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It never fails. For as long as anyone can remember, whenever anyone mentions the top schools in the United States, my alma mater is always associated with one word: Party.

Poll: Northern U.S. colleges party best

New York, NY, Aug. 17 (UPI)—Five colleges in the northern United States are best for partying, the Princeton Review’s poll of 110,000 college students has determined in its 2005 guide.

The annual review of 357 of the country’s colleges found the State University of New York at Albany the number one party place, followed by Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.; University of Wisconsin at Madison; West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va.; and Ohio University in Athens.

We talked about this a lot when I was a journalism student there. It’s actually a pretty significant public image problem for OU, because although it actually has a number of excellent academic programs (including the journalism school, which is also typically ranked in the top five nationwide year after year—which is why I was there, honest!), it can never shed its reputation as a “party school.” Pity.

All this writing is making me thirsty. Anybody want a beer or somethin’?