Melissa says:
Wed, 3rd Aug 20115:49 pm 

Just for the record, the Princeton review rates the University of Mississippi at number 3 on its list of party schools…and not only is the campus dry, but so is the entire county where it's located. So just saying, being a dry campus has nothing to do with whether or not you're an epic party school. Obviously.

arizonapenguin says:
Wed, 3rd Aug 20118:26 pm 

Lol, my school has it's own "real cops" who don't have to call anyone to put people in jail…

Judah says:
Wed, 3rd Aug 20119:14 pm 

I feel like that's every school. My school isn't notoriously known for its parties, but we definitely have everything mentioned on that list

Vicki says:
Wed, 3rd Aug 20119:37 pm 

I know that this post is satirical in nature, but I do want to point out that most campus police officers are real, sworn police officers with the same abilities and powers as "real cops".

Emily says:
Wed, 3rd Aug 201110:36 pm 

Just saying… WVU barely does frat parties and we're constantly in the top ten. Frats are lame.

Garrett says:
Thu, 4th Aug 20114:26 pm 

Emily that just means your fraternity's aren't a big deal not that they are lame. My school has been in the top ten for over a decade and number one three years in a row, mostly due to Greek life.

Joe says:
Thu, 4th Aug 201110:53 pm 

love the 2nd pic of showercap

Boogie says:
Fri, 5th Aug 201111:09 am 

I recently graduated from OU, and let me tell you, your list is missing a few things. Like a population of students that is ready and willing to form a riot (like seriously, a mini students-on-cops free for all) for no reason whatsoever. Kids who will light a couch on fire in the middle of the street just for giggles. A thriving drug trade based around the dorms (South Green, you know who you are) – not the hard stuff, of course, only townies and rich kids do coke or heroin – but all the shrooms and weed a stoner could desire. Oh, and university-run markets that run out of jello mix, party cups and condoms every Saturday night. And that's just OU on a regular weekday. Stop by for Halloween or the spring Fest season, that's when things are really crazy.

But just because OU is party central doesn't mean it isn't a good school. I worked my butt off there, got very good grades, and now I'm in a prestigious grad school. OU has plenty of students who balance their work and play.

Julia says:
Wed, 17th Aug 20119:51 pm 

Why can't people accept that not everyone wants to be associated with partying and drinking in college? I much rather hmm study and get a good job…

Anonymous says:
Fri, 19th Aug 20112:36 pm 

I go to Syracuse too and these are not the reasons why our school is a party school.

1) School-run day drinking parties. Mayfest anyone? The school provides free beer to legal aged students and free food for all students. A day concert and a nighttime concert by a huge headliner. There are street parties everywhere and people playing beer pong with cops. Additionally, the rest of the weekend is an excuse for fraternities to throw insane day parties.

2) A long list of Big Name Concert Performers. This September: B.o.B., Avicii, & Tiesto and Dayglow. Previous years included: Drake, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi, Diplo, Pretty Lights, Skrillex, Steve Aoki, etc.

3) When you say insane fraternity parties…we don't just mean really crazy, packed parties, we mean mergers of 4 houses: 2 sororities, 2 fraternities, 1 venue. Or filling a basement full of mud and smoking out the house. And when you say fraternity, we don't mean those wimpy little west coast fraternities, we mean castles.

4) Bars that are packed from Tuesday to Saturday.

5) I hate to say it, but a HUGE drug scene. People blow coke like it's there job. And Ecstasy is readily available anywhere. It makes weed look like a commonplace household herb. People should probably clean up their act soon.

6) Lastly, drinking in the mornings. Kegs & Eggs? Basically pregame parties but at 9 in the morning before wild Basketball games that are packed to the ceiling. 34, 616 at a regular season college Basketball game? Yes, we bleed orange.

However, I still don't think Syracuse is wilder than some of those Southern California schools.

Annu says:
Tue, 24th Apr 20121:43 am 

The city already hired a pr csnnultaot who supposedly made a presentation to the city on how to retool the current set up. You have a fire marshal/pio, a police pio, a city newsletter contract, a schools pr person and now, a paid education foundation director with a pr plan. Surely between those five people with communications experience (full-time/part-time/contractor), an overall city pio and a joint public relations plan can emerge. There is your five-person communications committee if you want it. They all talk to the press and many of the City’s diverse audiences on a daily basis they’re just not connecting with each other, so everything is piece meal. Or you can bring in volunteers. It could SAVE money in the long-run, and give you more mileage out of the money the city is already spending not to mention the money the city parcels out to other entities HMI, etc. to promote Manassas. If there is an overall plan, I haven’t seen it, and would love to.My children were in the public school system and left Osbourn HS early. Both got their GEDs. My daughter is working toward graduating with a bachelors in Biology from GMU next spring, is working full time and has an unpaid internship at the US Geological Survey. I have Janet Graham from MCPS to thank for her encouragement of my daughter. My son is at VA Tech with a scholarship to the Pamplin School of Business. I have Mr. Yankey’s Civicsville at Metz to thank for that. I want to correct the problems as passionately as any other long-time resident of this city. But we need doers, not complainers, people willing to go out on a limb, like Andy Harrover, to make things happen.