Just left there a few hours ago, facebooking with friends that live in burge now.

When I was there a Chinese grad. student went on a shooting spree because he didn't get some sort of award.

just another reason that Burge is a trash hole.

_{/shout out to other ic farkers...}

BigDumbGuy: When I was there a Chinese grad. student went on a shooting spree because he didn't get some sort of award.

Chirst, I think that's the one that shot my dad's physics professor...

Barakku: one that shot my dad's physics professor

I can't imagine that there were two. It was pretty weird walking across the Pentacrest seeing cops with M-16s and shotguns and a body being pulled out of a building.

I know it was Van Allen Hall. But then he wandered off to an administrative building on the Pentacrest and shot more people. My friend wanted to spray paint "Now Hiring" on the Van Allen Hall sign, but I told him that was in real poor taste.

BigDumbGuy: I know it was Van Allen Hall. But then he wandered off to an administrative building on the Pentacrest and shot more people. My friend wanted to spray paint "Now Hiring" on the Van Allen Hall sign, but I told him that was in real poor taste.

Killed 5, paralyzed another. Link (new window)

Someone wasn't ready for their final...

There are so many idiots on bbs.iscabbs.com it's like watching the text version of Hee-Haw.

BigDumbGuy: When I was there a Chinese grad. student went on a shooting spree because he didn't get some sort of award.

What is it wish Chinese/southern asian students? Their was a Chinese student who murdered a chick, when I was at school. And my brother has a psycho Korean roomate who attacked a kid with a knife.

Actually, there's not many of anyone left on bbs.isca.com, idiots included.

still in IC - some a$$ hat thought it funny I am sure - gimmie a break. Burge is not the best dorm in the world, but really - making a box to look like a bomb?

Lived in Courier Hall, partied in Burge, 'way back in the day. I don't think anyone would have noticed if a bomb really would have gone off.

The corn is safe because they aint none this time of year. Jeez, folks, get your agri-knowledge going already.

I kind of liked Burge, but I moved out to an apartment on Burlington pretty quickly. Glad to hear that it was a hoax.

I was over the river in Hillcrest when I was there. I was still in middle school when the shooting happened. It's all they showed on the news in Cedar Rapids.

BigDumbGuy: When I was there a Chinese grad. student went on a shooting spree because he didn't get some sort of award.

Miya Rodolfo-Sioson, the student asst shot by Gang Lu was left paralyzed from the neck down. She just died this month of breast cancer - age 40.

/bless that woman

This is from the Univeristy's Bomb Policy: A bomb threat may come to the attention of the receiver in various ways. It is important to compile as much information as possible. Please DO NOT attempt to notify or evacuate an entire building as
this could consume valuable time that would be better used to gather important information.

Since they locked out Burge and sent everyone to Daum it seems they really don't adhere to their policies.

What information do they intend to compile? Number of confirmed dead? Names of blast victims?

Unavailable for comment:

If any Iowa farkers out there remember March of 2001, there was another bomb threat there, and it wasn't a fake. My roommate was the one building the pipe bombs, and storing it in our laundry basket.

Quite entertaining to have to move all of my stuff from the bottom floor of Burge to the 10th floor of Stanley in 12 hours.

Ahh...college memories...

Awww shucks

Prude_Hawkeye: If any Iowa farkers out there remember March of 2001, there was another bomb threat there, and it wasn't a fake. My roommate was the one building the pipe bombs, and storing it in our laundry basket.

Quite entertaining to have to move all of my stuff from the bottom floor of Burge to the 10th floor of Stanley in 12 hours.

Ahh...college memories...

Wasn't his name Adam Mitchell.
/my name too
//fun to explain.

FlashHarry: BigDumbGuy: When I was there a Chinese grad. student went on a shooting spree because he didn't get some sort of award.

van allen hall. november. i had just left a french class there. the shooter was a chinese student named gang lu. awful day.

i took a poetry class there. e.e. cummings taught it. i now type like this. terrible. it's sad. i is idiot.

You are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a bomb in your university. Well, you got trouble my friend.

/with a capital B

There was a guy at my school who thought it would be hillarious to send his gf a package that had 'bomb' written on it. The Feds paid him a visit and he didn't go to our school anymore.


On a side note, isn't the dust created by corn extremely volatile?

If a bomb went off at Burge it would be an improvement.

/they didn't call it "the Zoo" for nothing.

Fred Flintstone wanted for questioning. Lava hot

doesn't this happen at every university during finals week?

INeedAName: There was a guy at my school who thought it would be hillarious to send his gf a package that had 'bomb' written on it. The Feds paid him a visit and he didn't go to our school anymore.


On a side note, isn't the dust created by corn extremely volatile?

It can be. Kinda like really fine sawdust or coal dust. Spread it out enough, spark something, and it can get interesting.

\my girlfriend is a pharm. grad student there.

adambuck: Prude_Hawkeye: If any Iowa farkers out there remember March of 2001, there was another bomb threat there, and it wasn't a fake. My roommate was the one building the pipe bombs, and storing it in our laundry basket.


Yep, I remember that. I was living in Courier at the time. Lived in Daum before that. Kept clear of Burge at all costs both years, although watching Burge residents do the walk of shame on Saturday and Sunday mornings was always good for a laugh.

I don't know about you Iowans, but to me a bomb threat in the last week of the semester is very more likely to be a joke or a desperate student who wants a postponed exam.

/snowstorm delayed exam here by... 1 hour

earie?

/bad joke
//had to spell it wrong to work

Mokmo: I don't know about you Iowans, but to me a bomb threat in the last week of the semester is very more likely to be a joke or a desperate student who wants a postponed exam.

/snowstorm delayed exam here by... 1 hour

Of course, a bomb threat to a dorm won't do a lot to postpone your exam.

Student: "Uh I can't take that test 'cuz there's a bomb in my dorm"

Prof: "Well, I'm glad to inform you that we are bomb-free over here. Come over and take a test while you're at it."

I got to hang out with James Van Allen while studying physics in '94 - cool guy. He didnt think manned spaceflight was worth it - all about the robots was James.

I'm from Iowa so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Grew up 20 miles from the U of I.

I went to school in Cedar Falls!!! :D

/Yay Iowa
//Much prefers the balmy winter weather in the southern states.

Pineapples: I went to school in Cedar Falls!!! :D

/Yay Iowa
//Much prefers the balmy winter weather in the southern states.

UNI Alum twice over - only made it as far south as Cedar Rapids though.

/Would prefer balmy weather today.

Top 10 Excuses to Get Out of a Final at the University of Iowa:

10. "I got drunk and got hit by a car outside the QT on Burlington."
9. "I got drunk and rammed my car into a Herkey statue."
8. "I got drunk and jumped out in front of a Cambus."
7. "I got drunk and set fire to my fraternity house."
6. "I got drunk and assembled a bomb in Burge / Hillcrest."
5. "I got a sex change operation, attempted to sleep with one of my female students, was turned in to the police, then shot myself in the face."
4. "I am an angry Muslim, attempted to sleep with one of my female students, felt mortal shame, then shot myself in the face."
3. "I am an angry Chinese grad student, and despite my 4.0 record am ashamed at my humiliation for not winning an obscure award, then shot you and 6 other people in the face."
2. "I am an angry Chinese Muslim transsexual grad student, got drunk, attempted to sleep with one of my female students, shot my obscure award in the face, was turned into the police and walked out in front of a Cambus."
1. "I got drunk.

Oh, and how could I forget:

11. "I am a local artist minding my own business in my art studio, and then the police came and broke down my door and thought my cell phone was a gun and they shot me in the face."

Ahhh, Iowa...

go shonn greene

INeedAName: There was a guy at my school who thought it would be hillarious to send his gf a package that had 'bomb' written on it. The Feds paid him a visit and he didn't go to our school anymore.


On a side note, isn't the dust created by corn extremely volatile?

Yup... in fact pretty much any dust is volatile, just needs to be enough of it in the air at any localized point to form an explosive mixture.

/Goes to the University of Iowa
//Learned this the hard way a few months ago working in the lab with blue pigment powder
///Almost blue my face off
////Bad pun slashies!

<b><a target="_blank" href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4094168&IDComment=4 7250 649#c47250649">Madame Ovary</a>:</b> <i>BigDumbGuy: When I was there a Chinese grad. student went on a shooting spree because he didn't get some sort of award.

Miya Rodolfo-Sioson, the student asst shot by Gang Lu was left paralyzed from the neck down. She just died this month of breast cancer - age 40.

/bless that woman</i>

Oh, no, really? She lived about two blocks from us (corner of Dodge & College, IIRC), and I remember her landlord installing a wheelchair ramp for her, gratis.

The GF (now wife) & I were eating at Bruegger's on Iowa Ave. when the Van Allen shootings were going on. Scary times.

/if you ever ordered a Rocky Rococo's pizza, I probably delivered it.

Boy, did I fark up that formatting. Oh, well.

The world would be a better place without dirty Burge or its laxative/dorm food.

/07' alumni
//Stanley was a much better dorm

adambuck: Wasn't his name Adam Mitchell.
/my name too
//fun to explain.

Same first name (and same name as mine, which was confusing when the police knocked on the door - "Which one of you two is Adam?" "Uhh...Adam who?"), but the last name is different.

Prolly listing his name would be against Fark policies.

corn