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[Watch (HLS stream): Should I Drink Red Wine?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JLVLyuEq.m3u8) (1:35)  _Published 2015-03-12. Cheers to your health! All five of our experts give red wine a purple-stained smile._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 3, 2015 8:00 PM UTC  Elizabeth Renstrom for TIME  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 3, 2015 8:00 PM UTC Princeton Review announced the top 10 party schools in America on Monday, one of more than 60 rankings in the 2016 version of its _The Best 380 Colleges_ guide. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign leads this year’s list. Some online reviews give the school an A+ for party scene, touting [“Tuesday wine nights,”](https://colleges.niche.com/university-of-illinois-at-urbana--champaign/party-scene/) while the area has been known for letting anyone [age 19 and older](http://www.odos.illinois.edu/sls/brochureAds/downloads/Alcohol-Issues-4-Students.pdf) in bars. Here is the full list: 1\. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2\. University of Iowa 3\. University of Wisconsin-Madison 4\. Bucknell University 5\. Syracuse University 6\. University of California-Santa Barbara 7\. West Virginia University 8\. University of Georgia 9\. Tulane University 10\. Colgate University West Virginia University, the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Syracuse are no strangers to this list, while Tulane graduates might be relieved to see the school is also ranked in the top 10 of Princeton Review’s newest list, “Students Most Engaged in Community Service.” ### Spring Break in 1947  Caption from LIFE. Dancing by day to music of a portable radio, students shuffle through the soft footing. Most of them stayed at Balboa Beach for four or five days. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Arms and legs cluttered the whole beach when Glendale students spread out on their towels to sunbathe. They used gallons of lotions and suntan oil. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Pretty girls like Helen Koford (above) and Joan Atwater (next slide), both 18, had lots of chances to show off their bathing suits. They put them on before breakfast, wore them all day every day. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Pretty girls like Helen Koford (previous slide) and Joan Atwater (above), both 18, had lots of chances to show off their bathing suits. They put them on before breakfast, wore them all day every day. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Beach clown's ancient suit won first prize in men's novelty contest. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Sheepish contestant poses in a suit called "Spirit of Glendale." Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Here two Glendale teams race past a marker buoy in a photo finish. Man in the background is too lazy to race. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Spring break in Southern California, 1947. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Dancing by night, two jitterbugs hop to swing music broadcast over public-address system. Even in the cool evenings many wore bathing suits. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Gathering around flaming "G," Glendale students sing a school song. The bonfire was made with pieces of old telephone poles. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Should you drink red wine? It's your lucky day. All five of our experts give red wine a purple stained smile. A standard pour has 125 calories, so it's lighter than beer and mixed drinks, says Julia Zunpano. And of course it's packed with antioxidants. Alcohol is actually good for you if you drink it moderately. Drinking alcohol is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality compared to drinking too much or drinking not at all says Luigi Ferrucci. Ferrucci. Red wine might be particularly beneficial, but some recent studies suggest that we shouldn't give the famous compound resveratrol all the credit. There's likely not enough of it to make a difference, says resveratrol researcher Juan Carlos Espin. But we do know is that David Katz. Is that drinking habitually but moderately is part of the Mediterranean diet and linked to a long life. Just ask cardiologist James O'Keefe who loves red wine for its ability to lower the risk of coronary artery disease, diabetes, congestive heart failure and stroke. His grandmother Dorothy lived to be be 103, and she enjoyed the happy hour drink every night. The key to a long healthy life, Dorothy O'Keefe used to say, is to not drink too much. 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