The candidate for City Council who got whipped by Bryon Eagon made statements indicating that he wanted to tackle bar raids as an alderman even though he had no real jurisdiction to do so.

Well, it looks like he may have his chance to butt heads with police on alcohol issues yet. According to a source in ASM, Mark Woulf has been appointed to fill the non-voting student seat on the Alcohol License Review Committee. This was done in late April.

Well, now that Woulf is in the seat, he’ll have his first major battle to fight at the end of May:

Fed up with fights, disturbances and underage drinkers, Madison police had planned to take a new tack with the popular Kollege Klub bar near UW-Madison: Try to block the annual renewal of its liquor license.

But the effort to delicense the bar — named by Playboy magazine as one of the best campus party spots in the nation — ran aground earlier this week over a communications breakdown among city officials, leaving the city’s Alcohol License Review Committee the option of only imposing modest conditions on the bar’s liquor license.

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But police are still exploring options to deal with the Kollege Klub, including license revocation, and have asked the city attorney’s office to schedule nonrenewal hearings against three other campus-area bars: Johnny O’s Restaurant and Bar, Madison Avenue and Ram Head Rathskeller.

First off, good job to ASM on filling the seat so quickly. But can Mark Woulf get up to speed on ALRC quick enough to make an impact on the committee? And what’s the student perspective going to be represented as? (especially someone who wasn’t 21 at the time of his City Council run?)

We’ll follow up as time goes on (as we’ll be publishing online on a weekly basis starting next week. Stay tuned!)