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The "reefer madness" category is one of 62 categories in the Princeton Review's annual survey of 65,000 students from 331 colleges nation wide. This year, the University of Oregon was honored with fourth place. Topping the list was New York University, showing that the city that never sleeps sure takes a lot of weed naps.
Princeton Review (no relationship to the university bearing the Princeton name) conducts no formal or scientific surveys to make its rankings. In the past, Princeton Review has refused to release any of the data it compiles in making its rankings.
The Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, conducted in 1993, examined the drug and alcohol use of 17,592 college students nation-wide. The study found that marijuana use is higher among students who participate in other high-risk activities such as binge drinking, cigarette smoking, and having multiple sexual partners. According to the Harvard study, other factors associated with marijuana use include spending more time at parties and socializing with friends, spending less time studying, and perceiving religion and community service as not important. Students at large schools, commuter schools, and coeducational schools were also more likely to use marijuana, whereas students from historically black colleges and colleges in small or rural towns were less likely to use the drug. Marijuana use was also associated with poorer academic performance. Students who used marijuana were less likely than those who did not use it to study for two or more hours a day and were more likely to have a grade point average of B or less.
If you fall into any of these categories, you should pat yourself on the back for helping put the University of Oregon on the map. If the BCS won’t recognize a Pac-10 school, at least the THC will.
UO failed to make this year’s list of top party schools. The University of Tennessee took this year’s top prize, topping last year’s winner Louisiana State.
Mormons will surely be disappointed, or elated, to find that Brigham Young University topped every single “The Party has Left the Building” category, including “Stone-cold sober schools, “Don’t Inhale,” “Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch” and “Got Milk?” (as opposed to “Lots of Beer.”)
UO failed to place anywhere in the entirely unimportant academic categories. But our friends up north at Lewis and Clark and Reed College both made their way onto the “Students Ignore God on a Regular Basis” list. Congrats!
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