Here are five legends discussed on the tour:
* The University refused to let the 1967 hit “The Graduate,” which went on to earn several Academy Award nominations, be filmed on campus. Eleven years later, University President William Beaty Boyd didn’t make the same mistake – he OK’d the filming of “Animal House” in 1978.
* University administrators wanted to remodel Johnson Hall during the 1920s by putting up wooden doors. When students angrily protested that the move would leave the Pioneer Mother and Father statues unable to see each other, the glass doors and windows went back up.
* During the 1920s, if a freshman passed an upperclassman on the walk between Fenton and Deady Halls, nicknamed “Hello Walk,” and the freshman didn’t say “hello,” the older student would toss the freshman into the fountain near Deady.
* During a 1894 football game between the University and Albany College – now Lewis and Clark College – the players lost a football in the mud. The football is still in the ground underneath McKenzie Hall, which was once a pond named Carson Lake.
* In the 1970s, students held a sit-in all along East 13th Avenue, and police could barely get through the blockade. In an effort to make peace, the City of Eugene sold East 13th Avenue to the University for $1.
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