Also, as Derek Bacon is alive in this universe, why is there a Memorial Library named in honor of him?

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The Castle is on the map, as seen in the southwest corner. Nice and big with its own text label, along with Castle Hill.

>Also, as Derek Bacon is alive in this universe, why is there a
>Memorial Library named in honor of him?

Because the Irkens paid for it, in memory of the glory of Bacon and his tallness.

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At least, that's one of the explanations students receive when they ask. It's also been theorized that it's a Garibaldi prank.

(The joke, if there is one, is that none of the other buildings on campus that actually are named the way they are as memorials - W. Shawn Walsh Arena, for instance - are actually called "Memorial" whatever. Not even Mandeville Hall; the school itself is called the Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute, but the building is officially just DSM Hall.)

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It's kind of a combination residence facility and clubhouse for a campus club, and is indeed an Official Campus Building; the reason it isn't listed in the key is because (you can't see it, but) it's not numbered on the map, it's actually labeled, primarily because of its unique status.

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Also, do the University students use the same facilities? I seem to recall there being a University branch of DSM, but I'm not sure if it's active by 2009.

-Droken

We didn't want to be too specific about that, which is why the map doesn't have a scale on it, but if you figure the stadium is the usual sort of size for that kind of thing, the rest of it can be more or less guesstimated.

>Also, do the University students use the same facilities? I seem to
>recall there being a University branch of DSM, but I'm not sure if
>it's active by 2009.

The 2409-2410 school year is in fact the university division's inaugural year, and so far they do use the same facilities. Residence Group East is there primarily in anticipation of the increase in enrollment the administration anticipates once the U division gets rolling; though the space for it was allocated in the original construction, the buildings themselves weren't put up until the summer of 2409 (and so in the 2409-2410 school year they're still largely empty).

The thing about DSM's "university division" is that the place was practically a junior college anyway, more than it was an ordinary high school, so despite the name it isn't so much a separate school as they're expanding the regular curriculum to add grades 13, 14, 15, and 16. :)

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-Droken

It's not that far. I mean, these are mostly teenagers or their planet's equivalent, after all. The hard part's the hill. ... and the five-gallon can of gasoline.

She is dedicated, though. One thing you have to give the Broadbank girls, wasn't none of them afraid of a little hard work.

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True, perhaps not. I was mostly thinking in terms of the lateness of the hour, and what little we knew of the temperature (not too high). But I guess when you're on a mission, those kinds of things just blur anyway.

-Droken

Um... I think you may be a little bit confused. The stadium Clarissa tried to commit arson on was the Avalon County Colosseum. She certainly did not try to walk there from Hamlin Hall... nor from her family's estates in New Avalon.

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They're talking about when she tried to burn Anthy's roses in S3.

... oh, OH. Man, shows how long it's been since I've read all of S3. -.-;;

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... right, that's what happens when I walk away from the computer for 10 minutes and come back without refreshing the page to check for new posts.

Actually, as far as I know, it was coincidental. That was the darkest spot on campus that was within easy access of the perimeter road. The other corners are either too close to Highway 1 or the athletic fields. (And even then it proved unsuitable for a bigger telescope, which is why they built another one out in the mountains later. Castle Hill protects the site from much of the glare from the campus lights, but it also blocks the northeastern sky, so six of one...) Utena's observatory was on the roof of the Castle. :)

>I, too, thought Hannibal Hamlin Hall would be closer to The Castle,
>but for different reasons. In Sophomore Slump Tom thinks about
>looking out the window to see if there's any activity at The Castle.
>Yeah, it's a 4th floor window, but there are several buildings (2
>dorms and the entire performing arts complex) along with Single Acre
>Wood between the two locations.

What you can't see on the map is that Castle Hill is fairly tall - tall enough that the Castle is above the trees of the Single-Acre Wood. It can be seen, at least part of it, from pretty much anywhere on the central campus. It's still quite far from Hamlin, and the auditorium doesn't exactly help, but Tom at least figured he'd be able to tell if there was anybody moving around up there.

>How convenient the garage, er, auto and transport engineering
>building, is right next to the drag strip. They're into hands-on work
>and testing, I take it?

The southern leg of the campus perimeter road wasn't intended as a drag strip (as far as anyone can verify), it became one more or less by default when the motorhead students noticed it was straight, flat, and a reasonable distance away from anything valuable one might crash into. Those runoff areas at the east and west ends were added later - and so, yeah, that corner of campus was the logical place to build the Stanley Shops (which also house the Motor Club's clubhouse). :)

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Coincidence, entirely, as Utena's interest in Astronomy still had yet to be fully rekindled. Truly.

>I, too, thought Hannibal Hamlin Hall would be closer to The Castle,
>but for different reasons. In Sophomore Slump Tom thinks about
>looking out the window to see if there's any activity at The Castle.
>Yeah, it's a 4th floor window, but there are several buildings (2
>dorms and the entire performing arts complex) along with Single Acre
>Wood between the two locations.

It's a Very Tall Hill.

Alternatively, I could just nudge the Castle over a few feet to the east if you really want better sightlines...

(flip side, if you're at the extreme east of Hamlin, you can see past most of the obstructions, "shooting the needle", as it were.)

>How convenient the garage, er, auto and transport engineering
>building, is right next to the drag strip. They're into hands-on work
>and testing, I take it?

Well, before the 2409-2410 school year, "The Drag Strip" was just the unofficial name for the southernmost perimeter road, seeing as it was straight for most of its length, and kids with cars with too much time on their hands on the weekends would unofficially (and technically illegally) used it for straightaway races since there was quite a bit of distance and nothing but grass on either side and either end. (besides, if there WAS an accident, there'd be a faster emergency response, as opposed to racing on die Autobahn.)

It was only with the construction of the Stanley Shops and the installation of the Top Gear hosts as professors that the use of the south road for that purpose was formalized and legalized. That may have taken some of the illicit "thrill" out of the racing, but most were happy for the exchange because they added skid-out straightaways past both ends of the road with crash protection features, automated traffic blockers for the north-heading parts of the road, and racetrack quality measuring and timing gear so that the speeds could be officially recorded.

No official word on wether or not another replica of the Top Gear track will be built on-campus or on a spur of die Autobahn, yet.

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The usual half-eagle, half-lion mythic critter, like you find out in front of libraries, or at the top of this website. The one at DSM is more dynamically posed than the usual library kind, in a sort of Furious Sports Mascot swooping style.

This is as opposed to the one at the Wedge Defense Force Academy, the Golden Gryphon (Go Gryphons! Beat Navy!), which is wearing a WWI flying ace hat, smoking a cigar, and and clutches a Spandau machine gun in its foreclaws. (Don't ask me, UF-me didn't name it or design it. :)

It's fitting, I think, that we use Sir John's fictional version instead of the actual one, since the UF universe is all about cooler versions of stuff than we get in disappointing old reality. :)

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