Quirky stories

Every campaign has its stories ... the funny side of university life ... the ups and downs of living in residence ... and all the tall drinking stories. This campaign is no different.

Here is a selection of what the students have heard on the phones to date:

• Trying to toast a slice of bread, but burnt an entire loaf because he was distracted each time.
• One graduate was told that one time in the Guild (he couldn't remember the time himself) he was really drunk, dancing like a loon, and trying to chat up various women. He was described as a "dog in heat" and ever since has had the nickname of Hotdog.
• Students would jump into the fountain outside the university after exams ... some people even got busted by security.
• Spending most of a placement year drinking and smoking ... in the process losing 1 1/2 stone.
• Arranging a sit-in at the library when the university was considering changing the opening times.
• Being known throughout the Pharmacy department as the man who broke the bottle ... a 4-foot long glass vial (chemist bottle), which was full of some chemical and was smashed by hitting it with a hinged blackboard.
• Guild events, such as "Drink the Pub Dry", which meant drinking all the alcohol in Sacks of Potatoes, or the bed race, where 4 male students pushed a bed on wheels (with 1 woman student aboard) around the outer ring road and stopping at pubs along the way to drink.
• Einstein's -- the former rugby changing room and launderette.
• German students had a party in Uwe Shutte (history lectures) room for his birthday drinking Bacardi breezers and listening to loud heavy metal.
• A whole class that decided not to go to a lecture, but instead headed off to Warwick Castle (which used to be a pub), getting totally smashed and then ending up at the Odean to watch the first showing of Psycho.
• A couple of students getting drunk and deciding to race up a tree outside Stafford Tower. When they wanted to race back down, a tree branch broke and one of the students fell down.
• Sex education lecture in the Great Hall in 1967.
• The Hare Krishna conference in 1992 ... incense, drums and all.
• The Winnie-the-Pooh Society which met up and ate honey.