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]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Reading this topic has made me nostalgic for my alma mater, Swarthmore; like the time I ran into a crowd of swatties touring the ghetto of Philly, so they could learn what poor people were like. Or the year that the huge controversy on campus was the library closing at dinner-time on saturday, in an attempt both to save $ and encourage social behavior. Or being in a room of white women reading bell hooks and being scorned for suggesting that "white women are the devil" was somewhat offensive to white women.

cazlez

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> How about a poll on the most annoying Art/Design Schools??!!

Tom Foolery

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @MattGaymon: @speaksoapcube: Yeah, I'm sorry, but I canNOT believe that Oberlin did not maintain this title. Clearly, anyone who voted otherwise had not experienced this institution...

Tom Foolery

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> As an alumna of Sarah Lawrence, I cannot grok that my alma mater is annoying. Strange, perhaps. Quirky. Frustrating, at times. But not really annoying....(except for those douches trying to win this contest - seriously, stfu and go write a conference paper or something).

On the other hand, I am looking forward to the day you have the "Feeblest Attempt at a University in the US" contest - the winner's name being available to be inserted any time a person might wish to discuss how anyone/thing/event/idea could possibly be just. so. stupid.

May I preemptively recommend George Washington University?

Surlier Texan

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> If you thought Bard was snubbed for first place, feast on this: www.selfportrait.net, a social networking site for artists/bastion for rich, arrogant, hypersexual, obscenely well dressed under 21 scenesters - started this year by four Bard sophomores.

lasoufriere

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I went to wesleyan in the early 90s (probably a low point in school history --prolly not a coincidence that I got in)...

it was EXTREMELY annoying...

and yet, I loved it...

Liberal arts schools are like families, and wesleyan is the liberal arts school for people who hate their families.

febi

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Back around the time I was dating Jesus, I went to One of These Colleges. Had many friends spread around the Others, and grew up at Another. With this experience in mind, it is really hard to say who is the most deserving of the title, but I certainly have enjoyed reading the debate.

Let me just add to this a quote from a student at My College - a quote that really could have come from the mouths of any student of any Small Liberal Arts College, especially during the unrest leading up to the requisite sit-in:

"We students are the victims. It's not our fault that we are apathetic and ignorant."

Alas, seems nothing has changed.

thoughtpolice

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Actually, this new form of collegiate ranking is quite probative and productive. I endorse this effort whole-heartedly.

What needs attention in this ranking system is a number of important but overlooked subcategories:

I. Liberal Arts Colleges with Lowered Admissions Standards for Spoiled Brats and Celebrity Offspring (E.g..: Brown? Bennington?)

II. Schools with No Appreciable History of Fine Arts Who Have Suddenly Added a Trendy Film School to the Curriculum

Blue Dossier

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Actually, this new form of collegiate ranking is quite probative and roductive. I endorse this effort whoehartedly.

What needs attention in this ranking system is a number of important but overlooked subcategories:

A. Liberal Arts Colleges with Lowered Admmissions Standards for Spoied Brats and Celebrity Offspring


Blue Dossier

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I almost went to Wesleyan. I even had my admission deferred while I spent a year abroad after high school. Then my parents impressed upon how it would be much more fiscally responsible to attend the University of Virginia with my brother. Of course, if I really wanted to bankrupt the family, they would grudgingly pay for met to attend Wesleyan. Needless to say my brother and I ended up at UVA--the anti-Wesleyan. Where else during gay pride week on grounds (you do not call Thomas Jefferson's University a campus), wear showing support means wearing jeans on Jeans Day, do frat boys go out of their way to wear khakis! Only in the south, y'all.

niaray

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Although it didn't occur to me that this might be annoying, while I attended St. John's many years ago the student who manned the main switchboard answered (alternately) "St Johns College, School of Knowledge" and "St Johns College, St John speaking"

sophrosune

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I am a SLC Alum married to a Wesleyan grad. I had experiences on both campuses in the late 90's and I can tell you that Sarah Lawrence is hands down the winner. I used to visit my husband at wesleyan and long for a more "normal" college experience like he had. lesbians in flannel shirts are not annoying. gaymen in pleated skirts and matching handbags trying to run you over in thier car because you slept with a straight guy they wanted, thats annoying

noreunion

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @ Bite.Me: Unfortunately the Berkeley Naked Guy went schizophrenic and choked himself with a plastic bag in a jail cell (search wikipedia for Andrew Martinez, there is even a picture of him and his glory)

@ Joytoclosets: My sister went to Wes, she always got mad at me for saying "girl"..... I had a fun time visiting her, great um... Kool-Aid, and there was a skate ramp in the back of Eclectic. Course I didn't have to spend 4 years there...

djdavetrouble

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> The moron who interviewed me at Wesleyan made the most inappropriate and racist comment/question, implying something about my ethnicity and how that particular experience would make me "different" person on campus or something. Fucking asshat. Then I visited a friend, who with HER friends decided to drop acid during parents weekend and thought it was so cool and funny to act "straight" under the influence. WTF is that about? Coddled suburban kids acting out?

Wesleyan you suck rocks.

arirang

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Go Oberlin!

speaksoapcube

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I went to Wellesley College, probably the least liberal of the liberal arts colleges, although it has a reputation for liberalism. This is despite the number one majors being political science and economics. Very little Wesleyan (we're always getting confused with them) and Sarah Lawrence style self-indulgence went on. Not that other kinds of self-indulgence went on...

honeybee111

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Tuffgirl: Wait, there are more!

Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College
Henry Merritt Wriston, former President of Brown U
His son, Walter Wriston, Chairman of Citibank who revolutionized banking with the ATM
Herb Kelleher, Founder/President of Southwest Airlines
Film writer/directors Paul Weitz and Jon Turteltaub
Writers Sebastian Junger and Robin Cook
Eric Asimov, NY Times food and wine critic
David Brancaccio, host of PBS' Now
William Christopher, "Father Mulcahey" in MASH
Jeff Maier, the kid/fan who "interfered" in the Yankees/Orioles AL Championship game in 1996
Majora Carter, MacArthur winner and Executive Director of the Sustainable South Bronx, who is transforming her lifelong neighborhood.

South Bronx definitely not Williamsburg. Or Haverford. Or Kenyon.

Joytoclosets

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @LawAndDisorder: Are we still talking about Eclectic?

maggiebex

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @tuffgirl: Don't forget anal sex expert/author Tristan Taormino!

maggiebex

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I think a few of you folks misunderstand the ethos of SLC self-abuse: We're not "rigging" or "ballot stuffing;" we understand the veritable feast of ways we annoyed you when we were 19. We embrace our druggy, silly pasts and revel in the fact that so many people can get so bent out of shape over the activities of a few hundred weird kids in Yonkers. Annoying? Sure we are! Does that affirmation make me yet more annoying? I bet it does. Our votes are full-hearted and sincere. Unless they're ironic. Which they almost certainly are.


I have to mention that every last anecdote and factoid around our idiocy and excess has been essentially accurate save one: It's an expensive school, but far from everyone there is wealthy. Most of my friends were there on loads of financial aid. We scraped together drug money, but still.

westlander

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @Gawky:
@droski:

Thank you. Thank you.

I also, for the record, think that the quality of education at Wesleyan is great. And I'm glad I don't have to wear a dress to class. I know that's not what's being debated but it's worth a throw-in.

fatmama

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> As another alum of Sarah Lawrence, I find it oddly fitting that we took second place as most annoying. But really, why did Bard not take the crown?

Also, I can solemnly swear that only a certain kind of Sarah Lawrence student uses the term "Sadie Lou." The kind that I wanted to punch in the face during all of my four years there.

Friday

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @fatmama:

we're here fatmama, we're here.

Or rather, we are out here...since I haven't stepped foot back on Wes soil since I graduated (perhaps now for obvious reasons based on this poll)

Gawky

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> When I arrived at Wesleyan as a frosh from the Midwest, I was struck by the strange and creative alterations students made to their clothing. I was particularly obsessed with a handsome male sophomore who wore a leather jacket and tight, torn thermal underwear as pants. I realized two things: 1) I wasn't in Kansas anymore, and 2) I was gay, or at least bisexual, curious, questioning . . . I spent the next three years intensely obsessed with two things: 1) his package in 100% cotton fleece, and 2) trying to control myself from calling a female a "girl".

I also managed to spend a great deal of time studying/learning/getting a great education (apparently that only happens at Haverford, and, um, Kenyon) that got me into an Ivy law school so that I could be an artist/screenwriter.

Joytoclosets

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @obrientw: dude, the palestinian lesbians have it rough. can you imagine?

lalalina

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I love that there are more Sarah Lawrence alum actively commenting on Gawker posts than there are members of the new online alum "community," One Mead Way. [www.slc.edu]

nightgrapefruit

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I went to a fun liberal arts college (Kenyon) and took my nephew to look at Wesleyan 4 years ago. I remember 2 things about Wesleyan: (1) writing on the sidewalk with chalk is a big deal, and (2) signs in the student union advocating various causes which have jumbled together in my mind as solidarity with Palestinian lesbians. My nephew, perceptive as hell, ran right to Haverford where's he's been immersed in books nonstop. They actually study / learn at Haverford.

obrientw

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @fatmama: fat girls need love too

droski

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @lizzybennet: No, it's not a moral obligation—it's a lie

DieDieDie

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I think that rigging a 'most annoying college' internet poll is lame enough to pretty much grant your alma matter the crown. But I'm glad Bard didn't win, even though I sort of agree that it fits the 'Oberlin is a tired metaphor, what other school can we use?' criterion.

Let me second the nomination for votes for 'most annoying Wall-Street-frat-boy-and-the-plastic-women-who-marry-them' college and the 'most soul-sucking technical college'. I did graduate work and taught university at both of these types of schools. Eighteen year-old republicans with new Mercedes and plastic surgury are way more annoying than naked Buddist picnics and recycled art. And nothing is more depressing than meeting a seventeen year old who's life dream is waste water management.

professional_egghead

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I just read this on Overheard at College...

Sarah Lawrence

Girl: OK, granted, I don't shove hot crystals up my poonanny. Some people do, though, and I can't judge.

And still Sarah Lawrence doesn't win.

4th and 26

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Sometimes I wonder where all these fellow Wesleyan students who find Wesleyan so annoying are. I always feel like I'm on campus surrounded by 95% douche bags. Hey, wanna meet up? Or are you all just Eclectic pledges faking this to look cool on a hip blog? (It's anonymous commenting, you know)

fatmama

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @BK_KT: Party in WestCo basement! Afterparty in your Butt B, LOL...Seven & Seven anyone?

dutchtwista

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @Ambition_is_pretension: Ugh. You should see what the girls from AU were like - the same but with rich Persian and Saudi boyfriends who were too damn stupid to get into Georgetown.

Clevertrousers

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @lisahunter: then my liberal arts college should be up there too.

even though i was really hoping sarah lawrence to win, i accept the results - wesleyan grads are pretty annoying, and this is america, after all; winning the popular vote doesn't mean you'll win the election.

unclesahm

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Thanks Gawker (and the good people in the comments), for reminding me why, upon graduation, I vowed to never, ever, under any circumstances, attend either a Wesleyan or an Eclectic reunion.

JeremytheAffableHipster

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I keep thinking that these schools are all blending together into one "ginormous" (recently added word to 2008 ed. of Miriam Webster-- can we have a most annoying word contest next?) universal higher learning hell. Ok, the differential:

Q: How do you know if someone went to Vassar?

A: Because they never let you forget it!

Where would one find the Spin article, btw?

Ohnonotyouagain

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Nah. The most annoying liberal arts college is the one that won't stop calling you and asking for donations.

LisaHunter

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @Misterhippity: Wesleyan's official, administration-sponsored nickname was "The Independent Ivy" for a single semester. The student body had at least enough self-awareness to hate the phrase, current poll results notwithstanding.

annecoperdink

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @lizzybennet: I went to UC Berkeley--over STANFORD!

That's not a choice, it's a moral obligation.

@Clevertrousers: Procrastinator, ESQ. would beg to differ with you.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> i am just so proud .:wipes tear from her eye:. thank you all, on behalf of myself, and that beloved anti-frat that put Wes over the edge...

LawAndDisorder

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> When I was at Sarah Lawrence, I took a sculpture class (which was incidentally taught by a women who used her own menstrual blood in her work) where my project for the semester was called "Liberal Arts and Crafts." I sat around making friendship bracelets, lanyards and getting tangled up in yarn and popsicle sticks which were intended to be shown under glass in the final class exhibition. Sadly, I was kicked out for unrelated reasons before the show, but I will always fondly remember my time at SLC. Especially the time the lesbians tried to talk me out of heterosexuality, and I sat in the hallway of the women's dorm, hands over my ears, wailing, "but I like boys!"

giblet

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @RollsRoycehead-on: St. John's College has a actual croquet team. (And, yeah, I actually really liked it there with its bookish freaks and parties with pretentious names like Reality and Seducers and Corrupters. Actually, in Santa Fe they were told they had to change the name of that last party. So they did. To Saducees and Corinthians.)

oudemia

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I so thought Sarah Lawrence was going to win for that "visions of faeries nibbling leaves" story alone. I can't believe they sunk so low as to ballet stuffing. Actually I can. Sarah Lawrence will always be the top loser in my heart.

earlytimezone

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Much like famous alum Barbara Walters does time after time, year after year, it is almost as if Sarah Lawrence has cheated death.

jeanutters

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Most annoying University: "The" George Washington University. I mean, have you ever BEEN there? I had to stare for FOUR YEARS at girls who all wore 1 size too small black capri pants (aka "pants that are five inches too short" according to my best friend's husband), Gucci sunglasses, and those nylon Prada purses. They all talk like various members of the Fashion Club from Daria....ANNOYING!

Ambition_is_pretension

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Well, I'm glad this is over.

But I'm more glad the donkey dicks at Scary Larry (HAW!) were denied the perverse satisfaction of "winning".

zibby

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> My vote for most annoying liberal arts school goes to Gallaudet. Have you ever tried talking with somenone who went there? Now THAT is annoying.

JiggyMavis

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @luckyjim: Someone call Glamour Magazine!

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I think they're all annoying--which is why I didn't vote--because people who went to these crassly elitist (and yet weirdly liberal) institutions think the rest of us give a fuck. And except that your graduates run everything (bang up job, fuckwits), we really don't.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @Clevertrousers:
If there's douchery to be exposed whether it's East Coast style or California bred, this Manhattan Media subject wants to hear about it. And ah, oh yeah, I went to Berkeley so lay off Cal.


NotAndersonCooper

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @lizzybennet: This is Gawker. Nobody here cares about California or its so-called educational system. You might as well be talking about far Cathay or the kingdom of Prester John...

Clevertrousers

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I still hate Brown and Bard like poison. But then again I never had roomates from Wesleyan or "Sadie Lou."

Clevertrousers

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @lizzybennet: I went to Oxford, where we were all too pissed to find the means or creativity through which to be obnoxious.

psst

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Doree, could you please run the next presidential election? So I don't have to get up to go vote?

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @tuffgirl: honeybunny, your list is beyond belief annoying.

gotta say also that, i concur, berkeley bears no resemblance WHATSOEVER to a liberal arts college. i can't think of less of a hothouse liberal artiste experience than walking among the masses across sproul.

i lurved my liberal arts undergrad days at a teeny tiny school too small to be more than a blip on the gawker radar. sure we were annoying: we had a literal rat races complete with betting, a joyce party where we recited our favorite passages from the skinny bespectacled dude; in REALITY, i loved it there. anyone else out there? helloooooo?

hollywood_damaged

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @RollsRoycehead-on:
"this unicycle ride's getting boring"
"shut up or i'll put the seat back on"




slinkimalinki

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Here's the weird thing: I went to UC Berkeley--over STANFORD! MY.GOD>-- and had my parents ALL freaked out by THAT choice. And none of this shit went on there. We had, like, a naked GUY (recently hung himself in jail--BTW, he was a ater polo player so none of us were complaining, though one lesbian group did. Fucking lesbos, ruin all our fun every fucking time!) we had an heiress get kidnapped like, a hundred years before I got there. We had the Bubble Lady (nothing kinky or attractive, just a woman in a poncho who blew babbles everywhere she went) and a Polka Dot Man (rumored to be a physics PhD who ranted in Sproul Hall about the aliens in the fountain water and in the ketchup at Top Dog). We had a guy in a van with conspiracies all over it, including that Nixon actually killed John Lennon. but NOTHIN compared to this shit.
I thought I was going all batshit liberal psycho crazy on my Reagan loving dad. I feel ROBBED.


lizzybennet

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Here's the weird thing: I went to UC Ber

lizzybennet

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @bite.me: Don't forget Barrington and the Wine and Cheese parties (read: punch laced with acid and copious public nudity).

Oh, and we named our homeless: Rare, and the Hate Man.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Sarah Lawrence can't get their shit together to give pre-Facebook alumni email addresses, and you expect us to believe they orchestrated a campaign of massive proportions to stuff the ballot box? Please.

robbed

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Berkeley (California, not Secretaries or Musicians) had a Naked Guy who spent all four years walking around campus sans clothing, old folks nudie marches (ew ew ew), and also the "De-Cals" program (short for "Democratic Teaching at Cal" which seems a little redundant) teaching everything from Literary Allusions in the Simpsons to "Fem Sex" - all a trustifarian's little heart could desire.
It also cost a hell of a lot less. Stupid rich kids.


bite.me

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Bard forever, baby. How can a school with Music Program Zero not win this contest?

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I find it pretty abhorrent that SLC can have it's coveted title taken away simply because we [a] coveted the title and [b] managed to raise all known computer and internet possessing students and alums to take part. We are just that annoying.

And honestly, it's way more 'out there' than any of the comments have described. Marx, Moog, Adderall, and Built By Wendy dresses prove a lethal combination. You have to see it believe.

madeirafly

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> BTW, 9,867% in support of Weaselyan (oops, sorry, did I misspell?) for the win. I know some brilliant, crazy freaks from SLC. I know some obnoxious, pretentious narcissists from Wes. QED.

(No idea whether being an alum of The School-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named makes me extra authoritative or utterly wrong.)

jetztinberlin

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Amen to Wesleyan. My brother went there and turned into a self-rightous douchebag. His friends were some of the most obnoxious, pompous and unfriendly people I have ever met. I, too, opted for an annoying liberal arts degree (Grinnell), but at least left with a hardened liver and the ability to spellcheck my papers. (And that bastard had better grades, not that I'm bitter...)

badideajeans

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @luckyjim: Naked... donut... Finally! Proof of the source of Cosmo's sex tips. I knew the feminazis were to blame. The only explanation for how bad those tips are is that they just don't want men to enjoy sex at all.

jetztinberlin

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> My cousin went to Wesleyan. Now she's married to a cardiologist, runs a nonprofit, and may be the most well-adjusted person in the family. I imagine she isn't welcome at the reunions.

Nope, she's probably right at home at reunions. That's the glorious thing about Annoying Liberal Arts Schools everywhere-- their students go from being "oh look how annoyingly unconventional I am" to marrying an orthodontist and living in a McMansion with 2.5 kids and within 15 years.

Constantine

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Vassar DID have a unicyclist team, a nudie poker night and a croquet club that modeled its parties after "Heathers."

Then there was that whole "doorway-to-hell-in-Main-Building's-basement" thing. Demonic attacks, strange lights, walled-up rooms, the whole works.

No naked donut people though.

RollsRoycehead-on

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> "Sadie Lou?"

That's gotta be the most fucking annoying nickname for a college ever!

Unless Wesleyan has an equally annoying nickname -- like, say, "Lil' Wezzy" -- then SLC should have had this title locked up based on that nickname alone.


MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Most Annoying Technical School now, please?

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Please, please, PLEASE someone run a contest for Most Annoying Douchebag Producing Conservative Wall Street Feeder Uni.

I can't take the envy of reading about Sex Weeks, seminars on ANY aspect of female sexuality (as if it was acknowledged to exist), Buddhist Houses, naked runs, S&M clubs, pornography classes and a student body that can hear the phrase "gender politics" and not automatically think of physical castration as imminent.

I spent my college years among roommates who thought I was "troubled" because I liked to have sex, with lovers who were "concerned" over how much I knew about birth control and why I had it with me, with boyfriends who concluded I must have had sex with a lot of gay men if I suggested an HIV test for us, with women crying over possibly having lost their virginity (at age 20) and around men who would non-chalantly tell a woman they just slept with about how they would marry a virgin when they finally "got the ball and chain".

And no, I did not attend college in the 1950s, or 1850s. Just in the Bronx.

Mean_Ol_Liberal

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Brown's got a naked donut run in the libraries during reading week. Some sort of cabal of sugary food and body freedom loving Ivy Leaguers I suppose. Although I think ours was cancelled last semester due to people going to the absolute quiet rooms solely to watch the run (it's supposed to be a surprise/ spontaneous type thing).
@Gregory_of_Nazianzus: Brown was the original Ivy League debauchery on Fox News school.

luckyjim

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @goldsoundz:

I, too, mourn Bard's having been kicked out of the running. I mean, neither Wesleyan nor Sarah Lawrence had Steely Dan write a song about them.

But... what if they had? What would the titles be?

fakefakejazz

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Since no one has really done this so far, here's a list of some notable Wes alums. And btw, I'm totally crabby about my alma mater winning this.

Jets coach Eric Mangini
Bill Belichick
Red Sox asst. general manager Jed Hoyer
School of Rock/Good Girl writer/actor Mike White
Michael Bay
Brooklyn Industries owner Lexy Funk
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman
Lemony Snicket (Dan Handler)
Dana Delaney
TV newsguy Andrew Siff
Johnny Temple of rock band Girls Against Boys
Smokey Fontaine
PCU/Last Action Hero writer Zak Penn
Joss Whedon
Robert Ludlum
Stephen Trask, composer/lyricist of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Dar Williams
Randall Pinkston



















tuffgirl

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @DieDieDie: Pffft. Plenty of play at Columbia though much of it is now gay. Once they gentrified the neighborhood beyond recognition (RIP Morningside Heights, 1968-2002) and set up latte vendors in Hamilton Hall, the kids stopped copping furtive feels in Butler and instead started having actual sex on Frette sheets in their new dorm rooms, where the thick lacquered layers of paint covered the walls previously stained with the eviction notices of the middle-class.

cassandra

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Congrats Wesleyan! You're the Dillinger of annoying liberal arts colleges!

TheOG

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @badgorilla: I was so tempted to post that earlier...

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Please. SLC sssooooo gets the trophy. Which other school on the list went to such painstaking efforts to win this completely worthless election? It should count as a secret test of annoyingness, and we passed with flying colors.

NightBright

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> One more time for good ol' Wes! We won! We won!

And then it's fight for old Wesleyan
Never give in!
Fight til the end, when
Might and Right shall win!
So keep on fighting
Til victory crowns everyone
And then it's Fight, Fight, Fight, Fiiiiight
For Wes-ley-an
GO WES!

badgorilla

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @slinkimalinki: Yeah . . . the speculum of the other co-ed . . .

oudemia

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @oudemia: ah, but iragaray has the whole "woman constantly touches herself" thing, which totally works with the topic at hand.

slinkimalinki

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I am distraught and in my cups that this contest has come to an end! I have spent the last 4 days guffawing in my office, and then covering it up with a cough, over the high-sterical recounting of college shenanigans. Cant you just make this a weekly thing? To get me through bummer Mondays and summer Fridays?

Iamnot

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> My girlfriend went to Wesleyan. She keeps dragging me to house parties in Brooklyn thrown by other Wesleyanites.

I dread these parties. I have feigned leprosy in order to avoid them. I have claimed to be a Libertarian and Ayn Rand fan in order for the Wes grads to stop telling me stories about the Naked Dorm, the Naked Parties, the Naked granola station.

Last year a good friend invited me to dinner to convince her high school senior son "R____" to choose Wesleyan over SLC, Reed, Kenyon et al.

I have known R___ since he was freakin' 8 years old. I watch him ignore his parents pleas at dinner. Then I went to work. It was like being the anti-counselor. The more I ignored R___, the more he wanted to know what I thought of certain schools. I shot from the hip.

about a certain former women's college :
"Aw, that school is a union busting bastion of rich kids with opium pipes."

about a certain school in the Pacific Northwest:
"Yeah, you'll wake up one day in the quad on mushrooms dressed in your aunts baggy panties with hoof marks branded on your ass."

about a certain school in CT:
"Dude, the guy who created Buffy went there...do you know the Buffy musical episode with Hinton Battle? *sings "Let Me Rest In Peace"*"

about SLC:
"Man, I gotta be honest...you will meet a girl at orientation...by the end of 1st semester, both of you will become THE WORST KIND OF LESBIANS. And then one of you will do prison time alone."

about a school in Minnesota:
"Sorry, they have to import colored people to that hood...and they won't have any pineapple near the cereal bar...just maple syrup."


He wound up going to Wesleyan.

I think I am going to Hell.







marblefaun

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> my bard roommate was actually really offended when i told him about this whole "most annoying lib arts school" poll. i'm sad i didn't get to see him cry. i mean he's a fucking tour guide for them... i wanted tears!!!

yellowsurfboard

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @ljnd2: Amateurs. Alenka Zupančič.

oudemia

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> McKibbIn. how could you miss it, it's on here: [en.wikipedia.org]

aisatsana

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @Gregory_of_Nazianzus: The only reason there's an S&M club at Columbia is because the kids are all virgins, and completely terrified/fascinated with the idea sex. They talk about it all the time, nobody (excepting acts on onanism among the Butler library stacks) actually does it.

Your typical State school sweat hog has fucked his way through a dozen virgins by the time her or she's 15, and is only concerned with the action rather than the concept of boinkery.

DieDieDie

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @slinkimalinki: Sorry, Kristeva beats them both.

ljnd2

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Of course SLC got the most votes.
They have more of us Chicagoans than Wesleyan.
And unlike Florida or Ohio, we know how to count votes!
Even from those whose addresses seem to be a cemetery!

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> At least the quirky sexual excesses of Columbia are picked up by Ann Coulter and used as more evidence that liberal academics are morally bankrupt Christ-haters. What did you do to shock Fox viewers today, Wesleyan?

Gregory_of_Nazianzus

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Sorry, Wesleyan's Wikipedia entry doesn't contain the blood-pressure-inflating phrase " most students are well informed about the intricacies of gender politics." It actually has a semblance of a Greek system, rather than a network of vegan cooperative housing. Oberlin still wins, in my heart.

SchmatSchmaymon

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I didn't attend either institution but I know enough alumni from both to constitute a significant statistical sample. And I concur with your findings; The Wesleyan grads maintain a more lasting and robust annoyingosity.

NotAndersonCooper

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> One of my friends goes to Wesleyan and lives in the Buddhist House. She is white and not a Buddhist. Everyone in the house is white and none of them were raised Buddhist, either. If that doesn't sum up Wesleyan I don't know what will. To think I almost went there (I opted for the slightly less annoying but still pretty stereotypical Grinnell).

kthnx

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> My best friend from high school went to Wes. He was the nerdy Phish technocrat who laid awake at night listening to his amorous roommates fucking.

He now works for Merriam-Webster as a dictionary editor.

PapaPoopsicle

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> My cousin went to Wesleyan. Now she's married to a cardiologist, runs a nonprofit, and may be the most well-adjusted person in the family.

I imagine she isn't welcome at the reunions.

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Thanks for the [sort of] shout out Doree! Oh, and I totally voted for Wesleyan all along - as a native of Connecticut I truly believe that the title of most annoying liberal arts college should reside in-state.

guevara284

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> Okay. Let's confess. I did a year at SUNY Purchase (in ..73-74, horrors.)Flunked out, worked, then finished at night school at Marymount Manhattan, slogging through temp jobs galore. (even survived moving back home.) And had a (reasonably)good time and got a good education to boot. anyone else want to own up to a low rent non name but happy college experience?

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> There's a difference between wanting to be annoying and being truly annoying. Think of the difference between the cast of Williamsburg! and and the residents of Williamsburg.

goldsoundz

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> We don't care about your naked people. We won on a technicality and now you have to deal with 4 more years of our administration.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> But by trying to rig the election, didn't SLC prove that they ARE the most annoying? I challenge someone at Wesleyan to write a dissertation on this.

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> @obonobo: I think they do. Yale has Sex Week as well as a whole naked society called the Pundits, whose members saunter around (note: saunter, not streak) the library and hand out candy during exams. And not all the candy has wrappers. Sometimes it's like, a warm clammy handful of Skittles ... shudder

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> The name Bard just felt right for this contest. I too settled for Wesleyan when that dream died.

goldsoundz

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> irigaray is totes more annoying than cixous.

slinkimalinki

]]> <![CDATA[The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.]]> I have it on good authority that Harvard has both a naked run and pornography workshops for women. I'd expect that most schools for rich kids do. So I'd call it a 100-way tie.

obonobo

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