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[DaytonBuck]

Two University of Virginia football players have been arrested at a downtown Charlottesville nightclub. Junior offensive lineman Will Barker and redshirt freshman lineman Dave Roberts were picked up at Club 216 on Water Street at 3:45 Saturday morning.


Police say both men admitted to stealing beer from a cooler at the nightclub. Both face larceny charges. Roberts, who is 19 years old, is also charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol and with using a fake ID.
Barker is expected to be a starter on the offensive line after being named a second-team freshman All-American by the Sporting News in 2006. He's one of two returning starting offensive lineman on Virginia's team this year.

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[3074326]

Virginia is for (gay) lovers.

 

[HailToMichigan]

Naturally, I wasn't going to be the one to bother posting this :tongue2:

From what I hear, Club 216 is the only club, bar, or other establishment in all of Charlottesville that legally serves beer after hours. I wouldn't know for sure though, having never set foot in any club or bar during my time there. (Beer is $30 a keg if you know where to look. House parties it was for us.)

 

[DaytonBuck]

Naturally, I wasn't going to be the one to bother posting this :tongue2:

From what I hear, Club 216 is the only club, bar, or other establishment in all of Charlottesville that legally serves beer after hours. I wouldn't know for sure though, having never set foot in any club or bar during my time there. (Beer is $30 a keg if you know where to look. House parties it was for us.)

These guys are football players at UVA I'm sure they have a way around the rules.

You never set foot in a bar or club in Charlottesville?

 

[HailToMichigan]

These guys are football players at UVA I'm sure they have a way around the rules.

You never set foot in a bar or club in Charlottesville?

Nope. (Slight exaggeration. Maybe once or twice actually.)

But why bother? Beer's more expensive unless you get it the Will Barker way, which risks expulsion. Why go to a club when most parties have the same exact atmosphere and you don't have to pay a cent? Also parties are in the territory of university police, who don't care; downtown is the territory of city police.

The stupidity here is in being downtown for drinking in the first place, especially when underage. I'd say the vast majority of UVA students only go downtown for sober activities.

 

[rocketman]

Nope. (Slight exaggeration. Maybe once or twice actually.)

But why bother? Beer's more expensive unless you get it the Will Barker way, which risks expulsion. Why go to a club when most parties have the same exact atmosphere and you don't have to pay a cent? Also parties are in the territory of university police, who don't care; downtown is the territory of city police.

The stupidity here is in being downtown for drinking in the first place, especially when underage. I'd say the vast majority of UVA students only go downtown for sober activities.

The bar scene at UVA must really suck, if that's the case.

 

[HailToMichigan]

The bar scene at UVA must really suck, if that's the case.

Bar scene isn't downtown. Didn't mean for this to go into a rundown of UVA student social life, but a quick primer: Downtown has some clubs and stuff but it's about a mile and a half from the school. Bar scene is at the Corner which is basically right on Grounds, in fact it's closer than class for most people. The Corner is friggin' jampacked most weekend nights (another reason why I didn't go very much for drinking purposes.)

 

[JohnnyCockfight]

This is what you get when you rely upon the view of a Michigan fan. For shame. Allow a different picture to be painted by an Ohio State fan. The bar scene at UVA was great, and there was no drop-off from the drunken undergraduate days in Columbus.

I, too, attended many parties at UVA, as I did my graduate studies there. But I did slip away from time to time to some of the local establishments that served adult beverages. I will break them down by region. This was for the timeframe of 2001-04.

North Grounds: Sloan's, BW3s, Tokyo Rose, Damon's (no longer there), the Tavern.

The Corner: The Virginian, Three (formerly Jaberwoke, forermly the Greenskeeper), the Biltmore, Buddhist Biker Bar, Coupe de Ville's, Michael's Bistro, Orbit, Baja Bean, Mellow Mushroom, Amigo's, O'Neill's Irish Pub, St. Maarten's Cafe.

Off-corner: Wild Wing Cafe, Continental Divide, Star Hill Brewery, Down Under, Wild Wing Cafe, Northern Exposure, West Main, Durty Nellies.

Downtown: Miller's (Dave Matthew's spot before making it big), Blue Light Grill, South Street Brewery, Bang, Rapture, Club 216, Zocalo, and many of the restaurants also had good bars, like Escafe, Mono Loco, the Downtown Grille, etc.

There were also dive bars in and around the Fashion Square Mall and Pantops areas. Also, chain restaurants like Chili's, Applebees, etc. had some good happy hour deals (like free appetizers and cheap beers, important to poor students).

As for Club 216. I did have an occasion to go there once, at the direction of my then-girlfriend, in a group of friends celebrating the end of finals. Basically, Club 216 is the only after-hours bar in Charlottesville. When the bars have last call at 1:30 a.m., and kick everyone out by 2:00 a.m., you can then go to Club 216. Club 216 was technically a "private" club, so they continued to serve alcohol late into the night, the theory being that a club member could bring in a bottle of vodka, and could then drink from it for the night. It was about a 50:50 ratio of gays folks to straight folks the night I was there.

I remember one person being so drunk at Club 216 that four bouncers had to carry him out, one on each leg and arm. I was laughing at him until he somehow managed to grab my ass while being carried out.

 

[HailToMichigan]

This is what you get when you rely upon the view of a Michigan fan. For shame. Allow a different picture to be painted by an Ohio State fan. The bar scene at UVA was great, and there was no drop-off from the drunken undergraduate days in Columbus.

I, too, attended many parties at UVA, as I did my graduate studies there. But I did slip away from time to time to some of the local establishments that served adult beverages. I will break them down by region. This was for the timeframe of 2001-04.

For shame indeed. It looks like I was there at the exact same time you were. SARC '04.

You've done a far more thorough bit of insight than I was going to bother with, though I don't think anything I said fails to jibe with yours. I'm not the one who said the bar scene was nonexistent.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

If stealing beer from a gay bar is wrong, I don't want to be right.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Virginia is for

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