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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond.  It would be like water off a duck's back.  UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.[/quote]

JMU grad here.....class of 1978.  I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc.   I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day."   UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country.  All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about.  The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April.   Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one.  On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark.  I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals.  The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals.    Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

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That thing was a ticking time bomb, though.  Drunk people on roofs.  People traveling from far and wide to wreck UVA.  It was finally done in by a U-Haul crash.

http://www.readthehook.com/81253/cover-fatal-roll-1982-fraternity-crash-still-affecting-lives [/quote]

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