>I live a block from Howard. US News and World Report says it
>has an enrollment of 7,164. If you take that total enrollment
>back seventy years and assume that nobody has died or just
>didn't feel like showing up to homecoming, that's 501,480
>people. I'm not really very good at affixing a number to a
>crowd, but I'm pretty confident there were more than that many
>people in front of my apartment a couple weeks ago.

I can't breathe

LMMFAO @ the image of Walleye looking at his window
to thousands of random people outside his building
giving the

*people's eyebrow*


>So I'm going to assume that there are other events that are
>ostensibly related to a single University that draw more than
>just that limited crowd?

Nah, Howard Homecoming is one of the biggest African-American
cultural weekends in the country. I'd say less than 10% of the
attendees have anything to do with the university

Maybe slightly more than half know anyone who attended or
have anything to with the university

The reason for this is that it has something for everyone:

- Lots of middle class blacks willing to spend money
(which means business flock too...middle class blacks
waste more money on superficial things than whites of
the same SES...sad but true)

- hordes of attractive women. I'm talking ARMIES.

- Great parties of various kinds (ignorant kiddie club
parties, bougie black tie events, reunions and exhibits with
upper middle class black snobs, the whole 9 yards)

So it has pretty wide breadth...most of it is just dumb
fun but you feel *classy* doing it at Howard Homecoming