C HE UF S DAILY~ Medford, MA 02155 Tuesday, November 27,1990 Vol XXI, Number 52 Off-campus housing Fire at Delta Upsilon is under survey to be distributed investigation as possible arson perspectives for their decision." by KRIS MUFFLER by RICH KETCHUM Daily Editorial Board Hrycyszyn said the survey will Senior Staff Writer The Tufts Community Union be briefand easy to fill out. It will There was a fire over the holi­ Senate plans to compileinforma­ include approximately 15 ques­ day weekend at the Delta Upsi­ tion about the off-campus hous­ tions, ranging from objective lon fraternity house on Profes­ ing available in theTufts area by information and the student's sors Row that police believe may distributing a survey to students individual opinions ofthe apart­ have been arson, Tufts Police as they register for classes during ment they lived in. He said that Captain Ronald Repoza said the next two weeks. the Senatehasnotyetdetermined yesterday. "The motivation behind it in what form the compiled infor­ Officer Bob Bricker was on behind it was to provide informa­ mation will be made available to routine motorcycle patrol on Fri­ tion about residences which Tufts students. day Nov. 21 at approximately students live in, for future stu­ The survey will be conducted 11 :50 when he noticed the red dents who may want to live off in Eaton Hall by senators, sev­ fire alarm light flashing in the campus," said Senator Carl eral members of student organi­ DU house. He entered the build­ Hrycyszyn. "It will provide mostly zations, and other individual stu­ ing, checked the alarm system, objective information about the dents. All students currently liv­ which he found out of commis­ residence, with additionally some ing off-campus will be asked to sion, and noted some smoke personal perspectives. [It] will fill the survey out when they are coming from the basement. Daily file photo not endorse or blacklist particu­ waiting to register. Bricker found a mass of ashes, This weekend's small fire at the DU is under investigation. lar residences, but provide stu­ "We'll be starting to do this burnt papers, and cardboard boxes was the cause of the blaze be­ it was too late. dents with additional facts and tomorrow," Hrycyszyn said. piled against the basement wall cause it was set next to a wall that Penney said that he was satis­ "Since the first two days only next to a locked exit. Police be­ would not have caught fire eas­ fied with the police response. Both seniors are registering, we don't lieve the fire burned itself out ily. the alleged arson attemptand the expect to see that many off-cam­ shortly before Bricker arrived. Police computers did not pick failed alarm system are currently pus people then. We'll be there The police reported no signs up the smoke alarms, according under investigation. for sure Thursday, maybe Friday offorced entry, and said thescene to Repoza. Under normal circum­ Tuesday, November 20 and then definitely Monday and was littered with ice, orange juice, stances, any smoke alarm in a A student was heating wax in Tuesday of next week." and frozen food looted from three Tufts building sends a signal to his Houston Hall dormitory room This year will be the first time storerooms in the basement. the station. Repoza said that this when he accidentally lit a fire. such a survey has been conducted, DU President Matt Penney said potentially dangerous malfunc­ The student threw a lit match in . Hrycyszyn said, adding that he that damage was minor and con­ tion was due to water damage to his waste basket resulting in a hopes it will become an annual sisted of a wall warped from the the alarm system. Penney clari­ blaze that was contained to the Senate project. heat and a melted exit light. fied this information, explaining basket and extinguished by the Hrycyszyn said that he came Nothing was stolen. Penney did that the fraternity had to shut off student with a dorm fire extin­ up with the idea for the survey not think the incident was a mat­ the alarm system in order to re­ guisher. Both Tufts Police and last year after searching for off­ ter ofconcern. pairdamageto a burstwaterpipe. the Somerville Fire Department campus housing himself and Police notified the Somerville Repoza praised Bricker's ac­ responded, and there was no promised to organize the survey Fire Department, who sent an tions, saying that the Department damage to the room.' as a part of his senatorial cam­ arson investigator to the ·scene. was not aware of the alarm and TCU Senator Carl Hrycyszyn. paign earlier this year. Penney did not believe arson might not have been notified until see POLICE, page 7 New minors program considered Somerville bar proposalfails The Somerville Licensing Commission voted down a proposal by KRIS MUFFLER suggests that the Minors Com­ eliminated from the current pro­ last week that would have called for all city bars, including Tufts' Daily Editorial Board mittee add departmental minors gram. MacPhie Pub, to close at midnight. The Tufts Community Union to the current program, which "Departments which feel that Theproposal, submitted by Alderman Jack Connolly, asked that Senate Education Committee sent presently includes interdiscipli­ five or six courses are insuffi­ the closing times be rolled back one hour from their currentclosing a letter to the student/faculty nary minors. Each department cient for a minor may require in time of 1 a.m. It was presented Oct. 22 at a public hearing. Minors Committee last week could designate the structure of addition a short paper or projcct Connolly said he proposed the policy outofaconcem for public asking that the committee make the minor and the number of for both the interdisciplinary and! safety, citing the large number oflate-night incidents at a few bars _changes in the program in order courses required for its comple­ or departmental minor," the let­ in the area. to increase student participation. tion, the letter said. ter read. After receiving a petition from the Somerville Restaurant and "The current minors program Individual departments would Chair of the Senate education Lounge Association containing over 4000 signatures against the is cumbersome and covers too have the prerogative of whether committee, Ellie Kleinman, said proposal, the commission voted it down 2- I. Leonard Scott and few areas of study," the letter or not to require a student com­ yesterday that she would like to Anthony Vetrano, the two other members of the commission in read. "As a result, few students pleting the minor to have a minor see each minor require the com­ addition to Connolly, voted against the proposal. are participating... the' current advisor. pletionofonly five orsix courses, Local bar managers maintained that the proposal would have minors program at Tufts is both The letter also recommends compared to the larger require­ caused problems with staff and would have cost the bars a lot of insufficient and poorly structured." that the requirement of a thesis ments for a major. Sheadded that money. The Senate committee's letter for the completion ofa minor be she feels the current requirements The proposal would have affected MacPhie Pub and the Cam­ are forcing students away from pus Center, which are both located in Somerville. Programming Board elects president completing the program, noting The Tufts Programming Board elected Marc Bucella, former that only 14 people completed Harvard pays million dollars dIrector of public relations, as their new president last night, minors last year. replacing outgoing Julie Tromberg, according to Concert Board "I personally feel that too many CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) n ' practice ofacquiring property and Harvard University will pay Cam- converting it to academic uses, Chair for the Programing Board, Mayer Danzig. Tromberg, who people are opting to double ma­ served as president for the fall semester, resigned the post to go jor," Kleinman said. "By double bridge more than $1 million making it exempt from property abroad next semester. majoring, instead ofdoing a minor, annually under a to-year agree- taxes. "I feelreally good about it... I'm looking forward to keeping up I think people are narrowing the ment to help compensate for taxes what we've done this semester," Bucella said. He added that the breadth of their education. The the city cannot collect on school entire Programming Board will ,miss Tromberg and her efforts. point is to come out knowing a property. Inside Tromberg lead the recent restructuring of the Programming little about a lot of things, not a The agreement, announced Features p.3 Board; which took place over the last two semesters. The group, lot about just two things," she Monday, updates a previous 10­ Whether you want to be a model or which coordinates social, cultural and educational events on added. year arrangement adopted in 1978. University President Jean Harvardhadcontinued its annual just look like one, Nathaniel "Tan" campus, started the year with new policies, new goals and a Ruhlman can tell you all about it. revamped constitution. Mayer said recently at a press payments voluntarily under the conference that he is not pleased terms ofthe old deal for the past Thepostion ofdirector ofpublic relations, vacated by Bucella, Arts p. 3 will now be open to the Tufts community, Danzig added. He about the number of students two years. double majoring. Harvard claims to have been Kevin Costner dazzles audiences explained that any Tufts student may pick up an application at the with his three-hour gem, Dances With "I am u~impressed with the the first non-profit institution in Programming Board office, which are available Wednesday and Wolves.