Winter Puzzler

Arizona Campus? Or Wisconsin? (Or is only the former accredited and in operation?--it;s the only FLWSofA I've visited, lately.)

--Orson

 

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - Taliesin West, Arizona Campus, sits on 600 acres in the Sonora Desert. With a maximum enrollment of 35, that would amount to a little over 17 acres per student. Taliesin North, Wisconsin Summer Campus, is considered an extended campus of the same school and enjoys the same accreditation (NCA).

 

Hi George:

Shut up he explained, face down in the snow.

I have been mailing boxes of snow to my unindicted co-conspirators in Sout Efrica, who keep calling me "ooh eets eety-six in yir timprature here end wirr gooing swimming et the bitch." Will happily send you all the snow you want, too.

Seriously, I hope the fires can be controlled or contained. What a dreadful thing to deal with; best of luck.

 

Being that Berry College is obviously not the correct choice, my next submission is Deep Springs College of Bishop, CA. The campus sits on approximately 4,000 acres owned by the college, and current enrollment is 25. That equates to 160 acres per student. Don’t know if it is the winner, but sure it seems hard to beat.

 

Gus: "...my next submission is Deep Springs College of Bishop, CA. The campus sits on approximately 4,000 acres owned by the college, and current enrollment is 25. That equates to 160 acres per student. Don’t know if it is the winner, but sure it seems hard to beat.

John: Deep Springs is indeed what I had in mind. But it is not in Bishop, California, nor near Bishop, nor does it get its mail in Bishop. What are the judges to do? This is sort of like on Jeopardy when a contestant gives a right answer, but enhances it with unnecessary information that is wrong, and they are counted as wrong (most commonly a correct last name but a wrong first or middle; last names are all you need in most cases -- "Who is John Jacob Sousa, Aleck?" -- I nearly this myself; the 'answer' was Morse, and I almost said, to show off the depth of my useless knowledge, "Who is Samuel Breese Finley Morse," but that would have been wrong).

Deep Springs is one of the few US postal addresses where the envelope has to be addressed to them in a state other than the state where they are:
Deep Springs College
Deep Springs, California
via Dyer, Nevada

--John Bear, who worked on the newspaper
in Bishop one summer, and commuted daily
to Deep Springs, an hour away, for reasons that will not be appearing on my resume

 

This is an unfair characterization. I apologize for the confusion, but I was fully aware that Deep Springs College is technically not in Bishop, just as I also knew that their mailing address is in Nevada. However, for the sake of those not quite as familiar with the Sierras as I am, I chose to associate them with the closest town of any significance. (It is doubtful many would be familiar with Deep Springs, Dyer or even Big Pine.)

In fact, the college itself readily identifies itself with Bishop, CA to the point of having a Web page dedicated to it. (It does not, however, do the same for Big Pine, CA or Dyer, NV.)

 

A Note of Thanks

By the way, Dr. Bear, both Winter Puzzler #1 and Winter Puzzler #2 were both great (although number 2 was indeed quite a bit harder than number 1)! Thank you for a most enjoyable intellectual and research exercise. If they only knew how much can be learned in the process I am certain more individuals would participate.

For example, before the contest, I did not know that Berry College had the largest campus in the world, nor was I as familiar as I am now with The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. And I wasn’t even aware of such an interesting venture as Deep Springs College; or that before the end of this year San Diego State University will be opening a campus in Brawley, CA (elevation –119); or that Black Hills State University offered a Masters in Science in Curriculum and Instruction via distance learning; or the interesting offerings of the College of Oceaneering; or that the Salvation Army maintains its own accredited school (Salvation Army Crestmont College, enrollment: 52 students); or the extent of the valuable needs fulfilled by the numerous tribal colleges; or…

Once again, thank you very much.