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  Watterson Towers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Watterson Towers is a student residence hall at Illinois State University, in Normal, Illinois.
In the North Tower, the houses, from bottom to top, are Jefferson House, Randolph House, Pickering House, Marshall House and Madison House.
In the South Tower, bottom to top, the houses are Smith House, Monroe House, Adams House, Clay House, and Van Buren House.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watterson_Towers   (328 words)

  
 Dormitory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freshman are required to live on the 45,000+ student campus for at least their first year.
The Watterson Towers at Illinois State University are the tallest dormitory in the world.
Third North, located on Third Avenue, houses 931 freshman in three towers on 13 floors per tower.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dormitory   (979 words)

  
 Watterson, Henry - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Watterson, Henry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1917 he won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for editorials urging US entrance into World War I. Watterson was born in Washington, DC.
The son of a US congressman, he grew up personally familiar with many presidents and passionately interested in politics.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Watterson%2c+Henry   (138 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Watterson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Nick was born in the middle of Watterson Expressway during Louisville's "Blizzard of 1994.".
Watterson Trail: Construction is possible between Stone Bluff and Ferndale roads for the Hurstbourne Parkway extension.
Mr Watterson said the strength of the health lobby had put the Scottish Executive under pressure, and pledged that the trade would continue to work with the...
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/W/Watterson.shtml   (2034 words)

  
 The Daily Vidette - Watterson residents left out 'in the cold'
Residents of Watterson's north and south towers were evacuated within minutes of the alarm and the Normal Fire Department was called to the scene at 3:47 a.m., Al Rollins, acting lieutenant for the Normal Fire Department, said.
In 36-degree weather, Watterson residents — many still wearing light sleeping attire — were asked to stand at curb edges furthest from the towers in campus parking lots M47 and M38.
At approximately 4 a.m., residents were escorted to the breezeway connecting Watterson Towers to Watterson Food Court and were then allowed to sit in the breezeway to keep warm.
www.dailyvidette.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=4160a10d-e556-4349-a0f3-439b0302b13d   (749 words)

  
 Problems in the Pipes
Watterson Towers, the university's 28 story, 2,200-student twin dormitory complex, received a rash of complaints from students who lived on the upper five floors.
Cost estimates to replace the clogged pipes exceeded $1 million, and required that the dormitories be emptied of students for an extended period.
Based on the success of the CO2 water treatment at Watterson Towers, the IWTP purchasedseven additional CO2 systems for use on other campuses that were experiencing similar water-circulation problems.
www.natureillinois.org /news/pipes.html   (1877 words)

  
 Police Blotter March 24 - 31, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A water fountain was ripped from the wall causing water damage throughout the breezeway area.
The vehicle belongs to a W/M student residing in Watterson Towers.
A B/F non-student reported the theft of her purse from a room in Adams House in Watterson Towers.
www.ilstu.edu /depts/police/summary/2003/mar24_31.htm   (585 words)

  
 Watterson - Find The Best Watterson Resources Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Watterson wrote and drew on and off for Target until it ceased publication Calvin creator Bill Watterson took these thefts in stride and retaliated in
WATTERSON, Henry, (son of Harvey Magee Watterson and nephew of Stanley Henry Watterson, Reconstructed Rebel.
Bill Watterson Bill Watterson is the author of Calvin and Hobbes, an immensely popular comic strip about a hyperactive, imaginative 6 year-old and.
watterson.searchforfind.com   (642 words)

  
 Police Blotter March 1 - 10, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
At 6:00 AM a male Watterson Towers resident reported the theft of his wallet/contents from a 4th floor Wilkins Hall men's restroom.
At 1:50 PM, a female Watterson Towers resident reported she has received several E-Mails from a former friend male which were sexual in nature.
A Watterson Towers male resident and a male Manchester Hall resident were arrested (960332).
www.ilstu.edu /depts/police/1996/mar1_10.htm   (1411 words)

  
 Watterson - Bill Watterson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
WATTERSON, Henry, (son of Harvey Magee Watterson and nephew of Stanley Matthews), a Representative from Kentucky;
Watterson is a member of the National Accelerated Schools Project and is a Watterson offers Early Childhood Jump Start programs for four-year-olds,
Bill Watterson I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.
www.infoseekengine.com /ise/watterson.htm   (226 words)

  
 Housing - What is it like to live here? - Residence Hall Room Tours - Watterson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Watterson is designed in suites, an alternative to the traditional corridor-style residence hall.
Watterson is across from Stevenson Hall and adjacent to downtown Normal.
Watterson is wired for direct network access via ResNet.
www.uhs.ilstu.edu /live/residence_hall/watterson.shtml   (340 words)

  
 Housing - Students with Disabilities or Medical Concerns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Those areas of campus with air-conditioned halls are South Campus, East Campus, West Campus, and Watterson Towers.
Watterson Towers has elevator access, but the elevators do not stop on every floor.
In Watterson Towers, elevators only stop on the third floor of each house.
www.housing.ilstu.edu /apply/disability.shtml   (628 words)

  
 ResNet - About ResNet
The goal of the program, to test the concept of establishing a high speed Internet connection for students living in the residence halls.
However, progress continues and by the spring semester of 2003, ResNet connections are available in every House of Watterson Towers, including the replacement of the now dated equipment in the original Smith House test area.
The incorporation of Watterson Towers into ResNet leads to the addition of over 2200 new ports, meaning a total of over 5960 available connections for ResNet.
www.resnet.ilstu.edu /about/index.shtml   (524 words)

  
 Universal Access Schedules/Routes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Meet the Lime (I) at Watterson Towers at 25 minutes after the hour.
Meet the Green (A) at Watterson Towers at 25 or 55 minutes after the hour.
Meet the Pink (D) at Watterson Towers at 55 minutes after the hour.
www.redbirdride.ilstu.edu /schedules/schedule_universal_access.shtml   (910 words)

  
 Ethernet to be installed in Watterson - News
ISU administration has been planning to wire Watterson Towers for years and construction has already begun.
The Ethernet project was pioneered years ago in Smith House of Watterson Towers.
This lifestyle choice does not exist anymore, he added, and Smith House is still the only floor in Watterson Towers with Ethernet.
www.dailyvidette.com /media/storage/paper420/news/2002/02/07/News/Ethernet.To.Be.Installed.In.Watterson-178732.shtml?norewrite200605081452&sourcedomain=www.dailyvidette.com   (584 words)

  
 Illinois State University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its athletic teams compete in the Missouri Valley Conference and the Gateway Football Conference, and are known as the "Redbirds" in reference to the state bird, the cardinal.
Illinois State is also home to the world's tallest (but not largest) residence hall, Watterson Towers, which houses 2,200 students.
The pair of buildings was completed in 1967.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illinois_State_University   (776 words)

  
 Watterson Towers, Normal
Starting from the bottom and working up, the houses are named Jefferson, Randolph, Pickering, Marshall and Madison (in the North Tower) and Smith, Monroe, Adams, Clay and Van Buren (in the South Tower).
The building comprises a central core and two wings: the North Tower and South Tower.
When built, there was open space separating the towers from the core between enclosed bridges.
www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=130588   (184 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson, Hardcover, 3-volume set
The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996.
The crosscutting between private and shared reality gives the strip its vitality.The autobiographical introduction by the notoriously reclusive Watterson kicks off another tale about the collision of private and shared realities: the story of an ornery artist's battle to explore his craft within the claustrophobic confines of a few inches of newsprint space.
The beleaguered Watterson fights the strictures of brutal daily deadlines, skirmishes with editors to win more space for his often graceful Sunday pages, slugs it out with his syndicate to keep his creation from being reduced to a stuffed doll.
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 Las Vegas SUN: Land costs keep downstate skyscrapers closer to ground
About 100 high-rises stand outside the Chicago area, a fraction of the 1,048 in Chicago and well short of the 164 that have been built there and later torn down, according to Emporis Buildings, a German company that has catalogued nearly every building worldwide that rises to 115 feet or higher.
The downtown complex is one of four downstate buildings that top 300 feet, joining the Statehouse, Springfield's 30-story Hilton hotel and Illinois State University's Watterson Towers, one of the world's tallest college dormitories.
Soaring buildings also can be a drawing card, according to officials at ISU who say their towering 2,200-student dormitory is bigger than 700 towns in Illinois.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2006/jun/24/062410551.html   (789 words)

  
 Students Return to Illinois State Aug. 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Temporary traffic patterns will be established for the area around Watterson Towers and Manchester and Hewett Halls on the east side of campus.
Watterson Towers traffic will begin at the intersection of School Street and College Avenue and continue southbound on School Street, east on North Street and south on Fell Street to Watterson Towers.
Extra parking will be available in the University lots on School and Fell Streets just north of Manchester Hall and in the lots directly north of the Bone Student Center pay parking lot.
www.mediarelations.ilstu.edu /news_releases/0506/august/movein.asp   (388 words)

  
 PJStar.com - Journal Star News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
With 28 floors and standing about 300 feet tall, Watterson, on the corner of Beaufort Street and Fell Avenue, is the tallest residence hall in the country, said ISU spokesman Jay Groves.
The building is divided into two towers and was named after Arthur W. Watterson, a geography professor from 1946 until 1966.
Directing cars in front of Watterson Towers, ISU police Sgt. Charlie Summers said that in his 12 years working at ISU, traffic was the slowest he's ever seen.
www.pjstar.com /stories/081806/REG_BAN2A5T2.033.shtml   (775 words)

  
 The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Hobbes is seen by Calvin's parents as a nondescript plush toy and by Calvin and the reader as a pouncing and amiable "real" tiger—Calvin's slightly-more-sensible better half.
There are also, of course, the wonderful watercolors by Watterson which appear occasionally, on pages respective of content and chronological order.
Book One starts with a 14-page introduction/forward written autobiographically by Watterson on his view of comics and his relationship with Calvin and Hobbes.
www.rbookshop.com /hobbies/c/Comic_Books/The_Complete_Calvin_and_Hobbes_0740748475.htm   (1158 words)

  
 jglenn.com - Jonathan G. Glenn - About Me
For my first two years at ISU, I lived in Watterson Towers on the fifth floor of Smith House.
Watterson Towers has 26 floors and is the tallest building between Chicago and St. Louis.
It used to be the tallest dormitory building in the world but I've heard Malaysia or someplace has one a bit taller.
www.jglenn.com /aboutme.html   (550 words)

  
 Housing - Residence Hall Rooms and Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
An air-conditioned, 28-story twin-tower complex, Watterson Towers is one of the world’s tallest residence halls and features a food court which offers a wide variety of items and venues.
Chart of houses in Watterson Towers as they appear from the exterior:
These residence halls are located across from the Central Campus mini-quad and the University Tennis Courts.
www.uhs.ilstu.edu /live/tour.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Roy Taylor-The Daily Vidette, September 2, 1992   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Hurricane Andrew may not have physically hit the ISU campus, but several resident assistants held a drive to raise funds for those that were hit hard and left homeless.
Several Watterson Towers resident assistants held a fund drive for victims of Hurricane Andrew Monday and Tuesday.
Biff Myre, a Watterson resident assistant, said the drive was started by another RA because “she saw the effects of the devastation on television.”
www.roytaylor.info /writing/news13.html   (257 words)

  
 Illinois State University Computer Labs
ULabs at Illinois State is comprised of seven computer labs containing a total of over 400 seats around campus open to Illinois State University students.
These labs are located in Milner Library, Stevenson 250, Manchester Hall, Walker Hall, Watterson Towers, and Whitten Hall.
Supported by Computer Infrastructure Support Services, the labs are equipped with state-of-the-art computers, printers, and copy machines.
www.ulabs.ilstu.edu   (135 words)

  
 The Bus
OPTION 2: Meet the Lime (I) at Watterson Towers at 25 minutes after the hour.
Sure enough, 2:15 the Pink bus shows up and on go the other two people who missed it earlier, and then I get on, plop down in the first seat, and just hope to God that this doesn’t take forever to get back.
I knew the bus was going to Target and then I figured it would go back to Watterson where the whole bus thing starts for us ISU people.
www.geocities.com /ssjakira1/Bus.html   (1335 words)

  
 Rho Kappa Chapter
Many cultural opportunities and meeting facilities are available at ISU's Bone Student Center/Braden Auditorium.
Standing 28 stories high, ISU's Watterson Towers is the world's tallest college residence hall.
Horton Field House, Hancock Stadium and the 10,600 seat Redbird Arena provide sports fans with first-class facilities.
www.chiomega.com /chapters/content/campus.asp?chapterID=137   (158 words)

  
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 The Daily Vidette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As warm weather hit the twin cities Monday, so did an approximate two-hour power and water outage in Watterson Towers.
Watterson residents returning from enjoying the day's warm weather found they were unable to take a shower or use water in any other way.…
The longest-surviving recipient of a self-contained artificial heart returned home Tuesday seven months after his operation, waving to well-wishers as he rode a wailing firetruck through town.
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