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CL82 said:
Meh. Less than 90 minutes to Boston. Less than 2.5 hours to NYC. A half hour Hartford and an hour to Providence. That's not really rural. It's more suburban. Olean to NYC is what 5, 5.5 hours?

That said I think that part of the charm of Storrs is that it is owns world and out in the country. Other than going to shows or games I stayed on campus and there was always plenty to do.
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Remember that time CL82 contradicted himself AND agreed with me in post one? Out in the country, in its own world? But really, I pointed out I wasn't a CT guy, and we all know that's what bothered him the most, as he took what I was saying as a slight to the campus and the area. I love the campus, for the 15th time.

Being multiple hours away doesn't make a college campus "close" to things unless your only reference to closeness is Guam.

I know when I was in college, at my middle of nowhere campus that I absolutely loved, when we discussed close-by things, the cities that was 60, 90 and 150 minutes away were always high on our list.

Excalibur said:
News flash: College students spend the vast majority of their time on -- catch this -- campus. What's 2.5 hours away is less a consideration than what is actually right there.
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And Chief's burner account liked this post making the point about what's 2.5 hours away, yet that's his main point in every post, including his very first one that he jumped in to argue.

WhereistheDove? said:
Not a lot going on in rural CT. They have to fill the time somehow!
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It's not rural, it's suburban. There's also no farms within 90 miles of any cities, and something you'd describe as "in its own world out in the country" cannot, under any circumstances, be called rural or farms. Even if there are, in fact, farms, cows and woods.

Ok, ok, I'm seriously done now. Love Rocket and love Storrs!!!
 
So can we talk about the utter lack of bars near campus?? This seems to be the appropriate place to discuss. During a former career right out of college, I spent a lot of time at a LOT of colleges and universities. I had never had such a difficult time finding an establishment as I had whenever I was at UConn. Why is this?? (Really am curious)


Oh and ummm.... Rocket Watts!
 
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MU in MKE said:
So can we talk about the utter lack of bars near campus?? This seems to be the appropriate place to discuss. During a former career right out of college, I spent a lot of time at a LOT of colleges and universities. I had never had such a difficult time finding an establishment as I had whenever I was at UConn. Why is this?? (Really am curious)


Oh and ummm.... Rocket Watts!
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There are 3 bars that are, essentially, on campus. If you know you know.
 
MU in MKE said:
So can we talk about the utter lack of bars near campus?? This seems to be the appropriate place to discuss. During a former career right out of college, I spent a lot of time at a LOT of colleges and universities. I had never had such a difficult time finding an establishment as I had whenever I was at UConn. Why is this?? (Really am curious)
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Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.
 
8893 said:
Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.
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And then there's that one above Sgt. Pep's. I think it has had a few names over the years. The latest one I recall is The Thirsty Dog.
 
Guapo said:
There are 3 bars that are, essentially, on campus. If you know you know.
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8893 said:
Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.
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I get that there are very few bars in the vicinity of campus, compared to most big state schools. But I recall that Ted's used to run ads saying it was "one foot off campus", because it is. Living in Frats for two years, the walk to Ted's and Huskies was not exactly arduous.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
I get that there are very few bars in the vicinity of campus, compared to most big state schools. But I recall that Ted's used to run ads saying it was "one foot off campus", because it is. Living in Frats for two years, the walk to Ted's and Huskies was not exactly arduous.
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UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.
 
BackAftaThis said:
UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.
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Same. I don't know if I ever went to a bar on a Friday or Saturday a single time while at UConn, with the possible exception of a Kegs and Eggs.
 
For those of us who are a little bit older, we remember the pub in the student union. It was pretty convenient, although not as convenient as the kegs and grain punch which were pretty much on every other floor Thurs and Friday.
 
CL82 said:
For those of us who are a little bit older, we remember the pub in the student union. It was pretty convenient, although not as convenient as the kegs and grain punch which were pretty much on every other floor Thurs and Friday.
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I remember it well, mostly because I was arrested there for punching out ceiling tiles.

The best part about that story was the court appearance. Prior to my case, there were a couple of male students who were in court for shoplifting women's lingerie. Their excuse was that it was for Halloween, but pretty much everyone in court got giggity listening to the explanation.
 
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storrsroars said:
I remember it well, mostly because I was arrested there for punching out ceiling tiles.

The best part about that story was the court appearance. Prior to my case, there were a couple of male students who were in court for shoplifting women's lingerie. Their excuse was that it was for Halloween, but pretty much everyone in court got giggity listening to the explanation.
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“Son, can you explain why you punched out the ceiling tiles?”

“Because... alcohol?”
 
BackAftaThis said:
UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.
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Class of 2020 here, in my experience good luck going to a house party with more than 20 people that's not getting busted by the cops before 11. It seems like the only people who can take the fines associated with throwing bangers are frat's, and those are exclusive as all hell.
 
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Someone may know the answer to this, but I believe the lack of bars in the actual town of Mansfield would be related to the maximum number of liquor permits the state allows per municipality/population. Back when I managed a package store in the 80's, there was a finite number of permits in each town and you had to buy an existing one to open your own store.
 
pierogiscri said:
Class of 2020 here, in my experience good luck going to a house party with more than 20 people that's not getting busted by the cops before 11. It seems like the only people who can take the fines associated with throwing bangers are frat's, and those are exclusive as all hell.
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I graduated in 2013, maybe the last class to get the full UConn experience. Sorry about that, y’all got a raw deal in way more ways than one.
 
pierogiscri said:
Class of 2020 here, in my experience good luck going to a house party with more than 20 people that's not getting busted by the cops before 11. It seems like the only people who can take the fines associated with throwing bangers are frat's, and those are exclusive as all hell.
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Woof. I graduated in 2010 (was in a frat too). I heard a lot changed since I graduated (I believe I was the last, if not the next to last year to get the real spring weekend experience). But what you just said makes me cringe.
 
BackAftaThis said:
UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.
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UConn may once have been a house-party school, but it's more of a no-party school now. I graduated in 2018 and every year I was there it felt like the school/town took an increasingly hardened stance. I'm sure that the Chinese Coronavirus was just the excuse UConn needed to smother what was left.
 
8893 said:
Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.
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Definitely asked! The students I worked with simply responded that most people at UConn didn't really go out to the bars. As someone from WI, a place where bars outnumber grocery stores nearly 3:1, you can understand my confusion.

My thought was that there must have been an original cause for this. As TRest said, maybe it was allotted number of licenses or such, and the culture just formed around the circumstances.
 
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