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GURPS Illuminati University (1995) (ISBN 1556342063), also called GURPS IOU, is a 128-page softbound campaign setting sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game. The authors are Elizabeth McCoy and Walter Milliken; the illustrations are by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio. The book details a fictional college where absurdity and awful puns are the order of the day; its students range from witches and werewolves to secret agents and space aliens. Adventures can involve joining fraternties, surviving dorm life, dealing with rampaging lab accidents, conquering other worlds on field trips, getting caught up in faculty bloodfeuds and even attempting to pass a class.

Characters from every GURPS setting can be fitted into the campaign with little or no difficulty; the setting shares much in common with the equally bizarre game Teenagers from Outer Space.

Any student asking what the "O" in "IOU" stands for will be told he or she isn't cleared for that information. (See also: Fnord.)

School Structure

IOU is divided into nine major schools of teaching, listed here, along with a sampling of the departments each contains.

School of Weird and Unnatural Sciences & Engineering (WUSE)
* Department of Recreational Biochemistry
* Department of Rude Engineering
* Department of Weird Science and Culinary Studies ("Can we eat it, or will it eat us?")

College of Obscure and Unhealthy Professions (COUP)
* Department of Dirty Tricks
* School of Law

College of Temporal Happenstance, Ultimate Lies & Historical Undertakings (CTHULHU)
* Department of Ancient History
* Department of Future History

Schoool of Conservative Arts (SCA)
* Department of Empire-Building

School of Performing & Creative Arts (SPCA)
* Department of Melodrama

College of Metaphysics (CoM)
* Department of Applied Theology

College of Communications (CoC)
* Department of Disinformation

School of Social Anti-Sciences (SSAS)
* Department of Misanthropology

College of Zen Surrealism (CZS)
* Department of Inapplicable Mathematics

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