Judy Riuliani rates this story: FABULOUS!
Posted on 08/25/2006 8:25:35 AM PDT by georgiarat
In an age when colleges live and die by their rankings, a new focus for campus assessment is emerging: gay-friendliness.
The Advocate, the national newsmagazine for gays and lesbians, published a 389-page book this month listing the 100 schools that it says offer the best discrimination protection, most friendly climate, and most extensive campus services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students. Sixteen of the schools are in New England, including six in Massachusetts.
MIT, for one, made the top 100. The school is cited for having one of the nation's oldest gay and lesbian student groups and for early on including both sexual orientation and gender identity in its nondiscrimination policy, yielding what the book, The Advocate College Guide, calls a high "gay point average."
"It is a welcoming place," said Natalija Jovanovic, a graduate engineering student at MIT and president of the Rainbow Coffee House, a gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual social group. ................
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I'm sure Indiana University's on the list. It gets more and more gay by the day ever since Bob Knight got canned.
That would be a useful ranking for the rest of us. You can be certain that those rated most "gay-friendly" are also the most intolerant of normal people.
... I do believe you are correct...!!! interesting.... I wonder how many folks even today know who she is (opps; sorry.... who she WAS....). I remember when she got killed, due, no doubt, to her own stupidity, having placed herself in the path of an Israeli Army bulldozer and allowing herself to be run over by it....! If I remember correctly, didn't her cookoo-bird parents file a lawsuit agains the Caterpillar Company, the ones who made that 'dozer, as being in some kind of whacko way at least in part responsible for her daughter's death....?? yeah; she died a martyr all right.... a nutball, that's what she really was........
When I was at U of Mi in Ann Arbor, there was a small sanwich joint called Drakes. The old man who ran it was adamant about people actually ordering something when they sat down. An uproar was caused when he threw two very dykish females out. They were sitting at a table with drinks only and he told them they need to order food or leave. His mistake is that he thought they were MALES and addressed them as such! Of course, these women were offended and picketed his place. It shut down soon after. I will say I had a grat Stats prof who just happened to be gay when I was at UC DAVIS. He made statistics interesting and fun by using Led Zepplin as examples. I was lucky because anyone that had a stats class with a boring teacher probably hated stats and had a horrible time in the class.
from the Princeton Review
Demographics Gay Community Accepted
Is there very little discrimination against homosexuals?
School Name Save Apply Request Info
1 New York University
On the other hand: I would agree with the Miami Ohio ranking.
Demographics Alternative Lifestyles Not an Alternative
Is there very little discrimination against homosexuals?
School Name Save Apply Request Info
1 University of Notre Dame
"I was lucky because anyone that had a stats class with a boring teacher probably hated stats and had a horrible time in the class."
as the expression goes, right on, bro....! flunked Stat I twice...first time had a Teaching Assistant who knew as much about statistics as I knew about astrophysics....a total disaster... next time around, a Teaching Assistant from India... not only a language barrier, but the prototypical "writing on the chalkboard with his right hand and following it with an eraser in his left hand..." scenario...! another disaster... somehow, I got through it all, but would NEVER again take a stat course...would rather sit through a semester of "Wimmins' Studies" than go through stat again....! (and I am of the male persuasion, too....!!).....
Wait now, what was the second list? The first list is the gay colleges and the second is the not gay? I see my Alma Mater up there on the second list - NCSU!
More on "gay friendly" colleges...
"Hey, isn't Evergreen State the same school that Rachel Corrie went to?!"
The very same.
Shouldn't that be "butt-end" Ten ? After all, that's what they are interested in . . . .
(running for cover, grinning like hell. . .)
The second list is the anti-gay list.
Sweet, that's what I thought! :) Glad to see my Alma Mater up there. :)
I attended the University of Utah between 1993 and 1997 and I remember it being fairly liberal. I know they have gay and lesbian groups on campus as well as a lot of feminist groups.
On the football field however the Vols are DAWG MEAT!!!! HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS!
In the first week of January, 1997, I phoned the MIT Arts Hotline. I was merely curious. What would this great scientific and technically-oriented university offer in connection with the arts?
A cheery recorded voice informed me that pornography was their focus that month, and and gay pornography would be their feature during the first week of January. A gay porno video would be shown followed by duscussion and those interested could also e-mail questions to the director of the video.
I wrote a letter of protest to MIT and, of course, received no reply.
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