Hey HG, talk to be about New Mexico State…

Glad you asked.

NMSU was founded in 1888 as an agriculture college (hence, the Aggies). As of Fall 2007, it has an enrollement of 27,000. It’s been rated as one of the top 100 ‘best buy’s’ in terms of a high educational value at a low cost.

“Lasso Larry” No really, that’s his name!

Oh, I forgot this little nugget: NMSU is one of only two land-grant institutions classified as Hispanic-serving by the federal government.

So, what is NMSU really all about?

Getting wasted.

Reasons?

Check out the famous alumni:

Rich Beem, the 2002 PGA Championship winner (and that’s about it) had a book written about his hard partying lifestyle on the PGA Tour Bud, Sweat and Tees: A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour. Get this, he was so notorious as a partier that the book was written BEFORE he won the PGA Championship.

Also, check out the fight song. Sounds like the drunken ramblings of a bunch of drunken college students on the GI BIll who are so wasted they don’t even remember the outcome of the game:

Aggies, Oh Aggies

The hills send back the cry

We’re here to do or die

Aggies, Oh Aggies

We’ll win this game or know the reason why

And when we win this game

We’ll buy a keg of booze

And we’ll drink to the Aggies

Till we wobble in our shoes

A-G-G-I-E-S

Aggies, Aggies, go Aggies

Aggies, Oh Aggies

The hills send back the cry

We’re here to do or die

Aggies, Oh Aggies

We’ll win this game or know the reason why!

Come on, HG. There has to be more to NMSU.

Well, Pluto was discovered by a NMSU professor, but they just yanked away Pluto’s ‘planet’ cred, further enhancing NMSU as Party U.