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re: Tell me about Sewanee: The University of the South

Posted on 11/19/17 at 5:13 pm to
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
45565 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 5:13 pm to
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lots of writing


Gay.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
21536 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 9:43 pm to
How long until schools give up and rename “liberal arts“ programs because people misunderstand what it means?

“Hell no. My baw Dustin will go to a conservative arts college or I shore as hell won’t be paying for it.”
Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
118271 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 9:53 pm to
None of those chicks are LSU quad material, baw.

GTFO with that weak shite.
Posted by Bullseye
Madisonville
Member since Oct 2017
241 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 10:03 pm to
Really numb nuts? I voted for Trump. Many educated ppl voted for him.
Posted by jdeval1
Member since Dec 2009
7525 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 10:06 pm to
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Liberal arts =/= liberal. It just means that the college has a core curriculum emphasizing a broad background and critical thinking.

It means dropping 100k to be a manager at Office Depot
Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
38388 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 10:13 pm to
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Wiki tells me it is a liberal arts college. Will going there turn him into some flaming SJW?


It’s pretty preppy and fratty. Why do you all perpetuate this nonsense that every small ‘liberal arts’ school is a bunch of women’s studies majors? You realize schools like Sewanee offer economics and premed, right?
This post was edited on 11/19/17 at 10:14 pm
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16797 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 10:14 pm to
Sewanee is probably as SJW as it gets for rural TN. It's extremely liberal over there. Nice campus, love that area, wish it was closer to Chatt. Wouldn't mind living over there, have good friends that own tons of acerage out that way.
Posted by LSUbase13
Mt. Pleasant, SC
Member since Mar 2008
15060 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 10:19 pm to
My high school had a bigger enrollment than Sewannee. Sewanee is literally in the middle of nowhere. It is too far from Nashville/Memphis/Knoxville/Chattanooga to go hang around for the night and head back to Sewanee. Also, I believe they have one bar/restaurant there.

Does that sound like a place you'd like to spend 4 years?
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
85576 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 11:40 pm to
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“Hell no. My baw Dustin will go to a conservative arts college or I shore as hell won’t be paying for it.”

Posted by Giantkiller
the internet.
Member since Sep 2007
25843 posts
Posted on 11/19/17 at 11:41 pm to
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Original SEC member


That is literally the only thing I know about Sewanee. They’re almost just a trivial pursuit question at this point.

I always assumed they were defunct or no longer in business.
Posted by anc
Member since Nov 2012
20733 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 6:39 am to
They left the SEC because in 1940 they were able to hire the president of Harvard. He accepted on the contingency that they de emphasize athletics, which was something the Ivy League had already done.

They still have the greatest college football team of all time though. The 1899 squad went undefeated, and beat Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, auburn and ole miss all on the road in a span of 12 days.

Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
118271 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 6:45 am to
Yeah, but 1899 was a down year for the SEC.
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
53509 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 6:52 am to
quote:

quote:
Liberal arts =/= liberal. It just means that the college has a core curriculum emphasizing a broad background and critical thinking.

quote:

It means dropping 100k to be a manager at Office Depot



Such a typical OT response.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 7:07 am to
They left the SEC so frick them.
Posted by Priapus
Member since Oct 2012
1950 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 7:59 am to
One of my Godsons is starting RB for Sewanee this season. They went into the season with a 19 game losing streak, and went 3-9 this year. He had good numbers,but they have a long way to go as a team.

I have spent a lot of time on that mountain over the years. Great school if you are into outdoor activities. We killed a pile of ducks up there. You had best love to study though, if you plan to attend.
Posted by Emteein
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
4006 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 8:05 am to
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On July 4, 1857, delegates from ten dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas—were led up Monteagle Mountain by Bishop Leonidas Polk for the founding of their denominational college for the region. The goal was to create a Southern university free of Northern influences. As one of its founders, Bishop James Otey of Tennessee put it: the new university will "materially aid the South to resist and repel a fanatical domination which seeks to rule over us."


For a liberal arts college, it sounds like it’s right up the OT alley
Posted by Emteein
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
4006 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 8:12 am to
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They left the SEC so frick them.



They had no business in the SEC, in the 8 seasons they played football in the SEC they never won a conference game. They were shut out in 26 of those 37 loses.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25964 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 8:15 am to
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Someone didn't tell the Gamma Phi Beta broad that this wasn't one of those "lean into each other" pictures. Unless that is her attempting to stand straight up like the other chicks...in which case, sucks for her back!
Posted by Collegedropout
Where Northern Mexico meets Dixie
Member since May 2017
5202 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 8:19 am to
If you have any specific q’s I? can answer or find someone who can, I? have 2 cousins who have graduated in the last 5 years, 1 still works and lives in sewanee, 1 cousin that still goes to sewanee, and another that went like 30 years ago. It’s probably where I’m gonna go. So make of that what you will lol.

-best campus ever.
-lots and lots of partying. Underage drinking is allowed. The cops don’t care
-pretty hard academics
-everybody is super nice

It’s the only college I? want to go to not in Texas. It’s frickin’ awesome.
Posted by JetFuelTyga
Born in desert,raised in lion's den
Member since Feb 2016
1799 posts
Posted on 11/20/17 at 8:19 am to
Around 85% white
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