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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7,1995 GENERAL NEWS PRESS-REPUBLICAN PAGE 9 University tells students: Hey, lighten up By BRIAN BERGSTEIN Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - When you're walking in the footsteps of 64 Nobel Prize winners, who needs to party? That is the question these days at the University of Chicago, world-renowned for its academic rigor but dead last when it comes to social life. As another bleak and bitter Chicago winter draws near for the scholars in the university's Gothic quads, U of C ad- ministrators find themselves in ; the unusual position (for educators) of suggesting that the students lighten up. . The administrators aren't talking toga parties. Rather, they're suggesting that stu- dents occasionally congregate somewhere other than the library. Many students scoff. \Social life and party status\ are often measured in gallons of beer,\ freshman Alex Reponen said. \I think U of C students find better things to do.\ Or as the more polysyllabic Rose Toomey wrote in an in- dependent campus newspaper, the free press: \If the university does not cease its fruitless course, we are in danger of for- saking our excellence.\ With its .3,500 undergradu- ates and 6,500 grad students, the 104-year-old university is the antithesis of a party school: Students score an average of 1,350 on the Scholastic Assessment Test; this year's national average was 910. More than 90 percent of undergradu- ates go on to graduate school. And few parents -would shell out $19,875 a year for tuition so Junior can learn to tap a keg. There's little chance of that in the- quadrangles where Enrico Fermi, Saul Bellow and Milton Friedman have walked. The university sits in Hyde Park, an enclave bordered by Lake Michigan on the east and £he crumbling apartment buildings, check-cashing centers and boarded-up storefronts of Chicago's AP Photo Students Jean Kim (left) and Allison Lee take a break on the University of Chicago campus in Chicago. The university is making a big effort to improve social life on campus. blighted South Side everywhere else. While there are student bars and — finally — a movie the- ater, public transportation to the well-to-do North Side is less than convenient. / University shuttle buses haul students around the neighborhood, but the center of campus life is the Joseph Regenstein Library — \The Reg.\ ' No wonder eyebrows were raised when the university issued a pamphlet showing The Reg branded with a circle-and- slash emblem. \It absolutely should not be the position of an institution of higher learning to discourage students from using the library,\ student Kaylea Hascall wrote in the free press. The pamphlet offered such suggestions for an augmented social life as \sitting around a fireplace and reading\ and \watching your favorite TV program with friends.\ The school has opened up a Starbucks coffee house and let Barnes & Noble take over the bookstore, moved the career counseling office to make room for air-hockey and pool tables, added a night of outdoor games to Orientation Week, and of- fered- free^aizza to attract rela- tively large crowds to U of C football games. - \We need to bring some energy to campus,\ senior Italo Zanzi said. \I think that's why we lose a lot of people to Har- vard, Penn and Northwestern, where students have more fun, it seems.\ Maybe, maybe not. Universi- ty officials report that applica- tions for admission have risen steadily over the last five years. \Even if we wanted to water down the academics, we wouldn't get away with it. The students wouldn't let us,\ said geology professor Susan Kidwell, a member of a student-faculty task force ex- amining student satisfaction. \But clearly we need to sup- plement life in the dorms with means of informal socializing in the middle of campus.\ Don't bet on it. When Inside Edge, a maga- zine aimed at college students, ranked the university dead last in its 1993 survey of social life on 300 college campuses, U of C students started wearing T- shirts bearing the numeral 300. Tribes sue over layoffs lyJOHNMacDONALD Associated Press Writer BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The Devils Lake Sioux Tribe has join- ed another North Dakota tribe in a lawsuit to stop the Bureau of Indian Affairs from laying off employees on its reservation. U.S. District Judge Rodney Webb of Fargo signed a tem- porary restraining order Tuesday that forbids the BIA to send out layoff notices to seven agency employees on the Fort Totten In- dian Reservation, home to the Devils Lake Sioux. It is the second such order issued against the BIA in North Dakota in a week, and U.S. At- torney John Schneider said Wednesday he wasn't surprised by Webb's ruling. \The BIA feels that in light of impending budget cuts, it needed to put these (staff reductions) in place. Judge Webb basically told the BIA you can't fire people un- til you absolutely have to,\ he said. Webb was out of town Wed- nesday and unavailable for com- ment. Carl Walking Eagle, Devils Lake tribal councilman, said of- ficials were pleased with the order. Last week, Webb agreed with the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa that it was premature for the 12,000-employee agency to be sending out layoff notices, since Congress hasn't finished work on the agency's budget. House and Senate negotiators agreed recently to cut the agen- cy's 1996 budget by 10 percent. But Congress has yet to approve the plan and President Clinton has threatened to veto the ap- propriations bill that contains the cuts. The BIA decided last week to go ahead with eliminating nearly 1,800 positions despite Webb's ruling. Schneider said the agency is convinced it will face some type of budget cuts, and is simply trying to prepare for that by laying off some employees now. About 1,500 positions would be eliminated at area and reserva- tion offices under the BIA's pro- posal. About 20 to 25 percent of the positions already are vacant. Another 250 jobs would be elimi- nated at offices in Washington and Albuquerque, N.M. Schneider said the BIA re- mains concerned thai Webb's decision will mean more Indian tribes will join the lawsuit. So far, however, none have sug- gested they will do so, he said. Woman arrested for failing to return rented videotapes SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) - A 4-year-old girl cried, \Don't take my mommy to jail!\ as deputies arrested her mother for failing to return three videotapes and a video game she had rented. Denise Lawrence, 24, was taken to a magistrate's office Thursday, released without bail and told to appear in court in a week. She was charged with failure to return rental property and could get up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Mrs. Lawrence said she forgot about \Dumb and Dumber,\ \Black Beauty,\ \Rescuers Down Under\ and the video game \Dinosaurs for Hire.\ She rented them from the Video Club on July 12. \I know I should have returned them, but I've got four children and the tapes just slipped my mind. They were down in the basement, and I don't go to the basement that often,\ Mrs. Lawrence said. When Sgt. Allen Cheeks showed up at her home, Mrs. Lawrence was with her children, ages 1, 2, 4 and 5. Daughter Ashley pleaded with the officer. Cheeks agreed to let Mrs. Lawrence call her husband, Clay, to come home to take care of the children. Under store policy, customers who are late returning videos are notified by phone and letter. If the letter produces no response, the store files a complaint with the sheriffs office. NORTH COUNTRY NOTES Moriah meeting MORIAH - The Town of Moriah's regular board meeting will be held Oct. 10, at 6 p.m. A special meeting will be held Oct. 24, at 1 p.m. at the Town Hall regarding Grover Hills Project — Witherbee HUD Project. Money raised KEENE - At its Walk-A- Thon and Festival held in Keene Sunday, Sept. 24, the AuSable Valley Affiliate of Habitat For Humanity netted over $6,000 for its building fund. This money will be used to start its third house for a partner family in this area next summer. More than 50 walkers joined to do either the 6-mile or the 2.6- mile walk from Keene to Marcy Field and these walkers brought in more than $2,900 in sponsor donations. Garden club HAGUE - The monthly meeting of the Carillon Garden Club will be held Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Hague Community Center at 11 a.m. The program title is October Apple Fest. Rotary supper MALONE - The Malone Rotary Club will hold its annual fund-raising spaghetti supper Thursday, Oct. 12, at the Amvets Clubhouse on the Whippleville Road. Serving will begin at 4 p.m. and continue on 7 p.m. The price of tickets are: family — pre-sale $20, at the door $22; single adult — pre-sale $5, at the door $6; seniors — pre-sale $4, at the door $5; children 12 and under — pre-sale $4, at the door $5. Proceeds from the supper will Banker Orchard; R+. 3 , Plafobu^N.Y. 5fc(-5A3<f I Mdnfosh • Cortlahd-Red Delicious Macoun • Spartan • Crab Apples /\pple Gift 6>OXe<S ••• Sapped OPS doily (jder • Hromemade Donets • Apple Pi'es Honey -Maple Svrop- Jams £ Preserves Fall is ftere • V.sit oor Gift Shop \its filled w)i+h beau+iful fall baskets-vlreaUs- scarecrows • brooms-Tndian corn decora+ions Pumpkins • Gourds •Xft&iaf. Corn Tvrks Turtxtfvs. ComsicAes Bale? of Hay 7 days-.. ? benefit the D.A.R.E. 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