<p>So in the other college website (that will not be named), which seems to be student driven, are they right about major partying at this school? Or does it seem that way because of their not particularly statistically valid sampling? </p>
<p>If you are involved in the arts then maybe “party school” is not applicable?</p>
<p>Did not seem to fit with parents’ impressions, but when the cat’s away…</p>
<p>I’m seeing drug scene as a B and nightlife as a C+ on college pr-wler. That doesn’t make it a party school at all.</p>
<p>^Wow.I’d be really surprised if Lawrence U is a party school! Are you sure you’ve got the right “lawrence?” Could you have read about Lawrence College, perhaps, in New York? I don’t know anything about L College – I’m not suggesting that IT’S a party school. I’m just surprised, after visiting L University several times, that it might be considered a party school!</p>
<p>It was College-P, under drugs, or some heading like that</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, here is what College-P has for remarks at LU about the"drug scene":</p>
<p>Like on most campuses, alcohol consumption is everywhere at Lawrence. However, with the steady presence of Bacchus, a student organization dedicated to promoting safe drinking, there is also a large group of students that chooses not to drink. Bacchus provides nonalcoholic alternatives on weekends, so there is no pressure to drink in order to have fun. including alcohol in organization hazing or initiations is highly forbidden. Drinking is kept to responsible levels, and problems that arise from people drinking excessively are almost unheard of. In terms of other drugs, it is possible for a student to go to Lawrence for all four years and not see a single illegal drug. The drug scene is not very large to begin with, and generally those that aren’t a part of it aren’t aware of it. Marijuana is widespread and available, but it’s not a threatening force to non-smokers. Harder drugs are on campus, but most students remain completely oblivious to them.</p>
<p>It gives LU a “grade” of B, the same as St. Olaf.</p>
<p>I rather doubt that LU is much different in that regard than many other small non-urban LACs. Actually I expect that there is much less alcohol consumption now than when I was a student there. When I started (yes, I know, I’m dating myself), you could drink beer at 18, and wine and liquor was 21. When I was a sophomore, it changed to 18 all. The Viking Room in the student union was the on-campus bar and social center. I recollect pitchers being @$1.75. Much time was spent there. Beers were 20 cents in many bars and 10 cents in some.</p>
<p>The first official school function when I was a freshman (for orientation or perhaps disorientation) was a beer and brat bash in a local park. When you served beer in Wisconsin for school events, you served kegs. We regularly held some seminar classes in the back rooms of bars on College Avenue. None of this was out of the ordinary in those days. Keep in mind this is Wisconsin where much local social life was centered in neighborhood bars - you stop and hoist a few pitchers with the the neighbors on the way home from church on Sundays with the wife and kids. In many small Wisconsin towns, every third or fourth store front was a bar.</p>
<p>I expect that while it still wouldn’t take much to get alcohol as an underage college student, the change in legal drinking age to 21 all has made it somewhat less convenient and less a regular part of ordinary everyday college life.</p>