[Vision2020] Tunnels

[Robert Dickow]

Campuses can hold all kinds of secrets. I used to teach at Transylvania
University in Lexington Kentucky, an old (1780) college founded by Tom
Jefferson. In the administration building is a wonderfully spooky crypt with
a couple of sarcophagi. One holds the remains of the famous 19th century
botanist Constantine Rafinesque. Every year the students hold a 'Raffi Days'
festival, and at its peak, they have a midnight torchlight parade, ending in
the burning of an effigy of ol' Rafinesque. It happens that Rafinesque was
summarily fired from his professorship after striking up an amorous affair
with the wife of the president of the college, another famous scholar named
Horace Holley. When Rafinesque turned up for work one day, they had simply
cleared out his office and changed the lock, which was how they revoked
tenure in those days I guess. Anyway, Rafinesque publicly put a nasty and
very serious curse on the school, and left for Philadelphia I think it was.
After his death his remains were moved back to Transy. The crypt is really
creepy, and there are reports of ghosts from time to time. Of course.

Whenever the school has difficult times... budgetary woes, leaky roofs,
etc., the situation is typically blamed on Rafinesque's Curse.

Would that the UofI had something like this to blame for its problems.

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

-----Original Message-----
From: Saundra Lund [mailto:sslund_2007 at verizon.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:00 AM
To: 'Dickow'; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Tunnels

Don't forget about the old fallout shelters on campus  :-)

I wish I could remember the details, but there was a good story several
years back in the Snooze about cool hidden places on the UI campus.  The
steam tunnels were mentioned (some class toured them), as were the fallout
shelters,  the clock tower, the basement in the Admin building, and some
other places I don't recall.



Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

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nothing.
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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Dickow
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:12 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels


I've heard that there are some interesting old steam tunnels on the UofI
campus, and I understand that they are  navigable on foot? I wouldn't be
surprised if some of these actually secretly lead to underground caverns,
where reside alien civilizations, and this of course is the source of all
the UFO sightings of late. Gotta be.

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

-----Original message-----
From: donald edwards donaledwards at hotmail.com
> 
> I know for a fact that Lewiston has these tunnels running between
businesses along Main st.  Maybe Moscow was confused with those?  The
indication and proof down there is evident when walking along the sidewalk
between the furniture store and apartments on one side near The Liberty and
you see the dark purple glass circles embedded in the ground.  These provide
some light in the tunnel below.