Waverly University

[Ranchdawg]

That would be a local historic name and allow the W to keep the initial.

 

[dorndawg]

I heard Dan Marino is already looking for a house there

 

[Johnnie Come Lately]

Not woke enough.

 

[Ranchdawg]

Not woke enough.

I'm afraid you are right. We have Waverly Waters, Old Waverly Golf and the historic site. We have to have bright in the name for some reason?

 

[Dawgbite]

Waverly was a plantation, you know slaves, evil white peoples. No way they are naming a public university after a plantation or owner of a plantation!

 

[TNDawg1]

Tombigbee Poly

 

[Dogpatrol]

No name university

 

[HailStout]

The W, a Mississippi University

Saw someone post this earlier. It’s easy. It’s perfect. Everyone would like it. So I guess there’s absolutely no way it happens.

 

[Lettuce]

Sandwich U

 

[3000lbchicken]

 

[Maroon Eagle]

We done said the W ain’t gonna be named after EUDORA WAVERLY.

 

[patdog]

The only real answer, that won’t happen, is close it down. It serves no purpose. But we’ll rename it some ridiculous name and keep throwing money at a dying school.

 

[STATEgrad04]

Waverly was a plantation, you know slaves, evil white peoples. No way they are naming a public university after a plantation or owner of a plantation!

Umiss says hold my beer!

 

[Dawgbite]

Umiss says hold my beer!

You’ve aced the irony section of the reading comprehension part of the SPS ACT test!

 

[OG Goat Holder]

The only real answer, that won’t happen, is close it down. It serves no purpose. But we’ll rename it some ridiculous name and keep throwing money at a dying school.

Don't necessarily have to close it. Infrastructure is there, and the nursing school is good. It could be MSU Nursing campus or W campus or something. Similar to MSU-Meridian.

Kennesaw State did this with Southern Polytechnic, or something like that.

Edited: Southern Polytechnic, not Chatt Tech

 

[Pilgrimdawg]

The only thing that they have accomplished is to piss off all of the old alumni with this cluster. If that’s what they were trying to accomplish then they were very successful. Oh by the way, good luck in securing future donations to the University. I can tell you that my wife and all of her friends from the 1970’s “W” are seriously unhappy over the way this whole thing has been handled.

 

[Ranchdawg]

Don't necessarily have to close it. Infrastructure is there, and the nursing school is good. It could be MSU Nursing campus or W campus or something. Similar to MSU-Meridian.

Kennesaw State did this with Southern Polytechnic, or something like that.

Edited: Southern Polytechnic, not Chatt Tech

That was a proposal by the state government several years ago since State was formed as a men's school and the W was the women's. I'm sure that proposal was killed by Ole Miss alumni because it would make the student numbers favor State.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

That was a proposal by the state government several years ago since State was formed as a men's school and the W was the women's. I'm sure that proposal was killed by Ole Miss alumni because it would make the student numbers favor State.

It was Barbour that suggested it. But of course, like many of the conservatives, he wanted it under the guise of "cutting administration" which wasn't going to go over well, rather than investing in education. And Keenum came on the job right after that so he didn't really have his chance to make things happen the right way.

MSU itself was just not in the correct position back then to fight against the power, so now it's a dead issue. Typical Mississippi.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

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You need to diversify your courses.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

They should name it after their most famous alumna, Jenny Curran.

 

[AFDawg]

They should name it after their most famous alumna, Jenny Curran.

Who was played by Robin Wright...

Wright State University!

The one in Dayton can change its name.