Tuesday September 16, 2008
Back from counting the piping plovers on Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, the Blogster returns with evidence of a rare convergence.
“Radar” magazine, the monthly pop journal, has lumped the University of Bridgeport and Harvard University in its annual “semiscientific guide to the worst colleges in America.”
The mag’s September number calls UB, the “Worst College in America” and that it stays afloat only through the financial commitment of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s controversial Unification Church.
“We scoured the country for a more deserving dishonoree, we really did,” Radar’s September story beging. “But once again the University of Bridgeport has swept the competition in every category, not only for its meager academics, postapocalyptic campus, and downright shady administration, but we can’t imagine a more terrifying place to spend four years.”
It goes on, making some anti-urban comments and slams against Moon. You can find it on www.radaronline.com.
Other places of higher learning highlighted by the mag include San Diego State (“Most Degenerate Student Body”) and USC (“Most Superficial”). Hampshire College in Amherst was labeled the “Biggest Rip-off,” while Harvard was humorously blasted as “Most Overrated” and a place where nearly everyone graduates with academic honors.
“Welcome to the most elite nursry school in the land, where severe grade inflation ensures that the ruling class’s precocious overachievers all feel like winners,” the report starts.
