This is scenic Kohlberg Hall, home of myriad academic classrooms, not to mention the CS10 computer lab. However, Kohlberg's charm lies not only in the brilliant students who study Great Ideas in room 117, but also in the Kohlberg Coffee Bar, a historical site with a fascinating and bloody history. It was in this very coffee bar that the infamous Chai Revolt of 1542 took place, unsurprisingly, in 1542.

Although Swarthmore College was not technically founded until 1864, the Kohlberg Coffee Bar was a popular spot for New World explorers looking for rest and relaxation as far back as the 3rd century A.D. Legend has it that both Christopher Columbus and Erik the Red sipped mocha lattes in its upholstered chairs, although they apparently did not get along too well; the meeting ended in a violent whipped cream assault coordinated by Viking hoardes. However, this outbreak was nothing compared to the Chai Revolt, during which several angry Italians demanded larger cups of chai tea, with a little bit of cinnamon on the top. Unfortunately, the coffee bar workers failed to comply with the Italians' wishes, and a bloody massacre ensued.

Even today, tourists flock from around the world to visit the coffee bar and take tacky pictures of themselves standing next to cardboard cutouts of Marco Polo and Henry Hudson (both of whom were frequent Kohlberg customers). Kohlberg still serves chai to all and sundry, and you can have some of your own for the exquisitely high price of $2.00 (but hey, it is historically significant, and history doesn't come cheap). If that is simply too much for poorer tourists to handle, they can track down David January '03 and ask him how to buy Kohlberg chai in bulk, because apparently, if you pretend you are a coffee bar company, you can buy hundreds of pounds of chai and stash it away in your closet. This miraculous development is, of course, entirely due to the Kohlberg Chai Revolt, without which we would all be chailess and sad.