I thought colleges had the option to opt out of the list. I know certain colleges aren't ranked on other lists because the faculty doesn't desire it.
No I don't think it's just Colorado, but I do think certain colleges really do milk the party aspect of college life. Just recently a California CHRISTIAN college sent out recruiting info with a student in front of a baseball field I believe with a caption that read something like this: "See Johnny play the field" and on the flip side of that was Johnny surrounded by girls and it said "and keep on playing the field".
What does this say?
These colleges are bringing in kids who are higher risk and Greeks are taking the blame when it is the entire school population that has these problems. I believe that it will pay off very well for fraternities like Delt which have chosen to not recolonize problem schools.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Well, while granting the point to some extent, let's be fair and not paint the entire university and student body with the same brush.
Things like the Princeton Review, in which the University of Colorado (CU) generally places high on the Party School list don't help -- and certainly some kids are going to come to Boulder at least partially because of that reputation.
However, there are many other excellent reasons for attending CU including Nobel Laureats on the faculty, outstanding programs in a number of areas and other lifestyle issues that draw people to Colorado.
In particular, the sciences, medicine and law.
It's also important to point out that only one of the six deaths occurred on the Boulder Campus. Two were at Colorado State, and the others at much smaller schools -- a couple that nobody really ever hears about.
Colorado College at Colorado Springs has the reputation of a highly academic liberal arts school and is seldom thought of in the same sentence with the word "party."
Local news reports indicate that this latest victim has a history from high school (here in Denver) of drug and alcohol arrests, so it's an example of the university inheriting his problem.
That is not to say that some people don't come to Boulder because of the reputation -- just as some people attend Ohio University (my alma mater) because it generally places high on the Party School list. We (Delt) will probably never recolonize at Colorado because of alcohol and drug problems in our former chapter there which was closed three times.
I'm not saying it's not a serious problem -- just that it isn't one that is found only at Boulder, or in Colorado.
Maybe a start would be to ban the ridiculous Princeton Review -- but that would probably be an infringement on their First Amendment rightsg, wouldn't it?
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