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Hot Tub Installation on Campus Roof a Mystery
2012-02-28
[An Nahar] Officials are puzzled over a mysterious hot tub that was installed -- and then removed -- from the roof of a building on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor.

But a group of "creative" students are believed to be the culprits, Computer Science and Engineering building front man Steven Crang told AnnArbor.com on Friday.

Initially reported by the Michigan Daily campus newspaper, the hot tub first was noticed Saturday, had visitors and was gone by Monday night.

"People were kind of flabbergasted," Crang said. "It was obviously unexpected. It was pretty creative and now it's gone. It left a buzz in its wake."

Despite its short stay, students called the hot tub the Bob and Betty Beyster Bubbler after the couple who donated $15 million to the school. The building is named after them. The philanthropic couple "found it amusing," Crang said.

"It's apparently people who are close to the department because they were able to gain access to the building and install the tub," he said of whoever installed it. "The thing that intrigued everyone was that it was on the fourth-floor balcony. It's a large hot tub and the doors that lead out to the balcony are not real big, so they had to do some work to get it out there."
Posted by:Fred

#8  You think keep thinking that. It is just those crazy college students...
Posted by: rammer   2012-02-28 23:56  

#7  to be honest, nobody at the college level would've thought far enough ahead to check on the spa point load (which is actually most fully loaded with people, not water) on the existing structure's capable loading. Dumb stunt
Posted by: Frank G   2012-02-28 22:40  

#6  Having spent some time in the inter-dimensional Michigan hot tub, let me only say that we will smooth out the reaction in the flux capacitor and time travel will be conducted in comfort.

Apparently there is still some work to be done on the design, but soon my friends, we will be all bubbly and warm as we start slippin', slippin', slippin, into the future.

Go Blue.
Posted by: rammer   2012-02-28 22:14  

#5  Volkswagen Beetle. Roof. Cal Poly.

'nuff sed.

I think that's a big assumption...

Balcony of the Computer Science and Engineering building? Somebody with access?

We're talking Engineering, not Economics.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-02-28 21:29  

#4  One of my old profs is still wondering how his bug-eye MG ended up on the roof of the library...
Posted by: mojo   2012-02-28 16:46  

#3  What? They didn't involve a cow?

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1839579_1839578_1839534,00.html
Posted by: mom   2012-02-28 09:12  

#2  >Apparently they also had the engineering acumen to know that the balcony would support the weight of the people and the water.

I think that's a big assumption...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-02-28 05:24  

#1  "The thing that intrigued everyone was that it was on the fourth-floor balcony."

Apparently they also had the engineering acumen to know that the balcony would support the weight of the people and the water.

Posted by: crosspatch   2012-02-28 01:41  

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