by PonySoprano » Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:05 pm
The stigma is gone. The DP happened 20 years ago. The class of freshman starting this fall were not even born when we got the DP.
The problem is that people associated with the University won't let it go. Get over it. The general population does not associate SMU with the DP. I talk to people I work with and unless they are a long time college football fan with ties to this area, they have no idea that there was ever a DP. They just associate SMU with poor football, like the way people associated Northwestern with bad football in the 1980s.
Let it go. Its time to quit crying about it.
In life you are faced with challenges and adversity. When that happens you have two choices. You can moan "why did this happen to me," "this is not fair" and sit and cry about it. The other choice is to get up off your [deleted], face the problem head-on and do something about it. Let's move forward.