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Marylanders: Did you regret not choosing Virginia when it came time to apply to college?
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Anonymous
What school does? Certainly not Virginia (look at the thread title). Maybe Martha Stewart gives seminars. At least Umd doesn't have the culture of death that is currently engulfing the Va. schools. |
Anonymous
So a paradox would be...Duke is a good law school and promotes class and graciousness and nurtures a law abiding character in its illustrious graduates, thats why Richard Nixon graduated from there! (I just like the word paradox). |
Anonymous
| Just to help you Uva types feel better..Duke is really pitiful. Duke only has 12 national championships, Zero nobel winning graduates, Zero academy award graduates, 1 measly Pulitzer graduate. There biggest invention by a graduate is.....the beer launching fridge. The african american stripper harrasing, border-line rapist gang of repugnant punks on their lacrosse team would surely have welcomed George Huguely at their "parties". Wtf do they teach at that place? Their law school graduates Nixon. They are founded on tobacco (can you say cancer?) money, then they have the audacity to open a cancer center to charge money for a cure. They have to be the among the worst people on Earth... |
Anonymous
| http://s1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb468/subapp/?action=view¤t=terpslumlords-1.jpg It should be noted, I did not make this poster. I was dumping all my Umd superiority info on a sports board and an enterprising Umd genius made it and posted it. The lady with the Oscar is Dianne Weist (2 time winner). The object in the top middle is the miniturized insulin pump made by a Umd grad (he also made artifical pancreas and the mini-implanted difibulator). Yes the Duke kid is crying both because his team is getting beat by Umd in the Acc title game and Umd's Carl Bernstein below him is in the process of getting Dukes' most famous graduate impeached! The little teeny guys are Larry David and ESPN's Scott van Pelt. The Universal Price Code invented by Umd's Harry Smith is right below Sergi Brin's Google concept...and Who doesn't love Jim Hensons genius creation, the Muppets. There was just no room to put in the 2 nobel winners, 16 Pulitzers, or the 3rd academy award "Titanic" visual effects expert. He also couldn't fit in the following inventions by Umd graduates...The stadium Jumbotron, The Octane system, frequent flyer systems, the hybrid engine, linear programming. He did squeeze in Pulse dopplar radar on top middle-right. I'm glad he got 'The Boonocks in there, it looks cool! Overall-a great job |
Anonymous
| Oh yeah...the dude with the defined physique is "the cyborg" Vernon Davis Pro bowler for the 49ers. |
Anonymous
Well we don't normally use words because we like them. We use them because the make sense. Here's another ambiguity, I mean paradox: Maryland is a good law school and promotes class and graciousness and nurtures a law abiding character in its illustrious graduates, thats why Marvin Mandel graduated from there. Condemning a school based on the actions of one graduate is stupid. |
Anonymous
Care to compare the graduation rates of Duke or Virginia (athlete and non) with Maryland? |
Anonymous
Everybody knows Duke hands out 3 year degrees to their athletes, so it's hard to tell whether the degree means anything or not. ( a typical Duke, Nixon, Lacrosse team, carcinogen endowment, slimey maneuver). And comparing small time Marvin Mandel to Nixon,who almost destroyed the democratic system is really grasping but kind of funny. To really know what in going on in big time college athletics would require following these guys around and sitting in their classes and tests. I don't think Duke or Uva would be to happy about what may come out of that investigation. One thing is for sure...Umd isn't handing out degrees that are meaningless. Don't do the work and you don't graduate from Umd. They allow the students to return to school for free and complete their degrees and many do, some choose not to or go professonal. Umd degrees requiring so much effort is one of the reasons our graduates produce so many world changing and impactful creations/inventions and achieve at such a high level. |
Anonymous
More "classy Duke types".http://bleacherreport.com/articles/479473-ryder-cup-karen-owen-lebron-james-and-the-best-sports-tweets-of-the-day/entry/11416-karen-owen-duke-sex-thesis-scandal |
Anonymous
| Just google "Karen Owen Duke". Wtf is it with these schools? |
Anonymous
So you don't want to compare graduation rates, graduation in 4,5 or 6 years, majors, etc.? You're right Maryland isn't handing out meaningless degrees to its athletes. I believe they get a Certificate of Attendance at graduation. Woody Allen wasn't a Maryland grad( (or was he Booster?) but that hasn't stopped the school from adapting the motto "Half of Life is Just Showing Up" The accomplishments you cite are all very nice but Google was not the first search engine. Muppets were puppets. UnderArmour is what you call Spandex when you want men to buy it. The chief contribution of UMd to Seinfeld would seem to be the phrase "like a frightened turtle" from the "Shrinkage" episode. Barcodes: Wikipedia gives first credit for Barcodes to two guys from Drexel University. If a Maryland grad had a role, it was contributory not primary. Shame on you...again. Same with Doppler Radar. There was a lot of simultaneous work going in Britain and the US during WW II. If a Maryland grad had a role it was collaborative not primary or solitary. University inventions that changed the world: uvapf.org/live_data/documents/FamousUniversityInventions.doc Maryland didn't make the list. I'm guessing you'll next point out that Al Gore didn't invent the internet but some guy from Maryland did. In academia, claiming others' ideas as your own is generally frowned upon. Ms. Weist got best supporting actress. She's a great actress but so is William and Mary graduate Glen Close. Bernstein had this partner named Woodward. Yale grad, very successful author. After they split up their careers went in separate directions. Sorry about the Mandel reference. He was the first UMd law grad to come to mind. And he knows the criminal justice system inside and out. NCAA Championships? 21 of 37 are in lacrosse, a regional sport between College Park and Syracuse, but mostly between College Park and Baltimore. Congrats. 7 are in Field Hockey. 4 are in Cheerleading. So 32 of 37 are in niche sports. Go Terps! Here's the most recent Rhodes scholar from UVa (Number 47) : http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=13550 Poor kid. She was a Freshman Varsity Field Hockey player and gave it all up for this. This isn't the forum for it, but Nixon was hardly a threat to democracy. Your knowledge of politics and history are not a good advertisement for UMd. Your turn: Let me start for you. The bloody culture of death at UVa...a UMd grad invented the Ipod... |
Anonymous
| Check your sources..typical Uva using wiki as a source. Why did you leave out Sergi Brin and Jime Henson...Oh I know why. check out George Laurer on goodle (universal price code baby). If you only count the largest sports then Uva still loses since they have zero national championships in football or basketball. plus they have fewer nobels, pulitzers and academy awards. And they have zero impact on modern life. I think the country would gladly do away with Uva is it was between Uva and having to give up The Muppets, Seinfeld, Pulse Dopplar radar (harry Smith), mini insulin pumps, imbedded defibulators, the universal price code, watergate investigation,Google, Boondocks, jumbotron,octane system, frequent flyer systems, hybrid engines,outback steakhouse,linear programming, under armour etc...so-on and so forth. I'm not going to elaborate on the Virginia culture of death incidents other than to say they are probably the worst and most horrible incidents that have ever occured on any campus in america. |
Anonymous
| P.S. Your attempt to defend Nixon's honor says it all. |
Anonymous
Wiki can't be worse than your claims and you can check out the references. Another example - Jumbotrons were developed by Sony. Again your claims are dubious and not worth investigating any further. The hybrid engine? Linear programming? Give me a break. Why didn't you claim the internet as well? Didn't leave out Brin or Henson. I said their ideas were not original. At best, your a proven exaggerator. When you're not "exaggerating", the devices your cite are the result of collaborative, derivative and incremental work as so much of technology is. You haven't even addressed the over 800 inventions attributed to UVa or over 400 attributed to Va Tech (vs over 400 for Umd) so you can't possibly know their societal impact. If what you cite is the best UMd has to offer then I guess that's all of it and in fact not all of it is UMd as has been proven. You can look up the 47 Rhodes scholars. Note that a parent sending their child to UVa has a much higher chance of getting a Rhode Scholar than a Maryland parent has of getting a Nobel Prize winner. I believe Tom McMillen the former Terp and Bullet was the lone UMd scholar. UVA has 6 NCAA Men's Soccer Championships. At the collegiate level that's a major sport and outranks the 5 UMd in Football, Basketball, Soccer, etc. At any rate choosing a school for it's NCAA program is foolish. Maryland uses an exploitive business model for major sports athletes. Few are there for an education. |
Anonymous
Again with the reading comprehension problem. I didn't defend his honor. |