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Originally Posted by Robin
Nope. And I'm not a socialist. I'm a capitalist with a heart.
Bateman sucked so bad Student Review was killed by Bateman and his ilk. In the early nineties Student Review defined the social scene for the Honors crowd. It was distributed all over campus, but was run by the kids that hung out at the Maeser building. When Bateman came to town he replaced Dean Miller with Dean Cox.
Cox and Bateman kicked the Student Review off campus and emaciated the Honors Program. The honors program went from a strong social scene with its own defacto newspaper (the SR) to a network of honors classes and no centralized structure.
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I missed this the first time around but I think it's interesting. My FIL was in the Honors Program and still is close friends with several guys from the program. He made friends there in the pre-orientation week and they're still together. (Yes, that sounds corny.) That's quite different from my experience arriving in 95. I did Honors before the mish and took some afterwards but realized it was a bunch of nerds taking classes, no real substance to it. We had one onfternoon barbeque and that's all i remember. I finally quit it after taking a History of Civ class that spent a week on Japanese papermaking techniques. I wish I had gotten the same experience as he did from it.