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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't speak for Georgetown but Notre Dame was insane from multiple angles. I interview for a tenure-track professor job there (ended up going to a better institution). I'm assuming you're Catholic based on the GT vs. ND consideration. On the chance that you're not hardcore Catholic, I'd beware of ND. They asked me many illegal interview questions trying to ascertain my religion. One chinese professor explicitly told me not to come there because they make non-catholic faculty and staff feel like aliens. [b]Multiple faculty told me that if you don't attend mass with the students, you will be ostracized on campus - and these were the Catholic faculty that DID attend mass telling me this.[/b] I have no way of knowing if this is true, but it's from the mouths of professors. I also encountered anti-abortion and anti-birth control publications just laying around in the student union and the professor taking me to lunch said "all the students believe the same thing here so there's no arguments." Again, no way to verify if it's true, but that's what I saw and heard.

Independent of Catholicism, the area is absolute trash. I went on a realty tour and they showed me "all the best restaurants" and literally 80% of them were casual pizza restaurants. The biggest business was like an RV manufacturing plant. They also have mega gang and crime problems there, apparently. It struck me as being much colder than DC and there was no charm to the area at all. The campus, however, was quite nice.

Anyway, not sure if this is at all helpful. I felt like I was in hell during the visit but perhaps a very Catholic undergraduate might enjoy it.[/quote]

I can tell you are making this up because many students do not even go to mass, and the ones that do, generally go to their dorm mass, which is usually in the evenings, well after classes are over and professors are off campus.  Nice try though.  Would love to hear others chime in on your other suspect claims...I am not on campus, so I can't speak to that.  But I do know my son, who is a student there, has been exposed to many ideas and points of view...he leans more left of center and feels totally comfortable there.[/quote]

Okay. Well, I'm not making it up.[/quote]
About half of the faculty at Notre Dame is not Catholic. Half of the faculty is ostracized? [/quote]

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