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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 26. 2000
Bookstore loses space
Kinlcos moves to basement, convenience store
to take up front part of Rice Campus Store
by Brian Stoler
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
The Rice Campus Store will be a
little smaller next year as the new
convenience store takes up part of
the main floor and Kinko's moves
into a space in the bookstore's base-
ment.
The convenience store, which is
planned to be open in time for Orien-
tation week, will be located in what
is now the front of theCampus Store,
where the cashiers are currently lo-
cated.
Kinko's will move to a space on
the bookstore's lower level, which
will provide the copy shop with more
space than its current location in
Blair Lounge.
The lounge will return to its pre-
vious use as a meeting and study
space. "The Blair Lounge location
was only a temporary location for
Kinko's," Student Center Director
Boyd Beckwith said.
"Now, instead of moving to the
Campus Police Annex, we've found
a way to keep them in the building,"
Beckwith said.
No decisions have yet been made
on future directions for the Campus
Store.
In November, administrators
outlined three possible future di-
rections for the bookstore: expan-
sion of the current store, reloca-
tion of the current store to a new
building on the university's
Greenbriar Drive property, or cre-
ation of an online bookstore, with
books only sold on campus for two
weeks at the beginning of the se-
mester.
President Malcolm Gillis formed
a committee last week to consider
the future of the Campus Store.
The ad hoc Committee.- on the
Rice Campus Store, chaired by Psy-
chology Professor Jim Pomerantz,
has faculty, staff and student mem-
bers.
Pomerantz said the committee
will serve two roles: to get informa-
tion on campus stores at other insti-
tutions to help educate the campus
on possibilities, and to solicit opin-
ion from the Rice community.
Store to be open by 0-Week
STORE, from Page 1
ages, salads, snacks, toilgtries and
breakfast pastries in the morning, in
addition to* sandwiches from the
store's Subway franchise. "We're a
little bit space-constrained to start,"
Ditman said.
'My guess is it won't
impact the deal in the
Pub at all.'
— Mark Ditman
Director, Food and Housing
The store will likely be staffed by
two to four employees at a time, and
Morgan said F&H would be happy
to hire student workers.
Ditman said he thinks the conve-
nience store will benefit the .other
businesses in the Student Center by
drawing more people to the build-
ing. "My guess is the [store] will pull
more traffic that the Coffeehouse
will benefit from," Ditman said.
He"also said the store should re-
lieve the noon rush for lunch. "My
guess is it won't impact the deal in
the Pub at all," Ditman said. "I think
it will give us more ability to serve
the lunch market."
He said that over $200,000 roll-
ing over from last year's student meal
plans into Tetra points will jump-
start the convenience store, the Cof-
feehouse and Willy's Pub.
"With that many Tetras out there,
I think everybody the has opportu-
nity to continue to have sales, and if
people see value in the Tetra pro-
gram, it'll become ingrained as a
way to buy," Ditman said.
Sammy's will no longer offer late-
night service nextyear, Morgan said.
Running both Sammy's and the con-
venience store late at night would
split the business and make both
lose money, he,said. "Whatever we
do has to pay for itself, because it
doesn't have meal-plan money,"
Ditman said. However, he said pric-
ing "should be what people expect,"
and the key is to have enough vol-
ume to keep prices down.
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New meal plan to begin in fall
by Brian S^pler
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAR'"
The new meal plan for next
year will improve quality, variety
and availability of food in the col-
leges, Food and Housing officials
said.
The colleges will offer dinner
on Sundays in response to per-
ceived student demand. Assistant
Director for Food Operations Matt
Morgan said the popularity of
Sammy's on Sunday nights last
year demonstrated the need for a
Sunday evening meal in the col-
leges.
Further changes to meals come
from the shift to an all-you-can-eat
^ystem. All meals will become self-
' serve, and the grill and sandwich
stations will now be open during
dinner as well as lunch, Morgan
said.
Most individually packaged
items will no longer be available in
the colleges. Items such as chips,
"cookies, granola bars, and cereal
will be available in bulk contain-
ers, but this change will not result
in a decrease in variety, F&H Di-
rector Mark Ditman said.
However, individual milk and
yogurt containers will remain. "As
a part of the cabinet meetings we
went to, we decided that what
people were saying in terms of the
dairy products was valid," Ditman
said.,
Ditman said there is a possibil-
ity that some prepackaged items
could return to the colleges if they
are not abused. "Wh^t it costs and
what's available directly correlates
to how people treat it," he said.
Also, F&H is planning to install
a filtered water dispenser in each
college commons, which will be
free and available at all times, as a
substitute for the expensive
bottled water that was previously
available. "We're thinking that we
can mitigate the blow of the indi-
vidual waters somewhat," Ditman
said.
The one-price system should
also substantially improfe traffic
flow at meals, Morgan said. Also,
since staff members will no longer
spend time serving food", they can
try to do more cooking on demand
in the colleges so food will be
fresher, he said.
The new meal plan also brings
a new debit account system
called Tetra points, which can be
spent at Sammy's, the new conve-
nience store and possibly the
Campus Store, in addition to pay-
ing for additional meals in the col-
leges. •
F&H is also investigating add-
ing card readers to some soda ma-
chines on campus, and Ditman
said they hope to have at least a
few available by the fall.
In contrast to the old meal plan,
students can have Tetra points
without having a meal plan. Off-
campus students can use this to
eat occasionally in the colleges if
they wish:
Ditman said F&H created the
off-campus meal plan for next year
because a student requested it,
saying that it would be easier to
ask his parents to buy an off-cam-
pus meal plan instead of adding
Tetra points to his account.
Ditman said that despite stu-
dent requests, Tetra points can
not be refunded. He said if they
allowed refunds, it would make
the system subject to additional
banking regulations that would
cost more to administer.
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Stoler, Brian. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 2000, newspaper, May 26, 2000; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246679/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.