@6:05 is Harry R. Ransom, who now has a huge complex named after him. He was the driving force behind UT accumulating both one of the largest libraries and largest collections of rare books, including an original Gutenberg Bible.
I go here, and it’s crazy to see how much has changed and what has stayed the same. Also wild to see what UT was like during its resistance to desegregation
The old ATO house 17:16, had no idea it was that old when I was walking through there. The History was lost of everyone and no one really cared. Too bad the whole got shut down. Sad to see that thing rot.
My university! BSME '94 hook 'em! Individual testing, counseling, and orientation?!? At UT?!!? Not in my time. This film is from just before the university exploded in size in the 60s and 70s to become by far the country's largest student population in the 1989s and 90s. In fact the university instituted hard enrollment caps to limit student population to no more than 50,000 around 1980 (when Bloom County creator Berkeley Breathed was excoriating UT administration in his first cartoon, The Academia Waltz). By the time my sister and I hit UT in the 80s it was a strictly sink or swim, almost mercenary environment. They had far more applicants than spots and if you didn't make it may as well give someone else a try. Still, it was a fantastic time and I got to experience some of the last days of the cool old Austin of yore, before Broken Spoke was surrounded by high rises and half the population came from San Francisco in the preceding year.
This was the time when almost all campus buildings were within the perimeter defined by San Jacinto St, 26th St, Guadalupe, and 19th St (the original "40 Acres"). As an engineering major in the 80s/90s, almost all department buildings were outside that perimeter. The massive engineering/hard science complex was not constructed until the 60s-80s. I did have some classes in the mentioned Experimental Science Building (ESB) aka the Chemistry building.
Thanks PF. Great upload. I thought Balcones Research Center was built in the 70s I had no idea it dated to the early 50s. When first built it was well out of town but Austin had already swallowed it up by 1990. One of UTs two nuclear reactors was at BRC but I think it's been long shut down as such fields are now considered passe.
hckyplyr9285 The PRC (as BRC is now named) still operates a nuclear reactor! They do public tours, or at least did before corona. The one that was shut down was on main campus, in RLM or the building that was demolished for the comp sci building, if my memory serves.
@@Skeejus I didn't know there used to be a reactor on main campus! The only fun fact I knew about RLM was that there's a military grade laser in floors 1-3. As far as I know, that's why RLM's ground floor/main lobby area starts at floor 4. And when I was on campus I noticed these rectangular slabs and an unmarked cellar by the southwest corner of the building which seemed very out of place. Those supposedly open up to floors 1-3 and were opened to let a crane lower the laser into place. As for PRC, the last parts of the old magnesium plant - a settling pond and a solids elevator - were demolished about 4 years back to build a new computer science research building.
BRC is next to the Domain, called Austin's second downtown, and Q2 Stadium, home of Austin FC. In the '60s there was talk of building a domed stadium in that area to replace Texas Memorial.
Have you heard what ex-Husker Dominic Raiola recently said about UT? He said that when his family went to TEXAS for his son’s football recruiting visit, he was hoping and expecting to hate everything about the school. Instead, he said he loved everything about it.
