Tercero K Building - Davis Wiki

Location: 206 Tercero Hall Circle

Located in Tercero's Pierce Hall, K Building is home to the Engineering Academic Theme Program. This makes sense, considering the building is a stone's throw away from Kemper Hall. Perhaps due to the building's roughly 2:1 male/female ratio, the men's bathrooms can be found on the first and third floors, with the women's bathroom being found on the second. This is in contrast to the normal arrangement in Pierce and Thille of female bathrooms on the first and third floors and a male bathroom on the second.

In 2003, someone heaved a computer off of the third floor balcony of the building. The circumstances are unknown, but let's assume it was homework frustrations because that makes the situation pretty funny. In 2000, someone chucked a computer monitor off of the third floor of an adjacent building.

In 2005-2006, K Building won the Tercero Hall Cup for the first time, with a total score of 34 points!

K Building was the subject of an elaborate prank back in 1975, where room 206 "disappeared" in the fall quarter. Robert Caleshi and his roommate Greg returned after a weekend in the Bay Area to find that there was a blank wall where their room had been. Their fellow building residents had removed their door, inserted a sheet of plywood, plastered, painted, and decorated it to eliminate its existence. The UC Davis Magazine now has photos of the prank.

Also in the early '70s Special K was one of the last all-male dorms on campus. Because of this and the perceived chivalry possessed by the residents, it was nicknamed Camelot (Kamelot?). It has been remembered as a place with a fraternity-like feel with even juniors, seniors and super seniors returning to it year after year - until the Housing Authority decided to change it to a co-ed building one summer.