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Once BlackBerry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View

5 pointsby aren55555over 12 years ago

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josephbyover 12 years ago
The headline is bogus; UW was never "BlackBerry Focused." If anything, the Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs sent a disproportionate number of graduates to Microsoft, IBM, and (eventually) Google through the '90's and early 2000s. BlackBerry looms large because of proximity, but its very misleading. I can't help but think that the New York Times would've noticed this if they'd looked at the recruiting numbers.
bernardomover 12 years ago
Wow, that's a terrible title, NYT.<p>I expected a report from RIM (now Blackberry)'s campus talking about how they're focusing on something. Definitely not a report on the University of Waterloo.<p>Reminds me of the #nytbooks hashtag: <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/193943/on-twitter-book-titles-rewritten-as-new-york-times-headlines/" rel="nofollow">http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/193943/on-twitt...</a>