GU Pub on front page of today's NYT.....

[WilsonBlvdHoya]

...as part of a very interesting profile on NYC GOP Mayor candidate Lhota. Reactions from Vado and saxacd, please!

Seems like a reasonable (i.e. 50s/60s era) Republican (Goldwater fandom aside). Loved the "Tea Party crap" quote...

NYT Front Page Story featuring Lhota and The Pub!

[Elvado]

We had people who wanted to audit the Pub. We called them dickheads.

[thebin]

Lhota and grown-ups like him are the GOP's only hope of avoiding electoral extinction.

[nodak89]

Back in the day
Pub>Tombs

[Nevada Hoya]

Funny story about the Pub: An alumna of Georgetown (lawyer in town working for Caesar's Corp) asked me if I knew the name of the pub in Healy. I said I didn't know, because it was after my time on the hilltop, but also before the time of some younger alums. She and one of the alumnus, who were both transfer students into GU around the same time, were having a discussion of the pub in Healy, but neither could remember the name. She was laughing at herself last night, as it turned out that the name of the pub was The Pub (what's a Hoya; yes).

Close, but not quite. It was "The Center Pub", just as the nearby sandwich shop was "The Center Cafe". --Admin

[SSHoya]

It would be over ten years until this reputation would be in jeopardy. Most other nights in 1987 Mark Corallo (COL `88) would have been working exhaustively behind the counter of the wildly popular University Center Pub to accommodate a line-out-the-door crowd. The Pub, a student-run bar in the basement of Healy Hall, which former General Manager Corallo recently recalled as being “sticky, smelly, sweaty, [and] time-of-your-life,” had served as the epicenter of the “drinking man’s school” for nearly thirteen years. In the fall of 1987, however, Corallo felt that the Pub’s place in Georgetown’s culture, along with its balance sheets, was in serious jeopardy. This was thanks to a part of the University’s new alcohol policy, which required the Pub to host “dry nights” every Wednesday for freshmen who couldn’t drink. And so on a Wednesday in late September, Corallo headed not to the Pub—which, being dry, was also empty—but to Gaston for a town hall meeting, where members of the administration explained the new rules governing drinking. He joined over six hundred other students there to protest.

georgetownvoice.com/2009/09/03/from-dry-to-debaucherous-georgetown-through-the-ages/

[WilsonBlvdHoya]

Oct 3, 2013 7:15:25 GMT -5 SSHoya said:

It would be over ten years until this reputation would be in jeopardy. Most other nights in 1987 Mark Corallo (COL `88) would have been working exhaustively behind the counter of the wildly popular University Center Pub to accommodate a line-out-the-door crowd. The Pub, a student-run bar in the basement of Healy Hall, which former General Manager Corallo recently recalled as being “sticky, smelly, sweaty, [and] time-of-your-life,” had served as the epicenter of the “drinking man’s school” for nearly thirteen years. In the fall of 1987, however, Corallo felt that the Pub’s place in Georgetown’s culture, along with its balance sheets, was in serious jeopardy. This was thanks to a part of the University’s new alcohol policy, which required the Pub to host “dry nights” every Wednesday for freshmen who couldn’t drink. And so on a Wednesday in late September, Corallo headed not to the Pub—which, being dry, was also empty—but to Gaston for a town hall meeting, where members of the administration explained the new rules governing drinking. He joined over six hundred other students there to protest.

georgetownvoice.com/2009/09/03/from-dry-to-debaucherous-georgetown-through-the-ages/

This article accurately captures the ethos/feel on campus of the early 80s (absent the hoop madness of course! ;-) ). GU was a fun college and I certainly did my fair share of overindulging (scary to think back about it now!) but it was common knowledge among the faculty that professors were concerned about: 1) the level of partying vis-a-vis studying/academic work among undergraduates and; 2) the overt level of pre-professionalism among students which has only grown even further in the interim....

[Nevada Hoya]

Oct 2, 2013 16:58:18 GMT -5 Nevada Hoya said:

Funny story about the Pub: An alumna of Georgetown (lawyer in town working for Caesar's Corp) asked me if I knew the name of the pub in Healy. I said I didn't know, because it was after my time on the hilltop, but also before the time of some younger alums. She and one of the alumnus, who were both transfer students into GU around the same time, were having a discussion of the pub in Healy, but neither could remember the name. She was laughing at herself last night, as it turned out that the name of the pub was The Pub (what's a Hoya; yes).

Close, but not quite. It was "The Center Pub", just as the nearby sandwich shop was "The Center Cafe". --Admin

So it was called The Center Pub or the University Center Pub, and not The Pub? Is that right? So I should tell the alumna in question that it was The
Center Pub?

[SSHoya]

Well, full name would be Center Pub but in everyday conversation I always called it the Pub in my day in mid-1970s.

[Elvado]

Classic Pub story from summer of 1984. I was managing on a Thursday night and the line was customarily out the door and down the hall of Healy Basement.

Guy comes up to the front of the line and says, "I'd like to come in". Doorman says, "Get in line and you can." Guy says, "but I'm Rob Lowe, the actor". Doorman says, "Really, well I'm the doorman and there's the line." He left.

Seems he was in DC doing St. Elmo's Fire and learned a bit about GU and its Pub that night.