Go Ole Miss Rebels! GO SEC!
Reasons why Ole Miss rocks:
-The University's endowment reached $346.4 million in 2002, up 8% from the last year, ranking UM 119 among 3200 colleges and universities nationwide. UM Ranks 27th in the nation among public universities for endowment per student, and in the top 20 for increase in endowment from 2001-2002.
-Phi Beta Kappa--the nation's oldest and most prestigious honor society--awarded Ole Mis sa chapter, the first public university in Mississippi.
-Ole Miss produced its 24th Rhodes Scholar in 1998. Since then, UM has produced 4 Truman Scholars (the newest this month,
Ole Miss Truman Scholar ), five Goldwater Scholars, and a Marshall Scholar. Its 400 Honors College Students have an average ACT score of 30 and SAT of 1350.
-The National Center for Physical Acoustics is developing an acoustical system for detecting land mines. The system was used to ensure the safety of emergency workers during the World Trade Center cleanup after 9/11.
-The Center for Geospatial Workforce Development, funded by NASA at 15 million over five years, is developing a comprehensive curriculum in remote sensing technology that will be offered through other universities worldwide via the Internet.
-The Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at UM is providing training on investigating and prosecuting cybercrime to personnel in the offices of the attorneys general nationwide. (They just met recently to learn some new stuff!!! I met the rep from Hawaii!!) The center works with governmental and other agencies to develop strategies to combat crime.
-Ole Miss physicists are helping to creat a five-story particle detector for the world's most powerful atom smashed being built in Switzerland.
-The Pharmacy School ranks 20th in the nation amont schools of pharmacy for funding from the prestigious National Institutes of Health and provides continuing professional education to more than one-third of the nation's pharmacists.
-The FDA chose the National Center for Natural Products Research to help develop standards to ensure the safety and effectiveness of dietary supplements.
-More than 80,000 Mississippi youngsters are cared for and treated annually at the Medical Center's Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children.
-The National Libray of the Accountancy Profession at UM is used daily to answer questions from scholars around the globe. Among the 2 million collection is a book printed in 1494 on a Gutenberg press and authored by Lucca Pacioli, regarded as the father of modern accounting.
-The UM Medical Center is the site of the Jackson Heart Study, the world's largest study ever undertaken of heart disease risk factors in the African Americans.
-The National Remote Sensing and Space Law at UM undergrids the statewide initiative to create high-tech businesses and jobs based on satellite technology.
-UM is the first campus to take advantage of utility deregulation and new technologies to build its own electrical generation plant, which will save some 1.5 million annually.
-About 35% of undergraduate women and 25% of undergraduate men are active in the Greek system as members of social fraternities and sororities.
And when it comes to Greeks at Ole Miss we have some older GLO chapters here!
DKE--not sure the chapter name but they were founded very early here
Tri Delta--Chi Chapter celebrating 100 years this month
Chi Omega--Tau Chapter founded in 1899
Chi Psi--Alpha Gamma Chapter founded in 1858
Beta Theta Pi--Beta Beta Chapter--founded in 1879
Delta Psi(St. Anthony Hall)--Phi Chapter--been around for a while
Then, a few months before school started I went to U of AL to visit. It was love at first site. In my opinion Bama has the most beautiful campus. I'm so glad I came to Bama. I am reminded this every time I visit Auburn. There is no place like T'town.
, the Big 12 dont have big Stadiui?
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