UVA Misunderstood Dr. King

While researching a proposal in support of placing-a-pool/ping pong-table-in-the-business-lounge-cause, I came across a 2002 Feasibility Study for a Graduate Professional Student Studies Center at U.Va.

In describing the place -which the study concludes is much needed- the faculty writes:

Specifically, on the academic side, students are looking for a place to study during the day. The basic needs would be comfortable chairs and good light. . . . On the non-academic side, the need for food, perhaps wine and beer, were recognized as essential to the success of such a space. While the availability of light lunch items would be welcomed, coffee was universally seen as the sine qua non of a graduate space. Also the availability of newspapers, darts and other games were offered as incentives that would draw students to such a space. The real dreamers wondered if a pool table might be installed.

In case the use of bold ruined your ability to read, the authors described wine and beer as essential to success while denouncing pool tables as the stuff of "real dreamers."

Not surprisingly, they went on to successfully argue for a stripper pole in the name of fundamentals.