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THE T S DAILY Where You Read It First Tuesday, October 5,1993 Vol XXW, Number 17 IREADING ON A WEEKEND!?!? I Oxfam in process of moving to new locale by DAVID MEYERS anythingright now. Wecould have Daily Editorial Board started up,” said Manager Sharmila Having a tough time finding a Basnayake. “We’re very, very up- healthy snack? That may be be- set because Oxfam America is a cause the Oxfam Cafe has not non-profit organization and we’re opened this semester, and mostly losing a lot of money that could go likely will not do so, according to to other projects and help many Manager Eli Noto. people.” Late this summer, Academic O’Dare met with Associate Vice President Melvin Bernstein Dean of Students Bruce Reitman decided to close the Eaton Hall to discuss the change in locale. He location of the Oxfam Cafe in or- asked for a presentation from the der to provide for more faculty Oxfam people. ‘We need to make office space. The cafe is slated to up a request list and find all the reopen in the basement of Miller costs for the moving and construc- Hall. tion of the Miller basement,” Noto “We had to go check out Miller said. - to see what kind of facilities are ‘We want it to be at least equal there,” said Noto. “It needs a lot, to what we had in Eaton,” she including plumbing and serving added. facilities. The facilities and loca- According to O’Dare, repre- tion are not as good as in Eaton.” sentatives have met with Build- Photo by Anni Recordati According to Noto, she was ings and Grounds to discuss what Why would somebody want to waste such a warm, beatiful day by studying under a shady tree? informed of the move in late Au- renovations need to be made. “We gust by Katie O’Dare of the Stu- walked through Miller in order to dent Activities office, but since get an estimate,” she said. ‘We Studentfinds method to beating that time no renovationshave been have an ASAP on it because they done in either location. “We didn’t are losing money and business.” know anything about [the move] O’Dare said there is a slim campus bookstore’s high prices until it happened,” Noto said. Witte’s Book Matchmaker unites text buyers and sellers “The spice isn’t being used for see OXFAM, page 8 by MARC SHEINKIN puter program, Witte will help sell the books; instead, he says he Daily Editorial Board match up prospective buyers and sells the seller. For example,if you With all the recent controversy se!!ers by examining their differ- want to buy a biology book, call swirling around the high prices at ent book buyingandseliingneeds. The Book Matchmaker and tell the cam us boo Wtte what yau are-- / ti&! preneurins bqq’rs j-qt rn!lr=rtiyg cli-st q*who and kow mxh yo^ xe willing to dl Tufts sI.cdents to have their doii’t want to pay the exorb,lb,it spend. If you want to sell a biology caLe and eat it too. prices at Barnes & Noble, this is book, call him and tell him what junior Todd Witte has decided the perfect opportunity to make or you are selling and how much you to take matters into his own hands save a buck. are asking for it. Witte will then by starting his own business, “It’s a win-win situation for study his data base and try to come known as The Book Matchmaker. everyone.What are you doing with up with apossiblematch. The seller His job will be matching buyers the books just lying around your will then pay a small commission and sellers of used books, so that house? Nothing. My business is fee to Witte for the name and phone the buyers pay less than they would matching up buyers and sellers, number of the buyer. at Barnes & Noble and sellers get and my product is the name and Sellers should specify the title, more than the bookstore would phone number of the buyer and edition, author, asking price, ne- pay back. seller,” Witte said. Using a simple database com- Witte said he does not actually see page The Oxfam Snack Bar is in the process of moving to Miller Hall. Russian hard-liners surrender following;W tank attack MOSCOW (AP) -- Boris ingchallengesinhisefforttotrans- Snipers continued to fire from forms had been continuallyunder- raging. Yeltsin won a bloody victory in form Russia’s economy and soci- the White House and surrounding mined by the Communist-domi- “It was organized by Commu- the battle for Russia’s future Mon- ety. buildings. The search for holdouts nated legislature. nists seeking revenge, by fascist day, his tanks and paratroopers Parliament leaders gave up af- was difficult because the 19-story Yeltsin spent the day closeted leaders and some of the former flushing his hard-line ODDonents ter 1,000 soldiers raked the white parliament building is an often- with his closest aides in the =em- lawmakers. ... There can be no Y *I - froma flaming Russian parliament martie parliament relentlessly with confusing labyrinth of twisting lin, where he had remained over- forgiveness, because they lifted building. Scores died as Yeltsin fire from T-72 tank cannons and corridors and hidden rooms. night since rushing there by heli- their hand againstpeaceful people” crushed the strongest power bid heavy machine guns, but at least The storming of the White copter during Sunday’sstreet fight- in Sunday’s rioting, he added. yet by remnants of the old Com- some holdouts remained at large. House broke hard-line opposition ing. Late Monday, he returned to Authoritieshad no firm figures munist regime. After nightfall, red and green in parliament, but many people his country dacha. on casualties from the 10-hour Themass surrenderof lawmak- tracer bullets streaked across the harbor deep resentmentagainst the He struck back just after dawn battle at the White House, but sol- ers and their armed supporters sky as flames shot up the sides of soaring prices and other painful Monday with the assault on the diers stacked dozens of bodies seemed likely to allow Yeltsin to the parliament, known as the White changes under Yeltsin’s reforms. parliament building. outside the building. move ahead with plans to elect a House. Armored vehicles and The attack also could make mar- “All that was and still is going Russian televisionreported that new parliament in December and heavy trucks rumbled through the tyrs of his opponents. on in Moscow -- was an armed Sunday’sbattle at the TV complex pursue long-frustrated economic city, and Muscovites rushed home President Clinton and other revolt planned in advance,”he said alone left 62 dead and 400 reform$. But he still faced daunt- to beat a new military curfew. Western leaders were quick to sup- on nationwide television, explain- -*. port Yeltsin, but they can be ex- ing the attack while it was still see RussIA9 page l9 pected to closely watch how he treats his foes in the coming days and weeks. 1 Inside Parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov, Vice President Viewpoints ..................... p. 3 Alexander Rutskoi and other lead- It’s hard not to be pessimistic about peace in the Middle East. One writer ers of the two-week occupation of offers his take on the issue. the White House were taken from parliament to the high-security A&E ............................... P. 7 Lefortovo Prison. Macauley CuEn in a thriller? We Escalating their defiance of knew it would never work! Nor does Yeltsin’s dissolution of parliament Juliana Hatfield on stage. Read up! on September 21, armed hard-lin- ers captured the Moscow mayor’s sports ............................ p. 9 offices and tried to take Russia’s Once again, non-baseball fans are main television center Sundav. plagued by the sports editors’ all-too- oailv file phot,, Parliament leaders urged suppo& page two THE TUFTS DAILY Tuesday, October 5,1993 THETUFTS DAILY Letters to the Editor Eiin M. Dugan to access theiraccounts. They seem to think has a large Jewish population composing Editor-in-Chief Activities budgets are money budgeted for their organizations is about hrtypercent of its population. Plan- their personal allowapce to spend, rather ning an event that excludes large a popu- Managing Editor: Caroline Schaefer not student allowances as than student activities’ funds. Despite the lation as that is inexcusable. Overlooking Associate Editors: Nadya Sbaiti, Marc Sheinkin To the Editor: Editorial Page Editor: Stephen Arbuthnot rudeness shown to him by some students at this holiday gave me the message that the We attended the Treasury Procedures the meeting, Brinker was very accommo- event was not intended for Jewish students, Production Managers: Michael B. Berg, meeting for student organizationslast ThurS- Leah Schwartz, Ryan Otto dating to their questions and comments. that this group assumed that Jews would day evening. This was not our first choice Brinkercontinuesto put forth a tremendous not be interested in seeing Cornell West NEWS for how to spend our Thursday evening, effort to make the treasury accountable to speak. Editor: David Meyers however we realize the magnitude of the the student body and the university. Ironi- The advertisement for the event in the Assistant Editor: Jessica Rosenthal task facing the TCU Treasury in managing cally, these efforts have been met with Wire Editor: Ashley Burkhart newspaper said that the African American student organizations’ use of funds. For harsh criticismfrom the organizationswhich Center’s goal is “to transform the ideals of this reason, we went to the meeting to will ultimately benefit from his vigilance.