Paterno was at Pennsylvania State University, or Penn State, a state school. Ike is talking about the University of Pennsylvania, or Penn, which is an Ivy League school. It’s a private school. Cornell has the distinction of being both an Ivy League school and a state school.
All I know is that Cornell used to have a sign at one of the gates onto campus (or maybe still does) that said “Cornell, An Ivy League University.” The joke among the rest of the Ivies was “Cornell, the only Ivy League school that calls itself one - or needs to.”
Besides a State College of Agriculture, Penn doesn’t include a College of Hotel Administration or a College of Human Ecology like Cornell does. Cornell was also founded almost a century after the next youngest Ivy.
The Sure Thing, played by Nicollette Sheridan in the film of the same name, as well as Daphne Zuniga’s character’s boyfriend, both attend UCLA. No word on whether either graduated.
Right now for NC State probably Christina Koch who spent 9 months on the international space station. Or maybe John Tesh. For reality fans Mohammed Hadid father of models Bella and Gigi Hadid
Yes, the thread title is written perfectly correctly, but it’s a rather unusual question, and the “fictional” is omitted from the first line of text of the OP where the question is repeated. So it didn’t sink in for me until I reached “Michael Corleone”.
Yes I know, that was a joke about people not knowing Penn.
Sometimes someone will tell you their kid got into an Ivy school and then they get kind of vague about it and their eyes drift off and they start mumbling and eventually you have to stop them and put your hand on their shoulder and look concerned and go, “It’s Penn, isn’t it?” and let them have a good cry.
Indiana University. I think there were some Kurt Vonnegut characters that went there, but don’t know which ones. And there was the movie Breaking Away where a lot of the characters were Hoosiers.
Portland State University. The best I can come up with is… there is a Peter Griffin who got his B.S. at PSU, and now teaches math at Sac State. I don’t think it’s that Peter Griffin, though.
