FSU got this label when I was there... all this means is WVU will start cracking down on drinking and shutting down bars and such... Colleges don't like this title.

Yep, same thing at the Wis Rob.

Wasn't it just a big pain in the ass Nether? I remember 2 of my favorite bars getting shut down because they let underage students drink...

It just moved everything to house parties and such, but those can only go for so long until party patrol douchebag cops who think they're actually making a difference show up and ruin the fun. They probably never got to go to parties when they were in school and now take great joy in ruining everyone else's fun... tools

Nether, Halloween hasn't been the same.

''I think there's no way to measure that,'' said Sauer, 20, of Richmond, Va. ''Every school's a party school.''

Truer words. I'd be intrested in exactly what criteria are used to rate each schools "partyness".

I remember 2 of my favorite bars getting shut down because they let underage students drink...


Should have gone to undergrad in New Orleans. I still don't know how I made it through with good enough grades to get me into law school. Hell, I went to law school in New Orleans as well - you could buy beer from the cafeteria between classes.

What else is there to do in W. Va., other than trying to guess which mine is going to collapse next?

On a similar subject, is there anyone out there who actually believes setting the drinking age at 21 is a good idea? I really can't think of any decent argument for it not to be at 18.

I really can't think of any decent argument for it not to be at 18.

Posted by katieberry


Develop problem solving skills... most 18 year olds are determined to drink, if its easy and legal to get then where is the challenge in that? Make them have to figure out a way to get it and avoid punishment and at least they can learn something from it.

Also for most 18 year olds college is the first time they are on their own... better to not make alcohol so readily accessible. They're going to drink anyways, but at least make it somewhat difficult.

I really can't think of any decent argument for it not to be at 18.

My only complaint would be that kids would be more inclined to get behind the wheel after drinking. Of course, 21 year olds are just as inclined, and we all know there are old people who are just as stupid.

Half the fun of drinking was the adventure to find the beer.
Hell, I probably went to fewer bars after turning 21 than I did before I was 21.

I'd bet that more 18 year-olds get drunk today than 21 year-olds.

Halloween in Madison was like visiting some lawless island prison colony when I was in college. I haven't been back but I hear that's all over eh Wisgod?

At Stout we used to find, four, five, six houseparties a night when I was a freshman. We'd buy a cup at one party and just go from house to house until they were out of kegs. Then somebody at Playboy or Maxim or something labeled us a great party school. Fines doubled, cops starting actually busting parties, campus dried up on the weekends because why hang out at a lame-ass dry college town when you can probably drink easier in your hometown.

Luckily I turned twenty one about the same time and was able to continue killing brain cells at will. Plus the bars had some pretty great deals back then. Quarter tappers, $7.00 all you can spill, I was lucky to get out in only five years.

You've got to be drunk before you fornicate with a blood relative....

I'd bet that more 18 year-olds get drunk today than 21 year-olds.

Posted by LeeAtwater at 2007-08-21 11:55 AM | Reply |


That was definitely the case when I was in school. It also seemed like it was always the kids who grew up in families that completely insulated them from the outside world were the ones who drank the most.

Our current system doesn't make any sense:
- 14 to have a job
- 16 to drive
- 17 to JOIN THE MILITARY
- 18 to smoke
- 18 to vote
- 21 to drink

At the very least, it should be up to the states to set the drinking age (w/out the threat of withholding highway funds). It still doesn't make any sense that someone considered mature enough to join the military, isn't allowed to drink.

FSU got this label when I was there... all this means is WVU will start cracking down on drinking and shutting down bars and such... Colleges don't like this title.

Same with my alma mater, although we got the distinction during my junior year of high school. There were already cracking down on everything (fuck Jersey for RWJ, btw) by the time I got there.

Interesting side effect? Frats and sororities suddenly sucked. I felt bad for the campus greeks. There was a time when my roommates and I would throw a kegger every Saturday night. We consistently had 100+ heads crammed into our tiny off campus townhouse. The university had no problem with this. But if I had belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi? The school would have shat a brick and done everything in their power to kick me out.

BYU was at the bottom? That can't be. Those gals in Hawaii in those grass skirts really know how to party and they were from BYU.

They shut down the best bars at Marquette a few years before I got there. Supposedly when Chris Farley went there he would go into this particular bar and slide around with his bare belly on a beer-soaked floor. The only places that were left by the time I got there were fairly lame, but there were plenty of good house parties as long as you could make it to one without getting robbed.

When I was at FSU in the late 80s, the frats and parties were pretty outrageous sometimes. It's hard to imagine another university going through that.

Lee,

WVU is pretty fun. Think of thousands of college kids out in the middle of nowhere where the only thing to do is snow ski and get f'd up. I had a great time visiting.

Snow ski? Where?

When I was at FSU in the late 80s, the frats and parties were pretty outrageous sometimes. It's hard to imagine another university going through that.

Posted by SamBarber


Seriously? You're a Nole? Same here man...

You don't mean Fresno State or Freedonia State do you? Cuz those aren't really FSU.

Snowshoe, Winterplace

We were pretty high on the list one year. Winning the National Championship probably had something to do with it too.

We won it in 98. Can anyone guess where I went to school? I know Rob and SamB have a pretty good idea. :) hehe

A couple of years before attending my Alma Mater, a student was asked what people do at that school by a local paper. His answer:
"We drink, get drunk and fall down."

WELL, let's just say that the school started cracking down on the partying after that quote was published in the Detroit Free Press.

We won it in 98. Can anyone guess where I went to school? I know Rob and SamB have a pretty good idea. :) hehe

Posted by BenFranklinn

Fucking Vol... :)