Strom Thurmond. No joke. Yes, I've known about this for a while. No, I didn't know about this before I applied.
Phox was like, you're joking, right? :lulz: :horrormirth:
Thought I'd just tell everyone (finally), for the horrormirth.
wtf
Quote from: Charley Brown on July 03, 2011, 11:28:27 PM
wtf
Yeah. John Calhoun's summer house is also on campus, rebuilt into a plantation house post civil war by the guy the university is named after. If you recall he was instrumental in South Carolina's succession.
Welcome to the South. :lulz:
It could be worse.
You could have gone to Bob Jones University.
Quote from: Her Royal Suuness on July 04, 2011, 12:32:52 AM
It could be worse.
You could have gone to Bob Jones University.
True. That's not far from here either. :lulz:
Hell, they have a statue of Benjamin Tillman on the statehouse grounds. It's tough to get worse than that guy.
Quote from: Risus on July 04, 2011, 04:04:01 AM
Hell, they have a statue of Benjamin Tillman on the statehouse grounds. It's tough to get worse than that guy.
Yeah. Like I was saying about the waterfalls, it would be a damn pretty state if it weren't for all the people.
My school's ROTC building is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest.
There was a fuss about it a few years ago. I don't think it got changed.
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on July 04, 2011, 05:38:54 AM
My school's ROTC building is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest.
There was a fuss about it a few years ago. I don't think it got changed.
Leaving politics and his racial assholiness aside, he was one of the better generals of his day.
I think all mine's institutes were just called institutes. Ie; the Institute for Medieval Studies.
That's likely due to the sinister purpose to which they were put, and so they needed innocuous sounding names.
My college was named after the man who okayed the idea of giving smallpox blankets to Indians.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on July 04, 2011, 05:42:00 PM
My college was named after the man who okayed the idea of giving smallpox blankets to Indians.
Which one?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2011, 05:57:58 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on July 04, 2011, 05:42:00 PM
My college was named after the man who okayed the idea of giving smallpox blankets to Indians.
Which one?
Jeffrey Amherst
Technically, the university was named after the town it's in, which was named after him.
The campus of my state university is named after the richest Jew in RI who likes to give lots of money to schools and po' kids as long as they put one of his queer ass quotes on the wall of the school.
I'm okay with this.
Quote from: ϗ, M.S. on July 03, 2011, 11:22:16 PM
Strom Thurmond. No joke. Yes, I've known about this for a while. No, I didn't know about this before I applied.
Phox was like, you're joking, right? :lulz: :horrormirth:
Thought I'd just tell everyone (finally), for the horrormirth.
Yes, that was my exact reaction.
Though, the plantation house was very pretty and had lots of neat stuff in it.
Quote from: Her Royal Suuness on July 04, 2011, 07:05:20 PM
The campus of my state university is named after the richest Jew in RI who likes to give lots of money to schools and po' kids as long as they put one of his queer ass quotes on the wall of the school.
I'm okay with this.
Assuming I ever become rich enough, I fully intend to do this.
Only my quotes will be
terrifying. And, if at all possible, Zalgo'd.