Macalester or No?
Scared for my life. [Redacted] run by Moonies. GHETTO TYPE ATMOSPHERE.
No, that’s not actually a quote from a Mac student (or a MelbUni student for that matter) - it’s the musings of an anonymous first year at University of Bridgeport, CN.
Radar Online compiled a list of the worst colleges in America, and poor UBridgeport came in first (or last). Why is that? Well:
At orientation, all incoming students are given a “personal alarm locator [sic]” that will send swarms of campus policemen racing to their rescue whenever they press a panic button.
OKAY!
Other notables include Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Falwell’s football team, and I am not making this up, is called ‘The Flames’. They are just asking for a Bob Allen/Larry Craig moment.*
[Via MeFi]
*In vaguely unrelated news - Wonkette commenter SayItWithWookies had maybe the best comment ever today regarding the newly/frequently-released story about intolerant-as-hell-but-unsurprisingly-gay-sex-having Republican Senator Larry Craig (R-ID):
Sphere: Related ContentFor a party with such a small tent, they have an awfully big closet.