Do American undergrads drink beer in pubs?

Posted by NotYourSweetBaboo@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 115 comments

I recently read the following in \_The Ghost in the Attic\_ by Shepard Siegel (2004, MIT Press): >It is not difficult to find, in this population \[of university-student volunteers\], a lot of people who routinely drink beer in a pub." I'm reading this book and assuming a North American audience, primarily. My (Canadian) experience of American campuses (conferences, primarily) is that there are no campus pubs (there are usually more than one in Canada), and that the off-campus drinking establishments are not pubs. Am I wrong on either count? Do American undergrads drink beer in pubs?