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Vol. 113, Issue 18
Thursday March 1, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
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De Klerk takes a back seat in panel discussion
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No protesters were present at de Klerk’s UP appearance Natalie Wheeler Staff Writer wheelern12@up.edu Despite worries about protests during his visit to UP, former South African president and Nobel Laureate F.W. de Klerk received a warm welcome
yesterday in a filled Buckley Center Auditorium. De Klerk, who freed Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and helped end South Africa’s apartheid, was part of a panel discussion on leadership and conflict organized by the Wholistic Peace Institute, a
nonprofit organization seeking to bring Nobel laureates to Portland. While he did not address his own political career in detail, he contributed his ideas about promoting compromise among today’s leaders. “Only if you sit down and, in a calm and collected way,
discuss problems can you resolve conflicts,” de Klerk said. “Only if you put yourself in the other person’s shoes, asking ourselves, ‘What is the other side’s main concern?’” De Klerk also said negotiation did not have to mean letting go of ideals, citing Abraham Lincoln
and Martin Luther King, Jr. as examples of leaders with strong values who were able to work with those they disagreed with. “I’m not saying that I was an excellent leader, but excellence See de Klerk, page 5
Thievery forces Bon Appétit to bite back Proof of payment system to take effect in stages in The Commons and The Cove Will Lyons Staff Writer lyons14@up.edu
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Simon Harris marks the receipt that Anne Marip Morgenstern hands him in exchange for her pizza. Due to increases in theft, Bon Appétit has introduced a new proof of payment system, where students have to show they paid before receiving food.
In response to increasing theft among the student body, Bon Appétit will introduce a proof of purchase system for all food stations in The Commons and The Cove by spring break. Students will have to pre-pay for prepared food from all of Bon Appétit’s Commons stations, including pizza and pasta, taqueria, carve, sandwiches and paninis and The Cove’s wraps, salads and sandwiches. Once students have obtained a receipt for their chosen entrée and sides, they will present the proof of payment to servers and receive their food. According to Bon Appétit Manager Kirk Mustain, The Commons loses 10 to 15 percent of all sales revenue to theft. “Everyone who steals thinks
they’re the only one doing it,” Mustain said. “All of my staff and I take the theft very personally.” Mustain has tried a variety of tactics to cut down on stealing in the past, from moving the most stolen items, like Naked Juice, Red Bull and Muscle Milk, into the line of sight of staff to placing his dining manager, Kenneth Bong, at the crossroads between the major food stations at peak hours. But the high levels of theft continue, according to Mustain. “Bon Appétit is a forprofit business and we do have budgetary guidelines,” Mustain said. The major problem students foresee with the new payment system doesn’t involve stealing, but peak-hour traffic due to students crossing back and forth from registers to food stations. “The changes make a lot of See Theft, page 4