Thoughts on "party schools"

interesteddad
Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:56:32 +0000

…went off rather reluctantly thinking that my midsized state u would be all alcohol all the time while my friends at SLACs would not encounter much drunken partying.



I’ve never heard anyone here suggest that public universities have more drinking than small LACs. There are public universities (like Penn State) that have incredibily high binge drinking rates, but others that do not. Similarly, there are LACs with high binge drinking rates and others with low binge drinking rates.

Remember, we are talking about the difference between 30% of the campus binge drinking (low) in the prior 2 weeks versus 60% of the campus (high), not the difference between 0% and 100%.