A group of students enjoys a game at the bar's pool table, while the rest of the customers lean against the bar or hang out at tables. In fact, the sweatered and sneakered denizens of this bar would probably laugh at you if you showed up in one. Jodi Butler '98, now an editor at Family Fun magazine in Northampton, didn't spend much time in downtown Amherst as a student, she says. But even an infrequent visitor knew the hot spots. By reputation, Time Out was heavily populated by sorority and fraternity members and residents of the Southwest area.
Bars still have their stereotyped audience.
Mouldovan claims that the Monkey Bar, a fairly new spot, attracts a heavy sorority crowd, and the conventional wisdom is that the Pub is also often populated by Greeks. If it's true that the Pub attracts a crowd from the Greek organizations, someone should do an epidemiological study on the prevalence of colds and flu among sorority sisters. The Pub's dance parties are weekly, and judging by the photos posted on the website of the production company that offers them, they are always crowded, sweaty affairs. That is evidently a drawing card. Certainly this spot has the most overt pick-up scene we've encountered in this evening's rounds.