<p>Ummm, I think you meant Title IX (since Title IV refers to a drug free environment), and to my knowledge no football program has been dropped due to Title IX. Other sports have, but that's more to do with how it is complied with on the campus.</p>
<p>We have a college in the area that dropped its football team, but it wasn't due to Title IX. It was because it didn't make enough money to cover costs (low student interest all around, maybe). In other words, it was a business decision.</p>
<p>I once went on a tour at USC, and one of the girls asked, in all seriousness, if you had to prove you could walk backwards around the entire campus before they would let you be a tour guide.</p>
<p>"Wow does that give you enough time to eat?" </p>
<p>historymom, could she have been asking when the dining hall opens? I know Amherst's doesn't open until 7:30...</p>
<p>My son and I visited Ohio University a couple of years back. Ohio is well known as a party school, and the counselor leading the parents session admitted that Ohio was recently ranked #2 nationally for undergraduate parties.</p>
<p>One goober raised his hand and asked, "What would it take to get ranked #1?"</p>
<p>At Cal State Fullerton:
There was this one kid who kept asking dumb questions
"What do you do if it starts hailing?"
Male Guide: Um take shelter?</p>
<p>later the Female Guide was talking about the school colors and that same kid didn't know what a color accent was.
He also didn't know what a tailgate is (the noun ,not the verb).</p>
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<p>lol, well, I've been on a couple of official/unoffical tours here (at USC) and the guides are actually quite proud of their ability to walk backwards the whole way through the tour (As long as someone is willing to point out if they're about to hit someone, which they point out at the beginning of each tour)</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, I once walked halfway across campus backwards (can't remember why :) ) and it's actually quite easy if you know the campus by heart.</p>
<p>I toured the University of Texas with my sister, an alum, and her daugther, my niece, the prospective student. My sister, who graduated in the 70's, asked if all the dorms are air conditioned, which my niece thought was the dumbest question ever asked. The tour guide actually might have thought so to, answering of course, it being central Texas and every building is air conditioned to the hilt.</p>
<p>What my sister and I knew however is that back in the 70's a lot of the dorms were not air conditioned, and September and May were just something you had to suffer through.</p>
<p>At UVA, secret societies are a big deal. Some of the different ones paint their symbol on some of the buildings. 21 is one of them, as well as Z and IMP. The tour guide was explaining this and one bright-possible-UVA-alumni-one-day was asking why they mark the buildings and the tour guide was explaining that it's their way of showing the connection with the University. </p>
<p>"So the secret societies got to name the streets and address the buildings? Wait...why do all of the buildings have the same address of 21 IMP or 21 Z? Are we on IMP road? Why does that one say 21 Z then?"</p>
<p>Another one on VT's tour:
"Do we actually have to go to class?"</p>
<p>I was actually quite sad about a question a parent asked during a CompSci department Q&A. A parent asked if they had a course in computer repair. I am certain that parent did not have a good handle on what CompSci involved and perhaps her son did not either. Fortunately the Dept Chair who was leading the session answered the question tactfully.</p>
<p>Four years later I still feel badly about this.</p>