US News column severely bashes Wesleyan

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wesleyan University
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<p>Believe me, you're pretty far from making me angry. In fact, I look forward to each hilarious new installment of your earnest Wiki-quest to discredit a school you have no connection to just because it's encroaching on your alma mater's namespace. By all means, carry on. You're making a fool of no one but yourself.</p>

<p>And I hardly think you could label my response irrational. I believe I've presented pretty hard about evidence about how you're a nutcase with a completely random and unexplainable grudge against a specific school. Perhaps I should suggest that all OWU graduates spend their time orchestrating propaganda campaigns against other colleges many years after graduating? But I hardly think that would be fair.</p>

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<p>it is kind of funny that this outburst of bitterness is coming from the biggest troll in the history of message forums for "Wesleyan University". xmatt(also john wesley) post about 10 messages per day on PR, xxoth, cc, livejournal and apparently wikipedia on topics similar as this one. you search for wesleyan university and the odds are it was xmatt who created it. like i've posted a few messages for OWU so not like i have no opinions but this guy is just on the internet 24/7. makes one wonder...are students at wesleyan in connecticut so lazy or so unchallenged to have so much internet time. need one say more?</p>

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<p>...and if all else fails, just blantantly fabricate things.</p>

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<p>man, that's true...like i've been posting for 2 months or so and i've already seen your nick 100 times...you must have absolute control over time and space. you exist in all internet chat rooms and forums and at all times. get a life (or a girlfriend/boyfriend). no hard feelings, but makes you look pathetic.</p>

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<p>You must really like my posts if you've seen my nick a hundred times. See, I haven't posted a hundred times, so you must be reading my stuff more than once. Does irony totally escape you, though? You say all the Wesleyan graduates you've met give the school a bad name based on how they act, then you turn around and slander me and accuse me of having no girlfriend? Awesome, dude. Keep up the good work.</p>

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<p>i'm pretty positive that xmatt has both a "life" and a significant other.</p>

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You say all the Wesleyan graduates you've met give the school a bad name based on how they act

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<p>?? delusional? i just jumped into this. where did that come from? when did i say that?
allison, i know he has a significant other: his PC/Mac named Mary.</p>

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<p>then i guess he has two.</p>

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<p>nothing's up dude. that's just plain silly.</p>

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<p>allison, plus the other five.</p>

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<p>internet stalking is not only pathetic but also scary:
<a href="http://www.advicemeant.com/stalker/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.advicemeant.com/stalker/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>By definition, a stalker is a coward, like all bullies, like all who attack from behind, or in the dark. Be sure to mention this in every attack.</p>

<p>Stalkers make it personal - You make it impersonal. </p>

<p>Not invariably, but usually, stalkers are none too bright; as JR would say, "The Elevator Don't Reach the Top Floor" - few intelligent people would go down the road to stalksville. Some, of course, are severely mentally ill.</p>

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<p>stud, i agree with your last post, but . . .</p>

<p>xmatt's sharing his knowledge with us about the school. </p>

<p>xmatt goes to wesleyan. he's the online editor for the wesleyan newspaper. he's worked in the admissions office. he's quite active on campus. this is a wesleyan thread, on the wesleyan board. it makes sense that xmatt is here.</p>

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<p>Come now, jiminy, that makes no sense. How could I be an active participant in the life of my campus when apparently all I do is post on the internet all day? Oh wait, I forgot. I have control over time and space. I knew that physics major would come in handy some day.</p>

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<p>lol. direct me to the physics department when i get there.</p>

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<p>nobody has a problem with him promoting his school. that's only natural especially if he works for the admissions office. surprise, surprise!</p>

<p>i do have a problem with his intelligence but that's a story for another forum and i only note it here in passing though i am sure everyone can judge for himself/herself. only a bonehead will jump into a discussion saying "guys, don't bother arguing with owugenius" when the argument is about lack of diversity of opinions itself. ironic? on the note of intelligence, how can one be so ********* stupid and say "I've presented pretty hard evidence" and then post the stats for wesleyan right after a discussion about how homogenous the school is showing that...there is so much political diversity there because there is, OMG...hold your breath...............4% conservatives at connecticut's wesleyan!!! can you imagine? 4%?!?</p>

<p>however, he doesn't stop here. he goes on to say "run it for any top northeast private school and I doubt it'll be drastically different". </p>

<p>guess what? ask your friends to run it for middlebury, cornell, princeton, colgate, jhu, etc or all sorts of other "northeast" school and you shall be <em>surprised</em>. </p>

<p>he goes a step furher and says "what kind of politics do you think most of them will have" if the kids are from new england and urges me "to think about it" (as if otherwise i wouldn't have done it).</p>

<p>does anyone really intelligent will claim that every single person from new england, even the average kid from new england, la, etc, who goes to a private school in new england, will be liberal just because he or she happens to live in a blue-state? if anything you'd expect these kids to be from high-income families because they go to expensive schools and hence, much more likely to be conservative! </p>

<p>and finally he tops it all off with a personal attack in which he forgets to post my ***** size, ssn and something that as stud05 noted could qualify as internet stalking...</p>

<p>the list goes on.......but i seriously have better things to do with my time than to demonstrate how vulnerable just about every single argument that he makes is. your arguments won't fly high in grad school with this level. i do wish you the best of luck, xmatt/john wesley</p>

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<p>Take a pill; watch your syntax; and Godspeed, already.</p>

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<p>woof.........</p>

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<p>Nothing like a visit from Uncle Arthur to get things riled up.</p>

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<p>Why are Ohio Wesleyan and Middletown Wesleyan even being compared? #89 LAC v. #9 LAC? While these ratings are coarse "guidelines," it would be crazy to ignore such a rather large difference. Of course the OWU guy is going to defend his school to the death, he's in a position of severe "prestige" disadvantage. The solution rests in a pattern of delusion: visions of grandeur, massive online campaigns in an attempt to tip the scales of popular opinion, rumors about WMDs in the lo-rise apartments, questionable bar graphs of political leanings become sadly equated to internal bar graphs of life. It's very sad, yet too is strangely entertaining :)</p>

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<p>xmatt, everybody understands your explanation but you're way too defensive to be taken seriously. trying to humiliate owugenius in front of everyone on this forum is not necessary. not with postings of random internet links which show nothing but some stupid school arguments between alumni of wesleyan and ohio wesleyan. ?? owugenius's point about political homogeneity may or may not have been valid, but it was not malicious. your postings and ad hominem attacks (ironically what you accuse him of) are.</p>

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Why are Ohio Wesleyan and Middletown Wesleyan even being compared? #89 LAC v. #9 LAC

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<p>samusa, one can receive a better education at #89 than at #9. From the sound of owugenious's email it doesn't sound like this was even a point or maybe i missed it somewhere.</p>