(02-01-2016 06:51 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  I'll go out on a limb here. This:

(02-01-2016 06:25 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  I worked at Ktru and enjoyed the music...

... might partly explain this:

(02-01-2016 06:25 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  The overall campus seemed to be heavily dominated by drugs and a disproportionate emphasis on alternative lifestyles.

I can see where you'd assume that, and you'd be wrong. Though I enjoyed being a DJ for four years at ktru, I didn't hang out with the ktruers. I actually spent most of my time hanging around the sportos and players. The folks I'm talking about in the quote were the regular Rice students in the colleges. At the time, they seemed extremely liberal, disproportionately into drugs, and accepting and promoting alternative lifestyles--and most of them despised Ktru, which is kind of ironic. It was the Reagan years, but the abject hatred of relatively middle of the road normal values was confusing, especially as you say, in the state of Texas, which I did not expect. Had I known this was to be the case during my time on campus, I would have chosen to go elsewhere. But it is what it is. As you can tell I have very mixed feelings about Rice these days. Have always rooted for the school's athletic success, which again, many found odd during my time on campus, and have always respected the academics. Never liked the heavy drug culture and values that enabled it.