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Let's hope future employers feel the same way, Lainie. Last thing I need is someone looking at my resume and thinking I went to a football-and-drinking school.
Well, UF is known for football and partying, but the academics are pretty good too. Wonder what Penn State did to top us this year? Interesting fact: The picture they show for UF in the article shows a guy climbing a lamp post, but after the first basketball championship (we've had 2 football and 2 basketball wins in the 4 years I was there), they started greasing the lamp posts. Either that picture is from the first one or people managed to climb greased poles. |
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I loathe this list with the burning passion of a thousand suns. Not only is the methodology completely unscientific, but the phrase "party school" is completely meaningless. Define "party school" in a way that doesn't apply to every university in the nation (except maybe BYU and Bob Jones U). You can't. Unless, of course, you come up with a definition that doesn't actually apply to any institution of higher learning.
This ridiculous "ranking" is a ploy dreamed up by the dickheads at Princeton Review to make a few bucks by creating scandal and buzz and selling a few of their trashy books. That the public at large has continued to buy into this absurdity is baffling to me. |
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I agree with the last couple of comments, but then I attended a stone cold sober school. It seems to me that all else being equal, one will get a better education being sober than being stoned. I don't know why a school would want to be on the "party" list, or why serious students would find excessive underage drinking a plus. You can drink as much or as little as you want no matter where you attend, but alcohol abuse is still a really bad idea.
For that matter, I disagree that party is defined by the swallowing of ethanol. I couldn't find a dictionary that required that a social gathering has to have alcohol to be called a party. In that sense, "stone cold sober" and "party school" are not mutually exclusive. |
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Well, the schools don't want to be on the party lists. In fact, every year FSU puts out some sort of "we are not a party school, please ignore that list" statement. The students, on the other hand, tend to love it. Because FSU is a party school. Sure, there are serious students here, but they are vastly outnumbered by the kids who are going to college because that's what you do after high school. They want to join frats, play beer pong, spin the wheel at Poor Paul's Pourhouse, tailgate at games, and study as little as necessary on their parents' dime. It's a football school, and if you are an underage student who wants to drink, the presence of excessive underage drinking is definitely a plus. |
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I attended WVU from 87 - 91, Back when they would have the Grant Ave. Block Party the first week of school. IIRC, 500 kegs, 10,000 cases of beer.
One magazine put out the list of top 10 party schools that didn't list WVU, but at the bottom was the following note... "WVU is not on this list, we don't rank them with amateurs." Trying to clean up the image they banned the Grant Ave. party my junior or senior year, I didn't care, I never drank. |
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The University of Georgia won a national title this year - top party school.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...TAM&SECTION=US |
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From the Charlotte Observer I don't hear the University of Ohio mentioned very often. I sometimes forget it exists. |
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Ohio University, set in an Appalachian town known for its rowdy Halloween bashes, has been named the nation's No. 1 party school, pushing the University of Georgia down a slot in the 2011 Princeton Review survey.
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There's nothing wrong with an occaisonaly couch burning, it preserves the police cars for the important stuff.
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My alma mater, OTOH, is number one this year. Not for the first time, either. ETA: Correction: first time for this list, which appears to date back to 1997. OU's rep as a party school was well established when I started there in 1980, though.
FETA: It also topped the list for most beautiful campus. I wouldn't presume to make such a ranking, but OU's campus is beautiful, partly because it's surrounded by beautiful scenery but also because of careful design over the years as the campus grew. |
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College students consider the University of Iowa the nation's best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage drinkers.
The Princeton Review bestowed Iowa with the top rankingon a list determined by 126,000 students in a nationwide survey. Rounding out the Top 5 are: University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; West Virginia University and Syracuse University. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2...title/2619793/ |
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