We have one of the top TCOM schools in the country and our ad isn't in HD? what a joke.  

And why in the world are we marketing/promoting the school of theater or whatever that nonsense was?

Yeah...like Piper Perabo and the blonde amazon from Hill Street Blues.

I concur that each school only appreared to get one commercial.

If we're going to do a theatrical commercial, why no Pipper cammeo? (that has the dual benefit of of pushing OHIO AND the HTC

The problem is it wasn't just in SD, it was in 16:9 SD, which means it only took up 56% of the available screen space. 

And if you were watching it on an SD TV, it only took up 42.2% of the screen!

+1

I'd personally like to disown as future fellow alumni any student (except in rare circumstances of some actual emergency or sickness) any student who left at half-time.  This shows me that half the students waving their thundersticks in the first half were full of phony-baloney school spirit and thought the bar scene was more important than cheering on their team in the second half.  That's truly pathetic.  As others have said on here before, we need to do things in our orientation program and in other creative ways to instill some school spirit in these folks.  One thing that I found strange was that at the Akron game that clinched the MAC East title a few years ago (in much worse weather) there was a decent student turnout for a "white out."  Virtually all of the students stayed for the whole game.  As I recall this game was in or near finals week.  The turnout that night was not as good as the first half last night but during the second half the student side still looked 70 percent full with very little attrition.  Why the difference?  Also, as has been noted here on numerous occasions, virtually no one left the Pitt game even into the OT period.  Again, why the difference?  These were all big games with lots of pre-game buzz.  I'm truly baffled, and somewhat depressed, about this leave at half-time phenomenon. 

OCF-I am with you.  I just don't get a walk out of the biggest most electric game of the year on National TV.  And we wonder why we get no respect?  It does start from day 1.  Someone needs to start turning the mentality around.  The question is:  How do you change the culture?  It seems to be getting worse.

is Dinah Burkley (sp) a relative?

I figured since she is obviously a pretty good student (since she got in the commercial).

For some reason that's not too difficult!

As a proud graduate of the Ohio University School of Theater I was delighted with the spot.  It would have been even BETTER in HD. 

"some intellectual heft"...Sounds like you are ready to pick a fight. 

At my three almas I was in journalism, law and business, so far be it from me to be touting intellectual hefl. 

But I have had the privilege of visiting nations where higher proportions of students are enrolled in engineering, science and technology curriculums.  Examples include Singapore and Korea.  So, yes, I believe that longer term our nation could suffer competitively because of the relative dearth of students in those techy disciplines. 

It bothered me tremendously, as well.