THETUFTS Tuesday, April 23, 1996 DAILY Volume XXXII, Number 59 IWhere You Read It First ICUSSES? WHAT CUSSES? I Meal plans to include altered point systems by JONATHAN BLAU ing in the program. Senior Staff Writer Dining Dollars not used by stu- Dining Services recently an- dents this year will carry over to nounced that it will reduce the their accounts for next year. Lee amountofpointsofferedon the20 said that this carryover of points and 14-meal plans, but will ex- has been the practice of Dining pand spending options by making Services for several years now. Points Plus available on these Despite the change from Din- plans. ing Dollars to Points Plus in the Though, Dining Services will fall, Lee said, Dining Services will be continuing its year-old prac- continue to offer Dining Dollars tice of offering Dining Dollars in to those students who want them. addition to Points Plus, Director Lee explained this by saying of Dining Services Patti Lee said that many parents want their stu- that all Dining Dollars on meal dents toonly haveaccess to points plans this year will be changed to at eateries. In addition, she said, Points Plus next year. some University faculty members Lee explained this change by have purchased meal cards so that saying that Dining Dollars can they can eat on-campus. only be used at restaurants on cam- This year, upperclassmen who pus and Jumbo Express, while choose to be on meal plans con- Points Plus can be used at these sisting solely of points can have Daily file photo locations as well as the bookstore, an account with a minimum of hesterdav’s warm weather provided more reason to sit around and deny the imminency offinals. I the computer store, the copy cen- $100. Last year, upperclassmen ter in Braker Hall, and the new who wished to have a meal plan coffeehouse planned for Curtis consisting solely ofpoints needed Anthropology 10 is removed from Hall. a minimum of $600 in points. “The flexibility of using your This year, commuters can have list of accepted World Civ courses points has been increased,” Lee meal plans consisting solely of said. points with totals as low as $50. by KAREN EPSTEIN ment for this year, which included that Anthropology 10 meets the According to Lee, the 20-meal The main reason that Dining Daily Editorial Board Anthropology 10. “The faculty WorldCivrequirementat its meet- plan will come with $25 worth of Services will still offer Dining The Subcommittee on the understood that there would be ing in May. “Maybe the whole Points Plus next year. The 14- Dollars as well as Points Plus, Lee World Civilizations Requirement changes over time,” he said. committee is wrong-headed about meal plan will contain $50 of said, is to accommodate financial recently distributed an updated list The new requirement wording Anthro 10, but that debate’will Points Plus, and students with the aid awzds. Many grants only of courses that meet the require- states: “Courses approved to ful- have to wait until May,” he said. 5-meal plan will receive $100 in cover the costs of food and would ment. While many courses have fill the requirement will explore He acknowledged that thk de- Points Plaq. not allow such money to be spent beenaklediothzlk, fivecutiisis, iliriddiwnid cui~tiaiconceprs ;urd cisicil may be an incunwniencc In dddition. Lee said, the 160- at other locations on-campus. including the popular Anthropol- historical processes and/or will to students who have already or meal plan will contain $100 in ogy 10: Introduction to Sociocul- consider the ways social groups planned to pre-register for An- Points Plus and the 95-meal plan tural Anthropology, no longer within a given society participate thropology 10. “I am sympathetic will contain $95. counts for World Civ credit. in that society’sculture. They will to students and those who advise Lee said that the number of However, students who have study in-depth a non-Western civi- students,” Inouye said. pointsforthe20and 14-meal plans already fullfilled the requirement lization or civilizations, or the in- The list of courses approved was reduced because many stu- with one of the eliminated courses teractions of non-Western and by the subcommitteeis largerthan dents on these meal plans com- will still be able to count that Western civilizations with equal the old list. “We actually added a plained that it was difficult for class, the committee determined. attention given to both.” number of Anthropology courses them to spend $100 or $75 at According to Subcommittee The subcommittee, Inouye at higher levels,” Inouye said. Dining Services locations in one Chair Charles Inouye, the faculty said, questioned whether Anthro- Inouye described this time as a semester. mandated last spring, after a year- pology 10 meets the second half transition period from the old to Lee said that, with the new long review, that the World Civ of this requirement. He said the the new requirements for World meal plans, students will be able requirement needed to be rede- subcommittee found that as an Civilizations. A lot of the classes to use Points Plus at several off- fined. Two elements of the old introductory anthropology course, the subcommittee reviewed were campus locations. “We intend to requirement, team and it did not study a non-Western “on the borders.” he said. roll off the points off-campus pro- multidisciplinary teaching, had to civilization in any depth. gram next fall,” she said. be replaced with a multicultural, According to Inouye, Susan Other courses which no longer The off-campus vendors have non-Western focus. Ostrander, chair of the Anthro- meet the World Civilizations Re- not been selected yet, Lee said, “The [new] list has not yet been pology/Sociology Department, quirement are French 44 and 48 but several restaurants in Medford Patti Lee Dai/y file photo approved by the faculty,” Inouye was unhappy with the fact that and World Civilizations 9. and Somerville will be participat- said. He added that the entire fac- Anthropology 10 no longer counts. ulty will debate the new changes The department had recently “had at the May 6 meeting of the liberal a huge increase in [enrollment] in NRA names grandmother as head arts faculty and make their final Anthro 10, but now it is not on the Los Angeles Times-Washington decessor, Thomas L. Washington, for, and that many of our ances- decision on which courses will list,” Inouye said. Post News Service died of a heart attack. tors died for, will not live beyond meet the requirement at that time. “It is not a numbers game as far DALLAS - The first time In moving swiftly toplot anew us,” she said in her inaugural ad- Though the list will not be ap- as I’m concerned. The faculty Marion Hammer fired a gun, she course for the gun lobby at a time dress to conventioneers. “Right proved until May 6, fall pre-regis- asked us to do something. We felt had a marksman’s touch - even when its future is uncertain, Ham- now, the majority of America’s tration began yesterday. compelled to change the defini- at the tender age of 5. mer is drawing on childhood ex- youngsters think guns are evil, Inouye said that an ad-hoc com- tion andchangethelist,”headded. Her grandfather lined up a row periences from her grandfather’s period. They have been brain- mittee put together a provisional Inouye said there is still a pos- ofyellow tomatocanson his South farm, where she was raised and washed to see a firearm not as a list of courses to meet the require- sibility that the faculty willdecide Carolina farm so the tiny girl could taught about the virtues of fire- symbol of good, but as a symbol practice shooting the Remington arms as symbols of discipline, re- of evil.” .22-caliber rifle she had just been sponsibility and freedom. A4-foot-11-inch woman with lnside: given in the tradition of an avid Faced with the bitter reality penetrating blue eyes and a raspy hunting family. that the NRA lost 400,000 mem- Southern drawl, Hammer packs a Viewpoints............. P. 3 “My first shot drilled it and I bers last year, Hammer is embark- .9mm Barreta semiautomatic pis- Two students look at ethnic and was hooked for life,” Hammer ing on an ambitious plan to begin tol or a .38 caliber Colt Detective racial issues on campus plus two sena- proudly recalled. recruiting anew generation of gun Special revolver when she is in torson theneed foranew safetyshuttle. A half century later, the short, stalwarts by revamping the NRA’s her hometown of Tallahassee, Ha. gray-haired grandmother is presi- youth programs on firearms, In 1987 Florida became the first A& E .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. P- 7 dent of the National Rifle Asso- safety, hunting, marksmanshipand state to allow the carrying of con- Barenaked Ladies wow the ciation, the first woman to head the Constitution. Today’s students cealed weapons, largely as a re- Orpheum, Busta Rhymes new album, the 3 million-member organiza- of guns and the Second sult of her efforts. and Samantha Levine says good-bye. tion in its 125-year history. Its Amendement will be tomorrow’s Hammer has also brought a board of directors Monday, wrap- guardians oftheright to beararms, tough-as-nails style to the NRA Sports....................... P. 9 ping up theNRA’s annual conven- so the thinking goes. presidency and made it clear that Baseball and men’s lacrosse go in tion here, formally elected Ham- “If we do not successfully reach she will not budge when it comes opposite directions and Bill Copeland mer to the position which she first out to the next generation, then the to the issue of federal restrictions on life and death in sports.