People also called it "The Emerald City" because it sort of resembled OZ. I wort a descriptive essay for English 101 about the sun shining off the Ellicott dorms while I was on the bus going back to Main Street.
The day before the Blizzard of 77, I had go to a Physics lab in Fronczak Hall, the only building on the spine finished. The shuttle bus would go on the road adjacent to the buildings, but with the snow that had already fallen, they had to drop us off by Clemens Hall (English Dept). Had to walk like sherpas to the other end of the spine and when we got there, they told us to head back to Main Street as the busses would stop in an hour.
Had to walk to Governers Dorm to catch the bus back. Today it is a parking lot, but back then. it was a field with weeds and thigh deep snow.