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August 22, 2002
This looks like a job for Dean Wormer The Princeton Review [no relation to Princeton University] put out rankings of the nations colleges that named Indiana University the #1 party school in the nation. Congratulations! It's good that us Hoosiers are winning something.
I would have preferred to see my alma mater Ball State University take the prize, but their partying reputation has only gone downhill in the years since I graduated. It was sad, but inevitable. As Eminem says, "It feels so empty without me."
Meanwhile back in the modern era, IU administrators and decent citizens are unhappy. Bill Stephan, IU vice president for public affairs, said, "I think there are some serious questions about the methodology of the study and it really calls into question the credibility of the ranking." He says this as if this were some kind of scientific study, rather than bragging rights for the frats and a bit of publicity for the reviewing organization. The American Medical Association likewise found some humorless flak to cluck his tongue about the whole idea of having any such ratings.
In the classic words of Grouch Marx at his coronation in Duck Soup,
"If any form of pleasure is exhibited
Report to me and it shall be prohibited
I'll put my foot down, so shall it be
This is the land of the free"
In any case, something has to be done. I think Dean Wormer should immediately have all the fraternities at IU put on Double Secret Probation.
