Murray Langdoc sits in his office chair with his feet propped up on the file cabinet.

A busy man, it's hard to catch him in his office. When he is there, he's answering the questions from musical bands or doing business with breweries for the UAF Pub.

The phone rings at intervals and he picks it up, hardly letting it touch his ear, as if the person on the other end is yelling. But he sits casually and takes it all in stride.

"This is a fun job – not too stressful," Langdoc says about his new position as pub manager. "That's why I like it."

Langdoc graduated from UAF in spring 2006 with a degree in psychology and business. He arrived here in August 2003, but that wasn't his first Fairbanks experience.

He attended UAF as a freshman in 1981, back when the drinking age was 19 and, according to Langdoc, there were more people from the dorms.

"There might have been a couple more fights too," he says.

Langdoc didn't finish school then, saying that he liked drinking and girls too much.

"I was a C-student," says Langdoc with raised eyebrows. "Pretty surprising considering how much of a maniac I was."

Nick Spartz, a Pub employee of three semesters, recalls a story that Langdoc told about avoiding the cops on campus by driving from upper campus to lower campus via the ski hill.

"I was a campus stud back then," Langdoc says with a smile and a modest tone. "If you ask people who knew me back then they'd say I was kind of catch."

Today, Langdoc plans to go to graduate school and eventually earn a PhD in forensic psychology.

Born in the Bay Area of California, Langdoc grew up around vineyards and breweries.

He and his father even made wine, and Langdoc worked in a vineyard grafting and planting.

"I'm kind of a wine freak," he says, and that freak-ness reflects in the changes he's made in the pub.

"We have a very good wine selection now," says Langdoc. "It's better than a lot of the restaurants in town."

Langdoc has a lot of plans for the Pub. Already, the Pub has gone from carrying seven to 16 draft beers. Entertainment variety is also on his list.

"I come from California. I miss the reggae and different music from there," he says with a bit of whine. "I'd like to get some of that up here and some rock and roll."

Langdoc also has ideas for poetry slams, comedy skits, and beer festivals.

He likes the idea of supporting state breweries, and the Pub carries many of their products. In fact, wherever he goes, he likes a taste of the local.

Admitting to always having a travel bug, Langdoc has visited more than 30 countries from Istanbul to Australia to Russia.

He has a collection of 400 plus pint glass from his travels.

"I like to mingle with local people from different areas," Langdoc says. "I've stories from Venice, Athens, Tahiti."

Langdoc also likes to get involved in the places he lives and visits.

Here at UAF part of the money from cover-charges goes to programs like creating awareness about date rape drugs or the women's' centre.

He also owns part of a cellular company in California.

Every year, he and his business partner and friend have a raffle among their employees to raise money to support orphanages around the world.

"He loves Russia," says Joe Blanchard, who worked with Langdoc with summer with Princess Tours.

Langdoc, who visits orphanages in Russia whenever he gets a chance, says he tries to get involved.

"That's what I want to to – be one of those people who helps in disaster."

"Bill Gates? I'm totally a fan," he adds. "That's the way my family is. They're pretty rich, but they give away a lot. And I grew up with five sisters, so I'm probably more sensitive to things."

That sensitivity reflects in his job replacing Jeremy Bahr as the Pub's new manager.

"He's really open to suggestions and very personably," says Pub supervisor Heather Kraemer.

"He just a nice guy," says Spartz. "He's laid back and funny."

Langdoc says he's more responsible now than he was when he first came to college.

He's made the honor roll every semester since coming back to school. Perhaps he still has a wild streak though.

Spartz tells of a time before Langdoc's days as pub manager when he did a strip to tease to the Black Eyed Peas song "My Humps."

Kraemer remembers one Halloween when Langdoc dressed up as a nurse with red lingerie on underneath.

"I'm not sure if this is appropriate," says Kraemer with a chuckle. "But he was in front of everyone and his testicles popped out."

Langdoc says he loves Alaska and will always have a place here, but he doesn't look at his job as long term.

He says it's typical to switch pub managers every two to three years.

"It's fun to relive some of it, be a part of it, do some good things with it," he says. "It's one more chapter, that's why I like it."