University of South Carolina undergraduate, dorms The Towers are being torn down.The Towers are more popularly known as The Honeycombs for obvious reasons.
The Honeycombs, originally a complex of six buildings built in 1958 and 1965, will be replaced with a residence hall and academic center for South Carolina Honors College students.
Former students who once lived in The Honeycombs are invited to campus for a farewell reception and tour of the halls on Friday, Aug. 25. The Aug. 25 event is free and will take place from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of Towers. The reception will feature photo displays, yearbooks and music, as well as a brief presentation on the history of the Towers, which housed USC students for nearly 50 years. Guests also will have the opportunity to tour a room in each of the four remaining residence halls.
Leading up to the farewell event, USC's housing staff also will give tours of the Towers on weekdays from 9 - 11 a.m. and on Saturdays from 2 - 4 p.m. Tours are by appointment only.
I have hung out in The Towers and have a great Towers story, but it can not be posted on Turnipblog.The honeycomb architecture was genius as it allowed one to pee off of his fifth story balcony undetected.
3 comments:
I lived on the first floor of Douglas. Great thing about the first floor...in the middle of the night I would always hear someone floors above me peeing off the balcony. Based on your love of peeing outside, I'm sure you were one of them.
Jeff, Big Bird and I climbed the facade of one of the honeycombs on a drunken impulse on night--and of course peed from the top.
Do you know the supposedly true story about J. DeLoach and M. Keller playing trivial pursuit in the honeycombs one night?? apparently they each took one turn and ran the entire board, piece by piece without missing an answer.
Billy
I told ya, the Honeycombs are all about the peeing. They will be sorely missed.
I totally believe the Trivial Pursuit story. Sadly, no one knows where Deloach is, maybe Keller can verify.
One day I will devote a special Turnipblog feature to Deloach stories.
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