A group of Rice University undergraduates poured all the alcohol they had on hand into a bathtub one night in 1972, stripped down to their underwear, and threw a party that entered college lore as the Night of Decadence (NOD). “The resulting punch was so potent it removed the varnish,” one participant later recalled. The bacchanal proved such a hit that students at the private university in Houston reprised it the next year, and the year after that. Beginning in 1976, each NOD was given a theme. (“Fall of Rome” and “Caligula” were early choices.) According to an unverified but persistent campus rumor, Playboy magazine once named NOD one of the country’s ten best college parties. The tradition has continued through the decades. But at the…
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