions cases, so his legacy shouldn't be based on whether he did or didn't get involved in the case of two football players, no matter how much we want them in or they deserve to be in. His liplock on everyone related to the Dubbya bookmobile is a matter that can be a subject of debate, depending on your political stance, but it's the admissions committee that should be getting skewered over the current admissions fiasco, not Turner.

Re: Gerald Turner

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:38 pm
by RGV Pony
giacfsp wrote:It is not Turner's job to govern on admissions cases, so his legacy shouldn't be based on whether he did or didn't get involved in the case of two football players, no matter how much we want them in or they deserve to be in. His liplock on everyone related to the Dubbya bookmobile is a matter that can be a subject of debate, depending on your political stance, but it's the admissions committee that should be getting skewered over the current admissions fiasco, not Turner.
there are those who would in that case say that his mouth wrote an NSF check on January 7, 2008