Some students and professors say Mississippi State shouldn’t cancel Thursday classes for a football game.
In the article’s comment thread, a fan complains:
I guess with all the academics on our campus there’s no surprise we’d get a nerd (or professor) or two to complain.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:52PM
UD should visit Mississippi State some day. I’d never seen a campus on which the football stadium itself is literally at the center of the campus.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:52PM
Ralph: I didn’t know that! I’m going to Mississippi State’s website and taking a look.
September 12th, 2010 at 6:00AM
Reminds one of how Huey Long paid for a gargantuan expansion of LSU’s football stadium — home to gladiators to match his imperial ambitions — during the midst of the Great Depression: by building dormitory space under the new bleachers and reorienting the entire campus around what had been its fringe.