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Kevin 06-29-2004 01:32 PM

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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
I keep thinking of all the negative things that have occured in the last 3 years..

I'll report back when I have several positive things to share.

From your short time here, I can see you're a very positive person :D

PhiPsiRuss 06-29-2004 01:41 PM

Florida State University
 
We have our own circus!

http://www.callawaygardens.com/event...ircus%2001.jpg





Also, we have the coolest football stadium around:

Doak Campbell stadium
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/df/SLIDES/campstd2.jpg

Entrance to Doak Campbell
http://www.flipdick.com/Statium-FLState.jpg

CougADPi 06-29-2004 01:42 PM

Washington State University
 
We won the first ever annual Rose Bowl...we beat Brown 14-0!

Our first school colors were baby pink and baby blue (the colors of the sunset here on the Palouse) and our mascot was a terrier named Squirt.

Second largest Greek System in the PAC 10

We had to be shut down early in 1980 and the students sent home due to the Mt. St. Helens eruption covering campus in an inch of volcanic ash

We have a dairy on campus that makes world famous cheese (Cougar Gold) and some of the best ice cream around

We are the most rural of all PAC 10 schools. (70 miles to the nearest "city")

Our clock tower chimes in the keys of G and C for "Go Cougs"

Rio_Kohitsuji 06-29-2004 02:22 PM

Our name is purposely mispronounced. I kid you not.

We say: rye-oh grande
How we shouldsay it: Ree-oh Graun-dey

Not really interesting..just lame.

*first college started soley by a woman

IowaStatePhiPsi 06-29-2004 02:51 PM

The founder of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army and leader of the SPLA's Torit faction, John Garang, received an advanced economics degree from Iowa State.

MattUMASSD 06-29-2004 03:09 PM

The campus is made out of concrete, exterior and interior.
http://www.s-t.com/towns/images/umass.jpg


More about the architecture.... We are one of the two schools in the nation that has kept the same theme of architecture throughout all of the buildings.

Our campus was designed by Paul Rudolph for a college in Texas but in the end ended up in Massachusetts.


We currently have a grant studying botulism. I tell families that on the tours and they get freaked out.

aphibeach 06-29-2004 03:38 PM

my school is located at the beach

Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, plus many movies have been filmed on our campus (Wilmington has the third largest movie production studio in the US)

on a side note, Val Kilmer tried to get into one of our social functions downtown once but he couldnt get in because it was a closed event :)

IowaStatePhiPsi 06-29-2004 03:46 PM

The Microsoft-will-pay-you-for-forwarding-this-e-mail originated at ISU!
Something to be proud of besides that one Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode about the Iowa State College of Home Economics!

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/hoax.html

DGqueen17 06-29-2004 04:17 PM

WVU....


Well I do believe we are the only school that pepper sprays it's football fans.

Oh and does any other school go around and round up all spare couches before big football games so they won't be burned?

PhiPsiRuss 06-29-2004 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DGqueen17
WVU....


Well I do believe we are the only school that pepper sprays it's football fans.

Oh and does any other school go around and round up all spare couches before big football games so they won't be burned?

That is interesting. You win.

lyrica9 06-29-2004 04:23 PM

-it used to be a teacher's college.
-its had 6 name changes
-it wants to take over TWU
-all our fraternities do events with TWU sororities more than with ours:p

IowaStatePhiPsi 06-29-2004 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DGqueen17
Well I do believe we are the only school that pepper sprays it's football fans.

Oh and does any other school go around and round up all spare couches before big football games so they won't be burned?

Our city and university have tear gas in 4 distinct flavors. None were that tastful during the riot but they were stupid enough to shoot them into the wind so they didnt do much for crowd dispersal.

As for couches... we've had a few. In the past there have been sections of road that had to be replaced as the couch fires destroyed the asphalt.

cuaphi 06-29-2004 06:15 PM

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Originally posted by DGqueen17

Oh and does any other school go around and round up all spare couches before big football games so they won't be burned?

No, but the city did pass a resolution banning couches on porches after students set them on fire in riots.

Ahhhhh.... Boulder.

aephi alum 06-29-2004 06:36 PM

We have the second largest group of interconnecting buildings in the world - second only to the Pentagon.

PsychTau 06-29-2004 07:56 PM

We have the only Bachelor's Degree in Aviation in the state of Arkansas. With our own Cessnas and everything.

Marian Breland Bailey, graduate student of B.F. Skinner (she helped type his books), noted behavioral psychologist, founder of IQ Zoo, and pioneered the way for reward based animal training taught at HSU, retiring shortly before her death. I took classes from her.

PsychTau


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