Rob Callahan '14, Chair of the Pub Committee, and Natalie Raps '12, President of the Student Assembly, discuss the role the new pub opening in Willard Straight, The Bear's Den, will play in campus life.
The official opening date of The Bear’s Den, a recently-named pub planned for the Ivy Room in Willard Straight Hall, has been postponed from this spring until fall 2012 because of delays in obtaining a liquor license, according to University administrators and students.
After nearly a year of deliberations and delays, the University has approved plans for a campus pub in Willard Straight Hall’s Ivy Room, and the pub will open in the spring semester, according to the Student Assembly and the Office of the Dean of Students.
Though student leaders initially hoped to open a proposed alcohol-licensed pub in the Ivy Room in Willard Straight Hall this fall, the opening date has been pushed back until the spring.
With Halloween fast approaching, one may want to exercise greater prudence with academics in order to ensure that the debauchery of everyone’s favorite holiday does not destroy them on all counts. Those thinking in line with this maxim were doubly rewarded on Friday night, with the rare opportunity to see talented musicians play during a study break at Willard Straight Hall. They were even granted the dusky orange glow of the clock tower, which graced us with a rare change in color. Johnny Lingo was the occasion, and his speedy rhythm proved it to be one worth attending.
Sideshows possess an illicit allure, at once reassuring us of our own relative normalcy while also offering a glimpse of those border-states where our categories of the human and the natural break down. Although our urge to leer at others’ frailty and aberrations can often ironically transform ourselves into freaks, the circus can also be a carnival-esque celebration of unexpected diversity.
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