Yeah that's it.. in 2011 there donation was $900...I wonder if they pay niu anything else for the right to sponsor that because if $900 is all your company has to donate to get a decent amount of recognition..then I might have to make a phone call

(04-01-2014 12:07 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  Yeah that's it.. in 2011 there donation was $900...I wonder if they pay niu anything else for the right to sponsor that because if $900 is all your company has to donate to get a decent amount of recognition..then I might have to make a phone call

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blo...re-theyre/

(04-01-2014 03:56 PM)3OrangeWhips Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 12:07 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  Yeah that's it.. in 2011 there donation was $900...I wonder if they pay niu anything else for the right to sponsor that because if $900 is all your company has to donate to get a decent amount of recognition..then I might have to make a phone call

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blo...re-theyre/

If we're pointing out grammatical errors now, should we also point out when people leave words out of their sentences?

(04-01-2014 12:02 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  I still haven't got my ticket or donor packet..

I saw you received your donor packet but you should have already gotten your ticket packet.

In all reality, make a call to the ticket office. They can close the deal over the phone, Just as an aside maybe in the future they could send emails out to ticket holders asking them if they wished to receive a form letter or email instructing them how and when to renew. The glossy print package and mailing costs could be saved.

(04-01-2014 03:56 PM)3OrangeWhips Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 12:07 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  Yeah that's it.. in 2011 there donation was $900...I wonder if they pay niu anything else for the right to sponsor that because if $900 is all your company has to donate to get a decent amount of recognition..then I might have to make a phone call

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blo...re-theyre/

Sorry but the screen on my phone is only so big.. and I do voice to text, so i don't crash, so i don't check it...

But tell me more about how NIU is a bad value

(04-01-2014 07:01 PM)Mr Reality Wrote:  In all reality, make a call to the ticket office. They can close the deal over the phone, Just as an aside maybe in the future they could send emails out to ticket holders asking them if they wished to receive a form letter or email instructing them how and when to renew. The glossy print package and mailing costs could be saved.

Agree what a waste...And my donor packet had my name on that locker room picture..Cant imagine the cost, or how many mailers they could have sent out to the suburbs instead, advertising Season Tickets to new people..

Marketing Fail...

(04-01-2014 05:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 12:02 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  I still haven't got my ticket or donor packet..

I saw you received your donor packet but you should have already gotten your ticket packet.

Nope just got the donor packet today.. Will call Zach tomorrow and renew like usual..the packets are a waste, wish they would switch to an email system, then offer a mailing to people who opt out(older people, etc)

(04-01-2014 10:19 AM)niucyberdawg Wrote:  The mere fact NIU has no AG school and the agriculture market in IL is totally controlled by UI sez alot to why no flying corn cobs atop Convo...You put your ad dollars in locations /outlets with a payoff...How often do you hear Oriene Sameulson of WGN radio and TV the past 53 years say much about DeKalb ...Does any company anywhere still manufacture barb wire?

I always wondered why NIU had no AG school. Granted a huge portion of NIU students are from Chicagoland and not from rural areas, you'd think it would make sense market wise and location wise. I know why u of I has one and it definitely has quite a few enrolled each year.

The last question is interesting, because barbed wire is still prominent all over.

(04-01-2014 07:55 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 03:56 PM)3OrangeWhips Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 12:07 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  Yeah that's it.. in 2011 there donation was $900...I wonder if they pay niu anything else for the right to sponsor that because if $900 is all your company has to donate to get a decent amount of recognition..then I might have to make a phone call

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blo...re-theyre/

Sorry but the screen on my phone is only so big.. and I do voice to text, so i don't crash, so i don't check it...

But tell me more about how NIU is a bad value

Voice text. I get it. Forgive me for being a jag. Proper use of grammar is a pet peeve of mine, but voice text isn't always grammatically correct.

Simplest of answers IMHO as to why no NIU AG school. The Board of Higher Ed approves/rejects all programs at all Illinois state universities. The Board has historically been composed of members having strong or direct connections to UI.

UI was first approved and will always serve as King of the AG Hill. UI monoplizes control over the AG program for the state. Not likely to ever change given the farming industry and reduction of the number of operating smaller farms. Consider the past several decades and how much of the former farmland in exurbia surrounding chicgoland has morphed into housing and commercial developments.

I am always mystified when posters ignore or discount what role political clout plays in the state and funding for higher ed.

UI is the PREMIER state U and gets most all first considerations fom most everything in every budget cycle. What remain$ is divied up amongst the remaining state schools in accord with the decisionmaking by ISBHE.

(04-01-2014 08:11 PM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 10:19 AM)niucyberdawg Wrote:  The mere fact NIU has no AG school and the agriculture market in IL is totally controlled by UI sez alot to why no flying corn cobs atop Convo...You put your ad dollars in locations /outlets with a payoff...How often do you hear Oriene Sameulson of WGN radio and TV the past 53 years say much about DeKalb ...Does any company anywhere still manufacture barb wire?

I always wondered why NIU had no AG school. Granted a huge portion of NIU students are from Chicagoland and not from rural areas, you'd think it would make sense market wise and location wise. I know why u of I has one and it definitely has quite a few enrolled each year.

The last question is interesting, because barbed wire is still prominent all over.

(04-01-2014 07:59 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 05:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 12:02 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  I still haven't got my ticket or donor packet..

I saw you received your donor packet but you should have already gotten your ticket packet.

Nope just got the donor packet today.. Will call Zach tomorrow and renew like usual..the packets are a waste, wish they would switch to an email system, then offer a mailing to people who opt out(older people, etc)

+1 I strongly suggested a voluntary e-mail packet 2 years ago...maybe time to dig up my old suggestions and resend them.

IMO my donation is not worth the expense of that packet...especially since it will likely be reduced this year because of the large cost increase in my season tickets. It kinda frustrated my wife last night when she saw the second packet and saying how much that cost them to make it, mail it and the manpower to put it together.

Well, I donate enough and I would like the hard copy packets. It gives me something different to read in the toilet, and I would like something nice to leave my progeny.

(04-02-2014 11:03 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  Well, I donate enough and I would like the hard copy packets. It gives me something different to read in the toilet, and I would like something nice to leave my progeny.

If people want it that it fine. I just think there is a decent number of people would would rather have their packet sent via e-mail for the cost savings to the program and for tree hugging reasons.

(04-01-2014 08:11 PM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 10:19 AM)niucyberdawg Wrote:  The mere fact NIU has no AG school and the agriculture market in IL is totally controlled by UI sez alot to why no flying corn cobs atop Convo...You put your ad dollars in locations /outlets with a payoff...How often do you hear Oriene Sameulson of WGN radio and TV the past 53 years say much about DeKalb ...Does any company anywhere still manufacture barb wire?

I always wondered why NIU had no AG school. Granted a huge portion of NIU students are from Chicagoland and not from rural areas, you'd think it would make sense market wise and location wise. I know why u of I has one and it definitely has quite a few enrolled each year.

The last question is interesting, because barbed wire is still prominent all over.

Barbed wire manufacturing ended in DeKalb before NIU was even around...
It was (arguably) invented in DeKalb.

(04-02-2014 12:33 PM)DoubleHuskie84 Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 08:11 PM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 10:19 AM)niucyberdawg Wrote:  The mere fact NIU has no AG school and the agriculture market in IL is totally controlled by UI sez alot to why no flying corn cobs atop Convo...You put your ad dollars in locations /outlets with a payoff...How often do you hear Oriene Sameulson of WGN radio and TV the past 53 years say much about DeKalb ...Does any company anywhere still manufacture barb wire?

I always wondered why NIU had no AG school. Granted a huge portion of NIU students are from Chicagoland and not from rural areas, you'd think it would make sense market wise and location wise. I know why u of I has one and it definitely has quite a few enrolled each year.

The last question is interesting, because barbed wire is still prominent all over.

Barbed wire manufacturing ended in DeKalb before NIU was even around...
It was (arguably) invented in DeKalb.

I think he was asking who and where and if it's still mass produced?

I don't know if the manufacturing ended in DeKalb before NIU. NIU is in DeKalb because of the barbed wire barons.

(04-02-2014 12:52 PM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  

(04-02-2014 12:33 PM)DoubleHuskie84 Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 08:11 PM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  

(04-01-2014 10:19 AM)niucyberdawg Wrote:  The mere fact NIU has no AG school and the agriculture market in IL is totally controlled by UI sez alot to why no flying corn cobs atop Convo...You put your ad dollars in locations /outlets with a payoff...How often do you hear Oriene Sameulson of WGN radio and TV the past 53 years say much about DeKalb ...Does any company anywhere still manufacture barb wire?

I always wondered why NIU had no AG school. Granted a huge portion of NIU students are from Chicagoland and not from rural areas, you'd think it would make sense market wise and location wise. I know why u of I has one and it definitely has quite a few enrolled each year.

The last question is interesting, because barbed wire is still prominent all over.

Barbed wire manufacturing ended in DeKalb before NIU was even around...
It was (arguably) invented in DeKalb.

I think he was asking who and where and if it's still mass produced?

I don't know if the manufacturing ended in DeKalb before NIU.




NIU is in DeKalb because of the barbed wire barons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire

Not even close.

Maybe the Illinois Penal system could sponsor us..they still use barbed wire or a version of it