St. Patrick’s Day Parties: The 15 Most Notorious College Brew-Hahas In The U.S. (SLIDESHOW)

  • 1. St. Patrick’s Day, University of Dayton

    <strong>Your Take:</strong> “The University of Dayton might not sound like much. We are a small … Catholic school of around 8,000 undergrads. However, on that magical day we all call St. Patrick’s, our school triples in size, and the student neighborhood we all call ‘the ghetto’ floods with a sea of green. It is truly a sight to be seen.” — Wilson, Dayton, Ohio

    “Last year, the university was so terrified of what may potentially happen over St. Paddy’s Day weekend, that the administration bought accidental death insurance for the weekend.” — Joseph, Dayton, Ohio

    “Classes or not, it is guaranteed that the music starts blaring at 4 a.m. with 40’s in hand prepping for Tim’s to open at 5 a.m. After everyone is nice and sauced up, Lowes St. in THE GHETTO starts to fill with completely intoxicated patrons dressed in nothing but green. Thousands of your closest friends line the entire street to form the greatest party any school has ever seen. The sea of green, with beer and Jameson being passed around like it’s some sort of communal stash, parties to the beat of some drunkass bagpiper stumbling the streets in search of liquid gold for payment. UD cops have been seen shotgunning alongside students, just for the hell of it.” — Branden, Dayton, Ohio

    “David Letterman said there are 4 places in the world to be for St. Paddy’s day… Dublin, Ireland; New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; and Dayton, Ohio. The thing that makes UD so special for St. Paddy’s isn’t one specific party … It’s the WHOLE university and most of Southern Ohio, that will migrate to UD’s student neighborhood aka “the ghetto.” A magical one big neighborhood and no parents are home. A school with roughly 8,000 students living on campus will grow to 18,000 every St. Patrick’s day. All day the streets are filled with drinkers in green. Every house is open to anyone. Honestly, just follow the music and walk into a house and you’ll be thrown a fresh beer, no questions asked. The administration sends out an email a couple weeks in advance to all students’ parents urging them to speak with their little Dayton Fliers about not going too hard that day.” — CJ, Dayton

    <strong>Our Take:</strong> This party received far more submissions than any other on the list. It’s a party for college kids and their friends at a small, close-knit school where everyone more or less knows each other. And, most importantly, it isn’t exclusive. Dayton’s St. Patrick’s Day is a chance for everyone to get drunk with each other at 4 a.m. and on: the frat kids, the freshman, the campus police (if Branden’s testimony is to be believed). The small school’s party is comparable to any of the big state schools’, which is pretty amazing for a Catholic university of 8,000.

    For those reasons, Dayton’s St. Patrick’s Day takes the No. 1 spot on our list.

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