Graduate Student Discovered Library Responds to Needs

Monday, September 5, 1994• Vol. XXVI No.6 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE 0Atv1E AND SAINT MARY'S Dining hall changes include menu, layout By JOSE BLANCO less time. Salads and an as News Writer sortment of fruit juices are now available at each entrance to The beginning of the school the SDH, and in a room set year has brought changes to apart exclusively for Grab n' Go the Notre Dame Food Services, in NDH. as both the South and North The improvements at the din Dining Halls have undergone ing halls have become a major significant renovations and topic of conversation among menu modifications. students, and while most stu At South Dining Hall (SDH), dents have responded favorably major improvements have re to the modifications, some have sulted in making a wider vari expressed their concern over ety of foods availible to stu lunchtime congestion. dents. In addition to the tradi "Everytime I see the lines in tional menu, specialty foods North, I lose my appetite," said have been included, allowing St. Edward's Hall junior Rafael students to enjoy several kinds Gonzalez. "It's really a hassle of pastas, Mexican dishes, and because so many people are so homestyle cheese, pepperoni rushed for time during lunch." and vegetable pizza. A break However, other students fast waffle bar and a gourmet praised the wide variety of culi coffee stand have also been nary options afforded by the added. renovations. In addition to an extended "I really like the fact that menu, North Dining Hall (NDH) they are offering healthier has also experienced a series of types of food," said Lewis Hall renovations, including changing junior Laura Tuchsherer. "Still, the layout of the dining hall to I really miss the weekend improve efficiency. A food brunches." court system has been adopted The workability of the new so that students can help them system will take a few weeks to selves to their favorite foods determine, said David The Observer/Nicky Betill daily. NDH offers Mexican food Prentkowski, director of Notre Students wait on line at the "Pizzaria," one of many new food specialty bars at the dining halls this year. The at "Fiesta Grande" and Chinese Dame Foodservices. bars and changed layout of the dining halls were implemented to permit more variety and an improved flow food at the "Shanghai Trading Prentkowski said that em of traffic. Company." For those who are ployees seem pleased with the ideas in regards to the pro of congestion," said Cavanaugh physical renovations are partial to Italian food, the Pas restructuring of the dining posed plans. Hall sophomore Amy Cassidy. planned in the future for SDH. taria and the Pizzeria have halls. He added that meetings However, several employees "The middle and Pastaria sec These renovations will enable it been continued. were held in the spring and expressed dissatisfaction with tions are very crowded, while to accommodate both a food The "Grab n' Go" counters summer with the purpose of the efficiency of the new sys the Chinese and Mexican sec court system and the two have also been expanded to of giving the employees the op tem. "The longer lines and tions are much emptier." planned dormitories on South fer a greater variety of foods in portunity to express their own fewer exits are leading to a lot Prentkowski noted that major Quad. Graduate student discovered Library responds to needs By LIZ FORAN Bumbacea, 29, a graduate stu old boy who was walking By EDWARD IMBUS Libraries should add an Assistant News Editor dent in mathematics, was iden through the woods on his way undergraduate and graduate tified by police after being home. representative to its member The body of a Notre Dame found in a wooded area around According to an investigation The Hesburgh Memorial Li ship of senior University offi graduate student was discov McErlain and George Avenue. by the St. Joseph County brary implemented several cers and library administra ered Saturday evening by a Police said the body was dis Special Crimes Unit and county significant changes in their tors. hiker, according to St. Joseph covered approximately 150 police, the body had been in the services and collections this The committee was formed County Police. yards from McErlain and woods for approximately seven summer. under the direction of the Col The body of Alexandru George Avenue by a 15-year- to 10 days. A Notre Dame One of the more notable loquy for the Year 2000, the Credit Union ~ar«:!jssued to changes is that security report was written by Bumbacea~ey to the guards will no longer exam University President Fr. Notre Dame math department ine backpacks when students Edward Malloy in 1993 to the were found on his body, police exit the library. Board of Trustees. The board said. However, students must still soon after adopted Fr. Police concluded through hand over any library materi Malloy's recommendations. their investigation that als to the library monitors for The ad hoc committee also Bumbacea had died of self-in inspection prior to leaving. urged that major funding in flicted injuries. Police said Other visible changes creases be sought from all Bumbacea, who was from include the remodeling of the sources in order to increase Romania, left a note written in second floor, where the the number of qualified Romanian indicating his inten northeast corner was made library staff who help users tions over a week ago and had into a "quiet study area" for find material. Miller said been depressed recently. individual study in carrels. that other funding would be Notre Dame Professor Over 150 of the individual requested "to fill gaps in our Frederico Xavier of the math study desks were moved into collection right now." ematics department described the section for student use. Miller also said that the ad Bumbacea as a "very fine gen Another major change was hoc committee directed the li tleman and an outstanding stu the relocation of the graduate brary administration to dent." student study section from the investigate a complete reno Xavier said that Bumbacea seventh to the tenth floor. vation of the Hesburgh did very well on his graduate According to Miller, detex Library. A separate task courses and had recently com locks were installed to ensure force created solely to analyze pleted a set of math exams. privacy and quiet. Study this issue submitted a report "He was a very good student. tables were also moved into to the administration last This is a sad thing," said the areas near the computer summer, suggesting that an Professor Julia Knight, director laboratory so students would independent consultant be of graduate in mathematics. be able to study while waiting hired to determine the Bumbacea had only been at for a computer to become feasibility of such a large pro Notre Dame since September of available. ject and draft plans for the 1993 and was studying differ According to Miller. howev renovation. ential geometry, Xavier said. er. many other serious Responding to the new The Observer/Nicky Betill "This is a great loss, not only changes may be on the way. direction, the library adminis Plotting his path for me personally because I An ad hoc committee on tration intends to continue Junior Jeremy Miller takes time out to shoot some pool and relieve knew him, but because he was University libraries recom adapting and improving its some back-to-school blues in the Gorch Games Room at the such a talented person," Xavier mended that the formal collections and services to LaFortune Student Center. said. University Committee on enhance Notre Dame overall. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, September 5, 1994 • Inside Column • World at a Glance Marketplace bomb kills ten, injures 26 in Armenia A stroll down ARMENIA A bomb exploded Sunday in a market near Armenia's border with Georgia, killing 10 people Labor Day and injuring 26, officials said. Two of the dead were citizens of nearby Azerbaijan, Armenia's rival, The most recent k)-;:iji;ifi;{ suggesting a political motive for the bombing, the casualties of a 1 · ITAR-Tass news agency said. Officials said the lane bomb exploded at about 1 p.m. in the village six-year-old war Bagratashen, about 60 miles north of the Armenian between Armenia Back in the days of my capital, Yerevan. The region is plagued by violence public school career, the linked to a six-year-old war between Armenia and and Axerbaijan Labor Day weekend was the Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno~ occurred in a~:::::':=~;;;===~~~:: traditional end of summer. Karabakh. The explosion occurred within 30 miles marketplace near This long three day week of Azerbaijan. Last April, a bomb killed three peo end stood as the last bas ple and injured more than two dozen aboard a pas Armenia's border. tion of freedom until par senger train heading from Tbilisi, the Georgian cap ital, to Yerevan. Georgian officials suspected the ent-teacher conferences train bombing was retribution for a subway bomb and in-service days, which Eric Ruethling ing in the Azerbaijani capital the previous month. were deep into dark Photographer Azerbaijan blamed that bombing, which killed 14 October. people, on Armenia. Since the end of summer was marked as such, it is only fitting that such a time brings back Barbara Bush publishes memoirs For Clinton, vacation proves relaxing memories of grade school, hot lunch programs, and long, dazed hours in ancient school build WASHINGTON EDGARTOWN, Mass. ings. Loss of power and prestige are not The wind was chilly, the hour early and the first shot One memory involves the very first day of the only adjustments to life after the not a pretty sight.

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