Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Stone Cold Yawn
The Princeton Review has ranked BYU the nation's #1 "stone-cold sober" college. Again. The Deseret News has a nice article on the topic that I read this morning, and that my wife forwarded to me, having received it as a forward from another BYU-grad friend.
My response: Yeah, yeah. Like it's any surprise that BYU is stone-cold sober and #1 for all the other categories related to Mormon doctrine (low beer usage, low hard liquor usage, low marijuana use, high prayer rate, low acceptance of gays, etc.). It would be news if they dropped to #2. Actually, I found myself wondering what happened seven years ago--BYU has only held the stone-cold sober mark for six straight years. Hopefully that's just as long as the Princeton Review has been evaluating that aspect of college life.
I thought the DesNews article chose the right focus by talking mostly about BYU's #1 ranking on their library. THAT is fascinating and newsworthy to me. It seems the library has changed a lot, even in the few years since I've been there, and it's become a pleasant, wonderful place to be. That's very cool. Harvard's undergrad library, I've come to know through experience, is cavernous and warehouse-like and under renovation and therefore not very user-friendly. If you're ranking schools not on the best collections in the library, but on whether students like the library, I would vote the BYU library of 2000 (my most recent experience with it) all over the Harvard library of 2004.
My response: Yeah, yeah. Like it's any surprise that BYU is stone-cold sober and #1 for all the other categories related to Mormon doctrine (low beer usage, low hard liquor usage, low marijuana use, high prayer rate, low acceptance of gays, etc.). It would be news if they dropped to #2. Actually, I found myself wondering what happened seven years ago--BYU has only held the stone-cold sober mark for six straight years. Hopefully that's just as long as the Princeton Review has been evaluating that aspect of college life.
I thought the DesNews article chose the right focus by talking mostly about BYU's #1 ranking on their library. THAT is fascinating and newsworthy to me. It seems the library has changed a lot, even in the few years since I've been there, and it's become a pleasant, wonderful place to be. That's very cool. Harvard's undergrad library, I've come to know through experience, is cavernous and warehouse-like and under renovation and therefore not very user-friendly. If you're ranking schools not on the best collections in the library, but on whether students like the library, I would vote the BYU library of 2000 (my most recent experience with it) all over the Harvard library of 2004.
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