I believe UA was the winner of the first Playboy magazine top party campus designation...around 1973 or '74?
I remember the SGA president talking about how they got the survey in the mail, and he took it back to his fraternity house where they all had a grand time inventing answers!!
But yes, the presence of parents may have had something to do with that weekend's tame atmosphere.
You do know, the pre-parties start at midnight, with the main attraction band coming on about 2 a.m.?