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Arizona was founded as a land-grant college, like so many of the original Big Eight schools.

You can also do a Web search for your state and the words “carpenter bees” and “extension,” to get advice vetted by your state’s land-grant college or university.

There are many examples I could cite, having to do with the role of Eastern artists and engineers in the creation of the modern West; with the cultural and economic differences between mountain valleys and shortgrass prairies; with the uneasy relations between Ivy Leaguers and land-grant college graduates in humanities departments; with courtship and marriage and semiprofessional sports.

Instead of that dismal fate, his mother arranges for her son to attend a land-grant college in Kansas — and accompanies her son to school.

They also have won seven straight in Manhattan against their fellow land-grant college.