Post by Pantherholic on Aug 22, 2005 21:40:50 GMT -6
UW-Madison ranked as top party school
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been crowned the #1 party school in the country, according to an annual survey by the Princeton Review—a title that is drawing cheers from students and sighs of frustration from the university’s administration.
For 14 years, the Princeton Review has asked more than 100,000 students at hundreds of top colleges to rate their schools and evaluate their campus experiences. It uses the results of the annual survey to rank schools under a variety of categories ranging from “Toughest College to Get Into” to “Most Beautiful Campus” to “best food.”
UW-Madison has ranked among the top 20 party schools all but one year, inching up to the #2 and #3 spots in recent years. But never before has it captured the number one ranking in the category.
It’s a first that 19-year-old sophomore Jackie Borrelli said was well-deserved.
Halloween, football games, house parties and bars on State St. help fuel an environment of heavy student drinking, she said. Students enter UW-Madison expecting to encounter a lot of partying, and that’s what many want.
“I think people will be proud that we’re number one,” she said.
But university officials who have been working to curb binge drinking on campus weren’t pleased. They said the survey did nothing to address a serious problem and questioned its legitimacy.
“High-risk drinking continues to be a top health issue on college campuses across the country,” Chancellor John Wiley said in a written statement. “Junk science that results in a day of national media coverage does not do this issue justice.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been crowned the #1 party school in the country, according to an annual survey by the Princeton Review—a title that is drawing cheers from students and sighs of frustration from the university’s administration.
For 14 years, the Princeton Review has asked more than 100,000 students at hundreds of top colleges to rate their schools and evaluate their campus experiences. It uses the results of the annual survey to rank schools under a variety of categories ranging from “Toughest College to Get Into” to “Most Beautiful Campus” to “best food.”
UW-Madison has ranked among the top 20 party schools all but one year, inching up to the #2 and #3 spots in recent years. But never before has it captured the number one ranking in the category.
It’s a first that 19-year-old sophomore Jackie Borrelli said was well-deserved.
Halloween, football games, house parties and bars on State St. help fuel an environment of heavy student drinking, she said. Students enter UW-Madison expecting to encounter a lot of partying, and that’s what many want.
“I think people will be proud that we’re number one,” she said.
But university officials who have been working to curb binge drinking on campus weren’t pleased. They said the survey did nothing to address a serious problem and questioned its legitimacy.
“High-risk drinking continues to be a top health issue on college campuses across the country,” Chancellor John Wiley said in a written statement. “Junk science that results in a day of national media coverage does not do this issue justice.”
