Morehead State University

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Morehead State University is a public, co-educational university located in Morehead, Kentucky.

History

Morehead State University was originally founded as a private teacher's college in 1887. A group of nuns reportedly were instumental in its founding with 13 buildings layout in the shape of a cresent moon. It didn't become a public institution until 1922, and by 1966 it had reached university status. MSU has more than 9,000 students from 100 Kentucky counties, 42 states and 37 nations. They are enrolled on campus, at extended campus centers in Ashland, Jackson, Prestonsburg and West Liberty and several other locations in East Kentucky and across the globe through the World Wide Web. MSU has the state's best computer-student ratio in its computer laboratories and the campus is ranked among the safest in the nation. However numerous assaults and rapes are alledged to be covered up or not properly reported as is a problem for many institutions and their public relations efforts.

Nearly 50,000 persons have received degrees from MSU. Nearly 80 degree programs are available on the two-year, four-year and graduate levels through four colleges (Caudill College of Humanities, College of Business, College of Education, and College of Science and Technology) and the Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy. Two-thirds of the faculty hold doctoral degrees. MSU supports its missions of teaching, applied research and public service through an annual budget of more than $92 million.

The University is located in Morehead, Kentucky in the foothills of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rowan County, midway between Lexington, Kentucky and Huntington, West Virginia off Interstate 64.

MSU is a charter member of the Ohio Valley Conference in NCAA Division I and sponsors 18 intercollegiate sports for men and women. The football Eagles compete in the Pioneer Football League of Division I-AA. The coed cheerleading squad has won 16 national championships and the all-woman squad has five national titles.

The 2005 and 2006 editions of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report named MSU one of the top 25 public universities in the South.

A "sacred geometry" in the design of the campus is suggested by the black marble obolisk with a number "13" in the middle section, the placement is roughly in the center of the county much like the "G" of the square and compass. (there is a black marble pyrimid in downtown Salyersville 132feet from the licking river, known as a "devil's river" since it flows generally south to north like the nile.) One local Annonomys Alumni researcher suggests that the original teaching college, started by nuns was 13 buildings laid out in a cresent moon pattern. Today the curved streets and side walks resemble a cresent moon on the main campus with a cemetary and catholic church at its base and a music and communications school at the top. The county also had a series of adult schools called "Moonlight schools" (in part) because the classes were taught on moonlit evenings so as to provide light to travel, to be "enlightened". The co-incidence of the Cincinatti soap company Proctor & Gamble occult logos with a cresent moon and 13stars is given the direct link for the large pig market history of the area and the 1st concrete highway in Kentucky (old Flemingsburg Road/Fleming ave.) Linking to Limestone/Maysville. The Highest point in the county is called "Limestone Knob" perhaps for the limestone or for Limestone Kentucky the original county seat of Mason County.

Numerous Confederate Kentuckians and masons are recognised on buildings names such as Brekinridge, Morehead and others.

Numerous other "sacred geometry" sites can be found not just in WashingtonDC : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Legislative_Building The symbology of placement of the space science radio telescope seems obvious as a all seeing eye capstone for the entire institution. The "dish" is on a knob at the back of the cresent shaped main campus much like the Shriners cresent and star.

[MSU has also become one of only four universities in the U.S. to offer a Bachelor of Science] degree in space science.

Famous alumni

Phil Simms - Quarterback for the New York Giants. MVP of Super Bowl XXI and a 15-year NFL veteran. Now a football analyst for the CBS television network.
Kelly Kulick - American professional bowler.
Steve Inskeep NPR Morning Edition host replacing Kentuckian Bob Edwards.

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