OCTOBER 1999
  
Princeton Review wins Golden Gargoyle award

Weary with the championship he likes least - No. 1 party school - FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte called a press conference in late August to return the favor to the name callers.
He awarded the Princeton Review (no affiliation with the academically well regarded university) the "1999 Golden Gargoyle Award for the most manipulative, bogus research."

"We questioned them about their techniques and methodology," D'Alemberte said.

"Their answers implied a tongue-in-cheek list. In the tongue-in-cheek spirit, we've decided to expose this publication and its rankings based on invalid survey data."

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 D'Alemberte said he had been unable to ascertain whether the Princeton Review surveyors had even been in town, and if they had, whether they had interviewed students coming out of bars or students coming out of Strozier Library.
He lapsed a few times into serious statements, mentioning for example that FSU has won some better first places recently, including U.S. News and World Report's "most efficient university" title.
As for drug and alcohol use among students, he said, "we think this is a problem throughout all American universities, and we're dealing with it."
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