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« Thread Started on May 21, 2006, 2:56pm »

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Indiana University Folklore
Several bits of unverifiable lore and rumors about IU folklore or urban legends can be added to this list:

The Library is sinking.

Playboy voted the library one of the top ten pickup sites of the country.

Ballantine was paid for with money from when the patent to fluoride was sold to Crest, so it is shaped like a toothbrush. (It is true that in 1951, Joseph C. Muhler and Harry G. Day, both dentists at IU, published research on the use of stannous fluoride as a tooth decay preventative, and this research was licensed to Procter and Gamble, who they developed Crest toothpaste. Whether this has to do with Ballantine's shape or funding is unknown.)

If a virgin ever graduates, the dolphins in Showalter fountain would swim away.

Someone jumped off of Ballantine full of drugs, hit an awning, and lived. The University sent him a bill for the damage. (On 4/20/04, a man did survive a jump from the 8th floor, but it's unknown if he was billed, or if he was high.)

If a professor doesn't show up after a certain point in time, class is canceled.

When a bunch of the original land for IU was donated, there was a stipulation that if some of the trees were cut (or some other odd condition), all of the land on the campus would revert ownership to Purdue.

The Student Career Development Center at 10th and Jordan is haunted by a doctor who performed illegal abortions, and hid fetuses in the walls. He hung himself in a spiral staircase. When it was used as a frathouse, the frat's mascot dog wouldn't go up the stairs because it could see the ghost.

Other popular urban legends are just too stupid or general, like the "roommate kills himself, I get a 4.0" sort of thing.

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