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<p>Really? If you’re talking about things like annual naked dashes in the lake or streaks across the campus or whatever – eh, life’s too short, this all falls under harmless fun. I’m a fundamentally too-serious person and things like this force me to lighten up and crack a smile.</p>
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<p>My alma mater, certainly a “serious” school by anyone’s standard, has two beaches on the campus and a beautiful lakefront. No beach volleyball or outdoor pools, but nice fitness facilities and an outdoor ice rink in the winter. The dorms are still pretty “eh,” IMO, but some of the Greek houses, esp the sororities, are beautiful. I don’t see anything wrong with nice amenities, personally, as a selling point.</p>
<p>It might be a public service to assemble a list of naked events, if people want to use that as a criterion to take schools off their lists. </p>
<p>William and Mary has an unusual tri-athlon; one of the events involves a naked run across the Sunken Garden. (The other activities are performed while clothed - I think.) </p>
<p>And doesn’t Yale have naked parties? I remember a thread about that long ago.</p>
<p>newhaven… the schools must provide their crime stats… alcohol and drug offenses/arrests etc are usually listed in there…would give you a rough idea (of course it depends on how diligent the college police are)</p>
<p>Streaking the Lawn at UVa is a tradition. Here is a list of colleges with other streaking traditions so that those of you that are opposed can steer clear of these places.
[Streaking</a> at educational institutions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaking_at_educational_institutions]Streaking”>Streaking - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Oh dear, I see 3 Ivy League schools on that list :-)</p>
<p>I don’t really see much difference between the streaking-the-lawn type of thing and other lighthearted traditions, like a primal scream before finals week or some other kind of let-loose endeavor.</p>
<p>Wait a darned tootin’ minute- they left off Rice’s Baker 13 from that list! [Rice</a> University - Baker 13](<a href=“http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/rice-university/baker-13.html]Rice”>http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/rice-university/baker-13.html) Someone should protest :)</p>
<p>The streaking list is missing a few more colleges.</p>
<p>For those who object to naked anything, do you also object to colleges where there is a tradition of sculpting snow *****es?</p>
<p>Edited to add: Oops, I got asterisked. The asterisks refer to a prominent feature of the male anatomy.</p>
<p>SMU (I’m with Pizzagirl on that one), Baylor, NYU (great school but would not have paid for NYC living with my particular kid), Liberty or any other fundamentalist schools, Kentucky</p>
<p>Here’s another streaking list- it has the “decency” to include Rice 
<a href=“http://www.paullevalley.com/sig/streaking.html[/url]”>http://www.paullevalley.com/sig/streaking.html</a>
Also has Hamilton, Princeton, Williams, Bennington, Syracuse, U Chicago, Swarthmore, etc. This is starting to sound more like a list of schools I would want my kids to apply to.</p>
<p>ok, first, on the naked issue - my alma mater (Washington College) has (maybe had?) a tradition of gathering in the fire lane naked on May Day. I think ti started as streaking, bt by the time we were there (1985-89) it was really just a party outside where many peopel showed up sans clothes. I never participated in the naked fest itself, but did enjoy laughing pretty hard at those who did. Agreed that it really was all harmless fun, no lasting damage (and much more tame than some of the frat parties). I am not sure if it still occurs, but if it did, I really would not have an issue with my kid going to that school because of it.</p>
<p>In any event, back to the original subject - and I am sure people will disagree, but I strongly discouraged my D from applying to high point u because of its current “business” focus. it is not that I have an issue with nice dorms, maids,etc. My issue is more that the school is being run by a businessman as a business. While I am very much in favor of business accumen in a corporate setting, i believe education is, or should be, run on a different standard. A business’s goal is, appropriately, to make a profit, and have postive return on investment/equity. A university or college’s goal should be to teach and educate. Based on my research into this school, I worry that the line is a bit blurred. For that reason, I steered her elsewhere. Please do not take offense, as I admit my perceptiosn may be flawed, but this was based on what I heard from our GC (who is a fan of the school).</p>
<p>My best friends son is a freshman at SMU. We know students who attend SMU or Baylor. I have not heard their parents complained about the schools.</p>
<p>University of Colorado. I went there. No one graduates in 4 years (yes, I am exaggerating but not by much.)</p>
<p>No evangelical christian schools.</p>
<p>Sometimes parents discourage specific schools, or types of schools, because of issues that pertain to their kid but not necessarily all kids. </p>
<p>I discouraged my son, a prospective computer science major, from applying to strictly technical schools on the grounds that if he changed his mind about computer science, he might want the freedom to choose from a wide variety of alternative majors. He is a person with many interests, not all of them technical. I thought he would be better off at a university. He did attend a university, and he stuck with the computer science major, so my advice turned out to be irrelevant.</p>
<p>My husband discouraged our daughter from applying to schools in big cities on the grounds that safety issues in those places would restrict her life too much. As it turned out, she went to a college in a small community, but she lived in a big city during a summer internship and now, as a recent graduate, works and lives in that same city. I don’t know what, if anything, was accomplished by postponing her introduction to city life.</p>
<p>My kids would not have considered unaccredited schools, evangelical Christian schools, online schools, or some of the other types of schools discussed in this thread, but the people who posted about them are making very good points. </p>
<p>One thing some families may want to consider is the residential arrangements at particular schools. For some families, if the college does not guarantee housing for all four years, that would be a dealbreaker. For other families, if the college forces students to live on campus for all four years, that would be a dealbreaker. It’s a good idea to think in advance about how you and your student feel about the prospect of your student living off-campus.</p>
<p>Any school where the website states under “Tuition and Fees”: “Call/email for an appointment”.</p>
<p>Any college that is having major financial problems. I’m not talking “endowment woes” or “state funding” issues people post about here. I mean serious “The water will be cut off by this afternoon” type problems. </p>
<p>Colleges that are nothing more than big, troubled high schools. My sister had a co-worker who did no research but instead figured anything with the word “college” in it was okay. Son went off to this college (which was inexpensive) only to find it populated by students who apparently brought old high school grudges along with them. According from what the co-worker told my sister, fights occuring in the hallways/dorms of this college were ongoing. Co-worker removed son and send him to the local state school. </p>
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<p>Baylor, judging from the other thread :)</p>
<p>jym, it was a joke. It’s about someone picking Baylor over HYPS. I am sure you know.</p>
<p>What thread, Igloo? Where’s the link? Can you post it?</p>
<p>I second the request to igloo.
Can we have a link to the thread?</p>
<p>Tufts is now safe - they banned the Naked Quad Run. The result was even students who wouldn’t have run now have a negative view of the administration.</p>
<p>As for me - no schools that teach creation science, no schools where there are not a reasonable number of other kids as smart as mine, no schools where 4 year graduation rates are really low.</p>