Yes, the prince was quoted during last Friday's visit for telling two female third-year students, "Less drinking, more dinner parties." Sure, the birthday wishes to St. Andrews from Bill Clinton and former alum Sean Connery were highlighted. Indeed, the new 70,000 pound scholarship named after His Royal Highness and Kate Middleton was praised..
Yet what caught my attention, still, were the things you wouldn't find in Colgate's paper, like how an Egyptian man named his first child daughter, Facebook, in order to commemorate the impact the social networking site had on the recent political events in the country. And The Saint's "Campus to Campus" section, which is a full-length sidebar composed of what other universities are doing e.g.) University of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Bristol, etc.
In addition, it's interesting to read about how St. Andrews students have an innate fear that the reputation of the royal newly-weds may be eclipsing the academic worth of their degree when they graduate. "I want my future employers to know this university as an academically feverish environment that produces worthy, well educated individuals, not as the place you come to catch a Prince."
However, these same students recognize how St. Andrews has greatly benefited from its royal association apart from the irritating all-too-obvious girls who come here to search for their own prince. Another article hilariously refers to these females as "a species indigenous to these shores: The Husband Hunter. They travel in packs, surround their pin-striped shirted prey and dazzle them with their sequined outfits. They also have the sharpest claws of all of the animal kingdom, and will sink them into you and your bank balance, without a second thought." (LOLL)
Lastly, the paper considers St. Andrews to be just another town, filled with the raging hormonal need for gratification of six thousand or so post-pubescents.
Good to know this school can still be paralleled with mine back in the States..
