Slut Phenomenon Research Paper

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Slut Dungeon “Slut Dungeon” is the nick name of the club called Cellar. Cellar is one of the notorious biggest clubs in Morgantown, WV. This is a place for people who want to have fun. Although, we must be 18 to get in, it gives people the opportunity to relax. People always have an idea of club is a bad place that young people come to drink and destroy themselves, but I think it also has other meaning to young people like us. I have met with the promoter of Cellar to allow us to know more about Cellar. Cellar is right downtown and it is only ten minutes walking from the Mountainlair, so it is really easy for everyone wanting to get there. The place doesn’t look really big in the front, but has big dance floor in the basement. Cellar is on a one-way street full of speeding cars and drunken people, I think it is a great place to have a club there. Because people can easily get to it, a lot of students go there on Thursday. They have a huge bar for 21 year olds that are for the people who want to drink. Mostly the dance floor is for young people.
I walked there on Friday 2 Feb for my interview. It wasn’t anyone guarding in the front, I was expecting it to be more secure other places. I walked in and spoke to a person works there to see the promoter of the
club. The promoter is Marcus Price, and he has run the club for more than a year now. I want to prove my point to everyone that clubs are not always a bad place as everyone used to thinking. It is just a place people come to have fun and they have a strong environment there. Speaking with him for the first 10 minutes, I just want to focus on the safeness and the environment at Cellar. The club is in a college town so, it is always full of college student whether they are above 21 or not. They have a great DJ that usually plays new songs, I was there couple times. I think they play really good music in there, the DJ really knows how to turn people on with his beats.
My question was: “Why cellar over any other club?” Because Marcus thinks Cellar has a great potential to be the biggest club in Morgantown when Karma (another club in Morgantown) was shut down. He wants everyone to have a good time when they go there. Speaking with him, I think he is a really cool guy that really put a lot of effort in his job. “Slut dungeon” is another name for Cellar; the promoter doesn’t really know where the name comes from. People just start calling that after a while. Sometimes, there are also problems but he has to be extremely careful with it. Because they are selling alcohol, therefore he always has to do things different ways. The underage drinking is also a huge problem in Morgantown, but the street is full of drunken people so it is easier to run club business here. There are still some problems in the club sometimes, people got drunk and started a fight in the club. Then they have to immediately throw them out before something happens.
Morgantown was noisy on a Thursday night, I got ready to go Cellar to enjoy with my friends. Of course, they always checked ID before you walked in and you only had to pay one dollar if it is before 10pm. I think it is a really fair price for college student, some people want to buy drink then they have to pay inside but its only 75 cents for one drink on Thursday nights. We got there around 10pm so we only need to pay one dollar to get in. There was not crow when I walked in, so I had a good look at the place. The lighting is dim and dark in a way; they have a DJ cover by window glass in the dance floor. There are tables and chairs in the back of the dance floor that also have a bar there. The place doesn’t really look that fancy to me like others club, it is Morgantown so I guess this is good. The DJ was already started playing music; he played a lot of songs I didn’t know so it didn’t really hit me at all. But the night was still young, there would be more fun later in the night.
Me and my friends came in the back and chilled for a while before more of our friends got there.
Around 11pm, people started walking in. It was packed with people that I can barely walk anywhere. This is normal which the entire freshmen come here after school, so it is always full of people on Thursday night. The atmosphere was really fun, people started talking and dancing. I went to a corner to see around, there were girls and guys dressing in nice clothes ready to hit the dance floor. The bartender started to sell drinks, that when the guys started to buy girls drink. My friends were all there, so we started to have a little fun too. It was awesome; we were all turned up at around
midnight.
The night went out quick, it was fun but I had to go back for Friday class in the morning. The place was great and the DJ hit it well, everyone had a fun time. You always need a buddy to go back home, never going back alone by yourself at night for whatever reason. It is always safer to go back with a group of friends, because you will never know what going to happen. I and my friends had a really fun time, but we were really hungry and tired. So stop by drunk breakfast at the lair to rest and get something to eat there, the food was horrible but we were all hungry so it didn’t really matter.
Overall, the quality of the music was ok, I don’t really like the music I guess everyone has a fun time that is the important thing. I personally think it is a great place to blow off some steam for who want to have fun but doesn’t want to pay much money.

Word Cites: Price, Marcus. Personal Interview. 15 Feb. 2013