BHGP Luther contingent
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Dec 9, 2009 3:35 PM CST
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Seems Luther College grads are pretty well represented on this here blog. Out of curiosity and for my own personal pleasure, chek in on the comments if you are a grad.
I suppose townies (natives) of Decorah, or guys who banged a Tau Delt or ABY can check in, too (this latter category probably includes 90% of Iowans).
As for myself, I'm the worst kind of alumnus - the kind that's actually a native, an alum, and a former employee. And I'm not ashamed to say that I miss the simple place.
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Townie here.
Also went to summer camp at Luther College for about 1 and 1/2 months each summer.
Its a special place.
I'm a Luther grad from the 80's.....
…..before they built the nice dorms, had the cafeteria remodeled, and redid the Union. This was also before the downtown had ANY restaurants, and before the drinking age was 21.
Last time I was there, I saw that they’d torn down the building that housed our favorite bar and built a goddam BANK in its place.
A bank!
My little brother also went there, loved it, too. When I lived in IC after my Luther graduation, it was noted that at any large party, the people who drank the most and were the wildest were always the Luther people. I have no explanation for that, except to ask the rhetorical question: when you’re living in Decorah, what the hell ELSE was there to do?
If it's not too much trouble, search your soul--and then ask yourself if maybe I might have a point.
Luther did have some good drinkers
But (and I am probably biased here since I am a Duhawk), it seemed to me that Loras people were always the one who could actually party the entire night without passing out. Maybe due to the fact that we could go East and drink til 4am anytime we went out.
But one thing is for sure, I would put Iowa Conference drinkers of any school against any other states.
Agreed
I think there’s good reason Iowa folks are usually the last ones standing at parties/going out here in Chicago.
They took the bar, the whole fucking bar!
by recoveringfratguy on Dec 9, 2009 10:08 PM CST up reply actions
Proud graduate of the class of '90
I still can’t believe the Pub doesn’t exist anymore (dime draws on Wed mug nights, ranked up there with flip night at the Airliner). i can proudly admit that the fourth time I went to Nordic Fest was when I discovered that there was a parade, and I had slept through it.
Still miss Mabe’s Pizza too.
I can’t believe I didn’t need a liver transplant
Everybody wants a little milk of Michael
Mabe's :(
I think I may miss it most of all
But Mabe's is STILL open, isn't it?
Last time I heard, it was. Whereas the Pub is kaput. When I was there, the first “chain” fast food place opened: HARDEES.
And it was a BIG DEAL—before that, you only had the Burger V.
Believe me, Decorah was rustic, but that was part of its charm. Between Zahasky’s, Kip and Dees, The Tap Room, and The Sportsman’s Rendezvous (zero of which exist anymore), the possibilities of evening libation hijinks were pretty maximal.
The theatre showed ONE film, and it might be THE LAST WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS for eight fucking weeks. There were no ATM’s. There were, however, over a dozen bars within walking distance of the campus. There were also a dozen churches within walking distance of the campus.
What a place to get a degree! In winter, the tough people stayed in town for J-term, and people often left their cars running outside the bars or else they might not start up again, it got so cold sometimes. Even now, I’d rather go out on the town when its minus ten out, than when it’s 85.
If it's not too much trouble, search your soul--and then ask yourself if maybe I might have a point.
Unless it closed sometime in the last 6 months or whatever, yeah Mabe's is still around
And yes, J-term was the fucking best. I never had a j-term class before noon, and I never took anything that wasn’t a complete cakewalk, so every year I was basically just drunk for all of January.
The movie theater shows all 3 movies at a time now, but apparently there are way fewer bars. The other way around would be much better.
Aaah the Tap Room
I remember walking in there after freshman fall finals (underage) and ordering a triple shot of Yukon Jack and a coke. Came back after spring break and it was gone.
Everybody wants a little milk of Michael
by Dr Feelgood on Dec 10, 2009 8:45 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Mortal Enemy here
Well, if you can call a Wartburg grad the enemy – sort of like how ISU looks at us as the “enemy”, where we just look down at them as the little brother
Good to know there's at least two of us.
by Shooter McGavin on Dec 9, 2009 6:28 PM CST up reply actions
I was going to ask if I have to hiss or something…
…considering I currently reside in Waverly.
…give me the courage and the ability to so conduct myself in every situation that my country, my family, and my friends will be proud of me.
-Nile Kinnick
by Hawkeyewith49Jackrabbits on Dec 9, 2009 7:13 PM CST up reply actions
Although
There is the occasional day that Nestle is making the chocolate mix, and the whole town smells like hot cocoa. That isn’t so bad.
I always think Coco Puffs
It makes me coo-koo!
…give me the courage and the ability to so conduct myself in every situation that my country, my family, and my friends will be proud of me.
-Nile Kinnick
by Hawkeyewith49Jackrabbits on Dec 10, 2009 7:07 AM CST up reply actions
Spoken like a true Norsemen!
So I have nothing more to add to the sentiment.
If it's not too much trouble, search your soul--and then ask yourself if maybe I might have a point.
Count me in the fold
Wartburg Grad here, before they build all their nice shit.
Seriously, what isn't better with bacon?
by The Bacon Explosion on Dec 10, 2009 10:34 AM CST up reply actions
Sir, as another Luther alumnus, I ask that you go fuck yourself.
Haha just kidding kind of but not.
My freshman year the football game was in Decorah, and it was a nasty, rainy, muddy trenchfight in which the Norse defense prevailed. It’s the only time we’ve beat you guys in the last like…eighteen games or something stupid, but it was glorious nonetheless. I had a plastic sword and the gentleman next to me was entirely covered in blue body paint.
Unfortunatley, wiith more Luther kids coming from Minnesota now than Iowa, I think the rivalry is quickly dying. None of them have even heard of that shit-tastic little school or Waverly, let alone felt hateful about it.
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 10, 2009 10:44 AM CST up reply actions
Rivalry dying
I’d argue the rivalry is dying due to its one-sidedness much more than the origins of the student body. Just sayin…
Graduated in 04. Had my fair share of ABY’s and Tau Delts, even knocked out a townie for negative style points. As far as AJ’s. that place was shit anyways. I owe Roscoe’s (the pub) a shout out being a former employee
Gotta get up to get down
Roscoe's is shit
It’s fine if you are a freshman, but otherwise fuck that place. Way too fucking crowded and loud for me. Americana, T-Bock, Haymarket where the only bars I went to (when I actually went out. The vast majority of my drinking was at house/floor/cluster parties)
Anyway, I graduated just last year. As much as I love Iowa City, I definitely miss the hell out of Luther. Some good fucking times, especially last year when I was more or less done with my major and admitted to law school and could just party for basically the entire 2nd semester (aside from cramming in my entire senior paper in a weekend…B+, whattup). People there can definitely drink. The guys I hung out with at Luther would put most of Iowa City to shame.
I was there when the Haymarket opened....
….before that, it was a GAS STATION! At the time, it was about fifth on the list of student hangouts downtown, but after the other four closed, I heard it was more popular.
One of the great things in my college experience was that the barkeeps at our hangout were two older women—one at least 50, one at least 65. Made for a unique experience, being served Blatz beer in pitchers by your “mom” and “grandma”! And the jukebox had real 45’s, 98% of which were country, the other 25 were Elvis.
So we played the SHIT outta Elvis there. And don’t even get me started on the drinking games….
If it's not too much trouble, search your soul--and then ask yourself if maybe I might have a point.
Haymarket is still a distant 5th in terms of student hangouts
The bar’s patrons were more or less divided evenly between students (mostly those who didn’t want anything to do with Roscoe’s and that whole scene) and the same crazy alcoholic old townies every week. I didn’t go there a ton, but it definitely had it’s own weird charm that I loved.
not a Luther grad
but I was born and raised in Cresco. GO CADETS!
"ANOTHER Iowa running back down!"-any sports caster
Sorry to hear that.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Dec 11, 2009 2:31 PM CST up reply actions
Cresco cops have always been dicks.
One night I was heading south out of town towards Protivin and got pulled over one night for doing 27 in a 25.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Dec 11, 2009 3:10 PM CST up reply actions
yea man
i know what you mean. Cresco cops are just lookin for shit to do.
"ANOTHER Iowa running back down!"-any sports caster
by HAWKEYESBABY on Dec 14, 2009 8:19 AM CST up reply actions
The fact that a town of...
8200 people has a college and that many bars makes me think that there are too many Iowa towns with tiny colleges.
The metropolis of Waterloo is sooooo much better.
LOL
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
True...
but Waverly doesn’t have that many bars, does it?
Also, my “LOL” shows that I was (mostly) joking. And actually, I don’t think anyone has been murdered or robbed/beat with a hammer in at least 4 days here in Waterloo, so I’ll politely ask you refer to it as “crime-ridden” instead of “crime-addled.” Thank you very much.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 9, 2009 10:18 PM CST up reply actions
Waverly is a shitty town with a shitty school full of shitty people
If you really want to party, keep going north, hang a right at New Hampton, and keep driving until you hear angles singing.
second that
joes night hawk is a piece of shit. at least sell me pizza better than a gas station when im in a bar
Gotta get up to get down
Whoop whoop.
As I noted above, the “rivalry” exists in sports only. Wartburg is too small, too shitty, too boring, and too bro-tastic to compete with Luther as an institution. And Waverly versus Decorah? Come on.
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 10, 2009 10:48 AM CST up reply actions
BV in da house!
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
And here I thought I was the only Prestigious Buena Vista University Beaver to rock this train.
Fuck and yes. As far as partying goes…I never made it over to Decorah, so I have no frame of reference, but Wednesday nights just weren’t complete if you didn’t go to Malarky’s and then buy a Honey Kissed Pizza from Randy for five bucks in the parking lot on your way home. Fucking. Awesome.
Black and Gold Blood: Cubbie Blue Heart
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by MissouriHawk on Dec 10, 2009 9:31 AM CST up reply actions
Damn,
talk about bringing back some old memories. Oh how I miss HK Pizza! I knew twin sisters who worked for Randy while I was in school. They hooked our broke asses up! As for Malarky’s, gotta love free beer and nickel pitchers. I swear, I drank myself retarded in the four years I spent at that place. Damn, I miss college.
BTW, when did you attend BV?
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
I graduated in 2001.
Spent a ton of time at The Boathouse too. I lived in Pierce for the first 3 years and then was dumb enough to be an RA my senior year…but got put in the suites…which was not too shabby.
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by MissouriHawk on Dec 10, 2009 1:15 PM CST up reply actions
Your a year ahead of me.
I lived on the third floor of Pierce Hall my sophomore year. I then got lucky and wound up in one of the cottages (MacAllister (sp?)) my junior year. I too spent alot of time at The Boathouse as well, knew the owner. Odds are, we probably know each other.
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
Are you sure that the retardation is completely gone?
"Wow. You know you have problems when even the cheerleaders know you suck." ~ Pain in the Sash
by Leftcoast Hawk on Dec 10, 2009 1:49 PM CST up reply actions
Not one bit.
My wife reminds me everday just how retarded I truelly am!
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." HST
Not a Luther Grad, but gotta a question...
How do you KNOW its a Tau Delta or ABY? I’m a native Iowan and I’ve never heard the latter term.
Oh, BTW, a former BIL of mine married a girl from Waverly – they both went to UNI – and then dumped her five years out of college for cougar he met in an online game that lived in East Texas.
I remember going up there for their wedding, and we stopped to eat and everyone had RED HAIR as far as the eye could see. It was sort of like Deliverance but no hills and hollers.
"Wow. You know you have problems when even the cheerleaders know you suck." ~ Pain in the Sash
Luther doesn't have national frats or sororities...
….so they made up their own. One knows each species of Luther bird by her the color of her sweatshirt/hoodie: Red, Green, Blue, or Yellow were the color of the birds when I was there. I had some success with the Red species, less so with the others.
Anyway, that’s why no one knows the names. Same for the frats—local, not national, and no college-sponsored frat houses.
If it's not too much trouble, search your soul--and then ask yourself if maybe I might have a point.
by The Director on Dec 10, 2009 10:24 AM CST up reply actions
The reds seemed to be a bit more open.
From what i’ve had of them.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Dec 11, 2009 12:49 PM CST up reply actions
My take: a 90's perspective
Reds = easiest, most likely to be found at Roscoe’s nee The Pub on any given weeknight. More likely the one-night stand type of gals.
Blues = Stuck-up and care a bit more about their looks, but not much different from the reds. Future cougars.
Green/blacks = probably about the right mix between studious and partying.
Yellows = moo moo.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Dec 11, 2009 2:11 PM CST up reply actions
I don't even remember which one the greens are, or if they are still around
The blue, yellow, red distinction is more or less correct though. The blues were generally the hottest, but the reds were the most fun to hang out with.
yellow?
who the fuck are the yellows? as a two time elected kegmaster/firebuilder (of an almost dead fraternity presently) i would like answers
Gotta get up to get down
Maybe it wasn't yellow
I only ones I remember for sure were ABY (red) and Tau Delt (blue) for sure, but I swear there was a third one and they were all ugly. I couldn’t remember the color, but when he said yellow=moo moo, I assumed that was it. Maybe they were green.
When I was there--when giants walked the earth.....
…..the Reds were the cutest and most likely to be from the Minneapolis area, but the Blues were more fun and still pretty cute.
The Yellows were slightly skanky and partied a LOT, and the Greens were the least cute but also the least stuck-up.
Then again, I’m talking 20 years ago, so I’m sure things have changed. What was cute then may not be cute now, and so on. And organizations come and go, so there’s that to think about, too.
I mean, when I went there, there was still a bowling alley in the basement of the Union, Brand and Ylvisaker were single-sex, and the Oneota Room’s Egg Cheeseburger with Fries was the single greatest morsel of food in the world.
And it still is! I STILL make one each weekend—best burger EVER.
If it's not too much trouble, search your soul--and then ask yourself if maybe I might have a point.
by The Director on Dec 12, 2009 11:27 AM CST up reply actions
Not a native or an alumnus
but I canoe/float the Upper Iowa a couple of times a year. Is that good enough?
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Do you stop in Bluffton at Randy's Bluffton store?
That’s good enough to make you an honorary townie, actually.
Quick story about canoeing the Upper Iowa. Took a canoe trip on year starting upriver of Bluffton, with the plan of spending the night in camp in Bluffton, then on to Decorah on the second day. At the end of day one we had enough time to get our fire started and supper eaten before a big storm rolled in. The campground owners told us all to pick up camp, as a tornado was rolling in, and my buddy and myself and a hundred other canoe-ers crammed into the bathroom as the tornado rolled by.
The place had a tin roof, so every piece of hail, every branch that plopped on it, every screaming child in the bathroom we shared reminded us of how close to death we actually may be. We shared cigarettes, nervously joking that it may be our last, and seeing in each other’s eyes that the joke betrayed our real fears.
The tornado passed, the rains didn’t stop, and the river was creeping higher at the rate of an inch every five minutes. We couldn’t make camp again since it was about to become riverbottom, so we slept in the back of a pickup, with our canoe tied to a tree. By morning, our campsite was under four feet of water, and the canoe was gone. Thankfully, the camp proprieters spent the night collecting canoes and moving them to high ground.
We met a couple from seminary school in Chicago who had come to the Upper Iowa because of reading it in a magazine. we gave them a ride to Decorah, only to find that their car had been towed for being to close to the rising river. Bought them breakfast to kill the time until they could find a cop to get them their car back.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Dec 10, 2009 9:38 AM CST up reply actions
The second time I went this year, I camped in Bluffton
It was the first time I did a two-day trip. I’ve always started upriver from Kendallville and camped there. I’m not much of an outdoorsman, so a two-day trip was a big step up. I hit Bluffton and pretty much slept for 16 hours. Nice campground, from what little I saw.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 10, 2009 10:07 AM CST up reply actions
That's a great story
"Wow. You know you have problems when even the cheerleaders know you suck." ~ Pain in the Sash
by Leftcoast Hawk on Dec 10, 2009 1:50 PM CST up reply actions
Randy's Blufton Store is a wonderful camping spot
I have many memories from my youth of nearly being sucked into oblivion by the eddy that starts by the rock right in the middle of the river near the banks of the campgrounds. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been there, but my family and friends of ours generally consider that to be one of the better camping spots in the state.
Additionally, it was the first place I ever glow in the dark bocce ball. What a wonderful creation.
/O'keefe'd
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Dec 10, 2009 2:09 PM CST up reply actions
awww hell yea!
i used to go to that place all the time. love the tiny town of bluffton. I was there for a pretty huge flood.
"ANOTHER Iowa running back down!"-any sports caster
by HAWKEYESBABY on Dec 14, 2009 8:22 AM CST up reply actions
As far as I'm cocerned, yes
When it was nice enough out, I probably spent almost as much time canoeing/ kayaking the Upper Iowa as I did in class. Prettiest stretch of river in the entire state.
Also the site of the yearly Canoe Derby, which was up there with Trout Fry (which is sadly more or less dead…may it rest in peace) for best school-wide annual drinking event at Luther. My senior year my partner and I were, as far as I could tell, the only two in the whole stupid event who managed not to tip our canoe, despite going through a full case of beer each over the course of the day. One of my greater accomplishments.
And something of which to be proud...
Seriously, what isn't better with bacon?
by The Bacon Explosion on Dec 10, 2009 10:35 AM CST up reply actions
2008 Luther Alumnus,
and the love product of two ’81 alumni. Ran the gambit – choir, symphony orchestra, student senate, SEEDS, ran the “pep band” (I know, I know), other odd jobs. Lived in Decorah for the best summer of of my life, hands down. I have four Luther-specific books on the bookshelf and a couple on Decorah. Would like to work there someday. So, fuck yeah, Luther!
“L……….”
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 10, 2009 11:01 AM CST reply actions
wtf is "SEEDS"?
some gross baseball team euphemism for a circle jerk?
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Dec 10, 2009 11:12 AM CST up reply actions
Ew.
No, it’s an extremely forced acronym for the college’s social justice group. “Students Engaging/Encouraging (depending on who you ask) Economic Development through Solidarity.” In my time, the marquee accomplishment was getting the book store to sign on to the Worker Rights Consortium, which monitors working conditions in our clothing production facilities. Since then they’ve put a big emphasis on encouraging micro-lending. And whatnot.
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 10, 2009 11:29 AM CST reply actions
Sounds like Luther
At Wartburg my friends protested the fact that Joe would mix two kinds of shitty beer in the same pitcher at his armpit bar, the Knighthawk. Enjoyed the Tall Corn so much more but getting up at 7 AM to go drink was hard most mornings.
Seriously, what isn't better with bacon?
by The Bacon Explosion on Dec 11, 2009 12:10 PM CST up reply actions
Only in the Midwest
…give me the courage and the ability to so conduct myself in every situation that my country, my family, and my friends will be proud of me.
-Nile Kinnick
by Hawkeyewith49Jackrabbits on Dec 14, 2009 10:53 PM CST up reply actions
i live
in Charlotte, North Carolina. Not everywhere here. Still love that place. Miss Casey’s Pizza too.
"ANOTHER Iowa running back down!"-any sports caster
by HAWKEYESBABY on Dec 16, 2009 10:39 PM CST up reply actions
Never went to Luther...for school anyways..
But I’ve spent a lot of time in the area, Mabes Pizza is still there, and still probably the best pizza I’ve ever had! I’m from Postville Originally…(Yes it’s a town…No i’m not an illegal immigrant) I have quite a few relatives that live in Decorah and when i make it home that is usually where i end up! I live in West Des Moines now, and honestly if i could find a job doing what I’m doing that pays, I’d move back in a second!
by Put Down the Haterade on Dec 14, 2009 10:07 AM CST reply actions
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