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BYU remains most sober university in the country
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Like Homer Simpson, I'd rather drink crab juice.
filtered information is for the brainwashed ....
What about USU?
Are we talking sports, or college rankings? I'm starting to think that "What about USU" must be the school's motto.
I don't get the high involvement in student government, tho. When I went there (two years ago) it was regarded as a joke.
To claim that anyone who hasn't chosen to go to BYU couldn't get in is one true example (of few) of the pride and self-righteous behavior that many feel the campus is saturated with. There is no other way to look at it.
Wouldn't it be easy to cut it out?
I'll bet BYU ranks pretty high on the spirit-of-Elijah family history survey, also.
Too bad "Play the Game" doesn't realize his own comment is self-righteous. Let all the naysayers make their comments. Those of us who graduated from the Y know what a great school it really is!
As an LDS instructor at a secular state university, I applaud BYU's wholly unscientific ranking and unofficial award. Far from all secular college students regularly drink themselves into oblivion, but the bacchanal lifestyle of many is a serious impediment to true learning. It is truly difficult to teach the hung-over when they do attend class--and impossible to teach them when they don't.
Many campuses nationwide hold regular discussions on the dangers of binge-drinking and other risky behavior that accompanies the bacchanal lifestyle. Whatever else you think of BYU, its problems are happily minimal that way. And BYU students across the board DO learn better, because this distraction is largely not among them.
This is a GOOD thing, BYU. Stay #1 on that list for 100 years!
Of the ten students you knew, eight lied to be there.
Most of us who've attended BYU for longer than a few weeks know and recognize that not every BYU student lives the Honor Code or church standards. Some against-the-rules behavior goes on underground, yes. But it's certainly not typical of the mainstream!
So--nice try. Whichever of the above applies.
Many kids are forced by parents to go to BYU. This makes them more rebellious.
A simple google search will show you that Jim McMahon was at BYU a little before that time.
Cute hyperbole, but missed the mark by about 15 years...
Way to go!!! You have proven that you are better then the rest of us!!!!
I look at all of you in envy. How could I be as happy as you?
I always thought that happiness is at the bottom of a beautifully colored pint of Amber Ale. Or the even kiss of wheat that a Red Rock Golden Ale leaves in your mouth.
I guess my last couple years in college have been just like the author of article wrote. I have spent it with hang overs and throw up all over my shoes.
I mean I have a 3.8 GPA, but imagine what I could have if I didn't go out for a few drinks on the weekends!
BYU here I come!
Ice cream socials are so much better than booze.
They are drunk on self-righteousness!
They are drunk on misplaced pride!
They are drunk on arrogance!
They are drunk on hypocrisy!
They are drunk on irrational superstition!
Being intoxicated with these things is FAR WORSE than having a few drinks of alcohol at a social gathering.
BYU has no "student government" on campus. It has BYUSA - a "service organization" which, other than in the eyes of freshmen, is loathed by a majority of the students. BYU's a fine school - my only real problems have been minor and with the bureaucracy, and even they're not terribly big. But there simply is no student government for students to have faith in. The closest thing there is to a student government is a despised "service organization" whose greatest achievement is annoying students each year with their election.
Personally, I don't think that's a huge deal. Student government organizations at most schools serve as little more than toothless devices for a few students to distribute their political propaganda in the name of a school who does not universally support them.
It really is a tired old story that "tons of students drink on campus at BYU". It simply isn't true.
Sadly, many people in this world can take any story and turn it negative.
Those posting that they would need to be drunk to attend BYU or would be crazy to attempt to enroll in the first place probably are the types that would not get in.
Truth hurt? Deal with it!
Congrats to BYU. It's a good feeling not being surrounded by the trash the world produces.
'atta-way Cougs!
"They are drunk on self-righteousness!
They are drunk on misplaced pride!
They are drunk on arrogance!
They are drunk on hypocrisy!"
And THEN this from Re: Matthew | 3:47 p.m.:
"It's a good feeling not being surrounded by the trash the world produces."
And we supposedly good upstanding LDS people really wonder why Bacchus and many others feel the way they do? Why SHOULD we wonder?
Also taught at BYU, along with the importance of being stone cold sober: Kindness, charity, compassion, tolerance, HUMILITY, and the knowledge that we, everyone on this earth, are ALL children of God.
Who's listening to THOSE lessons?
When a school is noted for having done something extraordinary, there should be approval and appreciation, rather than jealousy and ad hominem attacks.
I congratulate the Y for this unofficial, yet duly noted acclamation.
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