where would you put a new university?

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<p>Today there was an article about how UC Merced will be opening this year after overcoming a plethora of problems, including politicians who thought it was stupid to build a university from scratch in the agricultural valley of California. </p>

<p>If you were to create your own new university, where would you place it, and why?</p>

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<p>In Hawaii… for obvious reasons…</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>i would put 3 or 4 more universities on the west side of cleveland, so i could have some decent looking chicks move into my neighborhood</p>

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<p>I would set up a English University in Finland.</p>

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<p>english speaking university in spain, italy, or greece</p>

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<p>I would create a university in anarctica. talk about hardcore students :)</p>

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<p>what would they do for fun? break off their toes?</p>

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<p>Chase penguins.</p>

<p>That’s what I’d do if I lived in Antarctica</p>

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<p>If there was a university in Antarctica, I wonder if people would go streaking. It would also make water baloon fights a lot more interesting.</p>

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<p>I’d go streaking… although I’d probably suffer frostbite within minutes. Water balloon fights would be pretty interesting… I’d being a raincoat down there as well, but then the water could freeze on my raincoat and that could be a mess. Also if the fight lasted long enough, we’d be throwing chunks of ice encased in a balloon instead of water… ouch.</p>

<p>I’d put a university in the middle of nowhere out of randomness</p>

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<p>technical schools in Africa, modeled on other engineering schools in developing countries (Indian IITs, Tsinghua in China, etc.)</p>

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<p>University of Gulf of Mexico Hurricane school</p>

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<p>The International Space Station would be a cool site.</p>

<p>MJ would only admit underaged boys to his U of Neverland campus. (cheap joke)</p>

<p>I think pimps, hustlers and hookers also deserve their own university.</p>

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<p>Is UC Merced hard to get into to? I’d love to go to a brand new college with brand new everything :)</p>

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<p>College<em>Here</em>I_Come: There is a college out in the middle of nowhere. It’s called Bucknell. They drink themselves into a tizzy every Friday, then pass out on the floor of their dorms. :)</p>

<p>I’d have an underwater school out in the middle of the ocean…where no government could control it. The student government would get to pass real laws. They’d learn how to govern themselves in political science, and throw steak out the window when they wanted to study sharks up close in marine biology. The engineering students would operate the transportation vessel: a nuclear submarine.</p>

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<p>“Is UC Merced hard to get into to? I’d love to go to a brand new college with brand new everything”</p>

<p>You still have to be “UC eligible” but Merced is probably the easiest UC campus to get in right now. It’s just that Merced is sort of in the middle of nowhere (no insult intended). From the following article on their website, it doesn’t sound like there are a lot of out-of-state students.
<a href=“http://www.ucmerced.edu/news_articles/08192005_uc_merced_grand_opening.asp[/url]”>http://www.ucmerced.edu/news_articles/08192005_uc_merced_grand_opening.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>So are there like no Soph, Juniors and Seniors there?</p>

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<p>Freshman, transfer and graduate students were accepted for 2005-06, but I don’t know the final numbers.</p>

<p>9,000 Students Apply for Admission in UC Merced’s Opening Year – January 19, 2005
<a href=“http://www.ucmerced.edu/news_articles/01192005_9_000_students_apply.asp[/url]”>http://www.ucmerced.edu/news_articles/01192005_9_000_students_apply.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Campus Officials Say Overall Student Response Even Stronger than Expected</p>

<p>More than 9,000 students have applied to the University of California, Merced for admission to undergraduate and graduate programs in fall 2005, according to preliminary numbers released today (Jan. 19, 2005). For the opening year, projections have called for UC Merced to enroll 1,000 students.</p>

<p>Based on preliminary reports, UC Merced’s first undergraduate application period has resulted in approximately 8,000 applications for freshman admission. In addition, the campus has received 900 applications for transfer admission and 170 applications for graduate study for the 2005-06 academic year.</p>

<p>(click on the link above for the entire news article)</p>