Butt B is EastCo
You knew about WestCo, and North College, and maybe even South College, but EastCo? Why the (literal) cover-up? Why expose it now? Could Butt B have been intended at some point to be an eastern counterpart to that more prominent dorm in the West? Is this some kind of passive-aggressive attempt at re-branding by ResLife?
In that case, what's next for this latently cardinally-directed building? A personality? A cohesive sense of community? More noise? I can't be the only mildly curious to hear answers.
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lol. I noticed this my sophomore year, and The Mystery of the Missing College was finally resolved... for me, anyway. Thanks for bringing this revelation into the public light, Sheek!
I think it was renamed to honor Victor Butterfield the ex-president.
HPPI lost its funding source because of Dubya's policies.
Back in the day(mid eighties)a pre-frosh would receive applications for both West and East Co with the understanding that anyone who applied to one would never apply to the other.
-AA (anonymous alum)
How were WestCo and EastCo different?
Don't know. I guess that's why I lived in Hewitt
-AA
Are you joking about this being a passive-aggressive attempt at re-branding by ResLife? If not, why all the Reslife hate? Yes, the whole Zonker Harris Day business is very silly, but ResLife is generally a good part of the administration. EastCo hasn't existed for a while - I don't think there's any conspiracy here. It's just cheaper to cover up a sign with its new identity rather than install an entirely new one.
intriguing!
but yeah the reason why the HPPI sign was taken off recently is because the program is ending.
EastCo pride
WestCo=Wes
EastCo=Amherst (roughly speaking)
fromnow on i'm saying i live in eastco
East College sounds refined.
I was absolutely kidding about that Mad, I've got nothing against ResLife and I wasn't serious about any cover-up. I meant passive-aggressive in the sense that there was no explanation for the change, I didn't know about the HPPI business.
ah, that's cool :P
I've just been feeling a lot of reslife hate lately :( I like reslife!
yo yo yo it's all about eastco!
Just for some context, the Butterfields used to be called the Lawn Avenue Dorms (or something like that. You can look it up in the University Archives).
one day i shall make an epic film about the westcovians defeating the eastcovians in epic combat.
old news is old
How come East College is almost due south of South College?
Eastco is so much nicer than westco!
and how come North and South College are right next to each other while West College is like, southwest of them both?
7:17 - I was actually wondering the exact same thing today as I left South College. the only way it may make sense is if it was named East College because it's slightly east of West College. I mean, north college and south college make sense because they were built ages ago. I guess westco and eastco were just kind of haphazardly named in response..?
even WestCo is slightly south of SouthCo. RightO
EastCo and WestCo both used to be residential colleges with faculty and students living together and taking classes in them.
I think EastCo focused on math and sciency things and WestCo on the humanities?
This was when the Butt dorms were new, I believe. Anyway, EastCo didn't last for very long.
I can't remember where I learned that, but I bet Suzy Taraba could tell us a lot more.
My dad went here in the 80s and was an RA in the Butts. He described East College as Westco's good-clean-fun-oriented counterpart.
Strictly speaking, 'EastCo' is east of the other three, WestCo is west of the other three, and North College is north of the other three. Someone just put South College too far north... Hmmmm......
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=middletown+ct&ie=UTF8&ll=41.55455,-72.656407&spn=0.004697,0.011759&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr
Cartographer, check out this post.
Just for a little more history. I started at Wes in the fall of '91, and they still accepted applications for EastCo that summer. I think, though, that might have been the last year.
I wound up living in Butt A, and - to scare current students a little more - back then the rooms didn't even have their own phones, never mind cable, etc. that is obviously standard now. Each end of a Butt hall had a group phone that we shared. I think the summer of '92 was when they finally put phones in most of the Butt rooms, but if memory serves there was one part that didn't get room phones till the following summer.
Is anyone else really excited that so many alumni are reading wesleying?
somebody with more time/resources than part-time bloggers have should investigate the tangents all these questions are bringing up. Argus?
I know at one time CSS and COL were both located physically in "the Lawn Avenue dorms" which made naming them for Butterfield kind of logical. The idea was to make them sort of modern versions of Oxbridge.
The relationship between the three residential programs became a tad too incestuous (people from East College would enroll in CSS or COL and basically, never be seen again by the rest of campus.)
Co-education put dorm rooms at a premium, and was another major reason why CSS eventually moved out of the Butts.
The reputaion for being the more buttoned-down version of West College, however, never left East College entirely.
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