# 1 Party School (Blog 4)

In many colleges today drinking is a problem ,but also a big part of college life. The large amount of drinking taking place directly correlates to the amount of partying going on at every college. With my fellow colleagues and I, attending a very large party school we see this all around us and it has become a part of our own lives even if we do not drink ourselves. In fact Penn State made it to number one and this caused a great amount of controversy. This controversy came from parents giving second thought to having their kids attend this fine establishment, all the way to the old alumni being partially proud of this “accomplishment”.
This controversy even caused multiple reporters to interview all types of people up at our great campus about the problem of this binge drinking and partying. They saw great opportunity to get this interview due to the popularity of the incidence of being the number one party school. Even the president of Penn State was quoted on what he thought about the whole thing. Although the way he put it, it wasn’t that negative of a placement to be number one party school because he does not want the college experience to be dull, but he wished they were not number one.
After starting to do the interviews and the reporting they saw very common things up here at State college such as public urination, throwing trash, and stealing (even stop signs). After seeing some of these incidents the culprits were then quoted on what they have done or seen and everyone said it is quite common. Besides these incidents they interviews a wide range of residents from family home in State, to the freshmen in the dorms, to the fraternity brothers, as well as a range of grades of students.
They found out shortly after that even people no longer involved with Penn State directly are still part of the problem of drinking and partying largely due to the massive pride in the football team. Having the largest stadium in the US is quite the icon for the tailgaters to cheer for their Lions. Alumni coming back had their judgment recorded on the issue saying that if drinking is banned they would be upset and possibly even stop the funding that they still give to Penn State.
Everyone created their own opinion about Penn State being number one in partying and placed more judgment after hearing this investigative report. From what I have seen up here thus far, I think it represents the school fairly closely, with the exception of stealing signs (I still have not seen this). Personally I liked the stories that were being recorded and thought they were comical because they were the truth. I think that just a few interviews would have sufficed for the actual report because hearing a great deal of them gets just a little dull. If they had more stories rather than interviews I think it might have been more powerful and yet much more entertaining. This report was still very enlightening to the public about how it seems drinking and partying is just a normal part of college life.