CougADPi - In all fairness to WSU, I could not say how typical it is to compared to many schools in the country. I know they've tried to tone it down (a little over a decade ago they were ranked #6 by some poll - Princeton's I think).
If you put me in Pullman, I'd be drinking heavily by November (I'm a teatotaller) just because Gilligan and the 7 castaways were closer to civilization - not to mention the snow.
However, my daughter at least had some grounds for comparison and she's made the comparision - to all of her UofO friends who think THEY are crazy partiers. She attended WSU her freshman year and has gone to more than a few parties on Greek row at UW and OSU as well. Based on her own experience WSU wins w/o any of the others coming within spitting distance (she would say they are to partying what UO is to football in the NW). In order, she'd list it as WSU, UW, UO and OSU. Granted that's just her opinion, but anyone she knows who has had any experience at WSU has agreed they have earned that #1 spot for our region.
On an almost funny note, when she had her cheer team tryouts at WSU, they taught the girls a really BASIC cheer. The coach said, "I know this seems simple for college, but we have to keep it simple because most of the fans are already pretty drunk when they get to the game."
Check out the scout.com Cougar blogs on Mike Leach coming to WSU. A TT fan wrote in to say he was now a WSU fan and what should he know about them. 99% of the responses: We drink and we hate the huskies. My favorite was- We drink. A lot. Of Cheap Beer.
When she went down to UofO for orientation she was in a group of transfer students like herself. Throughout the day people would ask her what school she was coming from. When she told them WSU - every single one (no exception) said, "Oh, the party school." She said she should have just told them she went to the party school, and they would've known who she meant.
Of course, this outs exactly which school I was talking about in the recruitment story I wrote. So much for that.
Threaded Mode
