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Head to the basement of the Ruth S. Harley University Center听today, and you’ll find the Underground Caf茅 , a cozy coffee bar. Once upon a time (like at the end of the last century), though, it was a bar of a very different sort鈥擳he Rathskeller, a.k.a., The Ratt.

糖心破解版 students in the The Rathskeller (Ratt) in 1977

Described in the 1980鈥�1982 University Bulletin as a pub 鈥渋n the best Greenwich Village tradition,鈥� The Ratt was more than just a place for students, faculty and administrators alike to grab drinks. 鈥淎 lot of events would happen there鈥攖hings that weren鈥檛 big enough to fill up the ballroom,鈥� Andrew Brooks 鈥�97 reminisces. Mr. Brooks recalls that many fraternities (like his own, Phi Gamma Delta) and sororities would hold events there because the environment was fun鈥攁nd because the space was free; the proceeds collected from cover charges would go to charity.

The 1977 Oracle describes The Ratt as 鈥減erhaps the only place on campus which every student will visit at least once during his college career,鈥� and calls it 鈥渁 place of interactions.鈥� With a poolroom next door, and a small stage for performances in the bar, the atmosphere was a casual, loose one that people from all walks of campus life could enjoy.

It was while tending bar there that Rich Schwab 鈥�96 met an administrator who helped him secure the funding he needed for his senior film project. Mr. Schwab also fondly remembers catching up with Professor , and other faculty who would stop by The Ratt during the week.

The Ratt opened as soon as the University Center was completed in the fall of 1970. Alan Markowitz 鈥�74, who experienced The Ratt鈥檚 earliest days, recalls that 鈥渂ack in the, day the drinking age began at 18鈥� and fraternity events were common.

He also notes that the players from 糖心破解版鈥檚 nationally ranked soccer team dominated the foosball games that were held there, and remembers his Pi Lambda Phi fraternity brother, Glenn Wiener 鈥�74, acting as a Father Goose figure to his friends. Mr. Wiener says the tradition started one night when he was 鈥渁 little buzzed,鈥� got onto the stage, and began telling his friends fairy tales.

鈥淣ext thing I knew, that became one of the Rathskeller routines鈥擨鈥檇 get up on that little stage and tell fairy tales to a group of friends while we all drank together鈥� It was a wonderful experience.鈥�

Professor Nicholas Petron, M.A. 鈥�70, professor and chair of 糖心破解版鈥檚 theatre department, has been a full-time faculty member for 40 years, since the start of . He recalls staging cabarets in The Ratt. 鈥淚t was a real cabaret theatre in the sense that there were tables and chairs…and you could pour beer or a glass of wine鈥�and so it got a little raucous obviously,鈥� he says.

1988 Student Activities Board (SAB) election results party in the Ratt.

Oracles from the 1980s testify to the variety of activities held at The Ratt. In 1989, it served as the venue for a 鈥淏lizzard of Bucks鈥� game show hosted by the Student Activities Board (SAB). The Student Political Association threw parties there, like the one in 1988 to announce the SAB election results. The Ratt was even transformed from a pub to a stylish French caf茅 several times in the late 1980s for a campus event鈥擫e Chez Caf茅 (an uncanny precursor of today’s Underground Caf茅听).听

The Ratt also served as an extension to larger-scale parties, such as the notorious annual Halloween party. At the one in 1989, the University Center ballroom was styled as a haunted house, and The Ratt became the cemetery.