<p>“To Party” seems often to mean Animal House like parties of booze and pot and sex. But , certainly, that doesn’t mean that whenever a college kid says “I am going to a party.” that they they are going “to party”.</p>
<p>My daughter likes to dance at her parties. She does say that most of the college students she meets either “need” to drink to be silly and have fun and that most of the non-drinkers are a little uptight and don’t want to be silly. She is in a small group of non-drinkers who enjoy being silly without alcohol. She has tried alcohol, but only sips of different concoctions and she has no interest in getting drunk. (She actually has sent me a text everything she tries something and it has been a few weeks since she has tried anything.) She has heard of too many girls drinking too much and then regretting making certain mistakes later in the evening. She likes to act silly without alcohol and her boyfriend is an avid non-drinker. Personally, I don’t have a problem with alcohol, I just believe in being responsible with it.</p>
<p>There’s “party,” and then there’s “parTy.”</p>
<p>And parTAY</p>
<p>and PARTAYYYYYYYYAYYY</p>
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I always thought “Animal House Like Partay” only exist in the movies. Does it really exist in real college life? I went to a small college in '72 and the parties we had (and I had been to most of them) really had no resemblance to the “Animal House” type.</p>
<p>When Ken says, “C’mon Barbie, let’s go party. . .” what exactly does he mean?</p>
<p>(Greek-heavy state school, early 80’s–yeah, it was Animal House-ish at times.)</p>
<p>When I was in college, “Do you party?” meant do you do drugs-- and it wasn’t confined to pot; it could also mean cocaine. At my kids’ colleges, it seems to be much more about drinking.</p>
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This leads me to another ignorant question. Back in my day, at my college, at least in my understanding, there was a drug culture and a drinking culture–while there was some overlap, these were really two different groups of people. Is that still the case, if it ever was?</p>
<p>At our kids colleges, the answer would be that the culture is still the same. There maybe overlap, but on a whole the kid who drinks grain punch at a frat party is not hanging with the kid who smokes pot in the dorm.</p>
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<p>Why? Because we’re all friends here and nothing that’s published on the internet ever gets taken out of context. Right???</p>
<p>What kind of school? Just one of the primier engineering schools in the country. It just happened to be in CA in the - if you can remember them you didn’t fully experience them - 1970’s.</p>
<p>“but on a whole the kid who drinks grain punch at a frat party is not hanging with the kid who smokes pot in the dorm.”
You are right, he is probably hanging out with the kids smoking pot at the frat party.</p>
<p>what comes before part B?</p>
<p>Can I just say I love the humor and sanity on this thread? We’ve had more than enough stern anti-drinking threads to last me a lifetime.
FWIW, I don’t think drugs are part of the party culture at many schools. I think my ds’ school is pretty much a drinking, not a drug, campus.</p>
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Actually this October calendar occurs on a 6 and 11 years cycle. 2004, 2010, 2021, 2027, etc., but that’s what too much partying will do for you.</p>
<p>Some of you people are living in la-la land here. D’s HIGH SCHOOL has a reputation for hard drug problems, and we live in the 'burbs. I adjuncted at a small catholic school and had students come to class high or drunk. And there are a lot more problems with prescription drugs than there were when we were that age.</p>
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At my college (small Northeastern LAC, late 70s), you could distinguish the two groups, but only as a matter of emphasis. There were relatively few drinkers who didn’t smoke pot at all, and very few pot smokers who didn’t drink at all, but there were people who were more into one or the other. The differences were as much about scenes as substances: partying in small groups in dorm rooms, which was more identified with the pot crowd, vs. at frat parties and other large events, which was more identified with the drinkers. But both pot and alcohol were consumed at both kinds of events, and there were no sharp lines between the two groups.</p>
<p>We certainly used the word “party” as a verb, but not so often in the general sense implied by the question “do you party?”. It would have been used more to describe a specific episode: “I was partying with Bill and Debbie last night.”</p>
<p>Those conferences are what I think of as party schools. Huge football rivalries with bang up tail gating. Usually included are many police citations and arrests for typically intoxicated behavior.</p>
<p>Oh yes and I meant to say when people talk about partying they mean they’re going to tail gate and it may lead to the casinos after the games.</p>
<p>Sylvan, you’re being very unpartyotic. I’ll submit a different tweet then:Make your job as fun as your party, and make your party as important as your job.</p>
<p>In addition to the traditional “parties”, fraternities and other off-campus houses, my daughter has gone to parties that have taken place in her residence hall lounges. One time they all played the game “Twister”. Another time they had a “dance mixer” party in the smaller lounge on one of the floors. No alcohol at those gatherings. Her dorm mates do a lot together in the hall.</p>