Do Penn State grads/current students carry a stigma?
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Anonymous
Typical cult response! |
Anonymous
Yet, here we are. Back. |
Anonymous
Yep. I can’t stand PSU and I have family members who went there and still worship at the cult of JoePa. I don’t think that the stigma will ever go away. I’m sure there are a lot of people who could care less, but there are just as many who continue to be disgusted by the fact that football was so obviously more important to this institution than protecting kids and admitting wrong. I will always look down on people who have “school spirit” and support this football program. Always. |
Anonymous
| I'm not going to judge a Penn State graduate or student by the school and its football program. It's a massive school and for many if not most students, the best realistic school for them, and it has nothing to do with the football program. It's the flagship state university for Pennsylvania, after all. Many of its students started out at other campuses and transfer to the State College campus for the last two years. The senior administration and the football program are shameful but let's be realistic, if I get a job application from a recent Penn State graduate who majored in anthropology or whatever I'm not even going to be thinking of the scandal but the candidate him/herself and their accomplishments. |
Anonymous
It's a little early to declare that beating Pitt and Akron! |
Anonymous
| Yawn. The usual rule applies. I just figure a grad from there was too dumb to get accepted into a better college. |
Anonymous
Who the eff cares? And I say this as someone who went to a different Big Ten school with a huge football program. It is football. That is really damaging the players. And you guys care more about that than kids who got raped. Sick. |
Anonymous
This is really all that matters to you people, huh? JFC. |
Anonymous
From Macolm Gladwell's New Yorker article on the problem with USNWR rankings: “If you look at the top twenty schools every year, forever, they are all wealthy private universities,” Graham Spanier, the president of Penn State, told me. “Do you mean that even the most prestigious public universities in the United States, and you can take your pick of what you think they are—Berkeley, U.C.L.A., University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Illinois, Penn State, U.N.C.—do you mean to say that not one of those is in the top tier of institutions? It doesn’t really make sense, until you drill down into the rankings, and what do you find? What I find more than anything else is a measure of wealth: institutional wealth, how big is your endowment, what percentage of alumni are donating each year, what are your faculty salaries, how much are you spending per student. Penn State may very well be the most popular university in America—we get a hundred and fifteen thousand applications a year for admission. We serve a lot of people. Nearly a third of them are the first people in their entire family network to come to college. We have seventy-six per cent of our students receiving financial aid. There is no possibility that we could do anything here at this university to get ourselves into the top ten or twenty or thirty—except if some donor gave us billions of dollars.” |
Anonymous
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I don't take OOS psu grads seriously unless they were Jefferson/Hershey med bs/md kids.
In state, it depends on the person. even though psu is expensive instate compared to say uva or umd instate, it's still in state vs paying 40-50k a year at a private. |
Anonymous
Spanier is a fraud and is in jail now. If I were PSU president, I could get the school into the thirties in a decade or two. The state (PA) doesn't give much support financially, so I would be able to plug the hole from alum/donor drive and I'd take the school private. Cut enrollment by half (the lower half of students at main campus don't deserve to be at the school), spin off the branch campuses back to the state, go completely race/hook blind, carve out a niche for high SAT scoring/so-so gpa type kids that are unhooked so can't get into top 25. Within 15 years, the school would be in the low 30 range consistently. |
Anonymous
Not to mention the young man who was killed by his fraternity brothers. Yet, here I am, with multiple family members turning down an event that celebrates a milestone in my life because they can't miss the Penn State/Michigan game. |
Anonymous
| How bizarre it must have been tonight for the kids in the CHILDRENS hospital at Iowa to be waving to the Iowa fans and players as they prepared to take on Pedophile State U!?!?! |
Anonymous
Especially after Nittany Lions won! We Are! Penn State! |
Anonymous
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Very low SAT scores plus 55 percent acceptance rate equals
Community college with decades of football kiddie anal rape . Yes it has a stigma. |