<p>Big sports usually equals big parties. I think a distinction should be made between the size of parties and the frequency of parties. My definition of a “party school” is a school where students don’t take academics seriously and there’s a lot of partying throughout the week. I don’t consider the “work hard, play hard” schools to be party schools. Nor do I think that a school with huge football party weekends should
necessarily be labeled a party school. </p>