Probably your college doesn't have a score yet on the Campus Pride's LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index. A total of 103 colleges and universities have actually taken the survey that leads to a score. (LGBT is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.)

The staff of Student Life, which calls itself "the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878," wish their campus administrators would fill out the survey. They said so in a recent editorial.




A score of three stars (out of a possible five starts) earns an institution a place on the LGBT Honor Roll from Campus Pride, a national gay students organization. So far seven school have earned a perfect score on the survey: Oregon State, Syracuse, Pennsylvania State, UC Berkeley, U of Illinois Chicago, U of Oregon and U of Penn.

The lowest scores have been at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI and Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, VA (both with one star). Five other colleges got one-and-a-half stars:

• Broome Community College in Binghamton, NY
• California University of Pennsylvania in California, PA
• Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH
• Wichita State University in Wichita, KS
• Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH