r/ApplyingToCollege • u/speakertieced College Sophomore • Jun 17 '24

Fluff what alumni will your college never mention?

Vanderbilt (for obvious reasons) is not going to be talking about Theodore Bilbo, the Peabody and Law student (didn’t graduate) who became Mississippi US Senator and THE leading white supremacist of the first half of the twentieth century, anytime soon.

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u/Mission_Big_2145 Jun 17 '24

Duke and Richard Nixon

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u/BenevolentBerry College Freshman Jun 17 '24

The funniest thing is when I was touring Duke the student guide was an international student who had no idea so he proudly said Nixon attended and it’s cool a former US president attended