00 Newsweek MULTIPLE CHOICE OnCampus i f f f oup ks They'd Sooner Smoke a Clove Strange, the things a school term can be remembered for. At Oklahoma, late 1983 became the Season of the Clove as a sud- den and seemingly insatiable demand for imported clove cigarettes competed for at- tention with the Sooner football team on the Norman campus. Everyone from greeks to New Wavers was smoking them-at parties, at meals, in the libraries ("I've got to have one when I'm studying," says junior Cindy Givens). Demand was so great that two local tobacconists ran out of the most popular smokes (Djarum plains from Indonesia) for most of November, a period that Meredith Bake calls "the great outage." Sooners caught up in the fad don't seem to mind the unusually stiff prices the cloves demand, $1.65 to $2.05 for a pack of 10. Neither do they seem bothered by the health hazard posed by the cigarettes, which are packed with heavy tobacco. "Cloves are good for a conversa- tion piece," says junior David Ferguson. "People like the style of it." Nonsmokers couldn't care less about the style. They hate the smell. o Bryce Flynn-Picture Gro BU bookstore: Housewares, clothes, computers, dry cleaning, flowers and-oh, yes-boo Browsing at the New Campus Book-tique The Boston University Bookstore is not "College stores have become more and just a place to pick up textbooks or a BU more a source of students' life-style sweat shirt. With six floors and 70,000 needs," says Garis Distelhorst, executive square feet of commercial space, it's New director of the National Association of England's biggest "bookstore"-featuring College Stores. While books account for a designer boutique for women called Back about 65 percent of total sales, Distelhorst Bay Image, a housewares department, a sees many stores introducing packaged computer store, a travel agency, a florist foods, such as cookies or yogurt, and tak- and a dry cleaner. The bookstore is operated ing advantage of the computer boom by by a wholly owned subsidiary of the school, selling both software and hardware. Dur- the 660 Corp., which pays taxes on its ing 1984, he estimates, college stores will profits and leases space to private vendors. ring up almost $4 billion in sales, about Opened last September, the BU store ex- one-tenth of all student discretionary pects $9 million in sales during its first spending. Some schools use bookstore rev- year. "It's a bookstore, but it's more," says enues to support general programs; at general manager Larry Carr. "After a pur- Kansas State the Union Bookstore gener- chase in the bookstore, a customer might ates about $500,000 in annual profit that want to enjoy a good read with a cup of helps bring big-name entertainment to cappuccino in our Viennese coffee shop." Manhattan-Manhattan, Kans. 'Stylish'smokes:Ilot stuff in Norman Hiring college wads is something the ROTC is a college progam that trains Army has always done. And lately, we ve you to become an Army officer. By helping been doing a lot more of it. you develop your leadership and manage- In fact, last year alone nearly 7,000 ment ability. college grads chose to begin their future as Enrolling can benefit your immediate Army officers. future, too. Through scholarships and other Why? Some wanted the opportunity financial aid. to develop valuable leadership and manage- So the next time you're thinking about ment skills early in their career. job possibilities, think about the one more Others were impressed with the amount recent college graduates chose last year than of responsibility we give our officers starting any other. out. And still more liked the idea of serving For more information, contact the Army their country around the world. ROTC Professor of Military Science on your Interested? Then you can start preparing campus. Or write: Army ROTC, Dept. IB, for the job right now, with Army ROTC. P.O. Box 9000, Clifton, N.J. 07015. B RY R B3EALLYOU CAN BE. i Commemorating the Fallen at Kent State On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guards- men opened fire on Kent State students who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cam- bodia, killing four people and wounding nine. Fourteen years later, controversy con- tinues on campus and in town about what happened and how May 4 should be com- memorated. Now, once again, the school is trying to create a permanent memorial near thesiteoftheshootings. "Emotion has over- ridden intellect," says Kent State president Michael Schwartz. "It has really taken all these years to turn that around. The admin- istration has tried to test the water before and each time it has watched the divisions take place." This time the administration Model of Segal sculpture: Try, try again says it is likely that it will get a memorial. The campus divided in 1977 when a gym- nasium annex was built at the area of the shootings. In 1978 a private donor commis- sioned a sculpture by George Segal, but the finished piece-inspired by the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac-was rejected becausebsome authorities claimed that it would be inflammatory. (The sculpture now stands on the Princeton campus.) Kent State has recognized May 4 in a variety of ways, including a small marker on the site, a library room with contemporary ma- terial and a statement in the school catalog. But the effort to erect a major permanent memorial has never died, and a new univer- sitywide committee has started from scratch to find an "appropriate" symbol. NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/MARCH 1984 17