Serious fun since 1902

When the brand new “Seibert Memorial Hall” opened for students in 1902, the 83 women who lived there quickly got down to fun in the most turn-of-the-century way possible. They hung out with faculty wives and attended lectures on American history.

But something had to give. Life within these walls couldn’t be just lectures and tea parties.

So in 1905, three years into the building’s run, the women of Seibert celebrated Halloween a little too hard. They tied their RAs to their chairs and dumped sacks of flour and cups of water throughout the building. The sticky paste that resulted soon hardened into a crusty dough, and University’s administrators were not impressed. The students were forced to pay for a professional cleaning from townspeople.