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ucsb ftw.

1. University of Wisconsin-Madison
2. University of California, Santa Barbara
3. Arizona State University
4. Indiana University
5. San Diego State University
6. Florida State University
7. Ohio University
8. University of Georgia
9. University of Tennessee
10. McGill University

1. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Best Party: Madison's Halloween parties are legendary, attracting scores of out-of-town guests and the wrath of local cops with riot gear and tear gas.

Hookup Spots: The Memorial Library

Sex Legends: This is a marriage that works: Professors and spouses Janet Shibley Hyde and John D. DeLamater teach a human sexuality class and co-authored a book on the subject.

Best Hangout: The nondescript but notorious Kollege Klub is paradise for fans of red-and-white football and cheap Miller High Life.

Seedy Side: Madison police have become notorious for levying huge partying fines. Last year, a student was fined $73,500 -- an expensive party foul.

Best Cheap Eats: State Street Brats serves classic red beef brats and waffle fries and even has a mascot, Bratman.

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: Pabst Blue Ribbon

Notable Alumni: Recording artist and producer Butch Vig and movie producers David and Jerry Zucker (Airplane!)

Best Tailgate Spot: Breese Terrace, near Camp Randall Stadium, is also close to sports bars and student housing.

2. University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Best Party: The year's biggest bash is Halloween, when students and guests take over the streets of neighboring Isla Vista.

Hookup Spots: The seventh and eighth floors of the Davidson Library

Sex Legends: Francisco Torres Dorm, known as " Towers," has a reputation as a promiscuous, crazy residence hall.

Best Hangout: The bar Study Hall, in nearby Isla Vista, where students can join the 50 Club if they drink at the bar 50 times during spring quarter.

Seedy Side: In 2003, a Rolling Stone article detailed the operations of Collegefest.com, a porn company that organized parties on the UCSB campus and filmed students.

Best Cheap Eats: Freebirds, a cheap Mexican joint that serves monstrous burritos

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: Natty Light

Notable Professors: Professors John and Janice Baldwin both teach human sexuality and run the informative and immense Sexinfo website (www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/).

Best Tailgate Spot: None, since they don't have a football team. That's the price they pay for beachfront living.

3. Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
Hookup Spots: The dark, sunken area in the parking lot of Gammage Auditorium

Sex Legends: The now-defunct, student-created website Palmwalk.com allowed visitors to rank the hotness of ASU females.

Best Hangout: Maloney's is a tried-and-true Irish pub that Sun Devils love.

Seedy Side: In 2002, student vice president Brian Buck was kicked out of office for participating in Shane's World #29: Frat Row Scavenger Hunt 3, a porn video shot on campus.

Best Cheap Eats: Drunk food doesn't get better than the cheap Mexican food at Filiberto's.

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: Coors Light

Notable Professor: Journalism and mass communications professor Mary Lou Galician, known as Dr. Fun, studies "realistic romance" and dispels the traditional belief in Valentine's Day.

Best Tailgate Spot: Lot 59, an expansive parking lot outside the football stadium

4. Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
Best Party: The offbeat Little 500, an amateur bike race that student groups and Greek organizations train for compulsively, is a huge event. The massive parties afterward help.

Hookup Spots: The stacks in Wells Library

Sex Legends: The notorious Kinsey Institute, named after the nation's preeminent sexual researcher, is on campus.

Best Hangout: Nick's English Hut is a cozy Bloomington bar known for Sink the Biz, an addictive drinking game that involves sinking a glass into a bucket of beer.

Seedy Side: Two students were caught filming a porn movie in their dorm room in 2002.

Best Cheap Eats: Kilroy's on Kirkwood has dirt cheap but filling 75-cent breadsticks.

Favorite Drinking Game: Sink the Biz

Favorite Beer: Keystone Light

Notable Professor: Professor Eric B. Rasmusen, who teaches business economics, posted controversial statements about gay teachers on his blog.

Best Tailgate Spot: The field next to the parking lot. Supposedly Jell-O wrestling matches have been known to break out before games.

5. San Diego State University
San Diego, California
Best Party: Frat bashes like Parrot Bay and Reggae Fest

Hookup Spots: The Love Library

Sex Legends: Hyperbole Books, an imprint of San Diego State University Press, specializes in sexually charged literature and cultural studies.

Best Hangout: Grungy Irish-themed Effins Pub 'n' Grill has great deals, especially during football season.

Seedy Side: Abdussattar Shaikh, a retired SDSU English professor, was an FBI informant who had run-ins with 9/11 hijackers.

Best Cheap Eats: Students satisfy their craving for cheap Mexican food at Trujillo's Taco Shop.

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: Natty Ice

Notable Alumni: Julie Kavner, the voice of Marge Simpson, and Carl Weathers, the actor who played Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies

Best Tailgate Spot: Parking lots of Qualcomm Stadium

6. Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
Best Party: In football-centric Florida, game day is when the real party happens, especially when the annual Labor Day game against Miami is at home.

School Traditions: Students get tossed into Westcott Fountain when they turn 21.

Sex Legends: The girl everybody wants in their cheering section, FSU Cowgirl Jenn Sterger lights up the stands in Tallahassee.

Best Hangout: Situated in Tallahassee's famed Tennessee strip, Western-themed watering hole Bullwinkle's is party central, especially if you're a member of the famed Thirsty Moose Club.

Seedy Side: Serial killer Ted Bundy claimed some of his last victims at an FSU sorority house.

Best Cheap Eats: Gumby's Pizza, within walking distance of the dorms, is famous for serving "pokey sticks" (cheese pizza without the sauce).

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: Natty Light

Notable Alumni: Crazy Creed frontman Scott Stapp and singer/exhibitionist Jim Morrison

Best Tailgate Spot: Indian Village, an apartment complex across from the stadium, boasts sick student parties.

7. Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Best Party: Halloween attracts a huge out-of-town crowd, and the May Palmerfest block party is also raucous.

Hookup Spots: The Library

Notable Professor: Recently retired economics Professor Jan Palmer was slamming back beer and drinking out of a plastic flamingo at the 2005 Palmerfest.

Best Hangout: Uptown bar the Union is a classic dive that features great local music.

Seedy Side: Many ghost stories revolve around the Ridges, the nearby site of the former Athens Lunatic Asylum.

Best Cheap Eats: Goodfella's Pizza satiates drunk students with dirt-cheap slices.

Favorite Drinking Game: Flip Cup

Favorite Beer: Natty Ice

Notable Alumni: Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy on Married with Children) and Jen Schefft (The Bachelorette)

Best Tailgate Spot: The entire campus, including the misleadingly titled Tail-Great Park, is alcohol-free for tailgating.

8. University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Best Party: The AthFest, a local party featuring local music, and the Twilight Criterium Bike Race are huge events in bohemian Athens.

Hookup Spots: Bathrooms of bars like El Centro

Famous Alumni: Idolator Ryan Seacrest, Heisman-winner Herschel Walker and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe

Best Hangout: Former auto shop Allgood Lounge serves endless bottles of quality beer and boasts an outdoor tiki bar.

Sex Legend: Local and lovely actress Kim Basinger donated money to get lights for the school tennis courts.

Best Cheap Eats: The Grill, a 24-hour joint, offers greasy burgers and signature milkshakes.

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: PBR

Notable Professor: Professor Josephine Cheun-jue Ho, a University of Georgia graduate, fights for prostitutes' right to work in Taiwan.

Best Tailgate Spot: Students congregate near Oglethorpe House and Brumby Hall.

9. University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Best Party: The pigskin scene is so legendary, Sports Illustrated named the University of Tennessee the best place to see a college football game in 2004.

Southern Pride: Tennessee is home to the Jack Daniel's distillery

Best Hangout: Cool Beans is one of many excellent bars on or near Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville.

Seedy Side: The "Body Farm," a three-acre area run by the school's forensic anthropology department, is filled with decaying cadavers.

Best Cheap Eats: Go to Moe's Southwestern Grill for cheap burritos and cheaper pitchers.

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: PBR

Notable Professor: Law professor Glenn Reynolds started media-and-technology blog Instapundit.com, runs his own record label and plays in bands like Mobius Dick.

Notable Alumni: Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning, World Series of Poker champ Chris Moneymaker

Best Tailgate Spot: Aboard a boat in the Volunteer Navy, a flotilla of football fans who party on the Tennessee River near the stadium

10. McGill University
Montréal, Québéc, Canada
Best Party: Carnival, held after students return from winter break, is a huge, organized beer bacchanal where teams of students compete in events like Weapons of Mass Consumption (design and build the most elaborate drinking device).

Hookup Spots: Genderless bathrooms are common around campus.

Sex Legends: A mini version of Carnival held at the beginning of the year for freshman, called Frosh, is notorious for hookups.

Best Hangout: The strip near St. Laurent is filled with quality college bars.

Seedy Side: The drinking age is 18.

Best Cheap Eats: It's a little risky, but some students swear by the two-dollar plates of chow mein sold by street vendors in Montréal.

Favorite Drinking Game: Beer Pong

Favorite Beer: Boréale, a Québécois brew

Great White North: Graduate Frank Black, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, wrote much of the NHL rulebook.

Best Tailgate Spot: This is a hockey school, so students really get fired up on the rink, especially when McGill plays rival Queens University.
SVGmethod
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gypsygirl
lol, the college i went to in georgia was on the list at that time back in the early 90's (state univ. of west georgia). i see univ. of GA made it as well as several other southern schools. and wtf? univ. of wisconsin, i guess it's so cold up there they have to hook up to keep warm ;)
Clovis86
You guys favorite beer is Natty Light...wtf is wrong with you?!?!


:wtf:


And lol, Bobert goes to UWM :crazy:
Zombie0729
nice we got 5th this year :)
dj_bas
This is news to you? UCSB = University of Sucking Bitches...everyone knows that.
Lomeli
IV = Home to HIV
Protege
Apparently, Playboy voted my school (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.)the 2nd hardest to get laid at behind VMI. I have no proof to back that up but that was the word on campus.
ivanbee
cal state fullerton is where its at bitches
Zewad
playboy is abolute horse ... we are usually top 5... and we just won the frickin national championship...

i demand a recount

Garrett S
quote:
Originally posted by Clovis86
You guys favorite beer is Natty Light...wtf is wrong with you?!?!


:wtf:




Yeah that sucks but probably because it's so cheap.
buchnaner
#1 reppin tha hood, yo. people in wisconsin dont around. last halloween i got so ed up that i didn't even make it down to state street for the riots and tear gas... thank god for drinking too much :wtf:

lol my friend went to embry riddle and left after a year and a half. he can confirm its hard to hook up there
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