"higher" is the operative word.

Hey, to be fair, every Sunday at noon during my undergrad career there were a bunch of geeks who would battle each other in front of the dining hall with foam swords while those of us who had lives tried to deal with our hangover brunch. So how is Quidditch more geeky then that and a bunch of other things that college students do already?

/ went to CWRU, knows more geeky thing college kids can do then she ever cared to know
// only participated in one or two of them personally

Yes, it is really high education.

I love how they wear capes and ride brooms.

So, just b/c one is in college, the fun has to stop?

If you are over the age of eight and spend your time running around with a broom between your legs, pretending you are playing a game from a children's novel you have entirely too much spare time on your hands. Furthermore, you have no idea how profoundly silly you look while engaging in such an activity.

That being said, go for it. Hey, at least you are getting some exercise and if you don't care how silly you look, neither do I.

#7. I'm -sob- so very proud.

Well, it's not like they excel at football at Kansas.

2wolves: #7. I'm -sob- so very proud.

Ah, a fellow Pitt alum. With our basketball team finally winning a few games, we have a lot to be proud of. After only managing 39 points at home against Rutgers, I had basically given up.

Well it's not as obnoxious as hacky sack.

YouFarkingIdiot: Don't question. Just give them more fewer tax dollars every year.

FTFY. State-support of their own schools is on a steady decline nation-wide. People hear that tuition is going up again and they think for some reason it's so professors can spin donuts in their new Lamborghinis during lunch (as if tenure-track didn't have one of the lowest income-to-required-education ratios). The truth is, state governments have forgotten how important these places are to the state's economy and have just started taking all those benefits for granted. Like idiots who rail against unions because "we already have weekends and work safety laws so why have them anymore".

Between the yellow highlighting and sky-blue links, I think College Magazine's webmaster should run afoul of a few beaters, and be uncomfortably probed by the golden snitch.

frepnog: honestly, once you have convinced more than one person to join in and look silly... is it really all that silly anymore?

As a former LARPer, it seems to be that it gets sillier the more people who get involved, until you reach a critical mass and everyone decides to be in character.

Then it's just silly from the outside.

Voiceofreason01: Mentat: Well, it's not like they excel at football at Kansas.

I live in Lawrence and I had no idea that this existed.

Most people in Lawrence don't know that football exists.

Cagey B: I admit that I don't "get" LARPing, but to each their own.

I guess it depends on the people. Some like to jump into the garb and into character. Others are perfectly happy running around hitting people repeatedly with foam swords.

loaba: "If you can't get laid in the SCA, you're not trying hard enough." Take that, you pseudo-Quidditch jock-wannabes!

Corsets and daddy issues FTW!

Quidditch is the most illogical sport ever, but that didn't bother me when I read the books because I understood it was just a McGuffin/excuse to give Harry a reason to be the hero of every game.

But seriously: The game itself is almost completely superfluous when the whole point is to catch the snitch. Why bother with quaffles and bludgers when the snitch is the only thing that matters? Why keep score when the catcher of the snitch wins the game. If I had a Quidditch team, I'd ignore the goals and the balls and just tell my team to beat the living crap out of the opposing team's seeker. Because that's the main goal of the game: For the seeker to catch the snitch. Everything else going on is completely irrelevant.

The scoring makes no sense either. Since all scores are multiples of 10, why have a goal be 10 points?

Harry Potter fans are idiots.