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"Those darn East Coasters..."
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"Those darn East Coasters..." |
...bringing their uppity, elitist attitudes to America's heartland.http://tinyurl.com/5kscck As students arrived in the quaint college town last week, there was some low-key clashing of cultures. "It almost feels like something's not right here. Everyone's just so friendly," said Steven Glassman, a 46-year-old attorney from East Hanover, N.J., after kissing his son, Jason, goodbye last Thursday. Mr. Glassman and his wife say the school is "hot" on the East Coast right now -- especially among aspiring business students -- but will still be a healthy transition for their son, "coming from a city of mean rotten people who will run you over without thinking about it." Ah, the joys of living in fly-over country! 
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09-08-08, 02:15 PM (EST)
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17. "RE: Those darn East Coasters..." |
Sure, there were lots of them, along with the hairy mammoths and sabre toothed tigers who also roamed the campus at that time.  I only knew one person from California the whole time I was there, and nobody from anywhere else out west or the south that I remember, but there were heaps from NY, NJ, Boston, DC, and of course Pennsylvania. They didn't seem any different from the rich kids from Chicago, Milwaukee or Minneapolis to me, all of whom could afford a lot different lifestyle than I could, but I don't remember any of the us-vs.-them attitudes described in that article. They existed, we existed, and we moved in different circles. I think there was a lot less of the showy affluence in general in our society in the seventies than there is now. I and all of my friends had to work, so that meant I mostly hung out with people paying in-state tuition (WI or MN), often from large families and/or small towns. Good times. I had a great bunch of friends in college. 
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09-08-08, 02:09 PM (EST)
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16. "RE: Can't fool me!" |
I generally found the same thing in NYC. I think there were peeps annoyed at Gray's Papaya when I couldn't blurt out my order in Newyorkese, but nobody made fun of me. 
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09-08-08, 12:33 PM (EST)
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Interesting article...Upperclassmen say the tension begins to build from day one of freshman year, as most East Coasters request to live in the same cluster of dorms and send in housing deposits to guarantee their spots long before committing to the school. Jess Berne, a freshman from New York's suburban Westchester County who had also applied to Penn State and the University of Wisconsin, sent in her housing deposit to Indiana as soon as she was admitted in October, at the school's recommendation, eight months before she decided to actually enroll. She also requested to room with a fellow New Yorker, Becky Davies, whom she met on Facebook. This is true. I did Move In Day volunteer duty at one of the aforementioned cluster of dorms, which houses more out-of-state students than any other. You should have seen the moving vans. Not cars, not SUV's, not pickup trucks, but Mayflower-sized moving vans! And a good number of fully-loaded U-Haul trucks, too. Out goes almost everything in the dorm room and in goes enough furniture and stuff cover almost every square foot of a glorified closet much smaller even than a Japanese apartment. So many overworked dads were around carry every single box and to build the bookcases, tv/stereo racks and bunks that all came in boxes to be assembled (and these, most assuredly, not bought at Wal-mart). And they together came in large groups of parents and students. One group of dads drove up in another van loaded with nothing but tarps and poles to build a gathering tent to host lunch and snacks for all their spoiled kiddies while they spent hours moving in house-loads of stuff into their dorm rooms in apparent violation of Newtonian vector space physics. I guess if East Coasters are good at something, it's packing maximum stuff into a minimum-sized abode. After three years at IU, Samantha Barton hasn't spent much time outside class socializing with her Midwestern classmates because she thinks they have so little in common. But the Armonk, N.Y., native has also noticed that her Indiana counterparts appear to be more "optimistic" and is beginning to wonder if there's a link. "I like when things go my way, and if something bad happens to me I'll cry all day and I'll need, like, a Xanax," she says. As for her classmates from Indiana, she says, "They seem....happier." Well... I wonder why! 
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09-08-08, 02:04 PM (EST)
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15. "That's a shame" |
I think they're really missing out.
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09-08-08, 02:43 PM (EST)
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18. "RE: That's a shame" |
I agree, and it's a topic of discussion at the Directors' meeting I'm involved with. There's some discussion about taking some of the functionality out of the online applications that allows them to do this so easily. But this isn't likely to happen. Imagine the hue and cry that would result! East Coasters (both students and their parents) are, by reputation, a vocal lot.
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09-08-08, 03:22 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: Those darn East Coasters..." |
This tension isn't exclusive to NYC vs IU. I teach at a small college in a small town. Nearly half of our students in the dorms are from small towns in the area while the rest are from inner city Houston or the Houston suburbs.So here the tension is big city people (man there's nothing to do here! translation: I don't want to drive 40 miles to the nearest mall) and the small town people (my truck is 1995, not 1982, ya long haired freak!). People from different cultural backgrounds will find things to dislike about each other. But we usually settle them peacefully. Thanks for the article. 
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