Book Fair Goes High-Tech with Campus Network Women's Study Class Added

Wednesday, August 31, 1994• Vol. XXVI No.3 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Book fair goes high-tech with campus network By KATIE MURPHY Associate News Editor The long lines and jumbled stacks of books which charac terized the last two student Book Fairs have been replaced by a streamlined, computerized buying and selling system on the University's Macintosh com puter network. Instead of trekking over to Stepan to rummage through hundreds of books with a wide range of prices, students can now access a student govern ment database which lists available books, their prices and the sellers. "It's very user-friendly and easy to use," said Thad Nation, student government executive coordinator of intellectual life. Two Computer Applications (CAPP) students developed the computerized system last semester for a class project , and then donated it to student government. The system is • . Observer file photo available at all Macintosh The new computenzed book fa1r system at Notre Dame will provide an alternative to book purchasers at the workstations at the campus Hammes Book Store and off campus book vendors like Pandora's. computer clusters. Government." Although a pass- the price they want, and their Fair next semester. "We're taking what is on the word is requested, just press phone number. Buyers must The first two Book Fairs., or bulletin boards across campus return. The system contains in- call the selling student them ganized for the Fall 1993 and and putting it all on the com structions on each screen. selves in order to purchase the Spring 1994 semesters, were puter," said Nation. "You can search for a book by book. proposed by former Student The program can be accessed title or by course or you can see Although only a small number Body President and Vice-Presi by double-clicking with the the entire listing of available of books are currently listed in dent Frank Flynn and Nikki mouse on the computer's net books," said Nation. the system because few stu- Wellmann. during their election work server and opening the Students selling books must dents know about it, Nation campaign Approximately $30- "Coursewear" file. Within enter their name, the title of anticipates that many students 40,000 worth of books was sold "Coursewear," open "Other" the book, the course number, will use the computerized Book at each sale. and then open "Student U.S. talks migration with LaFortune bustling with activities Cubans, but little else By KATE CRISHAM teamed up with Student Union tickets, and Notre Dame athlet Assistant News Editor Board to provide an event ic wear." By DONALD ROTHBERG only about migration, a mid which will hopefully introduce "We're really excited, and we Associated Press level U.S. delegation will meet Complete with tarot card students to different activities hope to make the open house with Cuban officials in New readers, caricature artists, and we have planned for this year," an annual event," she said. WASHINGTON York on Wednesday or Thurs a computerized virtual reality said DuBay. The United States talks with day. booth, LaFortune Student According to DuBay, Student North Korea about nuclear If the Cubans raise other is Center will hold an en house Students will be able to visit Activities and Student Union technology and expanded rela sues - the U.S. economic em today from 4 various offices and businesses Board will be working together tions, but turns a cold shoulder bargo, the possibility of discus p.m. until 10 in LaFortune, while sampling to provide a wide variety of to Cuba. President Clinton sits sions between Castro and Clin p.m. free food and beverages. En activities to campus this year. down for a cordial chat with ton - they will be cut off, says tertainment will be provided by "We're bringing a hypnotist Syrian President Hafez Assad, Undersecretary of State Peter The event the local bands to campus, and we're also try but won't exchange a word Tarn off. will be held in Rockem'Sockem' Robots and ing to get the Indigo Girls and with Fidel Castro. The U.S. delegation is autho an attempt to Cliff Erikson. Toad the Wet Sprocket to come Now Clinton is coming under rized "to talk migration issues bBtter famil "Students will also be able to to Notre Dame this year," she pressure from allies and critics and that's all we will talk iarize stu have their fortune told, play said. alike to ease the U.S. hard line about," he said. dents with the Karen Dubay Virtual Reality, and experience toward Castro's regime. Tarnoff echoes the belief of building, ac- other novelty events like carica "Basically, we'll be working "It really is incongruous that the Clinton administration and cording to ture artists," said DuBay. with Dave, Matt, and Tyler to the most powerful nation on eight predecessors, going back Student Activities Programmer "We will also be having door fill in the gaps and help bring earth is unable or unwilling to to Dwight Eisenhower, that Karen DuBay. prizes for American Airline fun events and entertainment talk to the leader of a tiny im with enough U.S. pressure Cas "Student Activites has tickets, CD players, concert to Notre Dame," she said. poverished nation that's just 90 tro's regime will crumble. miles off our coast," said Sen. "We have no doubt that the Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of the people of Cuba want a change, president's strongest allies in an overwhelming majority," Women's study class added Congress. Tarnoff said in an interview on No booster of Clinton is Sen. Public Television. By MYRNA MALONEY Caputi said. also been scheduled who spe Alan Simpson, the assistant "Of the presidents who News Writer "The material, therefore, in cializes in the question of body Republican leader of the Sen thought he would leave soon, cludes some women's history, image and sexuality, according ate. Neither would anyone call four of them are now dead, Introduction to Women's attention to women's current to Caputi. the Wyoming senator soft on another four are out of office Studies aims to give students a social status and feminist the communist regimes. and he's still there," said taste of the broad dicipline of ory; all of which are considered "My hope for the semester is But he too wonders aloud Leahy. women's studies, according to while remaining sensitive to the to demonstrate the academic why the United States can't talk When Castro came to power political science professor Mary complexities of race, class, geo rigor of women's studies. We to Cuba. in the final years of the Eisen Caputi. graphical location and sexual in the program see it as an "If we're opening the door to hower administration, the orientation," she said. essential part of a college like Vietnam and North Korea, American public was barely This course is being offered Texts studied throughout the Saint Mary's, "Caputi said. what in the world are we doing · aware of impending trouble in for the first time this semester semester include Betty The material covered in the not talking to this guy (Castro), Vietnam. China and North Ko at Saint Mary's College. Friedan's, "The Feminine 200 level course is aimed at who's 91 miles away?" asked rea were hostile powers who "The class will teach students Mystique;" "Orlando: A Biog sophomores but is offered to all Simpson during an appearance had been allies in a war that to think about gender as a criti raphy," by Virginia Woolf; and students regardless of previous on CNN. claimed thousands of American cal category by analyzing vari Kim Chernin's, "The Hungry exposure to women's studies, Under strict orders to talk lives. ous empitical and theoretical Self: Women, Eating, and according to Caputi, and does approaches to women's issues," Identity." A guest speaker has fulfill a core requirement. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, August 31, 1994 •Inside Column • World at a Glance Conversation Agriculture Department striving for more nutritious school lunches WASHINGTON forehand. Gump said one popular The timetable for healthier meal is chicken nuggets. By switch at the school lunches should be moved up, ing from six nuggets to three a nutrition-advocacy group said nuggets plus one baked drumstick, Tuesday, citing 41 schools across the fat content was cut from 40 per salad bar the nation that are already improv cent to 28 percent, and the meal ing nutrition for students. remains popular, she said. Indeed, Mark Epstein of Public Voice for over the last four years school She looks really familiar. Food and Health Policy applauded lunch participation has risen by 800 Wait ... what was her By Krista Nannery the Agriculture Department's recent students a day in Latrobe, she said. name? It's there ... right on Viewpoinr Copy Editor initiative to improve school lunches, Many schools base their lunch pro the tip of your tongue. And but said students shouldn't have to grams on commodities provided by she's looking at you like wait until the program's 1998 dead the Agriculture Department. The she recognizes you, but then, maybe that's your line arrives.Many schools across the report found that nationally, imagination country are serving healthier meals, ,.,...,.._;;;.,____ ; between 1990 and 1994, that pro and students are eating them, gram had increased the shares of No, she defmitely recognizes you. Where do Epstein said at a news conference. meat, fruits and vegetables provid- you know her from? Actually, you don't remem But still, added Sen.

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