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By Todd Stadler · Friday, September 20, 2002 4:09am
Hmm. My alma mater, Rice University, is Seventeen's coolest university. Perhaps things have changed since I was there, but I still have vivid memories of not being able to find anyone to go to dinner with because they were all studying like mad.
Mind you, all the energy that built up from studying so much occasionally let itself out in some interesting ways, but does that make it the coolest?
No, I'm guessing that what pushed them over the "cool barrier" into the "cool[est] zone" was university president Malcolm Gillis, who has asked everyone at Rice to wear "shades" (apparently some sort of coolster lingo for sunglasses), noting that "If people insist on calling us cool, then maybe we should act the part, at least part of the time." Now that's cool!