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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 139216, member: 289"]
This interested me:

"Skytop Barracks were built in 1947 as a temporary housing development for 700 freshmen at Syracuse University. The extra buildings were needed because of the influx of veterans of World War II to college. Sixteen individual barracks similar that which was destroyed were constructed. The development was closed in 1953 as the students were moved into dormitories nearer the campus, but it was reopened again in 1955 as a military barracks for the Air force Institute of Technology (AFIT) language program. The Air Force used the area under contract with the University, but the University owned the land and buildings and were responsible for maintenance."

From Jim Brown's autobiography, "Out of Bounds":

"I was shown my new home, a row of converted barracks known as Skytop. It was up in the hills aobut three miles form campus and I had to hitch to get to class. But I liked it up at Skytop. The rest of the students were non-athletic freshman and I had never envisioned myself as just a jock. I ahd a roommate named Gene Boshes, an intellectual, budding philosopher and we'd stay up in the night discussing Life. My life at Skytop was wonderful because it was natural. I was just another freshman."

Jim was the only football player at Skytop. The rest were at Collendale. He didn't realize he'd been segregated, (from the other football players), because he was black until he found that out. He doesn't discuss his living arrangements after his freshman year but it appears that he was in the alst group of students to stay in those barracks.
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