Comet wrote:I discussed the campaign with some of the faculty. They all thought it was a joke and should be changed to "SMU is the Park Cities' team". I have to agree, SMU has absolutely **** outreach to non-rich DFW folks(aka the vast majority of people leaving within a 30 mile radius of our campus).
Larry Brown is our best hope of changing our perception anytime soon. Really got to start passing some tickets to local schools so kids of all ages interested in bball start becoming fans. Furthermore, the school as an academic institution needs to shed its reputation as a rich person only school. Reach out more towards community colleges, get non Park Cities high-schools to take more trips to the campus. Have SMU house more types of summer/educational camps of all types to get local smart kids integrated with the school. The school has to constantly reach out beyond its myopic local community and really ingrain some roots into DFW as a whole.
Sorry but most of the faculty are a bunch of egotistical nutjobs that think that they captivate everyone in their classroom with their lectures (excluding the teachers pet no one gives a [deleted]). If their slogan was (enter faculty name) is _____ (a lifeless classroom). So if they want to joke maybe they should take a look at their own classrooms). Secondly I know tons of transfer students and ex-military students and I can say we far surpass tcu (our comparison) in accepting "non-rich kids." We recruit the best kids with the best grades and unfortunately with high educational costs thanks to our "down-to-earth" faculty and deans we can only do so much. We don't get state subsidies so we have to ask kids to either pay or if they can't afford take out loans (which is a horrible idea unless you have a job lined up). So I think our school has done an excellent job in that regards. If anything blame the people who write about as calling SMU Dallas' elitist school.
