University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Top Questions

We're all hicks.

Rich, stuck-up, snobby, upper-class, unfriendly, greek

I had heard that they were rich and snobby

That we are only sorority girls, frat boys and football obsessed.

OU is probably stereotyped as hick central and low level intelligence

I can't really think of too many stereotypes, but thats probably because I am just used to OU. OU and UT fans are born to hate eachother apparently, and coming from Dallas I got a lot of grief from both people in Oklahoma and Texas. I think some consider OU a party school that is big on greek life, some even believe that if you aren't greek you're nobody.

greek scene is overbearing; nothing else to do; middle of nowhere; all we care about is football

Probably that we are cocky or rude.

Very intellegent graduate students.

You see every thing...Some people are from the small towns in far off Oklahoma. Everyone is fairly easy to get along with. No one seems really too different from any where else. I have lived in several states and grew up in three different university towns-two in Ohio(Athens/Cincinnati) and here. There are probably more conservatives here in the Bible Belt, but I have always met up with plenty of liberal types as well! Over the years the people I have met here are any where from country to sophisticated and everything in between. One interesting genre here is the real live Indians you see. Driving on campus one evening before dusk three Indians were sitting in a circle beating on drums and I think I heard chanting. That only happened once for me. The language department offers classes in various Indian tribe dialect.