With all due respect, you must not be local. Radford USED TO have a bad reputation locally, but not nearly as bad as Va Tech for while off-campus parties. I know. My son now works there and lives walking distance to campus.
I was a police dispatcher in the day for Radford City and yea...there are loud parties on the weekends, but nothing moreso than any other school.
These days it’s an up and coming/quickly rising university in the eyes of many. Way I see it, VA Tech students are snobs for the most. MUCH more liberal than RU. So of course they look down their noses.
If you cannot tell, that is a sore subject for me, so excuse my rant.
Lived here for 20 years