CyberHippie Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 Was it all you damn hippies smoking dope on friday? LoL --------------------------- Waterloo, Ont. — Two popular student pubs at the University of Waterloo have lost their liquor licences following a violent assault at one of them. On Monday, the university yanked the liquor licences for the Bombshelter Pub and Federation Hall. The licence suspensions are indefinite. The move follows a New Year's Eve incident in which a student was badly beaten at one of the bars. A university spokesperson said the suspensions were necessary to protect the safety of students and others. But the university's student federation said closures pose an unnecessary hardship to the pubs' 150 part-time employees, many of whom are students working their way through school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 The Corel Centre is also going dry for a five-day stretch (March 17 - 21), after a random inspection turned up overcrowding in a licensed area, and liquour being taken into unlicensed areas like bathrooms. The Ottawa Sun has the story. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark tonin Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 From what I can tell, the university administration's decision to shut down the 2 university campus bars has nothing to do with typical liquor license infractions (or with our event on Fri. Jan. 17). Basically, from what I can tell, this is shaping up to be a power struggle between the federation of students, who run the bars, and the university administration, who hold the liquor licences. The federation of students feel that the university is over-reacting to the incident that happened on new year's eve at fed hall, while the university admin. is expressing concerns about student safety and is trying to project a safe image publicly. I hope that this gets resolved, and fairly soon, as I am confident that the federation of students would welcome the chance to run another jam event. I have received positive feedback from the manager of the Bombshelter regarding the event on Fri. Jan. 17, and he is a huge live music fan and I am confident he would be willing to book another jam event. I'm really glad that this happened after our event, or I would have been really freaked out!!! Peace, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 But now that rapper Cardinal isn't going to be able to bust a beat!!! he was supposed to perform some time in the near future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 Kardinal Offishall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 holy crap. That's some nasty crud over there. That's a good point Mark. That would have been a ton of shite to deal with if they had of pulled the license before last friday. How likely is it that they'll work it out soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark tonin Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 and here's an article from the KW Record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark tonin Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 I've got to believe that it will get worked out sooner rather than later, but that's just my optimistic opinion. There are a number of events booked for the spring, with contracts signed ... I've got to believe that the stakes are pretty high on both sides to get things resolved. But there may be more to this than I'm aware of or that is publicly being discussed in the papers ... Peace, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Here's an article from today's Globe and Mail on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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