Whats interesting about your school?

[Munchkin03]

My undergrad:

-lost the first Rose Bowl! (We were never into sports)
-has the first African American, and third female, president of an Ivy League university.
-possesses one of the BEST crew clubs in the nation.
-has no core curriculum. Outside of the classes you must take for your major(s), there are no general ed requirements. 65% of students graduate with an even distribution of math, humanities, social sciences, and natural/physical science courses.

I dislike the place I'm at for grad school, but its one saving grace is that Ben Stein (Bueller? Bueller?) graduated from there. Woot.

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by kappaloo
I swear my school made the Math&CS Building look like a dungeon/jail.

You think that's bad...

[KillarneyRose]

The University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning is the highest academic building in the United States at (I believe) 37 stories. There's an incredible view from the top of downtown Pittsburgh.



Also, on the first floor, there are classrooms called the Nationality Rooms. Each room is decorated in the architectural style of the country it's named after.




AEPhi Alum: That building is so cool looking! What is housed there?

Munchkin: I can't remember what it housed, but I remember a building across Amsterdam from the main part of campus and connected by a footbridge that always reminded me of a gigantic toaster oven! I *think* it might have been the Law School, but it was long ago so don't quote me on it

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
AEPhi Alum: That building is so cool looking! What is housed there?

My department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It was built after my time, though. I've never been in the building, but a friend of mine works there, and he says that there's a lot of wasted space with all the odd angles.

To my eye, it looks like a Coke can that someone sat on. On the up side, apparently there is a Giraffe section.

Stata Center

[PsychTau]

Originally posted by aephi alum
You think that's bad...

WHAT in the ever loving hell is THAT????

And ADPi Akron......thanks for the sig quote!!!!

PsychTau

[KillarneyRose]

I love it; it makes me smile to look at it! I don't know if that's the yardstick by which architecture is measured, but it works for me

And, as you mentioned, there is a giraffe section. How can anyone not like that???

[kappaloo]

Originally posted by aephi alum
You think that's bad...

wow. Thats... umm... artistic?

[PureGoldF2K1]

Thanks KillarneyRose! I couldn't for the life of me think of interesting Pitt facts, and I totally overlooked the Cathedral! How silly, I love that building

[mmcat]

after those building shots...mine is pretty tame.
purdue has an amazing history with the space program and aviation. between earthart and the astronauts, the line is deep.

[sairose]

Arkansas State University has had olympic medalists: Flo Jo, and Earl Bell! The track program here is still quite good.

Our men's rugby team has been national champions many times.

Our music program is now considered the best in the state. Unlike other colleges in the state, we have one teacher for each instrument, instead of other places where one guy teaches saxophone AND clarinet, or even weirder, bassoon, oboe, and saxophone? Our marching band waaaay back in the day, was considered the best in the nation and we marched in an inagural parade...it may have been Kennedy's. I will look into that.

Continuing with our music department...the trumpet professor (Dr Jorgenson) is one of the directors during the summer of the Interlochen Arts Camp. Dr. Carroll (saxophone) is a Yamaha artist and is very respected in the saxophone world. And one of our voice teachers (who is our SAI advisor) has sang in the White House!

ETA: our french horn professor, Dr. Dauer, was nominated for a Grammy a few years ago for a classical CD he recorded! He did not win...but still.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by BobbyTheDon
dude, thats a gnarly ass building! what school is that? and what is that...a dormitory?

That was designed by Frank Gehry, one of the world's most celebrated architects. I'm not a big Gehry fan.

I think that it's MIT's Stata Center. It replaced a temporary building, "Building 20" that was in use since right after WWII. A lot of legendary research projects were done in Building 20, and it was believed that the temporary nature of that structure encouraged innovation. Because Building 20 was supposed to be temporary, its occupants felt free to punch through walls, and alter the facility to meet their needs. Gehry kept this in mind when designing Building 20's replacement, and designed it with features like movable walls.

Originally posted by aphibeach
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

I drove past your campus last weekend, and I think it's beautiful!

I'm a University of Hawaii alumna. Not too many people know this, but the University system is comprised of 3 main campuses (Manoa, Hilo, and West-Oahu) and 7 community colleges (Kapi`olani, Honolulu, Leeward, Windward, Maui, Kauai, and Big Island).

Aside from the stellar research facilities UH boasts (Dr. Yanagimachi's mice cloning in 98), our crown jewel seems to be the East-West Center, an internationally recognized center for promoting Asian-Pacific/American relations. President Eisenhower dedicated the site in 1960, only one year after Hawai`i joined the Union.

EWC also has what I think are the most beautiful spots on campus:


Japanese Gardens

...and the Thai Pavilion (that I can't find a picture for), a gift to the people of Hawaii from the King of Thailand (who was born on American soil) in 1967.

[mu_agd]

Originally posted by aephi alum
You think that's bad...

i work right down the street from it. everytime i walk by i'm like wtf, mates??

eta: and PhiPsiRuss, you are correct, that is MIT's new Strata Center. They just recently opened it, but from what i heard it still isn't completely finished. i also heard, as aephi alum said already, there is a lot of wasted space b/c of all the different angles.

[Rudey]

The MIT Building is amazing. I'm really excited by that.

My school built this monstrosity on campus.



It goes with none of the gothic architecture there.



Anyway, the school was started by the Rockefellers and is known for having the most Nobel Laureates (75), essentially developing modern economics, Indiana Jones was based on our school, Carbon dating developed here, we won the first Heisman trophy, and Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi and his colleagues conducted the first controlled, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reaction on Dec. 2, 1942, and initiated the modern nuclear age (the reaction was right under our football bleachers).

We also are the birthspring for the neo-conservative movement with Abram Shulsky and Paul Wolfowitz earning their doctorates under Leo Strauss and being exposed to Allan Bloom and Albert Wohlstetter. George Schultz was the dean at our business school. Ahmed Chalabi (top Pentagon sponsored ruler for Iraq) studied math there. John Ashcroft went to law school here. Leon Kass heads the President's Council on Bioethics and is staunchly against stem cell research. Well you get the picture. I'm sure there were liberal minds of great here as well, but I hated them.

-Rudey

[DolphinChicaDDD]

My school:

used to have naked classes and co-ed steam rooms.

The college president used to tap the first offical keg of the year, and they actually built pedastols in the middle of the courts so that the kegs would be central.

It was founded by hippies in 1969. They didn't want any athletics, any Greeks, or any thing competative. There were no grades.

That was back when the college was cool.

It is 20minutes from Atlantic City.

We have Lake Fred and Lake Pam. No one has a clue how they were named. Lake Pam used to (and occasionally still does) have nude swimmers.

It is very near the place where the Jersey Devil was born...he is also known as Jimmy Leeds, which is the name of a road that forms a boarder of the college.

Other than that, there is the typical things that the school brags about; none of which i will list here.