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The List: Candidates to join the Big East

The Big East Conference is grabbing up all the schools they can find. Here is their short list of the next candidates to join.

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- San Jose State

- University of Maryland University College

- Hawaii

- Harvard. (Won’t get in if you don’t apply.)

- Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL

- University of Texas-Bozeman, Montana

- Mater Dei High School, Santa Ana, CA

- DeVry

- University of Phoenix

- Education Connection

- 1-800-BARTEND

- Colorado School of Mines

- Clemson

- Jedi Academy at Disneyland

- Police Academy, but only if Tackleberry doesn’t transfer

- Lompoc Correctional Facility

- The last 55 people to have successfully printed a “This is a test page. Congratulations! Your Canon InkJet Printer is ready for use.” page

- The Wikipedia page for “list of unusual deaths”

- Prime numbers up to 4637

- A handful of screws, 37 cents in loose change, and some lint

- One Man Gang

- Access Hollywood

- South Harmon Institute of Technology

- A disheveled, half-drunk Gerard Butler on a jet-ski

- Grand Canyon University (who just joined the WAC)

- McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica

- Not Idaho :(

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