No smoking

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by Joy Williamson

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Sammy's has a new no-smoking policy. Director of Food and Housing Marion Hicks said the decision to remove the smoking section was made last week. It is part of an "all-campus effort to make buildings smoke-free."

Hicks added that the new policy is "an attempt to comply with the campus policy," which prohibits smoking in any building on campus. Signs should be placed in Sammy's soon.

According to Sammy's Assistant Manager Julia Am-vorski, a few people approached Sammy's at the beginning of the year to institute a no-smoking policy.

"I think it will make a lot of people happy," she said.

However, Will Rice College senior Matt Seltzer, who works at the CoffeeHouse, said there was not much smoking during the day, and it was confined to the designated areas. He added that most of the people smoking were Sammy's employees.

Seltzer and Hanszen College freshman Natasha Cox agreed that there is much more smoking at night.

Both thought the new policy would encounter resistance from students who study at the CoffeeHouse.

Graduate student and smoker David Jankowski said he was "not surprised" at the new policy.

"I can see why people would not want to inhale smoke while they are eating," he said.

This item appeared in the News section of the February 9, 1996 issue.

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