# Way to besmirch your alma mater **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260 "2001-11-19T19:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/21 "2001-11-19T21:56:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ivorybill \* > \*\ ***Cranky,** > > It’s Sewanee, not Suwanee. I guess you state your case. 😉 (BTW, I did my undergrad work there and was graduated in 1988.) > > Now that you’ve trashed Clemson and Sewanee, you just need to say something bad about NC State (Ph.D. 1999) and you’ll have the hat trick. 😃 \*\* Naw, much as I’d love to, one of my dearest friends married an alum and rabid Wolfpack fan. I had to stop hating NC State when that happened. 🙂 I didn’t mean to diss Sewanee (figured I’d screw up the name–shoulda gone with “University of the South”)–I just meant when I was in admissions I heard a lot of uninformed high school kids (I should not have used the general term “people”) turn up their noses and sneer at places like that as if they couldn’t be any good, just because they hadn’t heard of them. When the truth is, those same narrow-minded students would be fucking lucky to get their application even _considered_ by those places. It just chapped my ass to no end. ---
**Author:** ![Ivorybill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ivorybill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivorybill)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/22 "2001-11-19T22:01:10Z")
**Cranky,** I understand your frustration. Folks are happy to talk about Clemson (or at least tease me about it) or NC State, but say the words “Sewanee” or “The University of the South” and you can see the eyes glaze over. Should **Cranky Junior** get interested in Sewanee, I’m still on quite good terms with a number of faculty who’d be happy to talk with your young 'un. Apologies for the hijack, **Jarbaby**. You’ve every right to be peeved. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/23 "2001-11-19T22:03:49Z")
I wonder if their dicks shrink when their football team loses? ---
**Author:** ![Thrasybulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Thrasybulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrasybulus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/24 "2001-11-19T22:07:12Z")
Caveat: What I am about to say does not excuse the boorish behavior of those Northwestern Alums that gave you shit. It is merely a possible explanation of where that comment comes from . . . Now, here goes . . . My BIL went to Northwestern and was a member of its marching band. (This was, back in the not so long ago days when NU’s football team sucked.) Anyway, at some point in each game that NU was getting its ass kicked (pretty much all of them) the band would start a cheer: “That’s alright, that’s okay, you’re going to work for us one day.” It was the students’ way of shrugging off the fact that their team was complete and utter shit. That said, I must reiterate that the chant is funny in the context of a college football game where your team blows but not in the context of the party you went to. It is possible that the dickhead at the party was dredging up the typical NU student reaction to a loss. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/25 "2001-11-19T22:13:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cleosia \* > \*_Chipmunks, Chipmunks, **RAH, RAH, RAH!** _ > > \*See _How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying_. \*\* Pffffbbtttt!!! Groundhogs, all the way! \ Stand, Old Ivy Stand firm and strong Grand Old Ivy Hear the cheering throng Stand, Old Ivy And never yeild Rip! Rip! Rip! The Chipmunk off the field! \ Fenris, Who’s favorite musical is How to Succeed! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/26 "2001-11-19T22:32:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thrasybulus \* > \*\* > > That said, I must reiterate that the chant is funny in the context of a college football game where your team blows but not in the context of the party you went to. It is possible that the dickhead at the party was dredging up the typical NU student reaction to a loss. \*\* they are probably right too! of course, THEY will be working for guys who went to USC! (relax, its a joke…maybe) ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/27 "2001-11-19T22:58:53Z")
I mock you all from my comfortably Ivy League college. Pah. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/28 "2001-11-19T23:05:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\* > I’d rather work for a sweaty army of CHUDS than ever take a paycheck from your jack off callused palm you asswipe. \*\* You get 10 extra points for knowing what a CHUD is. I salute you. Marc ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/29 "2001-11-20T06:15:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\* > I’d just like to mention that “The Sweaty Army of C.H.U.D.s” would be a totally kick-ass name for a band. > \*\* So would “Sock Full of Come”. I see them as being sort of like Gwar or Impotent Sea Snakes. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/30 "2001-11-20T08:03:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\*Impotent Sea Snakes. \*\* This is one band I never thought I’d see mentioned on the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/31 "2001-11-20T13:53:57Z")
I like the fact that these people are getting their underpants in a knot over Northwestern football. Hell, they were 3-5 going into the game - they knew they sucked. Hell, they’ve sucked good and hard 48 of the last 50 years. I went to a Northwestern game a few years back, and I think that those three guys at the party were the only ones in the stands. Coincidentally, I believe they were jerking off then as well. Not only that, Northwestern is in a dry county. Why someone would want to step foot in Evansville is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/32 "2001-11-20T14:00:24Z")
Northwestern, sheesh. Like they can hold a candle to Ohio State! **Go Buckeyes!!!** [sub]Football is a religion in Ohio[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/33 "2001-11-20T14:05:48Z")
**Munsch** , FTR, Northwestern is in Cook County, Illinois, that also contains the city of Chicago, which most certainly is not dry. The City of Evans **ton** is home to NW. It used to be dry, but is not anymore. I would have loved to go to NW. It’s a great school, near a major urban center, and situated right on the shores of Lake Michigan. But, alas, I am too stupid. Abe Babe, who went to school near LA at Claremont McKenna College, which is not known to anybody east of Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/34 "2001-11-20T14:22:36Z")
Just another **Clemson** alum (MBA, '98) checking in. Oh yeah, since this is the pit… Those rat-fucked, take it in the ear for a beer, Northwestern sons of bitches suck! ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/35 "2001-11-20T15:20:54Z")
See? I told you Northwestern sucks donkey balls. 😃 tiggeril University of Chicago 😃 [sub]Yeah, not that we’re much better, but I’M here, so we gotta be, right?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![JuanDeCuba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@JuanDeCuba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuanDeCuba)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/36 "2001-11-20T15:24:36Z")
They beat us 44-7, what does that say about us? ::mumbles something about 0-10, 22 game losing stread:: nevermind ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/37 "2001-11-20T15:46:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Tricia Valentine \* > > \*\*Applying for college as I am, I’ve heard of about every college in the midwest area. I’ve never heard of Northwestern. I’ve been to Bowling Green. Eat my Shit. (I just felt like saying that) > > > > ~C~ \*\* > > Wait. You’ve never heard of Northwestern? Only private U in the Big Ten? In the U.S. News and World Report Top 25? Home to one of the leading journalism schools in the nation (McGill) and one of the top business school programs in marketing (Kellogg)? You’ve never heard of it? And you’ve looked at most of the schools in the midwest? > > This my friends, was one of the reasons I left admissions. It’s so fucking frustrating. There are 3,000 colleges in this country, and the average awareness of their existence is depressing low. Oh sure, if they field teams in the big-three revenue sports, maybe people have heard of them. But a lot of fantastic schools aren’t known outside of their area. Worse yet, people think that if they haven’t heard of them, they must not be worth knowing about. > \ > > it’s the raging dumbfucks who call themselves “guidance counselors” but don’t know jack shit, and the people who publish rags like U.S. News & World Report who think they can tell millions of high schoolers and their parents everything they need to know about college in one freaking issue. > > \ > \*\* Preach it, Cranky. One of the jokes on campus here at U of C is that “We’re the best school in the world… that no one’s heard of.” And if ONE more person asks me, “Oh, do you mean U I C?” (That’s the University of Illinois at Chicago, for nonMidwesterners), I’m going to go insane. tiggeril Class of '04 [sub]We have more Nobels than you do! Neener neener neener![/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/38 "2001-11-20T16:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tiggeril \* > Preach it, Cranky. One of the jokes on campus here at U of C is that “We’re the best school in the world… that no one’s heard of.” > > \*\* Oh, you want a school that nobody’s heard of? I got one for you. . .how 'bout The Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science? Yep, that’s my alma mater. I’m a proud member of the Class of '92. Of course, my school doesn’t exist any more, since they’ve changed their name to Philadelphia University. Let’s all hear it for dear old PU! **tigg** , you guys may have a bunch of Nobels, but _we_ have the guy who invented AstroTurf! So neener neener neener yourself! 😃 Zap! ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/39 "2001-11-20T16:48:46Z")
HEY. Take your nobel prizes, your astro turf, your textiles and longhorns and football trophies and shove 'em up yer asses. I went to Bowling Green State University. Alma Mater of one mr. Tim…fucking Conway. What’s a Tim Conway? about a hundred and twenty pounds. jar ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-to-besmirch-your-alma-mater/94260/40 "2001-11-20T17:04:05Z")
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