<p>The first self sustaining nuclear reaction was achieved under Uchicago’s football field.</p>
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<p>No, unless you have a different definition of “majority” than I do. It’s more than 50%.</p>
<p>Berkeley is about 40% Asian, UCLA is closer to 50%, and UCSD and UCI are over 50%.</p>
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<p>How many can claim 27,000+ trees on central campus? ;)</p>
<p>This could take a while. Unique is pretty ordinary here.</p>
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<li><p>ROTBLATT
In 1964, a group of sophomores created a new intramural softball league and named it after ex-White Sox pitcher Marvin J. Rotblatt, a not-so-stellar player who once came to campus to participate. The tradition of playing an annual marathon game of one inning for every year Carleton has been in existence (now 142 years) began in 1967.
[Rotblatt[/url</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>DACIE MOSES HOUSE
Dacie Moses, a long-time employee at Carleton, was known for inviting students to her house for cookies and conversation. She willed her house to the school stipulating that the common areas and kitchen be open to all students and stocked with chocolate chip cookie ingredients for 24/7 baking.
[url=<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152305]Dacie”>http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152305]Dacie</a> Moses House](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152302]Rotblatt[/url”>http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152302)</p></li>
<li><p>BUBBLE BRIGADE
As the faculty recess from the opening convocation, resplendent in the haute couture of academia, they are anointed with soap bubbles (many, many soap bubbles) from the chapel balcony.
[Bubbles[/url</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>RICKSHAW
It’s a tradition at Carleton, that every year the oldest alum to come back to the college during Reunion Weekend gets to ride in Carleton’s very own rickshaw (owned by Professor Jim Fisher of the Sociology and Anthropology Department) and lead the parade of classes around campus, finally ending up at the alumni convocation.
[url=<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152339]Rickshaw[/url”>http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152339]Rickshaw[/url</a>]</p></li>
<li><p>MAI FETE
Every Wednesday night during Spring Term, there is a party on Mai Fete Island on Lyman Lakes on campus. A bonfire plus Dixie cups galore is where it’s at when the mid-week blues set in. The seniors host it every year and students from every class go to socialize and get their noses out of books.
[url=<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152351]Mai”>http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152351]Mai</a> Fete](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152326]Bubbles[/url”>http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152326)</p></li>
<li><p>HALLOWEEN CONCERT
Every Halloween, the Carleton orchestra puts on a concert in the Chapel. The entire orchestra and conductor dress up in costumes, and after the concert there’s a costume contest for the audience. The president makes a “surprise” visit, dressed in an elaborate, carefully-crafted costume, and proceeds to perform as a guest conductor or tell scary stories. Schiller usually makes an appearance.
[Halloween</a> Concert](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152363]Halloween”>http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152363)</p></li>
<li><p>SCHILLER
The odd Carleton mania for stealing and periodically displaying a plaster bust of the German poet seems to date from about 1957. Schiller has been shattered several times, glued back together at least twice, and replaced with a new replica on occasion, but the tradition-such as it is-lives on. The most celebrated of Schiller’s appearances was at the 1962 Homecoming game, when he was dangled by a cable from a helicopter!
[The</a> Bust of Schiller.](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152342]The”>http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/image.php?id=152342)</p></li>
<li><p>FLY FISHING
…with the college president.
[Carleton</a> College: Office of the President: Photo Gallery: President Oden teaching fly-fishing](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/president/photos/?image_id=55183]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/president/photos/?image_id=55183)</p></li>
<li><p>OSCAR
the Emperor Penguin guards the library. Brought back to the school by Laurence Gould, former President at Carleton and famed geologist and Antarctic explorer, from the Byrd expedition to the South Pole in 1930.
[NSCC</a> Emperor Penguin Treatment](<a href=“Online Museum Training Classes - Northern States Conservation Center”>Online Museum Training Classes - Northern States Conservation Center)</p></li>
<li><p>LIBRARIAN TRADING CARDS
Yes they have their own cards. Superheroes, all.
[Carleton</a> College: Gould Library: Trading Card Gallery](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/help/help/liaisons/cards/]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/help/help/liaisons/cards/)</p></li>
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<p>Stanford’s the only college I know of whose campus is largely spanish-mission styled. Many other colleges tend to either go for the gothic or colonial look. </p>
<p>Also it’s huge and the only college I know of where the majority of students ride their bikes to class everyday.</p>
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<p>Berkeley:</p>
<p>Berkeleium and Californium on the Periodic Table.
Plutonium first isolated in a lab at Gilman Hall.
Berkeley physicists led and picked the Manhattan Project team.
Football stadium is bisected by an active earthquake fault.</p>
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<p>some UT-Austin factoids</p>
<p>largest art museum on a university campus (Blanton)</p>
<p>first (and most visited) presidential library on a university campus (LBJ)</p>
<p>largest/most valuable rare book&manuscript collection on a college campus ($1 Billion Ransom collection) - lot’s of notable items in this collection including the first printed book, the first book printed in English, 3 of Shakespeare’s first folios, the world’s first photograph, the supressed first edition Alice in Wonderland (the “India Alice”), largest/most significant British literary manuscript collection outside of London, largest/most significant modern French literary collection outside of Paris… literally too many to list</p>
<p>largest Latin American collection at a university library (and one of the largest in the world) (Benson)</p>
<p>one of the top 2-3 (if not #1) largest performing arts complexes on a university campus - the multi-venue PAC</p>
<p>(currently) world’s fastest >academic< supercomputer (Ranger is #4 on the Top 500 supercomputer list)</p>
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<p>I’ve always thought that was pretty cool Berkeley has elements named after it!</p>
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<p>Brown University has either the largest or second largest collection of toy soldiers in the world.
Also, it’s organ in Sayles Hall is also one of the world’s largest.
It also has rare human flesh-bounded books and original manuscripts from 19th century authors such as Mark Twain.
It even has it’s own C.A.V.E, a virtual reality room that only a few universities in the world have.</p>
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<p><a href=“currently”>quote</a> world’s fastest >academic< supercomputer (Ranger is #4 on the Top 500 supercomputer list)
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<p>What do you mean “academic”? Berkeley has #2 (Blue Gene/L) at LLNL, though of course Roadrunner (LANL) holds the #1 spot.</p>
<p>**indiana school of kinesiology. Discussion ends here. It’s like…a legitimate way of studying pornography xD</p>
<p>And Indiana University also started the History of Rock and Roll. Most colleges have a token class on it, but at IU there’s in depth, hard-core classes on varying sub-sections of each decade and style of rock and roll. It’s a very challenging class.**</p>
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<p>I <em>think</em> the key is for general, open scientific research. The 3 ahead of it must either be gov’t/defense, or other dedicated functions. Of course, list of top supercomputers can quickly change. Other universities, including UT, have held this title in the past and another university/private partnership could claim the title again.</p>
<p>“Ranger,” the most powerful computing system in the world for open scientific research… “Ranger is so much more powerful than anything that’s come before it for open science research”</p>
<p>[nsf.gov</a> - News - Ranger Supercomputer Dedicated by NSF and Texas Advanced Computing Center - US National Science Foundation (NSF)](<a href=“http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111179]nsf.gov”>News | NSF - National Science Foundation)
[Texas</a> Advanced Computing Center’s latest supercomputer fuels a new era of scientific breakthroughs | The University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/features/2008/ranger/]Texas”>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2008/ranger/)</p>
<p>“Without a doubt, Ranger is the most powerful general-purpose supercomputing system for research ever.” </p>
<p>[Sun</a> Microsystems Feature Story: Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Ranger Supercomputer](<a href=“Hardware | Oracle”>Hardware | Oracle)</p>
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<p>Berkeley in this case is the government contractor for the US DOE (i.e., it manages this for the government.) And again, isn’t LLNL primarily serving a national defense function?</p>
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<p>But it doesn’t beat #1-3 in speed. :p</p>
<p>I think the function of the labs strays a bit, because there’s much more than “national defense” research going on there, as is the case at LBNL.</p>
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<p>Hey, the other labs have a few hundred students each (even LANL). Maybe they’re academic too. :p</p>
<p>lol - I’m just posting what the releases say! Maybe the other key is that other researchers/institutions also have open access to it compared to the the National Lab supercomputers?</p>
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<p>Rice is unique in that it is probably the only major university with an engineering school that has a student body of less than 3000 undergraduates.</p>
<p>A few years ago the Wall Street Journal ranked colleges and universities for their ability to “feed” undergraduates into top professional schools. Only four public schools made the Top 50 list:</p>
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<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>New College of Florida</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>University of California at Berkeley</li>
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<p>And what’s “unique” is that New College of Florida accomplishes this without grades!</p>
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<p>We already know that the WSJ cribs its articles from other sources, often using the web to find stuff. They are shameless. They are often very wrong. Not that New College isnt a good school and doesnt get kids into top professional schools.</p>
<p>Wesleyan - largest per capita number of alum who are coaches in the NFL (2/27,000.)</p>
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