(12-19-2011 04:10 PM)Howl-n-Prowl Wrote:  I wrote no such thing.

You must be an attorney the way you distort the facts to try to make your point and in doing so, try to claim that I am guilty of the very offense that you are committing.

What I wrote in that previous post was that NIU is the flagship of the de facto Illinois State system. I never claimed that NIU was the State Flagship University of the Great State of Illinois. That distinction goes to the Flailing school with the racist and inappropriate mascot in Champaign.

I am not disputing CSU's status as the flagship of the State system in Colorado. And despite what you write here and care to believe, neither CSU nor UNLV are State Flagship Universities.

Are you intentionally being difficult or are you truly confused by the term State Flagship University? It's not a complex concept.

No, I am correcting your inaccuracies. What you believe the deviding line should be is not fact. You are creating some sort of fanciful line with terms of 'State Flagship U.' vs 'System Flagship U.', which cannot be done because different states have no system, or 1 system, or multiple systems. State's declare their flagships, and they are all documented. That is the only concept that requires understanding.

UNLV: "1968:The university is granted autonomy under the state's higher-education system, giving it status equal to that of University of Nevada, Reno"

And your 'De facto' assetion for NIU, when there is no "Illinois State system" and no state, institutional, or media documentation on the topic, is a far less than dubious claim. I understand that there is no doubt NIU is the largest and most research-intensive of the non-U. of Illinios institutions, but it is a single entity, unconnected to the other state schools.