MODNEX INTEL/KATSURA WORLDWIDE: "POWER NEWS ALERT" - KATSURA, "UC SANTA BARBARA'S NEW LOGO"

MODNEX INTEL/KATSURA WORLDWIDE . . .

. . . "DIVISION OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE" . . .

. . . REPORTS . . . IN A "POWER NEWS ALERT" . . .

. . . THAT KEN KATSURA, WHILE NOTING HIS ALMA MATER'S BRANDING LOGO UPGRADE . . . TO "DARE TO BE GREAT" . . .

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AND THEN COMPARING OTHER CAMPUSES TO HIS ALMA MATER, JOKINGLY . . . DISCOVERED, DISTURBINGLY . . . THAT MANY OTHER CAMPUSES DO SUFFER  . . . INCLUDING CORNELL AND HARVARD UNIVERSITIES . . . UCLA AND USC . . . FROM "APPEARANCE PRESTIGE" . .  SUCH UNIVERSITIES "LOSING BRAND POWER" WHEN COMPARED TO UC SANTA BARBARA, MR. KATSURA'S ALMA MATER . . .

KATSURA STATED, "IT'S AS IF MANY BLUE CHIP CAMPUSES HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND . . . APPEARING 'OLD WORLD' . . . RATHER THAN 'CUTTING EDGE AND ADVANCED'  . . .  I WAS JOKINGLY COMPETING ON YAHOO'S MESSAGE BOARDS (SEE "MODNEX") MAKING HARVARD, USC, UCLA, AND CORNELL . . . APPEAR TO BE DREXEL UNIVERSITY'S IMFAMOUS "DREXEL SHAFT" . . .

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. . . AGAIN, JOKINGLY STATING THAT PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS SHOULD COME TO MY ALMA MATER, UC SANTA BARBARA . . .

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. . . AND THEN I STARTED REALLY LOOKING AT THE SCHOOLS I WAS JOKING ABOUT . . . AND REALIZED . . . 'HEY . . . THEY REALLY DON'T LOOK THAT GOOD, DO THEY? . . .'

HARVARD

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CORNELL (I was joking about it being mistaken for it's neighbor Ithaca College when I came across the photo of its campus)

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USC
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UCLA

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UC BERKELEY

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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

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UC SANTA BARBARA (Mr. Katsura's alma mater)
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KATSURA STATED, "I GUESS, SINCE I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, I JUST NEVER REALIZED UC SANTA BARBARA HAS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CAMPUSES . . . IN THE WORLD . . .   THE CATCH IS, HOWEVER, THAT PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AND FACULTY . . . MUST BE 'WORLD-CLASS' . . . AND ALSO POSSESS THE CHARACTER TO 'ADVANCE' OUR SOCIETY . . . NOT RELY ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF . . . THE PAST . . . AS MANY OF OUR BRETHREN WITHIN THE UC CAMPUS SYSTEM . . . AND WITHIN THE IVY LEAGUES . . . APPEAR TO HAVE DONE . . .

SOME OF THE IVY LEAGUE'S CAMPUSES ARE . . . RELICS OF HISTORY . . . LIKE GOING TO SCHOOL AT A 'BARGAIN THEME RESORT AND INN OF THE OLD WORLD' . . . OR ATTENDING 'THE CORONADO INN UNIVERSITY' (CORONADO ISLAND/SAN DIEGO)"