Southern VS. Northern LACS

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@johnwesley

One difference I can’t help noticing is that when you compare campus maps between, say, Wesleyan, Williams and Amherst with say, Davidson, Washington & Lee, and Sewanee, is that you can immediately spot the science facilities at the top New England campuses; they comprise the largest single portion of the campus after the athletic buildings, anywhere from a quarter to one-half of the geographic center of campus. The same does not seem to be true of the southern LACs.

One of the excavations I was recently on in the Middle East hired a chemistry professor to analyze finds, and she brought a couple of students with her, fully funded by their school. The school? Tiny Davidson.</p>

<p>I’ve seen the science facilities at many top universities and am intimately acquainted with those at Duke and UNC. Davidson and Rhodes do not seem at all lacking in this respect; I was extremely impressed, actually, especially given their size and smaller endowments. I can’t vouch for the other southern LACs, however, as I’ve never visited them. Furman could give any northeastern LAC a run for its money in chemistry, though. </p>