Via Hair Balls, which I am poised to make my triumphant return to Real Soon Now, comes this disturbing tidbit from Rice's Thresher:
Valhalla, Rice's graduate student pub, is closed indefinitely because of noncompliance with the dry campus policy that took effect during Hurricane Ike. Rice University Police Department Sergeant Carla Barnette said the pub violated alcohol restrictions that applied to the entire campus, which includes all graduate student institutions.
Valhalla manager David Fortunato said he could not comment on the matter, but that the official story was that the pub was closed for renovation.
The no-alcohol mandate began last Friday in preparation for Hurricane Ike and ended at noon Monday. The case is currently under review by the university, and the pub will remain closed until further notice, Barnette said.
I like to think Fortunato at some point cried, "For the love of god, Leebron!"* But it doesn't really work.
I only drank at Valhalla a few times. The most memorable, for me, was when I was accompanied by The Wife and several of her friends. Their presence raised the male:female ratio to about 40:4, which made for an amusing evening.
* As in, Rice Universtity President David Leebron
“WAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRIORS — come out and plaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyaaaaayyyyyyyy….”
There’s something deeply, deeply wrong with the fact that nobody cast in THE WARRIORS went on to have any kind of further meaningful career in entertainment, other than Ajax, who made good money in the 80s and 90s wearing long leather jackets in ice beer commercials.
Well, he shot a lot of people in 48 HRS, too, which was cool.
Uh. Valhalla? Beer? Anti-drinking policies on campus? I’m a lifelong teetotaller, but back in my college days (1979 through the mid 80s) you’d have seen student mobs with pitchforks and torches storming the administration buildings if you’d tried to ban alcohol from campus.
Would have made my job as a Residential Security Aide a fuckuva lot easier, though…