<p>Oops. I was so rattled by the quote that it caused a temporary data dropout.</p>
<p>I just had lunch with a summer intern from Cal. I was shocked to find out that she'd not yet gone to ANY football game, let alone The Big Game. She said she wasn't much of a sports fan; I said it didn't matter, it was An Experience, and she should take advantage of the opportunity. </p>
<p>Does the Cal rooting section still smuggle in fruit and massive slingshots in the hopes of scoring a hole in one on a Stanford sousaphone? Ah, memories...</p>
<p>We could start an infinite number of threads from this one article...aside from the rivalry info.</p>
<p>For the continuing "why would anyone spend money for a Liberal Arts degree versus a "useful" degree" argument (or the other assorted versions of that topic) ....here's a great case study:</p>
<p>Julie Yen, Stanford '07, ....chose the smaller Stanford over Berkeley because she liked its quieter, grassier campus, a better place for a contemplative art-history major than the more raucous and urban Berkeley streets (just over the Bay Bridge from San Francisco). But if she had gone to Cal, she adds, she says she would've found the instruction "of the same high caliber—they have a very good museum." She is aware of the good jobs available for graduates of either university, no matter what their degrees. She's just started as an investment-firm analyst in Menlo Park, just a few miles from Stanford.</p>
<p>From Art-History to investment-firm analyst!</p>
<p>Oh...and I agree with "good vs evil" as the master of all rivalries....but what about boxers versus briefs? (I agree with Xiggi..the article is a mildly amusing fluff piece.)</p>
<p>You guys are a little too cynical. Rivalries are good. They promote school spirit, get folks out to see bad teams play football. No really.</p>
<p>Actually - when two schools really rival each other - they are continuously trying to outdo each other - in every respect. This is good. It keeps them pushing the bar higher academically, extra-curricularly and athletically. A little healthy competition can be good.</p>
<p>Every fall, the night before the U Texas Longhorns play football against the Oklahoma Sooners, the students have a torchlight parade. I picture the villagers with their torches in Frankenstein. Now that's a rivalry.</p>
<p>This is the stupidest list ever? Major rivalry of Oberlin vs. Guilford?!?!?! Why, I'd never heard of these colleges until I joined cc and son started getting junk mail from them.</p>
<p>ya this is gay. im from west point. army-navy is definetely first. a few years back, a group of cadets ventured into annapolis and kidnapped the navy mascot, a live goat, and held it for ransom, it was sick</p>
<p>jessiehl, flying cross country to steal a cannon is "contrived"? shirts that say "MIT" on the front and "because not everyone can go to Caltech" on the back and passing out these shirts to newly admitted students at the MIT prefrosh weekend "contrived"? I think the Caltech/MIT rivalry is real.</p>
<p>It's only USC/Notre Dame one week a year. It's USC/UCLA every minute of every day of the year.</p>
<p>Really, though, except for Navy/Army, I think you have to have southern schools to have a great rivalry. Those southerners understand grudges and feuds the way the rest of us don't. It must be all those Scots-Irish immigrants...</p>
<p>Attending the Army-Navy football game is one of the best college football experiences you can have. What you see on national TV is only a fraction of what you get to experience in the stands. Mascots are regularly stolen. There are jet or helicopter flyovers. Either the Navy Leafrogs or Army Golden Knights parachute into the stadium. The March On of the Brigade of Midshipmen and the Corps of Cadets is impressive. There are exchange student at each academy and they are returned to their own academy in an exchange ceremony.
By far, the respect shown by both teams to each other is exemplified at the end of the game. Both teams gather at the field by the losing team students while they sing their alma mater. Then everyone gathers at the winning teams students to sing their alma mater. Never saw anything else like it at any other college football game.</p>
<p>See it in person. You won't be disappointed.</p>
<p>Columbia vs Princeton (closely followed by Columbia vs. Pennsylvania), academically and athletically. Princeton has a greener campus, but Columbia tops the tabby cats in EVERYTHING else.</p>
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Attending the Army-Navy football game is one of the best college football experiences you can have. What you see on national TV is only a fraction of what you get to experience in the stands. Mascots are regularly stolen. There are jet or helicopter flyovers. Either the Navy Leafrogs or Army Golden Knights parachute into the stadium. The March On of the Brigade of Midshipmen and the Corps of Cadets is impressive. There are exchange student at each academy and they are returned to their own academy in an exchange ceremony.
By far, the respect shown by both teams to each other is exemplified at the end of the game. Both teams gather at the field by the losing team students while they sing their alma mater. Then everyone gathers at the winning teams students to sing their alma mater. Never saw anything else like it at any other college football game.</p>
<p>See it in person. You won't be disappointed.
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<p>LWMD, I knew most of what you put but it still gave me chills reading that. I hope to make it out there sometime for an Army-Navy game.</p>