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' .' I t • . It t I '' .' '. • Scene highlights on- and off-campus • Letters to the Editor show a mixed response to diversions students can turn to for celebrating Friday Senator Bill Bradley's visiting professorship on cam their first weekend back at Notre Dame. pus this semester. AUGUST 28, Viewpoint • 9 1998 The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's - VOL XXXII NO.1.';;/ WWW. ND.EDU/- OBSERVER FRIDAY FEATURE Bookstore preps to sell on-line By ANNE MARIE MATTINGLY Assistant News Editor Starting next semester, Notn) Dame students will be able to avoid large crowds and long lines by ordering and purchas ing books through a new 'virtu al bookstore' website. The site. located at http://www. nd. bookstore. wm. allows students to select books by providing the department name, course number. and preference regarding new or us11d books. "This is something we will start to promote for the upcom ing spring term." explained James O'Connor. director of the bookstore. "[The site I will be updated on a weekly b<i..<;is. As soon as we get the orders we'll The Observer/Kevin Dalum put them on." 71tis u•eek a reborn South Dining I/all welcomed students following nearly 12 months of renovations. The Patrons will be able to pay by 1 edifice's new design attempts to blend old, Gothic character with modern accouterments. providing credit card informa tion. and bookstore employees will gather and store orders until studenL<; ran piek them up. The service will be available at no additional cost. according to O'Connor, who speculated ~rabition& Technology that free delivery to residence halls may be an option in the future. "[Delivery I is one of the possi called all to attention. A priest said grace. to ensure perfect service. bilities to work toward as we Past and future A bell struck, and all sat down. A red light Previous to the recent renovations. the develop the program." he said. flashed in the dining hall and another in South Dining Hall had undergone surpris Despite its convenience, the kitchen. This signaled to waiters to ingly few changes in its 70-year history. O'Connor does not think that mix in new SDH bring in the soup ... What had changed was the world outside. the new service will reduce the This description in a 1928 magazine The recent construction of several resi number of students who visit By BRIDGET O'CONNOR reeounts a typical meal in what was then dence halls in the vicinity of the South the store. Associate News Editor known as the Dining Halls Building. Upon Dining Hall required University officials to lie said that many students its completion in 1927. the structure now reevaluate the food service available to are selective about their used 11:55. The doors opened at One thou known as the South Dining Hall was this increasingly populated area of cam books and added that the new sand students marched in. and each took viewed as a prototype for what a university pus. store will have an atmosphere his allotted place at the tahle. standing at dining hall should be: a model in precision that attracts students for rea- his chair. At tweh1e o'clock a hell signal and order, with every detail premeditated see SDH I page 4 see WEB I page 4 • MULTICULTURAL BEAT OMSA fills plate for upcoming academic year By BRIDGET O'CONNOR that has disagreed with what is in "The way the office has been oper Associate News Editor here." ating anyway is in the capacity of a The plan for the center was based center." she said. An on-campus cultural center on an example at the University of lluie thought that the creation of a highlight11d a doc.ket of now under California at San Diego. lluie said center would provide a more friendly takings presented at the Office of that the center would not be environment for student involve multicultural Student Affairs' IOMSAl designed solely for underrepresented ment. lie pointed out that a cross Coalition Council meeting last night. groups or to provide favoritism in cultural center would be more con "Ov11r tlw summer. the office did any way: rather, the centnr is dueive to participation than OMSA. sonw research about establishing a designed to incorporate the interests Tony Heid, a 1997 Notre Dame rnultintltural center on 1:ampus." of majority groups as well. he said. graduate and co-founder of Onyx said Knvin lluie. assistant dirc1ctor of "If there is any indication that Industries, Inc. (011) offered a OMSA. Noting that such an idea can there is a lack of support for the cen fundraising opportunity to student "be a very touchy issue with some ter to take place then we will not groups. stud11nts on campus," lluin said. "I pursue it." lluie said. "An opportunity has arisen that I'm am convinced that what is written in OMSA is looking for signatures of going to bring to you, he here as a proposal will convince any support from individuals, as well as announced. Heid explained that he is one that having a multicultural cen grvup endorsements for the proposal looking for an organization or group tnr on campus is a good idea." Iris Outlaw. director of OMSA. to help facilitate the sale of his com While passing out copies of the added that the plan was designed to pany's calendars. Hegis Philbin will proposal. lluie added: "There has not account for the diverse capacities the promote the ealenders by featuring The Observer/Kevin Dalum lwen one JWrson that has gotton this office has assumed. An attendee browses a calendar at yesterday's see OMSA I page 4 OMSA meeting. 'I • I I I ' ' '. ' .. ' >I ' . page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, August 28, 1998 • INSIOE COLUMN Plus que le utside the Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports same junk Be careful before you get charged up Windows 98. It will It also helps them formulate a payment plan. change your life, cure Patrick Quigley As new students flooded the West Mall for "[With CCCS). creditors are more willing to your technological Staff Photographer the first day of classes, representatives from negotiate with interest and fees, which make woes. optimize your MasterCard. Visa and American Express it the hardest to get out of debt," Williams computer's memory, make the perfect mar offered free T-shirts and calling cards in said. tini and cut off the tip of your cigar. A vir exchange for filling out an application. She said students get into financial trouble tual computer salvation. Hardly. But students might regret those free T -shirts because they do not realize that paying only Programmers create fascinating programs when they are faced with extensive credit card the minimum balance doesn't decrease their which perform almost any task. and while bills, debt counselors warn. Lonnie Williams, a debt. Instead, interest accrues and the overall our favorite development guys over at the representative for the Consumer Credit debt actually increases. Redmond, Wash. computer Mecca might be Counseling Services (CCCS). said she coun- "The average time it takes to pay off a able to invent "app" after "app" which con seled 40 UT students this year because they $5,000 debt with just paying the minimum or tinue to wow our technological senses, they had fallen into serious debt problems since even a little. more will take 15 years," Williams will never be able to accomplish the goal of January. said. "Students who only pay the minimum creating a better computer user. "Too few students understand how or why to can owe more than they make the first year Exhibit 1 N I had the opportunity to work use credit responsibly," Williams said. out of college. That's a problem." at the proverbial "Evil Empire" (Microsoft "Developing bad credit habits now can impact....__ _________, Larry Liu, a psychology senior, said he Corp.) this summer. Upon my departure, I their ability to obtain loans, credit, jobs or housing for learned this lesson from his first credit card. was given a copy of Windows 98 as a gift. years in the future." "My first credit card was so convenient," Liu said. "I "Wow." I thought. I could now soup-up my UT Legal Services offers free advice and assistance to always treated my friends to dinner thinking they'd pay 2-year-old Dell. which has the propensity students who want to negotiate with creditors or who me back. But I had nothing to show but a huge debt." to crash and/or scream incomprehensible need advice concerning collection agencies. Legal Williams said students should be most careful with computer-speak warnings (at which I con Services refers employed students who need financial credit cards that have the widest range of spending pas sequently click "OK" and ignore) at very in advice to CCCS, which acts as a trustee for such students. sibilities with low minimum payments. opportune times, i.e. when on page 27 of that 30-page paper and have forgotten to save the file. • UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY • UNIVERSITY OF CALifORNIA AT BERKELEY The installation seemed simple enough N insert the CD. click "Upgrade to Windows Few schools ban alcohol on campus Protesters call for student's expulsion 98" and wait for about 30 minutes. Of course, being the quintessential Arts and LEXINGTON, Ky. BERKELEY, Calif. Letters major, I decided that this was too Last fall, Louisiana State University and the Protesters from Southern California, joined by UC simple N that I would show those CS Massachusetts Institute of Technology experienced a loss Berkeley students and Bay Area citizens, gathered on majors a thing or two.