<p>vc08, DeanJ only has the best intentions. Wahoomb was trying to share with other UVa-enthusiests (and there’s quite a few current students/alumni on here) about Laura and Zap’s comment took away the spotlight on our student. Yes, we know there are others, but I’m sure every other school is doing the same thing of “we’re so proud of our student!”. In no way was anyone trying to detract from the other students, we just want to recognize our own and let other UVa-ers know about her accomplishment. No “pwning” should be occurring over such news and none was happening…
I’ll back up DeanJ and say I too took Zap’s comment to be a bit condescending, a lot of people (especially non-regular posters) try to put down UVa and point out other public schools’ achievements and try to prove other schools are better than UVa. Finishing a post with “Go Bears” is another example as well. We want to take a second to celebrate Laura and we should be able to do that.</p>
<p>On another note, starting a flame-war over someone getting a Rhodes scholarship is a bit petty and I’ll leave it at that…</p>