And on certain nights, a microcosm of the university can all be found under the green awning.
"On a Friday happy hour or something like that," Jackson said, "I'll have seven different departments represented in this upstairs from biologists, to education majors, to architecture (and) English - everything across the board."
Throughout its history, the location has been a meeting destination for all types of groups from the Democratic Socialists of America during the '80s and '90s to the Coalition for Justice in South America.
"The Coalition for Justice started out in the '80s," Wood said, " ... At the time, they used to meet in The Cellar; we used to meet in The Cellar. One, it's a cellar so there are certain atmospherics there. But again, well back then, maybe more people could smoke and they could have their beer and people could bang the table. It was sort of a public space. I think that people that were involved then in the Coalition for Justice in Central America, a lot of them were from the town, too; it was a community coalition, so it made sense."
Though recent success has been found in the library's decision not to cut budgets, the trio believes that there is still much more to discuss.
"We want to want to continue to press the issue at the state legislature level because they're partially responsible for our annual budget in that area. The overall issue ... is that Virginia Tech's ranking among research libraries at research institutions is very low. Near the very bottom. So the idea is to move into the top."
For now, questions about future plans for meeting and discussing university budgeting issues at the Cellar hang in the air. The next scheduled meeting is at More Than Coffee.
"We may," Morgan said about meeting at The Cellar again. "It was just a little loud last week upstairs. We were expecting a smaller group, honestly. The number of people that showed up, yeah, it was a little bit loud."
Of course, this in no way means that another trip to The Cellar will be delayed.
"We also have movie night tonight at the Black Cultural Center," Keskin said. "After that, we are going to The Cellar."
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