Obviously, I don't have undergrads here, except at some department receptions. And then I card them if they order at the bar. As to the problem of underage drinking, Scott is among those who see it as a lack of early education. The reason we get drinking problems with kids on campus is they're not taught at a young age to respect alcohol. It should begin when kids are still at home.
European kids respect alcohol more.
Some lunch patrons share his opinion, and others don'tthough even those who agree on the bar's importance don't seem to actually drink. I can't speak for everyone, but I rarely have lunch with anyone ordering a drink. History professor Dean Ware, outgoing president of the Faculty Club, and biology professor emeritus John Roberts, a member of the club's board of directors, take Portugese's view. They've lunched at the Common Table several times a week for twenty years and remember the days before the bar was built and the club obtained a liquor license in 1972. Ware remembers a cabinet in which members kept their own bottles labeled with their names he kept Scotchand to which they each had a key.