Interesting facts about your school

[Firehouse]

I was wrong about Nancy Kulp (Pi Phi - my apologies), and yes, I forgot Faye Dunaway is a Pi Phi initiate from FSU (she also went to my high school - I should've remembered). But Jim Morrison definitely attended FSU. He may have also attended UCLA as you say, but people here remember him. The apartment/ rooming house where he lived is known. In the movie, The Doors, he's confronting some Miami Hurricanes fans at a concert and tells him he's a Seminole.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Firehouse
The apartment/ rooming house where he lived is known.

Yes it is. I've been to some very wild partys there.

[Firehouse]

There was an article in today's paper (slow news day) bemoaning the fact that the state of Florida does not have an official State Fruit. Russ, let's you and I nominate distinguished Florida State alumnus Richard Simmons for the honor.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Firehouse
There was an article in today's paper (slow news day) bemoaning the fact that the state of Florida does not have an official State Fruit. Russ, let's you and I nominate distinguished Florida State alumnus Richard Simmons for the honor.

He's not supposed to be mentioned in public. Seminoles don't "sweat to the oldies."

[axidhawkeye]

well, there's a lot of historical stuff about the university of iowa, and i'm sure, if you're that intersted, it can be found at www.uiowa.edu, but iowa city has the largest bar (the union) in the big 10. we have this goofy thing called the pentacrest (it's kind of like a quad, and has the old capital building, because at one point in time iowa city was the capital of iowa), which has a ton of ginko trees, and in the fall, it smells really, really bad. on a good day the iowa river smells like syrup, and on the last day of classes before winter break there's a tuba concert on the pentacrest. there's also the dead animal zoo and one of the buldings (calvin hall) was on an episode of friends.

[Firehouse]

..."the dead animal zoo" ????

[PiPhiGirl2005]

From the college's website...

- "Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex. That is, Hillsdale was the first American college to be chartered on the principle of nondiscrimination."

- Hillsdale takes no govenment money, on the state or federal level, and its students receive no government aid. It functions entirely on private donations. Basically, this means that the college does whatever it wants without having to answer to the state or federal government.

- Pat Sajak is on our board of trustees!

- We've had a ton of famous speakers; most recently, Dan Quayle and Ann Coulter spoke at our Founders Campaign Gala.

[TxAPhi]

The University of Texas at Austin, the largest component of The University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin is a major research university home to more than 48,000 students, 2,700 faculty and 17,000 staff members.

Dedicated to the state of Texas: Archway from the Main Building looks out at the State Capitol



President: Larry R. Faulkner
Founded: 1883
Degrees awarded yearly: 11,000
Enrollment: 50,000
Continuing education enrollment: 300,000 yearly
Total yearly costs: $13,000
(Including tuition and housing)
Employees: 3,000 faculty, 18,000 staff members
Registered student organizations: 900
Graduate/undergraduate:
11,000 graduate/39,000 undergraduate
Number of Colleges: 16
Total yearly budget: $1.3 billion
Research funding: $300 million
Museums and libraries: 7 museums and 17 libraries
Alumni: 450,000
Mascot: Bevo the Texas longhorn
Colors: Burnt Orange and white

[Corsulian]

I was told we are now the most diverse university in the US, a few years ago I know we were cited as being the 'third most diverse'

[preciousjeni]

UGA was the first state chartered (and state supported) college in the nation - 1785ish.

[PhoenixAzul]

The Dating Steps
- At Otterbein, if you walk the entirel length of Towers hall from West to East (up the West steps, through the main corridor) and exit down the Dating Steps with a young man, than you will have a long and happy relationship. It was/is? a tradition to lavalier/pin your girlfriend there.

- Otterbein has no "alma mater". We have the Otterbein Love Song, written by an alumn.

-With the addition of Rho Kappa Delta, all 13 original Otterbein sororities and fraternities will be restored. All Greek life was banned until 1920, so all groups opperated under non-greek names until then, at which time they took letters. Most are still known as their original group name, used as a nick name (example, Theta Nu=Greenwhich, Tau Delta=Tomo Dachi, Lambda Gamma Epsilon=Kings, etc.)