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:''The Wisconsin Union was the first college union in the country (and still one of the few) to sell beer.''[http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/12410/?view=beerfly]  Digging further ''It was in Tripp Commons.  We called it the “770 Club” because that was our street address then and then we surrounded it with all the usual gimmicks and mystery of a night club.  We had floor show entertainment—student acts entertaining people sitting at tables with, now, beer to drink because we were able to include beer.  This is another first at Wisconsin.  It was the first state institution to manage to get approval for serving beer on the campus.  It was unheard of then.''[http://www.hoofers.org/history/Early%20Union%20History.htm] --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 15:52, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
 
:''The Wisconsin Union was the first college union in the country (and still one of the few) to sell beer.''[http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/12410/?view=beerfly]  Digging further ''It was in Tripp Commons.  We called it the “770 Club” because that was our street address then and then we surrounded it with all the usual gimmicks and mystery of a night club.  We had floor show entertainment—student acts entertaining people sitting at tables with, now, beer to drink because we were able to include beer.  This is another first at Wisconsin.  It was the first state institution to manage to get approval for serving beer on the campus.  It was unheard of then.''[http://www.hoofers.org/history/Early%20Union%20History.htm] --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 15:52, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
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: And another one ''In the 1930s, the Board of Regents approves the sale of 3.2 beer on campus, making Memorial Union the first union to serve beer at a public university.''[http://www.news.wisc.edu/8959.html] --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 15:54, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
    
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