After a brief closure over the summer, Dorm Daze is back in business, offering tobacco enthusiasts a new array of products, prices and one-of-a-kind pipes.

Located at 143 E. Wooster St., Dorm Daze offers a selection of tobacco products including water pipes, hookahs, custom-blown glass pipes and accessories. The store reopened its doors July 8, operating under a new owner, Mike Kouza, 20, of Flint, Mich.

‘The old owners just let it go,’ Allan Hoops, sophomore and Dorm Daze employee, said of the temporary June store closure.

Kouza worked at Dorm Daze for a year and a half before it closed, first as a sales representative before managing the shop.

‘It [the store] did good and I knew it could do better because I would always suggest [selling] hookahs… I had so many ideas for the store,’ Kouza said.

He bought the shop from the former Cleveland-based owner Casey Kasen. He said they stopped coming to the store and were not putting money into it.

Under the new operation, Dorm Daze now offers hookahs, tobacco, tapestries and door beads, things absent from the store’s inventory in the past. The store possesses another edge, Kouza said, with custom-blown glass pipes.

‘They [the Kouzas] took it over and ever since it’s been so much better,’ Hoops said.

Kouza said his business supports the local economy by supplying the store with tapestries from Glow Industries in Perrysburg and custom-made tobacco pipes blown exclusively by Bowling Green locals.

‘I love the city of Bowling Green,’ Kouza said. ‘It has so much to offer.’

Hoops said he’s a customer as much as an employee because of the selection and variety offered at Dorm Daze.

Kouza said independent glass blowers, including University graduates, will custom create just about any tobacco pipe for customers.

‘You can have whatever you want made,’ Hoops said. ‘Just draw up your design and we’ll have it made for you. That’s kind of unique here.’

Recent creations include a set of animal shaped tobacco pipes, including a monkey and a donkey.

‘It’s not just a smoking accessory, it’s art,’ Kouza said .

The shop also sells ‘Dorm Daze’ and TREND T-shirts. Previous owner Kasen started TREND, which donates a portion of each T-shirt sale to causes like global warming and breast cancer. TREND shirts come in a variety of colors, each benefitting a different charity.

Hoops said the college crowd likes to shop Dorm Daze because ‘it’s local and it’s close to the bars.’

Aside from college students, Kouza said the shop gets a wide age range of customers, from the ‘just-turned18-year-olds’ to elderly couples. He said most of the customers at Dorm Daze are loyal, returning customers.

Customer Brandon West, 19, said he shops at Dorm Daze for the friendly customer service and low prices.

‘The prices are good for the quality,’ West said.

Kouza said he is planning for the store’s future.

‘I put my heart and soul into it,’ Kouza said. ‘We don’t plan on going anywhere.”