Is Ithaca one of the nation’s ‘ugliest’ colleges?

CNSOH NO YOU DIDN’T! Ithaca College just got some Hate-erade dumped all over it.

Some dinky blog called the Campus Squeeze, which proudly describes itself as “not just any college Web site,” has pronounced our admittedly aesthetically-challenged campus the 17th ugliest of any college in the United States. Now, I don’t have any serious issues with this proclamation, because let’s face it, there are some uggggly buildings on our pretty ‘lil campus.

But these guys obviously didn’t look at every single school to make their decision - they just decided to check out some colleges’ Web sites, asked students to bash colleges on their message boards, and then made a blanket, uninformed statement about beauty, which as we all know, is a very subjective thing. Then they wrote it all down in a big, annoying list.

The dude who writes the piece says that he’s “extremely unimpressed” by our campus and that it “pales” next to Cornell. Yeah, sure, we’ve got a lot of gray, brick-shaped buildings, but c’mon, at least we’re trying now. I blame 60’s architecture, personally.

(College Ave. thanks Tipster Krar for the link. )