<p>yes, alcohol obviously isn't hard to find on a college campus, but at Brown I believe there is very little punishment for alcohol as in no one cares if you have it in your dorm room. Almost all colleges (with the exception of BYU) are party schools, it's just that Brown partys more than most (for the upper echelon schools). </p>
<p>I don't know that the party reputation is one that you want attached to your college?!?</p>
<p>" i mean- we're no big 10 state school with insane amounts of debauchery on a daily basis. but we do have better social lives and way more fun than any other school in the usnews top 10."</p>
<p>more than Harvard, MIT, or Caltech probably but I doubt that life at Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown (not limiting strictly to the USNWR top 10), Stanford, Penn, etc. is really that much different than Duke. Duke students just seem to point out the "WE HAVE SOCIAL LIFE!!!!11" thing more than other schools.</p>
<p>Sports, believe it or not, are not a prerequisite for a good social scene--to use a school I'm very familiar with, UNCW has an absolutely huge party scene and their teams are having a good year when they crack the top 100.</p>
<p>dukeobsrvr.livejournal.com</p>
<p>"For some reason I don't believe this bandcampgirl. Statistics are misleading. When you say 1 in 4 women get raped in their lifetime are you taking specifically United States or the world? I wouldn't be as suprised if its in the world as many women get raped in Middle Eastern/African countries. In America, I would believe this number to be significantly lower."</p>
<p>Why? Because the supposed land of liberty is so much more sophistcated than other countries and immune to rapists?</p>
<p>"The United States has the world's highest rape rate of the countries that publish such statistics---4 times higher than Germany, 13 times higher than England, and 20 times higher than Japan."-tri-countycouncil.org</p>
<p>Speaking of partying and sex offenses. Whoa, a friend at Duke told me this weekend what's happening with the lacrosse team and rumors are crazy right now that the whole lacrosse program may be cancelled.</p>
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<p>"as many women get raped in Middle Eastern countries"
Speaking from experience? Or from Dubya's ass? middle-east? hahaha... hahahaha... right. I suggest you look at some statistics.</p>
<p>If you are smart enough to get into Duke, you should understand how "statistics" like that get spread around sites like this. And noone knows where it came from. the infamous "they say" or "I heard". How many of you have heard that one school or the other has the "highest suicide rate" in the US. I have heard it about at least 4 schools. It doesn't mean the data isn't accurate, but surely you know wnought to test it.</p>