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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is there now. She is not southern, not elitist wealthy, not conservative,  she didn’t join a sorority. She loves it there. She loves the classes, the professors.  She has friends from all income levels, races and religions.  She gets opportunities to work with professors even as a freshman that aren’t available at larger universities.  All her classes are <20 students. When she was ill and missed 2 class days her freshman year, several of her professors checked in with her to make sure she was ok. You definitely don’t get that at a larger university. [/quote]

This is PP who started there in ‘85.  I think it’s a very different place now.

My class was the first that included women, and my freshman dorm hall included only one boy who wasn’t a WASP southerner - an Italian guy from NYC who spent a lot of time sharpening a big hunting knife and talking about hating Puerto Ricans.  My first social event on campus — the day I arrived — was an off campus KA keg party/skeet shooting event with lots of drunk boys, guns and confederate flags.  I grew up with guns and got lots of training on shooting and gun safety, and seeing a guy staggering around with a beer in his hand and a .45 holstered on his hip (no idea why - you can’t shoot skeet with a pistol) freaked me out. [/quote]

It's  2025.

Yes, it's much different now. [/quote]

Thanks for clarifying what year it is.

The point is that people’s negative ideas about W&L don’t come from thin air.  And there are plenty of alums who like how it used to be and use their money to resist change. I recently spoke with a 2010 grad who is active in alumni stuff and very frustrated by the old guard.  FWIW, the same thing is going on next door at VMI, only a million times worse. [/quote]

Yes, the Lee name is a negative,  but hey: [b]people elected a racist and convicted felon.  He's even reinstalling, a statute of guess who? 
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The school itself is top notch in terms of SLACs.[/quote]

You could start by educating yourself and not throwing around stupid MSM phrases.  You probably also call him - irresponsibly - a Nazi.  Try using actual concrete, sensible adjectives -- and people will take your comments more seriously. [/quote]

Trump is a racist.

Trump is a convicted felon.

You can’t handle the truth! [/quote]

Grow up. Start reading. Turn off MSM.[/quote]

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