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The coffee house has to move, again. For the third time in two years, the student run theme house known as Java, will have to relocate its live music venue, currently held in the old health center.

“I’m as close as I can to being certain that the school will push Java’s venue to the unnamed cinder block building between Brown and Lee Halls,” Tom Greene, Coordinator of User Facilities Planning and Chair of St. Lawrence’s Psychology Department, said. Greene assists the communication between the design team, the users and the university during planning.

University administrators and student representatives suggested that hosts of student parties at St. Lawrence take more responsibility for the way social events are managed.

At a meeting Nov. 7, members of the Alcohol Policy Committee proposed that more liability might ensure safer parties. Director of Residence Life Matha Thornton said, “Students don’t understand the responsibility of hosting a party.”

The name for the new pub on campus is Pub 56. After a university census Thelmo came up with ten possible names. The names were submitted to school officials and they made their choice before going to alumni Joe Richardson for the final decision.

Richardson donated $400,000 for the complete of the project. “I felt that it would take off well with faculty, students, and alumni,” Richardson said of the name. He did not want the name of the building to reflect his or his wife’s name for their donation.

Barack Obama won the presidential election Tuesday, sweeping aside opponent John McCain to become the country's first African-American president.

The day completed a remarkable turnaround for a country that has traditionally struggled to reconcile race and politics. Slavery was legal only a century and a half ago; Obama himself was born during the age of segregation. He has now been elected as arguably the most powerful man on the planet, and done so with ease, earning a broad nationwide mandate.

According to a letter from President Daniel Sullivan, a meeting of the Board of Trustees decided that however complicated the construction of the pub is becoming, they feel certain that the project will remain within budget. Construction of the pub is expected to commence shortly.

University administrators and student representatives are drafting new and tighter regulations for townhouse parties as a result of an October 4 event that led to eight first-years being treated for alcohol poisoning.
In the meantime, the townhouses' privileges to hold registered parties has been temporarily revoked, and although they still have self-governing powers, they will have to wait until a final decision to host such social events. The university alcohol policy committee and the townhouse council plan to meet, but as of press time no date had been set.