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Strange but true
Working at ACTA, one learns many surprising (sometimes even strange) things about higher education. Here's one: Hugh Hefner's sordid magazine has college rankings. Who knew?
On the website of the New York Daily News, ACTA senior researcher David Azerrad uses this fact to illuminate some much more important truths about higher education today:
"Where would someone who wants to live the Playboy lifestyle want to go to school?"That's the question Playboy asked in compiling its recently released rankings of the 2010 Top Party Schools. Yes, Playboy is now offering college advice.
The men's magazine narrowed the list down to 10 (sorry, New York, none of your institutions of higher education are among them). It is however hard to see how such a short list does justice to just how widespread the Playboy lifestyle -- booze-soaked parties, three-day weekends and easy hook-ups -- has become.
That American college students party -- that is, get hammered -- is of course well-known. What people don't realize is that rampant binge drinking is not a self-contained problem. Only because our colleges and universities are increasingly abandoning their educational mission is the party culture thriving.
Read the whole thing.
Posted by Charles Mitchell on May 24, 2010 at May 24, 2010 12:36 PM
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