Baker Hall

The gymnasium is called the Baker Hall. It has the admin offices of
the Phys. Ed. instructors, a weights room, equipment lockers, an
indoor multi-purpose basketball, volleyball, badminton) court, second
floor balcony (with the archery targets!), tennis courts, pelota
courts, outdoor basketball court and a swimming pool. And ghosts, of
course.

UPLB served as an interment camp during World War II. And the main
camp for POWs and Allied nationals was at the Baker Hall. Legend has
it that the building had a basement, and that this was sealed after
the war. The basement was supposed to be where the internees were
killed by the Japanese. While I was at Los Banos, I never checked if
this was true. Everyone else took this as fact. Los Banos was also
the where General Yamashita was tried and hanged.

--andoy