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Message: [QUOTE="awhom111, post: 4533004, member: 8683"] State universities also tend to draw natural support from residents regardless of whether they have direct ties. There was a Duke professor who always mocked UNC's "school of the people" status in the state as locals being ignorant of the overall history of who was actually attending UNC. Stanford is hit by the double-whammy of lacking school of the people status and attracting a fairly large percentage of students that have zero interest in sports. Cal and UCLA have also lost their school of the people status over the past half-century and that clearly has transferred to sports as well. Oddly enough, by historically being the school of both the upper class and not targeting the same type of middle class student drawn to Cal and UCLA, USC is probably the closest to a "school of the people" in California. [/QUOTE]