College in Newport, RI renowned as the
home of the richest, preppiest
kids in New
England whose siblings went to
Brown, Cornell, Harvard and the like, but who couldn't get in themselves. Students literally live in mansions, as
Jazz Age private palaces have been converted into dorms. Hunt/Reefe freshman dorm is yards away from the Vanderbilt's "The Breakers" mansion.
Actually, a good percentage of the student population here DID have their choice of
better schools like Northestern, Rutgers or Amherst, but chose SRU for the location and atmosphere. I know some students who turned down Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, and/or Harvard for Salve.
Well-known nursing program - it's not uncommon to shake shit-faced people awake after they've passed out at a party and have them start reciting very technical terms for the human anatomy.
Everybody goes clubbing in Providence on weekends.
Catholic, no sororities or frats, AND it's a dry campus. Merely necessitates new drinking games involving avoiding campus security.
Back @ Salve Regina University
-"That was a
fine bunch of
girls we met at that Rogers Williams party on
Thursday"
-"Duuuuuuuude, I can't remember that at all!!!"
-"Yeah, they all went to Salve, bro! We went to Via Via afterwards and got in a fight with that guy outside, remember?"
-"Naw, man...still nothing. Maybe I'll remember next weekend. Just tell me if I hooked up with any of 'em if you seem 'em around O'Hare"