Ugliest College Campus in America?

[pstokely]

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[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. How about this one?

Anal Roberts University, a/k/a "Six Flags Over Jesus" with giant praying hands and other bizarre architecture?

[gr8dane_daddy]

2. Univ of Oklahoma, Norman OK

Texas A&M University, College Station TX - close 2nd

Hook'em Horns

[Nicole]

26. OU has a beautiful campus in Norman,OK

Have you ever been there?

I hate UT but I wouldn't call their campus ugly, until I've seen it.

[deepthought42]

3. I'm gonna nominated Liberty "University"

After 2 1/2 years of being forced to see that campus while driving past it, I'm still scarred. *shudder* The dome is atrocious.

[LeftyMom]

5. The orwellian name is a riot though.

There was a thread looking at their dress code and student conduct rules a while back. There's more freedom than that in prison.

[deepthought42]

7. Oh yes, I've seen it. I went to R-MWC in Lynchburg, VA...

my roommate, other college friends and I would look at their website for laughs. It fucking ridiculous the rules they have for the students there. You'd think they'd be able to dress themselves and decide what kind of movies/music they like, but no. They're idiots for going to that place of evil anyway... :puke:

[pstokely]

31. You mean this

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=1417

[underpants]

6. It expanded across 460

Have you noticed that?

They have a whole townhouse complex on the other side now.

[deepthought42]

8. NO, but I'm not surprised. I have seen the hideous sign they have up now

w/the name of the place. I graduated from undergrad in '05, and the last time I was down there was for my roommate's graduation ('06), but I did my best to stay away from LU.

:scared:

[Courtesy Flush]

4. Beaumont, TX has an ugly campus

Is it Lamar U? I'm not sure. But I remember it being pretty bad.

Or are you referring to major colleges only?

[ceile]

9. Yep, it's Lamar.

Never been there, but I've been to Beaumont once. Once.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Used to be known as Lamar Tech. State school.

Now upgraded to Lamar University. Their mascot is the woodpecker, so their slang name used to be "Pecker Tech". How quaint. Don't know if that is still a common appellation or not.

[last_texas_dem]

38. They're cardinals

I'm not sure about the woodpecker thing, but they've been the cardinals at least dating back to the 1960s.

[last_texas_dem]

37. Lamar isn't that bad

Yeah, it is where I graduated from, but I'm not defending it just 'cause I'm alumni. They've really made some improvements to the campus in the last few years. I wouldn't call it beautiful, but it's definitely not the ugliest campus in America, at least IMHO.

[Chan790]

10. American University in Washington DC

looks like the campus buildings were designed by a Soviet architect and built in the East German style...and right smack in the middle of campus they have a non-denominational religious center which looks enough like a giant cupcake with a flame on top that it's called..."the flaming cupcake" by the students.

[Arugula Latte]

30. Heh heh -- I went there for grad school

I thought the campus was pretty nondescript, too, but it's a great location near Embassy Row and Georgetown ...

[LeftyMom]

11. CSULB, land of grey squatty concrete architecture

It's a monument to valuing the functional over the attractive and possibly the ugliest bit of municipal architecture I've ever seen, excluding Candlestick Park, the official Ugliest Thing Humankind Has Ever Made.

[deucemagnet]

12. The Ellicott Complex on SUNY Buffalo's north campus...

...is the butt-ugliest abomination I've ever seen in my life.

[Reverend_Smitty]

14. UGH!

it looks like it was put together by using a game of Tetris as the model

[deucemagnet]

18. I was told it was specifically designed with no large areas where...

...students can assemble. It was built in the '70s and I guess they were afraid of another Kent State or something. Walking through the complex made me feel like I was in a futuristic dystopia like in the movie Brazil. :scared:

[momophile]

19. omg, that is so cool

I'm gonna have to go look that up. I like this style of architecture, seriously. Brutalism. Love it! Do you know who the architect was?

[deucemagnet]

25. It was Davis, Brody and Associates.

Here's a link.  You'll have to copy & paste.  I couldn't
get it to work any other way.  Sorry!

http://www.buffalo.edu/buildings/building?id=ellicott&photo=photos/ellicott3-99063008.jpg



I cannot believe you actually like that thing!  :wow:

[devilgrrl]

40. Isn't it hideous?

I grew up near there. :crazy:

[Strawman]

13. Wayne State's is not the prettiest

There are some older buildings that have some charm, a nice new undergraduate library and welcome center, a hideous grad library that is best described as filthy, some neglected 1950's buildings, some newer 1990's buildings that look like minimum security prisons.

Now Michigan State, that's a beautiful campus.

[momophile]

24. the Education Building looks cool

1955 to 1959-ish. Very cool.

I don't know about the rest of the campus but that is one neat building.

[bif]

29. I didn't see this post earlier. You're right!

Old Main and the Hilberry are pretty. But they tore down the only other building with any character--MacKenzie Hall. Overall, about what you'd expect from a commuter school in the middle of a dumpy city.

[RubyDuby in GA]

15. Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia because of this trash:

Or why this school is dead to me...

[ikojo]

33. One of my nephew's attends Georgia

Southern Univ. I am sure he's a pug...his dad (my brother) was career army.

[RubyDuby in GA]

35. I finally got the call the other night.

I have been waiting since October 30th for them to call me begging for money and they finally did last Thursday night. The guy seemed to be taken aback, then got a snotty tone with me when I told him that any "institution of higher learning" that invites an idiot such as Bush to address the students for a partisian political rally would never get a damn dime from me and I would never step foot on that campus again. Oh it was glorious. I hope he went back and told all this little college republican friends all about it.

It was not so damn conservative when I was there. Actually, it was quite liberal then - in the early to mid-90s.

[Jimbo S]

36. What about the "Sifting and Winnowing of Ideas"?

Many campuses hold political rallies.

But it's your buck, do whatever you want. :)

[RubyDuby in GA]

42. The school sanctioned this rally for Max Burns who was running for

Congress. This was one of the two seats that they had hoped to take from Democrats in the South. Bush came to Georgia for each of them twice (the other being GA's 8th District where Mac Collins was running against the conservative Democrat, Jim Marshall). A public school has no business holding partisan rallies for candidates unless they are going to hold them for both candidates, the Dem and the Rep.

The College Republicans were the sponsors, but the article in the magazine states how the invitation came directly from the college and the Dean of the school.

Hell will freeze over twice before they ever see a stinkin' penny from me.

:)

[skippysmom]

16. Many of the SUNY schools come to mind

Albany, Binghamton, and Oneonta all come to mind....

[RedStateShame]

17. Northern Kentucky University

In beautiful Florence, KY, the city known for its water tower that reads "Florence, Y'all. No, I'm not kidding. The college is a concrete jungle. If the makers could pave over something, they did. However, when talking about to interested visitors, like most ugly campuses, I just say it has a great personality.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

20. this one....

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.chapelhillpreservation.com/local.html&h=262&w=280&sz=21&hl=en&start=50&tbnid=j_XQXH-mAqQhqM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=114&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522unc%2Bcampus%2522%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN



:D

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. UNT in Denton...

started out as nouveau Philadelphia colonial looking with the administration building and several of the dorms, then they switched to ultra modern boxes for the music buildings, library, art building, theater buildings, and a few others.

I loved the school, and the grounds are nice, but the architecture ain't quite happening.

[Shakespeare]

22. University of West Florida.

Butt-freakin'-ugly.

[bif]

23. Wayne State University, hands down!

Almost all the buildings are from the early 60s. One ugly campus.

[Katherine Brengle]

28. University of MA Dartmouth --

http://www.umassd.edu

It's hellish.

[jmowreader]

32. Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC

Campbell is kinda like Liberty, BJU or Pensacola Christian except that, since the school was founded in the 1880s, they've had more time to practice. Hell, it wasn't until 1971 that they allowed students to dance. (Yes, it's a Baptist college.)

I used to have to deliver printing to Campbell. The place looks a lot like an army base. Specifically, it looks like the 2nd Brigade area at Fort Campbell. There's all these nice neat sanitized little brick buildings with no character whatsoever, and then there's the Vietnam-era part, when the Army needed a shitload of buildings fast so they diverted every concrete block in America to your larger military installations.

There is a reason Campbell only has photos of three buildings on their website--and they're all in the same photo, no photoshopping necessary.

[Burma Jones]

34. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

[smtpgirl]

39. I don't agree,

but the Northern VA Community College campus at Annandale, VA is totally ugly.

[MountainLaurel]

41. Gotta love that Soviet architecture

And the never-ending parade of major building leaks. I worked there for a couple years, and I'd like to smack the person who thought that flat-roofed buildings would be acceptable in an area that gets a good deal of rain and snow.