DAILY [Where You Read It First Friday, SeFiGiber 26,1997 Volume XXXV, Number 16 1 Bookstore to expand in- size Barnes and Noble to be renovated over Spring Break byMELISSAGALIN year than in the past because many shelves. Senior Staff Writer of the smaller vendors in the area Because tke textbook area is Buying books may be a more were bought up by larger distribu- often overcrowded, renovations pleasant experience in the future tors among them, namely Barnes will also bedone on the lower level due to renovations to the Tufts and Nobles, Follet, and Wallace. ofthe store. “Our goal in renovat- bookstore, expected to be com- Follet, which has run the book- ing the lower level is ease of ser- pleted by the end of the spring store in the past, was not well- vice. We w&?to use space more semester. These changes come received by faculty members who efficiently to have more room for with the renewal ofTufts’ contract said, according to Lee, that they books and materials,” Lee said. with the book distributer, Barnes had trouble with book orders for Renovations include puttin gin and Noble. their classes when the book store new shelvh@ahold more books According to Patti Lee, direc- usedthiscompany. She added that anddecreasingthe amount offloor tor of dinning services, plans for Wallace, too, has a poor reputa- space occupied by shelves and Photo by Allison Chapman renovations will result racks. Exxon executive Rene Dahan speaks to-students in Mugar in changes to both the “We want to Hall yesterday about the oil industry. operation and appear- make it easier to go ance of the bookstore. through the process of Such plans include the selecting and buying consolidation of books for class,” Lee Jumbo Scoops and said. Executive discusses Jumbo Express into There are also one entity, although plans to increase the size oil industrv future she said all of their of iEe lower level of the d products would re- bookmre by utilizing byMlKEDUPUY ing to Dahan is, “the fastest grow- main available. part of the space that Contributing Writer ing energy source.” Changes in the op- now comprises Jumbo Rene Dahan, senior vice presi- Stating that Exxon has already eration of the book- Express and Jumbo dent of the Exxon Corporation, established strongholds in the store are already be- DaW file photo Scoops. Plans call for spoke yesterday to students and republics of Kazakhstan, ing implemented, Lee Tufts bookstore Jumbo Scoops and faculty about Exxon’s present in- Azerbaijan, and Russia, Dahan said. In August, the Jumbo Express to be ternational campaigns and the said, “Withone-sixth ofthe world’s University began installing anew tion for service. combined, althoughLee said all continuing changes in the energy oil reserves, and one-third of the inventory system, known as Point “Barnes and Noble has been their products will still be avail- industry. world’sgas, it is primarily internal ofsales. The Point ofsales system good in the past. They submitted able. “Don’t worry, there will still Held in Mugar Hall, Dahan’s political and economic requires that all items in the book- a proposal and we decided to go be ice cream,” Lee said. lecture, which was entitled, “Inter- deadlockings that will determine store have bar codes which are with them again,” Lee said. The Lee said that the structuralreno- nationalDemand for Oil in theNext how these resources will be devel- then scanned into a computer to University contracted the book- vations to the bookstore will be Decade and the Exxon Response,” oped.” register pricing. store for the next five years. finishedinMarch.Notingthatthere was followed by a 30-minute dis- He said that the energy in- Lee said the new system will In addition to the implementa- is no good time to renovate, Lee cussion between the speaker and dustry is constantly changing to faci!itate orderingand trackinE or tion of a bar code system, the said that the University chose a the audience. meet the increasing consumer current sales. bookstore will also undergo reno- time when many students and fac- Among Exxon’s mosrexciting needs as well as the needs of Although the system was not vations on both the upper and ulty will be away for spring break. new ventures is its recent move regulators. Dahan added that the fially operational in time forthe fall lower levels. Lee said the University also into China, Dahan said. He ex- costs of extracting oil and gas semester book rush, Lee said she The entrances to the bookstore opted to wait until the spring to plainedthat China’sexplosiveeco- from the earth have declined with anticipates it will be set up for the will be modified in order to con- allow for student and faculty input nomic growth in the past 20 years the introduction ofnew technol- spring semester. Lee accounted solidate check-out areas and cash- about the renovations. has provided a breeding ground ogy. for the delay in setting up the ier space. There are currently eight “Barnes and Noble has a good for budding and established inter- One of the more interesting system to the number of items in cashier areas to accommodate the idea about how to set up and run national businesses. innovations Exxon is developing the store. “There are about 10,000 large influx of students at the be- a bookstore, but we want to get “The Chinese government has is a process of changing natural items to be scanned,” Lee said. ginning ofeach semester, but Lee input [from members ofthe Tufts an unquestioned desire to attract gas into a liquid. According to “And the UPS strike affected its said that so many check out areas community] on the aesthetics of private party business, to de- Dahan, the process, which is installation also.” are not needed during the rest of the store,” Lee said. velop known resources, and to calledAGC21, “producesaliquid According to Lee, the Univer- the semester. Jumbo Scoops and Jumbo Ex- explore for new resources,” he fuel more valuable than natural sity initially considered replacing Lee said the additional space press will be closed during the said. crude oil.” Barnes and Noble with another can be used to display more items renovations, but the bookstore will A second prospective gold The process was developed in contractor when their contract and to increase walking space remain open. “There will be some mine for Exxon is contained in the order to help ease the process and expired last year. within the store. There will also be disruption but it will hopefully be former Soviet Union in the form of reduce the cost of extracting and Lee said that choices for an- changes in lighting, floors and minimal,” Lee said. oil and natural gas, which accord- transporting natural gas, he said. other vendorweremore limitedthis more space made for items on Eaton, Mark labs get upgraded Election results Facelift to follow addition of advanced eaubment When the polls closed last night, the following students J.J. were elected to serve as either freshman represenative by DANIEL BARBARISI creased speed and computing ef- “Basically, there was a proposal to the Tufts Community Union Senate or as a member Contributing Writer ficiency. aspart ofthis summer’s hardware The Eaton computer lab re- “No longer will the computers upgrade to replace the carpets, the of the Committee on Student Life (CSL). There were a cently underwent a majorface lift, crash all the time,” he said. curtains, paintthe walls, etc.,”said total of 632 votes cast in the Senate election and 434 and more changes are scheduled Each new computer has 32 Tony Suiprezio, Director of Infor- ballots cast in the CSL election. to come in computing at Tufts. megabytes of Random Access mation Technology Services for Twenty computers in Eaton Memory (RAM), which will en- Arts & Sciences. and 26 computers in the Mark able students to take full advan- “Unfortunately, we couldn’t fit Class of 2001 Senators: computer lab in the Tisch Library tage of the network’s capabilities them all in the budget this year. have been upgraded. In Eaton, from the Eaton or Mark labs. Hopefully, we’ll beable to include Brian Cathcart Josh Margolin the Pentium 60 megahertz com- Roytman said, however, that them in the budget for the 1999 puters have been replaced with with this new technology comes fiscal year,” he said. Neil Farbman Moira Poe new top-of-the-line Pentium 200 greater risks. He said there is now Sulprezio would a1so“appreci- Jennifer Friedberg Nadir “Charles” Wright Megahertzmodels. The comput- a greater chance that the comput- ate and consider valuable any ers in the Mark lab have been ers will bedamaged, orthat some- feedback students have about the Marc Lipson replaced with identical Pentium one could damage the University lab upgrades:“ 200models. server. Despite the improvements, Committee of Student Life Additionally, the Eaton lab’s To prevent additionalproblems, somestudentsstill have complaints “dummy terminals,” that were Eaton has upgraded its operating about the lab. “There are never results: nothing more than keyboards and system from Windows 95 to Win- enough computers available, no monitors using the Tufts main- dowsNT, amove which Roytman matter how many they add,” said Jennifer Gonzalez p~~riSabeti frame instead oftheir own Central says will “provide much height- sophomore Eric Meserve. Processing Units, were replaced ened security for the entire Uni- JuniorRob Fishman complained Larry Harris David A. Wank with actual computers linked to versity system.” ofthe same problem. “It’snot easy Erin Rowe the Tufts network. Overthe January break, 16 new to get a computer with all the right According to Roman Roytman, computers will be added to the lab, programs in Eaton.