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Date: Jun 19, 2005

HA, 6/19/05: Powerplant restaurant

Date: Jun 19, 2005

Where do the patrons of the upscale restaurant park?

Date: Jun 19, 2005

Well, LVN, if Roy has his way, every building on campus will eventually be an upscale restaurant, and MS will be down to 7 state universities.

Date: Jun 20, 2005

arent the adp people complaining about no liquor west of town in fact having a vote tomorrow to go wet, so we can attract more restaurants?

no liquor on campus, how can this be a successful resturant?

maybe sft can have the area declared resort rather than educational and get the happy juice flowing..

cheers

Date: Jun 20, 2005

Come to the Powerhouse and get some "Jesus Juice" between classes. It makes you feel so...free!

Date: Jun 20, 2005

crumbs wrote:

arent the adp people complaining about no liquor west of town in fact having a vote tomorrow to go wet, so we can attract more restaurants? no liquor on campus, how can this be a successful resturant? maybe sft can have the area declared resort rather than educational and get the happy juice flowing.. cheers

As I indicated in a thread discussing the Trent Lott Center some time back, look for the ED folks and their power backers to find a legal way to serve liquor in the TLC banquet room. If they find a way to do it, they will, and they will try to extend it to the upscale Power House.

Date: Jun 20, 2005

A Lott of Pork wrote:

crumbs wrote: arent the adp people complaining about no liquor west of town in fact having a vote tomorrow to go wet, so we can attract more restaurants? no liquor on campus, how can this be a successful resturant? maybe sft can have the area declared resort rather than educational and get the happy juice flowing.. cheers As I indicated in a thread discussing the Trent Lott Center some time back, look for the ED folks and their power backers to find a legal way to serve liquor in the TLC banquet room. If they find a way to do it, they will, and they will try to extend it to the upscale Power House.

If you followed the drug and alcohol policy discussions of yore, you would know that it is legal to drink beer and certain wines on campus.

Date: Jun 20, 2005

Retoxification wrote:

If you followed the drug and alcohol policy discussions of yore, you would know that it is legal to drink beer and certain wines on campus.

I was under the impression that the USM campus is a "dry" campus except on special occasions (football game weekends "The District" is "wet". If so, then how can profs be allowed to drink alcohol at the faculty club? Is there even a faculty club anymore? I remember it from my days in Hattiesburg.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

It is legal to drink alcohol on campus (provided the one consuming the alcohol is 21) but it is not legal to sell alcohol on campus.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

Recalcitrant wrote:

Retoxification wrote: If you followed the drug and alcohol policy discussions of yore, you would know that it is legal to drink beer and certain wines on campus. I was under the impression that the USM campus is a "dry" campus except on special occasions (football game weekends "The District" is "wet". If so, then how can profs be allowed to drink alcohol at the faculty club? Is there even a faculty club anymore? I remember it from my days in Hattiesburg.

A faculty club? You mean like a real college or university? Yeah, right. Not in the last ten years at least has there been a faculty club. Faculty sorely need a place where they can socialize with faculty from other disciplines. If Shelby was smart (I know, I know) he would have built one immediately upon assuming the presidency and bugged it as way to keep tabs on his "employees." When the drinks flow, people tend to talk.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

Angeline wrote:

Recalcitrant wrote: Retoxification wrote: If you followed the drug and alcohol policy discussions of yore, you would know that it is legal to drink beer and certain wines on campus. I was under the impression that the USM campus is a "dry" campus except on special occasions (football game weekends "The District" is "wet". If so, then how can profs be allowed to drink alcohol at the faculty club? Is there even a faculty club anymore? I remember it from my days in Hattiesburg. A faculty club? You mean like a real college or university? Yeah, right. Not in the last ten years at least has there been a faculty club. Faculty sorely need a place where they can socialize with faculty from other disciplines. If Shelby was smart (I know, I know) he would have built one immediately upon assuming the presidency and bugged it as way to keep tabs on his "employees." When the drinks flow, people tend to talk.

Isn't that what this website and his 24/7 monitoring of it accomplishes? No drinks though!

Date: Jun 21, 2005

there was a faculty club of sorts a number of years ago at an off-campus location (in the former motel next to Walgreens. didn't do well (financially) and didn't last long.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

stinky cheese man wrote:

there was a faculty club of sorts a number of years ago at an off-campus location (in the former motel next to Walgreens. didn't do well (financially) and didn't last long.

I'm really surprised to learn that USM doesn't have a faculty club. I have a niece who attends the University of Central Oklahoma, a relatively small commuter school in Edmond, OK. They have a very nice faculty dining room that doubles as a faculty club. I've been there several times and enjoyed excellent cuisine at exceptionally low prices. Pretentious as he is, I'd think a faculty club would be high on the Thames priority list, right up there with sky boxes.

AE

Date: Jun 21, 2005

Austin Eagle wrote:

I'm really surprised to learn that USM doesn't have a faculty club.

AE, we might not have a Faculty Club, but we do have an Old Boys' Club.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

The only problem with using this board as a faculty club is that it lets in the riff-raff (me, Invictus, who knows who else.)

Long time ago UMemphis had a faculty dining room. Drapes, padded chairs and quiet. Same food. One of the hugest perks of being a TA was getting to eat in there. Heaven!

Date: Jun 21, 2005

Dues Paying Member wrote:

Austin Eagle wrote: I'm really surprised to learn that USM doesn't have a faculty club. AE, we might not have a Faculty Club, but we do have an Old Boys' Club.

Would that be the same as the USM Good Ole Boy's Club?

AE

Date: Jun 21, 2005

Austin Eagle wrote:

Would that be the same as the USM Good Ole Boy's Club?

One and the same. Membership by invitation only.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

LVN wrote:

The only problem with using this board as a faculty club is that it lets in the riff-raff (me, Invictus, who knows who else.)

Yeah. All these "lazy effect snobs" would probably want some ritzy place with fancy table cloths & linen napkins & stuff where I couldn't slop Busch on the floor.

Donnanelle's is more my style

Date: Jun 21, 2005

stinky cheese man wrote:

there was a faculty club of sorts a number of years ago at an off-campus location (in the former motel next to Walgreens. didn't do well (financially) and didn't last long.

Hey Stinky, don't you remember? A few years after the one at the old SouthernAir motel closed, they reopened it on campus at the Peck Building. It was open for several years and was a really nice place to go, but it closed as well. The rumor was that there was some sort of stink about the liquor laws and it was shut down because of that.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

yeah--now i remember that site as well. state property--no alcohol.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

stinky cheese man wrote:

yeah--now i remember that site as well. state property--no alcohol.

The only way around that would be for a faculty club to be owned by a separate entity, such as the Foundation. I believe this is what Ole Myth does to allow them to serve libations at the Memory House right at the front gate.

I've never figured out what State does about its Oenology Department, though

Date: Jun 21, 2005

Invictus wrote:

The only way around that would be for a faculty club to be owned by a separate entity, such as the Foundation.

A faculty club must most definitely be owned by a separate (private) entity. But it most definitely should not be the Foundation.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

MSU serves wine and cheese at this place that i think is on non-state property.

Date: Jun 21, 2005

Club Soda wrote:

Invictus wrote: The only way around that would be for a faculty club to be owned by a separate entity, such as the Foundation.

A faculty club must most definitely be owned by a separate (private) entity. But it most definitely should not be the Foundation.

Are you against any Foundation sponsoring any Faculty club or this Foundation sponsoring this Faculty Club?

Date: Jun 21, 2005

What if you had a little corporation that owned the Faculty Club and all faculty could be shareholders, elected board etc.??

Date: Jun 21, 2005

BP wrote:

Are you against any Foundation sponsoring any Faculty club or this Foundation sponsoring this Faculty Club?

I don't think the USM Foundation should sponsor or run a USM Faculty Club. The relationship between the Foundation and USM is too ambiguous. And maybe a little too cozy.