The campus pub: on some university campuses it’s as much a part of the culture and legacy as the beloved fight song or mascot. At other schools, it’s a skeleton of a hangout, losing business and facing closure.
On-campus bars have gathered some attention in central Texas after a task force at Southern Methodist University in Dallas recommended the university establish a bar.
One bar that has thrived through the years is the Der Stiftskeller on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The bar opened in 1933, the same year prohibition ended.
“It’s always been very much in the fabric of student life here,” said John Lucas, university spokesman at the University of Wisconsin.