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Take A TripTo The Wild Side.GIGGING THE GAYS | Texas A&M student Emily Bach holds a sign in opposition to a Student Senate billaimed at cutting funding for the GLBT Resource Center in April. Given repeated attacks on the ResourceCenter in the last few years, it’s no surprise A&M once again appears on The Princeton Review’s list of thenation’s most Gay-Unfriendly schools. (Stuart Villanueva/The Eagle)Dallas VoiceClassifiedsbrings an evening of Gay Bingo to the SMU campusthis fall along with the crew from the RoseRoom. Hoselton wondered if he’d be equally welcometo stage that event at Baylor.Susan Duty, a film and digital media major atBaylor, said she doubts it. She described the atmosphereon her campus as “don’t ask, don’ttell.”“If you’re LGBT, that’s fine,” she said. “As longas you’re not out.”She called Baylor’s faculty more accepting thanits administration, especially in departments likehers.Earlier this year, she said, she heard aboutnondiscrimination ordinances in other cities inTexas.“Why can’t we do that in Waco?” she said.Working with Equality Texas, she helped introducea city EEO policy that passed a committeein July. She said she was surprised that no oppositioncame from the school, but she thinks thatbecause the school is a religious institution, it considersitself exempt.Representatives from the University of Dallas,a Catholic school, did not respond to a request forcomment for this story.A&M, Baylor and the University of Dallas alsoappear on The Princeton Review’s top 20 schoolswith the Most Conservative Students and the top20 schools with the Most Religious Students.While the poll is not a scientific, random sampling,it reflects attitudes of students about life ontheir campuses.Campus Pride does not rate either Baylor orUniversity of Dallas.Of the three Texas Gay-Unfriendly campuses,University of Dallas fared the worst, appearing ona number of lists, including No. 3 Least BeautifulCampus. The school was also in the top 20 for LittleRace/Class Interaction, This Is A Library? andFuture Rotarians and Daughters of the AmericanRevolution.The only positive list University of Dallas madewas No. 3 Most Popular Study Abroad Program.With such an unattractive campus, leaving is apparentlya great option.Students at SMU, on the other hand, are someof the most content in the country. SMU placed inthe top 20 Best-Run Colleges, Most BeautifulCampus, Best College Dorms, Best Athletic Facilities,Best Career Services and Happiest Students.Dallas even gets a nod from SMU students in theCollege City Gets High Marks category.Other Dallas-area schools didn’t do so well inthe surveys. Texas Christian University made onelist — Little Class/Race Interaction. University ofTexas at Dallas is on the Least Beautiful Campuslist.Rice University students in Houston toutedtheir institution naming it as No. 3 Best RunSchool and scoring No. 2 under Happiest Studentsin the country.While University of Texas in Austin didn’t earnthe rank of top Party School of the year, it didplace in the top 20 in that category, as well as Lotsof Hard Liquor, Lots of Beer and Reefer Madness.And in case the partying overwhelms any UT students,they ranked their health services among thetop 20 in the U.S.The National Center for Transgender Equalityhas begun a project to collect information aboutresources for the trans community.Its Transgender On-campus NondiscriminationInformation or TONI Project listed six schoolsin Texas with some policies or practices providedfor their trans students, such as gender-neutralhousing options.Those schools are TCU, SMU, UT Austin, TexasA&M Galveston, Texas Tech and University ofHouston.•Starting on page 30 #) ' # # ! # %! $! #) # ""!* ( "% %$ # "%!$% !# $&# "%08.09.13 • dallasvoice 11