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Or just about anywhere really.

Looks fantastic - I would prefer on campus (may not be feasible for OU I don't know), but I do like that they carried the architecture from your campus into this project.

Mixed private/public developments like this offering more of a destination/ entertainment district (Ballpark Village in St Louis and Texas Live in Arlington are examples where pro teams have done this) seems to be the current trend.

A while back, Mizzou issued a request for proposals for mixed private/public developments for several areas of campus - chief among those the area surrounding the "athletic campus", which currently has few if any entertainment, restaurant, bar, lodging options. I've heard through the grapevine they want to demolish the Hearnes Center as it is a very large, very expensive building to maintain - and it sits centrally right next to the football stadium, arena (basketball/gymnastics), and softball park. Lord knows we need a new Baseball stadium too. No idea where that all stands, hopefully it gets queued up after the current stadium renovations.

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St Louis is always with Memphis, Chicago, And Detroit, and Oakland for deadliest cities in the USA it seems..

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I'm not going to argue St. Louis does not have a problem, it most certainly does and it needs to get fixed. But, one thing to consider when looking at per capita rates is St. Louis (the city) is independent of St. Louis County, and has a compartively small population compared to other big cities (St Louis city has around 280,000 population, probably less than that in reality). By itself it is almost always in the top 2 or 3 year in and year out.

However, if you combine St. Louis City and St. Louis County the total population is a bit over 1.2 million. The combined per capita homicide rate of St. Louis city and county is around 16 per 100,000 people. Similar to Dallas or Phoenix. Of course, that number is still way too high.

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Any reports on anyone else being shot?

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What I saw says there were 2 victims (Hardy being one). No details on if they were random or direclty involved in some altercation at this point.... update, now I'm seeing 3 victims mentioned.

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He got waitlisted because UGA saw his admissions profile and knew he was capable of getting into better schools.

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This is accurate, in fact I think it was actually the recruiting folks at Univ of Georgia that explained this to us when we visited with my daughter. Schools are finding that while they wait out decisions for the really high achieving / highest qualified students (who they likely will not get) - they are losing others that are almost as qualified because they are waitlisted. Probably have teams of data scientists and Phd's in statistics cranking through this stuff to optimize the offers they decide to make. This is another reason they do the early acceptance process - to try and sort some of that out early in the process.

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If there is not that many applying then it will drive your acceptance rate up.

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This.... a major driver of low acceptance rate is a high number of applications. There are only so many spots available. Schools tout exclusivity based on acceptance rate, but in a lot of cases they inflate their application numbers by making it easy (and cheap) to apply with low/no app fees, test optional standards, no essay requirements, and use of the common app. The more applicants, the lower the acceptance rate. (NOTE: This is not the case with Vandy - and probably not with some of the other "top" schools - but pretty quickly it becomes a factor for the rest of us. It is really easy for graduating seniors to blast out a dozen or so applications. In 2000, the average number of applications sent by a student was between 1-4, now it is 6-7.

And where do they blast those applications to? Well Perception is a big driver. This is why football is so damn important to schools. Winning football grabs the attention and sounds like a lot of fun for an 18 year old. I see lots and lots of kids in St. Louis who have no connection what-so-ever wearing gear for Alabama, Auburn, Texas, LSU, etc. Very few wearing Iowa, Purdue or Indiana (3 schools that have a solid alumni base here - but not surprisingly the Hoosier gear is much more common this year). Location/Good weather is also a factor. Southern schools are getting a lot of applications from out of state, just like the population in general is migrating south. Many of those applicants don't have much chance of acceptance - but they have nothing to lose by applying.

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Wasn't the '07 game played at Arrowhead Stadium?

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Yes, game was at Arrowhead

There is one on here with the Rock M painted so it is recent - but not the best picture


Memorial Stadium Centennial Project

This one is better

NEZ from Inside Stadium

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Just inexplicable. Terrible execution.

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Mizzou just turned it over 3 times while I was reading this.