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My College is healthier than your college, (except for two)

edited October 2011 in General
Newsweek compiled a list of the healthiest colleges in the United States of America. Mississippi State is ranked 3rd, mainly because of the Sanderson Center.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/college-rankings/2011/healthiest.html

My school.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/college-rankings/2011/healthiest.mississippi-state-university.html

The full list, damn LSU and Harvard.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/college-rankings/2011/healthiest.all.html

Comments

  • edited October 2011
    I don't see my school on the list, therefore I question this study. :P
    That aside, I'm not sure judging the athletic facilities and organic food budget are really the best indicators to factor in for a judgment of health. A lot of smaller schools could have great health, among the student population, but be more strictly academic, not so sports oriented. And as for this trojan health report card... Well, if schools are becoming well known for their STI testing, that might actually indicate more of a problem in my mind rather than qualifying it as the most healthy...
  • This is daft. Who judges a college based on how 'healthy' it is. Plus the criteria is ludicrous. Academic and research pedigree, yes. Healthiness? No. It's newsweek, so no surprises on tabloid garbage. Politically they are in the right position, editorially its like reading the Sun.
  • edited October 2011
    University of Iowa

    Trojan sexual health rank: 6
    Drug scene grade: D+
    Students that rated student health care as high: 78%
    Students that rated athletic facilities as top-notch: 60%
    Food budget spent on local or organic food: 15%

    >I'm okay with this.

    Alcohol and sex keep me fit.

    Also, there is a jar of condoms in every room on campus.
  • I imagine half the students at Florida have skin cancer. But whatevs.
  • University of Iowa

    Trojan sexual health rank: 6
    Drug scene grade: D+
    Students that rated student health care as high: 78%
    Students that rated athletic facilities as top-notch: 60%
    Food budget spent on local or organic food: 15%

    >I'm okay with this.

    Alcohol and sex keep me fit.

    Also, there is a jar of condoms in every room on campus.

    THat's nothing. My college dining hall hands out morning after pills with breakfast.
  • edited October 2011
    That's nothing. My college, well, it doesn't do anything like that.
  • University of Iowa

    Trojan sexual health rank: 6
    Drug scene grade: D+
    Students that rated student health care as high: 78%
    Students that rated athletic facilities as top-notch: 60%
    Food budget spent on local or organic food: 15%

    >I'm okay with this.

    Alcohol and sex keep me fit.

    Also, there is a jar of condoms in every room on campus.

    THat's nothing. My college dining hall hands out morning after pills with breakfast.
    That explains why you don't have any children, Mal. Oh wait...
  • Hum...mid schools here could use such surveys...

    Kids here go crazy on drugs and sex while dancing funk...
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