Party Schools

So, there's been this big turnaround at the University of West Virginia and I read about the president of said school, talking about the reality that when he took over "one of the top party-schools in the nation" in 1995 that he had his work cut out for him.

Not to say that there weren't problems. Not to say that the president didn't have work to do. Not to say he didn't do something remarkable for the students and the school's image.

But every single school makes some sort of list like that every few years. One year my beloved Auburn, made it to #5 in the Playboy magazine "girl-watching schools" (behind UCLA, Florida, Florida State and USC...all "sun" schools, so rural Alabama had it's work cut out for it) and the next year we dropped out of the top 20. We must've really had an ugly freshman class that year.

My point is that Auburn was on that list of party schools at one point. It was also on Billy Graham's list of public schools he'd send his kids to.

Every school could be a party school...depending on who's doing the reporting.