Director of Housing Addresses Senate on Jumbotel, Jumbonet
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TI-IE TUFTS DAILY Where You Read It First Tuesdav. March 16.1993 Vol XXVI. Number 35 Budgets for fiscal ’94 passed Sunday night by DAVID MEYERS down by the Committee on Stu- Daily Editorial Board dent Life. The Tufts Community Union “These groups aren’t opened to Senate approved the budget allo- everyone. Can we budget them?’ cations for student organizations asked junior senator Michelle for fiscal year 1994 during its Sun- Farquhar. day night meeting. TCU President Randy Ravitz A total of $61 1,300 was allot- explained why the Senate should ted to 100TCU organizations, with continue to budget the IGC. the biggest budgets going to the “It is our job to budget them, Inter-Greek Council, Program- not to look at their constitutional- ming Board, and Hillel. Of this ity,” Ravitz said. total, $35,000 was allotted to the According to Fee, there is a buffer fund, which is used to fund procedure in case an organization new organizationsand groups that is derecognized or not find they require more money dur- rerecognized. ing the year. “If a recognized group is bud- After last Sunday’s meeting geted and then derecognized but during which the Allocations not rerecognized by an appeal, its Board’s (ALBO) recommenda- money falls into the buffer fund,” tions were presented to the full Fee said. Senatebody, three campus .croups' Another issue was raised by photo by Olivier Tittmann budgets went back to ALBo to-be TCU Vice President Doug Spitzer, What you have here is the sun glistening off H,O in its different stages outside the Campus Center. reviewed again. who questioned why the budgets thefGC’sbudgetforrush GokleG cil were included within the IGC Director of Housing addresses and advertising. The CatholicCen- budget. ter was reviewed after a senator Sophomore Senator David pointed out that the budget in- Senate on Jumbotel, Jumbonet cluded a weekly newsletter which see BUDGET, page 6 had actually been printed every Good and Welfare reform bylaw amended and approved other week. The third organiza- lowed by the uphill campus, and tion was Tufts Christian Fellow- by DAVID MEYERS “There were some complaints ship, which had asked for more -Daily Editorial Board that it wasn’t meeting student then the remainder ofthe downhill Director of Housing John needs,” saidDarcey. He explained portion ofthe Capus. “The goal money to fund retreats and speak- ers. ALBO decided to stand be- Darcey spoke to the Tufts Com- that many problems have been is to getcomPuterhookuPsintoall munity Union Senate during its expressed by students who live in the residence halls,” said Darcey. hind its original recommendations meeting Sunday night regarding South, but that they have been According to Darcey, the for all three organizations. the new phone system in South corrected. Some ofthe complaints project began in South Hall be- When TCU Treasurer John Fee Hall. In addition,the Senatepassed include phonebills containing calls cause it was cheapest to install it in opened the meeting for discussion a bylaw regarding the privacy of that were never received by the a new building. “It costs money to on the budget, some senators ques- its Good and Welfare session. outside party and bad connections wire the campusbut it’s worth it. It tioned the legitimacy ofbudgeting Darcey’s remarks concerned with Jumbonet. is now commonplace to have ac- the IGC when it had not yet been the performance of the JumboteV Darcey was accompanied by cess to computers,” he said. rerecognized by the Tufts Com- Jumbonet system in South Hall two members of the telecommu- In this phone system, each Stu- munity Union Judiciary. The TCUJ over the past year. In this system, nications department, Marj dent would have apersonal access has postponed its final vote to al- all residents of South Hall are on Minnigh and Leslie Nelson, who code which has to be entered be- low the IGC, Panhellenic Council, and Inter-Fraternity Council the the University’s phone extension answered senators’ questions. fore a long distance call can be Dally file photo system and everyonehas a hookup The project to install Jumbotel/ made. Darcey explained that while opportunity to rewrite a constitu- tion that fits the requirements set TCU Treasurer John Fee to the University computer com- Jumbonet consists ofthree phases, munication system. the first being South Hall, fol- seeSENATE, page6 B&G works to clear Administration unveils new jobs campus of snow, ice program for 1.3 million youths Process expected to take one week WASHINGTON (AP) -- The tutoring children at day care facili- million kids in disadvantaged ar- Clinton administration unveiled ties. eas off the streets, into jobs, into by CHRIST1 BEEBE Gilbert. Many of these employees details ofits summerjobsprogram The administration has asked structures, give them some disci- Daily Editorial Board worked from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. on for disadvantaged youth on Mon- Conmess for $1 billion in addition pline, give them some reason to Armed with sand-distributing Sunday, he added. day and challe&eh businesses to to th’: $900 million already avail- report for work.” equipment and snow-removal ve- According to Gilbert, there are match the 1.3million jobs the gov- able for the Summer Youth Em- The department said a teen- . hicles, 35 Buildbgs and Grounds approximately eight snow-clear- ernment expects to provide. ployment and Training Program. ager, working 32 hours a week for employees were on hand at 7 a.m. ing vehicles that Buildings and The jobs include clerical work Over half the additional money 8 to 10 weeks during the summer, Sunday to begin the process of Grounds has available during in city offices, maintenance work will be targeted to the 100 cities could earn between $1,100 and removing the snow and ice that the storms. In addition, a“bombadeer” for public properties, recreational with the greatest number of eli- $1,400 at the minimum wage of blizzard had left encrusted on the work at parks, nursing assistance gible youth. $4.25. campus the night hefore, said Ed see STORM, page 4 . in hospitals and supervising and The administration proposes And by providing income that Gilbert, director of Buildings and using $300 million of the new will generate spending, the pro- Grounds. ISmooth sailing during snowstorm money.for the equivalent of two Eighteen students working for I Speaking about the stormy weekend, Sergeant Domenic Pugliares weeks of academic enrichment see JOBS, page 6 Buildings and Grounds were also ofthe Tufts Police Department said“Things went smooth [on campus].” during the 8- to 10-week program on hand to aid the process, Gilbert “We did prepare ourselves,” he said. “Thursday the University either in the classroom or on the added. rented two diesel-operated generators,” he added, one to be placed ir job. “We sort of heard about [the Dewick Dining Hall, and the other to be placed in the research building. Labor Secretary Robert Reich Inside storm] all week long,” Gilbert said, The University also hired an electrician to stand by in case the storm said this would help avoid a typi- Features ......................... P. 5 although he said that Buildings caused power outages, so that the dining halls would be able to serve calproblem: youths’ falling a third Dental school students do some and Grounds decided Saturday students, Pugliares said. of a grade level behind during the resaerch into drill noise, and Asiar evening to schedule workers for According to Pugliares, the police department also purchased flash- summer break. American students hold a forum overtime on Sunday. lights and batteries that they planned to distribute to students in the In a speech to the Council of Buildings and Grounds has a dormitories in case of a power outage. Great City Schools, Reich saidthe A& E ............................. P. 7 “standing call-list of 45 custodi- Although no storm-related accidents were reported over the week- program would “create jobs and The Funtustickr, Tom Ticket 11’s ans and about 11 utility workers” end, the staff of the police department was doubled, he said. educational enrichment for 1.3 spring musical, is a bit of a disappoint ment. available to deal with emergency Decisionsto close the library, the Campus Center, and other Univer- million situations, said Gilbert. Twenty- disadvantagedteen-agers” sity buildings were made by individual managers at those places, between the ages 14 and 21. sports ............................. p. 9 five custodians from that list and Pugliares said. “We’re going to challenge the the utility workers appeared on Enter this year’s March Madnes! “If we had needed assistance [from Somerville] we would have private sector to come forward contest! And a handy guide to tell yo1 campus Sunday morning to deal received it,” he added. with an additional 1.3 million with the storm conditions, said the teams to watch. Tuesday, March- 16,1993 rm TUFTSDAILJ Letters to the Editor ognized the importance of rewriting the Paul Horan and Christianity for violent ends. This is Stop blaming religion existing guidelines to ensure that all invest- Editor-in-Chief uncomfortable, because most are to blame To the Editor: ments are appropriate. Managing Editor: Elizabeth Yellen Over the past two weeks, our nation has for a violent culture. But imagine my dis- For the record, the Crees who visited comfortatseeingtheprimary symbolofmy Associate Editors: Elin Dugan, Caroline Schaefei witnessedashootout at the Branch Davidian Tufts told us that the few benefits of the Editorial Page Editor: Stephen Arbuthnot religion in an editorial cartoon, and wit- compound in Waco, Texas, the bombing of projects are greatly outweighed1 by the re- nessing my brothers and sisters in Christ Production Managers: Julie Cornell, the World Trade Center, and the murder of sulting problems.