From Deseret News archives:
BYU is still 'most sober'
Princeton Review also notes an unusual fondness for milk
BYU, this milk's for you.
For a record ninth year in a row, BYU is ranked No. 1 on the Princeton Review's "Stone Cold Sober" list.
The university is also No. 1 on the publication's "Got Milk?" list for low rates of beer drinking. That, it turns out, is doubly appropriate. The favorite drink on campus, by far, is white milk the campus community consumed 338,000 gallons of the substance on campus in 2005.
The second most popular drink at BYU?
Milk.
Folks chugged 75,000 gallons of chocolate milk at BYU last year.
Beer, obviously, isn't available. It's banned by the Honor Code of the university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But root beer came in fifth, behind Dasani-brand water and Powerade.
BYU students also are considered the nation's most religious and are on top of the "Don't Inhale" list for low marijuana use. In fact, BYU is ranked first more times five and appears on more lists 14 than any other school in the latest edition of the Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges" book.
The Princeton Review is often criticized for its list of the top party schools this year the University of Texas at Austin is No. 1 because of the company's methodology. The chancellor of last year's top party school, the University of Wisconsin, called it "junk science."
Editorial director Rob Franek believes the Princeton Review's methods are unique and powerful. The lists are generated by a nonscientific but massive sampling of American college students.
"We received back a little over 115,000 surveys this year from students at those 361 schools," Franek said. "The purpose of all of our ranking lists and the narratives in the book is to make college-bound students and their parents savvy and well-prepared to select a college that's the right fit."
The top party school changes every year, often as the school cracks down on binge drinking and parties because of negative publicity tied to the Princeton Review ranking.
Meanwhile, BYU maintains a proud death-grip on the No. 1 spot for sobriety.
"Nobody else has been ranked No. 1 on one list nine years in a row," Franek said.
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