Did you know...

As of Fall 2009, Valparaiso University will have men's and women's golf as well as women's bowling?

David Cook played a concert on campus this last weekend, and he had previously been to Valpo (not for a concert, though)?

The ultra-comfortable orange chairs that sit in the Community Room of VU's library were designed by the same architect who designed the arch in St. Louis?

In 1860, the Pony Express used men riding on horseback to carry mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California?

The VU Choral, one of the nation's top Lutheran collegiate choirs, will be performing across the midwest including the cities of Milwaukee, St. Louis, St. Paul, Kansas City, Des Moines and Lincoln, Neb., and will also be performing in New York at the famous Carnegie Hall?

3 and 12 are congruent modulo 3?

For the third consecutive year, a group of Valparaiso University students will travel to Central America during their spring break to gain a global perspective on teaching and learning?

Valpo's spring break lasts two weeks?

Our new Harre Student Union is over 202,000 square feet, which is slightly larger twice the size of the White House?

No president of the United States was an only child?

Valpo students logged just under 57,000 hours of community service last year?

The Valpo placement rate for pre-medical students is over 83% which is significantly stronger than the national average of about 47%?

40% of McDonals's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals?

The voice of the Pillsbury Dough Boy comes from a Valpo graduate?


Well, now that you are enlightened, come visit campus if you have not had the chance, and remember to fill out that FAFSA!!!!! Until next time, I leave you with this thought...

How do you know when you're in the middle of nowhere?

Ryan