2008 Woodie Awards
Clemson named home to happiest college students
Noelle Phillips
Issue date: 8/12/08 Section: News
And what about Wofford's ranking as No. 13 on the list of Most Conservative Students?
A write-up about the student body for the Princeton Review survey quotes an unnamed student as saying, "The typical student is a preppy kid from South Carolina who drives an SUV, likes music from Alabama to Jimmy Buffett, is a member of a sorority or fraternity, and dreams of being added onto George W. Bush's family tree."
True?
"Except for the George Bush part," said Hollis Johnston, a Wofford senior from Columbia, "most of that is pretty accurate."
Good call. With the president's approval ratings at historic lows, it's probably best to not use his name as recruitment tool.
Biggest jocks? Clemson scores again.
When a college's football team wins one game in two years and still sells out the stadium, surely that deserves a ranking in the Students Pack the Stadium category.
Not so for USC.
Instead, Clemson scored a No. 1 national ranking in the Jock Schools category and No. 7 for student attendance at sporting events.
The Princeton Review based rankings in the Jock Schools category on intercollegiate and intramural sports.
Sure, Clemson students pack the 80,301-seat Death Valley. But USC students give them a run for their money in the 80,250-seat Williams-Brice Stadium.
And even today's students, who were in elementary school during USC's infamous 1998 and 1999 seasons, wear fan loyalty for a winless team as a badge of honor.
Call it 0-and-proud.
"It surprises me we're not on that" Jock Schools list, said Chris Narron, a USC senior from Charlotte. "Maybe basketball hurt us."
Basketball coaches Darrin Horn and Dawn Staley, you've been served.
Best frat scene: It's Greek to Wofford.
At Wofford, they call it "The Row."
It's the center of the campus social life.
Even those who don't pledge a sorority or fraternity find themselves at weekend parties at the cluster of fraternity houses on campus, said Hollis Johnston, recruitment coordinator for the college's Panhellenic Council.
(Johnston's sorority allegiance is a secret right now. Since she's in charge of this year's rush, she has to be neutral until it's over.)
"We're so tiny we're not really exclusive between everyone," said Johnston, a senior from Columbia. "At South Carolina, there'll be Tri-Delts hanging out with Tri-Delts and AOPi's hanging out with AOPi's. Some of my best friends are in other sororities."
And if giving up exclusivity is what it takes to be ranked near the top of the Greek scene list?
"That might be a list we don't really want to be on," said Chris Narron, president of USC's InterFraternity Council.
Narron, by the way, said USC's Greek housing would give "The Row" a run for its money in prestige any day.
"Every year, we have another university come in the fall and in the spring to look at our village," he said.
A write-up about the student body for the Princeton Review survey quotes an unnamed student as saying, "The typical student is a preppy kid from South Carolina who drives an SUV, likes music from Alabama to Jimmy Buffett, is a member of a sorority or fraternity, and dreams of being added onto George W. Bush's family tree."
True?
"Except for the George Bush part," said Hollis Johnston, a Wofford senior from Columbia, "most of that is pretty accurate."
Good call. With the president's approval ratings at historic lows, it's probably best to not use his name as recruitment tool.
Biggest jocks? Clemson scores again.
When a college's football team wins one game in two years and still sells out the stadium, surely that deserves a ranking in the Students Pack the Stadium category.
Not so for USC.
Instead, Clemson scored a No. 1 national ranking in the Jock Schools category and No. 7 for student attendance at sporting events.
The Princeton Review based rankings in the Jock Schools category on intercollegiate and intramural sports.
Sure, Clemson students pack the 80,301-seat Death Valley. But USC students give them a run for their money in the 80,250-seat Williams-Brice Stadium.
And even today's students, who were in elementary school during USC's infamous 1998 and 1999 seasons, wear fan loyalty for a winless team as a badge of honor.
Call it 0-and-proud.
"It surprises me we're not on that" Jock Schools list, said Chris Narron, a USC senior from Charlotte. "Maybe basketball hurt us."
Basketball coaches Darrin Horn and Dawn Staley, you've been served.
Best frat scene: It's Greek to Wofford.
At Wofford, they call it "The Row."
It's the center of the campus social life.
Even those who don't pledge a sorority or fraternity find themselves at weekend parties at the cluster of fraternity houses on campus, said Hollis Johnston, recruitment coordinator for the college's Panhellenic Council.
(Johnston's sorority allegiance is a secret right now. Since she's in charge of this year's rush, she has to be neutral until it's over.)
"We're so tiny we're not really exclusive between everyone," said Johnston, a senior from Columbia. "At South Carolina, there'll be Tri-Delts hanging out with Tri-Delts and AOPi's hanging out with AOPi's. Some of my best friends are in other sororities."
And if giving up exclusivity is what it takes to be ranked near the top of the Greek scene list?
"That might be a list we don't really want to be on," said Chris Narron, president of USC's InterFraternity Council.
Narron, by the way, said USC's Greek housing would give "The Row" a run for its money in prestige any day.
"Every year, we have another university come in the fall and in the spring to look at our village," he said.
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