{"id":155755,"date":"2019-10-25T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=155755"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:00:46","slug":"legends-north-campus-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/10\/legends-north-campus-many\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legends of North Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades at UConn, if you asked directions to the North Campus dormitories, you would most likely be met with a puzzled expression. If you asked where the Jungle was, though, chances are your interlocutor would have no trouble steering you in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>That this has changed is unthinkable to some Huskies who graduated before the early 2000s, when the place\u2019s reputation began to change. The Jungle was made alcohol-free in 2002, a decision so at odds with its reputation that it prompted a story in\u00a0The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a freshman in Northwest in \u201905 and we definitely just called it \u2018North,\u2019 but the story of it being called \u2018The Jungle\u2019 was very well known,\u201d says\u00a0Sean Rose \u201909 (CLAS).<\/p>\n<p>The legends of the Jungle are many, from mass snowball fights between the \u201cjungle rats\u201d and the residents of South Campus to requisitioning dining hall trays to serve as surfboards down the muddy slope of the hill where the dorms stand. Perhaps no story of mayhem is as familiar as the one about returning veterans who were students on the GI Bill \u2014 in some tales, from World War II; in others, it\u2019s the Vietnam War \u2014 who rode motorcycles through the hallways.<\/p>\n<p>Are the motorcycles apocryphal? <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2019\/09\/30\/north-campus\/\">Read on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades at UConn, if you asked directions to the North Campus dormitories, you would most likely be met with a puzzled expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":155756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1902],"class_list":["post-155755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 06:28:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155755"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155858,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155755\/revisions\/155858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/155756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155755"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=155755"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=155755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}