WCF Courier: "Dreams come true in the UNI-Dome"

[Panther-Sheik]

Re: WCF Courier: "Dreams come true in the UNI-Dome"

Fire Codes do not allow such troughs today, and if you renovate, you have to adhere to the newer code. It's a congestion issue.

If you're "congested" you shouldnt' be using a trough...You should be in a stall

[JayJ79]

Re: WCF Courier: "Dreams come true in the UNI-Dome"

Fire Codes do not allow such troughs today, and if you renovate, you have to adhere to the newer code. It's a congestion issue.

Crazy. I didn't know it got THAT congested at the troughs. And besides, the stalls would only add to the general congestion, since there would be more people standing in lines waiting.

Not busting on you, just ranting about the stupidity in some of the codes.

And all this trough talk will probably drive NIB crazy on the TMI front.

[ronfitch]

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Does anyone remember it took several years of saving money to be able afford seats on the west side?

Not until you mentioned it, but I now remember that.

As a kid, I was a "Junior Panther" - got a t-shirt and admission to home games. Early on after the games moved to the Dome, the "Junior Panther" section was on the west side down by the south end zone. We were a bunch of eight-to-twelve-year-olds loaded up on popcorn and soda, not paying a lot of attention to the games, under the glare of the ushers stuck with corralling us in our section (the t-shirts gave us away).

[Big_Al]

Re: WCF Courier: "Dreams come true in the UNI-Dome"

Well, you can fit more guys shoulder-to-shoulder in a trough than if you have urinals at 30"o.c. Probably only 2-3, would be my guess, though. In a large building like the UNI-Dome, code is trying to prevent overcrowding and, by extension, trampling should something happen and people panic. Fire isn't too terribly big of a worry in a concrete building like the dome.

Okay, I'll get off my building nerd stand now.

[ronfitch]

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I remember Latham field, as it was still there when I came to UNI in 84. The marching band used to practice there, until they turned it into a parking lot in 87. Seems to me that where the old field was positioned, some of those games probably got downright cold and windy. I fully remember having to practice marching band outside during that first playoff run in 1985, and some of those days we practiced were downright cold out there. We did secure the dome a few times to practice, but due to the needs of the athletic dept. we wouldn't get to use the dome until 10 p.m., so we'd have some 10-midnight marching band rehearsals, but it beat freezing one's butt off outside!
Anyway, the dome has been a great thing for everyone. I just wish it were a little bigger!

Check out the Rod Library Special Collections page about Latham Stadium:

http://www.library.uni.edu/speccoll/bh/bhlathamstad.html

Of note: For nearly fifteen years following WWII, part of the mezzanine of Latham Stadium used as a converted men's dorm called "Stadium Hall" (scroll down about two-thirds of the page).

[Jonsoup]

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I always hear about the memories of the Dome going up and when UNI played at Latham. As my father also helped in the fund raising and worked in both stadiums during football games and during the season.

[Purple For Life]

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Even if they could designate at least one men's bathroom for women for these jammed games, it would make a difference. But I doubt they will.

[anthropanther]

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Yeah it would, but I bet the luck would be then the guys would be in really long lines too, although it seems to me that when the women's bathroom line blocks all traffic in front of the entrance doors That would be the worse fire code to break, ha imagine a small fire and people are scrambling but the dedicated bathroom line isn't moving because they've already waited 20 minutes to go pee and aren't budging. any way I just found that a funny thought.

Not sitting in the student section this game, I would but I'm gun shy from the last experience at the Dome. Plan on being at the Dome around 11:30. Oh and on a side note my little brother is a bouncer for Beck's so try to cut the bouncers a little slack, he's been bouncing and going to class since Thursday in anticipation of large crowds. Goes to bed at 4 a.m. to make it to class at 8 a.m. I think the bouncers will be glad to see Sunday.

[Newsbreaker]

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Even if they could designate at least one men's bathroom for women for these jammed games, it would make a difference. But I doubt they will.

I went to a playoff game at Soldier Field in Chicago last January, and that's what they do, designate some of the men's rooms as women's rooms.

The result: No lines in the women's rooms, but I would guess it would take 90 minutes in line at the men's room.