Tufts Will Begin Re Cling Its Environmental Policies Soon by JOSH ROBIN Department
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DAILY \Where You Read It First Friday, March 28,1997 Volume XXXIV, Number 43 I c 3 Tufts will begin re cling its environmental policies soon by JOSH ROBIN Department. She added that the which donates out-of-use com- Senior Staff Writer change would not strain the bud- puters, and has recently installed Leaders on environmental get of the University greatly, al- adisk-recyclingprogram on cam- policy mandated yesterday that though the price ofrecycled paper pus, summit members stressedthe 50 percent of all paper used on is slightly higher than that of the need to extend the program’s campus should be of 100 percent regulartype. Theuniversity Copy scope, especially because elec- recycled material. The decision, Center currently uses paper that is tronic devices are potentially dan- announced at the Tufts Univer- made from 50percentrecycledma- gerous due to their high concen- sity Campus Earth Sum- trations of lead. mit, will be instituted by “Today’ssummit Rally demonstrated Additionally,thecommit- July 1,1997. how much Tufts is doina to reduce tee will look at ways to In a separate an- v conserve the amount of Daiw file phok electricity,water,andgas The Burden Lounge in Anderson Hall the site of the nouncement, summit our environmental impact. There’s was Tufts members saidthey will still much more to do....’’ that the University uses University Campus Earth Summit. attempt to institute a - Sarah Hammond Creighton on a daily basis. Water- program entitled Tufts Recycles. ing of the tiles and carpeting in standing committee Civil and Environmental Engineering ‘Onserving have While members looked for ways Wessel Library when the Tisch that will evaluate envi- already been installed to improve the current environ- Library was built, the University ronmental aspects of University terial. throughout the campus. mental situation at Tufts, the Uni- re-used the materials in the Cabot operation and report their find- “Today’s summit really dem- An environmentally-con- versity stands at the top of envi- Center. ings to the president of the Uni- onstrated how much Tufts is do- scious protocol has already been ronmental policy among national In addition, it has been sug- versity. The committee will be ing to reduce our environmental institutedat TuftsUniversityDin- schools of its size. Tufts was the gestedthat solar panellingbe used comprised of students, staff, and impact,” Creighton said. “There’s ing Services, who were repre- first university to establish an as the major power source in the faculty. still much more to do, and the sented at the meeting by director environmental policy, signed in new gym, which is still in develop- “The university continues to recommendations that we made Patti Lee. Lee said that while her 1991 by former President Jean mental stages. be committed to ... environmental today are important steps towards departmentcan improve its water Mayer. When President John The conferencewas sponsored policy,”said Dick Goulet, director progress.” usage, dining halls already rely on DiBiaggio was the president at by Tufts EnvironmentalCommit- ofPhysicalPlant.“Therehavebeen In addition to increasing the corrugated cardboard, light- Michigan State University, he tee and was attended by students good things that have happened, amountofrecycledpaper, summit weight food wraps, and bags and used Tufts’ environmentalpolicy andstafffiomtheUrbanandEnvi- and there’s a need to crystalize it members also suggested that the napkins made ofrecycled materi- as amodel when he signed a simi- ronmental Engineering Depart- into a new committee.” University look for better ways to als. larplatformat Michigan, and here- ment, members of the Operations The University currently re- recycle electronic deviceson cam- The University also attempts signed Mayer’s policy when he Department,members ofthe Uni- cycles less than 10 percent of its pus includingbatteries, computer to do its share forthe environment came to Tufts. versity administration including paper, according to Sarah disks, and computers. by participating in Ride Share, a Construction at Tufts has been DiBiaggio, and University Chap- Hammond Creighton of the Civil While Tufts currently is en- car-pool program, and recently noted as especially environmen- lain Scotty McLennan, who mod- and Environmental Engineering gaged in the East-West program, embarkedon a$120,000 recycling tally-conscious.Instead of dispos- erated the summit. Late night at Curtis Hall U Senate hopes to extend hours even further Ph by PETE SA” nity Union Senate, cited the popularity of Daily Editorial Board the coffeehouse on the weekends as a ch awa The hours of operation for the Brown major reason for increasing the hours. and Brew coffeehouse have been extended Stephensadded,“There’salwayspeople to 1 a.m. on Thursday through Sunday, down there when we close. It will provide according to manager Will Stephens. another study space until 1 a.m.” ented to Vilenkin The facility will be open between 7 a.m. The extension will be run on atrial basis and 1 a.m. on Thursday and Friday, and for the remainder of the semester, Baltins between 10 a.m. and 1a.m. on Saturday and said. She added that the weekend hours Sunday, he said. The hours for Monday may be extended through 3 a.m. by the through Wednesday will remain the same, conclusion of the year. from7a.m. to 11 p.m. “Eventually, I hope that the hours will “Hopefully, by the end of the semester, be open until 2 or 3 a.m. on the weekends, we’ll be working up to being open that late because that is the purpose for which the every day,” he said. coffeehouse was created,” she said. “We Sasha Baltins, a member of the Dining need to go one step at a time.” Services committee of the Tufts Commu- Stephens echoed Baltins, saying that one of the intended purposes of the coffeehouse was to provide a place for people to congregate on weekend nights that was notalcohol- oriented. Baltins explained that Mass suicide: The dav after many requirements, includ- 4 ing permission from the Los Angeles Times-Washington All they needed were three mortuary Somerville city council, had Post News Service attendants and one coroner’s lieutenant to be hlfilled before the hours KEARNY MESA, Calif. -The bodies from Los Angeles County, along with two could be extended. came Thursday in industrial-strength doses, $60,000 “mul&decedent recovery transport “There is no real mecha- brought to the San Diego County Medical vehicles”-each with a 14-body capacity - nism for extendingthe hours Examiner’s Office by the truckload, then requested late Wednesday from Los Ange- because there are so many carried two-by-two by forklift to a waiting les officials. factors to take into account, semi-truck-turned cooler, its walls sweating At a county morgue that handles an such as community relations, under a warm San Diego sun. average of eight deaths a day, San Diego safety issues, administrative On the day after the mass suicide in the investigators said they would go about concerns, and staff issues,” San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe, their jobs as always and try to forget about Baltins said. investigators began the mammoth task of the rows of bodies that lay before them - Since opening at the be- sorting through 39 bodies, laid side by side the 2 1 women and 1 8 men, each labeled by ginning of the semester, wrapped in white sheets, to confirm the number until it could be confirmed they Stephens said the coffee- identities of apparent cult members and were the same people named on the driver’s house has been successful. help piece together the macabre scenerio licenses and passports invariably kept in “We’re definitelymeeting up that unfolded inside that hillside Southern their pockets. Califomiamansion. With more than 50 workers on hand- with our exDectations.-7 if not I doing bette;.” Taking a collective breath, veteran San from doctors and secretaries to lab tech- He added- that the.. num-.. .. Diego County officials insisted their eight nicians- officials said not all the staff -.a- medicalexaminersand 15 investigatorscould would focus on the cult-member autop- photo byDan ber of drinks and food items ,,,: ,,,: offeredhasincreased, includ- handle the grisly task ahead -the autop- sies. Others would handle the “bodies of Brew now be Open l:O0 ing the addition of frozen sies, the background work, the notification the day,” the crash victims, drive-by ca- Thursday through Sunday nights. drinksu to the menu. offamilies. sualties and the like. ‘agetwo THETUFTS DAILY Friday, March 28,1997 THETUFTS DAILY Letters to the Editor P.O. Box 18, Medford, MA. 02153 Tufts must review off-campus housing at this point and from what (617) 627-3090; Fax: (617) 627-3910, [email protected] Residential Life has told me, unless I find some- Online: http://www.tufts.edu/as/stu-org/tuftsdaily shareholder resolutions thing, I will be homeless. This is not something a Dan Tobin To the Editor: sophomore in college should be worryingabout. As Editor-in-Chlef As a socially conscious student, I am very con- alljuniors-to-be know, we are not guaranteed hous- cerned that the University does not have a systematic, ing. What we weren’t told was that our chances of Managing Editor: Karen Epstein thorough process for reviewing and voting on share- receiving on-campus housing would be next to Associate Editors: Bill Copeland, Gregory Geiman, Amy Zimmet holder resolutions, particularly those dealing with none. NEWSEditors: Pete Sanbom, Lauren Heist social responsibility. Tufts has the opportunity to use Since my return from spring break, I learned that Assistant Editor: John OKeefe its shareholding power to advocate that various cor- I had one of the worst lottery numbers for a junior- VIEWPOINTS Editor: Jason Cohen porations be more responsible toward human rights, to-be.