Wednesday, March 21, 2012
At PSU we know how to Party
This American Life's look at the party scene here at Penn State I thought was fairly accurate and I actually thought they didn't even make us look bad. Sure we are a party school..... every school is a party school we just have more people. More people = more parties. Sure there are a few people who can't handle themselves around alcohol but they make the rest of us look bad by doing dumb things. But the majority know their limits and don't cause problems. People concerned with the "image" this gives PSU don't make sense to me. We are considered a top academic institute and we have awesome parties compared to somewhere like Arizona State which everything I've heard about them is referencing their parties. (No offense I'm sure you have excellent academics) I'm just saying everyone has flaws just embrace our school as is the good, the bad and the ugly. Personally I'm not a big party person. The frats are straight up disgusting (again no offense) and I just get a bad vibe from them. The apartment parties I've been to are always super crowded so I'd much rather hangout with my friends in smaller groups. I actually prefer to walk around downtown just talking to hammered people while I'm sober. There is no end to the entertainment of the inebriated. The podcast was fair and showed both the students and the locals views. We don't need to redefine who we are as a university we are a top party school, top academic school, and a top athletic school. We don't need others to define who we are. WE ARE PENN STATE!
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Hey Austin, I really like the conclusion to your essay. Kind of ethos if you think about it. It seems unfair for outsiders to judge the image of every student at this institution. You can't characterize 40,000 people as "party-animals". Although, I still find that we were in someways wrongly represented, but you are right that the cases represented do happen here due to the actions of a couple of people, not 40,000. Overall, I liked hearing your reflection on the article.
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I agree with you that almost every university is a party school but since Penn State is large and well known institution it is an easy target for the media. Similarly to what former President Spanier said Penn State students are driven by competition so we want to be number one in everything that we do. I think the ending of this post was perfect!
ReplyDeleteI feel like your blog post is a lot more accurate than the podcast. There are more sides to Penn State than just partying. Also the way they did the podcast made it sound like we were the only school that does this and i agree with you that this happens everywhere, or at least at all the state schools.
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