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The college at which Sarah Palin will speak in December, “Hard Work U.,” is of course insanely Jesus-y and violent.
Flipping through the handbook, we see that boys who talk to girls will be punished with a butcher knife to the dick, and girls who talk to boys will be labeled WHORES and sent to the bottom of the ocean. Practice your devilry on the dungeon fish, Hester!
Oh, and if you’re gay, well then, ha ha ha, if you’re gay, oh man… please just do yourself a favor and quickly get AIDS.
Best to just stick with this “self-giving love” of which the administration seems so fond. But wait, no porno either? MAKE UP YOUR MIND, HARD WORK U.
Point is, Bristol will not be allowed on this trip.
([College of the Ozarks -- Handbook (PDF)]
School of Hard Knock-ups.
I have misused God’s gift several times a day from age 12 on.
Okay, that is one shitty gift if you only get to use it after marriage. I’ve gotten ties I like more.
God’s Gift = wang/’gina?
So stated.
Notice that they prohibit only heterosexual misconduct and homosexual conduct. Apparently, homosexual misconduct is OK.
sexual abuse: guilty
sexual harassment: guilty
sexual assault: guilty
heterosexual misconduct: wtf? anyway, probably guilty
homosexual conduct: guilty
possession of pornographic materials: guilty
indiscreet public display of affection: if being a passive partner in a bestiality incident counts, guilty
Heterosexual misconduct, and homosexual conduct? So, as long as I keep it to homosexual misconduct, I’m in? That shouldn’t be a problem, what with me being a serial cheater and all.
More buttsecks per capita than the Castro, or your money back.
But this is the place to go for that coveted degree in Jeebusology, now with a minor in Mooselistics.
I thought college was all about the gay experimentation. These folks are undermining the whole purpose higher education. Next thing ya know they’ll ban drugs.
Shorter version:
Lifestyle–Missionary position in marriage only. Deathstyle–Everything else.
So, Christians, get procreating. There are dog-walking, abortion-savoring, bathhouse-wallowing elites to out-produce.
But what if I jerk it to pics of Palin?
Isn’t that God’s Gift, too?
PLEASE tell me that Palin won’t be reciveing an honorary PhD in, I dunno, “American Studies” when she goes there. The PUMA types will be insufferable about Dr. MooseFace Killah.
PuffAdder: “Passive partner” does this mean the donkey was the top in this particular bestiality incident?
* Genesis 1:27-28; Proverbs 5:18-19; Song of Solomon; I Corinthians 7:2-5; Genesis
2:24; Matthew 19:5; Exodus 20:14; Proverbs 5:1-11; Proverbs 6:23-33; Proverbs 7:5-
27; Romans 1:26-28; I Thessalonians 4:3; I Corinthians 6:9-10; I Corinthians 6:13-20;
Galatians 5:19.
That clears it up!
What about spillingth thy seed onto the ground or a cum rag?
Students don’t pay tuition at C of O! How does that work?
This must be quite the academic institution, since apparently an education at College of the Ozarks is FREE! Way to go, Sarah, you landed quite a prestigious speaking engagement! From their website:
Basically……
Work Program + Federal and State Grants + College of the Ozarks Scholarship = Your annual tuition!
Each student participates in the on-campus work program for 15 hours per week and two forty-hour work weeks. Earnings from participation in the work program, plus any federal and/or state aid for which students qualify, plus a College of the Ozarks Cost of Education Scholarship combine to meet each student’s full tuition charge.
Generous donors, who believe in what College of the Ozarks represents, make financial contributions, enabling the College to provide tuition (cost of education) scholarships in exchange for work on campus. If you paid cash for instructional expenses at C of O, it would cost you $16,600 per year! Don’t panic! Our students work off a portion of this charge by participating in the work program during the academic year (about $4,060 annually). If students qualify for Federal or Missouri state aid, those amounts are applied to the cost as well. The remaining balance is covered by a College of the Ozarks Scholarship for each student (a range from $1,440 to $12,540 per student)! So how much money do you pay for tuition at C of O? $0.00!
Does homosexual conduct include running for Congress as a Republican?
College of the Ozarks…you know, even after typing that phrase out, it still doesn’t make sense.
Balls!: That’s disgusting, Balls! What sort of pervert would have sex with a donkey?
/Elephant seal.
avoidinggradingpapers:
“…and how much do you actually learn? Almost nothing as well!”
Self-giving love? Don’t mind if I do….
*unzips*
Ma and Pa Kettle do not, I repeat, do not approve of this mission statement.
Sharkey: Oh sure — they’re all about the Old Covenant rules when they’re against sex — but ask them about eating shellfish or being in the same room with a woman who’s menstruating (both abominations) they’re all “oh, Jesus came and negated all that stuff.” Hypocrites.
At least they allow sexual relations between married students. Of course, that begs the question of who the hell would get married while they’re still in college, and way too young to be gettin’ hitched.
But then, I remember the handful of people I know who did; all fundamentalist Christian whackjobs, like the kind this school wants to attract (or couples where the girl got knocked up, but none of the people who were too stupid to use a piece of rubber went to college). They believed in the no-sex-before-marriage bullshit, and therefore got married when way too young for it, just so they could have sex. Of course, all ended up either divorced in their early 20s, or stuck in loveless marriages that they were unwilling to leave because of their fucked up beliefs.
If Sarah gets Katied by Oprah during her book tour chitty-chat in November, I can pretty much gay-run-tee you that she’ll hit the ol’ grifter shifter and make a U-turn in the opposite direction of Hard Work U.
With rules like that, my guess is that Hard Work U President Jerry C. Davis is either a boy toucher or a toilet cruiser. I mean take a look at this guy http://www.cofo.edu/pres_letter.asp
Anyone want to place bets on how long until this is discovered?
According to Wikipedia, “The school charges no tuition. Students work 15 hours a week to offset the tuition. They can also work summers if they want room and board covered.[2] The college’s website refers to it as “Hard Work U.”"
Meh. You get what you pay for.
Sarah might want to tour the Museum of the Ozarks while she’s there:
“Among the exhibits is an original George Barris 1921 modified Oldsmobile Beverly Hillbillies truck donated by series creator Paul Henning who was inspired to do the show after a Boy Scout camping trip in the Ozarks. The museum also contains a large firearm display including a rifle belonging to Pancho Villa and a bloodstained gun Morgan Earp had when he was killed.”
*shudder* This sounds like the Branson, Missouri of universities.
avoidinggradingpapers: Work Program + Federal and State Grants + College of the Ozarks Scholarship = SOCIALISM!!!!!11!
/fixed
So if I do it with a girl but while I think she’s a guy, does that fall into the homosexual misconduct category? ‘Cause I might rethink this whole “never get it on with Ann Coulter” rule I have.
Shit, looks like half the campus facilities are named after John Ashcroft. What do you expect?
avoidinggradingpapers: fucking Socialists, jesus…
One of the campus workstations is THE FRUITCAKE AND JELLY KITCHEN
http://www.cofo.edu/products.asp
Special Palin Edition C of O fruitcake here we come! Just in time for the Holidays. Yikes, I mean Christmas.
Yeah, as I mentioned once before, after spending one afternoon at the home of his 2nd grade pal whose parents were evangelicals, I caught my kid surfing BigBoobs.com.
They since moved to South Carolina (where else?) - though they considered Virgina but found it “filled with too many libruls”.
RE: “Self-giving love.” Apparently the New Modern Christian Wingnut Bible©™ translates “agape” as “masturbation.”
My guess is that Hard Work U President Jerry C. Davis has the biggest secret stash of gay porn in North America.
Be afraid, be very afraid students.
Sorry Wonketeers but they require attendance at chapel 7 times a semester to avoid probation. Most of you are still recovering on Sunday at chapel time (11:00 am) from fornicating and debauching to meet the requirements to be a bob cat or lady cat.
you don’t have to be married to do the “self-giving love” gig. in fact, it works best if and when you are all by your lonesome.
PuffAdder:
Or as I call it, “a slow Tuesday.”
jaegermeister: That is located next to the Teabagging Pantry.
The Fruitcake and Jelly Kitchen?
No sex?
No public displays of affection?
Sarah Palin?
This sounds more like a prison in hell than a university experience.
Since the C of O does not allow homosexual conduct, they don’t allow fraternities, right? The boys will probably be too busy “working off their math class” anyway, if you know what I mean.
It sounds like Sarah Palin shouldn’t be speaking at Abstinence U, either. Track Palin was born on April 20, 1989. The Palins were married on August 29, 1988. Sure, Track could have been born prematurely but what are the odds?
After reading these comments I just know we’re going to get all kinds of tips from sympathetic wonkette readers who attend this school.
le petit mort: I think I will go home and abuse it now.
I don’t see bestiality on that list. This shows the college’s, and Sarah Palin’s, silent support for this horrific crime.
…guided by a long-standing traditional, biblical worldview….
What does the Bible say about homosexual conduct?
I’m going to have this “Practice your devilry on the dungeon fish, Hester!” made into a t-shirt so that I can wear it to next year’s Pantheacon (http://www.pantheacon.com/).
College of the Ozarks and Sarah Palin? Sounds like “Snowbilly Returns to Her Ancestral Roots.”
Co-Fo Ed-U. Sounds misconducty to me.
Prison inmates have more freedom than the kids at the Ozark School for sexual repression and self loathing.
College of the Ozarks? And where will the Divine Ms. P perform? The Jed Clampett Greek Theatre? The Snuffy Smith Memorial Barn? Or the Lil’ Abner Fellowship Hall? The most astonishing part of this item is that there seems to actually be a College of the Ozarks.
avoidinggradingpapers: So…it’s a state-sponsored indoctrination program. Cute. Fox News is sure to have a shit fit on this one, right? Teabaggers on the dean’s office lawn and all, right?
Srsly, check this out at page 10
http://www.cofo.edu/images/alumni/fall09.pdf
Goddamn Merriam-Webster defines “spirituality” without reference to Christ and so they had to change their whole damn seal!
Damn Jews and A-rabs and Hindus aren’t “spiritual” for Christ’s sake!
How about “converted” gays like Ted Haggard? Are they welcome because they reformed, or rejected because no one believe in that conversion stuff?
Are you sure it’s not “Collage of the Ozarks”, a preschool project?
Bretagnelaw: When I opened that document up, I swear I thought it was an ad for Christmas cheese logs from Hickory Farms…
Back in the day, Sarah would have flunked out of even this wingnut school.
Bretagnelaw: I know where *I* want to be on November 7th!
slappypaddy: In a hetero marriage, you *are* all by your lonesome in the sex department. The diamondbacker stereotype has a lot of truth to it.
I guess they couldn’t afford Carrie Prejean.
jaegermeister: I’ll bet I know what the “students” are doing with those warm, fresh fruitcakes!
Letter received this week by the college:
Hi, I’m Richard Heene. Can I attend? I’ll just need someone to park my balloon. But I think I should be there–Sarah and I seem to have a lot in common. Can I bring Michelle Malkin?
coolcatdaddy: Seriously? They’ve got the Beverly Hillbilliesmobile? Sweet!
When’s the next road trip to the College of the Ozarks?!! I think Wonkette should rent a bus and some Hooter’s girls and some exotic dancers, and everyone from the Wonkette comments section and the girls should drive there, onto the middle of the campus, get out, and strip naked. That would be a fun time.
Apparently, Mark Foley and Larry Craig graduated summa cum louder from the College of the Ozarks.
Hey–are people taping theirs mouths shut by you guys? There was a guy at work going around all day with his mouth taped shut! Whiskey etc etc?
I guess none of you have ever heard of Pensacola Christian College? It’s even worse!
http://www.pcci.edu/WhyAttend.html
It’s in Branson! The red neck Vegas of the Mid West. Andy Williams and Yakov Smirnoff.
Sounds like a good place to pick up boys. I know that Oral Roberts U lives up to its name, if not its moral code.
Remember, you can always repent later!
couchbound: At my college (not Ozark), today was supposedly a day of silence for the pro-lifers. That might have been the deal with your guy.
No sign of anyone actually being silent, BTW.
My first cousin Jethro, he’s my wife’s brother, done gradiated from that there College of the Ozarks. He got one of them Magna Cum Laude’s, helluva big brain on that boy! Had a double major in hog-renderin’ and possum-huntin’.
PsycGirl: So, then, it’s safe to assume that one can hear a pin drop at C-of-O?
This guy is an undergrad who works for my office mate. Said office mate asked the boss whether this stunt could be considered grounds for termination. It could.
Actually, the degree recognition is called Lawdy How Come?
Oh, College of the Ozarks? Didn’t they give Kirk Cameron tenure?
These purposes are to be achieved through heterosexual relationships in marriage.
Well, at least it sounds like you can have more than one.
Talk about tantric education! Man, the sexual tension at this place must pin the meter. I’m bettin’ money they don’t let the boys and girls share the college pool either, because with this much sexual repression fortifying the libido, sperm probably could do the 100m in about a nano-second and knock up the synchronized swim team. Unless they’re wearing burkas. Which is entirely possible. Nobody gets laid more than the guys at a church school.
Ha! Suck it MO! Here in Arkansas we have the UNIVERSITY of the Ozarks!
http://www.ozarks.edu/
Oh Gog, did I just say that out loud?
thefrontpage: I’m in, can I invite Otter?
Ok, yeah I graduated from there.
Most of the faculty are ok. They nod through the bullshit and teach a bit above the quality level of the state universitys that I have attended and or taught at in the years since. Its the administrators that you have to watch out for. Uber jebus fucks who live off the fat of the pell grant money taken from poor kids who get kicked out for walking on the grass. Really.
All you have to do is be slightly smarter than your average glen beck fan to avoid getting caught doing fun things. I got laid in every building on campus at one time or another. Pastors daughters, Deacons daughters, Ushers daughters, they all go nuts in the fruitcake kitchen.
Palin will be following in the footsteps of Olly North, who I had to proceed into the hall wearing BDUs(was in ROTZY because I kept failing P.E. Something about constantly taking the lords name in vain while running laps)but I managed to get the whole procession out of step. A very proud moment. Dukakis spoke there as well, but they found my potato launcher, so no great story there.
All in all, it was kind of like living among the fundie undead, act like a mindless twit and don’t get noticed, and sell pot, booze and ciggs after the gates closed at curfew.
What about mules? Could Horseley the Republican Mule Fucker go there?
user-of-owls: UNIVERSITY of the Ozarks features on its home page “Professional Clothes Closet”. COLLEGE of the Ozarks has an entirely different sort of closet.
Well! I guess it’s a safe bet that if they saw my search history, I’d get the ol’ balls-in-the-waffle-iron reprimand.
“I assure you, this hurts me more than it hurts you.”
College of the Ozarks has the original “The Beverly Hillbillies” truck, complete with Granny’s rocker.
They also turned down a donation from Wayne Newton because his show is “too racy”.
Welcome to Planet Branson - I’m sure Sarah will fit right in.
It’s kind of ironic that the College of the Ozarks’ fight song is “It’s a Sin,” isn’t it?
hiphophitler:
Homosexual conduct = what gay people do
Homosexual misconduct = what Republicans do (and that’s why they say it’s okay)
These assholes are appalled by sex because it demonstrates the silliness of their belief that we’re all brought into the world by means of the supernatural.
As Sarah Silverman says, “Jesus is magic.”
crawdadslim: nice. Because I pictured it as some sort of work farm. Kids harvesting fruit for the fruitcakes.
Oh my stars! This sounds like something on a gay pay per view channel.
“Residence halls compete in a 15 ft. long x 4 ft. deep hole filled with some serious mud. In this event, only the champions come out clean.”
http://www.cofo.edu/SLmudfest.asp
Jimmyjohn2: My money’s on co-ed sit ‘n spin during office hours. He likes the pear-shaped ones with acne.
So my ex went to a baptist college not too far from this wondrous institution, and he had orgies with the entire baseball team for the duration of his schooling…yeah, that’s right, gay orgies for 4 fucking years…you KNOW that this school sees some serious gloryhole action. Don’t poke your eye out, Sarah.
What about masturbation? Did I miss that paragraph? Sexual abuse? Is this the old-school definition of sexual abuse (i.e., spanking it)? ‘Cause I beat that thing like it owes me money.
PsycGirl: A moment of silence for the pro-lifers? Were they in the stocks today in the public square and I MISSED IT? Or is this just more of that fake martyr shit?
Trig!! Jump in the balloon and fly away boy, before its to late!!!
Fly Fly starling.
Darkness: I would put my money on that last option.
Rachel Maddow, obviously a fan of Wonkette, once again cited this site on her show. Keith Olbermann, however, is still pretending to be too good for us.
From the PDF of the Handbook of the Ozarkistan Madrassah, “Appearance(:)
The campus environment at College of the Ozarks differs from
most any college in America. The work ethic is woven into the fabric of
this institution—where real-life work experiences and academic experi-
ences are co-mingled. Valuable student work experiences are created in
an atmosphere where visitors are deliberately sought and serviced in
a variety of on-the-job settings. Therefore, as a part of the total educa-
tion experience, students must learn to meet higher expectations of
appearance—similar to what may be expected by many employers of the
College’s graduates.”
“…visitors are deliberately sought and serviced!” Boy, Howdy! I mean, try getting serviced on-campus at Stanford or Berkeley… A degree in Happy Ending Massage from this school, Come Loudley, is undoubtedly the gold standard in its field. And, “higher expectations of appearance.” That old tank top and Levi short-short cutoffs won’t do here. It’s the Nurse Naughty outfit or the full Marlboro Man drag or no passing grade, Christian soldier.
So what does that make Yale? Laz-ee Boy Trust Fund U?
Neoyorquino: ” ‘Cause I beat that thing like it owes me money.” The opportunity to enrich my dinner-party conversation with new phrases such as that is why I just cain’t quit you, Wonkette.
The truck is a fraud. Re-creation of the original. I tried to get a girl I was dating that worked in the museum to put on a Ellie Mae shirt and give me a happy in it, but never happened.
Several students worked at the wayne newton theatre when that bullshit happened. He gave all of them the money, and a shit ton of beer. They were pretty stoked.
The dean of students, one Larry Cockrum, kicked out hundreds of students who had invested some serious time and effort. My incoming class was about 500, less than forty of us graduated. But then it came out that larrys doctorate was from a paper mill. The whistleblower got fired, and larry was kept on at full salary, untill finaly he “moved on in his career”, probably due to general hatred.
There was this kid, poster boy akward, strange kind of guy, who was raised by insanely religous bastards. He went to the pastor and told him about his homosexual feelings and asked for help. I saw him later that day in plant maintenance were we worked. someone asked him what was up, and he just looked up and said, “nothing much. Gettin kicked out. think I’m gonna go blow my brains out”. We all just sort of reacted like a bunch of morans. What the fuck do you say to that? That may have been one of the last things the poor guy said to anyone. He went up to Dean Keeters(of the keeter center, keeter gym, and some others fame)house and put a shotgun in his mouth. turns out that the Pastor(ol pastor dave)had started to wheels of dismissal turning right away. That got covered right the fuck up, but for another heathen student worker in records . Later that year I saw pastor dave’s 16 year old daughter getting reamed by two guys on a picnic table down on tanneycommo lake. right where the new bass pro shops branson edition now sits. Part of me really wanted to wail into them with a crowbar from my truck, but another part thought, shes sucking the cock, its not rape, fuck you dave. Later she got shipped off to “boarding school”.
these are just a couple of fucked up things that helped shape me into the guy whose house is marked on all the churches maps with a big skull and crossbones, and a “here there be monsters”.
Romper Room Christians. Yeah, Sara will fucking love it there.
Bassweasel:
avoidinggradingpapers: How much do you suppose faculty is paid at College of the Ozarks? That same $0.00? Do you suppose lecturers are volunteers from the Branson community? I would guess the author of the handbook was a volunteer (e.g. some pastor’s wife whose displays of affection are so discrete as to be invisible). Caribou Barbie will, no doubt, be paid. By some looney rich person who wants to eat dinner with her. If the faculty pay ISN’T $0.00, you might want to check this out as a career option. Free tuition probably also means everyone gets a 4.0 automatically. No papers to grade!
crawdadslim: And for that crap you have to work fifteen hours a day and let the bastards have your student loan money too? Give me a break!
I see where the Governor of Missouri is mad about too much shit being in the water at the Lake of the Ozarks. Someone should tip him off about where it’s coming from!
Character Camp. AHAHAHAH!!!
ojisout: Yes, oh to be a Character Camp counselor!
Athar: No student loans. why the hell else do you think a sane person would go there? I owed zilch point shit for a degree that got me into some pretty good grad programs. Those are what I owe my crushing debt to.
Shit, another story then… I worked in the plumping dept. one of the massive lift stations failed one day, and to the word from on high was that to avoid lots of fines and permit fees and the like the county was not to be told. So I watched 7000 gallons of fresh christian feces pumped out into a tributary to Lake Tannycommo. When I expressed my dismay, I was pretty much told that it would be stupid to make issue of it just months before graduation. These are the lessons that you just can’t get at a state university.
Athar: Faculty is actualy paid pretty well. its the only way that they can keep their accreditation, by haveing decent instructors who demand the money.
ojisout: Yeah, I just missed the character camp thing. It came in about my junior year, at the same time they started requiring an essay on morality in the admissions packet.
The place was like an abusive relationship. If you were poor and could not afford anything else you could get something out of it if you wanted to enough, like a decent education, but it smacked you around a bit for it. Guess that I am just mortaly embarrased that the snowbilly is coming to my alma mater.
Basicaly I will shut the hell up about the place now.
JMP: Hyper-liberal and Amsterdam-enthusiast fellow in my Race & Politics seminar was actually marred in high school. I’d ask if there was a shotgun involved, but knowing him his parents probably just threatened to take away his maryjane if he didn’t put a ring on the harlot.
Bretagnelaw:
Just a word of warning: there is a hidden secret banshee on page 11. I no longer have the hiccups.
I wonder what the ‘Summer Sausage’ is that they offer in their fruity ‘kitchen’.
crawdadslim: Glad you came out of that experience with all your faculties intact. And thanks for letting me know never to swim in the Lake of the Ozarks.
avoidinggradingpapers: Socialism!!!
Crawdadslim:
Those are some absolutely amazing stories. But, let me ask you, were you a brainwashed fundie when choosing the college, or was this purely an issue of money and not having it? I mean, CoftheO sounds extreme even as Christian universities come.
I can halfway relate, having went to a Christian high school (for the education, not for the religion). It was non-denominational, meaning that the rules weren’t really strict because many rules simply didn’t exist because no one could come to a concensus given that you have so many sects and denominations present. I mean, we had a few Catholics, a few Baptists, a helluva lot of Reformed Church members, even a few Jews-for-Jesus, a few Korean Christians, and a Muslim-convert (I know, I felt bad for her, too). Generally, though, it was pretty chill and non-judgemental. We had a teacher who got fired after the administration found out she had a live-in-boyfriend, and a couple of us were absolutely convinced one of the younger female teachers (we had a lot of 20-somethings and 30-somethings) was schtupping one of our male classmates. A kid was kicked out for selling drugs at school, a few of the pregnant girls went out with “mono” and we later found out simply weren’t allowed to return, and my particular class was infamous for its boozing and drugging ways.
Needless to say, “Christian education” (in most regards and oxymoron) is a joke as far as character development is concerned.
Oh, I’d bet there are quite a few Bristols at a school like this.
predilectrix: Thank you for bringing this up. I think we need a movement for Deathstyle choice.
dsmkrt: What are those terrible religious freaks doing to that baby!?! ZOMG!!!
avoidinggradingpapers: So, Ozark U is SOCIALIST college? No tuition, bills paid by the FEDS!! the FEDS that Miss Wasilla hates so much??!!
On page 4 of the handbook:
“The vision of College of the Ozarks is to develop citizens of Christ-like
character who are well-educated, hard-working, and patriotic.”
I guess we can tell who has graduated from Hard On U when they walk on water and feed 5000 people with a tin of sardines and a can of spackle.
crawdadslim: No, no. I too am enjoying your stories. Here, I’ll throw another log on the fire, hardwood, it’ll take at least an hour to burn. Do go on . . .
desertwind: As any Benny Hill fan knows, there are two Bristols per coed at Ozarkistan Madrassah.
crawdadslim: Its the administrators that you have to watch out for. Uber jebus fucks who live off the fat of the pell grant money taken from poor kids who get kicked out for walking on the grass. Really.
Aha. Grifterland. Let the right hand (which is furiously typing screeds against Big Gummint) not know what the left hand is doing. Sarah *will* feel right at home.
Please, keep telling stories. Better yet, if you’re able to get back to the old alma mater for this con-vo-cation thingie, be the special Wonkette op.
Do you liberal pieces of fuck seriously not have anything better to do with your time than sit around all day and gossip about a school that you have never been to?? Seriously it is one thing to talk about Palin because you know about her but you honestly have no idea how life is at College of the Ozarks. Yea life at CofO is a little strict but it is nothing that cant be tolerated for four years of your life in order to graduate with zero debt.
What is our society coming to when adults write the kind of things that you all have wrote? It is honestly sad to see that so many adults in our country are such worthless immature perverted fucks.
“My incoming class was about 500, less than forty of us graduated.”
You obviously did not go to CofO. They let in less than 450 per year.
So here it goes yet again: I find it repulsive that American citizens have the gall to slam and make fun of students that go here. Most of us were kids that were accepted to many top tier colleges but didn’t have to money (or didn’t want to go thousands of dollars in debt). Is it fair to make fun of a school located in the Ozarks and the students that go there based on silly and unbiased stereotypes? I think not. Everyone keeps talking about how America’s stereotypes and prejudices are being washed away by the fact that we have a new president. When you tear down kids that were told they never had a chance and will be nothing more than uneducated trash it makes you seem rude, condescending, and like you don’t give a damn about anything but making fun of the less fortunate. It’s disgusting you talk about people that are essentially still kids in such sick and vulgar ways. Would you like someone to talk about your son or daughter like that? I doubt it. Trust me: even though I’m a Midwestern farmgirl I can read. Heck, I can even feel the stings and barbs from all the trash that you posted on here. Make fun of Sarah Palin all you want: she asked for all of this backlash when she ran for Vice President. However, show my fellow students and I some respect; we are simply like all the other young college students in the United States of America.
Thank you, cjsweet! I’m glad that another student is on here.
Whether you folks like it or not, students MAKE A CHOICE to come to CofO. We are fully aware of the rules when we come in. CofO offers a good education without the student loans we would have to acquire anywhere else. I’m fully capable of going to an Ivy League school if I wanted - but both my parents are paramedics (they’re the ones scraping the innocent victims of drunk drivers up off the ground, thanks), and they couldn’t afford to send me to college - anything I did would have to be on my own. Students who come here are generally poor students (90% of students are admitted based on financial need, meaning we couldn’t otherwise afford college) wanting a good education. And we have got a GREAT education here. The classes are small (the largest class I’ve been in had 50 students, and it was a class required of all freshmen), the professors get to know you, and they’re willing to help you out. When I was struggling in my math class, the professor took time to explain things to me one-on-one outside of class. I can talk to professors I haven’t had in a couple years - Mrs. Blake still says hi to me even though I took Comp I with her three and a half years ago.
If people want a school where they can slack off and party, they can go somewhere else. And a lot of them do. But the VAST majority of students here just want a chance at an education they couldn’t get otherwise. Please respect that.
As my fellow student said, make fun of Palin if you want - she’s the one in the spotlight. But please respect the students - we just wanted to get an education.
Athar: Fifteen hours a WEEK. If you’re going to insult us, at least get your facts straight. And I would much rather work fifteen hours a week and be a full-time student than work full-time and be a full-time student, which is what I would have had to do anywhere else.
wowreally: Well, whatever school you went to, you apparently didn’t learn either manners or how to carry on a civilized argument, since you go straight for the “argumentum ad homineum”.
I’m not impressed, Pee-Wee.
It’s not a stellar witness for either the quality of education at C of O or the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Bad witness, no biscuit.
cjsweet: “Is it fair to make fun of a school located in the Ozarks and the students that go there based on silly and unbiased stereotypes?”
Unbiased? I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Rookie mistake, there. Where did you go to school?
I’m totally sympathetic with the “get out of school, cheap” thing. That’s why I went to a public university (back when it was inexpensive in my state; my fees for year 1 were $700). At least two people I know had turned Stanford down because of the money thing. I walked out owing zero despite not being able to collect more than an honorarium from my academic scholarship; my parents, and what little I could scrape together from jobs (try looking in a town where 16,000 of 30,000 are students without some kind of organized scheme), covered it.
Work-study is one thing. Sweating it out in the commerical kitchen, or washing dishes, is honest work. But administrations taking Pell money (that’s my tax money) and then keeping it when they kick out the students for walking on the lawn or holding hands (much less whistleblowing) is, well, kinda grafty. It certainly doesn’t build the Body; it only lines some people’s pockets and puffs them up.
CofO1012:
“My incoming class was about 500, less than forty of us graduated.”
You obviously did not go to CofO. They let in less than 450 per year.
Read the word “about”.
Then look back into the wayback machine to a semester when they overenrolled by such a large amount that the lounges in youngman dorm were converted to four student rooms, one on each of the then three existing floors, before the basement was converted over to allow for such overflow the following year. In addition to that, over twenty of us were housed in the old quarantine rooms of the hospital for a semester. but it was ok, because then dean of students Clawson”the claw” was retiring and went out with a bang, kicking out a record number of students that year.
First of all, I would like to state that there has NEVER been a student that was kicked out of school for walking on the grass or holding hands! I would also like to bring to everyone’s attention that if a person does not finish the semester, the college is required to send back the pell money. Please, if you are going to argue, get your facts straight! Yes, it is true that Clawson kicked out a large number of students during his final semester, but, in all of those circumstances, it was justifiable.
CofoStudent22: If you’re a student now, it sounds like you are well after crawdadslim’s time.
Unless you were personally there at that time (in which case, stop screwing around on the intarwebs and hit the books so you can finally get out), you’re in no position to talk about the expulsions.
If you’ve seen the records, two things:
1) Blabbing about confidential personnel information tends to get you in trouble in the working world.
2) Based on what’s in my own personnel files, I would suspect that there is some … creative license … in what’s in those expulsion records. I had someone straightfacedly write in a complaint that I was “reluctant to work overtime and weekends” when I was pulling 90 hour weeks, documented in the employee time system. Employers pull this crap because they can generally get away with it, and it sounds like the same mentality was operating at CotO at least at that time.
I don’t think “record number of expulsions” by one person after being exposed as having a “degree from a diploma mill” is any kind of coincidence. “I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you darn kids!”
Regardless of which side of the fence you are on concerning the merits of CofO, there is bound to be a bit of hyperpole and biased opinion. However, and I direct this at any of the students who may still be reading this, there are no absolutes in the world, no black and white on any issue. You get out of a college what you bring to it. I myself got a damn good education, cause I brought an intellegent and open mind. I took the good with the bad, and turned the slurry into a base for a rather succesfull life. If presented with proof that the pell is returned then I will with good grace say, Huh, well, I was wrong. You still suck dick, but I was wrong.
I hope that you can do the same. The tools are there, it is still(I think) a liberal arts college. You are there to learn TO think, not how or what to think.
So play the part of both “pro” and “an” tagonist here. Try to lighten up. Most of the people here are very capable of realizing that thier comments reflect only on the knee jerk reaction of a sight reading of the rules. Oh, and yeah, there was a guy who was kicked out for walking on the grass, but it was actually because another student told someone that he was gay, and as a disiplinary problem in general it was what they finaly nailed him for, though they probably put down that he missed to many work hours or something. I mean, fuck man, I was put on disiplinary probation my senior year for playing catch with some kittens. no shit. No wonder I belong to the alternitive alumni association.
Oh and here is just a little something that I found.http://www.studentsreview.com/MO/CtO_comments.html?type=negative
Not great stuff, but some other opinions.
I will agree, thank you for pointing out my rookie mistake. I didn’t mean to use the word “unbiased”. I was looking for the word unfounded. I simply mean that it’s offensive to the hard working people of this area to be stereotyped as backwards, incestuous, and being degraded for no reason. As to the Pell Grant, I actually don’t qualify for it. my parents make just enough so that my twin sister and I wouldn’t qualify for the grant, but not enough money to help support two kids in college. Added to the small 15 hours I work on campus, I work 30-40 off campus. I can appreciate where you come from; my mother put herself through college when she had three small children and one income. She also came out debt free. And for your information, I went to a small public high school, one where the government didn’t give a damn about. Missouri (and usuallt Federal) public education has a bad habit of trying to take care of all the inner city schools around St. Louis and Kansas City, but forgetting about the small town schools. Thanks for your concern though!
cjsweet: Just as a tip, clicking the little “reply” button will let people follow which post you’re responding to. Took me a while to figure that out.
I’d agree with you about “for no reason”. Keep in mind, however, that the fact of hosting Twitter-Quitter-Gri(f)ter didn’t mean that all y’all started from ground zero. There was some foundation based on the facts at hand.
AND having the first CotO commenter on THIS thread start out with “you liberal pieces of fuck” and then segue into “I can’t believe grownups are saying the things you do” (lol wut? talk about “do what I say, not what I do”) didn’t help the “stupid hypocrites” perception. Neither does the chip on your shoulder about “inner city schools”, for your information. It sounds like a racist dogwhistle to me.
I’m sure a lot of you are just trying to get ahead, but it sure as shit sounds like you’re being seriously played by college administration. And some of the “students” posting here are real jerks, who have bought into the whole victim-blaming (etc.) thing. (Although I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these claimed “students” were actually admin staff trying to Astroturf.) That sort of behavior is not only a very bad reflection on your college, but a truly shitty witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Talk about screwed-up priorities and not thinking things through. “What profiteth a man”, indeed.
Sorry about the Financial Aid “donut hole”. One of the few times I have seen my mild-mannered civil engineer father get really flustered and upset is when he ran through the numbers on a sample fin aid form my junior year in high school. Apparently these forms counted home equity as a liquid asset. When the steam stopped coming out of his ears, he said, “According to these, I could send you to Vassar. This is not happening.” Then he offered me my choice of a free ride at UC or one semester paid elsewhere. I made, as a friend of mine says, the non-stupid choice.
I would just like to say that while we are getting a great education and learning great work ethics what are you or your children recieving? Why must you put our college down? We may be kids from the sticks but at least with treat people with respect. We can’t all be stuck up rich kids, and I must say I would much rather be who I am than who you are. If you only knew the doctors, the professors, etc. that have graduated from CofO that are considered “some of the best in the world,” you wouldn’t be saying the horrible things that you are. CofO is a great college and it was founded on the Word of God, just as our country was.
cofostudent4: Welly well then. Just when I finish telling cjsweet (who sounds like a nice kid who is trying to get ahead) that most of all y’all who came on the thread swinging for CotO are jerks and are only reinforcing the guesses, here comes another data point.
“Student4″, your whiny passive-aggressive tone, off-the-wall zero-sum attitude, general bad manners, and even worse command of 1) logic and 2) simple facts are EXACTLY why College of the Ozarks is being slated.
Save your poor logic, sketchy facts, and manufactured-out-of-thin-air persecution complex for RedState or Conservapedia. Those dogs won’t hunt here.
I, too, am a former student of C of O. I was kicked out last semester one WEEK before finals (for an incredibly pathetic offense). Do you think I was allowed to finish out my semester? OH HELL NO. After working 200 + hours and attending class/chapel/convos like I was supposed to all semester, I received NOTHING but all F’s for my work because the new Dean is out to prove that his dick is bigger than yours. As far as I am concerned, I busted my ass and worked at College of the Ozarks for FREE for an entire semester.
BTW, for all of you students who are coming on here to defend CofO because bible-humping teachers like Mr. Ringer told you about this forum that “is an example of the degradation of today’s youth”, just GTFO now (yup, I still have friends who update me).
Oh and another fun fact; all of the “teachers” and staff at CofO are mostly graduates of CofO. Funny how that works, huh? It’s just one big money mill. They churn out a bunch of dumbfucks who are too backwards and uneducated to go out into the real world. Graduates of CofO all end up just going back to CofO and working as teachers/staff. LOLZZ. Money never leaves that fucking place, its just constantly going in.
cofostudent4:
[and I must say I would much rather be who I am than who you are]
If I thought that that statement was without all the sourgrape, persecuted, self righteous them against us bile that it seems to be, then I would believe in the word and mission of CofO.
You can be a hick in the sticks as long as you want to, but it gets tiresome to use it as a shield against different views forever. Read them, think about them, and apply them to whatever agenda you hold dear, but thoughtfully and without being so subjective.
Your response reminds me of the completely unassailable certitude of ignorant youth that abounds all around you. With luck it passes. And that can hurt harder the longer you hold on to it.
BerkeleyFarm: For the most part the kids who are still talking are of the mentality that will watch every single disney cartoon looking for the “dirty bits”, and record them all for a presentation about how horrible it is that there are such things. Then show them to others in slow motion. But it is true that there are a lot of streched out bootstraps at that school that need to be recognized. They are to busy with their own agendas to be on here.
FUCK COFO
Just kidding …..just trying to get your attention
Most everyone on this is throwing names and cuss words back and forth, which is chill, if this was the Olympics and there was a new event named: Big Ass Brawl.
I have resided in the gates of opportunity and I’m appalled at the blind defense that my fellow students are giving for the college. I know several of the students commenting, and they hate the school, but they are defending it because they feel comments made on this are against the students.
First of all, the students at CofO are often kids from hard working families in the poor class or lower middle class that are trying to get an education and this is the best way that they’ve found. Labeling them cousin fuckers and backwards hillbillies is no worse than me calling people nigger or faggot or anything else I can come up with. So, those of you on the Left Wing get off your goddamn high horse, thinking you have some moral superiority and you butter yourself up by being proud you are being tolerant. Tolerant of who? Pious fucking gas bag.
Most of the kids here are good kids trying to live the American dream. A lot drink, a lot have sex and so on. These are normal kids. We are not angelic and have not achieved a higher level or morality than surrounding schools, contrary to what some students on this state. We have the whole mix of kids. Good Christians, fakes, kids not into religion, jocks, aggies, preps, rockers, nerds and so on.
But I’d like to give an honest perspective on CofO.
1st: I’m writing this from an off campus location, so that the college doesn’t track me down and kick me out. Where is the freedom of speech in that? How exactly is this upholding the constitution? CofO claims to be conservative and Christian. I thought Christians were free in Christ, and I thought conservatives fought for free speech? There is a section in the new student handbook according to the school newspaper that in order to post things on the internet about CofO, you need prior written approval from administration. North Korea, China, and Iran have a similar policy and they block certain anti-government sites. So does CofO.
2nd: CofO isn’t conservative, they just say they are to take some old ladies’ money to pump into their public relations department, while the dorm rooms rot so that they can bring donors in to show them the “horrible” conditions so that the donors give more money so that they can bring in heavy hitter speakers so that they look good so that they get more money blab la bla. These old people have saved their whole lives and they want to help down to earth folks like themselves. They give their money to this school instead of to their children through an inheritance, and the school spends it on giving the president of our school an airplane so he can fly back and forth to basketball games and pays for security to drive around all day and give student’s tickets and pays for brand new potted flower plant arrangements for the Honor Lake which isn’t a lake, it’s the size of my bathtub, but the lake and the swan are as much of a holy site as mecca is. These people have no clue what their money goes for. CofO kept a kid from participating with his church in a day of silence for the unborn because “that isn’t professional.” Is that conservative?
3rd: Cofo isn’t Christian. They kicked a kid out of chapel who didn’t even go to school, who wasn’t even a Christian because he “didn’t look appropriate.” Jesus ate with tax collectors and prostitutes and you won’t even let a kid in church? There is a giant stained glass painting of Jesus in the chapel with long hair. Jesus took the Nazarite vow and part of that vow is growing your hair out. If Jesus came on campus, he wouldn’t be allowed in church most likely because he didn’t dress right. Maybe if he only looked more professional. Professionalism is CofO’s God. It’s their idol, and so their little prayer before meals….well I doubt God listens to it.
4th: The board of trustees is sequestered from students and so the administration calls all the shots and there is no higher authority. The handbook isn’t a constitution, it can be changed at will by any dean at any time without prior approval or vote by a board. If a student is called in and told to do something that isn’t in the handbook, the dean says “well there is a clause if we deem so necessary we can change something.” So, in other words this is by no means a constitutional republic, this is a dictatorship where the whim of the powerful is obeyed. But wait, am I going a little too far. NO! IT ISN’T THEIR GODDAMN MONEY BEING SPENT. It is some old ladies money intended to go to a poor college student. Instead it goes to some fat slush fund held by little self elected gods who give it to poor students if they do this and that and this and that. The board of trustees has no real knowledge of what goes on. No student knows the board and no student could approach the board with problems.
5th: CofO is a socialist dictatorship. We live in a fenced in place where we all are guaranteed a job, and we all must show up to work. We can’t choose our job like a free market even if there is abuse in the workplace, which happens often (yelling, verbal abuse, grabbing, and sexual advances, but who does admin believe? the student’s word or the bosses word). We are given housing where we can’t control the heat or cold, where we have restrictions on how the furniture can be arranged. What the fuck does that teach us? Not to be adults, it teaches us to have someone else make our decisions, and kids who graduate aren’t ready for the real world. We have socialized health care where we all pay a fee for a hospital where it doesn’t matter if you have AIDS or the common cold, you get Nyquil or some extra strength fever reducer knock off brand bullshit that you still have to pay for. So wait, what exactly was free there, and we can’t see another doctor until we get it okayed through the clinic. The nurses aren’t authorized to give you anything stronger than chicken noodle soup. We have a security system on campus that is designed to serve and protect. But they are so damn fat they can’t catch stalkers, they couldn’t catch recent thieves, and they never give people rides or protect their cars from getting broken into. Instead I think most students if they were being honest would say the most interaction they’ve had with security is getting a ticket for parking in some place they had no clue was illegal. But hey, you can repeal the ticket in a Student Supreme Court that you don’t know where it meets and you have no clue who is on it. They drive around and waste gas and make us feel nervous and give us tickets, but I’d feel safer guarding my own stuff than having their no weapon policy on campus and them protecting our stuff. Because dozens of ipods, computers, sound systems, and other personal belongings get stolen all the time and they can’t do shit about it.
6th: Students get kicked out and drop out so often that by the time of graduation almost 25% of all students in the graduating class are gone. If you decide you wanted to go to a different school once you realize that CofO didn’t tell you what it’s really like, it’s too late. Most students lose their scholarships to other schools when they turn them down to get the free education that costs $5,000 a year for room and board, ohh and then there are incidental fees, and tickets, and books, and food, and if you don’t bank enough hours you have to pay for them too, even though the college got grant money from the government for you to go to CofO. But you don’t get that money, they do. Where does the government get the money….from the tax payer. So you as the tax payer are actually paying for my “free” education, and these rules and the ability for CofO to kick kids out of church for not wearing the right outfit and so am I. Once you make enough rules, even law abiding students are criminals.
I’m sure you can find problems with my grammar and with my logic and I’m sure there are more stories out there about how people have been hurt by CofO. But I don’t want their side of the story to stay silenced. That is why I have spoken out, for the people whose lives have been altered in a negative way by CofO. That is priceless. The people who will never darken the halls of a church again because of the hypocrisy of administration and the church on campus. That is priceless.
cjsweet: Same deal here; my parents make just enough that I don’t qualify for a Pell grant, but not enough to support me - giving me $50 every two to four weeks is all they can afford.
I was an excellent student in high school, winning awards for geography, history, and literature. I earned my Girl Scout Gold Award (the highest award possible). I made a 27 on my ACT (with a 32 on reading comprehension alone - too bad my rotten math score brought it down!) - the first time I took it, with minimal preparation. I could easily have chosen to attend an Ivy League school. But I couldn’t afford to. CofO has given me a great education, and tremendous work experience. I will be graduating with two years of management experience, along with having personally planned a ten-day trip to England and Ireland for sixteen people and run a 2,300-attendee FFA workshop. How many of you could do that?
SilentMajority: I’ll admit, there’s a lot of truth to what you have to say. I don’t agree with all the school’s policies - far from it.
“Most of the kids here are good kids trying to live the American dream. A lot drink, a lot have sex and so on. These are normal kids. We are not angelic and have not achieved a higher level or morality than surrounding schools, contrary to what some students on this state. We have the whole mix of kids. Good Christians, fakes, kids not into religion, jocks, aggies, preps, rockers, nerds and so on.”
Yep. We have a mixture of people here. I can point out people who are great, honest, God-serving people that I am happy to call my friends. I can point out people who put on the show and really don’t care. I can point out the people that go party on the weekends, and the ones who are sleeping around. Shoot, I can point out people who are known to be gay or highly suspected. We don’t have many of these different types, but they do exist. I won’t deny that.
Regarding your first point, on freedom of speech: actually, the handbook only says we have to post a disclaimer stating that our views do not reflect those of CofO. And honestly? I think it’s idiotic and administrators need to pull their heads out from wherever they have them sometimes. Please note that my views do not necessarily reflect those of College of the Ozarks.
Your second point, regarding the use of money: it takes a lot of money to run the school, so I can understand it to some extent, but just like virtually everyone else here, I’m frustrated by how administration spends money. Did we REALLY need to redo the CC lounge? Oh, wait, they did it because the bookstore - which they’ve ALSO just renovated - is accessed that way. Can’t have people seeing it looking badly, can we? Meanwhile, who cares if students live in mold-infested dorms? Or if the science facilities are in horrible condition? Or if Jones, the main classroom building on campus, is in such horrible shape that people wish it would burn down? I agree that they need to spend their money on other things. As for “CofO kept a kid from participating with his church in a day of silence for the unborn because ‘that isn’t professional.’” I’m betting the student in question worked in a tourist workstation (Keeter hell, perhaps?). It’s pretty much impossible to work in one of those and participate in a day of silence. Any “real world” job wouldn’t allow it either.
Part the third, “Cofo isn’t Christian.” I have to agree, they behave in ways that are very focused on the world and how much money they can bring in sometimes. Kicking a non-student out of chapel because he’s not appropriately dressed would be inappropriate. I think that making more of an effort to reach out to people, and “eat with the tax collectors” would be a really good thing. However, there are rich, old people out there, who wouldn’t see it that way. Stupid, but that’s the way it is.
Fourth, “The board of trustees is sequestered from students and so the administration calls all the shots and there is no higher authority.” I also agree completely. Administrators have too much power. But it could be worse. Larsen and Schoenecke (just had to look up how to spell that, haha!) are really nice guys who actually care about the students. Dawe was a jerk, glad we got rid of him.
Fifth, “CofO is a socialist dictatorship.” In many ways, yes. We are assigned jobs (we may or may not choose to work there) where we must put up with the boss - I’ve worked in Keeter hell (you know a place is bad when that’s the nickname for it) and spent eight hour shifts, standing on my feet in one spot, the entire time, except for a half hour lunch break. When I leaned against a wall to brace myself, I got yelled at for looking “unprofessional.” The summer I worked front desk, everyone had knee or back problems, or both, by the end of summer. Not to mention those of us who were taller had wrist problems from holding our hands in unnatural angles to use the keyboards. I would take bathroom breaks, not because I needed to use the bathroom, but because I needed to sit down. When I got back to my room I’d collapse in my desk chair and not move for hours, because my feet were so sore I didn’t want to walk. It wouldn’t be tolerated in the real world. We can’t control heat or air conditioning - and while we wait for them to turn the heat on, we freeze, as we’re doing now. I’ve been wearing three layers to class. Although the restrictions on how furniture can be arranged are primarily for safety reasons - there were cases of beds falling because the cinder blocks weren’t stacked in a safe manner. Of course, if the rooms were bigger, we wouldn’t have to stack our beds on cinder blocks to have enough room, would we? The clinic drives me nuts - I don’t go unless I have to. I was sick earlier this semester and I skipped class, and e-mailed my teachers later telling them that I didn’t bother to go to the clinic because I didn’t want to be stuck in there all day. Contrary to what they seem to think sometimes, ibuprofen is NOT a cure-all for everything. Security isn’t that bad, although most of them are woefully out of shape, and I have actually gotten rides from them - but they’re not a taxi service. Marking where/when it is/isn’t legal to park in places would be nice - I’ve gotten several tickets because I didn’t park in an “appropriate” place. If you really wanted to know where Student Supreme Court met, you could ask the Dean of Students office, where you turn your ticket in to appeal it.
Finally, students getting kicked out and money. I’ve seen students who’ve been kicked out for what I consider to be ridiculous reasons. I’ve seen students who weren’t kicked out who should have been. I remember fall 2006, when several basketball players were allowed to finish the semester out after getting caught at a party - everyone was furious, because any other student would have been kicked out immediately. Yes, room and board is $5000 a year, but you can apply for the summer work program too. You don’t have to get tickets - I haven’t gotten one in over two years now. Books can be pricey, but buying them online is a lot cheaper, as is sharing with a friend, or borrowing from a friend who has it already (all of which I’ve done). Plus, there are professors who will try not to use textbooks because they know we can’t afford a lot. This semester, I’ve got seven classes, and only three have required books - and one of those was $7. If you’re a dorm student, you don’t have to buy food, you have a meal plan, although granted, the cafeteria food is generally awful, and I don’t think I’ll touch pizza for at least a year after school. And like it or not…the money to pay the professors, to pay for food, to pay for classroom equipment, to pay for toilet paper, has to come from somewhere.
Are there people who’ve been hurt by CofO? Yes. But there are far more people - like myself - who have been helped. I’ve gotten an education that I could never have gotten otherwise, and I’m profoundly grateful for that. I’ve had my life impacted by the people I’ve met, and I imagine I’ll stay in touch with some of my professors forever. I think I’ve made it clear that I don’t think CofO is a perfect place. I think there are many ways that it could be improved. But the same can be said of anything.
Personally, I vote we get rid of 8 am classes. That’d be a good start.
I thought this was about Sarah Palin speaking at College of the Ozarks, getting paid $100K for pushing her book on us hillbillies. I don’t like the title of the book, but I haven’t read it. I don’t know how she can make “rogue” a good thing. Having lived in the UK for 3 years, I learned that “going rogue” was slang for anal sex. It’s an unfortunate title for that reason. (I heard the ghostwriter was a Brit.) But in good, standard English, it’s not a becoming title. Which definition does she choose?
rogue (noun)
1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
adj.
1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: “How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?” (Saul Hansell).
v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues
v.tr.
1. To defraud.
2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
v.intr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.