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University of Michigan | University of Michigan |
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| Written by Anonymous | |
| Thursday, 31 December 1998 | |
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Please keep me anonymous. I have sort of a respectable job, and I'd rather not have someone come across my past adventures... I used to explore the tunnels a lot when I was an undergraduate at Michingan back in 1971-1975. We usually used to enter via the law school, through a flimsy padlocked door near the men's bathroom in the basement of the Law Club, Hutchins Hall (?) on the State Street edge of the Law Quad. We used to use the tunnels to get onto the basketball courts at the old Waterman gymnnasium before it was torn down. (The construction site of the then new IM building was a great place to easily enter the tunnels during my senior year, because it was completely open and unlocked. We got written up in the Michigan Daily when we turned off the President's hot water from underneath his house -- we actually tried to inform the Daily by tunnelling into their building via a trapdoor in its first-floor broom closet, but the door out of the closet was locked from the outside. When you head north from the law school up toward the LS&A building, and there are very old sections, such as at the north end of the Diag near the Chem and Nat Sci Buildings.There were at least two, and possibly three sets of tunnels that came together at the Power Plant. One was the set under the Diag and the other was the set that connected Markley and the various dorms in that area with the Med School complex. I heard there was another set that fed the northwest edge of the campus near the Rackham building, which I never set foot in. The major highlight, I suppose, were the fetuses in jars in a storeroom of the Buhl Medical Science Building at the Med School accessed via a part of the tunnels known "Hole in the Wall". I never tried to see if the tunnels under the Diag connected to those feeding the hill dorms & Med School because I was too paranoid to go near the Power Plant, especially from the Med School system, because it was a long straight and usually well-lit (and very exposed) passageway leading to the power plant (and I wanted to graduate without a police record). I imagine there are nasty security devices down there now. Places I used to get in or out (remember, these are 21 year-old recollections -- things may have changed): Central Campus 1) Grating in front of the Dental School. Hill/Medical Complex 1) Stairway in Boiler Room off the loading dock of Markley Hall. There was a locked door at the bottom of the stair, but a convenient hole was punched into the wall next to the doorknob. At the time, the Boiler Room could be conveniently entered through a hole created by 4 missing cinderblocks above the door! Rackham 1) Total mystery to me. I never set foot in those tunnels, if they exist. |
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