Friday, March 10, 2017

College Bar And Its Academic Rhythms

By Debra Wood


Some towns are put on the map because they are connected to old schools or famous universities. A town like this is called a college town, and they are primarily centers of education that also help out the big school to be found in the town. The people will have services relevant to students or have many facilities that will help them in their pursuit of good education.

Schools in the south have been around for a long time, with excellent reputations for turning out people with talent and expertise. One of the oldest and most well known of these is the Virginia Polytechnic and State University, which a college bar Blacksburg serves. Otherwise known as Virginia Tech, it was founded as a school run along military lines and is considered a great engineering school.

In the city the storied campus was founded through inherited properties of the Black family, specifically Samuel Black and his two sons John and William. The former inherited property that was to eventually become the Virginia Tech campus, while the latter got property that was later to become the downtown of modern Blacksburg. Both have bequeathed impressive places for students and residents today.

Any student in search of a place with excellent vibes for hanging out and having something to drink can find it here. Here, it is all about heady academic stuff aided by drinks, and many kinds of fun activities can be found. These are varied, from meeting members of the opposite sex, to simply hanging out with fraternity brothers or Friday night socials.

The typical bar will have mostly the same kind of prices as with most other competitors. It is not about exclusivity or being more posh than most that is important. The typical places have just enough regalia, decorative motifs and special equipment or decorations to make them stand out from others of their kind.

Some bars are where people go to for things like darts, a great thing to do while drinking. Other games can be found in most places, often dependent on what board games or playing sets people have left behind. There will certainly be cable TV or WiFi, and there are places which have sets permanently tuned to sports channels.

Food, too, is something served in bars, though it is often a sidelight to the drinks. There will be times when drinkers feel the need for eating something, and the eats here are excellent, based on local cuisine and its favorites. Hokies of many kinds and persuasions have all got some line or another for their favorite bar or bars.

There are some dozen or so bars that have become centers of student life on the main street of the town. One or two are exclusive to crowds that need some fuel for specific school teams. The ones where frat brothers congregate can have some arcane ritual stuff, like a welcome free punch booster that has an instant buzz.

The bars here also see the need for students to get drunk on occasion, and they have seen their fair share of rowdy boys and girls on the way to games or just in plain need of some fun at night. In any case, people tend to know each other here, and Blacksburg is classified as one of the best places to live in the South.




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