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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
Thank you!
Can someone please point out to me where I said that Penn State's situation is unique? Where did I say that there are no other schools in the country that can compare to PSU?
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The statement I quoted in my previous post, with the bolded part I added myself for emphasis, is not those exact words but implies it very strongly. I hate quote-fests so I won't quote it again.
And I think what everybody is trying to say is not that you or any Penn Stater is provincial/narrowminded/whatever, but rather that the 'mystique' that keeps being mentioned over and over- bonding alumni together, bonding the whole state's residents together, making the school an integral part of their lives whether they attended or not- is not as rare and unique as imagined. Nothing you couldn't find in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, Ohio, etc. And it's possible that blind belief in that not-actually-so-special 'mystique,' left unchecked, allowed such terrible things to happen. Could it happen elsewhere? Sure, because we humans can be terrible like that.