BYU is soberest in nation -- again

Make it an even dozen.

For the 12th year in a row, Brigham Young University has claimed the title of the most stone-cold sober school in the nation.

No other school has come close to that kind of dominating

performance in any category, said Rob Franek, editorial director for

the Princeton Review's annual survey of the nation's universities, this

year titled "The Best 371 Colleges: 2010 edition," which goes on sale

Tuesday.

The rankings are based on a survey of 122,000 students at the 371 colleges.

"Brigham Young has had such exceptional longevity on this list and

other lists," Franek said. "There has been no other school with this

kind of longevity."

BYU spokesman Michael Smart, with tongue in cheek, said the university doesn't intend to rest on its laurels.

"I'll borrow from the world's football coaches and say that we are

happy but we are not satisfied," he said. "This year, like very other

year, we will take it one day at a time and hopefully this time next

year we'll be talking about number 13."

In fact, BYU ranked first in five of the 62 different categories in

this year's survey, including "Don't Inhale," a ranking of low

marijuana use, and "Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American

Revolution,"

BYU ranked second in "Most Religious Students," behind Thomas

Aquinas College, a Catholic liberal arts school in Santa Paula, Calif.,

fourth in "Most Conservative Students" and seventh in low acceptance of

gay students.

BYU's Harold B. Lee Library was ranked 16th among college libraries,