If you throw a bunch of excited, confused, and hormonal 18 to 22-year-olds onto a giant plot of land with little to no adult supervision, they're going to party.
If you throw a bunch of excited, confused, and hormonal 18 to 22-year-olds onto a giant plot of land with little to no adult supervision, they're going to party.
Shenanigans are a core part of the college experience, where young people learn how to make the dumb decisions they'll be making for the rest of their lives, but in a smart way.
Here are 22 wild photos of what that looked like back in the '60s and '70s.
1
Pierce College’s Chi Chi Chi Fraternity
New Year’s Eve party in Los Angeles on December 31, 1970.
2
“My Dad in College”
“The engineering undergrads knew how to party.” Early 1970s.
3
Bed Pile-On!
How many can you fit? Late '60s.
4
Rowdy College Party
Fun in the 1960s.
5
Frat Couch
Friends in the early ‘70s.
6
“My Mom”
“At a college party with a random frat bro.”
7
College Fun
Nacogdoches, Texas, 1968.
8
Fresno State College
Halloween dance party, 1964.
9
Fresno State College Continued
Halloween dance party, 1964.
10
College Friends
A party in 1968.
11
Frat Bros
A California college, 1963.
12
Hillary Clinton
Getting her face painted at Wellesley College, 1960s.
13
Bobbing for Apples
A college Halloween party, MN, 1966.
14
Dorm Hangout
Friends in the late ‘60s.
15
University of Washington
Fraternity party on a lawn, 1965.
16
“My Mom and Her Boyfriend”
A Kappa Sigma party at University of Oklahoma, 1977.
17
The Budweiser Mug
Proud ‘70s college students.
18
Nice Buck
At a frat party in the ‘70s.
19
Sorority Sisters
And a frat bro in the early ‘70s.
20
Frat Bros
Dressed to the nines in the 1970s.
21
Dorm Party Fun
Near Austin, Texas, around 1970.
22
Dumping Water
A ‘70s frat.