WARREN WILSON TOPS SOME ODD LISTS

Princeton Review Ranks School No. 1 for Pot Use, Nostalgia for Clinton

SWANNANOA - Students at Warren Wilson College have more fondness for
Bill Clinton and marijuana use than any other school in the country,
according to rankings published Wednesday.

The Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges" ranks the 800-student
private school No. 1 in the category gauging how widely marijuana is
used on campus.

Warren Wilson, about nine miles east of Asheville, also ranked first
for "Students most nostalgic for Bill Clinton."

The college placed third for "Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging,
clove-smoking vegetarians," 14th for "most beautiful campus," and 15th
for "most politically active."

College spokesman Ben Anderson said "you have to wonder" how such a
small school ended up on five of the book's nationwide lists.

"But it's certainly nice to be included in Princeton Review categories
such as 'most politically active' and 'most beautiful campus,' " he
said.

Kim Miller, a Warren Wilson senior from Morristown, Tenn., doesn't
believe the marijuana ranking is warranted at the school, which opened
in 1894 as the Asheville Farm School.

"People seem to have the impression that a lot of people here smoke
marijuana, but from my personal experience I've not ever encountered
it that much," said Miller, adding that she doesn't smoke pot.

The book asked 115,000 students at 361 colleges to rate their schools
on topics from financial aid to campus food.