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The checklist's test names its instance: the Linebacker Lounge, the landmark bar across Edison Road from Notre Dame, and around it the student-corridor cluster of Five Points — Corby's, The Commons, Nickie's and Bridget's — with the licensing wars South Bend fought over that cluster's crowds, lines and noise. That whole geography is South Bend's, boundary-printed here in its frame, and the test is whether Mishawaka holds its like. It does not, and the reason is structural, in the city's other institution. Mishawaka's college is Bethel University, a Missionary Church school whose covenant culture is dry: a campus whose students sign onto a no-alcohol discipline does not grow a bar corridor, and no cluster of student bars stands across from Bethel or along its Bethel Circle approaches in the city's record — not in the bars fragment's directories, not in the licensing record those directories imply. The city's college-age drinking geography is the ordinary one of its Lincolnway and Main Street rooms, shared with every other age. The licensing-wars half of the test fails with it: Mishawaka's bar regulation history in this record is the dry era's enforcement — the still raids, the padlockings of 1930, repeal on 5 December 1933, all told in the Crime section — and the ordinary licensing course of the legal trade after repeal; no Five Points-style war between a city and a student cluster appears, because there was no cluster to fight over. The test thus prints at its true result: the landmark lounge across from the institution is a form that requires an institution students may drink across from, and Mishawaka's institution is the one college in the county whose covenant forbids the corridor into being. The Linebacker stands five miles west, doing for Notre Dame what no Mishawaka room has ever been asked to do for Bethel.