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Quite Bright
nothing much to do in clarion. but ur college experience is what u make it. everyone goes home on the weekends!!! but the parties are pretty good when ppl are around. ive had some great teachers and some not so great. clarion gives u an opportunity to be whomever ud like, because they offer many choices for majors. the foods pretty good and the dorms arent so shabby.
Education Quality: A, Social Life: F
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Academics:
The strongest programs here are education and business. Besides these majors, everything is weak. I took classes in geology, English and Journalism. The geology professor, Dr. Shulik takes every exam from the internet and never teaches on what he will test. There was a professor in the Journalism department who was challenging her students in their coursework and because students here are lazy, they complained and although it was never told to us what happened, there are rumors that she was dismissed for challenging her students academically. Being an English major is like being in one big book club, only you pay $14,000 and up for a year of membership. For example, in a 300-level writing class, we had to review magazine articles, write three essays and discuss easy (8th grade level) readings out of six books. Classes here are very easy, however, if you miss three classes, it is a letter grade from your final grade for every absence beyond that.

The People:
The students at Clarion are very open-minded and accepting of others. Sure, you do have a person every now and then who thinks they own the world, but for the most part, you can find some of the most caring students here.

Social Life:
There are alot of great organizations to be involved in at Clarion. Whatever your interest is, you can find it here. However, the sororities are VERY selective and if you are not a spitting image of them, you will not be extended a bid.

Campus living:
The campus is extremely safe with call boxes spread across campus. Dorms vary. Givan is by far the nicest dorm, both lookwise and atmosphere wise. There are many events to be part of as a dorm resident, and they can be fairly interesting. Never go to Chandler Dining Hall. The food there is TERRIBLE. Gemmell food is not as bad and can be fairly decent. The gym is not bad, but depending on the hour that you go, plan to be waiting awhile for a machine. The campus buildings in general are also old. Clarion has also begun to set up a new Science Hall to replace Pierce, but has insufficient funds to complete the project, so expect to be staring at construction work for awhile.

surrounding area:
If you are a big city type of person, don't even try. The area around Clarion University is set as a very small town. There is a bus that goes to the mall (which contains maybe 10 shops) and to Wal-Mart but goes no where else. So be prepared to drive anywhere that you think you might like to go. Besides being small (the whole downtown is a long street), Clarion is beautiful, especially with Autumn Leaf Festival (their canival that happens every September) and in the Winter (trust me... there is nothing like seeing downtown Clarion in the winter with all the lights, it is breathtaking)

Faculty:
Faculty is very accessible and will even make appointments to see you if you cannot make it to their office hours. However, if you have a problem with any of the faculty, do not expect to have it resolved or even listened to.
University Resource Use: A, Education Quality: F
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Jul 27 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2011  
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I think the overall social atmosphere would be greatly helped if freshmen were prevented from keeping cars on campus and actually had to stay there on the weekends and get to know their fellow students. Too many current students are content to go home and hang out with their high school friends instead of growing and making new friends. They're cheating themselves out of a great college experience...college is more than a degree.
Preparedness: B, Reputation: B-
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Everyone I hang out with at Clarion loves it here, and wouldn't want to be anywhere else, including myself. People say that it's a "suitcase" callege, which is true, meaning that probably 65% of people go home every weekend. But if you stay up here you will find something to do, and not just party. There are movie nights that have movies that haven't came out to dvd yet, so if you missed in the theatres you can see it. There's also lots of events with FREE FOOD (what's better). Also, in my experience the resident life staff has done alot to make things fun. I know me and my RA hang out almost daily including weekends, and get lots of people to hang out in my dormitory.

People who give a bad rap to Clarion either go home every weekend and don't give it a chance, are anti-social, or here for the wrong thing. I would highly recommend Clarion if you are in the Education field, because we are top notch with great instructors, although we have high standards. Pre-Med is also good, the coursework is on par with larger universities, and Clarion is relatively inexpensive.

Other people who don't like it here are generally Communication majors or Business majors that just blow off all classwork...there is an abundance of those at Clarion...
Education Quality: A+, Surrounding City: D-
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