Another Terp...my parents live near campus (as do I for the next um, 4 weeks
😱 ), so I remember when UMCP was a real party school. They went through a phase where there were riots in downtown College Park after every basketball game. They were happy if we won, mad if we lost. My dad would drive me to my first job at a bakery and Route 1 would be littered with bits of paper and whatever was left from people burning couches, etc., in the middle of the road.
Heading to UC Davis in the fall. Happy to be headed to something more of an ag school. MD has all but forgotten its status as a land-grant university. There have been op-eds in the Diamondback complaining about the smell from the tiny campus farm (less than 10 acres, with 8 horses, a couple dozen sheep, and a few cattle, with pigs part of the year). When I was in the Equestrian Club, they started padlocking the paddocks every night and the gate to the farm on football game days because some geniuses thought it was funny to let all the animals free at night after the football game (multiple times).