Many Penn State students live for the weekend.

Weekends here are fun, but I've found that one thing is true: Whereas Friday and Saturday bring randomness, Thursday brings routine.

Everyone has a Thursday night custom and for most of us it's sacred. Whether it's $1 pitchers at the Lion's Den, Irish Car Bombs at the Phyrst, or Monkey Boys at the Saloon, we keep our Thursday night habitual and we like it that way.

And last night you would have found me at Players Nite Club drinking $1 Long Island Iced Teas. Yes, that's right, Players -- go ahead and look at my cheesy mug again and confirm the whiteness. I'll wait.

I am 100 percent white. I look white, talk white, dance white, and still, I love Players. What bothers me most about Players is the reaction I get when I tell people of my Thursday night standard. "But that place is ghetto," most say, which in today's slang is used way too liberally. What does that even mean?

University of California-Berkeley's Slang Dictionary defines "ghetto" as something that is of poor quality or is poor looking. But how does that apply to Players?

What's different about this place?

You hear the same music played in every bar across State College on Thursday nights. The people who go to Players do not dress much differently from the ones going to any other bar (I'd argue people dress nicer at Players). And it can't be the actual bar; it's probably the biggest, most high-tech and cleanest in State College.

No, I've concluded "ghetto" to mean "black people go there."

If we played "Which one of these bars is least like the others," even the youngest of children could point out that Players is the most diverse State College bar and for some reason that makes it the "most ghetto." But how can this be true when I see references to black culture everywhere?

Case in point -- a walk through the average student's dorm room typically reveals at least one Bob Marley or Tupac poster. So why is it that some white people still have the nerve to say a place is ghetto?

If I'm wrong, then why do people say, "Oh look, 'that guy' wishes he were black." Most of the time I can't help but laugh at the hypocrite making fun of "that guy" while bumpin' to 50 Cent on his $300 iPod. The fact is, most white guys wish they were black because they're way cooler than us -- they invented cool when they invented jazz.

How many of us have Kanye West as one of our favorites on Facebook (guilty)?

"That guy" is just comfortable enough with himself to express how he feels and there is nothing wrong with that. The rest of us only try to freestyle in front of our bathroom mirrors.

We would all like to think that racism is something our parents dealt with, but when we say a place is ghetto, it sends the message that perhaps racism is more institutionalized than we think.

We need to recognize our prejudices and find ways to overcome them.

We were all raised with a false sense of the world and it is imperative to see it for what it really is. While I was studying abroad in South Africa, I was able to do just this. However, it's important for us as future leaders of the world to stop prejudging a club based on stereotypes. Doing so only perpetuates these inaccurate views.

I'm not saying that the only way to do this is to come to Players. But until you do so, you won't know what you're missing.