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CU Medallion [60243]
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True Clemson Alumni fans --- I have a question here.......
Aug 23, 2019, 9:04 AM
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Swinney: "He (Terry Don Phillips) was honored yesterday. I had kind of a unique privilege to be in on preparations of honoring him as an honorary alum. We presented him with his big plaque yesterday. He has all rights and privileges of a Clemson alum. It was a special moment with myself and President Clements was there and Dan Radakovich and former President Jim Barker. It was a really neat moment."
This is great and all, TDP is a great and humble man deserving of high accolades, but......
What rights and privileges does a Clemson alum have, and why am I not aware of them?
I don't remember getting any myself. I am not invited to special parties or able to go to private resorts, or even campus buildings that non-alums are, to my knowledge. I don't get special ticket deals. I don't have access to some secret inside contact list.
So I guess that means he's now on the solicitation list to get numerous invasive calls to give money to the Clemson Alumni Fund? THAT'S the only thing I am aware of that being an alumni gets me. Plus of course, being able to look down our noses at you unwashed non-alumni hangers-on
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Oculus Spirit [75738]
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Well, he won't work for the University again
Aug 23, 2019, 9:10 AM
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so there is that.
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All-In [36450]
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Since you aren’t in the club I can’t tell you all the perks.
Aug 23, 2019, 9:15 AM
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There must be a reason no one invited you.
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Heisman Winner [112363]
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I always knew that you people had rights and privileges ...
Aug 23, 2019, 9:16 AM
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that us hangers on weren't afforded.
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Oculus Spirit [97764]
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Did you forget why you went to college?
Aug 23, 2019, 9:21 AM
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That diploma and ring pay more dividends than the education, at least in my experience. Aside from having the right to say you had the best 4 years of your life there. Met your future wife there. Found and lost true love there. Had a blast there.
Then you have the diploma. The diploma means you get a leg up entering the job world. You are immediately "qualified" to do jobs far beyond burger flipping. It can open opportunities for you to network in your job, meet new people who share a common experience. Being a student at Clemson and being a fan are two different things. Each special in its own way, but different.
As time passes, some of those old memories fade. Life happens. You lose your appreciation for the journeys of the past when consumed by the present.
If, looking back, you can't identify the "rights and privileges" of your degree and attendance as a student, then perhaps you did not use them to their fullest. When I was watching my two oldest sons eating their Cinnamon Toast Crunch this morning at the kitchen table, I was enjoying at least in part, a right and privilege of having attended Clemson. I myself am a product of the rights and privilege of an older man who's in poor health now, who many decades ago had the opportunity to meet the woman he would spend the next 54 years with at Clemson.
You're looking in the wrong place.
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Heisman Winner [135637]
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4 years, LOLUTZ.
Aug 23, 2019, 9:24 AM
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You did it wrong.
BEST SEVEN YEARS OF MY LIFE.
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Oculus Spirit [97764]
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I went 5, but always say 4 because that's most people
Aug 23, 2019, 9:26 AM
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Wife did it in 3.
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Heisman Winner [135637]
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2 years as a full time student, then 5 years as a part time
Aug 23, 2019, 10:14 AM
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while working full time (sometimes a 2 different places), and a change of major. Left with a degree and zero debt.
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Re: 2 years as a full time student, then 5 years as a part time***
Aug 23, 2019, 10:20 AM
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Oculus Spirit [97764]
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High school friend did it in 4 years, working 70 hours a
Aug 23, 2019, 11:30 AM
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week full time, while a full time student. Sold his share in Explorers for north of 6 digits when he graduated. I'm just going to assume with less than zero student debt.
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Heisman Winner [135637]
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Oh yeah?
Aug 23, 2019, 2:19 PM
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Well, my cousin knows a guy whose barber's son played baseball with a guy that graduated in 6 weeks with a 4.0 and made eleventeen trillion dollars in the stock market the first week of school by cornering the haggis market, and then won Star Search the day after graduation.
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CU Medallion [50635]
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i made it in 9 years
Aug 23, 2019, 2:33 PM
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sometimes i went to school sometimes i didn't even if i was enrolled sometimes i was a dropout
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CU Medallion [60243]
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but they didn't give TDP any of that
Aug 23, 2019, 9:29 AM
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what you mention.
That's basically why I found the quote (and I suppose the ceremony itself) so odd and quite frankly humorous.
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Oculus Spirit [97764]
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It's just a ceremony. Who cares anyway?
Aug 23, 2019, 10:01 AM
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There are rights and privileges, but they don't come from a ceremony.
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Oculus Spirit [79429]
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You get the privilege of being continually badgered for more
Aug 23, 2019, 9:25 AM
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money, and the right to put a Clemson Alumni sticker on your vehicle.
My wife and I got married at Clemson and got the feeling they didn't really differentiate between two alums and incoming freshmen living in the dorms. Pay up and GTFO.
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You weren't ever invited?
Aug 23, 2019, 9:28 AM
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All-In [36450]
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Maybe he doesn’t like goat blood.
Aug 23, 2019, 9:33 AM
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It’s an acquired taste.
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You don't get the free handjobs at Nick's***
Aug 23, 2019, 9:32 AM
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how am I just learning about this?***
Aug 23, 2019, 9:35 AM
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Oculus Spirit [75738]
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Why have you never dropped your pants in Nicks?***
Aug 23, 2019, 10:23 AM
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CU Medallion [54758]
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CU Medallion [50635]
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i'm use to not getting paid,rental property and all***
Aug 23, 2019, 1:07 PM
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CU Medallion [54758]
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meng you gotta get yourself some better tenants
Aug 23, 2019, 1:23 PM
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I haven't had probs with rent being paid since 2008
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Lot o points [163012]
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I get invited to many alumni events
Aug 23, 2019, 9:22 PM
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they want $$$$.
Maybe he gets to buy a ring.
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