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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:02 AM
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I got accepted to the U of Arkansas!
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 10:06 AM by Craig3410
:D :D :D:party: :bounce: :bounce: :yourock:



So, seeing as how Bill and Hillary Clinton graduated from there, I'm guessing it's pretty liberal; is it?

EDIT: Forgot there was more than one "U of A" there for a second. :)
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:05 AM
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1. Congrats!
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 10:05 AM by Vash the Stampede
Congratulations!!
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:05 AM
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2. Oops. My bad...
Arkansas.
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:07 AM
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3. Way to go!
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 10:08 AM by Lavender Brown
:toast: :party: :beer: <---- Now don't do too much of this and neglect your studies! </mom>
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DelawareValleyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:09 AM
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4. Congrats! Fine school, although I don't think Hilary is an alumnus
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:14 AM
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5. Well, I live in Fayetteville and we're the home of the 'tree huggers'
and I work at the U of A (although I'm also retired from the corporate world). My advise is to stick close to the campus. Most liberal section of town is the downtown area and Washington-Willow historic district. The 'burbs' are all gun-ho GOP!!
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MemphisTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:25 AM
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6. Congratulations
I still can't believe your basketball team turned down an NIT invite. I know it's only the NIT, Go TIGERS, but it's still a tourny. What do you plan to study?
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:38 AM
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11. I don't think that was a bright idea
Turn down an invitation before it is offered. The NIT may decide Arkansas will never get an invite. I wonder if the Hogs would have been too exhausted to play in the NCAA tourney.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:32 AM
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7. Congrats but Bill didn't go to U of Arkansas
Georgetown (Oxford) then Yale Law
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/Hope.html



With the help of those scholarships and loans from the government, he was able to attend Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He chose Georgetown because it had an excellent foreign service program; he was also excited about going to school in the nation's capital.

While earning his Bachelor of Science degree in International Affairs he worked as an intern in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. There he learned how government worked and what it was like to be a politician. He admired Senator Fulbright for his accomplishments and beliefs.

When Bill Clinton finished college in 1968, he won a Rhodes Scholarship, which allows select students to study at Oxford University in England. While at Oxford, he studied government and played rugby. Upon his return to the United States, he began law school at Yale University. At Yale, he continued to work hard. He maintained his interest in government by campaigning for a Senate candidate in Connecticut. He also met Hillary Rodham, whom he would later marry.


Hillary went to Wellesley then Yale Law
http://www.wic.org/bio/hclinton.htm
She entered Wellesley College in 1965. Graduating with high honors, she moved on to Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. While at Yale, she developed her special concern for protecting the best interests of children and their families. It was there that she met Bill Clinton, a fellow student.



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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:34 AM
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8. They both taught there though
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:38 AM
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12. A FANTASTIC track team there too
Since 1984 (20 years ago) the Arkansas men's and women's indoor and outdoor track teams (that is 80 possible titles in the time) have won 38 National Team Titles.
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 12:06 PM
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16. And their baseball team isn't too bad either, at 16-1 and #15th best
in the country.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:36 AM
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9. '79 Grad Here
Congrats and welcome to DU. My name is on Senior Walk in front of Mullins Library. Bill and Hill did not graduate but that's okay. Fayetteville was an exciting place back in the 60's and 70's, especially Shuler Town on Dickson Street. Commit yourself to enjoying your time there; it will fly by and then be gone forever. Oh to be back at Rogers Rec about 1975.
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PinkTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:37 AM
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10. Neither graduated nor attended the U of A
But both were teachers at its Law School, and Hillary was instrumental in starting the legal clinic. They married in Fayetteville and set up their first household there.

Bill and Hillary then went to LIttle Rock after Bill was elected as Attorney General of the state of Arkansas.



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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:41 AM
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14. After losing to John Paul Hammerschmidt
for a U. S. Representative seat. Imagine what changes in History would have occurred if Clinton had won that race.
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jswordy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:38 AM
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13. That is a cool place, and there are some cool things happening...
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 10:39 AM by jswordy
...in Arkansas. On break sometime, check out this place on the Arkansas/Missouri border. It was just starting out way back in 1979 when I was in college, and I enjoyed my time spent there. It will open your eyes to alternative ways to live, for sure.

http://eastwind.org/
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shawcomm Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:52 AM
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15. How bout them hogs!
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 10:54 AM by shawcomm
Congratulations!
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 12:10 PM
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17. That's just horrible.....
now you have to spend four years watching the Hogs get crushed by LSU in football. :)

Seriously, congratulations and good luck.
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 12:50 PM
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18. Congratulations
Fayetteville proper is a pretty liberal place. If you stay there and don't venture into Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, or Siloam Springs, you should be clear of most right-wingers.

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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 12:55 PM
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19. Congratulations! ( from a University of Wisconsin system graduate)
:thumbsup:
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