College Guide Helps Steer Values-Oriented Students Toward Best Schools
by Jim Brown
November 17, 2005
(AgapePress) - - The editor of a new college guide is warning parents against sending their children to what he calls some of the scariest university campuses in America -- schools across the country that are the most secular or the most hostile to Christian values.
John Zmirak is the editor of Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth About America's Top Schools (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2005). And near the top of his list of schools not to attend is Brown University, with its renowned drug culture. Another institution to avoid, he says, is Colgate University in New York, where the university president, a former women's studies professor, is now seizing all the fraternity houses and turning them into minority housing. Students belonging to any fraternity that resists are under threat of expulsion.
But one school stands out among the rest, Zmirak asserts. "I'd be very careful sending anyone to Wesleyan University in Connecticut," he says, "because they're getting rid of single-sex dorm rooms. You won't even be able to guarantee that your daughter is living with another woman."
The reason for this, Zmirak contends, is that Wesleyan's "politically correct ideology has gone so far that they say, 'Well, it's not for the school to say who's a man or a woman; each student has to decide that for him or herself.'" Incredible as it sounds, he adds, "It's impossible to parody that."
The editor of Choosing the Right College also recommends that parents not send their children to Oberlin College in Ohio, where the head of the campus pro-life group is an open homosexual, but is considered the most Right-wing student at the school.
On the other hand, Zmirak's college guide also lists some of the top academically excellent schools that are geared toward evangelical students. One school he recommends highly is a Christian college located near Chicago.
"In terms of evangelical schools, I would say Wheaton in Illinois is both academically excellent and religiously solid in a sophisticated way," the editor says. "Your students will come out sophisticated defenders of the evangelical faith they took in with them."
Zmirak mentions other schools that he feels do a great job of passing on American traditions grounded in biblical truth. These include Hillsdale College in Michigan and Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
