USD makes list of worst dorms by Princeton Review

[AnimalHouse83]

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Lastly, KULawJack making fun of the outside appearance of the Dome amazes me given what your outdoor facilities look like. The truth is your football field looks like one for Brookings High.

football was meant to be played outside so your argument is lost immediately because you try to compare an indoor sports arena to an open air stadium. Fail.

kulawjack speaks the truth!

[RabbitObsessed]

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And yes the Pamida just closed as far as I know. And after checking the web site yes they are closed.

Am I the only one that's confused about this post? What does this have to do with anything and who are you replying to? Did I just miss it?

[KUlawJack]

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Am I the only one that's confused about this post? What does this have to do with anything and who are you replying to? Did I just miss it?

He was replying to me. I asked if the Pamida was still open when discussing what Vermillion (as a town) had going for it. Sturgis obliged and discovered that it, in fact, had just closed.

Okay now I am out of here. I always get sucked in because I have no will power. I have got to stop this.

[RabbitObsessed]

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He was replying to me. I asked if the Pamida was still open when discussing what Vermillion (as a town) had going for it. Sturgis obliged and discovered that it, in fact, had just closed.

Okay now I am out of here. I always get sucked in because I have no will power. I have got to stop this.

Haha, oh I see. I just don't read your posts KUL

Just tell yourself, "I can quit anytime I want! I just choose NOT to. I'm NOT addicted!"

My bad, SturgisJeff. I was really confused, reading that out of context.

[zooropa]

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The dorms with the new bathrooms are nice, but the ones that still have the "dungeon" style bathrooms (Wanneta, I'm looking at you) suck.

Drrr. It's WANETA. I was there for two years, and I can say that the SDSU dorms have, facility wise, nothing going for them.... Caldwell excepted.

Enjoying the subpar ranking assigned to USD's dorms is, IMO, ludicrous--seeing how SDSU's dorms are pretty much exactly the same. They were, by and large, built at the same time by the same architects under the same administration.....

[SturgisJeff]

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Its uglier than sin, seriously. It looks like a giant grain bin. I believe SturgisJeff posted a comparative picture in an earlier thread. Football was meant to be played outside so your argument is lost immediately because you try to compare an indoor sports arena to an open air stadium. Fail. Also basketball was not meant to be played in a dome. That might be just as bad. Just reminding you. And.....capacity. Good thing udot doesn't play in a football stadium the size of CAS because it would look even emptier against Culver Stockton. It would be hard to say there were 14,342 fans at a game with 2,418.

Also, the Dykhouse Center. If you think for one second that it won't spruce up CAS you are off your rocker. We have tons of space to reconstruct and add on to CAS. Got a lot of room for that in the Dakota Dump? I believe we have a brand new softball and baseball complex that looks nice, just waiting on some more money to finish up some things. How's udot's baseball field looking? Or do they play in the dome for baseball too?

(Apologize for thread drift. I am out of here.)

Here is what KUL was talking about (which I got neg reps for )

Heres how we all see the dome.


USD's view


SDSU's view

[1stRowFANatic]

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Drrr. It's WANETA. I was there for two years, and I can say that the SDSU dorms have, facility wise, nothing going for them.... Caldwell excepted.

Enjoying the subpar ranking assigned to USD's dorms is, IMO, ludicrous--seeing how SDSU's dorms are pretty much exactly the same. They were, by and large, built at the same time by the same architects under the same administration.....

and the same blueprints

[zooropa]

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Out of respect for agriculture

And the Visual arts.

And Journalism

And Chemistry

And Engineering

And Pharmacy

And Music

And English

And Philosophy

And History

And Nursing

And Interior Design

And Geography

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Thanks to BOR politics, the U has deprived SDSU of MFAs, BFAs, and graduate degrees in Philosophy and History, as well as limitations on the nature of the English master's degrees. The U has also jealously guarded its master's in psychology. Why do I say 'deprived of'? Because SDSU's enrollment and faculty in those deparments (excepting psych) exceeds that of the U. Moreover, SDSU's faculty in those departments are tenured with terminal degrees and are more than equal to the task of superintending a master's program. I'd mention CS&T, but I'm not up on it.

The U lags SDSU in the size and growth of its departments in so many areas of the liberal arts that I've adopted the expedient of simply referring to the U as home to the law, med, and business schools, as there is dang little else there that exceeds what is offerred at SDSU.

I know that you're not going to enjoy hearing it, and you're probably going to protest loudly about what I've said, but if you can find a legitimate reason why an English program with 7 full professors and over 30 full and part-time faculty can only offer a narrow focus MA while an English program with only 3 full professors and around 20 full and part time faculty offers a Ph.D, I'd love to hear it.

[State_fan]

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And the Visual arts.

And Journalism

And Chemistry

And Engineering

And Pharmacy

And Music

And English

And Philosophy

And History

And Geography

Come on Zoo, can't leave the Nursing majors hanging.

And just for clarification, I am not a Nursing major. Although it could be fun to just sit in on some of those classes for thee..umm..scenery.

[zooropa]

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Come on Zoo, can't leave the Nursing majors hanging.

Know what? I AM going to put nursing on that list! I figured he'd easily concede nursing, but then I included engineering & pharmacy....

[JackJD]

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and the same blueprints

Actually the dorms at the two schools are not the same design etc. The dorm complex (Beede, Mickelson etc.) at USD is close in age to Young and Binniweis but the interior designs are different. The U's Julian Hall is a relic (although it seems those who live there have some fun). In my days at SDSU, Scobey Hall was the oldest and, consequently, considered by some as the "worst" dorm on campus (although those who lived there had great fun). Julian Hall residents would turn their noses up at Scobey.

I lived on third floor Binneweis (I spell that differently each time I have to use the name -- even the correct spelling doesn't look right) for two years starting the fall of 1972. That dorm was a war zone back then. At least we had new carpet in the day room (the carpet the prior year was burned by students).

With the addition of the new Student Center, the Med School (take a tour of that place! It's impressive.) and the new business school, and with the renovations of the science labs underway or soon to be underway, USD is getting spruced up and in five years will look like a completely different school compared to two years ago. Slagle Hall, the auditorium in the administration building, is undergoing deep, surgical renovations and will be impressive when completed (I've seen the plans -- it reminds me a little of the beautiful Northrup Auditorium at the U of Minnesota).

USD has a campus architect who knows preservation (I think she came to USD from either U of Nebraska or U of Kansas).

While my roots go deep at SDSU, I have to keep in mind one of my sons went to USD and had a great time and got a great education. (I guarantee that some of you who delight in reading the Princeton Review survey, will have a kid or two who go to USD.)

Come on, everybody: The Princeton survey is intended to provoke a laugh or two. In my opinion, this isn't good smack.

[zooropa]

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Wow, I hadn't seen those yet, they look fantastic. Three dorms, correct? One west of Mathews, Brown and Grove Hall correct?

I don't like them because they don't match anything. SDSU admins, over the years, made a conscious decision to eschew collegiate gothic architecture. Now they're proposing dorms that are a PoMo reinterpretation of it?

Sorry. Not liking it.

At least the new Avera building matches context. So does the Student Union remodel--and the new engineering facilities. This? Not liking it, not one bit.

It also, unless they move things, pens the Art Department into a quadrangle of residences.

[mango4]

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(I guarantee that some of you who delight in reading the Princeton Review survey, will have a kid or two who go to USD.)

That's a lie, I'm going to tell my kids pretty much the same thing my dad basically told me, you can go anywhere you want for school as long as it's not USD

[JackJD]

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That's a lie, I'm going to tell my kids pretty much the same thing my dad basically told me, you can go anywhere you want for school as long as it's not USD

I take it your kids are 10 or younger.

[Nidaros]

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I will probably never have a kid going to USD since I have never had kids that were mine biologically or by adoption. I did have a older brother who attended USD in 1951-52, and guess where he lived while on campus? You got it Julian Hall, so that dorm has been around a few years and sure its served its purpose and probably could use another face lift and I would agree with JackJD, its a South Dakota problem. Our friends to the North have over decades poured lot more money into higher education especially at the University of North Dakota, much more than what was spent at USD and SDSU combined. If it were not for the logo, issue, UND would be well down the path to D1. They might have been the first one to go under different leadership than Kupchella.

Also South Dakota legislature members seem to buy into this notion that SD has too many state assisted institutions, but look at North Dakota, they have 12 or more and yes some of them are vocational and trade, but they done a much better job of presenting education opportunties to all parts of the state. We could do a better job and probably Julian is not the only fire trap in the state, there has to be others in Brookings, Aberdeen, Spearfish, Rapid City and Madison.