The results are in and Hampshire College has been overthrown as the number one college for Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians.

Hampshire, which tumbled to the number two spot on the Princeton Review's annual list of college characteristics, was replaced as the pinnacle of hippie student bodies by Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.

This week the Princeton Review's list of the country's 368 best colleges hit book stores. The rankings are based on student surveys. Princeton takes a light-hearted approach to ranking colleges with
categories such as "jock schools," "students most nostalgic for Ronald
Reagan" and "school runs like butter."

Princeton's list is typically the first to manifest in a wave of college rankings due out this month including the controversial U.S. News & World Report's list (boycotted, in a sense, by schools such as Amherst and Mount Holyoke colleges) and Newsweek's list.

In addition to its Birk-cred, Hampshire College was also named the 8th best school for encouraged class discussion. It also ranked 8th in the "reefer madness" category. Hampshire filled the 3 spot on a list of campuses with the most liberal students and earned a place on the list of colleges with the least religious students (ranked 10th).

But the Princeton Review isn't all funny titles, the magazine doles out some serious criticisms. UMass was hit hard by Princeton this year. After falling off the magazine's Top Ten Party School list two years ago, this year UMass was labeled the 8th least beautiful campus. UMass also made the list for least happy students (18) and least accessible professors (17).

Smith College was deemed to have some of the most politically active students in the nation (16), dorms like palaces (3) and best career/job placement services (15).

Mount Holyoke College made lists for the most beautiful campus (5), lots of race/class interaction (12) and gay community accepted (10).

And finally Amherst College. Amherst was named the 8th best value private college in the nation, however the school also ranked 7th as having the most students dissatisfied with financial aid. An odd pairing to be sure, but even more so given that Amherst is one of the few schools that has instituted a no-loan policy. All students who qualify for financial aid will have their student loans substituted with grants by the college. Amherst also received the distinction of being a school that "runs like butter" (15).