 X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.motd: 87 K Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu n Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!bellcore!walter!qualcom.qualcomm.com!network.ucsd.edu!usc!wupost!bcm!rice!mcmahon Newsgroups: alt.motd Subject: Re: hotel california - Message-ID: <1992Feb24.022229.23672@rice.edu> 2 From: mcmahon@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael G. McMahon) Date: 24 Feb 92 02:22:29 GMT* Sender: mcmahon@rice.edu (Michael McMahon)8 References: <KANDALL.92Feb20201343@sgitokyo.nsg.sgi.com> Organization: Rice University  Summary: Original source	 Lines: 64   e In article <KANDALL.92Feb20201343@sgitokyo.nsg.sgi.com> kandall@nsg.sgi.com (Michael Kandall) writes: # >Somewhere in Princeton Univ. 1985. = >"You can logout any time you like, but you can never leave."  >Most depressing.    I like this one better:   1 (...to be sung to the tune of "Hotel California")   - In a dark Boston airport, hot wind in my hair 1 Foul smell of pollution rising up through the air 5 Up ahead 'cross the river, I saw a great shining dome E My heart grew heavy and my guts felt sick, this was to be my new home   > There they stood in the Great Court, I heard the students yellG And I was thinking to myself, this can't be heaven, this has to be hell : Then they held up their frat signs and they rushed me away@ There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say:  *         Welcome to the Hotel Massachusetts-         Such a nerdy place, such a nerdy face 3         Not enough room at the Hotel Massachusetts* -         Any time of year, you can pay us here   @ Their minds are hopelessly twisted, they got the Institute Screw6 They got a lot of heavy problem sets that they must do) How they tool on the fifth floor**, 18.01 4 Some tool 'cause they have to, some tool to have fun  6 So I held up my meal card, "Please, what is this for?"8 He said we've had forced commons since the class of 19840 And still those voices are calling from far away< Wake you up in the middle of a class, just to hear them say:  *         Welcome to the Hotel Massachusetts-         Such a nerdy place, such a nerdy face 7         They're tooling away at the Hotel Massachusetts 4         What a boring day, 'cause they must have 'A'  - Pipes on the ceiling, the greasy food on rice F And they said, "We are all just prisoners here, of Paul Gray's device"3 And in the Student Center, the students come to eat G They stab it with their plastic knives but they just can't cut the meat   - Last thing I remember, I was at the Registrar < I had to get my transcript sent to a place where I'll go far@ "Pay up," said the Chanc'llor, "we will fine you if you're late.< You can flunk out any time you like, but you can't graduate"  G * Historical context 1: This song was written in the Fall of 1980, when C         7 frosh were stuck in the basement of Ashdown because there          wasn't enough housing.  D ** Historical content 2: The 24-hour library used to be in the fifth$         floor of the student center.  H Hotel Massachusetts was originally published in The Baker Letter, v. 34, no. 2, 4/9/81.   --  O /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist:-   the fashionable non-conformist.   -ayn rand O \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 