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To: HomeschoolMomma
The campus was small, safe, and clean! I would feel safe leaving my daughter there. We stayed in Rolla for the week and loved it!

Back in 1970 when I attended "UMR Tech", the male/female ratio was about 5000/100. Daughters were "safe" simply because of the lopsided competition! The annual St Patrick's celebration was a month long drunken bash.

I DID learn a few things there about making very loud explosions using very common ingredients...
Very nice area to revisit as an adult. For a single young male almost 40 years ago, it was not the typical college scene.

32 posted on 12/06/2008 6:10:19 PM PST by Knute (Tell me again ONE good reason I'm living here in Wisconsin??)
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To: Knute
Back in 1970 when I attended "UMR Tech", the male/female ratio was about 5000/100. Daughters were "safe" simply because of the lopsided competition! The annual St Patrick's celebration was a month long drunken bash.

I DID learn a few things there about making very loud explosions using very common ingredients... Very nice area to revisit as an adult. For a single young male almost 40 years ago, it was not the typical college scene.

At UMR now MST (renamed) St Pat's is still is a month long drunken bash!!!! And if you saw my sons videos (the others he posted on youtube) he ALSO learned how to explode LOTS of things using common ingredients! If you haven't been there in a while, the new buildings and dorms are beautiful - thats where my son stayed. I would say it still is "not the typical college scene". Male/female ratio still low. I would bet you though, Rolla hadn't changed much since then. I had to laugh when the Walmart closed at 8 pm!!!

Luckily though, for summer campers - all is pretty much quiet (unless you are in explosives camp LOL!)

33 posted on 12/06/2008 7:45:44 PM PST by HomeschoolMomma (No thanks...I already have a Messiah!)
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