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Subject: Re: Some People Don't Belong Author: lafalum [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:19:41 04/30/02 Tue In reply to: Elihu Smails 's message, "Some People Don't Belong" on 18:13:52 04/29/02 Mon :The Ivies will never add to their league. However, the Patriot league should enforce the Academic Index standards and they could start by making it public. After that, merit aid for the athletes with an academic requirement would make us all more competitive. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Some People Don't Belong Author: Angelo M. Cemoni [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:27:46 08/07/03 Thu Standardized tests shouldnt be a guage for academic prestige. Of course, it is a given that a school's entering class should be elite enough to maintain its scholastic integrity. The level of professionalism brought out of Lehigh University by its graduates is unmatched by most of its peers. If your school were ranked in the nation's top five for producing executives, wouldnt you have a reason to believe that a bid from above is possible? I am not sure if this is true, but it seems to be quite accurate from my experience: I have heard that Lehigh has one of the highest workloads in the nation. Trying to measure ones "workload" is much like trying to measure intelligence with a standardized test or auditing a school through sources that have yet to step into a real lecture. I dont mean to brag and perhaps invoke a sentiment of "penis envy" within my Patriot League brethren (proud to be a patriot leaguer), but when it comes to whipping it out, I believe that Lehigh is the most well endowed of all. Alumni support is phenomenal and the research here is surpassed by very few. Who needs the ivies anyway? I have met and enjoyed the company of people from Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and many of my childhood friends go to Cornell, but for the most part, compared to the Lehighs and the Bucknells (Lafayette Still Sucks), these schools just dont know how to "party". They may be the sharpest tools in the shed, but many of them remain just that: tools. So I urge you Patriot Leaguers to think about where you are. Whether it is in the delapitaded streets of South Bethlehem, in some crack den in Easton (you Leopards need to find new hobbies), or the sleepy little prison town of Lewisburg, you need to realize that we are the future, not some stuffy crimson wearing Bostonian who drops after one cocktail. America was made for Patriots and Patriots make America. We bear the standard and we call all of the shots and the best thing is that we do it all undetected. Now, sadly, I must part as I havent had a wink in about 2 days. If any of you have a rebuttal or would like to bask in sweet patriot league glory with me, feel free to e-mail me (yes, even you appleknockers from Lafayette).