A little late but nonetheless. Although more attention has been paid to Duke slipping to number 10 in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings, GQ’s September issue features its own brand of college rankings: America’s 25 Douchiest Colleges. The magazine calls Duke the home of “The O.D. (Original Douche)” and adds, “They’re probably number one. But we’d rather not rank Duke number one at anything.” GQ also dubbed Duke as honorable mentions in the categories of “blue-blazer institution,” “excessive-pride institutions,” “show us your t—s institutions,” “crazily expensive institutions,” “kind bud institutions,” “limousine liberal institutions” and “eating club institutions.”
Though the magazine’s ranking systems are a bit suspect (a list of the 10 Best Food Trucks in America omits OnlyBurger), Duke pales in comparison only to Brown. At least Duke beat Harvard (4) and Princeton (3) at something other than basketball.
UPDATE: The Chronicle’s online editor Alex Klein has found a link for the print pages of GQ’s list, which you can see here.
UPDATE 08/25/09: GQ has a slideshow on its own Web site. Check it out here.
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FYI–Yale didn’t make it into the top 25. I wonder where the writers of the list got their degrees.
Isn’t GQ the undefeated champion of douchiest magazines? I’m not sure, I’ve never read it because I always thouhgt it seemed too douchey.
Hal, did you go to Duke or one of GQ’s other 24 Douchiest Colleges?
Clearly a tarheel on the commitee….what a laugh. Give me a break. Duke….really? Not really worthy of the douchiest award in my opinion. I mean have they not been to Michigan? That institution is so pride filled, they love backing themselves and giving themselves props for not sucking as much every year. At least Dookies realize they are only good at basketball and not much else other than having money and being smart. The Wolverines don’t even acknowledge that they suck yet…..so sad. They still think they are competitive and hold out hope that they can win something in some sort of sport. I’d take all awards mentioned above and hand it over to the Michiganders. Definitely some serious bias there.