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[violachic]

Sincerest apologies to those of my friends who attended St. Olaf College and really loved it. Or at least tolerated it. But I gotta say this.

Out of sheer curiosity, I went to the hope page to peruse. And on it, I found this:

"An average of six St. Olaf students win Fullbright Scholarships each year. Since 1995 we have produced three Rhodes Scholars, and 23 Barry M. Goldwater scholarships."

Okay, sounds impressive.


Wait, rewind.

Barry Goldwater? Barry M. Goldwater? This is something to be proud of?



To be honest, I now couldn't be happier I left the place. I knew it. I just knew it.



Heh. Sometimes I'm such a liberal snob.

Comments

[sleepykins.livejournal.com]

yeah, whenever I fly into the Phoenix Sky Harbor which has a Goldwater Wing, I feel slightly creepy.

[whereisjoy.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about Earlham College, and I don't think that we have a Barry Goldwater scholarship.

;-)

Oh, I should take this as an opportunity to tell you I added you. Sorry, I'm slow with the communication thing sometimes and especially so lately. So much email! So much work!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

That's okay, I noticed :-)


That's interesting, I've always held Earlham in the back of my brain as someplace I'd be interested in going. What's your beef?

[whereisjoy.livejournal.com]

I was a Peace and Global Studies major there and felt like I learn something of value and relevence to my activist life in one of my PAGS classes.

I also found other PAGS majors, at least in my year, to be really passive aggressive and not encouraged to be regreous or constient in their thinking.

I also think that the PAGS major was designed by one person (no longer teaching there) to reflect his person philosphy and interests more than anything else. And I just didn't really want a degree in Howard Richard's Thinking.

I also felt like it was excessively philosphical to the point of having no practical value for me, at least. It's was a major about preparing you for grad school. Not cool, in my mind.

Earlham's got some other problems, generally. It's not a very honest school and it's residential life policies more than is reasonable. They also tend to avoid really hiring profs, which isn't cool by the time your a senior.

But there are some really wonderful people who go there. I loved my first year, then I was ready to get out of there.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I had two friends from high school who went there. I know that one really loved it; I didn't stay in touch with the other one. I don't recall what the first one majored in, though I know she's now working as a counselor out in the Pacific NW. I applied but decided to go to a school in a city instead.

[dl76.livejournal.com]

My sister and her boyfriend of 8 years both graduated from Earlham.

I never heard anything negative from either of them, but KTE was a French major and Ned was a Computer Geek (I think that's the technical term, right?)

I dont know. I dont have any direct experience. I'm sorry you had such a bad time at what I always thought was a really neat institution.

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

i will never forget the day i found out that Arizona was still voting whether or not to take Marting Luther King, Jr. day as an official holiday (they voted NO that particular year).

Since then, Arizona politics have always been somethig i try to avoid paying attention to.

[stannate.livejournal.com]

I wonder if St. Olaf sees itself as trying to "balance" out the effects of Carelton College?

[pixelene.livejournal.com]

I visited St. Olaf when I was a senior in high school and was shopping for colleges. I stayed overnight on the dorm room floor of an existing student. Other than not liking the choir and HATING their "theatre" presentation of As You Like It (or some other Shakespeare light-hearted thing), I said to myself "I could be happy here... if I'm allowed to wake up SCREAMING at least once a month."

Yeah... didn't seriously pursue anything there... :P

[geezerlee.livejournal.com]

Actually, Goldwater makes the current generation of Republicans look good. He at least was consistent in his libertarianism, and more than once in his later years decried the takeover of his party by the Religious Right.

I still would not have voted for him in 1964, but hey.

OLAF

[dl76.livejournal.com]

you are a liberal snob, but I love you anyway, or maybe because of it.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.

St Olaf was exactly what I needed at 20 years old.

even though I'm not Lutheran, Blonde, Norwegian, Blue Eyed, from Minnesota, or conservative in general.

it tamed me, and I needed that. Besides, I loved the choir and Dr A. I wouldnt have lasted 4 years without them.

Re: OLAF

[violachic.livejournal.com]

I know :-) And I wasn't criticizing your choice of it, just mine :-)

BTW

[violachic.livejournal.com]

I can't find the post you made the comment on, so I'm commenting back here because I found this one :-P

is this (http://violachic.livejournal.com/18881.html?mode=reply) the videotape you found? And this (http://violachic.livejournal.com/19528.html?nc=12)?



Just curious.

Re: BTW

[dl76.livejournal.com]

yeah....

I think so.