<p>I’m back only to clear up more nonsense. Do you people even look into the facts before posting? That’s why I call it a cult; because the people at Miami live in this isolated, smug bubble of self-reinforcing stereotypes and misinformation that the real world seems unable to penetrate.</p>
<p>First off, the transfer compact between Ohio community colleges and Ohio’s public four-year universities is system wide. It applies to Miami every bit as much as to Ohio State.</p>
<p>Second, regarding branch campuses, Miami’s branch campuses are open admissions serving the exact same role as Ohio State’s.</p>
<p>Third, in five years at Ohio State, I never saw anyone have a problem for wearing a Michigan sweatshirt on campus much less one from Miami. As for our gameday problems, they are real. When you have 50,000 rednecks from all over the state standing across the street from the stadium drinking all day you’re going to have problems. It’s a long and tortured stretch, however, to link those people and actions to the students and alumni of the university. But I guess when that’s all one has, run with it.</p>
<p>Fourth, given the go-get-'em Miami student that you’ve described, isn’t it ironic that, in ten year period studied, Ohio State undergraduate alumni were the ones more likely to eventually earn a Ph.D (2.7% to 2.6%)? Funny how the facts sometimes don’t fit with the dearly held notions of superiority.</p>
<p>Fifth, mix in a paragraph occasionally.</p>
<p>As for the low regard that Ohio State is allegedly held in by Chicagoans, I’d take your opinions with a grain of salt. A quick look of our alumni lists show the following CEOs of prominent corporations, law firms, advertising firms and cultural institutions, and these are only the ones that have made it onto wikipedia. Yea, this guy is right, Buckeyes. Stay away from Chicago, we’re unwelcome there. LOL though at the smug certainty with which the nonsense was posted.</p>
<p>Current CEO and Executive Partner of Grant Thornton (Big 5 accounting firm)
Former president of Navistar; current Governor of the Chicago Stock Exchange
Managing Partner of Sydley Austin (major international law firm headquartered in Chicago)
Pulitzer Prize winning cultural columnist for the Tribune
CEO of the Shedd Aquarium
Former President of Leo Burnett
2 Former CEOs of AMOCO
Former CEO of Sear & Robuck and namesake of DePaul’s business school</p>
<p>If there’s an equal list of Miami alumni in Chicago, I eagerly await its posting.</p>