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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 |
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" |
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 |
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.
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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. |
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 :) |
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 |
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? |
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-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 |
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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. |
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Ahhhhh.... Boulder. |
We have the second largest group of interconnecting buildings in the world - second only to the Pentagon.
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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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