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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 2256270, member: 5436"] I was at UConn from 1986 to 1991... A good time, but the campus and sometimes Mansfield police as well as the campus drinking rules in general were already starting to crack down. We had parties at several houses right off the edge of campus once we were able to get our guys into those houses. The cops would eventually show up, but we did get a few hours of fun in before they did. In actuality the "UConn is a party school" reputation was built in the late 1970's through the mid 80's when the national drinking age was 18. The guy who took me up to tour campus when I was in high school was a UConn grad from 1981... and he told me he had a beer mug on his bureau, and from Wednesday or Thursday night through Saturday night many weekends he would just grab his mug, walk out his dorm room door and there were parties happening in pretty much every campus quad area - now THAT was the time when the students were getting away with everything... and that is how UConn got all the way up to #6 on the Playboy list of party schools. The drinking age being moved back up to 21 in 1986 started this pendulum swing that now has messed with the on campus social (drinking) scene But the late 70's into the 80's? Those were the days... [/QUOTE]