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OT: UConn 447th best party school in US; 7th in CT

Kemba429 said:
I dont really know about this list. Im scrolling through and #87 is University of the Arts. Cmon, a school with the majority of its students being theatre or dance majors is ahead of schools like UCF, VA Tech, Purdue etc? Nothing against theatre or dance majors but most of them are not necessarily the “partying type.” Especially over these schools lol.
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Hey man, "partying" can mean many things to many people

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This is sad. I had some awesome times at UConn during my time there, and it is depressing to see how lame the school is now.

If it was up to me, I would move the whole school to downtown Hartford, and turn the Storrs campus into a Super Max. It would help Hartford, and the city wouldn't give a spit what the kids did as long as no one was getting shot. It would also serve the Mansfield community right for decades of duechebaggery.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
This is sad. I had some awesome times at UConn during my time there, and it is depressing to see how lame the school is now.

If it was up to me, I would move the whole school to downtown Hartford, and turn the Storrs campus into a Super Max. It would help Hartford, and the city wouldn't give a spit what the kids did as long as no one was getting shot. It would also serve the Mansfield community right for decades of duechebaggery.
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Decades of gery - are you describing your adolescence?
 
Kemba429 said:
I dont really know about this list. Im scrolling through and #87 is University of the Arts. Cmon, a school with the majority of its students being theatre or dance majors is ahead of schools like UCF, VA Tech, Purdue etc? Nothing against theatre or dance majors but most of them are not necessarily the “partying type.” Especially over these schools lol.
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I’m a liberal. And that’s too damn liberal. I’m calling shenanigans on this poll. Where’s the classic playboy ranking?
 
MadDogRevival said:
Actually, it says a lot about you, snowflake, and the general intolerance of anything that snowflakes find unpleasant.
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Which of your parents was the hate-filled racist? Dad Ivy, Mom Ivy, or both? Regardless, they sure did mold you into a terrible human being.
 
So all this talk of partying reminded me of what may have been my favorite, spring weekend 1980. It was a blast, with Max Creek killing it in the quad, games during the day and parties in every dorm at night. It also was the weekend of the infamous End of the World party.

Good times.

(FWIW, raising the drinking age to 21 is what drove the parties off campus. Not that I didn't to off campus, but it was less frequent since there we always parties on campus, and a lot of them.)
 
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CL82 said:
So all this talk of partying reminded me of what may have been my favorite, spring weekend 1980. It was a blast, with Max Creek killing it in the quad, games during the day and parties in every dorm at night. It also was the weekend of the infamous End of the World party.

Good times.

(FWIW, raising the drinking age to 21 is what drove the parties off campus. Not that I didn't to off campus, but it was less frequent since there we always parties on campus, and a lot of them.)
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Stowe's End of the World party was Spring 1979. Mann Students Face ‘Disciplinary Action’ For Campus Rampage

Alum reflects on 1979 ‘End of the World Party’
 
CL82 said:
So all this talk of partying reminded me of what may have been my favorite, spring weekend 1980. It was a blast, with Max Creek killing it in the quad, games during the day and parties in every dorm at night. It also was the weekend of the infamous End of the World party.

Good times.

(FWIW, raising the drinking age to 21 is what drove the parties off campus. Not that I didn't to off campus, but it was less frequent since there we always parties on campus, and a lot of them.)
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Max Creek?!?!

This is so funny to me, for a few reasons. I know those guys but have otherwise very little connection to anything MA or CT.
 
Stainmaster said:
It's funny you're using "better" given how nostalgic you seem like you are for those days.



You really shouldn't speak about what you don't know. NIMBYs have not been making decisions since the turn of the 21st century - the town actually revolted against them. It's not a coincidence that both development of the town (community center, Storrs Center) and UConn (Discovery Drive) has been way up ever since then. You owe us for pushing this forward and making Storrs a more habitable place for all of us.



Nope. Your college bubble doesn't extend to private neighborhoods and other people's property. That's not how the world works.



Lmfao you're trying to spin lower property values as a plus? Hunting Lodge wouldn't look out of place in rural West Virginia, and the real estate market in the surrounding area is extremely depressed as a result.



Not even close.



FFC renters are the morons that come into residential neighborhoods and drive race cars because they think they literally own the entire area. There's a reason I use "entitlement" so often. When you step off campus, it's not yours.
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Mansfield NIMBYs have held back transformational projects that would have had major positive impact on the state. It’s ironic you mention enterprise drive, because that’s where one of them should have gone.

Bless you for thinking Mansfield should win the Nobel prize for giving up a minuscule amount of land that was occupied by a bank branch and other unmemorable sprawl.

Any property value concerns should be addressed with several landowners who seem very content taking their rent money and not investing in their property. They’ve been milking students for literally decades, and often openly ignoring the precious Mansfield regulations.

Did some girl from Stamford turn you down, or something? So much rage.
 
Stainmaster said:
Between the two of us, I'm the only one enrolled in a UConn program at present, so I have plenty more skin in the game than you. I don't have numbers with me, but anyone currently in admissions will tell you there's been a huge increase in interest from the wealthiest areas of the state now that UConn's prestige has increased has gone up. Is it a coincidence that renter behavior got the point where action had to be taken just as the student body began drawing more people from entitled backgrounds? You tell me.
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I can't tell if you are trolling or not, so I'm going to give you a half-hearted answer just in case you swing both ways.

UConn has always had students from all towns in Connecticut. I grew up in Greenwich and had about 80 kids in my high school go to Storrs, with another large number going to UConn-Stamford and then working their way to Storrs. UConn has an increased representation from more wealthy towns because the rising prices of college (out of state public schools and private schools) have made other college options financially poor choices long-term. I graduated high school in '04 with pretty good grades and excellent SAT scores. I could have applied and gone to some academically prominent schools, but as a high school grad who had to pay for his own education, my only prudent options were UConn or an international school (I applied, but did not get into McGill).

It's not a rich/poor thing, it's a general culture thing. I'm only 31, but kids nowadays have less autonomy and more reliance on their parents to fend for them not just financially but more importantly, their responsibility. I'm a middle school teacher and it's amazing how some parents will defer their kid's bad decisions on somebody else, be it me, another student, the school, etc. When I was a kid, if I screwed up, it was my fault and my parents let me deal with whatever consequence came with it.

But whatever, you're a college student, so you know everything, especially about the changes at UConn throughout your few years of enrollment.
 
JMick said:
student/townie feuds are a tale as old as time. usually students get support from the President but Susan didn't deem it important. Her agenda was get rid of the party school reputation and remove the focus from athletics. she has succeeded wonderfully. Can't wait until she's gone and the students get an advocate
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Agreed, she has been a total disaster in those two areas.
 
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Chief00 said:
Agreed, she has been a total disaster in those two areas.
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Chief, how has she taken the focus off of athletics? Do you believe that she sandbagged the university during the L'ville to ACC debacle?

We just had the most successful outreach campaign that we've had in years with the road show. She's launched the 6th Borough campaign which was a deliberate attempt to raise our profile. She aggressively pursued Big 12 affiliation. Our athletic budget remains at a P5 level. I'm finding it tough to see how she was implementing an agenda to take away the focus from athletics.
 
CL82 said:
Chief, how has she taken the focus off of athletics? Do you believe that she sandbagged the university during the L'ville to ACC debacle?

We just had the most successful outreach campaign that we've had in years with the road show. She's launched the 6th Borough campaign which was a deliberate attempt to raise our profile. She aggressively pursued Big 12 affiliation. Our athletic budget remains at a P5 level. I'm finding it tough to see how she was implementing an agenda to take away the focus from athletics.
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She stopped non-students from living in athletic housing and hanging around the facilities, I guess.
 
CL82 said:
Chief, how has she taken the focus off of athletics? Do you believe that she sandbagged the university during the L'ville to ACC debacle?

We just had the most successful outreach campaign that we've had in years with the road show. She's launched the 6th Borough campaign which was a deliberate attempt to raise our profile. She aggressively pursued Big 12 affiliation. Our athletic budget remains at a P5 level. I'm finding it tough to see how she was implementing an agenda to take away the focus from athletics.
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The conference realignment is a President’s gig and she failed in that 3 times. That was her most important role in athletics.
 
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TRest said:
She stopped non-students from living in athletic housing and hanging around the facilities, I guess.
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I wasn’t aware UConn had “athletics housing”. What are you proposing- that we turn into a football factory?
 
Chief00 said:
Agreed, she has been a total disaster in those two areas.
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Me thinks you’re being cheeky with this response....

But for those who seriously think she has de-emphasized athletics, get some facts and come back and see me. It reeks of sexism and/or ignorance. No one likes the current state of our conference affiliation, but the groundwork was laid by the idiot combo of Hathaway and Hogan (and Austin to a lesser degree) well before Susan arrived. If anything, she may be guilty of allowing/approving a P-5 athletic budget in spite of being in the American.
 
Chief00 said:
The conference realignment is a President’s gig and she failed in that 3 times. That was her most important role in athletics.
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Not getting it done is different than deliberately deemphasizing athletics. I'm not sure anyone could have gotten it done the way the stars aligned. Now, if you wanted to argue that she took our admission for granted when L'Ville took our slot, I'll agree, but that's different from actively trying to deemphasize athletics.
 
CL82 said:
You are right, obviously. I was, apparently, conflating Spring weekend, which happens before finals, with the Stowe party.

If I recall correctly, the guys in whichever of the Stowe's it was (and I'm going with B) all signed off on an agreement to share the cost of the damages prior to the party.
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Daily Campus - May 1, 1979 - no mention until p.32-33

http://archives.lib.uconn.edu/islandora/object/20002:860253296#page/33/mode/2up

All the Stowe residents that had hoped to remain in the co-ed dorm the following year were forced to live elsewhere.
 
husky8273 said:
Daily Campus - May 1, 1979 - no mention until p.32-33

http://archives.lib.uconn.edu/islandora/object/20002:860253296#page/33/mode/2up

All the Stowe residents that had hoped to remain in the co-ed dorm the following year were forced to live elsewhere.
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This is closer to my recollection. It was during South Campus weekend the week before finals, not after finals but it was '79 not 80.

There's a Leslie Palmieri quote at the end of the article. Haven't thought about her for years. Didn't she marry UConn MBB assistant Greg Ashford?
 
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