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Old Dominion Athletic Conference
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The Old Dominion Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference. Of its 14 member schools, all but one are located in Virginia, the conference also has four associate members in Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. The conference was founded in 1975 as the Virginia College Conference, on January 1,1976, the name was changed to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. The 1976–77 season was the first in which championships were offered, in 1982–83, womens sports were added. In 1981, Catholic University joined the conference after leaving Division Is Colonial Athletic Association, in 1988, Virginia Wesleyan was added as a member, and, in 1990, Guilford became the first member located outside D. C. and Virginia. Maryville College was a member in the 1980s. In 1989 Catholic left the conference to become a member of the Capital Athletic Conference. The next school to leave the conference was Mary Baldwin College, in 2010 the ODAC announced the addition of Shenandoah University to its full-time membership, with its first full year of involvement during the 2012–13 academic year. The league office moved its location from Salem, Virginia, to Forest, Virginia, just outside centrally located Lynchburg. On March 3,2015, Sweet Briar College announced it was to close at the end of the 2015 summer session, however, on June 20,2015, the Virginia Attorney General announced a mediation agreement that will keep Sweet Briar College open for the 2015–16 academic year. Sweet Briar reactivated its sports teams in the 2015-16 season and remained a member of the ODAC. On September 29,2015, it was announced that Catholic University would withdraw in 2017 as associate member to join the new league at the New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference. The conference hosts the Division III championships in football and mens basketball, DIII softball has called Salem home along with Division III womens lacrosse and volleyball. Since 1993 - the conference and city have hosted over 50 Division III national championships, notes † - Womens college, therefore not competing in mens sports. ^ - Mens college, therefore not competing in womens sports. % - Hollins University does not have an athletic nickname. * - Formerly Randolph-Macon Womans College prior to 2008, the conference sponsors championships in the following sports, Official website
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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NCAA Division III
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Sports Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. The division consists of colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletically related financial aid to their student-athletes, as explained in more detail in the article about NCAA Division II, the NCAAs first split was into two divisions. The former College Division formed because many NCAA member schools wanted an alternative to the nature of what is now Division I. Division III formed in 1973, in a split of the College Division, the former College Division members that chose to offer athletic scholarships or to remain in a division with those who did became Division II, while members that did not became Division III. Division III is the NCAA’s largest division with 438 active member institutions, of the member institutions, 81% are private, while only 19% are public. Division III schools range in size from an undergraduate enrollment of 348 to a maximum of 21,247. Division III institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women, there are minimum contest and participant minimums for each sport. Division III athletic programs are non-revenue-generating, extracurricular programs that are staffed and funded like any other university department, hence, they feature student-athletes who receive no financial aid related to their athletic ability. Student athletes also cannot redshirt as freshmen, and schools may not use endowments or funds whose primary purpose is to benefit athletic programs, Division III schools shall not award financial aid to any student on the basis of athletics leadership, ability, participation or performance. The ban on scholarships is strictly enforced. S, an all-sports conference is defined here as one that sponsors both mens and womens basketball. A conference name followed by * denotes a conference also sponsors football. Six of them are grandfathered schools that have competed at the highest level of a particular mens sport prior to the institution of the Division classifications in 1971. Presumably due to Title IX considerations, grandfathered schools are allowed to field one womens sport in Division I. These schools are allowed to offer scholarships in their Division I mens and womens sports to remain competitive with their opponents. The State University of New York at Oneonta, which had been grandfathered in mens soccer, rutgers University–Newark, which had been grandfathered in mens volleyball, did the same in 2014. Academic-based and need-based financial aid is available, as is the case for Division III. Franklin and Marshall College Hobart College Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT also fields mens rowing, lawrence continues to field a fencing team, but that team is now considered Division III. Football and basketball may not be grandfathered Division I programs because their potential would give them an unfair advantage over other Division III schools
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Ashland, Virginia
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Ashland is a town located 15 miles north of Richmond along Interstate-95 and historic Route 1 in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. Ashland is named after the Lexington, Kentucky estate of Hanover County native and it is the only incorporated town in Hanover County chartered by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, initially developed the town in the 1840s as a mineral springs resort with a racetrack, the town was named “Ashland” after native son Henry Clay’s estate in Kentucky and officially incorporated on February 19,1858. The area had been known as The Slashes, sometimes translated as swamp, confederate troops trained on the former racetrack early in the American Civil War, but the war and its aftermath devastated Ashland. Randolph-Macon College moved to Ashland in 1868, and began using buildings of the hotel as well as building additional structures. The railroad lines rebuilt and the continued to expand. Even before the war, the railroad began offering monthly passes to Richmond to people buying lots, when tycoon Jay Gould established a streetcar line between Ashland and Richmond in 1908, it became an early streetcar suburb of Richmond. Construction of U. S. Route 1 on the former Washington Road, and later I-95, further shaped the town character and development. One of Virginias oldest churches is just outside Ashland, Slash Church, built as the Upper Church of St. Pauls Parish in 1729 remains a house of worship, Ashland itself originally had a Free Church, shared by various Protestant denominations. Several denominations built churches shortly after the Civil War, but many were torn down in modern times, the towns current Episcopal Church is St. The Disciples of Christ also had a church on Center Street that was replaced in 1985. Historic churches still within the boundaries include, Ashland Baptist Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, Duncan Memorial Chapel, St. Anns Catholic Church. Gwathmey Baptist Church is a mile nearer Richmond and, within 50 feet of the railroad tracks, the town now also has an Eastern Orthodox congregation, St. Andrews, and a messianic Jewish congregation. Major Payne was filmed at the Ashland train station, which now acts as a tourist information office, bloomberg Business in 2009 named Ashland Best Place to Raise your Kids in Virginia. Www. movoto. com in 2014, named Ashland one of Americas 10 best small towns, on October 19,2002, Ashland made national news as the site of one of the Beltway sniper attacks. 37-year-old Jeffrey Hopper was shot at 8,00 pm in the lot of a Ponderosa Steakhouse as he. Ashland is located at 37°45′34″N 77°28′38″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.2 square miles, of which 7.2 square miles is land and 0.04 square mile is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 7225 people with 2,863 households in the town
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Virginia
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Virginia is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as well as in the historic Southeast. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, the capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond, Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealths estimated population as of 2014 is over 8.3 million, the areas history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony, slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colonys early politics and plantation economy. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, the Virginia General Assembly is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. The state government was ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States in both 2005 and 2008 and it is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginias economy changed from agricultural to industrial during the 1960s and 1970s. Virginia has an area of 42,774.2 square miles, including 3,180.13 square miles of water. Virginias boundary with Maryland and Washington, D. C. extends to the mark of the south shore of the Potomac River. The southern border is defined as the 36° 30′ parallel north, the border with Tennessee was not settled until 1893, when their dispute was brought to the U. S. Supreme Court. The Chesapeake Bay separates the portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginias Eastern Shore. The bay was formed from the river valleys of the Susquehanna River. Many of Virginias rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, the Tidewater is a coastal plain between the Atlantic coast and the fall line. It includes the Eastern Shore and major estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, the Piedmont is a series of sedimentary and igneous rock-based foothills east of the mountains which were formed in the Mesozoic era. The region, known for its clay soil, includes the Southwest Mountains around Charlottesville. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a province of the Appalachian Mountains with the highest points in the state. The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains and includes the Great Appalachian Valley, the region is carbonate rock based and includes Massanutten Mountain. The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the southwest corner of Virginia, in this region, rivers flow northwest, with a dendritic drainage system, into the Ohio River basin
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University of Bridgeport
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The University is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The University is known for its student population, currently ranking as the tenth most racially diverse national university in the country by U. S. News & World Report. The students of the University of Bridgeport are from 80 countries and 46 states, in 2010, the percentage of students graduating that had participated in an English as a foreign or second language program was one of the nations highest at 5%. The stately old Victorian homes on campus date from the late 1800s to early 1900s – many owned by family, Bill, and international students who wanted to attend college in the United States. Enrollment peaked at 9100 students in 1969, and an Ed. D. program in Educational Leadership was added in 1979, enrollment declined in the 1970s and 1980s after the waves of baby boom and Vietnam era veterans eligible for the G. I. By 1990, the university had cut tuition, room and board fees to $18,000 per year, more than a third of the 50 campus buildings were empty. To cut costs, the university decided to terminate 50 tenured faculty, in addition, the university decided to eliminate its Liberal Arts College, alienating many students. This led to the longest faculty strike in the history of American higher education, Dr. Greenwood, the president at the time, quit abruptly, and around 1,000 students left the school, contributing to the cash crisis. In 1990, discussion began about affiliating or possibly merging the university with either the University of New Haven or Sacred Heart University, problems continued to plague the University, enrollment fell to 1,300 in 1991. Debt rose to over $22 million in 1991–92, there were other universities willing to take over the school, but were unwilling to take on its debt. The universitys charter required the trustees to enter serious negotiations. The PWPA invested $50.5 million in the university on May 30,1992, a two-year faculty strike, started in the midst of the universitys financial troubles, intensified when the trustees gave control to the PWPA. Eventually, sixty-six professors and librarians agreed to a divorce with the university in return for compensation of up to a years salary, in a similar move, the Law School decided to cut ties with the university, separating from it. In order for the law school to open it had to merge with a financially sound university. The law school faculty and students voted to merge with Quinnipiac University, after the PWPA assumed control of the university, the trustees retained the president at the time, Dr. Edwin G. Eigel, Jr. Eigel served as president until 1995. He was succeeded by distinguished professor and former PWPA president Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein, neil Albert Salonen, a member of the Unification Church, was the Chairman of the Universitys Board of Trustees when he was chosen to serve as ninth University president in 1999. Since 2003 the University has been independent from PWPA after having received funding from the PWPA from 1992 until 2002. Enrollment has grown dramatically in recent years, from 1,383 total students in 1992 to 5,323 students in fall 2008, in 1991, the school added a Chiropractic Program, the first university-affiliated program of its kind in the U. S
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Connecticut
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Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State Area and it is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital city is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport, the state is named for the Connecticut River, a major U. S. river that approximately bisects the state. The word Connecticut is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for long tidal river, Connecticut is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 United States. It is known as the Constitution State, the Nutmeg State, the Provisions State, and it was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States. Connecticuts center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticuts first European settlers were Dutch. They established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park, initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers. The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by England, the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution, the Connecticut River, Thames River, and ports along the Long Island Sound have given Connecticut a strong maritime tradition which continues today. The state also has a history of hosting the financial services industry, including insurance companies in Hartford. As of the 2010 Census, Connecticut features the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index, and median household income in the United States. Landmarks and Cities of Connecticut Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west by New York, on the north by Massachusetts, and on the east by Rhode Island. The state capital and third largest city is Hartford, and other cities and towns include Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury, New Britain, Greenwich. Connecticut is slightly larger than the country of Montenegro, there are 169 incorporated towns in Connecticut. The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain in Salisbury in the northwest corner of the state, the highest point is just east of where Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York meet, on the southern slope of Mount Frissell, whose peak lies nearby in Massachusetts. At the opposite extreme, many of the towns have areas that are less than 20 feet above sea level. Connecticut has a maritime history and a reputation based on that history—yet the state has no direct oceanfront
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Wittenberg University
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Wittenberg University is a private four-year liberal arts college in Springfield, Ohio, US serving 2,000 full-time students representing 37 states and approximately 30 foreign countries. A German American pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Rev. Ezra Keller was the principal founder and its initial focus was to train clergy with the Hamma School of Divinity as its theological department. One of its missions was to Americanize Lutherans by teaching courses in the English language instead of German, unlike the nearby Capital University in Columbus. The first class consisted of eight students at the beginning of the academic year. With a faculty of one professor and two tutors, classes were held in Springfield, Ohio in a church on land that was donated, in 1874, women were admitted to the college, and, the following year, blacks were admitted. For decades, Hamma and Wittenberg in Springfield were associated with the local English-speaking regional synods in the Midwest, in 1978, Hamma Divinity School merged with the nearby Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary in the Bexley suburb of the state capital of Columbus, Ohio, associated with Capital University. Ezra Keller Samuel Sprecher John B, eight pre-professional programs are offered to students,70 percent of whom eventually pursue graduate studies. The Universitys science facilities are housed in the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, krieg Hall is the home of the music department. Wittenbergs art department is housed in Koch Hall, Thomas Library contains 400,000 volumes and provides access to OhioLINK, a consortium of Ohio college and university libraries as well as the State Library of Ohio. The library houses the Kemper Special Collection Area which contains the Luther-Reformation Collection with more than 400 items written by Martin Luther, the library was built 1956 to the designs of Thomas Norman Mansell of Mansell, Lewis & Fugate of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. In that instance, the Wittenberg administration overruled the faculty personnel boards authority and asserted its right to deny tenure for reasons beyond teaching, research, the current administration makes no such assertion. In 2010, the journal Princeton Review ranked Wittenberg 11th in the nation for Best Classroom Experience, in addition, Princeton Review ranked the colleges campus the 18th most beautiful in the nation in 2009. The University also has top programs in Communication, the communication program was named by the National Communication Association as the Nations Best Program. Along with that Wittenberg University has been named one of only 23 institutions in the nation by the Fiske Guide to Colleges for Small Colleges and Universities Strong in Drama, the elite ranking, places Wittenberg alongside such schools as Juilliard, Vassar, Oberlin, Otterbein and Princeton. In the last 10 years, Wittenberg faculty members have won 16 Fulbright Awards, chronicle of Higher Education says the University is one of 11 bachelor’s programs with more than two professors doing research under Fulbright auspices. Wittenberg professors have won seven Ohio Professor of the Year Awards since the award was established in 1981, Blair Hall is where the education department is housed for the university. Undergraduates and Graduate students take classes in this if they are planning to pursue to become a teacher. The Springfield-Wittenberg Teacher Institute and Upward Bound are both housed in Blair, the business and sociology departmental building
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Springfield, Ohio
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Springfield is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River, Buck Creek and Beaver Creek, Springfield is home to Wittenberg University, a liberal arts college. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,608. The Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 138,333 residents, and the Dayton-Springfield-Greenville, OH Combined Statistical Area had 1,072,891 residents. In 1983, Newsweek featured Springfield in its 50th anniversary issue, entitled and it chronicled the impact of the past 50 years on five local families. In 2004, Springfield was chosen as an All-America City, in 2010, Springfield ranked third worst in a national wellbeing survey conducted by The Gallup Organization. In 2011, Springfield was named the unhappiest city in America by another Gallup survey. In 2015, Springfield was founded by James Demint, a former teamster from Kentucky, in 1801. Dayton and Eaton wanted the road to veer south after Springfield, during the mid-and-late 19th century, Springfield was dominated by industrialists including Oliver S. Kelly, Asa S. Bushnell, James Leffel, P. P. Asa S. Bushnell built the Springfield, Ohio Bushnell Building where the patent attorney to the Wright Brothers, Harry Aubrey Toulmin, to promote the products of his agricultural equipment company, P. P. Mast started the Farm and Fireside magazine, mast’s publishing company – Mast, Crowell, and Kirkpatrick – grew to become Crowell-Collier Publishing Company best known for Colliers Weekly. In 1894, The Kelly Springfield Tire Company was founded, at the turn of the 20th century Springfield became known as the Home City. Several lodges including the Masonic Lodge, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows built homes for orphans, Springfield also became known as The Champion City. A reference to the Champion Farm Equipment brand manufactured by the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, International remains in Springfield as Navistar International, a producer of medium to large trucks. In 1902 A. B. Graham, then the superintendent of schools for Springfield Township in Clark County, established a Boys and Girls Agricultural Club. Approximately 85 children from 10 to 15 years of age attended the first meeting on January 15,1902 in Springfield, Ohio and this was the start of what would be called the 4-H Club within a few years, quickly growing to a nationwide organization. The first projects included food preservation, gardening and elementary agriculture, today, the Courthouse still bears a large 4H symbol under the flag pole at the front of the building to commemorate its part in founding the organization. The Clark County Fair is the second largest fair in the state in part to 4H still remaining very popular in the area. On March 7,1904, over a thousand residents formed a mob, stormed the jail and removed prisoner Richard Dixon
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Bridgewater Eagles
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The Bridgewater Eagles are the athletic teams that represent Bridgewater College, located in Bridgewater, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Eagles compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, altogether, Bridgewater sponsors 20 sports,9 for men and 11 for women. In 2014, the Bridgewater College baseball team won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament, the Eagles lost to Emory University, the eventual College World Series Runner-Up. This was the first ever South Regional title appearance for the Eagles as they finished in the Sweet Sixteen and were ranked in the Top 25 in both d3baseball. com and NACBA Top 30 final polls. The equestrian team has consistently been one of the top teams in the Zone 4 Region 2 of the IHSA, winning the title in 2006 and 2011, and also winning the ODAC championship in 2007 and 2009. In 2011, Bridgewaters first ever trip to the IHSA National Show resulted in a tie for fifth place in the standings with the University of Kentucky. Bridgewater riders finished in the Top 10 in seven of the eight classes, the top six finishers in each class scored points for their team. In 2001, the Bridgewater College football team finished the season as national runner-up after a 30-27 loss to Mount Union in the Stagg Bowl NCAA Division III National Football Championship, official Website of Bridgewater College Eagles Athletics
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Eastern Mennonite Royals
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The Eastern Mennonite Royals are the athletic teams that represent Eastern Mennonite University, located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Royals compete as full, non-football members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, altogether, Eastern Mennonite sponsors 15 sports,7 for men and 8 for women. At the end of the 2009-10 season EMUs mens basketball team had 25-5 record and was ranked No.4 in the nation by D3hoops. com, in the spring of 2010, womens softball entered in the ODAC Tournament as the eighth seed team. In the championship game, they defeated Virginia Wesleyan 5 to 1 to become the 2010 ODAC Champions, official Website of Eastern Mennonite Royals Athletics
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Emory and Henry Wasps
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The Emory & Henry Wasps are the athletic teams that represent Emory and Henry College, located in Emory, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Wasps compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, altogether, Emory & Henry sponsors 15 sports,7 for men and 8 for women. The Emory and Henry football team came under investigation for alleged violations of NCAA bylaws in 2014, the allegations came to public attention after the resignation of former coach Don Montgomery from the football program and departure of the Colleges president, Dr. Rosalind Reichard. The student newspaper reported that allegations were due to lack of control of the athletic department The official Emory and Henry mascot is the Wasps. Though Emory and Henry was beaten 27–0, legend has it that the paper declared that those Virginia boys stung like wasps. The Emory and Henry basketball teams unofficial mascot is a dog named Pete, Pete is a reference to the late Emory and Henry basketball coach Bob Johnsons Labrador retriever. Pete was often seen sitting beside Coach Johnson during games at the King Center, the E&H Wasps are credited with inventing an American football offensive formation, named in the colleges honor, that divides the offensive line and wide receivers into three groupings of three. The formation is featured on EA Sports NCAA Football 07 video game as well, E&H also boasted the nations longest home game winning streak in 1999 at 37 games. In 2004, Yall magazine listed Emory and Henry among the 40 colleges and universities in the South with the greatest football traditions, not to be overshadowed by neighboring Division I powerhouses. Winning seasons plus pride and pageantry equals one of the greatest Southern football traditions. The Wasps oldest current football rival is Hampden-Sydney College who first played the Wasps in 1922, Emory and Henry College has had three players drafted to the NFL over the years. The most notable being Sonny Wade who went on to several years in the CFL
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Guilford College
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Guilford College is a small liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Guilford has both traditional students and students who attend its Center for Continuing Education, Guilford College is the only Quaker-founded college in the southeastern United States. Opening in 1837 as New Garden Boarding School, the became a four-year liberal arts college in 1888. Levi Coffin, a well-known abolitionist, Quaker, and political dissenter grew up on the land, the woods of New Garden, which still exist on campus today, were used as a meeting point for the Underground Railroad in the 19th century, run by Coffin. Guilford competes as an NCAA Division III as an Old Dominion Athletic Conference member, the school has won five national championships, including the 1973 NAIA mens basketball title, the 1981 NAIA womens tennis title and the 1989,2002 and 2005 mens golf titles. In the past decade, Guilfords Bryan Series has brought many speakers to the campus. Past speakers have included Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ken Burns, Mary Robinson, David McCullough, and Toni Morrison. The 2008–09 Bryan Series lecturers were Khaled Hosseini, Christiane Amanpour and James Rubin, Salman Rushdie, the 2009–10 lecturers were Garry Trudeau, Paul Krugman, Anna Deavere Smith, David Gregory, and Yo-Yo Ma. Every summer, the hosts the five-week-long Eastern Music Festival. Each year, EMF features more than 70 concerts and music-related events on-, the largest campus-wide event of the year is Serendipity, held annually in the spring. It began in 1972 as a replacement to the somewhat antiquated May Day festivities, and has featured games, musical performances, and general mayhem. During its peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the festival was attended by Guilford students and alumni. Despite the fact that Serendipity is considered by alum to be a hallmark of the Guilford experience, as of December 2014, following concerns expressed by the interim Dean of Students Jenn Agor about music festival culture, school officials have begun to discuss to possibility of discontinuing the tradition. This has led to a sizable student backlash, the dispute over Serendipity is indicative of the tensions between the very liberal student body and its more conservative administration. Con This event has been occurring annually since 2001, Major guests include a host of webcomic creators and wrock bands. The most recent Con, held February 10–12,2012, attracted around 300 attendees, peak attendance has been around 500 people. Long time high school Athletic Director and football coach, member of the New Jersey Coaches Hall of Fame. Tony Womack,1992, Major League Baseball player David M. Dobson, David Hammond, notable director, is a Theater Studies Professor at Guilford
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Hollins University
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Hollins University is a four-year private institution of higher education located on a 475-acre campus on the border of Roanoke and Botetourt counties in the U. S. state of Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the settlement of Botetourt Springs. Hollins has since evolved into a university with approximately 800 enrolled undergraduate and graduate students. As Virginias first chartered womens college, all programs are female-only. Men are admitted to the graduate-level programs, the Hollins College Quadrangle consists of six contributing buildings. The earliest buildings were built for the Botetourt Springs resort which operated from 1820 to 1841, the first built specifically for the college is East Building, erected 1856–58 opposite the hotel building. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the institution of higher learning that would become Hollins was first established in 1842 by the Reverend Joshua Bradley as the coeducational Valley Union Seminary. Bradley left in 1845 for Missouri, and in 1846, the trustees hired a twenty-five-year-old math instructor from Richmond named Charles Lewis Cocke to direct the institution. Cocke arrived with his wife, Susanna, and sixteen slaves, the same year, Cocke established the first school for enslaved people in the Roanoke area, many students at the school worked at the seminary. In 1851, Cocke abolished the department of the institution, and in 1852. In 1855, Lynchburg residents John and Ann Halsey Hollins gave $5,000, the Hollinses gave an additional $12,500 in gifts before their deaths in 1859 and 1864 respectively. As the head of Hollins, Cocke saw his students as a part of a family and his pedagogy was based upon the southern sensibility that a lady was to be trained to submit to the order of men. Though he thought women studying at Hollins were best confined to domestic duties, Hollins was known as a rigorous institution where degrees were not easily earned during Cockes tenure. Students at the school during this period remember the unbelieveably serious instruction, the Hollins of Cockes ambitions was limited by region, as Cocke was interested in educating women only from Southern states. Because of this scope, Hollins struggled to professionalize in the 1880s. Its remote location far from the respected and funded mens institutions put Hollins in contrast with the Seven Sisters in the Northeast. Despite its academic rigor, Hollins and other womens colleges were smaller and poorer than womens college such as Smith College. However, Hollins saw its enrollment rise in the last two decades of the 19th century, as women sought higher education nationwide
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Randolph College
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Randolph College is a private liberal arts and sciences college located in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1891 as Randolph-Macon Womans College, it was renamed on July 1,2007, the college offers 30 majors,44 minors, pre-professional programs in law, medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, and teaching, and dual degree programs in engineering and nursing. Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science and bachelor of arts degrees are offered. Randolph offers master of arts in teaching and master of education degrees, bridges Not Walls, approved by the Colleges faculty during 2010, is designed to enhance students intercultural competence. Randolph operates a study program, Randolph College Abroad, The World in Britain at the University of Reading. Randolph is an NCAA Division III school competing in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, the college fields varsity teams in six mens and eight womens sports. The coed riding team competes in both the ODAC and the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association, notable alumni include author Pearl S. Buck, who won the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize, former U. S. Senator Blanche Lincoln, and CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley, Randolph is a member of The Annapolis Group of colleges in the United States, the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia, and the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. The college was founded by William Waugh Smith, then-president of Randolph-Macon College, Randolph-Macon Womans College has historic ties to the United Methodist Church. After many attempts to find a location for Randolph-Macon Womans College, in 1916, it became the first womens college in the South to earn a Phi Beta Kappa charter. Beginning in 1953, the two colleges were governed by boards of trustees. Main Hall, built in 1891, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, in August 2006, only a few weeks into the academic year, Randolph-Macon Womans College announced that it would adopt coeducation and change its name. Former Interim president Ginger H. Worden argued that, today, yet that original mission, that dedication to womens values and education, remains. The fact of the marketplace is that only 3 percent of college-age women say they consider a womens college. The majority of our own students say they werent looking for a college specifically. Most come despite the fact that we are a single-sex college and our enrollment problems are not going away, and we compete with both coed and single-sex schools. Of the top 10 colleges to which our applicants also apply, virtually all who transfer from R-MWC do so to a coed school. These market factors affect our financial realities, the decision to go co-ed was not welcomed by everyone
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Shenandoah Hornets
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The Shenandoah Hornets are the athletic teams that represent Shenandoah University, located in Winchester, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Hornets compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, altogether, Shenandoah sponsors 19 sports,9 for men and 10 for women. Previously, the Hornets were members of the USA South Athletic Conference, the men’s baseball team played in four straight regionals from 2009-12, and the Division III national championships in 2009 and 2010. Shenandoahs football team were co-champions of the USA South twice, both times with,2003 and 2004, additionally, Shenandoah has made one appearance in the NCAA Division III Football Championship, in 2004. However, the Hornets were defeated in the first round by Delaware Valley, in the fall of 2011, the womens soccer team won the USA South Conference Championship for the first time in school history. The team also played in the first round of the NCAA tournament for the first time, in the spring of 2008, the womens softball team captured its first-ever USA South Athletic Conference championship in school history, finishing with a record of 30-12. Official Website of Shenandoah Hornets Athletics
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Sweet Briar College
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Sweet Briar College is a womens liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States, about 12 miles north of Lynchburg. The college is on 3,250 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the estate of the colleges founder. Sweet Briar was established in 1901 as the Sweet Briar Institute, on March 3,2015, Sweet Briars board of directors announced that the college would be closing at the end of the summer session, citing insurmountable financial challenges. In response, a group of concerned alumnae and friends of the college formed an organization, Saving Sweet Briar. Saving Sweet Briar, students, parents and alumnae, faculty and staff, on June 20,2015, the Virginia Attorney General announced a mediation agreement to keep Sweet Briar College open. After replacing the board and president, the college rescinded the closing announcement, the college is named after the former plantation of Elijah Fletcher and his descendants. Fletcher was a 19th-century teacher, businessman and mayor of Lynchburg and he married Maria Antoinette Crawford in 1813, and purchased the Sweet Briar plantation property from her aunt and uncle. The plantation was known as Locust Ridge, Crawford supposedly renamed it Sweet Briar after the roses which grew on the land. Their daughter, Indiana Fletcher, was born in 1828 in Lynchburg, Indiana attended the Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Doane Academy, and later toured Europe with her brother and sister. She met James Henry Williams, a student at Union Theological Seminary in 1858 and their daughter, Maria Georgiana Daisy Williams, was born in 1867. At Elijah Fletchers death, Indiana inherited the plantation, James Williams gave up his initial career as a clergyman to maintain the property. Daisy Williams died at the age of 16 in 1884, both James and Indiana Fletcher-Williams were devastated at her death, and James expressed a wish in his own will that a school might be established in honor of Daisy. William died in 1889, leaving his estate to his wife. When Indiana died in 1900, she bequeathed Sweet Briar plantation to become a school for young women, by his death in 1858, Elijah Fletcher owned over 110 slaves. Some descendants of the owned by the family still work at the college. The will stated that the land of Sweet Briar plantation must be used as a school or seminary to be known as the Sweet Briar institute, for the education of white girls and young women. In 1906, Sweet Briar College officially opened with 51 students, in 1932, Sweet Briars study abroad exchange program with the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, was established. In 1948, the renowned Junior Year in France program was launched, followed by a number of study abroad programs
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Virginia Wesleyan Marlins
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The Virginia Wesleyan Marlins are the athletic teams that represent Virginia Wesleyan College, located in Norfolk, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Marlins compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, altogether, Virginia Wesleyan sponsors 22 sports,10 for men and 12 for women. The mens basketball won the national championship in 2006, and the following year returned to the championship game. The men returned to the four in 2015. The womens soccer team made it to the four in 2006 after winning the ODAC tournament for the first time in program history. Mens golfer, Evan Cox, won the national championship in 2016 as a sophomore. Official Website of Virginia Weslyan Marlins Athletics
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Washington and Lee Generals
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The Washington and Lee Generals are the athletic teams that represent Washington and Lee University, located in Lexington, Virginia, in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Generals compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference for all sports except wrestling, altogether, Washington and Lee sponsors 21 sports,10 for men and 11 for women. Washington and Lee was one of the members of the Division I Southern Conference in 1921. The Generals remained members of the SoCon until 1958, during this time, they played alongside other Virginia universities like Virginia, Virginia Tech, VMI, and William & Mary. Generals basketball won the Southern Conference twice,1934 an 1937, the football team even made an appearance in the 1951 Gator Bowl against Wyoming. After leaving the Southern Conference, the Generals moved into Division III and this was followed by a move to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference in 1976, also as a founding member. Washington & Lees mens lacrosse remained the schools only Division I program until 1987, Washington and Lee holds two NCAA National Championship titles. In 1988, the tennis team won the NCAA Division III National Championship title. In 2007, the tennis team claimed the NCAA Division III National Championship title. In 2006,2010,2012, and 2015 the Generals football team won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship, in 2009, the Generals baseball team won the ODAC championship. After downgrading to Division III in 1958, the lacrosse team remained at the Division I level. Washington and Lee made seven appearances in the NCAA Division I Mens Lacrosse Championship,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1980, the Generals reached the semifinals three times, in 1973,1974, and 1975. However, the team was moved down to Division III in 1987
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Ferrum College
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Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia, USA, in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Ferrum College has the second-oldest environmental science program in the nation and was ranked 41st by U. S. News & World Report in Comprehensive Colleges–Bachelors for 2006, the college itself is on the Virginia Historic Register. Roberts Hall and Beckham Hall are part of the Ferrum College Historic District and listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and it is a liberal arts institution founded on Christian principles and related to the United Methodist Church. The branch schools closed as public education took hold in the area, the elementary division closed in the early 1940s, followed by the high school division in 1955 to allow the program to concentrate on its junior college offerings. The junior college received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges, the college experienced dramatic growth and facilities improvement in the 1960s and 1970s and began offering bachelors degrees in a selection of human service fields in 1977. The college was awarded accreditation as a college by the Southern Association of Colleges. The last associate degrees were awarded in 1991, today, Ferrum College offers bachelors degrees in twenty-eight major degree programs. The college continues to operate under the auspices of the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women of the Virginia Annual Conference. Timeline of Presidents Dr. Benjamin M. Beckham Mr. John A. Carter Dr. James A. Chapman The Reverend Luther J. Derby Dr. Nathaniel H. Davis24 The Reverend Stanley E. Emrich Dr. C. Ralph Arthur Dr. Joseph T. Hart Dr. Jerry M. Boone Dr. Jennifer L. Braaten Dr. Joseph Carson Spooner The Ferrum campus is located on 700 acres near the town of Ferrum, Virginia. The nearest large cities are Roanoke, Virginia and Greensboro, North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum, designated as the State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore by the Virginia General Assembly in 1986, is on the main campus near the Blue Ridge Farm Museum. The Institute holds the annual Blue Ridge Folklife Festival on the fourth Saturday in October to showcase regional traditions, in 1999, the museums collection of Great Road Pottery was featured on an episode of the American version of Antiques Roadshow. Ferrrums Schoolfield Hall is also home to the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre, local legend has it that Schoolfield Hall is haunted. Ferrums sports teams participate in the NCAAs Division III in the USA South Athletic Conference and its football team played in the Atlantic Central Football Conference from 1998 to 2000. Ferrum joined the NCAA Division III in 1985 after being classified as a junior college. Hank Norton, Ferrum won the National Junior College Athletic Association national football championship four times, nortons last great team, in 1989, finished third overall in NCAA Division III, losing in the national semifinal to Dayton. This team featured the double-threat backfield of future AFC leading rusher Chris Warren, the 2010–2011 mens basketball team received the pre-season first-place ranking. They are currently ranked #23 in NCAA division III, academic All-Americans 2000 – Elizabeth Adams 2006 – Dustin Hamoy 2007 – Wilson Paine 2012 – Paul Jaglowski Many Ferrum alumni have competed in professional sports
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Greensboro College
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It was founded in 1838 by Rev. Peter Doub. The college enrolls about 1,000 students from 32 states, the first college to open its doors within the town of Greensboro was the womans college, Greensboro Female College. The school occupied a 25-acre campus near the heart of the city within what would become the College Hill Historic District, the institution had its origin in 1833, when the Greensboro Female College was organized as an institution for local children. It was the intent of the Rev. Peter Doub that the institution grow to serve women, through the Methodist Church, a charter was secured in 1838, an event which makes the college one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. The college became coeducational in the late 1950s, the cornerstone of the first building was laid in 1843, and in 1846 the institution opened its doors to students. Young women came from southern states to become the first classes of the new president, the Rev. Solomon Lea. The academic calendar consists of two semesters and a summer-school session, full-time undergraduates must carry a minimum academic load of 12 credit hours per semester. The college offers four degrees, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Music. Students seeking secondary licensure must select one or more academic majors from the following, English, mathematics, biology, secondary comprehensive science education, student Activities, Students take an active role in planning and implementing campus activities. Programs from diverse traditions and a variety of student organizations offer students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to worship, study, serve, a distinct feature of the College’s location is that we share a common zip code,27401, thus, the name Village 401. Campus Life, Co-curricular involvement and leadership in activities are valuable supplements to classroom learning, Students take an active role in planning and implementing campus activities. Campus Life is one of the organizations that sponsor a variety of social events such as bands, comedians, trips, movies, Homecoming, formal dances. Students are encouraged to take a role in the community standards process while living in the residence halls. The Prides athletic program competes in the NCAAs Division III and the USA South Athletic Conference, mens sports include baseball, basketball, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, wrestling and tennis. Womens sports include basketball, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, the mens golf team has twice won the Division III national championship, in 2000 and 2011. The mens soccer team was NCAA Division III runner-up in 1989 when they lost 2-0 to Elizabethtown College, as of the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year,77 Pride student-athletes had been named All-Americans and 26 had been named Academic All-Americans. Greensboro College Middle College is a school program on the campus of Greensboro College located in Greensboro. It schools the 11th and 12th grades, and allows students to finish their school career while earning college credit
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Notre Dame of Maryland University
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Notre Dame of Maryland University is an independent, Catholic-affiliated, liberal arts college located within the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It contains a Womens College and part-time coeducational degree programs for women and men, the Roman Catholic academic/educational religious order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame founded the school in 1873. It originally established and named the Notre Dame of Maryland Preparatory School, now is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. In 1896, the Collegiate Institute became the first four-year Roman Catholic college for women in the United States and it borders to the south, the historic landmark Greek Revival styled mansion of the Garrett family. Adjacent to the Montrose House on the property site purchased by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, one of the first buildings. It surmounted by its white wooden tower, and opened in 1873 and became the landmark site symbolizing Notre Dame of Maryland. Gibbons Hall was named for the then incumbent Archbishop of Baltimore and second American Cardinal of the Church, the Universitys Marikle Chapel of the Annunciation was originally designed by notable architects Ephraim Francis Baldwin and Josias Pennington. Fourier Hall is an example of Art Moderne architecture, the renamed Noyes Alumnae House, which was the former Montrose estate of a red brick Greek Revival style of architecture was built in 1850, on the southwest corner of the campus. Several buildings on the campus were designed by architect George Archer The University shares a library with the neighboring Loyola University Maryland, nearly 3,000 students take courses in degree granting programs, The Women’s College serves traditional-aged undergraduate women. The Womens College offers 29 undergraduate majors along with interdisciplinary minors, certificates and 5-year Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts, the Womens College features special and competitive programs such as the Morrissy Honors Program and Trailblazers, a support program for first-generation college students. Notre Dame has pre-professional programs, including pre-law, pre-medical and pre-pharmacy, the College of Adult Undergraduate Studies offers ten majors and features part-time flexible and accelerated schedules for working adults who are pursuing bachelors degrees. The majority of students are in their mid- to late twenties. The Renaissance Institute is an association of women and men age 50. Courses have included, literature, public affairs, writing, history, philosophy, music, art, languages, tai chi, film, science, computers, travel, strength and balance, dance and acting. Notre Dame has 1,254 undergraduate students and 1,647 graduate students,140 of whom are enrolled in the School of Pharmacy, Notre Dames athletic teams are members of the Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Notre Dame of Maryland has eight N. C. A. A, Womens sports, basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball. All sports but swimming have joined the Colonial States Athletic Conference starting in the 2007-2008 academic year, although the swim team does not compete within a conference, it participates in the yearly Old Dominion Athletic Conference swim championships. The 2009 season was the first time that the Notre Dame softball team competed in NCAA Division III, Notre Dame of Maryland Universitys mascot is the Gator
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