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From: mikep@polo.mn.org (Michael Polo)
Subject: Re: Penn State
In-Reply-To: sachs@cadetblue.crayola.cse.psu.edu's message of Sun, 27 Feb 1994 19:28:57 GMT
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 06:53:30 GMT
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In article  sachs@cadetblue.crayola.cse.psu.edu (Mark B Sachs) writes:
>
> In article  dickson@hotlanta.cac.psu.edu (Scott Dickson) writes:
> >I've never heard of the "deep tunnels" at Penn State, but there is an
> >extensive steam tunnel network at the University Park campus.
> >Physical Plant, in the last 8 or 9 years, has installed motion
> >detectors in the tunnels.  So now, when you come out of the tunnels,
> >campus security is there to meet you.  I've never heard of expulsions
> >for cruising the tunnels, but I have had friends who were put on
> >disciplinary probabtion and fined for it.
>
> Say, uh, just out of curiosity (not that I'd ever try it, of course)
> how does one get in? There are sidewalk grates all over campus, but
> they're all locked.
>
> >Now, there are a few tunnels between science buildings (Whitmore to
> >Davey, Davey to Osmond) that are pretty useful...
>
> The basement of Hammond (the engineering building) is fairly interesting
> too, as I recall. It's the most horrendously bad architecture I've ever
> seen, and has the odd maze of stairways and boiler rooms here and there.
>
> Willard basement has some dark crawl spaces that seemed promising, but
> which turned out to lead nowhere (or rather, nowhere that a human being
> could fit through.)
>
> The attic and roof of Whitmore (chemistry lab) are quite accessible, with
> a bit of graffiti in the attic from previous explorers.
>
> Now, the most interesting rumor I've heard of is some old bomb shelters
> extending underneath East Halls possibly all the way south to Atherton
> Hall, in an (allegedly) fairly sizable network. I'm not sure how reliable
> this rumor is... although there _are_ a lot of unmarked locked doors in
> Atherton basement. Ah, for a master key...
>
> Any other Penn Staters care to comment...?
>
> -Mark
>

Hmmm...

You could start at the physical plant (Burrowes) and head along
College Avenue to the Allen Street Mall.  This would split into
two tunnels, one heading East (all the way to South Halls) and
one heading North (to Pattee Library).

The North tunnel would go all the way to Pattee (with an east
branch along Pollock all the way to Rittenour).  There were
grates along the way, and they weren't always locked. (They
probably are now, they've had about 8 years to lock the one
in front of Sparks)  There was also a door in a wall of Pattee,
suitable for letting your friends into. :-)

At Pattee the tunnel would head east, going between Weaver
and Meuller all the way to Shortlidge, where it would
turn south.  At the elbow that headed south, there was a
branch that seemed to head towards East halls, but it was
closed off or something.  I always wondered about east halls.

The Tunnel going south along Shortlidge would run into that
underpass.  There are two doors there, and a way to crawl
over the underpass to avoid the doors.  It would continue
south from the other door to Simmons.

At Simmons, there was a branch that went south then east
all the way to South Halls.  The other Branch went west
past Atherton and Human development and joined the
tunnel at the Allen Street mall.

The Branch that went from the Allen street mall along
Pollock had a short branch that went north between
Davey and Chandlee to Whitmore, then continued East
to Osmond, the HUB and Rittenour.

There was a deeper tunnel under Human development,
but it didn't go anywhere.

Yeah, they finally installed motion detectors.  If my
memory serves me correctly, I think they called it
Defiant Tresspass -- "Entering an area manifestly designed
to exclude intruders" "What if one of those steam pipes
burst, young man?!?"  Live, learn (and smile)

Mike

p.s. Hi Scott