we attempt to revisit the now newly-reopened renovation-free haines hall and look for a way to south campus.
we head down to campus set on revisiting haines. the main doors were unlocked and we enter, passing the old antique wooden doors that used to slide out from pockets to secure the building at night. these doors now stand on the inside of the modern doors for decorative purposes. no longer the unfinished, ceiling-less, and dusty hall, haines is now almost completely finished and already opened up for classes. many offices have already settled in, in particular, chicano and african american studies. we walk through the halls and look for the doors we used before to enter the tunnels. we also look for the "abyss" room - the open elevator shaft that dropped down into darkness. finding many people around due to a fellowship group that just finished as well as a few janitors, we walk around to the outside of the building to find the small ground/basement level concrete room which fed us directly into the tunnels. fortunately for us, we find it with its window unlocked and unguarded. another christian fellowship group appears to have just ended over in rolfe and if caught loitering or wandering around outside, it would offer us a good alibi, at least about an hour's worth. we had originally planned to find an easier way in from haines, but without any other options, we hop in the window and jump about six feet down to the floor. we were in, without much difficulty and a little dusty.
discovering that we entered the tunnels at an endpoint, we had two options to get to our south campus goal destination. we had two options - either exit the tunnels through haines and enter through our old friend royce hall, or walk around the entire north campus tunnel system to loop back onto the main system which would take us to south campus. we choose the second plan, since there was an event going on in royce, and snake our way through the entire north campus system, taking us to the storage area underneath yrl. this was the only point on the route where it could have been problematic, as we didn't have a very good encounter here the first time, having run away from ucla personnel our first time. we knew how open the place was and how noticeable we could become. there was another problem – we were unsure if the doors to the blue hub room would be unlocked from the outside. there was only one way to find out, and we cautiously make our way around the basement of the yrl, reaching the doors to the blue hub room, we give the handles a pull and amazingly, it opens with ease. again, we were in.
we walk the familiar tunnel route between royce and the url, discovering a metal ladder we've never noticed in the past. finding an iron plate covering the opening a the top, we proceed to slide the iron plate away. pushing it open a crack, we discover it opened into a basement somewhere, but before we could find out more, the cover knocks into another metal plate, causing it to fall down with a tremendous crash. we quickly slide the iron plate back and head on.
we reach royce and entering into a machine room, we quietly move over to the side door which would connect us to the south campus tunnels. struck with the idea to head over to haines instead to see where the other entrance into the underground would be, we return to the main connecting room to head over to haines hall. after the first person moved into the room, we check the coast again and notice a maintenance person walking by. we cautiously enter the tunnel to haines, an checking to see that we weren't being followed, enter haines 41, locked to outsiders, and full of electrical panels and what appears to be various pumps. we also discover a window which would be extremely useful as a new entrance since it opened into a small desolate vending machine area behind royce. we go back into the tunnels and head for the south campus route again. reaching royce, we see another maintenance personnel in royce, forcing us to stayed low for a short while before making our way into the side door. we head south, passing moore, and following the slight slope taking us to the ls building. the tunnels, while extremely hot, emptied out into a hallway in the ls building to a cool relief. we exit the ls building, and seeing a scant scattering of lab students about, we agree this would offer a fairly decent alibi, should we need it later.
ucla, underground.
we head down to campus set on revisiting haines. the main doors were unlocked and we enter, passing the old antique wooden doors that used to slide out from pockets to secure the building at night. these doors now stand on the inside of the modern doors for decorative purposes. no longer the unfinished, ceiling-less, and dusty hall, haines is now almost completely finished and already opened up for classes. many offices have already settled in, in particular, chicano and african american studies. we walk through the halls and look for the doors we used before to enter the tunnels. we also look for the "abyss" room - the open elevator shaft that dropped down into darkness. finding many people around due to a fellowship group that just finished as well as a few janitors, we walk around to the outside of the building to find the small ground/basement level concrete room which fed us directly into the tunnels. fortunately for us, we find it with its window unlocked and unguarded. another christian fellowship group appears to have just ended over in rolfe and if caught loitering or wandering around outside, it would offer us a good alibi, at least about an hour's worth. we had originally planned to find an easier way in from haines, but without any other options, we hop in the window and jump about six feet down to the floor. we were in, without much difficulty and a little dusty.
discovering that we entered the tunnels at an endpoint, we had two options to get to our south campus goal destination. we had two options - either exit the tunnels through haines and enter through our old friend royce hall, or walk around the entire north campus tunnel system to loop back onto the main system which would take us to south campus. we choose the second plan, since there was an event going on in royce, and snake our way through the entire north campus system, taking us to the storage area underneath yrl. this was the only point on the route where it could have been problematic, as we didn't have a very good encounter here the first time, having run away from ucla personnel our first time. we knew how open the place was and how noticeable we could become. there was another problem – we were unsure if the doors to the blue hub room would be unlocked from the outside. there was only one way to find out, and we cautiously make our way around the basement of the yrl, reaching the doors to the blue hub room, we give the handles a pull and amazingly, it opens with ease. again, we were in.
we walk the familiar tunnel route between royce and the url, discovering a metal ladder we've never noticed in the past. finding an iron plate covering the opening a the top, we proceed to slide the iron plate away. pushing it open a crack, we discover it opened into a basement somewhere, but before we could find out more, the cover knocks into another metal plate, causing it to fall down with a tremendous crash. we quickly slide the iron plate back and head on.
we reach royce and entering into a machine room, we quietly move over to the side door which would connect us to the south campus tunnels. struck with the idea to head over to haines instead to see where the other entrance into the underground would be, we return to the main connecting room to head over to haines hall. after the first person moved into the room, we check the coast again and notice a maintenance person walking by. we cautiously enter the tunnel to haines, an checking to see that we weren't being followed, enter haines 41, locked to outsiders, and full of electrical panels and what appears to be various pumps. we also discover a window which would be extremely useful as a new entrance since it opened into a small desolate vending machine area behind royce. we go back into the tunnels and head for the south campus route again. reaching royce, we see another maintenance personnel in royce, forcing us to stayed low for a short while before making our way into the side door. we head south, passing moore, and following the slight slope taking us to the ls building. the tunnels, while extremely hot, emptied out into a hallway in the ls building to a cool relief. we exit the ls building, and seeing a scant scattering of lab students about, we agree this would offer a fairly decent alibi, should we need it later.
ucla, underground.
