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Looks like WVU will have to try harder to get back the #1 ranking. Basketball season really must have brought them down in the Spring after a rough Fall campaign.
Looks like WVU will have to try harder to get back the #1 ranking. Basketball season really must have brought them down in the Spring after a rough Fall campaign.
Ohio University is always right up there with WVU too. Must be something about this general area where kids go wild once they get a little freedom! But really I don't think any more partying goes on at these schools than at any other, it's just that once you get that reputation the media likes to keep it going. . . and then there are always a few goofballs who think that reputation is cool, so do whatever they can to promote it.
Ohio University is always right up there with WVU too. Must be something about this general area where kids go wild once they get a little freedom! But really I don't think any more partying goes on at these schools than at any other, it's just that once you get that reputation the media likes to keep it going. . . and then there are always a few goofballs who think that reputation is cool, so do whatever they can to promote it.
Athens is a pretty quiet town 364 days of the year. IMO they got their reputation because of Halloween. So yeah, there really isn't much to this outside of a random act that makes the news. With WVU it would seem to me to be the coach burning.
Also, kids see these rankings and may decide that they want to go to school there because that's the kind of environment they want to be in. So whether or not these schools were initially "party schools," they have since attracted those keen to that lifestyle. Thus actually making those institutions into "party schools," due to the people they have attracted.
I t was definitely a party school when I was there in the early eighties. As a freshman, the drinking age was 18, and all the frats had open rush parties for the first two weeks of school. I think this is also the period when the couch burnings started in Sunnyside (when WVU finally beat Penn State).
The couch burning has basically stopped. Morgantown now imposes a $1000 fine for doing that, plus WVU has torn down most of the neighborhood where it used to take place and will be constructing new student housing there.
The couch burning has basically stopped. Morgantown now imposes a $1000 fine for doing that, plus WVU has torn down most of the neighborhood where it used to take place and will be constructing new student housing there.
That was a good idea on the part of Morgantown.
It will be difficult to get rid of that stigma though.
Hopefully, it will dissipate after a few years.
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