"BOTTOMS UP!" SAY NEW DUCK OWNERS

You may have read recently that Toppers, a Greencastle dive bar and DePauw student hangout, was bought by a University administrator and her husband. They plan to "get the riff raff out of there" and create a place where students can go and "not worry about rules or regulations" -- whatever that means.

Anyway, now comes word that our belove-ed Duck has been purchased by DePauw along with the rest of the Walden Inn.

Now, it's not like DePauw wasn't running the show at the Walden already, but this means that, of the 4 bars in town (The Pub, Toppers, Moores and the Duck), half are under the thumb of Univeristy administrators. That leaves students with The Pub and Moores -- and students ain't going to Moores. So that leaves a campus of perhaps 1,500 drinking-age students with one viable bar to patronize. And that bar can hold maybe 100 people.

So I don't know about you... but I'm moving to Greencastle and opening a bar. And I promise you we will not be serving any steaks.