Interesting facts about your school
 

Does your school have any interesting facts? The school I'm starting in January was apparently used as a set for the old Degrassi series in the late 80s and early 90s.

Robert E. Lee is buried on campus

Kappa Alpha Order was founded here

We are the 9th oldest college in the nation, founded in 1749

Cleveland State University's College of Urban Affairs Graduate School is ranked second in the nation behind University of Kansas.

We're currently operating two seperate and successful academic centers in the greater Cleveland area ( Solon and Westlake) for those who like to take classes close to home.


College of Urban Affairs is home to the "Leadership : Cleveland "Program that trains people who are involved in Public Policy.

The University of Hawai`i system is comprised of 10 campuses.

Gilligan's Island is part of the University of Hawai`i campus. It's actually Coconut Island, and it was used in the opening credits of the show. Coconut Island houses one of the premier marine biology programs in the country.

The observatory atop the Mauna Kea volcano is also part of the system.

The University of Hawai`i system also awarded the nation's first master's degree in an indigenous language was the first institution to successfully clone multiple mammalian generations starting with Cumulina, the mouse. :)

Hmmmmmmmmmm...

well at apsu all the buildings on campus are named after former governors - hence the "governor" as the mascot


and here at western kentucky, we've got white squirrels.

marissa

I absolutely LOVE your campus!! Traveller's grave is so cool!


Until the early 1970's, Pitt's Cathedral of Learning was the tallest educational building in the world. It's NOT truly gothic architecture, as some will say, as there are steel girder reinforcing the stone. Also, it was NOT built from the top down. Chancellor Bowman did have the steel superstructure built for all 42 floors (535 feet tall), so the Board of Trustees couldn't halt the project. One of the ways they cut down on the costs was by having various ethnic groups in Pittsburgh design and pay for a Nationality Classroom, as at the time, there were more diverse nationalities in Pittsburgh than any other American cities other than New York. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. You can see the Official site of the Nationality Classrooms here.

(Yes, I was a tour hostess!)

University of St. Andrews
 

St. Andrews is the oldest uni in Scotland, and has a lot of stories and traditions that go with it. The castle and cathedral in town also have their own associated stories and legends.

~ Perfecting Procrastination since 1413! Some of the buildings around town date from the mid-16th century, including St. Salvator's Chapel and St. Mary's College.

~ Our school song is still in Latin, the Gaudeamus.

~ There is set of initials outside of St. Salvator's Chapel, PH, which stand for Patrick Hamilton, the first protestant martyr of the Scottish Reformation who was burned on that spot. Legend has it that if you step on them, you won't get your degree.

~ Students (mostly undergrads) still wear their bright red academic gowns on a fairly regular basis. It's rare, but sometimes you see a graduate or a postgrad in the black gown or a PhD in the lovely blue gown.

~ Every Sunday after chapel services, students (and some faculty!) walk out onto the pier and back in academic dress. It's an old stone pier and the highest bit is also the narrowest and farthest out. :eek: (I have yet to do it...)

~ We have many other strange traditions including Raisin Weekend and the May Morning Dip.

~ John Cleese (from Monty Python, or more recently Nearly Headless Nick from Harry Potter) used to the be the Rector here.

~ And last but not least, Prince William is a student here (4th year).

I could go on and on about St. Andrews, it's great studying here! Cheers!

ShyViolet

Re: University of St. Andrews
 

You go to St. Andrews? My old roommate and sorority sister is a grad student there! She tells me funny stories about Prince William all the time :)

Elon University means "Oak" in Hebrew. It's one of few universities named after a Hebrew word. The campus was used in "He Got Game." We used to have the #1 study abroad program in the country... ours is still good, but our percentage can't compete with schools like Kalamazoo.

Rutgers...
 

I must disagree with the person who stated their University is the 9th oldest and was established in the 1740's.....

- Rutgers is the 8th oldest University in what is now the U.S. and was established in 1766....

- The first intercollegiate football game was "On the Banks" between Rugers and Princetons....guess who won???

- The Ivy League was started as a football league between some of the oldest universities....apparently a comment was made that it was more entertaining watching the ivy grow on the walls than watch the games....Rutgers never attained full membership once the Ivy League became official b/c by that time it had become a state school.

- Rutgers used to be "Queens College" before the Revolution...our sister school was "Kings College" now known as Columbia University

- Rutgers has the 2nd largest bus system in the nation (Disney World is #1)

- We have an ongoing rivalry with Princeton with our cannons...apparently there was some mischief and misunderstanding and a lot of stealing of cannons. To solve the problem, both schools have matching cannons buried face down in concrete on their campuses....each year some Knights go down to Princetown and paint their cannon scarlet....or cover it in ketchup....whichever works best at the time...

- Grease trucks.....the Fat Darrel was named the Best Sandwich of 2004, I forget by whom....and you can only find it on The Banks...nothing like a Fat Anything at 2 in the morning...

I've got a million, but I'll stop at that for now...

hum...
Beloit is the oldest (continuing) college north west of the mississippi. (Techinally Carroll college got their charter a few months before we did, but our classes opened in fall of 1846, Carroll did not open for classes for another 10 years or so)

One of our most famous alums, Roy Chapman Andrews, was the model for Indiana Jones. (He discovered the first dinosaur egg, thus proving that dinosaurs were reptiles, not mammals, though this is now under review)

Our Anthro Museum's base collection was given to us by Marshall Field (yes, he's more than a great store). He bought the collection, half to create the Chicago Field Museum, the other half
The first known black woman was initiated into DG on our campus. (The charter was then pulled)

We are in the top five schools for student satisfaction

We rank in the top schools were people ignore God

Finally, we were kicked out of the mid-west athletic conference because our basketball team was so good. We then stopped recruiting the best basketball players.

Our campus used to be a golf course.

Re: University of St. Andrews
 

My high school's hymn is also called Gaudeamus. We sang it at the opening of each term as well as at the school's Commemoration Day. The music was written as a gift to the school in 1917 when we celebrated our 50th anniversary.

Hey Xylochick, what does your sister study? I'm a grad student as well! I've only met one other greek here, a KA that lives in my building. :)

~ShyViolet

Northern Arizona University:

-Tallest Building in Northern Arizona
-The feather in "Forest Gump" was dropped from the top of the same building
-It shows up in the game Trival Pursuit, as being the campus surrounded by the most cemeteries...
-The J.L. Walkup Skydome is the second largest clear-span timber dome in the world
-The main campus sits at an elevation of over 7,000 ft
-On campus is the High Altitude Sports Training Complex, which is an official U.S. Olympic Training Site...Visiting athletes come from such countries as Germany, Australia, Japan, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands, Brazil, and many more, including the U.S.

Those are all the facts I can think of off the top of my head...

Largest Baptist university in the world, chartered by the Republic of Texas, and part of "where the heart is" was filmed there. :D
go baylor.

Illinois State University has the distinction of having the tallest residence hall (dorm) in the US. Watterson Towers is a stagering 28 stories high. Watterson houses about 2, 200 students.

Alpha Sig Scott
Delta Omicron Chapter 88

We have black squirrels at Santa Clara. :) The rumor is that they were part of an experiment at Stanford, and when the experiment was over they let them go and they eventually turned up at SCU. I don't know if I believe that though. But we do have them---I've seen them. Some people are fairly obsessed.

SCU is also the oldest university in California.

Minnesota State has hosted the Minnesota Vikings training camp on campus for the past four decades.

Awwww thanks. W&L is definately a gorgeous campus. I heart it a lot. Good old Traveller. Traveller is also the name of our drunk bus, LOL.

Pitt State U., Kansas Has the State Tech. College, covers 3 football fields under roof, Gus Gorilla was in the Playboy Best Mascot of Colleges, a Div. II School!:D

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
~Home to the Jersey Devil(well, he likes to frequent the campus alot supposedly)
~One of the few in the nation to have a Holocaust Resource Center, and grant grad degress in Holocaust Studies (and minors for undergrads)
~Founded by hippies in 1969...and the hippy mentality is still lingering with some facutly.
~Home to wild parties in the 70-80-90s. Sad to say, not so anymore
~some famous archietects made the buildings fit right in the with pine barrens
~we have a functioning geothermal system, which keeps heating/cooling costs low

I have other random things...like Lake Fred is so named because the guy who owned the property prior to the college was named Fred Lake, so they couldn't call it LakeLake.

Montclair State University
Uhhh, basically all I know about this school is it was founded in 1908, second largest in NJ (behind Rutgers, naturally)
and has a satilite campus in Stokes State Forest, called The School of Conservation, which is pretty famous in the envrionmental world, apparently.

My school, Lyon College, has a few things:

~ We have the annual Scottish Festival, and bagpipers and such from all over the world come to Batesville, Arkansas for a weekend.
~Our chapel is haunted.
~One of our dorms was originally an orphanage.

That's about it, but for po-dunk arkansas, that's a lot!

Unique facts about Cal State University Dominguez Hills:

The land that CSUDH is located on was the site of first international air meet in 1910

CSUDH is among the most ethnically-diverse universities in the United States with a student population that is 35.5 percent Hispanic; 30.9 percent African American, 22.7 percent White, 10.3 percent Asian, and 0.6 percent American Indian. In Summer 1997: U.S. News & World Report ranks CSUDH first among western universities in campus diversity.

We have a high school campus located on the university - California Academy of Math and Sciences (CAMS) is a nationally recognized magnet school

November 1972: becomes first college to open Head Start unit on campus.

1996: CSUDH archeology students and anthropology professor Jerry Moore find 5,000-year old Baja California site that pre-dates Stonehenge, Cheops Pyramid.

Spring 1998: 19-year-old sophomore Roland Clarkson discovers largest known prime number - 909,526 digits long.

CSUDH is the location for the new Home Depot
Center and National Training Center/Sports Complex

Otterbein
 

Otterbein was one of the first colleges in the United States to admit men and women of color to their campus with equal status. It was also one of the few campuses to allow women to study and earn degrees in the same programs, and study in the same classrooms and facilities under the same curriculum.

The original building of the campus is still in continuous usage.

Westerville is known as the "Dry capital of the world".

The University of North Alabama boasts the only live lion mascot in the country living on campus. Leo III and Una reside on the campus in the 12,764 square-foot George H. Carroll Lion Habitat.

UNA has the only university-owned and operated laboratory elementary school in Alabama--Kilby School.

Black squirrels were in full force at my undergrad.

*First Jesuit university to admit women.
*The first woman in Wisconsin to graduate from law school did it here
*Chris Farley went here!
*but so did Joe McCarthy

That's impressive.

Look at the jacket he wore in Tommy Boy sometime. ;)

Buffalo State is the first school to offer a BA and MA in Creative Study. :cool:

Re: Otterbein
 

I didn't know that. I thought Oberlin College was the first before Otterbein.

Re: Re: Otterbein
 

very well might have been, but OC was designated a historical landmark because of it. Might not have preceded Oberlin.

It is rumored that the first building built on our campus (Georgetown College) has a big barrel of Bourbon in it. The school was built by Elijah Craig known as "The Father of Bourbon." This is very ironic considering our campus and even county is dry. :rolleyes:

to add to duchesscv's information about cal state dominguez hills:

when i gave campus tours to incoming freshmen, we were told to tell them (which who's knows if it's the truth or not!) that dominguez hills was obtained from monks, who stated that they would only give over the land if:

1 - the buildings would never be taller than the trees (which i'm not sure, but i think welsh hall is)

and 2 - the campus would never have a "violent" sports team (meaning football - so even though we have a gorgeous sports complex on campus, we can't have a football team.)

also, cal state dominguez hills is mentioned in "bring it on" and there is debates on whether or not it was actually filmed on campus.

and taken from the website:

CSUDH was the first accredited university in the nation to design an academic degree for the Internet.

CSUDH offers an option for the B.S. in Health Science, the Orthotics & Prosthetics program is one of only three in the nation.

The Home Depot Center, a $150-million privately funded world-class sports complex and official U.S. Olympic Training Site, opened in June 2003. The soccer stadium is home to Major League Soccer’s L.A. Galaxy. Also, the center includes a tennis stadium and a track & field facility, which is shared with CSUDH athletes. AEG’s CSUDH athletics facility upgrades include a new campus soccer, baseball and softball fields. An Olympic Velodrome for cycling and a venue for beach volleyball will open soon. (our old velodrome was used in the 1984 los angeles olympics.)

Bring it On wasn't filmed at CSUDH although it is the name of the school in the film, it was filmed in San Diego. Also, the Toro's is the name of the cheerleading team - Toro is the CSUDH mascot.

I have been told there is some connection to one of the crew members (possible art production or direction) and one of our past CSUDH Presidents. I want to say someone is related to President Detweiler although it may have been President Butwell. It's been too long, but I remember seeing the name in the credits.

As for the Olympic Velodrome - the new Velodrome opened up earlier this year and is considered the premier indoor cycling arena now.

Knox College:

* founded in 1837 by social reformers who opposed slavery in all its forms.

* 66 percent graduated in the top quarter of their high school class.

* One of the Lincoln/Douglas debates was held on campus in 1858 (they make a big deal about that to prospies).

* is credited w/ Alpha Xi Delta's alpha chapter following Lombard College's closing in 1930.

**infamous and well-known grads**
1. James Kilts-CEO of Gillette (a TKE)
2. Dushan Petrovich- senior VP at Wrigley (a FIJI)
3. Robert Hanssen-the convicted spy for Russia...FBI guy...or something. CNN was all about trying to get their paws on his transcript when that story broke...Knox all kinds of refused.
4. John Podesta-Former White House Chief of Staff

That's all I can think of right now.

Phi Psi Russ...What Else Can You Think Of About FSU?
 

Florida State University is the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida. In 1865, cadets from what was then the military academy marched south to engage Union forces at the Battle of Natural bridge, saving Tallahassee as the only capitol of the old Confederacy not captured during the Civil War.
Four hundred years ago, Spanish missionaries recorded details of a ball game played among villages of Creek and Seminole Indians. The game was played between teams on a field with goal posts at each end (I am not making this up) and points were scored when one team put the ball into one of the goal posts. This game was played either exactly on the site or very near the site of what is today Doak Campbell Stadium at FSU.
Burt Reynolds (Phi Delt) and Lee Corso (ATO) were football stars here, as was the late Robert Urich (Lambda Chi).
Singer Rita Cooledge was an AGD here. Miss Hathaway of The Beverly Hillbillies (Nancy Kulp) was Tri-Delt here. Jim Morrison of the Doors was an FSU student (not a fraternity guy).

Lets see...

University of Toronto
Basic stuff
* Founded in 1827
* 65,000 students
* Organized on the British College System (think Oxford or Cambridge - but newer)

Interesting Stuff
* originially no ban, but quota, for "minorities" applying to school
* Ontario legislator (Queen's Park) rents their property and build from UofT for $1 a year
* the student building - Hart House (the star of such great films as Black Christmas) was built in 1911.. finished in 1919... and was opened to women in 1972 - before then clothes were optional for men on the lower athletic levels... it also has a still operational archery and rifle range in the sub-basement.
* Burwash Hall (a residence) at Victoria College (star of PCU) up until 2 years ago used to include 1 keg party a month as party of the student life program - oh and their initiation ritual might be banned (stared in McDonalds commerical with 7 guys chained together)...
* most colleges were founded on denomonational principles.. so St. Michaels - Catholic; Trinity - Anglican, Knox - Presbyterian; Victoria - Methodist; Emmanuel - United... except for University College which was non-denominational.... of course newer colleges have been added on like New, Innis, Woodsworth