Is Emory a party school?

bernie12
Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:04:17 +0000

That’s Buckhead, so I find it extremely believable. As for the new south, you could be right, perhaps I confused myself, but in generally I think Emory’s rise indicates the “results” of the rise of the New South, but the culture of the school/student-body itself seems somewhat removed from the south as a whole. The only time it does truly come is when we host various debates regarding political offices in Atlanta The school differs quite a bit from places like Georgia Tech (screw rankings, the school is very solid. If it wasn’t for the rigor, thus, grad. rate and retention, faculty-student ratio, they would be ranked higher. I also consider “selectivity” BS) and UGA. I’m trying to say that Emory has less of a southern feel/culture partially b/c of its student body. I think most of the “success” of elite southern schools such us Rice, Vandy, Duke, etc. is an embodiment of the new south, but the social/political atmosphere inside of the college itself says otherwise. Schools like UVA and Vandy (this is somewhat of a bubble, but not in the sense that it is devoid of the “southern” feel of the area) have such an atmosphere (I personally don’t think this is particularly good, but…they just do). Even Tech, which is quite diverse, has a bit more of a southern spirit going on. For this case, I am viewing New South in more limited view. It’s what you said (industrialization, economic development, more of a wealth-generator), but with some of the southern attitude/customs/mannerisms/spirit left (not all bad in this case). I think Emory is more or less devoid (okay, technically devoid can’t have degree, but let’s roll with it) of this latter part (doesn’t have but so much spirit at all really), and this can and does have it’s advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, being a more stereotypically southern school and having a meager thing such as a football team could have served Emory well in some aspects since everyone is so worried about prestige and whether people know about us or not (in actuality, being popular has drawbacks for the academics, but let’s not go there now), it would help in this category, and thus generate more pride amongst such folks.