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Originally posted by EPTriSigma
I am surprised there isn't a Minnesota school on there. We seem to be the home of quite a few riots as of late.... University of Minnesota with it's hockey riots..... Minnesota State with it's homecoming riot.... I am sure St. Cloud has had a few of it's own.
Pretty sure the only reason University of Wisconsin - Madison is on there is because of Halloween. For those who haven't been there during Halloween it's the place to go.... it's crazy. About the only cool time to be in Wisconsin.... jk... I am from Minnesota....it's to be expected. It's Wisconsin... come on!
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Having attended both the University of Minnesota and Wisconsin -- all riots aside, Minnesota is nowhere close to Wisconsin in terms of partying. This partly comes from the lack of a unified campus, partly from a smaller, less traditional Greek system, and partly from the distance of the bar scene from campus itself. In Madison, the campus is all in one place downtown, and few students live very far from campus, which means that house parties are within easy reach for almost anyone. The Greek system here is quite a bit larger than Minnesota's (in terms of numbers per house if not houses per campus). And unlike the Twin Cities, where many of the bars are downtown in Minneapolis and a decent drive from campus, Madison's bars are clustered nearly the downtown/campus area.
Plus, the Twin Cities have a lot more to do than Madison does. As much as we try, Madison is a college town first and foremost. Meanwhile, the Twin Cities have tons of great theaters and restaurants, and overall more things to do than just drink. Madison's got a lot going on for its size, but it's really not that big of a town. Thus one of the reasons why the U of M can legitimately claim that a third of its students don't drink, and another third don't drink regularly. Recent studies at the UW, on the other hand, have showed that 60-65% of students are regular binge drinkers, with about another 30 percent drinking less excessively. Usually only about 10 percent, sometimes less, of UW students are non-drinkers.
Trust me, Halloween is not all that Wisconsin has to offer, party-wise. There's also the Mifflin Street Block Party in the spring, in which tens of thousands of students cram into four blocks and take over for an entire weekend of drinking. We have one of the only student unions in the country that serves alcohol. I could go on -- the drinking culture is well-entrenched here and has been for decades.
I don't like seeing the UW put down as "just a party school," but there is definitely a reason we have the reputation we do.
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