"robert j. kolker" wrote:

Uncle Al wrote:


1200+ students started in Moo U

Moo U is Michigan State University in East Lansing, complete with
Plexiglas airlocks in cow flanks and the biggest cow hairball in the
world (was displayed in Anthony Hall). Mention of baby raper Gordon
Sabine, the MSU out-of-state recruiter from the 60s and 70s, will
still gore old wounds. Moo U at the time did have a freshy built
chemistry complex a block long and half that wide, 5 1/2 stories high
and three stories deep. The open field behind Chemistry had 8-foot
high ditchweed growing in the summers. It eased our pain. That field
is now buildings. I lived in Abbot Hall which has of late boasted
about upgrading its toilet facilities, presumably now including
running water and flush toilets. 50 guys/john. Jocks got
semi-private suites in the high rise dorms. "Kill Bubba Kill," etc.

University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is famous for eliminating
objective qualification as an admissions standard. OTOH it helped
remove their balancing pejorative Moo U vs. Jew U. OTOH, it isn't
much of an undergrad school anymore.

A not insubstantial fraction of each Moo U freshman class failed to
appear for their sophomore year. State law said Moo U had to admit
pretty much any Michigan resident who qualified. Anybody who
didn't/couldn't pull a 2.0 GPA voluntarily voted themselves out of the
party. Campus Black activism loudly unconditionally demanded - and
got (amidst hushed laughter) - a purely Black dorm. Perhaps they
missed the lecture on the civil rights movement. Perhaps they had
merely risen to their level of competence.

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Uncle Al
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