in Conn., 'cause it's run by the Moonies (get it? moon? Moonies?)
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/09/the_nine_worst_colleges_in_america.phpThe Worst College in America: University of Bridgeport (CT)
In the mid-nineties, this tragic university was about to go belly up when it was rescued by an unseemly savior—The Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Though the Moonie's have been accused of fraud, high-pressure recruitment tactics, and wrenching troubled kids from their parents, the cult's $100 million "endowment" secured the Moonies' leader, Neil Salonen, his position as the university's president. While there are no reports of students being forced to hock (hawk -Ed.)
roses on the street, that's only because the town's other residents would probably steal them. With the exception of a few bail-bond purveyors, downtown Bridgeport (where the school is situated on a vast stretch of crumbling asphalt) has been all but abandoned by local businesses. The mayor of this boarded-up, drug-dealer's paradise, John Fabrizi, has admitted to abusing cocaine while in office. His predecessor is serving a nine-year sentence for racketeering, bribery, extortion, mail fraud, and tax evasion. Happily, he's scheduled to emerge just in time to address U.B.'s 2010 graduating class.I could have done without the gratuitous slap at Bridgeport itself, where I grew up, and where there are many perfectly OK neighborhoods; the South End, where "Moon Unit U." is located, just doesn't happen to be one of them.