INDEPENDENT • THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1996 • PAGE 3
CSB bookstore
up for improvement
byTaiynKoclan Independent staff writer
The College of SL Benedict Is planning to expand its bookstore for the coming 1997 school year.
T have been saying that the College of SL Benedict bookstore needs to be brought up to date," said Carol Mairin, director of the CSB and SL John's University bookstores.
A bookstore committee is exploring different options and possibilities for what changes to make in order to improve the CSB bookstore.
The sunken lounge area and the hallways leading to each first-year residence hall would remain the same.
If the Maiy Commons option is implemented, the old bookstore and commons area would then be turned into iaculty and staff offices.
Marrin supports the option of moving to Maiy Commons.
"If you look at the master plan for the College of SL Benedict campus, there are two anchors with the Haehn Campus Center at one end and Mary Commons at the other," Marrin said. The bookstore would best serve the students if it was at one of these two locations."
Mary Harlander-Locke, CSB director of career service; Initially, the CSB bookstore committee discussed the option
Mike Ryan, CSB vice president of
of having the bookstore in the Haehn
administrative services; Kathy Allen, "If you look 8t the master plan for Campus Center. Even though this location would have been convenient for stu-
CSB vice president of student development; Deb Heizog, office manager of counseling and health education; Jackie Warner, CSB career services
the College of St. Benedict campus,
there are two anchors with the
Haehn Campus Center at one end
office manager; Dorothy Soukop, CSB
director of counseling and health edua- and Maiy Commons at tne Other.
cademic dean, are members of the The bookstore WOllld best SCTVe the
committee.
According to Marrin, the bookstore committee has chosen two options for the expansion of the bookstore, which will take place sometime next fal
One option is to expand the current
students if it was at one of these two locations."
dents, the committee decided it would have been too difficult to implement the bookstore into the blueprint because there were already so many things going into the student center.
The committee's main concern is to find a space that is structurally sound and laige enough to expand the bookstore.
They would like to have different Ught-
, ing and fixtures to make it seem less
• Carol Marnn, cluttered and more inviting to students.
bookstore into the space formerfy used director of the CSB/SJU bookstores At the same time, they want to add
by the Loft. This would enable the
snacks and convenient shopping for
bookstore to have more room, but would cost more to run students. The committee would also like to possibly designate since it would need clerks in both the upstairs and downstairs, an area for story hour or poetry reading.
The second option is to move both the bookstore and the post office boxes to Maiy Commons. TWs high traffic area would more conveniently enable, the students to pick-up their mail and use the bookstore.
The plan would be to reconfigure Maiy Commons so that all of the student post office boxes and the bookstore would be in the same place. This option is to take out the health education and counseling offices that are currently there and build
The real key is to have the layout planned so that everything has a place to go," Manin said.
Right now, the bookstore expansion is still in the planning process. There have been no signed documents on what will happen, but the bookstore committee is currently in conversation about a decision.
According to Mairin, construction is to start this summer
and the earliest date that the bookstore would move into its out toward the road, but to have the entrances stay the same, new space is Thanksgiving 1997.
CSB housing lottery leaves many students unhappy
by Sarah Gaff Independent editorial staff
The College of St. Benedict housing lottery April 17 and 18 left many current sophomores and first-year students unhappy with the available on-campus housing.
An increase in^students choosing to remain on-campus contributed to the lack of upper- ^^^^^^^^ class apartments, which left many first-year students living in Richarda HaD and two floors of the new residence hall.
"We did have approximately 100 more people participate in the lottery this year," said Blair Schrader, administrative assistant to the director of residence life. ' Maiy Geller, director of residence life, feels more students are choosing bhhmmh to live on-campus because of the quality of the housing options.
"Our facilities are phenomenal and I think the students are recognizing that and seeing the value for their money," Geller said.
Through the lottery system, each student who paid her 1996 housing deposit was given a number and a time to report to Maiy Commons for room selection Lottery numbers were given on the basis of credits.
"Our facilities are phenomenal
and I think the students are
recognizing that and seeing the
value for their money."
some did have a problem with its results.
"We wanted to honor every student's request," Geller said.
Schrader agreed.
There were no complaints about the process; it's the situation as Car as what's left for housing," she said.
Because all of the East and West Apartments are full, ^^^^^^^^ it is currently impossible to move the
sophomores in Lottie and Margretta to apartments.
According to Schrader, residence life is looking at ways to move the first-year students in Richarda to rooms in Lottie and Margretta Halls.
"Whatever spaces open up in there I w p « will fill with first-year students," she
• Maiy ueuer, ^ -Ito probably p^ t0 te ^ t0
CSB director Of residence life help the people in Richarda better." ¦hmmm^ihhhh The residence life office is doing
their, best to find alternative options, but they have not finished the final housing report. When the report is finished, they will know the number of next year's juniors in sophomore residence halls and first-year students in Richarda.
Residence life has had to deal with a few upset students and parents, but the complaints have ban mini-maL
The people who didntget what they want are the ones
Although ix) one complained about the tottay process, screaming the loudest," Schrader said.
Pus schedule changes to be considered
by Melissa Howlett Independent staff writer
Laurie Slagle, College of St. Benedict dean of students, and Jim Hard-wick, St. John's University dean of student life, have been looking at proposals for a new, hopefully more student-friendly bus schedule.
Proposed ideas include having buses pick up eveiy 10 minutes, and creating more bus stops at Lottie, the Great Hall andFlynntown.
"Our primary goal is to better serve our students," said Slagle. -"We are trying to respond to student needs."
current schedule.
CSB sophomore Annie Mclntyre believes the 45-minute system is more efficient
"Sure I would like to have a bus at my disposal all the time but I would like to make sure that more frequent buses wouldn't cost a lot more money," she said. "I think most people would rather have a little inconvenience than higher tuition."
At a Leadership Training Seminar Saturday, Slagle had the opportunity to ask some students about their feelings about the bus schedule.
Slagle said that n$ny students liked the idea of having buses every
At the beginning of this school 10 minutes as well as being unhappy
year, the bus schedule changed from picking up eveiy 30
with the current
"Our time as students is "****"¦ t a
r—-a _r—_, „ j j t According to Sla-
mlnutes to every 45 pWCiOUS and TO don t always gie and Hardwick,
minutes. have the time tO wait around ^ current dllem-
Many CSB/SJU -_ „- mmimm .M n ma Is that buses
students have for 45 minutes.
expressed unhappi-
ness with the sched- • ChabeUa McCarthy,
are scheduled to move students to airive by class start times and the pro-
CSB SOphomore posal is to schedule ^a^^mmm^mm buses to move stu-
ule change.
"I don't like the way the schedule ^m^mm runs now because it isnt convenient" dents every 10 minutes. They ques-
said CSB sophomore Lindsay Gaida. "Before when it was eveiy 30 minutes it was easier to remember what time the bus was for the simple reason that it either came on the half hour or the hour. Now with it being eveiy 45 minutes, I'm always searching for my bus schedule."
Many students who are actively involved in student organizations have expressed their dislike for the current schedule, also.
"When we are tiying to plan JEC meetings and events, the bus schedule problem often makes things realty difficult." said CSB sophomore and JEC member Chabella McCarthy. "Our time as students is precious and we don't always have the time to wait around for 45 minutes."
On the other hand, there are some students who are satisfied with the
tion whether or not students would support more frequent bus service in exchange for having the responsibility of planning to take the bus that wfll arrive in time for their class.
Hardwick is currently writing a questionnaire to ask students about which system would be most beneficial for them.
The questions cover opinions about frequency of the buses running, extra bus stops and more.
"If our proposal gets a positive response from students and the plan works financially, we hope to get things changed in time for the fall semester," Slagle said.
Students are invited to e-mail link@tiity.computing.csbsju.edu with any questions or comments.
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