Toning it down for spring break

So, are students getting tamer for spring break? That is what this article in the S. F. Chronicle seems to suggest.

The trend comes to light in a survey released today by Internet travel site hotels.com.

It polled 300 adults between 18 and 22 who had considered planning a spring break vacation. It found 69 percent of them believed "huge, crazy, Girls-Gone-Wild-type spring break events stopped being cool about five years ago.''

That sounded reasonable, although there were doubters.

"You're polling Berkeley, for God's sake?'' asked Alan Rutledge, the president of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Cal and a man who has seen the party culture first-hand. "Honestly, I don't think we've changed that much.''

We should note that although Rutledge talks a good game in defense of the party-hearty ethos, his fraternity house has raised more money -- over $7,000 in the last 12 months -- for philanthropy than any other on campus.

Toning it down for spring break

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