The Sandspur

Issue date: 4/1/05 Section: Life & Times

Faculty members are finally listening to what the students at Rollins College really want: a bar on campus.

The bar will sell wine, domestic and imported beer, champagne, and wine coolers. All profits will go directly to the Alex A. Hollac Scholarship Fund for students who have demonstrated outstanding academic excellence and need financial aid. The bar will be named the Rollins Cabana and will have a Caribbean-themed decor.

"It is about time," said Jenny Kelly, a second-year student at Rollins College. "[The administrators] had to have known we drink. Now, I don't have to get my friends to walk over to the Seven Eleven to get me booze."

At the Rollins Cabana there will be a strict policy of regulating who is of the legal age to drink. Two campus safety guards will be working as body guards to the entrance of the bar. They will ID each person that tries to get in.

Although there is a strict policy of age verification, the loophole in the system is that students are allowed to leave the bar with their alcoholic beverages. "We can regulate what they do in front of us," said Campus Safety Officer Dave Dale. "What they do behind closed doors is not our problem."

Some faculty members are seriously concerned about what a bar on campus could do to the school's reputation. "Rollins is an academic institution, not a party hang out crib," said Dr. Sue Garcube, a professor of Religious Studies.

Other faculty members are indifferent to the idea. "Well, I guess it may look bad to others," said Dr. Henry Fubant, a Philosophy professor. "However, the overwhelming source of profit this business venture could earn could pay for more scholarships for deserving students."

Last, there are the professors who just throw theirs hands up and chuckle at the idea. "Can we professors go to the bar too?" Theatre Professor Jane Honda asked with a chuckle. "No, but seriously, a bar on campus, how random is that?"

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