Coffee Gives Social Outlet, Caffeine Boost
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S WJATMEB reWtCagr ( High 100 Low 78 Art, music festival Mostly sac for Student Center sunny The Programming Council's Arts and Music Inside Fest hits the Student Center from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Take a tour of the THURSDAY Thursday and Friday. Letterman's Lounge SEPTEMBER 18, 1997 The event will feature a variety of bands, each play- See page 7 Texas Christian University ing a two hour set. Familiar 95th Year • Number 15 favorites such as Crinkle Root, Fishermen's Ensemble and jini squire's band will play, as well as the Tejano band Latin Express and Sonny D, which features a country style. Coffee gives social outlet, caffeine boost Art projects such as spin art, sand art and stone paint- ing will be in the lounge and Drink's appeal grows despite warnings of health risk hallway. Tie-dying will also be available for students to By Krlstlna D'Aun Bosquez Coffee is also an inexpensive way Mangieri said that she drinks dye either their own clothing STAFF REPORTER to get out, she said. It offers the cof- "anything that is l'at-1'ree and has or an Art and Music Fest T- To cope with all-night cram ses- fee drinker an opportunity to read, caffeine." and coffee fits her shirt, which will be sold at sions and last-minute research study, or eat. and it can be done demands perfectly. the event. papers, college students are notori- alone or with others. Davis Odom, a barista at the cof- "We're trying to attract ous for ingesting a seemingly end- An array of coffeehouses have set fee bar. said the establishment offers everyone," said PC Concerts less amount of coffee. Not only do up near TCU. each with its own a 10 percent discount on coffee Committee Chairman Kent students find that Java helps them design on coffee and its own appeal drinks and other amenities. The cafe Cummins, a junior fashion salvage their academic lives, but a to the general public. also has a reading room that can be merchandising major. cup o' joe at the right place is a Diane Esker, a junior music reserved and used at no charge, and "We're really focusing on social escape as well. major, said her favorite place to buy it offers a quiet place to study in the the fine arts aspect of TCU. Cheryl Kimberling . an adjunct coffee is the Coffee Haus at 404 heart of the cultural district. People can just walk by and professor of sociology, said coffee- Houston St. in Sundance Square. Two franchises of Seattle-based create something artistic, houses have become increasingly Holly Sherrill. a shift leader at the Starbucks Coffee are available to just Tike that." he said. popular in recent years for several Coffee Haus. said the location, the Fort Worth-area coffee drinkers. The new Barnes & Noble bookstore, scheduled to open at reasons. environment for socializing and the One is located at 1620 S. University- Homecoming on Nov. 1, features a coffee shop and cafe. An artist's Colleges "They offer a sense of communi- great coffee are what makes the cafe Drive, next to Barnes & Noble rendering of the coffee shop area is shown here. ty or a place to hang out regularly." a prime coffee-consuming experi- Booksellers. The second Starbucks, Escamilla said Slarbucks oilers In Hulen Mall, the Coffee Air Force secretary she said. "Because we are a hurried, ence. at 4668 S.W. Loop 820. can be returning to MIT high standards and consistency in Beanery is located a leu shops away task-oriented society, it provides a Sherrill also said Coffee Haus found in the strip mall that houses their drinks, and the corporation from the second floor food eourt. (U-WIRE) CAM- place to stop. offers TCU students a 20 percent Albertson's Food and Drug. Home donates to various charities. Pastries BRIDGE. Mass. — l.ori Priekett. manager of the Coffee "It (the coffeehouse) offers a discount with a valid student ID Depot and Office Depot. and coffee are donated to women's Beanery, said the environment of the Secretary of the Air Force mini-vacation or an activity that you card. Ray Escamilla. a shift supervisor shelters, and proceeds from Oprah shop is relaxing. The Coffee Sheila E. Widnall, a might do on a vacation." she said. Deanna Mangieri. a junior biolo- at the Starbucks on University Winfrey's Book Club program, Beanery oilers a drink card special. Massachusetts Institute of "The smell of coffee stimulates the gy major, said she goes to the Four Drive, said the coffee bar frenzy which Barnes and Noble oilers, which can be used to purchase spe Technology graduate and a senses. Coffee has a smell of Star Coffee Bar. located at 3324 W. became international when it first goes to Starbucks' Literac) former MIT associate warmth and home." Seventh St. arrived on the West Coast. Foundation. Please see COFFEE, Page 6 provost, announced last week that she plans to leave her post and return to MIT as a professor of aeronautics and astronautics on Oct. 31. Parking scarcity "As I have planned all Sign hang serenade along, I will return to MIT," Widnall wrote in a letter to President Clinton. "I am frustrates faculty proud to have served you and our nation, and I sin- Students not alone in need for spaces cerely thank you for this opportunity you've given By Danielle Daniel faculty, staff and students. However, me." SKIFF STAFF available spots are still hard to find. Widnall took a leave of Students are not the only ones Penny Petrie. a human resources absence from MIT to grappling with finding a place to park specialist, said. "It's a problem (find- become Secretary of the Air on campus. Faculty and staff also ing a parking place) on a daily basis Force in August 1993. deal with the ongoing dilemma of too It's not a problem in the morning Widnall served as leader many ears and not enough spaces. when I get here before H a.m.. but 1 of the Air Force during a But as the year progresses, the don't dare leave at lunch." period marked by problem- problem of students taking facuit) Despite the difficult) of finding a atic incidents. Among these spaces subsides, parking place. were the adultery case of 1st said Barbara Petrie said the Lt. Kelly Flinn and the fall- Goodman, man- t's not the police's blame docs not fall on students out from the bombing of a ager of the fault or students' facility housing U.S. troops Campus Police "i; lor parking in in Saudi Arabia during 1996. traffic program. fscult) or staff fault. The problem is spaces "Four years is quite a long But that does leave of absence at any insti- not guarantee thai needing more space. 1 think the tution. MIT has been more faculty spaces There's just not enough students do than generous," Widnall said will be easily their best." in an interview. accessible. parking" Petrie said. "It's The White House has made According to — Penny Petrie not the police's no announcements yet Richard Mason, fault Of sin regarding who will be nomi- project architect Human Resources dents' fault I he problem is nated to succeed Widnall. for the Physical Specialist —The Tech Plant, the campus needing more sasasasasasasasssssaasai space. There's Massachusetts Institute of has about 6.300 J^JJ^^^^ mmmm Technology spaces lor faculty. ^^^^^^ * just not enough staff and students. Student enroll- parking" Brown prof files ment totals 7,273. while faculty and Goodman said the highest (re- new charges staff positions add up to 2,071, queue) of tickets given to students (U-WIRE) PROVI- including 742 temporary stall. A tor parking in (acuity spaces occurs DENCE. R.I. — Former minimal number of that total repre- during the first tour weeks of school, Brown University music senting housekeeping and police totaling an estimated 23-25 per week professor Henry Kingsbury. About 6I5 spaces designated lor at a line of $25 each. Complaints called into Campus already embroiled in a legal Ufgh WUMfl SKIFF STAFF faculty and staff are located on cam dispute with the university, pus. Police primarily are from facuit) Members of the Phi Kap fraternity display their banner Tuesday celebrating the Delta Gamma has filed new charges against Mason said to ease the parking members who have name-number Brown with the Rhode sororltles's annual Anchorsplash festival. panic, land was purchased on the easi Island Commission for campus for additional parking for Please see PARKING, Page 6 Human Rights and the feder- al Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. The professor says that Telephone Activation Times Music spans cultures : Phone system the term nation of his • East of University Alter 12 am. Friday employment at Brown is a Drive Program promotes artistic exchange violation of the Americans • AlhlciK Complex After lOp.ni. Friday with Disabilities Act. to be switched • Worth Hills After 12 p.m.. Saturday between university, Latin America Kingsbury is also alleging • Physical Plant and After 12 p.m.. Saturday that, in addition to discrimi- Mary Potishmar, Gutierrez said man) musicians nating against him on the By Erin Brlnkman over weekend Laid tennis Center STAFF REPORTER and lecturers are ahead) scheduled basis of his disabilities, the •Moncrief, Rickel After 12 a.m.. Friday In its first year, the Latin for the festival, and several TCU administration unfairly held Center, Milton By Bath Wilson American Music Center at TCU is musical groups, including the Wind him responsible for sexually Daniel STAFF REPORTER trying to increase artistic exchanges Symphony and the Symphony harassing a graduate student • Bailey, Engineering.