<p>I never understood why this is such a bad thing for trojans recently; they used to take pride about how fun their school was. Sure, I understand “party school brand” brings “bad academic brand” reputation or something along those lines, but as a Bruin who has many friends across town and knows the party scene at SC, there’s nothing to be ashamed of at all. Maybe it’s just the CC trojans that are freaking out, most trojans I know celebrated the Playboy Rankings. When reading this thread, I thought at first it was going to be a “Why are we not ranked?” rather than “Thank god we are not ranked” kind of thread. I still think Playboy got it right, and I still don’t believe it should serve as any negative connotation. If USC has truly turned an academic corner, this has absolutely nothing to do with USC’s academic prowess. Since when did “having fun” became such a negative thing? Anyway, whatever, Playboy Party rankings > any other magazine that thinks they know better than Playboy about college parties/girls.</p>