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Old 12-16-2004, 02:45 PM
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Largest Baptist university in the world, chartered by the Republic of Texas, and part of "where the heart is" was filmed there.
go baylor.
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Old 12-16-2004, 03:07 PM
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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.

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Old 12-16-2004, 03:29 PM
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* Home of the Liquid Crystal Institute. The only Liquid Crystal program of it's kind in the U. S. I'm sure.

*The only school in the US with black squirrels.

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.
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Old 12-16-2004, 03:31 PM
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SCU is also the oldest university in California.
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Old 12-16-2004, 06:53 PM
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Minnesota State has hosted the Minnesota Vikings training camp on campus for the past four decades.
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Old 12-17-2004, 07:36 AM
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I absolutely LOVE your campus!! Traveller's grave is so cool!
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.
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Old 12-20-2004, 11:33 PM
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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!
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Old 12-20-2004, 11:54 PM
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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.
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Old 12-21-2004, 01:25 AM
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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!
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Old 12-21-2004, 01:55 AM
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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
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Old 12-21-2004, 02:07 AM
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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".
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Old 12-21-2004, 11:53 AM
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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.
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Old 12-21-2004, 12:24 PM
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*The only school in the US with black squirrels.

Black squirrels were in full force at my undergrad.
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Old 12-21-2004, 01:26 PM
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*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
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Old 12-21-2004, 01:48 PM
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*Chris Farley went here!
That's impressive.
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