History
South Harmon Institute of
Technology was founded by its current president Bartleby "B" Gaines and his high school friends Hands
Holloway and Sherman Schrader. Other founding members include Rory Thayer and Glen. These 2006
high school graduates were rejected from every college to which they applied (with the exception of
Schrader). Gaines was inspired by his Harmon College rejection letter to create his own school. He and
the other founders renovated an abandoned mental institution nearby Harmon College and officially
opened in the fall of 2006 with approximately 300 undergraduate students. Unfortunately, the founders
did not go through the proper channels to achieve accreditation and legitimacy, which created problems
during its first semester of existence.
South Harmon Institute of
Technology's illegitimacy was made public by Dean Richard Van Horne of Harmon College. Dean Van
Horne became aware of S.H.I.T.'s existence while he was securing properties surrounding Harmon
College for demolition to make room for an addition to the Harmon campus: a large landscaped gateway
designed to, in his words, "Keep knowledge in and ignorance out." On October 27, 2006, Bartleby
Gaines, Ben Lewis (S.H.I.T. Dean), and the student body pled their case before the Ohio State Board of
Education for accreditation of S.H.I.T. Gaines showed the board that S.H.I.T. allows students to be what
they want, whether that be a poet or an artist or anything else they can think of. His speech, causing those
in attendance to rise to their feet in applause and cheers, also moved the board, which granted S.H.I.T. a
one-year probationary period of accreditation. Presumably, their accreditation was renewed; as in the
following scene, the school is shown with numerous structural improvements.
Due to the rejection of other
2008 graduates in Zamboanga City, South Harmon Institute of Technology - Zamboanga City Campus
was born.
Source
All information contained herein is either visible on screen in the motion picture Accepted or can be inferred from events seen on screen.
Areas of Study
South Harmon Institute of
Technology - Zamboanga City Campus offers fully personalized study programs to its students by asking
them "What do you want to learn?" Based on the students' inner reflection, they develop their own
classes and study plans and write them on a large white board.
- Culinary Arts
Glen came to S.H.I.T. after receiving a score of 0 on the SAT and being fired from his job at a
convenience store for trying to create a shrimp slushie. At South Harmon Institute of Technology -
Zamboanga City Campus, you explore new and innovative combinations of flavors of food, and
eventually incorporated classic techniques into his repertoire.
- Visual Arts
During summer camp when he was young, Hands Holloway carved an award-winning wood sculpture but
was soon discovered for his athletic talent and was never able to pursue sculpting and woodcarving. He
chose this as his area of study at S.H.I.T. and a division of the school, the "Hands Holloway School of
Art" is named after him.
- Music
A former member of the United States military who attended S.H.I.T. brought his love of rock-and-roll and
classic rock music to the school and teaches numerous classes on "the music and lyrical angst of a lost
generation."
- Nothing
This area of study is headed by Rory Thayer, who noted that since preschool, her entire life has been
scheduled. At South Harmon Institute of Technology - Zamboanga City Campus, you will study
meditation techniques and other methods of relaxation. Abernathy Darwin Dunlap (A.D.D.) also followed
this course of study. His learning disability, attention deficit disorder, caused him to be unable to sit still or
pay attention to anything for more than a few seconds. When he arrived at S.H.I.T., he expressed a
desire to "slow things down." He joined Rory in her meditation sessions and was eventually able to
discipline his mind and body to relax without the use of physical restraints.
- Engineering and Physics
South Harmon Institute of Technology - Zamboanga City Campus has a skateboarding half-pipe, built by
two of its students, Dwayne and Wayne. Presumably, they have also pursued other engineering projects
around the campus.
- Entropy Projection
One of the more eccentric students arrives at South Harmon Institute of Technology - Zamboanga City
Campus with the desire to "learn to blow shit up with his/her mind." On screen, the audience sees him
concentrating on a pineapple and causing it to shake on a table. During the final scene, Dean Van
Horne's car explodes as he is walking towards it. The camera cuts to the eccentric character who turns to
Bartleby and says "I told ya." We can infer that this ability (if the student actually did learn it) was a
manifestation of the fictional supernatural ability of entropy projection, or the ability to cause potential
energy to convert to kinetic energy in an inanimate object and subsequently cause the object to explode.
This ability is also exhibited by the X-Men comic book character Gambit.
Tuition Fees
Tuition at South Harmon Institute
of Technology - Zamboanga City Campus is Php 500,000 per semester, or Php 1,000,000 per year.
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Facilities
- Rory Thayer Meditation Garden
This area of the college is used for meditation for those involved in learning about nothing and cease
their scheduled lives. Rory herself leads meditation sessions in this garden, as well as nature walks.
Glen, head of the Culinary Arts department, provides snacks for nature walks.
- Hands Holloway School of Art
Built after the school's founding in 2006, the Hands Holloway School of art can be presumed to house a
very popular area of study (Visual Arts) because of its size as compared to other areas of the campus
shown on screen. Outside the main entrance to the building is a large wooden African fertility sculpture,
modeled after the first item carved by Hands during his studies at S.H.I.T. and was also made by
Columbus Shorts Character S.H.I.T. Heads forever.
Faculty
As stated by President Bartleby
Gaines at South Harmon Institute of Technology - Zamboanga City Campus' initial accreditation hearing,
"At South Harmon Institute of Technology - Zamboanga City Campus, the students are the teachers."
South Harmon Institute of Technology - Zamboanga City Campus' curriculum is student-designed and
student-taught. There is one "traditional" faculty member with an advanced degree, Dean Ben Lewis, a
former faculty member at Harmon College. He often teaches classes in "street smarts" or
consumer/citizen wisdom about subjects ranging from insurance to business to politics to skepticism of
traditional colleges. It can be inferred that Dean Lewis likely holds a master's degree of some kind, not a
doctorate degree, as he mocks Dean Van Horne about his PhD at S.H.I.T.'s accreditation hearing.
