Comments on: Better days at the frat house

By: catfc

catfc — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:58:57 +0000

My bad. In my original post someone corrected me and gave me a link about the girl who died. I didn’t follow up closely enough to see it was a different fraternity.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:52:11 +0000

Please get your facts straight. First of all, the young woman drank herself to death at Sigma Pi, which is on the opposite side of campus. SAE lost their charter because they did give booze to an underage girl, in violation of dry housing rules, but she did not die.

Second, the lions painted red were done annually to commemorate “Paddy Murphy” days. According to legend, Paddy Murphy was a boozerunner along with Al Capone during prohibition. A government agent shot Paddy Murphy, and as he laid dying, Paddy Murphy gave the agent the “secret brother” handshake. The agent realized what he did – killed a brother. The lions are painted as part of the observance of the week – a celebration of brotherhood and friendships.

http://media.www.avionnewspaper.com/media/storage/paper798/news/2008/03/04/StudentLife/Sigma.Alpha.Epsilon.Remembers.Paddy.Murphy-3250422.shtml

By: barefootmeg

barefootmeg — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:10:14 +0000

“The building was torn down to make way for a modern four story mixed use building with ground floor retail and 40 residential units above.”

hmmm, wonder what the penny lane folks think of that.

i’ve seen two other tear downs this week (one at the corner of college and horsetooth. can’t for the life of me remember where the other one was now.). looks like either things are picking up in FC or people are anticipating things are going to be picking up soon, eh?

By: Grow Fort Collins

Grow Fort Collins — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:47:32 +0000

The building was torn down to make way for a modern four story mixed use building with ground floor retail and 40 residential units above.

By: danheretic

danheretic — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:45:17 +0000

Lesley, you must have been missing the “u honk, we drink” signs…

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:57:38 +0000

I was *wondering* what was missing when I drove by that corner the other day!

By: barefootmeg

barefootmeg — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:31:11 +0000

why was the house torn down instead of sold?

By: Barb

Barb — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:17:04 +0000

I hated walking by that dorm when I was in college. I’d heard some stories about it, though they were never *too* bad (until the poor woman died), but there was always a negative “vibe” from that place. I went to school in the late 80′s and early 90′s and never knew about the “hating women” history of the building.

It’s too bad, because I always thought it was a beautiful building.

By: Kip W

Kip W — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:29:05 +0000

I thought about that when I saw the hole in the ground last week and remembered that the place was more or less called “WE HATE WOMEN” when I was in grade school or thereabouts.

I suppose I wasn’t the only one who was more or less in grade school then.