Ole Miss earns second National Championship of the Summer
by Whiskey Wednesday on Jul 28, 2009 9:13 AM EDT
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PrintA National Championship. Students, alumni, professors, staff... even the sidewalk fans can all celebrate this monumental accomplishment:
Georgia, your puny ranking of 8th means nothing to us. Tennessee and Florida, we scoff at your somewhere-in-the-teens rankings. We knock back thick, syrupy-ass brown liquor in a fashion which, in an overwhelming majority of contexts, would be frighteningly dangerous. Have fun sippin' your pina coladas, you losers.
Other rankings:
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#2 Greek Scene
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#3 Party School
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#4 Students Study the Least
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#12 Student Newspaper (I guess being printed daily and in color makes up for piss-poor editing)
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#14 Little Race/Class Interaction (Wow, that's awkward)
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#17 Dorms Like Dungeons
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#18 Most Conservative Students (there are really seventeen more conservative schools than Ole Miss? Bob Jones, BYU, and what other 15 zealot-bins?)
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#20 Lots of Beer
While highly flawed and ultimately insignificant, the Princeton Review rankings are fun, are they not?
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#14 Little Race/Class Interaction
Hey-o! Not last!
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Blame the Baptists.
by Juco All-American on Jul 28, 2009 9:15 AM EDT reply actions
This is a good example of how flawed these rankings are.
While I’m not going to pretend that everybody just loves everybody else on the Ole Miss campus, we’re all pretty damned friendly to one-another.
Being as how the Princeton Review is based on polls which are distributed nationwide, schools which are perceived as possessing certain problems will garner such votes.
Also, Whiskey Wednesday and I were G-chatting yesterday as to how flawed the “Best College Town” rankings are. Columbia is #1 and GWU is #2. New York and DC would easily survive if Columbia and GWU were to sink into the ground. Towns like Athens, Oxford, Auburn, Charlottesville, etc. exist solely because of their respective universities. They are true college towns and should be high on the list.
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Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jul 28, 2009 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions
It is indeed a proud day in Ole Miss History
do we get another magnolia shaped trophy for running LSU right off the top 20 party schools list? take that you dirty coonasses LANDSHARK.
Before any of the LSU readers who missed the inherent lack of seriousness in that last post try to attack me, let me just say that I will most likely be helping you to improve your rankings for a few saturdays this year with my wife and her fellow LSU alum/tailgaters.
With people like gonzohog running around, I felt it necessary to clear that up before I get a savage interweb bashing. you can never be too careful.
I think this aritcle refutes at least two of those rankings...
http://blog.olemisslife.com/2009/03/03/meredith-comments-on-rogers-election/
First, what kind of newspaper would actually publish this?
Second, we clearly have made great strides in race relations.
This is the first lines of the article, “Civil rights leader James Meredith is seeing the recent ASB election at Ole Miss as a monumental moment in American history, surpassing the election of President Barack Obama.” It gets better.
by unidentified black male on Jul 28, 2009 11:41 AM EDT reply actions
Defense of the DM
Read other newspapers around the country and you will see the DM is not that bad. Sure, the editing sucks at times, their multiple lay out mistakes (especially in the sports section) and the stories aren’t exactly hard news, but it’s a pretty solid newspaper.
It’s a newspaper run entirely by the students that operates year round in a city that is not always filled with hard news stories. Whether they are printing garbage that Meredith said or including the Jerrell Powe cannot read comments when it is not necessary, it is still a solid student-newspaper and one of the better ones in the country.
Sorry, had to defend it, despite its many flaws.
by The One That Got Away on Jul 28, 2009 4:33 PM EDT reply actions
In general I agree
I’m a DM defender most of the time. It is, after all, student run. It’s definitely not flawless though. And therefore subject to the tomfoolery of many of the comments on this blog… Hell even if it was perfect the jokes would probably keep coming because it’s a part of Ole Miss and we can make fun of it because… We are. Ole Miss.
by unidentified black male on Jul 28, 2009 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes. It's run by students...
Students who attend my university, many of whom wish to make a career out of journalism. There have been some great DM writers during my time at UM. Some of them write for/comment on this blog. But overall, I’ve never been any less than completely embarrassed by that publication.
by Whiskey Wednesday on Jul 29, 2009 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Disagree
Half the time it doesn’t look like they’ve proofread the paper whatsoever before they sent it to the printer. I can understand a mistake here or there or some general layout problems, but they don’t seem to put any effort at all into editing.
The entertainment section is by far the worst. They mismatch stories with headlines in the Slice of Life at least once a week. How hard can that be?
Pig Pen this here's Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down.
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