UT-AUSTIN TOPS ANNUAL LIST OF NATION'S BEST PARTY SCHOOLS

UW Falls To Third Place

AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Longhorns earned another national title
Monday, not for football but as the country's best party school.

The University of Texas at Austin beat Penn State University, West
Virginia University and last year's winner, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, in the Princeton Review survey of 115,000 students
at campuses around the country.

It topped the overall list -- its first time atop the Princeton
Review chart -- by ranking second in the use of hard liquor, third in
beer drinking and 13th in marijuana smoking.

For the ninth straight year, Brigham Young University was voted the
most "stone cold sober" school.

UT spokesman Don Hale said campus leaders don't take such rankings
very seriously.

"I know there were a lot of good parties here after we won the
national football championship, and I'm going to guess that a lot of
the kids who filled out the survey remembered those parties," he said.

The party school list is included in the Princeton Review's "Best 361
Colleges" guide, which goes on sale Tuesday. The company is not
affiliated with Princeton University.

It contrasts with U.S. News and World Report's annual guide to
"America's Best Colleges," where UT-Austin tied with four other
schools in 47th place.

Top 10 Party Schools

1. University of Texas at Austin

2. Penn State University

3. West Virginia University

4. University of Wisconsin-Madison

5. University of Mississippi

6. Ohio University

7. University of Massachusetts-Amherst

8. Louisiana State University

9. University of Iowa

10. University of California, Santa Barbara

Top 10 "Stone Cold Sober" Schools

1. Brigham Young University

2. Wheaton College

3. College of the Ozarks

4. Grove City College

5. U.S. Naval Academy

6. U.S. Coast Guard Academy

7. U.S. Air Force Academy

8. Queens College

9. Wellesley College

10. Calvin College