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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 08:59 PM
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Poll question: Does anyone else see humor in the "Terry Schiavo Scholarships"
Edited on Sat Jul-09-05 09:00 PM by JVS
that Ave Maria college has introduced
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:02 PM
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1. I think Ave Maria College is
funny - does that count?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:03 PM
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3. What's funny about it?
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:11 PM
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5. It's the Catholic version of Liberty University.
I know a person that graduated from there and is about to start their law school. Very much a freeper & a zealot.
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:12 PM
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6. Is this the one started by
the Domino's Pizza guy?
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:27 PM
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7. Yep.
http://www.catholicherald.com/cns/avemaria.htm

To be fair, the academic standards are reportedly higher than Liberty University.
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 11:19 PM
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12. Do they believe in evolution there?
I know at Liberty they don't and therefore are not accredited
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 01:02 AM
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15. I don't know.
I'm pretty sure that they're accredited, though.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:02 PM
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2. Seriously?
If anything I just think it's in poor taste. Has that woman's name not been used enough for one lifetime?

...May she rest in peace.

:(
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:04 PM
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4. Should be a medical scholarship, or stem cell research scientist one
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LeftyDarthBrodie Donating Member (941 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 11:14 PM
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10. should be for either of those
but why bother when God can heal us? (sarcasm off)
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:30 PM
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8. The anti-organized religion part of me finds it...
awfully appropriate... I mean, a scholarship named for a person famous for being brain dead dedicated to help people study Catholic Dogma...
I'm sorry, it's black comedy to me. And I shouldn't make fun of Catholics, many of whom are sincerely dedicated to making the world a better place.
But still...
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 09:33 PM
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9. ^^ what ^^ he^^ said^^
It all sounds like part of a Peter Sellers movie
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 11:16 PM
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11. Where's sniffa when you need him?
I think it's pretty funny.
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evlbstrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 11:28 PM
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13. A scholarship on behalf of a brain dead individual?
Granted to promote brain-deadedness? Hysterical.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 11:28 PM
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14. A little too sick for me
I'm the kinda guy who thinks scaring small children and making puppies cry is funny, but this goes beyong sick-funny into sick-sick.

Khash.

(P.S. Although I have scared small children (accidentally!), I have never made a puppy cry. Send your hate mail elsewhere.)
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