Horton Hall
Introduction
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Front View of Horton Hall
The Bridge to Horton Hall.
The Court of Horton Hall.
Backstory and Context
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The Bridge connecting Hortona Hall to Old Main
Alumni told stories about this bridge as the site of a lot of pranks and mischief, and many efforts to sneak across to visit with the other sex. Groups of male students who would serenade the women students, and “panty raids” occurred where male students who sneak over into Horton Hall and try to sneak off with female students’ undergarments.
Pranks were also pretty common in Old Main, including one time that a group of male students went onto a neighboring farm, and brought back a cow that they led to the fourth floor of Old Main. Apparently, cows have no trouble walking up stairs, but they have a very hard time walking down stairs. Somehow they got the cow out, we don't know exactly how, but we're sure it wasn't easy!
The lobby of Horton Hall was known as the Court of Horton Hall where the female students who would meet with friends and family. Both female and male students who were dating could meet here with supervised environment. The first phone on campus was located here on campus, with the number being known by heart - 9443.
Horton Hall now contains faculty offices, the Center for Juvenile Justice, and the Office of Professional, Community, and Distance Education among others.