Oops...my bad. I thought it was because that's what they told us during recruitment and thats what it says on the U of I website ...dunno tho?

I hope your Greek Life Director gets paid a lot of money!! That's a LOT of chapters!:eek:

Rice Krispie Treats were invented by an alumna of Iowa State

Iowa State several times has held the record for the world's largest Rice Krispie Treat too.

Don't forget Moo U's amazing Ag Tech dept, as well as the world's longest, most undeserved line for a bar (Sips, thursday nights)

Ugh, I hated Sips. Seriously that bar was not/is not worth the wait or the cover.

ISU is also home to the very first electronic digital computer (The ABC Computer).

My undergrad:

-lost the first Rose Bowl! (We were never into sports)
-has the first African American, and third female, president of an Ivy League university.
-possesses one of the BEST crew clubs in the nation.
-has no core curriculum. Outside of the classes you must take for your major(s), there are no general ed requirements. 65% of students graduate with an even distribution of math, humanities, social sciences, and natural/physical science courses.

I dislike the place I'm at for grad school, but its one saving grace is that Ben Stein (Bueller? Bueller?) graduated from there. Woot.

You think that's bad...

http://web.mit.edu/evolving/stata/ph...res/002690.jpg

The University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning is the highest academic building in the United States at (I believe) 37 stories. There's an incredible view from the top of downtown Pittsburgh.

http://www.getting-to-the-point.com/.../economy_4.jpg

Also, on the first floor, there are classrooms called the Nationality Rooms. Each room is decorated in the architectural style of the country it's named after.

http://www.westernpamuseums.org/Imag...lityRooms.jpeg


AEPhi Alum: That building is so cool looking! What is housed there?

Munchkin: I can't remember what it housed, but I remember a building across Amsterdam from the main part of campus and connected by a footbridge that always reminded me of a gigantic toaster oven! I *think* it might have been the Law School, but it was long ago so don't quote me on it :)

My department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It was built after my time, though. I've never been in the building, but a friend of mine works there, and he says that there's a lot of wasted space with all the odd angles.

To my eye, it looks like a Coke can that someone sat on. On the up side, apparently there is a Giraffe section. :D

Stata Center

WHAT in the ever loving hell is THAT????

And ADPi Akron......thanks for the sig quote!!!!

PsychTau

I love it; it makes me smile to look at it! I don't know if that's the yardstick by which architecture is measured, but it works for me :)

And, as you mentioned, there is a giraffe section. How can anyone not like that???

wow. Thats... umm... artistic?

Thanks KillarneyRose! I couldn't for the life of me think of interesting Pitt facts, and I totally overlooked the Cathedral! How silly, I love that building :)

after those building shots...mine is pretty tame.
purdue has an amazing history with the space program and aviation. between earthart and the astronauts, the line is deep.

Arkansas State University has had olympic medalists: Flo Jo, and Earl Bell! :) The track program here is still quite good.

Our men's rugby team has been national champions many times.

Our music program is now considered the best in the state. Unlike other colleges in the state, we have one teacher for each instrument, instead of other places where one guy teaches saxophone AND clarinet, or even weirder, bassoon, oboe, and saxophone? :confused: Our marching band waaaay back in the day, was considered the best in the nation and we marched in an inagural parade...it may have been Kennedy's. I will look into that.

Continuing with our music department...the trumpet professor (Dr Jorgenson) is one of the directors during the summer of the Interlochen Arts Camp. Dr. Carroll (saxophone) is a Yamaha artist and is very respected in the saxophone world. And one of our voice teachers (who is our SAI advisor) has sang in the White House! :)

ETA: our french horn professor, Dr. Dauer, was nominated for a Grammy a few years ago for a classical CD he recorded! He did not win...but still. :)

Frank Gehry
 

That was designed by Frank Gehry, one of the world's most celebrated architects. I'm not a big Gehry fan.

I think that it's MIT's Stata Center. It replaced a temporary building, "Building 20" that was in use since right after WWII. A lot of legendary research projects were done in Building 20, and it was believed that the temporary nature of that structure encouraged innovation. Because Building 20 was supposed to be temporary, its occupants felt free to punch through walls, and alter the facility to meet their needs. Gehry kept this in mind when designing Building 20's replacement, and designed it with features like movable walls.

I drove past your campus last weekend, and I think it's beautiful!

I'm a University of Hawaii alumna. Not too many people know this, but the University system is comprised of 3 main campuses (Manoa, Hilo, and West-Oahu) and 7 community colleges (Kapi`olani, Honolulu, Leeward, Windward, Maui, Kauai, and Big Island).

Aside from the stellar research facilities UH boasts (Dr. Yanagimachi's mice cloning in 98), our crown jewel seems to be the East-West Center, an internationally recognized center for promoting Asian-Pacific/American relations. President Eisenhower dedicated the site in 1960, only one year after Hawai`i joined the Union.

EWC also has what I think are the most beautiful spots on campus:

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/ewc1.gif
Japanese Gardens

...and the Thai Pavilion (that I can't find a picture for), a gift to the people of Hawaii from the King of Thailand (who was born on American soil) in 1967.

i work right down the street from it. everytime i walk by i'm like wtf, mates??

eta: and PhiPsiRuss, you are correct, that is MIT's new Strata Center. They just recently opened it, but from what i heard it still isn't completely finished. i also heard, as aephi alum said already, there is a lot of wasted space b/c of all the different angles.

The MIT Building is amazing. I'm really excited by that.

My school built this monstrosity on campus.

http://greetings.uchicago.edu/uchica...ges/maxpav.jpg

It goes with none of the gothic architecture there.

http://greetings.uchicago.edu/uchica...rper_thumb.jpg

Anyway, the school was started by the Rockefellers and is known for having the most Nobel Laureates (75), essentially developing modern economics, Indiana Jones was based on our school, Carbon dating developed here, we won the first Heisman trophy, and Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi and his colleagues conducted the first controlled, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reaction on Dec. 2, 1942, and initiated the modern nuclear age (the reaction was right under our football bleachers).

We also are the birthspring for the neo-conservative movement with Abram Shulsky and Paul Wolfowitz earning their doctorates under Leo Strauss and being exposed to Allan Bloom and Albert Wohlstetter. George Schultz was the dean at our business school. Ahmed Chalabi (top Pentagon sponsored ruler for Iraq) studied math there. John Ashcroft went to law school here. Leon Kass heads the President's Council on Bioethics and is staunchly against stem cell research. Well you get the picture. I'm sure there were liberal minds of great here as well, but I hated them.

-Rudey

My school:

used to have naked classes and co-ed steam rooms.

The college president used to tap the first offical keg of the year, and they actually built pedastols in the middle of the courts so that the kegs would be central.

It was founded by hippies in 1969. They didn't want any athletics, any Greeks, or any thing competative. There were no grades.

That was back when the college was cool.

It is 20minutes from Atlantic City.

We have Lake Fred and Lake Pam. No one has a clue how they were named. Lake Pam used to (and occasionally still does) have nude swimmers.

It is very near the place where the Jersey Devil was born...he is also known as Jimmy Leeds, which is the name of a road that forms a boarder of the college.

Other than that, there is the typical things that the school brags about; none of which i will list here.

*putting on former Pitt Pathfinder (tourguide) hat*

It's actually 42 stories, 535 feet tall and has 2529 windows. It's the second tallest educational building in the world, next to a building at the University of Moscow (I believe). But those Russians cheat, because they have a big spire on top that makes it taller, but is pretty much useless.

There's actually a lot of really cool stuff about Pitt, if it wasn't about 2 oclock in the morning i'd find my Pitt history book. There's a ton of ghost stories too... I know that I posted some around Halloween time

My school is BIG on cloning.... They've cloned goats, bulls, deer, pigs... and apparently recently the first cat. Weird :p

The best thing about my school is the traditions.... I won't list them all here, you can just go check them out if you want. They are my favorite thing about the school. :)

Aggie Traditions

Your school looks similar to mine. Was your campus designed by Paul Rudolph?

I go to Cal Poly Pomona for grad school with Bobby and I'll have to agree with some of what he wrote:

"at my school...if you drive down one street you will see cows. IF you drive down the other side you will see hookers. if you drive down another you will see a gang fight . "
True, you will see cows, horses, and even pigs, but I have yet to see hookers and gang fights... although, it IS Pomona... so I won't be surprised.

"my school has a ugly ass pointy building that points to LAX...for NO GODDAMN REASON"
Yes, this building is very, very strange. It reminds me of the end of the South Park movie when Saddam falls into hell and is impaled on the rock... like someone might fall out of the sky and get impaled on it. Creepy. Oh, and it's a nightmare to find your way around in that building as well. And I was informed by another student that a guy jumped off the 4th floor to kill himself, but didn't die immediately. Don't you think you'd go to the TOP floor if you were really that serious about it? Still gross...

"my school numbers its building instead of giving each building a name. on top of that, building 6 is near building 9 and 94. Each building is not in order...hence first timers are ALWAYS lost the first few weeks to class. "
This is by far the worst idea I've ever seen on any campus. Yes, each building is numbered, but most of them have no physical "number" on the outside of the building. And if it is there, it's either very small or placed obscurely near a door that you will NEVER USE. Bobby has been my offical Cal Poly tourguide. Thanks Bobby.

One other thing I don't like about this campus... there are 2 major freeways (10 and 57) and a highway (71) that border the campus. It is virtually impossible to directly get on either the 10 or the 71 unless you drive about a mile away from campus then get on the freaking freeway. There are a few entrances into the school, but only one way to really get out (57)... I only live 5 minutes from campus, but it takes me 20 to get home since there's no easy freeway access!

University of California, Riverside
 

Ok, since I ranted about Pomona, I might as well talk about my undergrad alma mater, which I liked slightly more...

- UCR (when I graduated in 2003) was ranked the 4th most diverse university in the nation.
- UCR is the fastest growing UC campus, possibly bypassed by the new campus at Merced pretty soon.
- Each UC campus has a "C" somewhere on it, representing California. Ours is the largest and can be seen from the greatest distance (it's yellow, painted on Box Springs Mountain behind the school).
- The parking situation is probably one of the worst in California, if not the United States. The only general (students other than dorms) parking lot is located about half a mile off campus and students must literally walk under the freeway to get to campus. And currently, that road is completely torn apart because yet another building is going to replace a student parking lot, so students are walking in dirt and mud to get to campus. Might explain why the mission statement at UCR does not mention "students" at all.
- UCR has no football team anymore (former UCLA coach Bob Toledo helped us win 2 championships in the 70s, then we nixed the team... argh), but has many up-and-coming athletic teams since we recently went Division 1.
- The UCR mascot was changed a few years ago from a cute and cuddly bagpipe-weilding, kilt-wearing bear to a growling, face-painted "Braveheart" bear. And he wears a kilt in some drawings... they like the Scottish theme at UCR... Go Highlanders! :rolleyes:
- The land that was supposed to be saved for Greek housing is now a new residence hall with an extended parking lot. Thanks for the support...
- The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs holds a Bachelor's degree... and that's it. Many of the students he treats like children hold higher degrees than he does. For a man who is supposed to care about students, he holds the record for racist, out of line remarks, and ridiculous budget cut decisions to student programming... and a degree that is lower than most of his students' expectations. Oh, and can I mention he got the Director of Student Life fired a couple years ago; a man with a Master's, twenty years of experience working with students at UCR, and the man who had more respect for students on this campus than any other faculty/staff member? Politics can suck.

Although I do miss UCR, it's sad when I look at all the crap that goes on there... UCR used to be the molding clay for the UC system... so many high expectations and good ideas. Now I think they're working on Santa Cruz and Merced a lot more.

My school has the largest freeway interchange in Wisconsin named after it. :p

No, really, there's cooler things. Like the 15th century chapel that we have on campus.

http://www.marquette.edu/stjoan/imag...merjoan600.jpg
I walk past this every day on the way to class. The history of how it ended up on our campus is also pretty interesting.

http://www.marquette.edu/places/campusjpg/gesu.jpg
This gorgeous church is also on campus, and if I'm still living in Wisconsin when I get married, this is where I want it to be.

We also have a pretty good basketball team. I'm sure most of you are familiar with them, especially those of you from Mizzou and Kentucky. ;)

We have a highly ranked dental and law school, and used to have a medical school, until some "ethical" issues came up that made the med school decide it could no longer be Catholic, and thus ended the affiliation with Marquette. It's now known as the Medical College of Wisconsin.

This summer we have not one, not two, but three beasties on campus.

http://www.beastiebeat.org/pictures/images/39.jpg
In front of the new Al Maguire Center (basketball facility)

http://www.beastiebeat.org/pictures/images/40.jpg
In front of the new Raynor Library facility

http://www.beastiebeat.org/pictures/images/41.jpg
In front of the new Dental School


I'm personally disappointed there's no Priestie Beastie in front of the Jesuit Residence, but what can you do?

My school does the same thing. Every building has a number; most have names too, but most academic buildings are only ever referred to by number. (Kind of takes the joy out of being a big enough donor to get your name on a building!) They're not consecutive either... on main campus, Building 10 is in the middle; everything west of it has an odd number, everything east of it has an even number.

Not only are the buildings numbered, all the majors are numbered, and all the subjects are numbered. It is possible to describe your entire schedule without using a noun that is not a number, e.g. "I have 5.11 in 10-250 at 10, then I have 8.01 in 26-100 at 11..."

http://www.epdlp.com/fotos/richardson7.jpg

That used to be a psychiatric center and is not closed. It's right next door to the campus and the freshmen dorms has the direct view of that. I've herd that the State has given the entire complex to the college and they are renovating and turning it into an academic building.

ETA: There is an underground tunnel that connects all the buildings. It was shut due to various crime incidents.

Ole Miss
 

We are the only place in the USA where it's legal to grow marijuana.

Re: Ole Miss
 

why the hell did i not know about this when i was a senior in HS?

oh well, I doubt Mississippi greens are as good as Humboldt.

Cali pride

GOD seconds that one...

It occurred to me last night that Ohio University can boast of some of the "great" names in today's entertainment.

To wit:

Ed O'Neil -- Al Bundy

Nancy Cathcart -- Bart Simpson (voice of)

Piper Parabo -- Cyote Ugly

Arsenio Hall -- well, he dropped out.

Ohio University, bringing a little bit of class to the entertainment world.

We also have Matt Lauer -- but he's only a News guy.

Here's the most interesting thing about my law school -- there is a prominent alumnus who is pretty much worshipped by everyone. The largest classroom in the school is named after him and everybody loves him. One day when I was in the library studying, he walked by and he picked his nose and flicked the booger on the floor.

ETA: Oops. He's not an alumnus. He is a professor emeritus. I do not mean to make mistakes when discussing one who flicks boogers.

So within 8 years of Columbus discovering America, there was a chapel built in Wisconsin?

It got moved here from France, as the history link says. :p

Such disbelief....


Ch-check it out here St. Joan or Arc Chapel

Haha you shouldve said it was "reassembled" in Wisconsin. :D

I thought Arsenio Attended Kent State University.

I think you're right -- after he went to Ohio. Drew Carey is a Delt from Kent State.

hey Deltalum

my best friend does forensics over at Illinois State U. He told me that back in the day, Aresenio, Nancy Cartright, and a few other celebs were all on the same forensics team at Ohio U.

what a SQUAD!

Ohio U also boast, Lee Hacksaw Hamilton! I listen to him EVERYDAY on extra sports 690 and 1150


haha as for my school. lets see...we have Wendell Kim (3rd base coach whore), Ken Brett (george bretts older brother), One of Bill Waltons sons, uhhh Kim Rhode (olympic gold medalist), uhhh and a few other rate b athletes

oh, and Roman Gabriel (you might be thinking WHO!?!?!) use to coach our football team...when we had a football team