Known for her no-nonsense style of leadership, the University of Wisconsin’s former Big Cheese Chancellor Mnookin made her adherence to the drinking age clear with a series of bar raids performed during her four years in power. Successfully handing out misdemeanors for underage students caught drinking in off-campus bars, Mnookin earned her nickname “Mnook ‘em Up” for the legacy numbers of students she put behind bars, specifically jail bars, not just the students caught hiding behind bars while raids were conducted.
In anticipation of the incoming president, Columbia’s most popular off-campus bar, 1020, has announced this month that it will be shutting its doors at the end of the summer. Citing the statistic that 90% of their clientele is under the age of 21, the bar knew they could not financially withstand the loss of the 18-year-old freshman clientele, newly learning their drinking limit and spending hundreds of dollars to black out every Wednesday. The news was heartbreaking for many students who found their last situationship inside those four walls just months prior and are now actively seeking a new match. However, 1020 did announce that they will be hosting one final rager to ring in their past two years of incredible success following their grand re-opening in 2024. This rager will be hosted in collaboration with The Spectador paper under the title Fed Bash. Finally, a party where the only thing more irresponsible than the students is the journalism!
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