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On a more pleasant note: A most beautiful college campus list
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IUB had me at "when we built the new stadium, we transformed the footprint of the old one into the arboretum we're standing in right now." That's one very large arboretum. Also the Wells dictum that for any tree cut down, 2 must be planted in its place. Many places on campus you feel like you're in an Olmsted-designed park. And many of the buildings are breathtaking.
Interestingly we thought our D would be lukewarm about it because it wasn't in a large city like Chicago, Boston, or Philly. Turns out the campus has enough critical mass to offer lots of those resources right there, including their own theater and opera companies, art museum, and quite the cosmopolitan little downtown area. It's one of her top few preferred schools for next year.
Agreed. Only thing I can think of is that Bennington's favorite son (Robert Frost) gave his vote to #22.
Title of the article would have been better as "50 of the most beautiful" without attempting to rank them. In matters of taste, there can be no argument.
"It would be no small advantage if every college were thus located at the base of a mountain.” — Henry David Thoreau, writing of Williams in 1844.
I don't mean to denigrate different tastes; that's just mine, and thankfully DD's, since she attends such a place -- though it's too urban to be on the list.
I do have to admit that I use the "beautiful campus" hook when talking to students about the drop-dead-gorgeous campus of the college where I work, though.
IU's campus is even prettier and more wooded than I remember - and Bloomington has been - gentrified? Not sure if that's the word I want, but it's definitely been gussied up - parts of town were really dumpy when I was there in the late 80s.
D said she thought the campus looked like a forest and village in a fairy tale...
Alas, their OOS tuition is way more than I'm willing to pay for her to attend... I told her before visiting, Look, but don't touch...
Thankfully, the other campuses we visited were also very attractive - albeit in a different way than IU-B - and we're actually letting her apply to those,
I do understand the appeal, though of IU-B, to east and west-coasters. I was in-state, and the first time I saw the campus was when I moved into my dorm room during Welcome Week.
Here's one of those lists. I don't think Carnegie Mellon deserves to be on it.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/02/19-ugliest-college-campuses-in-america/2/
Here's another list. The campuses that were built in a short period of time often do not earn as much respect. They often had one architectural firm design the buildings in one style, which can quickly go out of style.
http://www.complex.com/style/2013/09/ugly-college-campuses/ithaca-college
The SUNYs are wel-represented on the ugly lists. Part of the blame lies with Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who had strong architectural tastes while these campuses were being designed.
If you perform a Google Images search on "Manzanita Hall" - you don't really even have to include the school name - you can see what was considered daring and creative architecture in 1967 - all 14 floors of it. I had a view of that from the 7th floor of a neighboring dorm for 3 years. They called it the "Superman" building due to the way the windows are shaped. Also it was co-ed in the mid-80's, which was a little ahead of the curve although that's become common today.
There was a concerted effort to ensure that the SUNY schools would not compete with the already established north east private schools. I think that, rather than the taste of Rockefeller, is responsible for the SUNY aesthetics.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Randolph_Hall_Virginia_Tech.JPG