Whats interesting about your school?

[ZTAMich]

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.

[Corsulian]

-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

[CSUSigEp]

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).

[ILLINIgirl]

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

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

[chideltjen]

Originally posted by CSUSigEp
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).

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

[blueGBI]

Originally posted by ILLINIgirl
at the University of Illinois:

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

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.

[ADPiAkron]

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

[Sister Havana]

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.

[DGqueen17]

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

[CUGreekgirl]

Clemson University:

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

Rice Krispies were originally invented here.

[ILLINIgirl]

BlueGBI:
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

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?

[TheEpitome1920]

Originally posted by blueGBI
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

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

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by CUGreekgirl
Rice Krispies were originally invented here.

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.

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
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)

[bluefish81]

Originally posted by KSig RC
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).