In a far away land known as East quad, comprised of middle-of-the-ladder Miami freshmen, it was a right of passage. Even in freezing weather, first-year students would gather after either a crappy night at Stadium or a long session of ENG 111 style guide reading to exchange names, hometowns and saliva.
If Miami students manage to wake up before 3 pm on the weekend, they can now go to Patterson's Cafe to start off the day "drinking classy" with a customized Bloody Mary or mimosa paired with their favorite Patterson's breakfast or lunch dish. Just last month, Patterson's started serving various alcoholic beverages as standard brunch drinks.
exceptions, not the norm. He thinks faulty surveys mix with the majority of honest ones and have little effect on the final results. "The stability of the results shows that this happens only on rare occasions," Morse says. The quantitative data used by US News & World Report comes from surveys filled out by the department of institutional research, responsible for compiling and reporting data on the university to the government, the institution and publications.
Laws Hall, once the most popular building on campus, is now forgotten, abandoned. Its former students, future millionaires, have moved onto better things. Unable to compete with the new business school's golden trashcans, high-tech classrooms and food court, Laws sits in its shadow.
There are many things for students to take pride in on Miami's campus - the university's reputable academics, the hockey team's success, the striking consistency of brick - but vast diversity certainly isn't one of them. The Princeton Review's 2009 ranking of Miami as second for "little race / class interaction" and fourth for "most homogenous population" may leave students feeling a bit embarrassed.
