VLVL(6) - Pepperdine and Coll. of the Surf

[David Casseres]

Gary Thompson sez
>A little more context, slightly after the topic's passed.
>
>Meg Larson wrote:
>
>> >>203.13  College of the Surf - I remember reading about the model for this
>> >place somewhere. Where is it? Santa Barbara? I didn't see the likely
>> >suspect when I scanned the coast on my map.
>> >
>> Pepperdine U. comes to mind.
>
>And there were two replies, from David . . . > The last I heard, Pepperdine,
>where Kenneth Starr still hopes to
> >  go hide some day, was affiliated with Bob Jones University,
>
>and Sebastian:
>
> > I'm gald someone mentioned Pepperdine, which is my front-runner for the
> > "real-world" analog.  I'm not so sure that Pepperdine is very far off,
> > since the account of College of the Surf before Weed-mania struck is that
> > it was the most unlikely of places for the campus contagion to catch on.
>
>Maybe Kathleen has a little closer view. Administratively they're affiliated
>with the Churches of Christ, which as David points out has given us Judge
>Starr. We can add to that religious affiliation Pat Boone and Anita Bryant.
>The Scaife money adds a further pleasing conspiratorial touch.

Study of the web sites of Pepperdine and BJU convinces me that I was
mistaken about their being "affiliated."  The Pepperdine site just about
put me to sleep; it's a conventionally conservative, church-affiliated,
academically rigorous private university, end of story (except for that
little Ken Starr frisson).  BJU, on the other hand, could easily have been
dreamed up by, say, Robert Coover in a particularly savage mood.  Their
site made me alternately giggle and shudder.
Cheers,
David