The Real Drexel Shaft

Everyone uses the term. Drexel gave me the shaft. I got the Drexel Shaft. I got shafted again by Drexel. But I never really understood the origin of the shaft.

From hearsay and general gossip, it was supposedly this giant smoke column located behind 30th Street Train Station. Apparently it's not.

From communications class, the history of the Drexel Shaft revolves around the fountain located in our illustrious Quad. The bubbling fountain, if you ever gave two shits enough to actually look at, has a brass flame in it's center. Well, it's not so brass anymore, it looks like a flaming rusted turd.

Apparently nobody at Drexel could figure out what exactly that was suppose to be when it was first erected. People said it looked like a flame shaft, so the fountain began to be called the Drexel Shaft.

Here's the twist. The Drexel Shaft was actually a good thing. During graduation and things like that, sneaky people would put laundry detergeant in the fountain so that it would overflow with bubblese, then everyone would just hang out and have like a bubble party.

Over the years the lore was forgotten, but the saying "Drexel Shaft" still stayed around. Stupid people who didn't know the history started to associate it to "Getting the Shaft"

So tada, that is the history of the Drexel Shaft.

You have been schooled.