Michael Perelman's employer makes Radar's list of the worst colleges
in America...
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the_nine_worst_colleges_in_america.php>
Worst Party School: (Tie) California State University-Chico; San
Diego State University
While Chico is the most notorious party college on the planet—69
students were arrested on St. Patrick's Day last year—on average, a
full 15 percent of them actually manage to graduate in four years. At
San Diego State, a paltry 14 percent are able to accomplish this
goal. Both schools deserve special recognition for high-level
achievement in the field of depravity and general disinterest in
scholastic pursuits.
Illustrious Alumni: Chico lays claim to good-time-guy novelist
Raymond Carver (who graduated elsewhere) and bare-knuckled political
consultant Ed Rollins, while SDSU graduated disgraced former CIA
executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and oft-disrobed former C-movie
actress Raquel Welch (right). Too close to call.
Notable Courses: While Chico may have SDSU licked in the category of
anecdotal debauchery, the latter offers a class titled Challenges of
Leisure ("The study of leisure and its impact on contemporary
life ... issues affecting recreation in today's urbanized society"),
formerly, Recreation 204. And we have to respect that kind of rigor.
School Pride: "I started to worry when you could smell alcohol
permeating from my pores," one Chico student told Playboy.com. "You
can go to Mexico and get wasted, you can go to the beach and get
wasted, or just stay in the city and of course get wasted," writes an
anonymous SDSU sophomore on Students Review.
Fun Facts: The Forensics team had its 2006 season canceled after
members were caught doing coke on school-sponsored trips. Last year,
Phi Kappa Tau was suspended for using Chico co-eds in hardcore
pornographic movies that were filmed in their frat house and then
sold on the Internet. The festivities included a game called "pussy
ring toss," the objective of which is to hook a ring over a dildo,
which is held in a woman's vagina.
Raw Data: The porn movies reportedly earned over $100,000, though the
filmmakers were expelled. Chico State should consider renaming its
business school after its most accomplished entrepreneurs.
Tuition: Chico, $3,402 in-state ($13,491 out-of-state); SDSU, $3,122
in-state ($13,292 out-of-state) plus room and board.
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