Having gone to uni in the US and now living in the UK….the parties at American colleges pale in comparison to the weekly drinking binges by students in the streets in the UK. And in the US, usually the parties are on the weekends. Here, drinking benders happen on most nights of the week in a lot of cities that have universities…and the parties spill out from pubs onto the streets.
It’s bad in the US…but the US does not have a huge drinking culture as in the UK.
I think UK students have the decided edge on the big, crazy drinking scenes. I’m not saying they don’t happen in the US….but in the UK, all that is much more accepted and encouraged.
(However, US “spring break” is another planet altogether. That is “anything goes” and I’m guessing that movies only touch on what happens there. But once again, it is one week out of the year, and is contained mostly in certain areas of the country.)