g-mann17

No problem. Ahh, okay. That makes sense. So then my next question is, what happens when the East High students go back to their renovated school? Who gets the old Hower? As of right now, I have no idea. My best guess is the Early College get's it; otherwise they will use it for a swing school for another High School that has to have their building done (Garfield/Kenmore). Buchtel, Ellet, Firestone and North have room (and land) and buildings close enough to house students while they are rebuilt or rennovated.

Watch it g-mann, you are beginning to sound a touch like Jake. Intimidated? C'mon, now. Let's be mature. I'm not taking part in one of your little cat fights. Yes, that does sound more like what I'm seeing. But for some reason I always thought that was Central Hower High. Google is calling it East High, but then where is this 'central hower' location where everyone wanted the new arena built? And what reason do the East High school students have for being on campus? Shouldn't they be in class or something. They are incredibly loud. If I saw them yelling and screaming jibberish when I was touring campus I would have never gone here. I'm sure most students feel the same way. Sorry for the jab. The building is Central Hower but Central was closed to contract to 7 high schools. Due to Akron Public School new facility program East was temporarily closed as it was renovated and an addition put on to house Goodyear Middle School in the combined facility. East has been in the Central building going on two-three years and should go back to East (on Britain Road) for the start of the next school year. They are on campus because they may have open lunch (don't know that for sure) and let's face it, kids flick classes. If you flick class at a school next to a University where are you likely to go?

Are you insinuating that the early college program is housed in the student union? Otherwise, my point still stands. They are still going to pack in hoards all over campus and act obnoxious. The program is a great idea. But why do we need them to be on our campus? The early college is mostly in Polsky right now, they use a few other buildings that I am aware of, the fact that you have an issue at all is kind of telling. Intimidated by high school kids. Right now if you are seeing any kids on the main part of campus, they are likely East Students. The early college kids are selected based on grades and if they cause a problem they are gone. If you are having problems with anyone it's the East kids. I believe I was told by my boss a while back that the former building of the Inventor's Hall of Fame was being transformed into a building to house UA's early college students to get them out of Polsky and open up more classroom space for UA students. No the Inventor's Hall of Fame school is being transformed into the STEM Middle School. Has nothing to do with Early College.

Are you insinuating that the early college program is housed in the student union? Otherwise, my point still stands. They are still going to pack in hoards all over campus and act obnoxious. The program is a great idea. But why do we need them to be on our campus? The early college is mostly in Polsky right now, they use a few other buildings that I am aware of, the fact that you have an issue at all is kind of telling. Intimidated by high school kids. Right now if you are seeing any kids on the main part of campus, they are likely East Students. The early college kids are selected based on grades and if they cause a problem they are gone. If you are having problems with anyone it's the East kids.

Little different circumstances. Throwing things at innocent people who are doing their job and are keeping the peace due to someone protesting a war to stop the spread of communism VS. troops directly under the command of the person oppressing the people. Actually, as an American and a History major i find it extremely offensive to compare Can't State protesters to the patriots that founded this country. Root, as a student of history you are well aware of the fact that it is written by the winners. My dry attempt at sarcasm (trust me I hate dirty hippies as much as anyone) was only to point out that protests often become violent. The fact of the matter is that the Boston Massacre and May 4th don't have that much separating them. A group of protesters confronting soldiers assigned to protect property of the government and maintain the general peace. It turns violent after a soldier feels threatened, the rest is history. In the eyes of those hippies they were standing up to a "person oppressing the people" sending their friends off to a war that had nothing to do with the US. To the National guard and millions of others, those kids were entitled (most of them wealthy) spoiled brats that were worthless and didn't know what it meant to be a part of the country. They were mostly traitors and treasoness wretches. Had we stayed under British rule, the general opinion of the Boston Massacre would have been the same as the general opinion of May 4th. A feeling that tragedy occurred that could have been avoided if people would have just "stayed in line". PS. Can't's campus still sucks (we are so off topic)

What do you call it then? Protesting is as American as it gets but getting violent is a different story. Well, some could argue that this country was founded on violent protests.

But we don't compete with the Suckeyes for recruits...

I think that's a horrible mistake. Early college is...eh... Let's just say that it's aggravating when you have to weave your way through swarms of screaming high school kids in the student union. They need to get that stuff OFF campus. Once, I heard a UA student say, "Do you guys even go here?" and some high school student screams back, "Its Akron, you dont have to go here to be here!" That's early college in a nut shell. Early college is one of Proenza's key initiatives. Additionally if they are all housed in Central, then they aren't exactly "all over campus."

Missed 8, spent too much time thinking of schools like Illinois, instead of teams like Oklahoma.

do they really need another building? I ask this sincerely because I have never heard directly from anyone that there's been that much of a space need. I'm pretty sure every other building they put up is a polymer building. After walking by it today it looks like they're about done with the one behind North Deck. Does anyone know what they're putting in the building diagonal from the Wonder Bread factory? The building on the corner of Mill and S. College(?) that is going through obvious rennovations, is going to be the new site for the Archives of the History of American Psychology. It was in Polsky and has a Smithsonian Affiliation. If we ever acquire Central, it will become the exclusive site of the Early College.

Should have read this first. Can't's campus is a mess.

See, now this should have been moderated. More self loathing from ITZ.

There's at least a 'snowball's' chance.

Maybe they should add up all of the money they left on the table last year when all of those games sold out on Tuesday because of inadequate seating. Imagine how many tickets they could have sold if they had twice as many seats. Or more. For crying out loud I've seen 19,000 fans at indoor soccer games before, some paying for SRO. Not to mention the very weak inventory of Zips wear they have for sale in their used Winnebago trailer, they park next to the portable outhouse. How much money did they leave on the table just in those games (OSU, MAC tourney, and NCAA tourney)? What a bass ackward bunch of clowns. Build a 30,000 seat football stadium for a team that has a hard time drawing 3,000, and put a national powerhouse soccer program (smack dab in the middle of a soccer hotbed) on a crap field with less seats than a local high school football program draws for JV games. End of rant. Thanks for letting me vent. What an ignorant statement

While it makes more money for the pimps at the NCAA, it does not make the quality of the tournament better. One could even say it devalues the tournament. This is no different than the expansion of professional sports leagues. When the NHL first started, there were six teams. Was the day in and day out play better, yes. Did they make more money, no. The majority of players playing in the NHL today would have played in the minors when the league first started. If you know anything about hockey, you would have been highly entertained by Olympic tournament. The best players in the world were on the ice for the top level teams every SHIFT. Imagine MLB with half the teams they have now. The excellent starting rotations would be able to be matched by excellent hitters. The quality of long relievers would be great. Bench depth would be outstanding. Fielding would be better. The game would be better. As the NCAA "builds" itself, the quality of play is diminished. Does anyone really believe all 135 odd D-1A football teams are equal? Does anyone believe adding five more teams to D-1A will make it better? So GP1 feels that smaller is better.

Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Donyell Marshall Brandon Marshall Bob Hope (or do they have to be men's first names? )

Well they better start giving hoots about non-BCS... Best Ratings for Championship since 1999 Why? Because it was an "underdog" story.

They must not pay much attention to the soccer program. Well we know in soccer the Suckeyes are no competition.

If a conference had Buffalo and Toledo in it, there's no way it would be a decent FBS conference I'll admit, I'd like to see U@B involved based mostly on athletic and market POTENTIAL. But I have no idea why some people of this board don't respect Toledo football. They are historically a winning program. They are one of the few MAC teams that routinely knocks off BCS teams, and this has pretty much always been the case. Don't be shocked when they beat Arizona at the Glass Bowl in 2010. If there's ONE MAC football program that should be clamoring to jump ship it's UT. Yep and dirty bookies are clamoring for it too.

You miss the point of the expansion. 14 years, 10.8 Billions dollars. Additional coverage on TBS, TNT, etc. (NCAA got what they wanted from expansion, coverage and dollar bills)

UA is looking into a mixed used development on campus. Read the proposal and notice some of what they are talking about. Room for 2500 students, new parking structure, research lab and offices, retail. The first two proposed locations (meaning the U's first choices) are the site where Gallucci is now, and the site where the townhouses are now. Proposal

Two words: HIGH SCHOOL! UA can do much better than this pathetic attempt at college entertainment. Where are the large scale events that attract thousands of UA students from all walks of life? Used to be that student programmers could attract 3,000 to 4,000 or more diversified students (dormies, commuters, surrounding neighborhood apartment dwellers, Greeks, Blacks, graduate students and undergraduate students, faculty and staff) all to a single big-time events on campus which made UA students feel more unified with a sense of identity and self-sustaining while supplementing the occasion with smaller events that appeal to an eclectic university market. What the Hell has happened to your school? It's no wonder apathy runs wild at The University of Akron. You nerds litigate for apathy at UA by the nature of your programming. It is designed to disintegrate and alienate the student body into miniscule pieces and parts. It is why the student body has virtually no power on that campus anymore. You have dissected yourselves down to the least common denominator. You remind me of an ant farm that has been turned upside down and shaken. I get the same impression when I read your horrible, horrible student newspaper, the Bungleight...blek! Get it together for Christ's sake. I know the potential is there. UA is growing in so many positive ways but when it comes to student oriented/authored events, you guys come off as students at a workshop for the developmentally disabled. You guys need to get off the short bus. Wow, really, as I recall from my time at school there was no campus unification, there was on campus and commuter. Over the last 10 years or so they have made huge leaps in getting commuters back on campus. Why are you on here again?

If you ask any of the freshmen (or anyone from the school) the increase in student body has everything to do with the look of campus. It's already paying dividends. To say Can't has "a nice campus" is to say that "a swamp is a great place to live". In no means am I saying that Akron is vastly superior (we still have a lot of work ahead of us), but at least we have "fresh and new" and the looks of a general purpose. Can't is probably the worst looking campus in the state it is just a cluster F of buildings. If you read my post carefully, you will see that you and I agree on the improvements with UA's campus. I don't need to ask any of the freshmen or anyone from the school about something they and I already know to be true. Where you and I are miles and miles apart is our view of Can't State's campus. It can hardly be compared to a swamp or dubbed the worse looking campus in the state and it is certainly in no way a cluster F of buildings. Your statements are off the wall, over the top and lead me to believe that you have never set eyes or feet on Can't State's campus... or you've turned a rivalry into an object of hate and that emotion has contaminated your ability to be objective in your observations. We can give Can't State credit where credit is due and still be loyal to UA along with supporting its continued authentic campus development and being proud of its physical evolution. You seem to envy Can't for some reason. But yes Can't is probably the worst looking campus in the state. It probably goes something like this, Miami, OSU, Ohio, BGSU, Toledo, Akron, Can't (If you include YSU and CSU then maybe Can't is a little better). But it honestly is just a cluster of buildings with no actual design or flow to campus. See how there is no flow to the campus at all. And to say that it is not a "swamp" is to neglect that it is indeed a swamp. It is built on a swamp, the cities of Stow and Can't are swamps. Compare Can't to the other schools, really compare them. By the way, to assume I've never been on Can't's campus proves your ignorance. I've been on every (major) campus in the state and some of the smaller ones (Wooster, Mount Union, ONU). My friend was in the honors Architecture program at Can't, we spent as much time there as we did in Akron. That was when UA had no campus we had buildings and streets. Some day you will really have to try giving another view point a chance, you really will. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

If you ask any of the freshmen (or anyone from the school) the increase in student body has everything to do with the look of campus. It's already paying dividends. To say Can't has "a nice campus" is to say that "a swamp is a great place to live". In no means am I saying that Akron is vastly superior (we still have a lot of work ahead of us), but at least we have "fresh and new" and the looks of a general purpose. Can't is probably the worst looking campus in the state it is just a cluster F of buildings.

Ugh, you're pathetic. We have everything we need from a practice standpoint, deal with it. But then you are also one of those "always a problem" "everything is going to fail" "we perpetually suck" type people. I get it, just have to argue until people give up. Bottom line we have all the practice areas we need. If Coach I wants them on grass, there is grass available (and sorry the Track has even more open grass then the 60 yard grass practice field does. And considering that the softball field was moved to where it is now in 2005 (mostly because the Master Plan called for turning Buchtel field into all intramural fields) it's funny that "grass practice surface" is just now a problem.