UGA Wins Dubious Honor of Top Party School
The Princeton Review just released their coveted annual listing of the top party schools in the United States. While certainly not an academics-based list, it is sadly one that many future college students use to determine which school they wish to attend, and one which many parents use to determine which schools not to send their graduating high school seniors.
The list is not always one the schools wish to be on. Says University of Georgia, which leads the list, spokesman Tom Jackson; "UGA has been on the Party School list for a while, but it’s one we prefer not to lead.
"We’d rather focus on the Green Honor Roll listing as a top environmentally conscious campus, or the top 50 ‘Best Values’ listing. The University of Georgia takes student alcohol education programs very seriously and will continue to do so."
Well, that's all well and good Tom, but sadly we all know the realities of college life. While it may be books and study time for most, for the rest it's seven years of partying; drugs, alcohol and sex. Did I mention drugs, alcohol and sex? That's college. It's sad that's what a lot of us think of when we think college.
What it comes down to (as pretty much everything else in life also comes down to) is parenting. You raise your kid to make the right decisions, they prove that they can make the right decisions and guess what - they'll make the right decisions. Sure, they'll have their experimental period and we can only hope that doesn't include stomach pumping, date rape or anything else just as terrible.
What surprised me the most about the list (outlined in full below) is the number ten selection on the list. The tiny, 3,000 student enrollment methodist school of DePauw University. DePauw somehow got mentioned enough by the 122,000 students surveyed to make the final cut above other large universities.
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