Towering beside Lake Manzanita in the southwest corner of campus sits a building filled with memories, classrooms, students, and nearly one hundred years of history. Originally designed and built by Walter O. Lewis in early 1917 as the College of Architecture, the Frandsen Humanities Building still stands tall. Hundreds of students walking, running, and skateboarding to class pass this building every day. Art students sit on the courtyard lawn painting the brick facade with vines swirling around the marble columns. Even after the renovation and years of decay, you can still see the original engraving of "AGRICVLTVRE" around where "FRANDSEN" is currently written at the front of the building. From classrooms, to the slaughterhouse, to the backdrop of a scene from the 1948 film “Apartment for Peggy,” the Frandsen Humanities Building continues to reveal new information about itself as the years trudge on. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay The slightly tilted foreground allowed blood from slaughtered cattle to flow into the sewers. Students on campus gasp that the place where they sit and write their essays was the place where hundreds of cows lost their lives to agriculture students training to be butchers. Frandsen has a rich and somewhat disturbing history that helped the University of Nevada, Reno receive an unusual title. KRNV Channel 4 in Reno, Nevada produced a top ten list segment in which Reno was listed as one of the "10 Most Haunted Colleges in the Southwest". MysteriousHeartland.com named the University of Nevada, Reno the most haunted college in the Southwest in 2015. Many have heard stories about the Frandsen Humanities building and its haunted rumors. Johnnie Saletti, a freshman at the University of Nevada, Reno, laughed uncomfortably as he said, “I get an eerie feeling when I walk into my English class, it's downstairs so as I walk down I always feel like something is on me watching. I always feel uncomfortable in that building." The stories have been included in newspaper articles for the Nevada Sagebrush, the University of Nevada, the Reno newspaper, Michael Kleen's blogs, in news segments and have been included in books like Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Silver State written by Janice Oberding During a lazy and boring weekend I decided to conduct a survey on how people feel in the Frandsen Humanities Building Peavine Hall and asked each person whether they felt uncomfortable, comfortable, scared, or completely fine as they walked into and past the Frandsen Humanities Building. Of the one hundred and four students I interviewed, five said they felt right at home comfortable with the building. Thirty-seven students said they felt uncomfortable, and twenty-three of these students didn't even attend classes in the building. Fifty-three students are scared of Frandsen whether they take classes inside the building or when they pass by there at any time of the day. The final three said they felt comfortable and six had no comment. Despite the disturbing rumors and stories, only a few have experienced the mysteries of its dark corridors and shady elevator. A custodian at the University of Nevada, Reno was interviewed for the Oberding story, Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Silver State. He said: “It's disturbing when you work alone and you hear your name clearly called,” says an anonymous custodian. He further states: “This happened:.
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