Feve faces unhappy hour
By Greg Walters
Happy-hour at the the Feve, a long standing tradition for those Oberlin students
of legal drinking age, will now face new limitations on crowd size due to concerns over building
capacity and fire safety regulations. From now on, no more than 40 people will be allowed in the
upstairs bar on Friday afternoons.
The Oberlin Fire Chief stopped by last Thursday, Feve owner Jason Adelman said, and
told us, If we come in and youre over capacity, well have problems. And
thats the last thing I want, to have problems.
Happy-hour is the only time when it is over capacity, and it is definitely over capacity,
Adelman continued. Thats one thing I know I can change. Other than that, were
never really over capacity.
Oberlin Fire Chief Dennis Kirin stressed that the Feve is not being singled out for special treatment.
Weve been to other restaurants, he said. Weve been to public spaces
on campus, weve been to the Sco and were making arrangements to get up to the
Cat in the Cream. Assembly areas are always subject to fire inspections to determine that they
are not over-occupied
.Weve been coming by just to remind them theyre subject
to inspections during business hours.
Fire departments across the country are stepping up efforts to enforce fire safety, Kirin explained.
I would have to allude a little bit to the Rhode Island incident, he said, in reference
to the recent nightclub fire that claimed almost 100 lives. Fire departments are getting
a little more active. The inspectors say to themselves, well, maybe I really ought to go
take an extra look, so that nobody gets hurt when they go out to have a good time.
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