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Great work.
My godfather/uncle is an aggresive Hofstra benefactor and I know all too well about school with the bridge over the turnpike.
Ten cool Hofstra facts:
1. Other schools have green grounds, but Hofstra's is an actual certified and impressive arboretum.
2. Other schools do Shakespeare, but they have a replica of the Globe Theatre.
3. Originally established as an extension of NYU, so he and his sister are in a sense keeping it in the family.
4. Bill Hofstra was an immigrant from Holland and the college established an insignia based on the seal of the House of Orange. (Hofstra has a serious claim to Orangemen status too.)
5. Bernie Madoff, Christopher Walken, and James Caan all went to Hofstra --- a creep and two actors creepy enough to play him... creepy!
6. Changed their nickname from the Flying Dutchmen to the Pride for no good reason. OK, it's kinda sexist and the world is moving away from ethnic nicknames, but besides that...
7. Thier famed high-rise dorms were simply called A, B, C, D, E, and F, but in 1982, somebody shot Ronald Reagan and we suddenly woke up to the fact that America was awesome, and Hofstra renamed the towers "Alliance," "Bill of Rights," "Constitution," "Declaration of Independence," "Enterprise," and "Freedom."
8. Is (coincidentally) associated with some of the most notorious drug busts in American higher ed history, including
[list=a][*]a 1970s bust that was profoundly unconstitutional (ironically at Halls that would one day be named "Constitution," "Bill of Rights," etc.) --- legend has it that dope was raining from the sky that day;
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[*]a 1991 (non-campus) case where a football coach was murdered by some dealers;
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[*]a 2009 case where a group of Pulp Fiction freaks tied up their RA and tormented him with weapons because they didn't like the cocaine he sold them.[/*:m][/list:o]
9. Cut football after 69 years. Who is Fordham going to beat now? Columbia?!
10. Oscar Hijuelos on faculty. Yeah, he's not there anymore, but I sure didn't have Pulitzer winner on faculty at my school.
Good luck to him.
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