Shot In The Dark: Party On! And On! And On!

August 23, 2005

Party On! And On! And On!

Attending an obscure little Liberal Arts college on the prairie, I always wondered what it would be like going to one of the "legendary" party schools (which, in that place and time, were Moorhead State University in Moorhead, MN, and King's own Saint Cloud State.

We're notified today of the real big leagues:

Top 10 party schools

1. University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. Ohio University, Athens

3. Lehigh University in Pennsylvania

4. University of California, Santa Barbara

5. State University of New York at Albany

6. Indiana University-Bloomington

7. University of Mississippi

8. University of Iowa

9. University of Massachusetts-Amherst

10. Loyola University New Orleans

Go Badgers!

Naturally, this is Not A Good Thing:

Schools often criticize the list, while the American Medical Association has urged Princeton Review to stop putting it out, saying it legitimizes students' drinking.

UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley dismissed the report as "junk science that results in a day of national media coverage."

Much easier to blame the messengers than to, say, actually provide consequences to excessive partying; fines, sanctions, suspensions and expulsions.

Couldn't have that, could we?

Posted by Mitch at August 23, 2005 12:57 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Mitch, what school on the prairie did you attend?

Posted by: David1369 at August 23, 2005 03:02 PM

link added.

Posted by: mitch at August 23, 2005 03:19 PM

Mitch - Wouldn't you expect that a school that has a faculty that is as red as a babboon's butt doesn't have a student drinking problem? To paraphrase the old Soviet saying...they pretend to lecture, we're drunk.

Posted by: Tom at August 23, 2005 08:24 PM

Given #1's utter lack of interest in his studies, I've decided Moorhear may still deserve the moniker. We, OTOH, are sorely lacking. They don't party much anymore, they just drink like fish.

http://www.universitychronicle.com/media/paper231/news/2003/05/01/News/Study.Drinking.Rampant-430654.shtml

Posted by: kb at August 23, 2005 11:27 PM

Professor B:

Binge drinking is "four or more drinks per session for a female or five or more drinks for a male"? So a drink before dinner, a couple glasses of wine with the meal, and an after dinner glass of port makes a person a "binge" drinker?

Posted by: JamesPh. at August 24, 2005 08:18 AM

We got back 2 hours ago from bringing daughter #2 to IU, #6 on the list. Daughter #1 is at ASU, often on these lists. Kids will find what they want to find at college, just like we did. You just hope that what you've spent 18 years telling them has some effect. I think their choices and decisions make all the difference, not the party reputations

Posted by: Don Lokken at August 25, 2005 10:32 PM