Whats interesting about your school?
 

I just found out today that my school has the smallest gym of all Div. 1 schools. It only has 1004 seats, come to think of it, it's smaller than my high school's gym!

http://www.csus.edu/union/rwec/image...ow/our_fac.jpg

EDIT: but we are getting a new Rec center soon Woohoo!

We are the largest catholic university in the nation and our mascot is a Blue Demon. :confused:

We don't have a football team.

http://www.depaulbluedemons.com/imag...iles/dibs2.jpg

Our mascot has no sexual identity... it is ambiguous... and has been seen in more ESPN commercials than all other mascots.

GO BIG RED!

We are the oldest university in the original Northwest Territory (Chartered in 1787 and founded in 1804) and the original founders made their plans in a tavern. Which is not surprising.

UCO was the first institution of higher ed founded in Oklahoma (even before OU and OSU).

The reason OU's colors are crimson and cream are because UCO had already chosen Bronze and Blue (OU's first choice).

Until 1915, our clock tower's hands were painted on and there was no functional clock.

Only funereal sciences program in Oklahoma

One of the top forensics programs in the U.S.

Georgetown
 

*Oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the US

*First African American President of a major university was Fr. Patrick Healy from 1874 - 1882.

*The majority of The Exorcist was filmed there. The novel was written by an alumnus.

Lafayette was the first college in the country to offer English as a major. Also, the tin can was invented there.

Boston University has no football (American) or baseball team (although baseball may be making a comeback). The interesting part about this is that BU's Nickerson Field was the home of the Boston Braves of the National League for a number of years, and hosted one of the first pro football games.

Hockey's the big sport, and the school has won a number of National Championships and had one national player of the year (Chris Drury).

Martin Luther King received his doctorate from the school - there's an odd statue in front of the school chapel in dedication to him.

I'll probably think of more as time goes on, that's all I can think of right now.

University of Chicago
 

We are the number one ranked school in the nation for athletics.

-Rudey
--We dominate in every sport.

Rudey,
where do you go to school?

Cleveland State University has the Number Two Urban Studies Graduate Program in the Nation behind the University of Kansas. :cool:

University of Chicago.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MAROOOOOOOOOOOOONS!

-Rudey
--Don't be scared

besdies the fact that our mascot is a big ole red pig( razorback) nothing i can find interesting or unique...just a GREAT SCHOOL!



WOOOOOOOOOOO PIG SOOOOOOOOIE!

My alma mater is Indiana. Nobody has any idea what our mascot is. :D

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

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.

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?

That is interesting. You win.

-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

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.

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

Ahhhhh.... Boulder.

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

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

Moravian College, tracing its founding to 1742, is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college, after Harvard (1636), William and Mary (1693), St. John's in Annapolis (1696), Yale (1701), and the University of Pennsylvania (1740).

At one time it was a girls' boarding school, the first of its kind in the US. George Washington petitioned the headmaster to admit his two grand-neices.

In 1954, after two centuries of the men's and women's colleges growing on their own, the schools combinded to become co-ed. As a result of the merger, Moravian College became the Lehigh Valley's first coeducational institution of higher education.

-GMU is the third most diverse school in the nation
-Nobody knows what our mascot is...his name is Gunston...as far as we can tell it's a large green muskrat wearing a colonial hat
-We used to be a commuter school but now are adding rooms for about 500 new on-campus students each year
-We used to be known as NOVA #2 (NOVA is the nicname for the Northern Virginia Community College system), but we currently have the third highest-rated English program in the country, one of the top economics programs, and a first-rate Government program.
-All I've spoken with agree: we have the best food around

Oh yeah I forgot, my school doesn't really have an agreed upon name. Our official name is California State University, Sacramento, but that's quite a mouthful.

A lot of people call it CSUS or Sac State for short, but thats kind of informal. The school website has a survey asking what we should call ourselves and a campus committee will use the results of the survey to decide on an everyday name in the fall.

Also we host the Olympic track & field trials (which is this summer).

at the University of Illinois:

we have the Nation's largest Greek-letter community with 53 fraternities and 32 sororities

We have "the Morrow Plots" which are the oldest agronomic experiment fields in the United States. They include the longest-term continuous corn plot in the world. When building the undergraduate library they actally built it UNDERground so that it would not cast a shadow on the morrow plots and damage them. We're serious about our corn :D

Rated 4th biggest party school last year by the Princeton Review
yet 4th best engineering school (rated by us news or something)...go figure?

And you can't forget our school is overrun with chickens and squirrels. :D

Um, I have to correct you:

Penn State has
51 IFC fraternities
20 PHC fraternities
7 NPHC groups (4 fraternities, 3 sororities currently active, 1 sorority is inactive)
10 multi-cultural greek organizations

88 organizations not including locals


PSU also has:

Beaver Stadium which seats 107,000 people and makes State College the 3rd largest city in PA during the football season.

One of the first presidents in the history of the school buried on campus

The Creamery, an award-winning student run creamery that makes milk, ice cream, cheese, yogurt for the whole campus. The ice cream is better that Haagen Daz and Ben and Jerrys in my opinion.

#1 Architectural Engineering Program in the U.S.
I believe we are in the top 15 overall for engineering.

Thats all off the top of my head for now.

Here are quotes from The University of Akron website:

"Companies such as Goodyear, Firestone and Goodrich were headquartered in Akron, so it was only natural that the world’s first courses in rubber chemistry would be offered at Buchtel College." (now known as The University of Akron)

"In 1959 The University’s first doctoral degree is awarded, in
polymer science. In so doing, Akron becomes the fifth Ohio university to offer doctoral work, following Ohio State, Western Reserve, Case and Cincinnati."

"In 1988, the University established the world’s first College
of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering — now the largest academic program of its kind in the world."

Here are a few more rankings....

http://www.uakron.edu/president/resrc/nat_rankB.php



ETA: Changes and additions

More interesting IU things:

-IU has the only nationally televised intramural sports event, the Little 500 bike race. The Little 500 was the inspiration for the movie Breaking Away.

-The Indiana Memorial Union is the largest student union building in the country.

-The IU School of Music is one of the top music schools in the country and boasts Joshua Bell, among others, as an alum.

-Crest toothpaste was developed at IU.

-And of course, IU is the home of the Kinsey Institute, the largest center for research on sexuality in the world.

Oh I think that WVU is like one of the few schools to have some kind of forensics program or something like that.

Clemson University:

Home to the 25 most exciting seconds in College Football (GO TIGERS!!!)

Rice Krispies were originally invented here.