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Princeton University

2009-08-19T04:34:53Z

Scheherazadebanu:

[[Image:PrincetonCampus.jpg|thumb|Princeton's Picturesque Campus]]

[[Image:Princetonstudents.jpg|thumb|Typical Princeton students]]

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'''Princeton University''' is the Anti-Columbia. Think of it as the [[Ivy League]] Anti-Christ. They stand for everything we hate:

* [[New Jersey]] (There's a reason we call Princeton the deodorant<ref>it isn't quite strong enough</ref> in the armpit of America)
* Open space
* Elitist "Eating clubs"
* Athletic success
* [[WASP]]y pedigrees
* Suburban indolence
* Country-club air
* A strong emphasis on undergraduate education.

[[Image:Princetonorientation.jpg|thumb|At orientation, a Princeton freshman (right) meets his butler and caddy (left) for the first time]]

==Princeton "University"==
How Princeton got to be as prestigious as Harvard and Yale is mysterious, given its academic situation. The school gives an extremely high priority to undergraduate education, but has not the physical resources/intellectual capacity to harbor academics which extend beyond the undergraduate level. Hence, Princeton lacks a business school, medical school, and law school; what little graduate "research" that goes on takes place almost entirely in the humanities. The pride of graduate academics at Princeton is the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, but it can hardly be considered as more than an imitation of Columbia's [[SIPA]].

==History in Brief==
Princeton had the temerity to reject the application of [[Alexander Hamilton]]. He later returned the favor by firing a cannon at Nassau Hall during the Battle of Princeton in the Revolutionary War when the British refused his order to surrender the building. Within minutes of Hamilton's devastating bombardment, they trooped out, hands in the air.

They also graduated [[Aaron Burr]], who was so upset at the inferior quality of his education that he killed Hamilton in a jealous fit of rage. This was one of many reasons that the [[Philolexian Society]] declared war on Princeton in [[1987]]<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/content/archives/war.htm Declaration of War on the American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton]</ref>

Playwright [[Tony Kushner]] ridiculed Princeton during his 2004 [[Class Day]] address. Admittedly, that's not exactly very hard to do.

According to an even more [[Orgo Night|reliable source]], Princeton's response to other Ivy League schools' increases in financial aid was "Aid...isn't that what gay people get?"

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.princeton.edu/ Princeton.edu]

[[Category:Universities]]
[[Category:Humor]]

File:PrincetonCampus.jpg

2009-08-19T04:33:29Z

Scheherazadebanu:

Princeton University

2009-08-19T04:33:07Z

Scheherazadebanu:

[[Image:PrincetonCampus.jpg|thumb|One of Princeton's campus buildings]]

[[Image:Princetonstudents.jpg|thumb|Typical Princeton students]]

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'''Princeton University''' is the Anti-Columbia. Think of it as the [[Ivy League]] Anti-Christ. They stand for everything we hate:

* [[New Jersey]] (There's a reason we call Princeton the deodorant<ref>it isn't quite strong enough</ref> in the armpit of America)
* Open space
* Elitist "Eating clubs"
* Athletic success
* [[WASP]]y pedigrees
* Suburban indolence
* Country-club air
* A strong emphasis on undergraduate education.

[[Image:Princetonorientation.jpg|thumb|At orientation, a Princeton freshman (right) meets his butler and caddy (left) for the first time]]

==Princeton "University"==
How Princeton got to be as prestigious as Harvard and Yale is mysterious, given its academic situation. The school gives an extremely high priority to undergraduate education, but has not the physical resources/intellectual capacity to harbor academics which extend beyond the undergraduate level. Hence, Princeton lacks a business school, medical school, and law school; what little graduate "research" that goes on takes place almost entirely in the humanities. The pride of graduate academics at Princeton is the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, but it can hardly be considered as more than an imitation of Columbia's [[SIPA]].

==History in Brief==
Princeton had the temerity to reject the application of [[Alexander Hamilton]]. He later returned the favor by firing a cannon at Nassau Hall during the Battle of Princeton in the Revolutionary War when the British refused his order to surrender the building. Within minutes of Hamilton's devastating bombardment, they trooped out, hands in the air.

They also graduated [[Aaron Burr]], who was so upset at the inferior quality of his education that he killed Hamilton in a jealous fit of rage. This was one of many reasons that the [[Philolexian Society]] declared war on Princeton in [[1987]]<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/content/archives/war.htm Declaration of War on the American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton]</ref>

Playwright [[Tony Kushner]] ridiculed Princeton during his 2004 [[Class Day]] address. Admittedly, that's not exactly very hard to do.

According to an even more [[Orgo Night|reliable source]], Princeton's response to other Ivy League schools' increases in financial aid was "Aid...isn't that what gay people get?"

== References ==
<references/>

== External links ==
* [http://www.princeton.edu/ Princeton.edu]

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[[Category:Humor]]

University of Chicago

2009-08-19T04:30:36Z

Scheherazadebanu:

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The '''University of Chicago''' is best-known as the university "where fun goes to die". Students even wear T-shirts proclaiming this sad fact. In fact, the university has such a scary reputation that few apply, and thus almost half get in. Students take pride in the so-called "Uncommon Application," since there is little else about which to be proud.

[[Image:Uchicagostudent.jpg|thumb|A typical UChicago student]]

U of C is located in Hyde Park of the South Side of Chicago. Otherwise, the most GHETTO area of the entire city. Students usually do not travel after dark for fear of getting jacked. Furthermore, the fact that University of Chicago's Police is second in size to the Chicago Police Department does not quench these fears. Lastly, the streets in and around the university's campus are extremely narrow to begin with and it doesn't help when people park their cars on either side of the roads.

Chicago claims to have either an older or more rigorous [[Core Curriculum]] than Columbia. According to a WikiCU contributor from Chicago<ref>http://extremetracking.com/open;vis.detailed?login=lctrealt&visitor=1207107187,12.41.55.3</ref> (I wonder which university he/she went to), "the University of Chicago's Core Cirriculum is generally recognized as superior to Columbia's in both depth and difficulty". Such assertions are dubious. In fact, Chicago's Core was inspired by Columbia's; it was founded on the teachings of lifelong Columbian and Core advocate [[Mortimer Adler]]. We can agree, though, that our schools are superior to [[Harvard|those]] [[Yale|institutions]] which [[Brown|don't believe ''any'' such rigor is required]].

However, Columbia did plagiarize the concept for its [[Committee on Global Thought]] from Chicago's prestigious Committee on Social Thought.

Chicago advocates also often claim that economist [[Milton Friedman]] belongs to their own "Chicago school of economics". This claim is also flawed, since, as ''everyone'' at Columbia knows, Friedman was both a student and professor at our great institution.

Finally, the University of Chicago calls itself the Maroons. A lame color that the university chose because it was incapable of choosing a real animal. Unofficially, the university uses the Phoenix which is present on its shield. The University of Chicago chose this mythical creature to represent the rebirth of the city of Chicago after the Great Chicago and the original university that burnt down with it. That's what you get when you build a city mostly out of wood.

== References ==
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File:Uchicagostudent.jpg

2009-08-19T04:25:37Z

Scheherazadebanu:

University of Chicago

2009-08-19T04:25:26Z

Scheherazadebanu:

{{wp-also}}

The '''University of Chicago''' is best-known as the university "where fun goes to die". Students even wear T-shirts proclaiming this sad fact. In fact, the university has such a scary reputation that few apply, and thus almost half get in. Students take pride in the so-called "Uncommon Application," since there is little else about which to be proud.

[[Image:Uchicagostudent.jpg|thumb|A typical UChicago student]]

U of C is located in Hyde Park of the South Side of Chicago. Otherwise, the most GHETTO area of the entire city. Students usually do not travel after dark for fear of getting jacked. Furthermore, the fact that University of Chicago's Police is second in size to the Chicago Police Department does not quench these fears. Lastly, the streets in and around the university's campus are extremely narrow to begin with and it doesn't help when people park their cars on either side of the roads.

Chicago claims to have either an older or more rigorous [[Core Curriculum]] than Columbia. According to a WikiCU contributor from Chicago<ref>http://extremetracking.com/open;vis.detailed?login=lctrealt&visitor=1207107187,12.41.55.3</ref> (I wonder which university he/she went to), "the University of Chicago's Core Cirriculum is generally recognized as superior to Columbia's in both depth and difficulty". Such assertions are dubious. In fact, Chicago's Core was inspired by Columbia's; it was founded on the teachings of lifelong Columbian and Core advocate [[Mortimer Adler]]. We can agree, though, that our schools are superior to [[Harvard|those]] [[Yale|institutions]] which [[Brown|don't believe ''any'' such rigor is required]].

However, Columbia did plagiarize the concept for its [[Committee on Global Thought]] from Chicago's prestigious Committee on Social Thought.

Chicago advocates also often claim that economist [[Milton Friedman]] belongs to their own "Chicago school of economics". This claim is also flawed, since, as ''everyone'' at Columbia knows, Friedman was both a student and professor at our great institution.

Finally, the University of Chicago calls itself the Maroons. A lame color that the university chose because it was incapable of choosing a real animal. Unofficially, the university uses the Phoenix which is present on its shield. The University of Chicago chose this mythical creature to represent the rebirth of the city of Chicago and the original university that burnt down with it. That's what you get when you build a city mostly out of wood.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Universities]]

New York University

2009-08-19T04:16:51Z

Scheherazadebanu: /* Evolution of NYU students */

[[Image:Nyustudent.jpg|thumb|A Columbia [[anthropology]] major prepares for downtown fieldwork by disguising herself in the native dress of NYU students]]

'''New York University''' ('''NYU''') is a school of 'high'er education located in [[w:Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village]]. You will make tasteless jokes about NYU students for about a semester before you realize it makes you look insecure. Then you will try to join their fun scene downtown, to no avail. NYU students will further claim that you will also be secretly jealous that the cast of Gossip Girl decided to go to NYU instead of Columbia for the show's third season.

==Evolution of NYU students==

===Freshman year===
[[Image:MaryKate.jpg|thumb|Famous NYU student Mary-Kate Olsen getting her beauty sleep]]

NYU students enter college thrilled. They have a dorm room in some of the coolest, most expensive real estate in the country, and have landed in [http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/4/7/nyuNamedTopDreamSchool America's "#1 dream school"]. The kids from [[New Jersey|Jersey]] can finally live out their suburban fantasy of hitting St. Mark's Place every night! That, plus there are copious dining hall choices, until they discover Pommes Frites on 2nd Ave, which eliminates the need for other foods. Academically, NYU freshmen might still be confused at this point: should they major in studio art or graphic design? By the end of the year almost all male heterosexuality has vanished from the freshman class.

===Sophomore year===

[[Image:Nyutrolley.jpg|thumb|Actual NYU trolley thing]]

Exile: NYU begins preparing students for real life early by introducing the commute. Nearly all NYU sophomores are packed off to housing in [[Chinatown]] and the [[Financial District]], taking cutesy little trollies back and forth to "campus"...usually someplace blocks and blocks from class. That wasn't in the brochure! Entire iPods of the latest, greatest indie groups are recycled while the trollies get snarled in traffic, and without access to Pitchfork to get updates on which one-named bands to listen to next, NYU students become passive-aggressive. They begin dreaming of taking out their rage on a keyboard, preferably in A-flat. This is a period of great trials.

===Junior year===

Just before NYU students consider turning in their skinny jeans and Converses for transfer recommendations, the university smiles upon them. They are placed in hermetically sealed, climate-controlled outposts across the Third World. Study abroad NYU style was clearly designed for students of the Stern School of Business - practice for a life of returning to fluffed pillow and fresh mints on the bed. Here NYU students' social awareness is born: witness the benign sweatshops of American Apparel versus the hellholes where employees of other expensive Western clothing outlets toil.

===Senior year===

Forget university housing (or let it forget them) - two years in the city plus one in the bush have made NYU seniors real New Yorkers. They're living in apartments in Alphabet City now, not just because it has no subway access and it requires three hours of walking to get to class (they bought bigger iPods). No, it's the thing to do as you prepare for the leap to [[Williamsburg]] and beyond. After a brief stroll through the pomp, circumstance, and arcade games of Graduation Alley they are NYU alumni, and they're all staying in, of course, New York. The city opens its arms wide - what more does it need than 85,000 new interpretive dance majors?

==Graduate schools==

Of course, NYU is also a full-fledged university, with a complete complement of graduate schools. At Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia students who choose to [[School of the Arts|betray Alma Mater]] can earn professional degrees in such fast-growing fields as [http://design.tisch.nyu.edu/object/costume_design.html Costume Design]. NYU's law school is actually a top choice for many Columbia alums, because it is seen as less "evil" than Columbia's variant. This is clearly because its most famous alumnus, Rudy Giuliani, was the most kindhearted mayor in New York City history.

[[Image:Originalnyu.jpg|thumb|Original NYU campus: Not bad!]]

==Campus design: fail==

What's not so well known about NYU today is that they used to have their own [[McKim, Mead, and White]] designed campus, built around a domed library, which they then had to sell off to pay the bills: the University Heights ([[Bronx]]) campus, which was built around the same time as Columbia's move to [[Morningside Heights]].

[[Image:Nyucampus.jpg|thumb|Current NYU "campus": Where?]]

And here's the real difference between NYU and Columbia: NYU nearly went bankrupt in 1973 and sold off its campus to New York City. So NYU slunk back to its then-decrepit Washington Square Park, Bronx Community College is now located in a gorgeous MMW-designed campus, and we're still sitting pretty on our pretty campus. Take that!

==Exploiting NYU==

Columbia students can enjoy a number of NYU's unique advantages without ever having to associate themselves with the color purple or an English-language diploma.

===Library privileges===

What also might not be so obvious is the fact that all Columbia students with a valid [[CUID]] have access privileges to NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square South through a reciprocal agreement between the two schools.

I suppose posting this may result in an influx of pseudo-hipsters at [[Butler]], but then remember that NYU kids don't study (or read). This means that Bobst Library is almost always empty, except for the [[w:Bobst Boy|homeless]]. Just keep your head up for the [[Suicides|divers]] when in the atrium.

===Language classes===

Columbia has a reciprocal agreement with NYU to allow students to take whichever languages their own school does not offer at the other. In practice, this means there are a lot of options open to NYU students, and that Columbia students have the option to shuttle downtown if they ever want to take Gaelic or Cantonese.

==Athletic prowess==

The NYU "Violets" (not making this up) no longer boast a football team. However, they are, like Columbians, mean fencers.

== External links ==
*[http://www.bwog.net/tags/nyu_diaries Bwog's NYU Diaries series]
* [http://library.nyu.edu/about/columbia.html Butler Library/Bobst Library Reciprocal Access Policies]

[[Category:Universities]]

File:MaryKate.jpg

2009-08-19T04:16:02Z

Scheherazadebanu: Olsen twin.

Olsen twin.

New York University

2009-08-19T04:15:09Z

Scheherazadebanu: /* Evolution of NYU students */

[[Image:Nyustudent.jpg|thumb|A Columbia [[anthropology]] major prepares for downtown fieldwork by disguising herself in the native dress of NYU students]]

'''New York University''' ('''NYU''') is a school of 'high'er education located in [[w:Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village]]. You will make tasteless jokes about NYU students for about a semester before you realize it makes you look insecure. Then you will try to join their fun scene downtown, to no avail. NYU students will further claim that you will also be secretly jealous that the cast of Gossip Girl decided to go to NYU instead of Columbia for the show's third season.

==Evolution of NYU students==

===Freshman year===
[[Image:MaryKate.jpg|thumb|Famous NYU student Mary-Kate getting her beauty sleep]]

NYU students enter college thrilled. They have a dorm room in some of the coolest, most expensive real estate in the country, and have landed in [http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/4/7/nyuNamedTopDreamSchool America's "#1 dream school"]. The kids from [[New Jersey|Jersey]] can finally live out their suburban fantasy of hitting St. Mark's Place every night! That, plus there are copious dining hall choices, until they discover Pommes Frites on 2nd Ave, which eliminates the need for other foods. Academically, NYU freshmen might still be confused at this point: should they major in studio art or graphic design? By the end of the year almost all male heterosexuality has vanished from the freshman class.

===Sophomore year===

[[Image:Nyutrolley.jpg|thumb|Actual NYU trolley thing]]

Exile: NYU begins preparing students for real life early by introducing the commute. Nearly all NYU sophomores are packed off to housing in [[Chinatown]] and the [[Financial District]], taking cutesy little trollies back and forth to "campus"...usually someplace blocks and blocks from class. That wasn't in the brochure! Entire iPods of the latest, greatest indie groups are recycled while the trollies get snarled in traffic, and without access to Pitchfork to get updates on which one-named bands to listen to next, NYU students become passive-aggressive. They begin dreaming of taking out their rage on a keyboard, preferably in A-flat. This is a period of great trials.

===Junior year===

Just before NYU students consider turning in their skinny jeans and Converses for transfer recommendations, the university smiles upon them. They are placed in hermetically sealed, climate-controlled outposts across the Third World. Study abroad NYU style was clearly designed for students of the Stern School of Business - practice for a life of returning to fluffed pillow and fresh mints on the bed. Here NYU students' social awareness is born: witness the benign sweatshops of American Apparel versus the hellholes where employees of other expensive Western clothing outlets toil.

===Senior year===

Forget university housing (or let it forget them) - two years in the city plus one in the bush have made NYU seniors real New Yorkers. They're living in apartments in Alphabet City now, not just because it has no subway access and it requires three hours of walking to get to class (they bought bigger iPods). No, it's the thing to do as you prepare for the leap to [[Williamsburg]] and beyond. After a brief stroll through the pomp, circumstance, and arcade games of Graduation Alley they are NYU alumni, and they're all staying in, of course, New York. The city opens its arms wide - what more does it need than 85,000 new interpretive dance majors?

==Graduate schools==

Of course, NYU is also a full-fledged university, with a complete complement of graduate schools. At Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia students who choose to [[School of the Arts|betray Alma Mater]] can earn professional degrees in such fast-growing fields as [http://design.tisch.nyu.edu/object/costume_design.html Costume Design]. NYU's law school is actually a top choice for many Columbia alums, because it is seen as less "evil" than Columbia's variant. This is clearly because its most famous alumnus, Rudy Giuliani, was the most kindhearted mayor in New York City history.

[[Image:Originalnyu.jpg|thumb|Original NYU campus: Not bad!]]

==Campus design: fail==

What's not so well known about NYU today is that they used to have their own [[McKim, Mead, and White]] designed campus, built around a domed library, which they then had to sell off to pay the bills: the University Heights ([[Bronx]]) campus, which was built around the same time as Columbia's move to [[Morningside Heights]].

[[Image:Nyucampus.jpg|thumb|Current NYU "campus": Where?]]

And here's the real difference between NYU and Columbia: NYU nearly went bankrupt in 1973 and sold off its campus to New York City. So NYU slunk back to its then-decrepit Washington Square Park, Bronx Community College is now located in a gorgeous MMW-designed campus, and we're still sitting pretty on our pretty campus. Take that!

==Exploiting NYU==

Columbia students can enjoy a number of NYU's unique advantages without ever having to associate themselves with the color purple or an English-language diploma.

===Library privileges===

What also might not be so obvious is the fact that all Columbia students with a valid [[CUID]] have access privileges to NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square South through a reciprocal agreement between the two schools.

I suppose posting this may result in an influx of pseudo-hipsters at [[Butler]], but then remember that NYU kids don't study (or read). This means that Bobst Library is almost always empty, except for the [[w:Bobst Boy|homeless]]. Just keep your head up for the [[Suicides|divers]] when in the atrium.

===Language classes===

Columbia has a reciprocal agreement with NYU to allow students to take whichever languages their own school does not offer at the other. In practice, this means there are a lot of options open to NYU students, and that Columbia students have the option to shuttle downtown if they ever want to take Gaelic or Cantonese.

==Athletic prowess==

The NYU "Violets" (not making this up) no longer boast a football team. However, they are, like Columbians, mean fencers.

== External links ==
*[http://www.bwog.net/tags/nyu_diaries Bwog's NYU Diaries series]
* [http://library.nyu.edu/about/columbia.html Butler Library/Bobst Library Reciprocal Access Policies]

[[Category:Universities]]