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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t help that UVA (and that article) constantly refer to the school as THE University.  It’s all over that article.  They already have a huge chip on their shoulder.[/quote][/b]

because it is written by a student for the student newspaper.  That's all you are getting: one student's viewpoint in the student newspaper, so OF COURSE it is THE University because it's in the Cavalier Daily.[/quote]

Wrong. That’s how students and alum from UVA refer to the school.  It[b]’s not UVA, or Virginia, or school, or college, it’s “the University”.  And it’s not campus, it’s “the grounds”.  They don’t have freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors, it’s first years, second years, third years, fourth years.    sounds like you don’t know much about the school if you don’t even know one of the basic reasons people find UVA to be pretentious and fratty.  [/b]

I find it highly comical that a school newspaper article is making the argument that UVA is becoming more like a private school but uses that vocabulary, which was already doing that job.  [/quote]

I actually don't find the terms " the grounds" or " 1st years, etc" to be pretentious.  Referring to it at "the University" is obnoxious. [/quote]

[b]Guys, please realize this opinion piece was written by UVA students for other UVA students and the UVA community.  Within UVA, it is referred to as the University.  They have the Grounds and the Lawn.  All colleges have similar traditions, nicknames, etc.  I don't think this is obnoxious.  [/quote][/b]

Agree.  A nineteen year old twit wrote the piece for the student newspaper, The Daily Cavalier.  OP wants to stir the pot because her kids didn't get in.  Of COURSE, he refers to it as "the University" the same way my college would have referred to itself as "the college" in its own student newspaper.[/quote]

[b]Actually both of my children got into much better schools than UVA.
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I shared the article here because I thought it presented an interesting perspective on the mission of state schools vs. private universities.

What is so objectionable in the article that you feel the need to insult it's author?

Why don't you and others believe that a 19 year old can offer a valid and worthwhile opinion?

If anything, this thread has exposed the nature of UVA families and I'd be embarrassed by [b]what it says about you[/b].[/quote]

What does it say about you?  You post a piece by a student author from a school paper and announce "Great article on the direction UVA is heading . . . ".   Do you even check sources and authors before reposting?  Didn't you have a clue it was a student piece?  Didn't it strike you odd that the article was not about "the direction UVA is heading", but that's your caption?  Yes, I find it objectionable because it is factually incorrect and the student author has no sense of what an endowment is or how it works.  The author clearly didn't even know the history behind UVA's endowment and why it is remarkable for a state-run university to have one so large in Virginia.  He also didn't mention Questbridge or AccessUVA or any of the other programs that help low-income, poor, and rural kids to attend UVA.  So,  yes, I think you are stirring the pot.[/quote]

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