When Louie's Superette reopens at the end of the week, Dunster and Mather students will not longer have to trek to the Square for last night snacks.

But underage students all over Harvard will be disappointed that their one-time source for easy alcohol may have dried up--thanks to the city of Cambridge.

Louie's closed its doors because of a fire last July--months after the Cambridge License Commission penalized the store for selling alcohol to underage buyers in February.

The city nabbed Louie's and 14 other stores through a successful "sting" operation and subsequently suspended its liquor license for a day.

Because of last year's suspension, Louie's owner Cheng-San Chen says that when the store reopens, there will be a stricter policy for underage liquor buyers flocking to his doors.

Chen, who says he is still unsure that his store sold to underage buyers, does not want to be targeted again by the License Commission.

"I would try to avoid that kind of situation," Chen says.

One of the biggest problems in monitoring the sale of alcohol to underage buyers, Chen says, is that customers sometimes get angry when he refuses to sell them liquor or when he asks for their IDs.

"We have to tell them 'no, no,'" Chen says. "[But] we have to be nice to them no matter what."

But students, especially residents of the two Houses closest to Louie's still see the store as a good source for alcohol.

"We've been having to walk to get a beer," says Scott G. Kolar '94, a Mather resident.

Kolar says that in his "pre-21 days" Harvard police confiscated his fake IDs on three occasions after he bought liquor at Louie's.

According to Kolar, every few months last year the Harvard police would wait behind Mather House for students to walk out of Louie's with alcohol and then check their IDS.

Mather resident Dwight A. Wyatt '95 says all House consumers will benefit from Louie's reopening, which he calls "one small step for Louie's and one giant leap for Mather House."

Other faithful Louie's customers are satisfied merely to have their nearest convenience store reopen.