The Texas Longhorns earned another national title today, topping a list of the country's best party schools in an annual Princeton Review survey.
The University of Texas at Austin beat Penn State University, West Virginia University and last year's winner, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, by ranking second in the use of hard liquor, third in beer drinking and 13th in marijuana smoking in a survey of 115,000 students at campuses around the country.
I'm duly impressed that my alma mater beat out Penn State - a college in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania where there's nothing to do but drink - and WVU - where I don't even want to think about what they do for fun - for the top spot.
However, The Wife has promised the streets of College Station will run maroon with blood if Texas A&M isn't ranked #1 or #2 in beer consumption, and I tend to agree. Aggies do drink a lot, especially after lousy football seasons.
Meaning they should've topped the list for the last five years.
But Texas is only 13th for weed? Aside from about six schools in California, I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody else that could give the Longhorns a run for their money.
I have it on, uh, good authority that UT is pretty stellar in that regard.
The rest of the list shakes out thusly:
1. University of Texas at Austin
2. Penn State University
3. West Virginia University
4. University of Wisconsin-Madison
5. University of Mississippi
6. Ohio University
7. University of Massachusetts-Amherst
8. Louisiana State University
9. University of Iowa
10. University of California, Santa Barbara
Interesting. There must be some cross-pollination with the list of Schools Situated in Cities You Don't Want to Walk Around At Night. In that case, Hattiesburg and Baton Rouge definitely qualify.
Finally, this inevitable tidbit:
Meanwhile, Brigham Young University was the most "stone cold sober" school for the ninth straight year.
I wouldn't expect that to change until such time as Provo actually opens a bar that isn't a Bennigan's.
Well Buckaroo, UT has finally made it to the big time. One more reason for UT fans to raise an arm with the fisted secret devil sign and exclaim a pridely “Hook’em!” Careful not to spill yer beer… You must be proud.
I’d like to think I worked really hard for my little piece of that honor, all seven years. Hook ‘em!
A BAR in PROVO? How about they at least start serving COFFEE at the IHOP??
Congrats, Pete. The kids on campus know learned from the master.
As for the alleged prowess with weed, I cant imagine any school topping Vermont in that category. they don’t call it the ‘green state’ for nothing