re: Tell me interesting stories/facts about your SEC campus.

41st president George H.W. Bush has an apartment at his library that he stays in while in town for various speaking or sporting events. There's also a pond behind it that he fishes in from time to time. Further back in the woods is the site at which he'll eventually be buried.

Supposedly students in the grad programs at the school of government have to present their thesis to him before graduating. I had a couple classes there and was always crazy to see Secret Service right by the building you were walking into for class

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Supposedly students in the grad programs at the school of government have to present their thesis to him before graduating. I had a couple classes there and was always crazy to see Secret Service right by the building you were walking into for class

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I know that George Edwards, a professor there, invites him to grad seminars for his students on the presidency. That's probably pretty damn exciting.

There are 3 corndog trees planted throughout campus

We came very close this year to planting our 4th

From what my brother tells me...apparantly if someone hits you in their car while you're walking through a crosswalk, than they have to pay for your tuition for a year.

LSU's memorial Clock tower was used in the documentary about the Austin shooting since it brought back too many awful Memories in Texas.

That clock also has the roman Numeral IV as IIII instead, since IV were the first 2 letters of Jupiter's name. That's the way old clocks used to be.

Davis Wade is the second oldest football stadium in the country, GA Tech being the first. Supposedly Scott Field is built on top of Indian mounds. We are the largest SEC campus in terms of acreage. We probably have the only museum on a college campus in the nation dedicated solely to the keeping of time.

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We have a clock tower here on campus at A&M called Albritton Tower. Legend has it that the roman numeral for "4" is rendered as "IIII" rather than "IV" because "IV" just looks too damn much like t.u., which of course is shorthand for Texas. It's not true, but it's a great tidbit to tell visitors.

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Memorial Tower's clock on LSU's campus has "IIII" instead of "IV" as well.

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The most intriguing characteristic of the campanile, and the only one that all of the tour guides seem to point out, is the peculiar fourth numeral, which on the clock is displayed as ‘IIII’. This, of course, deviates from the fairly standard subtraction notation of the Roman numerals, which denotes four as ‘IV’. This oddity is actually fairly commonplace, though—at least among clocks

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We are the largest SEC campus in terms of acreage

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Our campus is enormous too. Us cow colleges need all that land.

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Beat me to it lol

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It is rumored that if you ever step on the 1900 class on Senior Walk you will never graduate from the University of Arkansas because all the members of that class died unnatural deaths. They actually died naturally.

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During the civil war Ole Miss ordered a new telescope for our observatory. It was delivered by train and stolen by union invaders who then sent it to the University of Michigan. To this day, in one of their old observatories, it remains with the 'University of Mississippi'
still engraved in it.

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One of the 10 things you are required to do before you graduate from Ole Miss is go to Faulkner's grave in the middle of the night and take a whiskey shot and leave the glass on his tomb stone.

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