On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:17:16 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
wrote:

"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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Back at the Univ. of Minn., there was a legend that there were "steam
tunnels", and supposedly, you could get to them through the dorm basement,
and follow them to the basements of the girls' dorms, and go on panty
raids and stuff.

The Univ. of Wisconsin has steam tunnels as well, but by the time I was there
the rumor was they were pretty well-monitored security-wise with door switches
and motion detectors... and that you could get into some pretty serious
trouble if you were caught. Apparently people still went anyway, but just
kept the durations particular short. (And supposedly a lot of the security
was due to there being a fair amount of danger down there if you didn't know
what you were doing or were inebriated... I have a former co-worker who'd been
a submariner and had various chilling tales about what high-pressure steam
could do to you...)

UW article: http://www.news.wisc.edu/3486 -- I'm not sure I believe the part
that, "there's only one way into the tunnels." I would believe, "there's only
one way you're *supposed* to enter the tunnels..."



At MIT we used to go from building to building thru the steam tunnels
during bad snow storms.

...Jim Thompson
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