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Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:50 pm to afatgreekcat
If this is getting going again I need to go buy some beer. Hold please.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:50 pm to FinleyStreet
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y'all really put all your eggs in that basket, huh?
No. Its just a measuring stick for the haves and the have nots of the academic world.
Sorry.
I hear UGA is working towards AAU membership. Goodluck.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:51 pm to kilo
GREAT THREAD 
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:52 pm to kilo
Does this thread have the Gas to hit 50 Pages?
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:52 pm to kilo
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No. Its just a measuring stick for the haves and the have nots of the academic world.
Its like when cops give those plastic sheriff badges to kids and they run around and think they are important. The pretend badge is meaningless, but to the ignorant kid, he thinks it means everything. Not his fault, he doesn't know any better
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:53 pm to kilo
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you think Wash U is academically equal to UGA
That's gotta be a troll, that's the only explanation for it.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:57 pm to Stripes314
quote:Quick! Is there some type of drug that's cheap, keeps you up all night, and is readily available in Missouri?
Does this thread have the Gas to hit 50 Pages?
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:57 pm to Porker Face
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Its like when cops give those plastic sheriff badges to kids and they run around and think they are important. The pretend badge is meaningless, but to the ignorant kid, he thinks it means everything. Not his fault, he doesn't know any better
Meh. Its crazy to think that being a member of the AAU doesn't improve a University as a whole. I fully expect someone who attends a University that is not a member to feel defensive. I just hope come baseball season you wont have the same jealous reaction to our BB national championship.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:57 pm to kilo
last time i went to missouri, st. louis; got all of my hubcaps stolen off the car and Honky Lips wrote on the side of it...
Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:58 pm to lsufan112001
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:01 pm to ImperialPalace
One order. Coming right up....
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:02 pm to kilo
Newsflash: no one gives a shite about the AAU
It's about research, nothing more. Just look at their motto:
Some schools actually focus on teaching, others focus on research. To each their own but for my tuition money, I'd rather be at a "teaching" college instead of one who only uses tuition $$ to pump out papers and journals. I think that is private industry's role to be honest
It's about research, nothing more. Just look at their motto:
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An Association of 61 leading research universities in the United States & Canada
Some schools actually focus on teaching, others focus on research. To each their own but for my tuition money, I'd rather be at a "teaching" college instead of one who only uses tuition $$ to pump out papers and journals. I think that is private industry's role to be honest
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:02 pm to Miz Piggy
If he is that stupid to really think that, then he probably is not a student at WUSTL 
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:04 pm to kilo
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Its just a measuring stick for the haves and the have nots of the academic world.
So, getting money from the federal government = academic excellence?
This puzzles and concerns me.
When our federal government inevitably implodes, and the dust settles, the best universities will be standing on their own two feet without help from Big Brother.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:04 pm to Porker Face
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no one gives a shite about the AAU
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:05 pm to kilo
Care to address the actual points brought up in my post?
ETA: I know that would be a violation of the new rant rules for MU posters. No real discussion allowed, if posters bring up valid points, just ignore them
ETA: I know that would be a violation of the new rant rules for MU posters. No real discussion allowed, if posters bring up valid points, just ignore them
This post was edited on 1/14/13 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:10 pm to Porker Face
You are angry.
Only a fool would separate the two missions a world class University embarks upon. Both these give to the University as a whole and allow them to become better in both areas. One of the marked and noticeable areas is in which the research helps the teaching aspect is in quality of faculty.
Only a fool would separate the two missions a world class University embarks upon. Both these give to the University as a whole and allow them to become better in both areas. One of the marked and noticeable areas is in which the research helps the teaching aspect is in quality of faculty.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:14 pm to kilo
I'm not saying research universities are useless, but there comes a point when "professors" become "researchers who just so happen to teach on the side" at the expense of the students and teaching
I believe a university should have a balance. If that means that my University has a little less alphabet soup after its name, so be it. I know employers know what AAU means and what it doesn't, even if you don't.
I believe a university should have a balance. If that means that my University has a little less alphabet soup after its name, so be it. I know employers know what AAU means and what it doesn't, even if you don't.
Posted on 1/14/13 at 6:17 pm to Porker Face
Missouri's AAU status mattered to the administrators at your University when considering them for membership.
You can feel free to knock the AAU all you want. It kind of makes you look a little silly porker.
You can feel free to knock the AAU all you want. It kind of makes you look a little silly porker.
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