They’d be the extreme aberrations…especially if alcohol was involved as back when I attended Oberlin and according to older alums who attended in the '80s, alcohol was considered a vice for older generations who were members of the “establishment”…in short the opposite of “cool”. Being found to enjoy alcohol like those of the heavy drinking “party schools” tended to get one regarded as an “old establishment fogey” or worse, a “bourgeois capitalist tool”.
The preferred vice of choice for students who were so inclined were weed and psychedelics. Not exactly drugs for the partying set…especially considering heavy users who ended up getting stoned/tripping tended to keep to themselves and not get loud, in your face/act belligerent/leave vomit behind as opposed to those who heavily partake in alcohol at “party schools”.
It’s even more of an aberration among Con students as the workload and level of competition in some departments(notably Piano*) is such that those who prioritize partying over Con academics will fall by the wayside more quickly than would be the case at the college.
- The piano department was notorious for the keen competitiveness among its students...especially considering it was encouraged by some of the Profs. This was likely one key factor in why many students switch to other Con majors if they could or switch out and finish with a degree from the college as so many including Michelle Malkin ('92) did.
Engineering students can and do party wild and join the fraternity scene if one’s available.
Just look at MIT to an extent or URochester(relative and several alum friends/colleagues recounted how the wildest parties/fraternities are ones which were mostly populated by engineering/CS majors).