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Thousands voted, but only one of our College Guide contestants could win it all: Amanda Abadi of the University of Tampa.

Her inventive video — which we refer to informally as “Crocodile Dundee Meets UT” — drew 6,694 votes in our College Guides 2009 contest. (Watch the video after the jump.) Readers were asked to choose their favorite entry from a collection of videos, photos and essays created by seven students as portraits of their respective schools.

Amanda is a second-year MBA student at UT, which she also attended as an undergrad; all that experience must have helped, because her video takes in just about every corner of campus life. Read the rest of this entry »

Submission#2: Amanda Abadi | My UT: “Where in the world is Spartacus?”

Amanda Abadi
University of Tampa
2nd Year, Masters in Business Administration (Management)
23, Detroit
My UT is: “Community-focused, auspicious, cultural and enriching.”

Amanda’s video follows the intrepid Dingo Dundee as he scours the UT campus in search of the university’s elusive mascot. Dingo goes everywhere from offices to classrooms to the John H. Sykes School of Business, where a surly student tries unsuccesfully to ignore the weird guy with the Australian accent.

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An African-American man laments the fact that people lock their cars when he approaches and says that people write the story of his life based on scripts from TV.

A young man who thinks he might be gay asks, “Why does homosexuality get lumped in with alcoholism, pedophilia and drug addiction as something that is loathed?”

A 20-year-old virgin asks, “Who came up with the three-date rule?”

Stereotypes in America asks questions that are usually taboo, that aren’t discussed in polite company. Read the rest of this entry »