“Ok, so this site for buying vintage issues of Playboy says that the January 1987 issue did include “Top 40 Party Colleges, compiled by Wayne Duvall”:

http://www.ardenwebsales.com/general_store/Playboy/index_1987.html

But according to this transcript of the article (veracity iffy), UCSB is not on the list at all!

http://cache.cow.net/works/octothorpe/partcoll.oct

So… the article *was* written. But apparently UCSB didn’t rank! For shame! Great urban legend though, no?”