March 22, 2007
Three Cheers for My Alma Matter
The Miami-dade Community College Chess Team, all Cuban-Americans and we wrote about last year, has once again made it to the finals in the Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Tournament:
Miami College Reaches Chess FinalsBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 22, 2007
Filed at 3:06 a.m. ETMIAMI (AP) -- Don't underestimate the grocery store deli worker, the security alarm salesman or the 34-year-old computer science student who anchor the Miami Dade College chess team.
The community college undergrads have already faced Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Northwestern and Virginia at the Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Tournament -- and beaten them all.
By finishing fourth in that tournament, Miami Dade qualified for this weekend's finals of collegiate chess, facing powerhouses University of Texas-Dallas, Duke University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Read the rest right here.
Posted by Val Prieto at March 22, 2007 07:07 AM
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It costs $60,000 a year to send a kid to Harvard, Yale or Darmouth. Tuition at Miami Dade Community College is a tenth of that or less. No better proof ever existed of the uselessness of brand names. But here's another anyway: A recent study found that over a lifetime it made absolutely no difference in earning potential if you went to an Ivy League college or a state school, unless, of course, your father was the president of a bank. Nepotism and connections account for the high profile of many Ivy Leaguers. Not their education, which is in many cases sub-par. Good illustrations of this are George "Daddy's Boy" Bush and Bob "Hormel" Kerry.
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at March 22, 2007 08:14 AM
Val,
Thanks for this post! When you posted about the Miami Dade College Chess Team last year, I shared it with my children. I explained to them how it is up to the individual to feel empowered and make things happen ... what a refreshing story! Go Miami Dade! We are cheering for you!
I wish you well :) Melek
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." ~ Helen Keller
Posted by: Melek at March 22, 2007 12:10 PM
Check out this wonderful radio report on the Cuban American Chess team!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5259853
Posted by: Ray at March 22, 2007 01:08 PM
Congrats from another alum!
Posted by: Robert at March 22, 2007 05:18 PM
I should be untrue to myself if I let this opportunity pass without remarking that Raúl Capablanca, a Cuban, was the greatest chess master and theorist in history.
Posted by: Manuel A. Tellechea at March 22, 2007 06:44 PM
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