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Price fixing, but no one seems to mind. Seven out of ten years in the top ten, a record I believe. Capitalism vs trial lawyers at the Moscow of the Midwest. Too funny

Survey ranks UW-Madison top party school

NEW YORK (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named the country's top party school in a survey of 110,000 college students.

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is ranked 16th on the latest party school list compiled by the Princeton Review.

The Princeton Review has released its 2006 edition of "The Best 361 Colleges." The survey ranks the top 20 colleges in 62 different categories ranging from best academic, to toughest to get into, to most beautiful campus.

The top academic school is Reed College in Portland Oregon. Reed also ranks as the least religious of all the schools.

The most religious is Brigham Young University, which is also the top stone-cold sober school for the eighth straight year.

Study author Rob Franek says the book is designed to help college-bound high school students make a more informed college choice.

1 posted on 10/11/2005 5:55:23 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

" First, kill all the lawyers"

Billy Bob Shakespeare


2 posted on 10/11/2005 5:59:08 PM PDT by calrighty ( Terrorists are like cockroaches . Kill em all soon, so they can find out there ain't no virgins)
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To: SJackson

Indeed. I'm surprised the first suit got thrown out. I recall reading this a year or two ago and thought that the students had a pretty solid case.

But, of course, cases like this just go to show why antitrust laws are stupid. Repeal has been long overdue, and unfortuntely Congress won't do the job. Antitrust has a nice PR machine.


3 posted on 10/11/2005 5:59:36 PM PDT by Publius Valerius
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"The pity is that all the owners did was try to cooperate with the UW and Chancellor John Wiley's campaign against binge drinking. That campaign included getting the bars to agree to eliminate drink specials, which Wiley insists contribute to students' overindulging."

Gosh - do 6 for 1 drink specials really encourage binge drinking?


5 posted on 10/11/2005 6:05:08 PM PDT by gondramB (Conservatism is a positive doctrine. Reactionaryism is a negative doctrine.)
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I have fond memories of drinking on State Street, but for the life of me, I can't recall any of them.


6 posted on 10/11/2005 6:11:16 PM PDT by MediaMole
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"Gone were the big "fishbowl" drinks at Wanda's and the Long Island Iced Tea concoctions at reduced prices or two-for-one happy hours. Some 20 campus area bars joined the pledge. Then came the suit filed by a Minneapolis law firm on behalf of "overcharged" students. So much for being Mr. Nice Guys."

I've had many a fishbowl at Wando's but I have no idea what this Wanda's is. I'm sorry but the bar scene is so much a part of college life in Madison, I'm glad I finished school just before this stuff started to go through. A Fishbowl is a group activity, usually participated in with 3 to 6 people. It's not, "let's drink a fishbowl", it's, "let's do a fishbowl".

A fishbowl is literally a medium sized fishbowl filled with an alcoholic punch and ice.

9 posted on 10/11/2005 7:38:46 PM PDT by Oblongata
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The pity is that all the owners did was try to cooperate with the UW and Chancellor John Wiley's campaign against binge drinking.

1) It is NO business of UW's or Chancellor Wiley's what the students do off campus.

2) By agreeing amongst themselves not to offer specials, they have committed unlawful collusion that effectively results in price fixing.

The University should devote more effort to education and less to social engineering, and bar owners should try to sell more drinks. Period.

12 posted on 10/11/2005 10:16:23 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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bump...


13 posted on 10/12/2005 7:27:51 AM PDT by Lyford
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