University of Pittsburgh
University of Mississippi
When the University of Mississippi decided to retire it's
mascot "Colonel Reb" as an antiquated and possibly racist link to the
old south, several alternate mascots were pitched, including the totally
awesome suggestion of the squid-like General of the Rebel Alliance from
'Return of the Jedi,' Admiral Ackbar. Alas, the choice was criticized,
and Ackbar's boosters couldn't repel firepower of that magnitude. The
school picked some stupid bear instead.
A debate has been raging at Columbia about whether to
re-instate an ROTC program on a campus that has banned military activity
for 42 years. While debate is healthy, we can all agree that one thing
isn't: booing an injured US Serviceman, something that the New York Post
reported happened at a heated rally earlier this year.
After a lawsuit by a female professor fired from JFK University
for appearing in a burlesque show alleged that a male professor was not
punished after disrobing in a theater performance, she exposed
something no one expected: a double standard.
When the GWU campus paper reported that a professor was ejected
from one of the team's basketball games for screaming at a referee, it
was certainly dumb behavior. But here's what made his ejection even
dumber: the fact that it happened shortly after a second half ceremony
to honor him.
The New York Times reported that the current Prime Minister of
Somalia was once a professor of Erie Community College in Buffalo. I
don't know what's going wrong in that school, but there's definitely a
problem when you can't retain faculty members who are asked "Would you
like to keep teaching here, or try to fix Somalia?"
The Texas A&M Commerce Alumni Association made the local
KLTV news report by announcing that they wanted the actress Lindsay
Lohan to return one of their shirts they saw her wearing, saying her bad
reputation may make the school look bad. Actually, alumni who are
obsessed with what Lindsay Lohan is wearing makes the school look bad.
College dorms don't have to be fancy. But they have to be functional. That's why the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign makes this list for being voted #1 on
Campussplash.com's list of worst dorm rooms in the country. I heard the
doorknobs are so terrible, you can't even hang a sock on them.
College costs in this day and age can easily run in the
neighborhood of 50 grand a year. So why is UC Berkeley giving away their
courses for free on iTunes? Oh well, their loss is our gain; I'm going
to go take a free intro to economics course, right after this game of
Angry Birds.
Glen Beck University
makes this list because despite it's name, and it's fancy looking
crest, it is not a real university. It is little more than a trumped up
YouTube channel that allows you to watch conservative lectures if you
chip in a few bucks to join the TV commentator's website. That's more of
a scam than most real universities.
Senior journalism majors at the University
of Utah almost didn't graduate thanks to a prank they pulled in the
student paper where the first letters of their final columns were
enlarged, spelling out terms for male and female genitalia. Normally I'd
side with the pranksters on something like this, but these are
journalism students. Shouldn't they have more respect for a newspaper?
Even sadder for them, I read about this story on the internet.
The University of Albany makes the list thanks to a series of
photos that were published by local police that showed a number of
students engaging in rioting after a St. Patrick's Day "Kegs and Eggs"
event. Sounds like too much of the former.
New York University
If you want to play Guitar Hero, you can pay 400 dollars for a
videogame system, the game itself, and a special guitar controller. Or,
you can pay 40 grand a year to go to New York University! NYU is
currently offering a class entitled "Guitar Heroes (and Heroines):
Music, Video Games and the Nature of Human Cognition." We remember when
video games only cost a quarter.
Harvard may have a distinguished list of graduates, but for
every Jack Lemmon, John F. Kennedy or Conan O'Brien, there's an awful
lot of a-holes. Less distinguished alums include the Unabomber,
Louisiana Senator/diaper fetishist David Vitter, and the infamous
Winklevoss twins, who achieved national prominence as the sore losers
from the film "The Social Network."
If you want a crowd at your college's basketball games what's
the best way to do that? OK, other than doing the hard work and spending
enough money to put a fantastic team on the floor? How about giving out
free food? That's exactly what Furman University did in 2010, insuring
that if their fans left hungry, it would only be for a championship.
Bribery!
Last February, no one would have batted an eye if the
University of Iowa had banned it's student-run campus movie theater from
scheduling a showing of "Disco Dolls In Hot Skin" a 3D, X-rated,
pornographic film. But the local ABC News crew reported that the
university allowed the controversial film to be shown, ensuring that for
at least one night, there was be something exciting to do in Iowa. If
only the porno were sexy, instead of... dumb.
Colleges, particularly Ivy League schools, are allowed to hire
anyone they want as professors. But when the AP reported that Brown
University would be welcoming rapper and original member of The Fugees
Wyclef Jean into their Africana studies department, some scratched their
heads. Was Brown interested in what he had to say, or did they just
want to rub elbows with a pop star?
It was dumb enough when a student at Harding University
complained to their college bookstore after seeing coffee mugs and
picture frames for sale with the logo of Susan G. Komen. The student
claimed that the breast cancer charity provides money for abortions,
which it does not. But as KATV Arkansas reported, facts didn't get in
the way of the school removing the items from its bookstore's shelves.
Sorry, women with breast cancer, at Harding University, the stupid wheel
gets the grease.
Did you ever see that Monty Python sketch where John Cleese,
playing a sex ed professor, has sex with his wife in front of a class of
private school kids? That was funny, but when a professor at
Northwestern University did something very similar, staging a live sex
show that featured a woman pleasuring herself with a sex toy in a
classroom, nobody was laughing. According to AOL news, an outcry on
campus forced him to apologize, something we suspect he has to do after
most sex acts he engages in.
Many institutions of higher learning quite properly offer
courses about human sexuality, focusing on everything from biology to
cultural and psychological impact. But only the University of New
Hampshire seems to have its own "Sex Fair." Thanks to a story on
Fosters.com, we learned the event featured numerous informational
booths, along with a display of sex toys and ropes. Thankfully no one
mentioned seeing signs reading "you must be this big for this ride."
It is usually nice to see college students get organized and
motivated to create a club or team that their college didn't previously
offer. But when students at the University of Maryland lobbied the
school to create their own competitive eating team, many wondered how
they got such a stupid idea in their heads. Maybe it was something they
ate.
Cecilia Chang, the former Dean of St. John's University, was
fired in June of 2010 under a storm of allegations that she embezzled
over a million dollars in donations to the college. But as though that
situation wasn't dumb enough, the FBI also charged that she had
threatened several foreign exchange students, who told the New York Post
they feared losing their scholarships if they didn't do domestic chores
for Chang, like cooking, cleaning, driving and laundry.
Many American college students learn about hallucination in
college by experimenting with illegal drugs like LSD, Acid or Mushrooms.
Of course, if you go to Georgetown University, you can learn about
these things in class, specifically "Philosophy 194: Hallucinating."
Course materials include watching the films 'The Matrix' and 'Existenz'
as well as "some more philosophy stuff." Yes, that's a direct quote.
Setting a World Record would be a great way for a college to
get some publicity. But if your college isn't a Mexican culinary
institute, attempting to create the world's 'longest line of tacos' the
way Emory University did last February seems more than a little stupid.
In 1941, University
of Wisconsin senior Lyle Knudson was forced to skip his last two finals
to report for duty in the Navy in World War II. While it's wonderful
that the college eventually awarded him his business degree, it's a
little lame that they waited until 2010 to do it. Knudson was 94 years
old when he finally got the degree. Maybe he'll use it to start his own
business!
College is a great place for parties, largely because
significant achievements in academics, the arts or athletics richly
deserve to be celebrated. But if you go to the University of Georgia,
who was ranked as the #1 school JUST for partying, maybe you should
focus a little less on the partying and a little more on the reason for
it.
Beer pong is sort of stupid on it's own, but if there were a
way that someone could make it even dumber, it's students at the
University of Virgina, who had a bunch of party pictures leak to the
gossip website Gawker, featuring a series of what I'm sure they claim
are their totally classy and not-at-all-racist confederate flag
ping-pong tables.
Harvard University
Furman University
University of Iowa
Brown University
Harding University
Northwestern University
University of New Hampshire
University of Maryland
St John's University
Georgetown University
Emory University
University of Wisconsin
University of Georgia
University of Virgina
Columbia University
JFK University
George Washington University
Erie Community College
Texas A&M Commerce
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of California (Berkeley)
Glenn Beck University
University of Utah
University of Albany
Ohio University
Cambridge College
Rutgers University
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