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THE DAILY Thursday, Februarys 20,1997 Volume XXXIV, Number 22 -b )WhereYou Read It First IC Reitman First merchant set to discusses accept points Monday disciplinary College Pizza wiring ends four-month wait by JOHN O’KEEFE wait. I think it’s a great boost for everyone verdicts Daily Editorial Board concerned, especially the students. They’ve The first of four restaurants to join the been waiting for this for a long time,” Sacca byTARASHINGLE off-campuspoints program will begin using said. Daily Staff Writer the debit-card system next week, nearly The program will allow students to use The Tufts Community Union Judiciary four months after the original kickoff date, their Tufts IDSmuch like a debit card when Panel has closed two disciplinary cases the director of dining services said yester- ordering food from any ofthe participating pending from last semester, said Associate day. merchants. Dean of Students Bruce Reitmzn. Patti Lee, who has coordinatedthe long- Themoneywillbededucted immediately One white student, whom the TCUJ awaited Merchants On Points program for from the student’s points account. Money found guilty of “racial harassment without the University, said she expects to install can be added to this account anytime dur- clear intent,” will spend this semester on the necessary equipment at College Pizza ing the year in $25 increments. Probation Level 11. In addition, the student on Friday and to have the system operating Unlike cash or credit-card payments, must complete 75 hours of community ser- there on Monday. bills paid with points are exempt from the vice and undergo alcohol abuse counsel- The other three restaurants in the pro- state’s five percent meal tax because the ing. gram- Espressos, Wing Works, and China money comes from a student meal plan. Reitman describedthe incident in which hceReitman Photo by Rony Shram Inn-shouldbe wiredwithinthenextweek, The off-campus points program is lim- the accused student was involved. Ac- Lee said. “We’re trying to get them up as ited to delivery service from 7 p.m. to clos- cording to Reitman, a heavily intoxicated guilty of academic fraud was placed on close to each other as possible.” ing on weekdays, which varies for each white student shouted “nigger cop” at a Probation Level I1 and has failed a course. While sounding optimistic about this merchant, and 1 p.m. to closing on week- white Tufts University police officer late A student in the Anthropology Depart- start-up date, Lee said there still are a few ends. one night toward the end of last semester. ment plagiarizeda final paper last semester, possible pitfalls that could cause further When students call to order food they Thestudentwasridinginacarwithother which was discovered by his professor to delays. can give their student ID number and the drunk passengers, though the driver was have been copied from an Internet site. “This is brand new for everyone. We restaurant will use acomputer to verify that sober. Not all ofthe passengers were Tufts The professor noticed “a writing style have to make sure that the [telecommunica- the student’s account has a sufficient bal- students. notentirely similartothat whichthe student tion system] is working, and the employees ance. When the food is delivered, the stu- The police officer filed a report, which had submitted previously,” Reitman said. have to be trained,” she said. dent must show their ID and sign a receipt was sent to the Dean of Students Office. “The sources listed were not in our library.” Lee has blamed much ofthe four-month to authorize payment. According to the judiciary panel’sjudg- Though the student invented the name delay on AT&T, which she says failed to Tips cannot be deducted from the points ment, “there was no evidence to suggest of an author and changed some wording st deliver the computer equipment on time. account, Lee said, explaining that it would that they thought [the officer] was African- the beginning of the report, the profzsssi- Ron Sacca, the manager ofCollege Pizza, complicatethe reimbursementprocess. Tips American,” Reitman said. recognized it as the work of a Uriiversip of says he has waited almost five years for the must be paid in cash or in some other form The students were listening to a record- Arizona Press professional. points off-campus program, but that he acceptable to the merchant, she said. ing by rap artist Snoop Doggy Dogg and Reitman also mentioned a website at expects it to pay off in the long run. Although the money will be deducted “$st repeated it,” he explained. http:llwww.schoolsucks.comthat offers‘% “Back when we opened in November of immediately from the student’s points bal- rhe offender does not plan to appea! the compendium ofpapers” on a wide range of 1992, we had a petition on the counter for ance, the University will pay the merchants panel’s verdict. ~OPICS. But, he added, tiis c . =.-;gAgy studentsto sign when they came in,” he said. once a month, as it does with the campus In the second case, a student found paper was not taken from this site. “But good things come to those who bookstore, Lee said. TCUJ elections held today byLAURENHEIST of students who have run in the for us to run back and forth to the Daily Editorial Board past. The candidates include CampusCenter.” Elections to fill thevacated seat sophomoresMatthew Altman, Ben Because ELBO was only in- on the Tufts Community Union Zaretsky, and Myah Evers, and formed at the end of January that Judiciary will be held today in freshmen Jeffery Dorfman and the electionswould be held today, DewickandCarmichaelfrom 11:30 Sameer Agarwal. Rosencrantz said that they had a.m.to2p.m. andagain from5 p.m. Seth Wadley, co-chair of the difficultly organizing enough to7:30p.m. TCUJ, said the increased number people to man the voting table in F.ive students are campaigning of candidates for the position is a the Campus Center. for the TCUJ seat, a significant positive reflection on the TCUJ. “There wasn’t a lot oftumout at increase compared to the number “In a way that makes me happy,” theCampusCenter[duringthe last he said. elections],” Rosencrantz added. In contrast to the elections of Spring Senate elections, past years,theTCUJelectionswill Rosencrantzsaid,will continue to only be held in the dining halls, be held in the Campus Center. voting stations will not include Although there is no minimum the campus center. number of students that need to Explaining the decision to re- vote in order for the election to be strict voting to the dining halls, valid,tumout is expected to be fair, Marcus Rosencrantz, amember of Rosencrantz said. Approximately Election BoardGLBO), attributed 25 percent of the student body the change to avariety of reasons. voted in the fall election, he said. “One was because there’s only “If we get that I’d be pleased.” two ofus running ELBO,” he said, Results of today’s elections Daily file phoz referring to himself and should be released by tonight, Students vote for vacant spot. ChristopherJons. “It’sreally hard Rosencrantz said. Roof ripped from South Hall by PETE §ANBORN and rubber, was ripped from the top of the Daily Editorial Board building structure and landed on the fence A large section of exterior roofing was surroundingthe adjacentbasketball courts. blown from the east side of South hall at A plastic fence was erected around the approximately 1:45 a.m., reported a Tufts twisted debris by police officers. Police Sergeant. “We don’t know exactly what hap- “We got about 50 calls within about two pened,” he said. ‘LWehave notified every- minutes,” Sgt. Bill Murphy said. “There one, including Buildings and Grounds and were no injuries, thank God.” Vice President ofoperations John Roberto.” The metal roof underneath the tom He added that today they will evaluate section was not damaged and none of the the extent of the damage and beg:v an rooms were exposed, Murphy said, ex- investigation to determine z cause. plaining that no South Hall residents were A police officer was placed on guard at evacuated. He estimated that 10 rooms the site “in order to keep people awzy in exterior roofing was off Hall. The roofing, comprised ofwood, metal said. The ripped of this section of South I age two THETUFTS DAILY Thursday, February 20,1997 THETUFTS DAILY Letters to the Editor P.O. Box 18, Medford, MA. 02155 Geirnan should stop popular and thenthey take away yourrights, evoking (617) 627-3090; Fax: (617) 627-3910, [email protected] this document you signed. Online: http://www.tufts.edulas/stu-orgltuftsdaily whining Also know that whatever you publicize on the Dan Tobin To the Editor: newsgroups is monitored, so forget the anonymity Editor-in-Chief Ho hum, another semester, another galactically and freedom you are supposed to enjoy on the Web. ignorant writer. In the grand tradition of moronic If you go to Tufts newsgroups, you will find really Managing Editor: Karen Epstein writing startedby Michael J. W. Stickingand contin- sick things even though attempts are made to censor Associate Editors: Bill Copeland, Gregory Geiman, Amy Zimmet ued by David Meyers comes Greg Geiman. Geiman most ofthe material. If you publicize anything in any NEWSEditor: Pete Sai~bom asserts that the Senate should try to please the entire non-academia-relatednewsgroup, however, you are Assistant Editors: John OKeefe, Lauren Heist Tufts community, notjustthe “special interests,” i.e. violating the network policy. VIEWPOINTSEditor: Jason Cohen the culture groups on campus. He cites as proof the Now isn’t it nice that Emerald asks you to make a Assistant Editor: Alex Shalom resolution pushed by Todd.McFadden of the Afri- long password with at least one odd symbol or FEATURESEditors: Laura Bemheim, Annie Risbridger, Katie House can-American Center and Aliguma Kabadaki of the capital? You should know that your password can be Assistant Editor: Merredith Portsmore Pan-African Alliance.