The Princeton Review lists Texas A&M as the least friendly public university in the USA for gay students. Before 1960, Texas A&M had an all-male student body, all of whom were cadets in the mandatory ROTC program, and wore military uniforms to all classes.
Princeton Review lists Stanford University as the most LGBTQ-friendly university in the country. The top six universities on this scale are private institutions, and the University of Wisconsin, at #7, is the top public university.
In order:
Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.)
Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
Emerson College (Boston, Mass.)
Smith College (Northampton, Mass.)
Warren Wilson College (Asheville, N.C.)
Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pa.)
University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.)
A&M is on the list, but at #19 there are several more LGBTQ-unfriendly schools. A&M is not the top (or worst) public institution.
College of the Ozarks (Point Lookout, Mo.)
Grove City College (Grove City, Pa.)
Wheaton College (IL) (Wheaton, Ill.)
Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah)
Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, Va.)
Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, N.C.)
Pepperdine University (Malibu, Calif.)
Wofford College (Spartanburg, S.C.)
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Ind.)
Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Baylor University (Waco, Texas)
Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.)
Auburn University (Auburn, Ala.)
University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.)
Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Mich.)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, Pa.)
Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.)
==> Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas)
University of Mississippi (University, Miss.)
As per this Princeton Review list on lgbtqnation.com: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/08/princeton-review-updates-list-of-20-most-lgbt-friendly-unfriendly-colleges/2/.
Still in play:
Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England.
Boston’s most notable landmark is St Botolph’s Church (the Stump), said to be the largest parish church in England, with one of the taller church towers in England that is visible for miles around over the flat fen lands of Lincolnshire.
When the Boston Marathon bombing took place 10 blocks from their corporate headquarters, Life is Good’s brothers Bert and John Jacobs designed a special BOSTON T-shirt, with proceeds going to the victims.
[del]The patron saint of travelers is Saint Botwulf. Or Botulph. Or Botulf. Or Botolf. Or Botolph.
He goes by any or all of the above. Or he went, anyway. He died in the 7th century.
In his role as a patron saint of travelers, four London churches were dedicated to him, all of which were close to gates in the City walls: St Botolph Billingsgate, which was destroyed in the Great Fire and never rebuilt; St Botolph Aldersgate; St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, where the poet John Keats was baptized; and St Botolph’s Aldgate. It is believed that these dedications were made because the churches provided places for incoming travellers to give thanks for their safe arrival, and for outgoing travellers to pray for a safe journey.[/del]
Ninja’d - this is in play:
“The Good Life” was a BBC sitcom, that ran from 1975 to 1978, themed upon the the midlife crisis faced by Tom Good, a 40-year-old London plastics designer, and the decision of him and his wife, Barbara, to escape modern commercial living by “becoming totally self-sufficient” in their home in middle-class Surbiton in the leafy suburbs of west London, horrifing their kindly but conventional neighbours.
There are 13 official US NARA Presidential Libraries and Museums, ever since FDR donated his personal and presidential papers to the federal government in 1939. FDR pledged part of his Hyde Park NY estate as well. Historically, all presidential papers were considered the personal property of the president. FDR asked the National Archives to take custody of his papers and other historical materials and to administer his library.
The libraries are, in Presidential order:
- Herbert Hoover: West Branch IA
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hyde Park NY
- Harry S. Truman: Independence MO
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: Abilene KS
- John F. Kennedy: Boston MA
- Lyndon Baines Johnson: Austin TX
- Richard Nixon: Yorba Linda CA
- Gerald Ford: Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor MI
- Jimmy Carter: Atlanta GA
- Ronald Reagan: Simi Valley CA
- George HW Bush: College Station TX (Texas A&M University Campus)
- Bill Clinton: Little Rock AR
- George W Bush: Dallas TX
- Barack Obama: Chicago IL
Comment: these are on my to-see list. I still need to make it to six of them, for JFK, Nixon, Ford, Clinton, W, and Obama.
ETA: ninja’d, so will add that George HW and Barbara Bush greet you to their library, by video. On the library’s grounds is where they plan to be buried.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opens in London’s West End on Saturday, and the book comes out on Sunday!!!
ETA: Ninja’d, but now I’m playing off of “Harry.”
Londoners from the “East End” (essentially east of the Tower and west of the River Lea) can traditionally claim to be ‘Cockneys’ only if they were born within the sound of the bells of St. Mary-le-Bow Church (known as Bow Bells) situated in Cheapside on the eastern edge of the City of London.
Today in practice, as Royal London is now the only maternal hospital remotely nearby, today few can be truly claim to be Cockney’s unless they are from a home birth in the area.
[del]Harry Truman is buried on the grounds of his presidential library. Of the 13 presidents who have US NARA libraries, the only presidents not buried at their libraries are JFK and LBJ, and of course the five presidents still living:
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John F. Kennedy: Arlington National Cemetery
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Lyndon Baines Johnson: Stonewall TX, LBJ National Historic Park
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Jimmy Carter: still living
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George HW Bush: still living
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Bill Clinton: still living
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George W Bush: still living
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Barack Obama: still living
FDR, technically, might be adjacent to the library grounds (with Eleanor), but I include that as being there. It’s a quick walk over from the library.[/del]
Ninja’d. In play:
“Oranges and Lemons” is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game which refers to the bells of several churches, all within or close to the City of London. The tune and intonation of each line is said to be based on the distinct sounds of each church’s bells; for example, the line with the words “the great bell of Bow” is sung in a lower key and more slowly than the earlier lines.
“Orange” is famously considered one of the few words in English that has no rhyme. However, Kurt Vonnegut managed to rhyme is with “door hinge” in his story “Welcome to the Monkey House.”
Vonnegut adopted his sister’s three sons, after she died of cancer and her husband died in a train accident.
T E Lawrence (of Arabia) left the original manuscript of his classic “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” on a train, and unable to recover it, had to rewrite the whole thing over again.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife, Fanny, intentionally burned the first manuscript of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He rewrote it in three days.
He misplaced his briefcase while changing trains at the Reading railway station. On October 23. 1993, five pounds of Semtex were found in the toilets of the station. (Semtex became notoriously popular with terrorists because it was, until recently, extremely difficult to detect)
MLB outfielder Pat Burrell, nicknamed “Pat the Bat,” won a World Series championship with the 2010 San Francisco Giants. Burrell grew up near San Francisco, in the Santa Cruz Mountains town of Felton near Scotts Valley. He attended Bellarmine High in San Jose, where he played football as well as baseball. On the Bellarmine football team he competed for the QB position against Tom Brady. Before breaking into the majors, Burrell played for the Reading, Pennsylvania Fighting Phils, a AA-class minor league team in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Burrell won two World Series Championships in his career, 2008 with the Phillies in addition to 2010 with the Giants.
Stanley Kirk Burrell, a onetime Oakland A’s batboy, later became better known as rap artist MC Hammer.
William Felton “Bill” Russell is an retired professional basketball player. Russell played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969. A five-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a twelve-time All-Star, he was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty, winning eleven NBA championships during his thirteen-year career. Russell is widely considered one of the best players in NBA history.
ETA: Russell’s father moved the family out of Louisiana when Russell was eight years old and settled them in Oakland, California
Note: Looks like two posts (#30909 and #30911) got skipped due to posting close together. New folks especially, re-check after you post, we often get Ninja’ed in this thread. And for an example, I had to add the Oakland, CA reference to mine since ElvisL1ves beat me to it.