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Top party school ranking not thrilling OU officials

Ohio University has forged new ground. The Princeton Review announced earlier this week that its surveys of college students placed OU as the number one party school in the country for 2011.

While OU has gotten ranked as high as number two previously, in 2010 and 2005, this marks the first time that the school has gotten the number one ranking. We would use the verb "won" in that sentence except that some folks aren't crazy about the honor.

Following the announcement Monday, OU released a statement from Dean of Students Ryan Lombardi:

"We take seriously our responsibility to help our students succeed in all facets of their experience, including addressing high-risk behavior. We are disappointed in the party school ranking as it is not indicative of the overall experience of Ohio (University) students and does not match the data we have collected."

He said that in the past five years, OU has enacted programs and policy changes that have helped reduce instances of high-risk behavior at the school, including a 49 percent decrease in alcohol-related judicial violations and an 8 percent decrease in self-reported high-risk drinking by students.

In this latest edition, for 2011, the Princeton Review also ranked OU as number one in "lots of beer" and number two in "lots of hard liquor."

The school also got number six in "best athletic facilities"; number 11 in "most beautiful campus"; number 11 in "major frat and sorority scene"; number 12 in "students study the least"; number 12 in "best college newspaper"; and number 12 in "most accessible profs."

According to materials from the Princeton Review, these figures are generated by asking students who attend the universities to answer an 80-question survey in which they rate their own schools on various topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Some 122,000 students at 376 schools answer questions about everything from party atmosphere to financial aid to fire safety to quality of academics and administrators.

Joining OU at the top of the party school rankings, in order, is the University of Georgia (also in Athens!), the University of Mississippi, the University of Iowa, the University of California Santa Barbara, West Virginia University, Penn State University, Florida State University, the University of Florida and the University of Texas at Austin.

As some of these schools have stellar academic reputations, the party-school tag and quality of education obviously aren't mutually exclusive.

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