History Main / StrawmanU

One to actually change the light bulb, and four to figure out how this could get some Longwood girls to come over.[[note]]HSU is one of the last true [[{{AlwaysMale}} all-boy schools]] in the US. Living in close proximity to Sweet Briar (all-female) and Longwood (coed) leads to [[{{YouNeedToGetLaid}} sexual tension]].[[/note]]\\\

That’s what maids are for.[[note]]All-girls school in Roanoke. Known for {{Rich Bitch}}es.[[/note]]\\\

** Bard College (Episcopal Church) in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is fairly left-wing, and has contributed to social justice campaigns, including a prison education campaign. It tends to be more famous for it's alumni, which includes Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Music/SteelyDan and Adam Yauch of Music/TheBeastieBoys.

** It's worth noting that UP's reputation—rightly or wrongly—of harbouring radical left-leaning nationalism, up to and including Communist thought, is an almost complete inversion of its own image in TheFifties and earlier, when ''the same university'' was held up as an example of rigorously conservative, ''and pro-American'', ideological types. There were even powerful organisations allied with the Catholic hierarchy, and [[RedScare campus witch-hunts against left-leaning students and faculty]]—[[EaglelandOsmosis just like in the States]]! ItMakesSenseInContext though, because UP was originally founded by the Americans themselves, in the early days of the Philippines as a formal U.S. colonial possession, and in TheFifties, though a nominally "independent" nation, the Philippines was still far under the shadow of American influence that wanted an iron guarantee of its allies' loyalties—it was, after all, the Cold War.

* California Lutheran University (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) in Thousand Oaks, California. Like Augsburg, it is fairly left wing, but with a more big tent flavor (to the point it's hosted several conservative speakers in the past). Outside of that, it has a reputation for it's history with American football, being called the West Coast's "Cradle of Coaches" as nearly 1 in 4 of football coach Bob Shoup’s players would go on to coach at some level.

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* ''Film/FreshmanYear'': Professor Thomas exists solely to make negative comments about Christianity and act in a hostile manner to Christian protagonist CJ. Bonus points for saying an evolution textbook serves as the class' “Bible” (not that this makes sense in a social studies class). Most of the other students seem interested in sex and drinking more than anything else (though that is somewhat realistic), with CJ falling into the temptations as well.

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-->'''Kitty''': We'll tie her up in court. By the time she gets Daniel back he'll be graduating from Stanford.
-->'''Edward''': Notre Dame.[[note]]Although Notre Dame is far from a WASP bastion—it's the best-known Catholic school in the US—Edward is a Notre Dame graduate in-universe.[[/note]]
-->'''Larry''': Berkeley.
-->'''Abby''': Oberlin.

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* Extreme Jim Jonestown example: The 'University' in Sarah Kane's play ''Cleansed'' is really a concentration camp, run by the evil Tinker, where there are peepholes in the showers[[spoiler: that lead to Tinker's private viewing room, for his pleasure]], and students are tortured by Tinker and his goons.

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** Augsburg University (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is quite left-wing (hell, it's parent church is basically a InNameOnly evangelical church). It has enough of a diverse student body to be termed as the Website/{{Twitter}} of religious universities, and one of it's campus organizations is a college branch of Amnesty International. Susan Allen, the first openly lesbian Native American to win election to a state legislature, was a student here.

** UC Santa Barbara is [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] for the fiery destruction of a Bank of America building, after [[https://livinghistory.as.ucsb.edu/2020/07/20/bank-of-america-burning/ a peaceful protest against the company spiraled into an all-out riot]]. Since then, it's become better known for its party scene than its politics, but it has cropped up at the forefront of national issues, specifically mass shootings and the incel movement with the 2014 Isla Vista shooting near the campus,[[note]]The killer wasn't a UCSB student, though he had taken courses at a nearby community college called Santa Barbara City College. He did try to attack a UCSB sorority house (as he resented attractive women for not having sex with him), but he couldn't get in and subsequently started shooting random people around Isla Vista instead.[[/note]] and the housing crisis with plans to build Munger Hall[[note]]A "space-efficient" tower - intended to address the lack of housing available for its student body - that doesn't provide windows for any of its bedrooms.[[/note]] for this campus.

Like Sokal, a [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone, but unlike Sokal without the shameless focus on hard science. It does, however, has a shameless focus on social elitism; how intellectual it actually is, is less important. In fact, what it does is not as important as what it ''is'': a stately, centuries-old school that will never let you forget the weight of its history. Ever. The buildings and interiors are all of well-worn stone and polished hard wood, possibly built in some sort of Gothic Revival architecture (or simply Medieval Gothic, especially if in Europe), there might be marble statues standing around, and the school might actually put the "tower" back in "ivory tower". Expect everyone on the premises to be some flavour of WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant (or its local equivalent), with just enough minority figures to fend off accusations of ''overt'' favouritism, and predominantly male. JewishAndNerdy is just enough on the posh side to register as minority while not looking too out of place. If a specific faculty is mentioned, it's probably going to be Literature, History, Classical Studies or some other discipline that carries the connotations of "old" and "posh" -- Law, Medicine and Mathematics being among the more practical to still check out -- and there might actually be a Theology faculty as a leftover of the school's ancient past. The teaching staff will include many an AbsentMindedProfessor, who unlike in Sokal, will probably spend more time eating lavish dinners with other members of the faculty than doing science, supplemented with a DeanBitterman enforcing the school's centuries-old rules in the name of Tradition, a ScaryLibrarian standing guard over the school's [[SpookySilentLibrary spooky]] [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything old library]], and [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety an occasional Robin Williams lookalike encouraging his students to read old literature]]. The most outright hostility you'll encounter, aside from the stuffy deans not allowing fun, is probably the [[CausticCritic bizarrely angry film/art/literary critic]] who may be as much of a [[TheGadfly contrarian as the prtagonists.]] Traditional gowns and headgear might actually be used as everyday clothing.

Like Sokal, a [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone, but unlike Sokal without the shameless focus on hard science. It does, however, has a shameless focus on social elitism; how intellectual it actually is, is less important. In fact, what it does is not as important as what it ''is'': a stately, centuries-old school that will never let you forget the weight of its history. Ever. The buildings and interiors are all of well-worn stone and polished hard wood, possibly built in some sort of Gothic Revival architecture (or simply Medieval Gothic, especially if in Europe), there might be marble statues standing around, and the school might actually put the "tower" back in "ivory tower". Expect everyone on the premises to be some flavour of WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant (or its local equivalent), with just enough minority figures to fend off accusations of ''overt'' favouritism, and predominantly male. JewishAndNerdy is just enough on the posh side to register as minority while not looking too out of place. If a specific faculty is mentioned, it's probably going to be Literature, History, Classical Studies or some other discipline that carries the connotations of "old" and "posh" -- Law, Medicine and Mathematics being among the more practical to still check out -- and there might actually be a Theology faculty as a leftover of the school's ancient past. The teaching staff will include many an AbsentMindedProfessor, who unlike in Sokal, will probably spend more time eating lavish dinners with other members of the faculty than doing science, supplemented with a DeanBitterman enforcing the school's centuries-old rules in the name of Tradition, a ScaryLibrarian standing guard over the school's [[SpookySilentLibrary spooky]] [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything old library]], and [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety an occasional Robin Williams lookalike encouraging his students to read old literature]]. Traditional gowns and headgear might actually be used as everyday clothing.

A [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly intellectually elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone which is just as shamelessly HardOnSoftScience. This academy concentrates on hard natural sciences as well as engineering and industrial management, with possible faculties of economy, business and law. Expect a lot of [[GadgeteerGenius tech-savvy]] {{Nerd}}s and {{Geek}}s, including sizable {{Asian|AndNerdy}} (from both East and [[BollywoodNerd South]] Asia) and {{Jewish|AndNerdy}} contingents. These guys certainly won't think EverybodyHatesMathematics or ScienceIsUseless. Expect a lot of HollywoodAtheist and StrawNihilist types, often overlapping with MadScientist. If the academy has a faculty for law, the AmoralAttorney is omnipresent. The teaching staff will include the AbsentMindedProfessor with EinsteinHair, MadScientist professors aiming for Nobel prizes, Engineers who absolutely despise anyone not them (and show their displeasure by pulling complicated MIT-style pranks on their less-than-enlightened fellows, either non-hard science majors or unfortunate students from Berserkeley and Jim Jonestown) and the occasional OmnidisciplinaryScientist. ''Everyone'' will wear a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine. Libertarian right-wing politics will predominate, but ''not'' religion, as everyone will claim to have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions and assert that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If the university has a faculty of Economics, expect it to be ''horribly'' [[KillThePoor elitist]] and [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives ultra-industrialist right wing]].

** University of California, Berkeley, [[TropeNamers of course]]. Useful for radical-left political flavoring.[[note]]Ironically, one of their alumni was right-wing California Governor Pete Wilson.[[/note]][[note]]Berkeley itself also perhaps deviates from the stereotype by being host to cutting-edge sciences and engineering departments as well due to its proximity to the technology hubs of San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which usually [[{{Flanderization}} gets ignored]] in more political works.[[/note]]

* There's a plethora of fundamentalist Christian UrbanLegends about a student humiliating a smug HollywoodAtheist professor in an argument; Wiki/RationalWiki has a whole [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheist_professor_myth article]] full of them. One popular variant ends with the TomatoSurprise that the victorious student was a young UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, which led to the phrase "And his name? Albert Einstein!" becoming a meme in New Atheist circles.

** UC Santa Barbara is [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] for the fiery destruction of a Bank of America building, after [[https://livinghistory.as.ucsb.edu/2020/07/20/bank-of-america-burning/ a peaceful protest against the company spiraled into an all-out riot]]. Since then, it's become better known for its party scene than its politics, but it has cropped up at the forefront of national issues, specifically mass shootings and the incel movement with the 2013 Isla Vista shooting, and the housing crisis with plans to build Munger Hall[[note]]A "space-efficient" tower - intended to address the lack of housing available for its student body - that doesn't provide windows for any of its bedrooms.[[/note]] for this campus.

Expect a grand hallway in the main building with oil painting portraits of notable alumni and statues of Nobel laureates who have graduated there. If the university is European, it ''will'' have a centuries long history, often claiming it is [[NewerThanTheyThink older than the Aztec Empire]]. There will be Latin and/or Greek inscriptions everywhere, and the university itself ''will'' have a PretentiousLatinMotto. There may be marble tables listing the alumni who have died in the nation's wars. The unicersity takes exceptional pride on being ranked among the top 50 universities in the world [[spoiler:there are some 10,000 universities and colleges in the world]].

Like Sokal, a [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone, but unlike Sokal without the shameless focus on hard science. It does, however, has a shameless focus on social elitism; how intellectual it actually is, is less important. In fact, what it does is not as important as what it ''is'': a stately, centuries-old school that will never let you forget the weight of its history. Ever. The buildings and interiors are all of well-worn stone and polished hard wood, possibly built in some sort of Gothic Revival architecture (or simply Gothic), there might be marble statues standing around, and the school might actually put the "tower" back in "ivory tower". Expect everyone on the premises to be some flavour of WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant (or its local equivalent), with just enough minority figures to fend off accusations of ''overt'' favouritism, and predominantly male. JewishAndNerdy is just enough on the posh side to register as minority while not looking too out of place. If a specific faculty is mentioned, it's probably going to be Literature, History, Classical Studies or some other discipline that carries the connotations of "old" and "posh" -- Law, Medicine and Mathematics being among the more practical to still check out -- and there might actually be a Theology faculty as a leftover of the school's ancient past. The teaching staff will include many an AbsentMindedProfessor, who unlike in Sokal, will probably spend more time eating lavish dinners with other members of the faculty than doing science, supplemented with a DeanBitterman enforcing the school's centuries-old rules in the name of Tradition, a ScaryLibrarian standing guard over the school's [[SpookySilentLibrary spooky]] [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything old library]], and [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety an occasional Robin Williams lookalike encouraging his students to read old literature]]. Traditional gowns and headgear might actually be used as everyday clothing.

Expect a grand hallway in the main building with oil painting portraits of notable alumni and statues of Nobel laureates who have graduated there. If the university is European, it ''will'' have a centuries long history, often claiming it is [[NewerThanTheyThink older than the Aztec Empire]]. There will be Latin and/or Greek inscriptions everywhere, and the university itself ''will'' have a PretentiousLatinMotto. There may be marble tables listing the alumni who have died in the nation's wars.

Expect a grand hallway in the main building with paintings of portraits of notable alumni and statues of Nobel laureates who have graduated there. If the university is European, it ''will'' have a centuries long history, often claiming it is [[NewerThanTheyThink older than the Aztec Empire]]. There will be Latin and/or Greek inscriptions everywhere, and the university itself ''will'' have a PretentiousLatinMotto.

The typical student will be a scion of an established and wealthy family, most likely [[ShelteredAristocrat white, male, and somewhat intimidated by his parents' expectations]], but also less obnoxious and hostile than an alumnus of Jim Jones (because otherwise he'd just enroll there); the bad apples tend to be {{Upper Class Twit}}s and {{Spoiled Brat}}s. Many come there directly from some posh [[BoardingSchool]]. BigManOnCampus either doubles as UnclePennybags, or is a BlitheSpirit who somehow managed to enroll without the benefit of access to old money or a legacy admission. Oxbridge alumni might look condescendingly at the alumni of other schools as too gauche, while in turn being seen as a bunch of clueless rich folks.

Like Sokal, a [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone, but unlike Sokal without the shameless focus on hard science. It does, however, has a shameless focus on social elitism; how intellectual it actually is, is less important. In fact, what it does is not as important as what it ''is'': a stately, centuries-old school that will never let you forget the weight of its history. Ever. The buildings and interiors are all of well-worn stone and polished hard wood, possibly built in some sort of Gothic Revival architecture (or simply Gothic), there might be marble statues standing around, and the school might actually put the "tower" back in "ivory tower". Expect everyone on the premises to be some flavour of WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant (or its local equivalent), with just enough minority figures to fend off accusations of ''overt'' favouritism, and predominantly male. JewishAndNerdy is just enough on the posh side to register as minority while not looking too out of place. If a specific faculty is mentioned, it's probably going to be Literature, History, Classical Studies or some other discipline that carries the connotations of "old" and "posh" -- Law and Mathematics being among the more practical to still check out -- and there might actually be a Theology faculty as a leftover of the school's ancient past. The teaching staff will include many an AbsentMindedProfessor, who unlike in Sokal, will probably spend more time eating lavish dinners with other members of the faculty than doing science, supplemented with a DeanBitterman enforcing the school's centuries-old rules in the name of Tradition, a ScaryLibrarian standing guard over the school's [[SpookySilentLibrary spooky]] [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything old library]], and [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety an occasional Robin Williams lookalike encouraging his students to read old literature]]. Traditional gowns and headgear might actually be used as everyday clothing.

The typical student will be a scion of an established and wealthy family, most likely [[ShelteredAristocrat white, male, and somewhat intimidated by his parents' expectations]], but also less obnoxious and hostile than an alumnus of Jim Jones (because otherwise he'd just enroll there); the bad apples tend to be {{Upper Class Twit}}s and {{Spoiled Brat}}s. BigManOnCampus either doubles as UnclePennybags, or is a BlitheSpirit who somehow managed to enroll without the benefit of access to old money or a legacy admission. Oxbridge alumni might look condescendingly at the alumni of other schools as too gauche, while in turn being seen as a bunch of clueless rich folks.

Life outside studies will probably involve belonging to an assorted BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats (actual secret societies and worship of owl effigies optional), reading, enjoying posh activities such as tennis or golf, or preparing to one-up the competing, equally-old and established school in a traditional annual sport event. If WackyFratboyHijinx occur, think improvisational poetry slams rather than simple boozing. Hazing might happen in form of subjecting the freshmen to weird in-jokes and traditions. If there are drugs on campus, opium is posher than ganja.

* Although many (most?) religious colleges fit easily into the Jim Jonestown University mold described below, a few don't:

A [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly intellectually elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone which is just as shamelessly HardOnSoftScience. This academy concentrates on hard natural sciences as well as engineering and industrial management, with possible faculties of economy, business and law. Expect a lot of [[GadgeteerGenius tech-savvy]] {{Nerd}}s and {{Geek}}s, including sizable {{Asian|AndNerdy}} (take your pick from East Asia or [[BollywoodNerd South Asia]]) and {{Jewish|AndNerdy}} contingents. These guys certainly won't think EverybodyHatesMathematics or ScienceIsUseless. Expect a lot of HollywoodAtheist and StrawNihilist types, often overlapping with MadScientist. If the academy has a faculty for law, the AmoralAttorney is omnipresent. The teaching staff will include the AbsentMindedProfessor with EinsteinHair, MadScientist professors aiming for Nobel prizes, Engineers who absolutely despise anyone not them (and show their displeasure by pulling complicated MIT-style pranks on their less-than-enlightened fellows, either non-hard science majors or unfortunate students from Berserkeley and Jim Jonestown) and the occasional OmnidisciplinaryScientist. ''Everyone'' will wear a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine. Libertarian right-wing politics will predominate, but ''not'' religion, as everyone will claim to have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions and assert that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If the university has a faculty of Economics, expect it to be ''horribly'' [[KillThePoor elitist]] and [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives ultra-industrialist right wing]].

Every third storefront will be a coffeehouse or bar stuffed to the brin with atheist nihilists {{Wangst}}ing about everything, or pretentious beatniks explaining how [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible true their incomprehensible art is]]. The city council is packed with people who pass truly absurd ordinances, keep out big businesses that could improve the town, and harass anyone who disagrees with the left-wing politics of the city will into leaving, just after they finish decriminalizing weed.

A [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly intellectually elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone which is just as shamelessly HardOnSoftScience. This academy concentrates on hard natural sciences as well as engineering and industrial management, with possible faculties of economy, business and law. Expect a lot of [[GadgeteerGenius tech-savvy]] {{Nerd}}s and {{Geek}}s, including sizable contingents of {{Jew|ishAndNerdy}}s and {{Asian|AndNerdy}}s (take your pick from East Asia or [[BollywoodNerd South Asia]]). These guys certainly won't think EverybodyHatesMathematics or ScienceIsUseless. Expect a lot of HollywoodAtheist and StrawNihilist types, often overlapping with MadScientist. If the academy has a faculty for law, the AmoralAttorney is omnipresent. The teaching staff will include the AbsentMindedProfessor with EinsteinHair, MadScientist professors aiming for Nobel prizes, Engineers who absolutely despise anyone not them (and show their displeasure by pulling complicated MIT-style pranks on their less-than-enlightened fellows, either non-hard science majors or unfortunate students from Berserkeley and Jim Jonestown) and the occasional OmnidisciplinaryScientist. ''Everyone'' will wear a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine. Libertarian right-wing politics will predominate, but ''not'' religion, as everyone will claim to have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions and assert that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If the university has a faculty of Economics, expect it to be ''horribly'' [[KillThePoor elitist]] and [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives ultra-industrialist right wing]].

A [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly intellectually elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone which is just as shamelessly HardOnSoftScience. This academy concentrates on hard natural sciences as well as engineering and industrial management, with possible faculties of economy, business and law. Expect a lot of [[GadgeteerGenius tech-savvy]] {{Hollywood Nerd}}s and {{Geek}}s, including sizable contingents of {{Jew|ishAndNerdy}}s and {{Asian|AndNerdy}}s (take your pick from East Asia or [[BollywoodNerd South Asia]]). These guys certainly won't think EverybodyHatesMathematics or ScienceIsUseless. Expect a lot of HollywoodAtheist and StrawNihilist types, often overlapping with MadScientist. If the academy has a faculty for law, the AmoralAttorney is omnipresent. The teaching staff will include the AbsentMindedProfessor with EinsteinHair, MadScientist professors aiming for Nobel prizes, Engineers who absolutely despise anyone not them (and show their displeasure by pulling complicated MIT-style pranks on their less-than-enlightened fellows, either non-hard science majors or unfortunate students from Berserkeley and Jim Jonestown) and the occasional OmnidisciplinaryScientist. ''Everyone'' will wear a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine. Libertarian right-wing politics will predominate, but ''not'' religion, as everyone will claim to have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions and assert that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If the university has a faculty of Economics, expect it to be ''horribly'' [[KillThePoor elitist]] and [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives ultra-industrialist right wing]].

Like Sokal, a [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone, but unlike Sokal without the shameless focus on hard science. It does, however, has a shameless focus on social elitism; how intellectual it actually is, is less important. In fact, what it does is not as important as what it ''is'': a stately, centuries-old school that will never let you forget the weight of its history. Ever. The buildings and interiors are all of well-worn stone and polished hard wood, possibly built in some sort of Gothic Revival architecture (or simply Gothic), there might be marble statues standing around, and the school might actually put the "tower" back in "ivory tower". Expect everyone on the premises to be some flavour of WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant (or its local equivalent), with just enough minority figures to fend off accusations of ''overt'' favouritism, and predominantly male. If a specific faculty is mentioned, it's probably going to be Literature, History, Classical Studies or some other discipline that carries the connotations of "old" and "posh" -- Law and Mathematics being among the more practical to still check out -- and there might actually be a Theology faculty as a leftover of the school's ancient past. The teaching staff will include many an AbsentMindedProfessor, who unlike in Sokal, will probably spend more time eating lavish dinners with other members of the faculty than doing science, supplemented with a DeanBitterman enforcing the school's centuries-old rules in the name of Tradition, a ScaryLibrarian standing guard over the school's [[SpookySilentLibrary spooky]] [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything old library]], and [[Film/DeadPoetsSociety an occasional Robin Williams lookalike encouraging his students to read old literature]]. Traditional gowns and headgear might actually be used as everyday clothing.

Life outside studies will probably involve belonging to an assortment of BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats (worship of owl monuments optional), reading, enjoying posh activities such as tennis or golf, or preparing to one-up the competing, equally-old and established school in a traditional annual sport event.

"Shameless" is simply not enough to describe this school. It's is filled with [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl nudists]], {{Granola Girl}}s demanding you go vegan, {{Hollywood Atheist}}s who get furious at the mere mention of something vaguely religious and won't hesitate to tell you you're a [[Main/BeliefMakesYouStupid deluded fundie who believes in an Invisible Sky Wizard Fascist who Doesn't Believe In Rationality]], [[TheStoner stoners]], {{Straw Nihilist}}s, [[DirtyCommunists angry socialists/communists/anarchists/your choice of far-left radicals]] spending most of their time plotting to overthrow Western civilization if they're not fighting each other on how truly leftist they are, [[MalcolmXerox pissed-off black nationalists]] and/or [[EverythingIsRacist similarly militant minorities]] who really hate white students and/or minorities not their own, [[StrawFeminist angry radical feminists]] who see sexism everywhere and will fight you (and each other) over your role in enforcing gender norms (or even not enforcing gender norms), irritating, pretentious, elitist {{hipster}}s wearing risible fashions and [[ItsPopularNowItSucks sneering at "the mainstream"]] (anything not their art, really), radical postmodernist philosophers who claim everything up to basic logic itself is but a social construct and/or systemic oppression, [[HardOnSoftScience elitist hard-science majors]] who sneer at the rest of the school and ESPECIALLY you for not being in a hard science and/or indulging in pointless things like philosophy, and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot angry marijuana-toking nihilist anarchosocialist-communist anti-white radfeminist hipster artist Nudist scientists]]. The faculty will be all of the above -- just with pieces of paper saying they're better educated. And they'll probably throw nudist parties with weed.

If you're just looking to stereotype upper education in general, or want to TakeAThirdOption by combining the left-wing and right-wing flavors under one roof.\\\

* Reed College in UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}, Oregon -- they only tell students their grades if specifically asked, the administration has an extremely lax drug-use policy even for hyper-progressive Portland, and about half of their traditions are weird hippie in-jokes. More infamously, a student group called Reedies Against Racism (RAR) protested and harassed humanities professors and guest speaker [[Film/BoysDontCry Kimberly Peirce]], accusing them of [[EverythingIsRacist promoting racism]] [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and bigotry]].[[note]]Strangely enough, the campus also boasts a nuclear research reactor.[[/note]]

* The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington -- does not assign grades to students at ''all'' in favor of "narrative evaluations,"[[note]]Despite the flack about "no grades," they're actually like the performance evaluations one would get at an office job.[[/note]] many of the courses offered are political in nature, and there are no "departments" like you'd see at other schools -- all classes are a form of "integrated studies" which approach a single issue from several different academic angles, with freshmen and seniors often in the same class. Professors are addressed by first name most of the time. The school operates an organic farm and a nonprofit vegetarian restaurant staffed and operated by unpaid volunteers who manage cooperatively.[[note]]Out of the 100-plus clubs on campus, only about five are not directly related to any left-wing political agenda. These are the clubs dealing with anime, tabletop gaming, and live-action role-playing. Geeks do well there.[[/note]] Pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie is among the college's alumni.

** UC Santa Barbara is [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] for the fiery destruction of a Bank of America building, after [[https://livinghistory.as.ucsb.edu/2020/07/20/bank-of-america-burning/ a peaceful protest against the company spiraled into an all-out riot]]. From UsefulNotes/TheNewTens onward, it's become better known for being at the forefront of national issues, specifically mass shootings and the incel movement with the 2013 Isla Vista shooting, and the housing crisis with plans to build Munger Hall[[note]]A "space-efficient" tower - intended to address the lack of housing available for its student body - that doesn't provide windows for any of its bedrooms.[[/note]] for this campus.

A school stereotype that permits assumptions about the type of student the school will attract. Knowing the character attends a particular school implies a set of characteristics.

A [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly intellectually elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone which is just as shamelessly HardOnSoftScience. This academy concentrates on hard natural sciences as well as engineering and industrial management, with possible faculties of economy, business and law. Expect a lot of [[GadgeteerGenius tech-savvy]] {{Hollywood Nerd}}s and {{Geek}}s, including sizable contingents of {{Jew|ishAndNerdy}}s and {{Asian|AndNerdy}}s (take your pick from East Asia or [[BollywoodNerd South Asia]]). These guys certainly won't think EverybodyHatesMathematics or ScienceIsUseless. Expect a lot of HollywoodAtheist and StrawNihilist types, often overlapping with MadScientist. If the academy has a faculty for law, the AmoralAttorney is omnipresent. The teaching staff will include the AbsentMindedProfessor with EinsteinHair, MadScientist professors aiming for Nobel prizes, Engineers who absolutely despise anyone not them (and show their displeasure by pulling complicated MIT-style pranks on their less-than-enlightened fellows, either non-hard science majors or unfortunate students from from Berserkley and Jim Jonestown) and the occasional OmnidisciplinaryScientist. ''Everyone'' will wear a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine. Libertarian right-wing politics will predominate, but ''not'' religion, as everyone will claim to have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions and assert that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If the university has a faculty of Economics, expect it to be ''horribly'' [[KillThePoor elitist]] and [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives ultra-industrialist right wing]].

Life outside studies consists of getting intoxicated and performing hacks and pranks. And, of course, MacGyvering things. Expect a lot of science, astronomy and chemistry geeks, {{otaku}} and LARP fanatics. ''Everyone'' will be [[MotherNatureFatherScience male]] and [[NerdsAreVirgins single]].

"Shameless" is simply not enough to describe this school. It's is filled with [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl nudists]], {{Granola Girl}}s demanding you go vegan, {{Hollywood Atheist}}s who get furious at the mere mention of something vaguely religious and won't hesitate to tell you you're a [[Main/BeliefMakesYouStupid deluded fundie who believes in an Invisible Sky Wizard Fascist who Doesn't Believe In Rationality]], [[TheStoner stoners]], {{Straw Nihilist}}s, [[DirtyCommunists angry socialists/communists/anarchists/your choice of far-left political radical spending most of their time plotting to overthrow Western civilization if they're not fighting each other on how truly leftist they are]], [[MalcolmXerox pissed-off black nationalists]] and/or [[EverythingIsRacist similarly militant minorities who really hate white students (and, more often than not, other minorities not their own)]], [[StrawFeminist angry radical feminists who see sexism everywhere and will fight you (and each other) over your role in enforcing gender norms (or even not enforcing gender norms)]], irritating, pretentious, elitist {{hipster}}s wearing risible fashions and [[ItsPopularNowItSucks sneering at "the mainstream"]] (anything not their art, really), [[HardOnSoftScience elitist hard-science majors who sneer at the rest of the school and ESPECIALLY you for not being in a hard science and/or indulging in pointless things like philosophy]], radical postmodernist philosophers who claim everything up to basic logic itself is but a social construct and/or systemic oppression, and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot angry marijuana-toking nihilist anarchosocialist-communist anti-white radfeminist hipster artist Nudist scientists]]. The faculty will be all of the above -- just with pieces of paper saying they're better educated. And they'll probably throw nudist parties with weed.

A [[AwesomeEgo shamelessly intellectually elitist]] IvyLeagueForEveryone which is just as shamelessly HardOnSoftScience. This academy concentrates on hard natural sciences as well as engineering and industrial management, with possible faculties of economy, business and law. Expect a lot of [[GadgeteerGenius tech-savvy]] {{Hollywood Nerd}}s and {{Geek}}s, including sizable contingents of {{Jew|ishAndNerdy}}s (because YouHaveToHaveJews, after all) and {{Asian|AndNerdy}}s (take your pick from East Asia or [[BollywoodNerd South Asia]]). These guys certainly won't think EverybodyHatesMathematics or ScienceIsUseless. Expect a lot of HollywoodAtheist and StrawNihilist types, often overlapping with MadScientist. If the academy has a faculty for law, the AmoralAttorney is omnipresent. The teaching staff will include the AbsentMindedProfessor with EinsteinHair, MadScientist professors aiming for Nobel prizes, Engineers who absolutely despise anyone not them (and show their displeasure by pulling complicated MIT-style pranks on their less-than-enlightened fellows, either non-hard science majors or unfortunate students from from Berserkley and Jim Jonestown) and the occasional OmnidisciplinaryScientist. ''Everyone'' will wear a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine. Libertarian right-wing politics will predominate, but ''not'' religion, as everyone will claim to have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions and assert that BeliefMakesYouStupid. If the university has a faculty of Economics, expect it to be ''horribly'' [[KillThePoor elitist]] and [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives ultra-industrialist right wing]].

* Mexico has its Jesuit universities: the Iberoamerican Universities (Mexico City, León, Puebla and Torreón), the Pacific Loyola University in Acapulco, the ITESO in Guadalajara, and the Ayuuk Intercultural Higher Education Institute -- the last one's name comes from the lectures and courses being literally taught in the local ayuuk language.