Who needs an Ivy League education?

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<p>Or an education from any other top school? </p>

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*Canada university in campaign row *</p>

<p>A small Canadian university has sparked controversy with its recruitment drive by using posters and a website mocking US President George W Bush. </p>

<p>Lakehead University in northern Ontario set up <a href="http://www.yaleshmale.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.yaleshmale.com&lt;/a> in a bid to attract potential new students. </p>

<p>It shows a picture of Yale graduate Mr Bush with the caption: "Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn't necessarily mean you're smart." </p>

<p>The president of Lakehead's student union called the campaign "repugnant". </p>

<p>The university has issued posters bearing the black and white image of Mr Bush, who graduated from Yale in 1968, encouraging people to visit its campaign website. </p>

<p>Once there, users are invited to click on a link if they agree with the caption, and are taken through to a page promoting Lakehead, which is based in Thunder Bay and has 7,600 students. </p>

<p>"There are universities and then there are universities. So let's not beat around the bush," it says. </p>

<p>"Lakehead is different. We believe the person you become after you graduate is even more important than the person you were when you enrolled." </p>

<p>There is then a further link to take users through to Lakehead's official site for potential students. </p>

<p>'Inappropriate' </p>

<p>The university has defended its campaign, which also includes prizes of a car lease and handheld computer games consoles, saying it has had a positive effect. </p>

<p>"It was literally a tongue-in-cheek way of getting attention," university president and vice-chancellor Frederick Gilbert told Reuters news agency. </p>

<p>The website had received more than 7,000 hits, he said on Monday, and online comments had been 95% positive. </p>

<p>But he acknowledged the university had received e-mails which were "running in the opposite direction", which was a concern. </p>

<p>"Older generations" and some of Lakehead's students considered the campaign inappropriate, he said. </p>

<p>The university would not retract its campaign, however, although it would try to respond to individual concerns, he said. </p>

<p>Student union president Isabelle Poniatowski told Reuters the campaign was low-brow and lacked class. </p>

<p>"It still strikes me as being very repugnant," she said. "Lakehead has so many positive attributes that you could really sell to people that live down south." </p>

<p>Story from BBC NEWS:
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/5294690.stm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/5294690.stm&lt;/a> </p>

<p>Published: 2006/08/29 11:22:17 GMT </p>

<p>© BBC MMVI

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<p>LOL</p>

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<p>In answer to your question; No one "needs" and Ivy league education. Now who "wants" an Ivy league education is a whole different thing ;)</p>

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<p>Wow. That is shallow. I agree with the student union president. I would never apply to a school that pulled such a stunt, even if I were to agree with their position politically. Highly childish, and highly idiotic. Hard to believe there are people out there that run Universities that can be so... stupid? That and I don't know who officially decided these morons, or any of their poor students, to be smarter than Bush.
Low Class is right.</p>

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<p>Haha, scorp wants an official declaration...he believes in officiality</p>

<p>Oh yes "poor students" indeed, and plenty of morons to go around. </p>

<p>Low Class indeed, capital letters all the way.</p>