{"id":4948,"date":"2012-04-18T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T17:54:27","slug":"first-block-launches-the-ninth-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2012\/04\/first-block-launches-the-ninth-block\/","title":{"rendered":"First Block Launches The Ninth Block"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Stanley Sigalov '13<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s not often that a class assignment becomes a tangible enterprise, but CC\u2019s new on-campus bar is the direct result of an economics course.<\/p>\n

Seniors Lee Carter<\/strong>, Ryan Patterson<\/strong>, and Luke Urban<\/strong>, and juniors Bryce Daniels<\/strong> and Tyler Thorne<\/strong> (not pictured) took Economics and Business Professor Larry Stimpert\u2019s Block 1 class \u201cEntrepreneurship\u201d in which the assignment was to write a business plan.<\/p>\n

The result is The Ninth Block, currently located in La\u2019au\u2019s Taco Shop behind the Spencer Center. The on-campus bar, which serves CC students of age, faculty, and staff, is a pilot program, but Patterson said the goal is to find it a permanent, on-campus location. \u201cWe want to show everyone that this is a viable, sustainable concept,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cIt definitely improves campus life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ninth<\/a>\u201cI strongly believe in the importance of students having a place to meet and socialize that doesn’t require an invitation. This gives students who might like to have a drink with a friend or group an option,\u201d said CC President Jill Tiefenthaler.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted a constructive place where kids could gather. There was a lot of support from the administration and the students,\u201d said Urban. \u201cWhat we were hoping to do was create an alternative to the house party scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bar\u2019s founders said that the Block Plan definitely contributed to their commitment to the project, and that it would have been challenging to maintain their momentum under a semester plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entrepreneurship course represents the best aspects of teaching and learning in Colorado College\u2019s Block Plan,\u201d Stimpert said. \u201cThe students immersed themselves in the creative task of developing a complete business plan in three and one-half weeks.\u00a0 They benefitted from the opportunity to work with nine successful entrepreneurs \u2013 most of them Colorado College alumni \u2013 who participated in the course. But most of the credit for the launch of The Ninth Block must go to these students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colorado College previously had a campus bar, Benjamin\u2019s Basement (also known as Benny\u2019s) in the Rastall Center, which opened in 1975 and served 3.2 beer, soft drinks, and snacks. It ceased to exist when the building was enlarged, remodeled, and renamed the Worner Campus Center in 1987.<\/p>\n

The Ninth Block serves nachos, chips and salsa, six different beers, and has a \u201climited but adequate\u201d bar; it does not, however, serve shots. The students said that was a deliberate decision, designed to help promote responsible drinking and to distance the bar from the house party atmosphere. \u201cIt should be a place where a professor and student would be comfortable going after dinner at the professor\u2019s house to talk about the issues of the day,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n

Patterson said the endeavor has been the defining project of his senior year; a \u201ccapstone experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely was one of the top five educational experiences of my life,\u201d Daniels said.<\/p>\n

A longer version of this story is available in Around the Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often that a class assignment becomes a tangible enterprise, but CC\u2019s new on-campus bar is the direct result of an economics course. Seniors Lee Carter, Ryan Patterson, and Luke Urban, and juniors Bryce Daniels and Tyler Thorne (not pictured) took Economics and Business Professor Larry Stimpert\u2019s Block 1 class \u201cEntrepreneurship\u201d in which the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2012","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}