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"